Automatic promotion contenders
The transfer window not closing for another four weeks means those relegated from the Premier League remain ripe for picking. It is, for example, hard to imagine James Ward-Prowse, Kelechi Iheanacho or Wilfried Gnonto waking up on 2 September in the second tier. And yet, with the cushion of parachute payments, it is easy to see Leicester, Leeds and Southampton overpowering the rest. Daniel Farke has been here before with Norwich, but Leicester look best equipped.