⚽ Premier League 2026/2027 Discussion Thread ⚽

[Stavri]

life is miserable without premier league. As a Manchester United fan, i feel United is making the most sensible moves in this transfer window. it's refreshing to see United being calm this year instead of blindly throwing around heaps of cash like they do every season. except for Arsenal, all the Big Six teams changed their managers. so i think those teams will struggle a bit at the start of the season.
my prediction for this year is Arsenal won't win the title and Newcastle United will be relegated.

I don’t want to believe you know what you actually saying, did you just say Manchester United is making the most sensible move this transfer window, a team that will be playing in the champions league, and all other available competitions, and they are signing santos and Tilemans and you are happy. Millions of Manchester United fan are angry and the board and you are here saying otherwise. Then again, we all expect them to get a Proven striker at least Watkins will do but instead they want to swap Zirkzee with Concencao and you are happy.

Then again you said something about Newcastle united being relegated, I’m not really surprised you said that because you already said Manchester United is doing well this transfer window.

yes man. they revamped their midfield by signing Tielemans and Andrey Santos and imo it’s the first time they’re actually making smart moves in the transfer market.

[Chilwell]

The result of the match is not important, but the result of the plays is, friendlies are used to see how players actually behave with other teams, even if you have an idea during training, the friendly is like a testing ground.
Commitment, however, is put into playing. I like Xabi as a coach, I like his way of thinking. Getting young people to play is very important.

Let's be honest, friendly match is important. How is Chelsea going to know their optimum place to position players if they don't get it right now. By the time the season start fully, teams are not going to be doing that again, they know what's missing, they know their mistakes and they know what to fix to make the team work but look at what Chelsea is playing, two friendly match they didn't even draw anyteam, they loss two matches in a row for nothing.

Assuming Alonso is already a house coach, it will be understandable and people will not panic but this is his first job entry and he is not getting things right. How is the team going to perform if the friendly match is that hard to win. Everyone is furious about this performance, they expected more due to how Maresca disappointed the team, it would make sense if he is able to restore the glory of the club.

I want to remind you that those performance in the friendly match are just merely way of seeing how players perform on the pitch, before this pre-season matches most of the big players were thought that they have to play with caution to avoid being injured, so I cannot use this match to judge how Chelsea will perform when this season started. Remember there are teams who normally perform excellently in pre-seasons games, but when the season start that is when you will start seeing their weakness.

I have trust in Xavi Alonso that he will make a very good change compare to what others have not bring, I don't expect Xavi Alonso will bring disappointment like Maresca did during is time. Let's see how their next match will be but despite that I haven't seeing any sign of decline from them.

[Abbatty]

I want to remind you that those performance in the friendly match are just merely way of seeing how players perform on the pitch, before this pre-season matches most of the big players were thought that they have to play with caution to avoid being injured, so I cannot use this match to judge how Chelsea will perform when this season started. Remember there are teams who normally perform excellently in pre-seasons games, but when the season start that is when you will start seeing their weakness.

I have trust in Xavi Alonso that he will make a very good change compare to what others have not bring, I don't expect Xavi Alonso will bring disappointment like Maresca did during is time. Let's see how their next match will be but despite that I haven't seeing any sign of decline from them.

Well it a new coach and for sure the philosophy about how Chelsea will play will be different, such thing also takes time to perfect. When you watch in this preseason game you will see that they play differently from last season. They build up play is very fast now and they are also very quick in transition. The project is an interesting one, even though it just been a few weeks.

Chelsea also have most of their key players out, they are still yet to resume since the word cup ended. I believe chelsea will do well next season, Alonso just need to cut down the team size, which I believe the sporting directors are already working on.

Again they will be playing once a week till December, so with that Alonso will have enough time to work more Time to work on how team and teach them how he wants them to play.

[Stavri]

except for Arsenal, all the Big Six teams changed their managers. so i think those teams will struggle a bit at the start of the season.
my prediction for this year is Arsenal won't win the title and Newcastle United will be relegated.

It is very funny for you to start concluding that Arsenal is not going to win the title this season, which is about to start. If anyone were to predict the favorite team to win the Premier League title, almost everyone would go for Arsenal because they are the defending champions.But I don't know the reason why you are saying that Arsenal is not going to win the Premier League title. Maybe you are one of Arsenal's rivals. If not, you can't be making that conclusion at a time when the league has not even started yet.If we look at the Arsenal team and the players they have signed, I don't expect anyone to be doubting Arsenal at this early stage.

Arsenal finished the season as champions. they had been pushing it to the very end only to lose it to City on the final stretch for the last 3 4 seasons. ok we can say they finally made it. but if you ask me, they didn't deserve to be champions at all. but Liverpool and City deserved it even less...
just think about the player of the season is chosen as their goalkeeper and center back 

[Solodoski]

I want to remind you that those performance in the friendly match are just merely way of seeing how players perform on the pitch, before this pre-season matches most of the big players were thought that they have to play with caution to avoid being injured, so I cannot use this match to judge how Chelsea will perform when this season started. Remember there are teams who normally perform excellently in pre-seasons games, but when the season start that is when you will start seeing their weakness.

I don't think it's right to conclude or judge a team based on pre season matches. This matches are not the real thing, they are used to try tactics and also to give match fitness to the players, but it's definitely going to be different when the season starts.  I am not saying that Chelsea will do wonderfully well when the season start, because that's a probability,  but I don't think it's fair to conclude that they will not will not do well. Like I mentioned earlier,  pre season is not a real match, it's just friendly match and it's for trying tactics and giving players match fitness.  I think we have to wait for the season to start before we will know how teams will perform.

[Amphenomenon]

It is very funny for you to start concluding that Arsenal is not going to win the title this season, which is about to start. If anyone were to predict the favorite team to win the Premier League title, almost everyone would go for Arsenal because they are the defending champions.But I don't know the reason why you are saying that Arsenal is not going to win the Premier League title. Maybe you are one of Arsenal's rivals. If not, you can't be making that conclusion at a time when the league has not even started yet.If we look at the Arsenal team and the players they have signed, I don't expect anyone to be doubting Arsenal at this early stage.

Arsenal finished the season as champions. they had been pushing it to the very end only to lose it to City on the final stretch for the last 3 4 seasons. ok we can say they finally made it. but if you ask me, they didn't deserve to be champions at all. but Liverpool and City deserved it even less...
just think about the player of the season is chosen as their goalkeeper and center back 

Arsenal deserve to be the champion seeing how other teams performed last season but in this current season all I can say that anything is possible and I'm not disrupting anyone though Gunners have better chances because the majority of the other big teams changed management but still might not change anything because two seasons back a new manager, Arne Slot lifted the EPL title but we all can agree that this season will be more competitive.

[Issa56]

I want to remind you that those performance in the friendly match are just merely way of seeing how players perform on the pitch, before this pre-season matches most of the big players were thought that they have to play with caution to avoid being injured, so I cannot use this match to judge how Chelsea will perform when this season started.

Chelsea have lost two preseason matches, but I don’t even take it as anything serious, they didn’t use their main sqaud in those matches, and Alonso is just trying out some strategy before the season start. You don’t expect players to put much effort in preseason matches, I just see all this preseason matches as training, and nothing more. Most players are always so careful whenever they are playing, and they don’t want anything thats going to affect them in those matches. Coaches are always making use of new players just to see their performance, so we should conclude on how a team will perform when the season start base on their pre season performance.

I have trust in Xavi Alonso that he will make a very good change compare to what others have not bring, I don't expect Xavi Alonso will bring disappointment like Maresca did during is time. Let's see how their next match will be but despite that I haven't seeing any sign of decline from them.

Everyone believes Alonso is going to perform well at Chelsea, let’s wait and see how he will perform when the season start, but I believe Chelsea will perform well when the season start. Chelsea might not win their next preseason match, I know Alonso will try out something new again, I can’t just wait for the season to start.

[Jegileman]

Arsenal finished the season as champions. they had been pushing it to the very end only to lose it to City on the final stretch for the last 3 4 seasons. ok we can say they finally made it. but if you ask me, they didn't deserve to be champions at all. but Liverpool and City deserved it even less...
just think about the player of the season is chosen as their goalkeeper and center back 

This doesn’t matter and it was the collective team’s effort that won them that, so it doesn’t really matter and we  not use that to judge them against their upcoming season in the premier league. Just like they’ve won it last season, there is also a very good tendency that they’ll win it again this season with the same strategy like last season applied well again. They have really tried there best in the last few seasons they’ve played in and I really think they deserved that trophy win not as a compensation for their efforts for the past seasons but as a duly deserved one for their unending great performance in the league.

[Juicyhome]

It is very funny for you to start concluding that Arsenal is not going to win the title this season, which is about to start. If anyone were to predict the favorite team to win the Premier League title, almost everyone would go for Arsenal because they are the defending champions.But I don't know the reason why you are saying that Arsenal is not going to win the Premier League title. Maybe you are one of Arsenal's rivals. If not, you can't be making that conclusion at a time when the league has not even started yet.If we look at the Arsenal team and the players they have signed, I don't expect anyone to be doubting Arsenal at this early stage.

Let's be real to ourselves Arsenal are favorite to win the league,  Arteta is the coach among the top five that has won the league and he did with a good team, which are still with him.  Arsenal didn't sell any of their top players in this transfer market. Arsenal has a good team that every other team will struggle to beat,  Manchester United,  Chelsea and Liverpool are still building team. It's only Manchester city that is in good form to challenge Arsenal next season, because they have good team also.

In history Arsenal has never defended the Premier League title,  can Arteta break the curse with this Arsenal team, let's wait and watch, anything can happen,  Liverpool struggle after wining the league last season,  It can happen to Arsenal too.

[Baki202]

Arsenal deserve to be the champion seeing how other teams performed last season but in this current season all I can say that anything is possible and I'm not disrupting anyone though Gunners have better chances because the majority of the other big teams changed management but still might not change anything because two seasons back a new manager, Arne Slot lifted the EPL title but we all can agree that this season will be more competitive.

We wanted Arsenal to win at one point, but they were struggling to stay consistent. Even during the most recent season, I wasn't sure if Arsenal would be able to win, but in the end, they won the Champions League, which is what I wanted them to win because they haven't been able to do so. But it also took them years to win the Premier League. Since we don't know exactly what Arsenal will be bringing with them next season, even though they were consistently good in the first place, I think they need to perform better than they are now. At one point, I wanted them to be able to win at least last season, but we let hell lose this season.

Arne Slot may not even have a chance to win the championship this year because, as you mentioned, it will be a competitive season and everyone needs to be ready. We're all talking about Arsenal and Liverpool, but are you guys forgetting about Manchester City? We're also going to do the impossible this season, and since Haaland even performed incredibly well in the World Cup, we should expect more from him.

[JeromeTash]

We wanted Arsenal to win at one point, but they were struggling to stay consistent. Even during the most recent season, I wasn't sure if Arsenal would be able to win, but in the end, they won the Champions League, which is what I wanted them to win because they haven't been able to do so. But it also took them years to win the Premier League.

Dude, do you even know what you are talking about, or are you from a parallel universe? I don't remember Arsenal winning the Champions League... Do you? Whom did they play in the final to win it?

Arne Slot may not even have a chance to win the championship this year because, as you mentioned, it will be a competitive season and everyone needs to be ready.

Arne Slot is still a coach at Liverpool? Man, what are you talking about?

[Agathamay]

Arsenal deserve to be the champion seeing how other teams performed last season but in this current season all I can say that anything is possible and I'm not disrupting anyone though Gunners have better chances because the majority of the other big teams changed management but still might not change anything because two seasons back a new manager, Arne Slot lifted the EPL title but we all can agree that this season will be more competitive.

We're stating our the facts that Arsenal will continue to dominate the English premier League now that Mikel Arteta doesn't have his number one rival, Pep Guardiola in Manchester City and the new manager, Enzo Maresca doesnt look like someone that would be fierce enough to face him or even compete with him in the EPL. Arsenal will have a balance team next season and winning games will become very easy for them because this time, Mikel Arteta is grooming these boys and turning them into becoming outstanding players.

[Oluwa-btc]

Arne Slot may not even have a chance to win the championship this year because, as you mentioned, it will be a competitive season and everyone needs to be ready. We're all talking about Arsenal and Liverpool, but are you guys forgetting about Manchester City? We're also going to do the impossible this season, and since Haaland even performed incredibly well in the World Cup, we should expect more from him.

Arne Slot has been shown the exit already late season before the FIFA World Cup Competition kicked off. Andoni Iraola from Bournemouth is now in charge of the reds but I can confirm, that he will not be winning the Champions League competition, and not even the Premier League Competition this season.
Manchester City are also going backwards, all of the great team built by Joseph Pep Guardiola all gone. Rodri recent decent to join Barcelona says it all already. Arsenal seems like the favourite to win the Premier League Competition again.