Premier Predictions (Week 16)

Just 4 games on Saturday, 5 on Sunday, and a Monday game

Top v Bottom on Saturday night, would be the shock of the season if Wolves added to their 2 points.
Also on Saturday the Scott Parker derby 19th v 15th, and the mid table James Milner derby and Chelsea the only English Champs league team to lose in the week face the Moyes revival.

Big game on Sunday as Man City (2nd) go to Crystal Palace (4th)
In form Villa are at West Ham, our only hope is they have a hard game in Europe tonight.
The first North East derby in a while with Sunderland above Newcastle in the table?

Chelsea v Everton
Liverpool v Brighton
Burnley v Fulham
Arsenal v Wolves
*
Crystal Palace v Man City
Nottm Forest v Tottenham
Sunderland v Newcastle
West Ham v Aston Villa
Brentford v Leeds
Man Utd v Bournemouth

Good Luck All  😀

 

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The AFCON kicks off next weekend so a few important players could be missing for up to 5 weeks.
1st teamers - Mbuemo + Diallo + Mazraoui (Man U), Iwobi + Bassey + Chukwueze (Fulham), Ndiaye (Everton), Sarr (Palace), Ouattara (Brentford), Sangare (Forest), Baleba (Brighton), Diouf + Wan Bissaka (West Ham), Traore + Talbi + Reinildo (Sunderland)
Squad players - Marmoush + Alt Nouri (Man City), Wissa (Newcastle), Boly (Forest), Salah (Liverpool), Foster + Tuanzebe + Cannibal (Burnley), Guessand (Villa), Masuaku + Sadiki (Sunderland).
Plus a few Wolves players.

Premier Predictions (Week 15)

The footie overload continues with Week 15
7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday. Ahead of more European games next week.

At the top Aston Villa 3rd v Arsenal 1st, and Man City 2nd vs Sunderland 6th.
Chelsea and Palace could drop points.
At the bottom Burnley in trouble, Wolves with a chance against inconsistent Man Utd?
West Ham go to bogey team Brighton :(

The Trumpton World Cup draw later today, will probably be hard work.
Always a long winded affair but probably going to be worse with Infantino sucking up to Trump 😠
Guess the MAGA propaganda will spoil an occasion that should be all about football  🙄

Aston Villa v Arsenal
Bournemouth v Chelsea
Everton v Nottm Forest
Man City v Sunderland
Newcastle v Burnley
Tottenham v Brentford
Leeds v Liverpool
*
Brighton v West Ham
Fulham v Crystal Palace
*
Wolves v Man Utd

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 14)

Midweek action over 3 days
3 games on Tuesday, 6 games on Wednesday, 1 on Thursday.
Lots of hard to choose fixtures?

Bournemouth v Everton
Fulham v Man City
Newcastle v Tottenham
*
Arsenal v Brentford
Brighton v Aston Villa
Burnley v Crystal Palace
Wolves v Nottm Forest
Leeds v Chelsea
Liverpool v Sunderland
*
Man Utd v West Ham

Good Luck All  😀

Billy Bonds R.I.P

 

Gutted to hear that Billy Bonds has died 😢

Scored in the first game I went to at Upton Park, and was captain and a legend for so many years.

 

21 years as a player + 4 years as manager at West Ham

799 games and 61 goals

Never got capped by England (which tends to happen to West Ham players), only once made the bench 🙄

 

Honoured by having one of the stands named after him, also got an MBE.

 

 Sad news

Premier Predictions (Week 13)

3 game weeks in 10 days coming up (here's the first of 3 posts this week)

Week 13 - 5 games on Saturday and 5 on Sunday
Last game is 1st v 2nd, although Arsenal are 6 points in front.
With the bottom 3 all away a chance for West Ham to pull away as it's probably the best time to play Liverpool (although I won't be putting money on it) 😏

Mixed week for the English teams in Europe
Champions League, good wins for Chelsea and Arsenal but defeats for the others.
Europa and Conference, wins for Villa and Forest but Palace lose after missing 2 open goals.


Brentford v Burnley
Man City v Leeds
Sunderland v Bournemouth
Everton v Newcastle
Tottenham v Fulham
*
Crystal Palace v Man Utd
Aston Villa v Wolves
Nottm Forest v Brighton
West Ham v Liverpool
Chelsea v Arsenal

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 12)

Premier League and other competitions back without breaks for the next 4 months.
7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and 1 on Monday.

Arteta must hate the International break as 3 of his defenders were injured, although I can't see them losing to Tottenham. Their main rivals are all away.

Burnley v Chelsea
Bournemouth v West Ham
Brighton v Brentford
Fulham v Sunderland
Liverpool v Nottm Forest
Wolves v Crystal Palace
Newcastle v Man City
*
Leeds v Aston Villa
Arsenal v Tottenham
*
Man Utd v Everton


Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 11)

Sorry busy week, and it's Friday already?

5 fixtures on Saturday, and 5 more on Sunday before yet another International week.

7 wins and 2 draws for the English teams in Europe this week.
The big ones this week are the top 4 all playing each other
The Xhaka derby on Saturday will be interesting as I thought Sunderland would be doing a Southampton this season, but like most of my predictions I have been totally wrong 🙄
Sunday Liverpool go to Man City to see who will be putting the pressure on Arsenal.
West Ham have a chance to get out of the bottom 3 in the Claret & Blue derby? 🥺
Most of the fixtures this week are between teams close to each other in the table.
Enough waffle on with the show 👍

Tottenham v Man Utd
Everton v Fulham
West Ham v Burnley
Sunderland v Arsenal
Chelsea v Wolves
*
Aston Villa v Bournemouth
Brentford v Newcastle
Crystal Palace v Brighton
Nottm Forest v Leeds
Man City v Liverpool

Good Luck All  😀

(except maybe Paul)   😉

Premier Predictions (Week 10)

Week 10 over a quarter of the season gone already
7 games Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday

Arsenal will stay top whatever, Man City v Bournemouth the big game?
Will Slot bring back his better players 3 days before Real Madrid?
Can new confident Man Utd win against Dyche?
Will West Ham's form carry on 😒
In the relegation area Wolves go to Fulham only 3 places above them.


Brighton v Leeds
Burnley v Arsenal
Crystal Palace v Brentford
Fulham v Wolves
Nottm Forest v Man Utd
Tottenham v Chelsea
Liverpool v Aston Villa
*
West Ham v Newcastle
Man City v Bournemouth
*
Sunderland v Everton

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 09)

Friday night start this week, Plus 4 games on Saturday and 5 on Sunday
None for the Euro teams had too far to go, so should all be fresh.

Friday West Ham go to Leeds and will need a massive improvement on Monday's performance.
Wolves have a chance of their first win at home to Burnley.
Sean Dyche gets an away game at Bournemouth to start so can't see it making much difference this week.
The other games look quite tight to call.

Leeds v West Ham
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Chelsea v Sunderland
Newcastle v Fulham
Man Utd v Brighton
Brentford v Liverpool
*
Arsenal v Crystal Palace
Aston Villa v Man City
Bournemouth v Nottm Forest
Wolves v Burnley
Everton v Tottenham

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 08)

Back after another International week

England joining those other big nations who have qualified like Cape Verde, Uzbekistan, Jordan and Iran in Trumpton next year 🙄
Premier league has 7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and 1 on Monday.
West Ham having 2 midweek games (Monday & Friday) either side of more European fixtures.

2 North-West derbies this week and 2 London derbies.
No doubt all the big 6 scouts will be at the Palace v Bournemouth game.


Nottm Forest v Chelsea
Brighton v Newcastle
Burnley v Leeds
Crystal Palace v Bournemouth
Man City v Everton
Sunderland v Wolves
Fulham v Arsenal
*
Tottenham v Aston Villa
Liverpool v Man Utd
*
West Ham v Brentford


Good Luck All  😀

Summer Transfers 2025

Time for my annual pet project, where the Premier league cash was splashed this summer.

Spending up this season to a record £3.4b, with £1.98b received
Liverpool were the big spenders this year which was surprising as they had spent very little last season and won the league, Chelsea as always spent big but also received big money.
Arsenal spent a lot to try and climb the extra position, but received little back.
The promoted teams all spending around £100m each to try and stay up, and so far they have a chance.

One thing I've noticed is that the "big six" thing has been more obvious this year, if any player does well for the others they have been snapped up by one of them (e.g Mbuemo, Cunha, Kudus, Isak, Eze, Pedro). Already talk that Bournemouth's Semenyo is wanted by Chelsea.
Also that Chelsea, Liverpool and Man City have mastered the art of selling untried youngsters for huge transfer fees, whereas Arsenal, Man Utd and Tottenham haven't.

Don't really understand all this PSR stuff? every season sees the "big" clubs spending huge amounts without problem, while "wannabe" big clubs like Newcastle and Villa have to sell before they can buy.

Anyway it's all monopoly money 🙄
Politicians and press demonising anyone that receives a few quid of taxpayer money, while Football and big business squander Billions and use every trick in the book to avoid paying taxes.
Stick them all in a giant Musk rocket and fire them into the sun 😠  .... oops off on one then
Back to the matter in hand 😃

The Chart:
(Info based on the best sources I could find, includes squad and youth players).

 

 

 

Total Spend - £3,403,770,000
Most Players In - Nottm Forest 20, Burnley 16, Sunderland 16
Most Players Out - Chelsea 41, Brighton 40, Aston Villa 40
Most Money Paid - Liverpool £461.5m, Chelsea £365.32m, Arsenal £265.5m
Most Money Received - Chelsea £337.2m, Bournemouth £217.21m, Liverpool £207.2m
Largest Profit - Bournemouth £83.61m, Brighton £64.38m, Brentford £58.4m
Largest Defecit - Arsenal £255.2m, Liverpool £254.3m, Tottenham £163.25m

Largest Fees Paid (Over £50m)

Alexander Isak [Newcastle – Liverpool] £125m
Florian Wirtz [Bayer Leverkusen - Liverpool] £116m
Hugo Ekitike [Eintracht Frankfurt - Liverpool] £82m
Benjamin Sesko [RB Leipzig - Man Utd] £73m
Nick Woltemade [Stuttgart - Newcastle] £73m
Luis Diaz [Liverpool - Bayern Munich] £65.5m **
Bryan Mbeumo [Brentford - Man Utd] £65m
Xavi Simons [RB Leipzig - Tottenham] £65m
Viktor Gyokeres [Sporting Lisbon - Arsenal] £64m
Matheus Cunha [Wolves - Man Utd] £62.5m
Eberechi Eze [Crystal Palace - Arsenal] £60m
Joao Pedro [Brighton - Chelsea] £60m
Martin Zubimendi [Real Sociedad - Arsenal] £60m
Dean Huijsen [Bournemouth - Real Madrid] £59.5m **
Illia Zabarnyi [Bournemouth - Paris St Germain] £57m **
Jamie Gittens [Borussia Dortmund - Chelsea] £55.5m
Anthony Elanga [Nottm Forest - Newcastle] £55m
Mohammed Kudus [West Ham - Tottenham] £55m
Yoane Wissa [Brentford - Newcastle] £55m

 

Predictions Table

 The full info table so far

Premier Predictions (Week 07)

Sandwiched inbetween a full European week and an International week it's Week 7 of the Premier League.

Starts Friday night at Bournemouth, then 4 games on Saturday and 5 on Sunday.
Arsenal v West Ham? the Hammers have won the last 2 games at Arsenal while getting stuffed at home by them, no idea?
Sunderland doing much better than expected go to Man Utd who are doing much worse than expected.
Chelsea and Liverpool both having "wobbles" could be tight.
Sunday's games should all be close affairs? Man City go to bogie team Brentford, Palace's unbeaten record to be tested at Everton.


Bournemouth v Fulham
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Leeds v Tottenham
Arsenal v West Ham
Man Utd v Sunderland
Chelsea v Liverpool
*
Aston Villa v Burnley
Everton v Crystal Palace
Newcastle v Nottm Forest
Wolves v Brighton
Brentford v Man City

Good Luck All  😀

(hopefully Bio and Gibbo turn up this week)

Premier Predictions (Week 06)

Week 6
7 games Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday
Another Euro week coming up so player rotation expected for those.

Tricky game for Liverpool at Palace who are 17 games unbeaten.
Arsenal go to Newcastle, West Ham take on Moyes on Monday?


Brentford v Man Utd
Chelsea v Brighton
Crystal Palace v Liverpool
Leeds v Bournemouth
Man City v Burnley
Nottm Forest v Sunderland
Tottenham v Wolves
*
Aston Villa v Fulham
Newcastle v Arsenal
*
Everton v West Ham

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 05)

With all the wall to wall football nowadays it's hard to believe it's only week 5 of the season
7 games on Saturday, 3 on Sunday

Mersey derby to start, late winner expected.
Chelsea go to Man Utd, more pain for Amorim?
West Ham haven't won at home to Palace for 7 years so unlikely to start now 😔
Arsenal v Man City used to be a big game, but unless Haaland has one of those days it looks like a home win.
Villa at Sunderland, Emery badly needs something.


Liverpool v Everton
Brighton v Tottenham
Burnley v Nottm Forest
West Ham v Crystal Palace
Wolves v Leeds
Man Utd v Chelsea
Fulham v Brentford

*
Bournemouth v Newcastle
Sunderland v Aston Villa
Arsenal v Man City

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 04)

Internationals over for a few weeks, England 2 wins but after struggling to a 2-0 win over Andorra, they turned in a great performance away to higher rated Serbia.

Premier league back with 8 games on Saturday, and 2 on Sunday.
Two London derbies, Chelsea go to Brentford on Saturday night?
Will the last result be a false dawn for West Ham? great result last game but have been awful at home under Potter.
Manchester derby on Sunday, both teams unpredictable.
Nuno paying the price for losing to West Ham, big Angie back for the trip to Arsenal.

Transfer windows still open in Saudi and Turkey so some players might still be going, but the players coming in is now sorted.

10 teams play midweek in the Champions League and the League Cup


Arsenal v Nottm Forest
Bournemouth v Brighton
Crystal Palace v Sunderland
Everton v Aston Villa
Fulham v Leeds
Newcastle v Wolves
West Ham v Tottenham
Brentford v Chelsea
*
Burnley v Liverpool
Man City v Man Utd

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 03)

Due to next weeks International break it's just A 2 day weekend this time 😀
6 games on Saturday, 4 on Sunday.

West London derby to start at 12:30
Big game on Sunday with Arsenal going to Liverpool (2 of only 3 100% teams), injury jinx already hitting Arsenal so who knows?
Man Utd's multi million pound players were outplayed by Grimsby so a good chance for Burnley?
Only West Ham and Wolves are pointless after 2 games, and sadly I can't see us getting anything at Forest 😒

Chelsea v Fulham
Man Utd v Burnley
Sunderland v Brentford
Tottenham v Bournemouth
Wolves v Everton
Leeds v Newcastle
*
Brighton v Man City
Nottm Forest v West Ham
Liverpool v Arsenal
Aston Villa v Crystal Palace

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 02)

Another 4 day weekend 🙄
1 game on Friday, 5 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday and 1 on Monday.
7 teams won last week, and 4 of them meet this week.
Good starts for 2 of the promoted teams.


West Ham v Chelsea
*
Man City v Tottenham
Bournemouth v Wolves
Brentford v Aston Villa
Burnley v Sunderland
Arsenal v Leeds
*
Crystal Palace v Nottm Forest
Everton v Brighton
Fulham v Man Utd
*
Newcastle v Liverpool

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 01)

Drum Roll ....  🥁

Here we go again the Premier League is back, so if anybody is still interested here we go with the 16th NBTF Premier Predictions competition (2025-26 Edition).

Hopefully the regular players will be back and anyone reading this blog is welcome to join in at any point, just let me know a name and club supported so I can give you some colours.

Another season of re-arranged on various days for TV games over the season. 😠

T&C's - Usual rules apply
3 Points for a correct score, 1 Point for a correct result.
Predictions League will be decided on weekly wins first, if 2 or more people share a weekly win that will be classed as a draw, if at the end things are still level the total points for the season come into play.
Predictions in the comments please  😀     
Obviously predictions will only count if they are made before the kick offs, please try and post the whole set at once (but I won't enforce it as these Friday night games catch everyone out including me).
All 380 Premier League games will be covered, plus sometimes FA Cup games and the League Cup Final will be included to make up weeks where there are many postponements due to those games.

Prizes - Just the admiration of everyone who plays

Can't solve the comments problem? so if your comment does not post straight away don't worry it should be in my comment moderation box as it assumes a lot of posts are spam.
Will publish as soon as I check.

Here we go  👍

Week 1 - Friday 15th August to Monday 18th August
1 game on Friday night, 5 games Saturday, 3 on Sunday and one on Monday

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Liverpool v Bournemouth
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Aston Villa v Newcastle
Brighton v Fulham
Sunderland v West Ham
Tottenham v Burnley
Wolves v Man City
*
Chelsea v Crystal Palace
Nottam Forest v Brentford
Man Utd v Arsenal
*
Leeds v Everton


Good Luck All  😀

Europe

England have nine teams in Europe this season

Champions 🙄 League - Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City, Newcastle, Chelsea, Tottenham
Europa League - Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest.
Conference League- Crystal Palace

Palace being relegated to the Conference league due to the multi club ownership rules, which seem to be a problem for a lot of teams nowadays with big business buying up teams on all continents.

Probably a good thing for Palace as they must stand a better chance against the lower ranked teams in Europe. West Ham and Chelsea making it look easy 😁

Could be a great chance for teams like Man Utd, West Ham, Fulham and Brighton to get high in the table with all those others having to play the extra games and midweek travelling all over Europe?