⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[Abu-Naim]

What do you think about Liverpool next season? You know they have changed their manager much earlier than normal. They wouldn't sack their manager this quick actually.  

I say that they will have to be patient for at least a couple of years to start becoming champions again. I don't think Iraola will start winning league titles right away after he comes. This is the first time for him to manage a big team like this.

For like two season now, they will have to struggle and adapt to the coach and the coach also need to adapt to premier league pattern of play, and now that some players have left the team, he will need to rebuild his team to his standard before he will enjoy and before the team will be able to prosper in the premier league next season.

But they can’t get relegated because they have a good squad, they lack coaching quality which is the reason they finished below other big teams despite being among the favorites to win the premier league last season as the defending champions.

[Zoomic]

What do you think about Liverpool next season? You know they have changed their manager much earlier than normal. They wouldn't sack their manager this quick actually. 

I say that they will have to be patient for at least a couple of years to start becoming champions again. I don't think Iraola will start winning league titles right away after he comes. This is the first time for him to manage a big team like this.

I am sure Liverpool will play well next season compared to last season. Also, because it's Iraola first year in charge doesn't mean he can't win the league. For a team to win the EPL, you must have quality and determined players, a manager that is experienced and tactical as well. For me, Iraola possess more than enough to win the EPL. If Arne Slot can do it, then why can't he. Although, Arne Slot inherited a very stable team from Kloop which cannot be said about Iraola. In fact, some people still argues that it was Klop's team and ideology that won the league for Slot.

Next season will be surprising, you can never predict the EPL you know? Let's see what Iraola has in stock for Liverpool.

[Sexylizzy2813]

When a manager leaves a club that we have seen him do well for a long time, the whole place becomes different and you would see the changes on how the players play, City and Pep Guardiola path ways and I'm still thinking on how the Citizens would manage, can they even be that competitive as they use to be? The EPL table is definitely going to change and if care is not taken we could be seeing teams that are not regular show up in the top 4 to occupy that position, what I mean is that some clubs like Manchester City could be missing out in the top 4, how are we expected to see Manchester City operate next season?

[Hyphen(-)]

Sunderland were the most surprising club of the season in the PL to me. Because it was their promoted year but still they managed to finish the season in a place to qualify for the EL league phase! 

They had some ups and downs on the road which is totally normal. This was a way extra performance than the expected from them. But of course there is no guarantee for him about relegation threat next time.

Since the attempt they made before the beginning of last season as they signed some quality players including Granit Xhaka after getting promoted to the premier league, and Granit Xhaka did well to help the team to attain the level they reached in the premier league this season. They were one of the best home teams in the league and that was what helped them to stay in the premier league because Leeds United and Burnley got relegated this season, this means they have really tried this season to secure the European competition slot ahead of other average teams that have been in the league for long.

Sunderland can also perform better in either Europa League or Conference league next season, they have good team and they can sign more players to get squad depth against next season.

[GiftedMAN]

Next season will be surprising, you can never predict the EPL you know? Let's see what Iraola has in stock for Liverpool.

Slot came from no where to win the league in his first season with Liverpool but last season after spending big money he couldn't perform well with all the big names, Iraola is going to be in charge of the team now it won't be a surprise it he wins the league for Liverpool in his first season. English Premier League is unpredictable don't be surprised if neither Arsenal nor Manchester City will win the league next season.

[Franctoshi]

What do you think about Liverpool next season? You know they have changed their manager much earlier than normal. They wouldn't sack their manager this quick actually.  

I say that they will have to be patient for at least a couple of years to start becoming champions again. I don't think Iraola will start winning league titles right away after he comes. This is the first time for him to manage a big team like this.

For like two season now, they will have to struggle and adapt to the coach and the coach also need to adapt to premier league pattern of play, and now that some players have left the team, he will need to rebuild his team to his standard before he will enjoy and before the team will be able to prosper in the premier league next season.

But they can’t get relegated because they have a good squad, they lack coaching quality which is the reason they finished below other big teams despite being among the favorites to win the premier league last season as the defending champions.

This is one big problem with the often changing of managers. Now, the new manager will have to adapt to the club and understand his players, and the same thing goes for the players; they need to adapt to the new manager's own tactical system of play as well to know which player is suitable for a given position, and that's to know when and where to use a particular player during a football match.

[MarjorieZimmermanGinger]

This is one big problem with the often changing of managers. Now, the new manager will have to adapt to the club and understand his players, and the same thing goes for the players; they need to adapt to the new manager's own tactical system of play as well to know which player is suitable for a given position, and that's to know when and where to use a particular player during a football match.

Manager changes are quite common in the Premier League. When a club doesn't achieve results under a new manager, they often replace them. This can be the beginning of progress or a team's decline, as a change in manager means players need to adapt to the new game plan and strategies. After Arne Slot left, Liverpool's players need to adapt to the new manager and we hope they can show much better results this season. The quality of Liverpool's players isn't necessarily poor, but rather how a manager can maximize the strengths of their players so that Liverpool can perform even better next season.

[Crytohillss]

Manager changes are quite common in the Premier League. When a club doesn't achieve results under a new manager, they often replace them. This can be the beginning of progress or a team's decline, as a change in manager means players need to adapt to the new game plan and strategies. After Arne Slot left, Liverpool's players need to adapt to the new manager and we hope they can show much better results this season. The quality of Liverpool's players isn't necessarily poor, but rather how a manager can maximize the strengths of their players so that Liverpool can perform even better next season.

Sometimes it's not all about quality of the players but it is how well the coach can bring the best out of them the adaptation time will be very crucial for Liverpool this summer. Liverpool have a talented players so it will be interesting to see how they can respond to the new coach.
The best coach understand their players' strengths and build a system that gets the most out of them. Liverpool clearly have the quality.

[el kaka22]

Clubs hate each other in England quite easily, but their hatred is not too much like hooliganism anymore, back in the day that was quite often, but these days we do not hear about brawls that often, not even in lower tiers we do not hear that much about it.

Like people go into fights, injured, even dead people. These days, it's more like just chants mocking each other, and online trolling and ragebaiting, that's about the texted of it. In England even that is bad, let's remember, England is the nation that jailed someone who went on twitter and said some racist remarks towards a murderer, and England jailed him longer than the murderer for it. But yeah, I think hatred towards Arsenal, or any other team, or United for example, these are all fine and just being a good sport, it's part of the charm of the sport.

[disbil]

Manager changes are quite common in the Premier League. When a club doesn't achieve results under a new manager, they often replace them. This can be the beginning of progress or a team's decline, as a change in manager means players need to adapt to the new game plan and strategies. After Arne Slot left, Liverpool's players need to adapt to the new manager and we hope they can show much better results this season. The quality of Liverpool's players isn't necessarily poor, but rather how a manager can maximize the strengths of their players so that Liverpool can perform even better next season.

Its not quite common change the manager without giving them time and progress for adapting his tactical, did you see how most often Chelsea's management sacking manager almost every season without patience waiting progress? Last Chelsea's manager Liam Rosenior only stay 4 months as the head coach before management sack him after failure totally but he doesn't have enough time during four months proof his capacity.

Arne Slot is the last manager currently sack by Premier League club and Liverpool sack him after bad performance this season, however Arne Slot success winning Premier League tittle at first season with Liverpool but have sacked after second season make Liverpool get out from the top fourth standings. So far likely complete the manager for premier league club and waiting next season most of them how many  games week keep staying at their position.

[alankasman]

Manager changes are quite common in the Premier League. When a club doesn't achieve results under a new manager, they often replace them. This can be the beginning of progress or a team's decline, as a change in manager means players need to adapt to the new game plan and strategies. After Arne Slot left, Liverpool's players need to adapt to the new manager and we hope they can show much better results this season. The quality of Liverpool's players isn't necessarily poor, but rather how a manager can maximize the strengths of their players so that Liverpool can perform even better next season.

This is because they didn't achieve what they wanted so it's natural for the team to make changes so that next season when they restart they will be a team to be reckoned with given their performance is different from the previous season.

This is currently happening in the Liverpool camp where they have ended their collaboration with their coach Arne Slot because during Arne Slot's time the Liverpool team is no longer a team that is able to compete with other teams and their supporters also think that the scheme carried out by Arne Slot is not the same as what their previous coach Jurgen Kloop had done under Jurgen Kloop they have achieved many achievements it is true that every coach must have time to be able to match what the previous coach did but during the time under the coach the performance is not stable instead it declines like those who do not have a reputation so for me it is natural for Liverpool to make changes starting from the coach and maybe there are players from their squad who will be the next victims with another reason the purpose of this change is a form of seriousness from the management to start with good results next season.

[Iamgoat]

Sometimes it's not all about quality of the players but it is how well the coach can bring the best out of them the adaptation time will be very crucial for Liverpool this summer. Liverpool have a talented players so it will be interesting to see how they can respond to the new coach.
The best coach understand their players' strengths and build a system that gets the most out of them. Liverpool clearly have the quality.

You aren’t far from the truth. When Arne Slot came on board the club was able to lift the trophy the same year and I gave Slot the onions as far as he was the manager then but as the next season came which is this season and I monitored his game pattern I later realized he was only capitalizing on the legacy left by Klopp in terms of the squad depth and management but he found it difficult when it was his turn to canvass the players from the start of the season to the finish and it was at this point even the management saw the need to sack him and bring someone more competent and who will be more result driven . What if Liverpool brings In Osimhen to the team, Osimhen is one dead finisher many premier league teams are not looking at right now but he is the perfect match many of these clubs need but don’t realize especially as far as Arsenal is concerned.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

When a manager leaves a club that we have seen him do well for a long time, the whole place becomes different and you would see the changes on how the players play, City and Pep Guardiola path ways and I'm still thinking on how the Citizens would manage, can they even be that competitive as they use to be? The EPL table is definitely going to change and if care is not taken we could be seeing teams that are not regular show up in the top 4 to occupy that position, what I mean is that some clubs like Manchester City could be missing out in the top 4, how are we expected to see Manchester City operate next season?

Lets not all be negative on the possible outcome of Manchester city after being left by pep Guardiola, as a matter of fact, I believe that the club manager or coach will not just leave like that without a replacement who he must have been teaching, training for months before his departure time..

I do not know how the next Manchester City coach will be or has become, whether is or will be hired or will be choosen in amongst the management of the club, but one thing I suppose was to be done is that if the new coach will or was choosen from the management of the team, he ought to have been following pep for long and learn how pep manages his boys, with this knowledge, he may still lead Manchester City to victories same way pep did..
But if the new coach to replace pep is going or has been hired from outside, then I fear if he will be as good as pep was, And even if he is, it will definitely take some time before the team stablizes under the new coach to start performing like they are known for.

[dezoel]

It’s funny that people who do never wanted to give Arsenal any credit for their performance this season are making a fuss about Arsenal losing the UCL final to PSG in PENALTIES. One would think it’s the first time a club has lost penalties in the UCL final or PSG beat Arsenal 4 nil.

I don't know that Arsenal have more haters like what I've seen this time around, why are they even hating them when they know they don't know how to win trophy, for how many long now that Arsenal has been in good performance if not for this season that they have prove everyone wrong.

So many people were very happy after arsenal lost to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League final, I thought it will pray a lot of sadness for people since Arsenal have not won it before honestly I was surprised to see that kind of jubilation on the face of majority fans.

To be fair, this season when they won, many teams were happy for them. I get that "normally" teams do hate Arsenal, everyone does. But City built something so much worse that people would prefer to see Arsenal win over City, it's like lesser of two evils.

When Liverpool won last year, instead of Arsenal, that was not the same thing, btu this year it would have been City again, and people hate that oil money ruining football, so they were not mad at Arsenal for winning and they felt fine.

[Nightwatchmare]

I kind of agree with you, though, but I think they became ready even though they were not prepared at some point when they saw how far they'd gone in the competition. I think this shouldn't be enough reason why they didn't lift the Champions League trophy because they were unbeaten. Just that they missed/misused the very opportunity they had at their fingertips to carry that trophy, they played with lots of fears and emotions that they started defending when they were not supposed to, and that mistake goes to Arteta.

I don't see anything wrong with Arsenal being defensive. Especially in a final where you have a strong defensive line when you are leading by 1 goal, it is wrong not to play a defensive plan. However, after the 1-1 draw, Arsenal tried to be a bit more aggressive, but PSG's strong defensive line was the main obstacle to their attack. After the match was tied, we saw counterattacks from both sides, but neither team was successful, so can you blame Luis Enrique for being defensive? If you take the penalty out of the match, you will see that Arsenal were successful in their plan. I blame their luck for the defeat and I blame pressure tolerance.

For me it is very wrong that Arsenal played defense against Paris Saint German in the champions league final because it will be difficult to win a champions league final in playing defense against a team that can run your defense down. Mikel Arteta playing defense against Paris Saint German from 7 minutes is where he made a mistake i know Paris Saint German is stronger than Arsenal but Mikel Arteta should have deployed a strategy that allows Arsenal to play defense after they took the lead in the 6 minutes, Mikel Arteta should have deployed a strategy of all defense and all attack, this strategy would have given Arsenal victory against Paris Saint German in the champions league final.

[free-bit.co.in]

For me it is very wrong that Arsenal played defense against Paris Saint German in the champions league final because it will be difficult to win a champions league final in playing defense against a team that can run your defense down. Mikel Arteta playing defense against Paris Saint German from 7 minutes is where he made a mistake i know Paris Saint German is stronger than Arsenal but Mikel Arteta should have deployed a strategy that allows Arsenal to play defense after they took the lead in the 6 minutes, Mikel Arteta should have deployed a strategy of all defense and all attack, this strategy would have given Arsenal victory against Paris Saint German in the champions league final.

Arteta wanted to finish this match 1-0 . Arsenal took the lead at the beginning of the match. As a result, they wanted to keep psg under pressure by playing defensively. But psg attack is very strong we know. They attacked a  lot. Arsenal's defenders also managed to successfully repel all attacks. To be honest, Arsenal  have been  successful in their defensive tactics in this match as well. Even after the extra 30 minutes in the match we did not see any result. And that is arteta's success. But in the end, Arsenal lost in the  penalty shootout. I'm happy with Arsenal's defeat. Because the worthy team is the  champion.

[giammangiato]

Arteta wanted to finish this match 1-0 . Arsenal took the lead at the beginning of the match. As a result, they wanted to keep psg under pressure by playing defensively. But psg attack is very strong we know. They attacked a  lot. Arsenal's defenders also managed to successfully repel all attacks. To be honest, Arsenal  have been  successful in their defensive tactics in this match as well. Even after the extra 30 minutes in the match we did not see any result. And that is arteta's success. But in the end, Arsenal lost in the  penalty shootout. I'm happy with Arsenal's defeat. Because the worthy team is the  champion.

From my point of view it was quite balanced, it is no coincidence that they finished the 90 minutes with an equaliser.
Arsenal were slightly ahead at the start, the only mistake they made was not taking any risks yet by pushing for a further goal lead.
They gave PSG space to score the equaliser unfortunately.
In any case I am happy for Arsenal's season, finally the fans have a chance to celebrate, they will start more charged next season with this belief of optimism.

[B-BossMan]

For me it is very wrong that Arsenal played defense against Paris Saint German in the champions league final because it will be difficult to win a champions league final in playing defense against a team that can run your defense down. Mikel Arteta playing defense against Paris Saint German from 7 minutes is where he made a mistake i know Paris Saint German is stronger than Arsenal but Mikel Arteta should have deployed a strategy that allows Arsenal to play defense after they took the lead in the 6 minutes, Mikel Arteta should have deployed a strategy of all defense and all attack, this strategy would have given Arsenal victory against Paris Saint German in the champions league final.

Arteta wanted to finish this match 1-0 . Arsenal took the lead at the beginning of the match. As a result, they wanted to keep psg under pressure by playing defensively. But psg attack is very strong we know. They attacked a  lot. Arsenal's defenders also managed to successfully repel all attacks. To be honest, Arsenal  have been  successful in their defensive tactics in this match as well. Even after the extra 30 minutes in the match we did not see any result. And that is arteta's success. But in the end, Arsenal lost in the  penalty shootout. I'm happy with Arsenal's defeat. Because the worthy team is the  champion.

Arsenal made a very big mistake that very day, did you know almost every teams knew thier patterns on playing matches especially when they meet with big team, sovwhat Arteta need to do in that champions league final was to switch thier patterns of playing,because everyone knows that thier method of playing is defensive game patterns,so they would have used a very different  strategy for Paris Saint Germanin to be able to achieved thier victory against PSG. But the issue is Paris Saint Germanin has already noticed thier patterns if playing, so even as they scored the first goal, PSG begin placing them on more pressures, it was clear and everyone can see how thier possession is, I think that was the only lowest possessions I have ever seen in champions league final, well Arteta did his best to see everything possible or to see an effective result in that champions league final but it wasn't in thier favored. I know many people were praying and hoping for Arsenal to atheist won that match and rest, though this season wasn't fully dull for them as they were opportune to lifted the premier title this season. Welton work to Arteta for that great achievement.

[Futurexxx]

Next season will be surprising, you can never predict the EPL you know? Let's see what Iraola has in stock for Liverpool.

Slot came from no where to win the league in his first season with Liverpool but last season after spending big money he couldn't perform well with all the big names, Iraola is going to be in charge of the team now it won't be a surprise it he wins the league for Liverpool in his first season. English Premier League is unpredictable don't be surprised if neither Arsenal nor Manchester City will win the league next season.

Most of us here are downplaying the credibility the title won by arne slot. We think that he was just lucky, just because he has a bad last season, without considering that this is a manager that is tactically sound, he has a bad season just like every other manager has gone through at a point in their coaching career, but he was targeted and made the escape goat by most fans and the English media, but am happy with his replacement because he is going to make them appreciate the services of arne slot even more, because andoni  iraola is not at the level that can be an upgrade to arne slot, talkless of winning the league title in his first season, so it's better we take those fantasies out of our mind now, in other not to be disappointed.

[Unsoldier]

What do you think about Liverpool next season? You know they have changed their manager much earlier than normal. They wouldn't sack their manager this quick actually. 

I say that they will have to be patient for at least a couple of years to start becoming champions again. I don't think Iraola will start winning league titles right away after he comes. This is the first time for him to manage a big team like this.

Andoni Iraola had an excellent season at Bournemouth and he absolutely deserved his appointment at a top club like Liverpool. For me, it's a simple and obvious choice. Iraola has earned the right to work at a top club. But to be honest, I don't have high expectations for his future at Liverpool. We saw how much criticism Slot received during the 25/26 season, so I don't expect things to be fundamentally better under Iraola.