Championship 2025/26 Season

[HankMarvin]

5 hours ago, RowlattsFox said:

Definitely, both spent plenty of money

Southampton are about plus £60m, Ipswich are minus £25m

hardly a huge outlay given what’s they brought in. 

[Lionator]

I notice the teams doing well are the ones who have built over a number of years (Cov, Mid, Mil, Bris) or have managers who are good strategists (Stoke, Cha). Clubs with any form of chaos seem to be struggling. Which further reinforces why we should be playing the long game to get the club on a stable platform 

[Fox92]

Just now, Lionator said:

I notice the teams doing well are the ones who have built over a number of years (Cov, Mid, Mil, Bris) or have managers who are good strategists (Stoke, Cha). Clubs with any form of chaos seem to be struggling. Which further reinforces why we should be playing the long game to get the club on a stable platform 

Hull appointed a new manager in the summer, have had a transfer embargo, and are above us. QPR's new manager replaced our manager and they're above us.

[Foxin_Mad]

Our manager is one of the shitest in the division, he has done nothing to convince me otherwise. Stability maybe 5 years or being like Stoke at best with this absolute chancer. The Premier League will soon be a distant dream, probabaly not seen again for many. 

Edited 23 October 2025 by Foxin_Mad

[OntarioFox]

QPR is a bad example though, because simply by signing Kone they've turned themselves into playoff contenders. Turns out you can have a bang-average squad and still excel if you know where the goal is.

 

Hull have pulled a similar coup with the wise signing of McBurnie on a free, who is proven to be good at this level.  Not claiming he's on the level of Kone, but he's already dragged Hull through a few games with his contributions. Six goals, four assists in ten games and player of the month in September. Our forward line could never. And we were comfortably beaten by them even with him out with a knock. Grim.

Edited 23 October 2025 by OntarioFox

[Reg Vardy]

That said an awful lot of teams have scored the same or fewer than us…..Coventry are unbelievable 

[Dan]

Southampton are baffling. Their performances are better than ours but results even worse - somehow.

[Lionator]

4 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Hull appointed a new manager in the summer, have had a transfer embargo, and are above us. QPR's new manager replaced our manager and they're above us.

Hull and QPR won’t be getting promoted. 

[Dr The Singh]

43 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Hull and QPR won’t be getting promoted. 

Nor will we at this rate

[Fox92]

1 hour ago, Lionator said:

Hull and QPR won’t be getting promoted. 

Niether will Charlton and Stoke but you included them. The teams you mentioned are currently above us, as are Hull and QPR which is why I brought them into it.

[WorcesterBlue]

6 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Ipswich are the most surprising out of every team I think and it's interesting to see if McKenna can turn it around. Back to promotions is always an unbelievable achievement but the second promotion sort of rides of the first promotion. He is now experiencing defeats/loss of form which is always the most testing of a manager.

 

But lets not forget they did concede a lot when they got promoted previously, and often outscored opposition. 

I'm a Town supporter.

We bought 11 players over the summer. The B2B team is no more. Only Davis remains. We seem to have some good players. It is getting them into an effective team that seems to be the hold up.

KMcK's teams wil always attack as first default. That will always leave space at the back. 3-2 rather than 1-0.

[Chrysalis]

15 hours ago, goose2010 said:

I think Southampton and especially Ipswich's starts are more surprising then ours. 

 

 

Apparently Ipswich got rid of most of their promotion team already, so perhaps for them not surprising, they got rid of all the hunger and hard working players.  Left with higher paid merc's like we and saints have.

[teblin]

I say it again I wasn’t overly impressed with cov.(when we played them) But they have goals all over the pitch. We don’t have goals anywhere at the minute. Seem to be going from strength to strength. 

Edited 24 October 2025 by teblin

[moore_94]

 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Probably means they're closer to the end of Chansiri but good grief. People who own football clubs who seem to actively hate every second of it are utter goblins

[ceebeefox]

4 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

 

Very sad, proper club, and still the loudest fans for a few seasons down here.

[Fox92]

Such a strange situation. He threw so much at them when he first got there. Made the play offs twice but couldn't get any further and then investment stopped.

[AKCJ]

There has to be more stops in place to keep these charlatans away from football clubs.

[AKCJ]

19 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Such a strange situation. He threw so much at them when he first got there. Made the play offs twice but couldn't get any further and then investment stopped.

Is it that strange?

 

Thai man-child nepo baby decided to pull the plug when things started going against him and has only ever refused to do the right thing out of stubbornness or ego and will sack anyone who questions it.

 

It all sounds incredibly familiar to me.

[ramboacdc]

Realistically, what happens now? Is it that the administrators call the play on accepting takeover bids then instead of Chansari throwing them all away as he won't make his monty back, or are they in too much of a hole at this point? 

 

They have 5 transfer embargo's too. They could drop 3 divisions easily if they stayed in business from that alone surely? 

[Fox92]

4 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

Is it that strange?

 

Thai man-child nepo baby decided to pull the plug when things started going against him and has only ever refused to do the right thing out of stubbornness or ego and will sack anyone who questions it.

 

It all sounds incredibly familiar to me.

Maybe strange was the wrong word but he initially invested a lot and then pulled it all after two decent seasons (although they should have gone up with what they invested). 

 

I don't know all the ins and outs about who he has got rid of, or not, from the board/staff etc.

 

It is time people like this are stopped from buying clubs but how can they considering all he invented initially? 

[Super_horns]

Mike Ashley been linked - guess it’s better than no one .

 

Hopefully they can pull through.

[LCFCJohn]

Seems like Wednesday fans are of the view they will take this if it is finally the end of Chansiri!

 

Does anyone with more understanding know what this means in reality? Obviously they will drop down a league or even 2. But if there is a buyer, presumably he is forced to relinquish the club now and it won’t mean they cease to exist?

 

[Pliskin]

Could well be us in 12 months or so. 

[Leicesterpool]

31 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Mike Ashley been linked - guess it’s better than no one .

 

Hopefully they can pull through.

Ashley is an arsehole but he will stabilise the club, when he owned Newcastle finance wise they were sound it was just his decision making that was weak.