The gradual decline of the established top 4

[dead_soft]

It's a one off season.

The richer clubs will return to the top, there will be the odd team who appears now and again and then falls off. Leicester will lose their best players to the richer clubs, they will try and replace them with the money but if you are a Leicester player you know you are worth more as a Man United, Chelsea, City, Liverpool, Arsenal or even Spurs player. Even if you are paid the same amount, your sponsorship deals will be bigger at one of those 6 clubs, your brand will be bigger as it's aligned to another big brand. Teams can get lucky with a season or two of good players playing above themselves but it's nonsense to suggest the top clubs will go through a sea change.

It's interesting you are suggesting this when the biggest problem to the club teams in England is the way the top 15 or so teams will pull away from the rest as they increase the money and awareness of their clubs with the huge tv deals making it increasingly more difficult for teams from the lower divisions to ever compete

 

[The Cowboy]

It's not all that different really, just happened that one real outsider had somehow managed to pull a miracle out the bag, combined with Jose's reign turning sour at Chelsea. Swap Chelsea for Leicester and would anyone really be talking much about this season?

I see Chelsea haven't lost in the league under Hiddinck. They'll be back next season. Leicester, well I'll be stunned if they're anything like this next season.