Championship 🏆 2025/26

[Stuntman_Mike]

2 hours ago, Foxdiamond said:

Have to go back to 1980

It's mad how our fans assume we'll be back so quick, imagine it's same as them and we don't get back until 2070.

[Simonb]

If it doesn't absolutely cripple us financially then I'd much rather 2 or 3 years rebuilding in the championship, developing a squad of players through the academy and signings from the lower leagues... rather than the inevitable yoyoing for the foreseeable 

[Lambert09]

23 minutes ago, Simonb said:

If it doesn't absolutely cripple us financially then I'd much rather 2 or 3 years rebuilding in the championship, developing a squad of players through the academy and signings from the lower leagues... rather than the inevitable yoyoing for the foreseeable 

One thing the championship did for us was allow us to make value signings. It definitely allows you to build a solid foundation if you get it right.  Last years transfer window was so many levels above this one. It’s not even close 

[LCFCCHRIS]

26 minutes ago, Simonb said:

If it doesn't absolutely cripple us financially then I'd much rather 2 or 3 years rebuilding in the championship, developing a squad of players through the academy and signings from the lower leagues... rather than the inevitable yoyoing for the foreseeable 

Realistically if we can spend a few years getting the shite off the wage bill, and lowering what you spend for psr, we should be in a better position to come back up without points deduction worries and panic signings of crap players

[FrankieADZ]

3 hours ago, Noahfence said:

Why is there part of me worried they’ll extend Ward? Like there’s a chance it’ll happen 

there is no chance that will happen

[Simonb]

1 hour ago, Lambert09 said:

One thing the championship did for us was allow us to make value signings. It definitely allows you to build a solid foundation if you get it right.  Last years transfer window was so many levels above this one. It’s not even close

To an extent yes. Although we only really signed top end championship players with no real marketable value didn't we.. apart from Mads. He will go at a profit, but other than that we signed Cannon who went for what we paid, stuck with Winks and Coady on high wages and Mavididi has yet to be consistently decent.. Abdul looks a find just a shame how this season panned out for him. So I only think the last one seemed a success because this seasons one was so poor. 

 

Doyle and Casadei failed to wow too thinking about it 

[Lambert09]

1 hour ago, Simonb said:

To an extent yes. Although we only really signed top end championship players with no real marketable value didn't we.. apart from Mads. He will go at a profit, but other than that we signed Cannon who went for what we paid, stuck with Winks and Coady on high wages and Mavididi has yet to be consistently decent.. Abdul looks a find just a shame how this season panned out for him. So I only think the last one seemed a success because this seasons one was so poor. 

 

Doyle and Casadei failed to wow too thinking about it 

I think getting 3 premier league standard players is a good return tbh. Hermansen and Fatawu definitely are.  Personally think winks is, he just didn’t fit the systems.  
 

if we’d kept maresca who the players were signed for, I think winks and mavididi show up as prem players. Mavididi will always be inconsistent but he would have done enough to get by imo. 
 

Also shout out to Yunus, who sounds like had a great season so who knows if he might have pushed on had we signed him. 
 

All subjective of course but if we can match that window we will be going up again… I just hope we learn to avoid has beens like coady. 

Edited 22 April by Lambert09

[JimJams]

Young players on an upwards trajectory. We don't need any more "experience" in the squad. The Cambiasso to crap ratio is just not forgiving enough.

Young players, loan to buy deals with fees already sorted before they kick a ball, to avoid price hiking should we go back up. I think we fxxked it on Yunus but the deal itself was a good one, as was Fats.

[João Miguel da Cunha]

Thorup out at Norwich. Wonder what flavour of the month out of work manager goes in.. 

[Simonb]

12 hours ago, Lambert09 said:

I think getting 3 premier league standard players is a good return tbh. Hermansen and Fatawu definitely are.  Personally think winks is, he just didn’t fit the systems.  
 

if we’d kept maresca who the players were signed for, I think winks and mavididi show up as prem players. Mavididi will always be inconsistent but he would have done enough to get by imo. 
 

Also shout out to Yunus, who sounds like had a great season so who knows if he might have pushed on had we signed him. 
 

All subjective of course but if we can match that window we will be going up again… I just hope we learn to avoid has beens like coady. 

Yes I forgot Yunus, quite liked him to be honest.

 

I agree if Enzo was here they'd probably suited better and we'd have faired better. Maybe not bridging the 18 point deficit completely but certainly been nearer.

 

I think the bulk of the squad as it is will be in and around the top six, I just hope that we can ship a load of dead wood and rebuild the spine. 

[Lambert09]

48 minutes ago, Simonb said:

Yes I forgot Yunus, quite liked him to be honest.

 

I agree if Enzo was here they'd probably suited better and we'd have faired better. Maybe not bridging the 18 point deficit completely but certainly been nearer.

 

I think the bulk of the squad as it is will be in and around the top six, I just hope that we can ship a load of dead wood and rebuild the spine. 

My focus would be on the right characters. I think we have enough talent for a decent manager to at least push top 6 so a perfect window is getting the bad eggs out and replacing them with talent that also have the right personalities.  I don’t mean more coadys though, you do have to have footballing ability but more of the Pearson standards of players.  That ethos brought us all of our success 

[Number 6]

17 hours ago, Simonb said:

If it doesn't absolutely cripple us financially then I'd much rather 2 or 3 years rebuilding in the championship, developing a squad of players through the academy and signings from the lower leagues... rather than the inevitable yoyoing for the foreseeable 

I think you probably get the parachute payments window to have a good crack at getting up and re-establishing yourself. Beyond that it starts to become very difficult and you end up like Norwich, Watford, West Brom.

[Simonb]

1 hour ago, Lambert09 said:

My focus would be on the right characters. I think we have enough talent for a decent manager to at least push top 6 so a perfect window is getting the bad eggs out and replacing them with talent that also have the right personalities.  I don’t mean more coadys though, you do have to have footballing ability but more of the Pearson standards of players.  That ethos brought us all of our success 

Exactly that..strong characters, but ideally south of 30 in age the lot of them. Glad you don't mean more Coadys.. doesn't just lack footballing ability but comes across as a rat to me that would chuck his team mates under the bus at a drop of a hat. He's the sort of rubbish player that keeps talking a big game and thinking he's inspirational but all his teammates just look at him thinking STFU you're crap 

[Simonb]

1 hour ago, Number 6 said:

I think you probably get the parachute payments window to have a good crack at getting up and re-establishing yourself. Beyond that it starts to become very difficult and you end up like Norwich, Watford, West Brom.

Yes very true.. yoyo it is then 🤣

 

This window has to be about shipping the dead wood and attitudes from the squad and replacing them with younger players with potential you'd hope. 

 

Ipswich should keep hold of most of their squad.. boss the championship, with one or two acquisitions and a couple years as a squad will be in a better position to stay up. Might have to be a 3 year plan for us to build a squad to stay up, but obviously go up and down within that period whilst strengthening maybe 

[Pliskin]

We didn’t get much wrong in the last championship season, it was probably our best window for some time. But a lot of that was driven by Enzo. If we can get a manager with a similar mindset but as we said before a bit more tactically flexible…

 

Theres no reason we can’t do it again, the major **** up was this season, but we were always up against it, and spent more time worrying about PSR than we did actually getting things right. 
 

The championship is ****ing dog shit, but it’s a good platform to get it right, because you can piss your way out of it provided you out the ground work in, even with a possible deduction, we could still with some good editions win it comfortably….. just need to get it right…… and there’s the challenge.

[iancognito]

22 hours ago, Bilo said:

Still think it'll be Sunderland.

I don't see it. 7 points from their last 6, same as Cov. Typical bunfight league. The likes of Luton and Pompey with better form than most of the top 6.

[peterborofox]

2 hours ago, iancognito said:

I don't see it. 7 points from their last 6, same as Cov. Typical bunfight league. The likes of Luton and Pompey with better form than most of the top 6.

But they have basically been waiting for the playoffs for at least a month. A bit like I can't see Sheffield Utd raising their game for their last few either now. They are both sub consciously playing the season out probably conserving energy and protecting players getting injured. 

I expect at least one of them to make the final, and I reckon they'll be more on in come the playoffs probably will have rested players too

[baldeagle]

Extra cash for next season  https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-handed-transfer-boost-10123952?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR7gGTQtcjcDB__zzKHH2h3CkdDx_DKomvoK3e0YTfR7otudN_kuDzIo3uIzIA_aem_vU95mjoG1eQP5zOk7Mmcwg#google_vignette

Edited 22 April by baldeagle

[MonarchFox]

9 hours ago, João Miguel da Cunha said:

Thorup out at Norwich. Wonder what flavour of the month out of work manager goes in.. 

Russell Martin I reckon, he was there a long time as a player.

 

Hopefully gets him off our radar 

[João Miguel da Cunha]

22 minutes ago, MonarchFox said:

Russell Martin I reckon, he was there a long time as a player.

 

Hopefully gets him off our radar 

Fingers crossed my man. Can’t be having

the ‘Norfolk Cafu’ manage us, can we?

 

 

 

[Bluearmyfox28]

3 hours ago, baldeagle said:

Extra cash for next season  https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-handed-transfer-boost-10123952?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR7gGTQtcjcDB__zzKHH2h3CkdDx_DKomvoK3e0YTfR7otudN_kuDzIo3uIzIA_aem_vU95mjoG1eQP5zOk7Mmcwg#google_vignette

Hopefully the club wasn’t expecting the income and can use it to sack off Ruud.

[Tom12345]

I fear this time we will stay in the Championship for a long while.

 

Our squad this time is much worst compared to the squad we had last season.

[JimJams]

44 minutes ago, Tom12345 said:

I fear this time we will stay in the Championship for a long while.

 

Our squad this time is much worst compared to the squad we had last season.

It is, but we'll lose less quality players.

Only Mads and Bilal possibly. Others we shed will be players we don't want.

[Sly]

If the trend of all promoted teams getting relegated continues for a few more seasons, they’ll need to look at restructuring the setup somehow. 
 

PSR has strangled so many clubs ability to compete. 

[LVFox]

3 hours ago, Sly said:

If the trend of all promoted teams getting relegated continues for a few more seasons, they’ll need to look at restructuring the setup somehow. 
 

PSR has strangled so many clubs ability to compete. 

It should be used to ensure funding is more equally spread through the leagues, for example, Burnley and Leeds going up this year means the PL sides get their leftover parachute payments, that should go to championship sides instead surely? As it's a sign of unbalance.

 

Personally think we are more likely to see an 18 team PL than that happen!