Kyle Walker has accomplished his transfer from Manchester Metropolis to Burnley. That switch has received us considering – what number of Premier League champions have gone on to be relegated?
We’ve seen a number of relegated gamers go on to realize immense success, with Xherdan Shaqiri, Georginio Wijnaldum and Andrew Robertson all a part of Liverpool’s 2019-20 title-winning squad after struggling the drop with Stoke, Newcastle and Hull respectively.
However the different method round isn’t fairly so frequent. We are able to’t assist however respect Walker, who has gained six Premier League titles with Manchester Metropolis, taking up the problem of becoming a member of a newly promoted membership who’re among the many heavy favourites to go straight again down.
We’ve recognized eight notable examples of gamers who gained a Premier League title earlier than happening to endure relegation. Reckon we’ve missed any significantly attention-grabbing examples? Tell us @planetfootball.
Jamie Vardy
The one participant on the checklist who gained the Premier League and suffered relegation with the identical membership.
This checklist is in any other case dominated by gamers who went from powerhouses of English soccer (Manchester United, Manchester Metropolis, Chelsea) to struggling golf equipment on the different finish of the desk (Sunderland, Stoke, QPR) however Leicester belonged in each these camps over the course of Vardy’s exceptional 13-year stint.
The striker unforgettably fired the Foxes to the title with 24 league targets in 2015-16. He’d later win a Premier League Golden Boot, turn out to be one of the prolific over-30 goalscorers in historical past, characteristic within the Champions League and carry the FA Cup at Wembley.
After which all of it got here tumbling down. Relegation in 2023. And once more in 2025.
“No phrases I’ve can ever specific my emotions of anger and disappointment with the way in which this season has gone. There are not any excuses,” Vardy wrote on social media.
“Having been at this membership for thus lengthy, we’ve skilled so many highs and successes – and this season has been nothing however depressing and for me personally, a complete embarrassment. It hurts, and I do know you’re feeling it too.
“To the followers: I’m sorry. Sorry we haven’t carried out.”
There speaks a person with first-hand expertise of how far they completed fell.
Kalvin Phillips
This one’s a little bit of a technicality.
It might be an understatement to say the midfielder wasn’t all that influential in Manchester Metropolis’s 2022-23 treble, his one and solely full season on the Etihad.
Phillips made simply two begins and performed a complete of 291 minutes in that title-winning marketing campaign and was pushed additional to the periphery, ultimately loaned out to West Ham, after they retained it the next 12 months.
It’s that fringe standing that explains how he ended up out on mortgage at Ipswich City final season. Kieran McKenna’s males gave it a great go however in the end sank again down like a stone.
Rio Ferdinand
The transfer arguably most analogous to Walker’s transfer to Burnley, Ferdinand was additionally a six-time Premier League winner with a dominant Manchester pressure who, as a veteran, transferred to a membership in a very totally different orbit.
“I want I completed my profession at Manchester United, slightly than shifting to QPR,” Ferdinand instructed Stick To Soccer, recalling his underwhelming ultimate 12 months at Loftus Street.
“As a result of it was the primary time I had been in a altering room the place individuals have been speaking about cash and wages.
“You’d hear murmurings of gamers speaking about it and I discovered it mad.
“We had gamers not wanting to coach as a result of they have been on a sure amount of cash, the depth wasn’t that prime, and for no matter Harry Redknapp was making an attempt to do, the gamers weren’t shopping for into it, and that workforce ended up getting relegated.”
Let’s see if Walker echoes these sentiments in a 12 months or two’s time. However we’d be amazed if Burnley change into anyplace close to as a lot of a basket case as Redknapp’s QPR.
Glen Johnson
The uncommon relegated-title-relegated trifecta. Not many can boast a trajectory fairly prefer it.
The total-back joined Chelsea following West Ham’s relegation in 2003. He went on to the Premier League following Jose Mourinho’s arrival, though an absence of gametime denied him a second winner’s medal in 2005-06.
Johnson went on to signify Portsmouth and Liverpool in his peak years earlier than ultimately winding down his profession at Stoke Metropolis, whose decade-long stint within the Premier League got here to an finish in his ultimate season on the Bet365 Stadium.
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John O’Shea
Sunderland being again within the large time has us all nostalgic for the times through which they’d routinely signal Manchester United’s cast-offs; gamers that’d lengthy outgrown their usefulness to Sir Alex Ferguson.
On their return, signing plenty of highly-rated children from the continent, the panorama has modified fairly dramatically. Each golf equipment are very totally different entities these days.
O’Shea would possibly’ve been deemed surplus to necessities at Outdated Trafford however he remained an honest, skilled Premier League utility man. As cast-offs go, he was in all probability pretty much as good because it received.
The five-time Premier League winner revamped 250 appearances for the Black Cats and was membership captain by the point their top-flight standing lastly got here to an finish in depressing fashion, all-time low underneath David Moyes, in 2017.
Carrington graduates Paddy McNair and Donald Love, in addition to loanee Adnan Januzaj, have been additionally a part of that notorious Sunderland squad. Darron Gibson didn’t be a part of till later, whereas Wes Brown left simply earlier than.
Park Ji-sung
Dudes can actually simply sit round and title previous sports activities gamers members of QPR’s 2012-13 squad and simply have the perfect time.
Park didn’t really overlap with the aforementioned Ferdinand at Loftus Street. A fan favorite and four-time Premier League winner at Outdated Trafford, Park joined QPR after they stayed up by the pores and skin of their enamel in 2011-12.
His previous team-mate adopted two years later, after they’d come again up from the Championship.
The South Korea worldwide shared a dressing room with the likes of Julio Cesar, Christopher Samba, Tal Ben Haim, Jose Bosingwa, Adel Taarabt, Andros Townsend and Loic Remy. Unsurprisingly, that Expendables-vibe mish-mash by no means actually gelled and so they completed backside of the pile.
Quite than play within the Championship, Park noticed out his profession with an underwhelming mortgage away to PSV.
Fabio
The Brazilian full-back, twin of the significantly extra profitable Rafael, was additionally a part of that ludicrous QPR hodgepodge squad in 2012-13.
Fabio by no means actually nailed down a beginning place underneath Ferguson and was loaned out that 12 months.
He later moved to Cardiff Metropolis and Middlesbrough, whom he additionally suffered Premier League relegations with.
Joleon Lescott
After the excessive watermark of a starring position in Manchester Metropolis’s first Premier League title triumph in 2011-12, subsequent years wouldn’t be fairly so joyous for the previous England defender.
Lescott spent one respectable midtable season at West Brom earlier than issues went significantly mistaken at Aston Villa. Unfairly or not, he’s remembered amongst Villa followers as one of many poster boys of their dreadful 2015-16 relegation marketing campaign. Describing the drop as having “weight off the shoulders” lifted didn’t go down effectively, to place it mildly.
He was additionally a part of the Sunderland squad that went down a few years later, however he solely mustered a few matches underneath Moyes that season earlier than hanging up his boots for good.
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