Ian Wright gives "worried" prediction involving Burnley, Leeds United & Sheffield United | OneFootball

All three promoted sides are set to be relegated for the second season running.

Ian Wright has said that he is "absolutely worried" by the growing trend of the three promoted sides from the Championship getting relegated from the Premier League straight away.

The three favourites to go up from the second tier this season - Burnley, Leeds United and Sheffield United, will have a lot of work to do to get up to the requisite standard of the top flight, if they go up. Only two sides can go up automatically, and the Clarets and the Whites look favourites to take those two spots following the Blades' recent dip in form.

For long stretches of this season, these three teams have clearly shown that they are above the level of the second tier, but so did the three sides that went up last season - Leicester City, Ipswich Town and Southampton - and they are all set to come straight back down to the Championship.

Ian Wright's concern over Premier League gap to the Championship

It's obvious that the gap between the first and second tier is getting too big, and it's now starting to get discussed by some of English football's leading names.

Wright said, on the Stick to Fooball podcast, that he is "absolutely worried" about the way things are going, with this season set to be the second consecutive campaign in which all three promoted sides have been relegated from the Premier League. He sees similar happening to whoever goes up this season.

Manchester United legend Roy Keane also expressed his concerns. "And it's not the fact that they've gone down, it's the fact that they have gone down with low points, victories, goals for, goals against," the Irishman said. "Same last year. These teams are down with however many games to go."

Gary Neville - Sky Sports pundit and the host of the podcast - brought up the massive disparity in money earned by clubs in the Premier League compared to the Championship. The Blades finished bottom of the top flight last season and earned just shy of £110 million from the Premier League. Championship sides, on the other hand, get around £11 million, as per EFL Analysis.

Wright continued: "But the 17 teams that's in that will be continually getting money, because these three teams are coming in, whether it's Leeds, Sheffield (United), Burnley, and then they go again; these 17 teams are just continually getting stronger.

"Like, the middle teams, look where (Aston) Villa are now, look at where Brighton are, look at Fulham having a go. Brentford, Bournemouth - all of these teams are getting so much better than the teams that are coming up."

Financial gap is the biggest problem that the promoted sides have

It's all well and good being a team like Ipswich and spending big on players in the summer after you go up to try and make yourselves competitive in the Premier League because you know you'll be getting an extra £100 million more than you're used to, but that extra £100 million has been funneled into the pockets of your competitors for many years prior.

This earnings discrepancy has quickly stretched a previously bridgeable cranny into a great, yawning chasm that makes it near impossible for promoted clubs to get over.