Upcoming Premiership Season Predictions for your club

evilhomer

Team : Newcastle United
Optimistic position : 4th
Realistic: 6th
Most Important Player: What ever striker we sign to replace Shearer
Best signing: Duff (not much choice yet, but what a bargin!)
Breakthrough Player: O'Brien? (I would say Taylor, Ramage or N'Zogbia, but they have being playing all the time)
Player I would like to see signed : Martins or Yakubu

evad_lhorg

growler wrote:

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.

well there goes 1 already:D

eirebhoy

growler wrote:

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

Yeah, he certainly has the potential to be top class considering he's only 19. I thought he was a centre half when he first signed but it seems his best position is centre mid and he has done well so far. I don't trust him in the holding role just yet but as the supporting midfielder he was the best player on the park against Chelsea. Hopefully it'll be another bargain buy from Feyenoord after Larsson.

kensutz

Team : Norwich
Optimistic Position 1st
Realistic Position 1st
Most Important Player : Huckerby & Croft
Breakthrough Player : Michael Spillane - up and coming Irish youngster, really good.
Best Signing : Lee Croft - our only signing but you can include Martin Hunter the coach who's tactics are paying off.

Juan Pablo

Team : Man City
Optimistic Position: 1st
Realistic Position: 10th
Most Important Player : Joey Barton
Breakthrough Player : Danny Sturridge
Best Signing: Andreas Isaksson
Player I would Like to see Signed: Any decent left sided midfielder!

growler

evad_lhorg wrote:

well there goes 1 already:D

doh

well it is the least important one.

Johnny_the_fox

Team : Liverpool
Optimistic Position 2nd
Realistic Position: 2nd
Most Important Player : Fowler
Breakthrough Player : Agger
Best Signing: Bellamy

jank

Team : Arsenal
Optimistic Position 1st
Realistic Position: 3rd liverpool 2nd
Most Important Player : Henry
Breakthrough Player : Van the man
Best Signing: Eh... well the beast if he comes..

Dont be at yourself

Bump!

Makes for interesting reading, and shows up how much we all know about football!

Rossi for breakthrough player? Baptsta for best signing? Chelsea for the quadruple? Liverpool for the league? How different the world was back then!

Royale with Cheese

Royale with Cheese wrote:

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

I got most of it right. I didn't put down Baptista as best signing anyway!

yom 1

When I saw this thread I thought for fcuk sake this season isnt even over yet:D

theCzar

theCzar wrote:

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!

I did pretty well.

I was a bit pessimistic with "9th" as it turned out, but I didn't think we would be 5th on the last week of the season. Blues back in Europe where we belong.

Anichebe has had a good season, and between him and Vaughan, things are good in the striker department.

Arteta was player of the season, so I was on the money there.

Best signing though, I;m not sure. Its a close call between Lescott and AJ. Lescott was perhaps more consistent through out the season, but Johnson got some very important goals.

bucks73

yom 1 wrote:

When I saw this thread I thought for fcuk sake this season isnt even over yet:D

When I saw the first few posts I was baffled as to how the United fans could be predicting second for next season having just won.

Pepe LeFrits

Royale with Cheese wrote:

Royale with Cheese wrote:

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

I got most of it right. I didn't put down Baptista as best signing anyway!

Me too! Johan Djourou has indeed broken through as I predicted, not that I want to blow my own trumpet or anything!

Pepe LeFrits wrote:

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.

eirebhoy

eirebhoy wrote:

Team: Celtic
Optimistic Position: 1st
Realistic Position: 1st
Most Important Player: Nakamura

I'll leave it at that.

Villain

irish1 wrote:

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

Well if we win Sunday and Blackburn lose I could be right as we are currently 11th and while I got our most important player wrong I certainly got the Breakthrough correct, Gabby has been great.

wba88

Hopefully i can do this next season!

mike65

mike65 wrote:

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

Mike.

What the fupp was I thinking?

Mike.

evilhomer

evilhomer wrote:

Team : Newcastle United
Optimistic position : 4th
Realistic: 6th
Most Important Player: What ever striker we sign to replace Shearer
Best signing: Duff (not much choice yet, but what a bargin!)
Breakthrough Player: O'Brien? (I would say Taylor, Ramage or N'Zogbia, but they have being playing all the time)
Player I would like to see signed : Martins or Yakubu

This just typifies the Newcastle fans point of view on our league standing.

Very disappointing season. but on the bright side, Martins was our best player, Taylor has really gotten better.

But shocking finish to the season, no European football. Not even top half of the table!!

Whoever takes over better be bloody good!!

mike65

Ged will sort you out.

Mike.

Vokes

Cool, flashback thread

SofaKing wrote:

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

Oh deary me!

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)

Ah poor Jones, what happened there Alas, he's doing well with Derby and could be coming up to the premiership.
Otherwise, I'm happy

The Rooster

The Rooster wrote:

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

Well I got the last one right. The one where I hoped I'd be wrong!

Rikand

Rickylovesuall wrote:

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

wow, did i get anything right ?


Well Benni probably was our best signing

Lets hope for a top 10 again this season!

Peter Collins

Tottenham

Optimistic position: 4th
Realistic: 4th
Most important player: Berbatov
Breakthrough player: Huddlestone
Best signing: Defoe, somewhere else

smuckers

Team : Chelsea
Optimistic Position : 1st
Realistic Position : 1st
Most Important Player : Drogba/Essien
Breakthrough Player : Sidwell (I think he may suprise a few)
Best Signing : Last summer Mikel, this summer I think at the mo Sidwell.

P_1

Team : Tottenhan
Optimistic Position : 3rd
Realistic Position : 4th
Most Important Player : Berbatov/Keane
Breakthrough Player : Dawson
Best Signing : Bent

gosplan

Team : Ireland
Op position : 2nd(in qualifying group) pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease
Realistic: Anywhere between 3rd and 5th
Most Important Player: Doyle/Keane
Best signing: Er.. Bobby Robson(post illness)
Breakthrough: McShane/Doyle/Hunt

astrofool

I think people are misreading the thread title and date of this thread, might be best to lock and start a new one Only reason to keep it open is to discuss who got it right/wrong.

gosplan

evad_lhorg wrote:

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

Yeah they all seem to understand football, i.e. are the only ones constantly writing.....

optimistic position: first
realistic position: first

I think what this means is: "if Chelsea don't finish first, then I'll be supporting someone else"

mike65

Is this a contiuing thread? I'm not making any.

Mike.

Pepe LeFrits

haha, making predictions in July

Drag00n79

It's too early for this. I think, whoever dug it up should have waited til the week prior to the first matches.

Peyton Manning

Team : Man Utd
Optimistic Position : 1st
Realistic Position : 1st
Most Important Player : Cristiano Ronaldo
Breakthrough Player : Anderson (Pique too, if he stays and gets regular football)
Best Signing : Owen Hargreaves

Formation I would like to see:

..............Van Der Sar..................
................................................
Neville.....Ferdinand.....Vidic......Evra
.................................................
........Carrick.......Hargreaves.........
.................................................
.................Scholes......................
Ronaldo.............................Rooney
..................Tevez......................

Yes, Im assuming Tevez will join. I expect he, Rooney and Ronaldo will swap positions a lot, only without Ronaldo going up front. I can also see Scholes being used sparingly, with Anderson stepping in for smaller games against the likes of Sunderland, Birmingham, Wigan etc.

I think Ronaldo will be our most important player simply because Scholes will not play as often, and like it or not, when Ronaldo plays well, United play well. The same can be said for Rooney. We have some very impressive backup too, with Nani, Anderson, Giggs, Saha, Fletcher, Pique, Evans, Heinze etc. but one or more of them might leave (obviously not the 2 new boys).

I expect Hargreaves have a huge impact at United, but one that might not stand out too much. He and Carrick would compliment each other immensely. We were found wanting for a gritty, in your face type player in the two Milan matches - I think Hargreaves could solve this.

My 2 cents.

jackdaw

Team : Chelsea
Optimistic Position: 1st
Realistic Position: 2nd (MUFC champions)
Most Important Player : Terry
Breakthrough Player : Malouda!
Best Signing : Malouda

PHB

It's silly to dicuss until the major transfers are done.

Im not putting a jinx on my team!! Plus theres a helluva lot of silly season still to go before this should be talked about.


If anything this thread should be for the weekend before the season kicks off.

Fratton Fred

PHB wrote:

It's silly to dicuss until the major transfers are done.

Looks like ours are done!! Pompey are having a press conference today and it is expected they will announce John Utaka and David Nugent.

With those two in place,

Team: Portsmouth
optimistic prediction 5th,
realistic Prediction 8th.
Most important player: Benjani
Breakthrough Player: David Nugent
Best Signing: Sully Muntari