How our pre-season Tottenham, Ange Postecoglou and Premier League predictions look now
Tottenham Hotspur have surprised a number of people with their performances in the Premier League but did our Spurs correspondent Alasdair Gold see it coming?
Months back on August 9 we asked all of our staff at football.london to deliver their predictions for the coming Premier League season, including where teams would finish at the top end and lower reaches of the table, who would win the trophies domestically and in Europe, as well as who would be the best signings and the biggest flops.
Here are Alasdair's predictions for each category from back in August and then his reasons for those choices. At the end of it all we got him to look back in hindsight at his answers.
Premier League winners: Manchester City
Rest of the top four: Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham
Relegated: Nottingham Forest, Luton, Sheffield United
Golden Boot winner: Harry Kane
FA Cup winners: Tottenham
Carabao Cup winners: Manchester City
Champions League winners: Bayern Munich
Europa League winners: Liverpool
Signing of the summer: James Maddison
Flop of the season: Kai Havertz
Unexpected star of the season: Evan Ferguson.
The reasons: I think Ange Postecoglou will have a big impact at Tottenham and they will surprise a lot of people. I can also see Liverpool bouncing back this season and into the top spots.
There would also be a certain irony to Harry Kane scoring goals galore under Postecoglou yet Bayern winning the Champions League without the England captain. James Maddison is going to be a big help to Kane in the assists stakes.
Kai Havertz constantly treads the line between being a fantastic player and a flop and I reckon he'll edge into the latter this season. Evan Ferguson is a terrific young star in the making and I reckon he'll truly break out
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