WHY LIVERPOOL WILL WIN THIS SEASON EPL

History.

Liverpool fans in UK claimed Chelsea does not have history. Well, I would say Liverpool has not history in EPL. Since the introduction of EPL in 1992/1993 season, Liverpool has not win the coveted trophy even once. Zero, kosong, zilch. They conquer the old Division 1 biggest price with Kenny Daghlish, John Barnes, Ian Rush and many more they were found wanting in new brand of English football. With economic downturn coming soon in year 2009, EPL need to boost their popularity to their fans globally. Everyone knows that Liverpool have thousand of fans around the world, therefore if Liverpool wins then the popularity of EPL will surely increase tremendously.

Football fans know so called 'the big four' of EPL, yet Liverpool is the only club who has not win the EPL. They are there and there about (few years ago they were second after Manchester United) but never on the top of the table comes May. They managed to get fourth place more often then the rest (Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool) and qualify for Champion League competition, they consider themselves the big four. Of course, since they won countless of cup trophies, I would say cups has more 'being lucky' factor (i.e luck of the draw, the two legs game, its not a whole season competition) then 'consistency' (i.e. games week in week out, no replays), I would rate Liverpool as a 'lucky' club. Only this season Liverpool has managed to stay around the rest of big four. Previously they were at least 10 points adrift comes Christmas and by January they were out of title contention.

Second, footballers are not paid by itself. Football clubs have to find ways of generating money through sponsorship, shirt & goodies selling, gate receipts and whatever means of getting money into their coffers. Just look at few players from so called top 4. Torres came to Liverpool with a pay cut of 30,000 pound sterling per week. He is currently being paid 90,000 pound sterling. John Terry is being paid around 120,000 pound sterling, so to Ronaldo from Manchester United. I am not sure how much Fabregas is paid but my guess the minimal figure would be around seventy gees. Clubs are promised a whopping 50 million pound sterling if they keep their status as EPL club for next year. Of course the money is depending on EPL selling their rights to broadcaster like Sky, Astro, ESPN etc to have EPL live games on the telly. How can they keep paying 50 million per club if the money is unavaiable. That's another reason why Liverpool going to win EPL this year.

Thirdly, ratings. What I like about American sports is you get once or twice in the space of 5 years there will be a champion that does not come with big history. Angels beat NY Yankees in baseball in world series few years back and I think whoever does not follow baseball would not have a clue about Angels. NY Yankees is similar to Manchester United in term of global fans. Chicago Bulls dominated basketball with Michael Jordan and yet nowadays they struggle to get into playoff final. Their draft scheme brought Cleveland Cavaliers from an unknown club to a winning club.

How the draft works? 99.9% of players in US sportsmen have to go through college sports (even Tiger went through college golf before he went to become professional). Each year these players will have to undergo an 'interview'. The interview is to determine the ranking of new players through skills, stamina and few others test. LeBron James came first in his draft year, since Cleveland Cavaliers was last ranked club in the previous season, they got to choose the draft players first and of course the choose LeBron James. It's like West Bromich Albion get to choose whether they want Cristiano Ronaldo or not. Since then the Cavaliers succesfully making to playoffs every season with LeBron James. He is currently valued 1 billion US dollars! My point is Liverpool has to win this year EPL to boost the rating of EPL. At the end of this year, journalist will write about how Liverpool completed the big four status by winning the league, over and over and over and again and again and again.