Chelsea finished in sixth place the year before last, and have a new manager — yes, Mourinho has had success there before but this is not a squad he built. The near-consensus building around a Chelsea championship would be baffling if the herd mentality of football journos wasn't so well established.

Ha ha I know this top 6 is the conventional wisdom this year, with people just swapping Spurs and Arsenal.

If Arsenal sign someone, anyone, they'll fend off Spurs. This is such reductive thinking.

like a new signing