When we were finishing top 4 Liverpool and Spurs were consistently shit and ridiculed for it. If they were a little bit better we wouldn’t have been in the top 4 as much because we never were much good either. That’s why we were criticized even though we were still in the top 4.
You misunderstand what overachieving is. We have the resources and the measures of a club that shouldn’t be content with top 4. If top 4 is all we get, a lot of times barely scraped, that is a lot closer to underachieving than overachieving.
Your logic is rubbish. Spending on wages is a far more relevant measure than net transfer spend, and we were pretty consistently in the top four for amount spent on wages.
It’s inconvenient for you, so you’ll just post a sarcastic two word response. Plenty has been written about wages being a far more relevant determinant of finishing position than net spend. Live in ignorance if you want to, its no skin off my nose.