Aye who cares about winning things, being the 17th best team in the league, that's all that matters
If we get relegated we won't be challenging for any major trophy for the forseeable future and the whole direction of the football club looks ominous regardless of whether Ashley sells it or not. It's easy to pass out a cynical reply but the reality is if we go down the chances of actually getting back to a club of even a remotely respectable stature at the top level seems massively unlikely.Like I said, for the first time ever, I'd rather we focussed on the league and then if we managed to stay up you have to hope further investment will happen to build on what we have. But still, A win for momentum would probably be more beneficial than a loss.
Except that isn't the reality at all. In fact the exact same opinion was probably put forward in 08-09.
I personally don't think we'd repeat what we achieved last time we got relegated. The Championship is are much more difficult league with stronger spending powers than it was back then. That's without even considering what we'd be left with after everyone on big contracts was sold.
Perpetual inertia should we stay and we'll never 'build' anything under this model. Go down and you're quite right, we do face relative oblivion. I don't believe anyone who reckons there have been worse times than this. Par maybe.