they spent all of last season DEMANDING that young kids be played instead of the old guard, now they're DEMANDING that lads like Lewis be sold. they're now DEMANDING that Khusanov is played every week at right-back, but a couple of naff games and they'll be DEMANDING we sign Livramento.
they were DEMANDING Nico Gonzalez as a Rodri back-up but after one dodgy game with his arm basically in a sling they're DEMANDING he be dropped. arguably the sign of a fanbase that knows the peak has been reached and instead of just looking back on the memories they're desperate for more and more.
we've had a solid 10-15 years as the best team in the country. more than enough for a lifetime. more than 99.9% of football fans ever experience. we either get back to those levels again or we don't. big deal. maybe a downturn in fortunes will send some of these gloryhunting freaks away.
i just....*sigh* i dunno. up until about the late 80s the English football pyramid prided itself on the idea that most teams would have a chance to have their day in the sun. you'd get a solid team together, keep it going for as long as you could, and then it'd be someone else's turn.
most recently you'd say the Leicester team of 2016-2021 is about the closest example to Spurs' early 80s team, Clough's Derby and Forest teams, the Villa team from 75-81, City's 68-76 team etc. where they had a shiny moment, everyone said "well done chaps", and they fell down the table again.
it's only really since Liverpool dominance of the 80s and United's dominance of the 90s that a certain select group of English teams started expecting to pile up trophies year after year after year, and considered anything else to be abject failure. City fans have caught that bug.
i've loved every trophy we've won so much, and i obviously want us to win every game we play, but i'm not gonna go mad trying to come up with ways for us to be the best forever. we've had a very long day in the sun, way longer than most, and it's fine if it's over now.
it's probably not over now. we have a ridiculous amount of money behind us. if United's "banter era" somehow includes three domestic cups and a European trophy (plus two finals) then ours will be fine. same goes for Arsenal who dropped to the low low depths of... 8th semi-recently.
even Chelsea's two periods of dominance in England (2004-2010, 2014-2017) don't include their two CL titles. City, Arsenal, United, Chelsea, and Liverpool win basically everything now - too much power and money concentrated into too small a space. that's not what English football was about.