Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL) - page 627. (Read 1199179 times)

What do you guys think, does Virgin Van Dijk really worth that much money?

My personal opinion is that whole transfer market went crazy, so that might not be too much for great defender. We will see if he will show that potential.

Kane's contract will expire in 2022 but Tottenham is ready to renew it with a significant increase in his engagement (currently 5.5M a year).
If Tottenham wants to win any competition must absolutely keep Harry Kane!

You are wrong. They mentioned this during the weeks EPL game when one of them mentioned that Spanish teams will come calling to Kane with their bags of money.
They said even if one club offers him 20 million pounds to move out of the Premier league to La Liga he will not sell his soul out to the devils.
As they had put it.
Harry Kane is a true Briton through and though. No matter how much euros they want to throw at him.

I am very certain that Pochettino is saying this because he wants to keep his star player in the team, without a doubt when the likes of Real Madrid and Barcelona come with a fat cheque, they are going to immediately sell without thinking twice about it.

I think Kane partied too much after scoring enough goals to surpass the record and breaking them.
And he can gloat all he wants for the rest of the year knowing he is ahead of the legendary Messi in scoring over the both leagues.
Totally agree with you in respect with if he moved to another club he will be the second string to the star on the team.
Which ever team he ends up if he ever wanted to make a move to another club.
But he belongs in Tottenham and don't see that happening right now.

A world class player is a player who performs consistently throughout every season and ever since he started playing in the EPL for Tottenham Hotspurs, Harry Kane has shown that he is a world class player and manages to score irrespective of the opponents that he faces. He has managed to fit in the England national team and has been very impressive there as well scoring important goals for the Three Lions.

I do not think they can sign anymore players as they have a salary cap in the league do they not?
Even if they have I wouldn't doubt they have reached it already.
And with the way that Manchester United and Liverpool have been playing with draws almost every second game can you see them catching up with them into the new year?

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11675/11188304/kane-doubt-for-swans-due-to-illness

Seems like Kane might be out for the next game. Has he actually got a cold or did he eat too much over Christmas? hehe.

The article goes on to say that Pochettino sees him as a 'one club man'. Anyone disagree or agree? For some reason I don't really see Kane as world class even though he was the PL top scorer last season and is currently ahead by three goals but I'm not sure how he'd fit in to any other club than Spurs. I think he's a bit like Vardy in that respect. Vardy is great in Leicester and gets most of their goals but he'd be like a fish out of water in any other decent team like Arsenal (and I think there were rumors of him possibly going there last season). Could he end up becoming like Bale and leaving Spurs for a big Spanish or European side? IF he did I think his career would go the same way Bales did and end up being a bit of a waste.

You will be surprised in 2018 if they start losing few matches. Closing half season with 15 points difference is not going to guarantee you to win the season. Besides that , the schedule in 2018 is going to make the league more interesting

With some luck, they may slip out of their position but thats depending on their strategy for the upcoming game. I wrote it in my previous post that their only reasonable strategy for now is to sign few more player to cover up for their hectic schedule

Full schedule tomorrow as it is the last weekend for all teams to finish off the season of 2017 with a win for their final match ups of the year.

Manchester city has finished the year without any worries for them to finish up the rest of the season as champions
and can enjoy their new years celebrations knowing this in their minds.

No other team can challenge them as the top 4 other teams are not even close to their accomplishments.

They need to sign more player otherwise they wont be able to cope with the schedule in 2018. Their performance is top notch right now and they are leading the the premier league with 15 points difference .

Losing few matches in 2018 might not be a bad idea for them either if they do really need to save up some player for the champions but I doubt that they are going to do that so signing more player is the only option

I guess it depends what style of football you like. the premier league as a whole has a variety of different styles of teams i think largely down to the fact that so many different nationalities of players now play in the premier league. so premier league offers a clash of styles depending on who is playing who for example the very spanish style of a pep guardiola city team up against a gritty tony pulis team gives the viewer and fans a game that many other leagues cant offer so in that sense you could argue the premier league is unique and possibly superior in that sense. but in terms of technical and tactical ability i would lean more towards bundesliga or la liga. i hear the argument that premier league is the best all the time and the same people also say that as a result the england national team should do better...lets be frank the premier league isnt the strength it is due to the english talent currently playing in the league it is largely down to the high level and quantity of more technically gifted foreign players and even more crucially the very best coaches in the world. bringing youth players is proving evermore difficult too and this is another reason why i prefer leagues such as bundesliga and la liga as i personally enjoy discovering for the first time future starts of the game. i remember watching xavi make his debut and recently i watched phil foden warming the bench for manchester city. in bundesliga and la liga phil foden would be playing first team football either for his parent club or on loan to a team in the same league playing regular at the highest level.

^ You're focused too much on Man City and fail to realize that Man United will have a packed schedule too once the CL resumes.  And oh wait, so will Chelsea and Liverpool. 

And I do think City will be signing two more players on January.

Man Utd & Chelsea are not safe in 2nd & 3rd position yet. They are only 5 & 4 points ahead of Liverpool.
It’s basically 3 CL positions available (Man City will have one) for 5 teams - Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal & Tottenham..

true Man City will start losing points only after Championsleague come back but I don't think that they will get the gap down to 5 points because all the other teams play in Europe unless they get knocked out this stage Chelsea and Spurs are the one closest to end their European run this season . City is almost have the most complete team in the EPL they only needs to add one more Central Defender because of Kompany is injury prone and he is getting much older and after Liverpool getting Van Djik for a record fee City may turn for ex United defender Johnny Evans or Martinez from Sociedad.

Exactly my opinion. City will start to lose some points here and there when Champions League starts because they have enough of a gap in Premier league to rest their players and make sure to have a good run in CL. Unfortunately it will not help the competition at all because they will all have to do some rotations in their respective squads.

Man. City has already won the league but would love to see some teams shorten the gap to let's say 5 points and make it little bit more interesting. Other top teams are now fighting for CL places.

Two losses this week but fully expected, since I backed both Crystal Palace and Newcastle for slim home victories. I know I was one of the most reluctant to concede the title to City so soon, but the combination of realities now mean that I have to give it to them:

1. 15 points ahead of their closest rival past the halfway mark. Only once has a team led at Christmas and not won the week (I wish it weren't Liverpool but oh well).
2. The other big 5 are simply incapable of stringing a result of consecutive wins. Every draw and loss seems to set them back into a slump they can't recover from.

The only straws we can clutch at from now on is the pressure of cup competitions. But I see all the other teams focusing now on CL even FA Cup or Europa. So even if City were to step off the gas a little, the others would be forced to do the same.

Arsenal's victory today was nice to see and Alexis Sanchez was the man of the match with his two goals in the second half was him at his finest.
I haven't seen him play like this for the past two seasons and was worried they were going to trade him eventually if he did not start to play and produce like his days of old. But today he has shown that they need him and he is plays a vital role in Arsenal's offensive objective in winning the matches they play.

i think kevin debruyne incraese performance after join in manchester city, and manchester city buy keven not cheap price
before play in manchestery, kevin debruney, play in chelsea but performance is not good and back in schalke, after in schalke join in manchester city, and good performance play in in EPL

This season is surely belong to Manchester City as they are doing record breaking work and unstoppable for any team in Premier League I am also sure now no team is going to challenge them now competition is on for just fourth position as second and third is also fixed for Manchester United and Chelsea they are also doing very good for fourth position we have three tough teams any one can win