Quote Originally Posted by delmbox View Post
Next season will be interesting. I assume the playoff winners will come straight back down but I'm curious as to how Burnley will get on with how solid their defence has been this season. Leeds, who knows, they might be ok with a bit of money spent
Thing is, you're now looking at one of the non-promoted teams to have a really shocking year in able to be able to stay up. West Ham, Wolves are both big clubs backed by money, maybe you hope a Brighton, Brentford or Bournemouth start replacing some of the players they sell on every year with lesser quality. Everton seem to have stablized and will have the new stadium and owners giving them money to spend, United and Spurs aren't realistic candidates to ever go down.

I understand people have been saying the Prem will be a closed shop for a long time but it does feel like it's finally close to happening. The Forest model really is the only way, spend what these Prem teams have been spending for years in one offseason and pray to god you don't get it wrong or you might not have a club in 3-4 seasons. Southampton only conceded 24 goals last season and have barely avoided going down with a record low points total, no matter how good Burnley's defense has looked in the Championship they have no hope of staying up unless they spend.