Manchester City need to shake up the squad, they need reinforcements but that can only be done in the summer. Their recent three losses to Real Madrid and now Liverpool yesterday is not good at all. I am sure that Manchester City will make good signings in the summer to improve the squad.
In terms of attacking players, Man City actually only needs a few changes in the midfielders to make a better contribution to the strikers. And for the defense line, it seems like Guardiola really has to make big changes. We can see from the current statistics that Man City can still score big but in fact they have conceded a lot of goals too.
So this season City can only accept their fate of losing the title and even their reputation.
When talking about reputation, I think everything is still the same, it's just that when talking about performance it is clearly a difference between this season and last season and we can see that it is very pronounced how Mancehster City plays so for now actually for me personally it is quite hesitant to enter Manchester City into the bet because their performance is still very erratic for now.
Indeed, in terms of quality they are still quite good, it's just that for now they are still lacking in terms of cohesiveness, especially for young players and new players who are always forced which makes the chemistry a little decreased between players even as you say that Manchester City is currently one of the big clubs whose defense is the worst.
The changes made are indeed quite good for regeneration, it's just that when the time is not too right like now, the momentum they try to get is always constrained by erratic performance.