The new Premier League season is upon us and the main dilemma is whether anyone can break the dominance of Manchester City. This will almost certainly be Pep Guardiola’s last season at the Etihad and it remains to be seen whether he and his men will be as motivated as they were in previous seasons where they won everything there is to win with the much-anticipated Champions League trophy two seasons ago.
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Manchester City have already won one trophy after getting the better of city rivals United in the Community Shield the previous weekend. It is clear that Guardiola has the best group of players this season and it seems that it will only depend on motivation if City will be Premier League champions for the seventh time in the last eight seasons.
What should await the champion at the beginning of next year is a verdict regarding the violation of financial fair play, and the club has been accused on the basis of as many as 115 points, and we will see what kind of punishment awaits him. It remains to be seen whether, after the end of this season, Guardiola will really leave City and possibly take over the bench of the English national team.
The biggest rival to his team, as in the previous two seasons, could be Arsenal, who showed that they can harm City but not give them the final blow. In the upcoming Premier League season, City will rely on proven forces, and Savinho is the only one who came from Girona, another team managed by the City group. It is expected that a replacement for Julian Alvarez, who was dissatisfied with his role at City, moved to Atletico Madrid, will arrive at the Etihad.
Arsenal won 89 points in the Premier League last season, remained undefeated in duels with the best teams, had the best defense, but even that was not enough to topple City from the throne. Can he do it this season? It has been two decades since Arsenal last won the Premier League title. Arteta was unlucky because he almost certainly would have taken the title if his biggest rival was not his mentor Guardiola. Has the time come for the student to finally dethrone the teacher?
Arsenal brought in Ricardo Calafiori this summer, who was excellent at the Euros in not so good Italy, and many believe that Arteta brought what he lacked, which is a player who is great on both sides of the field. Arsenal should strengthen further by the end of the transfer window, but at first glance, this team could once again be City’s biggest competitor for the title this season in the Premier League, because Emil Smith Rowe, who did not play a significant role in the team, left him.
Liverpool is the only team that managed to win the Premier League in previous years besides Manchester City, which was also the first trophy for Liverpool in that competition since its foundation. The creator of your success at the end of last season left the team from Anfield and Arne Slot came instead of Jurgen Klopp.
We will see if the Dutch expert is able to meet the challenges of the Premier League, which is much stronger than the Dutch Eredivisie, where Slot has worked so far. He will have an excellent team at his disposal, much better than when Klopp came to the Liverpool bench.
It is interesting that, unlike the previously mentioned teams, Liverpool did not strengthen at all. Still, it should be expected that the team from Anfield will react on the market until the end of the transfer window. However, it is unlikely that there will be any spectacular reinforcement that could give Liverpool hope for the title fight in Premier League to the very end.
Slot will make his debut in the Premier League, and for the third season in a row in England, we will see another Dutch coach, Erik ten Haag, who will lead Manchester United this season as well. That this team has no championship ambitions is best evidenced by the statement of Ten Haag himself, who said that his team is not ready even though the season starts this weekend.
The Dutch coach is aware that his adventure in Manchester could end prematurely if the start of the season is not satisfactory. Ten Haag continued with the practice of bringing in the players he once led in Ajax, so De Ligt and Mazraoui arrived at Old Trafford this summer, as well as the talented duo of Leny Yoro and Joshua Zirkzee.
As things stand now, success for United will be if they secure the Champions League, and at the moment they are objectively trotting behind the main contenders for the title.
Everyone is wondering what Chelsea will do in the Premier League this season because it seems that it cannot be worse than last season’s performance. The business of the club has not changed since Todd Boehly came to Stamford Bridge. The figure of 1.5 billion euros that Boehly set aside for player arrivals in the previous two years could almost certainly be reached this summer. This season in the Premier League, the team from London will be led by Enzo Maresca, who won a place in the elite last season with Leicester.
Coaches and players change like on tape and it seems that this is not a policy that could bring any big results in the near future, although the question is how much the American owners care about it.
In the upcoming season of the Premier League, it will be interesting to see how Aston Villa, who will be playing in the Champions League at the same time, will manage and whether Tottenham could possibly return to that competition after bringing Dominic Solanke for a record sum this summer. It is always interesting to see how the teams that entered the higher ranks manage in the Premier League, namely Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton this season.
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