⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[SensitiveEyes]

It is not appropriate to blame Mikel Arteta for fading in the title chase because of injuries. Saka is a central figure who the team missed when injured. Arsenal lost the opportunity to get a foot in the PL title race.

Nobody cares if they fix their problems or not, but it's the truth, Arsenal would have done better with Saka and co in the team. Look at how well they did without their key players. However it's all their fault, because the club is normalizing the weakness, which is wrong. Consider how strong Liverpool striker Sallah stayed till now with no stories of staying out of the pitch, these are not just the player's fault to go on injury but that of the management's training routine.

[Velvet78]

After seeing Liverpool losing in the Uefa Champions League and after seeing them losing the final of the carabao cup i start to think they has quite a good luck in this premier because they don't have to face any serious contender.

Manchester city normally stole the show but this year they are the worst versión of them in years.

Like I said earlier, a great start by Liverpool but a little messing up later on.    However still it doesn't matter to me. Arne Slot is successful this year. Winning a Premier League title in his first year is an impressive work!

Manchester City would normally do that but yeah this is the situation. Guardiola has stated how much difficulty he has had so far for even entering top 4.

Together with that, I don't think they will be this bad next season. We will most probably see a quite different lineup than the one we are used to see this season.

[Derekfunds]

The Main problem of Manchester United right now is in his roots, they can't find a new Golden generación to start to build something bigger, i'm not talking about something like the 92 generación, but something sólid.

For example, Mainoo seems like a pretty good and solid player and what happen to him?
And like him i can name a few more.

I heard that few teams interested with Dalot, Manchester United who're rich team should able to convince their current good players to stay instead of joining new teams, imagine they're already bad and they allow their good players to leave.

I feel like Mainoo is overrated, he and Leny Yoro are nothing different, they're very young and their performance are so-so.

I see Amad Diallo might be the best Academy player from MU in this season

I don't think Manchester United will be so dumb to let him go. Dalot has been one of the most standout players in the Manchester United squad. Selling him will automatically affect the team performance. United need to prioritize signing quality players instead of selling the ones they have. I never for once doubted Kobbie Mainoo's ability and I don't think he is overrated. He has the quality in him although he is still young and there is room for improvement.

If you say Manchester united will be dumb to let Dalot go what will you say or what did you say when they let Mctominy go, strong attacking midfielder like him and the club he is playing, he is scoring and giving assist back to back like Antony. I don't really know what is Kobbie Maino's problem, initially he was doing absolutely well but don't know the sudden change if it because they have not been using him regularly or what though sometimes when you don't use play often it kills player morale but if they still use him well he will still do better. Lastly, Dalot is not as good as you are hyping him, he just started improving of recent.

[W Jr.]

I am an Arsenal fan but I've never taken time to really sit down and study the Arsenal coach to identify his flaws and all that, but then, going by what you both have said here, a man can not be good and still have this flaws and still maintain his status as being a good coach, results is what really proves a coach is good and not just words of the mouth.

To me personally, I have not yet seen the desired result to believe Arteta is really a good coach, till date, Arsenal has remained one of the most inconsistent club in the Premier league, they know how to get to the top at the very beginning of a season, and just when it become very important for them to remain and maintain that top position, they begin to fail in consistency, very annoying to say the least.

I have taken time to assess Arteta’s performance and so far I can say that he is a good coach but even as a coach there are limits to what they can achieve with the level of experience they have. Arteta has done the best he can yet he still lacks the experience of a winning coach that is why Arsenal still struggle to finish up every season and waste good efforts.

Mikel Arteta has created an Arsenal that is in the title race every year but has never been able to make a champion. Until this year we saw a clear superiority of Manchester City but this year Manchester City is in a bad situation. Arsenal should have taken advantage of this but they could not and they are far behind Liverpool. They will probably finish the league in second place this year. Arteta is a very good manager but we cannot exactly call him a winner. Maybe if Carlo Ancelotti was at Arsenal we would have seen the title by now. So maybe a winning manager is necessary for Arsenal.

[baeva]

Arsenal have suffered coping with these numerous injuries to their key players. I am sure if not for injuries Arsenal would have had a better season than they are experiencing now. The amount of games played each season is much and every year Arsenal experience players getting injured more often than ever. Something needs to be done to address this situation before the new season.

Arsenal is a great team, but their repeated injury crisis could be a hard luck to the club. The management need to amend the problems, and reduce the rate at which competent players stay out of pitch for an extended period, by changing injury prevention protocols, and also medical staff, gunners would have performed way better if players were strong to play till end of season. However, it's becoming a tradition, even some fans at the beginning of the season predicted that Arsenal's performance will weaken as the league begin to heat up and players start to get injuries.

There is no way the club management can influence the fact that a player is injured because it's not the medical staff's problem, it's the problem of the game where he got that injury. All top level clubs have excellent medical staff who know their business and treat players in such a way that they are blown away, so they recover fully, or the player himself breaks discipline, as a result of which he does not recover before the game and gets injured, or the player in general is prone to injury, but it is almost impossible to prevent injury in advance

[Kristiyana]

Arsenal have suffered coping with these numerous injuries to their key players. I am sure if not for injuries Arsenal would have had a better season than they are experiencing now. The amount of games played each season is much and every year Arsenal experience players getting injured more often than ever. Something needs to be done to address this situation before the new season.

Arsenal is a great team, but their repeated injury crisis could be a hard luck to the club. The management need to amend the problems, and reduce the rate at which competent players stay out of pitch for an extended period, by changing injury prevention protocols, and also medical staff, gunners would have performed way better if players were strong to play till end of season. However, it's becoming a tradition, even some fans at the beginning of the season predicted that Arsenal's performance will weaken as the league begin to heat up and players start to get injuries.

Yeah I think you're right because their performance during the early stage was very awesome, but it was quite unfortunate that those injury cases which they had made them to reduce from thier good performance, they're just struggling so hard to see if they can cope. You know if not for the injury cases that is affecting the club I think their plan was to surprise those thier fans this season because their performance during the early stage was very brilliant, but the injuries made it very difficult for them to execute their plans.

[RockBell]

I have taken time to assess Arteta’s performance and so far I can say that he is a good coach but even as a coach there are limits to what they can achieve with the level of experience they have. Arteta has done the best he can yet he still lacks the experience of a winning coach that is why Arsenal still struggle to finish up every season and waste good efforts.

Arteta is actually a great  coach but he lacks some quality skills for him to give Arsenal a shot to be able to win anything because if not that he lacks creativity he would be doing better than Liverpool by now, but look at what they are playing so to me arteta needs to do a lot of improvement on him self and on the club.

And I dont think experience is the issue here or it might be because for him to have gone this far he should  be able to have at least win the Premier League, but there is no winning so far and this why I love how Liverpool took advantage of the whole situation. And arteta needs a new plan and a new players especially new strikers because he as used does players to much , that they are productive, he needs to get better  players that will give us the fans what we want to see exactly.

[Stable090]

It is not appropriate to blame Mikel Arteta for fading in the title chase because of injuries. Saka is a central figure who the team missed when injured. Arsenal lost the opportunity to get a foot in the PL title race.

Why is it not appropriate for Mikel Arteta to be blamed? He is the coach, and he should be prepared for things like this, every club is always facing injury problem, so it’s just left for the coach to properly manage it. Arsenal have been having the same problem for years, their performance is always good at the beginning of the season, but whenever the season is about to end, their performance do always drop, and they do lose to clubs which they are not even suppose to lose to.

I just guess Arteta will need to sign more quality players, at least he should be rotating them in matches, he shouldn’t just depend on only some set of players, Arteta is overusing some sets of players, that’s why their performance are always dropping towards the ending of the season.

[Adbitco]

Arteta is actually a great  coach but he lacks some quality skills for him to give Arsenal a shot to be able to win anything because if not that he lacks creativity he would be doing better than Liverpool by now, but look at what they are playing so to me arteta needs to do a lot of improvement on him self and on the club.

And I dont think experience is the issue here or it might be because for him to have gone this far he should  be able to have at least win the Premier League, but there is no winning so far and this why I love how Liverpool took advantage of the whole situation. And arteta needs a new plan and a new players especially new strikers because he as used does players to much , that they are productive, he needs to get better  players that will give us the fans what we want to see exactly.

Can you guys please stop misusing that word "Great"! What's great about Arteta? He is just good and just a little above an average coach. A coach that doesn't no where and when to make improvements in his team, a coach that's constantly making same errors year in year out without wanting to adjusting. A coach that has spent that huge amount of money over a period of few years yet nothing tangible to show for for it. Arteta is not anything close to being a great coach.

[AirtelBuzz]

Considering the duration Ruben Amorim have spent at Old Trafford as Manchester United manager, I strongly disagree with your opinion that he's the club's worst manager. He might not be as consistent as most of us predicted at the start of the season but he's not as bad as you're trying to make him look. Manchester United are I believe will do better under him next season when he must have signed players of his choice during the summer.

It's also true that we haven't seen much improvement in Amorim's performance since he joined Old Trafford as Manchester United manager. We had full faith that he would be able to do well if he took over at Old Trafford and that Man U would find a new rhythm but this team could not move forward that way. Let's see how much better he can do for this team. But I would say that Manchester United have been temporarily able to improve, Look for them in the Europa League. But if everyone now blames Manchester United manager, then it may be selfishness, now there's nothing to blame but their team players. So it has to be said that Manchester United should improve further.

[Lida93]

Arsenal have suffered coping with these numerous injuries to their key players. I am sure if not for injuries Arsenal would have had a better season than they are experiencing now. The amount of games played each season is much and every year Arsenal experience players getting injured more often than ever. Something needs to be done to address this situation before the new season.

Arsenal is a great team, but their repeated injury crisis could be a hard luck to the club. The management need to amend the problems, and reduce the rate at which competent players stay out of pitch for an extended period, by changing injury prevention protocols, and also medical staff, gunners would have performed way better if players were strong to play till end of season. However, it's becoming a tradition, even some fans at the beginning of the season predicted that Arsenal's performance will weaken as the league begin to heat up and players start to get injuries.

Arsenal are yet to identify their problems and rectifying it as soon as possible, and if they fail to adjust and solve their repeat problems then they will continue to end the seasons without trophies.

Arsenal don't have a good bench that can be capable to replace first team players on account of injuries or fatigue from pressure of participating in all competitions, and they don't care tackling this issue.

Even with the January transfer window Arteta refused signing a striker at a time they needed a natural forward for them to be competitive against Liverpool in fighting for the EPL this season and that made them lost games they were supposed to win and increase points due to a lack of a finisher. Solve this and you solve 90% of Arsenal drawbacks.

[EarnOnVictor]

Amorim has been United's worst coach in the history. Even Moyes has recorded better stats than him in only 5 games, while he did it on 14 games. As you can see how bad Amorim's quality is. That's why i think Manchester United has not yet comeback. Everytime they win against a small team, people called they're so back. What a fucking joke is it?  

As per Manchester United's owner, Sir Jim, he doesn't wanna sack Amoruim, but let him stay much longer. He has hinted Amorim's future on his interview.

As for Tottenham, it seems fucking Levy is reluctant to pay the compensation once he sacks Ange. That's why he keeps him much longer.  

Amorim should have understood where he was going, Manchester United was in a bad state even before he was appointed head coach, and after that he sold several more attacking players and what did he expect, that just because he became a coach, the team should win, no, that's not how it works. Apparently, Amorim is not as good a coach as expected, and most likely they will give him more time, Manchester United management has such an approach, they gave time to every coach they had, but as history has shown, it did not help any of them.

Have you seen a coach of Man U that has not been ridiculed and thrown several blames in recent years? That's why I am not surprised about yours, it's the beginning for Amorim and perhaps he will not be the one leading the club by this time next year, it has always been like that for Man U. This doesn't spare the players too, it's just like a curse, when they were bought, they would be very outstanding, after all, that's why they were bought, but on getting to Old Trafford, the issue starts. On leaving again, they rediscover themselves, the case of Anthony is a good one. Man U is what it is.

Manchester United is not the only club that players do go and wouldn't be able to perform well. It happens in other clubs too. I don't see why you guys are not seeing it that the players United are buying cannot fit in to their game style and EPL. Some players can perform well in a smaller club than when they're in a big club.

Only if United can buy the right players that will make football easy for them and interesting to watch.

@Altryist and I are entitled to our opinions just as you are, but what I won't take is the misrepresentation of facts and an argumentative way which will still lead to nothing (saying so much but nothing). I don't doubt that some specific players can go to a club and not perform, but I dare you to mention the clubs whose case is as much as that of Man U. Don't mention junks here, you should mention those clubs where hot stars bought becomes almost useless but after leaving the club they regain back their feats like Anthony that I mentioned. And please mention them in their numbers.

You are taking discussions too personal and I don't see anything wrong from what I said. Lukaku is a Chelsea player that doesn't fit into Chelsea playing pattern, and that has made most past coaches put him on loan in the Italian League despite the challenges that Chelsea was facing in previous seasons.
Look at the brilliant performance of Lukaku in Seria A and he has also achieved a lot in Seria A. I have many more players that I can mention but O will rest my case here. Apart from Anthony, can you tell me another Manchester United player that did the same. Pls don't call Sancho because he is been criticized by Chelsea currently.

What's personal here? This is a communication and I wonder why some of you take it otherwise when you don't have your way easily, and certainly with me on this, you can NEVER have it.

I purposely didn't exclude Lukaku of the then-Chelsea in my last post because I knew you might mention it, and here we are, and you mentioned only him even though it happened a long time ago, we are talking about the recent, within a year. Lukaku has been loaned to clubs before sold and he did well in all of them. This even made me know you are clueless because Lukaku was never a dullard (true speculators knew) but a player who needed time then and he showed the talent where he "was and is" better appreciated. Can you compare this with Man U where almost all their players are now something else? I am sure those guys in Man U will still shine when left. We are talking about general happening in a club, you are talking about the peculiarity of Lukaku, how are they the same?

[SuperBitMan]

I have taken time to assess Arteta’s performance and so far I can say that he is a good coach but even as a coach there are limits to what they can achieve with the level of experience they have. Arteta has done the best he can yet he still lacks the experience of a winning coach that is why Arsenal still struggle to finish up every season and waste good efforts.

Arteta is actually a great  coach but he lacks some quality skills for him to give Arsenal a shot to be able to win anything because if not that he lacks creativity he would be doing better than Liverpool by now, but look at what they are playing so to me arteta needs to do a lot of improvement on him self and on the club.

And I dont think experience is the issue here or it might be because for him to have gone this far he should  be able to have at least win the Premier League, but there is no winning so far and this why I love how Liverpool took advantage of the whole situation. And arteta needs a new plan and a new players especially new strikers because he as used does players to much , that they are productive, he needs to get better  players that will give us the fans what we want to see exactly.

arteta is a great coach and we shouldn't say is his fault for arsenal not being able to lift any trophy for some season's now, arteta is doing his best for me I think the problem is with the players however what arsenal needs is a good striker if they can get a good striker for next season I believe they will lift the premier league title and also they should also try to stop being inconsistent for some seasons now arsenal has been playing very well but they always start misbehaving at a point and that has been one of the reasons why they have not lifted the premier league trophy for 2 season's now, how I wish victor osime will accept coming to arsenal because if he comes there will be a great chance for arsenal to lift the premier league trophy and when it comes to premier league the club I think victor osime will do better is Arsenal because he will have more opportunity to score a lot of goals but if he goes to Chelsea I don't think he will be able to perform well, but the way things are going he may go to Chelsea but that's his choice so let just wait and see where he will decide to go.

[Futurexxx]

I have taken time to assess Arteta’s performance and so far I can say that he is a good coach but even as a coach there are limits to what they can achieve with the level of experience they have. Arteta has done the best he can yet he still lacks the experience of a winning coach that is why Arsenal still struggle to finish up every season and waste good efforts.

Arteta is actually a great  coach but he lacks some quality skills for him to give Arsenal a shot to be able to win anything because if not that he lacks creativity he would be doing better than Liverpool by now, but look at what they are playing so to me arteta needs to do a lot of improvement on him self and on the club.

And I dont think experience is the issue here or it might be because for him to have gone this far he should  be able to have at least win the Premier League, but there is no winning so far and this why I love how Liverpool took advantage of the whole situation. And arteta needs a new plan and a new players especially new strikers because he as used does players to much , that they are productive, he needs to get better  players that will give us the fans what we want to see exactly.

arteta is a great coach and we shouldn't say is his fault for arsenal not being able to lift any trophy for some season's now, arteta is doing his best for me I think the problem is with the players however what arsenal needs is a good striker if they can get a good striker for next season I believe they will lift the premier league title and also they should also try to stop being inconsistent for some seasons now arsenal has been playing very well but they always start misbehaving at a point and that has been one of the reasons why they have not lifted the premier league trophy for 2 season's now, how I wish victor osime will accept coming to arsenal because if he comes there will be a great chance for arsenal to lift the premier league trophy and when it comes to premier league the club I think victor osime will do better is Arsenal because he will have more opportunity to score a lot of goals but if he goes to Chelsea I don't think he will be able to perform well, but the way things are going he may go to Chelsea but that's his choice so let just wait and see where he will decide to go.

The way modern day football is structured, everything will be placed at the door step of the coach because it's the coach that mostly determine everything that goes on in the club especially in a wealthy team, and arsenal is not an exception to that, so if people are putting all the blame on Mikel arteta, they aren't wrong because he is not going to say that he is blind to the needs and want of arsenal, he knows that they are a quality striker away from winning the English premier league, why not sign a quality center forwarder all this while?
But he choose to depend on Kyle havertz and Gabriel Jesus that can't even get up to 13 goals each the whole season, so why would they win anything when they don't even have a center forwarder that guarantee's 20 goals a season, this is one major reason why I am blaming Mikel arteta for then Short comings of arsenal because he has fail to do the right thing even when he knows it.
Look at Manchester city, Liverpool, real madrid, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, inter Milan and other top teams in Europe, they all have players in their team that guarantees them 20 goals a season, but in the case of arsenal, none, so it's justifiable to blame Mikel arteta for arsenal failings.

[shinratensei_]

After seeing Liverpool losing in the Uefa Champions League and after seeing them losing the final of the carabao cup i start to think they has quite a good luck in this premier because they don't have to face any serious contender.

Manchester city normally stole the show but this year they are the worst versión of them in years.

I remind you how UCL is totally different with the league games. UCL is about how luck you're in beating your opponent in two games. It's different when it comes to the Premier League, which is a battle of consistency. Stop to think if those two competitions are the same. 

Talking about Liverpool, they're facing all of big clubs in PL. How can you say they don't face any serious contender? They are not leading the competition if they're not chasing points from all of serious contender in PL.

You'er in PL where all participants are british club, not abroad clubs.   

[Rampagoe004]

~Snip~

I remind you how UCL is totally different with the league games. UCL is about how luck you're in beating your opponent in two games. It's different when it comes to the Premier League, which is a battle of consistency. Stop to think if those two competitions are the same. 

Talking about Liverpool, they're facing all of big clubs in PL. How can you say they don't face any serious contender? They are not leading the competition if they're not chasing points from all of serious contender in PL.

You'er in PL where all participants are british club, not abroad clubs.   

It is clear that UCL is very different from league matches even though many people compare them. The fight in UCL this season is very different from last season where changes have been implemented since the beginning of the competition. The rules applied I see small teams have the opportunity to advance to the next round.
So far Liverpool has given the best results in the Premier League, the competition is also getting tighter but Liverpool is able to maintain the top ranking in the standings. The Premier League is getting tighter and more interesting to chase points consistently.

[Cryptmuster]

arteta is a great coach and we shouldn't say is his fault for arsenal not being able to lift any trophy for some season's now, arteta is doing his best for me I think the problem is with the players however what arsenal needs is a good striker if they can get a good striker for next season I believe they will lift the premier league title and also they should also try to stop being inconsistent for some seasons now arsenal has been playing very well but they always start misbehaving at a point and that has been one of the reasons why they have not lifted the premier league trophy for 2 season's now, how I wish victor osime will accept coming to arsenal because if he comes there will be a great chance for arsenal to lift the premier league trophy and when it comes to premier league the club I think victor osime will do better is Arsenal because he will have more opportunity to score a lot of goals but if he goes to Chelsea I don't think he will be able to perform well, but the way things are going he may go to Chelsea but that's his choice so let just wait and see where he will decide to go.

Arteta is a good coach, but apparently in order to win tournaments you need to have some specific qualities, which Arteta probably does not have. I don't think that Arsenal's problem is the lack of a good striker, Arsenal spends huge amounts of money on transfers, and Arteta gets the players he wants. Their problem is that they do not have stability, they can lose points in a match with any opponent, even with a weak Manchester United, in my opinion this is very indicative.

[Juicyhome]

After seeing Liverpool losing in the Uefa Champions League and after seeing them losing the final of the carabao cup i start to think they has quite a good luck in this premier because they don't have to face any serious contender.

Manchester city normally stole the show but this year they are the worst versión of them in years.

You are correct mate, i had same thought. show me one top four that is in form to face Liverpool this season, none. imagine is Nottingham forest and Arsenal that is contending with Liverpool for the title. this is a provide that there is no serious contenders this year in the league that is why Liverpool is shining only in Premier league. They were knocked out by Psg and humiliated by Newcastle in the Carabao cup.  Team like Manchester city the defending champion are strugging for top four spot.  Liverpool is just lucky no serious team is contending with them, Arsenal is not a serious team to be afriad of.  

[Luzin]

Talking about Liverpool, they're facing all of big clubs in PL. How can you say they don't face any serious contender? They are not leading the competition if they're not chasing points from all of serious contender in PL.

You'er in PL where all participants are british club, not abroad clubs.   

The current condition of Liverpool is very good, except in the UCL. They failed. This reflects Liverpool's serious beta in the EPL. Currently, they are the team with only 1 loss. This situation is somewhat advantageous because Liverpool can focus solely on the EPL. Hence, they have better physical condition.All teams in the EPL indeed have the ability to create surprises. They have a different spirit compared to other leagues. The competition is always good, as smaller teams in the EPL can also provide resistance and the final results sometimes do not have a large goal difference.

But I see that Liverpool is still very dependent on Moh Salah at the moment. So when he is not there, the performance is not good. Even currently, Slot has not found a replacement, if this continues, it will be detrimental. This is because there are rumors that Moh Salah will leave next season.

[reefsea]

arteta is a great coach and we shouldn't say is his fault for arsenal not being able to lift any trophy for some season's now, arteta is doing his best for me I think the problem is with the players however what arsenal needs is a good striker if they can get a good striker for next season I believe they will lift the premier league title and also they should also try to stop being inconsistent for some seasons now arsenal has been playing very well but they always start misbehaving at a point and that has been one of the reasons why they have not lifted the premier league trophy for 2 season's now, how I wish victor osime will accept coming to arsenal because if he comes there will be a great chance for arsenal to lift the premier league trophy and when it comes to premier league the club I think victor osime will do better is Arsenal because he will have more opportunity to score a lot of goals but if he goes to Chelsea I don't think he will be able to perform well, but the way things are going he may go to Chelsea but that's his choice so let just wait and see where he will decide to go.

Arteta is a good coach, but apparently in order to win tournaments you need to have some specific qualities, which Arteta probably does not have. I don't think that Arsenal's problem is the lack of a good striker, Arsenal spends huge amounts of money on transfers, and Arteta gets the players he wants. Their problem is that they do not have stability, they can lose points in a match with any opponent, even with a weak Manchester United, in my opinion this is very indicative.

Arteta has been building this team for a long time, and there is also a past that is actually not pleasant for him because at the beginning he was not considered a competent coach until finally many people urged Arsenal to fire him. However, over time, he was also able to show that he could provide something different until finally Arsenal could play well as we see now.

However, I also agree with you, a good coach is not necessarily able to win the title, they must have something special. We can see from Ancelotti for example, many people say his strategy is monotonous, but he can give many titles to the teams he handles. That means he has something special that other coaches don't have. And what stands out the most in my opinion is in terms of the mentality that he can apply to the players.