Arsenal To Secure 21st St Totteringham's Day & Other 2016 Predictions

Last season seems like an age ago. The domestic football calendar ended with our glorious triumph and utter humiliation of our opponents at Wembley, completely at odds with how we started our campaign, which was mired in mediocrity.

Given how the season progressed, how many of us could have predicted the final outcome of affairs? Could any of us say with any authority that they envisioned us reclaiming the silverware which we so valiantly fought for versus Hull? Did any plucky soul venture a guess as to our Jekyll and Hyde Premiership assault?

Whilst Arsenal remain elusive to the mind's eye when attempting to predict their fate, other teams, players and managers plod along their well trodden path with such predictability that next season will see them once more trip, fall and proclaim that outside influences are the cause of their failure rather than their own meandering endeavours.

These happenings will continue to happen until change is forced upon them. Next season will be no different. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give to you, my predictions for next season.

City to Spend on a Large Scale

City blundered to a runners-up spot that was practically handed to them by Arsenal's own faulting finish rather than their own exploits. A combination of Aguero injuries, Toure woefully out of form for an extended period of time and Vincent Kompany being targeted whilst he searched for a purple patch were all responsible for the Sheikh-funded Manc's to suffer an underwhelming season.

Pellegrini has been offered a stay of execution thus far but will need to radically overhaul an ageing City side that wheezed its way to the finish line last term.
With perennial Polyfilla back-up option Milner off to Liverpool as well, expect the outlay from City to dwarf most countries' deficits and put to shame other oligarch-run outfits such as PSG and Chelsea. Will they still fail epically on the European stage? You bet your last oil-soaked dollar on it.