Like the rhetoric, but the club will need to sign some very spectacular / skilled players to rescue this season, to calm the fans down we need players in early doors, and a top class manager to suit.
I know all is not lost, but 14 points is a spectacular amount of points to rescue, 3 teams have to have massive meltdowns to even ensure we have a hope.
We could still have a champ team though - look at Newcastle this year - kept good players - practically guaranteed to go back up. I don't think we should buy L1 players as if we truly do want to return to the championship then we'd have to rebuild again.
I would tend to agree NY. I dont see the point in accepting relegation and then planning for lower league football. That can only mean........lower league football! Get players in who have got the capability to keep us up. If, as it seems, we're already doomed then those same players can be the core of a promotion challenging side.
We could still have a champ team though - look at Newcastle this year - kept good players - practically guaranteed to go back up. I don't think we should buy L1 players as if we truly do want to return to the championship then we'd have to rebuild again.
Newcastle came down with **** loads of premiership parachute payments not a league 2 from 5 years ago budget !!
We will go down with more money than we came up with( we've not spent any) so we should have a slight advantage going down. A few astute purchases and the roller coaster continues. Anyone who thinks we can compete in this division just take a look at Brighton they lost £26 million last season. We would not have a team with that amount of a loss and that's on top of the £10 million they lost the previous year. You can bet with their push this year that figure will rise.
-- Edited by Fliker on Thursday 8th of December 2016 03:54:57 PM
The thing with this division is that a chunk of investment and luck gets you to the promised land, e.g. Bournemouth. Survived L2 drop with us but dumping some cash on players got them to the PL. Can't say I'm a fan of being in this position in in the champ its boring.