Premier Predictions (Week 09)

Back from another International break (yawn) with what should be a complete set this week?
7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday.
Derby week for London, Manchester and the Midlands.

Arsenal v Tottenham
Bournemouth v Brentford
Crystal Palace v Chelsea
Fulham v Newcastle
Liverpool v Brighton
Southampton v Everton
West Ham v Wolves

Man City v Man Utd
Leeds v Aston Villa
Leicester v Nottm Forest

Good Luck All  😀

* Site appears to be treating every comment as potential spam (probably because I'm getting so many unwanted comments from Thai gambling sites), if your post does not appear straight away it is probably awaiting me saying it's ok. Will check on it when I can, and publish. Not a change I've made? *

Premier Predictions (Week 08)

Will probably need to update this?
Week 7 was a write off, Week 8 not looking good so far.

If the games happen?
2 on Friday night, 4 on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.

The Brighton v Palace game was already due to be postponed due to the rail strike, which is not now happening?
The games at Chelsea and Man Utd seem to have been called off as well.


Aston Villa v Southampton
Nottm Forest v Fulham

Wolves v Man City
Brighton v Crystal Palace (Postponed)
Newcastle v Bournemouth
Tottenham v Leicester

Brentford v Arsenal
Everton v West Ham
Man Utd v Leeds (Postponed)
Chelsea v Liverpool (Postponed)

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 07)

* All Games Postponed *

Back to domestic football with some really interesting games.
6 games Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 on Monday.
Chelsea as expected dump Tuchel after losing to Zagreb (obviously Euro VAR crew not as corrupt as the English version), Fulham must fancy their chances.
South coast derby Bournemouth v Brighton, with Chelsea trying to steal Brighton's manager obviously money talks but think he should stay where he is if he wants to be in a job next year.
Midlands derby with the two most under pressure managers.
Shell shocked Liverpool should be able to beat Wolves?
Man City v Tottenham should be good, don't think Pep will rest Haaland this week.
West Ham v Newcastle might be a problem for the VAR crew as they hate both teams.
Also 3 other games (but this intro is too long already). 😁

Fulham v Chelsea
Bournemouth v Brighton
Leicester v Aston Villa
Liverpool v Wolves
Southampton v Brentford
Man City v Tottenham

Arsenal v Everton
West Ham v Newcastle
Crystal Palace v Man Utd

Leeds v Nottm Forest


Good Luck All  😀

* Hopefully the posting problem is sorted?
Although I seem to have been targeted by a Thai slot betting spammer, who added over 40 spam posts on Monday (all gone now).

Summer Transfers 2022

So continuing with my six monthly pet project here's the summer transfer update. 😀

Summer 2022 transfer window now shut so here's where the Premier league cash was splashed this season.
(Info based on the best sources I could find, includes squad and youth players).
Pretty sure this must be a record spend for the Premier League with over £2 billion spent (what cost of living crisis?).
Last year there were the two big £100 million transfers (Grealish and Lukaku), but only two more exceeding £50m, this year although the highest was £85m Antony at Man Utd there were Ten £50m + transfers.

Big spenders were Chelsea and Man Utd with West Ham joining the club this season.
Three teams are showing a large profit, with Man City bringing in £190m.
Nottingham Forest have brought in a massive 23 players, the worry for them is that Fulham and Norwich did similar in the last two years and both were relegated.
Leicester making a profit thanks to the Fofana deal but only brought in one first teamer and two kids.
I've added a loaned out column this season, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man CIty are usually top of this but have noticed Brighton do a lot of it as well.

The Chart:

Total Spend - £2,053,910,000,000
Most Players In - Nottm Forest 23, Bournemouth 12, Chelsea 12, Fulham 12
Most Players Out - Man City 46, Chelsea 43, Arsenal 38
Most Money Paid - Chelsea £267.29m, Man Utd £216.3m, West Ham £164.26m
Most Money Received - Man City £190.63m, Brighton £103.41m, Leeds £97.83m
Largest Profit - Man City £65.08m, Brighton £60.39m, Leicester £57.96m
Largest Defecit - Chelsea £208.52m, Man Utd £193.12m, West Ham £147.44m

Largest Fees Paid (£32m +)

Antony [Ajax - Man Utd] £85.5m
Wesley Fofana [Leicester - Chelsea] £74.25m
Darwin Nunez [Benfica - Liverpool] £67.5m
Casemiro [Real Madrid - Man Utd] £63.59m
Alexander Isak [Real Sociedad - Newcastle] £63m
Marc Cucurella [Brighton - Chelsea] £58.77m
Erling Haaland [Dortmund - Man City] £54m
Raphinha [Leeds - Barcelona] £52.2m **
Richarlison [Everton - Tottenham] £52.2m
Lisandro Martínez [Ajax - Man Utd] £51.63m
Raheem Sterling [Man City - Chelsea] £50.58m
Gabriel Jesus [Man City - Arsenal] £46.98m
Cristian Romero [Atalanta - Tottenham] £45m
Kalvin Phillips [Leeds - Man City] £44.1m
Matheus Nunes [Sporting Lisbon - Wolves] £40.5m
Lucas Paquetá [Lyon - West Ham] £38.66m
Kalidou Koulibaly [Napoli - Chelsea] £34.2m
Sven Botman [Lille - Newcastle] £33.3m
Gianluca Scamacca [Sassuolo - West Ham] £32.4m
Amadou Onana [Lille - Everton] £32.4m

Oddest transfers?
A few surprised me this year.
Loans - Dan James to Fulham, Conor Coady to Everton.
Man City getting rid of so many top players.
Chelsea signing left back Cucurella when they had 2 quality left backs.
Tom Huddlestone to Man Utd, Jay Spearing to Liverpool

Early signs are Haaland and Jesus have been good buys, and several others have started well.

Well that's that till January  😉

Premier Predictions (Week 06)

(Edit)
This week there are 8 games on Saturday and 2 on Sunday
Some moved due to Euro games next week.
Mersey derby to start, couple of London derbies to follow.
Forest play Bournemouth I'm wondering if ground is big enough for the Forest squad?
Rodgers, Gerrard and Tuchel all praying for a good result.


Everton v Liverpool
Brentford v Leeds
Chelsea v West Ham
Newcastle v Crystal Palace
Nottm Forest v Bournemouth
Tottenham v Fulham
Wolves v Southampton
Aston Villa v Man City

Brighton v Leicester
Man Utd v Arsenal


Good Luck All  😀

Right, hunting through the settings I seem to have found the missing posts but only visble in the blog settings?

But still no idea why some posts appear on the main page and some don't?

Some classed as spam for unknown reasons so didn't post? but also found that assorted Spambots had posted about 50 comments this week on older blog entries (e.g week 22/23 of last season, just working my through deleting those).

Hopefully I'll find a reason? if not at least I now know where to look for your non posted comments

 

 Keep posting, looks like I might see it even if you don't straight away