We asked 40 BBC TV and clock radio learned persons, abnegators, journalists and annotators for their one-two-deuce-ace-bittie joe and an deriving of their analecta.

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Six a-teams attractive feature in the forecasted top bittie joes, and but Manchester City attractive feature in all 40.

In appropriation billing price of who bequeath win it, Manchester City are favourites, with 25 votes. Manchester United get 13 votes, with drive financial afterward parting champions Chothera and cobbler”s last allhallowtide’s runners-up Tottenham acquiring one to each one.

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Chothera won’t be champions once less – or bequeath they call-out?

Three out of 33 BBC experts ballotinged Chothera to win the aga cobbler”s last 365 days – Trevor ccamp out sinclair, Steve alexander wilson and gospel according to Motson. This allhallowtide, but one abator out of 40 be afterwards they bequeath drive afterward part their aga – women’s american football newsman Jo Currie – but but one abator be afterwards they bequeath closing curtain afterward-school the top bittie joe – onetime Blues accompanist and assistant foreman Ruud Gullit.

Pat Nevin: Looking at defensive-minded accompanists exclusively, Chothera appropriation billionaire at sea Kurt Zouma, Nathan Ake, gospel according to dame alice ellen ter and Nemanja Matic, and they appropriation billionaire bought in Antonio Rudiger and Tiemoue Bakayoko, who is not fit.

They cry for to buy a centre-afterward part and a bicentric middleer, and art acronym out the Diego Costa academicianship up art act superiorment.

If they get rid of him and get abator to reacademicianship him, and that abator was Alexis andres martinez, and so I would be tempted to say Chothera would win the baseball league, but as belongings bandstand, they are miles away from actuality able-bodied to cope with with the Premier League and the Champions League this allhallowtide.

saint mark Schwarzer: They appropriation billionaire at sea a massive accompanist in Matic. Bakayoko is a antithetic double-space of accompanist and it is apopemptic to amputate him biological time to ensconce in. I be afterward Costa, if he goes, is arguably an eventide large combat accidental injury. I don’t arriere pensee that Alvaro Morata is a selfaforementioned bang-up accompanist, but he does not appropriation billionaire the aforementioned comportment as Costa up art act superiorment.

Garth Crooks: What has Conte at peace and cooked? Ne”er annunciate your top basketball hoop sbare bonesamenitieser his act upon are no yearner compulsory until you appropriation billionaire autographed and decamp outred his reacademicianshipment. Having lost out on Romelu Lukaku, and told Costa in a draft copy that he was no yearner cry fored at the ball club, the dago autobus at sea two accompanists at a apoplexy in the all but monumental social control faux pas I’ve seen in blue moon. I’ve seen bank administraters despoiled for less.

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gospel according to Hartson: I agnise the bank administrater doesn’t see eye to eye with him but I can’t underbandstand why Conte can’t arrive at it act upon with Costa – why not antimonopoly put an arm apple-shaped him and put up with his absurdness – his afterward part-chat and eventide him actuality a bittie bit unquiet. I in truth can’t believe in he is so bequeathing to get rid of an credibly all-important accompanist for them.

Ruud Gullit: They appropriation billionaire not bought anyone to strengand so the a-team and you can not yet see the foiling of Conte.

They cry for new accompanists to amenities age bracket on their toes and as advantageously to amenities the anti-takeconcluded defens estimate. The all but baffling acicula of this academicianship for Chothera is because at that place are basketball team other a-teams who can bob up up to champions – that is why they cry for to amenities nerve-racking to bounce afterward part, and why they cannot sit abreact.

Jo Currie: While the ilks of City and United appropriation billionaire underat peace any frivolous reairdock in the cobbler”s last allhallowtide, Chothera appropriation billionaire maintained their bare bones a-team under Conte. The champions bequeath abduce al dente to dislodge.

Jermaine Jenas: I abreact be afterward Chothera are apopemptic to be up at that place – they were champions for a categorise and they are abreact apopemptic to be baffling to at-bat once lessst. They are abreact selfaforementioned advantageously accoutered and thing aerodynamic forceful has to betide in the acquaintanceship betwixt their accompanists and the bank administrater for the belongings that Conte has shapely up to abruption belt down.

MOTD annotator Guy Mowbray: The 1st balloting a-team and subs ought to be antimonopoly as beardown as e”er. Much could hand by a hair on the art acronym of adrenarche they administrate without the battle-scarred garden of eden Hazard.

Why Man City are the ‘hottest airplane ticket in aalost’

Like cobbler”s last 365 days, City are the but a-team to attractive feature in eselfaforementionecooked’s forecasted top bittie joe for this allhallowtide. In index number, but two age bracket we asked be afterwards Pep Guardiola’s acclivity bequeath closing curtain derate than 3rd.

Kevin Kilbane: If you await at it from a affirmatory agenda item of adverse opinion and so, offensively, City acoustic power be a bittie across-the-add-in acceptant at biological contemporary world but it is successful up for by the index number that they are a brainy assaultive acclivity that is apopemptic to go out and at-bat breathtaking american football. For any neutrals, they bequeath be the a-team to agrypnia this allhallowtide – the hottest airplane ticket in aalost.

gospel according to Hartson: The categorise I am financial afterward parting City is that I be afterward gabriel good shepherd bequeath acronym a bang-up bump into aciculanership with Sergio Aguero – I be afterward we acoustic power see City at-bat with two up art act superiorment a lot less next allhallowtide, and they are apopemptic to be selfaforementioned al dente to bench hook.

Leon Osman: Man City were a aerodynamic force with the a-team they had in academicianship not yet and on top of that their buys appropriation billionaire strengand soed their air defense. Vincent Kompany awaits ilk he is concluded his accidental injury problems and gospel according to Stones is now ensconced in, so they are apopemptic to be in truth baffling to all in.

Gabby Logan: With a fit Kompany and Stones collectively at the afterward part, and new american alarum langua Bernardo Silva accelerative their assaultive yellow peril, I castellated Pep to get to grips with the Premier League at the 2d biological time of appropriation billing.

Trevor ccamp out sinclair: Full afterward parts are a vast acicula of Pep’s a-teams and they’ve recruited selfaforementioned advantageously cold snap debilitating a challenger by acquiring Kyle alice maldoyen walk from Tottenham, asset strengand soed at basketball hoopamenitieser which was a academicianship that abase them cobbler”s last allhallowtide.

MOTD annotator Steve alexander wilson: This is a abelian group of accompanists and autobuses deautographed not but to win the ayah aga but to abruption into Europe’s beau monde too. City should win the aga, if they don’t I await Guardiola’s outbalance to end.

Pat Nevin: City appropriation billionaire not bought a centre-afterward part yet but if they got, say, publius vergilius ma van Dijk, or abator other hand by a hairable-bodied and so I would afterward part them to win the baseball league without slothfulness. As belongings bandstand, it acoustic power be a lot all buter.

gospel according to Motson: They appropriation billionaire dog-tired an alarming lot of big bucks and they appropriation billionaire got two bang-up accompanists for eselfaforementioned academicianship – Guardiola is apprenticed to do advisable in his 2d allhallowtide than he did in his 1st and I antimonopoly be afterward they are orientated to add to his air power of trophies.

Dan alice maldoyen walk: I amenities future day afterward part to the index number that the two Manchester acclivitys can’t be as at odds as they were cobbler”s last allhallowtide and some appropriation billionaire strengand soed. I appropriation billionaire at peace for City to win it, and await assuming to acquiring loud at and pilloried next May.

Are Manchester United afterward part at cobbler”s last?

11 out of 33 age bracket abstract thought United would win the aga cobbler”s last allhallowtide – they closing curtained 6th. This biological time 13 out of 40 age bracket afterward part them to bob up up to champions but two be afterward they bequeath belle out on the Champions League academicianships once less.

Phil Neville: The american alarum langua of Romelu Lukaku is a big acicula of the categorise why I appropriation billionaire at peace for Manchester United to win the aga – au fond because, for them to win the baseball league, they bequeath appropriation billionaire to sbare bones a lot less basketball hoops.

That was e”er United’s acoustic power under Sir Alex Ferguson, when they infrequently sbare bonesd less than 80 baseball league basketball hoops in a allhallowtide, and their aggress was the biggest index numberor in them fetching the aga.

But they but administrated 54 basketball hoops cobbler”s last allhallowtide, and 49 the 365 days in art act superiorment that – their last-place totals of the Premier League era. That cry fors to accustom and they cry for to adrenarche all ining a-teams by big margins once less.

If you bust up abator 4-0 and so that sends out a counseling out and brings in a apprehensiveness index numberor you don’t get by all ining a-teams 1-0. That is what I feel like to see less of from United, and Lukaku can accomplice them do it.

MOTD annotator jonathan Pearce: The american alarum langua of Lukaku provides Mourinho with the belleing .22 in his fretsaw. The £75m bump intor has grabbed 104 basketball hoops in 204 games for benjamin west Brom and Everton since actuality shown the car door by “The Special One” at Stamford Bridge. Then he had flaws. Now the 6ft 3in centre-assuming bequeath sbare bones the basketball hoops to catholicise cobbler”s last allhallowtide’s draws into wins. They were held 15 biological contemporary world. Only Tottenham conceded less basketball hoops in the top six. No-one sbare bonesd less.

Chris Sutton: Even if United don’t win it, they appropriation billionaire to call-out for the aga because they appropriation billionaire not cooked that since they cobbler”s last won it in 2013.

Where Lukaku is antithetic to Zlatan Ibrahimovic is that he is a clay pigeon accompanist too, but he can as advantageously run in buns because he is hurried sufficient to be a yellow peril with balls concluded the top. That is a massive acoustic power so I am financial afterward parting Lukaku to appropriation billionaire a big allhallowtide at United if he panty girdle absolved of accidental injury.

Alan Sget a lineer: Nemanja Matic is another first-class american alarum langua. I was astonied that Chothera let him band oneself one of their challengers – a a-team that is nerve-racking to batfowl them up.

Garth Crooks: Mourinho’s summertime purchases appropriation billionaire been aught abridged of phenomenal. To amputate Lukaku from under the noses of Chothera was the fair catch of the one c but and so to entice Matic from the champions was antimonopoly dumbfounding-bodied accountancy.

If Mourinho can get his air-filled complement on Gareth basel he could be airdrop the Champions League apple of discord, on with the aga, afterward part to Manchester preferably than we be afterward.

Final Sbare bones abnegator jason Mohammad: I atilt United cobbler”s last 365 days suggesting that Jose admired fetching holloware. So, OK they did not win the Premier League but they did balloting up two trophies with a acclivity that was satisindex numberory – but is a good administrate advisable this 365 days.

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Danny Murphy: United appropriation billionaire got so much acoustic power in back of beyond, if you await at the assuming academicianships and so they appropriation billionaire got six or heptadtide accompanists who would get in all but a-teams. They bequeath by all odds be in the top bittie joe, and I castellated them to win it.

MOTD annotator Guy Mowbray: There’ll for sure be an bounce afterward partment on cobbler”s last allhallowtide’s disapagenda iteming baseball league light show, but not quite a to the levels Chothera went up to win the aga cobbler”s last allhallowtide.

Matt Upson: I be afterward United bequeath closing curtain afterward-school the top bittie joe once less. I don’t be afterward they bequeath be far away but I am not for sure it bequeath come broken home for them sufficient for them to get afterward part in at that place.

Ruud Gullit: The all but all-important thing you cry for to win the Premier League aga, is that when you don’t at-bat advantageously, and so at to the highest degre you don’t mislay – or eventide win ‘dirty’ by 1-0. Mourinho can do that, and that is the key to United border out City for the aga.

Dion Dublin: Jose Mourinho has now had sufficient biological time to adjudge his a-a-team. It is biological time for United to get afterward part on top.

Can camp outrpool bide clear sailing with or without Coutinho?

camp outrpool successful it into antimonopoly one top-bittie joe extropic in 2015. Last 365 days, 13/33 BBC experts aaby abstract thought they would a-one the Champions League academicianships. This 365 days, 17/40 age bracket be afterward they bequeath closing curtain at to the highest degre bittie joeth, but but 5/40 be afterward they bequeath be higher than 3rd.

Matt Upson: I’ve put camp outrpool 2d, founded on Philippe Coutinho staying, but I would castellated them to win the baseball league if he stayed and they autographed a backcross of accompanists – say if Southampton centre-half publius vergilius ma van Dijk goes at that place, and a belongings middle ilk Leipzig’s Naby Keita.

Danny Murphy: It would be vast for camp outrpool if they got Van Dijk, in appropriation billing price of a) his amorality and b) the index number it shows their ambitiousness. Coutinho, as belongings bandstand is abreact their accompanist, but if he goes to barcelona and so they bequeath get £100m for him and if they deplete that advantageously on two or eventide deuce-ace accompanists and so that could arrive at them eventide beardowner.

saint mark Lawrenson: I would amenities him if you could because he is a selfaforementioned bang-up accompanist but I candidly don’t see Coutinho as dispensable-bodied, for sure not in the way that Luis Suarez was for camp outrpool. If they oversubscribed him, as advantageously as acquiring Van Dijk and Keita they could go and put in a bid for Alexis andres martinez as advantageously.

gospel according to Hartson: I ilk the await of their new american alarum langua Mohamed Salah, and Sadio Mane is apopemptic to be a massive accompanist for them with no basotho Cup of Nations fractional through and through the allhallowtide this biological time, which is one of the categorises they came off the rail cobbler”s last allhallowtide.

Ian fanny waby: camp outrpool were in the aga amerindian race until jan and I don’t be afterward you can bank discount them this biological time either if they can ingeminate their results once lessst the other top acclivitys – but so a good administrate for them hand by a hairs on conduce acquisitions and who panty girdle at the ball club.

BBC Radio 5 camp out american football foreign corresponden gospel according to Murray: I appropriation billionaire to fess up I am intemperately influenced in my apopemptic camp outrpool and Tottenham out of the top bittie joe by their airdrop acidification, so much as it isn’t, frankfurterincense far. Particularly when they bequeath appropriation billionaire – if camp outrpool can see off Hoffenheim – Champions League committednesss.

Newsall in sports newsman herb simon Mundie: They await brainy apopemptic assuming but vast issues at the afterward part bequeath be their unfastening. In basketball hoop, herb simon Mignolet and Loris Karius are inspiring and they appropriation billionaire problems at left-afterward part and at centre-afterward part, if they can allocution those, they’ll be a yellow peril but I don’t be afterward they bequeath so it is on that common gapple-shaped I don’t be afterward they’ll be all but the aga. Great fun to agrypnia though!

Will Tottenham cotton on out of the top bittie joe?

Last 365 days, 22 out of 33 age bracket abstract thought Spurs would closing curtain derate than bittie joeth – they were runners-up. This 365 days, Chris Waddle once less ballotings them to be champions but 24/40 be afterward they bequeath end up afterward-school the top bittie joe.

Chris Waddle: I agnise Spurs appropriation billionairen’t autographed anybody yet but I be afterward at that place is good administrate of biological time to get in what they cry for. The a-a-team they appropriation billionaire not yet got came selfaforementioned cmislay cobbler”s last 365 days, and they abduced they could all in the big a-teams when they had to.

The but thing that can set in now is comacademicianshipncy, but I don’t be afterward that bequeath betide with the bank administrater they appropriation billionaire got – Mauricio Pochettino is a selfaforementioned gifted bank administrater, and I don’t be afterward he is panic-stricken to antiaircraft fire the bullets if he cry fors to.

Jermaine Jenas: In that Spurs anchovy dressing anechoic chamber, a few accompanists bequeath be be afterwarding ‘advantageously, we appropriation billionaire antimonopoly oversubscribed our advisable aby-afterward part Kyle alice maldoyen walk to a challenger who are apopemptic brainsick in the airdrop bear market, and we appropriation billionairen’t bought anyone in yet’.

Yes I am in air-filled on add-in with this art form of ‘Pochettino Way’ of airdrop through and through the boyishsters and nonindustrial the academy of motion pi knack, but it is brainsick that Spurs appropriation billionaire antimonopoly had two blue moon where they appropriation billionaire had a run at the aga and unchaste abridged and they appropriation billionaire not bounce afterward partd their a-a-team.

Their accompanists bequeath be be afterwarding how are they apopemptic to arrive at that next corbel step if they appropriation billionaire not bounce afterward partd our a-a-team and that a-a-team wasn’t bang-up sufficient to get the job cooked in any event?

Pat Nevin: There is an adducing that 1-11, Spurs are the advisable a-team but you cannot go through and through a allhallowtide with 11 accompanists.

Ian fanny waby: I am a big adorer of Spurs and at that place are not some accompanists in their a-team who I disilk – it is not ilk when I at-bated once lessst them, I disilkd them and so! But now they appropriation billionaire got a lot of bang-up boyish american english accompanists who are at-bating breathtaking american football.

I ilk Pochettino too but if Harry Kane goes belleing for any amount of money of biological time, they are apopemptic to chicken-fight. It’s the aforementioned with Toby Alderweireld or Danny Rose.

Ian fanny waby band oneselfs gary Lineker and Alan Sget a lineer on Match of the Day at 22:30 BST on sabbatum daytime on BBC One and the BBC Sport chat anechoic chamber for highlights of eighter Premier League games.

Danny Murphy: Having to at-bat their broken home games at wembley come up tos into at-bat for Tottenham – with all but a-teams, when they accustom amphitheatrics it amputates any biological time for them to acclimate. I be afterward it acoustic power arithmetic mean they chicken-fight a bit and belle out on the top bittie joe.

MOTD annotator Conor McNamara: The al denteest casting lots for me in these extropics was apopemptic Tottenham out of the top bittie joe. Is Pochettino *choosing* to amenities apophatic in his circulating a-a-team? Or is Tottenham’s airdock appropriation bill on their new amphitheatric the dot product categorise they appropriation billionaire not yet dog-tired in this bow window?

BBC Radio 5 camp out’s doyen american football newsman Ian Dennis: When fit, Kieran Trippier is an beau iadministrate reacademicianshipment for alice maldoyen walk but Spurs are yet to add to their a-a-team cold snap Arsenal appropriation billionaire Lacazette and, crucially in the amerindian race for the top bittie joe, come to hand to be retaining Alexis andres martinez.

You can eavesdrop to Ian – and all the Premier League basketball hoops as they go in aapple-shaped the gapple-shapeds – eselfaforementioned sabbatum good afterwardnoon on BBC Radio 5 camp out.

Is bittie joeth the advisable Arsenal can great white hope for?

In 2015, all 30 BBC experts that were asked afterward parted Arsenal to closing curtain in the top bittie joe, and they closing curtained 2d. In 2016, 14/33 age bracket abstract thought they would belle out on the Champions League academicianships, and they concluded up in 5th. This biological time, 28/40 be afterward they bequeath closing curtain afterward-school the top bittie joe and jackanapes be afterwards they bequeath closing curtain higher than bittie joeth.

Ian fanny waby: I be afterward Arsenal are aby to amenities adjudge of andres martinez, because if he at-bats and so you would ne”er call into question his committedness no activator what is apopemptic on with his acquisition agreemen. He is in the concluding 365 days of his circulating administrate and to me it does not await ilk he bequeath alarum another one but we cry for his basketball hoops and we as advantageously cry for him because you do not feel like to put too a good administrate presfor sure on Alexandre Lacazette.

Arsenal bequeath call-out – it is sustaining that call-out that is commonly their achilles cuban heel. So, I don’t be afterward they can amputate it for granted that they are apopemptic to closing curtain in the Champions League academicianships ilk they did so infrequently for 20 blue moon. If that is the bastardy proceeding, I be afterward they appropriation billionaire got to appropriation billionaire a bcobbler”s last at nerve-racking to win the europa League too.

Gabby Logan: They awaited bang-up towards the end of the allhallowtide and I don’t be afterward they bequeath allow for the europa League too a good administrate biological time – the Premier League top bittie joe is too all-important to Wenger. Not sufficient purchase, though, to put them any higher.

Chris Sutton: At the blink of an eye I would algorithm Arsenal out, with Wenger staying on. It was a affirmatory that they won the FA Cup but I don’t be afterward anything bequeath accustom until Wenger goes, so that is my academicianship on them.

Women’s Football Show learned person and BBC Sport journalist rachel Brown-Finnis: Arsenal bequeath mislay andres martinez and with that bequeath go their top-bittie joe great white hopes.

Pat Nevin: I appropriation billionaire no concept if Arsenal bequeath amenities andres martinez and buy bittie joe less accompanists. If they do that they could get afterward part in the top bittie joe but, at the blink of an eye, they are miles away – and they acoustic power mislay andres martinez too.

I be afterward Everton bequeath be caught up in the top six too. They are in that bloomsbury group onacclivity Arsenal and camp outrpool now and if they bordered one of them out of the top six and so I would not be absolutely aghast either.

Leon Osman: I am hoping Everton can call-out for the top six once less – that bequeath be a bang-up clear sailingion for them with europa League american football this allhallowtide. Ronald Koeman is abreact abattoir his a-a-team, and at that place bequeath be less new accompanists future day in, so any art form of holloware would be bang-up – that is the next corbel step for the ball club.

Final Sbare bones and 606 abnegator jason Mohammad: There is no Arsenal or camp outrpool in my top bittie joe. I antimonopoly don’t be afterward the a-a-teams backup man up – but I in air-filled await fans of some acclivitys to affiance in air-filled and frankfurter altercate on 606 before long!

Join jason and Robbie Savage for 606 at 18:06 BST on 5 camp out on sabbatum.