Pep Guardiola's four-in-a-row champion is 14 points behind top-flight leader Liverpool, which still has a game in hand over City.

A woeful run of just two wins in City's last 10 league games has derailed an attempted title defence, and Silva acknowledged his side's hopes are over barring a miracle.

"I would say [winning the title is] not impossible because in football there are no impossibles, but right now, Man City are completely out of the title race," the Portugal international said. "There's no question about that. It's too late for us. 

"People always say that you don't win a league until January but you can lose it, and this season the reality is we've lost it."

City was top of the table at the start of November but has since accumulated just eight points across 10 games, with only relegation-threatened Leicester City and Southampton (both five) winning fewer.

No team in Premier League history has overturned a points deficit of more than 13 points to win the title, with Arsenal doing so when as many points behind Alex Ferguson's Manchester United in the 1997-1998 campaign.

Guardiola's side is sixth in the league heading into Sunday' clash with West Ham, and Silva can only focus on helping City up the league, rather than thinking about the top-flight crown.

"Right now it's about accepting the reality," he said. "I'm not looking at Liverpool, we're sixth or seventh in the league. I cannot be looking at Liverpool or Arsenal or whatever.

"I'm looking right now at the next game, try and win three points to be fifth, to be fourth and to be third.

"And then ten games from the end of the season you can start making a little bit of math to see where you can go."

City was a 2-0 victor over Leicester City in its last league outing of 2024, with that win marking just a second win across its previous 14 games in all competitions.