Can Sunderland or Sheffield United be a successful Premier League team if they win the Championship playoff?

While Sunderland and Sheffield United are preparing for the fight in Wembley on Saturday, one eye will return to the Premier League. For the winner of the competition, the other eye will not have long to party, because a busy summer is in front of us. For the second consecutive season, all three newly promoted teams were degraded to the championship, and the gap between the Premier League -support pillars has continued to grow, while it is becoming more difficult for newly promoted teams to hang with the increased editions and expectations that life entails in the Premier League.

For the winners of the Promotion -Play -off, things can even be a gloomy, with only four teams who came to the top flight after Wembley Triumph who maintained their Premier League status since 2014. The average finish for teams in their next Premier League season after winning the Playoff has only been 17.6, was only 17.6, was only 17.6, which is not good enough for Premier League Survival. Of those four teams to stay in the competition, there are only three in the Premier League, where the other Huddersfield is Town, which has fallen all the way to League One. Aston Villa, Brentford and Nottingham Forest were the parties to stay up, but they did it all in different ways.

This is not to paint a hopeless picture for Sunderland or Sheffield United, but more to investigate what a successful play -off winner makes. What will the team that come out of Saturday match must do to compete. That is where it is good to concentrate on Brentford and Nottingham Forest in particular. While Aston Villa did it, that team should never have been relegated to start, and having a young Jack Grealish on the Roster helped them to give them a leg that other teams could not match. Brentford also had their star in Ollie Watkins, but he was not a proven Premier League player before he earned his stripes with the bees before he became one of the best strikers in the top flight with Aston Villa, something that Sunderland and Sheffield United can watch.

The Way forest

When Nottingham Forest was promoted, what they did revolutionary, buying a completely new team for the top flight and then adding more players in January, while he also went further from a club legend in Steve Cooper to hire Nuno Espirito Santo and stay in the Premier League. It was a high risk, high reward affair with relegation that she probably brought in hot water with financial fair play rules, but it was a gamble that paid off. The tricky trees have made a profit by sending Brennan Johnson to Tottenham, the difficult trees were able to reinvest by Fringe Premier League players such as Anthony Elanga and Callum Hudson-Odoi into stars and even weakening their rivals by switching Chris Wood.

Not every team can match what Forest did, and given the cunning editions of Sheffield United after previous promotions, they may not try to try what Forest did, but it pushed the tricky trees in Europe this season, so there are earnings on this path, if you can get it somehow, despite the risks.

Steady Brentford

Although the bees may not have crashed the Premier League in a similar way as Forest, stable leadership of Thomas Frank, good recruitment, and benefit from set pieces, can change them in a solid Premier League side. Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa have formed a pretty attacking duo, while Brentford has been able to surround them with solid contributors while building an identity in the Premier League. Not built on a real star, the bees are able to prevent them from being too dependent on one player, surviving the suspension and then the sale of star striker Ivan Toney, to create a repeatable setup and stay in the top flight.

They still have to get the next step of winning something or being eligible for Europe, but are closer to that goal than the championship, even though they are only promoted in 2021, it is something that can be done. Given the dependence on Sunderland on young people such as Chris Rigg, Jobe Bellingham and Wilson Isador, the black cats can expect improvement if they are promoted and with smart recruitment, there is no reason why they cannot follow a similar path to Brentford.

The most difficult thing is to get there and by the end of Saturday, one team will have a task, but by looking at earlier examples of success from the championship, there is a path to ensure that the winner of the promotion playoff does not refund through the pyramid.

How to see the playoff -final of the championship

• Date: Saturday, May 24 | Time: 10:00 am and
• Location: Wembley Stadium – London, England
• Live stream: Paramount+
• Chances: Sheffield United +135; Sign +200; Sunderland +230