And what a start we got !!!. No major upsets with Manchester United (3-0) and Chelsea (6-0) cruising against Newcastle and West Brom. Chelsea started where they left last year and Manchester United old war horses Gingerman and Flying Welsh made sure ManU keeps up.
130 million pound and a draw against Tottenham (away) for Manchester City. Mancini would need to gel his troops sooner. With super mario and milner set to join the ranks an interesting question is in front of Mancini, can you combine numbers from all top teams, assemble them in one and win the title. Time will tell !!!
Credit to Hodgson to give some stability to Liverpool boat and were slightly unlucky in their openers against Arsenal sans Fabregas and Van Persie ofcourse.
Highlite of the week has to be Blackpool newly promoted to EPL drubbing of Wigan.
Lastly, to summarize the week Blackburn with Big Sam looked impressive playing some real hard football :P.
Players of the week :
GK: Hart (Man City)
Defense: Baptiste (Blackpool), Jones (BlackburnRovers), Ashley Cole (Chelsea)
Midfielders: Malouda / Lampard (Chelsea), Milner (Man City), Scholes (Man U), Larsson (Birmingham)
Forward: Drogba (Chelsea), Berbatov (ManU), Harewood (Blackpool)
Transfers:
We have to talk about ManCity before we talk about others and their five star signing of Super Mario, Milner, Boateng, Toure and Silva at only 130 million pound. If they get a good run going they are going to be handful this year.
Traditional Big4: Chelsea, ManU, Arsenal and Liverpool all doing astute business in the summer with Chirachito catching most headlines for his display in the world cup and pre season.
Outside new promoted blackpool have been busy and signing new faces. They are going to create a few upsets.
Aston Villa got a double knock with Martin O Neil and Milner leaving. They reacted strongly last season to Barry's departure. Would they react the same way this season or is it a case to too many blows ?
Season thoughts:
1/2 : Manchester United and Chelsea
(to be decided between Chelsea old legs and Red Devils midfield)
As a Red Devil fan hoping MANU can get Van Der Vaart.
3/4/5/6: This is tight. Mancini: Can you combine your squad? Rednapp: Can you handle CL or stick to EPL ? Wenger and Hodgson: Pray to god "no injuries". Hodgson: Try to prevent big players from going and hope club saga is sorted out soon.
Hunch: Arsenal and Manchester City
Relegation: Wigan ..
Surprise package: Birmingham and Blackburn and Blackpool (3B)
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ReplyDeletegood start Sondhi ji .. May be i will get interested in football thru this :)
ReplyDeletei would love it tutu... and i think wags and multi million transfer would help the cause..
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