⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[Showlove01]

So, Liverpool team hasn't got any better. I was shocked when I returned home to see on the TV that Manchester city totally humiliated Liverpool even without a red card. When I saw the score line, I thought that a Liverpool player was actually red carded but it wasn't so.

You need to watch the replay of the match so that you can see for yourself how Liverpool was beaten hands down with able to score a single goal. I think this is more than being humiliated because their was no reverse attack to score which was disappointing how the Liverpool team has fallen to this extend. I hope to see improvement in their next matches.

What are you guys expecting from Liverpool before when is already obvious that they are up against a big club like Manchester City and considering Manchester City current conditions, it becomes very aggressive for them to handle so you guys should at least give Liverpool some credits for standing up to Manchester City for a while before their where finally defeated in the game.

Is this some sort of defending for Liverpool, do you forget in a rush that they are defending champions of the Premier League Competition and also that they spent too much money to be this bad in the league. Both defenders, attackers and new players added to the club are underperforming. It is not about Manchester City being in a good form but Liverpool floppy and the manager not doing enough to help his side get back to a goof form. The next game facing Newcastle should be interesting

What is defending champions without showing workings, at least they have to show us that they are defending champions by winning teams that people expected them to win and draw some that seems tough for them instead of losing. The fact that Manchester city defeated them was not bad the bad and annoying thing here is that they conceded 3 goals from Manchester city without even scoring at least 1, that is very embarrassing from a defending champions and I wish they wake up from their slumber early.

[Furious 7]

What is defending champions without showing workings, at least they have to show us that they are defending champions by winning teams that people expected them to win and draw some that seems tough for them instead of losing. The fact that Manchester city defeated them was not bad the bad and annoying thing here is that they conceded 3 goals from Manchester city without even scoring at least 1, that is very embarrassing from a defending champions and I wish they wake up from their slumber early.

Liverpool's situation is now a little more complicated than imagined and it will obviously be a difficult problem if Slot tries to do more than he has done now.

A defense line that still looks chaotic and an attack line that has not been able to make conditions better makes Liverpool's situation this season need a lot of evaluation.
For some time I actually felt that this could be overcome but it seems that the momentum that wants to be built is always hampered by some things that happen that make Liverpool's situation now in a fairly complicated problem and it is not impossible if until the middle of the Liverpool season like this continues then I think Slot's future could be displaced because Liverpool must find a new coach to make conditions better.

[Issa56]

if you can't, I definitely can. Pep has woken up from his slumber and he's on a mission to do everything possible to add a 7th trophy to his cabinet for the English team.

At some points pep Guardiola’s performance dropped, but as we can see he is beginning to get things right again, Manchester city are currently in second position and they are behind Arsenal which is in first position with 4 points, they are already closing the gap that means Pep Guardiola is really up to something this season, he wants to win the premier league title this season again.

Let’s see how Manchester city will perform till ending of the season, but I won’t be surprise if Manchester city ends up taking over the first position from Arsenal, that’s pep Guardiola’s target right now, and from Manchester city performance they might be able to achieve that, I don’t trust Arsenal, they might end up performing poorly at the end.

[bitzizzix]

So, Liverpool team hasn't got any better. I was shocked when I returned home to see on the TV that Manchester city totally humiliated Liverpool even without a red card. When I saw the score line, I thought that a Liverpool player was actually red carded but it wasn't so.

You need to watch the replay of the match so that you can see for yourself how Liverpool was beaten hands down with able to score a single goal. I think this is more than being humiliated because their was no reverse attack to score which was disappointing how the Liverpool team has fallen to this extend. I hope to see improvement in their next matches.

What are you guys expecting from Liverpool before when is already obvious that they are up against a big club like Manchester City and considering Manchester City current conditions, it becomes very aggressive for them to handle so you guys should at least give Liverpool some credits for standing up to Manchester City for a while before their where finally defeated in the game.

Is this some sort of defending for Liverpool, do you forget in a rush that they are defending champions of the Premier League Competition and also that they spent too much money to be this bad in the league. Both defenders, attackers and new players added to the club are underperforming. It is not about Manchester City being in a good form but Liverpool floppy and the manager not doing enough to help his side get back to a goof form. The next game facing Newcastle should be interesting

Liverpool have been in poor form lately, having suffered a string of consecutive defeats before facing Manchester City. The situation would be different if Liverpool were in good, consistent form, and Manchester City managed to beat them. However, I admit that Liverpool and Manchester City's current situation is a stark contrast to when Liverpool played their matches earlier in the season, while Manchester City is currently on the rise and continues to achieve excellent results, and Pep Guardiola has managed to rediscover his best form.
Liverpool seems to need time to improve their current situation.
And as for the match against Newcastle, I think Manchester City can easily beat them because Newcastle are also in poor form.

[VeiweiLo]

So, Liverpool team hasn't got any better. I was shocked when I returned home to see on the TV that Manchester city totally humiliated Liverpool even without a red card. When I saw the score line, I thought that a Liverpool player was actually red carded but it wasn't so.

You need to watch the replay of the match so that you can see for yourself how Liverpool was beaten hands down with able to score a single goal. I think this is more than being humiliated because their was no reverse attack to score which was disappointing how the Liverpool team has fallen to this extend. I hope to see improvement in their next matches.

What are you guys expecting from Liverpool before when is already obvious that they are up against a big club like Manchester City and considering Manchester City current conditions, it becomes very aggressive for them to handle so you guys should at least give Liverpool some credits for standing up to Manchester City for a while before their where finally defeated in the game.

Is this some sort of defending for Liverpool, do you forget in a rush that they are defending champions of the Premier League Competition and also that they spent too much money to be this bad in the league. Both defenders, attackers and new players added to the club are underperforming. It is not about Manchester City being in a good form but Liverpool floppy and the manager not doing enough to help his side get back to a goof form. The next game facing Newcastle should be interesting

Liverpool have been in poor form lately, having suffered a string of consecutive defeats before facing Manchester City. The situation would be different if Liverpool were in good, consistent form, and Manchester City managed to beat them. However, I admit that Liverpool and Manchester City's current situation is a stark contrast to when Liverpool played their matches earlier in the season, while Manchester City is currently on the rise and continues to achieve excellent results, and Pep Guardiola has managed to rediscover his best form.
Liverpool seems to need time to improve their current situation.
And as for the match against Newcastle, I think Manchester City can easily beat them because Newcastle are also in poor form.

Liverpool is not a bad team. In fact, Liverpool won the league last season. And this season, Liverpool is even overflowing with expensive players. So, in terms of squad, Liverpool is a very luxurious team, but their coach, Arne Slot, hasn't been able to unite his star players into a high-class performance. As a result, Liverpool is still producing poor results this season, like their last match where they were thrashed by Manchester City 3-0.

[Smartvirus]

Liverpool is not a bad team. In fact, Liverpool won the league last season. And this season, Liverpool is even overflowing with expensive players. So, in terms of squad, Liverpool is a very luxurious team, but their coach, Arne Slot, hasn't been able to unite his star players into a high-class performance. As a result, Liverpool is still producing poor results this season, like their last match where they were thrashed by Manchester City 3-0.

You surely would have had a different opinion if this were to be last season. To be fair, his got most of his team from last season here and still playing, even with some really good additions to the squad but, it’s not squads that wins trophies is it… it’s the team effort. If you aren’t playing as a team, then you can sit back and watch Sunderland lift the EPL trophy as it’s beginning to look.

With very few within their ranks, Xhaka to be the most experienced and skilled, these guys are taking it out on anyone and getting good results. That’s what we expect and not excuses.

[MK-74]

Liverpool is not a bad team. In fact, Liverpool won the league last season. And this season, Liverpool is even overflowing with expensive players. So, in terms of squad, Liverpool is a very luxurious team, but their coach, Arne Slot, hasn't been able to unite his star players into a high-class performance. As a result, Liverpool is still producing poor results this season, like their last match where they were thrashed by Manchester City 3-0.

I think one of Liverpool’s main problems is that they’ve moved away from traditional English football.
Since Arne Slot took charge, the team has been drifting further from that style, and their play has started to resemble Dutch football. With this kind of approach, it will be very difficult to achieve success in the Premier League.

Personally, I believe English clubs should be managed by English coaches.
They understand the culture, intensity, and mentality of English football better than anyone else.
Mark my words, with this style of play, Liverpool will lose many more matches.

[irhact]

Liverpool is not a bad team. In fact, Liverpool won the league last season. And this season, Liverpool is even overflowing with expensive players. So, in terms of squad, Liverpool is a very luxurious team, but their coach, Arne Slot, hasn't been able to unite his star players into a high-class performance. As a result, Liverpool is still producing poor results this season, like their last match where they were thrashed by Manchester City 3-0.

I think Liverpool problem is their coach, last season he inherited a team from the previous coach and those player's are the ones that won the league and not the coach. Right now that he got a chance to make use of his own players to win the league, he can't even win games again. When last did we see Manchester city beat Liverpool the way they did in their last game and this Manchester city players aren't as good as the previous ones that use to play before and find it difficult to win Liverpool. Alot has to change in this team because if they continue to play like this then they aren't winning neither the  league title. The Liverpool team struggled in the last game and Mo Salah has being playing badly this season. There's no striker in the Liverpool team because I don't understand what Isak is doing there.

[Judith87403]

What is defending champions without showing workings, at least they have to show us that they are defending champions by winning teams that people expected them to win and draw some that seems tough for them instead of losing. The fact that Manchester city defeated them was not bad the bad and annoying thing here is that they conceded 3 goals from Manchester city without even scoring at least 1, that is very embarrassing from a defending champions and I wish they wake up from their slumber early.

When I saw people proclaiming that liverpool have gained a full recovery then I was like seriously? Which they where ongoingly talking about liverpool wining manchester city but I didn't alter a word since I'm not a fan of the both teams so I just locked up. Funny enough that the liverpool that they where ongoingly praising couldn't achieve a draw in this match, one thing that interest me the most is the fact that manchester city fans didn't even make much argument in this match and that's a sign of maturity because they know that the end will justify.

Yeah, its obvious that the wining mentality of  liverpool is still fluctuating for the main time. Maybe they can work on it during this international break so that it will be stable as it was during the early stage.

[Adbitco]

I think Liverpool problem is their coach, last season he inherited a team from the previous coach and those player's are the ones that won the league and not the coach. Right now that he got a chance to make use of his own players to win the league, he can't even win games again. When last did we see Manchester city beat Liverpool the way they did in their last game and this Manchester city players aren't as good as the previous ones that use to play before and find it difficult to win Liverpool. Alot has to change in this team because if they continue to play like this then they aren't winning neither the  league title. The Liverpool team struggled in the last game and Mo Salah has being playing badly this season. There's no striker in the Liverpool team because I don't understand what Isak is doing there.

I think I can agree with you here but again even if it's an inherited team, some people will still mess it up but he went all the way last season to win the league with few games to spare, I think he was brilliant last season, he just needed to continue with maybe just one or two serious signings to the area where Trent left and possibly another one or two players, but instead he went all out into the market and we took thought before now that Liverpool was going to be unstoppable this season but just look at what we are seeing now. I just wonder why he can't play well with the team he assembled or should I say part of the team he assembled.

[blue Snow]

When I saw people proclaiming that liverpool have gained a full recovery then I was like seriously? Which they where ongoingly talking about liverpool wining manchester city but I didn't alter a word since I'm not a fan of the both teams so I just locked up. Funny enough that the liverpool that they where ongoingly praising couldn't achieve a draw in this match, one thing that interest me the most is the fact that manchester city fans didn't even make much argument in this match and that's a sign of maturity because they know that the end will justify.

Yeah, its obvious that the wining mentality of  liverpool is still fluctuating for the main time. Maybe they can work on it during this international break so that it will be stable as it was during the early stage.

Many things that Liverpool must be improve, like the squad formation and proper player placement. The old formation that they used in the previous session is effective enough when they are face is a team that doesn't understand their movement. A team like Manchester City is very understanding their strategy, so in that situation, Pep was able to handle everything even Slot substitution a player who is not used to playing in his scheme. Slots are not necessarily to force expensive player into an unusual position because it will be a blunder for the team.

[ancafe]

Many things that Liverpool must be improve, like the squad formation and proper player placement. The old formation that they used in the previous session is effective enough when they are face is a team that doesn't understand their movement. A team like Manchester City is very understanding their strategy, so in that situation, Pep was able to handle everything even Slot substitution a player who is not used to playing in his scheme. Slots are not necessarily to force expensive player into an unusual position because it will be a blunder for the team.

This is clearly necessary because we see many problems facing Liverpool right now. If they fail to address these issues and find ways to improve, it's feared Liverpool will struggle to compete for the title. Big teams will certainly study the formations Liverpool coaches have created, and it's similar to the defeat they suffered against Manchester United. The situation is quite different from what they implemented last season, and although the strategy is largely the same, forcing several players out of position is quite dangerous.

[harapan]

Liverpool is not a bad team. In fact, Liverpool won the league last season. And this season, Liverpool is even overflowing with expensive players. So, in terms of squad, Liverpool is a very luxurious team, but their coach, Arne Slot, hasn't been able to unite his star players into a high-class performance. As a result, Liverpool is still producing poor results this season, like their last match where they were thrashed by Manchester City 3-0.

I think Liverpool problem is their coach, last season he inherited a team from the previous coach and those player's are the ones that won the league and not the coach. Right now that he got a chance to make use of his own players to win the league, he can't even win games again. When last did we see Manchester city beat Liverpool the way they did in their last game and this Manchester city players aren't as good as the previous ones that use to play before and find it difficult to win Liverpool. Alot has to change in this team because if they continue to play like this then they aren't winning neither the  league title. The Liverpool team struggled in the last game and Mo Salah has being playing badly this season. There's no striker in the Liverpool team because I don't understand what Isak is doing there.

The absence of Jota cost Liverpool, that of Arnold cost them likewise. All you have said on point, what Imagine lately is Arne Slot being sacked if he fails to handle the situation before Christmas very well. I saw a post of Ronaldo saying Manchester United lost a lot of games already and they can not win the league, if he thinks that way for United, I wonder what he would think and say about a poor Liverpool currency one point under Manchester United on the table, there's no way they are winning the league

[Adbitco]

A defense line that still looks chaotic and an attack line that has not been able to make conditions better makes Liverpool's situation this season need a lot of evaluation.
For some time I actually felt that this could be overcome but it seems that the momentum that wants to be built is always hampered by some things that happen that make Liverpool's situation now in a fairly complicated problem and it is not impossible if until the middle of the Liverpool season like this continues then I think Slot's future could be displaced because Liverpool must find a new coach to make conditions better.

I'm shocked, after having good expectations with Liverpool when they made those signings, good addition to the previous attack line, these days even players like Gakpo who has been in the earlier before now doesn't even start matches because of how choked the attack line is now. It just seemed as if Liverpool was recalibrated to do the exact opposite of what they signed those new players to do. Someone here suggested that the coach was the problem and I don't totally disagree with him/her

[alankasman]

When I saw people proclaiming that liverpool have gained a full recovery then I was like seriously? Which they where ongoingly talking about liverpool wining manchester city but I didn't alter a word since I'm not a fan of the both teams so I just locked up. Funny enough that the liverpool that they where ongoingly praising couldn't achieve a draw in this match, one thing that interest me the most is the fact that manchester city fans didn't even make much argument in this match and that's a sign of maturity because they know that the end will justify.

Yeah, its obvious that the wining mentality of  liverpool is still fluctuating for the main time. Maybe they can work on it during this international break so that it will be stable as it was during the early stage.

Hehe, maturity is tested when our favorite team's performance declines, one of which is experiencing consecutive defeats, and that's exactly what happened to Liverpool this season.

What we want is for Liverpool to experience its glory days, the golden era under Rafael Benitez. And all of that, no fan disliked the performances of Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard at that time. And despite Rafael Benitez's resignation, try to remember whether there was any maturity. After a long period of recovery, Liverpool returned to their golden era under Jürgen Klopp.
Why isn't there much debate? Their glory days were only achieved under Pep Guardiola. With Pep Guardiola's arrival, they were immediately active in the transfer market, and in Pep's first year at Manchester City, they immediately led the team to the championship after decades without a championship. So, that's precisely what we can say about the maturity of their fans who are debating again because they are satisfied with having won the Premier League.
Regarding Liverpool's winning mentality, it's still very strong, but now they are experiencing a difficult period, but it won't last long. In fact, this is a lesson for them to continue improving their performance to get back on track each season.

[Solodoski]

Let’s see how Manchester city will perform till ending of the season, but I won’t be surprise if Manchester city ends up taking over the first position from Arsenal, that’s pep Guardiola’s target right now, and from Manchester city performance they might be able to achieve that, I don’t trust Arsenal, they might end up performing poorly at the end.

I really get surprised when people talk about Manchester city form and beginning to say they will win the league,  my question is their form better than that of Arsenal, in my opinion the answer is NO. Arsenal drew their last match against Sunderland and Manchester city won against Liverpool,  but that does not change the fact that Arsenal is in a better form, so why do people think that Manchester city will take over, is this hate on Arsenal or based on passed records. Well on the later record are meant to be broken and what people don't realize or they pretend not to see is that this Arsenal team is way better than the team they had in the past season and I can see the hunger in the team. Manchester city might be 4 point away from Arsenal,  but I still see Arsenal as the favorite to win the premier league come may.

[Abbatty]

Liverpool is not a bad team. In fact, Liverpool won the league last season. And this season, Liverpool is even overflowing with expensive players. So, in terms of squad, Liverpool is a very luxurious team, but their coach, Arne Slot, hasn't been able to unite his star players into a high-class performance. As a result, Liverpool is still producing poor results this season, like their last match where they were thrashed by Manchester City 3-0.

The squad is there, the quality is there also but the issue now is the coach good enough to bring the best possible solution to the team. We see team with very less quality but good management doing well in the league. This is a big test for Slot and it time for him to prove if really he was not riding on Klopps Glory last season.

For me I think Slot is not good enough, he barely looks like a coach who is working on something, he needs to try something different with the squad.

I think one of Liverpool’s main problems is that they’ve moved away from traditional English football.
Since Arne Slot took charge, the team has been drifting further from that style, and their play has started to resemble Dutch football. With this kind of approach, it will be very difficult to achieve success in the Premier League.

Personally, I believe English clubs should be managed by English coaches.
They understand the culture, intensity, and mentality of English football better than anyone else.
Mark my words, with this style of play, Liverpool will lose many more matches.

I don’t think I agree with you, we have see big managers come to England and prosper, the likes of Pep Guardiola, Jose morihno, klopp, Ancelotti and so more, I would even say non English managers have more success in England than English managers.
Liverpool big problem is that kloop was the man at the touch line last season but was he the one that actually won the trophy? I don’t think so. Since he came in he barely had very little to do, he was just following the team flow and they got the league, the propel that pioneer the lifting the league for them last season was Mohammed Salah and Van Dijk, both players are currently struggling and that why the team is struggling. The struggle might be to due to age and it never easy to play in the premier league at that age.

[RealNoblee]

At some points pep Guardiola’s performance dropped, but as we can see he is beginning to get things right again, Manchester city are currently in second position and they are behind Arsenal which is in first position with 4 points, they are already closing the gap that means Pep Guardiola is really up to something this season, he wants to win the premier league title this season again.

Let’s see how Manchester city will perform till ending of the season, but I won’t be surprise if Manchester city ends up taking over the first position from Arsenal, that’s pep Guardiola’s target right now, and from Manchester city performance they might be able to achieve that, I don’t trust Arsenal, they might end up performing poorly at the end.

Though the 2025–26 Premier League title race is heating up ahead of the November international break, with Arsenal and Liverpool both dropping points in Gameweek 11.

What was beginning to look somewhat like a runaway for Arsenal to claim their long-awaited league title is now anything but. The Gunners conceded a stoppage time equaliser to Sunderland on Saturday evening, dropping points in their first match since September.

[Derekfunds]

Liverpool is not a bad team. In fact, Liverpool won the league last season. And this season, Liverpool is even overflowing with expensive players. So, in terms of squad, Liverpool is a very luxurious team, but their coach, Arne Slot, hasn't been able to unite his star players into a high-class performance. As a result, Liverpool is still producing poor results this season, like their last match where they were thrashed by Manchester City 3-0.

I think Liverpool problem is their coach, last season he inherited a team from the previous coach and those player's are the ones that won the league and not the coach. Right now that he got a chance to make use of his own players to win the league, he can't even win games again. When last did we see Manchester city beat Liverpool the way they did in their last game and this Manchester city players aren't as good as the previous ones that use to play before and find it difficult to win Liverpool. Alot has to change in this team because if they continue to play like this then they aren't winning neither the  league title. The Liverpool team struggled in the last game and Mo Salah has being playing badly this season. There's no striker in the Liverpool team because I don't understand what Isak is doing there.

The absence of Jota cost Liverpool, that of Arnold cost them likewise. All you have said on point, what Imagine lately is Arne Slot being sacked if he fails to handle the situation before Christmas very well. I saw a post of Ronaldo saying Manchester United lost a lot of games already and they can not win the league, if he thinks that way for United, I wonder what he would think and say about a poor Liverpool currency one point under Manchester United on the table, there's no way they are winning the league

Concluding Liverpool won't win the league would be too sudden if you ask me because the league hasn't end yet so there is still chance for all the teams or club to prove themselves by showing in their play. I think believe and I will also agree that The loss of Jota and selling of Arnold really affect Liverpool because these players are incredible players and they handle important position for Liverpool but then again Liverpool bought a lots of players so they should cover up those openings .

[Abu-Naim]

I really get surprised when people talk about Manchester city form and beginning to say they will win the league,  my question is their form better than that of Arsenal, in my opinion the answer is NO. Arsenal drew their last match against Sunderland and Manchester city won against Liverpool,  but that does not change the fact that Arsenal is in a better form, so why do people think that Manchester city will take over, is this hate on Arsenal or based on passed records. Well on the later record are meant to be broken and what people don't realize or they pretend not to see is that this Arsenal team is way better than the team they had in the past season and I can see the hunger in the team. Manchester city might be 4 point away from Arsenal,  but I still see Arsenal as the favorite to win the premier league come may.

Manchester City is not in better form than Arsenal, but the mentality in the Premier League is that Arsenal will still bottle the league at the end of the season just as they were doing three seasons in a row, so they believe that since Manchester City is in form now, they can easily overtake Arsenal because they all thought Arsenal can’t have that consistency to keep on moving.

I want some of us to understand that Arsenal of this season have good squad depth that is more than almost all the squad in the premier league, and they are in good form right now conceding just five goals since the beginning of the season; they have the strongest defensive line in the league, and despite some of their players injured, they still manage to maintain the top of the league at this moment. I don’t think Manchester City can outplay Arsenal this season in my opinion, this is Arsenal’s season to win the league.