Don’t be disingenuous. It was 25 goals, not 30, and that was by some distance his best season. Only 19 of those were from open play. He averaged 10 non-penalty goals a year when a regular starter for Southampton (not including his last three years when he barely played).

So yes - he was wildly overrated.

To the few people mentioning Le Tissier - he wasn’t a midfielder, he was more a number 10, with the whole team built to maximise his skills since he was the dictionary definition of big fish, small pond. And I think he was wildly overrated, because he occasionally scored a flashy goal for a crap team. All the bad parts of his game were tolerated because Southampton were unfashionable and he had “star power”. Laziest player I’ve ever watched, slow as molasses, with the agility of an arthritic wombat. He’d be nowhere near today’s premier league

They’ve got the big three drivers of success aligned - ownership, operations/recruitment, and management. The owners spend a lot, but it is spent wisely by the sporting director, which is aligned with the manager’s philosophy.

Other clubs have some of those things right but not all. And that’s why only one club is enjoying sustained success,