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Manchester City have won the Premier League in four of the last five seasons and following the additions of Kalvin Phillips, Erling Haaland and Julian Alvarez, there is the possibility that they could make it five in six.

Pep Guardiola has won 11 league titles in his career, starting back in his days at Barcelona’s B Team in the 2007/08 season, and last campaign was the closest title race he has been in yet, winning the league via a comeback from 2-0 down against Aston Villa on the last day of the season.

City will hope that Haaland hits the ground running in what will be their first season with a regularly playing striker up front since 2018/19. The Norwegian scored 85 goals in 88 matches for Dortmund prior to his move to the Etihad Stadium.

Norwich will be desperate to earn promotion back to the Premier League at the first time of asking having suffered relegation from the top-flight after just one season for the second time in a row.

The Canaries have won the Championship in both of the last two seasons that they have competed in it (2018/19 and 2020/21), whilst Dean Smith earned promotion with Aston Villa via the play-offs in 2018/19 having taken over the Villains in a poor position.

Bolton Wanderers could be one of League One’s dark horses and its easy to see why when looking at the statistics.

In the second half of last season, the Trotters managed to pick up 47 points from 23 matches, seeing them earn the second-most points of anybody in the division.

On top of this, Ian Evatt is known to be a winner, having earned two promotions in four seasons as a manager, having won the National League title with Barrow in 2019/20, ending their 48-year Football League exodus, as well as finishing third in League Two in 2020/21 with Bolton.

Towards the end of the 2021/22 season, League Two side Bradford City picked up a surprise coup as they appointed former Blackburn Rovers and Manchester City manager Mark Hughes as manager.

The former Wales coach looks to have utilised his contacts well in the summer transfer market, having signed the likes of Richie Smallwood, Harry Chapman, Matty Platt, Vadaine Oliver and more, which if they all click could see the Bantams back in League One for the first time since the 2018/19 season.

Celtic head into the 2022/23 season as Scottish Premiership champions having finished four points clear of Rangers in Ange Postecoglou’s first campaign in charge of the Parkhead club.

What was impressive about their title win, was the sheer number of new players who settled down well at the club, such as Kyogo Furuhashi, Reo Hatate, Josip Juranovic, Carl Starfelt, Giorgos Giakoumakis and more, meaning that there is the possibility that the Hoops could further improve on last season’s points tally of 93.

The Bhoys look to have added to their squad in an astute manner once again, signing the likes of Jota on a permanent basis, as well as Alexandro Bernabei from Lanus, Aaron Mooy on a free transfer amongst many.