Robbie Savage delivers end of season report on all 20 Premier League teams
Form an orderly queue and see me in Headmaster Sav’s study to collect your end-of-term reports, please.
As we reach the climax of another Premier League season, it’s time for the verdict on each club’s performance over the last nine months. Pupils in the Old Trafford class must stay behind in detention, but pupils Klopp, Frank and Guardiola are to be made head prefects.
To win the Premier League over a 38-game course is harder, in my book, than winning the European Cup. Although Pep Guardiola’s season may be tinged with disappointment after that traumatic Champions League semi-final defeat in Madrid, and the holy grail continues to evade him at the Etihad, we must celebrate City as a wonderful team. I expect them to win a fourth title in five years, which speaks volumes for their domination of English football under Pep.
One of the best teams we’ve ever seen assembled in English football – and it still may not be enough for them to win the title.
The way Jurgen Klopp has sustained the pursuit of four trophies has been incredible, and at times Mo Salah has looked the best player in the world. Under any circumstances, Klopp gets an A grade – if he wins the Champions League again next weekend, it’s off the scale.
Apart from that World Club Championship in the desert, they have lost two Wembley finals without scoring, finished miles adrift of City and Liverpool in the league, and £97.5million Romelu Lukaku has not fitted into Thomas Tuchel’s system. There’s been a lot happening off the pitch – but too many disappointments on it.
Spurs have a world-class manager, world-class forwards, a world-class stadium – and it looks as if they are going to finish fourth when the odds were stacked against them catching
