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Chris Brunt prepared to be relegated with West Brom

Chris Brunt says he's prepared to be relegated with West Brom.

Brunt has become the second player after goalkeeper Ben Foster to confirm he wants to stay at The Hawthorns even if relegation is confirmed.

"I'd say so because it's disappointing," he said. “We've all been here a long time and worked hard to get into the Premier League and there's a fair chance it will be taken away from us.

“At this stage in your career it's disappointing but for a few of us the club means a lot and you don't get that very often in football nowadays.

“Players tend to come and go quite a lot and we've got a group of lads who have been here a long time and seen worse times than these and will hopefully know what to do to get the club going back in the right direction.

“It's going to be a big summer for everybody and a tough one for some people at board level.

“It will be no different to any other summer. People will come and people will go and it's up to us to make sure we get the right ones in to try to push in whatever division we're in.

“We don't want to admit defeat yet because over the last few weeks we've given ourselves a bit of a glimmer of hope and you've got to try to cling onto that for as long as you can.

“But realistically we're going to have to put a squad together to try to bounce back from a tough division and we need to make sure we get the balance right because over the last 18 months we've probably got it wrong."

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