To your first point, I can't see that being possible, so not really worth answering.
To your second point, also, no it's no progress. Of course there is a happy medium here, but saying what a great job he's doing while scraping top 4 is pushing it.
Three teams are fighting for 2 positions right now.
Man United: Spent 150m in the summer and got rid of 3 players they didn't want
Chelsea: Spent 0 in summer, lost their best player
Leicester: Lost their captain and arguably their best player in the summer, while spending roughly 85m
All three sides had managers come in around similar sorts of times
One side stood still (Us)
One side digressed (Chelsea)
One side progressed (Leicester)
You have an extremely binary way of thinking, there are far too many variables within football to say something so absolute.
Man United did indeed spend €150m but they had a squad in far worse condition than both Chelsea & Leicester.
Lukaku was overweight, Sanchez a bad attitude, Hererra refused to sign a new deal (bad attitude again?) and Valencia well past his best. This is before we get into further issues with perma injured players like Bailly, Rojo & Jones and the perma crap Lingard & Periera.
Chelsea may have lost Hazard but they were preparing for his departure for at least 2 years and had Abraham loaned out in time and his goals have replaced Hazards. Outside of losing Hazard their squad is full of experienced league winners and hell, they won the Europa as well to show they know what it takes to win trophies.
Both Leicester and Chelsea are two clubs that have been better ran than we have in recent years, have title wins far more recently that we do and have squads full of experienced league winners and talented youth.
When Ole came into the club in December 2018 after United were utterly destroyed by Liverpool, United sat 11 points adrift of......... Chelsea in 4th! By May and the end of the 18/19 season that lead was cut to 6pts and today... we sit above them on GD tied on points.
You state
I just don't think we've seen progression, thats my problem, even with heavy investment
But the facts show otherwise
We've conceded less - 36 goals this term vs 54 last term
We''ll likely score more - 64 with 1 game to play vs 65 last year
We've more clean sheets - 12 vs 7
Ole has addressed the key issue of player sales and clearing much of the dead wood around the club, but still is left with quite a bit to do and yet competing!
Ole has invested very well in both AWB & Maguire and the proof is there over the course of the season, but could do with another addition of a pacey CB.
Ole has pretty much improved every player at the club this year, I can't think of a single player who has regressed but you suggest there is no improvement?
Ole has turned the average age of the squad right around, last season the youngest side we fielded was 25 years and 2 months and this season just 24 years old.
Ole has clearly improved the squads overall fitness and our players are less injured as well. The only table we topped was the injury table...
https://www.90min.com/posts/6389205...-each-club-suffered-during-the-2018-19-season
Ole has turned us from a team that concedes possession, invites pressure on and lacked fitness (Jose's United) to a team that can retain possession, can mix between a high press and counter attacking football depending on the situation and has matter of fact improved on player fitness.
It's not perfect, but to state there is no progression is factually untrue, the above issues can all be counted as positive progression and why he has the support of many supporters now.