Unai is a decent manager, his turnaround of Villa has been quite remarkable
Unai is a decent manager, his turnaround of Villa has been quite remarkable
My predictions are....
Winners: City
Top 4: City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool
Relegated: Luton, Sheffield United and Everton
Roma take the lead, always liked Jose.
Problem is managers at lower level clubs appear to be doing well with lower level budgets and to some degree punching above their weight and everyone thinks great, how marvellous would they be at a top team with quality players and more resources. Moyes Everton to Man Utd, Potter Brighton to Chelsea, Gerrard Rangers to Villa, Lampard Derby to Chelsea.
Get my point, it rarely works.
I think next year will be City winning (and for the next 5+ years), Chelsea pushing them the most but still ending up way behind in 2nd.
Top eight. I think being in the Champions League will stretch our squad and we'll struggle to maintain such a lofty league finish. We desperately need to add quality and quantity due to being ahead of schedule. Outside of our first 13 or 14 we're really, really poor. I also think we've been pretty lucky with injuries this season and you rarely get two seasons in a row like that.
Europa final turned into a farce. I’d love to put some of these wimps up against the All Blacks.
Aside from 19-year-old Jhon Durán, who only made a handful of appearances from the bench (and remarkably was our reserve striker after Ings left in January), Emery only brought in one regular starter in January - Álex Moreno, who's been excellent at left back. The rest of the squad was already there, albeit without much support from a depleted bench. Had Watkins, Martinez or Mings picked up unjuries we wouldn't have finished where we did.
"A man of little significance"
Premier league thread I know but amazed nobody has mentioned the Europa league final on tonight, hope Roma absolutely destroy them.