The English Championship kicks off this weekend with Guardiola and Klopp as main contenders for the title
The Premier League is today casting the curtain on a new season and it is doing so with Manchester City as the team everyone wants to beat. The team led by Pep Guardiola has dominated the competition with an iron fist over the past five years, winning four titles and looking to reign supreme with a project in which it has made small but big changes. Erling Haaland is the right name among the ‘sky blues’, who are breaking a new path where Liverpool will be the biggest stumbling block and where Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham or Manchester United hope to give more war than in previous editions.
“The magnitude of our performance is measured by our rival. I’ve never seen anyone like her. Liverpool made us stronger. It’s the fairest competition, it’s not ‘fake’,” said Guardiola after completing his fourth English competition. Sampedor’s sweated the fat drop in the last part of the championship and culminated in a long-distance race in which he had to take 93 points. to take the cat to the water, leaving Jürgen Klopp’s men by just one point.It was a winding road, a one-to-one journey that, fortunately for football fans, has its starting point again this weekend.
And it is that the game between City and Liverpool will be the one that will once again mark, save for surprise, the battle for the Premier League. Guardiola’s team has come on the market and has done so with the aim of supporting the small details that were missing last season to be an even more devastating team. The ‘citizens’ needed cement in the medullary and they did it with Kalvin Philips. They also needed a ‘9’ that would bring the whole offensive flow of Foden, De Bruyne, Mahrez and company to the net. That striker is Haaland, who has cost the Manchester side ‘barely’ £60million and is expected to arrive with an obligation to mark an era in the squad that saw his father play between 2000 and 2003. Norwegian will be the ‘spider’ Julián Álvarez in his first European experience after leaving River Plate.
City are favourites, while the alternative is a Liverpool still looking for formulas to sneak into the ‘sky blue’ domain. Merseyside’s have broken once and for all the trident that Salah, Firmino and Mane formed after the Senegalese departure to Bayern and now have an attack with many more variants. Following the signings of Diogo Jota and Luis Díaz, Klopp’s new toy is Darwin Núñez, which has cost a whopping 75 million and 25 more in variables. The Uruguayan arrives after scoring 34 goals with Benfica last season and will be the icing on the cake for a team that scored 92 points last season and reached the Champions League final.
Outside of City and Liverpool, there is a range of teams that continue to strengthen with the aim of surprising. Chelsea stands out, a group that has changed hands and has bet heavily on this transfer market with the arrival of Todd Boehly to the property. The ‘blues’ have spent $162 million on Sterling, Cucurella, Slonina and Koulibaly and will continue to narrow their options until August 30 to find a midfielder and striker. Both demarcations are a priority for Tuchel, who, after winning the Champions League in his first year, is looking to take a step forward in the Premier, a competition in which he has not yet moved past third.
After Chelsea, there is an a priori battle for fourth place that can be exciting. Conte’s Tottenham have formed a dream trident with Harry Kane, Son and Richarlison and reinforced the second line with Perisic and Bissouma. Arteta’s Arsenal have left a good feeling in the pre-season after investing 132 million in flash purchases such as Gabriel Jesus, Zinchenko or Fabio Vieira, while United start a project with Erik ten Hag. The former Ajax player has already had a hard time with Cristiano Ronaldo, who at the age of 37 does not want to continue in a team with long-term vision and who does not play in the continental top competition.
There is a lot of life outside the ‘Big Six’ and the investment proves it. Teams like West Ham or Leicester will spend another year trying to capitalize on any mistake the big teams make, while in the lower zone, equality is maxed out. Historic last season like Everton or Leeds didn’t seal their durability to the last stretch and this course also promises strong emotions. Evidence is that the newly-promoted have spent £145.25m on transfers after Nottingham Forest (94.75), Fulham (38.6) and, to a lesser extent, Bournemouth (11.9) threw the house down the sewer . And it is that any effort is little to stay in a Premier League that provides 100 million euros in television rights per club.
Source: La Verdad
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