The League will officially kick off on 13 of August and the very first game will be played between the Champions Leicester City and the newly promoted side Hull City, followed by the game between Tottenham Hotspur and Everton, the same day.
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Joe Hart won praise for his “qualities and behaviour” from Pep Guardiola but the Manchester City boss will keep his goalkeeping option open. Their spending on new players this offseason has nearly reached the $400-million barrier. As somebody old enough to remember the consecutive summers in the late 90s and early noughties where the sports press laid waste to acres of rainforests to pontificate over whether Patrick Vieira was going to leave Arsenal, you would think I’d be grateful for this summer’s Jose and Pep show.
Guardiola has coached at the Etihad Stadium twice before.
It is seven years since any side was able to defend the Premier League title, but for most previous champions the expectation is that they will again challenge at the top of the table.
Gaining promotion to the Premier League should be a reason to celebrate, but for Hull fans it’s looking increasingly like a season of pain is on its way.
“Our objective”, City chief executive Ferran Soriano said, “is to get to the end of the season with chances to win everything”.
This is the biggest test of Guardiola’s coaching career after his trophy-laden spells with Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
Call yourself an English football aficionado? The fact that Manchester United and Chelsea – likely to be City’s main rivals for the title – are not in the Champions League doesn’t help either. Most British bookmakers make the teams the two favorites for the title this season.
Mourinho believes: “In September the Capital One Cup starts, the Europa League starts, we start playing three matches a week and then everybody is involved and the squad is good”. They have an intense work ethic and are among the most ruthless managers around. We will discuss about Leicester City, Tottenham, And much more.
“For 20 years we could nearly predict what was going to happen before a ball was kicked, but at this moment we basically don’t know”.
City wins the championship with Chelsea the runner-up, United third and Arsenal fourth to fill out the Champions League spots.
Guardiola has yet to sell any players this summer after running the rule over his first-team squad in preseason.
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“As everybody knows, we finished last season with a good record and the new manager is trying to start this year as we ended the last”.
