The Sunday Times predicts

[Pablo]

Ouch. He was very good for them last season too. It goes from bad to worse for the Bitters.

[RedReet]

Chelsea & Arsenal will not be the force they were recently, we will overtake them.
Spurs...do me a favour...one season wonders with some seriously pissed players!
City...unpredictable!
Utd...have raised the bar again with their signings & will go up another notch if Sniejder signs. We will match them blow by blow but depends on our purple patch is better than theirs!
Us...watch this space as we may surprise a few people!

Really, you think so?

[yamiedo]

I predict

Man Utd
Chelsea
Man City
Liverpool
Arsenal
Tottenham

I think Chelsea will be back to their best soon with the new coach Villas Boas who I think will hit the ground running. Man Utd will be even more threatening this season. Man City...meh they may have great players but just don't think they have the best mentality and too many egos to mount a real challenge.

[truefan999]

Man Ure
Chelsea
Man City
Arsenal
Spurs
Us
Bolton
Everton

[Muddled]

It's ok, Iain Dowie thinks we are after - and need - a keeper.

And Suarez cost £26m.

:weird:

[Muddled]

I hear they want a full-back and a keeper and if they got them two then that puts them in the shake-up. They really do need a centre-half and a full-back because that changes the way they play. I like what they've signed: Stewart Downing's a good player; Charlie Adam will be a really important creative influence; Steven Gerrard is coming back; Andy Carroll is still to hit form and Luis Suarez was a snip at £26million. He can score goals from anywhere.

Kenny Dalglish going there gives the whole place a lift; it's like a six-point start and if they do sign a centre-half they are massively in the shake-up.

Full article here: Iain Dowie's Pearls of Wisdom

[Lee]

It's ok, Iain Dowie thinks we are after - and need - a keeper.

:weird:

What the ****?! No wonder he's carved out such a successful career in management.

[Rix007]

I say fcuk what the Times think and any other pundit/so-called-football experts... We all seem to have already given up on the title before the season even begins. Why the defeatist attitude ??
I predict the following
1 - Liverpool
2 - Man Utd
3 - Chelsea
4 - City
5- Arsenal

We seem to have forgotten that last year with a team that was written off by most fans, the football experts, the newspapers, ex-players and certain managers that we actually did very well. We trashed the Scum and City :-). We played some beautiful football with players that was supposedly not good enough.
We have strengthened the squad maybe not with the players we were hoping and expecting but we certainly sent out a statement of intent. Dalglish proved last year that with a good manager anything is possible and if we didn't lose at West Ham and West Brom we WOULD have been in the CL. Unfortunately the squad was thin and injuries took its toll.
I believe LIVERPOOL FC is back and whilst CL place is the priority for this season, I believe we will win the Title.

YNWA...

[dww]

Full article here: Iain Dowie's Pearls of Wisdom

I'll put money on him having said 'stopper' and it being mis-transcribed. I really dislike the term stopper as it is so easily misconstrued but reading the rest of his comments he clearly means a CB.

[Muddled]

I'll put money on him having said 'stopper' and it being mis-transcribed. I really dislike the term stopper as it is so easily misconstrued but reading the rest of his comments he clearly means a CB.

Yeah, but that wouldn't have suited the agenda of my post.

[Rix007]

Bill Shankly on the "This is Anfield" plaque:

"It's there to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against."

[Muddled]

I say fcuk what the Times think and any other pundit/so-called-football experts... We all seem to have already given up on the title before the season even begins. Why the defeatist attitude ??
I predict the following
1 - Liverpool
2 - Man Utd
3 - Chelsea
4 - City
5- Arsenal

We seem to have forgotten that last year with a team that was written off by most fans, the football experts, the newspapers, ex-players and certain managers that we actually did very well. We trashed the Scum and City :-). We played some beautiful football with players that was supposedly not good enough.
We have strengthened the squad maybe not with the players we were hoping and expecting but we certainly sent out a statement of intent. Dalglish proved last year that with a good manager anything is possible and if we didn't lose at West Ham and West Brom we WOULD have been in the CL. Unfortunately the squad was thin and injuries took its toll.
I believe LIVERPOOL FC is back and whilst CL place is the priority for this season, I believe we will win the Title.

YNWA...

I'm loving your optimisim.

I'm taking the low-expectations-reverse-psychology angle.

[Rix007]

I'm loving your optimisim.

I'm taking the low-expectations-reverse-psychology angle.

[Rix007]

Come on guys, a few more days to go - Lets be excited about this season

Another quote from the great man himself:

"A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are. In my time at Liverpool we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside, Liverpool and Liverpool Reserves."

[PTP]

I'm ****ing well excited - just hope all these ****ing knobheads rioting don't affect the football - Not just our game (which i am going to, and if it is called.....I will riot in protest! ) but i want a full set off fixtures......I've been planning this saturday for months get over early, have few pints and catch up with the lads i go the game with, liverpool game, and they back the pub and go out on the ale, get in pissed at 1am....drunkenly watch match of the day as i sky plussed....wake up ssunday and watch match of the day again because i can't remember it