Fully agree.
and yet that’s ok with me.
Its in his interest to make this comment though - the best route for him becoming a manager at the top level is to have short term success with WBA and get on bigger teams radar. Simply put more money spend increases chance of success (Apologies for stating the obvious with this) For sure there’s diminishing returns and massive risk associated with it but if he’s going to make a name for himself the more spent the better. If West Brom do what we do and barely spend anything and find themselves relegated next season what good is that to him if they say they are investing it in youth or whatever ? It will just be a relegation to his name and he may even find himself out of a job.
I can just about accept our relegation on the basis that it puts us in a strong position to reinvest for an assault on the championship and hopefully return to the premier league far stronger than we were at the beginning of this season - and hopefully if that’s achieved suddenly our small spending won’t look so bad. Hopefully we can do what Burnley have done after their relegation in 2015
of course it might not be, we’ll never know if a £20M spend or so on a few players could have made the difference or would we have gone down regardless with players who didn’t live up to their value and our now millstones around our necks crippling the club and preventing proper planning. Or would they have been outstanding, lifted is to a lofty height And quadrupled their values?
The reality is we will never know - at the very least I’m confident the money we put aside will all be going into the club and however conservative or long term it may be is certainly a safe approach
