Premier League Prediction Thread 2024/2025

[iBaba]

For this coming season, I did not see Manchester United competing with Manchester City. Although Manchester United can make the top four, but the current squad and the coach we have now cannot make us compete favourably with Manchester City.

I like the honesty in your own submission. Whatever will make Manchester United step up to the position of Manchester City in this coming season will take a great grit from the Man U team. Guardiola is still the manager of Manchester City and it doesn't seem like they're willing to perform less than they did were in the last season. Meaning Guardiola will recruit more talented players. Another advantage for Manchester City right now is that they have a manager who's committed to his job and also ready to lead from the front line. He has already understood the club and it's management and knows how to manage them the best.

[Smack That Ace]

That's right, Chelsea management has made many mistakes so that their team is as bad as it is now and Enzo Maresca's task is very difficult, it is not easy for him to build a team from the beginning again like Chelsea now which does not have a strong team framework.

Several Chelsea pre-season matches have actually proven that they are now getting worse.
And I think there is nothing more to expect from Chelsea, they will not be better next season than last season and one way to make Chelsea rise is to provide support and also time for Enzo Maresca to build this team through the process, but if not then Chelsea will change coaches every year.

Indeed, that is the only way to get Chelsea back on its feet. Namely giving more time to the coach who is managing the club now. Last season, Pochettino was actually in the same position as Enzo is currently. Maybe Pochettino was even in a tougher situation at that time. Meanwhile, Enzo currently only needs to continue what Pochettino built last season. We know that Pochettino can be said to be quite successful in improving Chelsea. Because Chelsea could ultimately finish in a pretty good ranking. But unfortunately Pochettino didn't last long here. And maybe something similar shouldn't happen again. Enzo must be able to last more than one season if he wants to rebuild Chelsea to a better point. I'm also not sure whether Chelsea will be better this season than last season. But I see Enzo as trustworthy enough to do it. At least I hope Chelsea doesn't fall out of the top 10.

The problem is, as already explained in this thread, is Chelsea not giving enough time to any of the coaches that they have brought in recently, that is a big problem for any club. If you do not give enough time to the coaches that you bring in, you will never see a good consistent result from the squad that he is working with. And if the coaches get changed, the squad will also not be able to perform well and consistently because the tactic is not consistent.

I hope they are going to give Enzo Maresca enough time and not change at the first sight of bad results. Because then the continuous cycle is going to go on forever. Just give him at least three seasons. If the results are literally too bad, like he is bringing Chelsea down to the relegation zone, then I think you can change the coach.

Regards

Duke

[rahmad2nd]

In the last two seasons Arsenal failed to win the title but their performances were very good. The team continued to fight for the title until the last match of the season. And the Premier League became more competitive thanks to Arsenal's great performances. We didn't just see Manchester City's dominance.

Arsenal's only weakness in the last two seasons has been the lack of experienced players in their bench team. When a key player in Arsenal's squad suffered an injury, Arsenal did not have suitable replacements. This is why Arsenal fell behind. Alvarez was a worthy replacement for Haaland in Manchester City's squad. But Arsenal did not have a suitable substitute when any key player in the Arsenal squad suffered an injury. Arsenal's performance was unstbale as a result. This is why Arsenal can't win the title. So I feel the need to add more talented players to Arsenal's squad next season.

Well, this season Arsenal has completed its squad for several lines. Unfortunately, Arsenal has not brought in a player who is a mainstay in the front line as a productive finisher. So, for me Arsenal is not complete if they don't bring in a pure striker in this summer's transfer window. IMO, there are several Arsenal players who should be released in this summer's transfer window. Apart from Nketiah, Fabio Viera cannot be relied on, especially in crucial matches. I hope that before the transfer window closes, Arsenal has brought in a striker who is at least capable of scoring 20 goals in one season. Thus, Arteta has several options for front line players if problems such as injuries occur. In the City camp, TheCitizen lost a player who usually always became Erling Haaland's backup. I don't know Pep Guardiola's plan after Alvarez left, but anyway City has truly competitive players and a coach who knows his team's needs. The competition in the 2024/25 season should be more exciting, but maybe several other teams are targeting trophies and will provide competition for City and Arsenal. we can't be sure yet, which team will show an epic performance in the upcoming season. what is certain, I hope Arteta and Edu get a pure striker that we expect as supporters of The Gunners.

[baeva]

I don't think Arsenal are too pleased with their win, like many they were just testing tactics and some players, everyone should realise that's what pre-season matches are for, not to satisfy their egos with wins. Most teams don't even put half of their main squad on the pitch in such matches. But it's definitely worth saying that Arsenal are feeling good about themselves

The match was very interesting to watch despite it being a pre season match. Alonso wanted to defeat Arsenal while Arteta also wanted to the same, and they both put their best squads in the game which resulted to this trashing 4-1 defeat at Emirate stadium.

If you watch the match, you will see that almost all Alonso’s first team players start because he wanted a win either. It is a pre season game and it have showed how well prepared Arsenal is as well as Leverkusen because they both try in the game.

Apparently Liverkusen wanted to start their new winning streak, but it didn't work out. In general, nothing terrible happened, both teams learnt some lesson from it. EPL matches will start tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow Arsenal will play their first match and I think it is very important to start the season with a win, not so much for the position in the standings, but for the morale-booster

[Alpha Marine]

Players don't just rise from dust to legend, they started from somewhere. You aren't expecting Chelsea to go to Real Madrid and beg them to give them Rodrigo or go to Barcelona to give them Yamal. Spain club is too far, Manchester City is the closest, you don't expect them to sign Haaland to come help them win trophy. They have to start from somewhere, even Haaland started from somewhere and nobody know of his existence in English league until he was transferred From Bundesliga to English Premier League club.

I don't think you understand what I'm saying. I never said signing you G players is a bad thing, but when you sign 25 young players and fit them into a squad then they're set up for failure. All these guys you mentioned did not start up in a system where all the players are young players and even if they started in this kind of system, how many of those players do you hear of.
Take Haaland for example, how many of the players from Salzburg do you know? There is a way to acquire players, not the way Chelsea are going about it.
You said Chelsea want to make legends, I can assure you none of those players will turn out to be world class talk more of legends of the game.

How did Manchester City get Haaland? How did Barcelona get Yamal? How did Madrid get Rodrigo and Mbappe? Did these clubs do it by signing over 45 players into their squad? Manchester City have a very good team, did they go about buying every available player on the planet?
Just this evening, I've gotten a notification that Chelsea wants to sign 3 new players and they are about to sign a new goal keeper when they already have about 4 goal keepers. It's laughable how they run that club.

[Dzwaafu11]

Chelsea are still having bad results despite all the players they're signing because they keep on signing average players. Signing players is a good thing and banking on young players is also a good thing but you can't go about signing every youngster you come across and don't sign any veterans that can actually lead the club to glory. The club is a mess I kid you not. They're filled with young players that are not even that good. If they had been signing generational talent types of young players, it wouldn't have still worked out when you have so many young players together, talk more of when the young players they're signing are not generational talent.
I feel sorry for the coach though because everything is going to be his fault.
Aside from players like Enzo, Nkunkun, and James, I struggle to see any undoubably good players in Chelsea.

Is too early to judge a club performance in pre-season matches remember that these are friendly match and not the main competition so for you to judge Chelsea that they are not good from the pre-season matches I don't think is proper that way it will be better if the season start and you see that despite signing young players, they still did not make good performance then by then you can say something like this but as you can see these are just friendly matches,

However, these are new and young players so you are not expecting them to just start shining people at the top today started somewhere so this players must have some kind of little difficulty this season because they will be meeting with big players that they haven't play with before which make them look as if they are not trying,

the coach must work hard to see that these players get use to the premiere league before the season start getting more tough to avoid critising like this. People have started talking bad about the team since preseason. If we enter the main competition and the same thing happens, Chelsea will experience a bad season again.

[Weawant]

In my opinion, Manchester United should have sold any of their current midfielders as a way to complete the Manuel Ugarte deal, Casemiro and McTominay cannot strengthen the midfield as they would like, in fact, Casemiro has not been in the best form since last season, and Manchester United should have considered selling him when the Saudi team request for him because it looks like Casemiro's career has ended in Real Madrid, this isn't the same Casemiro we knew from Madrid.

Selling off this players may not be a problem, I'm beginning to believe that replacing them after the sales may be the biggest challenge Manchester United may face thereafter and then they don't seem to have effective scouting strength upon which they can depend to get immediate and perfect replacements for the exit of any of this players as Manchester United appears like they need an overhaul at almost every position, from their defense up ro their strikers, they don't have a very reliable and dependable players in their good form.

[Huppercase]

Apparently Liverkusen wanted to start their new winning streak, but it didn't work out. In general, nothing terrible happened, both teams learnt some lesson from it. EPL matches will start tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow Arsenal will play their first match and I think it is very important to start the season with a win, not so much for the position in the standings, but for the morale-booster

Leverkusen almost broke history but on a norm, Arsenal is their mate. They had last season quite boldly in Bundesliga but they couldn't hold Atalanta down and lost the winning streak in the Europa League final and it was then I knew they are not as good as they are, if they should have won the final match and take out Atalanta that wasn't even having a good Place in their domestic league but this is a new season, let's see what they can play this time.

Arsenal has shown no sign of weakness, Arteta seems not to have cool down but the task ahead of this season might look hotter than last time because Guardiola lost FA cup and Champions League, the dominance to maintain the lead might come back to his head and who knows if there is going to be surprises later when the season begins.