You do know you've just totally made up that scenario. Then even more bizarrely, attributed our relegation to it.
Be careful. You might start blaming the East stand, or the lack of executive boxes. Oh hang on. That's another load of b0llocks doing the rounds
So you believe that the pre Chinese signings (Bowditch, Powell, Kasim, Waters etc) were signed with the same budget in mind as those who were signed shortly after (Crookes, Taylor, Long etc). Not even factoring in the January ones?
As a result of effectively having two different budgets to work with, those who came in after the first batch were the ones who were predominantly played, leaving a number of disgruntled players on the side lines.
Maybe if the situation had been managed better we'd have seen different results. But from looking outside in there was no 'togetherness' within the squad, lots of 'factions' within it. Id suggest that wages and a general disparity across the squad with regards to them was a key factor why we were not successful.