Premier League 2013 predictions

Real’s hope of retaining La Liga crown is diminished after falling nearly 20 points archrival Barca, with domestic trophy a distant probability, there’s nothing left to lose for Jose Mourinho but experiments. First is the goalkeeper experiment and now with the midfield. He isn’t sabotaging his team like some thought when he decided to replace Spain’s captain with secondary goalkeeper, but he was certainly failed miserably in that one beside bearing intense criticism from both his players, fans and the media alike. All of these pressing Mourinho start trying and finding some formula that might give him the edge against Manchester United.

Talk about trophy, the UEFA Champions League 2013 highlights that Real Madrid has lusted after continues  to be elusive for who know how many years, ironically is the only thing that’s left. The Copa Del Rey, the La Liga, they won’t be forgotten, but they’ll become a ground for tactical changes for Mourinho, relying on the fact that he has enough firepower up front to cover for any mistakes he makes, most of the time at least. Not everyday Cristiano Ronaldo finds a goalkeeper in such perfect form in front of him, drawing two amazing saves from Valencia’s GK.

Yet it’s ironic to think that an entire season will be defined by only a two-leg match that come along so soon, in February. Miss out on making the quarter finals, and it’ll be inevitable but call this season a miserable failure, and let the media festival around Jose Mourinho and the team begin.

It seems that things at Real Madrid, despite the win, aren’t much delighted. From best sportsbook promotions news source, rumors of a loud argument which came close to a more serious bust up between Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose Mourinho emerged in recent hours, with club president Florentino Perez forced to intervene.
After the 90 minutes, instead of celebrating in the dressing room, the two got into a very vocal and loud argument, with Ronaldo quite unhappy about the way he was treated and talked to by the Portuguese manager. According to rumors, Florentino Perez had to step in and help seperate the two men, who weren’t too far from coming to blows.

It’s also been noted that Mourinho got into a spat with Angel di Maria, criticizing the player for his ability since he signed a new contract, saying you played better when you cost less money. Di Maria didn’t start against Valencia, instead stepping in after 61 minutes.
With another damaging blow to his relationship with his star players, some might wonder if Jose Mourinho will even get to see the end of the season as Real Madrid’s manager.

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BREAKING NEWS! Although there isn’t anything official from the club just yet, but according to best sportsbook promotions news source, Real Madrid are considering letting go of Kaka, releasing the former Golden Ball for free to boot, probably in this January transfer window.
After more than 3 seasons with the club following his famous acquisition from AC Milan for €65 million, one of the most expensive purchases of all-time in the football world, it might be time to cut him loose, or at least that’s the decision brewing up among the chiefs of the club.

The Special One has never really thought much of the former Ballon d’Or winner (2007), usually given him playing time off the bench or in less important matches, putting him in crucial moments only when forced to. Kaka himself hasn’t exactly delivered, burdened by injuries and an uphill struggle to recapture a place in the lineup under Mourinho, even in his favorite battleground where Kaka first earned his reputation – UEFA Champions League highlight 2013 – which his purchase was supposed to help Real to the 10th European Championship, Kaka’s performance haven’t been anywhere near his old prime for so many years.

After a rather successful first season, things haven’t carried on quite as well – Kaka has played for Real Madrid a total of only 73 league matches, scoring 20 goals and adding 21 assists. When he did get the minutes, he usually produced the goods, but it hasn’t been enough to win him a place in the lineup with the rumor mill keeps churn out each season that Mourinho follow attackers afters midfielders while forget a downright star attacker on the bench.

Seeing Kaka is still highly in demand, Real Madrid tried to ship him off back to AC Milan during the summer, but for no less than €20 million, and a similar offer was given to PSG, hoping someone will bite on the suggestion and rid them of his huge wage bill but both clubs backed from the deal.

After getting sent off against Osasuna on Saturday, spending less than 15 minutes off the pitch, it looks like another reason for Real Madrid not to retain the services of the man who was considered for a while as the best player in the world was given. Kaka makes an astonishing number of €16.9 million per season, and there’s a good chance that a mutual termination agreement is being reached, with Real Madrid tired of paying so much for a player they’re hardly using while  Kaka himself has been looking for some first team football, if only to regain his place in Selecao ahead of World Cup 2014.

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According to source from the best sportsbook promotions report, Arsenal is reconsidering their wage structure after the much criticized “socialist mode” that Arsene Wenger talked about is proving ineffective, with proven stars being sold on a yearly basis, mostly replaced by mediocre players. Yet another consecutive appearance in UEFA Champions League highlights 2013 is not enough to warrant a calm season when a club of Arsenal stature has been trophyless for 8 years.

“We pay well. We pay very well. I’ve spent all my life making sure people who work for us are paid well and I believe if you can do it, you do it,” said Arsene Wenger last week. “We have no players on £200,000-a-week. We have a more socialist system.”

But Wenger’s notion of a “socialist system” seems at odds with the club’s facts and figures. Wenger see
ms to have excluded himself from the socialist model he extols too, picking up a salary in excess of £7m-a-year, including bonuses, making him the highest-paid manager in the Premier League – including 12-time title winner Sir Alex Ferguson. Nevermind the 7 years trophyless period, the current form of Wenger’s team and his old rival’s is most telling.

With three games played so far in 2013, Arsenal are winless. A turgid display against Southampton saw the Gunners lucky to escape with a point, while an all-too-common defensive lapse allowed Danny Graham to force a replay for Swansea in the FA Cup third round.
And, on Sunday, as Arsene Wenger deemed it himself, a “nervous” display against champions Manchester City saw Arsenal slip to a 2-0 defeat.

So, while others around the globe are trying to stick to their new aims and goals for the New Year, it is Wenger’s turn to learn from past mistakes, loosen the strings on the club’s purse that the fans are generously filling up every week and try to rejuvenate a faltering campaign with Bayern Munich in the Champions League approaching on the horizon. And if he’s loyal to the stringent principles of late, Arsenal’s fans can expect more tepid performances like last week at both Premier League and UEFA Champions League highlights 2013. This January transfer window will be the make or break moment for Arsenal and Wenger to redeem themselves in football lovers around.

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One of several most wanted footballers this year if it comes to young players chased by ambitious English clubs is definitely Wilfried Zaha from Crystal Palace, right now planning dearest to Manchester United.
Arsenal seemed to be especially interested in the 20 year old forward who can play as both winger and a striker, not long ago notching his England debut in a friendly match, with the expectation that end up being adequate to compel him to carry on to be with the English formation instead of participating for the Ivory Coast, the land of his birth. Listening to best sportsbook promotions blogs, Though Man Utd weren’t the first of the pursuit after the player, they appear to be the last team standing. How did things come to this? It looks like the majority of the football teams chasing Zaha are of the opinion Alex Ferguson has already assured the player through talking to Zaha himself and engaging Zaha to sign up with Manchester United down the road and by reaching an understanding along with his club’s coach and chairmen.
Zaha is one of the rare attacker talent a coach don’t precisely know where to place on the pitch, like  with Theo Walcott as well as others of similar approach, nevertheless he appears to be more effective (and used more as well) when playing as a winger, this year scoring five goals and adding four assists in 25 domestic league matches, helping Crystal Palace to attain third inside the English Championship at the period, identical ranking they finished in last year before missing out on Premier League door through the playoffs.
Last year, Zaha did have a chance at the striker position under manager Dougie Freedman, scored a career high of 06 league goals in 41 appearances. This season he’s been moving over roles from the wing for the traditional striker, sometimes within same matches. He’s not as small as some of the other more prominent wingers in England (Wlacott, Lennon), standing at 5’11 or 180cm. From the time becoming a member of the senior team at Palace in 2009, Zaha has competed a entire of 121 matches, scoring 15 goals.

In any case, Premier League 2013 predictions specialists are told to believed that even if Zaha can be signed this transfer window by ManUtd, he’ll almost certainly possibly be loaned back to Crystal Palace for the remaining of this season and you never know, maybe even an additional season of improvement. It’s rumored it will take at the least GBP 10 million to convince Palace to sell him.

A more substantial headlines is the possibility of Ferguson’s second coup in a season after took Arsenal’s captain Robin Van Persie in August 2012 when it was very obvious that the at moment Chelsea and Frank Lampard claimed he won’t be renewing his contract, he will certainly have plenty of admirers, yet few imagined the Red Devils to be one of them.
Alex Ferguson understands precisely what he wants, and I think he likes his central midfielders veteran and aged. If they come at no cost, having an impressive wage let’s remember, that’s better still.
According to Lampard’s representative, in spite of recent gossips that there could be still an opportunity for the English international captain to continue to be with the team, there is no contract offer from Chelsea and Lampard won’t be staying with the club he has been a driving force of for more than a ten years next season, free to consider a new team.
As opposed to some teams would love, Chelsea aren’t enthusiastic about offering him in January plus generating getting some sort of bucks on the 34 year old and the player is now free to talk contracts with other team. It might be worth mentioning that Lampard will be aged 35 just as his current contract ends, and there’s not a lot funds to be made by selling him. He’s more useful staying with the club till the end of the season, as he’s shown in his last few appearances, if he did our Premier League 2013 predictions for biggest matches will be definitely more exciting with such a unpredictable player on the pitch.

The initial rumors suggested Lampard might spend his final seasons away from the Premier League, as no real offers seemed to be emerging. There were talks of the MLS and China. There were talks of an offer from Italy or Spain as well. No, no one connected Lampard to PSG with his fantastic former coach, Carlo Ancelotti, in case you are in doubt, even best sportsbook promotion sites for betting on odds of player transfer agree on this.

Having Paul Scholes (heading off at the conclusion of this tournament), Ryan Giggs (no one knows) and Michael Carrick isn’t enough, Alex Ferguson would want to bring even more experience to his midfield, but he’ll probably have to wait until the end of the season, which means Lampard, a Chelsea idol in his earlier playing days, may well step up for ManUtd’s own idol Paul Scholes once the redhead retires for a second time, and may very well be the last.
Despite his age, and due to his monopoly with the penalty taking in Chelsea, Frank Lampard has six goals in 12 Premier League matches this season, and is the highest scoring midfielder (with 132 goals) since history of the Premier League. Our Premier League 2013 predictions will follow closely with this transfer till the winter windows closes.

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