Mate you really didn’t read it:
“The squad is really, really bad. The manager is also probably not doing as well as he could do. Those two things can be happening at the same time….”
There’s a word between probably and doing bud.
Dyche hasn’t been doing great, but anything higher than about 14th/15th with this group is a huge overachievement for anybody.
Look at lineups from the last day 1993/1994 and 1997/1998, the last two ‘great escapes’ before the recent couple (which is telling in itself)
There’s numerous players that in my opinion make this lineup with ease, especially the 1994 team, and these were two of our worst PL teams.
The only 3 PL teams I can remember which ‘got on the front foot against teams’ were
Moyes’s best team in 07/08, Martinez in 13/14, and about 7 games of Ancelotti in 21/22. Everything else has been different shades of inconsistent largely defensive reactive percentage football, some of it played with better players than others.The only constant is largely the under investment across the period except for a handful of occasions.