⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[Su-asa]

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Let's discuss the premier league session 2023/2024 on this thread.

Open for everyone.

@blue Snow did the image just exclude the Manchester Clubs? I’m surprised because I thought that they would be included in the promotions. Furthermore City will definitely start as the favourites but Arsenal will definitely push them and while I thought that this would be Manchester United’s season but now I feel that the takeover saga is derailing their transfer plan’s and at this rate it might be too late to get Ten Hag desired targets which will definitely have a negative effect for the club as the season continues.

This is what we all thought about city at first but everyones expectations of them crashed, this is probably the worst football season for man city because they haven't been so low on the league table. Arsenal on the  other hand is far better than them and their performance has been outstanding but they lack consistency. Manchester united are also in terrible form like man city and it seems they keep getting worse in every game. Premier league as a whole is quite complicated and unpredictable, this is why as a gambler that's into sports betting I don't bother picking games from this league.

[adultcrypto]

I have been reading a lot of criticism of Amorim tactics, Manchester United fans should be patient and try to forge a new path with this manager. Mikel Arteta wasn’t that great in the beginning but he’s now of the top managers in the Premier League. If Amorim is to succeed at Manchester United, he has be assured of the una wavering support of the fans and club management. When Amorim has signed his preferred choice of players, then we can start to expect him to succeed at the club. The previous manager, Erik ten Hag was a menace who almost ruined the club. He spent so much money to bring his former players to the club and they all flopped. I want to believe that Amorim will be better than his predecessor.

If they will be patient with Amorim, there is no doubt it will be fine with the team but you should understand that Manchester United fans have gone through a lot this season so the expectation is that  the coming of Ruben Amorim will change the situation completely but instead of that to happen, it seems Manchester United is situation remains the same as they were during the time of Erik Ten Hag. I won't say that change of coach failed them because Amorim is relatively new in the team and deserve more time to prove himself.

[Zackz5000]

I have been reading a lot of criticism of Amorim tactics, Manchester United fans should be patient and try to forge a new path with this manager. Mikel Arteta wasn’t that great in the beginning but he’s now of the top managers in the Premier League. If Amorim is to succeed at Manchester United, he has be assured of the una wavering support of the fans and club management. When Amorim has signed his preferred choice of players, then we can start to expect him to succeed at the club. The previous manager, Erik ten Hag was a menace who almost ruined the club. He spent so much money to bring his former players to the club and they all flopped. I want to believe that Amorim will be better than his predecessor.

Actually in this case it does not matter when we just have to wait for what Amorim will do especially since he is still relatively new to the EPL and obviously there is still a lot of time needed for adaptation but for now it seems that when a wave of poor performance occurs it will have an impact on the reaction that occurs considering the fans will want to see something new with what United is doing to improve its current position.

I think for now Amorim only has to try to improve Mancechster United's position a little bit so that it looks comfortable unlike now it is still tolerable but when the situation does not change much then it is clear that there will be a lot of demands even though they know that changing a club that is already chaotic like Mancehster United takes time.

They're 14th in the table and only 8 points clear of Leicester in the relegation zone so it's only fair that there's more pressure on Amorim at the moment.

Amorim will only try the best he can to make sure that Manchester United is not relegated because he met the team at a very critical situation what Manchester United is facing now is as a result of ETH wrong signing, ETH never signed any better players so it will take Amorim more time to fix back Manchester United if only his is given more time though his performance from February will determine if he will actually do well or not because I believe he will sign in some players during the transfer window.

Honestly there will be more pressure on Amorim expecially the one that will come from Manchester United fans because what the fans wants now is immediate improvement which is not even coming, what Manchester United needs now is good signing if the couch will be able to bring in some quality players to the team we will definitely see Manchester United performing better again.

[Docnaster]

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Let's discuss the premier league session 2023/2024 on this thread.

Open for everyone.

@blue Snow did the image just exclude the Manchester Clubs? I’m surprised because I thought that they would be included in the promotions. Furthermore City will definitely start as the favourites but Arsenal will definitely push them and while I thought that this would be Manchester United’s season but now I feel that the takeover saga is derailing their transfer plan’s and at this rate it might be too late to get Ten Hag desired targets which will definitely have a negative effect for the club as the season continues.

I don't know the reason behind the use of this picture for advertisement but I don't think it was a good one. How can the EPL run a promotion without including the reigning champions of England? Manchester City's current struggles shouldn't be the reason why they should be disrespected.
That said, the English Premier League this season have been surprising to many of us who had different predictions of how the league table will look like by Christmas. Manchester City if you ask me have been the biggest clown so far while Nottingham Forest have been the dark horse of the league this season

[mamesso]

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If they will be patient with Amorim, there is no doubt it will be fine with the team but you should understand that Manchester United fans have gone through a lot this season so the expectation is that  the coming of Ruben Amorim will change the situation completely but instead of that to happen, it seems Manchester United is situation remains the same as they were during the time of Erik Ten Hag. I won't say that change of coach failed them because Amorim is relatively new in the team and deserve more time to prove himself.

Amorim position will at least be safe until the end of the season as Man United top brass have high hopes for him based on his success in handling Sporting CP. It must be admitted that Man United has not shown any improvement in performance since his arrival, but the club's top brass will try to provide adequate facilities for him to make changes in the second half of this season. Maybe after doing big activities in the January transfer market, Man United will make a difference from before.

[davis196]

The criticism against Ruben Amorim should stop. He has squad, that looks ridiculous. Almost half of Manchester United's players should be sold or sacked. Rashford, Fernandes, Eriksen, Antoni, Zirkzee, etc. The list goes on and on. I know that Amorim doesn't have any experience in the English football and the Premier League is way different than the Portuguese league, but the United fans have to be patient. It seems that nobody could stop Liverpool from winning the Premier League and the battle for the second place between Chelsea and Arsenal is going to be furious. City and United are going to be the two big failures and the laughing stock of the Premier League, but I'm sure that they will get out of the crisis, sooner or later.

[Hanadawa]

If they will be patient with Amorim, there is no doubt it will be fine with the team but you should understand that Manchester United fans have gone through a lot this season so the expectation is that  the coming of Ruben Amorim will change the situation completely but instead of that to happen, it seems Manchester United is situation remains the same as they were during the time of Erik Ten Hag. I won't say that change of coach failed them because Amorim is relatively new in the team and deserve more time to prove himself.

I think Amorim needs to be given a little more time to adapt and the club management should allocate a budget for player shopping in this transfer market. Of course it is difficult for Amorim to implement his tactics if the players United have do not match the type he wants. Amorim is a coach who can utilize existing resources but in some situations I think to see the maximum capacity of Amorim the club management needs to give Amorim the opportunity to shop for players. So far Amorim's performance has been quite poor. Despite winning over City, Manchester United lost to other teams such as Wolves and AFC Bournemouth.

[coinlocket$]

Sunday 29th December 2024
3pm   Crystal Palace   v   Southampton
3pm   Everton   v   Nottingham Forest
3pm   Fulham   v   AFC Bournemouth
2.30pm   Leicester City   v   Manchester City
3pm   Tottenham Hotspur   v   Wolverhampton Wanderers
5.15pm   West Ham United   v   Liverpool
 
Monday 30th December 2024
7.45pm   Aston Villa   v   Brighton & Hove Albion
7.45pm   Ipswich Town   v   Chelsea
8pm   Manchester United   v   Newcastle United


Source: https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/premier-league/fixtures-results

Already time for another turn.

FOR SURE Manchester City will win today right? 

[Velvet78]

Already time for another turn.

FOR SURE Manchester City will win today right? 

Of course, who even doubts about that?    Jokes aside, I would never bet on Manchester City these days. Like NEVER. I still gave them a couple of chances before but they failed in all cases. Their win isn't reliable for now no matter who they play against.

Yeah even against Leicester... I don't want to underestimate Leicester but you know how much they struggle this season. However even they seem quite dangerous against this version of Manchester City. Guardiola still can't do anything about this vulnerability.

I will try not to miss the West Ham - Liverpool game as well. It must have been quite a long time since we last saw Liverpool losing 3 points. The way they play makes me watch all of their games as much as possible. Salah is just incredible too. 

[shinratensei_]

The criticism against Ruben Amorim should stop. He has squad, that looks ridiculous. Almost half of Manchester United's players should be sold or sacked. Rashford, Fernandes, Eriksen, Antoni, Zirkzee, etc. The list goes on and on. I know that Amorim doesn't have any experience in the English football and the Premier League is way different than the Portuguese league, but the United fans have to be patient. It seems that nobody could stop Liverpool from winning the Premier League and the battle for the second place between Chelsea and Arsenal is going to be furious. City and United are going to be the two big failures and the laughing stock of the Premier League, but I'm sure that they will get out of the crisis, sooner or later.

Criticism is a must, and it's a part of fan's right. Mostly of criticism even came from Manchester United's supporters itself, and it's a common thing. They watched United and paid it with their money, and how can you dictate them?

In fact, their favorite team is awful to watch, placed at the bottom, and nothing delivered so far. Also, United has increased the price of its ticket as well. I see no reason for them to stop send criticism toward Amorim and his squad.

So many big expectation for him, yet they forgot Amorim came from a league with less competition. All of elements should be blamed, and they deserved it.

[ajanwalker]

Sunday 29th December 2024
3pm   Crystal Palace   v   Southampton
3pm   Everton   v   Nottingham Forest
3pm   Fulham   v   AFC Bournemouth
2.30pm   Leicester City   v   Manchester City
3pm   Tottenham Hotspur   v   Wolverhampton Wanderers
5.15pm   West Ham United   v   Liverpool
 
Monday 30th December 2024
7.45pm   Aston Villa   v   Brighton & Hove Albion
7.45pm   Ipswich Town   v   Chelsea
8pm   Manchester United   v   Newcastle United


Source: https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/premier-league/fixtures-results

Already time for another turn.

FOR SURE Manchester City will win today right? 

Manchester City will be the big favorites to go to Leicester, but I think there could be a surprise result in the match.

Nistelrooy is a coach who wants to prove himself as a manager and City is in very poor form. It wouldn't be a surprise to expect a loss of points from this match.
There are quite a few injured players in both teams.
We'll wait and see if this could be a breakout match for City.

[Altryist]

The criticism against Ruben Amorim should stop. He has squad, that looks ridiculous. Almost half of Manchester United's players should be sold or sacked. Rashford, Fernandes, Eriksen, Antoni, Zirkzee, etc. The list goes on and on. I know that Amorim doesn't have any experience in the English football and the Premier League is way different than the Portuguese league, but the United fans have to be patient. It seems that nobody could stop Liverpool from winning the Premier League and the battle for the second place between Chelsea and Arsenal is going to be furious. City and United are going to be the two big failures and the laughing stock of the Premier League, but I'm sure that they will get out of the crisis, sooner or later.

You can't use the excuse of Amorim's lack of experience in the Premier League in his defense, this is his shortcoming that should have been addressed before signing him. The squad is quite weak, it's true, and in the transfer window he will try to change this, and if after that nothing changes and Manchester United continue to lose, then it will be clear that Amorim is powerless to change anything. So far the results are very bad, I hoped that Amorim could change something, at least improve the defense, but everything remains as before.

[LUCKMCFLY]

The only difference I see now is Liverpool not having a genuine contender this year, before it was a scary thing to have Manchester city on your tail but right now Chelsea who are second aren’t ripe yet for the league title and Arsenal are not just it this season, so could a free ride for Liverpool especially if Sallah form stays like this

Everything seems to be like that, personally I would say that things with Liverpool are going well for them, but in the PL you can't be too confident, remember what happened last season when City came back and got to first place, and that was something impressive, then in the PL it is a league where nothing is certain, you just have to keep playing and winning as much as you can, City right now is doing badly, but when they recover they will enter like lions, they have already shown it several times and this time they can.

[Sandra_hakeem]

Arsenal game is close the the end.
they are winning for 1-0 at 2 minutes at the end.
These points will be a massive gain over chelase if they can win.
They will be at 6 points from Liverpool but 1 more game played so a potential of -9

Let's take a quick survey on that goal that was later ruled offside.. y'all seen how he managed to dip the ball right in-between the keeper's legs?NUTMEG !! Question is, would that have been the best goal for the season if it counted?
I mean, Ipswich played a premier league game in that stadium for the first time -- to arsenal, they really needed to win. The persistence, the pressure, it pays to put in the work. I haven't heard much of an activity from harvets Kai Havertz ever since he joined arsenal but ofcourse, he was the reason for the celebration!.

[Franctoshi]

The only difference I see now is Liverpool not having a genuine contender this year, before it was a scary thing to have Manchester city on your tail but right now Chelsea who are second aren’t ripe yet for the league title and Arsenal are not just it this season, so could a free ride for Liverpool especially if Sallah form stays like this

Everything seems to be like that, personally I would say that things with Liverpool are going well for them, but in the PL you can't be too confident, remember what happened last season when City came back and got to first place, and that was something impressive, then in the PL it is a league where nothing is certain, you just have to keep playing and winning as much as you can, City right now is doing badly, but when they recover they will enter like lions, they have already shown it several times and this time they can.

Today's game marked the 19th games for the Premier League side and there are about more 19 games to go again, it still not time to disregard the ability of other clubs, Chelsea and Arsenal, if Liverpool play and win their remaining two matches, and Arsenal and Chelsea play theirs and win too, Now the point gap between league leaders, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea will be 9 and 8 points respectively, meaning it requires Liverpool to lose 3 game for Arsenal and Chelsea to catch up with them, inside the remaining 19 games and remember these teams still have each other to face in the second leg games.

[OcTradism]

Everything seems to be like that, personally I would say that things with Liverpool are going well for them, but in the PL you can't be too confident, remember what happened last season when City came back and got to first place, and that was something impressive, then in the PL it is a league where nothing is certain, you just have to keep playing and winning as much as you can, City right now is doing badly, but when they recover they will enter like lions, they have already shown it several times and this time they can.

They're going to win a first game in Premier League after a long time since a win against Nottingham Forest. They are leading Leicester City with two goal difference and the match is going to very last injured minutes. Haaland scored a first goal for Manchester City after many bad matches too. Result is good for them, but their performance in this match against Leicester City, a weak opponent, is not too convincing.

Manchester City need more improvements to return to top four and to have a more stable good form. With this win, they can have another start to end their crisis.

Today's game marked the 19th games for the Premier League side and there are about more 19 games to go again, it still not time to disregard the ability of other clubs, Chelsea and Arsenal, if Liverpool play and win their remaining two matches, and Arsenal and Chelsea play theirs and win too, Now the point gap between league leaders, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea will be 9 and 8 points respectively, meaning it requires Liverpool to lose 3 game for Arsenal and Chelsea to catch up with them, inside the remaining 19 games and remember these teams still have each other to face in the second leg games.

It's another week to help Liverpool moving to their finish with Premier League trophy in this season. I really don't see any strong competitor that can stop and beat Liverpool in this season. Win against Liverpool in a match, it's possible but win against this team in a long season to take Premier League title, it's impossible.

Liverpool are very strong and stable with their performances so far and no signals of performance decrease. There is no big hope and good chance for other clubs to beat Liverpool.

[Hyphen(-)]

They're going to win a first game in Premier League after a long time since a win against Nottingham Forest. They are leading Leicester City with two goal difference and the match is going to very last injured minutes. Haaland scored a first goal for Manchester City after many bad matches too. Result is good for them, but their performance in this match against Leicester City, a weak opponent, is not too convincing.

Manchester City need more improvements to return to top four and to have a more stable good form. With this win, they can have another start to end their crisis.

Finally, Manchester City won today, they have ended the deadlock of winless games in their last five matches, they performed really well today against  Leicester City, even though Leicester City dominated the the match, Manchester City were able to solve their defensive errors and maintained the lead until the end, unlike other games where they will be leading by one goal and they will have some defensive errors that will lead them to a draw.
I Manchester City will be able to keep it up because they have some easy games to win in order to regain back their strength and be competitive again.

If they also use this January transfer window well, they can add more defenders to strengthen their squad.

[Palakka]

The only difference I see now is Liverpool not having a genuine contender this year, before it was a scary thing to have Manchester city on your tail but right now Chelsea who are second aren’t ripe yet for the league title and Arsenal are not just it this season, so could a free ride for Liverpool especially if Sallah form stays like this

Everything seems to be like that, personally I would say that things with Liverpool are going well for them, but in the PL you can't be too confident, remember what happened last season when City came back and got to first place, and that was something impressive, then in the PL it is a league where nothing is certain, you just have to keep playing and winning as much as you can, City right now is doing badly, but when they recover they will enter like lions, they have already shown it several times and this time they can.

Today's game marked the 19th games for the Premier League side and there are about more 19 games to go again, it still not time to disregard the ability of other clubs, Chelsea and Arsenal, if Liverpool play and win their remaining two matches, and Arsenal and Chelsea play theirs and win too, Now the point gap between league leaders, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea will be 9 and 8 points respectively, meaning it requires Liverpool to lose 3 game for Arsenal and Chelsea to catch up with them, inside the remaining 19 games and remember these teams still have each other to face in the second leg games.

Every season always we see competitive competition happening in the English league, so before the league is really almost over we can't be sure who the team will be the be championship, even like the last few seasons where the title determination is precisely determined by the last match in league, currently Liverpool has the advantage of being in the front position of the other teams, but does that guarantee they can win the title at the end of the season?
Of course not, because however often after January we will see many teams rise and can change the position in the English league standings, as well as Liverpool who also have no guarantee they will still appear consistent and strong until end osf season later, if we look at the experiences that occur in league there is still a possibility if  half-season championship will fail to win at the end season, and that has also happened to Liverpool last 2018/19 season.

[Docnaster]

Let's take a quick survey on that goal that was later ruled offside.. y'all seen how he managed to dip the ball right in-between the keeper's legs?NUTMEG !! Question is, would that have been the best goal for the season if it counted?
I mean, Ipswich played a premier league game in that stadium for the first time -- to arsenal, they really needed to win. The persistence, the pressure, it pays to put in the work. I haven't heard much of an activity from harvets Kai Havertz ever since he joined arsenal but ofcourse, he was the reason for the celebration!.

I saw the goal Gabriel Jesus scored against Ipswich Town and was very surprised as well as disappointed when it was ruled out for an offside. The Brazilian is undoubtedly one of the most talented attackers in the Arsenal squad which was why I wasn't happy during the times he was struggling in front of goals. Happy to see that he's back and performing impressively again.
Kai Havertz is a good attacking midfielder who also plays in the top 9 position but I don't think he'll be able to bench Gabriel Jesus at the moment because of the current form of the Brazilian

[BITCOIN4X]

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Every season always we see competitive competition happening in the English league, so before the league is really almost over we can't be sure who the team will be the be championship, even like the last few seasons where the title determination is precisely determined by the last match in league, currently Liverpool has the advantage of being in the front position of the other teams, but does that guarantee they can win the title at the end of the season?
Of course not, because however often after January we will see many teams rise and can change the position in the English league standings, as well as Liverpool who also have no guarantee they will still appear consistent and strong until end osf season later, if we look at the experiences that occur in league there is still a possibility if  half-season championship will fail to win at the end season, and that has also happened to Liverpool last 2018/19 season.

Even if you are right about that, but I don't believe Liverpool will lose their best form in the second half of the season. Liverpool haven't had any problems so far and they seem to easily finish match after match with wins, even today Liverpool are leading 0-3 in the first half.

Manchester City may no longer have any hope of retaining their title when the points gap is too wide, but they cannot be complacent without providing competition, at least trying to qualify for the Champions League next season. Many people expect Manchester City to fail this season, of course because they don't want just one team to dominate the title for 5 consecutive seasons.