[Devongone]

I'm afraid your board have gone for staying up at any price. Greedy Sam will certainly try to earn his bonus. And fans increasingly dissatisfied with the garbage they are watching will go into a Newcastle-style stand off with the owners. Stay-up and you'll be in the shit because only more of the same will keep you up. Go down and your boing will already have been surgically removed.

Your owners are as far away as they could be whilst remaining on the same planet. Protests won't even fall on deaf ears - there'll be no ears interested in hearing anything. You may as well have opted for autopilot.

I hope I'm wrong, but my club exited the EFL on a series of bad decisions from an owner who didn't give a damn. Yours sees the Premier League as a cash cow, no more than that, and unceremoniously ditched a decent man for one who will focus on the bottom line. Big Sam has some good qualities, but he won't put a smile on many faces. If the pitch becomes no more than a front for a business model you are dead in the water. I hope I'm wrong and that he wins for you and proves himself the new Bielsa.