Premiership Betting Analysis from PinnacleSports
9th Jun 2007, 8:28
Forbes magazine’s annual rich list of football clubs published in March of this year showed that ten of the top twenty-five most valuable football clubs in the world play in the Premiership. Their relative positions in that elite group correlate closely with success on the field, underlining the close relationship between spending power and success, the prevailing philosophy of ‘speculate to accumulate’ seems to hold true. The frenetic horse-trading of the summer months is the most important phase in the process of Premiership clubs reorganising and strengthening their squads, providing ante-post players with vital clues to next season’s competition.
February’s African Nations Cup an Uwanted Distraction
It is not enough however, for Premiership punters to simply follow the transfer merry-go-round. To gain any edge you must try to pre-empt the moves, anticipate their likely impact, while factoring in external issues. The 2006 World Cup left a season-long legacy for the fitness of international players such as Thierry Henry. The African Nations Cup played in Ghana next February at a critical stage of the Premiership, could have a similar impact for clubs with large African contingents, such as Chelsea. Alongside that crucial homework bettors should search for the best available value in the relevant market, normally found at a low commission online bookmaker such as www.PinnacleSports.com.
Proven Goal-scorers Key to Premiership Success
The Premiership has become the lowest scoring league in Europe. In the 1994-5 season, six strikers scored 20 goals or more, while last season Didier Drogba was the only player to fall into that bracket. As this trend looks set to continue and more money pours into the Premiership, possessing a proven goal-scorer is becoming a critical component for any side with title pretensions. Another key differentiator of those sides with realistic ambitions of winning the Premiership and the also-rans is that the former scour the globe for the next Ronaldinho or Zidane. The latter are more likely to recycle players from within the Premiership. While new foreign signings grab headlines, success comes from the ability to incorporate such new signings seamlessly into long-term plans, which rarely happens in one season. The challenge for Premiership punters is to gauge improvement based on continuity as well as high profile additions.