City’s charges, Arne Slot and new players: will this Premier League season surprise us? | Jonathan Wilson
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Whatever happens in 2024-25, the hearing into 115 charges brought against Manchester City will be a key milestone
The Premier League markets itself on its competitiveness. It is, the cliche has it, the league in which on their day anybody can beat anybody. Historically, it has been justifiably proud of the way – far more than equivalent leagues across Europe – it has regulated the distribution of broadcast rights, with the champions getting no more than 1.8 times more than the team finishing bottom.
So when the high priests of statistics gathered by the great Opta oracle performed their incantations this week and asked the supercomputer to predict the unpredictable and give its forecast for the season to come, what was its gnomic response? What cryptic, back-covering prophecies did it offer for the soothsayers to sift in search of meaning? There is an 82% chance that Manchester City will be champions again.
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