I feel that Arsenal, Liverpool and Aston Villa are just clubs that are lucky to take advantage of the bad situation that Manchester City is experiencing, but after the return of Haaland and De Bruyne, the 3 clubs above MC will be shifted again and first place will be taken over again.
I don't know if this is just my own opinion or if other people also feel the same way, but the fact is that the 3 clubs above MC are currently at the top of the points table after Haaland suffered an injury so it is natural that performance will decline and Arsenal, Liverpool and Aston Villa are taking advantage of the opportunity. This.
From several of the club's matches, I have the same opinion as @legendbtc, I won't believe that Liverpool looks very ambitious, but the fact is that it makes fans and bettors very sad when playing at home against MU, they can't beat them and what's even more ridiculous is that the opportunity came several times, but no 1 score occurs.
So it seems more reasonable if we speculate about who will hold the premier league title this season between MC or Arssnal and Aston Villa and Liverpool will only be temporary challengers and in my view in the end MC will get the premier league title again.
Well I just want to let you know that luck doesn't take a team to the top 3, yes a team might be lucky in some matches but I'll rather say it is their hardwork that made it possible for them to be ahead of City currently, we all know the journey for the top four is very tough and challenging and a team has to be at it best and maintain consistency to be at the top four, and to maintain consistency you need hardwork on the pitch coupled with good strategy, maybe City depended on Debruyne too much and it's affecting them now he's not in the squad currently.
Pep Guardiola is a very good coach and he's supposed to had prepared for situations like this, I don't think their major problem is Debruyne cause there are matches they've won very comfortably without him, if you check the matches that made them drop points you'll see it's matches they were supposed to win comfortably based on their current squad, maybe Pep Guardiola made the wrong decisions in those matches and paid for it.