Premier League 2009-2010 prediction thread!!

[HattonTheHammer]

Good career choice.

Really fucking weird. We had a bid accepted but then asked Leeds' permission to think about it for a week. I don't get the point in that.

Shame because he has some potential but he'll get more action at Villa so good luck to him.

seen delph a few times and he looks a good prospect

No doubt he`ll end up playing for a much bigger club than villa and they`ll make a nice little earner off of him. Do think its a bit early for people to be classing him as a potential superstar.

Wilshire at arsenal is world class for his age. But that wont mean sod all if he doesnt improve his game every single season and just stagnates into a trick pony ala:joe cole.

Remember seeing joey as a 16 year old running rings around every single player on the pitch and people around were claiming he would be the next george best. Never quite worked out for joe because he got too much too early and didnt push on like he should of done.

I don't know, i think he looks real good because the standard of players around him isn't that high. Found out that Villa had a bid accepted, Leeds' had agreed to sell, we came in with an offer that matched it, Leeds wanted more (£4m more) and that's why we said we wanted to think about it - he's not worth £10m. Leeds rejected this in case we decided to simply pull out. Bates' made out in the press that we made a bid and then asked for time to think about it.

Moyes has told Lescott that any transfer request will be rejected and made public. This annoys me because Moyes went on a rant earlier in the week about conducting transfers properly and then Everton go and make the Lescott bid public, their Senderos bid public and no he's threatening to make Joleon's transfer request public. We're getting some serious shit form the press when we haven't made a single bid public.

Villa made the Barry story public, Barca made the Eto'o one public, Chelsea made the Terry one public and now Everton with the Lescott one. How are you supposed to conduct transfers these days?

f*ck lescott, delph, eto.....are you in for upson, green, parker etc

[El Kabong]

Jozy Altidore will be on loan to Hull this season...I hope he picks the flow of the game up fast!


Aquilani is coming to Liverpool...I am cautiously optimistic, he is very talented, but seems to be injured quite a bit

[Master]

Jozy Altidore will be on loan to Hull this season...I hope he picks the flow of the game up fast!


Aquilani is coming to Liverpool...I am cautiously optimistic, he is very talented, but seems to be injured quite a bit

If we kept the same team with Alonso we could have won the league. I think we may have blown it. Aquilani is injured already and will not play until October.

[ono]

Jozy Altidore will be on loan to Hull this season...I hope he picks the flow of the game up fast!


Aquilani is coming to Liverpool...I am cautiously optimistic, he is very talented, but seems to be injured quite a bit

If we kept the same team with Alonso we could have won the league. I think we may have blown it. Aquilani is injured already and will not play until October.

Luckily United are going to be weaker (imo) without Ronaldo and Tevez so it might not matter too much. Arsenal are weaker. Chelsea have pretty much stayed the same, Everton haven't strengthened, Villa have but have also been weakened. I think it will be out of Chelsea, Liverpool and United to be honest. I hope we challenege somewhere near though.

Lescott has had his transfer request rejected. Talking about tranfer requests, my mate told me John Terry tried to hand one in at Chelsea only to be told it would be rejected so they told him to go away and think about it. Despite all the 'i was never going to leave bullshit' we were pretty close to getting him.

£20m for Lescott is daylight robbery.

[Master]

John Terry is a waste of money too considering his age. He certainly negotiated a fat contract for himself, the greedy git.

[OumaFan]

Man U just don't look that scary too me Rooney has got to add some goals and I'm sure he will. Valencia needs to be good. Their back four's still good though.

A bit off topic but since I've started following the premier league I've decided that English sports fans are much more critical of players for being "greedy" than American fans are. I think we've just accepted it after a while, not like there isn't some outrage about it but not as much I don't think. If I was a player I would want to make as much money as I could while I was playing so I wouldn't have to worry about it after my career was over.

Kind of along those lines as a Fulham fan I would be annoyed if Hangeland left for Arsenal but I would understand why he would want too. Come to think of it was Hangeland the one highly thought of center back that Man City haven't tried to buy? I guess Hughes doesn't like him as much as some people.

[El Kabong]

I hear lots of stuff about Babel or Lucas filling in for Alonso...and if that's the case then top 4 will be the BEST we do. Lucas is the WORST Brazilian soccer player ever!!!!

The line up we're going to need is as follows:

GK: Reina
LB: Insua/Aurelio CB: Carragher CB: Agger/Skrtel RB: Johnson
LM: Riera CM: Mascherano CM: Benayoun RM: Kuyt
ST: Gerrard ST: Torres

Dirk has never been my favorite player, but I think he hustles and he seems to do better when he has more ground to cover. Sure he can't cross the ball very well, but he can play a through ball pretty good. I think Voronin should be used more as well if we're going to play our outside players (Riera and Kuyt) farther forward than when we had Alonso. I think Benayoun is vital to our success as well as Kuyt and Voronin, those guys have to play at a higher level than ever before if we're going to do anything. Our defense is solid and Gerrard and Torres will be good for planty of goals, but we need guys to feed them AND to add goals when teams mark Steve and Torres closely.

[Master]

Man U just don't look that scary too me Rooney has got to add some goals and I'm sure he will. Valencia needs to be good. Their back four's still good though.

A bit off topic but since I've started following the premier league I've decided that English sports fans are much more critical of players for being "greedy" than American fans are. I think we've just accepted it after a while, not like there isn't some outrage about it but not as much I don't think. If I was a player I would want to make as much money as I could while I was playing so I wouldn't have to worry about it after my career was over.

Kind of along those lines as a Fulham fan I would be annoyed if Hangeland left for Arsenal but I would understand why he would want too. Come to think of it was Hangeland the one highly thought of center back that Man City haven't tried to buy? I guess Hughes doesn't like him as much as some people.

The players are hypocrites, I respect them moving for the money just say that was the reason and not because the club did not show me the love, or kiss the badge and then piss off next get to another club and start kissing their badge.

[skel1983]

Man U just don't look that scary too me Rooney has got to add some goals and I'm sure he will. Valencia needs to be good. Their back four's still good though.

A bit off topic but since I've started following the premier league I've decided that English sports fans are much more critical of players for being "greedy" than American fans are. I think we've just accepted it after a while, not like there isn't some outrage about it but not as much I don't think. If I was a player I would want to make as much money as I could while I was playing so I wouldn't have to worry about it after my career was over.

Kind of along those lines as a Fulham fan I would be annoyed if Hangeland left for Arsenal but I would understand why he would want too. Come to think of it was Hangeland the one highly thought of center back that Man City haven't tried to buy? I guess Hughes doesn't like him as much as some people.

I agree Ouma Hangeland to Arsenal is a natural progression, aswell as his bank blance he is advancing his career and playing for a better club, you cant really be critical to someone in that posistion. But like Master said someone lke John Terry is a money grabbing cunt, to even contemplate going to such an inferior club in terms of where there at right now just for financial gain is insane for me considering he is already earning in excess of 120k a week.

Footballers leaving clubs to better there careers you cant really blame them but players like Tevez Adebeyor etc etc All about money and I think that is a shame for the sake of 40/50 k id rather be playing for a club who has better players and are playing better standard of football personally.

[ono]

seen delph a few times and he looks a good prospect

No doubt he`ll end up playing for a much bigger club than villa and they`ll make a nice little earner off of him. Do think its a bit early for people to be classing him as a potential superstar.

Wilshire at arsenal is world class for his age. But that wont mean sod all if he doesnt improve his game every single season and just stagnates into a trick pony ala:joe cole.

Remember seeing joey as a 16 year old running rings around every single player on the pitch and people around were claiming he would be the next george best. Never quite worked out for joe because he got too much too early and didnt push on like he should of done.

I don't know, i think he looks real good because the standard of players around him isn't that high. Found out that Villa had a bid accepted, Leeds' had agreed to sell, we came in with an offer that matched it, Leeds wanted more (£4m more) and that's why we said we wanted to think about it - he's not worth £10m. Leeds rejected this in case we decided to simply pull out. Bates' made out in the press that we made a bid and then asked for time to think about it.

Moyes has told Lescott that any transfer request will be rejected and made public. This annoys me because Moyes went on a rant earlier in the week about conducting transfers properly and then Everton go and make the Lescott bid public, their Senderos bid public and no he's threatening to make Joleon's transfer request public. We're getting some serious shit form the press when we haven't made a single bid public.

Villa made the Barry story public, Barca made the Eto'o one public, Chelsea made the Terry one public and now Everton with the Lescott one. How are you supposed to conduct transfers these days?

f*ck lescott, delph, eto.....are you in for upson, green, parker etc

Media reckon we're in for Upson but i haven't heard owt yet. We're giving the Lescott deal a bit more time but we want a centre half in for weekend so unless anything happens in the next few days with lescott, then i wouldn't be surprised if the stories were true.

[JazMerkin]

1 Chelsea
2 Manchester United
3 Manchester City
4 Liverpool
5 Arsenal
6 Aston Villa
7 Tottenham
8 Everton
9 West Ham
10 Fulham
11 Sunderland
12 Blackburn Rovers
13 Birmingham City
14 Wigan
15 Bolton Wanderers
16 Hull City
17 Portsmouth
18 Stoke City
19 Burnley
20 Wolves

That's what I'm going with so far, although a few choice signings before the transfer window might alter it a bit. Should be a good season for the Hammers if we can keep people fit & away from the likes of Spurs & Man City. I reckon Savio might come on a bit this year, & Luis Jimenez who we've got on loan is quality. If we bring in Luca Toni as rumoured then Europe might not be out of the question