22/23 Football Predictions Thread

Oh he made sure they exist

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Biggest squad (6 fullbacks?!) we’ve had in the 25 years I’ve supported them but OK.

Incredible dedication to antibants, taking it to new levels

We should retire this term/injoke now. It’s been overused to the point of losing all meaning. I think City will finish second, win the League Cup, and probably get to the semis of the Champions League.

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Got a good giggle out of this, for instance

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CHAMPIONS: City
CL QUALIFIERS: Liverpool, Chelsea, Spurs
RELEGATED: Southampton, Brentford, Fulham
SURPRISE PACKAGES: Villa
SURPRISE STRUGGLERS: Wolves
BEST SIGNINGS: Sterling, Eriksen
TURKEYS: Fulham regens
FIRST SACKING/DEPARTURE: Hassenhutl
BIGGEST ANNUAL WIG LOSS (CLUB): Leicester
MANAGER OF THE YEAR: Leeds american man
PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Haaland
TOP SCORER: Haaland
FA CUP: Manchester United!
LEAGUE CUP: Man City
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: don’t care, Atletico madrid?
EUROPA LEAGUE: Sevilla

GENERAL BIG SHOUTS: Someone sues Barcelona for a trillion squid of unpaid tax or transfer fees or something and wins. headline news for weeks. Nothing comes of it.

Yeah fair enough

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But seriously you’ve got so many key players who could go deep at the WC or at the least will play every second they can. Plus Conte never uses his full squad.

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CHAMPIONS: Man City
CL QUALIFIERS: Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal
RELEGATED: Bournemouth, Leeds, Brentford
SURPRISE PACKAGES: Spurs
SURPRISE STRUGGLERS: Everton (again), Wolves, Chelsea
BEST SIGNINGS: Botman, Haaland, Bissouma, Jesus
TURKEYS: Tarkowkski, Koulibaby, Richarlison
FIRST SACKING/DEPARTURE: Lampard
BIGGEST ANNUAL WIG LOSS (CLUB): Chelsea
MANAGER OF THE YEAR: Pep
PLAYER OF THE YEAR: De Bruyne
TOP SCORER: Salah
FA CUP: Spurs
LEAGUE CUP: City
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: City
EUROPA LEAGUE: Roma

GENERAL BIG SHOUTS: Brentford to fight it out with Southampton and Everton for the final relegation spot. Sterling to struggle, Mount to shine. Haaland to an injury that keeps him out the team for months just as the World Cup starts. Tory Lamps to show he’s not a real BPL level manager. England to have a stinker at the World Cup. United to be alright but not near top 4. Bruno Guimarães to prove he’s world class.

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LA LIGA: Barcelona
SERIE A: Inter
BUNDESLIGA: Bayern
LIGUE 1: PSG

Turkeyowski

Here we go

CHAMPIONS: Liverpool
CL QUALIFIERS: City, Spurs, Arsenal
RELEGATED: Forest, Fulham, Bournemouth
SURPRISE PACKAGES: Palace, Villa
SURPRISE STRUGGLERS: Chelsea, Brentford
BEST SIGNINGS: Jesus, Zinchenko, Aaronsen, Nunez, Kamara, Diego Carlos, Botman, Collins
TURKEYS: Vieira, Sinisterra, Lingard, Pereira, Scamacca
FIRST SACKING/DEPARTURE: Tuchel
BIGGEST ANNUAL WIG LOSS (CLUB): Everton
MANAGER OF THE YEAR: Klopp
PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Salah
TOP SCORER: Salah
FA CUP: Man City
LEAGUE CUP: Man City
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Liverpool
EUROPA LEAGUE: Roma

GENERAL BIG SHOUTS:

(very lukewarm and boring sorry - generally think it’ll be pretty predictable but hopefully competitive throughout)

-Tuchel, Lampard, Rodgers, Silva won’t see out the season

-Arsenal, Spurs and Man Utd will all be much improved on last season and whoever finishes fifth/sixth will be half-decent this time and miles ahead of the rest again - unless Chelsea suffer the major wig loss that’s maybe on the cards

-Brentford to be this season’s Sheffield United/Leeds and suffer a massive drop-off but stay up cos there’ll be three worse sides. Promoted trio straight back down (when did that last happen?)

-Haaland to do a Ronaldo and score a reasonable amount of goals (30ish all competitions) but make City worse. Fewer points and fewer goals collectively

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LA LIGA: Barcelona
SERIE A: Inter
BUNDESLIGA: heh
LIGUE 1: heh

CHAMPIONSHIP WINNER: Burnley
CHAMPIONSHIP 2ND + PLAYOFF WINNERS: Boro, Millwall

Absolutely zero clue on League One and Two these days

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Made a new thread if you want to make predictions about your own club

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CHAMPIONS: Liverpool
CL QUALIFIERS: City, Spurs, Arsenal
RELEGATED: Fulham, Forest, Everton
SURPRISE PACKAGES: Bournemouth
SURPRISE STRUGGLERS: Leicester, Wolves, Palace
BEST SIGNINGS: Alvarez, Botman, Jesus, Zinchenko
TURKEYS: Sterling, Perišić, Kalvin Phillips (next season he’ll be wicked though)
FIRST SACKING/DEPARTURE: Tuchel
BIGGEST ANNUAL WIG LOSS (CLUB): Everton
MANAGER OF THE YEAR: Klopp
PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Thiago Alcântara
TOP SCORER: Haaland (closely followed by Kieffer Moore)
FA CUP: Palace
LEAGUE CUP: Forest

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CHAMPIONS: Man City
CL QUALIFIERS: Arsenal, Man Utd, Newcastle
RELEGATED: Bournemouth, Wolves, Leicester
SURPRISE PACKAGES: Palace, Brentford, Fulham
SURPRISE STRUGGLERS: Liverpool, Chelsea, Spurs
BEST SIGNINGS: Kamara, Eriksen, Aribo
TURKEYS: Nunez, Richarlison, Aaronson
FIRST SACKING/DEPARTURE: Parker
BIGGEST ANNUAL WIG LOSS (CLUB): Man Utd
MANAGER OF THE YEAR: Vieira
PLAYER OF THE YEAR: De Bruyne
TOP SCORER: Haaland

how can United overperform and suffer the biggest wig loss? :thinking:

Think they’ll get off to a bad start before getting their act together

I’ve never really fully understood what wig loss means though

a wig loss is a very embarrassing turn of events, no?

and in the context of the season, the biggest one would have to still be embarrassing at the end of the season, or so I’d think…

I would say it is even more embarrassing if everyone makes a big song and dance and then things actually end up alright

perhaps this needs to be better defined so we can agree in retrospect who had the biggest wig loss

Not necessary.

It will be Arsenal.

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