{"id":338731,"date":"2025-08-12T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338731\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:08:13","slug":"jamie-carragher-predicts-the-one-team-who-will-survive-out-of-leeds-united-burnley-and-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338731\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Carragher predicts the one team who will survive out of Leeds United, Burnley and Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher has delivered his verdict on whether Leeds United will stay in the Premier League in the 2025\/26 season. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The odds of newly-promoted teams retaining their Premier League<\/a> status have shifted significantly in recent years, with all three sides being relegated in the last two seasons. <\/p>\n

This year, Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland are the three sides who will look to defy the odds, with Sunderland launching an aggressive transfer spree led by the signing of Granit Xhaka<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Daniel Farke<\/a> has also overseen a significant rebuild of his squad, but Leeds\u2019 transfer spend is still less<\/a> than that of the Black Cats. Now, Carragher has explained whether he thinks this will be enough to keep any of the newly-promoted teams in the Premier League. <\/p>\n

\"JamiePhoto by James Baylis \u2013 AMA\/Getty ImagesJamie Carragher backs Leeds United to survive<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Chris Moyles Show on Radio X, Carragher delivered his verdict on Leeds\u2019 survival hopes. <\/p>\n

According to the former Liverpool man, Leeds have the best chance of retaining their top-flight status, and the Elland Road<\/a> crowd could play a key part in this. Carragher said: \u201cI think Leeds have got the best chance out of the teams that came up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think the atmosphere at Leeds, they\u2019ve got to make that a fortress, make it a place where teams don\u2019t want to go, and now you\u2019ve asked me, I\u2019m going to say yes, Leeds, they\u2019re the one I think can stay up.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t want to predict that the three promoted teams are going to go straight back down because that will depress me if that happens again, so I\u2019m going to go for Leeds staying up.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI think Leeds are one of those teams that maybe if you\u2019ve got a big rivalry with them, maybe Manchester United, I think a lot of supporters up and down the country want Leeds back in the Premier League, they feel like a Premier League team, and hopefully they will stay.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DanielPhoto by Gareth Copley\/Getty ImagesHow many wins do Leeds United need to stay in the Premier League?<\/p>\n

Although the odds are stacked against the newly-promoted sides, Leeds can take comfort from the fact that in their previous relegation season three years ago, all three promoted sides stayed in the top flight. <\/p>\n

Fans often refer to the magical 40-point mark for Premier League safety, but a recent article from the BBC<\/a> showed that the modern reality is closer to 30. <\/p>\n\nPremier League Season<\/td>\nMost wins by a relegated side<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2024\/25<\/td>\n6 \u2013 Leicester City<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2023\/24<\/td>\n6 \u2013 Luton Town<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2022\/23<\/td>\n9 \u2013 Leicester City<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2021\/22<\/td>\n7 \u2013 Burnley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2020\/21<\/td>\n7 \u2013 Sheffield United<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

In practical terms, this means that eight wins from 38 games could be enough to stay up. In the last five seasons, only Leicester City have been relegated, having won more than eight games, winning nine before being relegated with 34 points. <\/p>\n

As Carragher stated, Leeds\u2019 home form will be key to this, as they look to secure the first of these victories in the season opener against Everton<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher has delivered his verdict on whether Leeds United will stay in the Premier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,4110,1860,101,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-338731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-jamie-carragher","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-premier-league","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115016427607017787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}