Comment by Michael Osareme
Brace up yourself aficionados, we are just a week away from the commencement of the 2016/2017 English Premier league season.
At the KC Stadium,home of Hull City, the new season Match day ball, Ordem Premier League will be kicked as League holders, Leicester City trade tackles with Hull City thus signaling the beginning of excitement through 38 weeks of league football.
The 2016–17 Premier League will be the 25th
season of the Premier League, the top English
professional league for association football
clubs, since its establishment in 1992. The
season is due to start on 13 August 2016,
running to 21 May 2017.
Beginning with the 2016–17 season, the competition will be known simply as the Premier League and not the Barclays Premier league.
Leicester City defied bookmakers odd of 5000/1 to win the league last season. What does this season entails for football fans and neutrals? Come with me, as I take a look into the preview of the new season.
If you are ready, Then let's go for it!
The new season has an array of top managers in world football. Jose,Pep, Antonio, Arsene, Jurgen, Mauricio, Claudio et all.
Manchester City have their dream appointment, in Pep Guardiola. Now we shall see if he can exert the impact they imagined.
They ended Manuel Pellegrini’s reign in a
state of disrepair, looking an ageing team in
need of fresh blood and new ideas.
Thus far, they have been more restrained
than expected in the transfer market,
bringing in Ilkay Gundogan, Nolito and
Oleksandr Zinchenko without breaking the
bank but others, John Stones and Leroy Sane
in particular, are likely to join them and at
greater cost.
Much of the intrigue with Guardiola,
however, revolves around how much he can
improve the players he inherited with his
coaching and tactical prowess. His record of six league titles and seven Uefa Champions League semi-final appearances from seven seasons of top-flight management is outstanding. Extending it will be no mean feat.
As for Chelsea, Things can only get better. After the worst title defense mounted by any Premier League
champions, Antonio Conte can only take
Chelsea in one direction.
It is safe to assume they will not finish 10th
again, or that they will not spend Christmas
worried about relegation. The question is; how
far? and how quickly?
After three wasted years, United have made
the move they should have done in 2016 and
appointed Jose Mourinho manager.
They have not finished in the top three since
Alex Ferguson retired. The Portuguese has
never finished outside it in a full season at
any club. His horrific last few months at
Chelsea looks an aberration in the context of a
career and a brilliant short-term manager has
wasted little time in targeting the title.
Mourinho has been decisive in his dealings,
with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh
Mkhitaryan bringing track records of scoring
and creating goals to a sterile side. Should
Paul Pogba join for a world-record sum,
United will have the biggest statement of
intent of all and added dynamism in midfield. Expect United to be a tough side this season.
Jurgen Klopp’s second season at Anfield has
the potential to be the opposite of the first
and not just because the German, an October
appointment, has had a pre-season and the
chance to sign his players. Liverpool reached
two Cup finals and played 63 games last
season. Now, deprived of continental
competition after their Europa League final
defeat, they may play as few as 40.
After finishing eighth- Liverpool’s joint
lowest position for 52 years, they can
concentrate on the Premier League.#YNWA.
In one respect, last season represented an 11-
year high for Arsenal; for the first time since
2005, they finished second, rather than third
or fourth.
In many another, however, it was an
opportunity missed, their best chance to
reclaim the title for perhaps the last time
under Arsene Wenger.
Now the Frenchman enters the final year of
his contract as the competition is set to
increase and as his doubters have become
particularly vocal.
Arsenal have produced the form of champions
over half a season or a calendar year, but not
in a complete campaign. They have to show
they can win high-pressure games when the
title is at stake and avoid the occasional
pratfalls they have suffered.
Anyone who tipped Leicester City for the title
last season can congratulate themselves on
their foresight. They were very much in a
minority as Leicester became football’s most
unlikely champions.
Leicester confounded predictions last season
and may do so again, if only because it is
hard to know what to expect.
A side who benefited from great energy levels
and continuity of selection will certainly be
tested by the added workload of Uefa
Champions League football. Leicester should again provide one of the
stories of the season, whatever the ending is.
As for the newly promoted guys, Burnley, Middlesbrough and Hull City, I wait to see how they would fear in the new season. Expecting one out of the new boys to go down to the championship.
We are surely in for a thrill throughout 38weeks of brilliant football.
Who will win the league?
The Golden Boot?
The PFA player of the year?
Manager of the year?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Welcome to THE NEW PREMIER LEAGUE SEASON!!!!!!
It was so good to be back writing after the Euros,and my personal holiday off articles writing. My writing antics look refreshed, no doubt.
Bracing up for more write ups during the season.
Myk d pundit penned this.
Ariverderci!!!
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