Premier League 2025-2026 opens: Waiting for a super dramatic season

The 2025-2026 Premier League season has officially opened with an early match between Liverpool and Bournemouth. And tonight a series of giants such as Man City, Tottenham, Newcastle or Aston Villa will take to the field.

Arsenal's Gyokeres is one of the "blockbusters" attracting attention - Photo: REUTERS

The concept of "big guys" in the Premier League is really inflating, when fans count too many strong teams, with strong squads and abundant financial resources.

Every team has a lot of money.

In addition to the "big 6" that are already rich in tradition, English football now welcomes Newcastle - the team with the richest owner (Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund) in the world , and Aston Villa - the team that has dominated the tournament for the past 2 years.

Not to mention Brighton - a team that often starts very well and always possesses remarkable young stars; or Nottingham Forest, Bournemouth, Brentford, Crystal Palace - are all representatives of the "dark horse" type worth waiting for every season.

The media hype of English football is part of it, but there is no denying that the Premier League is the most equitable league in the world. Over the past decade, all other leagues have followed the Premier League's model of fair prize money distribution.

In any given season, the Premier League's weakest teams can receive nearly €150m from a fair distribution of TV rights and performance bonuses.

The most successful teams in the league only receive about one and a half times as much as the weakest, and the middle-class teams can collect nearly 200 million euros from the tournament organizers. That is why every summer, English clubs dominate the transfer market.

Typically, Sunderland, the newly promoted team this season, spent 153 million euros to buy new players. This figure is 6 times more than Barca and higher than most of the Italian giants. Even Sunderland is like that, it is not surprising that the giants of the league are spending more money.

Man City's strong revival after just a few months - Photo: Reuters

Too many blockbusters to wait for

In this summer transfer window, the big clubs are stronger than ever. From Liverpool, Man City to Arsenal, Chelsea have all spent over 200 million euros to buy new players. These are teams that played relatively successfully last season.

Liverpool won the Premier League, Arsenal were runners-up, Chelsea won the FIFA Club World Cup and Conference League, and Man City, despite their poor performance, still secured a place in the Champions League and reaped a lot of prize money from the FIFA Club World Cup.

But even Man United - a team that has been in a terrible run of form this season - are still investing heavily. Having spent over 230 million euros, the "red devils" are likely to complete the deal to buy Baleba from Brighton for over 100 million euros in the coming days.

A series of "blockbusters" were detonated last summer. Wirtz and Ekitike had quite an impressive debut (in the Community Shield match), and now it's the turn of Arsenal's Gyokeres, Man City's Cherki and Reijnders, Man United's Sesko, Mbeumo and Cunha, or Chelsea's Pedro and Gittens... English football fans are eagerly awaiting the big debuts in the opening round of the tournament.

And not only that, the "blockbuster" contracts are expected to continue to be activated in the last 2 weeks of the summer transfer window. Liverpool bought Isak, Man City aimed for Rodrygo, Arsenal wanted to buy Eze, and Chelsea are still aiming for a few more quality players. The already fierce Premier League is heading towards a super dramatic season when all the strong teams of the tournament spend overwhelmingly on the whole European football world.

Schedule of notable matches on the evening of August 16:

- 6:30 p.m.: Aston Villa - Newcastle;

- 9:00 p.m.: Tottenham - Burnley; p 22:30: Wolverhampton - Man City

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HUY DANG

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