West Ham better hope Diop is the answer. They still have a lot of injured players to deal with and spent a lot of money on guys that definitely have some questions about them. It just seems SO similar to our situation last year. Other than Diop, they signed a Lanzini replacement, at least for the first couple months, lost Mario Joao - who was really good for them honestly, and a bunch of wingers, so they have depth or slight upgrades over Arnautovic and Antonio.
West Ham gave up 68 goals last year. They got in Diop (and Reid is hurt), lost Collins, Sam Byram is hurt, got in some unknown CB from Paraguay, Reece Oxford back from Loan, and Ryan Fredericks on a free.
They did move Kouyate, who was terrible, so that was a good move IMO.
So I guess they will score more goals, but unless Diop is amazing and/or they find an outside back on the other side sometime soon, not sure how they are going to improve on that 68 goals. Again 68 friggin goals! That's 10 more than we conceded. Think about that.
Palace...I mean, I don't get it. Meyer is okay, but he's unmovable at that wage and well, Benteke looks toast and I'm not sure Zaha can improve on what he did last year. I don't rate RLC, but he's not there anymore, and well, Kouyate...
I'm not sure what to make of Wolves. It's basically a Portuguese B team. I certainly am not as hyped up about them as others, but we shall see.