The Title Race - 2023/24

How many points will be needed to win the league?

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MCFC1993

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Setting this up because we have one every season and of course it looks like we'll be well involved again.

Poll added as well for our usual points prediction, I'll close it at the end of August.

Next 5 games are looking tasty before Arsenal (A), I think this could be a strong start from us:
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Who's going to be the biggest threat to us?

Definitely won't be United. Newcastle look strong, they could beat the rest.

I'm torn between Arsenal and Liverpool.
 
MCFC1993 said:
Setting this up because we have one every season and of course it looks like we'll be well involved again.

Poll added as well for our usual points prediction, I'll close it at the end of August.

Next 5 games are looking tasty before Arsenal (A), I think this could be a strong start from us:
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Who's going to be the biggest threat to us?

Definitely won't be United. Newcastle look strong, they could beat the rest.

I'm torn between Arsenal and Liverpool.
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I went for 85 to 89 and looking at that fixture list we should have 20 of those points needed by the end of September.
 
If we finish above Arsenal and Liverpool I think the title will be ours, no one else looks remotely close to us.

Chelsea will be a threat with the squad they're building but I don't think they'll challenge until next season.
 
Going for 90-94 although I think there will be a few more teams in the mix this year. I’m hoping a top 4 including Newcastle and Chelsea to make only a single place for one of scum, dippers, tarquins…..
 
Where does all this respect for Newcastle come from?

They're a good side, but I'd sooner play them every week than either Arsenal or Liverpool, who are both far better sides.

Liverpool were poor last season, but could be very dangerous this year if they can sort out their midfield.

Still think it'll be City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and then the rest.
 
chris85mcfc said:
Where does all this respect for Newcastle come from?

They're a good side, but I'd sooner play them every week than either Arsenal or Liverpool, who are both far better sides.

Liverpool were poor last season, but could be very dangerous this year if they can sort out their midfield.

Still think it'll be City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and then the rest.
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They’re a decent side but looked very average against us….but who doesn’t ?

They’ll be in the mix and I’m all for it if they can again displace a traditional top 4 side.
 
DenisLawBackHeel74 said:
They’re a decent side but looked very average against us….but who doesn’t ?

They’ll be in the mix and I’m all for it if they can again displace a traditional top 4 side.
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Agree, thought Newcastle were impressive, hardly wasted a ball. It's just they couldn't get the ball of us.
 
Are 538 not doing their running predictions thing this year?
 
Coatigan said:
Are 538 not doing their running predictions thing this year?
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Disney (ABC news), who own 538, decided to scrap all but the political predictions pissing off all those who worked on the sporting side of 538 and everyone who followed them. Zero explanation given Other then layoffs. If we could just see Brighton’s rankings and their player algorithms that would do instead.

awfulannouncing.com

FiveThirtyEight is no longer doing sports forecasts

FiveThirtyEight's Ryan Best tweeted that the site will no longer support sports forecasts as a result of layoffs at Disney and ABC Sports.
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Even if you guys start slow which you haven’t so far, this team can just string a ridiculous amount of wins together.
 
blue b4 the moon said:
90 will be enough....from how we are playing if we keep focused we'll break 100.
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I can’t see another 100 point season. 2017-18 was something of a perfect storm in that we went out of the CL in the QF and FA Cup in fifth round. The big target we had to aim for once the title was clinched was making history by hitting the century.
If the title race is over and we’re still involved in one or both cups, the foot will come off the gas in PL games, like at Brighton and Brentford last season.
But let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves and think every season is now going to be like 2022-23!
 
DenisLawBackHeel74 said:
Going for 90-94 although I think there will be a few more teams in the mix this year. I’m hoping a top 4 including Newcastle and Chelsea to make only a single place for one of scum, dippers, tarquins…..
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Fortunately for them, it's likely to be top 5 for the champions league places this year.
 
We’re so good now that the only things left to fight for are the Club World Cup (it’ll be a real disappointment if we don’t win that one but I think we’ll be fine), the Invincibles (probably just not realistic to ask the squad to go a whole season with no slip-ups) and… Chelsea’s defensive record.

14 goals or fewer conceded all season is an incredibly big ask but if anyone can do it, it’s Pep and this group of players. That’s what I have my eye on this season.

I don’t believe for a second that we’ll be relegated for the FFP charges but if we were, at least we could have a shot at the Europa League…
 
Alfie Budd said:
I can’t see another 100 point season. 2017-18 was something of a perfect storm in that we went out of the CL in the QF and FA Cup in fifth round. The big target we had to aim for once the title was clinched was making history by hitting the century.
If the title race is over and we’re still involved in one or both cups, the foot will come off the gas in PL games, like at Brighton and Brentford last season.
But let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves and think every season is now going to be like 2022-23!
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Spot on. If we'd needed, say,4 points from those games you mentioned, does anyone seriously think we wouldn't have got them? By then, the focus was on Wembley, and particularly Istanbul.
 
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