front line; however, both those players have one thing this season that no-one at White Hart Lane will experience this season….Champions League football.

For those reasons, and the shakiness at the back whenever Ledley King is injured (and he will get injured), I think Tottenham are likely to plateau in the coming season.

7. Everton

If I was a filthy rich man, a la an Abramovich or bin Zayed al Nahan, I think I’d quite like to buy Everton Football Club, give David Moyes a contract for life, give him £30m a season to spend and then go and sit on a yacht for a decade, watching the trophies roll in.

Why? Because Everton, as a side, and to a point, almost run themselves, and are consistently the best side in theArsenal on the hunt. Everton’s stability is built on the fact that players like Jagielka, Leighton Baines (who played every minute of the 2010-11 season), Arteta and the seemingly re-born Phil Neville put in a hard shift every week. The goals were shared around a little more last season too – no longer hugely reliant on Tim Cahill’s magic bonce, Saha and, particularly toward the end of the season, Jermaine Beckford got in on the act. Everton will keep doing what they do well, under the sound, sensible tutelage of Moyes, and will no doubt consider 7th and a good run in either cup a pretty good return for their season. If only there was a Russian billionaire with a passion for the blue side of Liverpool out