Upcoming Premiership Season Predictions for your club

TheMonster

Fot the new season(English PL only please - LOI has kind of started so is not really "Upcoming")
Team
Optimistic Position
Realistic Position
Most Important Player
Breakthrough Player
Best Signing

to start the ball rolling

Team : Man Utd
Optimistic Position 1st
Realistic Position: 2nd
Most Important Player : Rooney
Breakthrough Player : Rossi
Best Signing:Carrick

Villain

Team : Aston Villa
Optimistic Position 6th
Realistic Position: 10th
Most Important Player : Davis
Breakthrough Player : Gabby Agbonlahor
Best Signing:None so far, but Petrov hopefully

johnos

Team : Bohemian FC
(Very) Optimistic Position: 5th
Realistic Position: 8th
Most Important Player : Joxer
Breakthrough Player : Joxer
Best Signing: hmmm...
FAI Cup is our only hope now...

Bateman

Chelsea 1st, 1st, Shevchenko, Mikel, Kalou

Nalz

Team : Man Utd
Optimistic Position 1st
Realistic Position: 2nd / 3rd
Most Important Player : Rooney / Scholes
Breakthrough Player : Jones / Rossi / Evans
Best Signing:Carrick (though the return of Scholes, Smith and Ole seem like new signings!)
Hopeful Signings: Senna, Torres

futuredeath

Team - Liverpool
Optimistic Position - 1st
Realistic Position - 2nd
Most Important Player - Gerrard(shock shock)
Breakthrough Player - Anderson, Paul
Best Signing - Bellamy/Pennant/Gonzalez (can't really choose yet)

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Team : Shelbourne
Optimistic Position: 1st
Realistic Position: 1st
Most Important Player : Jason Byrne / Joseph Ndo
Breakthrough Player : Not sure if any player has 'broken through' this season
Best Signing: Sean Dillon

gustavo

Team : Sligo Rovers
Optimistic Position: 4th
Realistic Position: 6th
Most Important Player : Burnsy
Breakthrough Player : Gary Curran
Best Signing: Keith Foy


oops well you did say "your club"

p.pete

Liverpool, 1st, 1st, Gerrard, Gonzales, Pennant.

Only joking about the 2nd 1st but I always hope we win the league (regardless of justified optimism or not), realistic is top 4 finish.

Drag00n79

Team: Liverpool
Optimistic Position: First
Realistic Position: Second
Most Important Player: Steven Gerrard
Breakthrough Player: Paul Anderson or Danny O'Donnell
Best Signing: Craig Bellamy

Bacchus

Team: Liverpool
Optimistic Position: 1st
Realistic Position: 2nd
Most Important Player: Steven Gerrard
Breakthrough Player: ??
Best Signing: Bellamy/Pennant/Gonzalez (Too early to choose but Bellamy is the safest bet to do well)

Mad Dog

Team: Chelsea
Optimistic Position: 1st
Realistic Position: 1st
Most Important Player: Terry
Breakthrough Player: Diarra
Best Signing: Ballack

Tusky

Team : Liverpool
Op position : 1st
Realistic: 2nd
Most Important Player: Gerrard
Best signing: Bellamy
Breakthrough: Gonzalez

Limerick Dude

Team : Newcastle
Op position : 4th
Realistic: 6th
Most Important Player: Parker
Best signing: Duff
Breakthrough: N'zogbia

PHB

Team : Man Utd
Optimistic Position: 1st
Realistic Position: Depends
Most Important Player : Scholes
Breakthrough Player : Jones
Best Signing: Carrick(what choice do I have)

Why don't we just have the real thread of, who's gona win the premiership, so we can have all the fun arguments, whether United/Arsenal are slipping, who'll come 2nd, whether Spurs can make it, when will Newcastle **** up, etc etc etc

eirebhoy

Team: Celtic
Optimistic Position: 1st
Realistic Position: 1st
Most Important Player: Nakamura
Breakthrough Player: Teddy Bjarnason
Best Signing: Jarosik

Playboy

Team: Spurs
Optimistic Position: 3rd
Realistic Position: 5
Most Important Player: Ledley King
Breakthrough Player: Tom Huddlestone
Best signing: Have high hopes for Zokora and Berbatov. Ekotto also looks good. Praying that we sign Martin Petrov for the left wing and a decent right back .. would be happy with Chimbonda or Lucas Neill

Rikand

Team : Blackburn Rovers
Optimistic Position : 4th
Realistic Position : top 7
Most Important Player : MGP
Breakthrough Player : Sergio Peter, if he gets a run of games ahead of MGP, lol
Best Signing : Benni McCarthy

mike65

Team Liverpool
Optimistic Position - Teh Winners!
Realistic Position - Second
Most Important Player - Gerrard
Breakthrough Player - Gonzales or Anderson
Best Signing - Pennant

Mike.

evad_lhorg

i wonder how many of these chelsea fans are jumping on the bandwagon now that they are winning. anyway


Team : Man utd
Optimistic Position - 1
Realistic Position - 3
Most Important Player - Rooney
Breakthrough Player - bardsley
Best Signing - ehh hopefully Torres. I refuse to say carrick.

Revelation Joe

Team: West Ham United
Optimistic Position: 4th
Realistic Position: 7th
Most Important Player: Dean Ashton
Breakthrough Player: Mark Noble
Best Signing: Pantsil - I hope!

Del

Mad Dog

Mad Dog wrote:

Team: Chelsea
Optimistic Position: 1st
Realistic Position: 1st
Most Important Player: Terry
Breakthrough Player: Diarra
Best Signing: Ballack

Overstepping the mark with Diarra.Do you think he really would go to you and compete with your superstar midfield?:eek:

Villain

evad_lhorg wrote:

i wonder how many of these chelsea fans are jumping on the bandwagon now that they are winning. anyway

You know it bugs me somethiing unreal when I hear Man United and Liverpool fans from Ireland say that, ever wonder why the majority of Man U and Liverpool fans started supporting their clubs, I doubt they would be supporting if they had had no success in the last 20 years:rolleyes:

Attractive Nun

Team: Manchester United
Optimistic Position: 1st
Realistic Position: 2nd
Most Important Player: Rooney
Breakthrough Player: Jones
Best Signing: Carrick

the_dazzler wrote:

Overstepping the mark with Diarra.Do you think he really would go to you and compete with your superstar midfield?

I think you have the wrong Diarra.

astrofool

There's also Alou Diarra

mike65

irish1 wrote:

You know it bugs me somethiing unreal when I hear Man United and Liverpool fans from Ireland say that, ever wonder why the majority of Man U and Liverpool fans started supporting their clubs, I doubt they would be supporting if they had had no success in the last 20 years:rolleyes:

According to some Liverpool hav'nt had any success in the last 20 years - okay 15! Most Pool fans here are, I guess, post Golden Era in terms of age but they are still fans. Unles they are all ancient mariners like me.

Mike.

tetsujin1979

Team: Man City
Optimistic Position: 6th
Realistic Position: 12th
Most Important Player: Dunne
Breakthrough Player: Does Ireland count as "breakthrough"? If not, then Ishmael Miller
Best Signing: Hamann, no contest

Take it

Team: Liverpool
Optimistic Position: Second
Realistic Position: Third
Most Important Player: Steven Gerrard
Breakthrough Player: Gonzalez(sp?)
Best Signing: Pennant

Would love to think we will gain ground on Chelsea but i don't think we have the quality to over take them, Suspect Arsenal to have a good year but I think they are on par with Liverpool wouldn't be surprised if both home and away games end in draws, Spurs look good but carracks a big loss they won't be an easy team to beat, as usual Man U will defiantly be up there I suspect we can beat them in Anfield though and they could do us over in Old Trafford

Mad Dog

Attractive Nun wrote:

I think you have the wrong Diarra.

I suspect you haven't seen too much of this lad and he's
a player who will get more chances in the Makelele role
this season as Maka is not getting any younger and Diarra
is a young player who Mourinho rates very highly. And as
the caption states Breakthrough Player I think this
might be his season. Top class player for the future IMO.

gracehopper

Team : Man Utd
Optimistic Position: 1st
Realistic Position: 2nd
Most Important Player : Rooney
Breakthrough Player : Rossi
Best Signing: Carrick

I think United will have enough fire power to finish ahead of pool, Arsenal and spurs but i dont see anyone catching Chelsea this year. The class they have brought in coupled with Mourinho's organisation will make them ultra consistent this year.

gandalf

Team : Arsenal
Optimistic Position 1st
Realistic Position 2nd-3rd
Most Important Player : Cesc Fabregas or Kolo Toure
Breakthrough Player : Alexandre Song (just have a feeling about this lad eventhough he's getting alot of stick at the moment!)
Best Signing : Tomas Rosicky (not exactly alot of choice at the moment !!)

The Clown Man

evad_lhorg wrote:

i wonder how many of these chelsea fans are jumping on the bandwagon now that they are winning. anyway


Team : Man utd

:rolleyes:

PHB

It looks like its gona be

1st - Chelsea 90 +40
2nd - Arsenal 80 +30
2nd - Liverpool 80 +30
2nd - Man United 80 +30

What an odd season eh?

observer

Team : Aston Villa
Optimistic Position 6th
Realistic Position: 9-12th
Most Important Player : Davis
Breakthrough Player : Gabby Agbonlahor
Best Signing:eh MARTIN O NEILL!!!! ye newcastle man u and everyone the most wanted man in football came to the villa! what were you doing england. they would have won the world cup with him!

gandalf

Sorry observer it has to be said but MoN is only using Villa as a warm up to ManU job.

The Rooster

Predictions

Team: Liverpool
Optimistic: Champions
Realistic Position: 2nd
Most Important Player: Stevie G - critical he doesnt get peeved with being played as a utiilty man - right, left, up-front - then taken off because he's having an underpar game :rolleyes:
Breakthrough Player: Momo to stop giving the ball away and to start scoring and become a top midfielder
Best Signing: Hard to call between Bellamy and Pennant. Pennant's probably the safer bet as Craig might get peeved with being played up on his own and getting no support and with getting rotated.
Hope I'm wrong: Gonzalez to be a big disappointment

PHB

My memory is a bit hazy, but didn't O'Neill play unattractive football?

eirebhoy

PHB wrote:

My memory is a bit hazy, but didn't O'Neill play unattractive football?

Not with Celtic anyway. I just have memories of Celtic going out in European ties playing poorly but after a MON half time team talk they'd go out and play the likes of Milan off the park. Anderlecht and Lyon were destroyed at Celtic park through passing football.

Royale with Cheese

Arsenal

Optimistic position: 2nd
Realistic: 3rd/4th
Most important player: Henry, Fabregas
Breakthrough player: It's not like he's unheard of but I expect Van Persie to have a big season
Best signing: Thierry Henry, biggest signing of the summer there

Pepe LeFrits

Arsenal

First few same as RwC

Breakthrough player: Johan Djourou
Best signing: No choice with senior signings, Fran Merida looks a good 'un for the reserves though.

Vokes

Pepe LeFrits wrote:

Best signing: No choice with senior signings, Fran Merida looks a good 'un for the reserves though.

Rosicky is surely a great signing!



Anyways...

Team : Liverpool
Optimistic Position 1st
Realistic Position 2nd/3rd
Most Important Player : Gerrard
Breakthrough Player : Agger or Gonzales
Best Signing : Bellamy

Big Nelly

can we not put teams outside the PL? we are not all glory hunters!

Team : Shef Wed
Optimistic Position 5th
Realistic Position 12th
Most Important Player : Whelan or MacLean
Breakthrough Player : Barry Corr
Best Signing : Yoann Foley

Pepe LeFrits

SofaKing wrote:

Rosicky is surely a great signing!

Yeah I agree, but I don't really see the point of mentioning him when he's the only major signing the team has made

Lemlin

Team : Blackburn Rovers
Optimistic Position 5th
Realistic Position: 10th
Most Important Player : Morten Gamst Pedersen
Breakthrough Player : Sergio Peter
Best Signing: Jason Roberts

theCzar

Team : Everton
Optimistic Position 5th
Realistic Position: 9th
Most Important Player : Arteta
Breakthrough Player : Anichebe, maybe not the next Rooney, but hopefully not the next Cadamateri
Best Signing: Andy Johnson

Maybe 9th is optimistic, but we came 11th last season without playing well, and the team has improved therefore.....................realistic? pessimistic? I'm too biased to know!

mike65

Lemlin, you're underselling your team. While 5th is proberly the best possible I'd be amazed if they don't finish top 8.

Mike.

growler

Team : Chelsea
Optimistic Position 1st + CL + FA Cup + Shield + Carling Cup
Realistic Position: 1st
Most Important Player: Terry
Breakthrough Player: SWP (more in hope than expectation)
Best Signing: Sheva




Eirebhoy, watched the celts on wednesday night, I think Sno is going to be excellent for the bhoys, he was MOTM imo.

PHB

Pretty optimistic considering you've only managed a league and league cup double so far

growler

that's why it's called "optimistic"

Third_Echelon

Team: Everton
Optimistic Position: 6th
Realistic Position: top 10
Most Important Player: Arteta
Breakthrough Player: Anichebe (Scoring goals for fun in the reserves last season and scored a cracker on the last day against west brom for the first team. He'll be a good striker to bring on as a sub i think. Has potential to score goals)
Best Signing: Andy Johnson (Good to see Everton spending the money. Johnson can score goals. Its what we needed.)

Lemlin

mike65 wrote:

Lemlin, you're underselling your team. While 5th is proberly the best possible I'd be amazed if they don't finish top 8.

Mike.

I prefer to be pessimistic TBH when it comes to Blackburn. Anything in the top ten and I'll be happy. Bellamy is a big loss and the UEFA Cup will stretch the squad to the max. I think it will affect Rovers' Premiership form but a good run in Europe, for once, would be nice.