Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024

[tusandii]

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It will indeed be a pretty good match where matches like this are definitely awaited especially Barcelona and Mancehster City are 2 big clubs. It's just that for betting in a friendly match I'm still not so sure this will be profitable.

We know that in the end friendly matches are sometimes only used as an option to test players and formations which sometimes in this case victory is not something that really has to be obtained because the goal is not victory.
But even if that's the case there are some possibilities for big club matches such as victory will also be sought despite friendly matches because after all sometimes when big matches like this there is a situation where the club wants to show the best so that victory can be sought. But I personally prefer to watch rather than bet on matches like this.

Maybe a small number of bettors are not sure to bet on friendly matches but for me friendly matches usually all clubs score big or maybe without scoring.
So to predict the Manchester City vs Barcelona match, I will not be confused because both clubs will definitely score even bigger.
There is no guarantee but at least we can see the formation of both clubs whether both clubs will use main players or only use reserve players.
If using reserve players it would be better to choose under 4.5

[Marvell1]

Maybe Chelsea don’t really know what their problem is, because I am just kind of surprised that adding a goalkeeper is the only thing they could even think about. Goalkeeper isn’t even part of the problem Chelsea is having currently. I don’t know what Chelsea will be doing with so many goalkeepers that they are having, their defense is just kind of poor in all their pre season matches, they are not talking about how they will improve their defense or other positions. I am not just impressed with Chelsea's performance in all the pre season matches, and I have the feeling that their performance won't change even when the season starts.

After all, Kepa Arrizabalaga has also returned from loan and thus, the Chelsea defense or goalkeeper next season should be fine. But indeed,about the transfers made by Chelsea at least there is still no guarantee that it will be able to provide good results for Chelsea next season. But maybe,  because Chelsea has a wealthy owner and makes Chelsea's finances also remain good despite buying players, thus they are likely to continue to make player transactions.

But with this, then of course Chelsea fans also really expect good results for Chelsea next season. But, because Chelsea had poor results in these pre-season matches, it is likely that Chelsea fans will also doubt Enzo Maresca.  Although indeed, pre-season matches do not guarantee the same results for next season later, but at least Enzo Maresca is able to make Chelsea get good  results at this moment, at least to look good and promising before entering the new season.

Enzo Maresca says his players were "confusing things" on and off the ball; issues away from play around Enzo Fernandez, Trevoh Chalobah and the academy have also made headlines during summer of change

Source: Skysports

Enzo Maresca is obviously not going to try to find success with the squad that another coach made. He is obviously going to try to find success with his own squad that he is going to make. I really hope that Chelsea does not have any problems with the finances. Because otherwise these transfers are going to look really dumb for Chelsea.

I also want that this time, even if the Chelsea squad is unable to perform really well, the alternative is going to give time to the new manager. I was actually a little surprised and disappointed when I saw that they are changing the coach after Chelsea had very good performance towards the end of the last season. Maybe now the Chelsea authority will be a little patient.

[Justbillywitt]

It's ridiculous to keep adding 1 more goalkeeper, why have more than 2? I am surprised by Chelsea transfer pursuit which can be said to be a waste of time and money.

Maybe Chelsea don’t really know what their problem is, because I am just kind of surprised that adding a goalkeeper is the only thing they could even think about. Goalkeeper isn’t even part of the problem Chelsea is having currently. I don’t know what Chelsea will be doing with so many goalkeepers that they are having, their defense is just kind of poor in all their pre season matches, they are not talking about how they will improve their defense or other positions. I am not just impressed with Chelsea's performance in all the pre season matches, and I have the feeling that their performance won't change even when the season starts.

It's really frustrating see one's favorite club doing things in a manner we don't expect them to do things, but they know more than we do and they are the primary beneficiaries. As fans we don't really have the power to dictate for the management. But honestly speaking Chelsea don't need a new goal keeper, but who knows what the plan is, it could be that they are going to let some goal keepers leave before the transfer window shut down, because there is no way they are going to keep all of them and keep paying them even though many of them won't be playing. It could also be that they are doing an investment for the future, after signing players they will decide to send them out on loans so they will have more game time outside Stanford bridge.

Although looking at Chelsea recruitment strategy one will wonder exactly what they are doing. Maybe Chelsea has plans of turning into feeders club where they will buy immature players and train them when they develop into experienced players in the future they will sell them. I'm saying this because I don't really understand what Chelsea are doing with their recruitment policy since the new owners came in.

[entertheabyss]

It's ridiculous to keep adding 1 more goalkeeper, why have more than 2? I am surprised by Chelsea transfer pursuit which can be said to be a waste of time and money.

Goalkeepers are young, the ones signed by the Blues. They're loaned out for experience and improvement of their abilities. Chelsea is one of the best club in the EPL and doesn't seem good to watch them not hooked up with the big standards.

Chelsea wasting money you say? Chelsea have players that are young, remember the poor form of Chelsea is temporary and there's nothing to worry about because room for improvement will be triggered. Todd Boehly doing his best to make solid plans for the future of the team, that's basically the reason he's going all in for the young players. These tender players will grow to become valuable and important for the club in the promising future.

[mammusu]

It's ridiculous to keep adding 1 more goalkeeper, why have more than 2? I am surprised by Chelsea transfer pursuit which can be said to be a waste of time and money.

Goalkeepers are young, the ones signed by the Blues. They're loaned out for experience and improvement of their abilities. Chelsea is one of the best club in the EPL and doesn't seem good to watch them not hooked up with the big standards.

Chelsea wasting money you say? Chelsea have players that are young, remember the poor form of Chelsea is temporary and there's nothing to worry about because room for improvement will be triggered. Todd Boehly doing his best to make solid plans for the future of the team, that's basically the reason he's going all in for the young players. These tender players will grow to become valuable and important for the club in the promising future.

Chelsea is currently the most active team recruiting players in the summer transfer market, they have brought in almost 8 players in different positions to strengthen their squad next season and the majority of those recruited are young players, what Chelsea is doing certainly confuses some people because they continue to add goalkeepers while they already have 7 goalkeepers including those who have returned from their current loan period, but in my opinion what Chelsea is doing is very right at the moment by recruiting young goalkeepers who might be valuable assets in the future, apart from that, main their goalkeeper  last season also performed quite poorly so with the arrival of a new goalkeeper then it will likely provide tough competition for Kepa to become Chelsea main goalkeeper.

We cannot keep football away from business and investment, so the presence of this young goalkeeper will certainly be a good asset for Chelsea in the future, each squad will only carry 2 or 3 goalkeepers for the main skuad in match and the rest of that the goalkeepers they have of course will be loaned out to other teams for improve the performance and also the price of the goalkeeper in the future, so it would be wrong if we said that Chelsea is just wasting money and time now, because after all what Chelsea doing is a investment in the future which will be very profitable for them.

[Mr.right85]

Last season too we saw many players in Manchester United's squad facing injuries. And this was one of the reasons for Manchester United's erratic performance. And even before the start of this season we heard several injuries. If these injuries are serious then I don't expect anything better from Manchester United next season.

Ten Hag put Hojlund at the center of their attack. Hojlund is now a very important player for the United squad. Manchester United cannot find a suitable replacement for Hojlund at the moment. But maybe if Antony's performance improves. But Antony's performance is very erratic. So I'm mentally prepared to see the erratic performance of Manchester United's forward players next season as well.

Exactly you are right dear about Manchester United injury problems. They had a lot of injuries last season and it effected a lot on their performance. Now it is happening again before new season starts. Hojlund is important player and if he gets hurt it will be hard to replace him. Antony might not be able to fill gap because he does not play well all time. If Manchester United can not fix their injury problems and find good backup players I think they will have more ups and downs in their performance next season.

Injuries will create a big problem for Ten Hag this season if he doesn’t manage it. I don’t know if Ten Hag's training methods are the causes of these consistent injuries, maybe they’re too arduous and damaging to the player. We saw how bad they were last season when most of their first team players got injured. I hope they’re preparing to deal with all of this to avoid a repeat of last season.

Hojlund came off against Arsenal in the preseason. I’m guessing it’s a hamstring injury. If he doesn’t recover before the first game of the season, the new striker they brought in, Zirzkee can play till he returns to fitness.
 They need to reinforce the squad entirely, so that an injury to one of the players doesn’t affect their performance. That’s why I want them to finalize De ligt deal and also bring in another defender if Maguire or Lindelof is leaving.