With big spending and expectations comes angst. You make a marquee move, but fall behind your biggest rival. You're used to winning every title, but the rest of the league catches up. You're used to zooming through promotion pushes, but suddenly realize everyone around you is better (and richer) than you. Your newfound riches buy success, and then they don't. Your run of great transfer signings ends, and you don't know why. Your league is told it does things the right way, but you fall far below your bigger-spending peers.

The offseason is either for angst or excitement, and for the nine entities below -- eight clubs and one league -- there was more of the former than latter. With a few weeks gone in 2025-26, let's check in on whether the angst is growing or dissipating for the motley cre

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