The Premier League season might just be two games old and the transfer window still open for more than a week but some players have already made an impact on the season.
There’s been the good in Brighton, the bad in most of Everton’s team and the ugly in Manchester United’s midfielders’ cohesion.
Some players have turned up with a point to prove and fall into the category of one of football’s more derided terms: ‘Like a new signing.’
It sounds like something Richard Arnold and co. would have labelled Mason Greenwood if their plan to reintegrate him into United’s squad wasn’t scuppered by those pesky investigative journalists and humans with morals, but it can also be attributed to several other players this season to date.
Of course, it is a tiny sample size to work off but who’s showing that old can be new so far?
Julian Alvarez (Manchester City)
Okay, so…