Gary Neville says Chelsea Jose Mourinho's side finished the previous campaign eight points clear of Manchester City to be crowned champions for the first time since 2010 and have since signed Radamel Falcao on a season-long loan.
are favourites for the Premier League title this season.
Chelsea's rivals have been busy in the transfer market, with Petr Cech moving to Arsenal, Manchester United signing Memphis Depay and Liverpool making six new signings, including Roberto Firmino and Danny Ings.
However, Neville cannot see past Mourinho's men, though admits the transfer window could yet change matters with the season start still five weeks away.
"We're in July when teams haven't completed their business yet; that's something I think you've got to be very careful about at this stage," he told Sky Sports News.
"But as I stand here today, I think it would be very difficult to look to past Chelsea. However, who knows what is going to happen in the next month in terms of signings and how those signings will then come in and adapt.
"Things can always happen and you could look at a team in a month's time and think 'they're going to take some stopping with the people they've signed', we haven't seen the transfer market flush itself out yet.
"But certainly now, without the business having been done, you aren't as informed as you'd like to be, but Chelsea would be the team to beat and I think everyone would say that."
--> Chelsea's rivals have been busy in the transfer market, with Petr Cech moving to Arsenal, Manchester United signing Memphis Depay and Liverpool making six new signings, including Roberto Firmino and Danny Ings.
However, Neville cannot see past Mourinho's men, though admits the transfer window could yet change matters with the season start still five weeks away.
"We're in July when teams haven't completed their business yet; that's something I think you've got to be very careful about at this stage," he told Sky Sports News.
"But as I stand here today, I think it would be very difficult to look to past Chelsea. However, who knows what is going to happen in the next month in terms of signings and how those signings will then come in and adapt.
"Things can always happen and you could look at a team in a month's time and think 'they're going to take some stopping with the people they've signed', we haven't seen the transfer market flush itself out yet.
"But certainly now, without the business having been done, you aren't as informed as you'd like to be, but Chelsea would be the team to beat and I think everyone would say that."
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