So now we know Southampton are going up, let's take a look at some of the new starheads we may see next year:
Southampton:
Manning, Harwood-Bellis (£20m obligation to buy from Man City after promotion), Bree, Sulemana, Charles, Amo-Ameyaw, Lumley, Stewart, Larios, Alcaraz, Ballard
Looking forward to Harwood Bellis and Charles. Amo-Ameyaw would also be a fun addition
Leicester:
Hermansen, Faes, Fatawu (Sure they have a purchase obligation), Mavididi, McAteer, Cannon, Souttar, Braybrooke
Some decent young Wingers there and we lack young strikers that are scanned so Cannon would be good. Shame there is no obligation on young Callum Doyle as he would be a great scan
Ipswich:
Pretty much all the team will need scans.
Davis, Woolfenden, Clarke, Hirst are decent scans and good ages. A lot of the team are in their late 20's so probably wouldn't be players I'd ever look to sign
Overall I think the teams going up this season is quite disappointing. Lots or Leicester and Southampton players are already scanned and the most exciting Ipswich player Hutchinson doesn't even belong to them. I really hope they loan or buy him from Chelsea!
I really hope we see a lot of movement in the transfer window from the promoted teams. Southampton tend to focus on signing young players with good resale value and they made a lot in outbound sales last summer which will hopefully mean they have a large budget for this summer. Ipswich team still has a lot of players who we're with them in league one. They're probably going to really struggle unless they add some quality. My hope is that they add a lot of young, hungry players with good resale value rather than a lot of experienced premiership players hitting their 30's. Leicester I can't see making too many changes, their owners have had financial issues recently and their squad has a lot of premiership quality in there. Hopefully they can get Callum Doyle back. The connection to Man City might also lead to targeting other City youngesters like Bobb, Kayky, Wright etc