You could make more effort to pull them together more, but I don’t think I’d want a complete even field. No way to do that without it being very artificial and rewarding of failure.

Clubs go on journeys over many seasons, if your league position is pretty random season to season then you lose a lot of that and probably a lot of personal investment.

Klopp first three seasons - 8th, 4th, 4th Arteta first three seasons - 8th, 8th, 5th

Not saying for sure Ten Hag will take Man U to the top, but even the elite managers need many seasons to truly evaluate.