The difference between us and the blue mancs is their ability to roll the dice as many times as they want.
Fans of other clubs love to point at our big signings in Virgil and Alisson, and pretend we're on an even playing field with city, but if those signings failed then we would have been fucked, luckily they ended up being world class.
With Nunez, we took the gamble, paid the big money, but we haven't seen a return on that investment, as a result we can't really afford to take the loss, sell him and try again, or keep Nunez and buy another forward that will play to his strengths.
We've had to live and die by our big signings, and as much as I like the mad bastard, he hasn't put the ball in the net enough times to improve the results we have on the pitch.