By Patrick Reilly
Los Blancos have won nothing for the past two years and have brought in Jose Mourinho to deliver trophies. He usually wins at least two in his debut season, as he did with Porto and Chelsea, and scooped the treble last time out with Inter. Difficult to see Madrid going three full seasons without a trophy with the Portuguese coach in charge. Cup specialist Mourinho will like the look of 8.0 (7/1) on his new side scooping La Liga and the Copa del Rey. Real Madrid haven't won the Spanish Cup side since 1992-93.
4) Arsenal to win the Premier League - 7.50 (13/2)
For how many years have we heard that the Gunners' young team are maturing? At least five as we need to go all the way back to find the last trophy Arsenal won when they beat Manchester United on penalties to grab the F.A. Cup. With the Cesc Fabregas saga dragging on longer than a bad episode of Dallas the north Londoners will only be weaker. Title winners? Yeah right. As for Liverpool, they are an even longer shot at 13.0 (12/1) to end 21 years of hurt. You would be better off investing in troubled oil giant BP than either of this pair to win the league.
3) Inter to win the Champions League - 13.0 (12/1)
No team has retained the Champions League in its present format. You need to go all the way back to 1990 and Milan when the Rossoneri kept their hands on the old European Cup. If even Barcelona couldn't break the hoodoo last season it's hard to see Inter celebrating once again next May. Mind you Rafael Benitez did win the Champions League in his debut season with Liverpool...
2) Wolfsburg to go season unbeaten at home - 26.0 (25/1)
Die Wolfe were clearly impressed with the job new coach Steve McClaren did with Twente. His Tukkers won the Eredivisie in no small part to their incredible home record of W16 D1 L0. McClaren will need to pull off a miracle with Wolfsburg to do something similar as the German side lost twice as many games at the Volkswagen Arena last season as they did on their travels. Eight of their 12 defeats came on home turf during a dismal title defence. If you fancy Wolfsburg to beat Bayern Munich home and away you'll need to be brave at odds of 21.0 and they are 4.0 to qualify for the Champions League.
1) Celtic or Rangers not to win the Scottish Premier League - 151.0 (150/1)
Not since 1984-85 has a different name been engraved on the Scottish league trophy when a certain Sir Alex Ferguson brought his Aberdeen side a second title on the spin. Since then it has been an all Old Firm affair and least season was more of the same with third placed Dundee United finishing 24 points shy of title winners Rangers and 18 points behind second placed Celtic. Sadly, more of the same looks very likely this time around. Yawn.
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