2018/2019 Season Predictions, Musings & Expectations

[Buzzo]

Top 6:
Liverpool
Man City
Spurs
Man Utd
Arsenal
Chelsea

Liverpool finish: 1st
Teams Relegated: Cardiff, Wolves & Newcastle

Top Scorer: Salah
Best Buy (Subject To Change Before Window Closing): Keita
Biggest flop (Subject To Change Before Window Closing): whoever Everton’s main signing is.
FA Cup: Man City
League Cup: Liverpool
Champions League: Liverpool
Europa League: Dortmund
First Manager To Be Sacked: Mourinho (walks by November)

[kubrickscube]

Just as long as no one uses the phrase “final piece of the jigsaw”

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Just as long as no one uses the phrase “final piece of the jigsaw”

Christian Ziege
Paul Ince

[Buzzo]

Christian Ziege
Paul Ince

Harry Kewell.

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Harry Kewell.

Champions League Winner Harry Kewell

[Irishnev]

****ing hell Nev... You must be really psyched about our League Cup run this year, with Karius getting his redemption and a load of games?

If you can’t let the handbrake off on a pre season prediction thread with nothing at stake, then there’s no helping you.

Ha ha - it’s the hope that kills you Buzzo. If we came second, 1/4 final champions league + the league cup it’s a season of progress for me

[Shaggy]

Realistically I think we'll come 2nd - we finished 25 points behind City (!) and is it really possible to overturn that in one go? They won't get 100 points again but still. If we sustain a challenge til near the end and finish pretty close to them, then that's fine by me.

I do think we can more or less match them player for player now, but the big worry is the lack of quality cover for Firmino and a possible lack of guile in CM still, with us not having brought in a creative 10.

[Buzzo]

Realistically I think we'll come 2nd - we finished 25 points behind City (!) and is it really possible to overturn that in one go? They won't get 100 points again but still. If we sustain a challenge til near the end and finish pretty close to them, then that's fine by me.

I do think we can more or less match them player for player now, but the big worry is the lack of quality cover for Firmino and a possible lack of guile in CM still, with us not having brought in a creative 10.

The thing is, if we are in the run in and in contention, then whats to stop us?

City will definitely not have a season like last, and we fixed a lot of issues as we went last year (left back, CB) so should be stronger from the off with a full pre season with VVD, Robbo and TAA as a first choice defence where as last year we went in with what, Mignolet, no real RB (Clyne injured), Lovren, Matip and Moreno. A genuine world class keeper, who we need to settle straight away much as Ederson did for City. Salah has got his 'tricky first season' out of the way will be even better .

This is the strongest squad we've ever had arguably.

We do need to get off to a very strong start.

I'm very optimistic.

[Scratch]

Top 6

1. Man City
2. Man Utd
3. Liverpool
4. Spurs
5. Chelsea
6. Arsenal

Liverpool finish: 3rd
Teams Relegated: Cardiff, Everton, Huddersfield

Top Scorer: Salah
Best Buy: Alisson
Biggest flop: Mahrez
FA Cup: Liverpool
League Cup: Manu Utd
Champions League: Barcelonal
Europa League: Man Utd
First Manager To Be Sacked: Silva

[Liverpool]

Realistically I think we'll come 2nd - we finished 25 points behind City (!) and is it really possible to overturn that in one go? They won't get 100 points again but still. If we sustain a challenge til near the end and finish pretty close to them, then that's fine by me.

I do think we can more or less match them player for player now, but the big worry is the lack of quality cover for Firmino and a possible lack of guile in CM still, with us not having brought in a creative 10.

I think we will come second, but there is no 25 points to overturn, both on zero, **** last season, no back to back champions for 10 years

The bad start and the Coutinho **** cost us points, loads of mad draws, tailing off with the CL run. If we had got another 10-12 points last season it wouldn't have been unjust.

Full season with VVD, rejuvenated Lovren, new GK, blossoming FB's Keita and Fabinho. I think a 85-90 point season is easily possible. No proper cover for the front 3 is a joke, completely off a cliff. I cant see them 3 matching their goals from last year, Keita/Shaqiri and maybe Sturridge might weigh in 20 between them though

Will City drop off enough? The rest of the league have stood still, I think we will both steamroll most sides.

[Fosterbloke]

Top 6

1. Liverpool
2. Man City
3. Chelsea
4. United
5. Arsenal
6. Spurs

Liverpool finish: Champions
Teams Relegated: Cardiff, Southampton, Brighton

Top Scorer: Salah

Best Buy: Naby Keita

Biggest flop: Fred

FA Cup: Chelsea

League Cup: Man City

Champions League: Juventus

Europa League: Burnley

First Manager To Be Sacked: Mark Hughes

[RedReet]

Top 6

1. Man City
2. Man Utd
3. Liverpool
4. Spurs
5. Chelsea
6. Arsenal

Liverpool finish: 3rd
Teams Relegated: Cardiff, Everton, Huddersfield

Top Scorer: Salah
Best Buy: Alisson
Biggest flop: Mahrez
FA Cup: Liverpool
League Cup: Manu Utd
Champions League: Barcelonal
Europa League: Man Utd
First Manager To Be Sacked: Silva

Top scorer- Salah
Best Signing- Alisson
Liverpool finish- 3rd

[PTP]

Whilst I am buzzing with our transfers so far and with have without a doubt improved the starting XI I still feel we are one or two short and that the depth of the squad overall is not quite there

For arguments sake...I want to see two good options for each position so based on that

Starting XI

Alisson

Robertson
Vvd
Lovren
Trent

Fabinho
Henderson
Keita

Mane
Firminho
Salah

That is ****ing amazing and like last season, we keep that lot fit for the majority of it and we are going to be challenging

Second XI

Karius

Clyne
Matip
Klavan
Moreno

Milner
Wijnaldum
Lallana

Shaqiri
Ings
Sturridge

This is where I have a couple of concerns

Matip misses to many games, Klavan is ok at best, lallana misses to many games, so does sturridge and Ings or solanke don’t score enough

With Ox out for the season I’d argue we are another AM ie fekir and maybe one more quality cb away from really being there

If Matip an klavan do well and Gomez steps up his game a bit then we might be fine in defence

But I do have a worry about midfiel

With regards to the front three, we really need two out of the below to pull their finger out and give us some reliable options

Sturridge
Ings
Solanke
Markovic
origi

If it was fantasy football/champ manager then I’d sell

Klavan
Grujic
Sturridge
Markovic
Origi

And bring in a new CB, Fekir and find another Shaqiri type signing for the attacking positions


As I say I’m buzzing with what we have dimes so far and can’t wait for the season to start....but one or two more would really be the icing on the xake

[Red_Polo]

I agree. We still need another quality attacking option.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Top scorer- Salah
Best Signing- Alisson
Liverpool finish- 3rd

To be fair to Scratch, we had the top scorer and best signing last season and finished 4th.