Stoke, Swansea and Southampton had a very good reason why they were at the bottom......they sold key players and didn't replace them. WBA had a poor season and only improved at the end. If we sell Dunk and Stephens then I can see something similar happening to us.
I didn't see what was said, but I would have been very surprised if he'd said 'we want to be fighting relegation - and winning - forever'. It goes without saying that if we stay up for 5 years we're very unlikely to be in the bottom 6 at that point. The big question for the supporters will be...