{"id":343391,"date":"2025-08-14T08:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343391\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T08:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:28:11","slug":"premier-league-predictions-phil-mcnulty-on-who-will-finish-where-in-2024-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343391\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League predictions: Phil McNulty on who will finish where in 2024-25?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last season: Championship winners<\/b><\/p>\n

Someone has got to buck the growing trend of ‘three up, three straight back down’ from the Championship’s promoted sides, so I am going to say Leeds United will break that glass ceiling.<\/p>\n

A club of huge stature, Elland Road will be a bearpit this season and will be a difficult environment for any visiting side. This will hold the key to their survival hopes.<\/p>\n

Daniel Farke has a new keeper in Lyon’s Lucas Perri<\/a> – signed for \u00a315.6m. It may finally be the time Illan Meslier pays the price for too many high-profile errors.<\/p>\n

In Dominic Calvert-Lewin<\/a> – close to signing on a free transfer after leaving Everton – Leeds are acquiring a striker who has proven Premier League pedigree but has been troubled by long injury absences in recent years.<\/p>\n

If he can stay fit, Leeds will have a very valuable asset.<\/p>\n

Sean Longstaff<\/a> provides experience and a competitive edge after arriving from Newcastle United, while additions elsewhere have come in the shape of left-back Gabriel Gudmundsson from Lille, centre-back Jaka Bijol from Udinese, and centre-back Sebastiaan Bornauw and forward Lukas Nmecha from Wolfsburg.<\/p>\n

It will be tough – but Elland Road may just sway it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last season: Championship winners Someone has got to buck the growing trend of ‘three up, three straight back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-343391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115026179194831770","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}