Premier Predictions (Week 28) + F.A Cup Predictions (Part 3)

Just to confuse you, this weeks predictions take in 3 competitions.
The Premier league predictions include 8 games and the League Cup Final.

Premier games are spread over 3 days, starting on Friday plus 5 games on Saturday and 2 on Sunday.
The Aston Villa v Sheff Utd and Man City v Arsenal games have been postponed due to the League Cup Final.

So the Week 28 games are these:

Norwich v Leicester

Brighton v Crystal Palace
Bournemouth v Chelsea
Newcastle v Burnley
West Ham v Southampton
Watford v Liverpool

Everton v Man Utd
Tottenham v Wolves
Aston Villa v Man City (LCF)

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Totally separate is the F.A Cup Predictions (Part 3)  🏆

Games on Monday (1), Tuesday (3), Wednesday (3) and Thursday(1).
Usual cup rules apply - 90 minute score not including Extra time or Penalties.

Portsmouth v Arsenal
Chelsea v Liverpool
Reading v Sheff Utd
West Brom v Newcastle
Leicester v Birmingham
Sheff Wed v Man City
Tottenham v Norwich
Derby v Man Utd

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 27)

For a change it's a "normal" week, with 6 games on Saturday, 3 on Sunday and one Monday.
Chelsea v Tottenham throws up the most interest with Mourinho v Lampard, Chelsea needing to rest players for Tuesdays Euro game and Tottenham having no strikers in the 4th/5th place battle.
Man City go to Leicester in the 2nd/3rd place battle.
In the relegation battle the bottom six are all away from home with tough games.
I guess West Ham will be about 100/1 to get any points (might be worth throwing a few pennies on the miracle? 🤯).

Chelsea v Tottenham
Burnley v Bournemouth
Crystal Palace v Newcastle
Sheff Utd v Brighton
Southampton v Aston Villa
Leicester v Man City

Man Utd v Watford
Wolves v Norwich
Arsenal v Everton
Liverpool v West Ham

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 26)

A long winded affair this time due to the new "winter break", so the games are spread over 10 days.
The first 4 games are this weekend, Saturday and Sunday the 8th and 9th.
The rest run from Friday 14th till Monday the 17th. + Wednesday the 19th.

Everton v Crystal Palace
Brighton v Watford
Sheff Utd v Bournemouth
Man City v West Ham - Postponed

Wolves v Leicester
Southampton v Burnley
Norwich v Liverpool
Aston Villa v Tottenham
Arsenal v Newcastle
Chelsea v Man Utd

Man City v West Ham

Good Luck All  😃

Post when you like, just make sure it's before the kick off's

Updated

A West Ham Post

Just posting my thoughts 😕
West Ham's under 21's (or second XI) are top of Premier League 2 with 12 wins and 3 draws from their 15 games while scoring 48 goals in the process.
In all competitions they have 79 goals in 28 games.
Top Goalscorers - Anthony Scully 18, Nathan Holland 17, Dan Kemp 13, Joe Powell 9.

So what do we do in January? we either loan them out or give them away.

Anthony Scully (Ireland U21 International) - Permanent move to Lincoln
Conor Coventry (Ireland U21 International) - Loan to Lincoln
Dan Kemp (scored against League opposition) - Loan to Stevenage
Joe Powell (U21 Captain, scored against League opposition) - Permanent move to Burton
Kai Corbett (Under 18 talent, scored against League opposition) - Permanent move to Man Utd
Martin Samuelsen (Norway Full International) - Permanent move to Hull
Nathan Holland (England U19 International) - Loan to Oxford

Added to these earlier in the season
Ajibola Alese (England U17 International) - Loan to Acrington
Grady Diangana (England U21 International) - Loan to West Brom
Jordan Hugill (£9m Signing) - Loan to QPR
Josh Cullen (Ireland Full International) - Loan to Charlton
Nathan Trott (England U21 International) - Loan to Wimbledon
Sead Haksabanovic (Montenegro Full International) - Loan to Norrkoping

Meanwhile teams like Chelsea, Man U, Arsenal, Southampton etc. give youth a chance.
But we get rid of ours and  hang on to players like Sanchez?

January Transfers

The January transfer list, not too much spent (in football terms) this time.
Premier teams spent £236m with only 3 players signed for over £20m.

Main transfers (In)
Bruno Fernandes [Sporting Lisbon - Man Utd] £49.5m
Giovani Lo Celso [Real Betis - Tottenham] £27.2m
Steven Bergwijn [PSV Eindhoven - Tottenham] £27m
Sander Berge [Genk - Sheff Utd] £19.35m
Jarrod Bowen [Hull to West Ham] £19.17m
Daniel Podence [Olympiakos - Wolves] £17.64m
Mbwana Samatta [Genk - Aston Villa] £9.45m
Josh Brownhill [Bristol City - Burnley] £9m
Takumi Minamino [R B Salzburg - Liverpool] £7.65m
Ignacio Pussetto [Udinese - Watford] £7.2m

Main transfers (out)
Christian Eriksen [Tottenham - Inter Milan] £18m
Ivan Cavaleiro [Wolves - Fulham] £10.62m
Uriel Antuna [Man City - Chivas] £8.91m
Michael Hector [Chelsea - Fulham] £5.31m

Most spent - Tottenham £58.25m, Man Utd £49.5m
Most received - Tottenham £19.8m, Wolves £13.32m
Most players in - Aston Villa 5, Sheff Utd 5
Most players out - Wolves 14, Chelsea 10, Norwich 10, Tottenham 10

Tables And Fantasy Football

Table Updates

Overdue update of the current positions in the Fantasy footy leagues and the full predictions table.

NBTF Predictions League

Fantasy Premier League 

Liverpool fan Mike doing pretty well but I'm hanging on.

Telegraph Fantasy Football

I'm finally starting to get somwhere in this after a really rough start, Mike was ruling it but Colin has come up on the rails.
The league of leagues is really weird this season with the perennial winners FISO dropping as low as 90th in the table and even now outside the top 10.

Telegraph Fantasy Football European Super League

Doing well in this with the NBTF League sitting 15th and 7 teams in the top 1000, would possibly be higher but as the score is based on the 5 highest scoring players only 4 of us are doing well.
The others seem to have given up :(