Championship season 2025/26

[Matthew Le God]

Leicester selling their keeper

 

[S-Clarke]

1 hour ago, Matthew Le God said:

Yikes? That is strong for the Championship 

According to FM maybe, but in real life it really isn't.

[Midfield_General]

Port Vale's kit is absolutely magnificent. 

Best in the league by a mile.

[sockeye]

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Edited Thursday at 21:07 by sockeye
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[Matthew Le God]

2 hours ago, Midfield_General said:

Port Vale's kit is absolutely magnificent. 

Best in the league by a mile.

They aren't in the Championship.

[SNSUN]

13 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

Things starting to hot up now, the three relegated sides have been somewhat stable squad wise up to this point.

We've got Dibling and Fernandes being circled. Ipswich now have Davis, Hutchinson circled. Leicester have Mads, Ndidi and such being circled. I think they've agreed a fee with someone for Nididi actually.

It'll be interesting to see how all 3 look in September as we'll all look fairly different IMO. I'd say Ipswich are operating from a position of strength as they already had a solid team, whereas we need to rotate quite a bit of ours out.

Ndidi had a relegation release clause of 9 million, he's about to join Besiktas. With their Goalkeeper gone too they could lose a few more yet. We might lose Dibling, Fernandes and possibly THB still but we'd still be in a pretty strong position IMO both in terms of players we have and the ability to spend money on new players when we can. (And then then there's loans). If Ipswich also get raided then even better for us.

[gurru991]

2 hours ago, SNSUN said:

Ndidi had a relegation release clause of 9 million, he's about to join Besiktas. With their Goalkeeper gone too they could lose a few more yet. We might lose Dibling, Fernandes and possibly THB still but we'd still be in a pretty strong position IMO both in terms of players we have and the ability to spend money on new players when we can. (And then then there's loans). If Ipswich also get raided then even better for us.

I fully expect Leicester to lose a few more players before deadline day. I'm hoping that we will be able to buy some players as well but we are going to get a points deduction but don't know how big it will be or when we will receive it. It could be a crazy season !!!

[Pamplemousse]

Everyone buckle up, the circus rolls in today!

Looking forward to Brum v Ipswich. This is where we'll see if Birmingham really are promotion contenders.

[AlexLaw76]

27 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Everyone buckle up, the circus rolls in today!

Looking forward to Brum v Ipswich. This is where we'll see if Birmingham really are promotion contenders.

So if we scrape a 1-1 at home to Wrexham, you will freely admit we are not promotion contenders? You know, we are judging a season in just the first game.

[Football Special]

8 hours ago, SNSUN said:

Ndidi had a relegation release clause of 9 million, he's about to join Besiktas. With their Goalkeeper gone too they could lose a few more yet. We might lose Dibling, Fernandes and possibly THB still but we'd still be in a pretty strong position IMO both in terms of players we have and the ability to spend money on new players when we can. (And then then there's loans). If Ipswich also get raided then even better for us.

I'm still struggling to get onboard with the opinion that we have a strong squad even after losing our 'best' players. 

Remember we've already lost key first team players RAMSDALE,  WALKER-PETERS (both contenders for player of the season) and our league top scorer ONUACHO.  We have also cashed in on KAMALDEEN SULEMANA and BEDNAREK to champions league Atalanta & Porto , if we then lose Dibling and Fernandes that really is taking one of the worst top flight squads of all time, removing any quality that was in it, what remains hardly fills me with confidence.  

[sfc4prem]

1 hour ago, Football Special said:

I'm still struggling to get onboard with the opinion that we have a strong squad even after losing our 'best' players. 

Remember we've already lost key first team players RAMSDALE,  WALKER-PETERS (both contenders for player of the season) and our league top scorer ONUACHO.  We have also cashed in on KAMALDEEN SULEMANA and BEDNAREK to champions league Atalanta & Porto , if we then lose Dibling and Fernandes that really is taking one of the worst top flight squads of all time, removing any quality that was in it, what remains hardly fills me with confidence.  

Onuachu, Bednarek and Sulemana = quality? Not sure on that one.

If you agree they aren't quality, why reference them leaving in your post?

 

Our performance last season was piss poor. I'm happy to have the squad dismantled. We need a full mentality switch.

[coalman]

Opta give us a 11.2% chance of automatic promotion and a 34.3% chance of making the playoffs. And a 6.7% chance of being relegated.

https://theanalyst.com/articles/championship-predictions-opta-supercomputer-2025-26

Edited Friday at 09:24 by coalman

[Saint86]

14 hours ago, Midfield_General said:

Port Vale's kit is absolutely magnificent. 

Best in the league by a mile.

Agree, its a thing of beauty .

Don't you agree @Matthew Le God? 😉

Edited Friday at 09:31 by Saint86

[Saint86]

7 minutes ago, coalman said:

Opta give us a 11.2% chance of automatic promotion and a 34.3% chance of making the playoffs. And a 6.7% chance of being relegated.

https://theanalyst.com/articles/championship-predictions-opta-supercomputer-2025-26

This is probably the worst prediction i've seen to date. OptaAnalyst having a mare there.

Sheffield Wednesday in 14th 🤣🤣

[Midfield_General]

12 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

They aren't in the Championship.

You really are special aren't you x

[Saint86]

1 minute ago, Midfield_General said:

You really are special aren't you x

But not as special as that Port Vale kit 😉

[Matthew Le God]

 

 

[Chez]

7 minutes ago, Saint86 said:

But not as special as that Port Vale kit 😉

in a league of its own.

[Football Special]

3 hours ago, sfc4prem said:

Onuachu, Bednarek and Sulemana = quality? Not sure on that one.

If you agree they aren't quality, why reference them leaving in your post?

 

Our performance last season was piss poor. I'm happy to have the squad dismantled. We need a full mentality switch.

Definition of quality I guess is down to opinion, but factually Onuacho scored more goals in the Premier league than any of our other forwards, so what does it say about them? 

I'd say Sulemana and Bednarek moving to Atalanta and Porto shows they have qualities deemed attractive to clubs at a higher level than us and those clubs were prepared to pay reasonable transfer fees for them, as will Dibling and Fernandes. 

The lack of interest in the rest of our squad is a good indication of how poor most of them are, my point being I don't see how others are now predicting them to get automatic promotion 

Edited Friday at 10:45 by Football Special

[Whitey Grandad]

1 hour ago, Saint86 said:

But not as special as that Port Vale kit 😉

If you had one you'd spend all the time washing out those 'difficult stains' 🤭

[SWLondon Saint]

2 hours ago, Saint86 said:

This is probably the worst prediction i've seen to date. OptaAnalyst having a mare there.

Sheffield Wednesday in 14th 🤣🤣

Agree completely. Any prediction table that doesn't have Ipswich as clear favourites to win it is total shite imo. Same manager, but better team with more depth than 2 years ago when they got 96 points = 3rd place??? 🥴

[Sheaf Saint]

4 minutes ago, SWLondon Saint said:

Agree completely. Any prediction table that doesn't have Ipswich as clear favourites to win it is total shite imo. Same manager, but better team with more depth than 2 years ago when they got 96 points = 3rd place??? 🥴

Two words for you:

Scar tissue 😉

[Saint86]

Brum's last game of the season is skates away... So we all know that's a 3 point banker if they need it to be.

[gurru991]

On 08/08/2025 at 05:36, SWLondon Saint said:

Agree completely. Any prediction table that doesn't have Ipswich as clear favourites to win it is total shite imo. Same manager, but better team with more depth than 2 years ago when they got 96 points = 3rd place??? 🥴

They didn't look good against Birmingham yesterday !!!

[washsaint]

So happy to be back in the Championship.  More enjoyment in 1 game (obviously cos we won) than the whole of last season.

Terrible ref (but no VAR thank god!), dodgy team selection but 90 + 6 minutes of sheer entertainment.

Massive work for Saints to do but we should be there or thereabouts at the end of the season.

Best league in the world this one - I hate the Prem

[Gloucester Saint]

Commentator in the Oxford v Filth game says ‘you can hear that bell in the away end’.

So the skates sat around him both get deafened and nausea from the pungent stink in these temperatures of BO and stale Carling. Almost feel sorry for them..almost.

Oxford winger we are interested in hasn’t featured much so far but quality is dreadful overall from both sides.

[sfc4prem]

8 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Commentator in the Oxford v Filth game says ‘you can hear that bell in the away end’.

So the skates sat around him both get deafened and nausea from the pungent stink in these temperatures of BO and stale Carling. Almost feel sorry for them..almost.

Oxford winger we are interested in hasn’t featured much so far but quality is dreadful overall from both sides.

Urgh, you can imagine the smell, can't you. Like a derelict football stadium's urinals on a hot summer's evening in a sold out game.

[V.Johnathan.Wilson]

Okay so I think the refereeing is just proper incompetent, watching this derby vs stoke game, the stoke defender tries to body check the derby attacker behind him without playing the ball possibly injures him in the process and gets awarded a freekick somehow.

[Saint NL]

Hampshire number 1

[a1ex2001]

On 08/08/2025 at 12:36, SWLondon Saint said:

Agree completely. Any prediction table that doesn't have Ipswich as clear favourites to win it is total shite imo. Same manager, but better team with more depth than 2 years ago when they got 96 points = 3rd place??? 🥴

Not so convinced, Ipswich had one of those seasons where the stars all aligned when they went up similar to when Leicester one the Prem.  I think they will find it incredibly difficult to repeat the trick without a squad overhaul.

we won’t really know how anyone stands until the window closes particularly for the relegated teams as there are simply too many ifs and maybes around squads.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, sfc4prem said:

Urgh, you can imagine the smell, can't you. Like a derelict football stadium's urinals on a hot summer's evening in a sold out game.

Now playing an ambulance noise when an Oxford player is bleeding from a clash of heads.

[Saint NL]

Brizzle city take an early lead in the late game away at Sheffield United

[Football Special]

5 hours ago, Saint NL said:

Hampshire number 1

Skates have a kind fixture list to start with, expect they'll be quite high when we play them, our next two are tough, Ipswich away possibly hardest away of the season and Stoke who could well be top when we play them 

[AlexLaw76]

The Selles effect hitting hard 

[AlexLaw76]

Watching the EFL highlights, some atrocious referring around the Championship this weekend it seems

[Wsaint]

12 hours ago, Football Special said:

Skates have a kind fixture list to start with, expect they'll be quite high when we play them, our next two are tough, Ipswich away possibly hardest away of the season and Stoke who could well be top when we play them 

Pompey's next 2 games are Norwich and West Brom, can easily see them losing both of those, Preston after that probably a closer contest.