Are you for real. When Reid was in charge he had a far worse budget for the division he was in.
If your really saying Pressley had a bigger budget at sixfields then you really have lost the plot.
To be fair, Pressley started the season at Sixfields with a decent squad - Leon Clarke, Callum Wilson, Cyrus Christie, Moussa, Baker etc, players that all left and took a step up. By the end of that season he had a squad that reflected the off the field shitstorm and it showed in the results.
All that said, we finished ninth in that season under Pressley (discarding the points deduction), which is higher than we'll finish this season I suspect. Really doesn't reflect well on the job TM has done here with a half-decent squad. Not in the alarmist Mowbray out camp just yet, but serious questions need asking.