Liverpool FC Premier League Champions 25/26 - Talk /Gossip/Rumours

I watched both Arsenal and City games.

The standard of football in the PL is gone yhrough the floor. 2 games of pure muck.

Pep hasn't won a EFL Cup since 2020 season, a FA Cup since 2022 season, a PL Title since 2023 season

Next Sunday is EFL Final, but Arsenal are chasing the quad , so they won't lie down. Will Pep ever win another trophy for City , if this season is another blank he'll leave.

Klopp knew when to walk

City have a lookalike lined up . Pep and Klopp were the best PL Era

Nope they really are dragging the game into disrepute faking two head injuries in ten minutes against a relegated team, dragging a badly injured Conor off the pitch apart from all else - just terrible and to call them champions if their fans can click with that they are just sad kants.

Before they went down this path they were also hit by Citys cheating but rsther than beat them decided to join them enabled by insipid refereeing

The outcome of their league title win will be rule changes to stop the game becoming unwatchable which it pretty much is at the moment..

**** housing your way to a title, there is no Liverpool fan I know who'd prescribe us adopting that stuff. The football this season has become unwatchable.

For supporters supposed to not care what others think the fact you have posts from their fans in here seem to indicate they do care what others think. We all care what others think of us in some way, I am sure their fans that used to have a superiority complex over other teams style of play are hurting inside a little at what they are seeing, even if they are winning. Anyone remember the "Hooooffff" shouts when others teams cleared the ball against them about 10 years ago? Those same supporters are now happy with what they see their team doing? I guess only Arsenal fans can say and even then they may not be honest in a public forum.

Still prefer them to win over City or United, even with their cynical play and focus on set pieces and the darks arts at corners when it comes to blocking the opposition, not even talking about their unlikeable attitude as was seen with Martinelli and Bradley. If the roles were reversed I suspect Arteta would have gone to court to have our player arrested for manhandling and abusing their injured player. But easier to swallow than the alternative.

It's for the league and other clubs to react imo.

Not an Arsenal problem - far from it.

Arsenal has invested heavily in defensive capability and execute a great defensive game plan like getting back into formation at speed all that is laudible and built on hard work no issue with any of that.

If it delivers a league to them fair play. The issue comes from faking injuries in particular head injuries and delaying restarts etc. That's the distinction.

As for your point every Liverpool fan would love to win the title the Arsenal way, utter nonsense. We won 20 titles not needing to do it. Anfield is not exactly singing from the rafters with Slots version of controlled football even after the recent 5-2 win against West Ham as an example.

If City win game in hand, gap is six, if they beat Arse gap is 3, would make it interesting

Yeah great point in fairness. What rule changes do you think they'll go for? Instead of awarding a corner kick, you get a 45 kick in instead? Maybe a throw in or a drop ball? Interesting summer ahead.

They are not alone. Lots, if not most teams, are doing similar. Rugby corner kicks and time wasting. To give them credit, they have built a team without fiddling the books like City.

A rule change I would like enforced. If a dive results in a yellow to the other team, which I think is always a VAR incident, then it should be openly cancelled and immediately a yellow handed to the diver.

Open mic on the ref would change the abuse they get overnight.

Maybe a shot clock like rugby would be easier to implement. That's for all dead ball situations. Stop the full clock using open mic on ref for injuries that eat time. Enforce rigidly during added time.

Overall I think given the last few years, I'm at peace with Arsenal winning it. Of all our historically serious competitors they are the most palatable as they are generally well managed as a company and also not tied to some maniacal regime. Don't like how they play much, and not a big fan of Arteta, but can't say they don't deserve it imo especially when everyone is playing awful football. It's an ugly season, but then somebody's got to step up. It's crazy to think they've gone 22 years without winning, really, not that far away from our 30 years, and we had a CL in the middle to tide us over. It was a lost opportunity for us this year, but then last year was a gift so that's a wash. We need to come out with major intentions next year, because it will be there for the taking again imo.

Think a draw is the best result really, less total points awarded (2 instead of 3), and Villa are still in terrible form either way (no wins in 4 with a draw or loss) and will prob drop out anyway.

Personally I would be happy if United stumble a bit before the end of the season. Ideal scenario is Carrick does just enough to get the full time position, but not enough to build a strong confidence, and then stays on to start next season and crashes and burns like clockwork. So that would look like a couple of draws and losses, and maybe 4th place finish for them (and 3rd for us lol).