There’s no such thing as Earned achievement anymore and it’s silly to claim otherwise
United essentially bought their success, the only difference is Chelsea and City have done so on steroids
Liverpool have bought their success too, of course you have to factor in they’ve benefited from the silly money Barcelona gave them down the years for Suarez and Coutinho but they bought that title winning team.
To a lesser extent same for us, Danny Fiszman gave us the money for Overmars and Petit when we won the title in 1998
And if we get 4th place we will have bought our way there having spent well over 300 million in the last couple of years