Gary Neville has given his verdict on this 2026/27 Premier League season.
The former Manchester United player predicting how things will turn out in the next nine months.
Gary Neville with zero doubt when it comes to which Premier League club will lift the title, telling Sky Sports: “One hundred per cent Arsenal. They’re way out in front. With what they’ve got already now in defence and in midfield, with the good attackers that they’ve got, they’ve got a really good standard, then they’re fine.
When it comes to who will make up the rest of the top four?
The Sky Sports pundit: “Chelsea second? Just purely because of the fact that they’ve got no European football. If they keep Enzo Fernandez, with Moises Caicedo in midfield, with that front three, and they’re only playing 45 games, they’re going to amass an enormous amount of points. I think they’ll just edge past Manchester City. I can’t separate Man U and Liverpool in fourth place, I genuinely have no idea.”
What about the three to be relegated?
Gary Neville: “Coventry, Hull, Ipswich. I hope that one or two of the promoted sides stay up but I’ve not got the faith I had last season. Having watched what I’ve seen this weekend, I’m going to go for the three promoted teams to go down.”
The Sky Sports pundit then asked to name the biggest impact signing of the summer.
Gary Neville going for…:“Bruno Guimaraes, he is the best signing by a mile. If you take a player out of Arsenal’s team anywhere, probably David Raya is the other one, but in the outfield parts of the pitch, there isn’t a drop-off between the first and second choice anywhere, apart from Declan Rice. There’s a massive drop when Declan Rice moves out of the team. If Rice gets injured for three months, that would be a risk to Arsenal. The signing of Bruno Guimaraes removes that risk. He is a massive personality. A different player than Rice but you talk about personality and character on the pitch… he is a brilliant personality. He believes he can win every single football match for his team. He believes he can tackle, he’s aggressive, he’s somebody you’d want alongside you…And by the way, £75m compared to some of the others that have gone for more is value in this market.”