After winning promotion from the Championship for the second time in his short managerial career, Scott Parker is facing another uphill battle to keep a team in the Premier League as his Bournemouth side are favourites to be relegated next season.
The reason Bournemouth are favourites to face the drop is that in the two years they have spent in the Championship, they have lost quite a few players that kept them in the Premier League for five seasons, with Callum Wilson, Steve Cook and Nathan Ake all departing over the past couple of seasons, with not many quality replacement signings as of yet.
The hope for Scott Parker’s side is that they had the best defence in the Championship last season, conceding only 39 goals in 46 games, keeping six clean sheets in their last eight games.