Liverpool will kick off the 2025/26 Premier League season as the reigning champions when they face off against surrpise package Bournemouth on Friday night. The Reds, of course, clinched their Premier League title in 2024/25 in as easy fashion as you'd expect, dog walking Tottenham Hotspur in a shameful performance that also highlighted how far Spurs standard had fallen in the league.
Of course, Tottenham recovered to win a major trophy of their own, outlasting fellow fallen giants Manchester United in the all-England European final few would have expected. Tottenham now begin the 2025/26 Premier League season with a new manager in Thomas Frank, as well as a new cast of signings to join the only big attacking addition of the summer so far in Mohammed Kudus.
Despite Spurs not having as active of a summer transfer window (yet), two Liverpool legends are backing Tottenham to have a strong 2025/26 season and bounce back after legitimately being one of the worst teams in the entire division last season.
The Premier League reached out to celebrities and legends of the league for their opinions on the season to come. Champions League and Premier League pundit - and former iconic Liverpool center back, in case you forgot - Jamie Carragher answered that he thinks Tottenham Hotspur will be this season's surprise package.
Tottenham need a top-five finish
Meanwhile, manager Steven Gerrard, arguably the greatest midfielder in the history of the league, placed Tottenham safely in the top five at the end of the season. Granted, they were only fifth, but when the vast majority of former players doing punditry for ESPN FC are putting Spurs behind the likes of Aston Villa and Newcastle, Gerrard having a dissenting opinion feels good.
A lot of Tottenham's hopes are volatile and rest squarely on the shoulder of them making two major transfers before the window closes. If Spurs can't bag Savinho and Eberechi Eze or an alternative wide and central playmaker pairing to boost their ailing attack, then the top five may not be such a clincher.
But if they can, Gerrard's prediction of fifth may be an undersell of what Tottenham can do in 2025/26 under Frank, because Carragher may be onto something. Tottenham have just hired one of the finest tacticians in the league to a squad that still has the heart of Ange Postecoglou beating within them. With the right brush strokes before the window closes, Spurs could be headed for a special encore to their Europa League win in May.