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Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester City are expected to be the busiest Premier League clubs in a convoluted summer transfer market, according to top football agent Jon Smith. The director of player representation agency First Artist believes there will be a flurry of activity before the European Championships as the Premier League pays its clubs earlier than usual.Smith expects the middle clubs to be more prudent and protect their balance sheets in the hope of considerable investment from emerging markets around the world, notably China, who are changing world football in more ways than one. He told Sky Sports News HQ: The interesting thing is that the Premier League have decided to pay the clubs earlier this year, partly, I guess, because of the European Championships.Its going to be a bit convoluted. What will happen is youll have a spree and then a decline of activity as people wait for the European Championships, and then it will pick up again towards the end of July. Jackson Martinez, in Atletico Madrid, was one of several high profile players to join the Super League this season Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester City will be the busiest I suspect. Of the ones coming up, probably Middlesbrough. The rest will be prudent. Its about the valuations of football clubs and how people want to build their businesses, not just about success on the field any more.You have the top five, six clubs very well organised and well owned, and then you have a number of very interested parties around the world looking at Premier League clubs at potential investments.So the clubs in the middle - for example Stoke, West Brom, Swansea and Southampton to a lesser degree - are going to look at their balance sheets and not want to degrade those by overly spending too early with player commitments on their books. They want to keep their books in good shape just in case one of these high-net-worths come up.China have exploded onto the football player market in recent months, with its Super League clubs signing world stars in their prime including Jackson Martinez, Ramires and Alex Teixeira.But Smith says Chinese investors are actively looking to invest in Premier League and Championship clubs and make English football richer via revenue streams from the Far East. Jon Smith is director and agent at First Artist representation agency He said: We got very close with a Championship club with some Chinese individuals. It didnt quite happen but the main income stream was to come from China. The UK income stream was just consequential to wash its face.Theres a huge market in China and dont discount other markets like India. Its not there yet; cricket is still the number one sport but football is catching on. Those markets are going to become more important to our Premier League and Championship over the coming years.The home, base market has to be nurtured. We cant have empty stadiums. Theres a great argument for decreasing ticket prices as income from around the world increases. But the market for saleability and profit is going to come from other corners of the world such as America and Asia. Also See: Transfer Centre Latest transfer news Transfer betting Paper Talk Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, the second game in the action-packed final day of the Evolution Championship Series (Evo), featured fantastic clashes between the worlds best players.The top eight players included absolute monsters such as last years champion Nicolas Kane BlueRiver Gonzalez and two titled Marvel gods: Evil Geniuses Justin JWong Wong and Christopher NYChrisG Gonzalez. There was great potential to be found in Juan Priest Corona and Kevin Dual Kevin Barrios. Then, for good measure, there was a mix of Evo tournament specialists, with some who have had multiple top-eight Evo appearances: Luis Paradigm Cervantes, Brokentiers Armando Angelic Mejia, and Vineeth ApologyMan Meka.The top eight was a varied bracket that occupied every space on the fighting game style chart: hyper-aggressive players such as Kane BlueRiver, Angelic and ApologyMan mixed in with defensive styles like that of NYChrisG, JWong, or Paradigm. Whatever your flavor was, Marvel definitely catered to it.A battle of Marvel gods: JWong and NYChrisGTwo of the greatest to ever play Marvel vs. Capcom 3 met in the first round of the losers bracket and the match lived up to the billing. Both players are considered two of the best three or four Marvel players on the planet and it absolutely showed. NYChrisG was the pioneer of the Morgan and the bullet time team arc and JWongs legendary clutch potential became known as the Wong Factor. The last time these two fought at Evo in the losers bracket was 2012 and that match was also an instant classic.The neutral game between the two was amazing. Whether it was JWong dashing in aand out of both Morgan or Vergils attack ranges for a low mix-up or NYChrisGs harassment of normals to force a jump and then jump grab into extension, the face-off was a stalemate.dddddddddddd The difference came down to resources. In the last game of their set, JWong was low on life and meter and had no way to open up NYChrisGs ridiculously zone-heavy team. After NYChrisG hammered the final nail into the coffin, the two embraced to finish what many might consider the match of the Marvel tournament.The grand finals: Kane BlueRiver against NYChrisGWith deafening cries of USA echoing throughout the arena, NYChrisG was fueled by the ebullient energy of the crowd. His opponent, Kane BlueRiver, was the defending champion and showed few or no cracks in his game; he had been absolutely unstoppable before the grand finals and it was almost certain that he would become the first ever repeat UMvC3 Evo champion.What happened next? NYChrisG just played better. He never let Kane BlueRiver get in to start his offense. He stalled the defending champions engine and neutralized his every move.When the last fireball hit and Kane BlueRiver reached out for a sportsmanlike handshake, NYChrisG sat stunned in his chair. Hed done it. Finally, after the years of work and growing success, the one title that had eluded him was now his. Hed had a tough road through the losers bracket, particularly against JWong. But destiny had called and NYChrisG was now immortalized in Marvel history. ' ' '