Premier League survival and the race to 40 points.

The art of staying afloat is big business

There are now managers who are ‘specialists’ in avoiding relegation.

Tony Pulis and Sam Allardyce are lauded about how they have never been relegated as a premier league manager and that they guarantee to keep your club safe from relegation (so far so good).

According to numerous sources when taking the Crystal Palace job he asked for a £3 million bonus on top of his £55,000 per week wages, yep keeping a team in the league is big big business.

Very few managers start the season dreaming of winning the title, many managers dream of winning the‘race to 40 points’