Since what you expect and what you think will happen are different things, I'll continue this (sad) tradition of a thread! League Champion: Manchester United Remaining CL Spots: Manchester City, Spurs (we might even get to play in it next year!), Newcastle Europa Spot: Arsenal or Chelsea (RDM will be gone by November) Relegated: Reading, WBA, Wigan FA Cup: Spurs Carling Cup: Liverpool ----------- THFC Predictions Position: 3rd Leading Scorer: Harry Kane (with 20 goals) Player of the Season: Sandro Surprise of the season: Sigurdsson and Vertonghen will convince Sigthorsson to join in January.
EPL Predictions League Champion: Manchester United Remaining CL Spots: Manchester City, Spurs, Chelsea Europa Spots: Liverpool, Arsenal, Everton Relegated: Reading, Stoke, Wigan FA Cup: Liverpool Capital One Cup: Newcastle Leading Scorer: Sergio Aguero Best Signing of the Season: Jay Rodriguez Worst Signing of the Season: Olivier Giroud Racist Signing of the Season: Shinji Kagawa Surprise of the Season: QPR will finish top 10; Jelavic will score 20 goals. ----------- THFC Predictions Position: 3rd Performance in Cups: Bow out early in both domestic competitions; Spurs will beat a couple of big clubs in Europe and lose in the final to Lyon (gross, I know). Leading Scorer: Van Der Vaart - 12 goals (EPL) Player of the Season: Super Scotty Parker Surprise of the season: Gylfi will start fewer than 25 games and Caulker will be loaned out in January due to poor form. January Signings: Victor Moses + a LB and a bigger forward.
Getting this in just before our first game... League Champion: Manchester City Remaining CL Spots: Manchester United, Chelsea, Spurs Europa Spot: Arsenal Relegated: Reading, Norwich, Wigan FA Cup: United Carling Cup: Everton ----------- THFC Predictions Position: 4th Leading Scorer: Ade / A.N. other Player of the Season: VdV Surprise of the season: Ledley returns to help out during mandatory CB injury crisis. Europa League: Semi-final exit It's really a big gamble though, innit? If AVB doesn't work out it could all go pear-shaped quickly. No-one should panic with a slow start.
League Champion: Manchester Blue Remaining CL Spots: Manchester Red, London Blue, Barcodes Europa Spot: London Red, Spurs, Liverpool Red Relegated: Norwich, London Blue/White, South'ampton FA Cup: Liverpool Red Carling Cup: Liverpool Blue ----------- THFC Predictions Position: 4th, by 1 point due to faulty goal line technology Leading Scorer: Bale Player of the Season: Van der Vart Surprise of the season: Spurs sign a striker Europa League: Win, of course. Expectations and all.
League Champion: Manchester Shitty Remaining CL Spots: ManUre, Spurs (we might even get to play in it next year!), Chelsea Europa Spot: Arsenal or Chelsea Relegated: Reading, QPR, Wigan FA Cup: Manchester Shitty Carling Cup: L'arse ----------- THFC Predictions Position: 3rd Leading Scorer: VDV Player of the Season: Bale Surprise of the season: we'll finally sign a striker or two COYS!
League Champion: Man City Remaining CL Spots: Man U, Chelsea, Us Europa Spot: Newcastle Relegated: QPR, Reading West Ham (oh please happen) FA Cup: Liverpool Capital One Cup: Everton ----------- THFC Predictions Position: 4th Leading Scorer: Whoever the deadline day striker is this year Player of the Season: Vertonghen. Why? Because Jan Vertonghen doesn't wear a Superman shirt. Superman wears a Jan Vertonghen shirt. Surprise of the season: AVB's job is never in any real danger
This thread is depressing. I can't even pull myself out of the bottle long enough to participate, except to say: Leading Scorer: Benny with 6 goals, all of them crackers from near the half-way line
League Champion: Man City Remaining CL Spots: Man U, Spurs, Chelsea Europa Spot: Everton Relegated: Norwich, QPR, Wigan FA Cup: Everton Carling Cup: Swansea ----------- THFC Predictions Position: 3rd Leading Scorer: Adebayor Player of the Season: Sigurdsson Surprise of the season: Gomes (comes up huge in Europa League Campaign) Europa League: Win