

Which is another way of saying it’s very hard to pick between about 10 possible candidates but if forced I’ll go with Leicester, Norwich and, unless Christian Benteke is replaced by someone equally golden-booted, Aston Villa. Relegated: Unlike last season all three promoted clubs have the potential to thrive, which hopefully will lead to a closely contested relegation scrap that will never see one side marooned on the bottom. In short they weren’t just the best team in the division – they were the best two teams in the division, and despite a lack of summer signings whichever one turns up this time must be favourites once again. Title winners: Last season Chelsea were unparalleled in attack until mid-January, and unbeatable in defence thereafter. Photograph: JMP/REX Shutterstock Simon Burnton Watford’s striker Troy Deeney is capable of thriving in the Premier League. Although whatever it is that’s about to happen at Manchester United – disaster, triumph, glory, nervous collapse – should be fun to watch. People in the media pretending to care about handshakes, mind games, etc. Least excited about: Managers going on about stuff.


Young player of the season: Memphis Depay. Stoke – now even more Barcelona than Barcelona- may be this season’s Southampton. Surprise of the season: The Premier League doesn’t do surprises. Player of the season: Harry Kane, who everyone seems to think is going to struggle, lose his mojo and all the rest but who is in fact an irrepressible cartoon-style hero and will score 30 goals this season while having more fun than any other human being on the planet. Relegated: Watford and Norwich, just because they go up and they go down. Mainly though, nobody else looks that good. Raheem Sterling is £49m of quite good but he’s just the right signing for a team who needed speed, vim and youth. David Silva is still the best David Silva-style player around. Vincent Kompany and Yaya Touré have to be better than last season. Still have the strongest squad in all areas. Photograph: John Marsh/Reuters Barney Ronay Stats show The Blades emerged with 167 Premier League titles to the Clarets’ 138 over the period, with Burnley just coming out on top in the Champions League with 42 victorious final appearances as opposed to Sheffield’s 41.Raheem Sterling will hope to match the expectations generated by his £49m move to Manchester City. Whilst the familiar names of Ronaldo and Messi still popped up on a list of Champions League individual records, the duo grabbing the most goals in a season and in one game respectively, current Premier League clubs giants such as Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool disappeared from their status as dominant clubs, in their place? Step forward the new giants of Burnley and Sheffield United. The overall results were surprising to say the least. For anyone not familiar with the game, this is when you simply allow the match engine to do its things without your input at a faster rate. For reasons only he can compute, 58 actual days of the game (that’s 1000 virtual ones) were left in ‘holiday mode. Having once dropped out of university largely due to its mystical powers, the plight of the Football Manager addict is one we have deep sympathy for.Ĭheck out this FM 2015 user for instance.
