If next season is 'another' Covid season - by which I mean the way the pandemic has impacted on club incomes and fees/salaries - is an extension of 2020-21, then the relegated teams will probably have a massive advantage again.

It is interesting to look at the 2020-21 final table predictions from last summer (after most transfer dealings) when the Covid football economy was well in place. Most bookies and media sites (FourFourTwo through to national press online) had Bournemouth and Swansea well out of the top 6, and Reading and Barnsley near the relegation places. Most had Derby in the top 6, with Forest and Cardiff around 6th/7th place.

Difficult league to predict - even when money talks louder than ever.