⚽ Premier League 2024/2025 Discussion Thread ⚽

[Litzki1990]

This is another topic what I'm curious about. If we consider like the case is over and all those titles are taken back from Manchester City in the Premier League. Then what happens? 

I mean will those years be left as blank or will there be a thing like the teams right behind them are called as new champions of those years? I guess the first one would happen because I haven't seen any example of the latter. 

It can really be like the end of an era in England, at least for a while if Manchester City reignite it by climbing back to the Premier League. Anyway we will see about that as we don't even have the result in our hands.

I read an article that said that depriving Manchester City of all their championship titles during 2009 - 2018 was a very, very bad possibility and some people even commented that it seemed to be exaggerated. City will face 115 charges related to FFP and in other news it is reported that City's harshest punishment is a 30 point deduction and expulsion from the Premier League. If City are relegated I don't think it will take long for them to return to the EPL. But there will be a possibility that most of the players and even Pep Guardiola will choose to leave the team.

I also heard that Manchester City could be kicked out of the English Premier League as well as all forms of football but they have improved so much since then that the team has no shortage of fan following.  If they still have a chance of being relegated from the English Premier League then we will definitely lose a big team in major tournaments like Premier League and Champions League. Manchester City is one of the strongest teams for the Champions League. If we compare with different Premier League teams, Manchester City will be ahead of other teams. If Manchester City have any problems then the management should solve them quickly so that they don't face a ban later on.

[dezoel]

Arsenal had the best defence in the PL last season. Signing defensive players isn’t their problem. They need an elite goalscorer because Havertz isn’t even close to prolific enough. Arsenal need a killer in front of goal because they don’t have one.

They also suffered the least injuries out of the top teams in the league. I don’t think they will be so lucky again. The squad is kinda weak too. The first XI is great but a couple of injuries and all of a sudden Nketiah is starting or Jesus.

While I do agree that they had a great defense, I also think that they lacked depth in defense. I know that may sound weird, but their starters were great, and maybe one more bench is arguably good, but that's it, if anyone gets a red card, and the other player gets injured, suddenly they have literally kids there. This is why getting a bit more depth isn't a bad idea at all, it would benefit them and I would highly suggest something like that.

This is of course not something they should sell the farm for, they should just get someone for 10-20 million range, not some expensive player. And to be fair, aside from getting some good bench players, their starters are all good, these are the players that almost beat City and won the league, saying that you "need" players would be insensitive to the achievement these guys had, I think they did alright. Get like 3-4 players for rotation to make the squad depth bigger, and that's it, I would say try again.

I know that it is going to be a much better season if they do that, because their players would be a lot more accustomed to playing together and that will definitely help with them most of the time, shouldn't be an issue for them at all.

[red4slash]

I also heard that Manchester City could be kicked out of the English Premier League as well as all forms of football but they have improved so much since then that the team has no shortage of fan following.  If they still have a chance of being relegated from the English Premier League then we will definitely lose a big team in major tournaments like Premier League and Champions League. Manchester City is one of the strongest teams for the Champions League. If we compare with different Premier League teams, Manchester City will be ahead of other teams. If Manchester City have any problems then the management should solve them quickly so that they don't face a ban later on.

If indeed they are proven to have committed a fairly fatal fraud then indeed they must be prepared to accept the consequences because after all the competition must remain clean and when someone is caught violating then although it is quite unfortunate but they must take responsibility for their mistakes in the end.

It's just that for now we still have to continue to wait for a thorough investigation because seeing from the current situation, the charges against Manchester City which are considered to have violated FFP have actually been around for quite a long time but indeed this has always experienced obstacles where the slow investigation has made this a little longer.
But on the other hand it is also a natural thing because Manchester City is a big club now so it must be difficult in contrast to some small clubs like Everton or Nottingham Forrest which can be easily investigated

[Palakka]

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Of course, it would be a great hope for fans to see Liverpool still have a good performance with Arne Slot. After all, basically Liverpool also still have good players in their current squad. Thus,  it is likely that Arne Slot will also still be very selective to buy players who are really needed to keep the team consistent with impressive performance.

It is natural that fans hope that Arne Slot's Liverpool will continue to have a balanced performance without any internal conflict if Arne Slot's opportunity to bring in the players he needs is not carried out during the current transfer window.
I also thought that Arne Slot would bring in new players according to the team's needs by utilizing the current squad.

Most Arne Slot will look for 3 players for different positions where one player will be looked for in each line. Regarding Takefusa Kubo, he is suitable as a substitute for Mo. Salah will place Kubo together with Mo. Salah as a starter if Luis Diaz's performance declines.

Restoring and maintaining Liverpool glory with Klopp will certainly be very difficult to do and we must admit that it is unlikely that Arne Slot will be able to bring Liverpool to the same level as in the Klopp era, arne Slot is of course a hope for Liverpool fans to see their team be even better next season, but I hope they don't need to get their hopes up if Arne Slot is able to bring many changes to the Liverpool squad, even though Arne Slot retains the majority of last season players in the current Liverpool squad.
 Arne Slot doesn't have much experience to be proud of in European competitions so far so this is a reason for me doubt  (although I hope I'm wrong) on ​​Liverpool performance next season.
Liverpool are currently not very active in the transfer market and so far we have not heard of any players they are trying to recruit, who knows what is happening to Liverpool at the moment in the transfer market but I hope they can get some new players for compete next season in premier league.

[Mr.right85]

Arsenal had the best defence in the PL last season. Signing defensive players isn’t their problem. They need an elite goalscorer because Havertz isn’t even close to prolific enough. Arsenal need a killer in front of goal because they don’t have one.

They also suffered the least injuries out of the top teams in the league. I don’t think they will be so lucky again. The squad is kinda weak too. The first XI is great but a couple of injuries and all of a sudden Nketiah is starting or Jesus.

While I do agree that they had a great defense, I also think that they lacked depth in defense. I know that may sound weird, but their starters were great, and maybe one more bench is arguably good, but that's it, if anyone gets a red card, and the other player gets injured, suddenly they have literally kids there. This is why getting a bit more depth isn't a bad idea at all, it would benefit them and I would highly suggest something like that.

This is of course not something they should sell the farm for, they should just get someone for 10-20 million range, not some expensive player. And to be fair, aside from getting some good bench players, their starters are all good, these are the players that almost beat City and won the league, saying that you "need" players would be insensitive to the achievement these guys had, I think they did alright. Get like 3-4 players for rotation to make the squad depth bigger, and that's it, I would say try again.

I know that it is going to be a much better season if they do that, because their players would be a lot more accustomed to playing together and that will definitely help with them most of the time, shouldn't be an issue for them at all.

In as much as I agree with you that Arsenal does not have depth, I think they were lucky last season because none of their center backs were injured. Saliba and Gabriel had a good season and played more minutes. The fullbacks is where they have options. Saliba and Gabriel doesn’t have a quality replacement. If anything happens to them, I don’t think they’ll able to challenge Manchester City with the options they have on the bench.
The addition of Calafiori will provide a good backup to Gabriel. Kiwior was brought in to provide cover for Gabriel but he hasn’t been able to do that. I think with Calafiori, their backline is good and enough to start the new season.

[Josefjix]

I also heard that Manchester City could be kicked out of the English Premier League as well as all forms of football but they have improved so much since then that the team has no shortage of fan following.  If they still have a chance of being relegated from the English Premier League then we will definitely lose a big team in major tournaments like Premier League and Champions League. Manchester City is one of the strongest teams for the Champions League. If we compare with different Premier League teams, Manchester City will be ahead of other teams. If Manchester City have any problems then the management should solve them quickly so that they don't face a ban later on.

The English Premier League comes with stress and a whole lot of competitive race and pressure. However the strong ones still made it out alive without been relegated and this is one of the prospective aspect of the top game. The management of the Citizens have been quite formidable and winning becomes priority for them. Manchester City is elite club and have proven their dominance against their oppositions, it’s been really a smooth season for the Citizens.