donjazet:


Nateevs listen, there is a big difference between investigative journalism and entrapment. It is something if big sam was doing something ILLEGAL but it is different when some journalists say common let's go and test him or set him up and see if he would fall. Its ludicrous!!! Its just like the serpent giving eve the apple.
What sam did was basically of human nature, man is greedy, man ultimately works towards money and how many pple will not actually CONSIDER it??

My point is sam was ethically wrong in saying things he did but he should not be OVER criticized for considering it. It would be hypocritical to do so as not many pple would act differently. And I am not alone in thinking so as this picture below depicts.

A40:

I told you. KWARUPSHIN is very very rife in your league

More to come. Asiri ti'n tu

Chelseafan1:


Congrats bro, 10 corners gan gan....Ow far, ow u go send my own share, I need am badly.

Dollars is now 400+, at all at all, na hin bad.

Masterkolinks:


Why u dey disturb another person for money when u can actually make ur own cool cash online without any stress!!!

Nihilist:

Oga calm down.

I never said there is no corruption in EPL. What I asked you that day is why there are three convicted or indicted criminals inside the Bayern Boardroom?

Even this kasala wey burst for EPL, na one-one criminal dey each organisation. One at England, One at QPR. Yet Only odindin Bayern carry 3?!

I doubt even a died in the wool thief like Chief Tewonde George has 3 thieves in his inner circle...

Skimpledawg:
Oga abeg elucidate more on the above!

donjazet:
When mourinho said he had made made average players look world class and win the EPL.. We thought he was boisterously arrogant. But when you look at this squad you begin to think? How exactly did Ivanovic, matic, cahill, obi, willan and Oscar win the league?? These are all average players.

Of course he cannot be absolved of the failure but on Saturday there was something I missed.. Mourinhos appearance alone on the dugout had this mental psychological block on the arsenal players.

Conte – fresh from his time with the Italian national side – was happy be managed to land former Leicester midfielder N’Golo Kante, but is said to be angered at the Stamford Bridge hierarchy’s lack of ambition in helping him land other key targets.

According To Reports, The Signing Of Michy Batshuayi Was Completed In Order To Pacify Sporting Director Michael Emenalo.

Meanwhile, the late swoop for David Luiz and Marcos Alonso was purely desperation in order to give the squad depth.

Antonio Conte is set to axe five big-name Chelsea players, including Branislav Ivanovic
Conte has told Roman Abramovich the squad needs to be torn down to its foundations and rebuilt – starting with a five-player cull in January.

The players with their heads on the block appear to be Nemanja Matic, Branislav Ivanovic, Cesc Fabregas, Oscar and Gary Cahill.

Italian ace Conte is less than impressed with the quintet, suggesting they were purely over-performing at times under Jose Mourinho and they will never be able to replicate that form again.

stuff46:

Ogbeni isit that bad?

Masterkolinks:


Why u dey disturb another person for money when u can actually make ur own cool cash online without any stress!!!

donjazet:
I wrote this few days back and here is conte confirming my thoughts about this team..



https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/1875841/chelsea-transfer-news-five-blues-stars-set-to-face-the-axe-as-antonio-conte-lines-up-major-shake-up/

Nihilist:
I don't know about overperforming because Jose finished 3rd in his first season with those players. And with Torres upfront too! Matic was in mad form when he arrived in January, and continued to show his form in the next season.

Now obviously, with some of these guys age has simply caught up with them especially the likes of Ivanovic and Cahill. I think Cahill in particular has always benefitted from John Terry organising his movement in defence, and he has decidedly looked very crap since Terry got injured.

I'm going to be very upfront here and say that I don't relieve believe in Conte. Juventus have now won the league 5 times in a row...and they're topping the table again

2 different managers, achieving the same result in 5 consecutive years tells me that the league title is pretty much a foregone conclusion. The average age of the Juve squad is probably like 100 years old, and it seems like a place where grandpas go to die, yet last season they won the league with 3 games to spare.

I'm not convinced he is getting the best out of this squad, so I doubt his ability to improve with new players

Nihilist:


I don't know about overperforming because Jose finished 3rd in his first season with those players. And with Torres upfront too! Matic was in mad form when he arrived in January, and continued to show his form in the next season.

Now obviously, with some of these guys age has simply caught up with them especially the likes of Ivanovic and Cahill. I think Cahill in particular has always benefitted from John Terry organising his movement in defence, and he has decidedly looked very crap since Terry got injured.

I'm going to be very upfront here and say that I don't relieve believe in Conte. Juventus have now won the league 5 times in a row...and they're topping the table again

2 different managers, achieving the same result in 5 consecutive years tells me that the league title is pretty much a foregone conclusion. The average age of the Juve squad is probably like 100 years old, and it seems like a place where grandpas go to die, yet last season they won the league with 3 games to spare.

I'm not convinced he is getting the best out of this squad, so I doubt his ability to improve with new players

bigkesh:
The Times,cmon you got it wrong
Our 'Einsteins' believe Emenalo is just a figure head and I believe them over you guys

donjazet:

Conte – fresh from his time with the Italian national side – was happy be managed to land former Leicester midfielder N’Golo Kante, but is said to be angered at the Stamford Bridge hierarchy’s lack of ambition in helping him land other key targets.

According To Reports, The Signing Of Michy Batshuayi Was Completed In Order To Pacify Sporting Director Michael Emenalo.

raumdeuter:


Cahill is soapy. That nigga is 30. for a central defender, thats still a fairly good age. Age can be the excuse for Terry and Ivanovic but not for the Oshe dudu Osun Cahill



So which coach do you believe in? Give 3-5 names who will work for Chelsea



Where was Juventus before he took over from Luigi Del Neri? What of his work with the Italian NT at the last Euros?



I'm not saying I believe in Conte or don't but the excuse of winning the Serie A is poor,

Assuming Moyes was able to win the EPL does that mean the man he took over from Fergie is not a good coach?

Ibime:




The minute some niggas pit their tents with Emenalo as a mere figurehead ignoring all facts and past history, the reality will catch up with them.

Props to Emenalo on Batshuayi signing though, I like him as a player.

donjazet:


I think you are wrong in understating and underestimating Conte's achievements with juve. They had finish 7th the TWO previous seasons. He came, steadied the ship, gave them self belief and confidence again. Improved them tactfully by introducing the now famous 352. Has all the credit for moulding and shaping paul pogba.

He Has the highest league record in all of europe till date.
He broke many domestic records.

He basically laid the foundation for their modern success. just like mou did for chelsea in his first stint, pep/cruyf did for barca, and van gaal/henykens jupp for Bayern.

The only negative in his CV might be his supposed underperformance in Europe but this may excused considering his limited exposure there (3 years). But the fact that juve reached the final a year showed that what he did there worked subsequently.

I believe that given time, he will succeed.

donjazet:


I think you are wrong in understating and underestimating Conte's achievements with juve. They had finish 7th the TWO previous seasons. He came, steadied the ship, gave them self belief and confidence again. Improved them tactfully by introducing the now famous 352.

Nihilist:


24 hours later you still can't explain why 15 of our players are signed to the same man.

The same man who a sports lawyer told you is partly responsible for Roman's purchase of Chelsea.

What if I told you that some of the targets we were linked just this summer with are signed with that same agency?

Koilibaly? Witsel? Thiago Maia?

How come?

Ibime:


You think I pay that nonsense post any mind? Too busy for bullshyt.

Go and count how many players in other clubs belong to the same super agent.

15 players in 13 years is nothing for a club that has turned over more than 400 players in that time. But then again, Maths was never your strong point.

I can show you clubs that have twice as many from one agent in same timeframe, so relax your brain Einstein. Ain't got time for nonsense yarns.

Skimpledawg:
....Park well

You're right about one thing though. Maths isn't really my strong point....thats why I pay an accountant like you to do my books.

The story of Chelsea’s future begins with a defender José Mourinho did not want and André Villas-Boas brutally cut loose. It takes in a former Brazilian president, a bribery scandal and a ubiquitous Iranian fixer, and ends with Roman Abramovich lavishing more than £70 million — thus far — to add a dash of the Seleção to Stamford Bridge.

At the centre of it all is a Brazilian agent, Giuliano Bertolucci, whose influence on the game in football’s most iconic nation is so great that his peers refer to him as Giuliano Berlusconi.
Those who know him say he is adored by his players, feared by their clubs and trusted implicitly by Abramovich and his advisers. He helped to smooth Ramires’s move to London and represents David Luiz, Lucas Piazón and, most famously, Oscar, brought to Stamford Bridge for £25 million this summer. In other words, Bertolucci is the man Abramovich has entrusted with his vision of creating a Chelsea built in the image of Brazil.

For that, perversely, the Russian has Alex, the burly defender signed from PSV Eindhoven in 2007, much to Mourinho’s chagrin, to thank. It was during negotiations to take the defender to Holland that Piet de Visser, now one of Abramovich’s chief advisers but then working as a scout at PSV, first met Bertolucci. The two struck up an accord. It was a relationship that would bear fruit.

By that stage, the Brazilian was making inroads into the European market elsewhere, too. He had several clients at Corinthians, and had a fine rapport with Andrés Sánchez, the club’s president. When Kia Joorabchian’s MSI consortium took over the club, Sánchez recommended Bertolucci to the Iranian. Bertolucci also had a good relationship with Luís Filipe Vieira, then the president of Alverca, a lower league side based in Lisbon and affiliated to Benfica. When, in 2003, Vieira took over the running of the senior club, he continued to use Bertolucci’s services extensively.

“He has a tremendous eye for a player, for knowing who will make it,” says Gustavo Arribas, an Argentinian agent who has worked extensively with Bertolucci in South America. “That is the most important skill an agent can have, and Giuliano is exceptionally good at it.”
But while Bertolucci’s clients speak extraordinarily well of him, praising his assiduousness and his loyalty, a number of clubs, particularly in his homeland, have been rather less impressed with his work. São Paulo, in particular, have been left aggrieved. Two of Chelsea’s Brazilian contingent, Oscar and Piazón, have passed through the club, both enduring what might be termed contractual difficulties for which São Paulo have blamed Bertolucci.

Both players — as well as the striker Henrique, another Bertolucci client — refused to sign contract extensions at São Paulo in 2010, threatening to take the club to court unless they were permitted to leave. Casemiro, a midfielder, revealed at the same time that he had been offered a bribe worth £300,000 and the promise of a move first to Benfica and then to Chelsea by Bertolucci if he rejected his contract offer.
Casemiro refused; Piazón and Henrique took their claims out of court and Oscar left to join Internacional, a move beset by legal difficulties that were only resolved this year. Bertolucci is believed to have helped Oscar’s new employers pay the player’s transfer fee. His reward was around 10 per cent of the £20 million Chelsea paid Internacional to sign the playmaker this summer.

Juvenal Juvêncio, the São Paulo president, vowed never to deal with Bertolucci again. He even sought talks with Lula, the country’s socialist president, in an attempt to curb agents’ powers. It is a measure of Bertolucci’s influence, though, that those problems have now been long forgotten. “There are no issues with him,” Adalberto Baptista, São Paulo’s chief executive, told The Times. “Everything has been resolved satisfactorily.” Internacional, too, speak highly of him. If Chelsea’s Brazilian contingent provide Abramovich with the side he dreams of, his star will remain in the ascendant at Stamford Bridge, too.

There is a feeling that for Michael Emenalo, for so long the focus of fans' palpable discord, time may be finally running out. The affable, but quite calculating Nigerian has been blamed for many things while at Chelsea – some fair, some less so.

He bears the brunt of many fans’ ire because, unlike mere managers such as Jose Mourinho or Carlo Ancelotti, it is difficult to quantify exactly what he does. J[b]udging him on results is tricky, because few can realistically say what initiatives or signings were actually his decision, and which came from either above or from some other nebulous quantity in the Court of King Roman.[/b]

Certainly there have been successes: he played a key role in the decisions to sign, for example, Kevin De Brune and Romelu Lukaku – both then moved out of the club under the influence of Mourinho, in decisions much regretted since. The unpopular moves lumped upon him – the appointment of Rafael Benitez, the failure of the academy to strike first-team gold, the signings of players not fit for the shirt – vary in terms of culpability between his stall, and several others close to the club board.

The biggest thing in his favour is arguably also the strongest point of criticism: that, like those who dealt with King Henry, Emenalo has learned in relations with his own superior that you can only go so far in disagreeing with the man at the very top.

There is a strong argument Chelsea would benefit from having someone in his position less concerned with simply doing the main man's bidding, and more with challenging such orders with the benefit of actual relevant hands-on experience.

[size=14pt]The signs that Emenalo's star is fading are subtle – but difficult to ignore. He is understood to have objected to two of the more controversial signings of the January window: the taking of Alexandre Pato on loan, and the buying outright of Matt Miazga.

Both deals bore the fingerprints of football agent and fixer Kia Joorabchian – who immediately before had managed to secure a remarkable £25m for Chelsea to ship fringe midfielder Ramires to China.

The unofficial position as Chelsea's preferred agent, taken for the most part by Jorge Mendes during Mourinho's tenure, seems to have been recently occupied by Joorabchian.[/size] And, with manager-in-waiting Antonio Conte apparently making noises about wanting his own man in at technical director level, the news for Emenalo does not look especially promising.

That is something he may be aware of, given that those schooled in reading his body language talk in recent weeks of a more closed and less effusive quality than normal in his manner.

Abramovich is famously a hard taskmaster – and this latest movement in his cloud of advisors is unlikely to be the last. Though at this stage Emenalo will be grateful that it is King Roman and not King Henry who is his employer: for one imagines any severance package might be slightly more personally beneficial than those handed out to all of those Thomases.

Nihilist:
Eurosport also looking at the obvious here:

donjazet:


Always give links/source of your stories for credibility.

donjazet:
Just read that we have the third highest wage bill in Europe!!!

Shocking!!!! Considering the players in the squad.

Money doesn't win titles...What a shitty_ club you have

dopeJemi:
Imagine the irony, we have two players in our squad that cost us 50m and 90m but money doesn't win another club titles


It's none of my business

Warrisdis now? Na me force mourinho to buy dabbing king?...The only signing I approved was Mikitaryan besides we finished above chelshìt and we are prepared to do it again...and transfer is totally different from wage bill!