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Premier League Predictions: Every Big Six club’s biggest problem in 2025/26

5Sep

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Premier League Predictions: Every Big Six club’s biggest problem in 2025/26

With the first month of the 2025/26 Premier League season in the books, the big clubs in the English top flight are figuring out how their new-look squads are taking shape, especially after finalizing deadline day transfers on Sept. 1. Over the international break, managers around the Premier League will be busy tweaking their tactics in response to what they saw over the first three matchdays of the campaign Here is the biggest problem every Big Six club in the Premier League needs to address during the 2025/26 season, based on a combination of preconceived notions before the campaign began and what transpired across the first three fixtures. Manchester United Ruben Amorim's rigid marriage to his 3-4-3 system has been well-documented, though the Portuguese manager has shown signs ...

Champions League Predictions: 5 clubs at greatest risk of facing complete turmoil in 2025/26 season

3Sep

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Champions League Predictions: 5 clubs at greatest risk of facing complete turmoil in 2025/26 season

The 2025/26 Champions League campaign will officially begin in a matter of weeks with the league phase, as the summer 2025 transfer window has been wrapped up and sealed with a bow. Most of the big players in the Champions League, like Liverpool and Real Madrid, were also major buyers on the transfer market, as superstars like Alexander Isak and Trent Alexander-Arnold moved around this summer window. The Premier League's Big Six, in particular, were big spenders, proving the notion that the Super League is really just the biggest clubs in the Premier League isn't just a prognostication for the future; it's already rapidly happening in front of us. But as teams head into the 2025/26 season with boatloads of optimism, there is reason for trepidation among some of European football's...

Grading the 10 most expensive Premier League transfers of the summer 2025 window

2Sep

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Grading the 10 most expensive Premier League transfers of the summer 2025 window

The 2025 summer transfer window officially came and went, and the Premier League bossed every other league in European football with numerous record deals and blockbuster transfers, proving that there is indeed a growing gulf between the English top flight and all other leagues. All the spending and blockbuster transfers promise to make an already highly competitive Premier League even more intriguing in the 2025/26 season, and now that the dust has finally settled, it's time to grade all of the biggest transfers of the window. All prices are provided in euros and courtesy of Transfermarkt so that the ranking and comparison of fees can be consistent. 10. Viktor Gyokeres to Arsenal, 65.8M Arsenal had to snag a new striker this summer transfer window by any means necessary, and while...

Premier League Power Rankings: The 5 most likely teams to be relegated in 2025/26

30Aug

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Premier League Power Rankings: The 5 most likely teams to be relegated in 2025/26

We’re two weeks into the 2025-26 Premier League season, and it’s already looking like it will be one of the most competitive in recent history. There are three teams fighting for the title and at least eight who could challenge for the top four. Let’s look at the other side of the table, though. Here are the five teams most likely to be relegated this season. Wolves Wolves have been tipped to go down for at least a couple seasons now. They’ve managed to avoid the drop, and I think they’ll do the same this season. That said, this is set to be their toughest Premier League campaign in some time. Matheus Cunha scored or assisted nearly 40% of Wolves’ league goals last season and Rayan Aït-Nouri is one of the best attacking full-backs in the Premier League. Losing them will be difficult...

What can we expect from Gio Reyna at Borussia Monchengladbach?

29Aug

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What can we expect from Gio Reyna at Borussia Monchengladbach?

There's nothing American football (wait, sorry, soccer) fans love more than hyping up one of their own, and finally, in the 2020s there have been a slew of young American footballers actually worth hyping up. Most of them found their first foothold in the Bundesliga, and with the success of Christian Pulisic, who would bag a Champions League trophy at Chelsea before becoming an even better player for AC Milan, there's been no shortage of fans scouring the German top flight for the next big thing in the USMNT. It was only natural, then, for the next big American talent at Borussia Dortmund, Gio Reyna, to be the next vict- I mean, uh, subject of the hype machine that is the entirely niche - and mostly stupid - so-called "mainstream" American soccer punditry. I call them "mostly stup...

29Aug

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How good is Jorgen Strand Larsen?

As Newcastle do their best to hold onto Alexander Isak thinking that making a "statement" - whatever that means - is worth keeping around a notoriously moody player who clearly doesn't want to be at the club, they are still doing their due diligence to sign a striker to replace Isak, should he end up moving to reigning Premier League champions Liverpool anyway. Isak was the best striker in the Premier League last season, so it's only natural for Newcastle fans and everyone else to wonder how far the downgrade will go to the next No. 9. Yoane Wissa scored 19 goals for Brentford alongside newly-minted Manchester United signing Bryan Mbeumo, and he's on Newcastle's radar despite doing what is essentially a harsher version to Brentford of what Isak is doing to Newcastle. The latest st...

Why Manchester United is so bad year after year

28Aug

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Why Manchester United is so bad year after year

If you are reading this article, I assume you are an intelligent football fan, because I don't know of many blithering idiots who stumble onto The Trivela Effect. No, no, usually those trolls end up somewhere like Diario Gol or Don Balon while they fiddle with their dial-up connection. Because you are an intelligent football fan, you acknowledge that Manchester United are indeed bad. Very bad. In fact, they are so horrendous that it almost defies belief that a club that has given the world so many of the finest footballers of all time - Cristiano Ronaldo, Paul Scholes, Nemanja Vidic, David Beckham, Eric Cantona, Bobby Charlton, Ryan Giggs, Wayne Rooney, George Best, Denis Irwin, Roy Keane...OK I'll stop now - could be such an abject failure in 2025. It has been more than a decade sin...

The 5 best Real Betis players you need to know for the 2025/26 season

27Aug

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The 5 best Real Betis players you need to know for the 2025/26 season

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a bigger club that still gets treated like a small club than Real Betis. Year after year, they are in the hunt for Champions League football, and just last year, they made it to the Conference League Final against Chelsea. Some of the biggest legends of Spanish football have come through Betis, such as Joaquin, and reigning Champions League winner Fabian Ruiz actually got his first breakout with Real Betis...alongside a certain Real Madrid center midfielder by the name of Dani Ceballos. Real Betis have designs on making it back to the Champions League this season, but who are the main protagonists leading the charge after the Verdiblancos finished sixth in the league last season? I'll take you through the five players I think you should kno...

Premier League Predictions: The 5 most likely managers to be fired before 2026 begins

26Aug

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Premier League Predictions: The 5 most likely managers to be fired before 2026 begins

The 2025-26 Premier League season has kicked off, and several managers are already on the hot seat. Some of them won’t be around for much longer. Here are the five managers most likely to be fired before 2026 begins. 5. Ruben Amorim (Manchester United) Since Sir Alex Ferguson, every new Manchester United manager has been told he’ll be given time to build. Yet, not a single one has lasted more than 30 months in charge. A third of them didn’t even make it more than a year. Ruben Amorim has been given the same assurances from new Man Utd owner INEOS, but, based on how his team has performed so far, it’s not hard to imagine him as the next Red Devils’ boss whose project is cut short. The former Sporting CP boss somehow made Man Utd worse than they were under Erik ten Hag. United los...

Premier League Predictions: The biggest question for each Big 6 club in 2025/26

25Aug

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Premier League Predictions: The biggest question for each Big 6 club in 2025/26

The Premier League is underway, but there’s still enough time to interrogate the league’s top teams. Here is one question for each Big 6 club that could decide their seasons. Manchester United: Who plays in midfield? Ruben Amorim’s first half-season at Manchester United was plagued by every problem imaginable. As David Moyes once said, Man Utd “must improve in a number of areas, including passing, creating chances and defending.” The Red Devils addressed some of those issues in attack by spending €225m to sign Benjamin Sesko, Bryan Mbeumo, and Matheus Cunha. The defense was already in decent shape and should remain so this season (provided key players stay healthy). Goalkeeper is another issue, but Andre Onana is at least serviceable. That just leaves the midfield. So far, Amorim...