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Calm and chaos for Premier League teams after Euro 2024
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Champions Manchester City face a season where their 115 charges of financial misdealing and the future of Pep Guardiola will be in sharp focus.
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English football barely has time to wash away the sorrow of Euro 2024. The Premier League season is coming soon. Ephemeral details like whoever replaces Gareth Southgate will be placed on the backburner, as the world’s greatest sporting hype machine – this side of the National Football League (NFL) – seizes the agenda.
It was a pretty bruising European Championship for the self-importance of English football, particularly the forward lines. If Uefa’s Team of the Tournament featured an all-Premier League defence, only Rodri plays any further forward. Meanwhile, the word is that Manchester City’s key midfielder is wanted by Real Madrid to return to his home city.
