John Barnes has now decided who will win the Premier League out of Liverpool, Arsenal and Man City
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John Barnes has commented on Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City’s chances of winning the 2025/26 Premier League.It has been a rough start to the season for Arne Slot’s men as they aim to defend their crown.Liverpool lost to Manchester City in their last outing before the November international break, while Arsenal were held to a draw versus newly-promoted Sunderland.Join our newsletter for news & smart analysis. Those results mean that Slot’s men are now eight points adrift of top spot and six behind City ahead of facing Nottingham Forest this weekend.READ MORE: Danny Murphy reckons Arne Slot genuinely doesn’t rate one of his players at LiverpoolJohn Barnes predicts 2025/26 Premier League winnerAmid such a difficult start to the campaign for Liverpool, Barnes has decided his former side won’t go two in a row this term.Instead, when speaking on the No Tippy Tappy Football with Sam Allardyce podcast this week, he backed City to eventually come out on top.He said: “I’m hoping for Liverpool to come good.“I don’t think anyone else will play in a consistent enough manner to challenge those top two.
And I think we’re [Liverpool] too far off it. “So if I have to say now, as much as Arsenal [are] where they are, really just to do with the fact that they’ve seen it done, it got the t-shirt, the experience they have.
Coming into March, I’ll say Man City.”Liverpool’s Premier League title chances rated by supercomputer as history on their sideAs the 2025/26 season was getting underway, Opta’s supercomputer said that Liverpool would win the title.However, the Reds are no longer favourites for the Premier League according to Opta’s model, instead being tipped to finish third behind Arsenal and Man City,While the supercomputer is against them right now, history suggests a comeback in the second half of 2025/26 remains possible.Arsenal overturned the biggest points gap in Premier League history to win the league (13), while Manchester United and Manchester City have closed 10-point or more deficits on several occasions to go on and win the league in the past.The most recent example of this came in 2018/19 when the Sky Blues were 10 adrift of Liverpool before eventually pipping them to the crown.