Premier League Prediction Thread 2024/2025

[Furious 7]

This news is already busy now and it seems that Griezmann is one of the targets after Gakpo, Dumfries and a number of other players who are being rumored with Manchester United now.
In fact, Griezmann had also been rumored in 2017, but this was hindered by an Atletico Madrid shopping embargo so they failed, but it seems there is other interest at the moment following Griezmann's good performance in this world cup.

Is to fill Ronaldo place? Manchester United must to get him, Griezmann in the world cup is really good. The Premier League would suitable maybe will be better rather than La Liga. He has spent several seasons at Atletico Madrid and was also on loan at Barcelona. When he was loaned out, his performance down but before that he also performed very well at Atletico Madrid. I hope these rumors come to real because Manchester United should be at least in the top four.

It's a possibility but we still have to see developments in this regard especially during the last few weeks rumors about several striker players who did quite well in the world cup are also always associated with Manchester United so there will still be some surprises I think about this.
On the other hand, I still haven't seen a statement from Griezmann or Atletico regarding this news.

[hahay]

Exactly. Manchester United can use their transfer budget much more effective normally. But they have spent so much money for players who don't deserve that actually. Maguire is the first example coming to my mind. They spent a lot of money to sign Antony as well but we don't know how much he will be helpful for the team in the long-term.

I think the same about ten Hag. He isn't a special manager for Manchester United in the end. If he has a similar season to the previous one than he should get ready to say goodbye to his job. The same thing happened to Solskjaer as well.

This is just the first start for Ten Hag so it's still in the process of improving Manchester United even though the management has spent a lot of money on players but indeed that hope is still not satisfied plus they are now lacking a striker there is a possibility that in the January transfer market Ten Hag can spend on players but that it is not certain which one to choose, but the fact is that spending a lot of money is not in accordance with helping the team to be better.

Actually I put my hopes on Ten Hag, but if we evaluate it now, there hasn't been any change at all. Maybe after two seasons at Manchester United, we will know how Ten Hag's character carries his team.

I think Erik ten Hag still cannot be compared to the previous Manchester United coach, even though so far there have been no significant changes, we must also realize that competition in the English Premier League is not easy competition. What's more, this season is Erik ten Hag's first season, of course, Erik ten Hag still cannot be viewed as bad or a failure.
Unless the competition in the English Premier League is easy competition, then we can conclude that Erik ten Hag is bad or failed, but so far Erik ten Hag has been able to keep Manchester United in fifth place in the Premier League standings and basically that's good enough.

In addition, Manchester United is a rich club that also has good income, so they don't have big problems in their finances.
Therefore, I personally still consider that Manchester United, currently with Erik ten Hag, are still in a good situation and condition. But admittedly, they also still need some better players and Erik ten Hag has made good progress so far.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Harry Kane is always associated with big teams. Previously, he is rumored to join Man City, but it failed because Man City successfully signed Erling Haaland. In the next transfer window, both Bayern and Real Madrid may try to sign Kane, but I doubt Kane will leave Tottenham Hotspur before the season is over. I assume Kane is trying to give his best contribution to the club before he is leaving. Tottenham management and the coach probably ask him to stay until the end of the season since his role is very crucial for Tottenham squad. Anyway, he is already 29 years old, it is not a young age anymore. He must decide to move to a bigger club if he wants a better experience in his prime age. I am sure there will be not many offers from big teams if he is already 30+ years old.

Harry Kane's biggest problem is that Tottenham needs him much more than Kane himself needs Tottenham. Yes, this is his native team and the player receives very good money for his loyalty, but also this loyalty does not convert into titles at the club level in any way and there are big doubts that this will happen in the coming years. Therefore, I think that the best option for his career is still not another extension of his contract with Tottenham on improved terms, as there are already rumors about this and still try to change the team. Despite the fact that Antonio Conte constantly hints unequivocally and sometimes speaks directly about strengthening the squad, I do not think that the owner of Tottenham is able to allocate the necessary funds to win titles.

Well, you're right about that, I don't see Harry Kane leaving Totteham because they really need him, plus I don't think Real Madrid needs him, Real Madrid always chooses to buy very young players where they can train them and use them with more time That is the style of Real Madrid, in terms of necessity I think that the one who would need it the most would be Man United, but due to the statements made by CR7 I really doubt it.

Now everything depends on the offers that the player receives, if he feels comfortable in his team then it will be difficult for him to leave, Kane is an experienced player, very good and that every team needs, but it already depends on what he is looking for.

before resuming the competition quite a lot of teams tried friendly matches. Tottenham also did this week before facing Brentford.
The league has had a long break. each team must try to restore their performance. especially some players who did not defend the national team.
Brentford vs Tottenham, of course, Tottenham will be the favorites. but with some rumors in the winter transfer market. Let's just hope that Tottenham doesn't release their players too much.

It will not be an easy match for Tottenham, Brentford is capable of causing problems to any club at home, but now after the break it is difficult to say how the game will go, we need to watch couple  games, who is in what shape after the forced holidays. On December 26th there will be another interesting match between Leicester and Newcastle, after Leicester managed to climb to the middle of the standings, they look better, but Newcastle clearly do not want to fall behind the leaders.

It will be really interesting in the opening match of the Premier League match after a long 1 month break, well I assume the same with Brentford it will always cause problems but this is quite tough for Tottenham to beat him even though we know from this break there are always changes from the players.
Believing that Tottenham will maintain their position in the EPL standings, Newcastle will try not to be left behind. I think it needs to see this league kick off.

I think that Tottenham will have many chances to win, for me it is a strong team that has been standing out, regardless of their defeats, some mistakes they have, I think that this time will help them a lot to be able to stand out and correct some mistakes that no longer exist. they can commit, and among that can be highlighted some transfers, purchases and sales that can occur for the team, and the technical director as well as the managers may already be thinking about buying, selling, transferring some players, all in favor of improving the team and their game, the PL is very important right now, I don't think they are going to waste the opportunity.


And one of the players who always stand out:

Newcastle United ‘could make a move’ for Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane

Newcastle United and Manchester United ‘could make a move’ to sign Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane, as per GiveMeSport (h/t Manchester Evening News).

The 29-year-old is set to return to club football after an underwhelming 2022 FIFA World Cup campaign with England. Kane scored against Senegal in their 3-0 last 16 win and assisted thrice in the group stages.

But the Three Lions faltered against France in the quarter-finals via a 2-1 scoreline, where Kane got on the scoresheet again. England went into the tournaments as one of the favourites.

Source: https://tothelaneandback.com/2022/12/19/newcastle-and-manchester-united-want-tottenham-harry-kane-spurs-transfer-news/

[Masplanc]

The Premier League is back in a week's time, with the famous Boxing Day on the 26th of December. So we have to start focusing again on this competition.

Regarding the clubs at the top of the table, we will have three playing on the 26th:
Brentford vs Tottenham (4th place)
Leicester vs Newcastle (3rd place)
Aresnal (1 place) vs West Ham

And the others play on the 27th:
Leeds vs City (2nd place)


How do you think the start of the competition will be for these clubs?

In your opinion, will Arsenal be able to maintain their winning pace?

If arsenal players are still intact I don't think this game will be the one that will be hard for arsenal to win. West Ham is not very strong that I can feel arsenal will lose to them .

Before the break Tottenham has been playing better the Newcastle,   can't predict if Tottenham can still be consistent.

[kro55]

Ronaldo is not a bad player. He is still one of the best players in the world. How will he perform well if he doesn't get enough opportunities to prove his mettle. He did not get a chance at Manchester United. He could not be with the main squad due to a conflict with Ten Hag. Ten Hag didn't help Ronaldo to bond with the players. It is difficult to adapt to the squad without the support of the coach.
Ronaldo was benched against Morocco as Ramos scored a hat-trick for Portugal. And I would say that this wrong decision by the coach is why Portugal lost against Morocco. But we don't know which team is interested in Ronaldo now. Ronaldo is old enough. The first tier clubs will therefore not want to sign Ronaldo. Because Ronaldo's wages are very high.

at this old age, CR7 is facing many problems, besides that he is currently without a club, and has problems with ten hags, in the Portuguese national team he is also not very trusted by Santos (even though Santos was eventually fired)
in the transfer market later, MU seems will buy several more players, they seem very serious about increasing again the prestige that MU had (when Sir Alex Ferguson coached MU)

the only problem Ronaldo has now is not club to sign him or his current performance, but he's wages, which you just listed in your last paragraph. Ronaldo is still good and can still complete with in any league in the world regardless his age. He's still fit to play.
Santo deserved the sack,  he humiliated Ronaldo, he knows that Ronaldo needs more time on the field to bounce back after all the emotional issues he had with man utd and the Media. Yet he benched Ronaldo in a must win match, Santo wasn't ready to win the world, how can he bench he's best player and expect to win the game. It's not possible,  Ronaldo should just reduce his wages so that top clubs can bid for him. I know any club that sign him will also benefit from him too.

Ronaldo's wages are very high. This is why many big clubs will think twice before signing Ronaldo. Moreover, not all clubs can afford Ronald's high wages. And more importantly, I doubt if the big clubs will be willing to spend a lot of money to add Ronaldo to the squad for a short period of time.

Santos insulted Ronaldo. He forgot that Ronaldo's biggest contribution to Portugal's qualification for the World Cup. Santos' stupidity is why they lost against teams like Morocco. I would say Portugal management should sack Santos and hire a new coach.

[CageMabok]

If arsenal players are still intact I don't think this game will be the one that will be hard for arsenal to win. West Ham is not very strong that I can feel arsenal will lose to them .

If West Ham is not too strong, why can you feel defeat at Arsenal? This is very strange, because you said just now that if Arsenal's players were intact, that game would not be difficult for Arsenal and instead Arsenal could win, although I personally haven't thought about that right now. Because the results can still change beyond the predictions of many people.

Before the break Tottenham has been playing better the Newcastle,   can't predict if Tottenham can still be consistent.

Why not ? Every team has a coach and a strategy that has been designed very well so that they can always be consistent in every match. Moreover, Tottenham and Newcastle are both in a better position than several other teams in the Premier League this season.

[Sirait]

The world cup is over, and now we will return to focus again witnessing the many players who have prepared themselves in the Premier League without exception for the players who took part in the world cup even though they actually have been able to show better performance at their respective clubs. For the opening game, Brentford will play Tottenham and this will also be a good start if Tottenham can get points. Brentford is also actually a tough club and on the other hand, it is not an easy game for Tottenham to secure the standings and shift Newcastle.

Even though Brentford is not a weak team, the opponent he is facing is Tottenham who is ranked 4th in the current standings with 29 points, for sure Antonio Conte will try hard to shift Newcastle and Manchester City, I think Tottenham's match with Newcastle will be won by Tottenham because Judging from the performance this season, Brentford is not too good, but even so, Tottenham has to be careful against Brentford, especially against Ivan Toney. On November 12, Ivan Toney managed to shut Manchester City's mouth 2-1.

soon the match between brentford vs tottenham will take place, players who play in the world cup must be prepared to finish all matches, kane (tottenham striker) is currently in 2nd position as the top scorer with 12 goals and toney (brentford striker) is in 3rd position with 10, like this match going to be tight.

[harapan]

Ronaldo's wages are very high. This is why many big clubs will think twice before signing Ronaldo. Moreover, not all clubs can afford Ronald's high wages. And more importantly, I doubt if the big clubs will be willing to spend a lot of money to add Ronaldo to the squad for a short period of time.

Santos insulted Ronaldo. He forgot that Ronaldo's biggest contribution to Portugal's qualification for the World Cup. Santos' stupidity is why they lost against teams like Morocco. I would say Portugal management should sack Santos and hire a new coach.

Santos did not insult Ronaldo, he did what he thinks is best for his team. He tried it in the previous match and it worked and he decided to do it again but it didn't work. Ronaldo should have started the match against Morocco  because they needed that lone, tall figure that they can be crossing the ball to.

[darewaller]

It wasn't all easy for Chelsea when the war started. That was quite a hassle with banking when Ibramovic was still the official owner of Chelsea. That is of course the disadvantage if you do banking with foreigners. And since Brexit, trading has not become any easier for the clubs in England. The competition in England has only gotten stronger in recent years and the influence of owners in this country has also become enormous. Just look at the influence of the Newcastle United owner.

The last two tears have been difficult times for Chelsea, counting from the Russian sanctions that resulted to a change of ownership of the club followed by departure of the clubs head of recruitments which saw Chelsea not been able to get the right players early in the summer and Tuchel being sacked this season. Indeed a lot have been going and with the heightened level of competition it is fair to say the club is going through tough phases and will come out stronger in the end.

I am pretty sure that it's not going to be that easy to fix, but the amount of money the new owner spent is a lot for the way they are playing. Normally when a team spends this much money, they need to be a lot better, not even close to where they are right now, fight for the top spot levels. They became the team that spent the most money this year if I am not wrong. So all in all I am guessing that it's not really that easy to handle all of this, it's definitely a difficult situation they are in.

Abramovic was great and all for them but the new owner spent money too so I am not really putting the blame on him, this was a bit more manager and whoever bought the players that caused failed results.

[rahmad2nd]

Exactly. Manchester United can use their transfer budget much more effective normally. But they have spent so much money for players who don't deserve that actually. Maguire is the first example coming to my mind. They spent a lot of money to sign Antony as well but we don't know how much he will be helpful for the team in the long-term.

I think the same about ten Hag. He isn't a special manager for Manchester United in the end. If he has a similar season to the previous one than he should get ready to say goodbye to his job. The same thing happened to Solskjaer as well.

This is just the first start for Ten Hag so it's still in the process of improving Manchester United even though the management has spent a lot of money on players but indeed that hope is still not satisfied plus they are now lacking a striker there is a possibility that in the January transfer market Ten Hag can spend on players but that it is not certain which one to choose, but the fact is that spending a lot of money is not in accordance with helping the team to be better.

Actually I put my hopes on Ten Hag, but if we evaluate it now, there hasn't been any change at all. Maybe after two seasons at Manchester United, we will know how Ten Hag's character carries his team.

Whether Manchester United is down, I don't think so. they are currently ranked 5th, only 3-4 points difference with Tottenham and Newcastle. after all, this is the first season of the Ten Hag. he had to adapt to the whole range of Manchester United, as well as the players. if we refer to Manchester United's initial match, yes, Ten Hag failed to win. but after that, Manchester United was able to rise even though the expected star did not contribute. in the end, Manchester is better off without Ronaldo. Rashford was able to adapt well, even though he didn't score many goals.

And if Manchester doesn't bring in a few more players in this January transfer window, I don't believe Ten Hag will be able to bring his squad to compete at the top level of the Premier League. IMO, Ten Hag has made a lot of changes so far and at least Manchester United are better under his control. after all, this season was his first season. let's just look at Arteta, he also experienced many obstacles and difficulties when designing the Gunners in his first season. So, I'm sure that Ten Hag will bring a lot of changes to The Red Devils.

[Pulsar77]

~snip~

Before the break Tottenham has been playing better the Newcastle,   can't predict if Tottenham can still be consistent.

I don't agree with you on that.

Tottenham's performance was a little below Newcastle in general. Newcastle even defeated Tottenham in an away match as you must be remembering. Truthfully it was a really unexpected result for me but here we are. Newcastle just continue to surprise people by their amazing effort in this season. They have completed this part of the season ahead of Tottenham at the third position in the standings. There is only one point between these two teams of course. We will see which one will be able to stay ahead of the other at the end. I'm still favouring Tottenham for that as they have a much more promising squad. They have a great tactician like Conte as well.

[Gosgosking]

Santos insulted Ronaldo. He forgot that Ronaldo's biggest contribution to Portugal's qualification for the World Cup. Santos' stupidity is why they lost against teams like Morocco. I would say Portugal management should sack Santos and hire a new coach.

I don't know about that though but I just know this time Morocco was prepared to play any team, the truth is that Morocco is strong this time. They didn't win by luck,  their performance was good to challenge any strong team. Do not put blames for the lose of Portugal.

[KTChampions]

It is reported that Manchester United are interested in the French national team player Antoine Griezmann, yes they want Griezmann again after he performed well and brought France to the final, even though in the final France was defeated by Argentina in a penalty shootout which ended a few hours ago. Even though Antoine Griezmann got a new role at the World Cup, he succeeded in playing his new role. Actually, this is not the first time that Manchester United are interested in this player, because a few years ago Manchester United also tried to bring in this player, but Griezmann prefers to stay in La Liga.

I didn't think I'd say this, but a move to United looks like an obvious win for Griezmann. Firstly, he is likely to be able to increase his salary, as United have been extremely generous in their attempts to regain their positions lately. Secondly, leaving the stagnant Atlético, which in the coming years will most likely continue to degrade under the leadership of Simeone, is practically leaving a sinking ship.

[dezoel]

Ronaldo's wages are very high. This is why many big clubs will think twice before signing Ronaldo. Moreover, not all clubs can afford Ronald's high wages. And more importantly, I doubt if the big clubs will be willing to spend a lot of money to add Ronaldo to the squad for a short period of time.

Santos insulted Ronaldo. He forgot that Ronaldo's biggest contribution to Portugal's qualification for the World Cup. Santos' stupidity is why they lost against teams like Morocco. I would say Portugal management should sack Santos and hire a new coach.

Santos already have punishment for his poor strategy and bad decisions which bring down Portugal in quarterfinal against Morocco, and they eliminated from the world cup but now this all is already ended with what is going to happen with Ronaldo in future because right now this is the biggest question and no one have any real reply about this with most chances Ronaldo will be stayed or going away from UEFA it's also looking for answer in last summer transfer window Manchester United management allow Ronaldo for transfer, but sadly he fails to have any positive reply about this with his higher salary and bonus demand even Roma, Atlético Madrid and Napoli all were ready but as they have talked about personal settlements all these clubs ended with nothing.

Now it's time for him to think about this all and cut his salary demand and bonus wages which will surely help him for having good time for staying here in Europe and play for few more years because time change quickly and many clubs still have no enough income for paying things like these specially now with the mess-up with Manchester United coach now his reputation is also damaged with this all now hopefully he will change his attitude, and we will be able to have better things.

[LittleBitFunny]

It is reported that Manchester United are interested in the French national team player Antoine Griezmann, yes they want Griezmann again after he performed well and brought France to the final, even though in the final France was defeated by Argentina in a penalty shootout which ended a few hours ago. Even though Antoine Griezmann got a new role at the World Cup, he succeeded in playing his new role. Actually, this is not the first time that Manchester United are interested in this player, because a few years ago Manchester United also tried to bring in this player, but Griezmann prefers to stay in La Liga.

I didn't think I'd say this, but a move to United looks like an obvious win for Griezmann. Firstly, he is likely to be able to increase his salary, as United have been extremely generous in their attempts to regain their positions lately. Secondly, leaving the stagnant Atlético, which in the coming years will most likely continue to degrade under the leadership of Simeone, is practically leaving a sinking ship.

Atlético Madrid's situation is not good now. Since the management of Atlético Madrid is not interested in strengthening their squad now, it can be assumed that the performance of Atlético Madrid will further decline. And no wonder they failed to qualify for the Champions League. And so it is a good decision for Griezmann to sign with Manchester United. The condition of the United team is now unstable. But they continue to try to stabilize themselves gradually. They are adding talented players to their squad. It is hoped that the team will be more stable and strong in the coming season.

[Desmong]

Ronaldo's wages are very high. This is why many big clubs will think twice before signing Ronaldo. Moreover, not all clubs can afford Ronald's high wages. And more importantly, I doubt if the big clubs will be willing to spend a lot of money to add Ronaldo to the squad for a short period of time.

Santos insulted Ronaldo. He forgot that Ronaldo's biggest contribution to Portugal's qualification for the World Cup. Santos' stupidity is why they lost against teams like Morocco. I would say Portugal management should sack Santos and hire a new coach.

Santos did not insult Ronaldo, he did what he thinks is best for his team. He tried it in the previous match and it worked and he decided to do it again but it didn't work. Ronaldo should have started the match against Morocco  because they needed that lone, tall figure that they can be crossing the ball to.

Honestly the coach never thought that they can get defeated bu Morocco because they under estimate the power and potential of the Moroccan team. It was a big shock to the world that Morocco was able to defeat Portugal which is still very surprising till today. The coach shouldn't have bench Ronaldo at the first place no matter anything that might happen between them because Ronaldo is a good player that might have scored for the team.

[doomloop]

I am pretty sure that it's not going to be that easy to fix, but the amount of money the new owner spent is a lot for the way they are playing. Normally when a team spends this much money, they need to be a lot better, not even close to where they are right now, fight for the top spot levels. They became the team that spent the most money this year if I am not wrong. So all in all I am guessing that it's not really that easy to handle all of this, it's definitely a difficult situation they are in.

Abramovic was great and all for them but the new owner spent money too so I am not really putting the blame on him, this was a bit more manager and whoever bought the players that caused failed results.

I agreed about this its never been easy for anyone to fix issues like this quickly specially first we have change of owner and then change of coach is having the worst impact on team performance, and they are not giving any positive reply with in last five matches they have just two points and tag of worst team in Premier League even Graham Potter is trying to fix issues but things looking not easy with too many quality players are also available, but strategy is not working hopefully during this break they will be able to have fixed few things which will help them for having better results and positive development because now after break we have crucial time in season and many teams will try to increase their performance and try to settle at higher rank for better end of this season.

Abramovich was really in love with soccer and Chelsea, and he achieves many big things which give all details about his love affair, but now new owners spending good amount but still not able to have results like him.

[wildan88]

We will start the competition again on December 26th. It took some getting used to, such a month without football in England, where there is usually no break. I wonder how some players deal with this. They are not used to that and do not know how they have stayed fit in the meantime. Leicester City - Newcastle United seems to be a fun game. Newcastle has settled into the top of England and Leicester seems to have climbed out of a deep valley. Liverpool will also have a hard time against Aston Villa, if I'm not mistaken they lost there last year with very large numbers. I thought something along the lines of 7-1 but I may be wrong. So Liverpool has been warned about this opponent.

[Sirait]

Ronaldo's wages are very high. This is why many big clubs will think twice before signing Ronaldo. Moreover, not all clubs can afford Ronald's high wages. And more importantly, I doubt if the big clubs will be willing to spend a lot of money to add Ronaldo to the squad for a short period of time.

Santos insulted Ronaldo. He forgot that Ronaldo's biggest contribution to Portugal's qualification for the World Cup. Santos' stupidity is why they lost against teams like Morocco. I would say Portugal management should sack Santos and hire a new coach.

Santos did not insult Ronaldo, he did what he thinks is best for his team. He tried it in the previous match and it worked and he decided to do it again but it didn't work. Ronaldo should have started the match against Morocco  because they needed that lone, tall figure that they can be crossing the ball to.

cristiano is the same as messi who is a player with prestige that influences their team, santos has apologized to portuguese for not playing cristiano from the start of the match, even though portugal successfully beat switzerland but morocco is a different team. ten hag is actually almost the same as santos, he doesn't trust Cristiano, maybe it's part of his strategy to get rid of old players and prioritize young players who are still energetic even though they lack experience (ten hag is doing that).

[LFC_Bitcoin]

The World Cup was possibly the best one I’ve ever seen in my 36 years on this planet. The final was beautiful, a great advert for the most popular sport in the world.

I’m not sad to see club football return though. Hoping my boys pick the season back up & restart in better form than the opening part of the season. It can’t be much worse can it

Come on you mighty LFC 🔴