He was in 12th when sacked, with a top 6 squad. Koeman got us 7th the following season, by loosing Stones and basically adding Williams, gana and bolasise who got crocked a few months in.
This was a time only 7 yrs ago when Arsenal Weren’t really spending like they’re now , Klopp had just taken over a Liverpool team who had mainly finished 6/7 for a
Few years apart from one season under Rodger’s. Spurs starting to come good and obviously Leicester we’re winning the league. Which wouldn’t happen now and the following year they finished 9th
But not as many teams had money you didn’t have a group of teams outside big 6 spending millions like you do now, IE us, villa, West Ham, wolves, Newcastle. Leicester. you didn’t have teams at the bottom spending like in recent years, Bournemouth, Brighton, Fulham, look at what forest have spent.