[Football] Relegation Candidates 25/26

[Eeyore]

Sure

Put me down as a yes then.

 

[Flounce]

Is the final played at Wembley, and will we have to do a guard of honour for the winners ?

We? Are you suggesting Albion might be the losers

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Wet Sham,
Bumley
Sunderland.

Mmmmm.....

 

[DJ NOBO]

Wolves
Burnley
Sunderland

 

[Hamilton]

Was having a discussion in the pub yesterday afternoon with a Sunderland supporting colleague. He fully expects it to be the three that come up going down again and it's hard to not agree with that. The gulf between the prem and championship is getting bigger as each year goes by.

Is it time we mix up how relegation works and introduce relegation play offs? Something like bottom two go down automatically then the next four teams go into a play off, semi and then final....Loser goes down? Thoughts?

Works in Scotland and non league (I believe).

 

[SkirlieWirlie]

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.

Yeah, but... Scott Parker

 

[Redinpeace]

Sunderland
The Mackems
The Black Cats

Ta.

 

[mile oak]

The same promoted

 

[Bozza]

Shall we just call Leeds as relegated now, or do we have to let all fixtures play out?

 

[OzMike]

Leeds
Burnley
Sunderland
'Edited'

 

[Nicky Rust Fan Club]

Realistically who knows but an argument could be made that Sunderland and Leeds will probably go hard in the transfer market to maintain their Premier League status so I'm going:

Wolves
West Ham(or Palace depending on the European toils and injuries)
Burnley

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Absolutely no chance of Palace going down, even if they do lose a couple (Guehi & Eze would appear to be the most likely for contractual reasons).

Sadly, I doubt Man United will be quite so bad again, though it would be delightful if they were.

Sunderland, Burnley and The Leeds United have squads full of Championship players. The latter two both have managers with the knack of getting teams with already strong squads promoted from the Championship but also of getting them relegated immediately afterwards. It’s hard to see that changing. Parker might have made Burnley defensively strong against QPR, Cardiff and Hull, but I can’t see for one second that will continue in the PL, and nor are they going to score many goals, which is not an ideal combination. Plus Trafford is probably going to end up at Newcastle.

 

[American Seagle]

Absolutely no chance of Palace going down, even if they do lose a couple (Guehi & Eze would appear to be the most likely for contractual reasons).

Sadly, I doubt Man United will be quite so bad again, though it would be delightful if they were.

Sunderland, Burnley and The Leeds United have squads full of Championship players. The latter two both have managers with the knack of getting teams with already strong squads promoted from the Championship but also of getting them relegated immediately afterwards. It’s hard to see that changing. Parker might have made Burnley defensively strong against QPR, Cardiff and Hull, but I can’t see for one second that will continue in the PL, and nor are they going to score many goals, which is not an ideal combination. Plus Trafford is probably going to end up at Newcastle.

People said the same thing about us when we went up.

 

[BBassic]

I don't think Burnley will go down.

Fully expect Parker to be sacked by Christmas paving the way for the return of Sean Dyche who will keep them up.

 

[Simster]

I fully expect the promoted teams to all finish in the bottom 5,.maybe the bottom 3. The only teams already here who might be troubling the bottom 5 are Man Utd (who are a complete mess), West Ham (if they get their recruitment all wrong) and Wolves (who just did a good impression of a standard Palace season, but might not get their last 10 games right next time)

 

[Javeaseagull]

The cardigan is back! Has Parker ever kept anyone up? I seem to recall they he usually gets sacked fairly soon after promotion.

 

[redoubtable seagull]

Realistically who knows but an argument could be made that Sunderland and Leeds will probably go hard in the transfer market to maintain their Premier League status so I'm going:

Wolves
West Ham(or Palace depending on the European toils and injuries)
Burnley

Ipswich went hard with a net spend of £125m on transfer fees this season but it did not make a lot of difference. They just weren’t as bad as Southampton and Leicester.
All three promoted teams will struggle and I’ll add Wolves and Palace to the list. Wolves’ manager never stays long and they’ll lose key players but not replace well with Fosun continuing to tighten the purse strings, and two games a week will be tough on Palace.