Becoming established
Seeing the 4 play off sides play, they are all way off premier league quality.
These two seasons of the 3 promoted teams coming back down has significantly widened the gap between the divisions.
They all have no more than a couple of premier league level players which means to go up and stay up in one season is going to require the very risky forest method of buying 20+ players and hope you can build a side. Even then though because of the closed shop of two years that its been, I think it's even harder to do that than when forest did it.
Is the only way left to become an established side, is go up sign 3 or 4 players and accept relegation is likely, go down, come back up and get another 2 or 3, go down, come back up and again and hope that in one of the years in the premier league, you catch an established side having a stinker whilst you have gradually assembled a premier league level squad capable of getting around 36 points.
For Leeds, Burnley and whoever the play off winner turns out to be, who are they targeting as "we can finish above them for 17th". I can't see man u and spurs being as bad again.
These two seasons of the 3 promoted teams coming back down has significantly widened the gap between the divisions.
They all have no more than a couple of premier league level players which means to go up and stay up in one season is going to require the very risky forest method of buying 20+ players and hope you can build a side. Even then though because of the closed shop of two years that its been, I think it's even harder to do that than when forest did it.
Is the only way left to become an established side, is go up sign 3 or 4 players and accept relegation is likely, go down, come back up and get another 2 or 3, go down, come back up and again and hope that in one of the years in the premier league, you catch an established side having a stinker whilst you have gradually assembled a premier league level squad capable of getting around 36 points.
For Leeds, Burnley and whoever the play off winner turns out to be, who are they targeting as "we can finish above them for 17th". I can't see man u and spurs being as bad again.