Porto’s model is to identify South American talent and making a killing on transfers once they hit it big in Europe, they are definitely not in over their heads financially. They’re never going to be like the big clubs and spending their way to success

You’re talking about the same Ajax that just knocked Real Madrid out of the Champions’ League (in a not-particularly-close fashion) and is going to make upwards of $200M this offseason just from selling a few of the players who were worth nothing last year? Seems like they’ve figured out how to make a pretty…

The point of FFP was supposed to be to prevent clubs that were just recently bought by nouveau wealth spending themselves way past what they could afford, incurring massive debts, and then finding themselves in administration or a decade of painful recovery when the new owner either ran out of money or bailed. This…

FFP was instituted to stop clubs like Atletico, Napoli, PSG, Chelsea, Benfica, Dortmund, Leeds, Fiorentina, Lazio, Roma, Parma etc. from going bankrupt, which all either did or nearly did. It has nothing to do with protecting “old-class rich clubs”.

It’s also weird as those old teams have been punished before as well, Barcelona most recently by FIFA. And what Man City did here is pretty bad, so saying it shouldn’t matter because.... money? is a weird stance.

So the rules are unfair, Man City still broke them by lying, forging documents and acting above the rules. I have no sympathy for them.

I’ll break character and actually break this down. On the surface, this year is worse. Durant went down. Houston had to win one at home, and then take one on the road, with no Durant.

Last year’s loss was excruciating but excusable. They were missing Chris Paul and it was possible to look at 0-27 as some cosmic anomaly. Sometimes, sports is cruel.

The Rockets:

He decided to go to Toyota Center to get shots up, nixing Curry’s reservations. The Warriors’ point guard offered to stick to half a court, but Paul wasn’t having it. Curry was kicked off the Toyota Center court.

I’m a native Houstonian and therefore a Houston Rockets fan, win lose or draw.

It’s Dame Time.

Can’t wait for the 20-page leaked report on how the scorer’s table cost the Rockets this game.

Thankfully, the Rockets have been waiting for this moment all year, carefully monitoring James Harden’s minutes and offensive production during meaningless regular season games, and he hasn’t shown any signs of being completely gassed, especially not in the last game’s pivotal fourth quarter.

That’s because the Warriors cooked him in their gameplan. Play Capela off the court early in foul trouble and then make the rest of the Rockets small-ball lineup tire out (hopefully). Capela had 3 fouls in the 1st quarter if I recall correctly. Everytime he was out there, GSW just switches to him on purpose a-la…

A little off topic?

i rewatched the 4th quarter this morning to see if they were just playing incredibly good defense on him, and i just can’t figure out what happened... i mean, the defense was good, but it was like he just said to himself, “You know, they lost their best scorer, it’s really not fair for our team to have me... I’ll just…

Call me when someone puts a goalie up on the rim, and then maybe I’ll cheer when uber-villain Kobe scores twenty and they’re not empty-netters.

Right but what “home-court advantage” means isn’t “a guarantee that you’ll never lose at home,” but rather “theoretically you can win the series without having to win another road game.”

People keep saying this like hockey is a real sport anybody should care about.