Nothing Better Than Football: August 2017

Thursday, 24 August 2017

Premier Predictions (Week 03)

Week 3 already, just 3 teams with 100% win records, and 5 teams without a point (including us .. sigh).
One more chance to change things before the first International break of the season.
6 Games on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.

Bournemouth v Man City
C Palace v Swansea
Huddersfield v Southampton
Newcastle v West Ham
Watford v Brighton
Man Utd v Leicester

Chelsea v Everton
West Brom v Stoke
Liverpool v Arsenal
Tottenham v Burnley

Good Luck All :)

Thursday, 17 August 2017

Premier Predictions (Week 02)

Week 2 starts on Saturday with 7 games, 2 games on Sunday and the first Monday night game of the new season.
A couple of big games with last seasons top 2 facing off at Wembley, Chelsea needing a big improvement over last week to avoid a second defeat.
New improved Everton go to City on Monday night with Gylfi Sigurdsson added to the new players on show.

Swansea v Man Utd
Bournemouth v Watford
Burnley v West Brom
Leicester v Brighton
Liverpool v C Palace
Southampton v West Ham
Stoke v Arsenal

Huddersfield v Newcastle
Tottenham v Chelsea

Man City v Everton

Good Luck All :)

Saturday, 5 August 2017

Premier Predictions (Week 01)

Here we go again :)
The all new prediction competition for the 2017-2018 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 toal points for the season come into play.
Predictions in the comments please :)
Any spam and abuse will be deleted so don't bother.

Anyway enough of that :) 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. Obviously predictions will only count if they are made before the kick offs.

So here is the first week of the new season, games spread over 3 days with 1 on Friday, 7 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday.

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Arsenal v Leicester

Watford v Liverpool
C Palace v Huddersfield
Chelsea v Burnley
Everton v Stoke
Southampton v Swansea
West Brom v Bournemouth
Brighton v Man City

Newcastle v Tottenham
Man Utd v West Ham
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Lots of new players and the big 7 all playing European football this year mean their might be room for one of the others to make a challenge?
Money talks so you would expect the title to be contested by Chelsea and the 2 Manchester clubs with Tottenham, Arsenal and Liverpool in the mix.
As for the rest it's hard to predict who will struggle the most and none stand out as possible title contenders.
The bookies have Man City as favourites with Chelsea, Man U, Tottenham and Arsenal next best.
Favourites for relegation are Huddersfield followed by Burnley, Watford, Swansea, Palace and Brighton.

Good Luck All, and let's hope it's a great season.

Transfer Update

About 3 weeks till the transfer window shuts, and already a Billion pounds has been spent.

Manchester clubs and Chelsea leading the way, and Tottenham are keeping their purse locked.

Top 20 Biggest deals so far -
Romelu Lukaku [Everton - Man Utd] £76.23m
Alvaro Morata [Real Madrid - Chelsea] £58.5m
Benjamin Mendy [Monaco - Man City] £51.75m
Alexandre Lacazette [Lyon - Arsenal] £47.7m
Kyle Walker [Tottenham - Man City] £45.9m
Bernardo Silva [Monaco - Man City] £45m
Nemanja Matic [Chelsea - Man Utd] £40.23m
Mohamed Salah [Roma - Liverpool] £37.8m
Ederson Moraes [Benfica - Man City] £36m
Tiemoue Bakayoko [Monaco - Chelsea] £36m
Antonio Rudiger [Roma - Chelsea] £31.5m
Victor Lindelof [Benfica - Man Utd] £31.5m
Danilo [Real Madrid - Man City] £27m
Jordan Pickford [Sunderland - Everton] £25.65m
Michael Keane [Burnley - Everton] £25.65m
Kelechi Iheanacho [Man City - Leicester] £24.93m
Davy Klaassen [Ajax - Everton] £24.3m
Nathan Ake [Chelsea - Bournemouth] £20.52m
Marko Arnautovic [Stoke - West Ham] £20.07m
Andre Gray [Burnley - Watford] £18.36m