Quote Originally Posted by blue matt View Post
this is the bit i dont get, we dont spend too much this time with the idea that we will have some decent players for the next season in the championship where we will want to get promoted to the place we already are ? ? ? its just crazy talk imho as we will get promoted and have to spend a tidy amount to stay up the next time, we are already at that point
I dont like it anymore than you do but I think we will have more chances of seasons in the premier league this way without getting into trouble with FFP. If we spend big now and dont stay up, our window of opportunity to get promoted in the division below will be smaller. We made a complete mess of it last time and had to spend the next 2 years cost cutting like mad.

I dont think it would do us any harm to become a yo yo club for a while. Eventually we may get lucky and stay up one season and then have a long stint at that level. We are going to need a big chunk of luck to become a settled premier league club.