Season 2019/20 Can We Finally Go Up?

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I reckon that list is pretty fair tbh. There will be 7 teams with prem parachute money and bigger spending power than us for starters although that wasnt an issue for Norwich or Sheff Utd last year. Our odds dropped significantly one we became “Big spending Nottingham Forest” not that it did us much good.

Bielsa staying at Leeds is massive if he gets a chance to build his own squad this season I can see them running away with it. Derby and Swansea are possibly the 2 big unknowns and depends on their managerial situation, Stoke I fancy will be a lot stronger next season.

What will make the difference is if we can build a team that can get consistent results rather than chucking a load of players together and hoping for the best. Oh, and not sacking the manager in January.

Norwich and Villa were both in their last year of parachute payments and got 17mil this season like I mentioned some time ago in another thread it seems the 3 year cycle of payments does help in getting teams back up into the prem.

Forest haven't had the successive years of being run well or investment in the squad or recruitment that the top 8 had ahead of 'us.'

And it showed.  Forest hit 'the wall' every time they tried to get into that top 6.

This year will be the 1st year in...(answers on a post card) that Forest have actually built on any kind of foundation.

SA.

That’s what’s giving me hope SA the fact we’re actually building on already firm foundations and not starting from scratch. We already have a good squad, a few good additions and we will have a cracking one