We've actually got the best opportunity to shape a new team that we've had in yonks. We just won't take it.
I'm really not convinced that's a good thing. Last time we went up because we had the best squad in the division by miles thanks to some conveniently timed injuries and bans which meant players of obvious PL quality spent the season with us and helped us back up. Clucas and Odubajo were the only really notable signings. We already had a spine that'd played together for a few years.
That was quite funny. Would have been even funnier if I had left the full stop out after content. Any thoughts that Fez is content is also amusing.
The gap is widening between the top few and the rest. This was the first time 75 points didn't bring a CL place. 6th place had 69 points but 8th had 46, 23 points less. There is more than ever 3 leagues within a league. Generally speaking, the promoted clubs will battle to stay up. Those that do if they use the extra riches wisely may stay up the following season and even move into the middle group. They may then possibly stay there for a while. But there is virtually no chance of then breaking into the top six without the arrival of a billionaire. This stagnation will eventually lead to a decline and it will be like the leagues in Spain and Italy (Germany is an exception due to their pricing and other factors). Instead of something like 98% of PL seats being sold the big few clubs will sell out regularly whilst the lower clubs will sell out when they play the glamour clubs but not when they play each other. I got interested in football as a 7 year old in 1957 after watching my first cup final. In the length of time after that the PL has been in existence there were about a dozen different winners, some of them for the first time, Ipswich, Burnley, Forest, Leeds amongst them. What chance any of those, bar maybe Leeds with a fantastically wealthy owner, and even then unlikely, of ever challenging again? In fact in the first 10 years I started watching there were more different winners than in the 25 years of the PL. Ipswich, Leeds, Derby and Forest all won the title within 5 years of bing promoted in those 25 years. Apart from the one off with Leicester what are the chances of that happening again?
People keep saying this and completely ignore the fact that Leicester went and won the ****ing thing two years after getting promoted. And that Man U and Liverpool have struggled to make the top 4 for the last few years. If anything, it's a lot more open than it was 10-15 years ago.
Leicester were the council estate kids who 'worked hard' and became millionaires. Odds were stacked against it happening in the first place, and are stacked even greater against it happening again but yet will always now be rolled out as the example used to show that the rigged system works and that 'anyone can do it if you work hard enough'.
