It’s only about two weeks until the 2022–23 season begins, and predictions about who will win the Premier League are already pouring in.
Surprisingly, few people consider Arsenal to be title favourites.
Arteta and his boys will believe they are now in a position to end Manchester City’s dominance by winning the Premier League, nevertheless, it remains to be seen whether they’ll be the real deal ahead of next season.
Gary Neville has made his choices for the PL title race next term. He feels sure Manchester City will win the league, their fourth in a row.
When asked by FourFourTwo if anyone could derail Manchester City’s title ambitions, Neville said, “No, I don’t think so.” Carragher added, “Sitting here today, it’s difficult to say yes.”
On Man United’s chances, Neville thought that they would finish in the Top Four but said: “It’s all dependent on the budget,”
“Under the owners the club has had, I think they’ll probably still finish in the top four, but I don’t think they’ll improve on it. If they got new owners and had £250m or £300m to spend, they’ve got a chance of going up to second. I do think they’ve got a chance of taking that spot off Arsenal – that’s up for grabs – but they’d have to spend well.”
After Man City’s treble-winning dominance last season, Arsenal will have to win the league as underdogs next season.
With the arrivals of Kai Havertz, Jurrien Timber, and Declan Rice; the resurgence of Emile Smith-Rowe; the recharged Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli; and William Saliba’s return to fitness, the Gunners are now stronger than ever for the title charge.
Only time will tell who can get past Manchester City in the title battle, and the fact is that Neville would never tip Arsenal! But, even so, what are your thoughts about Manchester City? Can the current Arsenal team stop them?
Darren N
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Fair enough.He backs the ‘ oilers’.Logical enough.Won the last 3.But you can see he’s gutted Arsenal are 2nd,gagging for Manure to be there.Can never hide his hatred of us.
He has always been bias against us he prayed last season for us to fall short at point he even said we could fall out of the top four I expected that from him anyway but this season we will let him cry
Whatever is the case he will be right unless we prove him wrong. So far we have not been able to do that.
And some were defending him in here that he has no bias.
HH, I don’t think he is that bad imo. He does tell it the way he sees it. He said Arsenal would slip up last season and he was 100% right. Yes, he’s got Man U in his heart and it’s natural he wants them to win but, he is usually very honest and direct. You have to respect that about him.
Nop, I remembered vividly he said arsenal won’t make top 4,and he maintained that until second half of the season, about 12 games to go b4 he started changing mouth to “arsenal will slip up”
And he was right ?
What’s the issue
Doesn’t make you less of a fan by telling the truth
I tell my wife every day its going to rain. I’m going to be right at some point. He never knew. He hoped.
U mean we didn’t make top 4?
Neville also equivocally predicted that Man United would finish about us in the middle of last season..
Gary is very objective in a lot of his analysis but when it comes to Arsenal he just trolls us..
It’s not about Arsenal more about Man Utd. Always predicting good things about them no matter their real condition.
He does tell how he sees it only when it’s Arsenal. He even found excuses for them when they were trashed 7. Would he have found excuses were it us?
He also maintained Arsenal would miss out on the top four at a time when everyone else said the minimum would be top four finish for Arsenal. This was barely 2 months b4 the season ended. The guy couldn’t hide his hatred for the club even if he tried.
Yeah one doesn’t need a rocket scientist to tell him which team is next to Mancity in the Premier league, Arsenal have strengthened and given they were a very young team last season, one of the youngest if not the youngest, it’s stars like Bukayo, Saliba, Matineli etc will only become better, biased pundits like Gary Nevil may eat humble pie come the end of the season.
The ‘brainfart’ called Gary Neville, succumbs to his inner nauseous character. Horrible man.
The brainfart who correctly predicted we would mentally blow the title , drop silly points and that City would put a massive winning sequence together
Yes of course, you would enjoy that. Didn’t u?
Are you talking in the past or present tense ?lol
I will take that as a ‘yes u enjoyed it’
Would I enjoy that we slipped up ?
Do you mean did I enjoy it ?
I’m confused lol
The ’emotionally driven’ brainfart. His emotions come from his ass….right or wrong. You need to get a little more subtle minded. Brainfarts can be right, but they are still Brainfarts.
Oh I assumed brainfarts meant what comes from their brain is rubbish ?
As he literally got the title run in spot on , that’s where I was confused
If Haaland is fit throughout the season, Man City would likely win EPL again. If he gets injured, we could have a bigger chance to win it
I think Ikay was the difference last season especially in the run in.
City had won the league previously with a higher points total compared to last season without Haaland 🤔
If only we drew the two games against City we would of been champions, fine Margins 🤔 imo if City don’t strengthen I can’t see them winning the league…..
I hope you’re right about Gundogan, although Man City have replaced him with Kovacic
It took a while for haaland to fully integrate into that team. They were a much better a side at the end of the season than when it started.
If we’d been more competitive in those games vs city, it would feel more like fine margins lost us the title, but they had our number both times really. We still could have won it in other games, but we weren’t strong enough to push through at the end of the season.
If we can keep playing like we did for most of last season, we have a chance because our squad is deeper, and certain younger players like odegaard, Saka and GM could be even better, imo. However, it’s easier said than done, and we’re yet to see how much losing GX will affect the side, or if we have replaced him well – we will get a better idea after the first few games.
City were an experienced and had a bigger squad. Our first team players were playing at full pelt to the end as the bench players weren’t pulling up any trees when given an opportunity.
And on top of that we did not take our chances when City kept slipping up. We also panicked and were a nervous wreck in the last 5 or so games at the end. Hope we learned from that..
It always feels like teams pay too much respect to City and that affects the whole mentality when you play them. They are not some invincibles like that Barcelona team Pep built from 2010.
“bench players weren’t pulling up any trees when given an opportunity.”
That’s largely true, but trossard was doing great before he lost his place to jesus, who is a player I still rate highly, but his form was dreadful, and trossard didn’t really get another chance after that as arteta stuck with his favoured front 3. Also, Jorginho, though he wasn’t 100% consistent, he was much more reliable than partey at the end of the season – I think arteta fumbled the ball on those two in particular, and it made a difference. I doubt it was the difference between 1st and 2nd, but it was significant, so who knows? So, imo, it wasn’t just a lack of squad depth, it was also that we didn’t use all of our quality players effectively.
Pretty much agree with the rest, except I wonder about the last paragraph tbh – city were a really strong side last season, but i wonder how much that fear factor influences their results (that said, the fear factor is/was earned), but i also don’t think they’re as good as that Barcelona side.
Neville talks through his arse.. simple as that he changes his mind like the weather, all depends which way the wind is blowing
You’re correct
He’s not exactly wrong though is he? If we play like the first half of last season yes we can challenge but if we play like we did in the second half we will be battle for 3 4 spot. Unless the boss decides to play Partey and Rice together I feel our 11 will be weaker than last season. Havertz whilst better going forward doesn’t have the defensive positional play and ruggedness off Xhaka meaning we will lose more battles in midfield which was a problem with the more defensive xhaka. Whilst timber looks a top player it would be unfair to say Ben white already isn’t. White was definitely in our top 5 performers last season and I don’t see timber as an upgrade yet. I feel we would have better off spending all the money we spent so far on Rice and Caicedo. We could have fielded Caicedo at 6 with Partey as back up and Rice at 8 with ESR as a more attacking alternative.
This season will be more competitive am seeing a resurgence of Anfield and an Aston Villa with a season campaigner at the helm is only going to complicate matters.
Aston Villa has made a brilliant signing in Diaby he’s going to be their version of SaKa.
Arsenal needs to get team chemistry up a little better, but if Arsenal win their first six games that are quite winnable, our final rattle could take us extremely close.
My top four
1) Arsenal
2) Liverpool
3) Man City
4) Aston Villa
The Citizens will fall off their perch due to the absence of Ilkay Gundogan and the ailing physicality of KDB
Gary Neville is emotional, and therefore irrelevant.
We can only challenge City if Arteta stops relying on average players like Havertz and Vieira; bring in a player like Caicedo or Andre Trindade or Veiga and a viable alternative to Saka. I thought Trossard could play as an alternative to Saka.
We absolutely need a strong midfield addition and a powerful Saka alternative. Playing Partey and Rice seems to me a better combination than just one of them at a time.
Manchester City are favourites, but I don’t feel they are the overwhelming favourites they have been.
They have lost Gundogan and also Mahrez who were both extremely influential and they have yet to dip into the transfer market.
I would say, given the way we have strengthened this summer that we will be there or thereabouts and should finish top four regardless.
The best thing that could happen for Arsenal is to do what City did and just steamroller teams in the last ten games and win the title by coming from behind the leaders.
I don’t know – I still have doubts about Arsenal – for all their positive talk and confidence there is still that capacity to just lose their nerve..
Sorry – City have signed Kovacic but he is no Gundogan.
Those drawn matches are the ones that cost us the title. Even losing to City we still could have won the title by one point. Any way that’s water under the bridge and the team should be now well experienced to be able to cross the finish line.
Arteta also needs to learn how to rotate and let players know they are not guaranteed to be in the first eleven unless it’s earned.
I don’t think we need to be bothered by Gary Neville’s assertions. He is entitled to his opinion but then he exaggerates it. His hatred for Arsenal can’t let him be objective. He will always have a dig at Arsenal! It is true last time he got it right but don’t think he will always be lucky in his predictions. This time Neville will flop badly and many of us will enjoy it
He might be biased, but i really don’t think he has hatred towards arsenal. He seems more emotionally affected by Liverpool and city tbh, but we have to understand that those teams have won big competitions recently, we haven’t, so that creates doubts. Once we’ve proven we can get over the line and win something big like the EPL or champions league, no one can say we lack the required mentality, but until we do, there will always be doubters.
No problems with Gary Neville, he’s as Man U as Ian Wright is Arsenal.
Some of our own so-called supporters here on JA, who’ve obviously never seen a football match in their lives can be far more negative than he could ever be.
Since Man City only bought one player, the excellent Mateo Kovacic, I suspect Pep Guardiola got a trick in his sleeves for the coming season. The existing players like Haaland, Stones, Foden, Dias, Grealish and Rodri gonna get better and their youngsters like Lewis, Palmer and Alvarez gonna live up the EPL. Haaland definitely gonna score more this season. Though Arsenal had strengthen their squad considerably, I think Man City will still be too strong. I hope our boys will do better than last season, score more, concede less, win more points and let’s see where we end up.
I can never understand how someone like Neville, who failed so miserably as a manager, can be taken seriously when he criticises other managers.
He did get his final four forecast wrong, just as every other pundit did at the beginning of the season – so what?!?!
I’m sure MA isn’t the least bit concerned about what he says and neither should anyone else.
To see him splutter and contradict himself after united’s he 7 – 0 drubbing at Anfield was pure bliss and showed him up for what he is – no better or worse than any other fan who tries to predict the future.
Yes they can, but will they?
Anybody who takes him seriously, needs his head to be checked. The guy simply hates Arsenal, full stop!!
Neville is a bitter man, he can’t forget all those times Henry left him on his ass, same with Carragher, give Arteta credit he’s building something special, although as I have always said this is a five year plan, we’re ahead of plan in my opinion,in two years time we will be unplayable.
It all depends on how they strengthen their team. Losing Gundogan definitely weakens them but if Gvardiol and someone like Nicolo Barella come in they will be favourites in my view. I think both Liverpool and Man U will provide tougher opposition this time round. We have to aim high but going one up from last season will be a big ask and to give ourselves a good chance to win the EPL we need a similar start to last season.
I pay no mind to anything so called pundits say which is usually a mixture of guesswork and bias towards their own teams. Gary Neville or for that matter Ian Wright are no different.
Who cares what Neville says. Like most pundits, he makes his living by being contentious.
Adrian Durham has made a career out of Arsenal bashing.
Who finishes where in the League at the end of next season is why we watch the games.
Neville is speculating, nothing more.
The transfer window will be open for another month, so much can change before it closes.
Let’s revisit this subject after 10 games!!!
The only reason why we lost the league was the greed to win a trophy. if we had fielded a weaker side for the Europa league, we could have avoided injuries to saliba and tomiyasu. that cost us in the last few games that we drew. we didn’t need to beat city, we only needed better results against teams like everton, etc., and we would have been home and dry. liverpool will be better I don’t think city will do better.
Idiot.His dear united just got beat again taking it 3 losses on a row and here he is making it look like they are on our levels.
If Chelsea can arrange something that brings in mbappe from PSG, they will represent a real threat
Arsenal have to build on last year’s performance, even if they came second again, it has to have a feel of an even closer contest.
“Surprisingly, few people consider Arsenal to be title favourites”. Really!!! You sure, mate? Why on earth would we be favourites! We will be in the mix for the Top 4 but that’s it.
Unless Arteta has some new tactical wizardry up his sleeve, teams now know how we will set up. What he has done though by signing Timber is made it less predictable from which wing we will do it.
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Just want to know if other club’s platforms give prominence to Arsenal legends the way JA does Arsenal haters? Why do we bother so much on the opinions of these Arsenal haters called pundits? Can’t we concentrate on proffering solutions to improving our team rather than wasting our time on opinions that cannot change anything.
Who really care what one of the Neville sisters has to say
Much adu about nothing. As mentioned above Neville is about as biased as Wright and as ex players, why shouldn’t they be especially in the pre season when there are so many unexpectents. My own view is that we are over rating Manchester City.
A bits and pieces Inter showed them up in the Champions League final and there is no reason why a wiser, more experienced Arteta can’t do the same especially now that he has the recourses to cancel out Pep’s tactics.
Garry got it right in predicting that Manchester city will win the league over Arsenal, but he failed in other predictions like saying Arsenal wont make top 4 and that Manchester united will finiah above Arsenal.
For this season city are still favourite but i think Arsenal will do better than last season.
I see Arsenal winning it this time