Coventry, Ipswich and Hull

[splorty]

Think cov will stay up. Got a good team, score goals, play good football and their transfer business is usually sound. They'll make the ricoh a tough place to go.

Ipswich and hull will need to be smart in transfer window.

They’ve got a good championship team. So did Burnley.

 

[Drexl]

Rushworth will be the marquee signing. Well over £20m. Onyeka will be confirmed on a perm in a few weeks.

A new striker and at least one centre half will be the priority.

It's a very settled squad. Obviously ability is the most important factor, but we would be silly to rip a side up that's done so well in recent years. We could easily throw £150m and ruin the momentum.

That would be awful wouldn’t it? You might end up in a shoot out with Chelsea for a European place, but who’d want that…

 

[Hulkenburger]

Like to think I'm reasonably unbiased, but I don't think any of the three stand a chance without eye watering levels of investment. The season after next, is a much tougher proposition for you though (based on who would likely come up/back up)

If we're worried about relegation in what would be our 3rd season back we'd only have ourselves to blame.

 

[spen666]

I think Coventry might stay up but not certain on instead of who. Others will drop.

Spurs / West Ham depending on who survives this season?

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

I agree. People seem to think the amount spent equals success. Ipswich spent about the same as us last time and has a shocker. We got Mukiele and Alderete for about 30m. Key is brining in good players not the amount spent

Ipswich bought high end Championship players. We bought PL quality players that had somehow been missed. And Granit Xhaka

 

[splorty]

Sunderland and Leeds have the advantage of being bigger clubs that naturally attract players more easily, easier to show the players a vision. Hull is a harder sell for top-tier targets with multiple offers. Coventry however has a unique draw with Frank Lampard. For players who grew up idolising him. Anything can happen of course but do think its a much harder job for the three coming up.

The only players who will have grown up idolizing lampard are British players, and you’ll pay well over the top for a British big name player. Tge bigger question is to any of them have the infrastructure to recruit from abroad successfully. For me Ghisolfi was absolutely the key to our success. I very much doubt the 3 promoted teams have anywhere near that level of contacts in European football. Hence all three are fucked…..

 

[LDNCCFC]

That would be awful wouldn’t it? You might end up in a shoot out with Chelsea for a European place, but who’d want that…

£150m does not guarantee a season like Sunderland have had. After the 20 years of issues we had, it would be silly to risk it.

 

[SkyblueHarry]

I think it's a fancy way of saying, they won't be spending massive amounts.

This, He wasn't having a pop at your approach, just indicating that he'd do things his way (he seems a bit like that, having come to us from a non football background)

 

[splorty]

People need to move on from what happened with Coventry years ago

Nah, shit club. I hate them. Was my first season going to Roker when they cheated us. I remember how I felt as a nine year old kid. The way they go on that they were better than us in the playoffs is just horseshit.

 

[hank williams]

The problem for the teams coming up is that they don't have the reputation or the rivalries that the likes of us and Leeds have, which makes it a difficult sell for incoming transfers compared to what he had.

Also none of the 3 promoted have based their last few years around blooding young players into the first team, which was another good selling point for us and Leeds.

Coventry I think have the best chance in attracting a higher level of player, but their chairman has already came out and said he isn't going to take the same approach we did. Whether that happens or not are two completely different things though.

We had the added advantage of of the netfix STID that set us in a new light

 

[Red]

People need to move on from what happened with Coventry years ago

Why do we hate the mags? Is it something they've done recently, or was it years ago?

I well remember that day and it still pisses me off to this day.

 

[You can call me Al]

They’ll all be studying how we’ve done it and trying to copy it.
Easier said than done

Agree, there’s not many Xhakas knocking about.

 

[Diallo]

Can only see all three going back down outside of some outrageous Xhaka style signings, which is a shame as all three are quite interesting teams and certainly better than the boring yo yo teams that have infested the PLs bottom fringes for so long

Like Ipswich?

 

[42]

Their xG numbers were worse than Oxford and would have had them relegated.

Unreal

In fairness, if the league was based on xg we'd have been relegated, only burnley & wolves worse. And we're on the edge of European qualification.

 

[Swindon On Tour]

Welcome to the Premier League.

Let's hope they find life back at the top difficult. Obviously we were written off as well, but I would quite like a third season in the PL

You have to fancy your chances against these.

 

[You can call me Al]

All 3 will get relegated.

 

[The Pallid Knight]

i'd probably say 80% chance all 3 get relegated and 99% chance at least 2 of them do.

 

[dcl0sc]

I don’t see any staying up tbh.

That was said about us three last season.

 

[MutantParvoParmo]

Hull will be the only one that stays up if they can spend, is the transfer embargo over? They are the most likely to just spend and worry later, take a risk.

 

[Shieldsman]

All will face massive challenges.

Coventry are giving away 5000 (a sixth of their home capacity) season tickets away free. There goes a significant slice of income.

Ipswich are carrying several good championship players who they signed on decent contracts specifically with the goal of being promoted. They've also had to sign players (Akpom for instance for £8m) who couldn't get a game for them in the championship never mind PL.

Hull have a manager who has worked wonders, a la Le Bris. However, they need an entire squad overhaul if they are to have a chance. It could be a season of the Ipswich model of buying top Championship talent with a view of being very strong the season after next.