Welcome to the 22-23 Premier League thread!

After a runaway City title win in 20-21, last season saw everything go to the last game of the season, in which City again triumphed in spectacular fashion, beating the Aston Lions 3-2 after going 0-2 down.

Spurs nipped into the top4 after a fun back and forth with Arsenal. United performed at expectation by struggling to make it into the Europa League (looking forward to seeing Ronny play on Thursday nights).

At the bottom end, Everton and Leeds avoided disaster and Burnley were unable to continue their incredible run of seasons without relegation and will be joining Norwich and Watford in the Champo this season.



21-22 Memorable Moments:
- Eight ****ing months after having a cardiac arrest, Christian Eriksen returns to the PL with Brentford. He has a great few months there and has signed at Man United on a free.



- The Saudi Government buys Newcastle United and the fans treat the situation with all the grace that you would expect



- Ronaldo breaks a small child's phone



Coming in to next season, City remain favourites to three-peat, with Liverpool second. Der markt seems to think Spurs are the third best team after Chelsea's transfer shenanigans. Only six teams have odds of less than 100/1.



As per usual, at the bottom end, the three promoted clubs are most likely to be relegated, but it's also a bit of a melee down there, with about 10 teams with a chance of greater than 10% of being relegated.



Incoming players!

Lots of movement in the transfer market. City go big on Erling Haaland, activating his release clause at Dortmund for £54m:



Liverpool sign Darwin Nunez for £64m (potentially rising to £85m) from Benfica



City also sell to other PL clubs, letting Sterling go to City (£50m), and Jesus (£46m) and baby KdB (£31m) to Arsenal



Spurs looking like they're doing the most shrewd business of summer, bringing in Richarlison (£52m), Bissouma (£26m), Spence (£13m), and Perisic (Free)

*All prices per transfermarkt

Fan list (c&p from last year, which was apparently a c/p from the year before):

Manchester City
8bus
PNHH
daca
Wilfred1

Liverpool
Consty
LFC_USA
NicReynolds
Liverpool
heh
valenzuela
BertieWooster
Jake7777
ChrisV
PBAL
StormBorn
Dean Manifest

Man United
kevin21
kingweed
xXDeuce7Xx
EnglishLad72
t3hbandit
JoeDiego
SenseiSingh
ashley12
thedeezy
Sven O
KDawg
Hap_Hazard
ukbilly

Tottenham
mw828
Human Halo
ChopSueyyy
Elrazor
martymc1
Lars1
Stu Ungar
thedinergetsby
ikestoys
thenickh
Empire Man
TheGramuel

Chelsea
Cinarocket
ZAIDS
O.A.F.K.1.1
72off
Yippee ki-yay
Bjorn ?
Wooders0n
Ghost of Langer

Arsenal
Mindfckr
Ducksauce
cashy (probably when not busy)
aoFrantic
PoseidonCubed
raheem
Giroudgeous
theshocker7
kingofcool
Adolph Hipster
Aidan
marek_heinz
Nandos v2
Ledders
ceire
NOZE

Misc:
Burnley
Tall Paul

Everton
LostOstrich
S.K
SaulGoodman

Leicester City
andre006
thethethe

Middlesbrough
ffire

Southampton
joejoe1337

Swansea City
kidcolin

West Brom
tchaz

West Ham
Hoopie1
MedicorePlayer2.0

Phil Foden
BAIDS

Sheffield United
sixfour

Bolton
bazooka87

Aston Villa
Burnss / 100zAndUp

PSG
andre006
EL RATA

Toon
TehVader

Sheffield Wednesday
thechef

Celtic
martymc1

Schalke
royalblue

Leeds
PeteBlow

LET US FOOTBALL!

p.s. post your predictions below. Both league tables and/or broad predictions. I will be langering at the end of the season so make 'em bold people.

first. i predict that football will occur.

Nice effort but fail because you wrote Aston Villa instead of Aston Lions.

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Dont worry, I can still bring myself to post itt, just with a nagging and persistent ephemera of reluctance and disappointment.

BTW Myself and PoseidonCubed just won the OOT TV forum.

Yanks still crappy sarcasm detector confirmed.

Check the Sopranos thread.

In. Will take some chelsea>spurs action given the title (lol) odds posted above

Subscribing for Sancho supremacy.

Cina any interest in arsen +7.5 pts vs Chelsea?

In. Great op joejoe

Locked in. LFG.

I have $100 on Spurs to finish above Arsenal at evens (lol) and $100 on Kulu +2.5 G+A vs Saka.

Will take action on Spurs vs Utd, Spurs vs Wolves, or Brighton vs anyone.

7.5 pts seems more than what I believe the true gap is (closer to 5) so no but if someone could post a reliable points total (as opposed to title odds), I would be happy to take a look and give some anti-arsenal action

Not super high on Chelsea if they don't make a mf signing.

I'll have them 5th if they don't. I think they are waiting a year on rice to avoid paying the gigantic sum but getting another good year from jorginho/kante/kovacic just seems so risky.

https://mobile.sportingindex.com/mar...00000000000000

In, if we can get Khadra over the line and not run like aids with injuries again I'm thinking playoffs

https://www.pinnacle.com/en/soccer/e...chups/#futures

pinnacle has 7 pts,

i would consider 6.5.

Leeds United!

season starts on 2 weeks, eh?

Any fpl?

In

Will have a look at bets etc later

Any interest in a score predictor game for each gameweek? I've ran one of these before can't remember the site though

£10 or something

i want to be a haaland hater so badly but he's going to score a million tap-ins even if he looks like ****. it's going to be miserable trying to point out he's not actually playing well if he keeps scoring. hopefully guardiola benches him for a another midfielder at some point

People seem to forget how hard it is to score even tap ins. Positioning is very difficult otherwise we would all be doing it for millions a year.

Perfect Sterling replacement then.

Would love this. IN

Haalands biggest issue has been staying injury free mostly I think?

PuliGOAT shocks all by winning the golden boot