The best policy will be to see how many points they finish above the relegation zone, and then dock them one more than that.
Perhaps two more, to be on the safe side.
They seem to be reverting to the Barry Fry school of managing Birmingham City; throwing money at it and hoping something sticks.
I'm half expecting them to put a bid in for Ricky Otto anytime soon.
No, he hasn't.
He's only had just over half a season, which is no time to make a proper judgement. He may take us to the next level, which is obviously promotion, but he hasn't done that yet.
Their captain is Jackson Irvine, who, following Hector Bellerin, will make it two throughly decent men who make poor sartorial choices that we've faced this week.