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So for the PL we need to you to pick your winner + the 3 other CL places + your 3 'time to go' candidates
I think the title will be a shoot out between Man City + Arsenal - Hard to know how a new manager at LFC will settle in, to be able to challenge this season - With Man U and Ten Hag it is hard to know which team will turn up each week - Probably similar with Chelsea as once again they start off with a new regime - Villa might struggle to get a top 4 place again this season with having the CL matches to play as well - Newcastle might be able to take advantage of the above, as they have no European matches to play, so can focus on a top 4 finish - Spurs are the team that should be looking at cementing a top 4 place - 2nd season for the manager, so the squad should be more familiar with expectations + ideas - So top 4 for me are Man City, Arsenal, Spurs and LFC
As per many years, I expect those 7 clubs (above) to dominate the league - The best of the rest I see as Bournemouth, Palace, Wolves and West Ham - I don't see Brighton in that list this season - So then leaves the other 9 clubs to be in the danger zone - To pick 3 to go down, I'd like to wait until we know what is happening with Leics and a points deduction - Surely it has to happen and hard to know why it has taken this long - It should dwarf that of Everton + Forest - I hope Ipswich stay up as out of last seasons EFL clubs they were often the most exciting, with a never say die attitude - It probably won't work v Man City etc, but stick to their principles and v other relegation zone clubs it will create exciting games - So 3 to go down - Leics + 2 others from a mix of those other 8 clubs - TBH I'm not sure as I could see it as any of those 8 clubs
KDB is another year older, Alverez just left, their attack has weakened somewhat and rely on Haaland more.
I also predict the 3 teams that came up will also go down again. The gulf is still enormous.
is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?
Everton was mid table last year without point deduction.
I think Soton have a chance to stay up - It was only a few months ago they were a PL club so they are not exactly green - Leics issue will be their points deduction when it arrives - I'd like to see Ipswich stay up - As you know they had a great EFL spirit/team last season - But it might make them to naive for the PL - They are not short of an owner with funds but PSR rules will only allow them to spend so much
is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?
Next season, I can't see much beyond ManC and Arsenal for the title (unless either implode in some way).
Spurs have huge potential, but either need a reliable CF or there's a lot of responsibility on some teenagers. But, I'll aim for 3rd and think that's realistic if we avoid another season of injuries. There's more cover in some key positions now too.
Liverpool will need some rebuild/relearn time with the new manager, ditto Chelsea (again). ManU will probably be looking for a new manager by Christmas. Villa will suffer with CL games. Newcastle - maybe can recover from last season's poorer results. Be interesting to see how WHU fare with a new manager.
At the bottom - who knows. Any (other) team can have a bad start, or a bad run, lose confidence and get dragged into the relegation pressure. But I fear Ipswich will be too naive for the PL. Soton/Leics should at least have recent memory of PL games, so maybe have better chance of surviving than many recently promoted teams.
I think Leeds will avoid relegation though.
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I forgot Leics and the points deduction. If they lose 12 points, that might push them back down again.
I'll be keeping an eye open on Gray - And Summerville now he is at West Ham - Said on an earlier post, providing he plays enough games, that Summerville will score more and create more assists than Saka
I feel that if Newcastle don't make the top 4 and not challenging for it by Christmas, that the owners will want to bring in a 'bigger name' as a manager, in order to attract the appropriate players, so they can buy into the elite set-up
Not anti Man City as such, but feel we need Arsenal to win, assuming they will be the main challengers - We need a battle, all teh way to the end, but we need someone else to win
It will be a two-horse race of course, City always have that something extra or that 'jammy-bastard-syndrome' when they can play in 2nd gear and still win games.
I think Liverpool and Newcastle will finish 3rd and 4th (not necessarily in that order but they'll be up there).
For the drop I'm not sure, Forest, Ipswich and Palace maybe. Don't usually pay too much attention to teams at the bottom lol.
However I don't see an equivalent of Ipswich this season - The surprise package that takes on all comers
Playoffs I reckon Middlesbrough will be up there this year, Hull seem to be trying to buy loads of people but they always seem to fall short. Maybe Coventry as an outside bet for playoffs.
I reckon my team West Brom will be lucky to do any better than mid table. We've had 13 players leave the club since the end of the last season, and only dregs of free transfers that nobody else wants coming in (again, as we have the last two windows). Was hoping we could have sold Swift and Diangana rather than Yokuslu (our best player by miles) and Thomas-Asante (our only striker capable of playing more than 2 games in a row), but there we go. Our old ownership screwed us up so we can't spend anything. In fairness the players we have spent on haven't really set the world alight - Daryl Dike is slower than an oil tanker and made of crisps and only plays 1.5 games before getting injured, Molumby has a great energy but also is always only seconds away from assualting somebody (see his right hook during a preseason friendly)
In all seriousness wtf is going on at that club? Is it purely and unabashedly a money farm? I understand in one respect, the value of buying young talent and developing it for a profit/sale or a place in the first team - but it surely isnt possible on the scale this windows transfers imply - there are too many to play and the players have to have some minutes to gain value and measure progress surely? (I know about the reserve league - but surely you'd want your asset/potential investment tested competitively?) And if you have a huge squad and lots of development prospects you really need a very clear footballing identity and system of playing as changing to accommodate the pros and cons of that number of players/prospects as they come in and out of the team isn't viable?
I am a life long football fan - nothing I can do about it unfortunately - and the standard of football in the prem and champions league these days is utterly jaw dropping - but it is hard to love the sport when its so evidently being prayed upon by avarice and greed.
Any Chelsea fans? Whats the story?
as for this season reckon it will be the usual suspects at the top with Villa close behind.
Chelsea, despite signing anything that moves, will struggle to get in the top six, Spurs will drive Angie mad, Man Utd ( couldn’t care less) mid table. Brentford down, Everton implode and Arsenal take the title