⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽

[SuperBitMan]

Eze to Arsenal is indeed a dream come true for both player and the club fans. For me this is the most exciting transfer of the summer for Arsenal, I can’t measure the level of excitement I feel for this deal and the fact that Arsenal hijacked this transfer deal from their rivals Spurs just puts the icing on the cake lol.

Eze has always dreamt playing for Arsenal and this is a dream come true, after watching an interview where Eze talked about Arsenal I realize why he declined spur offer. As we can see Eze is so happy joining back the team viewing he was brought up by the gunners team a long time again, a lot of people made fun of spur well I don’t think that’s necessary at the moment because if choosing between Arsenal and spur I will go for Arsenal seeing how spur is a little club compared to Arsenal, you can see the joy in Eze’s face after the fans welcomed him last week.

Is a good decision for him and I know that he will do very well in Arsenal since he really love Arsenal he will putting his best and make sure that they lift trophies, Arsenal now has good players and I believe they may lift the premier League title this season, with what I'm seeing I think they are more informed than Liverpool right now so I believe they have every chance to lift the premier League title let them be determined to do that and the coach should also increase style of play, one thing I'm suspecting why Arsenal is always losing form towards the end of the season is because they usually know their tactics easily and if you know a team tactics you can easily win that team so the coach should look into that and make sure that his team tactics is untouchable.
Eze rejecting spur is a thing of choice, players usually have a team they love to play for just like the way mbappe really wanted to play for Real Madrid even when other clubs were coming for him with huge amount of money he still choose to join Real Madrid.

[jems]

Manchester City suffered an undeserved defeat against Tottenham at Etihad stadium. City played well and created enough chances, but with the goals conceded in the game, it broke their moral. The Gk, Trafford who isn't worth as a good backup goalkeeper made things worse. I feel Man city should intensify their pursuit for Donnarumma who will likely be a good goalkeeper for them; Trafford was really unprofessional in his performance.

The second goal City conceded was entirely Trafford's doings. I wonder how furious pep Guardiola felt after the match. Haaland and Marmoush made up the forward line playing an excellent football but neither of them scored in the game. Marmoush on the other hand wasted too many chances. The entire team is facing an instability in their games, so Pep Guardiola urgently need to find a better solution in goal and the forward area.

Talking about Trafford’s performance against Tottenham, you cannot compare see clearly that not every goalkeeper understands and can play Guardiola’s pattern of playing from the back. Even Trafford will excel in this team he will need more time to adapt to this style of Manchester City except Guardiola will bring in someone else and I doubt Donnarumma is good at playing from the back even.

Judging by Trafford's performance, it seems he doesn't fit Pep Guardiola's style of play, and Trafford's quality isn't particularly good either. This is perhaps a big reason Manchester City are so keen to sign Donnarumma from PSG.
Regardless of whether Donnarumma is a good fit, we haven't seen that yet, and no one will know until he proves it. What is certain is that Donnarumma possesses excellent qualities, and I sincerely hope Manchester City can sign him before the transfer window closes.

[Razmirraz]

What a fucking joke is Totenham as a team, poor fans and poor team itself, i mean they cant win anything important in years, they lose a ton of games against his rival and now they also fail in even buy players, what a failure of a team. They need to reborn in someway.

Is this "new" spurs team without Son and Kane a new one? Or is still the same with other names?

I'm not too surprised or positioning Tottenham as a failing team almost every season, you also know how competitive the EPL is, even a team like Man United who once succeeded in the EPL is increasingly under pressure with the rise of teams that have abundant resources to strengthen their squads. In my opinion, it is natural that Tottenham always fail because their resources are very limited, even if there is a team that is considered to have failed, it is Arsenal.
The difference is very clear here, especially since they are competing in the best league in the world. Tottenham needs a new injection of funds from investors or to be acquired by a new owner like Man City did to increase the depth of its squad.

I don't think it will be much different from the previous season, Tottenham will be a team that can only compete in the Europa League Zone or the Conference League, and even then, if they are in top form.

[Silikiem]

Manchester City suffered an undeserved defeat against Tottenham at Etihad stadium. City played well and created enough chances, but with the goals conceded in the game, it broke their moral. The Gk, Trafford who isn't worth as a good backup goalkeeper made things worse. I feel Man city should intensify their pursuit for Donnarumma who will likely be a good goalkeeper for them; Trafford was really unprofessional in his performance.

The second goal City conceded was entirely Trafford's doings. I wonder how furious pep Guardiola felt after the match. Haaland and Marmoush made up the forward line playing an excellent football but neither of them scored in the game. Marmoush on the other hand wasted too many chances. The entire team is facing an instability in their games, so Pep Guardiola urgently need to find a better solution in goal and the forward area.

Talking about Trafford’s performance against Tottenham, you cannot compare see clearly that not every goalkeeper understands and can play Guardiola’s pattern of playing from the back. Even Trafford will excel in this team he will need more time to adapt to this style of Manchester City except Guardiola will bring in someone else and I doubt Donnarumma is good at playing from the back even.

Judging by Trafford's performance, it seems he doesn't fit Pep Guardiola's style of play, and Trafford's quality isn't particularly good either. This is perhaps a big reason Manchester City are so keen to sign Donnarumma from PSG.
Regardless of whether Donnarumma is a good fit, we haven't seen that yet, and no one will know until he proves it. What is certain is that Donnarumma possesses excellent qualities, and I sincerely hope Manchester City can sign him before the transfer window closes.

Trafford is still a very young goalkeeper who newly joined Manchester city and I think he will need some time to really adapt well to the system of play in Manchester city, he had a premier league experience with Burnley and I can see so many potentials in him. If Manchester city can be patience with him I believe that trafford is going to be one of the best goalkeepers in the league soon, but if they don’t have that patience I think it will be best to send him out on loan so he can gain more playing chances and mature more for the future.

[Hewlet]

Eze to Arsenal is indeed a dream come true for both player and the club fans. For me this is the most exciting transfer of the summer for Arsenal, I can’t measure the level of excitement I feel for this deal and the fact that Arsenal hijacked this transfer deal from their rivals Spurs just puts the icing on the cake lol.

Eze has always dreamt playing for Arsenal and this is a dream come true, after watching an interview where Eze talked about Arsenal I realize why he declined spur offer. As we can see Eze is so happy joining back the team viewing he was brought up by the gunners team a long time again, a lot of people made fun of spur well I don’t think that’s necessary at the moment because if choosing between Arsenal and spur I will go for Arsenal seeing how spur is a little club compared to Arsenal, you can see the joy in Eze’s face after the fans welcomed him last week.

looking at how happy Eze is about his joining arsenal, if he is able to put in half the kind of play he hard at Newcastle, he is going to grow into becoming a sure legend of the club, arsenal. right from his infant, he has loved and been a fan of arsenal, growing up to see it come to reality is going to be something that makes him really happy as a person and certainly, it is going to also affect the way he plays because he is going to play not just as a stranger be as one that is playing for his club.  even from his first training with his team, he settled in really well and hard to even train an extra two hours after all his team mate had gone off the training arena. it will be interesting to see him play his face good and assist arsenal get good result in this season.

[Luzin]

The transfer window will close on Monday night. I'm waiting for some big surprises from EPL clubs. One of them is Man United—will they sign new players after their poor results in the first three games of the season? Amorim seems to have lost his magic in Portugal. In the EPL, Amorim seems to lack the same influence; his magic has faded. Reports suggest Onana, Hojlund, Maino, Alejandro Garnacho, Antony, Jadon Sancho, and Tyrell Malacia are ready to be released. However, I haven't heard any rumors about Manchester United signing new players. The only rumor circulating is about goalkeeper Senne Lammens potentially replacing Onana, with negotiations reportedly underway.

Source: https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13419284/premier-league-transfers-who-could-sign-before-deadline-day-in-summer-window-every-clubs-transfer-targets-assessed

[Volgastallion]

I cant believe how the Manchester United team always make good games against the big six even them being a shit but make the worst game posible against the weakest teams, i mean for example you can took the game against Arsenal for the first round, they play quite well against one title contender and deserve at least a draw, but after that they draw against Fulham and now they lsoe against a team for third division incredible.

[Abbatty]

The transfer window will close on Monday night. I'm waiting for some big surprises from EPL clubs. One of them is Man United—will they sign new players after their poor results in the first three games of the season? Amorim seems to have lost his magic in Portugal. In the EPL, Amorim seems to lack the same influence; his magic has faded. Reports suggest Onana, Hojlund, Maino, Alejandro Garnacho, Antony, Jadon Sancho, and Tyrell Malacia are ready to be released. However, I haven't heard any rumors about Manchester United signing new players. The only rumor circulating is about goalkeeper Senne Lammens potentially replacing Onana, with negotiations reportedly underway.

Source: https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13419284/premier-league-transfers-who-could-sign-before-deadline-day-in-summer-window-every-clubs-transfer-targets-assessed

For sure a lot of big names will still make move the premier and other premier league players will switch team, we are expecting Garnacho to move to Chelsea in couple of days and also Xavi Simons is heavily linked to both Tottenham and Chelsea, Liepzig gave him a go ahead to go to London in other to get this deal finalized. Chelsea feel what liepzig is asking for is too much, he might end up at Tottenham with Tottenham trying everything possible to replace the injured Madisson.

Both Chelsea and Manchester United have a lot of players to offload this summer, both teams are making progress to offload these players, both team will be busy in these few days before the window closes. Let see what happens in these couple of days.

[Moreno233]

Tottenham have been impressive this season with back to back wins in the premier league even against Manchester City but are about to record back to back loses to Arsenal in the transfer window lol. As if losing Eberechi Eze to Arsenal wasn’t enough Spurs are gearing up for another loss if Arsenal win the race for Piero Hincaié’s signature.

Tottenham is a strong team and he is really successful to showing his more improvements and more developments towards their game to make it  better. Tottenham proves they are good and strong enough to beat any stronger team. They are ready to give a tough time to their opponents. Manchester city is a good team and they are not in the position where they considered as the good team. Because Manchester city is really need to work on their defence line it's improvement helps them to have a good way of success. Arsenal is also in this list they are good but not the perfect in fact everything is need to learn the new things and improve themselves for the further achievements.

Tottenham may not be making much of a headline but if we evaluate them from last year till now, we will come to the agreement that they are doing extremely well. They were able to win the Europa League against Manchester United. This season they started very well and their most recent victory against Manchester City is an indication that no team in the English premiership they cannot win this season. The next few matches will give a clearer picture about their prospect this season.

[Altryist]

Since the start of this season, Manchester United's highest achievement has been a draw against Fulham. In the Premier League, Manchester United finished 16th. And in the EFL Cup, they even lost to a small club, Grimsby Town F.C., a top-four finisher in Football League 2.

This is truly embarrassing.

They even drew in the EFL Cup, but ultimately lost on penalties. And it was a 12-11 goals. This is truly, truly bizarre.

Now that Manchester United is out of the Champions League and will focus on the English Premier League, they certainly should have aimed for the best possible result in the Cup as well. Losing to a fourth-division team right at the start is a huge blow to Amorim’s reputation. It shows that the team is currently not competitive, this is a weak opponent they should have beaten comfortably, yet they barely managed a draw, and then lost in a long penalty shootout. I don’t even know what to say, it seems the team’s spirit is very low right now, and it looks like Amorim is unable to fix it.

[Alpha Marine]

Adding to another possible reason of seeing Arsenal the way he saw them is because there is a competition, some players who wants to wass strong puts a club they have to prove there performance a lot as a reason why they choose them, Eze is someone with a record that needs vibrant stars to unravel things about himself. His presence on Arsenal will future attracts more consideration than some other players on his position, I think currently Martin Odegaard and Ethan Nwaneri are some of the good Arsenal midfielders but Eberechi is another good and positive figure of that midfield even if is not now but definitely later.

I don't think it has anything to do with competition. Arsenal is simply a bigger club than Tottenham. Arsenal also have a better project than Tottenham. At Arsenal, he can play as a left winger and as an Attacking midfielder. He made the right decision choosing Arsenal.
Eze is a good player, and I wonder how Crystal Palace were able to keep him for that long. From the moment I watched him and Olise, I knew they would leave Crystal Palace for bigger teams. I'm really happy for him.

After the game I had to remember Amorim’s post match statement that after playing Arsenal they now realize that they are good enough to win any premier league side only to struggle against Fulham lol very delusional manager. Manchester United only played so well because it was the first game of the season, they are back to default settings again.

Amorim is not a good coach. I don't know how Man United fired Ten Hag, which was the right decision btw, then go ahead to hire someone worse. The way he lines up his team alone is enough reason to show that he is not a good coach. He is not good enough for a big team. I think United just need to start looking for a replacement and this time they should hire an experienced manager who can handle a top team.

[ibuddy122505]

Since the start of this season, Manchester United's highest achievement has been a draw against Fulham. In the Premier League, Manchester United finished 16th. And in the EFL Cup, they even lost to a small club, Grimsby Town F.C., a top-four finisher in Football League 2.

This is truly embarrassing.

They even drew in the EFL Cup, but ultimately lost on penalties. And it was a 12-11 goals. This is truly, truly bizarre.

Now that Manchester United is out of the Champions League and will focus on the English Premier League, they certainly should have aimed for the best possible result in the Cup as well. Losing to a fourth-division team right at the start is a huge blow to Amorim’s reputation. It shows that the team is currently not competitive, this is a weak opponent they should have beaten comfortably, yet they barely managed a draw, and then lost in a long penalty shootout. I don’t even know what to say, it seems the team’s spirit is very low right now, and it looks like Amorim is unable to fix it.

Team's spirit is very low that's for sure, and none can expected a 4th division side Grimsby Town eliminate Man United, just can't imagine! Man United should’ve easily won, but barely managing a draw before losing in penalties. They're struggling, but ManU need to regroup fast for the Premier League. If this continues, more surprises could follow but not the good kind. Fans are frustrated, and the pressure's mounting on.

[Tipstar]

Since the start of this season, Manchester United's highest achievement has been a draw against Fulham. In the Premier League, Manchester United finished 16th. And in the EFL Cup, they even lost to a small club, Grimsby Town F.C., a top-four finisher in Football League 2.

This is truly embarrassing.

They even drew in the EFL Cup, but ultimately lost on penalties. And it was a 12-11 goals. This is truly, truly bizarre.

Now that Manchester United is out of the Champions League and will focus on the English Premier League, they certainly should have aimed for the best possible result in the Cup as well. Losing to a fourth-division team right at the start is a huge blow to Amorim’s reputation. It shows that the team is currently not competitive, this is a weak opponent they should have beaten comfortably, yet they barely managed a draw, and then lost in a long penalty shootout. I don’t even know what to say, it seems the team’s spirit is very low right now, and it looks like Amorim is unable to fix it.

Team's spirit is very low that's for sure, and none can expected a 4th division side Grimsby Town eliminate Man United, just can't imagine! Man United should’ve easily won, but barely managing a draw before losing in penalties. They're struggling, but ManU need to regroup fast for the Premier League. If this continues, more surprises could follow but not the good kind. Fans are frustrated, and the pressure's mounting on.

Teams comes and goes. Unlike the clubs in past, there are no more sense of locality in clubs. There's no local ownership or strict requirement to have local players. Clubs has became an investment where investors seeks good ROI. Manchester United have failed in management, even after being such a rich club has failed to procure a good coach and players that align with the coach's goal. They have low grade players with no personal responsibility who blames other circumstances for their own failure.
There's no chance for ManU to regroup now. The best they could do is create a whole new team with an new coach and win the EFL title to be a good team a couple of years later.

[pawel7777]

Man United getting eliminated from the EFL cup by Grimsby Town, a club from League Two (so 3 tiers below the Premier League) is all over the news in the UK.
Of course, the EFL is not Amorim's priority, but I don't think they intended to give up the game. Definitely not when the team's performance is questionable and people start expressing doubts about whether Amorim knows what he's doing and whether he's the right man for the job.
To be fair to Man United, they did dominate the game in terms of shots on goal and ball possession, but they struggled to find the way to the net and it backfired on them. Onana's mistake with the 2nd goal for Grimsby didn't help either.
If they don't earn 3 points against Burnley (at home) this Saturday, I think the club owners might lose their patience and could start looking for Amorim's replacement. But it's not like they have any suitable candidates available anyway.

[len01]

Liverpool vs Arsenal

Many are looking forward to this big match, and Liverpool should have a better chance of winning. Arsenal are currently dealing with injuries to several key players such as Saka, Odegaard, and Kai Havertz. It looks like these players will be absent in the upcoming match, which gives Liverpool, as the home team, a good opportunity to win.

What do you think? Is Arsenal still confident enough to hold Liverpool to a draw or even try to beat them?"

[Pandu Geddon]

Liverpool vs Arsenal

Many are looking forward to this big match, and Liverpool should have a better chance of winning. Arsenal are currently dealing with injuries to several key players such as Saka, Odegaard, and Kai Havertz. It looks like these players will be absent in the upcoming match, which gives Liverpool, as the home team, a good opportunity to win.

What do you think? Is Arsenal still confident enough to hold Liverpool to a draw or even try to beat them?"

Arsenal and Liverpool performed well in their first two matches. However, Arsenal has not conceded any goals in both matches, while Liverpool has conceded 4 times in 2 matches. These matches are certainly anticipated by Premier League fans. I believe Liverpool will also be favored, and they are more prepared for this match. Although Arsenal certainly does not want to lose, and feels pressured.
I am still not sure about the outcome, but given Arsenal's current situation, it is likely that Arsenal will struggle and their best result will be a draw.

[DanWalker]

Man United getting eliminated from the EFL cup by Grimsby Town, a club from League Two (so 3 tiers below the Premier League) is all over the news in the UK.
Of course, the EFL is not Amorim's priority, but I don't think they intended to give up the game. Definitely not when the team's performance is questionable and people start expressing doubts about whether Amorim knows what he's doing and whether he's the right man for the job.
To be fair to Man United, they did dominate the game in terms of shots on goal and ball possession, but they struggled to find the way to the net and it backfired on them. Onana's mistake with the 2nd goal for Grimsby didn't help either.
If they don't earn 3 points against Burnley (at home) this Saturday, I think the club owners might lose their patience and could start looking for Amorim's replacement. But it's not like they have any suitable candidates available anyway.

yeah it is cruel to be kicked out by League Two Grimsby.  A startling Onana error & 2 late goal before they crashed out in penalties were part of that 12-11 penalty shootout loss following a 2-2 draw.  However in practice firing someone after a single subpar outcome is harsh, particularly when there is not a clear successor with the capacity to temporarily rebuild.  Amorim acknowledges that everything went wrong & promises to make things right.  Jumping ship now says more about panic than strategic planning but Burnley at home is a must win to calm the chaos.

[Proty]

Liverpool vs Arsenal

Many are looking forward to this big match, and Liverpool should have a better chance of winning. Arsenal are currently dealing with injuries to several key players such as Saka, Odegaard, and Kai Havertz. It looks like these players will be absent in the upcoming match, which gives Liverpool, as the home team, a good opportunity to win.

What do you think? Is Arsenal still confident enough to hold Liverpool to a draw or even try to beat them?"

To be frankly speaking, the match will definitely be a very strong match for Arsenal if it happens that those players are absent for long. You can't really talk of Arsenal attackers without mentioning saka and odegaard , they have a major role to play in the attack so without there presents there is going to be loopholes in arsenal attack, there attacking force will definitely reduce. Liverpool is a team that doesn't joke when they are Playing in arnfield, especially with the kind of performance they have been shown lately.
However, arsenal defense is very strong the possibility of draw can't be undermine.

[asriloni]

Liverpool vs Arsenal

Many are looking forward to this big match, and Liverpool should have a better chance of winning. Arsenal are currently dealing with injuries to several key players such as Saka, Odegaard, and Kai Havertz. It looks like these players will be absent in the upcoming match, which gives Liverpool, as the home team, a good opportunity to win.

What do you think? Is Arsenal still confident enough to hold Liverpool to a draw or even try to beat them?"

Yes, Arsenal is confident enough to hold Liverpool, why not? They have proper squad even to beat Liverpool. I rated them to be in the same level as Liverpool. So draw is most likely to happen, and i hope it happen. Only a bit worry about they most probably play without Saka.

As for the bet, i will be picking picking BTTS in this one. i believe these clubs have competence to score each other. So BTTS is also having big probability to happen. Only feel not confident enough because of draw 0-0 can also happen if they're all playing safely without intention to score.

I hope to see them to score each other.

[WatChe]

Now that Manchester United is out of the Champions League and will focus on the English Premier League, they certainly should have aimed for the best possible result in the Cup as well. Losing to a fourth-division team right at the start is a huge blow to Amorim’s reputation. It shows that the team is currently not competitive, this is a weak opponent they should have beaten comfortably, yet they barely managed a draw, and then lost in a long penalty shootout. I don’t even know what to say, it seems the team’s spirit is very low right now, and it looks like Amorim is unable to fix it.

Manchester United is out of League Cup after losing to fourth-tier team i.e. Grimsby Town. Surprisingly, Grimsby was winning the game until 75th minute when Bryan Mbeumo scored first goal for his side followed by an equaliser in 88th minute by Harry Maguire. The question is, if United can't beat a fourth-tier team then how they will survive in EPL where competition is at it's peak. United still looking for win in new season of EPL and it looks like they will repeat what they have done last season.