Goals, Goals and More Goals: Why 2025-2026 Could be the Most Exciting EPL Season in Recent Memory

It’s only July, and it feels like, for the first time in a long time, EPL fans have a pretty good idea of what every top EPL team will look like next season. Even Arsenal, who perennially disappoint their fans, are finally signing attackers, and are looking to conclude most of their business before the start of their Pre-Season Tour.

We’re used to some clubs doing great business, while others fail to address core needs. This time, however, every top club seems to be moving quickly and efficiently to plug all their squad holes. You will be hard-pressed to find any fan that’s complaining, however. GGBET Sportsbook aficionados are surely already licking their lips as they visualise all the opportunities that better top teams create for them to win their bets.

Here are the biggest movers so far this Summer:

Chelsea

Is it a shocker that the most expensively constituted squad in football history is the world champion of club football?

Chelsea's 2024 squad is most expensive ever - UEFA report - ESPN

It’s not an outrageous concept to imagine, and Chelsea’s victory over PSG would not have taken anyone by surprise if they had not massively underperformed to the point of near capitulation for most of the post-Abramovich era. However, it seems they are now coming into their own—good news for their fans, bad news for rival clubs.

Chelsea finally closed last season’s business with two trophies, and while anyone could have legitimately downplayed their Conference Cup triumph, their utterly superior display against PSG, the unanimous best team of last season, at the Club World Cup finals, means that they will now be taken seriously next season.

And this summer, they have strengthened by filling the gaping prolific striker-sized hole that had existed in their squad, which Nicolas Jackson had failed to impress in, and they did it in a way that perhaps only Chelsea can do in the EPL—they signed two potentially better strikers in Liam Delap and Joao Pedro. Now, fans will hope that the good work being done by Cole Palmer, Enzo Fernandez, Pedro Neto, Reece James, and the incoming Willian Estevao will end in the back of the net more often than last season.

Arsenal

Mikel Arteta definitely reads the X posts. It seems that he got tired of being criticised for only buying defenders and defensive midfielders, so he is now pushing to sign three or four attacking players, and it’s not anything like the fake upcoming talent bull crap like Edu signed in Marquinhos in 2022 either. As we write this, Arsenal fans are awaiting official confirmations for Noni Madueke and Viktor Gyokeres, even as they wait for the conclusion of their Eberechi Eze pursuit (who reportedly only wants Arsenal), and hope for Rodrygo to finally make up his mind to exit Real Madrid.

Arsenal win race to sign Brazilian teenager Marquinhos in £3m deal | Arsenal | The Guardian

If the Gyokeres signing gets completed, he would be the first pure striker Arteta would have on his roster since 2022, when both Aubameyang and Lacazette left the club. Arsenal fans will finally have their wish to field someone who can find good spaces in the box and put away the chances that Saka, Odegaard, Martinelli, Madueke, and (hopefully) Eze will create.

But, hey, if you thought you could stop Arteta from making another defensive signing, you were delusional. He has also made four defensive squad reinforcements (which include a backup goalkeeper).

Tottenham

After managing to sneak a UCL spot by winning the Europa League title, Spurs have not been messing about. First, they fired the guy who won them their first title since 2008, shocking a large section of their fanbase. But few people retained their reservations after they announced his replacement in Thomas Frank. Frank is highly rated by everyone in football, having consistently overachieved with his Brentford team since their EPL promotion in 2021.

True to his reputation, their new manager has been making shrewd acquisitions to bolster their creative department and build a more forceful attack. They have completed the acquisition of winter loan signing Mathys Tel, brought in Mohammed Kudus from West Ham on a permanent deal, and are in the process of completing the signing of Morgan Gibbs-White from Nottingham Forest. Spurs are moving with speed, intelligence, and efficiency in this market. One wonders whether this has always existed within the club or if all Spurs fans have Frank to thank for this new clarity.

Liverpool

Moving up North now, the current PL champions opened the market for the league by showing that they do not intend to relent next season. In three moves that were concluded relatively swiftly, they replaced former RB Trent Alexander-Arnold with Bundesliga Invincible Jeremie Frimpong, and upgraded on their ageing LB with young star, Milos Kerkez from Bournemouth. But they made the biggest bang with a major attacking signing.

In signing Florian Wirtz, Liverpool have bagged probably the hottest available attacking prospect that was not a striker. Wirtz also complements their chief goalscorer and creator, Salah, in many ways. Based on recent reports, they are also in the process of acquiring a top striker in Hugo Ekitike from Eintracht Frankfurt. If they complete that signing, Liverpool would have filled whatever hole might have existed in their squad when they ran away with the league. It’s not looking good for rivals.

Liverpool agree signing of Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen - Liverpool FC

Manchester City

If Florian Wirtz was the hottest attacking midfielder prospect on the market this Summer, new Manchester City player Rayan Cherki, is not far behind in terms of creative qualities and the ability to dazzle. Manchester City fans will be hoping that he can fill the Kevin De Bruyne shoes—a huge ask, but whatever happens, they have a big talent on their hands, and few coaches are better at making the most of attacking midfielders like Pep Guardiola (remember some guy called Messi?).

City also moved to restore the steel that was lacking in their ageing and injury-ravaged midfield last season by bringing in Tijjani Reijnders, and got a pure LB in Rayan Ait-Nouri. They also still have the best striker in the world, so underrate them at your risk.