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

Premier Predictions (Week 04 + 05)

First of several double weeks this season
Post when you like, hopefully everyone's will come through this week?

Week 4 - 7 games Saturday, 3 on Sunday
Week 5 - 4 games Tuesday, 5 Wednesday, 1 Thursday).

Arsenal and West Ham have the only 100% records after 3 games  😭


Week 4 (Sat 27/08 - Sun 28/08)  12:30pm Start

Southampton v Man Utd
Brentford v Everton
Brighton v Leeds
Chelsea v Leicester
Liverpool v Bournemouth
Man City v Crystal Palace
Arsenal v Fulham

Aston Villa v West Ham
Wolves v Newcastle
Nottm Forest v Tottenham

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Week 5 (Tue 30/08 - Thur 01/09)

Crystal Palace v Brentford
Fulham v Brighton
Southampton v Chelsea
Leeds v Everton

Arsenal v Aston Villa
Bournemouth v Wolves
Man City v Nottm Forest
West Ham v Tottenham
Liverpool v Newcastle

Leicester v Man Utd

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Good Luck All  😀

Will post the week 6 Saturday games around Thursday.

Premier Predictions (Week 03)

Week 3 already, a busy season ahead.
6 games Saturday, 3 on Sunday and the big relegation battle on Monday 😜
When you think of top flight London derbies not many think Fulham v Brentford? Only two 100% records left and Arsenal go to Bournemouth.
Sunday has the Two mega rich Arab run clubs facing off, and West Ham play bogey team Brighton right in the middle of the Euro games.

Tottenham v Wolves
Crystal Palace v Aston Villa
Everton v Nottm Forest
Fulham v Brentford
Leicester v Southampton
Bournemouth v Arsenal

Leeds v Chelsea
West Ham v Brighton
Newcastle v Man City

Man Utd v Liverpool

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 02)

Late again, will take me a while to get used to the weekly football again.
7 games Saturday, 2 on SUnday and One on Monday.


Aston Villa v Everton
Arsenal v Leicester
Brighton v Newcastle
Man City v Bournemouth
Southampton v Leeds
Wolves v Fulham
Brentford v Man Utd

Nottm Forest v West Ham
Chelsea v Tottenham
Liverpool v Crystal Palace

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 01)

Premier League time again, so here we go with this seasons Premier Predictions 2022-23

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 so I can give you some colours.

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 total points for the season come into play. 

Predictions in the comments please 😀   

Obviously predictions will only count if they are made before the kick offs, please try and post the whole set at once (but I won't enforce it as these Friday night games catch everyone out including me).

Prizes - Just the admiration of everyone who plays 😎

1 game on Friday night, 6 games Saturday and 3 on Sunday.
Looking forward to Dawson v Haaland

Week 1 - Friday 5th August to Sunday 7th August 

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Crystal Palace v Arsenal

Fulham v Liverpool
Bournemouth v Aston Villa
Leeds v Wolves
Newcastle v Nottm Forest
Tottenham v Southampton
Everton v Chelsea

Leicester v Brentford
Man Utd v Brighton
West Ham v Man City

Good Luck All  😀

Here We Go Again

The 2022/23 season starts in a weeks time, an odd season as we have the World Cup in the middle of it.
The title will probably be between the big two, who will both be playing in tomorrows Community shield opener (probably starting with reserve teams for both).
Challenging for the minor placings will be Chelsea, Man U, Arsenal, Tottenham, West Ham.
Avoiding relegation will be the main priority for the 3 promoted teams along with Everton, Southampton and a few others.

Early season transfers have seen Arseanal, Leeds, Man City, Tottenham, Chelsea, West Ham, Liverpool and Nottm Forest as big spenders (although Man City have raked in £173m on outgoing players so are £75m up).
Bournemouth and Leicester yet to spend a penny.

Anyway here are those tables from last season for the final predictions and Fantasy Leagues.

Full Predictions League

Table if guests were included (No Lawro next season)

FPL - Nothing Better Than Football League

FPL League for this season is open - Code - 258qnt

2022-2023

Better get warmed up as it's only 3 weeks till the new season kicks off.

Only 2 weeks till the first Liverpool v Man City game of the season in the Charity Shield.

First things first, if anyone wants to join this seasons Fantasy Premier League

The code is - 258qnt

 

More stuff coming   😀

Premier Predictions (Week 38)

Here we go it's the final week, the title decider  🏆

In the big one - Only a win can give Biopunk the title, Paul has an 80% chance of hanging on.

Elsewhere Man City can wrap up the league if they beat Villa, Liverpool hoping their old boys can do them a favour.
At the bottom Leeds need to better Burnley's result to stay up, or win by about 25 goals to guarantee it
Battle for 4th should go to Tottenham unless they blow it against relegated Norwich, although Arsenal winning is not a given.
West Ham hoping Palace do them a favour by beating Man Utd for the final Europa league place, although it has been 10 years since we last beat Brighton, and never done it in 9 Premier league games  😢

Also it is supposed to be the final set of Mark Lawrenson predictions this week as he's giving it up.
So I expect a Liverpool win, a West Ham loss and lots of 2-0's.
Looks like he has beaten all of us again so we will need someone else to test ourselves against if we continue next season.
Not sure if someone else will take over?

Anyway here goes the final 10, all kick off at 4pm on Sunday


Arsenal v Everton
Brentford v Leeds
Brighton v West Ham
Burnley v Newcastle
Chelsea v Watford
Crystal Palace v Man Utd
Leicester v Southampton
Liverpool v Wolves
Man City v Aston Villa
Norwich v Tottenham


Good Luck All   😀

Premier Predictions (Week 37)

Another elongated week with a bonus cup game
13 games - 1 Saturday, 7 on Sunday, 1 Monday, 1 Tuesday, 3 Thursday.
🏆  Usual 90 minute score on Cup game.

Man City with the chance to wrap up the league, but 3 points for West Ham might kick Man Utd out of the Europa spot without blowing their title prospects. Dilemma for City 🤣
At the bottom Leeds need to beat form team Brighton, Everton and Burnley have 2 games this week.
Arsenal need to win both their games to hang on to 4th?


Chelsea v Liverpool (FA Cup)
*
Tottenham v Burnley
Aston Villa v Crystal Palace
Everton v Brentford
Leeds v Brighton
Watford v Leicester
Wolves v Norwich
West Ham v Man City
*
Newcastle v Arsenal
*
Southampton v Liverpool
*
Everton v Crystal Palace
Aston Villa v Burnley
Chelsea v Leicester

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 36)

Week 36 is the start of 2 mega extended weeks.
16 games this week, 6 on Saturday, 4 on Sunday, 1 on Tuesday, 4 on Wednesday and 1 on Thursday.
Title race hotting up with both teams playing twice.
At the bottom Burnley play first, but then Everton and Leeds play twice.

First game is 3pm on Saturday.

Brentford v Southampton
Burnley v Aston Villa
Chelsea v Wolves
Crystal Palace v Watford
Brighton v Man Utd
Liverpool v Tottenham
*
Arsenal v Leeds
Leicester v Everton
Norwich v West Ham
Man City v Newcastle
*
Aston Villa v Liverpool
*
Leeds v Chelsea
Leicester v Norwich
Watford v Everton
Wolves v Man City
*
Tottenham v Arsenal

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 35)

An almost normal week this time, 10 games.
6 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 on Monday.
Tricky games for the top 2 and the relegation battlers.
I guess Arsenal and Tottenham will be happy playing teams in the middle of Euro semi finals  😒

Newcastle v Liverpool
Aston Villa v Norwich
Southampton v Crystal Palace
Watford v Burnley
Wolves v Brighton
Leeds v Man City

Everton v Chelsea
Tottenham v Leicester
West Ham v Arsenal
Man Utd v Brentford

Good Luck All  😀

* Comments box has changed for some reason, hope it won't cause problems *

Premier Predictions (Week 34)

Quick turn around this week, bloody Thursday games 😵

Another extended week with 11 games
5 on Saturday, 4 on Sunday, 1 on Monday and 1 on Thursday (again).
Man City play first this week, Arsenal v Man U used to be a big game now a battle for 4th if Eriksen puts one over his old team?
Not sure which Chelsea will turn up on Sunday, but not ideal for West Ham who will have their mind on Thursday.
Scouse Derby with Everton desperate for points but very unlikely.
The Man U v Chelsea game is brought forward from Cup Final weekend.

Arsenal v Man Utd
Leicester v Aston Villa
Man City v Watford
Norwich v Newcastle
Brentford v Tottenham
*
Brighton v Southampton
Burnley v Wolves
Chelsea v West Ham
Liverpool v Everton
*
Crystal Palace v Leeds
*
Man Utd v Chelsea

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 33)

Far from a straightforward week this time.
14 games including 2 Cup Semi's (90 min score)
5 games on Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 on Tuesday, 4 on Wednesday, 1 on Thursday.
A collection of re-arranged games next week, meaning 11 teams play twice and Leeds, Wolves and Villa don't play at all.

All clear?  😀

Tottenham v Brighton
Man Utd v Norwich
Southampton v Arsenal
Watford v Brentford
Man City v Liverpool (FA Cup)
*
Newcastle v Leicester
West Ham v Burnley
Chelsea v Crystal Palace (FA Cup)
*
Liverpool v Man Utd
*
Chelsea v Arsenal
Everton v Leicester
Newcastle v Crystal Palace
Man City v Brighton
*
Burnley v Southampton

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 32)

Another Friday night start  😒
Just the 10 games this week, before another mad one next week.
1 game Friday, 5 on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.
Obviously the big one is Sunday with the top 2 facing off
2 big relegation battles with Watford and Burnley hoping for wins, while Everton face Man Utd.


Newcastle v Wolves
*
Everton v Man Utd
Arsenal v Brighton
Southampton v Chelsea
Watford v Leeds
Aston Villa v Tottenham
*
Brentford v West Ham
Leicester v Crystal Palace
Norwich v Burnley
Man City v Liverpool

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 31)

Back after that pretty dull international break, with the England games hidden away on Sky I forgot about both of them till the day after, then only saw the 3 minute highlight package.
World Cup draw on Friday (of interest to Biopunk for a change with Canada in the hat).

Premier League (Week 31)
11 games this week, 7 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday and 1 on Wednesday.
Liverpool have the chance to go top, although Watford really need points with Burnley and Everton playing twice this week.
Big European week for some so possibly some rested players.

Liverpool v Watford
Brighton v Norwich
Burnley v Man City
Chelsea v Brentford
Leeds v Southampton
Wolves v Aston Villa
Man Utd v Leicester

West Ham v Everton
Tottenham v Newcastle

Crystal Palace v Arsenal

Burnley v Everton

Good Luck All   😀

Premier Predictions (Week 30) + FA Cup 6th Round

Re-posting this as nobody has done any predictions yet, and it's less confusing 😀

Due to all the postponed games we only have 4 League games this week, so I'm throwing in the 4 FA Cup games 🏆 as well to make a reasonable week of 8 games (90 min scores in Cup games).
 
Starts on Friday night with 2 more on Saturday and 5 on Sunday.


Week 30 (Fri 18/03/22 - Sun 20/03/22)

Wolves v Leeds
*
Aston Villa v Arsenal
Middlesbrough v Chelsea (FA Cup)
*
Crystal Palace v Everton (FA Cup)
Leicester v Brentford
Southampton v Man City (FA Cup)
Tottenham v West Ham
Nottm Forest v Liverpool (FA Cup)


Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 29)

Week 29 includes 3 more re-arranged games taking place on Wednesday and Thursday, while week 30 starts on Friday night.

Week 29 has 3 games on Saturday, 6 on Sunday, 1 on Monday, 2 on Wednesday and one on Thursday.
Liverpool have the chance to catch Man City with 2 games, while City have to play their bogey team Palace.
Interesting game is Chelsea v Newcastle, with one now sanctioned due to a dodgy owner being  linked with a country bombing innocent civilians, vs the other owned by a dodgy country who are bombing innocent civilians? ... enough politics for now 😒

Top 4 race is looking set unless Arsenal lose their 2 home games this week, relegation looking like Norwich, Watford and any one from 4 so a big week for Lampard

Week 29    (Sat 12/03/22 - Thur 17/03/22)

Brighton v Liverpool
Brentford v Burnley
Man Utd v Tottenham
*
Chelsea v Newcastle
Everton v Wolves
Leeds v Norwich
Southampton v Watford
West Ham v Aston Villa
Arsenal v Leicester
*
Crystal Palace v Man City
*
Brighton v Tottenham
Arsenal v Liverpool
*
Everton v Newcastle

Good Luck All  😀

See new post above for Week 30

Premier Predictions (Week 28)

Bumper week of fixtures, 14 at the moment (*subject to change).
7 games on Saturday, 2 Sunday, 1 Monday and now 4 on Thursday.

6 games from Week 30 postponed due to FA Cup now to be crammed into the fixture list somewhere, in addition to the 7 games that already needed re-arranging due to Covid postponements.
All these re-arranged games on Thursdays to suit TV companies making it a bit of a nightmare to separate weeks  😕

Anyway here goes with the provisional weeks fixtures.

The Manc derby is the big one, Man U seem to have the hex over City recently which will suit Liverpool although West Ham are due a good performance? (but I'm sure the refs will make sure there are no shocks there) 😜

Week 28    (Sat 05/03/22 - Thur 10/03/22)

Leicester v Leeds
Aston Villa v Southampton
Burnley v Chelsea
Newcastle v Brighton
Norwich v Brentford
Wolves v Crystal Palace
Liverpool v West Ham
*
Watford v Arsenal
Man City v Man Utd
*
Tottenham v Everton
*
Norwich v Chelsea
Southampton v Newcastle
Wolves v Watford
Leeds v Aston Villa

Good Luck All   😀