Friday night marks the return of the Premier League for the 2022/23 season, a campaign which is set to be split by the World Cup and, thus, unlikely to follow the norms of what we’ve seen before.
It is only 69 days since the Champions League final was played out in Paris - a day fewer since the Championship play-off final - but the clubs and players are back in action already after the usual optimism-building ritual which is pre-season, played out against a backdrop of transfer rumours.
