Tony Mowbray insists West Brom will be under no pressure to sell this summer if they are relegated.
The Baggies appear destined to be back in the Championship next season, as they currently sit six points adrift of Premier League safety with three games remaining.
Should they succumb to the drop, it will be the third time in seven years that the Midlands club have slipped out of the top flight.
However, financial stability has been at the forefront of their recent plans and there will be no crisis at The Hawthorns should the worst happen this term.
Mowbray claims he will be given every chance to ensure the Baggies bounce straight back out of the second tier at the first time of asking, with decisions regarding summer transfer policy set to be left solely in his hands.
"If we go down, it will be for the third time in seven years but his club bounces back," he said.
"The club is very well run. It is not going to disappear out of the end of the next division.
"It's a club that will be very strong in the division below because of the fact that it doesn't have to sell any players if it doesn't want to.
"It's not carrying any debts so it's under no pressure from the banks so why wouldn't this group of players be very strong in the next division."
Mowbray added: "Where we are as a club is finding it very difficult financially to compete in the Premier League and yet the club itself is still strong.
"As a supporter of Albion, do you want a club that is going to be stable and be strong in the next division if it goes down and have a good chance of getting back into the Premier League?
"Or do you want a club that gambles everything in the Premier League, might be under pressure from the banks, sinks down into the division below and has to start all over again?
"That's the gamble some clubs have taken. Some have lost and some have won. This club doesn't take the gamble.
"It stays on an even keel and hopes it can find a winning formula in the league to punch above its weight and stay in it."
He added: "Would it be a disaster to get relegated? It wouldn't be very enjoyable because nobody who works in football wants that and yet the club have been there before.
"We have won as many games in this league as the club has ever won in a Premier League season and we've got to try to build as a club and get better and stronger."
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