How are you gonna act like you're so smart yet you name 5 teams in your "top 4"?
Did not know that. Good thing I decided on not picking him for my fantasy league team.
Right now I think the Arsenal striker depth chart looks like this...
Originally Posted by Trelvis Tha Thrilla
Originally Posted by Carlos Tevez
How are you gonna act like you're so smart yet you name 5 teams in your "top 4"?
Anyways, Chelsea or Man Utd. are winning the title. I say that Chelsea will win it as long as they get one more striker by the January transfer window. Not only is Drogba going to miss almost a month due to the African Nation's Cup but I believe that he's suspended for around 4 UCL matches so they will need a 3rd striker to fill in when necessary. Losing Essien and Mikel wont be as bad since they have some considerable depth in central midfield.
Man Utd. lost their best player and one of the top 2 players in the world so they are a much weaker team than they were the past 3 seasons. A lot of their success will depend on how many goals Rooney and Berba will bag. They're solid at the back and in Central midfield, but they're going to need some guys to step up big time to replace the 30-40 goals that Ronaldo was scoring for them. I think that Rooney will have a career season (goals wise) although I expect him to miss atleast 4-5 matches due to injury. Berbatov should be more comfortable with his surroundings and I expect atleast 15 league goals from him.
Liverpool did not do much to improve their team so I do not view them as serious title contenders. Torres will probably get 20 goals though, he'll be the only reason I watch Liverpool matches. Liverpool had a great run in the 2nd half of last season where Gerrard was on a tear and the team was scoring 3+ goals a match for 3-4 weeks. That's unlikely to continue IMO. They lost a very influential player in Xabi Alonso and by the team Aquilani makes his debut, Liverpool will have played atleast 6 league games in which they could already be off the pace set by Chelsea/Man Utd.
Arsenal have not improved much either...if anything, they've gotten much weaker by losing Adebeyor and Toure and not addressing their CDM issue. I'm not even sure we'll be able to get past Celtic in the UCL qualifiers. Oh well, missing out on the UCL this season wouldn't be the worst thing in the world...they could focus all of their attention on the Premiership and try to retain their top 4 spot again. I expect them to be entertaining as usual and to play their hearts out...they should beat up on the bottom 12 teams or so but they'll stumble against Chelsea, Man Utd and Liverpool which'll cost them any title hopes. I look forward to seeing Arshavin play, I expect over 10 goals from him. It'll be fun to see v. Persie light it up for a couple of months, score 15 goals and miss our important matches due to injury.
Man City will be the team that everyone pays attention to. They will be 100% focused on the league and they do not have any excuses to miss out on a top 4 finish. I think that Mark Hughes will get fired sometime during the season and a bigger name manager will take over by next summer. They have a ton of depth all around the park, it's just a matter of getting some team chemistry. If they finish in the top 4, I expect some bigger names to join them next summer (other than Robinho, they've only been able to attract 2nd tier players so far).
My predictions...
1. Chelsea
2. Man Utd.
3. Arsenal
4. Man City
5. Liverpool
For some reason I think that Liverpool will have a really disappointing domestic season.
Originally Posted by Jada2001Retro
^Eduardo, RVP, Fabregas, yeah those guys are pretty garbage.
Originally Posted by Jada2001Retro
^Eduardo, RVP, Fabregas, yeah those guys are pretty garbage.
so the entire EPL is garbage except man u and chelsea, by your standardOriginally Posted by Curious24
Originally Posted by Jada2001Retro
^Eduardo, RVP, Fabregas, yeah those guys are pretty garbage.
they are average. not good enough to win epl. sry. even fabregas
Originally Posted by DeadsetAce
so the entire EPL is garbage except man u and chelsea, by your standardOriginally Posted by Curious24
Originally Posted by Jada2001Retro
^Eduardo, RVP, Fabregas, yeah those guys are pretty garbage.
they are average. not good enough to win epl. sry. even fabregas
They still havent got a contract done yet. Check out these links for the latest.
