4) Chelsea
They have impressed with their signings – Diego Costa, Cesc Fabregas, Filipe Luis and the returning Didier Drogba – but the Blues have been uninspiring in pre-season thus far, edging a series of ‘lesser teams’ with narrow victories (a 5-0 thrashing of Wycombe aside), before a reality-check against German side Werder Bremen, who beat the Stamford Bridge side 3-0 last weekend.