12 Sep 2026 16:14:08
Plenty time to go in the Chelsea Hull game, but even now it's fair to say that at the moment Hull are showing themselves to be a very difficult team to beat. They're well coached and motivated. Their goalie is good. It wouldn't surprise me if they tail off as the season wears on.
13 Sep 2026 10:31:42
We say it all the time, but there really is no easy games in the EPL.
The amount of money that the EPL generates, and thus the spending power it gives the clubs, is unrivalled.
This summer the EPL spent EUR1.5bn. The second highest spending league was Serie A with a total of EUR420m.
Our league is spending more than three times as much as the next highest spending league.
This summer, if you looked at the top spending clubs in world football, the top 7 are EPL sides, with Real Madrid 8th, and Ipswich 9th. Coventry spent more than the super wealthy PSG.
In fact, all three of the promoted clubs in the EPL were comfortably inside the top 20 clubs in the world for spending this summer (Ipswich 9th, Hull 13th, Coventry 17th).
It's not even just the promoted teams trying to catch up, or the top EPL clubs either; Brighton, Forest, and Brentford also feature in the top 25, alongside the promoted clubs and the established top EPL sides (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, United, City, Newcastle, Spurs, and Villa). Meaning 14 of the top 25 spending clubs in the world this summer are EPL clubs.
Being back in the UCL this season is a huge coup for us, one that very few genuinely expected at the start of last season. However, it's highly unlikely that we will face many, if any, teams in the UCL that have outspent 90% of the EPL teams this summer. Which begs the question, where is the real challenge?