Your preseason picks for Premier League champs / relegation

Portugal North (Wolves) should stay up. I'd love to see Neil Warnock (Colin Wanker) and Cardiff get relegated.

SUPER off-topic but no need to start a thread to ask --

Are there many Juventus followers on this board? I hardly contribute to this board but would like to start posting more here as none of my buddies follow soccer.

Champs
City - foolish not to pick them after 100 points

Rounding out the top 6
Liverpool
Arsenal
Man United
Tottenham
Chelsea

I think that will be a tight race with maybe 10 points or so separating 2-6

Relegation
Cardiff City
Huddersfield
Brighton

I think Bournemouth and Watford have down years and just barely stay safe

WM72 is big Roma fan. I'm sure there are Juve fans already and there will be many more Juve supporters due to Ronaldo's move.

As for my picks: 1) Man City 2) Liverpool 3) Tottenham 4) Man United

Relegation picks: Southampton, Huddersfield Town, Cardiff

Top 4
1. Arsenal (only because I took the 18/1 odds in Vegas a few weeks ago)
2. City
3. Spurs
4. United

Promotion: Cardiff, Watford, Huddersfield

Predictions:

1. City
2. Liverpool
3. Tottenham
4. Chelsea
5. Arsenal
6. United

Climbing Football Pyramid:

Cardiff, Huddersfield, Watford

Spurs

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Are there many Juventus followers on this board? I hardly contribute to this board but would like to start posting more here as none of my buddies follow soccer.

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There are only a few posters that post every now and then that seem to follow Serie A sides at all (Inter, Milan and Juve).

The board used to be a lot more diverse but the regular posters are now mainly just EPL, USMNT as much discussion.

(I would add that even the ones who don't watch Serie A here still know a lot more about the clubs than the commentators ESPN has for the summer friendlies!)


I'm a big Roma fan and follow all of Serie A pretty closely. Really only thing I watch these days aside from CL/EL and maybe a Ligue 1 or La Liga match here and there.


If you start a Juve thread or just a general Serie A season thread though I would definitely post in it and maybe it would draw more people.

Man U
City
Arsenal
Pool

Going down -
Cardiff
Brighton
Huddersfield

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I watched a bit more serie A last year. I’d always enjoy watching Roma. They’re a fun team to watch, then Napoli’s push plus Lazio’s little resurgence made things a bit more fun.

Juve is still the favorite as usual but at least the battle for 2-6 in Italy should be interesting as well I’d imagine

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Yeah, the CL position race should be interesting all season like it was last year. Juve, Roma, Inter and Napoli are likely favorites but Milan should be better and Lazio really has some good players.



Atalanta, Torino and Sampdoria are pretty decent sides as well but doubt any have the depth to manage a CL campaign.



Against conventional wisdom, I think Juve signing Cristiano Renaldo and bringing back Bonucci may make the league race more open. They're going to be so all-in for a CL title that I could easily see them having a season like Real Madrid did in La Liga this past year.


My bold prediction (before the mercato is finished) is:
1 INTER
2 JUVE
3 ROMA
4 NAPOLI