A 2021/22 Premier League End of Season Table Standings Prediction

Premier League Clubs Flirting with the Drop

15. Burnley

Burnley will be bouncing around the lower end of the table all the way through the season, having brought in a grand total of zero players. That will no doubt anger Sean Dyche more, Burnley will stay down at the bottom because of this.

I have them being safe in fifteenth because of the Premier League experience they have. I don’t doubt that Chris Wood, Ashley Barnes and a solid back two can help them stay up. It will be a very boring season for Burnley fans, and if it’s not then I can only see them going down.

16. Crystal Palace

A new look Crystal Palace will struggle as they attempt to move on from Roy Hodgson with Arsenal legend Patrick Viera taking over. Palace have recruited fairly well, bringing in a lot of talent from the Championship and Joachim Anderson, who proved his worth with Fulham last year.

But it is Viera’s inexperience and the team’s over-reliance on Wilfried Zaha for goals that will see this team languish down the bottom. This is one that I could be really wrong with but looks like a transitional team that will take a while to get going.

17. Southampton

Southampton look a team being slowly pulled apart and lacking belief. I doubt that will change this year. Ralph Hassenhuttl, has been riding his laurels for a bit too long and the loss of Danny Ings will be huge come to the end of the season.

Bringing in Adam Armstrong may plug a hole if he gets off to a good start, but if Saints come out playing like they did last year, they will only stay up on the back of James Ward-Prowse, and they still might lose him.

Southampton struggle from the off, but just might have enough, seventeenth.