It's funny, the more players I see them bring in, the more I become convinced they aren't going to have a good season. As soon as you come up the goal is basically to stay up and then build your way up the table, but I look at them and think the more changes you make the quicker I fancy you to go.
I do think they'll stay up this season, probably a low-bottom half finish, but it relies on them making a good start and bedding these new players in quickly. I'm becoming more and more convinced they could 'do a Fulham' as happened in 2018 when they brought in a firm of no marks for big money.
It seems very similar to Villa when they came up and they stayed up by the skin of their teeth on the last day with a low points total.
They've bought a fair few players who were great in The Championship last season like Neco Williams and basically Huddersfield's best players. Gibbs White was, outside Fulham at least, the best player in the division. Whether these players can hit the ground running in the PL in a new team remains to be seen. Then there's mercenary players like Lingard and punts from abroad.
I don't see it going well but don't necessarily think they'll go down. They're capable of finishing above 3+ teams, as we seen with Everton it's difficult to fuck that up if you've not got a bottom few budget. I don't see them doing as well as, say, Leeds or Sheff United when they first came up with more settled teams, rather than fucking up the wage structure and buying a new team.
