It could be another really weird season with the Coronavirus problems, nobody really knows what the next 9 months hold on that score? Even if everything was normal it would be a really hard job to predict what is going to happen this season.
The title looks like a 4 horse race?
Liverpool won by a mile last season, but were really lucky with injuries to key players that all the other contenders seemed to get. They haven't added to their squad yet and got rid of a few squad players.
It will be down to the other teams improving on bad seasons to put pressure on them.
Man City probably have the best squad but losing Sane and Silva will weaken them, and some of Guardiola's tactics last season make you wonder if he's as good as he thinks he is.
Man Utd looked good at the end of last season and Fernandes was the best buy last year, the defence still looks weak so would need to improve a lot.
Chelsea have spent big already with £200m of players coming in, but will they knit together and how will some of last year's breakthrough youngsters react to losing their place, and will they sort out their goalie problem?
The other possible contenders are Arsenal, Wolves and Tottenham.
Arsenal seem to have revived under Arteta and should have a good season, Wolves went off the boil a bit last season but did play a lot of games, will miss Doherty. Tottenham still don't look a force, got some good players but can't see them challenging for the title.
I would guess Leicester, Southampton, Newcastle and Sheff Utd will be mid table.
At the bottom it's any 3 from the rest.
Can't see any of the promoted sides doing a Norwich, but don't think they will set the world alight.
Possibly a season of struggle for West Ham, Burnley, Palace, Brighton, Villa, Everton and the 3 promoted teams.
Things looked bright a couple of weeks ago for West Ham with Diangana back on the left to supply Haller, and Bowen improving all the time, but the sale of Grady to a rival has really put a dampner on everything.
Prediction Time (with a lot of bias)
Top
1 Man City 2 Liverpool 3 Chelsea 4 Man Utd 5 Arsenal
Bottom
20 Brighton 19 C Palace 18 Fulham / 17 Burnley 16 West Ham
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