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Premier League predictions: Chris Sutton v Starsailor frontman James Walsh – & AI
I’ve heard people suggest that City’s players will be frazzled because of what is going on with the club off the pitch, but I don’t see it that way.
I suspect that, along with the City fans, there will be this siege mentality now where they think ‘everyone hates us, everyone wants us to lose, everyone wants us to be relegated’ – even if I don’t think that is actually the case, because there are actually a lot of balanced football fans out there.
City are likely to get a hostile reception at Anfield but I think they will be able to handle it.
Liverpool are still a work in progress under Andoni Iraola too. They have not convinced me so far when I’ve watched them this season.
Based on all of that, I am going for City here. I can just picture Erling Haaland scoring their winner, and celebrating with a big grin on his face.
Sutton’s prediction: 1-2
James on what should happen after City were found guilty of the majority of the 115 charges brought against them by the Premier League: I am not sure we should start handing out titles and cups to everyone who lost out to City during the period in question, including Liverpool. You can’t really take away those memories and emotional moments from the City players and fans, and just hand them to another team, but maybe on the official record those wins should be chalked off, or at least have an asterisk next to them.
It does also mean there is a very strange feeling around this fixture and the whole season too. City and Liverpool have had lots of huge games against each other in recent years when the title has been on the line but this time we don’t know what will happen to City and if this result will even matter in the end.
James’ prediction: This is a strange game for Liverpool because if we win then the narrative is going to be that we have beaten the cheats. If we lose, then people are just going to say well City have had this massive and unfair advantage that has played out over all these years, not just that specific period of their charges.
So, it is going to be a hard one for all 22 players to get their heads around the backdrop and compete against each other – but I still think Liverpool will win. 3-1
AI’s prediction: 2-2
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Everton owners the Friedkin Group are exploring the sale of the club less than two years after taking control.
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Oliver Glasner on his Palace return: 'I was not planning to become Forest manager'
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Swansea City: How Welsh club found their way back as ambition returns
Swansea’s relegation hangover has taken a while to clear.
Having been taken over by American businessmen before dropping out of the Premier League, there was little sign of spending their way back to the top.
When exciting talent was unearthed – whether homegrown or bought in – they were invariably sold on to balance the books.
While the likes of Joe Rodon, Oli McBurnie, Dan James and more moved on and up, Swansea would take a step back for every step forward.
“As soon as we could get excited and find ourselves in a reasonable position, then we’d sell a player and it wouldn’t be invested back into the squad,” adds Carroll.
“Fans would get fed up and the disconnect would come back, and we’d start again.”
It took its toll on a string of managers, from Graham Potter, to Steve Cooper and Russell Martin.
There was understandable cynicism, then, when new American ownership arrived in late 2024, promising to review how the club was run.
And while they haven’t said much since – showing up in local pubs on matchdays but shying away from interviews – they haven’t needed to.
“To be fair, they’ve delivered,” says Carroll of US tech and marketing entrepreneurs Brett Cravatt and Jason Cohen.
“When we’d get updates from the last owners, it felt as if we were being gaslighted. Now we can see clearly the ambition.”
The pair remain based in the States – chief executive Tom Gorringe the decision-maker on the ground – but aren’t hands-off owners, clear with their messaging and plans.
Plans that included the investment that first stabilised finances and then green-lit the biggest squad-spending since relegation.
It hasn’t stopped there, with the club set to purchase the Swansea.com Stadium from the local council and plans at an advanced stage to restore the club’s academy to top-tier status, as well as further investment into the club’s women’s team.
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