The three newly-promoted teams will be among those fancied for the drop in 2023/24, but can Luton silence the doubters in their first-ever season in the Premier League
After nearly three months, supporters up and down the country and all over the world can taste the return of Premier League action
Liverpool begin their account with a trip to Chelsea on Sunday afternoon, but at the opposite end, a trio of clubs will be looking to impress after going up from the Championship
Here’s the lowdown on Burnley, Luton and Sheffield United
Burnley’s manager Vincent Kompany celebrates after the Football League Championship match between Burnley FC and Blackburn Rovers FC at Turf Moor. Burnley won 3-0.
A general view of Turf Moor, home of Burnley
Last season was… unbelievable! With so many departures of players we knew and loved, and so many arrivals of players we knew nothing about, nobody knew how the season was going to go
We were all preparing for not achieving an immediate return to the Premier League and having to give Kompany time to make this new squad gel and work
Running away with the title, getting promoted with seven games to spare, hitting 100 points and doing it all in style just made it a season that will go down in the club’s history
Oh, and clinching the title at the home of your fiercest rivals is the sweetest feelin
This season will be… equally unpredictable! Cup defeats to United and City last season showed how much work Kompany still had to do to get us to a level where we would be able to hold our own in the Premier League
We’ve added more bodies to the squad so will see how they cope with the top fligh
Again, I think the general realistic view is that we have enough to stay up and maybe have the potential to do quite well in a similar way to Brentford and Brighton over the last couple of year
Burnley’s manager Vincent Kompany during the FA Cup Quarter-Final match between Manchester City FC and Burnley FC at the City of Manchester Stadium. Man City won 6-0. (Pic by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda
Our key player is… probably still Josh Cullen
For as much as we have exciting attacking options in Benson, Zaroury and new signing Amdouni, a key part of our success last season was the way our midfield controlled possession and linked our build-up play from defence to attac
Cullen was our midfield general and was rightly crowned Players’ and Supporters’ Player of the Yea
We’ll finish… somewhere between 11th and 15t
I think Kompany knows this league well enough to know where you take the points and where you accept that you are maybe not at the same level as your opponent
He’ll have game plans that he won’t want his squad to deviate from, but there is still only a smattering of top-flight experience in the team, so it makes it just as hard to predict accurately how this season is going to pan out as it was to predict 12 months ago.
Liverpool will finish… in the top four. Last year was that moment in any great team where the wheels start to come off and you know you need to let some players go and refresh the squad
Klopp will have learned some hard lessons last season and looks like he’s fine-tuning and streamlining his team to put things right this yea
With Chelsea and Spurs starting afresh with new managers, United investing heavily in the hope of eliminating their self-inflicted calamities and City still the ones to beat, I think Liverpool will go about their business with a lot more consistency this season and be in the title race agai
Sheffield United’s Chris Basham during the FA Premier League match between Everton FC and Sheffield United FC at Goodison Park.
Last season was… fraught with adversity, but somehow we did it
I have never known injuries like it, not to mention a takeover that loomed large but never materialised and an outstanding Burnley side that never seemed to let up…except against us at the La
This season will be… an adventure. We’re not just there to make up the numbers, but we recognise it will be tough, especially as we’ve lost our key creative spark in Iliman Ndiay
Our key player is… hard to pinpoint – we have vital cogs in all departments. We’re a team, so the system only works if everyone is pulling in the same directio
If I was pushed I’d say our defender Anel Ahmedhodzic has the highest ceiling, in terms of where his career could g
We’ll finish… 17th. I don’t like doing predictions, but I asked my 8-year-old nephew this question this morning and that was his answer. Good enough for m
Liverpool will finish… in the top six. I don’t know really, I don’t keep track of any other side
Last season was… was an absolute dream for all Luton fans, we are still pinching ourselves as it must be a dream that we’ve gone from the National League to the Premier League in a decade
We have built the club up sustainably and we’ve gone toe to toe every step of the way with teams who have considerably higher budgets than u
This season will be… a challenge, but a challenge that we will relish nonetheless
We have a siege mentality running through our club due to the punishments handed to us back in 2008, and we have maintained that mentality throughout our run up the leagues, which will stand us in good stead going into our debut season in the Premier League
Everyone is already writing us off, and we thrive on that
Our key player is… Marvelous Nakamba. He’s the rock that our team is built around. With his discipline in the middle, he allows our midfield to press higher up, and our centre-backs to make forward run
