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All money driven. The Albion is the perfect example. Championship version - £25m income, £45m costs = £20m annual losses, completely unsustainable and unfair on the owner. PL version - £135m income, giving a profit to break even = a viable business.

They've had a season of three thirds: 1st third - very good. 2nd third - doing a Brighton/Boro. Shocking form. Leaving the final third to resurrect their season and stop the negative momentum. Leas

Post #48 answers that.

I've never thought we should buy 'names'. I don't mind where we source our players from.

Cocky Richarlison was always going to leave in summer.

It's obviously not an absolute truth that it does. But for that long list of clubs, it appears to have worked in many past seasons. I'm NOT an advocate of sacking CH. A personal view - our situation was singularly caused by the club failing to sign strikers and pacey players of top flight...

3 obviously must drop. Norwich and Hull are smaller clubs, without mega rich owners, so will inevitably always drop. Sunderland and Villa were basket cases, with internal strife for many years and hated owners. Mboro, like Brighton, failed to buy top flight quality players. Whereas WBA...

The desparate need to maintain £100m of extra income per annum drives this. Watford, Everton, West Ham, Leicester, Palace, Stoke, WBA, Southampton. They all do this and they always stay up, so this ruthlessness generally works.

Why was Poyet sacked by Bloom? I know it's a legal secret, but was it for something similar, that is, not wholeheartedly committed after flirting with other jobs? ALLEGEDLY.

:thumbsup: Intelligent post. In the same way that the league table in October was completely meaningless, but the arrogant thought Palace and West Ham were as good as relegated, and that we comfortably mid table.

1 win in 11 is shocking, that's Albion and Mboro type relegation form. Falling like a stone. I rated Silva, but was surprised how poor they were against essentially a Championship team +Gross at the Amex.