Arthur
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[Football] Relegation Candidates 25/26
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Hotchilidog
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I think Leeds and Burnley will cause some panic amongst the established PL sides who find themselves down the bottom next season. I do expect the playoff winner to go straight back down.
As for candidates from the regular PL sides, it really depends on their summers but I can see Man Utd failing to make a big improvement. United are a bad football team and the rot starts at the top with major decision makers continuing to f**k up. I do not think it is beyond the realms that they will struggle again if they cannot sort out that desperate squad.
West Ham again need a good summer and players more suited to Potter's style but the current evidence suggests they will be down there again.
I think Wolves will be ok and ditto Everton as Moyes is such a solid mid table manager. Spurs will still be bad, but the CL should see them recruit enough strength to improve their league form. After that we hit the Fulham, Bournemouth, Brentford and Brighton block who will all be looking up the table rather than down.
As for candidates from the regular PL sides, it really depends on their summers but I can see Man Utd failing to make a big improvement. United are a bad football team and the rot starts at the top with major decision makers continuing to f**k up. I do not think it is beyond the realms that they will struggle again if they cannot sort out that desperate squad.
West Ham again need a good summer and players more suited to Potter's style but the current evidence suggests they will be down there again.
I think Wolves will be ok and ditto Everton as Moyes is such a solid mid table manager. Spurs will still be bad, but the CL should see them recruit enough strength to improve their league form. After that we hit the Fulham, Bournemouth, Brentford and Brighton block who will all be looking up the table rather than down.
Everyone bar Liverpool, City and Arsenal are one bad window/bad managerial appointment from being potential relegation candidates IMO.
Insel affe
HellBilly
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thedonkeycentrehalf
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I have a feeling Burnley may surprise people this time.
Last time round they played pretty football but didn't have the players to execute this at the top level.
This time, they are built on a solid defence and that will give them a better chance of survival - a bit like our Hughton years
I'm sure @dsr-burnley will give us an honest view on this rather than a claret tinted one.
Last time round they played pretty football but didn't have the players to execute this at the top level.
This time, they are built on a solid defence and that will give them a better chance of survival - a bit like our Hughton years
I'm sure @dsr-burnley will give us an honest view on this rather than a claret tinted one.
Taybha
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- Jul 17, 2003
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Burnley
Leeds
Fulham
Leeds
Fulham
Sorry to ruin people's good times and all, but Man Utd will not go down next season. Not because they're anything special, but it just isn't going to happen.
The three to go down will be Leeds, Burnley and Sheffield United / Sunderland. As we saw this season, the ever-widening gap is getting too large to bridge.
The only current PL teams likely to be in the mix are ones who have had stellar seasons this time and will get picked apart (Bournemouth) or ones with small squads who will struggle to deal with the demands of Europe (Palace, Forest). Or West Ham because they're clearly shit. And even these are all unlikely.
The three to go down will be Leeds, Burnley and Sheffield United / Sunderland. As we saw this season, the ever-widening gap is getting too large to bridge.
The only current PL teams likely to be in the mix are ones who have had stellar seasons this time and will get picked apart (Bournemouth) or ones with small squads who will struggle to deal with the demands of Europe (Palace, Forest). Or West Ham because they're clearly shit. And even these are all unlikely.
Arthur
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I'll put you down as a maybe.
- Jul 17, 2003
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This will finally happen in 2037 just in time for the start of the European Super League
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Kalimantan Gull
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Surely it won't be the three that came up for the third season running! I expect Leeds to spend like Forest did and Burnley to be highly effective and comfortably midtable, a bit like Sheffield united first season under Wilder. Sunderland no chance but Sheffield United could stay up.
We're not going to have teams who are determined to play tippy-tappy football with no substance like Kompany's Burnley or Martin's Southampton. We're not going to have hopelessly over-matched teams with successive promotions and no investment, like Luton and Ipswich. We're probably not going to have a team with a new manager in place, like Leicester.
As well as the play off winner, the relegation candidates will include (i) a team that has a bad start, sacks their manager and spins into a death-spiral. West Ham seem like the prime candidate for this (Leeds too, of course, if the spending don't work out), (ii) a previously mid-table team who lost their manager and a couple of players to bigger clubs (looking at you Bournemouth, if Iraola does go to Spurs; or Brentford if Frank finally gets a better offer), (iii) a previously mid-table team who sells their best players and the replacements are not as good as hoped, coupled with ageing stalwarts on their last legs and the fans turn on the manager (looks in mirror, shit, hope not); (iv) a team in Europe for the first time in ages who get stretched and can't cope with two games a week (our friends up the road, Forest perhaps, although Nuno is just tooooo savvy)
We're not going to have teams who are determined to play tippy-tappy football with no substance like Kompany's Burnley or Martin's Southampton. We're not going to have hopelessly over-matched teams with successive promotions and no investment, like Luton and Ipswich. We're probably not going to have a team with a new manager in place, like Leicester.
As well as the play off winner, the relegation candidates will include (i) a team that has a bad start, sacks their manager and spins into a death-spiral. West Ham seem like the prime candidate for this (Leeds too, of course, if the spending don't work out), (ii) a previously mid-table team who lost their manager and a couple of players to bigger clubs (looking at you Bournemouth, if Iraola does go to Spurs; or Brentford if Frank finally gets a better offer), (iii) a previously mid-table team who sells their best players and the replacements are not as good as hoped, coupled with ageing stalwarts on their last legs and the fans turn on the manager (looks in mirror, shit, hope not); (iv) a team in Europe for the first time in ages who get stretched and can't cope with two games a week (our friends up the road, Forest perhaps, although Nuno is just tooooo savvy)
Tom Hark Preston Park
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West Ham on the other hand...
I reluctantly admire your relentless appetite to lay the boot into Potter at every opportunity.
The Grockle
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I think the bottom 3 could be the promoted teams again but I think after a summer of being raided Bournemouth could be a surprise team to struggle snd get sucked in to relegation battle.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Well there is the Plodder element obviously, but in this case I was thinking more of them flogging off the family jewels aka Jarrod Bowen
Pinkie Brown
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Vincent Kompany couldn't keep Burnley in the PL. I struggle to believe Scott Parker can achieve that.
Whoever wins tomorrow is surely going straight back.
Leeds might just scrape enough to survive.
My wild card is Man U. They are so screwed and toxic at the moment. With penny pinching Jim at the helm, they won't have the funds to rebuild a god-awful team. I suspect (and hope) the rot cranks up a gear next season. My schadenfreude will be off the scale were they to plummet into the Championship.
Whoever wins tomorrow is surely going straight back.
Leeds might just scrape enough to survive.
My wild card is Man U. They are so screwed and toxic at the moment. With penny pinching Jim at the helm, they won't have the funds to rebuild a god-awful team. I suspect (and hope) the rot cranks up a gear next season. My schadenfreude will be off the scale were they to plummet into the Championship.