Before the curtain raises on each Premier League season, football supporters - from religious season ticket holders to casual armchair fans - will anxiously scramble to predict who is going to be the next rip-roaring success to illuminate the most marketable league on the planet. Eager to prove themselves as knowledgeable amongst their peers, they attempt to pinpoint the best players of the newly-promoted sides as ones who will break into the England side in a years time, and new transfers that will soon be commanding huge sums of money. In the heat of the race to seem knowledgable, suddenly youre blindly swearing that that player who appeared for 10 minutes in the final game of the season for that top four side has the world at his feet and will be the Premier Leagues top scorer by March. Last August, for instance, you might have been predicting big things for the likes of Romelu Lukaku, Raheem Sterling, Kevin de Bruyne and Jake Livermore: see how it can be a mixed bag? This pre-season is the same as any other, in that it serves up plenty of opportunities to cast an eye over the newcomers and rising stars, and predict who will be the next to make a lasting impression on the top tier of English football. Here are our picks for the players that we feel are worth keeping an eye on this season.