Premier League Tips 2025/26 - Predictions And Bets For Upcoming Premier League Season

The 2025/26 Premier League season begins in a little over two weeks. This year is set to host another year of thrills and spills and GG give you their best bets, including their predictions of the champions, relegated teams and top goalscorer.

Premier League Outright Winner Tip – Manchester City @ 7/2

After four successive seasons of glory, things took a dramatically southward turn for Manchester City in 2024/25. A sensational run from late October 2024 to the turn of the year saw them win just once in 13 games in all competitions, effectively ruling them out of title contention before 2025 had even begun.

With Arsenal suffering through injuries and Chelsea an unpredictable mixed bag under Enzo Maresca, Liverpool were left to swan clear to success. Arne Slot kept a cool head throughout the season; the poisoned chalice he supposedly inherited from Jurgen Klopp was laced with syrup more than sedative and the Reds had the title wrapped up by March.

Liverpool’s transfer activity has been filled with intent, with nine figures splashed on Florian Wirtz and potentially on Alexander Isak too. However, the feeling is difficult to shake that, though Slot’s men were composed throughout 2024/25, that the title was rather presented to them on a plate.

City’s struggles meanwhile coincided with the loss of the talismanic Rodri, whose Ballon d’Or victory at the end of 2024 only looked the more deserving as the Citizens suffered in his absence. The Spaniard is back for the beginning of this campaign though and if ever there is a manager who will not accept defeat lightly it’s Pep Guardiola. He has freshened his ailing side with Rayans Ait-Nouri and Cherki, as well as Tijani Reijnders, while James Trafford offers genuine competition to Ederson in goal.

Add in returning youngster Oscar Bobb and City will surely close the 13-point gap and look value to overturn it completely at twice Liverpool’s odds, with Arsenal still yet to convince entirely that their squad is deep enough to end their spell of runner-up finishes with a positive movement up the league table.

Premier League Relegation Tip – West Ham @ 6/1

The forgotten team of 2024/25, West Ham endured a season in Premier League purgatory. They were never considered a threat by those above them, but the nature of the promoted sides’ struggle meant Graham Potter and co were never looking over their shoulders either.

It may well be that the ever-widening gap between the Premier League and Championship means that Burnley, Leeds and Sunderland are already consigned to an immediate return to the second tier. Scott Parker has proven little in the Premier League and Burnley’s title winning Championship defence is being dismantled in the transfer window. They look certainties for the drop, while Sunderland are up against it given how far behind the other promoted pair they were in last season’s Championship.

Nevertheless, there have been some eye-catching incomings at the Stadium Of Light, not least former Arsenal captain Granit Xhaka, who has showed at Bayer Leverkusen for the previous two seasons that he remains a solid, marshalling midfielder. Leeds may be best equipped to stay afloat, but Daniel Farke had precious little success in this division with Norwich. It will be down to those two to depose one of the established Premier League sides.

Brentford are the talking team for the wrong reasons given the exodus of their superb manager Thomas Frank, as well as star man Bryan Mbeumo. Yoane Wissa could be heading the same way, while Christian Norgaard has departed for the Emirates. They are wily operators though and could have enough cunning and backbone to survive once more.

West Ham on the other hand have been eerily quiet this summer. Potter remains, but he is no longer the bright young thing of English coaching. He broadly steadied the ship after Julen Lopetegui’s disastrous early spell at the London Stadium, but more will be expected this term despite just three signings: Jean-Clair Todibo’s obligatory fee to Nice has been paid, so he barely feels like a transfer, the unproven El Hadji Malick Diouf arrives from Slavia Prague, while Kyle Walker-Peters is in on a free from Southampton.

That business is far from inspiring, while arguably their liveliest presence, Mohammed Kudus, has jumped ship for Spurs. These could be troubling times for West Ham.

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Premier League Top Goalscorer Tip – Erling Haaland @ 11/8

Liverpool could soon play host to the two top scorers in the 2024/25 season should Isak join Mohamed Salah. That could prove formidable.

However, Erling Haaland could well be primed to regain that mantle. Across three seasons as a Manchester City player, he has 85 goals in 97 Premier League games, a startling record, winning the Golden Boot in 2023 and 2024 with 36 and 27 respectively. The general downward trend continued last term as he mustered a relatively meagre 22.

The creativity of City’s forward options has been replenished though. Kevin De Bruyne may now have moved on, but their aforementioned activity in the market, coupled with January signing Omar Marmoush, ensures Haaland has plenty of vibrant teammates to rely upon for service. He is surely odds-on to better 22 this campaign, and that alone could be enough, while a rampage over 30 cannot be ruled out.

Premier League Specials Tips – #1 Burnley To Be Bottom At Christmas @ 9/4

The battle for this less than prestigious honour has tended to be a close-ruin affair, but two of the last five in Sheffield United (2020/21), and Southampton last season have been cut well adrift, while two others in that time span have been two points behind those in 19th. The markets suggest this is an open enough renewal through what will be 17 league games by Christmas Day, but Burnley, as the primary contenders for bottom spot come the season’s end, are at least half-a-point bigger to be 20th and doomed already, which is worth taking.

Liverpool and Manchester City await in their first half-dozen, while away trips to Tottenham and Manchester United within the first three are unlikely to be as winnable as they were last season. Until late November, they have no more than a four-game gap between facing a traditional “Big Six” club, while even after they face Chelsea on the 22nd, three of their five games pre-Boxing Day are away from home.

Overall, they look to face the steepest early challenge of those sides likely to be facing a fight down the bottom.

Premier League Specials Tip #2 – Nottingham Forest & Brighton To Finish In The Bottom Half @ 19/10

Only a slow end to the season cost Nottingham Forest a dream return to the top flight of European football last season, while Brighton secured a third top-half finish in four campaigns under Fabian Hurzeler last term, with the young German acclimatising well to a challenging role.

However, the underlying numbers, unsurprisingly in Forest’s case, both point to them having exceeded expectations. There are reasons for this, with Forest’s counter attacking style always unlikely to match the eye test on the statistical charts, while Brighton would still have finished ninth if going on expected points alone. Nevertheless, they have now lost Joao Pedro in attack, as well as Simon Adingra and Pervis Estupinan, so while their intelligent transfer dealings can usually be counted on, they would be punching above their weight once again if scaling the top ten.

Forest could well be up against it given that opposition teams will be wise to their threats. Chris Wood enjoyed a remarkably prolific season in 2024/25 too and he surely cannot exceed expectations like that for a second term running. With upturns expected from some significant bottom half finishers last term, Forest and Brighton could prove a duo most likely to suffer positionally, albeit not with any real threat or concern for the drop.