A) International players tend to believe they're too good for the championship, especially if that team is likely going to get a spanking for psr.
B) The bar is set pretty low for clubs to be better than us. I genuinely believe we'd struggle against Leeds, Sheffield United and Burnley away.
If we go down, I can't imagine there'll be to many players who want to stick around this time. Just my opinion, you'd expect Vestergaard, Faes, Kristianson will want to play higher ready for the world cup, Soumare would want out again, Ndidi in fairness is better than the championship, Winks in his final year, Coady clearly wants to be a pundit.
The only 4 I see as guarantees are Fatawa because he'd be a huge risk, Ayew and Bobby Reid at the end of their career on high wages and Skipp because nobody will want to pay what we want.