2012/2013 Barclay's Premier League Prediction Thread

[Shibby]

Well, it's that time of year again.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to fill out this template with your predictions for the upcoming season. Your reward for accuracy: fuck all. this thread will be on page 2 by the time we know.

Champions:
Runners-up:
3rd:
4th:
5th:
6th:
7th:
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Relegated:
Relegated:
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FA Cup Winner:
Capital One Cup Winner:
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Golden Boot:
Golden Glove:
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Player of the Season:
Young Player of the Season:
Newcomer/Signing of the Season:
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Manager of the Season:
First manager sacking:
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Champions League Winners:
Europa League Winner: (if you can really be bothered lol)

Well.. here we go.

Champions: Manchester City
Runners-up: Manchester United
3rd: Arsenal
4th: Chelsea
5th: Liverpool
6th: Tottenham Hotspur
7th: Newcastle United
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Relegated: West Ham
Relegated: Norwich
Relegated: Southampton
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FA Cup Winner: Liverpool
Capital One Cup Winner: Chelsea
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Golden Boot: Sergio Aguero
Golden Glove: Pepe Reina
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Player of the Season: Sergio Aguero
Young Player of the Season: Eden Hazard
Newcomer/Signing of the Season: Lukas Podolski
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Manager of the Season: Brendan Rodgers
First manager sacking: Sam Allardyce
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Champions League Winners: Real Madrid
Europa League Winner: wayyy too many factors like number of teams and CL dropoffs

[Firefox]

Get rid of the optional tags... you go all in like last year no half assed posts in this thread. And make it exactly like last year's thread format. (The predictions last year LOL)

My Predictions:

Champions: Manchester United
Runners-up: Manchester City
3rd: Arsenal
4th: Chelsea
5th: Liverpool
6th: Newcastle United
7th: Tottenham
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18th: Wigan
19th: Southampton
20th: Reading
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FA Cup: Arsenal
Capital One Cup: Chelsea
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Golden Boot: Wayne Rooney
Golden Glove: Joe Hart
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Player of the Season: Wayne Rooney
Young Player of the Season: Eden Hazard
Signing of the Season: Fabio Borini
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Manager of the Season: Brendan Rodgers
First manager sacking: Roberto Di Matteo
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Champions League Winners: Real Madrid
Europa League Winners: Liverpool

[Shibby]

Ok got rid of optionals but I want to keep the few additions. I did after all make last years thread, I'll take this liberty lol.

Edit: you fixed it

[Firefox]

Those are my final predictions. Put Borini as Signing of the season.. I think he will be great with Suarez. I also put us above Manchester United assuming we still have Robin Van Persie. (pretty sure he'll stay)

Brendan Rodgers a good enough manager to take Liverpool 3 places up at least. And I don't see Chelsea doing that well this season to be honest. (assuming they aren't signing anyone else)

[Shibby]

Hope you're right!

Mine are currently under the assumption that RVP leaves. If he does stay I could definitely see you getting 2nd.

[gangsta_795]

Champions: Manchester City
Runners-up: Manchester United
3rd: Chelsea
4th: Arsenal
5th: Tottenham Hotspur
6th: Liverpool
7th: Newcastle United
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Relegated: West Ham
Relegated: Southampton
Relegated: Swansea
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FA Cup Winner: Manchester United
Capital One Cup Winner:
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Golden Boot: Wayne Rooney
Golden Glove: David De Gea
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Player of the Season: Valencia
Young Player of the Season: Eden Hazard
Newcomer/Signing of the Season: Shinji Kagawa
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Manager of the Season:
First manager sacking: Di Matteo
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Champions League Winners: Barcelona
Europa League Winner:

[Firefox]

I put Liverpool as Europa winners and Arsenal as FA Cup Winners.. both risky predictions but you have to go with your gut.

There should be a deadline to edit your predictions perhaps on Transfer Deadline day?

[Shibby]

Ehh I don't think this will be active enough to need it. I imagine the usual suspects will post theirs within a week and it'll die a slow death after that

EDIT: Actually, I'll dig up the other one and see who was closest haha.

EDIT2: No I won't, we were all so wrong lol.

[santinomarella]

Champions: United
Runners-up: City
3rd: Arsenal
4th: Chelsea
5th: Liverpool
6th: Spurs
7th: Newcastle
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Relegated: Villa
Relegated: Reading
Relegated: Southampton
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FA Cup Winner: United
Capital One Cup Winner: City
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Golden Boot: Aguero
Golden Glove: De Gea
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Player of the Season: Rooney
Young Player of the Season: Oscar
Newcomer/Signing of the Season: Kagawa
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Manager of the Season: Sir Alex Ferguson
First manager sacking: Di Matteo
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Champions League Winners: Barcelona
Europa League Winner: Inter

[Nitey]

Champions: Man Utd
Runners-up: Man City
3rd: Arsenal
4th: Liverpool
5th: Chelsea
6th: Newcastle
7th: Tottenham
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18th: Wigan
19th: West Brom
20th: Norwich
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FA Cup: Arsenal
Capital One Cup: Liverpool
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Golden Boot: Rooney
Golden Glove: De Gea
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Player of the Season: Rooney
Young Player of the Season: Marko Marin
Signing of the Season: Shinji Kagawa
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Manager of the Season: Brendan Rodgers
First manager sacking: Steve Clark
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Champions League Winners: PSG
Europa League Winners: Napoli

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Further predictions:

-Title will go down to the wire yet again and this time Utd pip it. Not as close as last season though
-Kagawa is going to light the league on fire. Signing of the season and impeccable link-up with Rooney
-Race for 3rd and 4th tight all season but Arsenal manage to comfortably get 3rd it in the end. FA cup win turns fortunes around at the Grove!
-Ancelotti is a CL master , I genuinely think PSG they'll have a push for the CL. Hopefully I'm wrong
-Di Matteo's Chelsea start off strong but fall away. The loss of Drogba will be too much if they don't bring in someone else. Torres and Sturridge not good enough imo
-QPR to have a decent season too

[elite gamer]

Champions: Manchester City
Runners-up: Manchester United
3rd: Chelsea
4th: Arsenal (swap with Chelsea is RVP stays)
5th: Tottenham
6th:Newcastle
7th:Liverpool
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Relegated: West Brom
Relegated:Southampton
Relegated:Aston Villa (not in any order)
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FA Cup Winner: Arsenal (hopefully)
Capital One Cup Winner: Liverpool
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Golden Boot: Aguero
Golden Glove: Joe Hart
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Player of the Season: Kompany
Young Player of the Season:Hazard
Newcomer/Signing of the Season:Kagawa/Hazard/Cazorla.
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Manager of the Season:Whoever replaces Di Matteo
First manager sacking: Di Matteo for the lols
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Champions League Winners: Real Madrid.

[Danny2304]

Champions:Man city
Runners-up:Man utd
3rd:Liverpool
4th:Chelsea
5th:Arsenal (this is if RVP goes)
6th:Tottenham
7th:Newcastle
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Relegated:West Ham
Relegated:West Brom
Relegated:Norwich
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FA Cup Winner:Man Utd
Capital One Cup Winner:Liverpool
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Golden Boot:Hazard
Golden Glove:Reina
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Player of the Season:Hazard
Young Player of the Season:Allen
Newcomer/Signing of the Season:Borini
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Manager of the Season:Brendan Rogers
First manager sacking:Allardyce
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Champions League Winners:Barcelona
Europa League Winner:Liverpool

[Firefox]

I remember last year when everyone predicted Liverpool finishing above Arsenal. (I admit I thought it would be closer too) People are underestimating us once again, with or without RVP hopefully we prove people wrong.

[Shibby]

It'll depend largely on how quickly the new signings, Podolski, Giroud and Carozla, can settle in, especially if RVP goes. I don't think it'll be a problem, maybe for Podolski who was pretty ineffective in his short spell at Bayern, but he was a younger player then.

I think Chelsea is the likelier candidate to miss out on top 4. Sure they've spent a lot of money, but it's a major squad overhaul, with a lot of egos that Di Matteo may not be able to handle, and there will be a TON of pressure on him from Uncle Roman to get them back to a better league standing. Plus, they really bought a bunch of kids. No clue of they'll physically be able to adapt to the Premier League.

FF, those doubts last season weren't unsubstantiated though. Arsenal ended up having a piss poor start to the season, and were really rescued by RVP having an absolute monster year.

[Firefox]

It was RVP scoring but Walcott/Song provided a majority of the vital assists, also we always lost without Sagna/Arteta. It wasn't just him but yes he was unbelievable just like the season before so it wasn't surprising I said he'd be the player of the season.

Too late to wish City will flop since they are ridiculously strong but I hope Chelsea do.

[Shibby]

Sure you have a lot of people creating chances, but without someone to put them in the net it's worthless. Look at Liverpool last season. Fuck ton of chances created, but fuck all when it came to converting them.

The big question was whether he could stay healthy, there was no doubting his quality.

[Nitey]

True that about his quality. People have been labelling him a one season man, but his record has been good throughout his career. Now, if one season man means fit for one season only, then yeah, I agree

Regarding Chelsea: Di Matteo has always been an attack minded manager, he likes sexy football etc but he wasn't able to extract that from Chelsea during his months in charge last season due to personel and I guess the safer option was to bring back the 'old guard' and play defensive football (against decent opponents). He's clearly bringing in ball players and wants to play posession and pacey football. Fact is they won the CL last year because of their rock solid defence plus Drogba. I think their defence will be sound once again but I won't be surprised to see them being ineffective up front especially if Oscar can't settle and Torres/Sturridge doesn't look strong at all to me. I think Hazard and Marin will settle in well

Really buzzin' for the start of the new season! Only a week to go

[Tutankhamun]

Champions: Manchester United
Runners-up: Manchester City
3rd: Chelsea
4th: Arsenal
5th: Liverpool
6th: Tottenham
7th: Newcastle
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Relegated: Reading
Relegated: Wigan
Relegated: Southampton
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FA Cup Winner: Man City
Capital One Cup Winner: Arsenal
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Golden Boot: Wayne Rooney
Golden Glove: David De Gea
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Player of the Season: Antonio Valencia
Young Player of the Season: Oscar
Newcomer/Signing of the Season: Shinji Kagawa
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Manager of the Season: Sir Alex Ferguson
First manager sacking: Don't know
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Champions League Winners: Manchester United
Europa League Winner: Not a clue

[nextgen3]

here mine :P.

Champions: Manchester City
Runners-up: Manchester United
3rd: Liverpool
4th: Aresnal
5th: Chelsea
6th: Tottenham Hotspur
7th: Everton
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Relegated: QPR
Relegated: Norwich
Relegated: Southampton
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FA Cup Winner: Liverpool
Capital One Cup Winner: Newcastle United
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Golden Boot:
Golden Glove:
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Player of the Season:
Young Player of the Season:
Newcomer/Signing of the Season:
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Manager of the Season: Brendan Rodgers
First manager sacking: Mark Hughes
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Champions League Winners: Real Madrid
Europa League Winner: Liverpool

[R3D D3V!L]

Champions: Manchester United
Runners-up: Manchester City
3rd: Chelsea
4th: Tottenham
5th: Arsenal
6th: Newcastle
7th: Liverpool
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Relegated: QPR
Relegated: Norwich
Relegated: Reading
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FA Cup Winner: Manchester United
Capital One Cup Winner: Tottenham
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Golden Boot: Wayne Rooney
Golden Glove: Joe Hart
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Player of the Season: Wayne Rooney
Young Player of the Season: Oscar
Newcomer/Signing of the Season: Shinji Kagawa
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Manager of the Season: Sir Alex Ferguson
First manager sacking: Mark Hughes
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Champions League Winners: Real Madrid
Europa League Winner: (if you can really be bothered lol) No one cares

[Firefox]

Modified my predictions with the recent transfers.

[DINAMO788]

Champions: Manchester United
Runners-up: Manchester City
3rd: Chelsea
4th: Arsenal
5th: Newcastle
6th: Tottenham
7th: Liverpool (sorry reds)
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Relegated: QPR
Relegated: Wigan
Relegated: Norwich
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FA Cup Winner: Chelsea
Capital One Cup Winner: Arsenal
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Golden Boot: Aguero
Golden Glove: Joe Hart
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Player of the Season: Vidic
Young Player of the Season: Eden Hazard
Newcomer/Signing of the Season: Santi Cazorla
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Manager of the Season: David Moyes
First manager sacking: Mark Hughes
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Champions League Winners: Real Madrid (boo)
Europa League Winner: PSV

[dc89]

Last season I said this:

Signing of the Season: Sergio Aguero

I was right.



Anyway....

Champions: Manchester City
Runners-up: Manchester United
3rd: Chelsea
4th: Arsenal
5th: Tottenham
6th: Newcastle
7th: Liverpool
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Relegated: QPR
Relegated: Southampton
Relegated: Norwich
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FA Cup Winner: Chelsea
Capital One Cup Winner: Tottenham
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Golden Boot: Carlos Tevez
Golden Glove: Joe Hart
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Player of the Season: Yaya Toure
Young Player of the Season: Eden Hazard
Newcomer/Signing of the Season: Santi Cazorla
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Manager of the Season: Alan Pardew
First manager sacking: Mark Hughes
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Champions League Winners: Real Madrid
Europa League Winner: Athletic Bilbao

[LC77]

Just like my lottery numbers, none of these will be right.

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Champions: Manchester United
Runners-up: Chelsea
3rd: Manchester City
4th: Liverpool
5th: Spurs
6th: Arsenal
7th: Swansea
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Relegated: QPR
Relegated: West Brom
Relegated: Southampton
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FA Cup Winner: Spurs
Capital One Cup Winner: Manchester City
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Golden Boot: Rooney
Golden Glove: Cech
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Player of the Season: Kagawa
Young Player of the Season: Oxlade-Chamberlain
Newcomer/Signing of the Season: Kagawa
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Manager of the Season: Michael Laudrup
First manager sacking: Steve Clarke
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Champions League Winners: Manchester United
Europa League Winner: A Team

[DINAMO788]

How are so many people counting out Southampton?