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Arsenal's 2025-26 season forecast: 7 well-known commentators and websites discuss the competition for winning the championship or running-up 2 again

Will this year finally be Arsenal's year?

After making up for the shortcomings of Mikel Arteta's lineup with eye-catching signings, Arsenal fans dream of seeing the team win the Premier League trophy next May. But what are the commentators’ expectations for the upcoming 2025-26 season?

We have collected seven commentators, writers and websites for Arsenal's predictions this season.

Alan Shearer - 2nd place

The Premier League's top scorer has written a complete 1-20 league standings forecast for Betfair, optimistic about Liverpool's defending champion...and Mikel Arteta's Gunners will be second again.

In fact, he expects the top five to completely replicate the situation last season, with Manchester City, Chelsea and his beloved Newcastle United in third, fourth and fifth respectively.

Sheer elaborated on his predictions during his recent "The Rest Is Football" podcast.

"I think they will challenge. I just feel like they might lose again," he said.

"I like all their signings. I think that's exactly what they need, and I think they may not have ended in signings, and of course the players are not over. "

"I'm sure they will make it to the Champions League, but I just feel that they don't have enough strength to win the championship - that's a little bit short. "

Gary Lyinkel - 2nd place

The former Daily Game host agrees with Shearer and Mika Richards and predicts that Arsenal will finish second in the fourth straight season.

"I agree with you both on this point. If Liverpool hadn't been so strong, I might not have said that," said Leinker.

"It depends a lot on Yorke's performance. I mean he scored a great goal in the preseason, but we all know that preseason isn't that important. But for the forwards, it's still important to find a goal. "

" So I think it depends a lot on him, but we know he'll get a good support. I think they might be close to the championship again, but I chose to agree (runner-up). "

Joe Cole - No. 4

Wow.

The former England international predicts that his old clubs Liverpool (1st) and Chelsea (3rd) will be ahead of the Gunners, as does Manchester City (2nd).

Irving Hargreaves - No. 2

In the same prediction article written for TNT Sports, Hargreaves is more optimistic about Arsenal - but he still doesn't think they can win the championship.

At the end of last season, Hargreaves said that if Arsenal made up for the striker and midfield, they would be able to make a breakthrough. Now they have signed Victor Yorke and Martin Suvimenti.

"Go and buy someone who takes the responsibility of scoring goals," Hargreaves told the Premier League official website in March.

"You already have everything else - top goalkeepers, the best defense in the league, the midfield is absolutely excellent, you just need to bring in another person to partner with Declan Rice and Martin Odgau. "

"Go buy a striker and a midfielder. So you can win everything. "

Still, he predicts that Arsenal will be runner-up. Obviously he is more impressed by Liverpool's summer operations.

The Athletic - 2nd place

The Athletic's team of journalists predicts that Arsenal will be second again, behind Liverpool but ahead of Manchester City.

However, their employees have obvious differences over the Gunners' final ranking in the top three in the Premier League.

31% of voters are optimistic about their championship, 31% think they will be runner-up, and 31% expect them to fall to third. The remaining 7% think they will be fourth, and no one predicts that they will fall out of the Champions League zone in a catastrophic way.

Adam Crafton, Nick Miller and Ayo Akinworere explicitly support Arsenal to the top.

"It may be a bit strange to say this for a team that finished second, but I think Arsenal was sometimes frustratingly lax last season," Crafton replied in his selection of the "the most advanced team in the league."

"This time they look much more complete, with key positions strengthened, and maybe Eberec Eze will join. Their roster really doesn't see any shortcomings, so Mikel Arteta has to keep the team on fire from the beginning to win a trophy that matches his coaching achievements. "

"It's time," he added, supporting the Gunners to the top.

"He was almost forgotten in the hustle and bustle of the summer, but Trent Alexander Arnold's transfer to Real Madrid has a significant impact on Liverpool. "

Premier League commentator team - No. 2

Premier League official website invited a team of six journalists to make the 2025-26 season forecast.

Half of them are optimistic about Pep Guardiola's Manchester City's strong return to win the championship, only one supports Liverpool, and two are optimistic about Arsenal. Adrian Clark, a graduate of the Youth Training Academy, believes that his old club will realize his dream this year, and journalist Nynard Babadikar also holds the same view.

Others predicted that the Gunners ranked between second and fourth, with an average second place.

OPTA - 2nd place

data giant OPTA used its famous supercomputer to perform 10,000 simulations of the upcoming season to predict the final result.

simulated average shows that Arsenal is second again. Liverpool ranks top, Manchester City and Chelsea ranked third and fourth.

In the simulation, the Gunners have a 24.3% chance of winning the championship, while Liverpool has 28.5%, Manchester City has 18.8%, and Chelsea has 8.4%.

They entered the top four in most simulation results, and there was no 0.1% chance of falling into the downgrade zone. Worthy of gratitude.

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