One team has installed three rows of new seats, another has a new corner-taker and one side began the 2025-26 campaign by deliberately smashing the ball out of play.
Yes, the Premier League is back and on the opening weekend we asked our reporters in addition to covering the games and the new signings to look out for what else was new about each club.
This is what they saw.
There was a familiar name for Manchester United fans among the Arsenal staff at Old Trafford this weekend: Gabriel Heinze.
After Carlos Cuesta left Arsenal to take up the head coach position at Parma, Mikel Arteta turned to the former Manchester United defender as his new assistant. 47-year-old Heinze has been a manager himself at the likes of Velez Sarsfield and Atlanta United. Now he finds himself working alongside Arteta — a friend of more than 20 years.
