A coach who doesn't speak English and hasn't coached outside Italy likely losing Hazard and Courtois with Barcelona working to turn Willian's and Kante's heads, lots of new players coming in, and an owner and management team with a short fuse and already out of the Champions League this year.

Compound that with City returning from 100 points, Liverpool substantially upgrading, and a more than solid Tottenham and I think you are hoping for the very possible Mourinho implosion to crack the top 4.

Who the hell knows what will happen.

at least coming in and maybe that's with the benefit of hindsight.

You're right as to who knows, though.

Conte started poorly, and got trashed by Arsenal in September, when he changed things up.

While he had been successful with the Italy national team and in Serie A, he was a question mark coming in.

As was Chelsea, who had just finished 10th during the disaster of Mou's final season, which was infinitely worse than last year.

but you also said you were confident in Chelsea advancing in the CL and finishing in the top four in the PL. Neither of which happened.

I've long since given up trying to make predictions.

None of us know.

I also didn’t think Conte would win it all year 1 either.

I suck at predicting.

So does Irish01