Quote Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa View Post
It's bollocks. Clubs should expect to go down, and should plan for it but that team came bloody close to staying up. To say going up to come down was the plan isn't true. There's 0 chance Warnock would have stayed if that was the case as well.
Not even with the prospect of yet another promotion notched up?
And I can think of examples of clubs who appear to endorse bounces between the PL and the Ch because a season fighting for promotion meant high gates and loads of interest.
If the club (ie Tan) really wanted to consolidate in the PL, far more money would have been invested - especially bearing in mind what was recouped from TV money and increased gates. His decision to limit spending made no business sense whatsoever - even given what happened with Malky (altho I think Malky would have kept us up with that squad).