UEFA Champions League 2025/26 Season

[Woodie]

True, the absurd thing is that Inter players in interviews said that they played at double the speed, I didn't understand this, doping?

I'm only thinking it's related to age factor as the differentiate in this case. I guess inter players meant saw PSG players ran faster than them. It makes sense considering PSG players may be better physically combined with younger age than them.

Age factor is definitely there those boys from the farmers league were to good for themselves, and for a long time Italians have been known to play older players though trend is slowly changing.

Btw, being a neutral ground where they played from, is it not possible to consider one team was exposed to unfamiliar territory, the altitude etcetera..this staff does affect performance like we see with athletics.

[Dunamisx]

Come next season, watch out for Barcelona, Arsenal, Real Madrid, PSG and Chelsea,  because they are making every necessary efforts to keep in form in preparation against the next season, some will be significantly running na check on their team, signing in new players, because recent information reaching about Arsenal bids for same and in talk regarding that, all these makes the next season the most anticipated for because of the contending abilities they will all developed while trying to qualify for the final to win the cup.

Every other team might be running around and signing new players that can make them stand fit for the champions League next season, except for Arsenal who are very comfortable in managing some of the problems that they have, they have issue of strikers, I'm yet to see Arsenal bidding for any formidable striker at the moment, don't be surprised that they might come to champions League with the same squad they came with during the just concluded season and yet they are expecting to win the trophy.

I think Arsenal needs to build a better squad this year to win the Champions League. Also, as everyone sees, they have a serious striker shortage. They have to sign a good striker. Otherwise, both the Champions League and the Premier League championship will be a pipe dream. This year, the Champions League qualifiers against Real Madrid were very good, but their failure to continue was a problem. The biggest reason for this is the lack of quality strikers.

Arsenal problem is to see how they can win the premier League not the champions League the champions League should be a secondary plan that arsenal should have their biggest interest should be the premier League but unfortunately I don't see that happening soon because I see that arsenal is comfortable where they are because if they are ready they will go all out and get any player of their choice but currently that is not the case with arsenal

Currently now they are already sighting some players and on discussion about how they can sign them in, this is Arsenal for you, you cant expect them to think the way other teams are, obviously they all can thrive the same approach, but believe this, Arsenal is coming back more strongly next season with either of the ways, i also believe that very soon, we are going to hear the finishing part of the deals they may soon sign with some new players in consideration.

[Spaceman1000$]

Come next season, watch out for Barcelona, Arsenal, Real Madrid, PSG and Chelsea,  because they are making every necessary efforts to keep in form in preparation against the next season, some will be significantly running na check on their team, signing in new players, because recent information reaching about Arsenal bids for same and in talk regarding that, all these makes the next season the most anticipated for because of the contending abilities they will all developed while trying to qualify for the final to win the cup.

Every other team might be running around and signing new players that can make them stand fit for the champions League next season, except for Arsenal who are very comfortable in managing some of the problems that they have, they have issue of strikers, I'm yet to see Arsenal bidding for any formidable striker at the moment, don't be surprised that they might come to champions League with the same squad they came with during the just concluded season and yet they are expecting to win the trophy.

I think Arsenal needs to build a better squad this year to win the Champions League. Also, as everyone sees, they have a serious striker shortage. They have to sign a good striker. Otherwise, both the Champions League and the Premier League championship will be a pipe dream. This year, the Champions League qualifiers against Real Madrid were very good, but their failure to continue was a problem. The biggest reason for this is the lack of quality strikers.

Arsenal problem is to see how they can win the premier League not the champions League the champions League should be a secondary plan that arsenal should have their biggest interest should be the premier League but unfortunately I don't see that happening soon because I see that arsenal is comfortable where they are because if they are ready they will go all out and get any player of their choice but currently that is not the case with arsenal

Currently now they are already sighting some players and on discussion about how they can sign them in, this is Arsenal for you, you cant expect them to think the way other teams are, obviously they all can thrive the same approach, but believe this, Arsenal is coming back more strongly next season with either of the ways, i also believe that very soon, we are going to hear the finishing part of the deals they may soon sign with some new players in consideration.

In as much as I will be glad to see Arsenal sign new players, especially the ones that will help them win trophies, don't be surprised that, Arsenal will end up disappointing every one by not signing any new player or better still they would rather economise their spending to probably buy a player with no serious impact when it comes to quality, or better still, they rather want to manage what they have by not even buying any player at all and expect miracles to happen. That's what they've been doing for the past how many seasons now, they don't believe a super striker or going for a big player that they will spend money on, will help them, they rather manage this guys and end up telling themselves at the end of the season that they tried.

[Ryu_Ar1]

Watching their way of beating or more accurately destroying Inter Milan in the final, I believe that PSG already found a beast tactic that potentially can be improved more. They can become another version of Barcelona and Manchester City while with many young players, they have better chances of more considerable self improvements.

Manchester City won Champions League title three seasons ago but not with a young squad like PSG, and I believe that this title likely opens a golden era for PSG. They can become another beast in Champions League in next several seasons with those young players who can improve themselves more.

True, the absurd thing is that Inter players in interviews said that they played at double the speed, I didn't understand this, doping?

The age difference is so obvious that it is quite natural that in the end the quality of speed is much better because the majority of young players are certainly much fitter than the players whose age is in 30 years or even more than that, saying doping is clearly a silly thing because in the end if there is doping involvement in it, it will be very easy to realize.

From the beginning we know PSG players, especially on their wings like Barcola or some players like Doue, are above average so with the support of Dembele's mature passes and Kvaratskhelia's acceleration, they will definitely be able to maximize their strengths so saying this is related to doping is clearly ridiculous to me.

PSG were much more organized in the final in terms of defense and quality of attack so it makes sense that they won and won the trophy this season. Not that I'm a PSG fan but it was a fair game in the final and when they lost there was no excuse for it because compared to the semi-final in the end Inter were much better than they were in the final.

[Republikcoin.com]

Currently now they are already sighting some players and on discussion about how they can sign them in, this is Arsenal for you, you cant expect them to think the way other teams are, obviously they all can thrive the same approach, but believe this, Arsenal is coming back more strongly next season with either of the ways, i also believe that very soon, we are going to hear the finishing part of the deals they may soon sign with some new players in consideration.

Arsenal do need to buy players to be stronger next season, but what is more important than that is making sure that the players they buy really have talent and can be relied on in certain lines in order to make the Arsenal team more solid and also more powerful. Because if Arsenal only buy mediocre players, it will be more detrimental to Arsenal because they have spent money only on players who are not reliable in terms of competing in big competitions. So Arsenal must be able to make sure of that before actually spending money on the players they are targeting at this time.

[Nahl]

Currently now they are already sighting some players and on discussion about how they can sign them in, this is Arsenal for you, you cant expect them to think the way other teams are, obviously they all can thrive the same approach, but believe this, Arsenal is coming back more strongly next season with either of the ways, i also believe that very soon, we are going to hear the finishing part of the deals they may soon sign with some new players in consideration.

Arsenal do need to buy players to be stronger next season, but what is more important than that is making sure that the players they buy really have talent and can be relied on in certain lines in order to make the Arsenal team more solid and also more powerful. Because if Arsenal only buy mediocre players, it will be more detrimental to Arsenal because they have spent money only on players who are not reliable in terms of competing in big competitions. So Arsenal must be able to make sure of that before actually spending money on the players they are targeting at this time.

Arsenal always be buy players for each season but Arteta habit makes some of Arsenal fans were dissapointed it because Arteta always be wasted money to buy the players who cannot have impact to teams performance and last season when Arsenal needed new striker but Arteta surprisingly buy the midfielder however speaking about Arsenal chances for next season although they can be considered as strong team in this competition but to gets the trophy is really hard for them

[fuguebtc]

Arsenal always be buy players for each season but Arteta habit makes some of Arsenal fans were dissapointed it because Arteta always be wasted money to buy the players who cannot have impact to teams performance and last season when Arsenal needed new striker but Arteta surprisingly buy the midfielder however speaking about Arsenal chances for next season although they can be considered as strong team in this competition but to gets the trophy is really hard for them

Agree. We have seen this in several seasons. Arsenal bought players at very high prices. But the team does not get the expected performance from the players. Arsenal spends a lot of money on buying players. All this happened because of Arteta's shortsightedness. Arteta could not find suitable players for the squad. Arsenal have fought for the title in the past few seasons. But they need a stronger squad to win the title. With this squad, Arsenal can even compete for the title, they cannot dominate the Premier League.

[Agbe]

Arsenal always be buy players for each season but Arteta habit makes some of Arsenal fans were dissapointed it because Arteta always be wasted money to buy the players who cannot have impact to teams performance and last season when Arsenal needed new striker but Arteta surprisingly buy the midfielder however speaking about Arsenal chances for next season although they can be considered as strong team in this competition but to gets the trophy is really hard for them

Agree. We have seen this in several seasons. Arsenal bought players at very high prices. But the team does not get the expected performance from the players. Arsenal spends a lot of money on buying players. All this happened because of Arteta's shortsightedness. Arteta could not find suitable players for the squad. Arsenal have fought for the title in the past few seasons. But they need a stronger squad to win the title. With this squad, Arsenal can even compete for the title, they cannot dominate the Premier League.

Arsenal has not spent their money wisely because looking at the quality of players that are brought to arsenal you can see that in terms of quality there is a gap that exists because the players that are brought to arsenal are not good enough to compete for a title especially in the attacking lineup there are no good quality players that are in the arsenal attacking set up

[Asiska02]

Arsenal do need to buy players to be stronger next season, but what is more important than that is making sure that the players they buy really have talent and can be relied on in certain lines in order to make the Arsenal team more solid and also more powerful. Because if Arsenal only buy mediocre players, it will be more detrimental to Arsenal because they have spent money only on players who are not reliable in terms of competing in big competitions. So Arsenal must be able to make sure of that before actually spending money on the players they are targeting at this time.

Arsenal have really tried as a team to build the players now to who they are. They bought them when they were just upcoming players but through the chance given to them by Arteta, they’ve been able to develop and improve in their skills. I am very happy for Arsenal because they’re not a team that despite not winning anything, their performance is still encouraging and they are not finishing the season below the position in which they finished the previous season on. They’re maintaining some level of consistency but I am sure with time, they will also win trophy. With how far they came this season, I think they will do better with addition of good players to the squad. We shall get to see soon who they’ll add and how they intend to use them to their own advantage to win trophies.

[MK-74]

However, next season will be different for PSG, they won the Champions League this season, and many people will see them as the favorites because they will still have the same players as this season. The next season will be more difficult than this one since every team is working hard to find any player they want. I wouldn't be surprised if a team with no Champions League history wins the title next season.

Watching their way of beating or more accurately destroying Inter Milan in the final, I believe that PSG already found a beast tactic that potentially can be improved more. They can become another version of Barcelona and Manchester City while with many young players, they have better chances of more considerable self improvements.

Manchester City won Champions League title three seasons ago but not with a young squad like PSG, and I believe that this title likely opens a golden era for PSG. They can become another beast in Champions League in next several seasons with those young players who can improve themselves more.

I think PSG's squad is very good, they have built a very good squad with Luis Enrique and with this squad, I think they are great candidates for the championship next season.

The young talents are incredible, they should not disrupt this squad and provide as much support as they can.
I think they are strong enough to dominate the Champions League.

[nelson4lov]

Can we have a poll in OP where we can vote who we think might win the champions league next season? The last UCL season, I'm certain that no one voted for PSG to win it and they did it anyway. Had plenty of good games in the just completely one hopefully we get some top tier football in the next UCL as well. 

[tiCeR]

I think PSG's squad is very good, they have built a very good squad with Luis Enrique and with this squad, I think they are great candidates for the championship next season.

The young talents are incredible, they should not disrupt this squad and provide as much support as they can.
I think they are strong enough to dominate the Champions League.

This is the good news for PSG, they have an amazing team and almost all of them have a great future ahead of them. This team will stay together for a couple of years and it will be interesting to see how they compete next season in the CL. If no big changes happen, I think this team can repeat what they have done this time.

[imamusma]

Arsenal always be buy players for each season but Arteta habit makes some of Arsenal fans were dissapointed it because Arteta always be wasted money to buy the players who cannot have impact to teams performance and last season when Arsenal needed new striker but Arteta surprisingly buy the midfielder however speaking about Arsenal chances for next season although they can be considered as strong team in this competition but to gets the trophy is really hard for them

Agree. We have seen this in several seasons. Arsenal bought players at very high prices. But the team does not get the expected performance from the players. Arsenal spends a lot of money on buying players. All this happened because of Arteta's shortsightedness. Arteta could not find suitable players for the squad. Arsenal have fought for the title in the past few seasons. But they need a stronger squad to win the title. With this squad, Arsenal can even compete for the title, they cannot dominate the Premier League.

Arsenal has not spent their money wisely because looking at the quality of players that are brought to arsenal you can see that in terms of quality there is a gap that exists because the players that are brought to arsenal are not good enough to compete for a title especially in the attacking lineup there are no good quality players that are in the arsenal attacking set up

The management and club officials seem to have to re-evaluate their performance, whether they have made many mistakes in recruiting players, or indeed they have to find a new manager to replace Arteta. But it must be admitted that Arsenal this season has performed more impressively in the Champions League, where they managed to reach the semifinals while finishing as runnersup in the Premier League.
I think Arsenal does not have a quality striker, and they also do not have good rotation options. When several key players are injured, Arsenal performance is immediately inconsistent.
Arsenal is ranked third as the club with the most expensive squad depth at this time, they are only behind Real Madrid and Manchester City. We realize, with such an expensive squad value, Arsenal should not end the season empty handed.

[SUPERSAIAN]

This season is full of surprise, so it will be hard to speculate for the next season.

But what I'm sure Barcelona will be same, they don't sell their players which make them will play with the same squad.

Other strong teams like Liverpool, Real Madrid etc change their players, coach etc which will affect the teams, I don't think they can have a good chemistry in their first season.

Barcelona will undoubtedly be one of the ambitious teams in the Champions League next season, their current squad is very good. If they had not been eliminated by Inter, they could have pushed harder against PSG in the Final and maybe even beat them. I found it strange that Inter pushed Barcelona so hard and beat them and then were defenseless against PSG in the final.

Well, let's see, it's hard to predict next year's champion, nice surprise teams make the league more exciting.

[SOKO-DEKE]

Arsenal always be buy players for each season but Arteta habit makes some of Arsenal fans were dissapointed it because Arteta always be wasted money to buy the players who cannot have impact to teams performance and last season when Arsenal needed new striker but Arteta surprisingly buy the midfielder however speaking about Arsenal chances for next season although they can be considered as strong team in this competition but to gets the trophy is really hard for them

Over three seasons now, Arsenal fans have always been disappointed by Arteta because, with the money Arteta has spent in these three seasons, he should have been able to win a trophy in fact, even the Premier League. But nothing has been achieved this season. It's not that Arteta isn't signing quality players, but the issue is that Arteta is not bringing in the right players when the team needs them most. Last season and this season, the money Arteta spent on signing defensive players and midfielders shouldn't have been used on those positions because that wasn't what he truly needed for the team. What he needed were strikers or great wingers, players who could be just as effective as Saka. This would provide a reliable replacement for Saka in case he got injured, because I've noticed something: whenever Saka is injured, Arsenal's performances always drop significantly.

[Jewan420]

Over three seasons now, Arsenal fans have always been disappointed by Arteta because, with the money Arteta has spent in these three seasons, he should have been able to win a trophy in fact, even the Premier League. But nothing has been achieved this season. It's not that Arteta isn't signing quality players, but the issue is that Arteta is not bringing in the right players when the team needs them most. Last season and this season, the money Arteta spent on signing defensive players and midfielders shouldn't have been used on those positions because that wasn't what he truly needed for the team. What he needed were strikers or great wingers, players who could be just as effective as Saka. This would provide a reliable replacement for Saka in case he got injured, because I've noticed something: whenever Saka is injured, Arsenal's performances always drop significantly.

Yes you are right. We see Arteta in a defensive scheme where he should have been more attacking. Arsenal are already strong in midfield and defence, yet he is spending money on those areas which is a waste. Last season Arsenal really suffered from the lack of a striker and they looked helpless. You will get proof of this when you look at the results of the matches they drew last season. Some matches they drew 0-0, some matches they drew 1-1 and some they drew 2-2. Thus, their total number of draws in the Premier League is 14, which should have been less. They have lost points in almost half of the matches (14 draws, 4 losses = 18 points lost matches). If their attack was stronger, they might not have had such results and they could have competed with Liverpool for the Premier League title.

[laijsica]

Can we have a poll in OP where we can vote who we think might win the champions league next season? The last UCL season, I'm certain that no one voted for PSG to win it and they did it anyway. Had plenty of good games in the just completely one hopefully we get some top tier football in the next UCL as well. 

If We conduct a poll to determine who will be the champion for the next season but it would be inspiring and members can give their opinions as they like. If the ratio of the real situation to the review given in the online vote does not match positively or if it does, then the pleasure of voting for the team of our choice can be more inspiring for us. The next champion of the UCL may be we will see a strong team that has relatively low public opinion. I think before the start of the 24/25 season, no one could have imagined that PSG would be the champion and they have achieved and become a stronger team.

[Proty]

Arsenal always be buy players for each season but Arteta habit makes some of Arsenal fans were dissapointed it because Arteta always be wasted money to buy the players who cannot have impact to teams performance and last season when Arsenal needed new striker but Arteta surprisingly buy the midfielder however speaking about Arsenal chances for next season although they can be considered as strong team in this competition but to gets the trophy is really hard for them

Agree. We have seen this in several seasons. Arsenal bought players at very high prices. But the team does not get the expected performance from the players. Arsenal spends a lot of money on buying players. All this happened because of Arteta's shortsightedness. Arteta could not find suitable players for the squad. Arsenal have fought for the title in the past few seasons. But they need a stronger squad to win the title. With this squad, Arsenal can even compete for the title, they cannot dominate the Premier League.

Arsenal has not spent their money wisely because looking at the quality of players that are brought to arsenal you can see that in terms of quality there is a gap that exists because the players that are brought to arsenal are not good enough to compete for a title especially in the attacking lineup there are no good quality players that are in the arsenal attacking set up

The management and club officials seem to have to re-evaluate their performance, whether they have made many mistakes in recruiting players, or indeed they have to find a new manager to replace Arteta. But it must be admitted that Arsenal this season has performed more impressively in the Champions League, where they managed to reach the semifinals while finishing as runnersup in the Premier League.
I think Arsenal does not have a quality striker, and they also do not have good rotation options. When several key players are injured, Arsenal performance is immediately inconsistent.
Arsenal is ranked third as the club with the most expensive squad depth at this time, they are only behind Real Madrid and Manchester City. We realize, with such an expensive squad value, Arsenal should not end the season empty handed.

Arsenal performance this season was not that bad despite the fact that they didn't really win any trophy though there major focus was the champions League which they ended up losing.The issue with arsenal is not as a result of lack of quality players but rather there pattern of play , until arteta discovered were he is not getting it right there won't be any change in terms of winning trophies.Just like when the team was in need of a striker he went to sign midfielder,he oughto to have known that what the team needed was a striker that will be substituted for sake.so until Arteta change his pattern of play arsenal may still not see any trophy to carry next season however I do believe that the management will definitely work on the team before next season begins.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Liverpool is favorite? Complete bs. I'd like to know the basis for what? Winning the farm league, where City fizzled out? Everything else is +- ok, although how is Arsenal better than Bayern? Nothing.
For preliminary estimates it looks quite normal, although of course you can find many shortcomings. Now I am too lazy to do calculations, but I am sure that in any case the margin here at bookmakers is huge. In their place (taking into account the margin) I would give more even quotes.

You're right, in fact for me Liverpool is not the favorite, but be careful, do not underestimate Madrid, Barcelona for me had only 1 good season and in the League, not in the UCL, so in view of this I do not see that Barcelona gives it so much importance, right now the way I see things there is no need to make calculations, they are moving the signings, football is not like boxing that depends on numbers, everything changes, it would be making calculations at the moment they start playing, in the meantime it is like building castles in the air.

[Publictalk792]

You're right, in fact for me Liverpool is not the favorite, but be careful, do not underestimate Madrid, Barcelona for me had only 1 good season and in the League, not in the UCL, so in view of this I do not see that Barcelona gives it so much importance, right now the way I see things there is no need to make calculations, they are moving the signings, football is not like boxing that depends on numbers, everything changes, it would be making calculations at the moment they start playing, in the meantime it is like building castles in the air.

You are right that predicting football outcomes early on is like building castles in the air unlike boxing where stats are more reliable. This is because new player signings can completely change team and team performance can vary much during  season due to injuries or tactics or morale. Also your observation about Barcelon priorities focusing more on league than Champions League recently is fair one. We should wait and see how teams actually play on field before making any strong predictions which makes much of sense since football can change so quickly.