Liverpool:
After a lot of “umming and ahhing” I decided to award my final place to Liverpool. I have to admit last year I had already decided the end had arrived for Stevie G and the boys, but it was clear the players were still very much capable to achieving more and lacked desire and belief. Enter “King Kenny” who, with a couple of good signings and his aura fulfilled the reds beliefs in their abilities, seeing them manage a great end of season display. Now I expect him to push them a little bit more with his squad improvements and see Liverpool set themselves back as an Elite club. Prediction: 4th
Arsenal:
I almost couldn’t decide between Arsenal and Liverpool for 4th place. I have always admired Arsenal having grown with their fantastic unbeaten run and players such as Thierry Henry and Robert Pires gave me great respect for them. At first I was very much in favour of Wenger’s youth plan, but in my opinion he did it wrong. If the Frenchman has chose to bring in a load of youth players to play with the heavily experienced winners such as Henry, then the younger players would have grown up knowing success making it easier to achieve. However they only have weight on their backs and no experience at winning so only seem to fluff every great chance they get. With the exit of Nasri and Fabregas, I hope this will give younger players the chance to play as having those two around will only lower morale but I fear, for this season at least, top four is just out of reach. Prediction: 5th
Tottenham:
Which just leaves Tottenham Hotspur. Allthough undoubtedly a good team with great players and a manager I admire, I feel in order to break into the top four you need to use a specialised trait that you use to your advantage be it youth, experience, money, reputation etc, and I simply consider Tottenham to be the jack of all trades, good at everything, master at nothing, and that is what I consider is ultimately holding them back. If Redknapp wants to bring Champions League football back to White Hart Lane, he needs to find a specific area to strengthen and make them the best in England at that area whilst remaining strong in other areas. This is not an easy task but I believe Redknapp (hopefully future England manager in my opinion) has the capability to pull it off. For now though I predict disappointment. Prediction: 6th
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Chelsea fan here, and your probably right for the end of season predictions. I think City are looking very very dangerous, I just think there is a gap between the top 3 and the 4th spot. Liverpool look better than they have for quite a while, although I think Carroll is rubbish, he just doesn’t fit the way Liverpool seem to want to play. I do think that Villas Boas at chelsea doesn’t need to win anything this year, and as long as we finish 4th or above then he will keep his job. He has spent money on players with the highest age being 23 (and Juan Mata looks a bargain considering what what need) and he has brought a few players that look like they will be future first team stars. This current Chelsea team is coming to an end, but with three players like Lukaku, Sturridge and Mata they could be a front three for 8 years.
Decent article. The problem for the rest is that ManUtd are unstoppable and another young side has arrived to dominate Chicharito, Cleverley, Nani, Anderson, Rooney,
Vidic, Fletcher, Welbeck, Macheda, Fabio, Rafael, Young, Jones, Smalling, Evans, De Gea, Pogba, Tunnicliffe, Morrison are going to keep United winning titles for a long time. We will rule the world.
Good article. I think it’s the start of Arsenal decline & I can see Wenger leaving within a season or two. They have a very good young team who can be groomed into another great Gunner side, but subject to Wenger staying for another decade, which I don’t see happening. The new man ‘ll have to start from scratch.
United is in great shape in days to come, but their biggest star is almost 70 now & once he is gone, I am not sure about their dominance. In last 25 years, I have seen many great managers, so called “Special ones”, but those are as good as their sugar daddy’s wallet depth. MU ‘ll surely struggle to replace SAF.
I think with the spoiled money, for the next few seasons (Or till Abu Dhabi’s oil dries up like Dubai) ManC might purchase lot of success. Even in these days crazy money, you can’t compete with maniacs, who can have 250mn worth of only attacking force to choose from. Moreover, they are not making Chelse like mistakes of spending big on unknown players, purchasing young, tried & tested EPL top players.
As an LFC supporter, I see a better future for us, but for the next 5-6 years, I don’t see our-self dominant in EPL. Here & there cup success, may be a good run to EPL title till end, a regular berth in UCL is probably what we can expect. & yes, even in these days of crazy money, 35mn was too big (3 times) a wastage on Carroll.
The rest are just not in the same league. I think, Spurs might not finish even at 6th this season.