Hey, listen - what will be will be.
I said a few weeks ago (and made the front page !) about my thoughts if it went wrong - yes the Terrys , Grealish's and Chesters will be gone, but a new broom will come in, some won't make it, but I have a lot of confidence that a lot of them will. Gutted about OHare, I think he would have been a big part of next season - now he is on the backfoot.
With what we will still have (the Houriahans, Lansburys, Taylors and Adomahs of this world , with the kids we have got - Green, Davis, Clark OHare the obvious examples - we can easily still get AT LEAST play offs next year , christ, if Millwall and Brentford can get that close, I am sure we can. We may not even make it next season either, but as with the Southamptons of this world, this rebirth is not going to happen overnight
And quite honestly, if I see the Villa progress, using a new "academy promotion system" I cannot wait. I would rather it take 5 years that way, and us creating something that could turn into something special, than have won on Saturday, knowing (as we all did) that we would have have to spend an absolute kings ransom just to even have a chance of staying afloat (and probably failing, and being back in this position this time next year)
Its time to realise we need to follow the Bournemouth, Southampton and Burnley model - not the Man City and Chelsea one - because we can't afford that anymore and have been trying to still do it