The Premier League is back and has all the ingredients in the mix for this season to have a serious goat potential.
For most of us, the Premier League runs through our veins. Admit that it has missed a small part of us in recent months. It is part of the structure of society in this country – why we all love this game.
Stadiums are packaged while the world is watching. There is a reason why.
Epic rivalry. Stories about heroes and villains. World class talent. The best of the best competing for high efforts. And what that is the same is that this competition is able to produce moments like no other.
Wayne Rooney's first Everton goal that meant that his world would never be the same again. Thierry Henry, who encourages Liverpool, astonishingly our own Jamie Carragher on the road, to keep Arsenal on the right track in the title race.
David Beckham from halfway. Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira. Collymore includes.
Aguerooooo.
Kevin Keegan likes it.
Andrea Bocelli, Claudio Ranieri and Leicester City.
Well, it's time to create new moments stamped in our memory banks while the Premier League of 2025/26 arrives into the city. And all the ingredients have been added to the pot to make one of the big ones this season.
Maybe the best.
A four -way title scrap on the maps
Let's not like sugaring, the impact of Arne Slot in Liverpool made the title race of last season a non-event.
The title was completely packed in February when Liverpool Clear roared in what a race with one horses was after beating Manchester City with 2-0.
Not this season.
A more intense title fight is on the cards.
A glimpse of gambling provides such proof. Rarely do you see a Major League with four teams priced in a few figures with Liverpool (13/8), Arsenal (2/1), Manchester City (3/1) and Chelsea (8/1) who all take a huge percentage of the market.
Liverpool has again left a position of strength, and potentially drew the most exciting creative talent on the planet in Florian Wirtz, Man City has rolled the dice on the market to start their new legacy, Arsenal has their center Vooruit and Chelsea, who were 20/1 shots for the club Wereldbeker, who in the summer against Paris.
Rest assured, the 12 games involving both teams will be the ones to enjoy and already have six Pointervibes about them. Box-office stuff.
Goals, goals, goals guaranteed to arrive as an elite sniper
Center-Forwards are in fashion again. And the best in the world are their things on the Premier League -Catwalk.
This should have a positive effect on the goals of the competition.
The chance was created last season, but not taken. In the 2024/25 season, more “big opportunities” was missed than any other Premier League season. That figure was a total of 1201 because the average goals per match fell from 3.28 in the 2023/24 campaign to 2.93 last season.
Expenditure on new players by Premier League clubs is approaching £ 2 billion with a few weeks left on what a meaty summer transfer window has been.
Manchester United assured their husbands to spear the Ruben Amorim system by splashing the money to lure Benjamin Sesko striker. He is full of power, can receive the ball into an elite level, loves a shot and is an annoying for defenses with constant runs behind. Viktor Gyokees did all these things and more when exercising under Amorim and he has now put pressure to be the missing piece of the puzzle for Mikel Arteta in Arsenal.
There is also the excitement about Hugo Ekitike in Liverpool, who undoubtedly has the ceiling to go to a different level in the Premier League. Soon and competent, he already had his finish and all -round game developed in the Community Shield. Throw Alexander Isak, Matheus Cunha, Erling Haaland, Omar Marmoush, Cole Palmer and Mohamed Salah in the mix and you have a competition that guarantees goals.
The rapid rise of fast break – football – Can Pep adapt?
Blink and you will miss it. Taking your eyes from a Premier League match at any time is not recommended, because this competition is now the place to view intense, counter-falling tactics. Teams are happy without the ball and jump into devastating transitions.
This style switch has been a trend that the Premier League took over in recent seasons. In the 2018/19 season, 389 Fast Breaks (Opta-Term for counterattack) were included. That figure rose to 775 last season. It has almost doubled.
Of those 775 fast breaks, 112 ended with a goal that was scored – that is 31 more than was scored in the 2023/24 season.
The best team there? Champions Liverpool, who with Salah forward 52 shots and 14 goals registered scored from fast breaks. The best figures for a team in every Premier League season in the past seven years.
Pep Guardiola has concluded how his Manchester City team is on the back of this stylistic change. His possession -based game, aimed at checking and luring the opposition to make hasty urgent decisions, has become easier for teams to crack the code.
Chaos is now being embraced.
The rise of fast and powerful Wingers together with intense midfield game played a huge role in the recruitment of the city. They go that way with people like Jeremy Doku and Rayan Cherki.
Seeing whether Guardiola can completely reverse this City team from Manchester and embrace such chaotic football is one of the most intriguing parts of this season where the counterattack will certainly be king again.
Newly promoted teams can be worried
The last two Premier League seasons have discovered a worrying theme of the three promoted clubs that are immediately exiled back to the championship.
It is therefore not surprising to see Burnley, Sunderland and Leeds lead the relegation gambling markets, but things can simply be different this year and anyway, a two -seasons sample is really enough to make such a major explanation that the gap between the championship and the Premier League is impossible to bridge?
You only have to go back three years to show that Brentford, Bournemouth, Nottingham Forest and Fulham recently showed that it can be done.
And all these three teams that are there have something in common: they can build their home bus to be a fort, something that did not do Southampton, Ipswich and Leicester and won only six games between them.
Peat Moor, Elland Road and the Stadium of Light are wild places for from teams during rocking. That could simply be the difference this year and lead to a much more competitive relegation scrap because teams feel safe in the mid-table, can be dragged into a serious scrap.
Injury problems are not as big as a factor
The inability of the best title challengers of Liverpool to hold the most important members of their team last season certainly played a role in the team of Arne Slot who ran away with the Premier League.
Tottenham, Manchester United, Manchester City and Arsenal are all ranked in the top five when it came to the value of players who missed minutes due to injuries last season. It will be unlikely that Liverpool will have such an advantage this season, even though a master is a master in rotating his team and keeping his players relatively injury-free.
An absence of a big tournament last summer must predict well for players who are fresher and more robust in terms of avoiding injuries. Take a look at the form and injury record of Declan Rice, Phil Foden, Ollie Watkins, Cole Palmer and Bukayo Saka in different phases last season. All wobbles went after their long -term summer due to a different degree of shape and helped England lead to the European championships.
The Elite clubs must be able to get their big guns in the field more this season, which should mean that the benefit of Liverpool was reduced in that respect last season.
Carragher said: “The Premier League is at a completely different level than something else in world football.”
And that is why an epic title fight awaits.