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MK. MK Don's have been promoted out of league two.

There'll be a league one side again next season.

All is to be discovered as whether or not they will win the title, which we'll find out this coming weekend.

Ali, you know, we know that MKDons are incredibly ambitious coming to this season. It was time for the new owner to flexors muscles. And they went out, hired a promotion specialist and gave an incredible team and one of the biggest ever budgets we've seen in order to do so. And he has. Yeah, when you said all that remains to be seen is whether they win the title, I thought you're looking ahead to next season in League 1. And we are going to touch on next season because, you know, we're congratulations to Milton Keynes and their fans for achieving promotion. I think what's much more interesting from a footballing level is how they'll go next season in League 1. They will go up with great momentum, with, you know,

very, very strong backing and a strong squad, regardless of the recruitment this summer.

Paul Warren is who you allude to when you say a promotion specialist, because five promotions in nine seasons now, with a couple of relegations in there as well, of course. It's an unbelievable

record. And you can see

why they identified him. You can see why he was persuaded to drop down, probably understanding that

he was going to have a very, very good chance of going on another journey with MK, like he did

with Rotherham. And I think his temperament is just perfect, really, you know, for this job where with great tools at his disposal, I think he throughout the season has taken the pressure off at the right time when that was needed for the team.

I think he's put pressure on at the right time when it was needed for the team.

I really think in terms of his messaging and his kind of overall leadership and his man

management, it's difficult to find many better than him, quite frankly, at EFL level.

And although on the other side of things, he's not considered to be one of the most

elaborate tacticians in the game, Paul Warren has a very clear way of leading, has a very clear way of

training, as I understand it, a very clear way of playing, a very clear idea of what he wants

his teams to do in order to win football matches, and therefore very clear with what he wants

in terms of players. And that is that clarity. I think it's just

very powerful for a manager to have. And I think we start with Paul Warren here. For sure. I mean,

he's obviously, as you say, someone that we know when he's given the tools to kind of perform.

He normally gets it right and he's done so here but we you know when talking about mkid onto success

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