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Relegation Thread 25-26


Wolves and Burnley are the certs. Hard to predict the 3rd team. West Ham have some tough games on the bounce now. Could be them. Could be close to a 40 pointer this season.
Would still bet it's going to be Leeds. They have a few half-decent players so they'll pick up the odd result probably but defensively they are far too weak.

West Ham will have a season similar to us in 2022/23 where it will be awful but they'll nick enough points to make it. Forest were as a good as safe the moment they appointed Dyche.
 
Would still bet it's going to be Leeds. They have a few half-decent players so they'll pick up the odd result probably but defensively they are far too weak.

West Ham will have a season similar to us in 2022/23 where it will be awful but they'll nick enough points to make it. Forest were as a good as safe the moment they appointed Dyche.

Wouldn’t give Dyche any credit for keeping the squad he’s inherited up. Easy work.
 

Wolves and Burnley are the certs. Hard to predict the 3rd team. West Ham have some tough games on the bounce now. Could be them. Could be close to a 40 pointer this season.

I was going to say I think it's a bit early for anyone to be declaring West Ham as completely safe. Forest I get as they do have a decent squad but outside of Bowen the options for West Ham are very much bottom six in most positions I'd say if not worse.

They had a little upturn but now back to losing and have a tough run to the end of the year. Add in Paqueta disrupting things and they're going to be sweating for many months.

Poor result for Burnley, they just have very few goals in them. Broja being their big name summer signing in that area says it all as even here he was only third choice thankfully.
 
Great result for Leeds if it stays that way. DCL scored too.

Reminded me of the 3-1 win over Chelsea just after Silva was sacked. Similar type of performance from Leeds.

Kind of feel they'll do enough to stay up as they have got lucky getting Palace at home in a few weeks 48 hours after they play in Europa. And second half of the season they have Wolves and Burnley at home so decent run of games at Elland Road from January onwards which is usually critical in tight relegation battles.

Caciedo out is good news aswell, Chelsea half the team without him in midfield.
 

Wouldn’t give Dyche any credit for keeping the squad he’s inherited up. Easy work.

Agreed. Miles better squad than what he had here in 22/23 and it was even weaker than under Lampard given Gordon was sold and not even replaced that window. Staying up over Leicester with Tielemans, Maddison, Harvey Barnes and Vardy was a minor miracle really as that year was the time to go down with all the meltdowns.

I think Dyche only keeps his job at Forest beyond end of the season if he gets them top 10 and they have a very good Europa run so those are the targets that Marinakis will be judging him on, not 15th or 16th.
 
The only things making this traumatic are:

a) the extreme competitiveness in the middle of the league
b) how many points it looks like it will take to survive. The last two years the 18th place teams finished with 25 and 26 points. No way that happens this season. If West Ham win 1-0 tomorrow, they’re on pace to get relegated with 38 points.
 
The only things making this traumatic are:

a) the extreme competitiveness in the middle of the league
b) how many points it looks like it will take to survive. The last two years the 18th place teams finished with 25 and 26 points. No way that happens this season. If West Ham win 1-0 tomorrow, they’re on pace to get relegated with 38 points.

I don’t think they’re going to win to be fair.
 

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