Today’s Football 25/26 Season

[DualityNSNO]

The Premier League these days is like Serie A in the nineties. The most expensive players cancelling each other out and the occasional moment of brilliance which is then replayed over and over again to try and make you believe it was less boring than it actually was.

Or Serie A in the 00s. Or the 2010s. Or now, really, as Napoli are also not exactly poor themselves.

 

[dannyboy]

City deserved nothing from that game, time wasting from 10 minutes and 9 cbs on the pitch. Take Haaland away and they are a poor team for what they cost

Early days but they look really far away from a title challenge. Liverpool beat that City team comfortably today. Arsenal carrying on with celebrations when there was still 4 minutes to go says it all about their title credentials.

 

[Seathestars]

Early days but they look really far away from a title challenge. Liverpool beat that City team comfortably today. Arsenal carrying on with celebrations when there was still 4 minutes to go says it all about their title credentials.

They did exactly this in a game last season although I can't remember who against, it was near the end of the season as well, at a vital time I mean.

 

[matty1878]

Done with footy.

why’s that mate

 

[Drico]

Five games is a small sample size - although it does represent over 13% of the season. Already, Liverpool are averaging a point a game more than Arsenal.

That was a great result for them today. A City win might have sparked something in Pep's men. An Arsenal win would have reassured Arteta that his side can genuinely compete. As it is, both drop points, gain little in the way of confidence, whilst Liverpool sputter to inevitable wins by finding a way (not to play a fair amount of injury time).

All over by Christmas.

 

[davek]

It's over for the Premier League. Not fit for purpose.

No spectacle. Stale and predictable.

If that happens in any other branch of entertainment it gets binned and replaced.

The Euro Super League lot sensed that but hadn't counted on fans of the elite clubs* realising that they're - corruptly determined - eternal placement at the top of English football was about to end and derailed it.

It still makes it over though. A moribund competition however way you cook it. English top flight football is a failed project.




*Still makes me laugh that Spurs are considered elite. Lol.

 

[jaycee]

Arsenal, City, Chelsea all spent money and yet I can't think of a single position or option they have improved on, City maybe with the keeper but it wasn't a priority for them

 

[Drico]

Pep trying to shithouse a one nil is mind boggling. Looks so stale and clueless.

Every time he brings that nunes on they look worse.

People rightly say Mourinho is finished, but Pep has also been fading rapidly in plain sight over the last few seasons...

Yesterday's men.

At least Klopp had the good decency to go out at the top. We'll probably only see him properly again when some good German youth players mature enough to make a World Cup tilt a worthwhile comeback. 2030.

 

[davek]

Five games is a small sample size - although it does represent over 13% of the season. Already, Liverpool are averaging a point a game more than Arsenal.

That was a great result for them today. A City win might have sparked something in Pep's men. An Arsenal win would have reassured Arteta that his side can genuinely compete. As it is, both drop points, gain little in the way of confidence, whilst Liverpool sputter to inevitable wins by finding a way (not to play a fair amount of injury time).

All over by Christmas.

It will be. And next season.

It could just end the PL for good.

What the PL need to do is recalibrate the way they tell refs to officiate games amongst the elite clubs. Still get the same outcome but tweak it so that there's final day uncertainty.

They can do that easily enough, as they've proven in the past.

They've just gone a bit overboard with Liverpool. They need to peg them back a bit and then set it up for a final weekend 90 minute *shootout* as they've successfully created before.

 

[milky]

City shouldn't have sold de bruyne. Play him against the top 6 and cl games and rest him for the others.

 

[davek]

Arsenal, City, Chelsea all spent money and yet I can't think of a single position or option they have improved on, City maybe with the keeper but it wasn't a priority for them

Liverpool have spent more and are the same level as them if you take out the bent decisions.

It is what it is: choreography.

 

[Seathestars]

It's over for the Premier League. Not fit for purpose.

No spectacle. Stale and predictable.

If that happens in any other branch of entertainment it gets binned and replaced.

The Euro Super League lot sensed that but hadn't counted on fans of the elite clubs* realising that they're - corruptly determined - eternal placement at the top of English football was about to end and derailed it.

It still makes it over though. A moribund competition however way you cook it. English top flight football is a failed project.




*Still makes me laugh that Spurs are considered elite. Lol.

If the scab 6 tried to leave again I would willing let them and close the door behind them.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but perhaps it was a mistake making them stay.

 

[jaycee]

Liverpool have spent more and are the same level as them if you take out the bent decisions.

It is what it is: choreography.

They are above all three of them squad wise and playing wise as much as it hurts to say

 

[davek]

They are above all three of them squad wise and playing wise as much as it hurts to say

It's all a theatrical production mate. The PL is a nonsense. The refs are told what to do and they sometimes make it more obvious than others what they're told to do.

It's a cartel of clubs that stay together as long as there's some sharing of the spoils over a period of seasons.

 

[davek]

If the scab 6 tried to leave again I would willing let them and close the door behind them.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but perhaps it was a mistake making them stay.

The only ones who stopped them leaving were their own canny supporters who realised they'd lose their golden ticket to stay elite clubs. No other fans were kicking off trying to get them to stay.