'Changed my mind': Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer admit they've both done a U-turn on where Liverpool will finish

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At the start of the 2025-26 season, most fans, pundits and journalists all expected Liverpool to run away with the Premier League title. Photo by Carl Recine/Getty ImagesThis has resulted in a few pundits backtracking on what they initially said about Liverpool’s chances, with Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer now believing that Arsenal will be the ones to win the top-flight title.

Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer say that Arsenal will win the Premier League this seasonArsenal and Liverpool were the two biggest spenders during the 2025-26 summer transfer window. “I said Liverpool, there’s only been seven or eight games, ask me after 12 games, I might change my mind and say Arsenal,” Shearer said to talkSPORT.Gary Lineker provided a similar response and said: “I’ve thought Liverpool at the start of the season, but now I’m swaying more towards Arsenal, I think it’ll be one of them.”Liverpool need to prove the doubters wrong and get back to winning waysIt may still be early in the season, but if Liverpool don’t get their act together soon, they may as well kiss their title hopes goodbye.

Arsenal are now first in the league, with one point separating them and Liverpool. That may not seem like all that much, but the fact that Arsenal have a +11 goal difference, whereas Liverpool only have a +4, shows how poor they’ve been.