Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
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.
We don't have the money to do that, and the clubs that have built over a few years have often come up from League One. The sides that have gone up and stayed up recently, have flown up through League One (Sheff Utd, Leicester, Southampton) or have spent an absolute fortune in the Championship (Newcastle, Leicester, Wolves etc). The exception is Burnley.