Thankyou for proving my overarching point on here (apart from your last sentence)
Investment in squad quality is far far more important than football style or aesthetic in determining league position.
Your last sentence however, the league table is the ultimate dispassionate measurement of football quality. Football is about keeping the ball out at one end and putting it in the net at the other. The team that does this the best wins the league a the one the worst gets relegated with everyone ranked in position in between. So yes position in the table is determined by quality of football.
Everton were better last season at keeping the ball out at one end and scoring at the other over 38 games than Burnley were ergo played better quality football. Us having better players probably allowed us to do that the same way all the clubs finishing ahead of us had better players than us.
Just run the logic of your post even further, it’s basically saying that even with Kompany playing a football style good enough for Bayern, it didn’t make any difference to Burnley because of the squad quality. It was actually completely irrelevant. Maybe that should be kept in mind in here when people bleat on about football style when Everton managers are given bottom half squads and forced to sell their better players season after season.
