I think they did have one great season sure, I think that was largely attributed to Suarez, who remains one of only a handful of oppo players I've seen in the flesh that I can hands down say they were utterly unstoppable. (7th, 2nd, 6th, 8th = ave 6th).That's not 100% correct though is it? Under Rogers, they were a slippy G away from the title themselves.
But I don't think any of their players were skillfully acquired, we were linked with many of them too, and we couldn't compete with the wages. They basically bought all of Southampton's Poch players but non of them could replicate what they did at Southampton (similarly to how Chav's Brighton signings are turning out).