Chelsea and Manchester United had a somewhat below par season in the Premier League.

Chelsea managed to climb from mid-table to a sixth-place finish, while Manchester United finished eighth in the Premier League.

Paul Merson has backed both Chelsea and Manchester United to finish in the top four next season.

“I’ve got a feeling for next season,” Paul Merson told Sky Sports.

“I think Tottenham have got to concentrate on one thing. I think top four, Chelsea are going to be there, Man Utd can only get better – top four’s hard now.”

Spurs finished fifth in Ange Postecoglou’s first season in north London, narrowly missing out on a Champions League spot after mounting a surprise title challenge.

Paul Merson has backed Spurs to win a Cup next season.

Merson added: “I think a trophy would be amazing. I think that’s the way he’s got to go. I think it would have helped if they’d finished sixth and got in the Europa Conference League, because a trophy is a trophy.

“With the way Villa got beaten in this season’s tournament it made West Ham’s achievement a lot bigger. Before we just thought, ‘Oh, whoever gets in that is going to win it’, but that isn’t the case.

“I think if Tottenham win a trophy that’d be amazing. I don’t think they have to get in the top four – I think they’ve got to win a trophy, I really do. I think trophies are the one.

“I mean, you get in the top four and you do what Newcastle have done, you’re out [of the Champions League] by October. Everybody fights to get in it and 80 per cent of the teams getting in it haven’t got a chance of winning it.

“Really they’re doing it for the money and really it should be for the fans and winning trophies for the fans. So if they can win the League Cup, or something like that, then I think it would be amazing for them, 100 per cent.”