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The league's resumption presents 'unprecedented' challenges to clubs following the winter World Cup. Bukayo Saka and Kevin De Bruyne will make a swift ...

Those best placed to profit are the clubs with the biggest squads and smartest sports science teams – so it feels loaded in favour of the traditional powerhouses. And what of the mind games? “It definitely makes for an exciting second half of the season. There will be a desire to keep them on the pitch but I think you’ll start to see rotation. But there will definitely be fatigue coming into play I think by that part of the season. With an estimated £160m in prize money set aside for the champions, it is the multi-million pound question with no obvious answer.