“I thought my team worked very well in pre-season”.
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“We had many difficulties keeping a clean sheet last season, it’s great news for us”.
Another relatively quiet window in terms of players joining the club, the Ipswich faithful will be reassured by the lack of activity in the other direction.
“That is the main thing at the beginning and hopefully throughout the whole season to the end”.
The club have also been through five managers in that short period of time, including former England boss Steve McLaren.
The charismatic Nigel Pearson has returned to football management to take charge at Derby County.
Who’s going up? Or which club are going to claim second place behind Newcastle United? With so much individual talent packed into the SkyBet Championship this season, The Magpies could endure a bumpy ride on their travels and home form could again prove to be the key to their success.
It is widely felt that the Magpies will dominate the division this year, so all eyes were upon them at they travelled to Craven Cottage on Friday evening.
“We know that it is very hard, the Championship, and we know that every game will be complicated – but now we have the hope that we can do well, the belief that we can do well”.
Villa have splashed out £12m to land striker Ross McCormack from Fulham and have also signed Tommy Elphick from Bournemouth. He surely would have found one, given his impressive resume that includes Champions League (Liverpool), Europa League (Chelsea) and Spanish league (Valencia) titles as well as spells with six leading European clubs. “We’ll be back in the Premier League, I’m sure”.
After managing just 13th in the 2014/15 season, Carvalhal guided Wednesday into sixth position last time out, as a wonderful first season at the helm came to a dramatic close for the Portuguese and his players.
Relegated Newcastle United, Aston Villa and Norwich City have been spending in a bid to return to the top flight at the first time of asking.
“When you look at the fixtures coming out I don’t think there would have been a better fixture for us”.
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From this point on, Newcastle must display the character and mettle necessary to match any second-tier opponent they come up against.
