Can you believe it? The EFL Championship kicks off in just over a week. And we at hoddle headquarters are seriously excited this year because Tottenham Hotspur Boy Ryan Mason will be on the touchline for West Brom.
The notable news on the managerial front from this month, though, was Marti Cifuentes making the switch from QPR to Leicester City. It’s certainly a loss for the London club, but I think they should still be right about midtable.
Other than that, attention turns towards the transfers. Birmingham made a few big signings with Demarai Gray (Al-Ettifaq), Kyogo Furuhashi (Rennes) and Kanya Fujimoto (Gil Vicente) as the Blues return to the second tier. From what I’m seeing out there, a fair amount of people are backing them to finish right around the playoffs or, at the worst, top 12.
WBA brought in some reinforcements for Mason including forward Aune Heggebo (Brann) for a 4.75m fee, Nat Phillips from Liverpool and centreback George Campbell from Montreal.
Meanwhile, Sheffield Wednesday’and Hull City’s futures are both in peril and both facing transfer embargoes.
One big loss for Wednesday was forward Josh Windass, who left the club for Wrexham on a free transfer. And manager Dani Rohl has also left the club by mutual consent.
Hoddle Headquarters are still going to be monitoring the transfer wires in the EFL Championship before releasing our predictions this year, so stay tuned.
Fitzie’s track of the day: Magic of Meghan, by Dry Cleaning
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