Prediction League What's the general consensus on the final PL Standings

I saw this from Collymore - http://www.themag.co.uk/2015/08/laughable-premier-league-predictions-from-stan-collymore/ And thought id get everyone's general opinion on how the league will end up? I've done one, but its nowhere near a pretictable as Collymore's!

1) Manchester City
2) Arsenal
3) Chelsea
4) Manchester United
5) Liverpool
6) Southampton
7) Tottenham
8) Swansea
9) Newcastle (hopefully)
10) West Ham
11) Stoke
12) Everton
13) West Brom
14) Leicester
15) C. Palace
16) Aston Villa
17) Watford
18) Sunderland
19) Norwich
20) Bournemouth

I dont think Chelsea are going to storm it and I reckon Man City have another big Signing in them before the window closes. Arsenal look good and I hope they have a good season, there probably the team I least hate out of the top 7. Liverpool have done some good business, but I cant see them getting in the top four.

I think Martinez will struggle to keep his job this year. Everton really seem to have taken steps back since he took charge and I really dont rate him like everyone else seems to.

Hopefully we dont lose a derby and that will be enough to send Sunderland Packing. I think Troy Deeney will do well and do enough to keep Watford up.

I would love to see Palace relegated, but they have a decent couple of players, i can just see there being some rows in the dressing room with Pardew's big fat ego!

 

I think Arsenal will win the title. Cech is one of the signings of the summer and will stop them conceding goals. I think we'll finish 9th/ 10th if we stay relatively injury free. Sunderland? I can see them finishing 15/16th.

My bottom three - Norwich, Watford and Crystal Palace. I think Bournemouth are going to surprise people. I think they'll just stay up and finish 17th.

 

Why are West Brom so high? And for the money you have spent, you ought to finish top 10.

 

1) Chelsea
2) Arsenal
3) City
4) Manchester United
5) Liverpool
6) Southampton
7) Tottenham
8) Swansea
9) West Ham
10) Stoke
11) Newcastle
12) Palace
13) Everton
14) WBA
15) Sunderland
16) Aston Villa
17) Watford
18) Leicester
19) Norwich
20) Bournemouth

 

I dont like Tony Pullis, but he i respect what he does and he will make WBA hard to beat, defensively organised, I see Berahino staying and Lambert being a good partner for him. I do hope that James McClean gets his let broken first game tho!

 

1) Arsenal
2) Chelsea
3) Man Utd
4) Man City
5) Liverpool
6) Southampton
7) Spurs
8) Stoke
9) Newcastle
10) Everton
11) Swansea
12) West Ham
13) Aston Villa
14) West Brom
15) Sunderland
16) Leicester
17) Bournemouth
18) Crystal Palace
19) Watford
20) Norwich

 

Id quite like to see a few teams implode!
Tottenham - Id love it if Potch got the sack in November or somthing, they seriously need to invest in a few areas, but defenisively look pretty good
Palace - Nothing would please me more than to see them go down - Pardew second season syndrome
Sunderland - having a manager whose only going to leave at the end of the season is dangerous
Stoke - Signing all these barca/madrid players! It remains to be seen whether they can do it on a wet wednesday night in stoke!
Liverpool - They just spend so much money for a team so unsucessful, I would like to see rodgers get the boot asap
Swansea - Gary Monk - Second season syndrome - also serve them right for abusing our scouting system!
West Ham - from the look of the europa league performences they could really struggle, especially with injuries.
Villa - Smug Tim and their stupid fans!

Can we not make the relegation zone 8 places just for these teams!

 

Palace will implode this season with Herr Pardew's clueless pre-season preparation and incompetent tactics. Palace will soon be playing Zaha at left back and pumping it long towards lone man Wickham up front.

 

One of my pals (Tottenham Fan) thinks they will get europa league easily this season, Also said he will pay a front five like this

Bolasie Cabaye Zaha
Wickham Bamford

I creased when I saw this and said thats more attacking than anything he did at newcastle, his reply was "well Nufc never really had the players did they"!!!!!

 

Palace on paper have a good side. A side capable of pushing top 10. Their major weakness is their manager. He prefers workhorses ahead of genuine quality. I will be very surprised if he plays those 5 for a lengthy period of time even if fully fit.

 

I still think Chelsea will be the team to beat this year, though Man United have bought well and I think Sterling will do well for Man City. I think Arsenal will start well and fade away again, but I think the gap to the top four will be even wider this year.

Stoke is a big unknown, but they have bought well and could be the surprise team this year. I expect West Ham to really struggle with the Europa League and I think this could finally be the year that Villa drop.

1 Chelsea
2 Man United
3 Man City
4 Arsenal
5 Liverpool
6 Stoke City
7 Tottenham
8 Southampton
9 Newcastle United
10 Everton
11 Crystal Palace
12 Swansea
13 Sunderland
14 West Brom
15 Bournemouth
16 West Ham
17 Leicester City
18 Aston Villa
19 Norwich
20 Watford

 

Am liking the position most of you have us in - expected you'd all relegate us!! Only the OP thus far

 

I think you've made some decent signings and should be hard to beat - as you were last year for a lot of games to be fair. My one concern from your point of view is the opposite of ours. Whereas our defence is the concern I think you need to bring in a goal scorer. As long as you can find goals though you should be alright.

 

Can;t argue with a word! Defoe is a goalscorer - we simply need to make sure we're putting the ball in the right place for him which happened hardly ever last season! He only scores one per season from outside the box

 

Well let's hope he gets that out of his system in August this year

 

1 Man United
2 Chelsea
3 Arsenal
4 Man City
5 Liverpool
6.Tottenham
7. Southampton
8. Newcastle
9. Stoke
10. Everton
11 Crystal Palace
12 Sunderland
13 Swansea
14 West Ham
15 West Brom
16 Bournemouth
17 Leicester City
18 Aston Villa
19 Norwich
20 Watford
Still a long time to go in transfer window yet and can see Utd making a couple of big signings. Arsenal are still too fragile at back to win league. City have a jaded feel about them this year. An 8th for us based on hope that we will still sign two new defenders. Think there are 5 at the bottom who may get cut adrift by Christmas.

 

1 Arsenal
2 Chelsea
3 Man City
4 Man Utd
5 Liverpool
6.Tottenham
7. Everton
8. Southampton
9. Newcastle
10. Stoke
11 Crystal Palace
12 Swansea
13 West Ham
14 Sunderland
15 West Brom
16 Bournemouth
17 Aston Villa
18 Watford
19 Leicester City
20 Norwich

Gone for a punt on Arsenal. Have looked the real deal in pre-season and Cech being in goal is a massive improvement on Szczesny.

Think Liverpool & Spurs will be further behind and I'm not convinced Southampton will be as good this year. Not sure why I think that though...

To be honest I think anyone in 7th - 12th here could be switched around 13th - 15th mix about and the bottom 5 will fight for relegation.

I may be being a bit optimistic about our chances looking at our current defensive options.

 

1) Chelsea
2) Arsenal
3) City
4) Manchester United
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5) Liverpool
6) Spurs
7) Southampton
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8) Swansea
9) Everton
10) Stoke
11) Newcastle
12) Palace
13) West Brom
14) West Ham
15) Sunderland
16) Aston Villa
17) Bournemouth
18) Leicester
19) Norwich
20) Watford

 

I think Arsenal might be starting to piece it together. They could do with a CB for sure. They always seem to end up a bit stretched there for too long periods of the season. Could be a big year for them tho.

Chelsea just seem a bit flat from the vibes I have been getting.

Man U are a bit unknown this year i think. But made some good signings on the face of it.

City - Again I think they need at least a CB of quality.

Bournemouth I think will do a Blackpool. Surprise loads of teams get points in the bag then struggle 2nd half...difference is they have Eddie Howe. They will hang on. Just.

Us...I think 11th - 13th sounds about right. The mix of quality in our squad is very odd. Total transition situation. Got to keep our best players fit.

 

1) Chelsea
2) Man United
3) Arsenal
4) Manchester City
5) Liverpool
6) Spurs
7) Stoke
8) Crystal Palace
9) Swansea
10) West Ham
11) Everton
12) Southampton
13) West Brom
14) Norwich
15) Newcastle
16) Aston Villa
17) Sunderland
18) Watford
19) Leicester
20) Bournemouth