The Global Football Thread

[Jax]

I'd be shocked if anyone other than the newly promoted teams go down. Sunderland are selling their squad despite promotion, Burnley don't score enough and while Leeds may give it the best go, Daniel Farke is a PL relegation magnet and they have little money as a club.

Brentford for me are the biggest established club in danger as the loss of their manager and likely several key players who score and create there goals will seem them crater.

 

[SithHappens]

I dunno, think there is probably half the PL who could go down if circumstances dictate. Wolves, West Ham, Everton and so on. Forest too with their volatile owner.

You can't even rule out Man City if the PL grow a pair with the punishment.

 

[flandry84]

Vis a vis City….never gonna happen.
Hammers ,Spurs and United very lucky that those who did eventually go down were so very bad.Unlikely that that will happen again.
I remember listening to Shearer some years ago when the magpies were hovering just above the relegation zone.He said that if a team thought that they could get relegated,spend a year in the championship rebuilding and then bounce back up to the PL,then they were delusional.
The championship is a bear pit,with some awfully big clubs scrapping for promotion.

 

[SithHappens]

The bottom were awful this time. I recall West Ham going down on 42 pts once.

The PL itself wasn't great quality IMO , look at Liverpool, they won it on 84 points which is quite low. You could argue the quality improved amongst the other teams i guess but it didn't seem to me that was the case. That's why I think there could be some shocks next season in the teams fighting at the bottom. One example I gave was Forest, they have a bloody good manager who did a great job but they tailed off towards the end of the season and should they not make a great start you could see him being moved out, and look what happened to Leicester. And the same could apply at most of the PL clubs with owners having increasingly itchy trigger fingers. Wouldn't it, for the neutrals, be good to see a proper 'big' club go down. Imagine it had been Spurs on just 38 points. Would be some huge games for championship teams then.

Will one of those who went down do a Luton? Normally the relegated teams are favourites for promotion but with Sheff Utd, Birmingham and even Wrexham in the Championship it's hard to say.

 

[flandry84]

And you know,it’s not like Luton were bad.
True defensively a mess but well able to score.To see them struggle since is a pity.

 

[SithHappens]

Hmmm, the Bayern Munich result tells a story. Club world cup.is supposed to be the elite.