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Coventry, Ipswich and Hull


butcher said:
bookies have us a favourites to go down after the 3 promoted teams
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There is no AFCON next season, that will be an advantage in itself when we don't have 5 first teamers missing for a month and a fair few of the young squad will improve. RLB and Xhaka are winners and if the club are planning further investments I don't think judging by what I've seen this season we will be panic buying.
 
Hot Since 82 said:
Coventry will once again be streets ahead of Ipswich and Hull. Whilst Sunderland initially did sort of ok with recruitment they will struggle massively next season. Coventry also go into the premier with a significantly better base squad position than Sunderland did.

The consensus per sky blues talk at least anyhow.
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It would be a good debate if you questioned who had a better base squad between Coventry now and Sunderland 12 months ago.
 
LDNCCFC said:
It would be a good debate if you questioned who had a better base squad between Coventry now and Sunderland 12 months ago.
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Ballard, Onien, Hume, Cirkin, Rigg, Enzo Le Fee, Wilson Isidor and Mayenda. Have all done extremely well when called upon this season. But we knew they alone would not be enough so we signed 17 additional players for £200M. Having off loaded Bellingham and Watson for £42M.
 
Hot Since 82 said:
Ballard, Onien, Hume, Cirkin, Rigg, Enzo Le Fee, Wilson Isidor and Mayenda. Have all done extremely well when called upon this season. But we knew they alone would not be enough so we signed 17 additional players for £200M. Having off loaded Bellingham and Watson for £42M.
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We definitely don't have anyone on the level of Le Fee.
 
May have been mentioned already but aren’t Hull still under a transfer embargo which means they can only sign free transfers this summer? That’s not going to help
 
Hull seems such an unexpected promotion, and they look so unequipped, that it probably isn’t the worst idea to just accept their fate and use the money to build stronger if/when they are relegated
 
League Wan said:
It's simple, recruit properly and replace most of your team or go down. Hull have the least chance as there is not a single player that will be able to step up, Coventry are a bit more an unknown but Ipswich have already failed once. I can see us and Leeds getting stronger, forest won't have the same season and either west ham or spurs will be better if they stop up.
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I think the bottom 3 will be 10+ points from 17th.
 
What fans of other clubs don’t understand is we have based our success on young players for several years now.

They develop, some quicker than others. Look at Bellingham last season after his inaugural year was tepid.

We have a situation with Sadiki Diarra Rigg Roefs Talbi TaBi Angulo. Their ceiling is unknown with development.

In the past , teams like Southampton, Ipswich , Burnley , Sheff Utd & initially Leeds, have all known how far it can go .

Coventry have some interesting players for sure, but hardly any are under 25. They could have some impetus and grab enough home wins to give themselves a chance, but look at Burnley Ipswich & Soton of late.

Not sure how much interest there’s been in Covs squad from prem sides or top clubs around europe. Team spirit is great when you’re flying , but have they reached their ceiling already.
 
Some Coventry players will step up. Let's say they sign Rushworth and Onyeka (solid signings) and two or three of theirs do the equivalent of Le Fee, Ballard and Hume. For example, Thomas, Rudoni and Mason-Clark. That gives them five players. Sign half a dozen Premier League standard players and the rest of the current squad can be squad players and step up when needed. They have a decent chance of doing okay.

Hull will more or less need a new team, and there's a chance their owner might look to do a Sunderland in terms of quantity. He'd need to do exceptionally well to match our quality mind.

Ipswich have a bit of Premier League experience, and if they're struggling again is there a chance they get rid of McKenna? If they did, anything could happen.

All of the above is based on limited knowledge of either club.
 
Mboma said:
Hope they all take 6 points of them up the road.
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Wouldn’t surprise me if the mags are lower next year than this….
Hot Since 82 said:
Coventry will once again be streets ahead of Ipswich and Hull. Whilst Sunderland initially did sort of ok with recruitment they will struggle massively next season. Coventry also go into the premier with a significantly better base squad position than Sunderland did.

The consensus per sky blues talk at least anyhow.
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Aye rightio. Let’s see how that works out for them….
 
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All three teams will have to recruit very well. Leeds and ourselves have provided the blueprint for what is possible after promotion. Particularly given what happened to the promoted teams in the two previous seasons.
However, it is difficult to see other established teams being in free fall next season as Wolves were this year. WHU or Spurs will survive so it is possible that whichever of them survives will struggle again.
 
Ipswich need to improve the spine of the team. They need a new keeper and striker, certainly, and a top quality centre back and high quality midfielder.

Hull, as mentioned, need almost an entire team. I think Charlie Hughes has a lot of potential but he needs a quality partner alongside and Belloumi is at least promising. Keeper looks decent as well.I also think McBurnie has improved through his late 20s and early 30s but not sure he's quite good enough on his own.

Some Coventry players will step up but they still need signings. Wright strikes me as an Isidor type hot and cold player, a couple of the defence will step up, Rushworth is very good but not yet theirs. Only one of Rudoni and Torp will be good enough.
 
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