EPL Odds, Transfer Gossip and Rumours
June 28th, 2013 by G WaldorfWith Isco shunning Manchester City in favour of Real Madrid (who can blame him?) City are strongly rumoured to be preparing a massive bid for Tottenham’s Gareth Bale.Bale, a man linked with more clubs than Ian Woosnam at The Open 2001, could go for a world record fee in excess of the £80m ($160m) Real Madrid paid Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo. Tottenham who are keen to hold onto Bale, to retain their one-man-team status, and are thought to prefer a sale abroad to Madrid or Barcelona rather than a move to another EPL outfit, if indeed a massive bid comes in. This one is going to drag on and our sources tell us that the likely Paulinho signing by Spurs is on the basis that Bale remains at White Hart Lane. Bale will still be a Tottenham player come the start of 2013/2014 EPL season in our opinion….whether he is at the end of the transfer window on 31st August remains another matter.
Tottenham are currently priced at odds of $18.00 to finish in the bottom 10 for EPL 2013 / 2014, so if you think Bale will be sold, get on this price before it tumbles. Rarely can a top 6 team have been so reliant on one player.
Chelsea and Manchester United appear to be fighting it out as to who gets to spend $100m on Edinson Cavani and who gets to spend $60m on Robert Lewandowski. United who have been liked with Robert Lewandowski since about 1996 it seems, are still favourites to land the big Pole, however Cavani’s Wayne Rooney like work ethic could be attracting David Moyes. Cavani also brings a lot more hair to United’s front line than either Lewandowski or Rooney. Our tips are: Cavani to Real Madrid and Lewandowski to Manchester United.
If you fancy a United / Chelsea Dual Forecast for 1st and 2nd in EPL 2013 / 2014 (we do) you can grab odds of $3.60 which we recommend you do before their cheque books open and their prices start falling.
One player almost certain to be at Manchester United next season is Everton’s Leighton Baines, with United having a $24m feeler bid rejected, it is only going to be one transfer request and $30m to seal the deal. Baines brings some dead ball expertise United have missed since Ronaldo and an offensive full back approach they haven’t had since, well erm, Evra.
And finally a no-more-than-10-words-per-sentence round up of the rest of the gossip.
Rooney will remain at Old Trafford, central to Moyes’ plans
Real Madrid to sell Higuain to either Arsenal or Juventus
Everton fancy a new Honda, Keisuke from CSKA Moscow.
Paulinho is on his way to Tottenham from Corinthians
Liverpool’s Reina is going to move to Barcelona
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