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Premier League predictions 08/09
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So since the start of the season is near what does everyone think will happen this time around?
League Title: - Man U
Champions League: - Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal
Relegated: - West Brom, Hull, Stoke.
Think Liverpool will do a lot better this season but still not got enough depth to seriously challenge for the title. Am glad the whole Barry fiasco seems to have fallen through, although i still think £20 million is a hell of a lot for Keane when we could have got a decent winger or two instead.
League Title: - Man U
Champions League: - Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal
Relegated: - West Brom, Hull, Stoke.
Think Liverpool will do a lot better this season but still not got enough depth to seriously challenge for the title. Am glad the whole Barry fiasco seems to have fallen through, although i still think £20 million is a hell of a lot for Keane when we could have got a decent winger or two instead.
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Can't see any other team pushing into the top four tbh.
Champions League: Man Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool in that order.
UEFA Cup: Everton, Villa, Man City (can't not predict us).
FA Cup: Man Utd
League Cup: Arsenal
Relegated: Bolton, Stoke, Hull
Agreed on Liverpool btw. You desperately need wingers imo.
After the other night, I think Man City are crying out for a really good left-back that can support Petrov in attack, but actually defend as well (we've got one of each, but neither can do both). We need an out-and-out right winger, a central midfielder capable of dominating a game, and an intelligent goal-poacher which we may or may not already have somewhere in our mountain of strikers.
Champions League: Rangers
UEFA: Dundee United, Hibs
Relegated: St Mirren
Sorry, who?
I do not know those teams :P
Champions League - Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool. Spurs could gatecrash the party and I think they are a legitimate threat to Arsenal and Liverpool, but I'll go with these guys because I'm not sure if Spurs will sort out their problem of being utterly crap away from home. They need to sign a defender too, then we can really give them a chance.
Relegated - West Brom, Hull, Stoke. Bit harsh on all the championship clubs who've just come up but it's going to be very difficult for them, especially when you have previous relegation candidates like Fulham spending £10m+ on the likes of Andy Johnson.
Quadrouple for the Chelsea LOL
That Chelsea team is basically the same as it was last year and the year before that, the core of the team is basically same except they've added the class of Deco.
Now I have never seen them play such good stuff! A lot of people were wondering whether fat frank and deco could be in the same team, especially with Ballack as well, well they provided the perfect answer on Sunday.
The midfield was awesome, they didn't have a rigid formation, stuck in a position, they did what they liked in the midfield area and played some excellent stuff.... Deco, Lampard, J.Cole, Mikel and Ballack just controlled the midfield central areas with excellent 1/2 touch passing in triangles (the basics done very well), getting the width from the fullbacks who were basically playing as wingers! Good stuff and for the first time I actually enjoyed watching them play... the contests between the top four are looking like their going to be a lot better games, we now have 3 clubs who play excellent football, if Liverpool can get that new strikeforce to gel with Gerrard then we may just have 4!
Long may it continue, think it will be Chelseas year.
Chelsea's win has echoes of when they stuffed Man City 6-0 last season in one of Grant's first games, and everyone heralded a new era. I'll reserve judgement until I see them play away from home or against a decent side. Saying all that, I think that if United don't sign Berbatov, Chelsea will be big favourites for the title. Get the finger out Fergie and Gill!
Champions League : Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool
UEFA Cup: Aston Villa, S**rs. Final place between Newcastle, Portsmouth and Man City.
FA Cup : Chelsea
League Cup : I'll go random and pick Blackburn.
Relegated : West Brom, Stoke. Between Fulham and Hull for 18th place.
Ronaldo won the title for the scum last year and with him missing the start of the season and then coming back after injury I can't see him re-producing that kind of form this season.
Oooo and what game was you watching if you think it "echoed one of grants first wins??" Chelsea have NEVER played football like that, not that I have ever seen anyway, and they had chances, good chances that they failed to put away, it could've easily being 10 goals or very close to!
I hope Spurs tell Fergie and Man U to fuck, hypocrites crying the poor tale about Ronaldo and Real Madrids actions and they do exactly the same all the fucking time, the gin snorting red nosed bastard.
He doesn't need to if we sign Berbatov. He only needs to produce around 60% of what he did last season.
Did you miss this last season? Believe me, that could have been 12 goals. I'm not doubting Chelsea's credentials and I'm not really diagreeing with you. I just want to wait to see them in a pressure game or away from home before passing judgement. That was where they unravelled last season as well.
We're by no means whiter than white when it comes to transfers (who is?), but at least we actually bid for Berbatov, that's the difference. Real Madrid played a campaign in the media, with their president, manager, and players speaking out about Ronalo every single day. The worst thing was they didn't even make a bid.
Except of course we're playing at Fratton Park. A narrow away win is just as impressive as a big home win.
Getting your excuses in early, eh?
I think you'll find they did, bout 75 million I think.
Ferguson said: "We haven't had any recent contact with Real Madrid. Has there been any attempt to heal the rift? Yeah, that will be right! They put a bid in. I don't know if it was fax or letter or whatever. Just one. It was sometime in the summer.
I'm not disagreeing. Chelsea will undoubtedly play better football under Scolari as he knows he will be sacked if they don't. It would be pretty damn hard for them to be any more boring than under Mourinho and Grant. They look good. I'm just reserving judgement before succumbing to the current 'wankfest'.
I have noticed though that the ABUs and Liverpool fans are probably more excited by this new Chelsea team than Chelsea fans are themselves! I think some people were getting a bit tetchy that United were gonna do 3 in a row, especially the scousers.
A whole summer of media campaigns and everyone from the president from the ballboys having their say, followed by a token bid after they'd already done the damage. It just doesn't compare to the Berbatov saga in any shape or form.
Arsenal have played it for a lot of years now, and so have Scum to a certain degree (more so the last couple of years IMO), and now we have a Chelsea side that look like there gonna play good football with good players. This can only be better for the league.
Arsenal started well last year and fell away after the infmaous Birmingham game with Eduardos broken leg and Gallas crying like baby, if Arsenal can stay with it and the extra I think we're going to get from Chelsea the I'm hoping for an exciting year....and as a neutral (which means I don't care who ends up on top) this is what I'm hoping for.... I just made a prediction about Chelsea cos I had to pick one and for me they are going to be better than last year and they only jst missed out then so think it will be there turn.
Scum are no better than Madrid, they do it every year so don't cry the poor tale, it was Ronaldos fault as much as madrids, but cos he is still your player your going to reserve your wankfest for him and put all the blame on madrids door! Typical!! :-)
I agree. I make Chelsea slight favourites with the current squads but I'm not losing faith. It is good that Chelses are aiming to become more watchable. I watched alot of their games last season to keep an eye obviously, but you felt like you'd been robbed of 90 minutes of your life each time.
No, of course it's his fault too, but I don't think United are in any way comparable to Madrid. Every club in Europe hates Madrid and were imploring us to stand up to them. Even Bayern Munich supported us, which shows that we can't have been that bad in the Hargreaves affair which everyone tries to condemn us for. United aren't whiter than white (noone is), but Madrid are in a whole league of their own in terms of cuntishness. Everyone in Europe knows it. Oh well, fuck them, Calderon hasn't delivered on his word. Someone should put him in an empty room with a pistol and let him do the honourable thing.
Business as usual then?
UEFA Cup: Newcastle, Manchester City
FA Cup: Manchester Utd
League Cup: Tottenham
Relegated: Hull, WBA and Chelsea