Biggest Premier League storylines after international break: Isak's Liverpool debut, Ange-ball returns

The planetary interruption is over, and the Premier League is backmost with a bang this weekend. All eyes volition beryllium connected large caller signings, an aged look returning to absorption and 1 of the astir pressurized Manchester derbies successful years.

Alexander Isak, Alejandro Garnacho, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Nick Woltemade and galore much could each marque their debuts this play aft precocious transportation model moves to their caller teams. Ange Postecoglou, fired by Tottenham Hotspur aft guiding them to their archetypal trophy since 2008 by winning this past season's Europa League, volition instrumentality complaint of Nottingham Forest for the archetypal clip aft replacing Nuno Espirito Santo astatine the City Ground this week. And the vigor is rising successful Manchester arsenic rival managers Pep Guardiola and Ruben Amorim effort to forestall atrocious starts from becoming adjacent worse successful a high-stakes matchup astatine the Etihad Stadium.

After a two-week shutdown conscionable 3 games into the season, present is what to ticker for arsenic the Premier League slips backmost into gear.

Are Nottingham Forest acceptable for Ange-ball?

There was nary existent astonishment astir Nuno Espírito Santo's exit arsenic Forest manager this week aft a nationalist admittance that his narration with nine proprietor Evangelos Marinakis had breached down successful caller months. However, the determination to regenerate him with Postecoglou volition beryllium a important benignant alteration for that squad.

Having qualified for the Europa League this past play acknowledgment to a coagulated antiaircraft program implemented by Nuno -- a disciplined debased artifact combined with accelerated counterattacks -- Forest present person a manager successful Postecoglou whose high-line defence and doctrine of pressing precocious is the other of his predecessor's. With Postecoglou facing a instrumentality to northbound London to look Arsenal connected Saturday, helium couldn't person asked for a overmuch tougher start. Marinakis is not known for his patience, truthful Ange-ball needs to enactment quickly.

Can Forest power from the Nuno blueprint to the Postecoglou program -- aka Ange-ball -- with the players successful their squad? Or are the squad and their supporters successful for a bumpy thrust nether the erstwhile Spurs boss?

Garnacho and Sancho to bounce back?

Manchester United person go a wasteland for promising young forwards successful caller years. Marcus Rashford, Rasmus Højlund and Antony each failed to unrecorded up to expectations astatine Old Trafford.

Rashford (Barcelona), Højlund (Napoli) and Antony (Real Betis) moved overseas this summertime successful an effort to kick-start their careers, but Garnacho (Chelsea) and Jadon Sancho (...