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Ix Techau Evil Mastermind 14,278 pts

The 2016 Arsenal Report Time Capsule

Posted by Ix Techau almost 8 years ago · 7 replies

So this is the idea: I want your predictions for the upcoming season in this thread. Where we'll be in May, what players we sign in January, everything you think will happen over the duration of the upcoming season.

This thread will be locked and archived on June 1st 2016, and brought back to life on June 1st 2017 to see how off we were a year earlier. The most accurate predictor wins a prize of course!

7 Comments

Ix Techau Evil Mastermind 14,278 pts
Posted almost 8 years ago by Ix Techau

Here's mine:

We'll do well initially, having bought a couple of really good players. Title will look ours for months, and then we'll start tapering off again. Guardiola will get Man City firing in the second half of the season, Chelsea will continue to struggle. Mourinho goes to PSG as Man Utd lack the balls to appoint him. Spurs continue to bottle it every chance they get. Leicester will end mid-table. Liverpool in the top four.

We'll end third in the league on 75 pts, get knocked out of the Champions League in the last 16, and lose one of the domestic cups in the final. Wenger announces he's leaving after the season end. High profile player sold in January, probably Walcott or Oxlade-Chamberlain.

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Morleys Mesut Özil > You and your mum, chief 4,431 pts
Posted almost 8 years ago by Morleys

We'll start up front with Giroud as we'll sign a striker who isn't good enough and a couple of poor results to begin with means rushing Alexis back from the Copa America. Wilshere will be fit for 80% of the matches of the season with our defence still struggling due to partnering Kos with continued liabilities like Gabriel & Per bit will form a decent partnership towards the end of the season with Chambers when we have nothing to play for. The usual Arsenal cycle will continue.

City & Chelsea will be battling for first throughout the season with Chelsea having the upper hand due to no European matches to focus on, with City pipping Chelsea at the end as well as making a CL semi final. We'll battle Mourinho's United for third with Liverpool ending up 5th. Spurs will finish 9th after Harry Kane actually gets injured and Leicester finish the season in a respectable 8th place.

Arsene will leave at the end of the season and we'll probably bring in Koeman or something totally underwhelming and awful like making Steve Bould manager will happen. We won't win any silverware either and go out in the quarters of the CL.

TopTopQuality 2,753 pts
Posted almost 8 years ago by TopTopQuality

I can only make predictions knowing who comes and who goes.

I'll assume we sell Walcott and/or Ramsey.

And we sign one of Lukaku or Morata, and we sign Mahrez as Walcott's replacement. If we sign Kante on top, even better.

Top 4 well look like this:

  1. Arsenal
  2. Man City
  3. Chelsea
  4. Liverpool

If Mourinho goes to Man U, they'll finish 4th instead of Liverpool.

Both Man City and Chelsea with new mangers will have dodgy spells and drop lots of points against mid table teams.

Arsenal will get knocked out of CL in quarter finals.

Will win one of the domestic cups.

If Arsenal win the league, Wenger will sign another 2 year contract.

If Alexis Sanchez is sold this summer, Arsenal will finish 3rd/4th.

Morleys Mesut Özil > You and your mum, chief 4,431 pts
Posted almost 8 years ago by Morleys

Well, Ix's prediction has already crumbled with Jose set to be United manager next season haha

poodris 2,818 pts
Posted almost 8 years ago by poodris
  1. Ozil breaks the record for assists.
  2. Morata gets the golden boot.
  3. Xhaka leads the league in yellow cards.
  4. Arsenal win the league with 79 points.
  5. January purchase of manolas
  6. Summer purchase of morals, xhaka, sissoko, and mkhitarayan
  7. Summer sale of Walcott, Ramsey, Gibbs, and ox

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