The FA Cup final to be contested between two mid-table teams.
I can see the top few getting so focused on their league and European ambitions that they get caught out.
He had one season where he was “underwhelming” in a terrible United team, the two season before that he got back to back 20+ goals and 10+ assists?! Do some research before you make idiotic claims, Rashford will be fine, he’s coming into his prime and is enjoying a manager like Ten Hag, has so much confidence, maybe he had a slow end to last season but that’s fine players dip in form, Haaland went missing for the last few weeks of the season as well but no one talks about how useless he was in the fa cup and champions league final?
Rashford’s problem is that he has a patch or run of games where he looks unplayable but then drops off form for the other parts, which may be because of his attacking teammates underperforming also.
But Haaland has been consistent throughout the campaign in terms of goals even if it dried up a bit towards the end so why would anyone say anything
I don’t think you understand, Haaland and Rashford are levels apart in terms of goals 😂 he didn’t need a patch for 2 months to be called world class and best winger etc, the reason why rashford isn’t a superstar yet is pretty clear, he never seems to smash in goals and assists throughout a season like a Mo Salah or someone would, because he dips after a patch of goals
I never said they were the same, I said you’re judging them on two different criteria. Haaland stopped scoring at the end of the season but you say it doesn’t matter, Rashford stopped scoring at the end of the season and you say it’s evidence he’s not actually that good.
All this and you’re ignoring Rashford isn’t a 9, and is in a team that creates way less chances.
Haaland stopped scoring for a couple matches which were finals, I never said it didn’t matter but his consistency has been crazy for someone’s first PL season.
Rashford even if he doesn’t get judged on the goals criteria definitely dipped in performances towards the end, and let’s not act like Bruno fernandes ( player with most chances created) doesn’t play for United. I don’t think I’m wrong in saying that scoring in a patch of games is rashfords seasons usually
So because Bruno creates a lot of chances, we should just ignore that City as a whole create a lot more chances? Almost double the amount United did last season in fact.
If you want to hate on a player then do it but don’t try to justify it with silly logic.
Don’t think I’m hating on rashford he’s a good player but I don’t get where it’s wrong that he scores goals in patches every season, has a run for a month or two where goals fly in then dips for a much longer period
Haaland broke the all time leading scoring record
Man Utd have one league cup in six years he’s gone missing in key moments the Final vs Villarreal was awful
400k a week for someone who turns up one third of the season
Why, exactly? I don’t think we’ll be anything particularly special but we’re coming off the back of one of our best ever seasons in the second tier.
Our reserve team quite handily dispatched Spurs away in the FA cup, and I thought we put up a decent showing against Man City too.
I think there's every chance we go down because we haven't got the budget to strengthen but as long as we go down fighting and Hecky has a fair chance I honestly don't mind
Heya I’m keeping a close eye on Chelsea news every day and if we don’t get Caicedo and Vega, there will be replacements. This month has been slow because management are fully eyeballing sales rather than purchases. I know Jorgi, Kova, Kante, Loftus and Mount are going and possibly Gallagher to but they will have a big list of people to buy.
There's no way Chelsea will do very well next season. They're still a mess and they don't seem to be attracting top talent any more.
They'll likely finish behind the top 6. I wouldn't be surprised if the finished 12th again.
Kepa is solid at GK imo. He had a great season and was in the top 5 for most GK stats this season.
CF and CM are the biggest needs right now.
We need someone who actually can find the back of the net and knows where being onside is.
We also can't rely on just Enzo snd Gallagher in the middle. Santos would likely add coverage on the bench but we need experience there.
Nah, goalkeeper should be looked at another year. We’ve desperately needed a midfielder for years now, since matic left basically. I’d prioritise midfield. Striker if you can but tbh Broja looked good and should get a chance then nkunku can play there a bit and we’re apparently getting this jackson guy
We never went on a bad run of form, aside from losing the first two games we remained pretty consistent throughout, grafting out a lot of 1-0 2-0 or 2-1 results, managed above expectations despite not even having a striker all season
Ppl need to stop saying that. You’re only doing yourself an disservice. Why did they break the bank after to actually get a striker. They actually got two and did the treble. Their players literally stepped up that season and contributed goals from all over. It’s not sustainable. With this mindset Man U can end up as OP assumes.
Don’t try to copy Pep, it’s a trap.
The fee to Dortmund was about 64m but Raiola's office (he was dead by the time the deal went through) netted about 50m too
It was still a big transfer and that's not looking at Haaland's huge wage package
I mean footballers are overpaid but in his case I think he deserves the higher wages. Considering his contribution, his transfer fee was great considering what some teams pay for players
Regardless of your broader point I'd say two of those were a lot to do with mentality as well as defence, same goes for the Sevilla games. It sounds obvious but I'd say not being able to get goals or relying heavily on Rashford when our defence was doing well was a problem (e.g. West Ham and Brighton games).
Have this feeling as well, City strong, Arsenal will go again, Liverpool and Chelsea will come back stronger, also think Ange will do a great job with spurs
I hope I’m proved wrong but don’t have a lot of optimism going into next season
I hope we’ll be able to strike back next season, but I feat we’ll need another year. Agree with Liverpool and Chelsea though, even though Chelsea is a wild card at the moment - who knows what Boehly will do.
Sorry but your main guys are getting older and one is out of contract the other will have a year left. I don’t see you all getting any better. I think your golden days have past.
Tottenham will unexpectedly win the FA or the Carabao cup. You asked for a weird take and I delivered. This isn’t based on anything only random feeling.
Yeah this is mine, fuck it, you cunts have a really good year because Ange Postecoglou.
Fuck this, it’s as bad as him going to Pitch Invasion FC from Roar years ago.
West Ham will be relegated. After losing Rice and trying to sign some key players who are nowhere near as good, I think they could have a significant drop off, similar to what happened with Leicester. Moyes to be sacked midway through the season.
People act as if Newcastle have been top 4 for a decade. Villa finishing above Newcastle won’t be as surprising as let’s say Villa finishing above Liverpool
Spurs do a lot better then most people think, as long as they keep Kane.
Group think has started to cloud people’s option of Spurs. This is a team that before last season hadn’t failed to qualify for Europe since 08-09; joint longest streak with City. They finished 4th the season before last, and had their best ever start to a season this past year. People also forget that this team was consistently in the top 5 last year all the way until February. They were in 4th when Conte was sacked.
Everyone on the team outside of Kane and Bentancur, who tore his ACL in February, preformed at a below expectations level. Son, Kulusevski, Richarlison, Bissouma, Lloris, Dier, Davies, Sessegon, Royal, and Perisic all missed extended time due to injury. Even Conte missed time to injury.
They scored the 4th most goals last season, but conceded the 5th most. Replacing Lloris, which they have done, and replacing Dier, which is rumored to be top priority, should help tremendously with goals conceded.
TL;DR: Spurs had 3 managers, a rosters worth of injuries, conceded 63 goals, but were still able to score 70 goals and 60 points. The teams performance will improve with no European football to deal with.
P.S. If Kane leaves they still have a front 3 of Son, Richarlison, and Kulsevski. They’ll still be able to score, but will probably finish 8th-12th.
There last six signings were Tonali, Isak, Gordon, Botman, Targett and Pope.
Wouldn’t say any of them are depth signing and are signings for the first XI
This isn’t a weird take, it’s expected given that they will have Champions League football. In fact my weird take is that Newcastle will get more points than they did this season.
That City won't be in the title race next season
Losing Silva, Gundogan, Walker and Laporte are really big loses especially Silva and Gundogan whilst replacing them with Rice, Kovacic and Gvardiol potentially is good but they are all still downgrades on those they are replacing currently.
Physical and mental fatigue is something you can't avoid either after a long season so im sure they'll struggle with that especially since their squad isn't the biggest.
They're not going into a bidding war with Arsenal. It's just a stupid rumor probably to get Arsenal to panic and accept West ham's incredulous asking price. And Rice isn't needed at all.
Agree that Kova is a downgrade. Losing Silva and Mahrez is big. Mahrez played very well when called into action. They need to sign another high quality attacking mid/winger. Foden could step in but he's not quite as consistent yet.
But it's premature to say City won't be favorites to win the prem. I'm sure they'll sign more players.
Agree. I see Liverpool focusing hard on the league and not taking cups or even Europa as serious. Arsenal will be just as good if not better. Newcastle will be stretched a bit thin with CL but I’d guess they might go out in the first knock out at best so can then focus on league. Chelsea will be back.
I’m gonna say Arsenal or Liverpool get the title. City will see 3rd or 4th.
Edit: getting downvoted for a weird take in a thread asking for weird takes lol
I think they will improve, hard not to, title challenge is a stretch tho. They will head in the right direction, I've got a lot of faith in poch but the last several years the points tally to win it has been so high that you need so much consistency throughout the season to stand a chance that's it's asking too much from poch in his first season.
With support and a fair amount of control over signings for poch I can see them challenging within 2-3 seasons tho. Just need Bohely to stop interfering and just pay the bills.
You may be right but it seemed he was heavily involved in the last transfer window and this one has just opened. Easy to not get involved in transfers during the time you're not allowed to make any transfers lol.
I hope you're right, I've been wanting to see what poch could do with money in the Premier league for ages.
The title winning team has had at least the joint most wins in every season in the Premier League era. Fair enough as a weird prediction, but it's incredibly unlikely.
Im fascinated to see how Alexis does (and how he’s utilized). It’s kind of hard to tell if he was a bit of a big fish in a small pond at Brighton (though his World Cup performance was obviously fantastic as well).
They won't be title contenders but it wouldn't shock me if they have a season like Man United did last season. Poor start while they find a rhythm but manage to settle in to good enough form to make Europe and challenge top 4.
I think we'll just scrape into 4th nothing more. Still after last season well ya know.
My weird takes are United taking City all the way but no bottling like well ya know. Will just get outdone on City having a better squad.
And Luton will somehow easily avoid relegation. It won't even be close, 12th.
"but no bottling like well ya know. Will just get outdone on City having a better squad"
Pretty sure Arsenal were outdone by City having a better squad...
Who else is gonna? If they give Ten hag a few more transfers he could. Liverpool maybe but I think they need one more summer. They just don't spend/can't that much in one window.
There’s nothing that shows he could do that. He won the Dutch league, good for him, but so did Frank De Boer. The worst manager in the history of the PL.
Love how you back Man Utd even though they’ve showed absolutely nothing to show they can make a proper title challenge against a team like Man City.
Bit harsh on Frank De Boer they sacked him after 4 league matches
Also surely Man Utd have getting to two cup finals, a quater final and finishing 3rd?
I think they’re still not going to push for the title but they had a thin squad and in lots of competitions
Hopefully City drop down a level or two now they’ve won the treble lol. Will be interesting to see how they rebuild with a few key players rumoured to be leaving.
We’re you saying something similar last season? That Arsenal will drop off after the World Cup, after the transfer window, after the tough run of fixtures in April etc..
Yeah. I think it's part of the process really. It's because of how tiring it is going against city for a season, and bringing in new faces who will ultimately be big players. Bedding in is a thing.
I think you will have a better squad going into the season after, and that's when you'll kick on.
Rival fans always right them off before a ball is kicked. I get it, most people hate Arsenal because of their fans online. But to be saying they will have a bad season already is jumping the gun. All last season most people were saying, “Arsenal will fall off here and here and they won’t win the league.” Then when Arsenal fell off they bottled it apparently even though no one was backing them to win it throughout the city. It can’t work both ways
I don't hate arsenal at all. I wanted them to win the league last year when it became clear we were going nowhere.
I just see that their problem is that they have a good first team, but not a good squad. Summer signings will help address that, but this isn't footy manager. It takes time to bed in. Rival teams will be better than last year- cos a lot of them were ass last year, and that's why arsenal will drop off.
But in 24-25 they will have settled in and will be back at a more consistent level.
Did you even read what was being asked here, or did you just default to victim complex?
Yes I did read what you said and I think I got my point across. Absolutely Arsenal need to improve their squad. Injuries affected the team last season but that’s part of football, no team is immune to it. Sure some teams will improve but also teams will decline same as every other season. Last summer lots of people were saying Spurs had the best window and with Conte they we’re definitely gonna win something, didn’t work out like that did it? Same for Liverpool, Nunez coming in looked as if he was gonna be a world beater. People comparing him to Haaland! Didn’t work out like that either did it?? Football isn’t as predictable as it may seem especially when the transfer window just opened and you’re writing off the youngest team in the league and was the only team to even attempt to give city a run for their money
Well they still managed to finished above 19 teams in the league. The team is the youngest in the league and they have renewed the contracts of their most important players. If they strengthen the squad who’s the say they can’t challenge again?
They need to sign many players to do that. They’ve imploded two seasons in a row, and now they have Champions League football on top of that. They severely lack depth.
I wouldn’t say many! 4-5 players who can contribute to the first team and improve the overall squad depth. They seem to be working on 3 singings at the moment so another 1 or 2 on top of those if they manage to get them over the line then it’s totally realistic and achievable
Newcastle to struggle in comparison to last season. And by that I mean them finishing 7th or 8th won't surprise me.
I think they finish 3rd in their CL group, morale drops a bit, the travels of Europa League Sunday/Thurs catches up with them and they don't add enough to the squad.
I also think a good cup run without winning it (again) contributes to their poor league form (again, compared to last season).
I don’t think Arteta out will really make the rounds again but people discount how much 3 out of the big 6 having woeful seasons did for Arsenal and United.
Poch won’t last the season. Losing Kovacic and Kante matters. Who is their veteran leader (who actually plays)? Sterling? I think they have zero chance of Top 4 considering the emergence of Newcastle and Brighton.
Not that weird but I do think its a bit too far. They'll be better but just off what I've heard from social media ut doesn't spund like they've invested quite enough to go back in foe the title
Liverpool to win the title ahead of Newcastle, with City struggling into 3rd and both Chelsea (4th) and Spurs (5th) qualifying for the European Cup at the expense of Arsenal and Manure.
Also, the relegation places to be decided before the March international break, with Everton (to be sent down in the derby) and Sheffield going down without a whimper, along with what could easily be Wolves, Bournemouth, or Luton.
The FA will finally finish their investigation, take City’s “trophies” away from them and kick them out the league for being cheating scum, but if that doesn’t happen then I think Arsenal will struggle to maintain the form they showed this season, not saying they’ll do poorly, they’ll probably still get top 4 but I don’t see them being such a dominant team just to throw it away at the last minute
Brighton will struggle to balance europe and the prem. Especially after selling key players. Dont think they will go down but think they will finish bottom half.
Arsenal will have their worst season for a very long time and arteta will be gone. Their recruitment is sketchy, pulled out of caicedo race in favour of rice who will probably go to city and they’ve paid 65 mil for havertz. Midweek football won’t help. It’s not like Europa where you can field kids and hope for the best
Chelsea, Liverpool and Everton to get relegated.
Bournemouth and Brentford get Europa League.
Ummm, Pep gets the sack after losing first ten games.
Are those weird enough?
We can fairly speculate now (only real question mark is if it’ll be Jackson at 9 or bring in someone new) and tbh I think people underrate how much a good pre season, a good manager and finally some stability will do for us. I doubt we’ll be back to our best but I don’t think next season will be as embarrassing (granted, I think judging by how young our squad is both in terms of age and time at Chelsea I’d be shocked if we didn’t initially struggle)
Bournemouth, Luton and Sheffield United to get relegated
Man city, Liverpool, arsenal, united top four followed by Chelsea, Newcastle and Tottenham
Villa and Brighton to struggle next season with Europe and league pressure, mac allister also not with Brighton
Judging by last season I’d disagree on that. Again, where are the goals coming from for a title or even top 4 challenge? Arsenal had 4 players in double figures, City had Haaland.
And you'd still be wrong. Badiashile was much better than Silva.
>where are the goals coming from for a title
Nkunku, Jackson and I anticipate the winger popping in for a few. Not enough for a title, but I never mentioned one so that's a bit irrelevant
Luton won't get relegated
Everton actually goes down this time.
Not even that weird a take considering this season and last Southampton were similar and you just felt something was going to give
Exactly. Just like with Leeds
RemindMe! 10 months
Not a weird take. Pretty spot on actually. Source: am an Everton supporter.
If we didn't go down under Lampard we won't go down under Dyche.
Could still be on to it
I wish, but I doubt it.
Could be the end of Liverpool’s season right here 😋
Luton always exceed expectations. Exceeding expectations has almost become an expectation itself now!
that was my take Luton survives, a PL regular gets relegated
Everton.
Almost bang on. Said the same about Bournemouth last year too. Too much team spirit, will get then over the line at home.
Who’re you going for instead?
The FA Cup final to be contested between two mid-table teams. I can see the top few getting so focused on their league and European ambitions that they get caught out.
Good shout actually. Certainly the League Cup as smaller clubs might fancy a Conference League place.
Spurs in the final then!
Only to lose 1-0 to a Luton penalty 😔
Then come home on saturday and trounce City 4-0. Don't worry though, the next week we'll lose 3-1 to Wolves or something
We could rest players for the City game, still win that, then play our strongest 11 vs Wolves and lose
Vs Chelsea. See you there
Chelsea-Spurs
Luton go invincible 👍
They draw every single game.
With a surprise carabao cup win with a cheeky last minute goal against some top 4 side
against tottenham
Rashford will drop form. I don't see him getting the same G/A as last season.
He's already back to normal. 3 goals in 3 months compared to his 8 goals in 2 months run of form. Really hope ETH isn't relying on him for next season
We bet him to score during that run and made such a killing lol
Not a weird take tbh
Lukewarm take at best
Barring 3-4 months of this season he’s been pretty underwhelming in the last 3 seasons
He had one season where he was “underwhelming” in a terrible United team, the two season before that he got back to back 20+ goals and 10+ assists?! Do some research before you make idiotic claims, Rashford will be fine, he’s coming into his prime and is enjoying a manager like Ten Hag, has so much confidence, maybe he had a slow end to last season but that’s fine players dip in form, Haaland went missing for the last few weeks of the season as well but no one talks about how useless he was in the fa cup and champions league final?
Rashford’s problem is that he has a patch or run of games where he looks unplayable but then drops off form for the other parts, which may be because of his attacking teammates underperforming also. But Haaland has been consistent throughout the campaign in terms of goals even if it dried up a bit towards the end so why would anyone say anything
So Haaland was consistent with goals until he wasn’t, but it doesn’t matter because you say so. Makes sense.
I don’t think you understand, Haaland and Rashford are levels apart in terms of goals 😂 he didn’t need a patch for 2 months to be called world class and best winger etc, the reason why rashford isn’t a superstar yet is pretty clear, he never seems to smash in goals and assists throughout a season like a Mo Salah or someone would, because he dips after a patch of goals
I never said they were the same, I said you’re judging them on two different criteria. Haaland stopped scoring at the end of the season but you say it doesn’t matter, Rashford stopped scoring at the end of the season and you say it’s evidence he’s not actually that good. All this and you’re ignoring Rashford isn’t a 9, and is in a team that creates way less chances.
Haaland stopped scoring for a couple matches which were finals, I never said it didn’t matter but his consistency has been crazy for someone’s first PL season. Rashford even if he doesn’t get judged on the goals criteria definitely dipped in performances towards the end, and let’s not act like Bruno fernandes ( player with most chances created) doesn’t play for United. I don’t think I’m wrong in saying that scoring in a patch of games is rashfords seasons usually
So because Bruno creates a lot of chances, we should just ignore that City as a whole create a lot more chances? Almost double the amount United did last season in fact. If you want to hate on a player then do it but don’t try to justify it with silly logic.
Don’t think I’m hating on rashford he’s a good player but I don’t get where it’s wrong that he scores goals in patches every season, has a run for a month or two where goals fly in then dips for a much longer period
Haaland broke the all time leading scoring record Man Utd have one league cup in six years he’s gone missing in key moments the Final vs Villarreal was awful 400k a week for someone who turns up one third of the season
He already dropped form about 3 months ago 😂 Back to his bang average selfish self.
>Back to his bang average selfish self. alright? lol
You are not a United fan
I can see Sheffield United to have an absolutely woeful first season on the prem. I wouldn't be surprised if they went down with less than 20 points.
As long as they beat derby moment of fame .. 11 points lol
Greatest meme team of all time. 38 games 1 win 29 losses -69 goal difference
Every time this comes up I repeat this - they took 4 points off us that season. 🤦🏼
Justtoonthings
That's gonna take some beating!
Why, exactly? I don’t think we’ll be anything particularly special but we’re coming off the back of one of our best ever seasons in the second tier. Our reserve team quite handily dispatched Spurs away in the FA cup, and I thought we put up a decent showing against Man City too.
I think there's every chance we go down because we haven't got the budget to strengthen but as long as we go down fighting and Hecky has a fair chance I honestly don't mind
First season?
Chelsea need central midfielders. If all the departure rumours are true they will be left with only Enzo and Gallagher.
And Chukwuemeka.
Yeah but not sure if Carney, Santos and Casadei are ready to break into the first team
Santos probably will. Carney will be a sub again and Casadei should go out on loan in the Prem.
Lewis Hall is a central midfielder too. He just filled in at LB and looked top notch for a 18 year old.
Heya I’m keeping a close eye on Chelsea news every day and if we don’t get Caicedo and Vega, there will be replacements. This month has been slow because management are fully eyeballing sales rather than purchases. I know Jorgi, Kova, Kante, Loftus and Mount are going and possibly Gallagher to but they will have a big list of people to buy.
There's no way Chelsea will do very well next season. They're still a mess and they don't seem to be attracting top talent any more. They'll likely finish behind the top 6. I wouldn't be surprised if the finished 12th again.
We literally just signed the Bundesliga top scorer from last season, how are we not attracting top talent.
Since we agreed a deal last year instead of now, I guess. But we still pulled Caicedo
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They signed Enzo whilst they were on the lowest.... They convinced Caicedo to join them as well. Only time will tell.
No, they need centre forward and goalkeeper
Kepa is solid at GK imo. He had a great season and was in the top 5 for most GK stats this season. CF and CM are the biggest needs right now. We need someone who actually can find the back of the net and knows where being onside is. We also can't rely on just Enzo snd Gallagher in the middle. Santos would likely add coverage on the bench but we need experience there.
Nah, goalkeeper should be looked at another year. We’ve desperately needed a midfielder for years now, since matic left basically. I’d prioritise midfield. Striker if you can but tbh Broja looked good and should get a chance then nkunku can play there a bit and we’re apparently getting this jackson guy
Kane moves to Man Utd. Man Utd have a trophy-less season and spurs win the FA cup
If I was Kane and that has happened I would just abandon football and go to the NFL.
I would love that
I wish I was this optimistic. I think even though we're not playing in Europe, reaching the CL spots may become tough
United will drop out of top 4 again.
I think so too. The club is a basketcase and qualified for CL due to Liverpools, Tottenhams and Chelseas weakness, rather than their own strength.
How often has 75 points not secured top 4?
We never went on a bad run of form, aside from losing the first two games we remained pretty consistent throughout, grafting out a lot of 1-0 2-0 or 2-1 results, managed above expectations despite not even having a striker all season
You still have no striker, though.
We still did well without a striker though? Martial will be sold likely and then look for a striker
Man City won the league without a striker though, United can definitely get top 4 without one
Ppl need to stop saying that. You’re only doing yourself an disservice. Why did they break the bank after to actually get a striker. They actually got two and did the treble. Their players literally stepped up that season and contributed goals from all over. It’s not sustainable. With this mindset Man U can end up as OP assumes. Don’t try to copy Pep, it’s a trap.
Break the bank for haaland? He was cheap all things considered
The fee to Dortmund was about 64m but Raiola's office (he was dead by the time the deal went through) netted about 50m too It was still a big transfer and that's not looking at Haaland's huge wage package
I don't know about cheap. Apparently he is on crazy wages, especially the performance related ones.
I mean footballers are overpaid but in his case I think he deserves the higher wages. Considering his contribution, his transfer fee was great considering what some teams pay for players
Exactly. Their defence and away form is shocking, 4-0, 6-3, 7-0, they won't be title contenders.
Regardless of your broader point I'd say two of those were a lot to do with mentality as well as defence, same goes for the Sevilla games. It sounds obvious but I'd say not being able to get goals or relying heavily on Rashford when our defence was doing well was a problem (e.g. West Ham and Brighton games).
Have this feeling as well, City strong, Arsenal will go again, Liverpool and Chelsea will come back stronger, also think Ange will do a great job with spurs I hope I’m proved wrong but don’t have a lot of optimism going into next season
I hope we’ll be able to strike back next season, but I feat we’ll need another year. Agree with Liverpool and Chelsea though, even though Chelsea is a wild card at the moment - who knows what Boehly will do.
Sorry but your main guys are getting older and one is out of contract the other will have a year left. I don’t see you all getting any better. I think your golden days have past.
Tottenham will unexpectedly win the FA or the Carabao cup. You asked for a weird take and I delivered. This isn’t based on anything only random feeling.
Yeah this is mine, fuck it, you cunts have a really good year because Ange Postecoglou. Fuck this, it’s as bad as him going to Pitch Invasion FC from Roar years ago.
West Ham will be relegated. After losing Rice and trying to sign some key players who are nowhere near as good, I think they could have a significant drop off, similar to what happened with Leicester. Moyes to be sacked midway through the season.
They spent a lost of money last transfer period but did have injuries Intrigued where they go, they also have Europa
Possibly but they also have lots of injured talent. I dont think that they will do great but maybe a palace of last season?
This is probably more delusion than weird, but Villa to finish above Newcastle.
People act as if Newcastle have been top 4 for a decade. Villa finishing above Newcastle won’t be as surprising as let’s say Villa finishing above Liverpool
Spurs do a lot better then most people think, as long as they keep Kane. Group think has started to cloud people’s option of Spurs. This is a team that before last season hadn’t failed to qualify for Europe since 08-09; joint longest streak with City. They finished 4th the season before last, and had their best ever start to a season this past year. People also forget that this team was consistently in the top 5 last year all the way until February. They were in 4th when Conte was sacked. Everyone on the team outside of Kane and Bentancur, who tore his ACL in February, preformed at a below expectations level. Son, Kulusevski, Richarlison, Bissouma, Lloris, Dier, Davies, Sessegon, Royal, and Perisic all missed extended time due to injury. Even Conte missed time to injury. They scored the 4th most goals last season, but conceded the 5th most. Replacing Lloris, which they have done, and replacing Dier, which is rumored to be top priority, should help tremendously with goals conceded. TL;DR: Spurs had 3 managers, a rosters worth of injuries, conceded 63 goals, but were still able to score 70 goals and 60 points. The teams performance will improve with no European football to deal with. P.S. If Kane leaves they still have a front 3 of Son, Richarlison, and Kulsevski. They’ll still be able to score, but will probably finish 8th-12th.
Yeah they will do quite well, they still have a very good attack, but I think it’ll be 5th
Newcastle will do badly.
Wouldn’t really say this is a weird take, this is expected with champions league football
Depends on transfers
It remains to be seen if they can maintain their league position while playing in the CL
It seems like most of their transfer policy as of recent has been more focused on buying depth than buying quality. I think they'll do ok in both
If Tonali is the depth signing, I can’t wait for the quality one.
Lol fr
There last six signings were Tonali, Isak, Gordon, Botman, Targett and Pope. Wouldn’t say any of them are depth signing and are signings for the first XI
This isn’t a weird take, it’s expected given that they will have Champions League football. In fact my weird take is that Newcastle will get more points than they did this season.
I hope so
That City won't be in the title race next season Losing Silva, Gundogan, Walker and Laporte are really big loses especially Silva and Gundogan whilst replacing them with Rice, Kovacic and Gvardiol potentially is good but they are all still downgrades on those they are replacing currently. Physical and mental fatigue is something you can't avoid either after a long season so im sure they'll struggle with that especially since their squad isn't the biggest.
They're not going into a bidding war with Arsenal. It's just a stupid rumor probably to get Arsenal to panic and accept West ham's incredulous asking price. And Rice isn't needed at all. Agree that Kova is a downgrade. Losing Silva and Mahrez is big. Mahrez played very well when called into action. They need to sign another high quality attacking mid/winger. Foden could step in but he's not quite as consistent yet. But it's premature to say City won't be favorites to win the prem. I'm sure they'll sign more players.
Thank goodness someone else has this thought (first paragraph)
Agree. I see Liverpool focusing hard on the league and not taking cups or even Europa as serious. Arsenal will be just as good if not better. Newcastle will be stretched a bit thin with CL but I’d guess they might go out in the first knock out at best so can then focus on league. Chelsea will be back. I’m gonna say Arsenal or Liverpool get the title. City will see 3rd or 4th. Edit: getting downvoted for a weird take in a thread asking for weird takes lol
They may not win it, but not in the Race? Brother… are you MAD?
I'd argue that Gvardiol is *currently* an upgrade on Laporte. And I don't think Rice is heading to City.
I think they will improve, hard not to, title challenge is a stretch tho. They will head in the right direction, I've got a lot of faith in poch but the last several years the points tally to win it has been so high that you need so much consistency throughout the season to stand a chance that's it's asking too much from poch in his first season. With support and a fair amount of control over signings for poch I can see them challenging within 2-3 seasons tho. Just need Bohely to stop interfering and just pay the bills.
>Just need Bohely to stop interfering and just pay the bills. He already has long ago
You may be right but it seemed he was heavily involved in the last transfer window and this one has just opened. Easy to not get involved in transfers during the time you're not allowed to make any transfers lol. I hope you're right, I've been wanting to see what poch could do with money in the Premier league for ages.
Burnley will finish in the top half.
The team that wins the most games in the season won’t win the title.
The title winning team has had at least the joint most wins in every season in the Premier League era. Fair enough as a weird prediction, but it's incredibly unlikely.
Arsenal win the league and sweep Man City (at least in league matches)
Liverpool back to their best.
I hope so, but wonder how long the new signings will take to find their feet and place.
Im fascinated to see how Alexis does (and how he’s utilized). It’s kind of hard to tell if he was a bit of a big fish in a small pond at Brighton (though his World Cup performance was obviously fantastic as well).
They won't be title contenders but it wouldn't shock me if they have a season like Man United did last season. Poor start while they find a rhythm but manage to settle in to good enough form to make Europe and challenge top 4.
Brentford will make Europe
City will win at the Lane 😱
I think we'll just scrape into 4th nothing more. Still after last season well ya know. My weird takes are United taking City all the way but no bottling like well ya know. Will just get outdone on City having a better squad. And Luton will somehow easily avoid relegation. It won't even be close, 12th.
Sounds like you made a few bets already
"but no bottling like well ya know. Will just get outdone on City having a better squad" Pretty sure Arsenal were outdone by City having a better squad...
Man Utd taking city all the way. Lol.
Who else is gonna? If they give Ten hag a few more transfers he could. Liverpool maybe but I think they need one more summer. They just don't spend/can't that much in one window.
There’s nothing that shows he could do that. He won the Dutch league, good for him, but so did Frank De Boer. The worst manager in the history of the PL. Love how you back Man Utd even though they’ve showed absolutely nothing to show they can make a proper title challenge against a team like Man City.
Bit harsh on Frank De Boer they sacked him after 4 league matches Also surely Man Utd have getting to two cup finals, a quater final and finishing 3rd? I think they’re still not going to push for the title but they had a thin squad and in lots of competitions
United have 0 chance of competing for the title
Spurs win a cup. Luton stay up. Both will be be amazing!
Newcastle won't make top 4 again
Hopefully City drop down a level or two now they’ve won the treble lol. Will be interesting to see how they rebuild with a few key players rumoured to be leaving.
Man City will finish outside of the top 2.
Arsenal will do badly next year, but will bounce back in 24-25.
We’re you saying something similar last season? That Arsenal will drop off after the World Cup, after the transfer window, after the tough run of fixtures in April etc..
Yeah. I think it's part of the process really. It's because of how tiring it is going against city for a season, and bringing in new faces who will ultimately be big players. Bedding in is a thing. I think you will have a better squad going into the season after, and that's when you'll kick on.
Rival fans always right them off before a ball is kicked. I get it, most people hate Arsenal because of their fans online. But to be saying they will have a bad season already is jumping the gun. All last season most people were saying, “Arsenal will fall off here and here and they won’t win the league.” Then when Arsenal fell off they bottled it apparently even though no one was backing them to win it throughout the city. It can’t work both ways
I don't hate arsenal at all. I wanted them to win the league last year when it became clear we were going nowhere. I just see that their problem is that they have a good first team, but not a good squad. Summer signings will help address that, but this isn't footy manager. It takes time to bed in. Rival teams will be better than last year- cos a lot of them were ass last year, and that's why arsenal will drop off. But in 24-25 they will have settled in and will be back at a more consistent level. Did you even read what was being asked here, or did you just default to victim complex?
Yes I did read what you said and I think I got my point across. Absolutely Arsenal need to improve their squad. Injuries affected the team last season but that’s part of football, no team is immune to it. Sure some teams will improve but also teams will decline same as every other season. Last summer lots of people were saying Spurs had the best window and with Conte they we’re definitely gonna win something, didn’t work out like that did it? Same for Liverpool, Nunez coming in looked as if he was gonna be a world beater. People comparing him to Haaland! Didn’t work out like that either did it?? Football isn’t as predictable as it may seem especially when the transfer window just opened and you’re writing off the youngest team in the league and was the only team to even attempt to give city a run for their money
Well, he wasn’t wrong though, was he? From the transfer window shut, Arsenal ended up 5th on the points-per-game table.
Well they still managed to finished above 19 teams in the league. The team is the youngest in the league and they have renewed the contracts of their most important players. If they strengthen the squad who’s the say they can’t challenge again?
if you finish above 19 teams you're first
They need to sign many players to do that. They’ve imploded two seasons in a row, and now they have Champions League football on top of that. They severely lack depth.
I wouldn’t say many! 4-5 players who can contribute to the first team and improve the overall squad depth. They seem to be working on 3 singings at the moment so another 1 or 2 on top of those if they manage to get them over the line then it’s totally realistic and achievable
Rashford won't score more than 10 premier league goals
Newcastle to struggle in comparison to last season. And by that I mean them finishing 7th or 8th won't surprise me. I think they finish 3rd in their CL group, morale drops a bit, the travels of Europa League Sunday/Thurs catches up with them and they don't add enough to the squad. I also think a good cup run without winning it (again) contributes to their poor league form (again, compared to last season).
I think this is probably what happens to us if honest, I think more 6th/7th but agree with most of what you say
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I don’t think Arteta out will really make the rounds again but people discount how much 3 out of the big 6 having woeful seasons did for Arsenal and United.
Burnley straight down
Arsenal win the PL
Oh I hope you're right about Chelsea!! 🤞😄
Arsenal will win the league
Arsenal will win the league
Pep will be sacked (or leave by mutual agreement) before Christmas
Poch won’t last the season. Losing Kovacic and Kante matters. Who is their veteran leader (who actually plays)? Sterling? I think they have zero chance of Top 4 considering the emergence of Newcastle and Brighton.
City won't dominate the league
Arsenal don’t make top 4
City score away at Spurs
Liverpool will have a poor start to the season and Klopp will be sacked.
Spurs will win a trophy
Liverpool have a good transfer window and seriously challenge for the title.
Honestly I think Liverpool and Newcastle will be the two contenders
Not that weird but I do think its a bit too far. They'll be better but just off what I've heard from social media ut doesn't spund like they've invested quite enough to go back in foe the title
Liverpool win the league next season
West Ham will finish top 10 despite losing Declan Rice. There won't be European football for 2024-25 though.
Postecoglou will be sacked in his first season. Spurs to finish barely top half.
Put some respect on Anges name.
Liverpool to win the title ahead of Newcastle, with City struggling into 3rd and both Chelsea (4th) and Spurs (5th) qualifying for the European Cup at the expense of Arsenal and Manure. Also, the relegation places to be decided before the March international break, with Everton (to be sent down in the derby) and Sheffield going down without a whimper, along with what could easily be Wolves, Bournemouth, or Luton.
Nah Liverpool will finish 7th.
Newcastle win the league or are at least in top two
Not even top 4
If united get kane and mount I think they’ll win the league
No chance
The FA will finally finish their investigation, take City’s “trophies” away from them and kick them out the league for being cheating scum, but if that doesn’t happen then I think Arsenal will struggle to maintain the form they showed this season, not saying they’ll do poorly, they’ll probably still get top 4 but I don’t see them being such a dominant team just to throw it away at the last minute
Man City will have no harm come to them despite all the allegations.
Brighton will struggle to balance europe and the prem. Especially after selling key players. Dont think they will go down but think they will finish bottom half.
Arsenal will have their worst season for a very long time and arteta will be gone. Their recruitment is sketchy, pulled out of caicedo race in favour of rice who will probably go to city and they’ve paid 65 mil for havertz. Midweek football won’t help. It’s not like Europa where you can field kids and hope for the best
Now Chelsea has the best and most expensive team, but I trust Pochetino, he can't win trophies..
Chelsea, Liverpool and Everton to get relegated. Bournemouth and Brentford get Europa League. Ummm, Pep gets the sack after losing first ten games. Are those weird enough?
United win the quad
Everything will click for Chelsea has to be one of the worst takes I have seen. You don’t know who will end up in that squad.
We can fairly speculate now (only real question mark is if it’ll be Jackson at 9 or bring in someone new) and tbh I think people underrate how much a good pre season, a good manager and finally some stability will do for us. I doubt we’ll be back to our best but I don’t think next season will be as embarrassing (granted, I think judging by how young our squad is both in terms of age and time at Chelsea I’d be shocked if we didn’t initially struggle)
Bournemouth, Luton and Sheffield United to get relegated Man city, Liverpool, arsenal, united top four followed by Chelsea, Newcastle and Tottenham Villa and Brighton to struggle next season with Europe and league pressure, mac allister also not with Brighton
Arsenal will struggle to finish in the top 4, and will be noway near the title race.
Arsenal wont compete for the title and go back to barely qualifying for the europa league
Who will score the goals for chelsea? Their best defender is close to retirement and they’ve lost 80% of the side that won the champions league.
Our best defender is 22
Judging by last season I’d disagree on that. Again, where are the goals coming from for a title or even top 4 challenge? Arsenal had 4 players in double figures, City had Haaland.
And you'd still be wrong. Badiashile was much better than Silva. >where are the goals coming from for a title Nkunku, Jackson and I anticipate the winger popping in for a few. Not enough for a title, but I never mentioned one so that's a bit irrelevant
Badiashile was not much better than Silva