Swedes Malmo FF Bet On Aging Arnason Whilst Seattle Recall Friberg

As football takes its summer break behind the scenes the teams are already gearing up for next season and gambling on their latest signings keeping them in winning form

As the transfer window flaps in the breeze, and Europe melts under a heatwave, its hard to know which are the most misleading, the optimistic press leaks of clubs interested in players, or the rumors (mostly started by players) about which clubs are interested in them. Next season is never as far away as you think and the fight to secure the best line up possible for the autumn bubbles away like a cauldron in a witches den, possibly stirred by the pall of black smoke that is Sepp Blatter.

Swedish Transfers Trundle On

• Malmo FF sign up Arnason
• Friberg heads to Seattle
• Follow their success on ComeOn! Sportsbook

The larger, more famous clubs, your Chelsea and Barcalona types, have their fingers in many pies, whilst the smaller, yet no less determined sides, battle it out to get the best of the rest once the riches have been doled out for those deemed most desirable. The huge amounts of money involved spiral around the stars, the exceptional, those with an almost unnatural talent, and only settle a little as you descend the pecking order to those gambling news of their signing won’t be deemed by fans a waste.

Amusingly the mercenary nature of all this is massively played down as players wring their hands, lamenting their impending departure for pastures new in interviews for the supporter’s club magazine, always mentioning how they’ll miss the team, the atmosphere, the fans. Of course each one is but days later telling their new team’s supporters that their loyalty is with their new masters, that they’re excited, that they understand the nature of the side’s history and heritage.

Arnason On The Move

That they primarily move for money and self-orientated opportunities is rarely mentioned, it wouldn’t be done to gleefully announce you’re only joining a particular side because their board of sporting control made your agent an offer the gods wouldn’t refuse and that they had qualified for the Champions League season which means a larger profile for you and your skills, would it? Some might consider that crass and uncouth, despite that being precisely what’s going on.

Whilst clubs are signing up their futures, strengthening where it is felt they’re weakest, there are of course those that must make way for the coming attractions. Players suddenly shifting, sometimes even overseas, as they find themselves surplus to requirements in their present position, especially if they’ve not displayed the form or flair for which they were signed up in the first place. This is particularly noticeable in teams freshly qualified for the big regional cup competitions.

Those that like to bet on sports in Sweden will already know that Malmo FF is doing all it can in the time available to give it the very best chance in the Champions League, but up against the biggest sides in Europe there’s a mountain to climb before them and they’ll need all the help they can get. To that end they’ve just added another arrow to their quiver in the shape of the awfully handy Kari Arnason the somewhat aging midfielder that can improve a defense when necessary.

Rotherham Utd To Malmo FF

Arnason joins up with Malmo FF from Rotherham United with a two and a half year deal that even the thirty two year old himself admits is a good deal for a man of his age in football. He called leaving Rotherham “a wrench” and that he had “special” memories of playing for the club, which given he has Champions League games to prep for now might ring just a little hollow, but he will be missed at the New York stadium as he kept the Millers steady at the back.

Another Swede on the move is Erik Friberg who having wandered across Europe in recent years with stints at Malmo FF, Bologna and Esbjerg, is now making the trip back across the Atlantic to the Seattle Sounders in the MLS, a team for which he has played before back in 2011. The US side is pleased to have him back, and he’s pleased to go, although you can’t help thinking if he’d managed to settle somewhere in Europe he’d still be here.

Those that take advantage of the dubiously out of date and unenforceable Swedish gambling laws to wager online will be able to back both Malmo FF and indeed Seattle on ComeOn! Sportsbook where you can keep tabs on all the gaming news on which odds apply where, and as players move hither and yon in search of fame, fortune and fans that don’t boo them, there’s ever more better reasons to back not just your home team, but also those to which you fellow countrymen have moved.