The new Premier League is almost here, and like any good or bad football based website we have an opinion on most things ahead. So our Ten 2022-23 Premier League Bold Season Predictions will have our biggest, boldest tips for the new season.
We have already used stats to predict the 2022-23 Premier League table at the end of the season which you can read below, so our Ten 2022-23 Premier League Bold Season Predictions is much more relying on gut feel than stats.
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Ten Bold 2022-23 Premier League Season Predictions
VAR WILL RUIN A GAME BY GW2
It’s debatable whether the introduction of VAR has been a good thing for football. And VAR has been debated over and over and over again. Ruining a good chunk some great football podcasts.
VAR’s millimetre “perfect” decisions have frustrated and ruined a few games since it has come on board, and we are using our first bold prediction to declare that VAR will ruin a game as early as Gameweek 2.
And we’re looking at Brentford v Manchester United as the prime example of a game to be wrecked.
TWO OF THE THREE PROMOTED SIDES WILL STAY UP
It’s easy to pick on the promoted clubs, they haven’t had a great record recently, Norwich and Watford went down with barely a whimper. Brentford were threatening to join them before the inspired loan of Christian Eriksen.
This season we say the former Championship high flyers will go one step better and two of them will survive.
Which ones you may ask?
Well, we say Bournemouth will go down, and defying the recent yo-yo adventures, Fulham will stay up. Along with Nottingham Forest who will be the highest of the three promoted teams in 12th to 14th.
MARCO SILVA WILL QUIT FULHAM IN OCTOBER
Despite our assertions that Fulham will stay up, it still doesn’t mean Marco Silva won’t crack it at Fulham.
A slowish start thanks to an opening day flogging by Liverpool, combined with a quiet transfer window will see Silva lose patience and walk before he is fired.
Silver lining is the early managerial departure means they will get a tried and trusted manager in to see them to safety in 17th.
What’s Big Sam up to these days?
12 CLUBS WILL PART WAYS WITH THEIR MANAGER THIS SEASON
Fulham won’t be the only club this season with a change in manager, we’re calling 12 clubs will change the manager before the season ends.
We’re even brave enough to say at least four managers will leave in the World Cup period.
We’re predicting names like Brendan Rodgers and David Moyes will go at some stage, and perhaps even Antonio Conte if these aren’t perfect at Spurs.
Out of the non big six teams, we can only really see Crystal Palace’s Patrick Vieira being a safe manager. Graham Potter could be cherry picked by a bigger team, and even Eddie Howe could go if Newcastle’s new owners feel he isn’t up to their big name status.
WORLD CUP IN NOVEMBER/DECEMBER WILL RUIN THE PREMIER LEAGUE FOR A FEW MONTHS
A World Cup in the middle of the season is a novelty, much like the location of it Qatar, but we fear for the impact on the Premier League.
Instead of players complaining about a heavy end to the season, the Premier League players at the World Cup will have go through that only to return to the ridiculously over-crowded Christmas-New Year-January period.
And with Covid still lurking, who know how many players will be out over the subsequent months.
Those teams who avoid having players at the Qatar showpiece may be well rewarded as a result
NEWCASTLE WILL SNEAK INTO THE TOP FOUR IN SEPTEMBER
It wouldn’t be a bold predictions piece without us coming up with something that is so unlikely to happen that it will receive maximum scoff.
But why not Newcastle?
Every so often a team jump out of the blocks and hang around long enough to let people dream of being another Leicester. Maybe we’re wearing our rose tinted glasses from that memorable year when Ipswich Town were high flyers.
Newcastle may not be big six quality, but they aren’t far away from one of the best squads from outside that cohort, and it will only take a sluggish start from some of the big six teams to have Newcastle in the mix if they start well.
But they will need to take points away from their early fixtures with Liverpool and Manchester City, so for our bold top four predictions we can have to think that they can.
MAN CITY WILL WIN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Erling Braut Haaland was one hell of a good transfer for Manchester City in the off season, and while there will always be doubt over a Bundesliga striker moving to the Premier League, one can’t ignore how good Haaland has been in the Champions League.
He has scored 27 goals in 25 games in Europe for sides nowhere as good as Manchester City.
So our bold prediction, which isn’t that bold on paper, but is on recent history, is that this is the season where Manchester City break through for the Champions League win.
MO SALAH / LUIS DIAZ WILL OUTSCORE HALF THE TEAMS THIS SEASON
Although Liverpool have lost Sadio Mane, our bold predictions is that it won’t affect Liverpool at all, in fact because that ever present tension between Mane and Salah has gone, the team will flourish and score.
So our bold prediction is that Diaz and Salah will combine for over 50 goals, meaning that based on 2021-22 Premier League standings would outscore ten teams total goals scored.
Will it win them the title? Maybe.
LEICESTER WILL BE IN THE BOTTOM THREE AT CHRISTMAS
Leicester have been a feel good story for many reasons over the past few seasons, stealing a Premier League title away from the big six, and causing general upset to the order since.
But our bold prediction for the Foxes is this is the season where the wheels fall off.
If Jamie Vardy stays fit, then people can rightly tell us to stick our prediction where the sun don’t shine, but Vardy isn’t very reliable when it comes to injuries. And without Vardy Leicester are not the same.
An over-arching vibe of bringing costs down could see one or two good players sold off too before the transfer window closes too.
And Brendan Rodgers does seem to have a use-by date at clubs. A perfect storm then for the Foxes to struggle.
For the record, despite our December doom and gloom, we still think they will stay up.
ALL BATTLES WILL COME DOWN TO THE LAST DAY OF THE SEASON
Maybe through wishing more than predicting, but we envisage all battles for various league position punishments and rewards.
The title race will be like last season and decided in the second half of the final games of the season. 4th place will come down to the last day too. Europa League spots will go down to goal difference. And the relegation battle will see four teams vying for two spots on the final day, with second last vaulting to safety on the final afternoon in May.
