Premiership Final Day (Sunday) predictions.

How will the issues be decided? I refuse to predict because I have to much skin in the game. Where there is Pope, there is hope.

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summersong · F

Arsenal will let me down again. Beyond that I have no predictions

GeniUs · 56-60, M

@summersong I think Arsenal have to accept their lot now they are top 6 soon to be top 7 but cannot compete with the monsters of Man City (soon to be) Chelsea, what Newcastle will become. That Liverpool are still giving it a go is amazing.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@GeniUs There is a sense in what you say but Arsenal still has the money, IF it gets its decisions right, to still compete at the highest level. They have a talented young team and are improving.

Man United still has the biggest wage bill in the league.

GeniUs · 56-60, M

@Burnley123 Man Utd another who have to accept it's not 'their' league any more. FFP rules (I guess) are there for the 'big' clubs and will keep that 7 above the rest except for the occasional foray by one or two others into the European slots (which I hear have also recently been fixed by UEFA). Theoretically any of the 7 could win the league but accountants are creative as they say.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@GeniUs Not dismissing this at all. There may never be another Leicester. I'd only add that some big teams spend their money badly. Man City and Liverpool are so good because they have money and also because they make smart decisions. Whether it's the hiring of coaches, the youth development or the transfer policy; they get most big decisions right.

I'd be much happier with a German model of fan ownership in our league but it is what it is.