I’m making early Premier League predictions this season.

Team 2024-25 Actual2025-26 PredictedNotes
Liverpool11What if Salah drops off, but the £300m of recent spending pick up the slack?
Manchester City32Too much Pep, too much Haaland, too much money
Chelsea43If you spend a billion pounds, you should probably finish top 4
Arsenal24As low as I can reasonably put them
Newcastle55Could easily finish five spots lower if they prioritize the CL
Villa66The Europa League means they can probably prioritize the Premier League for 2/3 of the season
Spurs177I am certain that Tottenham will not finish lower than last season. Finishing higher than 7th is entirely possible if the league is the priority. This feels like a return to “top 4 is our everything” but with much more competition and much less Harry Kane / Sonny 
Brighton88Wouldn’t be shocked for them to finish higher
Brentford109If any club can survive losing their manager and several key players, it’s Brentford (or Brighton) ((I’m actually worried about them this year))
Bournemouth910When Spurs lost 4 of their 5 defensive starters, they sank to 17th. Can Bournemouth do better?
Palace1211If they hadn’t won the FA Cup and a place in the Europa (Conference) League, I’d have put them higher
Manchester United1512They finished 15th last season. This doesn’t feel overly generous, but also feels miserly?
Fulham1113Mid-table again, but could surprise me
West Ham1414See above, but without the “surprise me” part
Nottingham Forest715They should go all-in on the Europa League
Everton 1316IDK, they’ll be safe, but top half seems too much of a stretch
Leeds17Surely one of the promoted teams will survive
Wolves1618They’re not very good and only survived last season because the promoted teams were terrible and Spurs tanked the league
Burnley19Welcome back to the big show, lads. Good luck.
Sunderland20Someone has to be the “we’re just happy to be here” team