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@ReysonDrabek
Your boy King Kong really turning down $7m for a chance to fight AJ? Lol. He's either mid-juicing or scared

afrodoc2:
Lol honestly speaking he was in the conversation this season, just that Mane and Sterling were on fire.
If you remove those 2 the subs would be Salah and Hazard.

Well you definitely can't take out Sterling, so if you took out Mane then Salah is the next option

airmark:
Using question to answer such question is a dumb thing to do.

What kind of stupid question are you asking me to start with? All the times I bash Hidden Shakushaku what has been the cane I usually use?

Chelseafan1:
Why is it so hard for you to state?

What wins games? You know what I'm about so I dunno why you're asking me this question

afrodoc2:
Salah didn’t make the list sef so it is a moot point.

Hazard was good this season but Mane and Sterling were better than him, so there is no space for him in the 4-3-3.

On what basis should Hazard make TOTY? Never mind suggesting he did better than Salah. Can't believe this is even an argument

It's called TOTY not Dancing with the Stars for a reason

airmark:
What do you use to rate attackers?

What do you think?

Only Chelsea fans can compare Hidden Shakushaku to Mo Salah this season. Smh

Roland17:
I have raved about J. Havlicek on this thread before. He was our M. Smart before today's Smart on the defensive end. Dude was a very intelligent defender and a great 2-way player. He will forever bleed green in our hearts.

RIP John Havlicek

Wow. This is terrible news

May he RIP

Lol this nigga must be on Nairaland. Dropped quick 5 pts as I slandered

DeRozan gon DeRozan.

In an elimination game this guy is deadass shooting 1/4 at home. Lol! I thought the Raptors did him greasy and was rooting for him but for a player at his position to not even try to shoot the 3, any team hoping to win anything with him will probably sleep there.

Roland17:
As much as I like Tarasenko, I am never to going to pick the Blues because they are conference rivals to my Blackhawks, but they play really hard and are one of the best defensive teams in the league.

Their goaltending is solid and their offensive linemen from first to the third is at par with that of the Sharks.

The Sharks are the deepest team in the West but I suspect their goaltending might Amaka them at last which was why I leaned towards the Blues

Roland17:
Absolutely!!! Infact, home ice means nothing in the NHL. The Caps were up 2 and before knew it the Hurricanes scored 5. The lightning who won the presidents cup were swept by the Jackets whom I am tipping to go all the way. I love the NHL playoff because there are no assurances. You better come out aggressive, else you are getting schooled.

Even the 3-1 lead that is seemingly unassailable gets frequently overturned like we saw with the Knights and the Sharks. Winning the President's Cup is almost the kiss of death. I think the Blackhawks and Red Wings are the only two teams in 20 years who have won that and won the Cup

After this first round I find it really difficult to predict a certain team winning it all. The teams are ridiculously evenly matched. However I'd go for a Bruins vs Blues Stanley Cup Finals

Khanben:
Sorry, the NHL playoffs are not more competitive, it's just that the format allows for surprise results. The NBA is the only sport where the championship rounds ensures that only the best team goes through because said team has to win 4 times.
In the NFL, NHL and UCL to name a few competitions, the 1or 2 game knockout nature allows for the underdog or the inferior team to sometimes shock the better team.
PS: If the NBA playoffs was a 1 game series, this year alone the nets and magic would have qualified beating out better teams like the sixers and raptors

I extremely disagree. This year the top two teams with the best regular season got bounced in the first round. One of them got swept

By the way the NHL playoffs is a best of 7 not a 1 or 2 game knockout. And in this season's playoffs we had 3 Game 7's in the first round!!! if you follow the NHL you will know the parity is way higher than in the NBA

What you would have said is that the sheer nature of the NBA and how one or two players can influence the game at a higher level than either NHL or NFL is why there is a bit of a wider gulf between the haves and have nots

sephia:
How many chances will Chelsea need to make top 4? If they finally miss it which I'm sure they would, Sarri should be sacked even if we win the Europa.

Chelsea has no squad, a total clear out is necessary. Kepa, Kante are the only players that should stay. Hazard should move to Madrid, he has tried. Not easy playing with mediocre team mates year in, year out.

Sarriball has frustrated BlueDiva out of hiding

raumdeuter:
The best option right there is to sell both of them and buy Deligt in addition to Hernandez but that doesnt look likely.

It looks like Kovac will still be our coach for next season, That is a depressing thought

The thought process of this our board I'm not sure I understand. I heard Uli is the one backing Kovac to stay while Rummenigge is undecided on whether Kovac stays or goes.

For me Kovac just sounds like a small club manager with small club mentality. Everything is so chaotic and I still can't place an identity on what his footballing philosophy really is. This is the number one reason why I want him gone because no matter what he wins in Germany he will always be sussed out in Europe

While we're at it and for the umpteenth time, there is need to splurge on a bonafide goalscoring forward not developmental projects like Davies, Coman type. The disparity between Lewandowski's production and the second best Gnabry is just too wide for any team trying to compete with the big boys

sleekdot:
Hummels last night

https://j.gifs.com/6XBq1N.gif

Maybe we can sell him and Boateng and complete the money for De Ligt. People were up in arms about Löw leaving them out of his squad but at the moment it looks like the only thing Löw has gotten right recently. It still blows my mind, these guys are just 31

@Roland17
Did you see that all the wildcard teams in the Stanley Cup playoffs advanced ahead of the #1 and #2 seeds in the East and West? The NHL playoffs are far more competitive than the NBA playoffs

chic2pimp:
There is nothing wrong with this Warriors team
They only thing they are guilty of is looking too far ahead and not focusing on the task in hand I fully expect them to Blow the clippers out on Friday and go on to win the Chip. Ofcourse they'll be setbacks along the way but no way are they not winning it all.

My point exactly. They are already talking about the next round when the job of the first round has not been done. They would never do this last year or the year before, they would not blow a 31pt lead (not with Durant at least) the year before and they wouldn't lose so many home games either.

ATBE the Warriors should win but they are far from invincible, Houston showed that last year. I don't expect them to this year because Harden is still looking like a poor man's Regular season Peyton Manning to me. However I believe whoever gets out the East could give them problems

Something just isn't right with this Warriors team. We would be talking about a series lead for the Clippers by now if they didn't absolutely faceplant at home.

And if they somehow manage to blow this 3-1 again, on God this would actually be worse than 2016

I no go lie for you, you guys are going to be in European wilderness for a long time.

birdman:
This is what I was trying to say when I compared Lillards accuracy to Curry. He is not the best lights out shooter, but boy, he is dangerously consistent on those parking lot 3s.

All the curry lovers that were attacking me eruditor pointguardusa see what i mean?

Steph Curry has the edge but as we have seen from Dame he can also go off on any given night. The margin between them is minimal

Khanben:
It was IMO a low percentage shot but not a bad shot given that it was lillard taking it and the circumstance at the time

That's the point. It's not low percentage for Damian Lillard. He actually stepped back and launched when he could have tried to draw contact or drive to the rim to drop a floater. The confidence was supreme

RuuDie:
Where is the proof in this that Klopp doesn't have 'Pep-like' budget? All the players Klopp asked for he got... or did you ever hear him come out and complain that the club didn't give him anything he wanted?

Una go just dey frame narrative to sweet una story... same cane you are using to flog Pep na him I dey use for Klopp too. As long as e no win silverware, all dis one na shakara with no end-result.

Because he has had superior spending power not just ahead of Klopp but ahead of the rest of the competition. It's not a narrative when you're spending double the rest of your competition

Once Klopp wins silverware then it would show that all Pep is doing is par for the course

chic2pimp:
That's the thing. You guys are in a hurry. Give it time as I am confident that He would not only get to the SeminFinals, He will Win it.

So what makes Pep different from the rest?

If you pump a manager with that much money over an extended period of time it is likely you eventually win a CL. However it must still be on record that Pep spent over half a billion at City and didn't get past the quarterfinals

Paul George really said that game-winning, series closing shot was a bad shot

Per Second Spectrum, Lillard is 8-of-12 from 30-plus feet this postseason, compared to 6-of-38 for everyone else.

He's right that it's a bad shot for anyone else but not the guy with the ball at the time

PDPGuy:
Obama always speaks from his heart. It is Sec Clinton that needs the focus groups

Her anywhere Belle face mentality na him cost her that presidency

raumdeuter:
That is what liberalism is about nowadays.

To call people Christians is now a problem, Same way to say Merry Xmas is a problem.

Pdpguy can you please explain what Easter worshippers mean? Do we call Moslems Ramadan or Fitr worshippers or jews Passover worshippers?

What is wrong or offensive in calling people Christians

I'm confused honestly. Like WTF is an Easter worshipper? Doesn't he identify as Christian? Even if he were atheist I don't know if it's healthy to lend your voice to any group that believes in the censorship of a religion just because your lifestyle contradicts it's tenets

Unlimited22:
Ah, baba,Pep coached your team for three seasons na

Bare minimums
Pep is an OK coach but the hype is too much

Eruditor:
Nah. You guys said Oladipo was a scrub. I said Oladipo was played out of rhythm and given the ball to shoot with 2 seconds left on the clock.

KD's regular season numbers were all down from last season. Numbers deflect here and there. Indy were seeded higher and Oladipo was on course to being an all star again back to back.

No. We said he played like one! He shot poorly throughout the series. That is the bitter truth. Every player has had bad series, even LeNomad James

Anyway no point delving deeper into the number of times he was given the ball with 2 seconds left on the clock because if we ask you to show and prove you might not be able to do so

Nope. KD shot 52% last season and shot 52% this season. His numbers were identical

Oladipo went from approx 48% shooting last season to 42% shooting. Significant difference

Eruditor:
Koeman puts the money theory to bed. He was great with all the minnows he coached. He is great again with Netherlands squad but failed miserably with more money.

How is Koeman great? What was his record before going to Everton

Eruditor:
That Benitez spent less than a season in Inter and RM is an indictment on his coaching. That Pep would have been fired at RM or Chelsea is moot considering they did not fire Mou in his 2nd term after finishing 3rd and trophyless nor did he get the boot in RM in his first season.

This one is neither here nor there. The difference between Pep's scenario and that of Benitez boils down to the former dealing with more patient employers. Even Pep knows that is why he is very selective of the type of teams he moves to

Mourinho won how many trophies his first tenure at Chelsea? He had the cache to earn another season

Mourinho won the CDR in his first year at Madrid ending a 4 year trophyless run

Eruditor:
Carlo is finishing maybe 23points behind Sarri. That is exactly what he is doing. I am 100% sure Klopp crashed out to Wolves and Chelsea in competitions with better squads this is an aside from not winning anything in the same EPL. So how did the bare minimum criteria change for him?

Pep had also failed in the FA Cup back to back prior to this season. That one has been fixed. Every thing else that has not been fixed will be. Lucky for him, the UCL is something he has won, twice in.

Lol what was Napoli's investment this season? Compare to Juventus adding Cristiano Ronaldo. Bottom line they are in the same boat with Sarri's team that won nothing and didn't even make the quarterfinals of the Europa

Everyone knows Klopp's target is CL and EPL. This is the first year he has had enough significant investment to compete and you can see for yourself the impact. I can bet you're praying fervently for City to win else your boy would be stuck with a Mickey mouse double

Lmaooo. Let's run down the teams Pep has faced in this season's FA Cup shall we?

And as for CL shebi na here we dey. When you were exonerating Pep at Bayern we warned you that this man don cast. Now he can't even cross quarterfinals

popizaino:
We have seen coaches you make excuses with lack of financial support going to real Madrid and man United achieving nothing at the end so cut the crab .Claudio ranieri was an under achiever with teams inter Milan, Roma, Juventus, monaco and Chelsea only to spur Leicester city to league glory what do you have to say about that ?

I don't know why you're bringing up Ranieri, when people are listing elite coaches I've never seen anyone mention Ranieri.

The koko is Pep is or has achieved the bare minimum considering his spending budget is almost triple his closest rivals

popizaino:
Win ko winners chapel ni

We all thought pelligrini would go as far as lifting the ucl with real Madrid if he could go all the way to make ucl semi finals with an inferior Villarreal side.and pls what was Mourinho lacking in real Madrid that made him not to win ucl ?

How many seasons was Pellegrini given to coach Madrid? How much did he spend compared to Pep?

Mourinho joined a team that had not made the CL Finals in 8 years. That hadn't gotten past the KO stage in 5 straight outings. Don't compare them to City who had won 2 League titles, FA, League Cups in 4 seasons and made a CL Semi-Final before Pep came

RuuDie:
Oga all dis na story. Klopp already has "Pep-like" budget and has done nada... VVD, Allison, Keita, Fabinho, Shaqiri and co, are free transfers abi!?

This is patently false. Go and check their net spend and get back to me. Over the last 3 seasons

Pep +£398m
Klopp +141m

Don't claim Klopp has anywhere close to Guardiola's budget. As you can see they are not in the same zip code