Re: The 'I'm not bothered if we go down' thread

Le Mod

Get rid of older players and start afresh with younger cast offs of higher clubs

Why can't we do this in the Championship?

In fact it is much much easier to do it in the Championship as we would have more funds to pay old players off. We wouldn't have the money to do it in League One, we'd still have shit old players on nice contracts, just with less money to work with on the rest of the team.

The kids would be sold too, no way would Jobe still be here.

Its about the quality of the player coming in, if in a lower league we would need lower quality and that was my point about our kids - i hadn't factored keeping them and should have said kids generally rather than name two best. Overall i was making an argument as to why some people would see a benefit to going down but as Sunderland have proven there is no guarantee the benefits. I sit in the camp of if we could guarantee to repeat our last visit down there with a cup win and then ending back up the Prem or at least fighting to do so it will be worth it. However as there is no guarantee i'm hoping LB sorts it in the summer with a good squad turnaround.