Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 657. (Read 774720 times)

I think no one can shift Manchester City's position at the top and this has been proven for several years. Their achievements and preparations have always been satisfactory in each season so that bookies do not hesitate to put them in their proper place. In addition, I agree that as long as the coach is still Pep Guardiola, it will be very difficult for bookies to lower their expectations for Manchester City and maybe this will not change for the next few years if Pep Guardiola wants to extend his contract.

For Chelsea, maybe there is some truth because of the player overhaul they did they got the fourth position but that also cannot guarantee whether they can perform well next season. Even though I prefer to see Spurs replace Chelsea in that position because we know Spurs are more reliable than Chelsea. But again, of course it will be quite risky if we put the wrong champion team in the bet and it is better to choose one of the three strong candidates between Manchester City, Arsenal, or even Liverpool.

He did not conclude about the results that guarantee good results for the official match next season but at least, with the good results Liverpool got in this pre-season. Maybe, it will be a motivation for them or Liverpool as a whole, of course, to still be able to play with good performance next season even though Liverpool have not made any player purchases so far. Of course, if Arne Slot really manages to make Liverpool have a strong and great performance next season without buying players, then of course it will be very extraordinary.

Because after all, at least as a new coach will also need adjustments or adaptations to build good chemistry too. But, by not buying players and if it really succeeds in making Liverpool on the path to the title, then Liverpool may be very successful or also lucky to get a very appropriate coach after going through a great season with Klopp before.

A big sign that I want to put forward too. But until now Arteta and Arsenal have not shown much interest in bringing in a pure striker and that has also been Arsenal's problem for several seasons. Arteta relies on evenness but forgets that even ability without a combination of pure strikers will find it difficult to score goals like Man City did. Apart from Pep Gardiola who focuses on building a squad with even abilities but Pep does not forget that everything will be perfect if you have a striker and Haaland is the right choice. His physical strength is able to differentiate from his teammates and he can also trick his opponents to provide free space for Foden/Bernando Silva, Doku/Grealish, and De Bruyne to score goals.

I would rather be realistic than being sentimental here, I don't want to see a new champion, i would rather prefere to see the better side emerge as winner of the premier league title this season, i dont care if it's Liverpool, Manchester united, Chelsea, mancity or arsenal or perhaps a team that just gained promotion as long as they are deserving of the title, let's not forget that there are so many factors that determines the winner of the title, eg, matches won, points dropped, injuries, back up players, suspension, technical ability, ability to withstand pressure etc, now if any team is able to handle all of these issues, would you say they shouldn't win the league because they won it previously? I don't think so, if arsenal or any other team in England wants stop Manchester city's dominance in the premier League then they should accept responsibility and work hard until they detrone Manchester city.

Actually is very shocking that Chelsea is on the top 4 of the board, though am not a Chelsea fan but this coming season is not last season, it doesn't mean that Chelsea performance last season will make them not to perform well this season, and also is not because Tottenham or Aston Villa pass them in the Table last season that Chelsea won't pass them this season because each season that passes different clubs improves in one way or the order so don't start judging when the season has not start. transfer do change you are right  but you saying that in the case of Chelsea they do not have any rough or bumpy transfer this summer in my opinion.

Anyone expecting that Chelsea will not have a good performance this season is confused in his prediction because out of all the big clubs that are striving to recover Chelsea has been the more improved club and if they continue this way. They are likely to expect good result.

Perhaps the matter is that Chelsea spent a lot of money on new transfers, and this, according to bookmakers, should affect the team's results. Even more surprising was how Aston Villa's chances are assessed, although here we are talking about becoming champions, and neither Chelsea nor Aston Villa will most likely be able to do this. Also, Liverpool has not very high odds, compared to Arsenal, apparently the dismissal of Klopp played a big role in this, and they do not believe in Slott's achievements as a coach.

It has not reached the proof stage because the League has not started. When the league has started, that's where we can do the stage by stage assessment of Arne Slot's performance.

If Arne Slot does not bring in new players until the transfer window closes and he can train Liverpool to reach the maximum limit, that's extraordinary even though he is still very new with the tight competition in the Premier League. I think Arne Slot's strategy and tactics will succeed in giving the best for us Liverpool fans.

Yeah, I also think it is a big surprise that Chelse is the fourth favorite considering their performance last season. I'd put Tottenham or Aston Villa at the fourth based on last season placements. Transfers do change things but they have a bumpy transfer records IMO. Not sure if their transfers will massively improve their performance even if they do well in pre-season. Even Liverpool do quite well but their odds are still lower compared to Arsenal, so who knows if the numbers will change significantly latter. CMIIW.

The serious punishment Man City could face if found guilty of 115 breaches of Premier League rules

Manchester City will face an extremely serious punishment if they are found to have broken Premier League financial rules.

On Tuesday morning (August 13) several reports claimed that the hearing against Man City on 115 alleged breaches of Premier League financial rules will begin on September 16.

In February 2023 the Premier League charged City with 115 alleged breaches of its financial rules over a nine-year period between 2009 and 2018.

The alleged rule breaches include not providing accurate financial information for nine separate seasons, not providing full details of former manager Roberto Mancini’s pay over the four seasons he was at the club from 2009 to 2013, and not providing full details of players’ remuneration — including that of the former midfielder Yaya Toure — over six seasons from 2010-11 to 2015-16.

Source link: https://www.sportbible.com/football/football-news/man-city/115-charges-premier-league-hearing-643436-20240813

The odds for Manchester City to still be the favorite are not strange anymore because they are able to win trophies in a row, however, the bookies will give small odds as the champion of this team because obviously their game has not changed the squad is still solid as long as Pep Guardiola is still the coach.

Chelsea is the 4th favorite of the bookies compared to other teams because they made such a big overhaul? Maresca being the new coach there may still be hope for change, but still not sure Chelsea will do it significantly.

Yes, I agree with you that Arteta has to be really careful in every factor to be able to bring Arsenal ahead of Manchester City. Because as we know, Manchester City has a very great squad and coach. So to deal with this, Arteta cannot just rely on strategy or tactics to bring Arsenal ahead of Manchester City next season. However, Arsenal really needs to look for a sharper striker, because Arsenal's front line currently looks less consistent in terms of performance. However, until now it seems that Arsenal have not been seen buying any strikers, what I know is that currently Arsenal is buying more defenders. The reason is, Arsenal is now proven to have bought 3 defenders and 1 new goalkeeper in this transfer market.

So if you look at the transfer record, Arsenal doesn't seem to care too much about their front line. Maybe Arteta feels strong about the forward players that Arsenal currently has. I also can't say that Arsenal's current forward players are weak, but their only weakness is their lack of consistent performance. Because this season I have seen Arsenal's performance and the result is that Arsenal's front line players cannot maintain consistent performance well. So, if for example Arsenal brought in Osimhen in their front line, maybe Arsenal could be sharper next season. However, it seems that Arsenal's biggest obstacle is only from a financial perspective. Because currently Arsenal is very interested in bringing in Osimhen, but because Osimhen's price is quite expensive, this is an obstacle that makes it difficult for Arsenal to bring in Osimhen.

Under Guardiola Manchester City can conquer premier league for years so they always being an the favourite for each season besides that although Manchester City hasn't bought more players this summer but their current squad is very solid and new player too Savinho looks promising because his debut match at Manchester derby on Community Shield also run well even Guardiola has very satisfied with Savinho performance

You may to look at the odds who is the most favourite champion of season 2024/2025 and apparently the odds looks not so different compared to last season with Manchester City as the first favourite and Arsenal in the second place so here is the odds list below

Arsenal scored a lot of goals last season, but they were unable to maintain it throughout the season. At the start of the season, Arsenal defeated several of their opponents by 5 to 6 goals, but as the season came to an end, Arsenal couldn't score as many as they did against some opponents. In my opinion, the striker isn't only the player Arsenal needs for next season, they need more defenders who can prevent their opponents from scoring goals, Arsenal defenders were weak toward the end of the season, I remember them being weak and failing to compete with Manchester City when the season ended. Arsenal scored a lot of goals last season, but they couldn't win a title. Arsenal led Manchester City by a goal differential, but as the season went on, Manchester City finished with the same number of goals as Arsenal.

However, if Arsenal wants to win the Premier League next season, they must sign a striker who can score as many goals as Haaland, they do not currently have a striker capable of scoring 20 goals in the Premier League. Last season, Jesus scored four goals in 27 appearances while Kai Havertz scored thirteen in 37 for Arsenal. I believe that if Arsenal can find a striker capable of scoring 20 goals per season, they will win the championship they were unable to win for many years.

Each line in the squad certainly has its own role in strengthening a team so we cannot say that the attack line is more important than the defense line, but if we look at Arsenal performance and squad last season, it looked perfect in every line but actually their still had shortcomings in center forward sector, although overall their attack line is the second sharpest after Manchester City, what Arsenal fans and legends continue to criticized  about the lack of a center forward must of course be a reference for Arteta in seeing what their team needs to next season, right now the transfer market is still open and there are still lots of great strikers available that they can recruit and i think they must be able to make good use of it, especially now  reported that Nketiah is also heading for the exit from the Emirates, so Arsenal must move quickly to be able to cover the gap left by Nketiah departure later.

Arteta has forgotten that he is dealing with the best tactician in the premier league, which is pep Guardiola. And when you are up against the best, you have to operate in his standard or even more than him. Guardiola when he came to the premier league he had Aguero and he was scoring for him good goals, as Aguero aged on and wasn't producing much goals anymore, he was sold and Gabriel Jesus was leading the front line, but a time came when Pep Guardiola realized that Gabriel Jesus was missed chances was more than his converting rate, he was sold and Haaland was brought in. Guardiola understands the demand of the premier league that without a world class striker it will be difficult to win the league. My question is why is Arsenal not going for Victor Osimhen? They are busy recruiting players in areas they are solid and neglecting where they are lacking the most.

 With all the crazy signings Chelsea has been making since the transfer window opened, for me Pedro Neto is the best when you compare him with those 16-17 and above youngsters the Blues have been known to favor. The 24 yr old Portuguese winger was not without his share of injuries at his time at Wolves but despite this setback, he's still a very good player but my fear is won't this his injury prone nature affect his performance at the club? He was heard saying that he aims to lift Chelsea back to the top and for me those are strong words coming from someone like him because the club needs a thorough renewal and one player can't just do the magic cause it can be very exhausting.
 I will have to remind Neto to be careful with how he is eager to begin because that was how the coach Enzo Maresca was quick to claim that he'd lift the team to a standard where they can beat the likes of Man City and Arsenal and we're seeing how that's going for him, with the poor defense he has I still don't think the team is ready in that position, he should work more to get a better defender to lead the defense line, Enzo Maresca can still o something.

There are no positions in a team that are not important when a team wants to become a champion. You can have the best forwards, but if the defense does not work well in some matches, then all efforts will not lead to the desired result. In fact, if you are talking about statistics, then Arsenal were the best in this regard last season, but as we can see, this did not help them become champions. When you are going to compete with the best teams, then in order to become a champion you need to become better than them, better than City, and I do not know what should happen for Arsenal to be able to become better than City.

Bro, you just said my mind here, I have equally said it before that arsenal can't win the league with this current attackers at their disposal, relying on someone like Gabriel Jesus and Kyle havertz, players that can't even produce the least fifteen goal per season in the English premier league, though their are those fans that would argue that the arsenal team generally scored a whole lot of goals last season with this current attackers, but my question is that, where did it lead them to?
Did they win anything? No.

Mikel arteta have failed to understand that if you look at the history of the premier league and those teams that have won it, they all have an attacker that can deliver the least 20 goals per season, so if arsenal don't fix that, and they let it lingers into this new season, I believe that they might suffer the same faith as last season which they won nothing with the kind of talent they have in the team.

It seems that the registration of EPL players ends this Thursday. Arsenal seems to have only brought in 2 new players, Riccardo Calafiori, Central Defender and David Raya, the goalkeeper. They did not bring in new attackers, or new midfielders. This condition looks the same as Man City. They just got Savinho and some old Man City players also left. So it's still very difficult to predict next season. It seems that only Man United and Chelsea have brought in more than 2 players for next season.

Source: https://www.transfermarkt.com/arsenal-fc/transfers/verein/11/saison_id/2024/pos//detailpos/0/w_s//plus/1

These are the statistics from last season from here we can see that Arsenal have everything they need to compete with Manchester City good defense and enough goals maybe they were just unlucky but as you said if Arsenal get a new striker maybe their performance can improve and the potential to win the title is getting closer. Anyway, we are still waiting for transfer news from Arsenal until the transfer window closes and until now I still believe that Arsenal has the same chance as Manchester City. By the way I also consider Chelsea as one of the teams that can disturb these two teams to win the title as we know, Chelsea has started to build a strategy and squad to compete at the top of the standings.