There is no evidence at all to indicate that, in fact, it all points to a decline in standard for a while. Just saying 'we'll be back next season' doesn't make it so. Europe has got better and the standard in our league has dropped. You have to look at the bigger picture of how the teams have stopped qualifying for latter stages of the CL and the standard in the Prem - they go hand in hand. Forget 4-5 years, its not even where it was 3 years ago.