Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
With the exception of Man City, everyone above us is catchable, need to setting our sights on 2nd place.
Leicester still has plenty of time to boot it like they did last season. United would have to have a substantial scoring drought for us to catch them, and we'd have to pick up the scoring pace. The latter is possible with the front line healthy, but far from certain. The former seems unlikely, but stranger things have happened.
People tend to underestimate the difficulty of making up points in the top half late on - top sides are there because they get a lot of points, and they usually continue to get a lot late on, so it takes a real tear to close a gap.
Most likely, our direct rivals are Chelsea with an outside chance of Leicester. Villa's now playing catchup with Tottenham, and Arsenal is all but dead in the race for 4th with so many sides in front of them that can go on a run. On form, Liverpool would probably take guaranteed Europa and run.
West Ham is its own special case, but my guess would be that they won't outrace Chelsea or Leicester. That said, their run-in is fairly easy and they do tend to take care of business against the bottom half both home and away. That match in May could be pivotal.