Quote Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa View Post
Fulham and Villa spending 100m worked well, didn't it? How do you suggest we improve without PL money? If we rip it up and start again there's a very good chance we won't get back. We can't pick and chose your promotion, you have to take the opportunities you get.
Part of it is building a team over a few seasons that grows together. Throwing money at promotion doesn't always work well, though it did in Wolves' case. Swansea are a perfect example of that. They improved what they could bit by bit and the players were good enough when they won promotion to not only stay up, but to do quite well initially.

That's why I think that had we won promotion a decade ago, we'd have been ok. We had some good footballers who would have been fine in the top flight that had played with each other for a few years. Age was on our side in many cases as well.