Hull boss promised the funds to consolidate.

Hull City manager, Phil Brown, has been promised funds to make sure his side consolidate and stay in the Premier League. Hull managed to scrape through the last day drama at the expense of Newcastle United who will be playing Championship football next season.

To ensure that the club do not find themselves in the same position next season, Hull’s chairman, Paul Duffen, has promised there will be money available to buy bigger named players when the transfer window opens this summer.

He said: “What we lacked in outright quality we had to make up for in blood, guts and commitment and I'm immensely proud that they got across the line. We go into next year with the squad we've got today and then we can improve on that. That's a huge difference to having to assemble an entire Premier League squad from scratch.”

“We're based on a very good work ethic and you need to add a bit of quality to that. It was difficult. I could give you all the platitudes like 'it's the points you get after 38 games' and 'we got a point more than Newcastle and we deserved to be there', but obviously it was heart-in-mouth stuff.”

“We limped across the line rather than burst though the tape. But we did it and now we've got the chance to learn from our first Premier League campaign, strengthen in the summer, and go forward next year a lot wiser.”

It was a very strange season for Hull who stunned everyone early on when they were beating the likes of Arsenal and Spurs with little trouble at their own grounds. However, a dip in this form saw them win only one match out of their last 22 games and there is no doubt that if they continue this abysmal form next season then they will drop out of the Premier League.

They will fancy their chances of a good mid-table finish though as the calibre of clubs coming up, bar Birmingham City, is not massive. There will be tremendous pressure on Burnley as well as one or two other clubs, which could provide Hull with an opportunity to improve and consolidate. They will surely be delighted with any finish that has them nowhere near the relegation scrap they have just gone through.

Hull now know the specific areas that they are weakest in and have the chance to improve. They are backed by a manager who clearly open minded and has a lot of ambition. Other chairmen could well have said you are not getting a penny and will have to improve this club with the players that got us into the mess this season in the first place.

For now the club should enjoy the feeling of staying up and lap up the partying over the next week or so. However, the time for hard graft will rapidly come round again and no one at Hull will want to go through what they have just experienced ever again.