Thursday, 28 September 2023

Premier Predictions (Week 07)

League Cup out of the way till next month, only 10 Premier teams through.
Big European week coming up, so probably a few changed teams.

Bounus game this week with the re-arranged Luton Burnley game.
So 11 matches this week, 8 on Saturday and 1 each on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Top teams all have difficult games, and I'm hoping Sheffield Utd are still shell shocked 😁


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


Good Luck All  πŸ˜€

A picture to explain how the comments (spam) page works
all posts come here, but some need to be unblocked?
Not sure why this is happening, and now a new problem of posts that do show up at first
now going back to here, meaning some of the old comments threads don't make sense??


Wednesday, 20 September 2023

Premier Predictions (Week 06)

8 teams played in Europe this week, most teams involved in next weeks League Cup so all this weeks matches are on Saturday and Sunday. 5 games each day.

Saturday Man City home to Forest, Man Utd away at Burnley late Saturday night.
North London derby on Sunday with new improved Tottenham's first big test, and West Ham go to Liverpool which (with one exception) is not a happy place πŸ˜’ also same ref and VAR as last season where Thiago's double handball was mysteriously missed? so not expecting much.


Crystal Palace v Fulham
Luton v Wolves
Man City v Nottm Forest
Brentford v Everton
Burnley v Man Utd

Arsenal v Tottenham
Brighton v Bournemouth
Chelsea v Aston Villa
Liverpool v West Ham
Sheff Utd v Newcastle


Good Luck All  πŸ˜€

Thursday, 14 September 2023

Premier Predictions (Week 05)

Back after a fairly uninspiring international break with week 5 of the Premier League.
7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and 1 on Monday.
Big test for new improved West Ham, with City this week and Liverpool next week either side of the return of European football.
Saturday 12:30 kick off this week which is good.


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


Good Luck All  πŸ˜ƒ

Friday, 8 September 2023

Summer Transfers 2023

Most of the transfer windows shut now, still a few open which doesn't seem right?
Turkey, Greece, and a few others still have up to 2 weeks.
The Saudi one is now closed so Liverpool will be relieved.

Anyway here's where the Premier league cash was splashed this season.
Another monopoly money window with over £2.5 billion spent!!
With the so called "big 6" accounting for £1.5 billion of that.
(Info based on the best sources I could find, includes squad and youth players).

Big spenders by a mile were Chelsea again, with Tottenham, Arsenal and Man City also doing over £200m.
Just 4 teams making a profit this season.


The Chart:



Total Spend - £2,671,600,000
Most Players In - Burnley 18, Nottm Forest 17, Chelsea 16
Most Players Out - Chelsea 50, Man City 41, Wolves 38
Most Money Paid - Chelsea £453.9m, Tottenham £246.3m, Man City £219.22m
Most Money Received - Chelsea £251.7m, Brighton £191.2m, Man City £152.86m
Largest Profit - Brighton £99.3m, Wolves £58.95m, Everton £39.5m
Largest Defecit - Chelsea £202.2m, Arsenal £144.6m, Man Utd £133.13m

Largest Fees Paid (£50m +)
Used to do this list for £10m + but now you can't get an untried kid for that.

Moises Caicedo [Brighton - Chelsea] £115m
Declan Rice [West Ham - Arsenal] £105m
Harry Kane [Tottenham Hotspur - Bayern Munich] £95m **
Josko Gvardiol [RB Leipzig - Man City] £77m
Rasmus Hojlund [Atalanta - Man Utd] £72m
Kai Havertz [Chelsea - Arsenal] £70m
Dominik Szoboszlai [RB Leipzig - Liverpool] £70m
Sandro Tonali [AC Milan - Newcastle] £64m
Christopher Nkunku [RB Leipzig - Chelsea] £60m
Romeo Lavia [Southampton - Chelsea] £58m
Jeremy Doku [Rennes - Man City] £55.4m
Moussa Diaby [Bayer Leverkusen - Aston Villa] £55m
Matheus Nunes [Wolves - Man City] £55m
Mason Mount [Chelsea - Man Utd] £55m
Aleksandar Mitrovic [Fulham - Al Hilal] £52.6m **
Matheus Cunha [Athletico Madrid - Wolves] £50m

First impressions are that Chelsea way overspent on Caicedo and Lavia, but did good business on getting those fees for Havertz and Mount.
Not sure on the Man City signings but Pep is rarely wrong.
RB Leipzig in Germany have done well with bringing in over £200m from English clubs, while taking Carvalho from Liverpool on a free loan?

Would be good for Harry Kane if he actually wins something at last in Germany (or is he a jonah??), must be awkward for him at England time with Kalvin Phillips showing off his large collection of winners medals despite only playing for a couple of hours in 2 seasons πŸ˜€