Peterborough United could be doomed for the 2025/26 League One season if worrying trend continues

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After finishing 18th in League One last season, Peterborough United could be in for an extremely difficult 2025/26 campaign.

Peterborough United finished eight points safe from the League One relegation zone last season, and most of their summer transfer window business since then has been concerned with potential departures.

Winger Kwame Poku was Posh’s star man last season, scoring 12 goals and notching eight assists in 27 third tier outings, and he is set to depart the club this summer.

Poku has Peterborough “worried” over his next move, as chairman Darragh MacAnthony is concerned the starlet will move to a foreign outfit instead of Birmingham, as clubs abroad don’t have to pay compensation to sign Poku.

His departure would continue a worrying trend at the Weston Homes Stadium, which could spell relegation fears ahead of the 2025/26 League One campaign.

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Peterborough United must stop worrying transfer trend ahead of 2025/26 season

Under manager Darren Ferguson, Peterborough reached the League One play-off semi-finals in the 2023/24 campaign, and were beaten by eventual winners Oxford United.

Oxford won the first leg 1-0, and the 1-1 stalemate in the second leg saw the U’s reach Wembley, where they would beat Bolton Wanderers 2-0 under the Wembley arch.

Peterborough’s play-off side was host to an array of impressive second tier talent, including Ronnie Edwards, Harrison Burrows, Ephron Mason-Clark as well as Poku.

However, of the starting XI from the second leg draw at Oxford United in May 2024, only one player remains at the club amid Poku’s imminent departure, that being Archie Finn Collins.

High-profile Posh departees have been added to that list so far this summer, with Hector Kyprianou moving to Watford and Ricky-Jade Jones joining St Pauli.

Watford fans are confident over Kyprianou, and rightly so, given the 24-year-old’s impressive campaign in Peterborough’s midfield, which will be a monumental miss for the Posh in the coming season.

If Peterborough don’t act accordingly, they could be relegation candidates for 2025/26.

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Peterborough United boss Darren Ferguson must rebuild without Kwame Poku

Across Ferguson’s 30-month stint at Peterborough, he has become accustomed to transfer vultures circling for his best Posh players, and is suffering the same fate this summer with Poku “weighing up his options” over his next destination.

Ferguson has sung the praises of Poku this season, telling the Peterborough Telegraph: “I fully expect Kwame to sign for a top Championship club, and he could then go on and play in the Premier League.

“He’s had an exceptional season even though he’s missed 20 games or so because of injury.

“To get in the League One select team shows how good he was when he played.”

Ferguson is used to seeing his best Posh players depart, with most of the 2024 semi-final side now gone, but the imminent loss of the Ghanaian winger could be too much for the Peterborough boss to deal with given his important goalscoring return this season.

Peterborough have been tipped as relegation candidates in the early predictions for League One in 2025/26, and if Poku is not adequately replaced for Ferguson, then those fears among the Posh fanbase could certainly become reality next season.