General Premier League Thread 2025/2026

Its amazing how much Chelsea have spent under Blueco and still dont have a half decent goalkeeper. Madness by them.

Man ageing is not for everyone

Everton are playing themselves into the champs league conversation. If Liverpool and Chelsea keep going like they are then they have a serious chance.

Chelsea and Liverpool trying their best to grab 6th!

How can Chelsea spend so much money to be so ordinary. Only three top class players in Enzo, Caicedo and Palmer. The rest are nothing special and both the keeper and manager are embarrassing.

It's a very low bar this year given top 5 to qualify and even then it's going to be an uphill task.

He won the league. It’s getting to decades since a ManU or Arsenal manager did that. That’s the goal. He fookin did it. The improvement from the previous season, with largely the same team, was immense.

Winning the league is tough, defending it is tougher.

Interesting to look at managers who have successfully defended the title in the last 50 years. I might be forgetting someone but I think it’s just Paisley, Ferguson, Jose and Pep.

Dalglish won 3, never defended. Wenger won 3, never defended. George Graham, Brian Clough never successfully defended. Many many more.

So Liverpool were never going to win the league this season.

Plus Liverpool players getting constant reminders that their mate died horribly in the summer can’t help with their drive and intensity, but it’s absolutely more important that we (LFC fans) honour him throughout this season and never forget him. But imo that’s the main reason we’re 5th/6th and not 3rd You can’t just can’t expect that not to impact players in their day job

The team still has big performances in it. Still in the hunt for a couple of trophies. Underdogs for sure, but we’ll see.

Looking at the games tomorrow and depending on results Spurs could end up in the bottom 3.

Totally agree. Slot did fantastically well last season to win the league. I dont think Klopp would have won it to be honest. Add the fact its difficult to win back to back titles...add the Jota death and this season was always going to be difficult for them. Then you look at the signings and they've been poor bar mabe Ekitile. Wirtz for the money spent has been very poor in the games I've watched him and then the levels of VVD and Alisson has dropped off. Still think Slot wull get them champions league football next season

At the rate Liam is going he’ll be updating his LinkedIn status soon to searching for a new opportunity.

Did Andrews watch the Champions League during the week and decide he didn’t want any part in that passing football nonsense? Leeds Brentford a terrible match.

That’s a fair question and I get what you’re saying. The tributes are obviously well-intentioned, but maybe they’re a distraction now? I don’t know. The players are human, but they’re also professionals. I doubt they’re fully focused for 19 minutes, then lose all composure at the 20th minute and let it affect the rest of their performance. Especially when it’s become a regular thing now. This shouldn’t take anyone by surprise.

The reminders are about showing respect - they’re not really something you can point to as a reason for poor results over the course of a full season imo. It might affect individuals at times, but using it as a main explanation for how the team’s performed overall still feels like a stretch to me. I’m just not buying the ‘this is the difference between 3rd and 6th place’ logic.

How does it work then? Do you need to wait for a bad decision in your favour to be balanced out first before you can complain about one going against you?