Scholes is right, though. You don't need to replace him with the likes of Sneijder, you need to replace Owen Hargreaves.


Anyway, did Tevez or Aguero win the Copa America's most valuable player award unlike a certain beautiful Uruguayan? No? THEN I AM NOT INTERESTED. City to win the title. There's a bold prediction for you. Let me just vote in this here poll.

In fact, top four:

1. Man City
2. Chelsea
3. Man Utd
4. Arsenal

Unless Man United buy a new Owen Hargreaves type player before then of course. Then I will predict they will at the very least finish ahead of Chelsea, and maybe City too.

I want the season to start already! I'm just excited for the return of classic Liverpool. And by classic Liverpool I mean the Liverpool of my youth, not the conquering machine of a hundred years ago. Too long we've had the likes of Houllier and Benitez having us play cautious steady football. Now we're back to the good old Roy Evans days of "go ahead, score three goals against us, we're gonna score four." (Just ask Newcastle. Twice. ) Our defence is so unbelievably dire. We have perhaps two legitimately good defenders - Glen Johnson, who you could argue doesn't do much defending and you'd be right - and Daniel Agger, who spends approximately 80% of the season injured. Martin Kelly is progressing nicely, and Skrtel and the aging Carragher can put in a good performance every now and then, as can Fabio Aurelio when he isn't hanging out with Agger in the physio room, but it's not enough. Either way, we will definitely be the most entertaining team in the league to watch next season, win or lose. Well, unless you buy into that beautiful Arsenal football (aka 90 minutes of fannying about) hype. Mind you, Wenger is usually a pretty good watch, but maybe not for the reasons he thinks.