So where will we be in 8 years time?

[Nick]

Unsure if we sell our best player each year for the next 8 years.

[norwichfox]

The Premier League will only consist of 10 teams, 2 from Manchester, 2 from Liverpool, 2 from London, Bolton and Bury...average attendances will be around 1,500

[spacemunky]

Still waiting for flying cars and moving sidewalks.

[TrentFox]

1 hour ago, TiffToff88 said:

On the south coast of Wales, just west of Port Talbot?

We might slip lower, but the ignominy of being described as “just west of Port Talbot”? Please don’t let that befall us 😯

[Billy Big Balls]

Champions league winners. Barnes, Maddison, Tielemans, Ndidi, Chilwell, Benkovic, Soyuncu and Justin all become world class. The new state of the art training facility and promotion of youth attracts all the best young talent from around the world. We scrap off the stadium expansion and decide to build a 65k stadium with a giant Vichai statue standing over it like the colossus of rhodes, one foot on each side. I promise I'm not getting carried away. 

[AKCJ]

All depends on what happens post-Vardy IMO.

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Mint23 said:

I’d probably take 7th-10th finishes consistently. Realistically we aren’t big enough to push for Europe each season but it would be great to secure our place where we are now for a decade, I can’t think of a club that’s ever done that other than Everton in the premier league era, everyone else is either a top six mega rich club or has had top 10 finishes but end up dropping off and getting relegated after a few seasons such as West Ham/Brom, Stoke, Middlesbrough, Fulham etc. If we can break that mould we’d be a great success.

So who were these mega rich top 6 clubs 10 years ago when Man City were 10th and Spurs 8th... which were pretty much their expected finishing places at the time? 

 

Status Quos are made to be broken.

[AllGoneTitsSchlupp]

18 minutes ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

In 2027, there'll still be fury that the club haven't swapped the Kop and the Family Stand.

And the new €5 per ticket booking fee.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Seriously, it does my head in that people believe the top 6 always have been and always will be.

[Arriba Los Zorros]

1 hour ago, Nalis said:

We'll be back in the championship but I'm ok with that.

 

We are still one of many clubs who are only 2 awful back to back managerial appointments away from relegation.

Yep, see Southampton, were in a similar position to us not so long ago, then appointed Puel followed by Pellegrino and then Hughes, and got incredibly lucky not to have gone down.

 

I would take still being in the PL without relegation for 8 straight years even if some of those were mid table or low mid table! It would make us a much 'bigger' club in terms of standing and thus more likely to have a future in the top division.

 

However, think we can actually stay a top 10 club for this period, PROVIDED the right decisions are made and good replacements made for those going out. Think Congerton will be a weak link with transfers, TBH.

[HighPeakFox]

No idea. It's a slightly preferable game to 'if only we'd done such-and-such in 2016, we'd now be in the top 6' pointless backwards speculation, but in all honesty I don't know the answer to this.

 

I'm not sure the world we live in will be very nice in 2027. 

[KingsX]

Losing to Atletico in the CL quarters on some unbelievably dodgy VAR call.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Players will have become way too expensive and will be replaced by robots.

[Meat and 2 veg]

Regularly in the top half of the European super league 

[CosbehFox]

Just come 14th in the All British-Russian Championships; all British and Russian clubs no longer take part in European competitions 

[weller54]

.. Still saying Iheanacho will come good. 

[Livid]

I think it's going to get tougher.

 

Winning the league woke a number of clubs up from their slumber and they intent on following our model or producing something similar.

 

Wolves have made the jump, Villa are attempting to do the same. If Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds etc get there act together and get sizeable foreign investment then who knows.

 

We just need to make sure we stay one step ahead, I think the current plans for the training ground and stadium expansion reflect that.

[urban.spaceman]

2 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

Thread idea courtesy of Swansea guy and decumulion (or whatever the username was).....but the plot is a good 'un.  Especially when it is revived in August 2027.

 

At best, we'll have a stellar design rebuilt stadium approx 43000, a realistic European place each year (arsenal style) and, again a bit like arsenal, a knack for picking up under the radar French/Belgium/German league players who go on to big things.

 

At worst, we'll be relegated and use money as a blunt instrument to buy ourselves back into the premier (like Newcastle do - the only time Ashkey really backs them)

Wrong North London club to follow in the footsteps of. It's fun to laugh at Spurs, and I still hate them after Wembley 1999, but they've made incredible progress in the last few years.

 

Stunning new stadium creatively funded that shouldn't affect their ability to compete in the near future ✔️

Ambitious and competitive at the highest level ✔️ (ignoring the fact that they still haven't won anything)

Champions League regulars and capable of beating some of the best in Europe ✔️

Excellent training ground ✔️

Young coach bringing through some excellent young players ✔️

 

I strongly believe that we can achieve similar, though hopefully winning stuff along the way.

[Finnegan]

WACCOE

[broughtonblue]

On the flip side, what if this topic had been posted 8 years ago? Anybody who suggested anything like what has happened would have been sectioned !!

[Fox92]

Champions of Europe

[Lambert09]

2 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Champions of Europe

Brexit means Brexit 

[gerrytaggart]

Mid table prem and with a bit of luck dominating the summer friendlies, Winning the Audi Cup and celebrating like it means something. 

 

 

[whetstonefox]

Harry Maguire will be the captain!

[foxy boxing]

we will have all been obliterated by a meteor or supervolcano