⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[Silence Scream]

Finally Erik Ten Hag packs his bags 🎒, which was long over due!!

You know the second he was only scouting for players from his old camp was mistake number 1 & a recipe for disaster, and all managers should learn from this!!! One Two players is okay but going for over 4 players to join United cemented Manchester united to be just an average club, am hoping Ruud will does a better job in transforming this United side that has even forgotten how to win, worse off how to celebrate 🥳  goals  

GG RVN

Amorim is one of the most serious candidates for the new manager position. He is a manager who has achieved great success at Sporting Lisbon. Also, the fact that he is 39 years old and has achieved these successes despite his young age is something that should be appreciated. I think the Manchester United management must have seen this. Amorim may have a hard time fixing the ruined team left by the Dutch manager, but after the mid-season transfer period and the changes in the team at the end of the year, they can prepare better for next year. Let's see if an agreement can be reached. For now, the team has been entrusted to Ruud Van Nistelrooy.

[Ayers]

Finally Erik Ten Hag packs his bags 🎒, which was long over due!!

You know the second he was only scouting for players from his old camp was mistake number 1 & a recipe for disaster, and all managers should learn from this!!! One Two players is okay but going for over 4 players to join United cemented Manchester united to be just an average club, am hoping Ruud will does a better job in transforming this United side that has even forgotten how to win, worse off how to celebrate 🥳  goals  

GG RVN

The Premier League is in mourning especially the giant clubs Liverpool, Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Aston Villa, they lost Erik Ten Hag and there is no more entertainment every week. It is a shame that he left too soon. Now a new coach is being prepared but with limited time left, can they fix Man United to return to the top 8 at the end of the season?

Ronaldo, Sancho, McTominay, and De Gea are celebrating his departure.

Manchester United's entire gameplay was destroyed by the Ten Hag. He applied strange match tactics. And he didn't succeed in that, we also saw a decline in the overall performance of the players. The squad had a lot of talented players. But no player's performance was consistent. And that's only because of Ten Hag's wacky match tactics. We've also heard rumors from time to time that Ten Hag doesn't have a good relationship with the squad's players either.

Ten hag kicked talented players like Ronaldo, Sancho, McTominay, and De Gea out of the squad. And that was one of Ten Hag's worst decisions. Antony and Hojlund were added to the squad as replacements for these players. But the performance of these young players is even weaker.

[Woodie]

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Amorim is one of the most serious candidates for the new manager position. He is a manager who has achieved great success at Sporting Lisbon. Also, the fact that he is 39 years old and has achieved these successes despite his young age is something that should be appreciated. I think the Manchester United management must have seen this.

I was watching Sky sports news last afternoon and their analysis of who would potentially make it to that position of Utd manager and his name came up of course,  but unfortunately I don't see this happening because the presenters said he already has links of going to Manchester City with the sporting director changes happening there...but of course that can only happen when Pep leaves...

Btw with the money going to Erik Ten Hag for termination of his contract and release clause being triggered  to bring on Amorim, I don't see this happening  tbh... Utd do this coming that's why Van Nistelrooy is there as perfect replacement without more millions  being spent👌

[Litzki1990]

There are 4 most awaited matches this weekend, regardless of the results of each team's matches in the previous week. Arsenal will again be tested for strength by Newcastle, while Liverpool will face Brighton. Chelsea and Manchester United are a fierce match, but Chelsea should be able to win the match when Manchester United is in their worst form. The Tottenham vs Aston Villa match will also be fierce, this is about the matches of the top teams at the moment.

Newcastle vs Arsenal
Liverpool vs Brighton
Tottenham vs Aston Villa
Manchester United vs Chelsea

In the match between Newcastle and Arsenal, I see Arsenal better.  But during the match Newcastle can win the match by scoring more goals due to their good performance.  So we should not consider Newcastle as weak even though their record is not that special. In the match between Liverpool and Brighton, Liverpool is the stronger team, because of which Brighton will lose.  But if Brighton play well and defend yourself, you can draw the match but not win.

Liverpool and Arsenal are currently side by side in the English Premier League. In other words, Liverpool's position in the Premier League is in the second position of the points table with 22 points and Arsenal is in the third position of the points table with 18 points. Arsenal and Liverpool played against each other in the Premier League where Arsenal managed to score two goals against Liverpool while Liverpool managed to score two goals against Arsenal. We've seen Liverpool and Arsenal play a lot of attacking football but neither team has been able to get that much against each other. A personal win against Liverpool would have put them in a better position on the points table but they were not able to do so but thanks to Liverpool and Arsenal for putting on a good game.

[Palakka]

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Amorim is one of the most serious candidates for the new manager position. He is a manager who has achieved great success at Sporting Lisbon. Also, the fact that he is 39 years old and has achieved these successes despite his young age is something that should be appreciated. I think the Manchester United management must have seen this.

I was watching Sky sports news last afternoon and their analysis of who would potentially make it to that position of Utd manager and his name came up of course,  but unfortunately I don't see this happening because the presenters said he already has links of going to Manchester City with the sporting director changes happening there...but of course that can only happen when Pep leaves...

Btw with the money going to Erik Ten Hag for termination of his contract and release clause being triggered  to bring on Amorim, I don't see this happening  tbh... Utd do this coming that's why Van Nistelrooy is there as perfect replacement without more millions  being spent👌

Manchester United has lost patience with ten hag at the moment even though they previously gave great confidence to ten hag, but the defeat to West Ham seems to be starting to change the mind and the management's view to have to sack him, reportedly ten hag will get almost 17 million pounds after 4 months earlier he got a contract extension from Manchester United, I think it is indeed better for Manchester United to lose a lot of money at the moment Instead of continuing to slump if Ten Hag is still a coach, Amorim is currently a strong candidate to replace Ten Hag and reportedly they will have to pay a £10 million release clause to Sporting to get him, before the deal happens and Amorim officially becomes Manchester coach, Ruud Van Nistelrooy of course will take over the team, but making him a permanent coach will of course be very risky because he does not have better coaching skills than Ten Hag, besides that Manchester United needs to learn from their experience with the previous interim coach which is indeed quite bad when appointed as permanent coach.

[Hanadawa]

There are 4 most awaited matches this weekend, regardless of the results of each team's matches in the previous week. Arsenal will again be tested for strength by Newcastle, while Liverpool will face Brighton. Chelsea and Manchester United are a fierce match, but Chelsea should be able to win the match when Manchester United is in their worst form. The Tottenham vs Aston Villa match will also be fierce, this is about the matches of the top teams at the moment.

Newcastle vs Arsenal
Liverpool vs Brighton
Tottenham vs Aston Villa
Manchester United vs Chelsea

I think Arsenal and Liverpool can get the win. I am not underestimating Newcastle and Brighton but we know they are not at the same level as Liverpool and Arsenal. Arsenal can get an easy win against Newcastle. But if Newcastle play well like they did against City then the best result is a draw. On the other hand Brighton are stronger than Newcastle. They are in 6th place in the standings and have only lost 1. That means Liverpool have to work hard to beat them because there is a chance this match will also end in a draw.

[pawel7777]

I just read that Manchester United finally lost their patience and are letting Ten Hag go.
I don't think there's a single person surprised by that news. If anything, I'm surprised it took them that long.

Apparently Man Utd are making a move on Ruben Amorim, who currently coaches Sporting Lisbon (since 2020). Sporting has confirmed that Man Utd made an enquiry and are willing to pay 10 million Euro release clause:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cm20egmde2lo

[Amphenomenon]

I just read that Manchester United finally lost their patience and are letting Ten Hag go.
I don't think there's a single person surprised by that news. If anything, I'm surprised it took them that long.

This news came yesterday, it was among the trending news with that of Real Madrid and Vinicius about the ballon d'Or.

Apparently Man Utd are making a move on Ruben Amorim, who currently coaches Sporting Lisbon (since 2020). Sporting has confirmed that Man Utd made an enquiry and are willing to pay 10 million Euro release clause:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cm20egmde2lo

I guessed it was quite surprising for me though since there have been news recently about him still being backed by the Management but I think those where just rumour or maybe it was because of what he said in his post match interview after West Ham lost, tbh that made me remember Graham Potter comments during his days as the Chelsea coach, a real nightmare.

Though it's good that the management has finally open their eyes and see that there haven't been any much improvement since Erik Ten Hag took charge of the Manchester United team, although I'm sad from the fact that this may make things difficult for Chelsea getting a win at Old Trafford this weekend.

[pawel7777]

I guessed it was quite surprising for me though since there have been news recently about him still being backed by the Management (...)

From my understanding, he had a talk with Jim Ratcliffe, the part-owner of the club who has a control over it, before Man United's league game with Aston Villa, and was given the ultimatum, that he would be sacked if United didn't deliver in that game. They draw 0-0 which was not a bad score considering Villa is a strong team and it was an away game, so maybe that one point was a lifeline for Ten Hag. But a loss to West Ham this weekend was just too much. Even if the owner/fans have already accepted this season is wasted, with a poor performance like that Man United is getting dangerously close to the relegation zone, so something must've been done. Better late than never.
I don't want to say that Ten Hag is a bad manager overall, but his style just didn't click with Man United.

[hahay]

I just read that Manchester United finally lost their patience and are letting Ten Hag go.
I don't think there's a single person surprised by that news. If anything, I'm surprised it took them that long.

Apparently Man Utd are making a move on Ruben Amorim, who currently coaches Sporting Lisbon (since 2020). Sporting has confirmed that Man Utd made an enquiry and are willing to pay 10 million Euro release clause:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cm20egmde2lo

Maybe it would be a good choice, although basically Rúben Amorim even since he was a player to become a coach only focused on the Portuguese league. Interestingly, Rúben Amorim is a player who used to come from the Benfica academy, but since Rúben Amorim retired and had a coaching career that Rúben Amorim is no longer tied to Benfica. But yes, even though Rúben Amorim only has a career in the Portuguese League but Rúben Amorim also at least managed to make Sporting get some trophies and that is a good achievement there too. Although when he becomes the manager of Manchester United later at least it is still not a guarantee that Rúben Amorim will succeed, but maybe this choice will be good and right to make Manchester United recover.

[Amphenomenon]

Although when he becomes the manager of Manchester United later at least it is still not a guarantee that Rúben Amorim will succeed, but maybe this choice will be good and right to make Manchester United recover.

This is the fact after all Erik Ten Hag did really well with his Ajax team, eon trophies even in Manchester United but there haven't been much improvement in the team performance and development, though they won the Carabao and FA Cup these past two seasons.

I wonder why they think thus coach may not be an average coach also or maybe able to take them back to winning ways with the current players. Although in anyway their performance against Chelsea may show the expectation fans wi have on him this season. Also maybe they're trying to be like Liverpool who went for a not really popular manager Arne Slot and who's currently doing well, though for me it's still early to judge in regards to long term and same as Enzo Maresca at Chelsea.

[iBaba]

There are 4 most awaited matches this weekend, regardless of the results of each team's matches in the previous week. Arsenal will again be tested for strength by Newcastle, while Liverpool will face Brighton. Chelsea and Manchester United are a fierce match, but Chelsea should be able to win the match when Manchester United is in their worst form. The Tottenham vs Aston Villa match will also be fierce, this is about the matches of the top teams at the moment.

Newcastle vs Arsenal
Liverpool vs Brighton
Tottenham vs Aston Villa
Manchester United vs Chelsea

Arsenal is definitely more powerful than Newcastle right now and it will only be amazing to see Newcastle beat Arsenal in this game. But the possibility of Arsenal winning is more on the high side. Liverpool is currently the second leading club now with Brighton left at the sixth position of the table standing. Nothing much seems to be wrong with the Liverpool team for now with Salah and Van Dijk both in form. On the day of the match, one of these two Guys will definitely struggle to net the goal for the Liverpool side.

I think Arsenal and Liverpool can get the win. I am not underestimating Newcastle and Brighton but we know they are not at the same level as Liverpool and Arsenal. Arsenal can get an easy win against Newcastle. But if Newcastle play well like they did against City then the best result is a draw. On the other hand Brighton are stronger than Newcastle. They are in 6th place in the standings and have only lost 1. That means Liverpool have to work hard to beat them because there is a chance this match will also end in a draw.

Wow. It is also good to see Manchester United play with Chelsea after Ten Hag was lately dismissed and Van Nistelrooy's take over as a new manager. I cannot wait to see the energy Van Nistelrooy will put into this game and the result such energy will bring to the team. The pressure on Van Nistelrooy's should now is most likely to be higher as they will be meeting with Leicester City tomorrow at the EFL Cup Round of 16. Let's see what Nistelrooy have to offer tomorrow in the interim while the team still go out for Ruben Amorim.

[Abu-Naim]

I just read that Manchester United finally lost their patience and are letting Ten Hag go.
I don't think there's a single person surprised by that news. If anything, I'm surprised it took them that long.

This is an old news because many Manchester United fans has celebrated this since yesterday because it is something very good. The team made the right decision to sack him, I even feel that it is too late because he has overstayed, and this time he spent has ruin the team, he has no tactics as he used to say and he is a bad coach that can’t use the players he has to get a better result for his team.

Apparently Man Utd are making a move on Ruben Amorim, who currently coaches Sporting Lisbon (since 2020). Sporting has confirmed that Man Utd made an enquiry and are willing to pay 10 million Euro release clause:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cm20egmde2lo

I heard that the deal between Manchester United and Ruben Amorim is a done deal according to Fabrizio Romano, but it is not yet official. We hope Ruben Amorim will make the team better and make the team more competitive, and even though we know that it’s too late for them to contest for the title race, he can make the team to get top four and even make them more better in the Europa League.

[len01]

There are 4 most awaited matches this weekend, regardless of the results of each team's matches in the previous week. Arsenal will again be tested for strength by Newcastle, while Liverpool will face Brighton. Chelsea and Manchester United are a fierce match, but Chelsea should be able to win the match when Manchester United is in their worst form. The Tottenham vs Aston Villa match will also be fierce, this is about the matches of the top teams at the moment.

Newcastle vs Arsenal
Liverpool vs Brighton
Tottenham vs Aston Villa
Manchester United vs Chelsea

A match that is hard to miss and surely everyone can't wait for the MU match that will face Chelsea.
And in my opinion the result will be like this,

• Arsenal win
• Liverpool win
• Aston Villa win or draw
• Chelsea win

Newcastle currently has a better appearance than last season and also has the opportunity to be able to perform perfectly at home. But the fact is that Arsenal also has a better quality squad and can produce a victory.
And for Liverpool, actually in the upcoming match, the two teams Liverpool and Brighton will meet in the EFL match and the result can be our prediction.
Furthermore, for Chelsea victory, I have to apologize to Man United because they are currently experiencing a bad situation and Chelsea will take this opportunity to get full points.

[EL MOHA]

Maybe it would be a good choice, although basically Rúben Amorim even since he was a player to become a coach only focused on the Portuguese league. Interestingly, Rúben Amorim is a player who used to come from the Benfica academy, but since Rúben Amorim retired and had a coaching career that Rúben Amorim is no longer tied to Benfica. But yes, even though Rúben Amorim only has a career in the Portuguese League but Rúben Amorim also at least managed to make Sporting get some trophies and that is a good achievement there too. Although when he becomes the manager of Manchester United later at least it is still not a guarantee that Rúben Amorim will succeed, but maybe this choice will be good and right to make Manchester United recover.

No body actually knows who will be successful at a certain club or not, and it is not a guarantee that going even after world best coaches can guarantee you success the only thing is to simply just do your findings and see if the coach coming suits the profile of football the club wants play and then they hire him and see if he could deliver. In this case Manchester United had options like even sticking with Ruud Van Nistrooy for the main time, or going for top heads like Xavi and their likes who had once managed the elite clubs in the past or even go back to their past coaches but they simply choose to go for a manager that you and I know is one of the most exciting talents in the world football now.

Personally I would have prefer someone else or better still Ruud taking over but regardless Ruben Amorim is not a bad choice but something United fans need to know his he can’t simply just place them at the top immediately it might take him sometime to do that and what they owe him is a total support and not more

[asriloni]

Finally Erik Ten Hag packs his bags 🎒, which was long over due!!

You know the second he was only scouting for players from his old camp was mistake number 1 & a recipe for disaster, and all managers should learn from this!!! One Two players is okay but going for over 4 players to join United cemented Manchester united to be just an average club, am hoping Ruud will does a better job in transforming this United side that has even forgotten how to win, worse off how to celebrate 🥳  goals 

GG RVN

I did not like that Erik Ten Hag was recruiting players from his old club. You could tell that he was emotionally attached to his old club and league. Manchester United overlooked what could have been the sign that this manager was not planning on continuing the Manchester United culture but rather create his own. I’m skeptical of Ruud Van Nistelrooy, he won’t be a better manager and cannot be left in charge for too long. Manchester United must have a list of potential managers that they are talking to before sacking Ten Hag.

Well, Ten Hag has really changed Manchester United's culture by his own. He degraded Manchester United's culture from a winning team to the mediocrity team. One of his biggest mistakes is bringing too many Ajax players to his new club. He should have gotten a reliable, experienced player. That was unacceptable.

After Manchester United fired Ten Hag, they hired a new manager, Amorim. This also clarifies that the rumor about Ruud joining Manchester United is fake.

They may be undergoing a new transformation under Amorim.

[Obari]

Well, Ten Hag has really changed Manchester United's culture by his own. He degraded Manchester United's culture from a winning team to the mediocrity team. One of his biggest mistakes is bringing too many Ajax players to his new club. He should have gotten a reliable, experienced player. That was unacceptable.

After Manchester United fired Ten Hag, they hired a new manager, Amorim. This also clarifies that the rumor about Ruud joining Manchester United is fake.

They may be undergoing a new transformation under Amorim.

Sacking Erik Ten Hag was the proper decision taken by the team's board? Yes because he couldn't explore handling decisive actions of the club interms of improvement, which was very poor. Erik Ten Hag brought horrible results for such elite club status and you expects the fans to be happy about the whole situation? He's one coach that have singlehandedly ruined things at Old Trafford, watched Manchester United league home games and you will be shocked with the level of mediocre performance exhibited by the team. Rúben Amorim is leading on the list when we're talking about coaches that are securely provided with margineable means. He's brave enough to handle his new role, it's all just a matter of time to see the new boss parading in Old Trafford.

[Silence Scream]

Well, Ten Hag has really changed Manchester United's culture by his own. He degraded Manchester United's culture from a winning team to the mediocrity team. One of his biggest mistakes is bringing too many Ajax players to his new club. He should have gotten a reliable, experienced player. That was unacceptable.

After Manchester United fired Ten Hag, they hired a new manager, Amorim. This also clarifies that the rumor about Ruud joining Manchester United is fake.

They may be undergoing a new transformation under Amorim.

Sacking Erik Ten Hag was the proper decision taken by the team's board? Yes because he couldn't explore handling decisive actions of the club interms of improvement, which was very poor. Erik Ten Hag brought horrible results for such elite club status and you expects the fans to be happy about the whole situation? He's one coach that have singlehandedly ruined things at Old Trafford, watched Manchester United league home games and you will be shocked with the level of mediocre performance exhibited by the team. Rúben Amorim is leading on the list when we're talking about coaches that are securely provided with margineable means. He's brave enough to handle his new role, it's all just a matter of time to see the new boss parading in Old Trafford.

The difficulty level of the Premier League is much higher than the Portuguese League. That's why Amorim, like Ten Hag who was brought from Ajax, may not give a good image. Manchester United is taking a big risk. They are bringing a coach from a small league to the team again. I thought they realized this mistake and would not make it again, I can say that I am very surprised.

[tusandii]

There are 4 most awaited matches this weekend, regardless of the results of each team's matches in the previous week. Arsenal will again be tested for strength by Newcastle, while Liverpool will face Brighton. Chelsea and Manchester United are a fierce match, but Chelsea should be able to win the match when Manchester United is in their worst form. The Tottenham vs Aston Villa match will also be fierce, this is about the matches of the top teams at the moment.

Newcastle vs Arsenal
Liverpool vs Brighton
Tottenham vs Aston Villa
Manchester United vs Chelsea

In the match between Newcastle and Arsenal, I see Arsenal better.  But during the match Newcastle can win the match by scoring more goals due to their good performance.  So we should not consider Newcastle as weak even though their record is not that special. In the match between Liverpool and Brighton, Liverpool is the stronger team, because of which Brighton will lose.  But if Brighton play well and defend yourself, you can draw the match but not win.

I agree with your opinion about the Arsenal and Liverpool matches with their opponents, and I will continue my opinion about the Tottenham vs Aston Villa match. I see Aston Villa has better abilities than Tottenham, but Tottenham as the home team will not let Aston Villa take home full points. The possibility of a draw is very large because Aston Villa is struggling with the top of the standings to keep playing consistently, while for Manchester United vs Chelsea I think Chelsea will beat this club which is in an unbalanced performance, especially after receiving news about Ten Hag's sudden dismissal, it must have made the players' mentality uncontrollable.

[Hanadawa]

The difficulty level of the Premier League is much higher than the Portuguese League. That's why Amorim, like Ten Hag who was brought from Ajax, may not give a good image. Manchester United is taking a big risk. They are bringing a coach from a small league to the team again. I thought they realized this mistake and would not make it again, I can say that I am very surprised.

I read in some media that Ruben Amorim managed to make Sporting dominate the league again after several previous seasons always being in the middle of the table. Of course the competition in the English league is different from the Portuguese league. The EPL has a high level of difficulty and of course this is a risky bet. However, I think one of the reasons Ruben Amorim was chosen is because he can play and maximize the available resources. This is important for United who have spent a lot of players in the transfer market this season. I don't think Ruben Amorim can improve the performance. But I expect them to perform better than when coached by Ten Hag.