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It will be an unpopular opinion on this Liverpool loving site, but I don’t believe Liverpool will be the closest challengers to City this year.
To be honest, I’m not sure who will, but I fancy Liverpool will have one of those seasons where they recover from being near but not quite. They will probably still win a cup.
In the mix we have a Spurs side with Conte from the start (although whether he’ll be there by the end is anyone’s guess). We have an Arsenal side who have had some excellent young players get some solid experience. I don’t fancy their chances, but you never know. Chelsea have their off field nonsense and distraction resolved and I fancy will make some solid buys over the summer.
And of course United. Who knows what to expect here. New manager, lots of new additions, lots of chances for young players, lots of problematic players gone. But certainly it will be better than last year. If it clicks, they will certainly be there or abouts.
So please, can you stop with the Liverpool love in? We aren’t all fans of them, they aren’t everyone’s favourite second or third team. Their fans already think the sun shines out their arses, without you massaging their egos. Now, can we talk about their collapse and relative failure with their peak side? God knows you’d be putting the boot in with any other side in their position.
Badwolf
An obviously deluded reply to Barry Fox
In reply to ol’ Barry, while I strangely cannot fault most of the points you make, you’re so wrong in the conclusion you reach when you state that ‘Spurs have all the ingredients to win the league…’.
Spurs in fact have MANY of the ingredients needed to win the league, but one of the most crucial ones is sorely lacking. If the heavyweight boxing-style slogathon seasons of recent years have not shown dear Barry Fox the importance of the one thing Spurs lack – quality squad depth – then probably nothing will. Liverpool have had a first 11 of probably slightly better players than City in the past few years, but despite that City have edged them nearly every time. There could be any number of reasons for this, but one of them, to me is obvious – the level of substitute players Pep…
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