Ciderhead
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Too early? We're all going to look like idiots anyway and if you get it right before the summer's even started you'll be a genius!
My 2p's worth:
1. Man City
2. Tottenham
3. Liverpool
4. Arsenal
5. Chelsea
6. West Ham
7. Man Utd
8. Southampton
9. Swansea
10. Stoke
11. Everton
12. Leicester
13. Bournemouth
14. Sunderland
15. Burnley
16. West Brom
17. Sheff Wed/Hull
18. Crystal Palace
19. Middlesbrough
20. Watford
Boringly reckon City will win it again under Guardiola. Fancy Liverpool to have a good season under Klopp and Spurs again with Pochettino. Think Chelsea will find like Liverpool and Man Utd before them that once you slip out of the CL places it can be very difficult to get back.
Didn't envisage having Leicester anywhere near as far down as 12th when starting this. Don't think they'll retain their title and can see them struggling to get a CL place again with being in Europe and the extra strain on the squad that will entail (though I fancy them to do well in it). But as I was going through I kept thinking of someone else, there's just so many teams you look at and can make a case for doing well. Completely forgot Chelsea at first, West Ham showing big ambition, Southampton with Koeman, Swansea looking back on track with Guidolin. Then there's Everton with big investment and a new manager coming in, and I can't see Stoke going backwards. It's fascinating. English top flight hasn't been as interesting since the Premier League's inception, and probably long before then. Makes this predicting stuff tricky though!
Bournemouth I can only see getting better next season under Howe with players like Wilson back available, and Sunderland with Allardyce might actually avoid a relegation battle for a change! Feeling like there's a big gap between them and Burnley in 15th in this prediction, can see the bottom 6 being cut adrift. Burnley I think will do better this time round, previous experience will help them while Andre Gray's a class act. Middlesbrough to struggle, their promotion was largely built on a rock-solid defence which won't be as effective up here. Whichever out of Hull and Sheff Weds makes it I reckon will just about scrape survival. Palace and Watford were in freefall in 2016 and I see that carrying over into next season.
So, what do y'all think?
My 2p's worth:
1. Man City
2. Tottenham
3. Liverpool
4. Arsenal
5. Chelsea
6. West Ham
7. Man Utd
8. Southampton
9. Swansea
10. Stoke
11. Everton
12. Leicester
13. Bournemouth
14. Sunderland
15. Burnley
16. West Brom
17. Sheff Wed/Hull
18. Crystal Palace
19. Middlesbrough
20. Watford
Boringly reckon City will win it again under Guardiola. Fancy Liverpool to have a good season under Klopp and Spurs again with Pochettino. Think Chelsea will find like Liverpool and Man Utd before them that once you slip out of the CL places it can be very difficult to get back.
Didn't envisage having Leicester anywhere near as far down as 12th when starting this. Don't think they'll retain their title and can see them struggling to get a CL place again with being in Europe and the extra strain on the squad that will entail (though I fancy them to do well in it). But as I was going through I kept thinking of someone else, there's just so many teams you look at and can make a case for doing well. Completely forgot Chelsea at first, West Ham showing big ambition, Southampton with Koeman, Swansea looking back on track with Guidolin. Then there's Everton with big investment and a new manager coming in, and I can't see Stoke going backwards. It's fascinating. English top flight hasn't been as interesting since the Premier League's inception, and probably long before then. Makes this predicting stuff tricky though!
Bournemouth I can only see getting better next season under Howe with players like Wilson back available, and Sunderland with Allardyce might actually avoid a relegation battle for a change! Feeling like there's a big gap between them and Burnley in 15th in this prediction, can see the bottom 6 being cut adrift. Burnley I think will do better this time round, previous experience will help them while Andre Gray's a class act. Middlesbrough to struggle, their promotion was largely built on a rock-solid defence which won't be as effective up here. Whichever out of Hull and Sheff Weds makes it I reckon will just about scrape survival. Palace and Watford were in freefall in 2016 and I see that carrying over into next season.
So, what do y'all think?
