⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[Iroh]

They stopped being contenders for long. If Tottenham get relegated this season there would be talks here and there, people would be surprised but it won't affect the Premier League in any way cause there's still Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool including some tough mid teams that would keep us entertained every weekend. The Championship league is not an easy place i just hope Tottenham doesn't get relegated. Rival fans banter clubs that's a threat to them, Arsenal is a big threat to every big club in the league currently that's why fans are mostly loud about them.

If you play poorly and get yourself relegated, that's totally on you. It's no one's fault the relegated club had a poor performance and played poorly in that particular season. If Tottenham gets relegated this season, it surely would be a shame and talked about a lot. After a while, the talks and all the buzz would still settle. I too hope Tottenham won't get relegated but if they do, it certainly won't affect the premier league in any way.
With the way Manchester united has increased in their performance recently, I'm eager to see how good they're hopefully going to perform next season.

[Zoomic]

Arsenal are really going for it I guess! I know there is still a missing match to be played by Manchester City. It's not a tough match as well which is against Crystal Palace at Etihad.

I can bet you that Manchester City Match against Crystal Palace is not going to be an easy match for City to win. If you consider what Crystal Palace played Tottenham on their last encounter, you will know that Manchester City need to buckle up in that match else I will not be surprised to see Crystal Palace collecting the three points. Even though Manchester City wins the match, that does not stop Arsenal from winning the league, they just need at least a draw with Manchester City and they are the Champions.

At this stage of the title race, no team is weak. It is either you are fighting to win the league, or you are fighting for top 4, or you are fighting to feature in Europe or you are fighting to escape relegation. Even the teams that are in the middle of the table that we presume they don't need to fight, they are still fighting because a step up in the table makes a huge financial difference. This is why EPL remains so competitive than other leagues.

I agree with you the Manchester City vs Crystal Palace will not be an easy win for Manchester City because of what I explained above. Palace still want to end the season one or two steps upwards.

[Shineup]

They stopped being contenders for long. If Tottenham get relegated this season there would be talks here and there, people would be surprised but it won't affect the Premier League in any way cause there's still Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool including some tough mid teams that would keep us entertained every weekend. The Championship league is not an easy place i just hope Tottenham doesn't get relegated. Rival fans banter clubs that's a threat to them, Arsenal is a big threat to every big club in the league currently that's why fans are mostly loud about them.

If you play poorly and get yourself relegated, that's totally on you. It's no one's fault the relegated club had a poor performance and played poorly in that particular season. If Tottenham gets relegated this season, it surely would be a shame and talked about a lot. After a while, the talks and all the buzz would still settle. I too hope Tottenham won't get relegated but if they do, it certainly won't affect the premier league in any way.
With the way Manchester united has increased in their performance recently, I'm eager to see how good they're hopefully going to perform next season.

One thing for sure is Tottenham can never get relegated despite how bad they might look in performance, yes they might end in an awful position in the English premier league standings but getting relegated is out of the picture, but if by mistake they do get relegated fine it's because of their poor performance but trust me the internet will certainly gonna be hot like it will be a talk of the season for a very long time, and for Manchester united I'm hoping to see the best of them come next season and if i'm to be Michael Carrick i will do all possible best to secure the job permanently and the only way he can achieve that is to lead Manchester united to the UEFA champions league comes next season.

[Taricoins]

Arsenal are really going for it I guess! I know there is still a missing match to be played by Manchester City. It's not a tough match as well which is against Crystal Palace at Etihad.

I can bet you that Manchester City Match against Crystal Palace is not going to be an easy match for City to win. If you consider what Crystal Palace played Tottenham on their last encounter, you will know that Manchester City need to buckle up in that match else I will not be surprised to see Crystal Palace collecting the three points. Even though Manchester City wins the match, that does not stop Arsenal from winning the league, they just need at least a draw with Manchester City and they are the Champions.

If any match is going to be a problem of Pep's Man City, it's not going to be Crystal Palace, if it was Crystal Palace of the beginning of the season or the prior season, I would be uneasy for them but Crystal Palace after the sales of there players especially Guehi, there has been an unsatisfaction from Glasner and it is showing in his performance, check there performances and you will see the regression, I was even surprised for there win against Tottenham

[RockBell]

Tottenham hotspur escaped relegation last season, and i was really happy for them when they were busy in the transfer window signing players and reinforcing their team, i was hoping they would do well this season but their current performance do not shows that they even signed new players in the transfer window, and you are absolutely right, Tottenham hotspur has the worst team in the premier league right now because i cannot remember the last time they took full 3 points from a match, and if they keep losing points like this, i think they would be relegated.

And one thing about Tottenham the beginning of the season the way the preape it will will make it looks as if they are going do well not until you see there performance this season and they mad everything look like they are the best because they are always active in most of the transfer window and that is what is always making it look like they will do something different but they are always finding hard to keep up, they need a more Competent coach because if they don't get a new coach they will continue this way.

Before next season starts you see they signing new players which is suppose to change a lot of things but nothing is changing that shows that the players is not even the problem here and a club that is struggling they will not be able to get three point, no matter what because clubs that get three points don't struggle that is the truth of the matter they don't struggle.

[Jegileman]

At this stage of the title race, no team is weak. It is either you are fighting to win the league, or you are fighting for top 4, or you are fighting to feature in Europe or you are fighting to escape relegation. Even the teams that are in the middle of the table that we presume they don't need to fight, they are still fighting because a step up in the table makes a huge financial difference. This is why EPL remains so competitive than other leagues.

The teams that are going to be relegated and still have chance of escaping relegation should be the team one should fear a lot. They play as though they’re not really strong but they are the one you should play with your full strength with, because any small mistake, they can get that victory point on you and get you lose points you’re suppose to put yourself in a better position more on the table. The English premier league is the most competitive league in Europe and till now, no league competition has been able to beat them. Their teams are doing so great and we can see evidence as they advanced into the round of 16 all without any of them getting eliminated from the group stage.

[Hyphen(-)]

At this stage of the title race, no team is weak. It is either you are fighting to win the league, or you are fighting for top 4, or you are fighting to feature in Europe or you are fighting to escape relegation. Even the teams that are in the middle of the table that we presume they don't need to fight, they are still fighting because a step up in the table makes a huge financial difference. This is why EPL remains so competitive than other leagues.

This is the reason why the Premier League is always rated far above any other league in the world because you cannot stay in a comfortable position and be relaxed, small and average teams are very serious, they can bring you down at any moment as we can see how relegation battle teams are letting the top teams drop points despite knowing that they can’t go anywhere even winning the game or playing draw against them.
The top four race is still fresh, if Arsenal can go far to at least win the Champions the biggest progress because the EPL will get more slots in the Champions.

I agree with you the Manchester City vs Crystal Palace will not be an easy win for Manchester City because of what I explained above. Palace still want to end the season one or two steps upwards.

As an Arsenal fan, I will like Crystal Palace to take the game serious and defeat Manchester City; Arsenal will have the chance to win without any panic because the load will be fine.

[Localhostspeed]

If any match is going to be a problem of Pep's Man City, it's not going to be Crystal Palace, if it was Crystal Palace of the beginning of the season or the prior season, I would be uneasy for them but Crystal Palace after the sales of there players especially Guehi, there has been an unsatisfaction from Glasner and it is showing in his performance, check there performances and you will see the regression, I was even surprised for there win against Tottenham

Let's not undermine some teams, a team in their peak performance can be humble by one team that nobody expect anything better from and by the way, Manchester City of today isn't the Manchester City of the last 3 seasons that were tormenting every team they come across. They can meet with Wolves that look like nothing good is going to come out of them can decided to humble Manchester City, that same team has humble Arsenal this season.

Let's look at the team Manchester City played last, they played against Nottingham Forest, they are way below Crystal palace in the table, by performance they are poorer than crystal but this same Nottingham Forest draw with Manchester City right in their home. That's not something Manchester city should be doing now but they did it anyway that's why I don't undermine teams that donolay against teams that are playing at the top of the league table.

[Agbamoni]

If any match is going to be a problem of Pep's Man City, it's not going to be Crystal Palace, if it was Crystal Palace of the beginning of the season or the prior season, I would be uneasy for them but Crystal Palace after the sales of there players especially Guehi, there has been an unsatisfaction from Glasner and it is showing in his performance, check there performances and you will see the regression, I was even surprised for there win against Tottenham

Crystal Palace has not been impressive of late. I dont think they stand a chance against Manchester City, well, anything is possible in football, no one expected Nottingham Forest to stand a chance against City last weekend.

Games I expect Manchester City to drop points against are against Chelsea, Arsenal, Brentford, and Aston Villa.

[SatoPrincess]

Arsenal aren’t wasting resources anymore, I told a friend that Arsenal will not score too many goals against Mansfield but she believes Arsenal will score more that four goals because it is Arsenal against Mansfield.
As the game started it quickly did not look like the game Arsenal will score many, Madueke late first half goal was the first and then another:
Arsenal just want to win and not waste anything.

She must not know Arsenal then. Arsenal are not Manchester City that would happily bang 8-10 goals in a game. Arteta just cares about winning no matter the scoreline, besides it is a FA Cup match. IMO, Arsenal had an okay game for Arsenal, too bad Martinelli and Jesus have lost their form.

[Byebyebtc]

At this stage of the title race, no team is weak. It is either you are fighting to win the league, or you are fighting for top 4, or you are fighting to feature in Europe or you are fighting to escape relegation. Even the teams that are in the middle of the table that we presume they don't need to fight, they are still fighting because a step up in the table makes a huge financial difference. This is why EPL remains so competitive than other leagues.

I agree with you the Manchester City vs Crystal Palace will not be an easy win for Manchester City because of what I explained above. Palace still want to end the season one or two steps upwards.

And some lower clubs are also fighting for bigger clubs downfall 
Some are less busy so they go to frustrate other big clubs that are chasing something much more bigger,
For example wolves has just little to fight for the point difference away from religation is so large, but they are ready to limit arsenal and Manchester city, they just got good all of a sudden. Lol.

[Egii Nna]

Arsenal are really going for it I guess! I know there is still a missing match to be played by Manchester City. It's not a tough match as well which is against Crystal Palace at Etihad.

I can bet you that Manchester City Match against Crystal Palace is not going to be an easy match for City to win. If you consider what Crystal Palace played Tottenham on their last encounter, you will know that Manchester City need to buckle up in that match else I will not be surprised to see Crystal Palace collecting the three points. Even though Manchester City wins the match, that does not stop Arsenal from winning the league, they just need at least a draw with Manchester City and they are the Champions.

If any match is going to be a problem of Pep's Man City, it's not going to be Crystal Palace, if it was Crystal Palace of the beginning of the season or the prior season, I would be uneasy for them but Crystal Palace after the sales of there players especially Guehi, there has been an unsatisfaction from Glasner and it is showing in his performance, check there performances and you will see the regression, I was even surprised for there win against Tottenham

Funny enough, some people don’t understand what football is till date. How can you just wake up and think that Crystal Palace will be a problem for Manchester City? Is that not disrespectful to Manchester City?
We all know that Crystal Palace have deformed in their performance this season, and even their game with Tottenham was due to the red card Tottenham got in the game. So how do you think that a team that won the match due to the advantage of a red card will beat Manchester City?

Although I will not say anything. Bet your money and lose it, it will be better that way.

[pawel7777]

We have had a successful revenge today in the 5th round of the FA cup.
Earlier this week Wolves caused a surprise by beating Liverpool 2-1 in the league game. But today was payback time and Liverpool thrashed Wolves 3-1 and controlled the game from start to finish, proving that the Tuesday loss was just an accident at work.

In another game, Arsenal defeated Mansfield Town 2-1, which was maybe not as convincing win as some could expect, but Arteta rested some of the key players and a win is a win.

Man City with a comfy win over Newcastle (3-1). Great performance by Marmoush, who scored 2 goals and is putting some pressure on Haaland, who is still not scoring as often as expected.

[DYOR+BTC]

We have had a successful revenge today in the 5th round of the FA cup.
Earlier this week Wolves caused a surprise by beating Liverpool 2-1 in the league game. But today was payback time and Liverpool thrashed Wolves 3-1 and controlled the game from start to finish, proving that the Tuesday loss was just an accident at work.

In another game, Arsenal defeated Mansfield Town 2-1, which was maybe not as convincing win as some could expect, but Arteta rested some of the key players and a win is a win.

Man City with a comfy win over Newcastle (3-1). Great performance by Marmoush, who scored 2 goals and is putting some pressure on Haaland, who is still not scoring as often as expected.

Be it a comfortable win or a weak win the only important thing to look at is the complete three points which they where able to secure at the end of the game,  yes it looked like a narrow escape for Arsenal but I like Arteta's tactical change in his choice of players as they have a difficult games to play both in the champions league and Premier league.  On the game few key players where rested for more fitness ahead of there champions league game next week and a must win premier league game that awaits them, which is will praise the coach for identifying such key techniques to bring more balanced in days to come, so fans need to be very happy for that complete three points stealing at the second half of the game.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Arsenal aren’t wasting resources anymore, I told a friend that Arsenal will not score too many goals against Mansfield but she believes Arsenal will score more that four goals because it is Arsenal against Mansfield.
As the game started it quickly did not look like the game Arsenal will score many, Madueke late first half goal was the first and then another:
Arsenal just want to win and not waste anything.

She must not know Arsenal then. Arsenal are not Manchester City that would happily bang 8-10 goals in a game. Arteta just cares about winning no matter the scoreline, besides it is a FA Cup match. IMO, Arsenal had an okay game for Arsenal, too bad Martinelli and Jesus have lost their form.

Yeah indeed, Arsenal is a club that doesn't like scoring too many goals especially when it's a tight game that doesn't grant them too many opportunities to score goals, they focus  always focus on managing to score one goal and as soon as they achieve that while they themselves have not conceded any goal, the begin to defend their own goal trying as hard as possible to ensure that they don't concede a goal that might have them looking for a way to try to score another so they can possibly win the match.

But again, it's true that this strategy doesn't usually work out for them all the time, but I think the ratio of it working and not working is quite good enough for them and it's the reason why they maintain the pattern..
But to be honest though, there are times I usually wish arsenal was really like Manchester city that always goes all out to score goals, the fun of watching your favorite club score several goals to beat their opponents is always on another level 😁

[Velvet78]

Now we have a one-week break in the league... Arsenal are really going for the title I assume. Especially after seeing Manchester City desperate against Forest despite all those goal attempts...

Manchester United are getting closer to reaching their top 4 goal despite the recent loss. This will probably secure a contract for Carrick at the end.

Now they will have a very difficult set of games: Atletico - Liverpool - Atletico, I think it will be 3 defeats and probably if Atletico knocks Tottenham out of the Champions League it will be even better for Tottenham  Because they'll have a series of relatively easy games next, starting with their direct rival, Nottingham. If Tottenham starts giving away points here, then relegation will become a reality. But they have every chance of picking up points and saving themselves from such a fate.

I understand the importance of the Champions League too of course. But in the end there is no way Tottenham are becoming the champions there. 

Therefore they had better shift their focus on the Premier League as much as possible from now on. Otherwise they have a much higher chance to relegate this season.

[Phoenix Anka]

At this stage of the title race, no team is weak. It is either you are fighting to win the league, or you are fighting for top 4, or you are fighting to feature in Europe or you are fighting to escape relegation. Even the teams that are in the middle of the table that we presume they don't need to fight, they are still fighting because a step up in the table makes a huge financial difference. This is why EPL remains so competitive than other leagues.

I agree with you the Manchester City vs Crystal Palace will not be an easy win for Manchester City because of what I explained above. Palace still want to end the season one or two steps upwards.

And some lower clubs are also fighting for bigger clubs downfall 
Some are less busy so they go to frustrate other big clubs that are chasing something much more bigger,
For example wolves has just little to fight for the point difference away from religation is so large, but they are ready to limit arsenal and Manchester city, they just got good all of a sudden. Lol.

I see this as the players' effort to prove themselves. Because even though the chances of relegation from the Premier League are very high, the players are very highly motivated in big matches. This makes me feel like these are matches where they are showing themselves because they want to play for other teams in the Premier League next year. It would have been better if they had played like this before and the team had been able to stay in the Premier League.

[ITExpert]

I have never seen a team as bad as Tottenham in the Premier League right now, Wolves that are sitting in the last position of the Premier League, looks more like a better team than Tottenham, honestly speaking if Tottenham keeps playing this bad and loosing games every week they might end up getting relegated from the Premier League, Now I have to believe that Tottenham aren’t a very good team, they obviously looks like a mess right now with the way they are playing football, they signed so many players in the summer transfer window and it’s looking like nothing have changed, and I think Daniel Levy was one of the People that destroyed Tottenham before leaving the club like he did in the summer.

Tottenham hotspur is not doing well after having a lot of signing in the transfer window. But they unable to perform good and make a significant place for them. And I think it's nothing but a great negligence that they failed to manage a position where people can expect a good thing from them. I personally don't understand that why their all signings are failed and they did not have anything good. Because when they seem active in transfer market it was expected that now they are dedicating to get a deserving place. But after all this what happened they should focus on this issue that which things are responsible for this bad position of the team due to which they are unable to get a stable place. Because its easy to sort out if once they can underline the issue.

[Fakhrulenclix]

Funny enough, some people don’t understand what football is till date. How can you just wake up and think that Crystal Palace will be a problem for Manchester City? Is that not disrespectful to Manchester City?
We all know that Crystal Palace have deformed in their performance this season, and even their game with Tottenham was due to the red card Tottenham got in the game. So how do you think that a team that won the match due to the advantage of a red card will beat Manchester City?

Although I will not say anything. Bet your money and lose it, it will be better that way.

It should indeed be like that, but we must also remember that in football anything can happen and we cannot underestimate Crystal Palace, even though overall their strength is not stronger compared to Man City. However, I still think this match will not be easy. 

And for betting choices, we really have to look at the whole picture so as not to lose money, and indeed it cannot be denied that betting on Man City will be everyone's choice in this match.

[Zoomic]

At this stage of the title race, no team is weak. It is either you are fighting to win the league, or you are fighting for top 4, or you are fighting to feature in Europe or you are fighting to escape relegation. Even the teams that are in the middle of the table that we presume they don't need to fight, they are still fighting because a step up in the table makes a huge financial difference. This is why EPL remains so competitive than other leagues.

The teams that are going to be relegated and still have chance of escaping relegation should be the team one should fear a lot. They play as though they’re not really strong but they are the one you should play with your full strength with, because any small mistake, they can get that victory point on you and get you lose points you’re suppose to put yourself in a better position more on the table. The English premier league is the most competitive league in Europe and till now, no league competition has been able to beat them. Their teams are doing so great and we can see evidence as they advanced into the round of 16 all without any of them getting eliminated from the group stage.

I don't even know if the joy of escaping relegation is equivalent to the join of being in the top 4. We all know how frustrating it is to play in the championship. Once you visit them once, the possibility of returning there becomes high, if I am lying, ask Leicester city. I also think that the struggle of returning to EPL from there is even more difficult, if it is easy, teams like WestBrom, Watford, Norwich, shelfied united/wednesday would have all returned.

This explains why relegation teams become so powerul towards the end of the season. Everyone wants to remain in the EPL to try their luck next season just to still remain in the highest league in England.