Less Than 4 Weeks Away Till The Premiership Starts

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Oh what joy, saturday afternoons won't feel like a sunday, and then theres match of the day.

I'm a liverpool fan and am so looking forward to see if torres and vorrenin start scoring the goals we need. Last season and the season before we had such a bad start which blew our chances.

This season, i'm confident. Top 2 for the reds.

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE

 

[toppman]

that voronin scored 2 in a friendly against werder bremen i believe last night.

i support leeds so from my un-bias opinion i cant see anything outside top 2.

prem is as follows;

1 - man united
2 - liverpool
3 - arsenal (unsure but if they sign palacio 3rd should be right)
4 - chelsea
5 - spurs
anything lower than 5 is anyones, probably newcastle or villa

 

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Our main problem the past 2 seasons has been scoring goals, so if raffer the gaffa (usually a genius) has done his homework with these 2 (vorrinin & torres) then were in with a shout, our midfield and defense is always sound.

So Come on the Reds

 

[toppman]

lol ur quietly confident then
i dont think ur gona be scoring as many goals as people think for the the 1st season, i would say torres deffinately needs a season 2 get into the english game, i dont know about voronin never seen him before

 

[shibby]

newcastle - 6th


bigsam will pull out the stops and sort out our defense and perhaps a chance of ashley wanting some galaticos wahay!

 

[Arfie]

As impressed as I am with the new signings, I am cautious, I was optomistic after last seasons signings too

I agree, Torres is unlikely to be challenging Drogba for the golden boot, if he manages 12-15 league goals he'll have done well. It took Drogba a year or 2 to realy settle in and start scoring, same with Henry, Ronaldo etc then there is all the pressure associated with being the club record transfer.

Voronin might well be the surprise of our season, a free transfer that nobody has heard of, but having seen last nights match, he looks pretty good. Nobody is expecting anything of him being an unknown freebie, so there is less pressure on him.

Babel is another one like Torres, will need a season or so to really get to grips over here, there are likely to be a few flashes of brilliance, but no consistancy.

I may have to eat my words, because Benayoun was looking pretty damn good yesterday too

I think it will be:

Man Utd - Were good last year and have strengthened the squad
Chelsea - Poor last year, but reverting back to wingers and have a stronger squad
Liverpool - much better squad and with better finishers could push higher, but not likely.
Spurs - were good last year and have bought some good players
Arsenal - Henry is a massive loss and will need to rebuild, but could easily finish higher due to no real expectations or pressure.

No idea after 5th though.

I do think it will be a lot tighter at the top though, I don't expect there will be more then 20 points between the top 5.

SO cue a season with Spurs winning by 30 clear points, Man U, Liverpool and Chelsea fighting to get into the Uefa cup places, Arsenal and Villa in the other champs league spots etc

Arfie

 

[toppman]

i think man u will walk away with the league this year by about 15 points, just my little league prediction.
any1 have any predictions 4 league 1 this season?

 

[ian01]

I am hoping for Chelsea to win the premiership this year but i dont think they will, I think liverpool will win. The team to watch out for will be Newcastle.

 

[toppman]

newcastle? thats a strange prediction but i suppose now they have the manager they could acheive more, although owens injured again and will probably keep getting injured until he decides 2 retire.

 

[shibby]

newcastel are just jinxed, owens not out for long but now we have barton injured too, time to move ground/ location i recon
injury permiting newcastle being the big club were mena be should be top 6. come on deco n raul sign for us

 

[toppman]

lol raul and deco! thats a long shot but then nothing suprises me with newcastle after they made that ronaldinho enquiry.

 

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I think tottenham may also be up there, won't finish above us (liverpool) though. Theres been some big soending by smaller clubs, West Ham for one.

Will be interesting to see what happens. Also, would like reading to do well, i like steve coppell and also i lived there years ago.

 

[Arfie]

I think liverpool will win.

I support them and even I don't think they'll do it this year, but I'll be happy to be proved wrong

I can't make my mind up about Spurs and Arsenal

Spurs have bought some decent players and even Moaning Maureenho thinks they will do well , but as the man himself said, they have more England players than any other team and we all know how well the England team play together

Arsenal have no real pressure on them now, they were Henry's team and were never anywhere near as good without him and now he's gone for good nobody thinks they will do owt, but that could work in their favour. Kind of like when Shrek left Neverton, everyone expected them to get relegated, but the other players pulled together and improved and they did quite well (for a small team )

I still think the top 3 will be the same positions as last season and if it is, I just hope it's MUCH closer oh and the european cup back to it's rightful home

Arfie

 

[toppman]

i think west ham could be the next leeds if their not careful, they are spending alot of money and hoping for success, if it doesnt come immediately then i can see the debt rising and them falling on their face, i dont want it to happen because its horrible for supporters when their team can even afford players wages, leeds are starting next season without a keeper unless the transfer thing is lifted.

not being sour but the premiership may be the best league in the world but is far less entertaining than the lower english league, championship last season was amazing for tension at either end of the table, whereas the prem is usually chelsea, man u, arsenal, liverpool maybe this season it may be spurs who finish in the top 4! wont that be exciting and the relegation is usually 2 of the newly promoted teams and a team that seems to avoid relegation luckily for a few seasons.

im looking forward to an interesting season in league 1 next year and hope leeds can win the league but they havnt bought any players so im struggling to see anything other than a hopeful play off place, i think forest will win the league easily.

 

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If the game against portsmouth was anything to go by yeserday, were gonna have the same problems as last year. lets hope no though.