el punal
Well-known member
Right, the fixtures for next season will be out this week and then we can all arrange our diaries and calendars accordingly - subject, of course, to the TV companies not buggering up our best laid plans.
The next thing is predicting which teams will have a stellar season, which ones will be utter dogshit and which ones will be boringly mid-table mediocre.
For the purposes of this thread, and also for our sanity, our beloved Albion should not be included in this exercise. *
My thoughts : Life at the top - Liverpool and Man City to excel again, with the Scousers nicking the title. Spurs, if they keep Pochettino, to get third. Chelsea and Arsenal will not be consistent enough to challenge for top three. Man Utd will struggle to even be top six. Wolves might be the surprise package in going for a Champions League spot.
Mid-table motorway services - the usual suspects of Everton, Leicester, West Ham. Southampton and Palace
will improve to join them. Of the newcomers, I reckon Aston Villa will have enough backing to see them okay.
The drop of doom - Sheffield Utd and Norwich will be the annual come up/go back down candidates. I also think Burnley, Watford and Bournemouth will struggle this time, and chuck in Newcastle if Benitez leaves.
* Alright then - us? To be honest I just don’t know. It could be an absolutely inspired appointment by Tony Bloom in signing Graham Potter to introduce a more expansive and exciting brand of football, with essentially the same players that performed miserably last season. The flip side? A Hyypia type Huddersfield debacle with us relegated by March. Sod it! We’ll be good enough - 10th position!
The next thing is predicting which teams will have a stellar season, which ones will be utter dogshit and which ones will be boringly mid-table mediocre.
For the purposes of this thread, and also for our sanity, our beloved Albion should not be included in this exercise. *
My thoughts : Life at the top - Liverpool and Man City to excel again, with the Scousers nicking the title. Spurs, if they keep Pochettino, to get third. Chelsea and Arsenal will not be consistent enough to challenge for top three. Man Utd will struggle to even be top six. Wolves might be the surprise package in going for a Champions League spot.
Mid-table motorway services - the usual suspects of Everton, Leicester, West Ham. Southampton and Palace
will improve to join them. Of the newcomers, I reckon Aston Villa will have enough backing to see them okay.The drop of doom - Sheffield Utd and Norwich will be the annual come up/go back down candidates. I also think Burnley, Watford and Bournemouth will struggle this time, and chuck in Newcastle if Benitez leaves.
* Alright then - us? To be honest I just don’t know. It could be an absolutely inspired appointment by Tony Bloom in signing Graham Potter to introduce a more expansive and exciting brand of football, with essentially the same players that performed miserably last season. The flip side? A Hyypia type Huddersfield debacle with us relegated by March. Sod it! We’ll be good enough - 10th position!
