Or less effort into avoiding selling it while we were there.
The whole sale thing is a complete sham. They don't want to go anywhere. It was obvious when they first said in 2014 that they were going. If they go then we win. That's how they see it. They know we'll be celebrating. Owning City gives them power over us. They've got us by the balls and they love it. Once they sell, no one gives a **** about them again and they couldn't bear that.
Their attitude at the moment is we'll get back into the PL and then we'll stay there this time. Then we'll be quids in. Problem is they haven't got a ****ing clue how to keep us there and they don't realise that going up again isn't easy. It wasn't easy last time when we had a ridiculously overpowered squad and it certainly won't be easy this time after yet another summer of appalling preparation. But to them it's just doing it again. They'll have absolutely no idea what happens next if we stagnate at this level, let alone if we got relegated.