Promoted sides break the trend - but will they stay up?
Briefly

Promotion brings sporting prestige, historic opponents, top players and significant financial rewards. Recent seasons have seen newly promoted clubs struggle, with each of the six teams promoted prior to the current season relegated immediately, including Leicester, Ipswich, Southampton, Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United. Many of those relegations were confirmed well before seasons ended, raising concerns that financial disparities have turned the jump in quality into a chasm. This season's promoted trio earned wins within the first two matches, the first time that has happened since 2016–17, offering an early sign that the pattern could be different.
Promotion to the Premier League is always cause for celebration. For those who achieve it there is the chance to compete against the country's top sides, travel to world famous, historic grounds and have some of the best players on the planet visit your stadium - and that's before you get to the enormous financial benefits. But for the past two seasons, that joy has quickly faded for newly-promoted teams once the season begins and reality hits.
Prior to this season, each of the past six teams to come up from the Championship have gone straight back down. Last season it was Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton, suffering the same fate as Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United the year before. All came up with great hope and each and every one of them was consigned to relegation - mostly long before the end of campaign, too.
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