The Championship is back and this is the Not the Top 20 podcast, one to 24, preseason prediction for the championship, 2025 season.

And it's brought to you by AK Betts.

If you're new here, we're the number one EFL podcast and we never have to talk about VAR, which is class.

We also have a little bit of pedigree for what we're doing today.

There was a time, George, where we picked the winners of the championship correctly four seasons in a row starting with Leeds Norwich

Fulham Burnley and we fell at last year's hurdle we picked Leeds Lester won the

title but as Meatloaf probably thought four out of five ain't bad a couple of

themes of this season's championship that have bubbled to the surface during research.

A lot of foreign recruitment this summer.

Clubs expanding their range fishing in Euro waters and beyond.

About a third of all signings this summer in the championship are coming from outside the UK.

So a lot of the signings that we'll talk about on this pod and a lot of the players that we'll talk about all season. We don't know that much about,

which is exciting. Another quick theme. Little group of managers who came in during last season

did fairly well and who fans will be hoping with a preseason under their belt can really kick on. I'm talking Danny

Rurl. I'm talking Mardis de Fuentes, talking Liam Manning, John Eustis, Stephen Schumacher, Luke Williams,

etc. And then just to tease the first part of this podcast, I reckon there are 10 championship clubs

that I could feasibly see getting relegated.

That is quite a fun. I think we should do a TikTok on Monday.

Where you do...

Not words I thought I'd ever, ever hear you saw.

Where you do.

Why this team make relegated, do you 10 of them?

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