The 3 promoted teams from league 1 last season

[mr chuckles]

All in the bottom 4 of the championship. First priority is obviously getting out of this league but it's obvious more than ever that we need new owners going forward, owners with a long term vision and the finances to do it

Let's just hope stewart donald does the right thing soon and sells for a realistic price to people who can take us to where we want to be.

 

[The Great MES]

Tbf Luton have a different manager to the ones who took them up, Charlton lost/have injured their best players and Barnsley have had their best players sold which led to managerial upheaval. All 3 were destined to struggle imo

 

[Gaggoears]

You need to spend a fortune just to stay up. Even reading spent 10 million on a striker.

 

[Zidane]

It's a bigger jump from L1 to championship than it is from championship to premier league.

We will need serious funding for transfers and will need to do well on some frees and loans.

 

[BumbleBee]

You need to spend a fortune just to stay up. Even reading spent 10 million on a striker.

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[Mboma]

If we go up and then scrape survival, it would be a huge achievement. Its a f***ing tough league with lots of money kicking about with the teams that drop down.

 

[Gucci Massive]

If we go up and then scrape survival, it would be a huge achievement. Its a f***ing tough league with lots of money kicking about with the teams that drop down.

Aye it'd be an almighty struggle with the current ownership. Even if we did stop up its going to take years to build a side capable of promotion.

 

[PeteFTM]

If we go up and then scrape survival, it would be a huge achievement. Its a f***ing tough league with lots of money kicking about with the teams that drop down.

Scraping survival in that League would be great.
I’d like to see us try and build slowly to benefit from the higher income, rather than spunk the money away and end up in bother like we would have done in the past.

 

[Bamber]

The Championship is fucked. The outgoings are creeping up but without any PL TV money. It doenst add up

 

[DrewC]

If we go up and then scrape survival, it would be a huge achievement. Its a f***ing tough league with lots of money kicking about with the teams that drop down.

West Ham coming down will go straight to L1

 

[robbied1]

West Ham coming down will go straight to L1

Their owners at every club, when the team has been relegated they always get them straight back up, West ham would bounce back if they went down

 

[Lord Alfred]

Scraping survival in that League would be great.
I’d like to see us try and build slowly to benefit from the higher income, rather than spunk the money away and end up in bother like we would have done in the past.

What extra income is that then?

 

[chave]

Charlton did the right thing, IMHO. Bought some of the best League 1 and 2 players from last year, so even if they get relegated they should go straight back up.

 

[Howard the Duck]

You need to spend a fortune just to stay up. Even reading spent 10 million on a striker.

You say that but if you’d kept Justin and Stacey how do you reckon you would be doing in the league now?

 

[Fetch Fletch]

You need saleable assets in that league, preferably ones that premier league teams will pay through the nose for...

 

[phillips10]

Charlton have dropped like a stone after a decent start.

 

[ShieldsBlackCat2015]

Let's just concentrate on getting a team together who has a hope in hell of getting us up in the first place.

 

[deleted user 785]

Our current squad isn't anywhere near close to being competitive in the Championship. We'd need a massive overhaul in the summer should we go up. If only we'd had a scouting system in place which may have helped us.

 

[Mouldedplasticseats]

Aye it'd be an almighty struggle with the current ownership. Even if we did stop up its going to take years to build a side capable of promotion.

Sheffield Utd didn't struggle to step up from league one to championship to now the prem

 

[zebediah]

If we do go up and SD doesn't get a buyer in the summer it's going to be carnage, there is still no scouting infrastructure, no academy players and no idea.
He'll talk a lot of guff about plans for the Championship on talkshite or somesuch, but we know they will have done nowt.

Sheffield Utd didn't struggle to step up from league one to championship to now the prem

Them and Southampton rebuilt themselves from the ground up, we have not.