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| Going to do my best to not have the first two weeks effect my choices. 1. Man City - It is hard to go against a team that had 100 points last season. Even if they didn't make as many big moves as you expect them to make in "improving the team". 2. Liverpool - I really want to go Liverpool with number 1 with the major improvements they brought in. Neby Keita, Fabinho, Shaqiri, Alisson. Quality across the board. Who cares if Emre Can left. They bought in two players in the midfield better than him. But Pep is too strong... 3. Spurs - Listen...they brought on one in. I know. But they didn't lose anything either. Harry Kane and Dele Ali are going to put on a clinic every game together. If only Arsenal would play Laca and Aubameyang. 4. Manchester United - Now this is the first team where I'm trying not to let the first two weeks effect me. Even though Mourniho is on his period again. I just felt like there was enough talent on the team to keep them in the top-4 5. Chelsea - This one I'm going to have to move after yesterday's performance. I had them originally 6th but Sarri has the team right in my opinion. They might let in more goals this season but that is really it. 6. Arsenal - The season started off with two losses as expected but Emery clearly doesn't know the right team to play right now and that is going to hurt us going forward. We brought in good players. But we need a good system. Do we have one? I don't know. 7. West Ham United - My fandom is going to prevent me from putting them above Arsenal but man do I love what they did this transfer window. They got Wilshere from us. They got Felipe Anderson and Yamolenko. They've started bad so far but I believe in Manuel Pellegrini will turn it around. 8. Everton - The typical 7th finisher. But I wanted to mix it up. I really did like West Ham before the beginning of the season. But Richarlison is making a first good impression. They might be above West Ham at the end of the season. 9. Bournemouth - This is where things start to get a bit more messy. If you've been following my posts the last 2 years. Everyone knows I'm a big Eddie Howe supporter. I didn't think Wolves would be good enough for 9th. I did feel Burnley would slip a bit. So for the season is show that. So I'm taking the risk. 10. Burnley - A bad start. But they had such a great defense last season. This is going to be a real proving test for Sean Dyche to see just how good he is. 11. Wolverhampton Wanderers - They just have so much talent from Portugal that was brought in. I can't see them struggling all season. But I can't see them just being amazing their first season in the Premier League. A bit over hyped but they are financially back for sure. 12. Watford - I saw some people thinking this team was going to relegated and I laughed it off. I really didn't think Richarlison was that important to them. I still like Deeney and Pereyra. They'll still be tough opponents for everyone. 13. Leicester City - Losing Mahrez is huge. Especially since Vardy should start to be coming to the end. They've brought in some players but losing your best player is going to have an effect. I say a 4 spot drop in the table. 14. Crystal Palace - They did a great job last season having a run and proving they are still Premier League quality. Getting Max Mayer on a free is HUGE. 15. Brighton and Hove Albion - They changed the entire team? A lot of changes. Will see what happens. But they were good enough last year to stick around and could again. 16. Fulham - Personally I really like Shad Khan as an owner. He doesn't have the best franchises but he does what he can with them. But he has definitely allowed Fulham to do what they can to stay up this season with the additions of Seri and Schurrle and Sergio Rico. I feel even if they are in the bottom three in January he'll do what is necessary to stay up. 17. Newcastle United - Poor Poor Rafael Benítez. Having to deal with Mike Ashley bullshit. My heart wants them to stay up, but it could get messy. 18. Southampton - This is the story of selling too many of their players. They had a golden generation that they sold off year by year. This year it finally catches up to them. 19. Huddersfield Town - They had a great story coming into the Premier League. But staying in the Premier League is ruthless and Teremce Kongolo is going to be enough. 20. Cardiff City - I think they know they were going back down. They literally just brought in players from the lower leagues to get them into next season's team to get back to the Premier League in 2020. |
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| Well time to review how I did this season and by the lookings of it, not that bad. I said Pep was too strong at the beginning of the season and apparently 1 point too strong. Spurs still got into the Top 4, they like Arsenal, were just shitting the bed the last 5 games of the season. Which put Chelsea into the top-4 instead. Mourinho had a worse season then I thought and it happened too early in the season where the new manager charm wore off for ManU as they finish bottom of the top 4. Unfortunately Wolves finished 7th with all the money they are putting into that team. Spend 300-400 million pounds and maybe they'll be Top-6, or QPR. I'd hope for the second option. Everton finished where I predicted, I didn't feel they'd be 7th this season. They got a few more ties than some other teams. I predicted a 4 spot drop in the table for Leichester and they kept their position after all. They even had a positive goal differential. They lost Mahrez but they can still score and they can still defend. West Ham had a terrible start to the season but was able to bounce back to 10th. 5 points off 7th that I predicted. I still liked their off-season and if they were able to gel better at the beginning of the season then they could of been in my projected spot. Watford finished 1 spot above my predictions. Could of even been better but with loses to Wolves and West Ham at the end of season. They deserve to be where they are. Crystal Palace did two spots better than predicted. Beating Arsenal, Cardiff, and Bournemouth at the end of the season helps that. 10 Goals and 10 assists for Zaha, first time he has done the individual double. Can they still keep him though? Newcastle finishes 13th, they still have Mike Ashley, but Rafa Benitez might want to move on if the team isn't sold or he has no budget again. A 14th place Bournemouth does not make me feel good about the future of this club. Something needs to make me confident about them next season or I might put they as relegation candidates. Burnley...my god what happened. One of the best defenses in the Premier League last season and a -23 goal differential. Is Sean Dyche a fraud? Well he has another season to show us if he has it to be a good coach or not. Southampton frustratingly stayed up, they were the team i wanted to go down, will see what happens this transfer window. More sales? or maybe it is time to spend big to stay in the Prem. Brighton and Hove Albion made a lot of changes last season but so did West Ham and sometimes things just don't click. But they found a way to stay up by 2 points. Do they do the same thing or maybe just a few additions this off-season? I think 95% of football fans wanted Cardiff to stay up because of Sala's tragic death because ultimately if he lived so could Cardiff's Prem Life. But life isn't like that sadly. Sala did pass away and so did Cardiff in the Prem. Fulham has to be the biggest disappointment of the season. How did everything go so wrong when business wise we thought it would go so right. Maybe it was the coaching or maybe the front office isn't as good as we thought. Next season it is back to the Championship and will see if they can get back for a second try under the Khan Dynasty. Huddersfield Town came to terms with their fate before the season started with barely making any changes to the team. Take the Prem money for another season and hopefully it is enough to invest back into the club through players or infrastructure and not into the pockets of the owners. Spot wise I only had 3 right but last year I had 0 XD. So it is an improvement for me. |
HibbingtonMay 14, 2019 2:47 PM
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