I copied the below post from another forum, as it is exactly what I was thinking the other day Not that it's tough already, but it looks like we'll be joined by the likes of Burnley, QPR and possibly one of Sunderland, Villa, Liecester or Hull. Take these teams into consideration, who won't all be stripping their squads down to the bare bones, and add them to the sides already in the Championship who've been building over the past few seasons. Derby, Nottingham Forest, Blackburn, Wolves, Charlton, even Cardiff who dropped with us last season. Only 1 will go up from the playoffs, so we could be left with Ipswich, Boro, Brentford or Norwich. It doesn't stop there either. Look who's coming up from the division below, Bristol City who've been well run for a while now, got money and a good owner behind them. MK Dons, again, another Club with a good young manager and ambitions just like Eddie Howe. Bloody hell, get this completely wrong again, without the right man in charge and the required amount of investment, and we could be in for another disappointing season. WE NEED A GOOD SUMMER
I fact right now on paper if nobody changed there squads I would only be confident of finishing above about four teams , Rotherham, Bolton, Brighton and the team coming up from the play offs. We really need to get this summer right
Basically to compete for promotion we have to get the right man in at the top. There are not many players who will look at Fulham as being a club who they would look to join unless there was a manager who could tempt them there. Most of the players during our last Championship run came in because we had managers like Keegan and Tigana, and our chairman was there to back them in financial rewards if they did well. Our chairman showed that we were there to compete against the top clubs who had the clout at that time.
totally agree. firstly I feel that we need a manager who has the pulling power to attract the kind of players we require for promotion. Kit I feel just does not have it.
