Alexander Isak will be on Homes Under The Hammer - Premier League 2025/2026

Decided to bite the bullet. Haven't started a thread in many years.

Will Arsenal finally win the league? Will Liverpool be worse despite spending 200m? Will Man City get relegated due to 115 charges or grimly return to form? Will Man United stop being funny? Can even one promoted team stay up? How angry can Newcastle fans get?

Have at it!

Something about Spurs. Setpieces/violent roughhousing?

Finally, on the right board

Hooray! Looking forward to watching MOTD with the boy and not otherwise engaging unless Liverpool win something and there's another parade.

Oh and beating that cunt from Mumford & Sons at FPL again. Is there an ILX FPL league out there?

You won't watch it live? I have to say through a combo of getting older, TV subscriptions, Liverpool being fairly consistently good, and general ennui of life, I am prob deeper in than ever. Several podcasts a week, BT and Sky at home etc. Maybe also Liverpool finally winning the league then repeating it means football doesn't have the grinding painful anxiety it had every season when I was younger. I can enjoy it more.

i look forward to another season of grinding painful anxiety

Tbh after I posted that I started thinking how anxious I was even when we were miles ahead last year.

I dunno, it's so hard to find a stream these days and I just have so much to do every Saturday anyway. Might be changing jobs soon though so maybe things will change a bit. It's something to talk about at family gatherings, though the family still in Liverpool either support Everton or Forest (long story)

All three promoted teams to go straight back down for, I think, the third season in a row?

Have seen a couple of pundits tip Leeds to buck the trend at the expense of Wolves

A couple of evil pundits.

Sunderland have spent loads also

West Ham not great?

West Ham will be fine I reckon. Brentford seem the best candidates to keep one of the new teams up but I doubt it tbh. I reckon City will win it. My football consumption (other than League 1) is just Second Captains and 3min highlights on YouTube

Brentford hiring Keith Andrews with zero management experience is a brave move (though to be fair he does have some assistant manager experience, though to be even fairer it was for MK Dons and they were relegated that season)

Definitely a worry. He is red hot favourite to be sacked first.

I wish Keith well obviously as long as he finishes below us

Bournemouth have decided to set the fifa setting to ultimate for iriola and he's clearly done a great job but I think they'll struggle , same with forest. not enough to go down tho probably.

in amongst all the money lfc are throwing around I hope I've missed them extending konate's contract or are they going to let him leave for nothing next summer?
if lfc don't win tmrw then the winless in the league streak stretches to what 5 games?
slot out in that case.

I think city will be closer to last season version than 2019-2024 version.
think arsenal will win the league.

Sounds like Konate could be off. There were even a few rumours Real might try to buy him this summer.

I think they need to keep him if at all possible. the way the team sets up this season him and vvd will have to do a tonne of one on one defending and I trust both of them to manage that, not sure anyone we've been linked with could cope as well. of course it helps to have allisson mind you.

I know it's twenty mins in but feel like there's not a lot of attacking coherence in Liverpool at all.

Good game this.

Liverpool all over the place defensively

Never in doubt (that Mo would score in the opening game).

What a game. Unbelievably sad to see Mo crying at the final whistle as the whole stadium sings for Jota.

I think Liverpool's problem is midfield exposing the defence. Wirtz is quality but isn't going to do anything besides attack. Szobo at 8 is too undisciplined, and Gravy is suspended. That said, Konate was terrible tonight.

Ekitike looks brilliant tho, exciting player. Wirtz still settling but love how his first touch is almost always a pass.

Could be a mental season with this attacking setup but I hope they find a more controlled structure for the sake of my health.

indisciplined*

For three seasons we’ve had more points than any other team in this league, which is incredible. That’s how you have all the consistency. Now we have to do it in a season to have one more point or the same amount of points and more goals different than any other team. That’s the objective.”

apparently this isn't even true, man city have more, but also... this is why people dislike arteta. he makes it sound like they need to just flukily be top of the league when the season ends having done the harder bit of having a good average points score.

not sure whether to watch this

looks like Martinez is suspended for Villa, wonder what happened there?

Sent off at end of last season

[lightly quivering] not ringing any bells

Yeah i detected the note of fake insouciance

Not notably missing Martinez so far

new guy looks good so far. he's had more to do than I'd like

Well yeah, he's done good tho

Every pass is going wrong, this is getting tiresome. That said, the tempo is pretty crazy. Newcastle’s midfield get in there so fast

New goalie looks legit, this could be a big step up from Olsen

Weird seeing both teams in the same colour shorts. What is this, Ted Lasso?

Think Villa had a bit more impact in the last 5 minutes, hopefully they build on that

Welp, the Prem's back baby

newcastle could really use a prolific striker, you feel.

Classy celebrating like they've just won the league tho

not sure there are many groups of fans who will relish hating one of their own players as much as newcastle fans will with isak.

if there's one thing Newcastle fans can't stand, it's Jamal Kashoggi's widow. But if there are two things they can't stand, you can add A Player That Doesnt Give His All For That Famous Black and White Shirt as well

alan shearer - got newcastle relegated

alexander isak - won a trophy for newcastle for the first and last time in their history

yet the latter is the villain here???

only one goal in the prem so far today and it's richarlison

Richarlison’s second goal was tremendous.

Forget yer Arsenal v. Spurs or Chelsea v. Fulham or whatever, Newcastle v Sunderland games are going to give the Premier League a taste of a truly venomous derby.

Grant Xhaka as Sunderland captain should def help with that

so wolves are going to beat man city 4-0 then

https://i.postimg.cc/B6dXNmZS/Screenshot-20250816-165109.jpg

I'm enjoying this brief moment of respite trying to work out e.g. if West Ham are shit or not

before I end up crying into this thread in a bit

Wolves playing p well so far

Well yeah buf

And suspend relegation too I suppose?

I know this is not going to happen, but imagine if City win it with a game in hand, then the FFP judgement comes in, they get docked 100 points, they have to hand over the trophy to Arsenal and Spurs are saved from relegation.

the worst three teams in the league get relegated every year, i never had a problem with it before

at least one of them has usually been reffed like shit most of the season also as I understand it

Got good memories of going to see Spurs when they were in the second division as was. They scraped a 3-3 draw against Millwall, think Hoddle got the opener. Glory days!

RIP wolves :(

time for travelling fans to look up directions to Deepwell, Ashton Gate, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

wasn't sure if I should say anything but for the record, Spurs will tonk Wolves and then be gifted a 2-0 counter-attacking victory by a game but catastrophically distracted Aston Villa. Stick the house on it

I have never! been! wrong!

Chelsea, very funny

tonking us isn't really a bold prediction but it should be a classic "stoppable force meets moveable object" tie

perhaps shades of that recent Onion article about some American sport game getting abandoned after both teams had failed to recover the ball for several hours

but no, 6 out of a possible 6 it is, then it's between God and West Ham Utd from there

Commiserations re: Wolves, hope they get themselves sorted and come back up btw

if i was betting then right now i'd be backing a double relegation, but i'll be huffing blind optimism until at least 2 games in. we're in a classic "impossible to tell if any of the current players are any good because of the whole shitshow" situation, and somehow this time i don't think we'll be signing the 2026 equivalents of Neves or Moutinho. come to think of it the 2026 Moutinho would probably still be in the starting 11 of this squad

you will not be double relegated. love, someone who has seen your next season's opposition sides of late

i keep asking myself if Leicester looked in notably worse shape at the end of last season than we do at the end of this one, and i'm not seeing it

Does this mean Brighton will be in the Champions League next season?

if they get top 5: yeah, if they finish 6th: only if Villa both win the Europa League and finish exactly 5th

OK, I lose track of how many English teams get to play in the Champions League, it seems to increase every year.

it's been 5 for the past two seasons because of English clubs' performance in Europe, with a 6th spot possible this year based on one permutation involving Villa and the Europa League but not some others

I think at one point it could have been 7 CL spots based on Liverpool winning it and finishing outside the top 6 and Forest winning Europa, with a theoretical maximum of 11 English teams in Europe overall. Football would presumably be finally swallowed up by hell in this scenario

Rosenior's toast

My god lol

They'll be crying on the streets of Blueco tonight

spurs wont beat wolves nor anyone else they havent won in training in six months why wont ye listen

Barman's just told me Rosenior's gone.

read that as batman

Nah he's not here right now

🚨 BREAKING: Chelsea part company with head coach Liam Rosenior. #CFC wanted to give 41yo much longer but results dictated otherwise. FA Cup + CL push key factors. Calum McFarlane to take interim charge before permanent appointment in summer @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/ASk6XrxJdo

— David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) April 22, 2026

"#CFC wanted to give 41yo much longer but being absolutely shit dictated otherwise"

I feel like this is one of those where the players downed tools as soon as he was appointed, not that that's an excuse

Just sayin' like.

Alarm bells should be frantically ringing for Chelsea fans because this sounds like the kind of garbage Wilfred Nancy was coming out with. I'll be amazed if this guy is still Chelsea manager at the end of the season but I'm prepared to be proven wrong.

― Wearing red lipstick and maintaining a neutral expression (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 January 2026 11:00 (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Feels quite like Spurs, both in having an ill-assembled bunch of young players bought without much thought as to where they fit and in the hierarchy clearly giving the dressing room termination rights. idk why they gave him a six year deal.

Twelve million quid? I wish I could get sacked by Chelsea: I'm pretty sure I could lead them to five straight home defeats.

I would make it my business to do that

just seen the Spurs v Wolves game referred to as the L Classico

Molineaux PA should have this queued up already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWYm1DZ650

Forest scoring five times from six shots on goal and 1xg is the kind of fortune Spurs could do with tomorrow.

Somebody should've told Rob Edwards a draw's no good for us

i don't know if i can sit thru another 5 hours of this

Two teams that don't want to score

Salah off with a hamstring injury, guess that's that then.

Xavi off too. May be the last hope of either side getting a shot on target going with him.

my stream just died and i'm not bothering to track down another one

spurs about to... win a game?

Everton level!

The hope that will inevitably kill you.

Lol withdrawing my attention was obviously the way to go

Ooh West Ham

At least the hope was short-lived this time.

Spurs are 100% doing Villa next weekend, I'm telling you. Onana's injured again and we've got a disproportionately terrifying two-legged semifinal with Forest either side

Lovely goal from Wirtz

Side note but seems completely bizarre there is a (high stakes) Premier League match on at the same time as the FA Cup final.

FA Cup has been treated terribly for a few years now in terms of clashing fixtures