Indeed. Yo-yoing like Norwich for a few seasons would probably enable that and once the infrastructure is all there, next time we go up, we can get back to blowing all of the PL money on the playing staff again. No reason why we can't yo-yo for a bit and improve the infrastructure in the meantime, that would be my way, that is growing the football club. Surely you can balance investment in the players with investment towards growing the football club in a better way than we are currently ?You could argue that it is inevitable that we will come back down at some point be it in 1 or 5 years time so why spend all our funds on transfer fees and wages.
Would it not be more sensible to develop our training facilities and Academy set up to produce our own players for our next shot at the promised land and accept that we have just a season or so in the sun.
As you say, even with the current policy, we are most likely to experience a relegation soon enough anyway, so why not put the emphasis on using the money to grow the football club for a while ? It's what I would be attempting to do, for what it's worth.
I still think the PL is the be all and end all for Max because he believes that the type of partner he is looking for would only entertain investing in a tinpot little club like AFCB if we are "Premier League". I hope it works out for him, even if it may not be the best outcome for us fans.