I agree whoever finishes above Chelsea will win the league. BUT
Chelsea may be the least weakened but they have an ageing squad, a lot are almost 30 or 30+. Essien will be their most important player this season and my feeling is they'll suffer if they are still involved in all competitions towards the end of the season (i.e. like what happened to Leverkusen). Plus imo Arsenal, Utd and Pool are all well capable of beating them.
Arsenal are the ones to watch, 2 years ago they were leading from the beginning until it all went horribly wrong at Birmingham. Last year they started poorly, this year they've started with a bang. They are better without Adebayor and Toure who were both negative influences in the dressing rooms, Bendter and Vermaelen imo are more the adequate replacements. Plus this year expect to see more of Vela, Ramsey, Wilshere, Traore etc. Like Chelsea, everyone is a year older but Arsenal are likely to be better players and better team then last year.
How can Liverpool without their best player of last season (imo) improve on last years points total? Aquilani isnt a direct replacement, more of a Lampard type player...Plus, if Torres gets injured, 30% of their goals are gone, as they have no-one anywhere near his ability to replace him. I think Pool have a battle on their hands this season for top 4.
United have lost two big players, altho Tevez as much as he ran, produced very little. The team centred around Ronaldo, Rooney used to shift left, Berba never got involved, Tevez ran round like headless chicken. Every opposition knew exactly what Utd would try to do, Utd's game became predictable, plus Ronaldo was ever increasingly used as a striker, which was to Utd's disadvantage as he cannot link play, he isn't the most intelligent of footballers. Anyway, he will be missed and cannot be replaced, but Utd will play differently, more of a team...the motivation will be there too...the world thinks CR7 won them the titles, they have to prove it wasnt him but them.
Anyway, very difficult to predict how the top 4 will look..I think it will be close between all 4 and Citeh could even show up. Citeh wil have problems tho, 4 international class strikers, no european football, whose gna throw their toys outta their pram first
Tevez leaves Utd cos he's sub to go to Citeh where he's sub lol
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Oddly we were the highest scorers in the league despite the best duo in the business only appearing together in 14 of 38 games, we'll be devastating if they play 28 or more games together.
In fact we've only finished below Arsenal once in the last 4 seasons, yet Arsenal seem to be under the illusion they've done much better. We also finished behind them in 2005 when we finished 5th, but then we did with the European cup that year so I can live with that.
