There number 1 excuse seems to be they haven't spent any money....
Thinking about it. Since we've been able to splash the cash we've made a couple of 20 million plus buys. One looks really good and the other looks more miss than hit at the moment. Add Rom to that and two out of three aint bad. Compare that to the players they've spent that kind of money on in just the last 3 years and they seriously use the excuse that they can't compete financially
Mane £35m
Wijnaldum £24m
Benteke £39m
Firminho £34m
Lallana £26m
Lovren £21m
Markovic £21m
It's actually quite ridiculous how they're not challenging for the title every year, nevermind the top 4.