⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[arimamib]

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It's funny that you're tipping Arsenal to win the league next season as if Manchester City is going to be their only obstacle. Also, I expect the entire Arsenal team to start losing steam because losing out on a major trophy like the EPL on two consecutive occasions does take its toll on the team — Liverpool learnt their lesson and was lucky enough to create enough distance between themselves and City on top of the table. I do not see Arsenal doing the same next season except Arteta can pull up a magic with his team.

I expect Chelsea and Liverpool to join the title race next season aa well. The fact that the "3rd time's the charm" worked for Liverpool doesn't mean it's going to work for Arsenal.

My prediction is that Manchester City will comfortably win the league instead. Liverpool is in transition with the new manager who have no experience to manage a big club in top league. It's hard for Liverpool to compete against Manchester City when they have a change in the most influential position; the manager, because it needs an excellent to win over Manchester City.

Arsenal have a great squad with quality players, but after having failures in two consecutive seasons, like you said, they will be having drained spirit and physics. The fatigue will take effect on their third title race, and their inner mind will think that it will waste energy to keep up against Manchester City. I don't think Chelsea will be in title race next season, they still have no character as a team, they can lose to anyone and win anytime. Only having good players is not enough to compete for the title in the current era of Premier League.

[makishart]

The upcoming season will be very different.

These things are really surprising me to see that.

- Zerbi gone
- Poch gone
- Klopp gone
- Ten hag survives

I was never expecting ten hag to stay even longer in united but i think that united is not willing to spend more money to recruit the new coach. Even chelsea who has been performing better this season was sacking its coach. That's unbelievable to see that.

I can only believe that if ten hag will not be sacked by manchester united.

[topbitcoin]

Arsenal shouldn't be sad, you need to lose big before you can win. Look at Liverpool, they lost so many times to City, before they got one, and I think same will happen with Arsenal. Next season I believe that they are going to be good enough to win.

City players will not be able to provide for a fifth one, they will not care that much and while they are out celebrating and all, Arsenal will have a chance to win. They are just too good to not win a cup this way, they have done so much to get here and I know that eventually they will get one. In order for them to not get one, they will need to like fire Arteta and sell many players and just blow it all up, if they do not do that and keep the run going, they will eventually win.

Yes two times runner up must make them quite sad in my opinion, it is an achievement that is less than optimal and the last two seasons the difference in points with Manchester City is very thin so naturally quite upset with themselves, but Arsenal does not mean performing badly, they play competitively and very well so they can still maintain their position and do not have a far difference with Man City, but it is quite upsetting the difference of one game for the pursuit of points is very angry.

Liverpool in my opinion they go up and down erratically, they lose control at the end of this league making them bad and eliminated from the top of the table, if only they were more consistent at the end of the league this season maybe it would be much better for Liverpool.
Next season will probably be a bright league for Arsenal, considering Arteta has been able to read twice what makes them lose the trophy this season, don't take small games too lightly when the big league is being fought for, it's a bad choice and finally they have to go back and fight for what was previously put aside.

[Abbatty]

Arsenal shouldn't be sad, you need to lose big before you can win. Look at Liverpool, they lost so many times to City, before they got one, and I think same will happen with Arsenal. Next season I believe that they are going to be good enough to win.

City players will not be able to provide for a fifth one, they will not care that much and while they are out celebrating and all, Arsenal will have a chance to win. They are just too good to not win a cup this way, they have done so much to get here and I know that eventually they will get one. In order for them to not get one, they will need to like fire Arteta and sell many players and just blow it all up, if they do not do that and keep the run going, they will eventually win.

To me it a very bad season for Arsenal, since the coming of Mikel Arteta the Gunners have been a big spenders in the premier, this is the fourth year since the coming of Mikel arteta and there is nothing to show for it yet, just an Emirate cup and a community shield. Before the beginning of last season arsenal brought in some big names after spending big in the transfer market, the likes of Declan Rice, Kai harvertz, jurried Timber and lot more. If you are on a project for four year and there is nothing much to show it, just a champions league qualification and an emirate cup then I think that a bad project.

Again you can’t bank on this arsenal team to win the title next season like this, there are a lot of qualities missing out from that squad. Saka needs support from that wing, Arsenal need a top striker, and also a left back. With the money spent last season and ending the season tropyless is not a good investment for the owners and I think it will be difficult for them to spend that much money this season. Maybe if Arteta have considered challenging for the FA cup and coraboa cup this past season, maybe just maybe they would have had a good season.

Because looking at it now, if Manchester United should beat Manchester city for the FA cup final this coming weekend it will enable them qualify for the Uefa Europa League next season, you can literally say Manchester United had a better season than Arsenal despite their poor run of foam this season, because at the end it about winning trophies. So Arteta should consider challenging for this cups than focusing on the league and loosing it out.

[Google+]

The upcoming season will be very different.

These things are really surprising me to see that.

- Zerbi gone
- Poch gone
- Klopp gone
- Ten hag survives

I was never expecting ten hag to stay even longer in united but i think that united is not willing to spend more money to recruit the new coach. Even chelsea who has been performing better this season was sacking its coach. That's unbelievable to see that.

I can only believe that if ten hag will not be sacked by manchester united.

It looks like we will see a lot of changes happening in the Premier League next season, some coaches have now confirmed that they will not continue working with their teams, Klopp since mid-season has decided to rest and this season is his last season at Liverpool, while De Zerbi who managed to provide many changes and also new colors at Brighton surprisingly also no longer wants to continue his coaching career at Brighton,  De Zerbi has created extraordinary things including bringing Brighton to play in European competition for the first time, so he has been linked with Bayern, Chelsea and even Milan and Juventus so it seems difficult to guess where De Zerbi will go next time.

Ten Hag stay certainly does not surprise us all, although currently Manchester United is in bad shape, but Ten Hag still has the full trust of the Manchester United owner, Manchester United owners have ensured Ten Hag will remain Manchester United coach next season despite Manchester United failure this season to compete for the title,  all the coaches you mentioned above,  Of course Pochettino fate is quite sad in my opinion, being less than a season at Chelsea is certainly the record for his shortest time in coaching the club so far, I think when Pochettino managed to lift Chelsea performance from 12th place and end the season in European competition of course he will be retained next season but in fact Chelsea just threw Pochettino away today.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Arsenal shouldn't be sad, you need to lose big before you can win. Look at Liverpool, they lost so many times to City, before they got one, and I think same will happen with Arsenal. Next season I believe that they are going to be good enough to win.

How can you say that arsenal will not be sad? Don't try to motivate them with BS. I meant you have to lose big before you can win and that's bullshit mate. don't you remember how Arsenal has been losing for more than two decades and continues to do so? Arsenal will not win next season. City will win it again as guardiola will stay for another season.
I've seen hundreds of people say the same thing as you and they are always repeating it many times on X. Even from a decade ago. This never happens. Never.

City players will not be able to provide for a fifth one, they will not care that much and while they are out celebrating and all, Arsenal will have a chance to win. They are just too good to not win a cup this way, they have done so much to get here and I know that eventually they will get one. In order for them to not get one, they will need to like fire Arteta and sell many players and just blow it all up, if they do not do that and keep the run going, they will eventually win.

Your team was not winning a trophy, it means your team is bad. In the football, the trophy is being counted. They will never win. Sometimes, you must accept the truth that if your team was not good enough in winning the trophy. The good team is always winning the trophy. Not being trophyless.

[piebeyb]

Arsenal shouldn't be sad, you need to lose big before you can win. Look at Liverpool, they lost so many times to City, before they got one, and I think same will happen with Arsenal. Next season I believe that they are going to be good enough to win.

City players will not be able to provide for a fifth one, they will not care that much and while they are out celebrating and all, Arsenal will have a chance to win. They are just too good to not win a cup this way, they have done so much to get here and I know that eventually they will get one. In order for them to not get one, they will need to like fire Arteta and sell many players and just blow it all up, if they do not do that and keep the run going, they will eventually win.

This is actually a sad story for Arsenal. it is absolutely up to  Arsenal if they are going to make this story a sad one or an inspiring one. Because with some decent amount of money being spent, I think they will have the capability of winning the English Premier League title in the next season. The only thing is, they will have to be consistent. they cannot be inconsistent at any given time in the season. They have to be consistent all the way throughout the whole season. And they will also have to understand that Manchester City is a really good team. arguably one of the best squads in the whole world of club football. so if they want to beat Manchester City they will have to be better than them. if they are inconsistent, Manchester City is obviously going to take that chance.

There is no point in lamenting failure and I believe that Arsenal will learn a lot from their failure, in fact if they had not lost against Aston Villa previously I am sure they would have won, but unfortunately they looked inconsistent so suffered defeat at the end of the game this season, that is for sure would be detrimental, actually Arsenal doesn't need to be too focused and consistent at the start of the season, just make sure the players are really in good performance so they can continue to maintain consistency until the end of the season.

Arteta must be able to get several other new players to be able to maintain team consistency and the most important thing is that Arteta does not lack players when he has to rotate injured players so that he doesn't get bad results when playing. I know that Arsenal really struggled this season but they failed again for the umpteenth time. the first time and just being satisfied as runner UP in the EPL again this season, I think Arteta has to learn a lot from each of his failures next season. The competition is getting tougher and Arsenal must be able to succeed in winning the EPL title next season. I believe Arteta and Arsenal are much better prepared next season than this season or the previous one.

[Velvet78]

Rashford hasn't been selected for England Euro 2024 squad.    Is it surprising though? I assume not at all. Because you all must have seen his ineffectiveness throughout the season.

He has been an inconsistent player for many years actually. One season we see him playing great with making solid number of goal contributions. But another season he is like a ghost you know. He has a talent but he doesn't want to use it properly. This is bad for the future of his career. He is already 26 and I can't say he has proven himself to be one of the big players. His market value is also dropping on one hand these days.

[QueenVera]

I don’t see any Karma hitting anybody as far as I am concerned. The team having a difficult time getting results which we all is mostly associated to the hierarchy lack of buying quality players and also mostly injuries to frat team players. Ten Hag might be hated for his role in the event that got Ronaldo out of Manchester United but he wasn’t the person that pulled the plug, the club did after he made a retrograding statement about the club, even it was true the media to air his views were not the right one.

His issue with Ten Hag was to me a thing that both had their fair share of the blame to. Ronaldo wanted to dictate everything at the club and Ten Hag wanted the control of the team which is the first for a successful manager. The issue to me started when Jorge Mendez was busy offering Ronaldo out to champions league clubs which was a direct insult to the club and the manager because he could have just handed in a transfer request instead. He missed pre season and blamed it on the death of the his Daughter which could have also been communicated to the manager or the club. Ten Hag build a team during this preseason and didn’t want to go against it and then had to drop Ronaldo to the bench which he didn’t want. No manager will want to lose a dressing to any place even if you’re the greatest player in the world. sir Alex actually aced the likes of Van Nistroy and Beckham when they felt untouchable and there was nothing like Karma to me and same thing is happening to him. So there is no karma like you insinuate buh how faith wanted it

Well in football in as much ss there are different opinions or talks on a situation, there’s still some iota of truth in most situations. The one of Ronaldo and ETH at Man United was one that spoke bad about the style of ETH, yes it further went on to show with his relationship with Sancho. ⁠Ronaldo left Man United to Al-Nassr and you can see him flourishing so great in that club despite everything ETH said about Ronaldo not being up to the task.

 I think the way Ronaldo was treated at Man United in a way affected the club’s performance negatively to an extent because most players in there loved Ronaldo and after such treatment, I think they lost faith already. ⁠of course the team has some great players and they even made some great additions and them not performing up to par is quite worrisome. Yes you might blame it on injury but that’s no excuse for failure at all as you ought to make do with that you have and dish out great performance.

 Just look at how they olayed against Arsenal towards the final match, that showed this team even with injury can give a great display. Well I think there’s still a big room for improvement especially in the new season because this Man United team need to get back that feared character we all know. I think they need to regroup and readdress the situation at the club because they still can offer a lot on the pitch for the joy of the fans.

[Cryptomultiplier]

Rashford hasn't been selected for England Euro 2024 squad.    Is it surprising though? I assume not at all. Because you all must have seen his ineffectiveness throughout the season.

He has been an inconsistent player for many years actually. One season we see him playing great with making solid number of goal contributions. But another season he is like a ghost you know. He has a talent but he doesn't want to use it properly. This is bad for the future of his career. He is already 26 and I can't say he has proven himself to be one of the big players. His market value is also dropping on one hand these days.

Rashford would have to prove his worth or remain on the bench during the Euro 2024 soon to be held. Perhaps just like what and how Maguire was treated until he regained form in defense would be a solution for Rashford unless there isn't better option upfront.
Am sure Rashford will find form, but it may next season and in a new club, because I think he is simply fed up with Manchester United and just holding on as much as he can.

[Palakka]

Rashford hasn't been selected for England Euro 2024 squad.    Is it surprising though? I assume not at all. Because you all must have seen his ineffectiveness throughout the season.

He has been an inconsistent player for many years actually. One season we see him playing great with making solid number of goal contributions. But another season he is like a ghost you know. He has a talent but he doesn't want to use it properly. This is bad for the future of his career. He is already 26 and I can't say he has proven himself to be one of the big players. His market value is also dropping on one hand these days.

Previously, Rashford continued to get a place in the Three Lions squad and this was proven by the 60 caps and 17 goals he has scored for the England national team so far, but considering his very poor performance this season, of course Southgate doesn't want to take risks and prefers to bring in other players who have performed quite well and consistently at their clubs this season, apart from that I think the England national team has many players who are much better than Rashford at playing on the left wing like Gordon and also Jack Grealish at the moment, apart from that there are several players who brought by Southgate this season multi positions, many players who play strikers actually have multiple positions and could also be placed by Southgate to play on the left wing in my opinion.

Apart from Rashford, of course there are many senior English players who are not included in Southgate squad to go to Germany at this time, of course, it seems that Southgate is focusing more on bringing in players who are really consistent and also young to be able to compete with other countries in the euro later,currently Southgate is trying to combine youth and senior squads and I think this is something new and appropriate so that the England national team can become the favorite team at the German Euro later. However, what annoys me the most among the players currently in the England national team squad is Maguire, I don't know why Southgate still retains this clown in the team?

[FanEagle]

^^ I believe that City will have harder time next season not only because Arsenal will be getting used to the higher stage and will do better next time but also because City players are getting older, and while there are some young ones, all those silva, rodrygo, even kdb type of players are getting older and things going to get harder for them eventually.

I believe that they should realize that they are not going to have that chance. I am not saying that Arsenal will definitely win, we never know what is going to happen, all I am saying is that we are going to see City and Arsenal probably having another close season and when it is all about a close season, you have no idea who is going to end up winning in the end.

[Jaycoinz]

^^ I believe that City will have harder time next season not only because Arsenal will be getting used to the higher stage and will do better next time but also because City players are getting older, and while there are some young ones, all those silva, rodrygo, even kdb type of players are getting older and things going to get harder for them eventually.

I believe that they should realize that they are not going to have that chance. I am not saying that Arsenal will definitely win, we never know what is going to happen, all I am saying is that we are going to see City and Arsenal probably having another close season and when it is all about a close season, you have no idea who is going to end up winning in the end.

It's obvious already that next season would be a remarkable one and a competitive one. If arsenal have learnt their lesson then they'll keep up a good form till they end of the season which is not a new record for them. The coach of Chelsea have left the team, however most football analyst say he is the cause to their bad performance and during the end of the season when he started making the right changes and the outstanding performance of Jackson and Cole Palma  i believe they'll do even much more better next season. Though Liverpool flopped during the end of the season but they might also keep a good form next season.

[Zaguru12]

Rashford hasn't been selected for England Euro 2024 squad.    Is it surprising though? I assume not at all. Because you all must have seen his ineffectiveness throughout the season.

He has been an inconsistent player for many years actually. One season we see him playing great with making solid number of goal contributions. But another season he is like a ghost you know. He has a talent but he doesn't want to use it properly. This is bad for the future of his career. He is already 26 and I can't say he has proven himself to be one of the big players. His market value is also dropping on one hand these days.

Rashford missing out of the England Euros isn’t a thing of surprise to the boy hasn’t been himself throughout this season and had ETH actually gave him a call up I wound have said it was due to favoritism because they have been players who have had a wonderful season and deserve a call up. But still at it Rashford getting even a call up wouldn’t still mean anything, Southgate has always been against him, he doesn’t make use of him. Last Championship which was the World Cup he was coming form the bench and only started a single match which was against Iran, so even if he had picked him it would have been to just complete a squad.

I think Manchester United should be the happier side of this Situation, they need a Fresh, Fit and hungry Rashford next season to help the team. We all can blame the lad for not being consistent but he is certainly their main man. This season Manchester United suffered more because he couldn’t contribute the goals he usually does to the team. Last season it was thirty goals and those were what pushed United up. If they could get this same red hot Rashford back they will definitely climb up more on the table

[GiftedMAN]

Rashford hasn't been selected for England Euro 2024 squad.    Is it surprising though? I assume not at all. Because you all must have seen his ineffectiveness throughout the season.

He has been an inconsistent player for many years actually. One season we see him playing great with making solid number of goal contributions. But another season he is like a ghost you know. He has a talent but he doesn't want to use it properly. This is bad for the future of his career. He is already 26 and I can't say he has proven himself to be one of the big players. His market value is also dropping on one hand these days.

I think the England coach needs to be applauded for making a beautiful selection in the players that will represent England in the Euro 2024 and good a thing Marcus Rashford wasn't selected among the players this is beautiful, Am not surprised to see him being left out in the squad because he's a total mess in his performance this season and as a fan of Manchester United, I support Southgate and hope that Rashford will improve in his performance next season and stop playing like he doesn't care if anything happens to his team.

Truth be told, this season was the worst season for Rashford he has to take his team to get back to his feet because he's too young to be dropping form the way he has done in the past few seasons, if he's not okay with his current club then he should be open to leave so that he can choose the club that he's ready to play at his best, he's career will end so early if he cannot improve his performance like Saka of Arsenal.

[Oluwa-btc]

Arsenal shouldn't be sad, you need to lose big before you can win. Look at Liverpool, they lost so many times to City, before they got one, and I think same will happen with Arsenal. Next season I believe that they are going to be good enough to win.

City players will not be able to provide for a fifth one, they will not care that much and while they are out celebrating and all, Arsenal will have a chance to win. They are just too good to not win a cup this way, they have done so much to get here and I know that eventually they will get one. In order for them to not get one, they will need to like fire Arteta and sell many players and just blow it all up, if they do not do that and keep the run going, they will eventually win.

This should be the second time they have come close, Yes? Last season was hurting, this year they had it under control from the start of this year 2024 but they failed to take a strong hold of it and securing it firmly. They're doing good, some two to three additions will bloster the squad at most that of the central forward position.
They have to make sure they bring in a player who had experience in the Premier League Competition that scores goals. I'd suggest either of Ivan Toney or Aleksander Isaak who is currently amongst the list of players they're eyeing.

Fifth one? That won't be easy truthfully.
Even this season, they was favored during some game they should have lost. I don't know what backing they had from this var and stuff. The Var helped spoiled some of the decisions made

[Falconer]

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I think the England coach needs to be applauded for making a beautiful selection in the players that will represent England in the Euro 2024 and good a thing Marcus Rashford wasn't selected among the players this is beautiful, Am not surprised to see him being left out in the squad because he's a total mess in his performance this season and as a fan of Manchester United, I support Southgate and hope that Rashford will improve in his performance next season and stop playing like he doesn't care if anything happens to his team.

Truth be told, this season was the worst season for Rashford he has to take his team to get back to his feet because he's too young to be dropping form the way he has done in the past few seasons, if he's not okay with his current club then he should be open to leave so that he can choose the club that he's ready to play at his best, he's career will end so early if he cannot improve his performance like Saka of Arsenal.

I'm not happy with Rashford's performance this season, I think it's been really bad and failed to improve. His appearance was very ordinary and he didn't seem to have worked hard to improve it. Obviously I believe that Rashford is Manchester United's best to always be able to rely on, but his performance so far has made me doubt that he will stay for much longer.

I agree that if Rashford cannot improve his form then he may soon be excluded from Manchester United's main squad. His career will not be good either at club level or international level, so I hope Rashford can improve it and also prove himself in the coming season.

[SOKO-DEKE]

Arsenal shouldn't be sad, you need to lose big before you can win. Look at Liverpool, they lost so many times to City, before they got one, and I think same will happen with Arsenal. Next season I believe that they are going to be good enough to win.

City players will not be able to provide for a fifth one, they will not care that much and while they are out celebrating and all, Arsenal will have a chance to win. They are just too good to not win a cup this way, they have done so much to get here and I know that eventually they will get one. In order for them to not get one, they will need to like fire Arteta and sell many players and just blow it all up, if they do not do that and keep the run going, they will eventually win.

It should be a very sad moment for Arsenal for not winning this season Premier League trophy again after having a great opportunity to win the Premier League. If Arsenal did have lose that match against Aston Villa, they should have been crowned Premier League winners. Assuming they even drew the game against Aston Villa, it could have been a different great story for them now.
 
Let's just see what happens next season, but I can't really say that Arsenal will win it next season. I still believe that Manchester City have better chances of winning it again than Arsenal. Manchester City have more quality players than Arsenal. So Manchester City winning it for the fifth term is not a big deal because they have everything more than any other teams in the Premier League. If Arsenal want to compete with Manchester City for the Premier League title the Premier League title next season, they need to see more quality players, like good strikers, and have options for many key players.

[Ryu_Ar1]

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Truth be told, this season was the worst season for Rashford he has to take his team to get back to his feet because he's too young to be dropping form the way he has done in the past few seasons, if he's not okay with his current club then he should be open to leave so that he can choose the club that he's ready to play at his best, he's career will end so early if he cannot improve his performance like Saka of Arsenal.

Actually, the heavy burden is not only for Rashford but for all players, it's just that there is a situation where Rashford is considered as that because he is one of the young players who is quite potential. It's just that for now if you look at the situation that happened actually this season Rashford also played not too well and inevitably we have to admit that.

Rashford's performance is more constrained and actually not very good when compared to before and in fact this season Rashford's ego is even much bigger than before which makes the decline in his performance very pronounced.
Hopefully with the pause now although we don't know what future Rashford will take whether to stay at Manchester United or move he regains the momentum to make him worthy of being labeled as one of the young players who has great potential.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Rashford's performance is more constrained and actually not very good when compared to before and in fact this season Rashford's ego is even much bigger than before which makes the decline in his performance very pronounced.
Hopefully with the pause now although we don't know what future Rashford will take whether to stay at Manchester United or move he regains the momentum to make him worthy of being labeled as one of the young players who has great potential.

Exceptional player but if we focus on the team as such they are Playing very badly but as I said the problem is Ten Hag, although many do not Agree with me, I know I am not wrong, I hope this player stays in the MU while he Well, that coach, now if Ten Hag stays, he has to reconsider the idea of him staying, if Chelsea gave him an opportunity it would be a great option or he simply wouldn't hesitate, but he has to think about where he can have a better future He is still young to start having good victories, championships and everything, but he has to be there on a good team to be able to win.