What a long summer it’s been for fans of top-level soccer. Both of this summer’s tournaments, Copa America and Euro 2016, mostly were busts (unless you root for Chile or Portugal). Thankfully we’re just days away from the return of the Premier League. Last season, the famously competitive division reached new levels of unpredictability when Leicester City came from nowhere to win the title. After covering the title challengers and teams that could turn heads earlier this week, we turn our focus to the players to watch this season.

Sergio Agüero might get all the goals and David Silva might be the best playmaker in England, but De Bruyne was quietly Manchester City’s most important player last season. Unlike Aguero and Silva, De Bruyne rarely gets injured, can play in multiple positions across the attacking line and is incredibly consistent for a creative midfielder. He contributed seven goals and nine assists in the league for Man City last season.

The 34-year-old Ibrahimovic does two things extremely well: produce magic on the field and give good quotes off it. Take, for example, this exchange he had with a reporter before a World Cup playoff against Portugal in 2013:

Reporter: Who will win the World Cup playoff?
Zlatan: Only God knows.
Reporter: It’s kind of hard to ask him…
Zlatan: Why? You’re looking at him now

Oh, and he’s scored almost 400 goals in his club career.

Kane is England’s latest and greatest hope — and for good reason. He’s big, strong, works extremely hard, holds the ball up well and scores lots of goals. Last season alone, he bagged 25 league goals for Tottenham.

Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez got all the headlines for leading Leicester City to title glory last season, but just as important were the contributions of midfield Kanté. Although small of stature, the Frenchman was the most destructive force in the league, laying waste to nearly every midfield. New Chelsea manager Antonio Conte knows how important that is, and should consider himself lucky for having convinced Kanté to skip out on Champions League soccer for at least one year and join him in London.

Will he stay or will he go? In the end, it doesn’t matter whether or not the Belgian striker transfers from Everton to Chelsea, because this should be the season he becomes the Premier League’s best striker. Only 23, Lukaku isn’t yet a finished product, but another year of polish and that won’t be a concern for much longer.

Despite what the year-end awards may have said, there was no player more valuable to his team in 2015-16 than the Frenchman. Coach Slaven Bilić caught on to this quickly and made Payet the centerpiece of one of the league’s most exciting attacks. Teams never figured out how to slow him down, and if his play for France at Euro 16 is an indcation, they still haven’t.

Last but definitely not least, the most expensive player in the history of the game. Pogba’s roughly $117 million transfer to United from Juventus might intimidate some, but the prodigiously talented Frenchman seems to be enjoying the limelight. Here’s the thing: He’s talented enough — there’s not a midfield skill he doesn’t have — to eventually make the fee look like a bargain.