Pies’ Massive, Bloated, Dangerously Swollen Predictions For The 2017/18 Premier League Season

Chris Wright

10th, August 2017

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It’s that time of year again. Time for Pies to wade into the mire with a great big clanging sack full of Premier League predictions for the inbound 2017/18 campaign.

As always, there’s no need to go back and check our predictions for 2016/17 as they were all 100% spot-on as per usual.

Premier League winners: Man City. With his full-backs sorted and most of the deadwood uncompromisingly shipped out, Pep Guardiola’s squad finally looks outfitted to play the way he so obsessively desires. He’ll probably end up deploying Leroy Sane as an inverted left-back and Kevin De Bruyne as a deep-lying central winger, but it’ll work.

Top six: City (1st), Chelsea, Man Utd, Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool – all with Everton pushing harder than ever just behind.

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Top scorer: Harry Kane. Boring, but highly probable.

Big season: Paul Pogba. PFA Player of the Year. Put a shiny groat on it.

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Biggest transfer success: The £25million that Leicester City spent on Kelechi Iheanacho might just turn out to be the steal of the season.

Biggest transfer dud: We’ve got a funny feeling that Alvaro Morata won’t gel particularly well at Chelsea, but let’s be honest – this one has Wayne ‘Prodigal Son’ Rooney’s name all over it.

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First managerial casualty: It felt like Slaven Bilic survived at West Ham by the skin of his teeth last year, so even a slightly iffy start to proceedings this time out might just put paid to him within the first couple of months.

Unholy Relegation Triumvirate of Despair: Huddersfield, Brighton, Burnley – in that order, from bottom to 18th. Championship teams, all three.

There you go Pies fans. Consider our neck fully raised above the parapet. Feel free to lash at us with your slings and arrows of the mind.

And, if you’re so bleeding clever, why don’t you ply us with a few of your own predictions for 2017/18.

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  1. Mr Sensible says:

    City will probably score over a million goals this season and be incredibly entertaining but their defence still contains John Stones, an injured Kompany and a young keeper who has only played 1 full season in Portugal. Their full backs are also unlikely to do much defending either.

    No matter how good your attack is, a defence that dodgy will leak goals and that will be City’s undoing.

    I’m a United fans and genuinely don’t know who will win.

  2. milt_palacio says:

    Ok here goes:

    – Champion: ManCity, if Gundogan and Kompany can stay fit for most of the season and Ederson is somewhat competent. Otherwise I see a dogfight with ManUtd, who look like a proper José-team. Dark horse: Liverpool.
    – Top 6: ManCity, ManUtd, Spurs, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal
    – Top Scorer: Lukaku
    – Top Transfer: Salah
    – Big season: De Bruyne
    – Worst Transfer: Lacazette seems a bit frail for the PL. Ederson has failed to convince so far. And for all the money Everton spent, I’m not sure they are a better team than last season with Lukaku. .
    – First To Get Canned: Frank De Boer
    – Going down: Huddersfield, Brighton and either Burnley or Newcastle.

  3. Sjorn says:

    I’ll give it a whirl:

    – Champion: Tottenham. Might start slowly away from White Hart Lane but imperious by 2018. And the world will freak out and football stations will parade until the end of time that you don’t need big signings to win the league.
    Top 6: Tottenham, Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea, Everton, Arsenal.
    Top Scorer: Harry Kane.
    Big Season: Davy Klassen.
    Worst Transfer: Ederson.
    First to get canned: Paul Clement.
    Going down: Brighton, Burnley, Swansea.

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