With less than three weeks to go until the Premier League resumes, football fans are eagerly awaiting another campaign of excitement and drama.
A number of high profile signings have been made in the top tier and supporters have already been throwing this season’s predictions around.
After yet another Premier League title, Manchester City are continuing to feel on top of the world following the arrival of Erling Haaland.
Ahead of the new campaign, Sky Bet and YouGov have teamed up and completed a survey as part of their Fan Hopes campaign.
The research asked fans of each Premier League club a series of questions to determine how confident they were feeling about their team’s chances this time round.
As a result of the survey, we can see which fanbases are the most and least hopeful about the season ahead from a scale of 1-10 (1 being not optimistic at all, 10 being very optimistic).
Here is how the Premier League table will look if it was based on these ratings (from lowest to highest)...
9. Brentford - 6.4
Brentford fans are clearly rather on the fence after finishing mid-table last season. The Bees have made good signings in Aaron Hickey, Keane Lewis-Potter and Thomas Strakosha but also face life without Christian Eriksen. | AFP via Getty Images
10. Nottingham Forest - 6.4
Nottingham Forest fans are the most confident of the three promoted clubs and it’s no surprise given there transfer activity. Steve Cooper has made some promising signings in Taiwo Awoniyi, Dean Henderson, Omar Richards etc. | Getty Images
11. Crystal Palace - 6.4
Crystal Palace spent last season rebuilding and rebranding under Patrick Vieira and it mostly went very well for them. They have some brilliantly talented young players ahead of the new campaign, however we are yet to see how they will perform without Conor Gallagher. | Getty Images
12. Leicester - 6.7
Leicester endured their worst finish in three years last season and it looks like they could expect to end this season in a similar position. The Foxes are the only team in the Premier League yet to make a signing and could also face keeping hold of Youri Tielemans. | Getty Images