⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[Wakate]

But that's only if Arsenal can maintain their points lead. If they continue to draw in the next few games, the points gap with Manchester City will surely narrow, costing them their chance of winning the title this season. So, Arteta must now be very mindful of his strategy, or one small slip-up could be disastrous for them.

This is unfavorable for Arsenal because the draw in the previous match brought Manchester City closer to Arsenal's points tally. If Arsenal fail to perform optimally in the upcoming matches and fail to secure full points, the same incidents as in previous seasons will repeat themselves. Arteta needs to be wary of all possibilities because Manchester City are currently performing much better and the points gap is quite close with only five points remaining and Manchester City still has one matches to play.

I have already gave up on Arsenal and I know that the same unlucky stance they had during the previous seasons will befall them again. This is not a joke because I know that Manchester City will not fail to win their other matches when that time comes.
Arsenal was leading Manchester City with 6 points before and it was so sad they could not maintain it.

[Taricoins]

Manchester United couldn't go for the 5th win in a row maybe. But they didn't lose that one at least. Carrick is meeting the expectations at a good rate for now. I wonder how this week will end up for them.

They play against Everton away. The opponent is a tough one! They are having a better season than the last one as well. I smell a point loss for Carrick's side again. But I would like to be wrong about it. Otherwise Chelsea are highly likely to get the 4th spot from them.

As usually the battle for the fourth place is getting fiercer and Carrick is performing more that expected and he might probably win against Everton If he can find a way to break there defensive structure, plus the Man United players, as usual has gotten alot of rest so they should be fit enough to take this win. Chelsea will be Burnley which is a slightly easier fixture and Chelsea would mostly likely win since they are playing at home and Burnley is usually weak playing away.

[Egii Nna]

But that's only if Arsenal can maintain their points lead. If they continue to draw in the next few games, the points gap with Manchester City will surely narrow, costing them their chance of winning the title this season. So, Arteta must now be very mindful of his strategy, or one small slip-up could be disastrous for them.

This is unfavorable for Arsenal because the draw in the previous match brought Manchester City closer to Arsenal's points tally. If Arsenal fail to perform optimally in the upcoming matches and fail to secure full points, the same incidents as in previous seasons will repeat themselves. Arteta needs to be wary of all possibilities because Manchester City are currently performing much better and the points gap is quite close with only five points remaining and Manchester City still has one matches to play.

I have already gave up on Arsenal and I know that the same unlucky stance they had during the previous seasons will befall them again. This is not a joke because I know that Manchester City will not fail to win their other matches when that time comes.
Arsenal was leading Manchester City with 6 points before and it was so sad they could not maintain it.

Everyone knows for sure that Manchester City will win Newcastle in their game tomorrow, which will leave only a 2 point difference between them and Arsenal. Because I am also sure that tomorrow’s game will definitely be a win for them, nevertheless, hope is still on Arsenal. Maybe they will be able to get back to their feet again, even though I know it will be very hard if they do not drop points again and let the top spot go to Manchester City, just as it happened in other past seasons.

[Adbitco]

I think it's high time the management say goodbye to Arteta, he's too in expense to mange this club , he has spent so much money in five years without winning anything. Arsenal needs a manager that has won trophies and experienced. The potentials are there in the players but they lack a good coach.

Five years passed, hundreds million wasted, and no trophy. So it makes no sense to keep Arteta much longer while he still gives nothing. I believe he's gonna be Wenger in the making, but in much worse form since he never won major trophy.
Sometimes, you can be patience, but patience has the limit.  

But I thought his won them the FA cup before as a manager which Arsenal fans used in bragging back then although I don't remember the exact year but I think he won them that trophy. So it's been this long? It only seemed like just few years ago. I really can't help but just laugh at this this, no wonder they are called Netflix FC, series without an end, at least most series do have an end but this Arsenal case seems so different. If they finally bottle this league, it won't be easy because the dragging online won't be here. You can't compare Arteta with Wenger, not for one second. Wenger won the league with Arsenal and was solely responsible for the building of the Emirates stadium, so it's understandable why he couldn't sign proven players with lots of money back then even though his philosophy isn't to spend big. Arteta has done absolutely nothing for Arsenal to be put in the sane sentence with Wenger.

[KingsDen]

Manchester United couldn't go for the 5th win in a row maybe. But they didn't lose that one at least. Carrick is meeting the expectations at a good rate for now. I wonder how this week will end up for them.

They play against Everton away. The opponent is a tough one! They are having a better season than the last one as well. I smell a point loss for Carrick's side again. But I would like to be wrong about it. Otherwise Chelsea are highly likely to get the 4th spot from them.

The one thing I have learned about the Manchester United squad under Michael Carrick is that they have got the confidence. The most important factor for any team to continue to win matches is if they have their confidence intact. If you ask how this confidence comes, it is by winning matches. The more matches a team wins, the greater their confidence. So, Manchester United players have that winning aura, so I am confident they are coming out strong Monday night.

The worse thing that could happen to Manchester United is not to lose matches, it is to lose matches consecutively. But to me, I don't see that happening any moment because the Manchester United team is somehow stable for now. Let's not expect the worse from them. Even if they ends up losing points to Everton, they will still finish in top 4.

[Wakate]

Everyone knows for sure that Manchester City will win Newcastle in their game tomorrow, which will leave only a 2 point difference between them and Arsenal. Because I am also sure that tomorrow’s game will definitely be a win for them, nevertheless, hope is still on Arsenal. Maybe they will be able to get back to their feet again, even though I know it will be very hard if they do not drop points again and let the top spot go to Manchester City, just as it happened in other past seasons.

The only way Arsenal can get back on their foot is to pray for Manchester City to draw their match or lose it.
It is not going to be easy for Arsenal playing with Totenham looking at all odds and how their information has been, drawing most of their matches when they supposed to win at least to add more points to what they have at hand.

[Adiljutt156]

Arsenal collapsed in the final minutes. They drew 2–2 with bottom placed Wolverhampton.
It was a huge loss of points for them. I don’t think anyone expected such a result.
If Manchester City win their next match, the gap with Arsenal will be just two points and Manchester City will be fully back in the title race.

We saw match of premier league which was organized in the Molineux Stadium and that was interesting match because both teams gave great effort in this match And both teams did 2,2 goals in this match. Saka was a person who did first goal of the match and he did this goal at 5 minutes of the match and that was important goal for his team because that was requirement of the team and after that we saw skilled persons in this match who did back to back goals in this match. Hincapié was a second person who did goal in this match and he did this goal at 56 minutes of the match but there was only one goal in the first half of the match. The shots of Wolverhampton Wanderers football team were less in this match and these were only 4 in this match and 1 shot was on target and possession percentage of that team was 42 percent in this match and passes of that team were less in this match and opponent team shots were good in this match

[Egii Nna]

Everyone knows for sure that Manchester City will win Newcastle in their game tomorrow, which will leave only a 2 point difference between them and Arsenal. Because I am also sure that tomorrow’s game will definitely be a win for them, nevertheless, hope is still on Arsenal. Maybe they will be able to get back to their feet again, even though I know it will be very hard if they do not drop points again and let the top spot go to Manchester City, just as it happened in other past seasons.

The only way Arsenal can get back on their foot is to pray for Manchester City to draw their match or lose it.
It is not going to be easy for Arsenal playing with Totenham looking at all odds and how their information has been, drawing most of their matches when they supposed to win at least to add more points to what they have at hand.

You also know it will take a miracle to see Manchester City lose or draw their game against Newcastle. I know Newcastle have been playing well for some weeks now, but still, they met earlier this month and Manchester City won 3–1, so I don’t think it will be that easy for them to lose this game. Furthermore, Arsenal might win against Tottenham, even though I am not that sure, but I have a feeling that Arsenal might be able to win that game. However, I am not that certain. Although, since we entered this month, Tottenham have not won any game yet. Maybe they will make a difference now, or still maintain that performance of not winning any game.

[Stormisover]

Five years passed, hundreds million wasted, and no trophy. So it makes no sense to keep Arteta much longer while he still gives nothing. I believe he's gonna be Wenger in the making, but in much worse form since he never won major trophy.
Sometimes, you can be patience, but patience has the limit.  

Mikel Arteta can not be like Arsene Wenger for he is below the man Wenger and my reasons are simple. Wenger did not spend the big amounts of money that Mikel Arteta has spent in his five years in Arsenal with no corresponding results to show for in trophies.

Wenger spent less, was using players from the Arsenal academy to build his team and was at his best qualifying Arsenal to the Uefa champion league. While Arteta had to spend excess of what Wenger will spend in five years and all he is able to achieve is to qualify Arsenal to the champions league,  no single premier league title with what has been spend.

This season should be his form and shatter season which in the aftermath that he fails to win the premier league as it is going, his sack will be deserving. Cause the worse Manchester city team of P. Guardiola of this season can not win a premier league title from the best Arsenal team of the season and Arteta will not still be sacked.

Despite what you have just listed here i still can't find anything special about Wenger the worst manage of all time in the history of the English premier league, how do you explain a man that spent his entire life in one club but failed to win a single European trophy and you have the gout to compare him to Mikel Arteta, i know Mikel is not really giving what is required of him which is an European trophy but let admit the fact that dude has real help the team to get back to spotlight like we all knew Arsenal was a dying team before his arrival and he has brought the team back to title contendance, because he's yet to win the English premier league title, something even your so called Wenger don't have you want to kill Mikel Arteta for it.

[snipie]

Mikel Arteta can not be like Arsene Wenger for he is below the man Wenger and my reasons are simple.

Despite what you have just listed here i still can't find anything special about Wenger the worst manage of all time in the history of the English premier league, how do you explain a man that spent his entire life in one club but failed to win a single European trophy and you have the gout to compare him to Mikel Arteta

With all respect to you and without defending IjawMan but you are just limiting your view to a one thing called trophies. From many years now, there are some teams that are considering as big farms for new talents, other teams are pickers, just picking these new talents from the teams farming them and other teams trying to stay on top while keeping positive funds. I suppose you are aware now why Arsenal management were happy back then.
There is Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen in Bundesliga that are the best examples of farms while trying to stay on top. You should know that they care more about money and positive balance rather than getting trophies regardless of its cost.

[Adams0001]

You also know it will take a miracle to see Manchester City lose or draw their game against Newcastle. I know Newcastle have been playing well for some weeks now, but still, they met earlier this month and Manchester City won 3–1, so I don’t think it will be that easy for them to lose this game. Furthermore, Arsenal might win against Tottenham, even though I am not that sure, but I have a feeling that Arsenal might be able to win that game. However, I am not that certain. Although, since we entered this month, Tottenham have not won any game yet. Maybe they will make a difference now, or still maintain that performance of not winning any game.

Manchester City have get opportunities to challenge arsenal in the league table and they won't like lose any point in the competition currently. And arsenal are facing Tottenham this weekend and they are playing far from home and that won't be easy for Arteta to achieve three point from them. Newcastle are not doing very good this season and Manchester City have succeeded against them in the cup competition so even in the league I don't think they will be a problem to Guadiola to deal with them. Arteta have been trying to win a trophy but every season that he try to perform well and win later the players will start to mishave in the pitch, let's see there game against Tottenham if they can win the game or not.

[Miles2006]

I think it's high time the management say goodbye to Arteta, he's too in expense to mange this club , he has spent so much money in five years without winning anything. Arsenal needs a manager that has won trophies and experienced. The potentials are there in the players but they lack a good coach.

Five years passed, hundreds million wasted, and no trophy. So it makes no sense to keep Arteta much longer while he still gives nothing. I believe he's gonna be Wenger in the making, but in much worse form since he never won major trophy.
Sometimes, you can be patience, but patience has the limit.  

Arteta will be the major target this season not the players, Arteta already knows what’s ahead of him if he fails to win any major trophy this season. If he gets any negative report within this period then it’s obvious he’ll no longer stay or a call to sit up else his position is at stake, after watching Arsenal perform so bad I knew viewers will blame Arteta and I’m in support because countless times he failed to lead the team to success even with best top players and I doubted if this season will be same as last season after all the struggles.

[Zackz5000]

But that's only if Arsenal can maintain their points lead. If they continue to draw in the next few games, the points gap with Manchester City will surely narrow, costing them their chance of winning the title this season. So, Arteta must now be very mindful of his strategy, or one small slip-up could be disastrous for them.

This is unfavorable for Arsenal because the draw in the previous match brought Manchester City closer to Arsenal's points tally. If Arsenal fail to perform optimally in the upcoming matches and fail to secure full points, the same incidents as in previous seasons will repeat themselves. Arteta needs to be wary of all possibilities because Manchester City are currently performing much better and the points gap is quite close with only five points remaining and Manchester City still has one matches to play.

I have already gave up on Arsenal and I know that the same unlucky stance they had during the previous seasons will befall them again. This is not a joke because I know that Manchester City will not fail to win their other matches when that time comes.
Arsenal was leading Manchester City with 6 points before and it was so sad they could not maintain it.

Everyone knows for sure that Manchester City will win Newcastle in their game tomorrow, which will leave only a 2 point difference between them and Arsenal. Because I am also sure that tomorrow’s game will definitely be a win for them, nevertheless, hope is still on Arsenal. Maybe they will be able to get back to their feet again, even though I know it will be very hard if they do not drop points again and let the top spot go to Manchester City, just as it happened in other past seasons.

You can only say for your self you don't have to say that every knows for sure that Manchester City is going to win Newcastle United tomorrow, did you watch Arsenal take on draw with Wolves i believe that when the game hasn't started you believe that Arsenal is going to win Wolves because Arsenal is at the top of the table while Wolverhampton in the last of the table, well one thing that you should know is that nothing is sure in football, Newcastle United can win the game or Manchester City can also win it draw the game nothing is guaranteed here.

[FanEagle]

Arteta has to take care of Arsenal and whatever is going wrong with them, this has to be a meeting type of situation and can't just be a normal training. I mean they are already good players, there is a reason why they are at the top of the league at the moment. So that means we can't really expect them to get better just based on talent, if that was the issue they wouldn't get a draw against the worst team in the league.

I even said that while Arsenal isn't looking great, they will surely will win this game, and I even wagered on them to win this game because Wolves is literally the worst team. So whatever is wrong, it's on their minds and not on their talents and only a team meeting to talk about what's going on could fix this.

[X-ray]

Five years passed, hundreds million wasted, and no trophy. So it makes no sense to keep Arteta much longer while he still gives nothing. I believe he's gonna be Wenger in the making, but in much worse form since he never won major trophy.
Sometimes, you can be patience, but patience has the limit.  

If they finish the EPL as runner up, reach the UCL final but lose it and win the FA Cup, would you fire Arteta?

I would, why not? He wasted 5 years just to win FA cup, it's not worthy with the amounts he already spent since he came. To compare with Ange at his worst season at spurs still won europa league, does it make sense to keep Arteta wasted 5 or 6 years just to win FA cup?

I don't see a concrete reason to defend him. He coached a big club. So the target has to be big too. Unable to achieve it has to lead to the sack of him.

[Gentle_Soul]

But that's only if Arsenal can maintain their points lead. If they continue to draw in the next few games, the points gap with Manchester City will surely narrow, costing them their chance of winning the title this season. So, Arteta must now be very mindful of his strategy, or one small slip-up could be disastrous for them.

This is unfavorable for Arsenal because the draw in the previous match brought Manchester City closer to Arsenal's points tally. If Arsenal fail to perform optimally in the upcoming matches and fail to secure full points, the same incidents as in previous seasons will repeat themselves. Arteta needs to be wary of all possibilities because Manchester City are currently performing much better and the points gap is quite close with only five points remaining and Manchester City still has one matches to play.

I have already gave up on Arsenal and I know that the same unlucky stance they had during the previous seasons will befall them again. This is not a joke because I know that Manchester City will not fail to win their other matches when that time comes.
Arsenal was leading Manchester City with 6 points before and it was so sad they could not maintain it.

My expectations for Arsenal has been really high in the season but from the look of things I just hope that they maintain there stand in on the table because lately the pressure on that team is just too much. I'm tempted to anticipate that the next arsenal match may not turn out well for Arsenal because I feel like it's going to be a difficult one for arsenal to win Tottenham. If not for there previous performances and especially there 2:2 draw against Wolverhampton wanderersi would probably think Tottenham would have been a piece of cake for Arsenal especially looking at the position of Tottenham on the table but I just know that anything is possible

[abhiseshakana]

Five years passed, hundreds million wasted, and no trophy. So it makes no sense to keep Arteta much longer while he still gives nothing. I believe he's gonna be Wenger in the making, but in much worse form since he never won major trophy.
Sometimes, you can be patience, but patience has the limit.  

If they finish the EPL as runner up, reach the UCL final but lose it and win the FA Cup, would you fire Arteta?

I would, why not? He wasted 5 years just to win FA cup, it's not worthy with the amounts he already spent since he came. To compare with Ange at his worst season at spurs still won europa league, does it make sense to keep Arteta wasted 5 or 6 years just to win FA cup?

I don't see a concrete reason to defend him. He coached a big club. So the target has to be big too. Unable to achieve it has to lead to the sack of him.

I seem to know the reason why Arsenal is struggling to win major trophies. It's been too long since their last trophy, so they no longer have the mentality of champions. To return to glory, what they need is a coach with  that mentality, whereas I don't see Arteta having those qualities. Five years is not a short time, and I think it's enough to prove whether Arsenal  really has the right coach or whether they should replace him with someone else. So if Arsenal fails  again this season, I think they really need to consider looking for a new manager.

[Amphenomenon]

I would, why not? He wasted 5 years just to win FA cup, it's not worthy with the amounts he already spent since he came. To compare with Ange at his worst season at spurs still won europa league, does it make sense to keep Arteta wasted 5 or 6 years just to win FA cup?

I don't see a concrete reason to defend him. He coached a big club. So the target has to be big too. Unable to achieve it has to lead to the sack of him.

I said something last season that if they fail to win the EPL he might face more pressure of getting sacked but I will add that they failing to win any major trophy might cost him his position but one thing that might keep him is the fact there Arsenal might be uncertain of his replacement but that doesn't mean they and the fans aren't tired of the team already.

[Wakate]

You also know it will take a miracle to see Manchester City lose or draw their game against Newcastle. I know Newcastle have been playing well for some weeks now, but still, they met earlier this month and Manchester City won 3–1, so I don’t think it will be that easy for them to lose this game. Furthermore, Arsenal might win against Tottenham, even though I am not that sure, but I have a feeling that Arsenal might be able to win that game. However, I am not that certain. Although, since we entered this month, Tottenham have not won any game yet. Maybe they will make a difference now, or still maintain that performance of not winning any game.

Even if it's not going to be easy for Manchester City based on your one opinion, don't be surprised that the previous outcome might repeat itself again. Manchester City will not want to miss the opportunity to lose to Arsenal if Arsenal win their win match.
Arsenal have little hope and if they don't utilize this chances to hold the top, it will be hard for them.

[MRY]

You also know it will take a miracle to see Manchester City lose or draw their game against Newcastle. I know Newcastle have been playing well for some weeks now, but still, they met earlier this month and Manchester City won 3–1, so I don’t think it will be that easy for them to lose this game. Furthermore, Arsenal might win against Tottenham, even though I am not that sure, but I have a feeling that Arsenal might be able to win that game. However, I am not that certain. Although, since we entered this month, Tottenham have not won any game yet. Maybe they will make a difference now, or still maintain that performance of not winning any game.

Even if it's not going to be easy for Manchester City based on your one opinion, don't be surprised that the previous outcome might repeat itself again. Manchester City will not want to miss the opportunity to lose to Arsenal if Arsenal win their win match.
Arsenal have little hope and if they don't utilize this chances to hold the top, it will be hard for them.

The extreme competition at the top of the table necessitates a high form of consistency of all the teams lest they tend to drop at the opportune time. It is correct that the winning mentality in Manchester City is extremely high, taking advantage on any opportunity to make a mistake. In a case where the title is within their reach then it would be a massive loss to Arsenal to lose the title. In my opinion, this pressure should be handled adequately to have a level playing field till the season finale.