kennycar said:We would have gone down if we hadn't been taken over by Shinawatra. The end of Pearces reign we were awful, and then we lost our two best players in Barton and Distin. We had no owner and no manager until very nearly the start of the next season.Aphex said:it's quite irrelevant
we had a 48,000 seater stadium. we would have never gone down
as for players we would have had, i'd probably go for gyan.
I know this isn't the takeover we're talking about but we still could have been relegated in a 48,000 seater stadium, besides Newcastle went down recently and their's is bigger.
maybe before the thaskin takeover, yeah, but that wasn't the question
sven made some good mid-table signings - there we go, we'd be a 'villa'