Manchester City are having a bad season, there is no doubt about that. But there is a difference of opinion when it comes to deciding why this is the case.
Your more casual observer might put it down to Rodri’s absence with a long-term knee injury, and of course there is a lot of truth in that.
Perhaps you are pitching it somewhere in the middle, nodding sagely about several factors. Yes, Rodri’s injury was the first domino to fall but it exposed an “old” midfield — in Pep Guardiola’s words — and a defence completely blighted by injuries.
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But there is another school of thought, one that looks beyond City’s borders.
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