Surely if we only have a championship team now then we have a possibility of being a better championship team than the 3 that came up? Surely it will be just as exciting staying up in the prem on the last game of the season instead of giving up and starting in a lower league.
That way we will still have the massive tv money and would be able to start again here.
At the end of the day (so far) we have lost 5 key players that made us a top 8 team. Surely now we have evened ourselves with the bottom 8 (assuming we can get a couple more players in during the next few weeks)