Again, both City and Liverpool are incredibly balanced with quality. City's team has been in the works since 2012 when they appointed Txiki. Liverpool 2015. Our team has a combination of players from three different managers prior to Tuchel, who is figuring out a system to get them all playing.
It's going to be a rough ride to compete against them, however, making wrong signings like Lukaku will just take us two steps back.