Jesus reading the stuff you have posted in this thread is almost like giving myself a lobotomy.
If you are not sure what that is, which I suspect might be the case, look it up, you may learn something.
So still nothing for Man City then.
It's blatantly obvious the premier league want the same 6 teams to win and cannon fodder for them to beat. These rules help keep that. It's nothing to do with protecting teams from going under. That's just the excuse they use.
If we get top 4 this season we will just get picked apart next season and this season will be the only time we do it. The rules make it so.