My point was it could have been even better IF those yanks weren't stinking up the joint and stopping us building on a position of real strength from 2009-2013 and most notably post Fergie of course
The previous PLC were similar leeches with the small addition of a stringent wage structure. Those yanks have a lot of fault but people shouldn't forget how it was before whether we are talking about the PLC in the 90s or before that the decades of underperformances between Sir Matt Busby and SAF eras.