Chelsea and Arsenal will compete for the first silverware of the season when they meet in the Community Shield at Wembley on Sunday.

Wenger: 'Both are top quality players who are hugely important and influential to our squad'

This has been another summer of regeneration for Southampton. Out have gone key trio Morgan Schneiderlin (Manchester United), Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool) and Toby Alderweireld (first back to parent club Atletico Madrid, then to Tottenham). In have come Dutch playmaker Jordy Clasie (Feyenoord), Portuguese full-back Cedric Soares (Sporting) and Spanish forward Juanmi (Malaga).

Canaries fans will be feeling optimistic after returning to the Premier League at the first time of asking with Sir Alex at the helm. The majority of the squad remains the same as that which survived under Chris Hughton in 2012/13 before plummeting to play in the Championship last season. Although the only purchases so far have been Youssouf Mulumbu, Graham Dorrans and Robbie Brady, they add to the solid core that Neil inherited when he took over last January.

“A statement of intent.” That’s what Steve McClaren called Newcastle spending £14.5 million on PSV midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum and £13m on Anderlecht striker Aleksandar Mitrovic. The fees are the biggest in the eight-year Mike Ashley era, and the owner has stated a desire to win a cup, publicly offering £3.25m in player bonuses for silverware. New boss McClaren knows from his days down the road at Middlesbrough how much a cup run can unify a club and community, but he also knows from...

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As Manchester United prepare to unveil their new Adidas kit at midnight on Friday, we take a look back at some of their most memorable shirts from the past 25 years.

Winger completes Carrow Road move

Liverpool defender set for Carrow Road switch

If you based your analysis purely on the noises national newspapers were making, 2014/15 was an absolute disaster of a season for Manchester City. Yet if you actually examine things a little closer, then things were probably not quite as bad as they seemed. They were only bettered in the Premier League by a ruthless Chelsea side who only lost twice when it actually counted, and were also knocked out of the Champions League by eventual winners Barcelona.

Arsenal's Poland international goalkeeper moves to Serie A side for the 2015/16 season

Steven Caulker has joined Southampton on loan for the 2015/16 season, the club is delighted to confirm.

It wasn’t always pretty, but Manchester United completed Phase One of Get Back On Our F***ing Perch: fourth place and Champions League football. Angel Di Maria was the Premier League’s best ever import, then its worst, Louis van Gaal was a pioneer, an eccentric and a fraud all in one and Marouane Fellaini invented a position. So 2015/16 presents any number of possibilities, most of them good. Bastigan Schweinderlin to fix the midfield? Rooney to score 30 goals in the season? Van Gaal to lead...

Few capable of cognitive reasoning believed Liverpool would emulate 2013/14’s Luis Suarez-inspired title charge, but the way last season tailed off nevertheless represented a huge disappointment. Eight points from the final nine games dumped the Reds from Champions League probables to sixth. The less said about the 6-1 capitulation to Stoke the better.

Defender pens four-year deal

Stability is a lovely thing, but often circumstance just laughs in its face. In last season’s Premier League, five of the bottom eight teams changed managers. Two of the three sides that didn’t (Hull and Burnley) got relegated anyway. Leicester, though, reaped the rewards for sticking with Nigel Pearson and completed arguably the top flight’s finest-ever escape.

A lot is made of the Europa League’s effect on domestic form. Yes, the Thursday-Sunday routine to the continent’s furthest outposts is draining. Yes, the additional games undoubtedly have an effect on tired legs. That said, teams in other leagues seem to manage. Just look at Sevilla.

Branislav Ivanovic talks about vice-captaincy, hard-running and new arrivals...

AFC Bournemouth have agreed an undisclosed compensation figure with Blackburn Rovers for the transfer of Joshua King.