Back in June this year, Premier League team Sunderland AFC announced they were replacing Bidvest with dafabet as their new principle sponsor.

Under the terms of the deal, dafabet (dafa888) get their logo on Sunderland home and away jerseys for the entire  2015/16 season. Sunderland get a big pile of cash in return.

In the press release announcing the new sponsorship Gary Hutchinson said:

“Dafabet greatly impressed everyone at the club with their desire to work with us right from the start and there is a fantastic synergy between our collective aims and objectives.”

Now, only a few weeks into the EPL season, it has been reported that dafabet (or at least their traders setting the odds) are expecting Sunderland to be relegated at the end of the season.

Dafa had Sunderland at 5/8 favourites to exit the EPL and head to the Championship division, after their partner had played only 2 games (for zero points).

As for dafabet’s belief in Sunderland’s chances of finishing the season in the top 4…1000/1 outsiders. They must be offering lottery type odds for a Sunderland premiership.

So much for collective aims and objectives!