Premier League

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

More importantly Chadster..will we be Promotion favourites I wonder?

Sadly,becoming all too predictable isn't it.

 

Edited Sunday at 18:10 by SIMON GARNERS 194

[DE.]

Not many teams who could do back-to-back promotions and then stay in the PL, I'd wager. Tough result for Ipswich today, but any team could get hammered by one of the big boys considering the sheer gap in finances and structure. They need to try and keep the score down at Anfield and then get back on track at home to Southampton. At this point I imagine it'll be two of Wolves, Ipswich and Leicester to go down with Southampton - but which two remains to be seen.

Ange surely can't have much longer left. He seems to have no tactical flexibility whatsoever which is bizarre for a manager at PL level.

[Exiled_Rover]

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Think about how much Ipswich have spent this season on new players. Next season, they will be promotion favourite 

They bought a very good Championship side this summer. They were always destined to struggle in the Premier League.

[roversfan99]

Says a lot that even spending so much money and the most you can aspire to is being a promotion contender upon inevitable relegation. The whole pyramid is fucked when you consider that most clubs are losing so much money.

The wages get higher, the ticket prices get higher, the kick offs become more and more inconvenient and the football becomes less competitive.

[Upside Down]

I think Forest showed the way to do it. Take the money and buy as many top quality players as you can.

They're having an excellent season this year and fortunately for them a lot of the rich clubs are doing really shit.

[roversfan99]

Forest got a lot of criticism for spending so much money and signing so many players.

[Eddie]

19 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Says a lot that even spending so much money and the most you can aspire to is being a promotion contender upon inevitable relegation. The whole pyramid is fucked when you consider that most clubs are losing so much money.

The wages get higher, the ticket prices get higher, the kick offs become more and more inconvenient and the football becomes less competitive.

Plenty of clubs survive. I agree that Ipswich probably had one eye on preparing for the yoyo, but I don't think they spent particularly well. They'll be one of the promotion favs next year, but they did put together a very expensive Championship quality squad. 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Miss informed about the Spurs boss.

Edited Monday at 20:45 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[Mattyblue]

If you can get up and then initially survive you can make a fist of it. We’ve discussed Forest, but also the not exactly ‘massive’ Bournemouth, Brentford, Fulham, Palace. Gates between 10k and 26k and they are looking pretty steady.

Alas, we won’t get up, won’t initially survive and won’t make a fist of it.