They will be the first team to take to the pitch, Chivu's Inter, ready to immediately make things clear on the San Siro pitch: start strong against Monza, to remind everyone who the reigning champions are.
The Nerazzurri will still be the men to beat in the 2026/27 Serie A season, starting on Saturday at 6.30pm, in a championship that sees each of the eight big names (the seven in Europe, to which Fiorentina is a candidate to join) starting with legitimate ambitions of relaunching compared to last season, from Allegri's new Napoli to a Juve that with Alajbegovic and Kolo Muani wants to at least return to the Champions League.
Inter intervened above all on the defence, taking Stones at center and Spence on the wing from England to replace the departing Dumfries player; there is also a change in goal, where Sommer left, giving way to Martinez or the signing Provedel.
Last year's runners-up are trying to avoid another season marred by injuries like the last one with Conte: under Allegri's guidance, the staff has remained more or less the same, with the signings of Alisson Santos and Hojlund, with some reinforcements expected in the defensive department after Buongiorno's collapse.
Roma and Como have found important new additions to a framework that has remained almost intact, news that Gasperini above all did not displease: Castro and Molina have arrived in his hands and above all, after much suffering, he is about to sign the attacking winger, Rodrigo Mora; on the shores of the lake, however, Fabregas was guaranteed another year of Nico Paz, as well as many new defenders and a young Italian talent, Mattia Liberali.
Then there is a Juventus that, having said goodbye to Vlahovic, has spent a lot to strengthen the offensive department and has found in Vicario the goalkeeper destined for ownership, and a Milan that - after the clean slate at the end of the season - in the hands of Amorim is still an open-air construction site: with so many redundancies, it is still uncertain whether Leao will also be part of the Portuguese avant-garde with the new coach, with the new center forward Goncalo Ramos and with the new winger Diego Moreira (even if he plays for Belgium).
There is also a small revolution in Bergamo, with the new arrival Sarri who will return to making Atalanta play 4 in defense after years and years and who hopes to bring the club back to the top after a rather anonymous championship following Juric's initial disaster.
Leading the others is Fiorentina, thanks to an out-of-scale market to be able to once again aspire to the positions that count after a season lived with the nightmare of relegation.
The new course of Tedesco's Bologna and especially that of Gattuso's Lazio start off rather quietly, with the organized support protest still underway and with a poor debut in the Italian Cup with Mantova. Turin and Sassuolo with Abate and Aquilani will try to stand out, Udinese aims to improve on last championship with Runjaic always in the saddle.
De Rossi's Genoa will try to free themselves from the battle for survival, which will probably involve all the others. Cuesta's Parma without Suzuki and Pellegrino, Di Francesco's Lecce and Pisacane's Cagliari will try to make their category experience count against the newly promoted teams: Venezia, Frosinone and Monza, entrusted to a Juric looking for redemption.
