Poor Arsenal, as soon as their best attacker comes back from injury their best defender is out for the season!

They needed him for Real Madrid for sure

BBC Sport

Kevin de Bruyne to leave Manchester City at end of season

Kevin de Bruyne accounces he will leave Manchester City when his contract expires at the end of the season.

De Bruyne is off to the MLS or Saudi. He’s looked a little finito at top level for the last year so makes sense

Yeah, definitely an example of leaving at the right time. Not PL quality anymore and can't stay fit (mind you that's always been his biggest downside).

Last player from Pep's first squad to leave!

adiós Kevin De Bruyne 👋

Nana na na hey hey hey etc....

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De Bruyne, what a player he’s been!

Arrivederci Southampton 👋

Don't rush back now.

So the entire top 5 dropped points this weekend, looks like everyone has ran of steam together.

^

It's symbolic of the season tbh. The last day of the season is looking like it will be a total non-event at this rate!

13 minutes ago, Dobbo said:

So the entire top 5 dropped points this weekend, looks like everyone has ran of steam together.

Saw a stat over the weekend that the intensity of the league is increasing and it looks that way. The growth of the Premier League means you have the middle teams having loads of money who can buy exceptional players, which is why they can take points off the top teams and why the bottom teams truly suck.

I just think the top teams lack truly world class players atm and ultimately they make the difference in close games

Southampton have reached an agreement with manager Ivan Juric to leave following relegation from the Premier League on Sunday.

Juric was appointed as Russell Martin's successor on an 18-month deal in December but has won just two of his 16 matches.

Sunday's 3-1 defeat at Tottenham consigned the rock-bottom Saints to the earliest relegation in Premier League history with eight games still to play.

The loss against Spurs was Southampton's 25th of the season in the league.

"Ivan came to Southampton at a tough time and was tasked with trying to improve a squad in a difficult situation," Southampton said.

"Unfortunately, we haven't seen performances progress the way we had hoped, but we would like to thank Ivan and his staff for their honesty and hard work as they fought against the odds to try and keep us up.

"With relegation to the Championship now confirmed, we believe it is important to give fans, players and staff some clarity on the future as we head into a very important summer."

Simon Rusk is expected to step in as interim manager with Adam Lallana acting as his assistant.

Never heard of him

Ruud lost 14 of his last 15 he’s been a disaster for Leicester

Was always gonna happen….

All the players Fergie had under him and not one has turned out a good manager

Seen it so many times before. Great players hardly ever become great managers, they undeservedly get given jobs due to their status.

Most of them are pundits and not managers/coaches! Was the same with Liverpool in the 90s!

A BBC article on the current state of the Premier League: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c74zkrx7zzgo

I think the majority of points raised in this article are subjective, but one thing that can't be denied is that the trend of all promoted teams going straight back down to the Championship can only be detrimental to the league. Especially when those same teams are likely to come straight back up after one season in the Championship. Hopefully that doesn't continue for too much longer.