The Premier League rarely stops.
For the 2024-25 season that starts on Friday, there are five new coaches hired, about 1.6 billion in new players (and counting), new offside technology, updated financial rules and an altered game schedule.
REVOLUTION IN WAR
A quarter of the managers will be in charge of a Premier League game for the first time, with Liverpool (Arne Slot), Chelsea (Enzo Maresca) and Brighton (Fabian Hurzeler) both Southampton (Russell Martin) and Ipswich (Kieran McKenna) get a promotion. without coaches who have experience in the highest division. Add in Julen Lopetegui being the new man at West Ham after four and a half years of David Moyes in charge and Steve Cooper replacing Maresca at Leicester, and the dugouts will look different this season. The focus will be on Slot and the style he wants to implement at Liverpool after almost nine years of the team under popular Jurgen Klopp, who now prefers a possession game.
A DIRTY CARCASE
The 20 Premier League clubs have spent as much on new players this transfer window as Spain, Italy and Germany combined, according to transfermarkt.com. So why does it feel like such a slow summer of trade? Perhaps because there were no big deals, with the most expensive striker Dominic Solanke, who moved to Tottenham from Bournemouth for £65 million ($83 million). However, many deals between $30 million and $70 million are coming up quickly, and there are still three weeks left in the window, when Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea are expected to step up. in. City (Savinho) and Arsenal (Ricardo Calafiori) have only made one new signing so far and Liverpool have made none. It would not be surprising if Premier League clubs had spent more than £2 billion by the end of the transfer deadline on August 30, even though most are putting the league’s strict financial rules involved
OUTSIDE SEMI-AUTOMATIC PLANTS
Offside decisions are expected to be made much more quickly in the Premier League this season. Semi-automatic overhead kick technology is being introduced for the first time, and the new system will be launched in the first half of the season. Multiple cameras track the player’s movements and record body position relevant to an offside decision. The data is processed by artificial intelligence to create a 3D offside line that alerts the VAR referee team. It is expected to take an average of 30 seconds off the decision time, which until now was done manually by VAR officials. Semi-automatic handicaps have been used in the 2022 World Cup and the recent European Championship.
WINTER RULES
Last season in the Premier League was notable for some clubs, such as Everton and Nottingham Forest, being awarded points for breaching the competition’s profit and sustainability rules, which are now being enforced more strictly. . Next season will be the final year of these rules, with two new spending limits being tested before being introduced starting in the 2025-26 season. England’s top division teams will trial the “Squad Cost Rules” system, which limits spending on players to 85% of club football revenue and net profits or losses on player sales. A second system called “Top-to-bottom anchoring” limits spending to a number of the minimum combined prize money and television rights money a team is expected to win. The league said the systems were aimed at “improving and preserving the financial stability of the clubs and the competitive balance of the Premier League” as well as “promoting the ambitions of the clubs”. “
NO WINTER SITE
If the Premier League is known for being full-time, even more so this season. There is no winter break for clubs this time, as the season starts later, to give players more time to recover from this summer’s international competitions. Last year, for example, five games were held each weekend over two weeks, giving teams at least one weekend off in January. All other major leagues in Europe have a winter break.
2024-08-13 16:28:52
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