🎧 Will Leeds and Burnley change in Premier League?
What do Leeds and Burnley need to stay up next season?
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Former Manchester City and Burnley goalkeeper Joe Hart believes newly-promoted sides will take a "totally different approach" to the Premier League next season.
All three teams who have gone up from the Championship will have come straight back down for two seasons running, unless Ipswich Town can pull off a mathematical miracle and avoid relegation.
Leeds United and Burnley will face the challenge of trying to buck that trend in the 2025-26 campaign.
"I think fans are going to have to get on board that their teams are going to be looking to grind out results and earn their status in the Premier League," Hart told BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club show.
"I think it has been very much shown over the last two seasons what an impressive league this is and you really have to be squeaky clean if you want to play that sort of football because you will get picked apart and hurt.
"The teams coming up now will address that with a clear game plan."
Hart said Clarets boss Scott Parker has "made it very clear he wants a rock solid team" and there is "no way he is going to come away from that next season".
"Absolutely no way, especially after what he has seen in the last two seasons from newly promoted sides," Hart added.
Ex-Norwich and Blackburn striker Chris Sutton said: "It will be interesting, the summer of recruitment, because you feel they need to be a little bit stronger at the top end of the pitch.
"It is just that first season, trying to get that foothold, just staying in the Premier League no matter how you do it, try and get over the line.
"Having a solid foundation, that is the best way to go, but it is a level up. That's the issue."