The Premier League Betting 2008 - 2009
Even for those Football Betting enthusiasts who felt change in the air during last season, the startling events so far in the 2008 - 2009 Premier League season look like shocking us all into grasping that a massive transformation of the way the top flight of English football is run is relentlessly under way. Opportunities for exciting wagers will still be available in abundance on online betting sites but the shrewd punter will have to take on board a new range of influences on possible outcomes in the forthcoming season. Take advantage of the wide range of bets available in score prediction, for example, and use the live betting facility to see how things are going before committing your cash.
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For a start, what looked like a one-off when Roman Abramovich, with his £11billion behind him, snapped up Chelsea and commenced to buy in all the best players, now looks like being the order of the day. All of a sudden, the American billions behind Manchester United and Liverpool and the £2.8billion cushion under Tottenham were thrown into the shadows when an Abu Dhabi consortium bought Manchester City and announced a player-buying kitty of £550billion in loose change.
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Already they have trumped top-of the table, Chelsea to a £32.5m purchase of Robinho from Real Madrid and are now talking about Fernando Torres, Cesc Fabregas and Christiano Ronaldo as target buy-ins and, currently sixth in the table, they must be worth keeping an eye on. Liverpool is showing well at number two and has already got a home defeat of Manchester United under the belt. Alex Ferguson’s men are looking like they want Ronaldo back in the team. He’s expected to make an early recovery and appear before the end of the month.
Arsenal are steady in third place and, after Theo Walcott’s amazing hat-trick for England against Croatia, have a striker brimming with confidence. Hull has surprised everyone with their seven points from four matches and they lurk just behind the top four. Newcastle has terminated itself (again) with the shenanigans in the boardroom and look like candidates for the Championship along with struggling Stoke. Nobody knows what Tottenham is up to. Bottom of the table with one point from four matches, they look like they need to settle down after the departure of Dimitar Berbatov and Robbie Keane.
Premier League Management
There has been much unusually turbulent manager change already this season. Kevin Keegan has left Newcastle and Alan Curbishley has parted company with West Ham. Both cite owner interference in decisions about the buying and selling of players and the organisation of the team. A case of new owners wanting to protect their investment, perhaps.
Doubtless, these buyers are coming in and buying up brand name clubs with more than half an eye on breaking them big in the new emerging Asian markets. Top players in top clubs are immediately recognisable to vast numbers of Indian and Chinese fans of European football in general and the Premiership in particular. Already the top clubs have been bought and now an analysis of the middle order teams is under way. Watch out Everton. The snag is, there will be clubs in the top league lacking brand recognition which will not attract these big money buyers and there’s a real danger of the emergence of a two-tier set up with the cream always at the top.