AVB has the players he wants. He deserves 1-2 years of support, I would say, not for his sake but for ours. I thought he did a very good job getting as many points as he did out of last year's squad. Bale's brilliance in the last 1/3 of the year was a big part of it, but not all, or I would say even most of it. To be fair, he created a team more like Mourinho's than anyone else: a strong team that was tough to beat and score against, but not really a fluid, attacking side as many would prefer.
But the past is prologue, and the question is what he does with this group of players. I tend to believe he'll do well with them, eventually. The biggest problem is that the ante continues to rise. There are now six teams who are a reasonable choice for top four, and all of them, except Man U at the moment, have strengthened considerably.