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1241  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL) on: August 08, 2018, 10:34:53 PM
with few days left before the start of the most exciting league in the world, Manchester City appear to be most prepared than the opposing teams. During the Community Shield Pep Guardiola proved to be a strong coach and tactical fit for any competitor under any circumstances. Chelsea need some time in this season to work on the harmony with Sarri and learn the new tactics that coach is requesting. Manchester United is seen under Mourinho as just a defensive team waiting for the opponent to go forward no matter the level of their opponent was so i don't think he is aiming to win the EPL this season only Tottenham and Liverpool who are a threat to Guardiola he league on the threshold of the start is a physical and strong league and needs more than a variety and this feature is available only when Pep Guardiola Aguero can be compensated by Jesus or Mehrez .. And a team like Liverpool if Salah was injured there is no substitute player in his calibre.
1242  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL) on: August 07, 2018, 11:32:33 PM
Thing is Man Utd didn’t bring him in to finish 3rd, 4th or 5th did they? He’s on massive wages, if they wanted to be also rans they could have kept Van Gaal or even Moyes.

Mourinho has to compete seriously for the  PL or CL this season or else he’ll get sacked ino.

But Mourinho isn't a magician. He can only work with the squad he's got and when City, Liverpool, and Spurs all have much stronger squads imo there's not much he can do about it, hence why fourth and a Champions league play off spot is probably the best they can hope for. I think that would be a successful season for them. Maybe they can shine in other tournaments/cups but I don't think they've got a chance with the Premier League and this isn't Jose's fault (imo). If they can't win it with Mourinho then I doubt they'll be able to win it with anyone else either. Teams blame managers for too much these days and I don't think they should be sacked the moment they don't win the league. If United finish 7/8/9th then maybe, but not top 3/4/5th especially considering the strength of their opponents.

Sorry but I disagree, see the image below. Since Mourinho was employed he’s spent the 2nd highest amount (net spend) on transfer fees. He’s got nobody to blame but himself, this is his squad.




Still, you can only work with the squad you've got regardless of how much you've spent. He might have spent a lot but he's not spent as much as City nor got players as great as they have. Same goes for Liverpool. Managers rarely get all the players they want and if they did get all the superstars then they'd probably win the title.

If the club has the fund to really provide the manager with any player they want then they should do that. There is no point to hoard all those money unless they have no intention of getting the trophy. If the club really aim for the trophy in hope to secure better sponsorship next season then they should spend some money to sign better player
i think Mourinho share some of the blame of not having the squad he wants to compete on EPL with for instance he overpaied for Pogba and not like Guardiola his squad was not that great either Guardiola had better squad and he didn't need to make that drastic changes but at the end he did and got a lot of players some were bargains some were overpaied but it were the ones he needed to make City Champions again While Mourinho actions arrogance and his style of play are the reason of everyone coming against him even players starting to lose confidance over him. Manchester made first mistake when they hired Moyes as manager then LVG came for the transition stage and his only biggest achievement was blocking DeGea move to Madrid while Mourinho now is dealing with players that LVG signed that he finds not good enough to be in his team like Matial Herrera Shaw Darmian Rojo and Blind whom already got the axe so he must try to work with what he got for now he already bought 6 starters with degea between the sticks he need to fill the oher 4 spots from what he have.
1243  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: August 07, 2018, 11:13:43 PM
A lot of movements today...Deals/rumours:

- Kepa (Atheletic Club) to Chelsea almost done deal. He will become the most expensive GK, transfer fee will be around €80m (release clause).

- Kovacic close to signing with Chelsea on loan (1 year), no option to buy (for now).

- Joe Hart to Burnley confirmed.

- Adama Traoré (Middlesbrough) to Wolverhampton for €20m confirmed.

- According to rumours, Fekir is close to signing with Chelsea.

- Kalinic (AC Milan) to Atletico Madrid almost done deal.

- Pjaca (Juventus) and Mirallas (Everton) will sign with Fiorentina.

finaly some good news for Chelsea because the situation for Sarri was even worse then Mourinho the Media was focused on Manchester and Sarri didn't drawn attention to his problems as well know he yet to know the future of goalkeeper and first star Hazard are still unknown and only one player thry signed in all summer that was Jorginho, has been bought.

Biggest one Arsenal has new owner
Stan Kroenke’s £550m offer to buy outright ownership of Arsenal is accepted
£550m very cheap price for just one Naymar was over 220 mln euro
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/aug/07/arsenal-stan-kroenke-offer-buy-club-outright
it's only 30% it's the share of Russian shareholder the total worth pf Arsenal is £2.3B close to squad of 11 Neymar.
From what i'm hearing is that Kroenke now have 90% of Arsenal shares the rest 10% is owned by fans he intend to bye the rest and remove Arsenal from the stock exchange and transform the club into a private company.
1244  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2016/17 on: August 07, 2018, 10:52:14 PM
don't know how funny is Bartemou with his offer to United for Pogba offering a useless player (Gomes + he is injured for between a 1 or 2 months) with a Defender (Mina) that his only highlights were some good games in World Cup plus they are full in midfield i can't see why they signed with Vidal true he is 31 but still have a couple decent years left. Bayern sold him because they got Goretka from Schalke on a free deal. I get this signing but it definitely weakens them short-term
Bayern are in process of dropping out of the top 4-5 teams in Europe. Still no elite winger signed...which they desperately need.
I have no idea why they didn't at least try to sign Dembele from Barca. He didn't have best year due to injuries but he is still a hell of a talent. Barca has Messi, Suarez, Coutinho and now Malcom...someone gotta be the odd man out. Back to Pogba it's obvious that United will not accept this offer only of because Gomes the man have zero talent he just receive the ball and pass it to the back Barcelona made a mistake when some team offered 35M euro for him and didn't sell him before his injury.
1245  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2019 NBA Pre-Season on: August 06, 2018, 09:49:57 PM
Lebron is named as the best player in the planet for a reason.
The reason why the warriors dominated his team because it has a squad of a superstar players, Lebron take the cavaliers to the finals,
that is a better achievement for me.

I believe lebron was able to bring the cavs to the final because he is playing in a weaker conference. There is not that much competition for him in the East. This year around, it is different. Let us see if he can still carry his team into the finals now that he is in the West.
If proving that he can really shine even in the west side is really a good challenge for Lebron, this time he will be competing with Rockets and Warriors,
with both teams have it's own sentiments to be in the finals and both wanted to grab the seasons Championship crown, though too early to conclude as many teams also can be quite competitive but most eyes will be looking for Lebron's Lakers squad.

I agree, all eyes will be on Lebron's Lakers squad and see how good Lebron is he can carry that team as a top seed in the West. As we all know that there are a lot of good teams competing and wanted to challenge GSW dominance. We already see how competitive Lebron, so let's see if he can still continue his record for appearing in an NBA finals.
for a team that finished far from play-offs last season I doubt that they could qualify for play offs this season asone of top seaders the West have so many big teams and LeBron is the greatest player but it's too difficult to do that he didn't do that with Cavs even though the in the East is way easier .Every move made by the Lakers this summer had to do with flexibility, watching the young kids with LBJ & making sure Hart, Kuzz & Ingram get plenty of minutes... I think that they're going to make it play-offs this year propably ranked 5th in West side but they are likely to get out in the 2nd round.
1246  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: August 06, 2018, 09:31:09 PM
^  We still haven't heard much from Tottenham, but they could acquire a key player or two.  As for United, I don't think they'll be spending as much as they did thr past two transfer windows.  Woodward is pretty much done...  To Mou's frustration.  Grin

Rumours circulating that United will go balls deep (lol) for Maguire which will break the world record for a defender (currently stands at 75 million GBP for Van Dijk).

I just have a feeling United will be very active in the last few days.

The news keep reporting the same thing, they are probably doing the last minute deal as usual but to be honest to break the world transfer record is really unnecessary at all. They could always try to bid lower but if they are really going to break it then it is going to be a insane, they keep on ruining the whole market transfer price

The will all remain speculation until we find out for ourselves on the closing date for player registration. I think United among all the EPL top-4 teams needs the most fixing per the demand of their fans and so I expect them to be busy in these few days as we edge closer to the closure of this transfer window.
I don't know why Mourinho is persistent on getting another defender last season they only conceded 28 goals in the league that is just one goal more then City Mourinho should work on either getting a new Left Back if he is not willing to give Luke Shaw a chance also last season he didn't really on either Lindelof or Bailey if he is really want a defender he should sell Smalling because he is 28 and not getting any better Jones and Rojo still have some life in them and try to replace him with Yarry Mina the rest is a good Midfielder have are known Matic and Fred with Pogba upfront of them and Sanchez Lukaku with Martial Mata Perreira and Rashford competing for the right wing role and the best solution for him is to get a new right Winger instead waisting Money on Defense.
1247  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL) on: August 06, 2018, 09:21:07 PM
^  Yup and he hasn't really stayed at a single club for more than 4 years or so.  If he leaves this season or at the next season then Man United would be his 'greatest failure'.  He was brought in to win the league and play attacking football, but nada...  He could at least give United fans the latter.

Well I am a United supporter. I am not gonna lie, after Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement all the managers have failed to achieve anything substantial. I am starting to wonder if Mourinho's era hasn't already run its course and he needs to go now. I could care less about who the next manager would be, honestly. Big name or no-name manager it doesn't matter as long as they manage to win a trophy again. United have been in shambles since Ferguson left and the only significant trophy for that period of time was the Europa League cup last year. That's not enough for Mourinho to stay.

I don't think Mou has found the right strategy for Manchester United's game so for the fans to be patient again because I'm sure Mou has the capacity to return the glory of Manchester United like in the Ferguson era, it's just that Premier League competition is now tighter than in the seasons ago where great coaches came to the Premier League especially the toughest rival Mou was also in the Premier League namely Pep Guardiola.

Everything could happen in premier league, back then we would not even dream a club named leicester would win the premier league and they did. There are tons of things that Mou need to run before the start of the season including new strategy of course but surely he will be able to pull that out. If they managed to get smooth run on the beginning of the season then it should be easy for them till the mid season
I don't anticipate things changing too much this season, but who knows? Liverpool and surprinsingly Man United will be a little closer to City I'd guess some will say Manchester United are going in crisis with Mourinho especially but they really don't need all of those players they linked in true they will help but not that much as you can see their lineup is good they have solid defense as you can see from last season they didn't concede that much of goals and their problem was scoring but now with Sanchez back in form Lukaku should have better season then last only thing they shorte on is right winger but they can try Martial at that position while for left back Mourinho should have confidence in Luke Shaw but still not close enough to challenge City because the blues have almost the best squad in premier league only spot that can hold them back is defensive Midfielder as for Spurs, Chelsea and Arsenal will likely battle it out for top four, but I'd give Spurs the advantage out of those three.
1248  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: August 06, 2018, 02:20:46 AM
Manchester United are ready to offer Chris Smalling or Victor Lindelof if they don't get an agreement over28 yo Argentina Defender Marcos Rojo. while United are Lining up a bid of 44.5£ million for Bayern Munich defender Boating while they still keeping tabs over Maguire and Alderweirld. Everyone are also looking to add Mina from Barcelona after negotiation collapsed between United and Spanish side over the Columbian defender the deal will be agreed for £28.5m.
Chelsea is closest to sign ivory cost winger Wilfred Zaha after Spurs pulled out of the race it's rumored that he will cost somewhere near £75m.
1249  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL) on: August 06, 2018, 02:08:35 AM
Man City 2 - 0 Chelsea

A walk in the park for the Citizens. Stone was immense today, same with Bernardo Silva. Poor game from Mahrez, I expected more.

On the other hand, underwhelming performance from Chelsea. I think the midfield was key, Chelsea really missed Kante today, without him, Chelsea's pressing was just poor which allowed Man City to make smooth transitions. Honestly, I didn't expect much from Sarri's team, the players are still adapting to the new system, and it's gonna take a while before they get used to the new tactics.

The game could've ended 3-0 or 4-0, but Caballero was superb. All in all, Chelsea were outplayed.

Sergio Aguero scored in the 13th minute and Chelsea never recovered after that. Chelsea did not look comfortable. After all, it has been only a month since Maurizio Sarri took over. But it was too bad that they managed only a solitary shot on target.
Manchester City dominated most of the meeting good physical readiness and better stages of his opponent Chelsea, Riyad Mehre have distinctive performance after the recent injury but he messed few good chances but still better option for me then Strrling.
On the blues side, coach Maurizio Sarri needs to get the least damage possible in the first 10 rounds of Premier League. The players are difficult to adapt to the way they need to play.
Also the defense problem that will confront Chelsea's defense is soft and easy to break, neither Rudiger nor David Luiz La Cahill have a defensive level worthy of Chelsea and their Italian coach.
1250  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL) on: August 02, 2018, 11:31:31 PM
As many of you know I’m a huge Liverpool fan but this is what I see to be honest -

1st - City
2nd - Liverpool
3rd - Man United
4th - Chelsea or Spurs (atm I’m leaning towards Chelsea)

I expect Liverpool to push City hard but for City’s superior squad to be able to get them over the line.
Liverpool’s 1st XI is just as good as City’s but City have better players on the bench & over a long season that can be the difference.
wow! no Arsenal? really? I honestly think they have a great squad for this season (I have feeling Torreira, one of their new signingm, will be a key player for the Gunners), not only that but they finally have a capable manager able to bring some fresh ideas into the team, something they've been missing for a very long time. I honestly see them fighting for a top 4 spot, obviously, and I'd say even 3rd place with Liverpool.
Arsenal are definitely have good squad and they can win any game with it but when it come to playing against other top 6 teams I don't think that they're going to get a single win against them Emre is terrible when it comes to big teams this guy managed to lose the Ligue 1 title with an all-star team against Monaco last two seasons so I think the best achievement for him is to fight with Chelsea and Spurs and United for 3rd and 4th place because I'm sure that Liverpool and City will be both in top two only question will be who will be crowned champion between the two the only thing that make me favor City is that they have a lot of Depth in squad while Liverpool will face some problems if they lose any of Salah Mane or Firmino but sill it's going to be an exiting Season I hope that City start slow because they still have a number of players not returning yet to training so that Liverpool stay in top.
1251  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: August 02, 2018, 11:20:13 PM
Manchester United have reached personal agreement with Barcelona center back Mina it's one of the two players that Mourinho needs this summer now he needs to sign a right winger in the next week.
Crystal Palace winger Wilfred Zaha is seeking a move to Chelsea he told his friends that he is thinking of requesting a move to force the team on selling him Chelsea also thinking of Real Madrid Midfielder Kovasic the Croitia Midfielder previously turned down an offer from Manchester United as he do not like to play under Mourinho.
1252  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2019 NBA Pre-Season on: August 01, 2018, 10:16:30 PM

WARRIORS:
They definitely destroyed the NBA by having boogie. LOL! This is the greatest team in the history. 5 fking superstars will start? WOW, that's so bad. How about if let's say Atlanta Hawks will face all 5 superstars that are healthy in warriors? And Schroeder and Kent is injured? That's 50+ point lead lol. NBA is now destroyed thank you Kevin and Demarcus! Cheesy. Oh, take note, they are not building dynasty. It's a destroyer of the league itself Smiley. PUT WARRIORS OUT. I'm an ex-fan of warriors.
Hahaha. Come to think of it, 5 all star players will be playing on one team and its from the Warriors. Maybe some young teams will be destroyed if they played against them.

For me, their management is just a good strategist especially in acquiring Boogie. They gambled some of their money by getting him in a low price since he is injury. If Boogie will be good in the next season, maybe they will extend his contract.

Yeah but that really didnt came from pulling star players.
Curry was not a star before, they just enhanced him and also from his hard work.
Green is not a star also. Just experience made him so good at play making and also a good team that listens to him.
Iguodala was a star. Yes during the Philadelphia years. But when Golden State took him he was already at his weaker game.
Klay? Not a star.

We just saw that they became a star because of their championship games. But this dudes are playing using the playbook and a good chemistry. I wont say they are superstars actually. They are more like the Pistons before with Wallace's, Billups, Hamilton and Prince.
These guys were not stars either. Just doing defense.

Agree. These guys aren't considered as superstars back then so still it's not appropriate to say that Golden State Warriors is destroying the NBA today because of they acquired DeMarcus Cousins.

The success they are experiencing are fruit of their efforts and not because they are superstar when they entered NBA. Steph Curry witnessed how his team just easily got beaten easily by other team during his early years. Then Klay came, Draymond came but still struggling. And what happened next is history. Others didn't expect that these players will become strong later on and will take Warriors on top. Their chemistry really blend with each other perfectly and we see the result of it.

The Starting lineup for the warriors couldn't be any better the only improvement that i suggests is that players improve themselves like Curry needs to turn down his Turnovers by half, Klay playing in post offense and more defense ball handling and Durant to be more consistent in  don’t really like the Warriors bench. But when you have a starting 5 like the Warriors do, it won’t even matter as long as Cousins and Livingston are healthy come playoff but GSW are realy good when their top 7 are healthy. Fpr now nothing is intresting enough only to see the Rockets facing them in Play-offs. Rockets chances are smaller this season but if they keep George Paul healthy in they have a chance it's have been their problemlast season and it will be difficult thing to do because he is always down at that time.
1253  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: August 01, 2018, 09:40:09 PM
Chelsea are ready to make Kante the highest earner in the club with a deal for £290k a week hoping that will help them to persuade Eden Hazard to stay.
Tottenham are keen on signing Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha for £45m. Palace want to keep the 25yo Ivory cost player they previously turned down an offer from Chelsea so they will need more convincing to sell him or Zaha come out for them and push for the move to make the first significant signing for Spurs.
Barcelona is intrested in signing Liverpool Goalkeeper Simon Mignolet as a potentiel replacement for Cillessen as the other is approaching to sign with chelsea.
Maurizio Sarri have no intentions to keep Batshuayi with the club so the other need to look for a futur outside Stamford Bridge both Crystale Palace and Valencia are intrested in.
Everton are hot in transfer market this summer as they are now linked with Villareal and Former Real Madrid Midfielder Denis Cheryshev the 27yo showed great performance in WC with Russia so it's expected to be sold for good price.
1254  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL) on: July 31, 2018, 11:33:32 PM
^  Yup.  Some bookies have Mou as favorite to be the first manager to be given the sack.  Lol.

I mean it shows that his love for the game isn't as much as it used to be.  If he was the manager he was 10 years ago, we'd see players like Martial and Shaw flourish under him.  But no...  I think he needs a year or two away from the game to regain his love for it IMHO.

His defensive tactics, ‘park the bus’ etc are prehistoric. Managers like Guardiola, Klopp, Pochettino, Zidane have surpassed him & play a different style of football.

Mourinho is a dinosaur, he needs to start playing expansive, attacking football or he won’t be at Man Utd for long.

I’m a Liverpool fan as many of you know & I’ve grown up hating Man Utd but they always attacked under Fergie & tried to win every game. They were rarely, if ever defensive & cowardly. Mourinho goes against everything United fans are used to & expect.

I think he’ll be gone before May.
According to more than one important source in the English press confirms that the management of Manchester United wants to silence the storm Jose Mourinho and his anger for not singing non of his five summer transfert target with one player at this at this time that is Colombian defender Yare Mi,a Barcelona wants 40 million euros but things may end in favor of the Red Devils even less. they are going to need more then that but it will be enough to quite the media since rumors started for United looking for replacement for Mourinho if he steps down either Rebic or Perisic will be needed to be signed as for Center back Alderweird for Mina will be better for Mourinho because it will take him less time to qdjust in the new team unlike Mina who have zero experience in th EPL.
1255  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: July 31, 2018, 11:08:14 PM
With rumors suggests that Higuain have agreed to join Milan on a loan deal with option to buy at the ned of the season for only £32 Morata's future becomes more mysterious because few weeks ago it was looking that Gonzalo is arriving at Chelsea that means it would have facilitated Morata departure to Milan.
In the recent developpement between Manchester United and their manager Mourinho the reds are studiying the possibility to replace Mourinho with Zidane as the portoguese manager started acting out whitch made some spectaculation of sacking him that if the he dosen't quite first for not getting the players he asked.
Bonucci joined back to his former team Juventus on a loan deal with option to buy.
Thiery Henry have agreed to become EGYPT manager after the former Arsenal player spent his last season as assistant coach in WC for Belgium.
Everton wants to enquire Marcos Rojo from Man United they are asking £30M for the argentinian Defender
1256  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2016/17 on: July 31, 2018, 10:46:03 PM
Ronaldo was a goal machine at Real Madrid. Now I think they will have a hard time trying to replace him and whoever replaces him will not score as many goals as Ronaldo did in his years with Real Madrid.

This opens up a good fight for Barcelona , Atletico Madrid and Valencia to fight a little bit more for the title and making La Liga again beautiful to watch. This year La Liga seem to be fairly balanced with top teams each having equal chances to win the league.

i agree, none can replace the goal scorer Ronaldo. It is a huge loss for Real Madrid.I don't know who can score 50+ Goal per season like Ronaldo in Real Madrid.I don't think Bale & Benzema together can score that much.

According to me, Barcelona is the favourite team to win La liga 2018-19.Real Madrid will lose the title race by huge difference I guess.
i think the bast way for Real Madrid to Reaplace Ronaldo is by getting their defensive line better because now one can replace the number the goals that ronaldo scoring and in the future they have to drop their scoring rates no more 5 goals plus scored in one game now they have to win efficiently they have to score enough to win them the game nad defend for the rest of the game. With ronaldo they were attacking all the time so that they score more but that leaves empty rooms for opponents to score back so Lopetegui must try play in reality that Real Madrid don't have that extra scoring force that Ronaldo had I think Lopetegui has chosen the worst timing for the position of coach to Real Madrid and I mean the supervision of the team crowned 3 times Champions League and the departure of his star Ronaldo ...But no one can blame him as an opportunity came to him and he grabbed it.
1257  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Prediction ligue 1, france football league on: July 30, 2018, 10:35:29 PM
With Monaco getting Golovin deal this summer the club made 11 deals, nine of them under 23 years it have been for them the same philosophy goes on, the philosophy that guarantees them an acceptable football presence the club is having success in terms of commercial excellence to bring the talent of the composition of these talents and after some developpement and media exporsure they go with the sale of these talents but if if they maintain these talents they can compete with top Europeans teams they already sold some big names out there and expect them to sell more. Golovin will be sold for more then 80 Million next year like they did with many of the ones that came before him you can see they got more the 275Million Euros in profit from buying and selling players in the last two seasons alone.
1258  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL) on: July 30, 2018, 10:17:11 PM
It's funny how Klopp went 180 and changed his stance on player transfers.  How much did Liverpool spend on the past 12 months?  Over 250m EURO?  I guess they're really going after the league this season.  It should be good.  Man United will be going after it too, as is City.  Smiley

It's gonna be a three way battle.  The Spurs are pretty much out judging by how quiet they are during this transfer window.  I thought Poch was gonna spend after that 'meeting' with Levy.  But no...
i hope that this season to be more competetive then the last because last year by december it was clear that city will be crwned champions while this season Liverpool have made some good improvement on a team that have seen good season last year so now with all of these major improvement it's going to be more fun for Spurs i think they gave up before the season started they know that is difficult to compete on the title with these teams around i think we will see them fighting with United over 3rd and 4rth spot unless United get the deals they need to make it into top 3 contendors unless Mourinho belleives that this squad is capable of winning it but i don't since it seems that he looking to forfit before season starts because he didn't get the players that he demanded.
1259  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2019 NBA Pre-Season on: July 30, 2018, 09:31:43 PM

Yes, it looks like he lost some of his mentality about the game, specially what has happened to him in New York. Well Grant Hill just injured badly, but he somewhat improved a lot of defence that's why teams are still interested on him. While Carter loves shooting outside and can still put up some points and show flashes of his old self. Anthony though is different, no fire in his eye, no defence, shooting becomes worst.

Grant Hill still proved himself worthy in his Phoenix times with Steve Nash. He can still run with the young players doing a lot of fastbreaks even with the injury that he had.

I guess you are right. There is no more fire in Melo. That kind of game where he could change the flow of it is left in the Denver histories.
After that there were no more explosions from him at New York Knicks. He is lucky that Knicks preserved him there with a good salary.
If I am the Houston Management, I would rather risk it with a young player.

It's rare for a player past the age of 35 to still perform at an elite level.  There are a few examples such as Kareem, Karl Malone, Jordan. etc.  I don't think Carmelo has the work ethic to contribute much to a new team at this point in his career.  Melo was never big on winning, he went to New York for the fame and the money, it wasn't about winning with Anthony.
Melo is known in the league for his jump and shooting and at the time the NBA was still a grit and grind, heavy defense league. This made him a standout scorer but the game has changed and now his style is becoming more irrelevant so if Melo  improved his defense and maybe try to spent some time on his defense that will defintly be a gamechanger for him and teams would be lining up to get him. Rocket's maybe should go for Ariza as he is better at defense but Melo beat him in offense but again Ariza still can't match GSW with his defense so Melo will be better at that game also a defensive liability at the same time at the end i expect Melo to play at SF a lot of the time with the Rockets and average above 30 minutes per game.
1260  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: July 30, 2018, 09:12:29 PM
While his name is on the side of Milan, the former Real Madrid striker will go to the Premier League. Higuain but also teammate Daniele Rugani can leave Turin tomorrow to join Chelsea willing to pay more than 100 million euros for these two players, 60 million for Higuain and 55 million for the Rugani.

If Juve will close that deal they will be  winner of that transfer window. Higuain is not worth that money. I've been reading that Real is ready to accept that Chelsea will not sell Hazard
That time Cavani could be solution for Real

I'll agree that's way to much money for Higuain but then again it's okay it's a inflated transfer market we're in so now these prices don't feel expensive again. It's been a sluggish transfer market for major premier league except Liverpool who have the team to win it. There's a rumour of pogba being sold for 200 million and then buy kroos and maguire for the price I would love it.
i think Higuain now will be sold for much higher price since a lot of teams now intrested in signing him the lastest ones is Dortmund whom looking for a star striker to replace their departed Uba while AC Milain is also willing to negotiate a deal for him i doubt that Higuain will go to them but you don't know what will be happening since Milain also offered Conte a £5.5 deal to take over Gattuso work as a new manager ( getting a good manager is a sign of a project starting) but at the end Higuain will favore a move to Chelsea to work again with Sarri also EPL is a destination for stars he will get more popular there while for Rugani it's rumored that Juventus want some more cash to try and bring back Pogba this move will defintly gain a lot of fans for them as they now will have two major stars in their ranks.
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