So name the small handful of existing PL teams that are really going to struggle at the bottom end this year?
i think one big advantage we have over burnley is
Palace, Fulham, Sunderland, Bournemouth. Is that enough?
TWT but I doubt it. It won't take much for them to add a little extra depth and quality to what they already have, and I'm sure they will.
OK you can doubt it but you asked for clubs and I gave you them.
And that’s just his wages!
weakest at the top, but the average strength at the lower end is getting stronger each year as the teams who've been there a few years get richer and stronger each season
Perhaps. Must be why two established pl clubs went down last year.
I know....but only 2 of the last 9 to go down...last year west ham went down with most points in over a decade....we don't know what we don't know, no one knows who'll leave which teams and who'll join....like last year Bournemouth were a big tip to go down losing so many players and got to Europe but on the flip side wolves capitulated, no one can accurately predict who'll be where but it is factually accurate to say that 11-17 are getting wealthier year on year which has increased the collective buying power across the league
Of course that's why it's all speculation. As I said, nothing guarantees our survival, it's all about probability.
Shame, would have made for an interesting headline, 'Slot for the Cottagers'.
To be fair that’s a very good point. The only team that are ****e by premier league standards and you would expect to struggle are Leeds. They have a great manager though and he seems to get a tune out of a limited squad. That very limited squad is already much more capable than ours. We have a lot of work to do if we have genuine ambitions of staying up. If we managed it properly though I wouldn’t mind “doing a Burnley”. They piss the champ every time they go back down. The hard part is bridging the gap between being a yo-yo team like Burnley, and being a major player like Brighton, Bournemouth etc.
