MNF Predictions: Can anyone stop Arsenal?

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So Spurs is 6, 81 percent think that Brentford to build on last season with a seventh place finish, Boris climbing up to eighth Bournemouth and Everton. Ninth and leads into the top half in tenth. So what about the bottom? Well the good news is that no one's getting relegated this season. But that was the same as last year. Nobody thought they were going down last year either. And unfortunately three did. So whole fans think they will finish 17th, commentary and Ips which both have themselves at 16th with Sunland Newcastle, Brighton, Fullham and Crystal Palace making that bottom half. I'm surprised by Brighton actually. I thought Brighton fans might be a bit more optimistic than that. But Sunland Newcastle tied in 11th. We will see they'll be fighting for position all year no doubt. So Arsenal to be champions, say the Arsenal fans what do Jamie and Gary think and we didn't make them vote before the weekend. We've let them watch all the football across the weekend to see if anything would change. So let's start with the champions. Jamie, who are you going for? Yeah I mean a few weeks ago I thought City might have had a chance maybe because I thought Arsenal might be thinking a lot about the Champions League and City would be desperate to get that trophy back but it was all around Rodgery. I think of Rodgery, say they could maybe make a case for them but without Rodger I just can't say. Gary? A hundred percent Arsenal. I know when we say this Arsenal fans think that we're somehow sort of playing pressure to them but they're way out in front. They really are right now and the squad that they've sort of assembled the signings of concert and Gimeraish and Solis and maybe one more coming in in the next week at what squad they are. If they didn't get that one more would you be hedging your bets a little bit? No I think they're fine. I mean they've got still loads of options in forward areas. I know that Jamie makes a good point of Friday night about them and got the one with the starters but to get the one with the starters then they're just going to be further ahead but I think with what they've got already now in defence and in midfield with the sort of good good attackers that they've got of a really good standard then they're fine. All right so who's finishing second third and fourth? Who's getting closest to Arsenal? We've got a little bit of variation so Jamie's gone city to be second with Chelsea and Liverpool. Gary's gone Chelsea second with city and guess who you're knighting. So first of all Gary you think Chelsea and next best why? Just purely because of the fact that they've got no European football and I think that if look it's a bit if they keep Enzo and they can keep Enzo and Cassero and midfield with that front three and they're only playing 45 games and they can play in the car about cup the rest of the squad players they're going to a mass an enormous amount of points based upon the fact that they're going to have a more more free weeks not going to have the injury pressures not going to have the the travelling that comes with European football and the sort of mental fatigue that comes with that and I just think they'll just edge pass managed to city. I felt that you were tinkering between city and Chelsea as next best. I wasn't quite listening. Man City a better than Chelsea but as Gary said the European factor can play a huge part. We saw Manchester United last season you go back maybe 1050 I don't know how long it is now. We're Brendan Rogers is Liverpool almost on the early title. That was on the back of not having European football. So it gives them a big big lift Chelsea. I'm like that and just I think probably at the last moment I haven't watched them tight even though they've won I mean the goalkeeper and some of the issues they had at the back as well I'd say yeah yeah I'd just pick Go for Man City. Why do Manchester United have the advantage over Liverpool? Look do you want me to be honest? Yes. I can't separate United and Liverpool in fourth place. I genuinely have no idea. I mean if he tells me you've changed it four times over the weekend. So after the United played he changed it to Liverpool. But a couple of weeks ago I had United in third. I didn't have Chelsea where they were but as it just you sort of get near to the season you start to look at the squad and you start to think about it. You think about Chelsea and the fact they've got no European football. That'll give them a big edge. I think City are in a better position than United. Look at the moment I'm not convinced by United all of Liverpool really but I do think they'll finish fourth and fifth. I've just gone United for just purely because I mean I had fun. Would that be success do you think? I would take fourth place now in a cup. Do you think the the Chiefs would? I think they would yeah because I mean to cope with European football. The big question at the end of last season was can Manchester United can Michael Carrick do this when they've got European football. So to finish fourth with European football and maybe do well in a cup that would be a fantastic season I think and that's not being defeated. That's just where we're at right now. You had lots more questions about Liverpool after your analysis earlier on Jamie. Would would fourth be reasonable for and don't eat your Iola first time round. I think I think these want more but I think just looking at the sort of the Chelsea situation Liverpool where they are right now the transfer window's got a week to go who knows what's going to happen in the next week. It could maybe change it to you and maybe say could be sneaking to the top three but I don't see any way they'd be in the top two and I don't see any way they can mount a title challenge show. A little bit of what Gary's just said there if you said to me now as a Liverpool fan you'll have Champions League football or you know you've been the top four or five and you could win a cup at shake on that right now. How far have you got Liverpool ahead of Manchester United then? One place? He's not that confident. One place there we go. I mean watching the Liverpool on Sunday was worried watching it but would you I think Liverpool have got better than Manchester United at all. David, we're being honest. The teams that are below Arsenal right now are of a standard that has been as low as we've seen probably in the last probably six, seven years. Let's be clear if we're being honest. But do you think any of these things are actually ready? I mean post-World Cup with the transfer window's still open. We've had some of the best managers in the world in the last seven or eight, nine years in the Premier League managing these clubs. We've got a lot of you managers. Michael Hatett has gone from being the apprentice in the last few years. Lots of questions about him and doubts. Now he's the master and obviously then there's old managers that are behind him in terms of sort of trying to prove themselves. So we're in a position of transition with the managers that are in these clubs with the squads that these clubs have had and that they're not at the standard that we've seen in the last few years but it makes it interesting. It makes it intriguing. They're all going to get beat. They're all going to beat each other. They're all going to lose points and drop points and that's what we want in the Premier League. We don't want it to be perfect. I think a good point to make is the best players in the world, unfortunately, still don't come to the Premier League. We've had some great players and we've lost two absolute superstars and asked a couple of years in Salah and Kevin De Bruyne. But in the main we always know they go to Barcelona and rumoured that the Warriors, some of the top players now are at Bayern Munich. They're at Paris Saint-Germain. I go back to the World Cup semi-finals. I think of all of those four teams and they are the four top teams in the world. If you think of the attack and players for all of those teams, so Argentina, England, Spain and France, there was only Morgan Rogers from the Premier League who started the semi-finals. I thought that was a bit of a worry. But as Gary said, in the past, what's master is the managers? We haven't got those managers right now and this is almost like going back to about 2015-16 when we had an influx of new managers but those managers were Pep, Conte, Clop. It was over that time. So a lot of teams have got new managers but they're not at the level of those yet. They might go on to do that but they're not big beasts. They're not Champions League when we haven't got that. Who knows what Javier Lanzo for example is going to grow into. But do you think the best attacking players perhaps, as you're saying, don't come here because it's the physicality that this league has got right now? I did a newspaper article about Florian Vierta and all we've analysed and tonight what we point was at the weekend was that Liverpool obviously desperately for them to succeed. But in some ways, the Premier League needs them to succeed. You know, we need those flare players. We need those attacking players. We don't want this league to be seen. That's probably it was a little bit last season of like power, set pieces, players like that can sort of come to fruition in the Premier League. Listen, he's got to do that himself both. I think when you look at some of those players around Europe, we'll play for Bayern Munich, we'll play for PSG, we'll play for Real Madrid and Barcelona. It's probably a lot easier than playing the Premier League every week, probably a lot less competitive and they're probably getting better numbers. Yeah. Right, so where we've got to, we've got two six. Remember what Spurs fans were saying. They are pretty confident they are I'll finish you six. Jamie. Gary doesn't. Go on Gary. Yeah, this was a late change. Did you have spurs there originally then? No, I had bright and sixth and bright as you've been. And said, for the long weekend, Dave. Even though the injury is very rough. You've got a lot of strength from your castle to London. You do very well. Let me make it easy for you then. Why don't you think spurs will finish top six? I don't trust them yet. Sometimes you look at that spurs when you think I have to spend a lot of money and I was over the summer thinking quite exciting for spurs fans. They've finally splashing the cast. But then I look at the team and I think, where's it all gone? And maybe they have to sign the players this weekend. I think that'll happen and that'll strengthen them. Savino and Marmouche. And that'll make them a lot better. But I just don't know whether they'll pull it together. And that's the question. So I know Brighton are a good unit. They're reliable, they're consistent. And I think Brentford and Brighton, and I could have put Brentford in there as well, by the way. I think those two teams this season may just get in there because they're consistent. And they know what they're doing and they're good well drilled. And they're well organised, well drilled team. I think we'll beat a team of talented players who, to be fair, are still trying to find the way. Yep, they could force their way into the conference league. They're not quite there yet. Brighton won to keep an eye on. European contenders. Gary has put spurs in that category. Brentford, who missed out on gold difference last season, Jamie. Well, I guess what this tells us is that you think they're here to stay effectively. Yeah, I've been really impressed with Warik, he's done a Brentford last season. A lot of people say, and maybe something in it, that when you're managing a club like Brentford, which is so well run behind the scenes and the hierarchy, it makes it easier for the manager. Of course it does, probably does make it easy. Watching them this weekend, watching them last season, all the talk this summer feels like Spares have almost been the big name in town, basically, all summer. And to beat them the way they did. And of course, when you talk about what it seemed like like a Brighton, they have got European football. This season, Brentford haven't. So I think that will be a big plus playing football. And that's why I'm in for Spares in six, because it's not just not playing the games. Surely it means you don't have a lot less injuries as well when you haven't got European football. So, you know, you can normally keep your teams together solid. We have to weekend. Yeah, I really like watching them play. And for me, that was the best performance of the weekend, Brentford. But Assembilla, of course, who are playing the Champions League this season. No way to be seen in those restrictions. What's got, I mean, it's a mystery to me what is going on there. Look to that team yesterday that Unai Emery had to field in the substitute bench. And I've got a lot of love for Assembilla and Unai Emery. What's going on? I remember they had a really slow start to last season as well. No, I know, not this is very different Dave. You know, when you think about what's gone. What's left, Ludinia, Telemann's, Rodgers, Conzer. Conzer, maybe Ollie Watkins? That squad's been obliterated of its experience. I'll talk about him in maths. There's a massive personality, by the way. I don't underestimate the value that he has. And then how are they going to even think to compete? Look, Unai Emery is an unbelievable coach and he gets the best out of teams. But I'm really worried for Villa. I don't know what's going on. The average age was also 29 for Assembilla last year. So did it need some surgery at some point? Listen, there's always this talk isn't the around that the PSR would ask them Villa. No, I don't know, frustrates the supporters and they get ripped apart. And then they look at Spares finishing 17, two years running. And they're going to spend it 100 million on tonally. So it must be a frustration for them. And whether these rules in the future will be tweaked or changed or whatever it may be. But it does feel like teams, like I haven't probably even knew cast in the last couple of years. And Assembilla, they look to a certain point and you just can't go any further. All right, we're about relegation clubs. Gary, do you see any of the promoted sides surviving? I hope that one of them or two of them stay up. I've not got the faith that I had last season. And the last season, if you remember the first weekend of the season, we did lead, didn't we against Everton? It was really positive. And then obviously Sunderland, we saw them beat West Ham. And I just thought there's no way they're going down Sunderland. But I just, I mean, watch what I've seen this weekend. I'm going to go for the three relegated teams to go down. But I do think I'm not going to go too early on my relegation risk. But watching for them tonight, that's a risk. That's a big risk. Young players splitting you center backs like that, being open. We'll know a little bit more after they go to Sunderland next weekend to see if they had that. But you've gone Sunderland down, by the way. Wow. Yeah, go on. I'll be going for that. I don't see that. But I mean, if you did, you would've done it. No, but where's that come from? Well, the fact that they've got your opinion football. So we've been a lot of positive. Pardon? There's a positive. Well, we'll be back to it. We're going to be doing a lot of Thursday, Sunday. And I think, I think Sunderland last season reminded me a little bit of Sheffield United and the Chris Wilde, where they came up and they had a really brilliant season, finished high up the table. But a lot of the games, like Sunderland, where you win by the odd goal. I'm saying to look, but sometimes you just win by the odd goal. I always think that team, then if they start flipping the other way, and you maybe lose it by the odd goal. And there's very little in the performance. And when you're going to underline numbers last season, their underline numbers were pretty at them. Not far away from relegation. And I just think with the European football, I think that could be a problem for them. Yeah, look, it's unfair to judge Coventry on Friday night, because they're playing as the best team by a mile. And that was a horrific start for them in terms of a fixture. So I won't judge that. And likewise, Hullard, just a massive experience beating Manchester United. I won't pay too much attention to that. And the Ips, which win against Sunderland, is a long way to go. But I just, yeah, I couldn't get to any of the three teams. I think that Fulham and Palace are the ones that I think I'd be most worried about. I'm not that concerned about Sunderland right now as I sit here. Go on, then. Let's have a look at relegation risks. And I had Fulham before this game. Oh, sorry. I really forgot to nail it down. So you're right. I think those two are the ones that I would have picked. And to be fair, I was moving between. I picked Fulham this morning before this game tonight. That's not a late change. Obviously, Jung manager, Jung forwards, lost all their goals. All the hallmarks of risk is there with Fulham. And Crystal Palace added to that. They haven't had a great preseason. That hasn't gone particularly well with Fulham. They lost the first game at Everton, which to be fair, they were actually very unlucky. When you actually looked at chances, they had no fear of it too, I think. Yeah, they probably said they got something from the game. They've still kept Adam Warren, who's probably the best player. So he's not going anywhere. No, he's not going to go anywhere. But then I go back to the European football. Again, they're going to go into the Europa League as well. And all they've done, Europe last season. But new manager, new in the Premier League, lost a few players still in Europe. Yeah, I probably go, Crystal Palace would have a scare. So you go in Crystal Palace and go on Crystal Palace. I'm going on Crystal Palace, safe Fulham off. Thank you. Okay. Top scorer. Let's see if there's any surprises. No. Well done and a link. Congratulations. Do you like his new hacker? I love it. It's good, isn't it? Me moment, doesn't like it. What was he doing yesterday with that mischance? Did you not see it? Yeah, I did feel it. He did know what he wanted to do with his power. I just thought it was one of them. He's just, yeah, he's a stunning one, that. Impact signing. Jamie's gone for Nandes of Spurs, presumably. Yeah, I really like, I'm sorry, I really liked him last season at West Ham. And I thought, to be honest, I thought my new mate, I thought there might be another few teams. In four really, and he's got a better team than Spurs in terms of Spurs with 17 last season. I'm probably looking to get top six, I thought. Maybe someone a little bit higher would have taken him. They wanted him. I mean, I think United wanted Bolton Ali. I'm for Nandes, but I think the money was rising at such a level and the wage rise at such a level that they just bowed out, similarly with Nandes. And I think the fee was big. Also, I think he wanted to go to City, so. But I think United, he wanted all those three players, but they just decided that. So United can afford the big boys no more? But I think the problem with United was that because of, I mean, I'm not saying that they would rely on the Guarty, but because the Guarty gets injured, they're not in a situation where they've got one midfield player. So they need three. So let's see, you've got 150 million, 160 million for three. If you blow 95 million on one, you're not going to get the other two that you need. So I think United had to make a decision to sort of remove themselves from the Fernandez and Tanales. I think they're good players, but they were massive fees. What do you think the impact of Bruno Gibbon actually will be then? I think it's the best side of my mind. Shame he wasn't playing Friday, wasn't it? Yeah, I think it's the best side of my mind. The one risk that Arsenal have. If you take a player out of Arsenal's team anywhere, probably Ryan is the one, the other one. But in the outfield parts of the pitch, there isn't a drop off between the first and second choice anywhere. Apart from Declam Rice, there's a massive drop when Declam Rice moves out of the team. So if Declam Rice gets injured for three months, that would be a risk to Arsenal. The signing of him to move that risk is a massive personality, different player than Declam Rice. But you talk about the personality and character on the pitch. We talk about no leaders, you know, no players. You've got massive personality and character. He is a brilliant personality and character. He believes he can win every single football match for his team. He believes he can tackle. He's aggressive. He's somebody you'd want alongside you. I think he's an amazing sign. And by the way, 75 million compared to some of the others that have gone for more is value, I think, in this market. Is he getting a close to the agent? Wow. He's 28. It's interesting because I spent money on a cup of 28 year olds. He's 28 before he's 29. He's 28, but what he says is old. He says he's 28 and he's speaking. You know what I'm saying? He's signing the player. You're not getting that money back, are you? But what I'm saying is we're not talking about. We're talking about replacing Declam Rice here. You're not talking about a 21 year old. You know, you talk about a player who can go into that team in the best. You don't want to win the Champions League in the Premier League. That's where Arsenal want to be. You can't bring a 21-year-old in our 20-year-old into replace, Daclan, right? You've got to bring someone in who's ready. So, you know, Manchester United, over the years, they signed some experienced players at times to be able to cope with the demands. You know, Saturday, sharing up the edge of '32, '33, as a third and fourth striker. - No, he didn't. You signed into replace. - 31, 31. - You signed into replace, canton? - He was 31. I know he had been signed into replace. - But he can't replace. - But he can't replace canton now with a 21-year-old or a 15-year-old. - You've got to put, my point is, you signed experienced players sometimes to replace. Players who you know and, I'm sure, a little bit of people may sign the experienced midfield player this week, James. (all laughing) - Maybe the next experienced fallback option. - The cut of them two wingers playing at fallback. - Oh, tell me about it. - Full stop, James. Okay, players to watch. Jamie, who've you gone for? - Jacquet. - Yeah, it's in your future. - Yeah, he's played one Premier League game. He's only won, played one preseason game for Liverpool. And he, he's looked really good in both games. But you know, sometimes when you look at a player and they just look at the path, it could be any position, so I'm just gonna say, a centre-fold or a midfield player and just think, he looks good. So you think he's, he can almost envision him being good. So he looks the path and the reason I'm picking him as well as, as they want to watch, is because I think this is the first season where a player alongside Van Dyke is gonna have to play his own game and at times look after Van Dyke. I think we're at the stays now where Virgil Van Dyke, for me, as an individual, it'll still be one of the best centre-backs in the Premier League, but he's gonna need help and he's not at the stage where I think he can look after other people. So when you think of Joe Gomez, you think of Mattip, you think of Canate playing alongside Virgil Van Dyke, I think they all looked 15, 20% better than they actually are because they were playing alongside him. I don't think that's gonna be the case with this lad. - Are you starting to imagine a life without Virgil Van Dyke? - Yeah, I think. - The references age earlier as well. - Yeah, but I just think it might be interesting because I think his contact so, he's obviously gonna arrive here quid and he's evidently so. I'll live a pool with Virgil. I think it's probably, they wouldn't know now. See how he helps Jack out, got Leone coming through as well, and they'd probably buy some on next summer. I was imagining, but it'd be interesting to see what happens with Van Dyke in the 12 months time. - I was really impressed with Jack out there. I think you can spot a young defender who's got the balance and the poise and the way in which he passes the ball. To just sit up, but sometimes you see a young defender and the wierry, the gang that's like their arms aren't connected to the hips and to the legs. It's all like they're all over the place and they haven't got the balance on the pitch, but he just looked like he was totally in control. Look, he'll make mistakes, he's young, but I really like the look of him. He texted a lot for me to say that about a young defender. He looks like he's got a good thing going there. - What do you think Morgan Rogers could develop into as your player to watch? - Well, look, just the fee. And when you're 120 million pound player, we've seen the way in which Jamie's spoken about votes earlier on today. You've got to hit numbers. You've got to be 12, 15 goals. You've got to be 10, 12 assists or else you're going to come into pressure. And this is, to me, we all sort of went, we know he's a good player, Morgan Rogers. We'd all like him at our clubs. He'd love it at midnight, he'd love him at Liverpool, but you're 120 million. - Wow, but I think that to me, he's the player to watch, because I think if he can deliver this season for Chelsea, they can get it. They can go and push Arsenal. Should we change the predictions? - No, no, I'd love to be fair. I think what we thought earlier on in the week or what we thought in the last couple of weeks about Chelsea, we saw tonight what it was. And that's without ends off in Andersen and Cassadon, I think incredible players in the fantastic Midfield players. So you've got them two in Midfield. Do you have them three up front? You're going to do a lot of damage because that's a fantastic front five. I mean, would it be a- - Do you think you need to keep in the zone? - Would that front five be the best front five in the league? Cassadon, Fernandez, Rodgerson, Palmer and Jal Pedro? If you saw Arsenal with, you know, Madwiki or Sacker or Haverts, and then you've got the boys Solis, and then you've also got Declanise in Midfield with say, I'm sure I think Luis Kelly. I think you'd go for Chelsea's front five, over most in the league, but the defence and the goalkeeper is not at the level of Arsenal's orcities, maybe. There does seem to be this question still hanging over into Fernandez, who got a lovely reception from Fulham fans tonight. I mean, actually got a difficult reception from Chelsea fans a couple of weeks ago. How crucial is it that Chelsea keep him, do you think? Or should they actually keep him? - I think they have to keep him. He's a brilliant football player, a brilliant player. And just something, I used to get booed at times at away grounds I'm sure you did as well. I think that the idea of being booed is a sensational thing. It means that you are really a, it doesn't mean that you're unpopular, but it does. (laughing) But what it actually means is, no, fans don't boo players who they don't care about. - The booing, of course, of the Agents, you know? - They don't put the whole soul to their booing, because they also booing, because of the fact that he's, he's a bit of a, I can't use that word, can I? (laughing) - Well, you used to get caught. - Yeah, what I'm saying is you can be a bit of a, - Well done for self-sensory. - You can rile people up, and you can wind people up, and you can get people going. And that's a personality, that's a character, that's someone who to be fairs got something about. And so I, I don't see being booed by, full of fans has been a negative. I think that's a massive problem. - What are the year the full of fans sing to you? - The levels can play for you. (laughing) - Did you think the booing would stop when you were telling? - Oh no. (laughing) - I think I'll put the only blog in history to get booed into my whole funeral. (laughing) The, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, - Carrying me into my funeral. (laughing) - Finish on managed to watch. And again, we're looking at a positive lens on this. (laughing) You, you've got a, you've got a little thing, a little twinkle in your eye for the new castle boss, yeah. - Hey, I stayed in Newcastle last night. - You just asked me a question, yeah, I just, I'm just saying that. - I just, I just, I just, I was saying. - You got twerk on the water, I just, I just, I just, - You're just, to be fair, let you talk for the first hour and a half. (laughing) - I'm only asking you these predictions. (laughing) - You, you will not once a year, it's like a little chat. (laughing) - But he came in, he had something to do. - I just, - I just read it in the restaurant that we were chatting with him. - No, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't just, I'd relax and, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, - But also it's interesting, you watch your manager walking, and you think, he's so, he must be so gutted just to have concede that goal in the night, it's six minutes, but he was a good day for him. Anyway, carry on. - Not even yesterday, I just seen a couple of the press conferences, you know, he's only young, but he's got, he's got that little twinkling as I, I think it'd be a, a fiery character in the Premier. I like that with managers. He was a bit like, sharpened on the front foot with, you know, the lads on the, I think it was Daniel and Michael yesterday, wasn't it? In a good way. And I was just about, he was coming to Newcastle, huge football club, putting that performance yesterday, but I think he's got, I think he's got something about him. - So no Pep Guardiola, no Jürgen Club anymore. Could Javier Lanzo be one of those that rises up to fill that space? - If he gets the recruitment right, and he keeps the players in those front areas, the pitch that I've just mentioned before, and he sorts the defence and the goalkeeper out, he could be the emerging manager out of that five that are below Michelata, that are trying to win the league, he could be the next one to win the league. And that's why I think this season's critical for him, because he's got a finished second or a good third. Because if he doesn't finish second or a good third this season, without Champions League football, with that squad that he's amassed, without European football, then there would be questions. But I actually believe that he will go and do it. But I'll be interested to see what he does in the next eight or nine days. And I throw back to what I said before, he's the manager of Chelsea. That means that he basically, I think, makes the final decision on transfers, on recruitment, it looks like he's sort of saying, you're not doing what you've been doing for the last three or four years, it comes through me. And I think if he goes and do his one or two pieces of business in this next week or so, he's got to look after himself and demand that he gets that one or two players in this next week and we know where those areas are. Can I just have one more one to watch? Go on. Will you? OK, wear them trousers again. [LAUGHTER] Stand up. Why do you think I'm causing you up here? I've gone for a wide trousers. For the first time in-- [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] Hey, do you think he thinks he's Frank Wirden's? [LAUGHTER] What you'll normally find is that Carol's that wearing these not two or three years. [LAUGHTER] No, I have to Jamie Redden that way. Yeah, Jamie Redden, of course, for more than six months, we've only had the little one. What did he say before? What did he say tonight before the show? He said, I've been told the prounds that I can't believe you. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] What's on the feet? Are these-- I don't know what these are. I went shopping. Stand next to you. I went shopping on Saturday in London. This guy styled me. I tell you, I think they're pretty cool, you know? [LAUGHTER] Yeah. This is the best way to do the dance, Gary. I tell you, I like these. Yeah. Yeah. What are they, the bowling shoes? [LAUGHTER] These people. [LAUGHTER] We have descended into first. Gary, shall we book you in now for the last one of the season and come back? Yeah, I was brought in for the last one of last season. But you kicked me out because you put a Patrick Vierin because I asked the one the league. So, yeah, I'm happy to always have it to come in and do the-- By the way, why have we not done who won the most points out of last year's predictions, which is what we normally do? Because I actually won it again. OK. I won it three years on the bounds. You do know that don't walk over. Yeah. I think Jamie's accepting it. Absolutely knows. Yeah. Yeah. Nottingham Forest going down two seasons ago. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] Doesn't sound fun. [LAUGHTER] Thanks for listening to the Sky Sports Premier League podcast. Make sure you give us a follow so you don't miss an episode. See you next time. The EFL is back for a new season and so too is the Sky Sports Accentral EFL podcast. Join me, assuming golem every Thursday when I'll be getting the views and opinions of Sky Sports' top pundits. We'll have all the latest news and talking points from the Championship League 1 and League 2 covered right the way through until the playoffs in May. That's the Accentral EFL podcast. 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