As the 2021/22 season kicks off this weekend, what can we expect from the continent's marquee talent in the English top-flight?
The 2020/21 Premier League season, for all the uncertainty that preceded and dogged it, ended on the most familiar of outcomes.
No one could have envisaged, seeing how they started the campaign, that Manchester City would not only lift the title, but do so with several weeks to spare. It all made for a bit of an anti-climax; a proper title race is surely top of the wishlist for viewers and supporters ahead of the commencement of the new season.