August 15, 2025 • 15 mins
The new English Premier League season is underway – Liverpool kicking off their defence with a 4-2 win over Bournemouth.
It was an emotional night, the team paying tribute to Diogo Jota, who tragically died last month.
Expert football analyst Dominic Fifield joined Piney to preview the new season of the EPL and offer his thoughts on Liverpool’s odds of defending their title.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Edb delayte scared to beat Bournemouth four to two in
the opening match of the new English Premier League football season.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Sellers sold the chiefs here what peace to come in
ahead of hell?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Can more? Sellers seal it you Anny? Can Liverpool put
on their perch since the end of last season? Have
no intention of chuckling office?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, liverpol tuner up before Bournemouth equalized with fourteen minutes
of regulation time remaining, the Red sCOD in the eighty
eighth and then Mosella with that goal in injury time.
Let's bring in senior writer turned commissioning editor at the
Athletic FC Dominic, Firefield.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Tom.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Great to have you back on the show. What did
you make of the start of Liverpool's title defense?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, I think it probably showcased everything about the current
Liverpool team. And I'm talking about the team that Slot
has now constructed, A slot has now constructed, a new
team really compared to last Four players made their debuts tonight,
which is the first first time four players have started
for the champions in the opening of the season for
(01:28):
a generation. It's really ridiculous really when you consider that.
But I think we've throughout the preseason we've seen Liverpool
opening teams up, creating chances, this very exciting new front line,
clicking to a certain extent, showing flashes of their quality.
Hugo tk as the man that's really taken it on
(01:49):
with goals in the Community Shield, and this evening against Bournemouth,
Cody gak Post SEMs to be relishing it Mostsella look
more like himself today compared to a Wembley last week.
I think we're still to see a bit more of
Florian Viits. So you saw a lot of their attacking
against Bournemouth, but you also saw the flip side of that.
(02:11):
I think the weirdly and okay, they've changed both fullbacks
in Kirkcases now there, in fring Pongs now there. Actually
it was when those guys left the pitch that Liverpool
looks fragile this evening and I just think there's a
bit of uncertainty about the back line. I think the
team is adjusting to incorporating Florian Vitz as a number ten.
(02:34):
There's less protection in midfield as a result, and there's
defensive fragility there and Bournemouth absolutely exploited that as teams
have through pre season Crystal Padis did at Wembley last week.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
In the Community Shield as.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Well, there is a vulnerability there which does not necessarily
it's not suggestive of a team that is likely to
be champions. However, very very early days and these guys
are bedding in. We've all we all know what Liverpool
have been through this summer and the commemoration Giogo Jotta
(03:08):
tonight was impeccably done, absolutely wonderfully done, and that is
a trauma that is deep seated and given the amount
of upheaval as well, this summer at Liverpool is going
to be a bit of time before everything clicks defensively
and offensively to make that team what it can be.
But I think in the first few weeks of the
(03:29):
season we will see opportunities.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
For opponents when they play Liverpool.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And teams will go into games against them thinking they've
got a chance to inflict damage on that back line.
So that actually just adds to it all. It makes
a bit more drama in at the start of this
Premier League season.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Arsenal closest to Liverpool last year second for the third
straight season. What do they need to do to take
the next step and be champions for the first time
since what three to four? And can you see them
doing it this season?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well? They You're probably right, They are probably closest on
paper though given them maybe because of the amount of upheaval,
manage the city as well. What they need to do
they need to hit their new sign He needs to
hit the ground running basically. I mean the you know,
Gocorash has come in as the elusive number nine, that
the player that they've been craving for for years and
(04:25):
they finally landed and he's prolific in Portugal, did wonderfully
well at Sporting, but he has to he has to
transpose that form straight away onto the Premier League to
alleviate some of the pressure that will accompany a big
money signing like him, but also adds add them the
X factor that that Arsenal lacked last season, that they've
got similar demands wilia A Zubi Mende in midfield as well,
(04:50):
who comes with a huge, huge reputation from Spain and
a player that Arsenals have courted for a long long time,
and he has to make an immediate impact and if
he does, the squad looks strong. The squad looks stronger,
and Miklarteta will believe that. You know, this season can
be their year. They have won since the FA Cup
(05:13):
in twenty twenty. They haven't won the league for twenty
one years. I think that's I think is which is
remarkable in itself. That was the invincible season. So it's
a massive year for Michali Teta. He's been backed, They've
spent heavily in the summer. The new guys had to
geil quickly and what a test to start their season
(05:34):
at Old Trafford on Sunday. I mean that's you know,
last season you'd have gone there with a lot of confidence.
This year with Manchester United having a new front line,
that's that looks a trickier fixture.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Now, well, let's Seaway's nicely into United. I don't know
that we can ever fully confidently predict what to expect
from Mentester United. But what do you expect or what
should we expect from United this season?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Well?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I was listening to Gary Neville on the Teddy this
evening and he was asked that very same question. He
suggested that sixth place this season would be a major
achievement Manchester United and Ruben Amerim, And he's probably right
in fairness given how poor things were last year and
the chaos really but a whole preseason for Amerim to
try and get his ideas across to a squad that
(06:19):
still needs to be streamlined. They still need to bring
get players out of that club, having having sanctioned another
vast outlay, despite the fact that you know, three months
ago they were making the Tea Lady redundant, that old Trafford.
Now they've spent two hundred million pounds on three new
players up top. So it's it's a strange scenario. It's
a strange situation. They're not going to be fixed overnight.
(06:42):
That that is a team that is still in development.
Even chesh go. You don't look Chessco might score on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
We might.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
We might get very carried away and think he's going
to be that he's a finished article and he's going
to score thirty Carls and the new Earling Harland. But
I suspect what will happen over the course of the
season is he will have ups and downs and it
will be a learning process for him in a new
league having arrived from the Bundesliga with Lightzig. I mean,
it's it's it's so it's going to be another patience
(07:08):
job really with United. But I think they that front
nine is exciting and if they can incorporate Bruno Founders
into their team as well and get him a role
where he can influence that attacking three and it doesn't
imbalance the whole team too much, then they will pose
a threat going forward and the players should be better
suited now more accustomed to Ruben Amerin's three four three.
(07:32):
So there is promise there. There is a promise of.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
A better season than they injured last year.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And you know, the lack of European football you a
for competition this season might actually benefit them because it
will give him more time.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
On the training ground to get his ideas across.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Loverpool's victory last year, of course, snapped a four season
winning streke for Manchester City always going to be there
or there about you to imagine what shall we expect
in the blue half of Manchester this season.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
City are remarkable really, I mean they've again another one
of these big clubs. In the theme of the summer,
the big clubs that had endure difficult seasons last time around,
and we were sat here talking about how the middle
class in the Premier League, the Brentford's Crystal Palace, Brighton Bournemouth,
how they'd sort of risen to the forum and looked
(08:20):
as if they were threatening the big clubs monopoly really
of Premier League and the honors aboard. That's completely changed.
The big clubs have reimposed themselves this summer. They've taken
the best talent away from those other clubs, that middle
class of clubs.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
City are in there.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
City's investment is colossal with summer, absolutely colossal, and I
mean it'll be intriguing to see how they do. Absolutely
intriguing because it feels almost a bit like the first
season under pet where they made so many changes and
it took team players time to settle. So you might
(09:00):
get you know, Ryan Cherkey and Ryan out Newey doing
good things with iMusic from the off, but I think
others are going to take a while. I mean, treated
he how to journey Riinders does lad they brought from
Milan in the summer, and treat to see how whether
James Trafford ends up being their first choice goalkeeper, which
is a remarkable transformation. But equally you look at the
(09:24):
the players that they're letting go. There's there's reports as
seeing that Rico Lewis, who was highly highly rated last
last couple of years really at the city, might might
be joining Nottingham Forest now because they have to balance
the books and and bring money in because of the
outlay they they've put on on players. And you know
there's no Kevin de Bruyner there in that in that in.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
That group either, so it's an unfamiliar feel of it.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
No Carl Walker, He's gone to Burnley, so it's it
may be they they need to adjust for a while
and again if they if they have a slow setup
and the danger is that a Liverpool or an Arsenal
might steal a march on them and that gap can't
be bridged. The other one, of course in there is Chelsea,
I mean Chelsea Club, world chair Sampion's best biggest team
(10:08):
in the world at the moment allegedly, but with a
great squad with a lot of strength and depth, and
they will pose more of a throughout this season I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Just on Forest or you mentioned the Aaron Chris Ward
of course twenty goals last season. Gee, we enjoyed watching
Forest and Chris Ward and they were in and around
the top four for a while. Eventually seventh, of course
can they go again or you know what? What what
do you predict for Forest this season?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
It's been insane last few days, in the last forty
eight hours really at Nottingham Forest has been ridiculous that
they've brought. They've done that, there's splurs absolutely spent a
lot of money in the last few days on players
that should all be confirmed in a in a sort
of flurry in the next twenty four hours. I mean
(10:56):
Macateef for Manchester City is one of those who en
Rico Lewis could join him, as I say, his former
City teammate. But they've got players. I'm not sure that
Nuno the manager is particularly pleased that it's taken so
long for them to recruit for them to bring in players,
because I think he sees the value in working with
(11:19):
as close to his final squad as possible through preseason.
So I don't think he thinks he's going into the
season with a team that's ready to fire from the off.
They'll also have a European football in the Europa League
to contend with. So look, it would surprise me if
they were challenging for Champions League qualification in the way
they did for the vast majority of last season. It
(11:41):
was only really in the last month they tailed off badly.
But if the new players do well and thrive there
and do well under Nuno, and if he is appeased
and if he is happy and content at the city ground,
then then the Forests have got some very very good
players in their group and a chance of certainly a
(12:04):
top half finish and going to in European competition, which
you know, if they win the Europa League and emulate
what Tona Hotspe did last season, they're in the Champions
League next year.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And of the promoted sides, dom as always intrigue around
which of them can come up and stay up. Lee's United, Burnley, Sunderland.
Great to have them back in there. Who feels best
equipped to make a galve and at least stay up.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You know, this is the biggest guess in the world,
because I think everybody over here has been blown away
about the amount of money that Somenland has spent. I
think it's one hundred and forty million pounds in counting
on twelve thirteen new players, which on paper you look
at the signings and think, well, some of them could
be quite good. They spent a lot of money, they
(12:49):
could be brilliant. But we should also remember what Burnley
did two years ago when they spent a similar amount
of money and Nose dives straight out of the division
again and it was all disrupted. I think Burnley will
go into it in a different way this year. They've
had the experience of recent relegations and they won't be
as expansive and open as they as they were around
(13:11):
a incant company. Scott Park will be a lot a
lot more down in his approach and that might actually
benefit them in terms of getting results. I don't think
it'll be attracted to watch, but they have at least
got a bit of experience. But then you know, they
too have had I've lost key players as well as
bringing them in in the summer and leads. Leads should
be in the Premier League like Sunderland. Really you can
(13:33):
argue that with the fan base and the and the
history and the everything that's set up they have there,
but you know, I'm not sure they've got the players
at the moment to do it, so I think all
three of them will struggle. They will struggle for long periods.
That's not to say they might not have successful opening weekends.
You know, you can see Leeds beating Everton potentially on Monday,
(13:55):
particularly with no Jarre Baranthwait on the Everton side. You
could you could see Sunderland potentially beating west ham On
on Saturday at home at a raucous stadium in light.
But I think it will catch up on them. I
think the gap in qualities is too big. Their big
hope this year is that clubs like maybe Wolves, possibly
(14:18):
Brentford have have not strengthened enough and can be caught
and maybe well at least held down there that in
those relegation places or around them for a while, which
will give the promote the promoted clubs a chance of
dragging them into the struggle. But you know, the last
(14:38):
two years have shown three up have gone straight back
down again the last two years and they need to.
But somebody's got a butt that trend because I don't
think it's a good look for the Premier League, and
perfectly honest, I think somebody has has to stay up
and give it a go and but I couldn't tell
you which three will right.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Intrigue as always abounds at the style of a new season.
Don thanks so much for lending as your expertise. We
can't wait to see how the season plays out. All
the best, Nice to talk to you too, Dominic Firefield
joining us with an English Premier League preview.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Edb delayte scared to beat Bournemouth four to two in
the opening match of the new English Premier League football season.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Sellers sold the chiefs here what peace to come in
ahead of hell?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Can more? Sellers seal it you Anny? Can Liverpool put
on their perch since the end of last season? Have
no intention of chuckling office?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, liverpol tuner up before Bournemouth equalized with fourteen minutes
of regulation time remaining, the Red sCOD in the eighty
eighth and then Mosella with that goal in injury time.
Let's bring in senior writer turned commissioning editor at the
Athletic FC Dominic, Firefield.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Tom.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Great to have you back on the show. What did
you make of the start of Liverpool's title defense?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, I think it probably showcased everything about the current
Liverpool team. And I'm talking about the team that Slot
has now constructed, A slot has now constructed, a new
team really compared to last Four players made their debuts tonight,
which is the first first time four players have started
for the champions in the opening of the season for
(01:28):
a generation. It's really ridiculous really when you consider that.
But I think we've throughout the preseason we've seen Liverpool
opening teams up, creating chances, this very exciting new front line,
clicking to a certain extent, showing flashes of their quality.
Hugo tk as the man that's really taken it on
(01:49):
with goals in the Community Shield, and this evening against Bournemouth,
Cody gak Post SEMs to be relishing it Mostsella look
more like himself today compared to a Wembley last week.
I think we're still to see a bit more of
Florian Viits. So you saw a lot of their attacking
against Bournemouth, but you also saw the flip side of that.
(02:11):
I think the weirdly and okay, they've changed both fullbacks
in Kirkcases now there, in fring Pongs now there. Actually
it was when those guys left the pitch that Liverpool
looks fragile this evening and I just think there's a
bit of uncertainty about the back line. I think the
team is adjusting to incorporating Florian Vitz as a number ten.
(02:34):
There's less protection in midfield as a result, and there's
defensive fragility there and Bournemouth absolutely exploited that as teams
have through pre season Crystal Padis did at Wembley last week.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
In the Community Shield as.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Well, there is a vulnerability there which does not necessarily
it's not suggestive of a team that is likely to
be champions. However, very very early days and these guys
are bedding in. We've all we all know what Liverpool
have been through this summer and the commemoration Giogo Jotta
(03:08):
tonight was impeccably done, absolutely wonderfully done, and that is
a trauma that is deep seated and given the amount
of upheaval as well, this summer at Liverpool is going
to be a bit of time before everything clicks defensively
and offensively to make that team what it can be.
But I think in the first few weeks of the
(03:29):
season we will see opportunities.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
For opponents when they play Liverpool.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And teams will go into games against them thinking they've
got a chance to inflict damage on that back line.
So that actually just adds to it all. It makes
a bit more drama in at the start of this
Premier League season.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Arsenal closest to Liverpool last year second for the third
straight season. What do they need to do to take
the next step and be champions for the first time
since what three to four? And can you see them
doing it this season?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well? They You're probably right, They are probably closest on
paper though given them maybe because of the amount of upheaval,
manage the city as well. What they need to do
they need to hit their new sign He needs to
hit the ground running basically. I mean the you know,
Gocorash has come in as the elusive number nine, that
the player that they've been craving for for years and
(04:25):
they finally landed and he's prolific in Portugal, did wonderfully
well at Sporting, but he has to he has to
transpose that form straight away onto the Premier League to
alleviate some of the pressure that will accompany a big
money signing like him, but also adds add them the
X factor that that Arsenal lacked last season, that they've
got similar demands wilia A Zubi Mende in midfield as well,
(04:50):
who comes with a huge, huge reputation from Spain and
a player that Arsenals have courted for a long long time,
and he has to make an immediate impact and if
he does, the squad looks strong. The squad looks stronger,
and Miklarteta will believe that. You know, this season can
be their year. They have won since the FA Cup
(05:13):
in twenty twenty. They haven't won the league for twenty
one years. I think that's I think is which is
remarkable in itself. That was the invincible season. So it's
a massive year for Michali Teta. He's been backed, They've
spent heavily in the summer. The new guys had to
geil quickly and what a test to start their season
(05:34):
at Old Trafford on Sunday. I mean that's you know,
last season you'd have gone there with a lot of confidence.
This year with Manchester United having a new front line,
that's that looks a trickier fixture.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Now, well, let's Seaway's nicely into United. I don't know
that we can ever fully confidently predict what to expect
from Mentester United. But what do you expect or what
should we expect from United this season?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Well?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I was listening to Gary Neville on the Teddy this
evening and he was asked that very same question. He
suggested that sixth place this season would be a major
achievement Manchester United and Ruben Amerim, And he's probably right
in fairness given how poor things were last year and
the chaos really but a whole preseason for Amerim to
try and get his ideas across to a squad that
(06:19):
still needs to be streamlined. They still need to bring
get players out of that club, having having sanctioned another
vast outlay, despite the fact that you know, three months
ago they were making the Tea Lady redundant, that old Trafford.
Now they've spent two hundred million pounds on three new
players up top. So it's it's a strange scenario. It's
a strange situation. They're not going to be fixed overnight.
(06:42):
That that is a team that is still in development.
Even chesh go. You don't look Chessco might score on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
We might.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
We might get very carried away and think he's going
to be that he's a finished article and he's going
to score thirty Carls and the new Earling Harland. But
I suspect what will happen over the course of the
season is he will have ups and downs and it
will be a learning process for him in a new
league having arrived from the Bundesliga with Lightzig. I mean,
it's it's it's so it's going to be another patience
(07:08):
job really with United. But I think they that front
nine is exciting and if they can incorporate Bruno Founders
into their team as well and get him a role
where he can influence that attacking three and it doesn't
imbalance the whole team too much, then they will pose
a threat going forward and the players should be better
suited now more accustomed to Ruben Amerin's three four three.
(07:32):
So there is promise there. There is a promise of.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
A better season than they injured last year.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And you know, the lack of European football you a
for competition this season might actually benefit them because it
will give him more time.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
On the training ground to get his ideas across.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Loverpool's victory last year, of course, snapped a four season
winning streke for Manchester City always going to be there
or there about you to imagine what shall we expect
in the blue half of Manchester this season.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
City are remarkable really, I mean they've again another one
of these big clubs. In the theme of the summer,
the big clubs that had endure difficult seasons last time around,
and we were sat here talking about how the middle
class in the Premier League, the Brentford's Crystal Palace, Brighton Bournemouth,
how they'd sort of risen to the forum and looked
(08:20):
as if they were threatening the big clubs monopoly really
of Premier League and the honors aboard. That's completely changed.
The big clubs have reimposed themselves this summer. They've taken
the best talent away from those other clubs, that middle
class of clubs.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
City are in there.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
City's investment is colossal with summer, absolutely colossal, and I
mean it'll be intriguing to see how they do. Absolutely
intriguing because it feels almost a bit like the first
season under pet where they made so many changes and
it took team players time to settle. So you might
(09:00):
get you know, Ryan Cherkey and Ryan out Newey doing
good things with iMusic from the off, but I think
others are going to take a while. I mean, treated
he how to journey Riinders does lad they brought from
Milan in the summer, and treat to see how whether
James Trafford ends up being their first choice goalkeeper, which
is a remarkable transformation. But equally you look at the
(09:24):
the players that they're letting go. There's there's reports as
seeing that Rico Lewis, who was highly highly rated last
last couple of years really at the city, might might
be joining Nottingham Forest now because they have to balance
the books and and bring money in because of the
outlay they they've put on on players. And you know
there's no Kevin de Bruyner there in that in that in.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
That group either, so it's an unfamiliar feel of it.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
No Carl Walker, He's gone to Burnley, so it's it
may be they they need to adjust for a while
and again if they if they have a slow setup
and the danger is that a Liverpool or an Arsenal
might steal a march on them and that gap can't
be bridged. The other one, of course in there is Chelsea,
I mean Chelsea Club, world chair Sampion's best biggest team
(10:08):
in the world at the moment allegedly, but with a
great squad with a lot of strength and depth, and
they will pose more of a throughout this season I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Just on Forest or you mentioned the Aaron Chris Ward
of course twenty goals last season. Gee, we enjoyed watching
Forest and Chris Ward and they were in and around
the top four for a while. Eventually seventh, of course
can they go again or you know what? What what
do you predict for Forest this season?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
It's been insane last few days, in the last forty
eight hours really at Nottingham Forest has been ridiculous that
they've brought. They've done that, there's splurs absolutely spent a
lot of money in the last few days on players
that should all be confirmed in a in a sort
of flurry in the next twenty four hours. I mean
(10:56):
Macateef for Manchester City is one of those who en
Rico Lewis could join him, as I say, his former
City teammate. But they've got players. I'm not sure that
Nuno the manager is particularly pleased that it's taken so
long for them to recruit for them to bring in players,
because I think he sees the value in working with
(11:19):
as close to his final squad as possible through preseason.
So I don't think he thinks he's going into the
season with a team that's ready to fire from the off.
They'll also have a European football in the Europa League
to contend with. So look, it would surprise me if
they were challenging for Champions League qualification in the way
they did for the vast majority of last season. It
(11:41):
was only really in the last month they tailed off badly.
But if the new players do well and thrive there
and do well under Nuno, and if he is appeased
and if he is happy and content at the city ground,
then then the Forests have got some very very good
players in their group and a chance of certainly a
(12:04):
top half finish and going to in European competition, which
you know, if they win the Europa League and emulate
what Tona Hotspe did last season, they're in the Champions
League next year.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And of the promoted sides, dom as always intrigue around
which of them can come up and stay up. Lee's United, Burnley, Sunderland.
Great to have them back in there. Who feels best
equipped to make a galve and at least stay up.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You know, this is the biggest guess in the world,
because I think everybody over here has been blown away
about the amount of money that Somenland has spent. I
think it's one hundred and forty million pounds in counting
on twelve thirteen new players, which on paper you look
at the signings and think, well, some of them could
be quite good. They spent a lot of money, they
(12:49):
could be brilliant. But we should also remember what Burnley
did two years ago when they spent a similar amount
of money and Nose dives straight out of the division
again and it was all disrupted. I think Burnley will
go into it in a different way this year. They've
had the experience of recent relegations and they won't be
as expansive and open as they as they were around
(13:11):
a incant company. Scott Park will be a lot a
lot more down in his approach and that might actually
benefit them in terms of getting results. I don't think
it'll be attracted to watch, but they have at least
got a bit of experience. But then you know, they
too have had I've lost key players as well as
bringing them in in the summer and leads. Leads should
be in the Premier League like Sunderland. Really you can
(13:33):
argue that with the fan base and the and the
history and the everything that's set up they have there,
but you know, I'm not sure they've got the players
at the moment to do it, so I think all
three of them will struggle. They will struggle for long periods.
That's not to say they might not have successful opening weekends.
You know, you can see Leeds beating Everton potentially on Monday,
(13:55):
particularly with no Jarre Baranthwait on the Everton side. You
could you could see Sunderland potentially beating west ham On
on Saturday at home at a raucous stadium in light.
But I think it will catch up on them. I
think the gap in qualities is too big. Their big
hope this year is that clubs like maybe Wolves, possibly
(14:18):
Brentford have have not strengthened enough and can be caught
and maybe well at least held down there that in
those relegation places or around them for a while, which
will give the promote the promoted clubs a chance of
dragging them into the struggle. But you know, the last
(14:38):
two years have shown three up have gone straight back
down again the last two years and they need to.
But somebody's got a butt that trend because I don't
think it's a good look for the Premier League, and
perfectly honest, I think somebody has has to stay up
and give it a go and but I couldn't tell
you which three will right.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Intrigue as always abounds at the style of a new season.
Don thanks so much for lending as your expertise. We
can't wait to see how the season plays out. All
the best, Nice to talk to you too, Dominic Firefield
joining us with an English Premier League preview.
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