epl 2007-08 preview

its summer time and some of the biggest transfers have taken place already, and still going on. Although the epl tradition has always been that the best 4 teams struggle for the top 4 spots, this time Tottenham seem to look a bit promising(thnx to the spectacular form of berbatov and bent last season) and may likely to thrash Arsenal out of the foursome the coming season without any effort. Arsenal which started good in the last season, failed miserably after the midseason when henry was ruled out with injury, and so is van for some time. Now, with henry officially off to barca, the crippled team seem to lose more players, with ljungberg(tho, cesc said a strong 'no' to RM ) on the verge of leaving the club. I feel pity for arsenal lovers, if wenger moves out after his contract. Now, with the team's average age in early twenties, no more strikers will be brought into the team, the decision made by wenger, the substitution master, after being impressed by the new brazil born croatia forward de silva in a friendly.

Chelsea, one-big pack of the elite, now with the big stalwarts recovered from the injuries, i believe, if everything goes fine, is going to kick-ass manu and liverpool this time. Although things dont go as planned with mourinho most of the times, I cant even believe the squad they have now, shevchenko, drogba, j.cole, arjen with full pace attack, supported by key set players like essien, makelele, ballack, diarra, lampard, pizarro, sidwell, mikel, terry, cavalho, malouda. Unless something terrible happens, Chelsea is going to regain its lost top place, which unfortunately I dont like simply because its ruins the very excitement of a football game just to buy the players with the infinite funds spilling out from the Roman's pocket and win tournaments just with money. Although there isnt a single big transfer into the squad now, the existing players are more than enough to please mourinho's whims. Now their strategy being changed to winger play, shevchenko might have a tough time to regain his spot in the starting line-up, and so is makelele.

Liverpool, strengthened enough with a couple of key transfers sidelined with the construction proposal of a new stadium to earn a bigger fan support. Although its sad to leave Anfield, their favourite Kop, its going to give a better long-term advantage coping upto 60k fans capacity. The Reds has always been up for spaniards, and so is the new attacking forward, Fernando Torres, a natural and a leading goalscorer for the past 5 years for athletico, and has the ability to acclimatise quickly to different environments. Supported by Ryan, the new Dutch national pro footballer who is gonna compete now for 6 other midfielders in the team, the new line-up seem to have an entirely different look from the last year. If only another classy defender arrives from brazil(Alex wud be perfect) or heinze(na, manu wont sell to its rivals), it can try to secure the no.2 spot, presenting a decent fight to manu.

Since when manu didnt want the young talent. Now with Nani and christiano, manu has the deadly attacking sprint of wingers from both sides, extra supported by the new brazilian. Altho Tevez deal is still in dilemma, the physically weak squad of manu can tumble sometimes againts the opponent's muscle play, which is full of Chelsea now. Most of the key setplayers including the goal-keeper are so badly injured last yr, no wonder why manu bagged the league trophy with a tough fight. The new season is going to be a fantastic difficult to predict one, and lets wait and see who gonna kick whose ass.