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jpmoriarti:
This is not a defeatist mentality. It is called understanding the reality. We have been atrocious in Europe for over 7yrs now in Europe. And suddenly, we begun to be weak also domestically, only winning one out of the last 5 league title.

How do you launch yourself back?

A wise big club will aim to solidify there domestic performances first and then slowly, aim to get better internationally. It took ManUtd and Arsenal this long to make a comeback because they got lost in what is more important. Slowly they slided into mediocrity and lost relevance.

But we have chosen to solidify our standings locally first and aim to gather momentum to become a strong European powerhouse once more.

Juve won their league for 10 straight seasons, where is the momentum they’ve been gathering over the years? Bayern has won how many league titles in a row for how many seasons now, how many champions league has it given them in recent years? If you like win the league 20 times in a row, if you have nothing to show for it in Europe you’re mediocre.

LostMyZeal:
Ofcourse, if it's a penalty we didn't deserve, I'd criticize it

It's better to win games convincingly than relying on penalties.

Even if penalty go come, it should be one that secures the lead instead of putting one in the lead. The latter is an indicator of useless players.

E no too deep

Na you win, na you still dey lament! It was a clear penalty.

jpmoriarti:
Do you know the first two seasons of Arteta? Do you think Arsenal were this good?

Most of you here are highly myopic, never sees beyond there freakkking nose. Success takes time. To build a good team takes time.

Comparing Assnal and Barca is defeatist mentality, continue this way and Barca would become another Ac Milan and Manyoo… A big club should always act big, once you give room for laxity stupid talks like this would begin to set in. We aren’t looking for Success, we are looking to maintain standards that has been battered by stupid coaches like Xavi and his likes.

BlaqFaze:
Happy we are topping league with:

out of form Atleti (finished last in their ucl group)

Sevilla in the bottom half of the table

A stretched Madrid squad

Valencia in relegation zone

On and off Bilbao with Inaki as the first choice 9...lol

If we win the league, it would be like when Leicester won the league.

BlaqFaze:
Round of 16 fixtures are in....Betis against man u... you'll witness a proper tactical battle and it won't be surprising if Betis wins

I have no doubt Betis will win, that’s for sure…football nowadays isn’t won by having the best players all around the pitch, just have a few good players and good tactical acumen, you’d be topping any league. Take for instance Arsenal and Newcastle, most of these players are mid but see what they’re doing.

Borntosmoke:
Good morning. Pls I'm looking for water to wash my cloth and bath since last 3 days. I decide to come to this thread whether you guys can donate your tears for me. Because I can see see load of tears here. Pls help a brother in need🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

You’re free to fetch a bucket from the Ocean I made out of your tears…Give Ferguson a cup for me, so he wouldn’t die of thirst.

FergieRaww:
Barka no well but Real Betis will do the needful, that's certain

That Valladolid will easily make top 6 in Epl

Very sure and I know you’re a Madrid fan. See how Betis will send them packing.

blabulu2000:
*If you're a Yoruba supporter of Obi, ask your self if Igbos voted for Awolowo or MKO*.

*Why is it always your own elders that are bad, but theirs are saints??*

*Was MKO's (SDP) Party in government previously in 1993 just as is APC now for Tinubu?*! *The reality of your decision today is that your tribesmen may never be president again.*

*All your elders and leaders are subject of mockery but Igbos can bring an unknown entity, rebrand it, and sell to you as a saint*. *They tell you it's not about tribe but, historically they had never voted Yoruba candidates for presidency*.

*In 1979 elections, Chief Obafemi Awolowo recorded an abysmal 0.8% and 0.7% of total votes 🗳 cast in the then Imo and Enugu state*. *Was Awolowo not competent too or was he also too old for the job? Is Awolowo ticket a Muslim Muslim ticket?*🤔

*Google 1993 election results and see that they did not also vote for MKO Abiola*. *Abiola lost in Enugu, Abia, Imo, and River states*.

*For me, if you don't patronize me, I will not patronize you*. *I'm not a fool!!* *This is a federal election and not state election like Osun state where the candidates are Yoruba vs Yoruba*.

*For the fact that a candidate failed in a party does not AUTOMATICALLY mean that everyone in the party will underperform if given the opportunity*.

*The same Igbos misleading our people are part of the problem too with their Biafra agitation which they have cleverly suspended for.*

*They championed EndSars protest as directed by Nnamdi Kanu to destroy Lagos*. *They are always insulting and troubling this Buhari man and even things he did well, they will never give credit*.

*We should never forget in a hurry how they called Nigeria a Zoo and all of us living in it, baboons.*

*Must it be their own president for us to progress?*

*Is that how developed the South East is, or we Yorubas are already emotionally blackmailed to the point that we see nothing good about ourselves again?* 🤔

*Yoruba e je ki a Ro'nu jinle oooo.* 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Forward it let it go viral.

#ThinkYorubaFirst

May thunder and lightning destroy your home till the fourth generation!
So they should have voted m.k.o the serial thief?
Who did Igbos vote in 1999?
I’m Yoruba and because of this tribalistic talks is why I will never vote Tinubu. Why do I care if a Yoruba man never becomes the president again if I’m doing well in my country…Fools like you are so close minded and do not see the big picture. So I should vote Tinubu because he’s Yoruba while I wallow in poverty.
It won’t be better for you and all of you that have this same thought. May a deadly disease strike all of you. Ashiere, amunkunmeko alayebaje,omo ofo.

Ten Haag had an average Wan bi Saka, Scamcho, Fred, Wegworst, a mid player like Bruno penandez, a midget as center back, an obese Shaw and a worn out Varane as starters but we should give the Xavi the Saudi League Alumnus a free pass because he didn’t have Gavi and Pedri?

Gbafuo dia!

He’s always losing matches like this, because he’s mediocre, a dogshit coach and tactically inept. I saw Ten haag barking orders at the spinner when he misplaced a pass, yelling at Wan bi Saka to press more, what was our stupid coach doing? Conversing with the fourth referee. He’s only lucky most teams in LALIGA aren’t in form.

This stupid Manyoo he didn’t beat where been put to the sword by Cadiz who are 18th on the log.

brandon180:
Which winger on our bench would have been capable of causing trouble to Man Utd defence?
Ansu is still having PTSD, raphinha Dey run around like chicken, ferran Na still lord of movement.
The only winger we have in our squad is dembele who is now injured.( that one sef for dissappear for today match, we all know how he can be) This summer we should be making plans to get one more quality winger and a back up striker, plus a Dm and Rb.
We played a good game abeg, poor individual performance just let us down, make una leave Xavi.

We don’t need a back up striker, we need a good starting striker…Lewanghostki isn’t it at all.

PJtech:
Having Messi in your team beats all these players... no dey cap rubbish

Mtcheeeeeew, na small pikin I dey follow argue ball.

PJtech:
rest bro... Setien, Valverde and Koeman did nothing spectacular in europe and also struggle in laegue

So why blame Xavi wey still dey give us hope for league

Did they sell our stadium for these coaches to buy players?

Lewandoski
Ferran
Kounde
Christensen
Raphinha

How much altogether did the coaches you mentioned spent?
Did they have the quality Xavi has now?
Xavi is mid.

When you have coaches who down tools what do you expect from the players?

Sociedad, Betis and Villarreal aren’t this shameful…Manyoo would’ve been out from the first leg.

akwesenana:
Dead broke modafukas.
Una think say na one of those dead beat teams for that una laligo. ??

Shut up…una wey Sociedad and Betis dey rape every year.

Adiwana:
Xavi has no business coaching us. He doesn’t just have the experience and players individually under him have no improvements.

Good thing we have left those trenches we were in last year with huge credits to him .But it’s time for another coach to continue with that upward trajectory we’re now. Laporta can’t bank on La Liga where it’s literally us and Madrid. We’ve the squad to compete and there are managers out there right now that are unemployed. We should bin him after this season

Huge credits to whom?

We left the trenches because he had players, there was nothing tactically spectacular about Xavi and this guy wouldn’t do shite in this team.
He can fvck off to Saudi Arabia where he is coaching Camels and Donkeys.

Leyqute:
Correct.

WhoGhost couldn't even beat his man not to talk of getting to the ball. He has long legs tho, may be that would be an advantage.

The L is on Bruno tho. Rashford scored from a tighter angle in the first leg.

Na Xavi give am that goal, if them born am we’ll make he hold ball near Araujo if e no go break him leg 🤣🤣

abduleez1:
This Lewandoski useless on God.
I no dey expect anything from am for this match. We're better off with Ferran Torres and Fati upfront as forwards without this ghost.

Very useless…that guy is so overhyped. If Fati and Ferran were the one ghosting like this, we would not hear the last of it. Make nobody call this guy name for dem Benzema and Suarez name at all…na proper ghost, see how Benzema improve Vinicius na.

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Culer:
Cantona and Rivaldo are different types of players. And i won't even say Cantona is a bigger legend to Rivaldo.
Stoichkov>>> Cantona
Ronaldinho>> Giggs

Dani alves is widely regarded as one of the best right backs ever. Wtf is Neville? Did you watch him? Dude mostly contributed zilch to attacks.

Xavi > Scholes. Only ignorant fool debate this.

Etoo>> RVP . You must be mad for comparing RVP with etoo a champions league winner, best african player ever, Ballon dor nominee(3rd place). What did RVP achieve personally?

You're just grasping at straws cuz if you want to talk about bigger legends, Barca has it clear.

There's never been a time that man utd was bigger than Barca. Never! And never will there be!
Sink that into your lightweight skull!

Lmao..you should know he’s just trolling…there’s no Manyoo player dead or alive that can chat to any Barca players.

Kilishihunter:
Hope you've also not forgotten united is one of the inform teams in the europe and are currently favourites now by virtue of them hosting the reverse leg at their homeground, We also don't have two of our main midfield core and best winger dembouz, Football is not 2 + 2 where you'll say because you are topping your league means you'll flog everybody from other leagues, EPL's current leaders are in Europa too though I hope we win to save some pride at the least
Also don't agree with your piece about rashford, Niccur literally beat MATS from a very tight angle last time out, If there's anybody we need to watch the most it's him

Most in-form in the world? Dude they’re playing in the EPL, like someone just said real sociedad have a chance at the title in England.
Rashford beat MATS because he had Alonslow on him.

Jokerman:
Messi
Ronaldinho

What other renowned legend una got??

Man utd is the biggest club in England, Madrid is the biggest in Spain.

So what else?

Lmao….
Do you know Romario and Rivaldo are ahead of Cristiano? They’ve got the World Cup. Show me one of your Legends with one

And Liverpool is the biggest club in England.

FirstbornWds:
Pedri, De Jong are better mentality monsters than any of the names you mentioned up there except for Araujo. Gavi might be aggressive but that doesn't make him a beast when the going gets wrong. In fact, that's when his childish nature comes to play more, as he tried to retaliate. Although he's improved slightly on that but he's still 18.

Balde has not being tested yet under pressure and I feel it's time Xavi starts allowing him get minutes.

I left out Pedri and De Jong on purpose because they played Bayern, Juve and although they did well, they still didn’t have that oomph.
I’ve seen Balde against Madrid, I saw how he was bombing forward with no fear, how many left backs would dare it, and he’d have murdered Wan Bi Saka if Xavi didn’t choose to be an idiot.

FirstbornWds:
The likes of Leao, Coman and Leroy Sane aren't better than Rashford. Leao is practically it laziest winger I've ever seen and if he's not bombing forward to dribble past his man, he's completely useless and I won't for anything want him in my team. I speak of current form and if you think Rashford's game is just about scoring goals for United this season.. Then you are mistaken.

Take away the bantering aside, I particularly don't want us to win the Europa. It's a loser's competition and I really am mad at Xavi for not doing well in Europe but then again, injury-plagued our team formidable defenders and we surely didn't have the mentality to even come second... That's on Xavi.

Dembele and Musiala are not left-wingers and only Vini and Kvaratskhelia are better from the list you provided.

Dorn compare us with Madrid... At least not yet.... The level of experience that both their players and coach have is not something we can manage. This argument of would be more objective if we had the likes of Enrique or Pep as our coach and we still had Iniesta, Rakitic, and Suarez still balling up forward.

You just admitted that Leao is better than Rashford. What’s the duty of a winger if he’s not bombing forward? What else do you expect? Even Manyoo fans will pick Sané Over rashford.
What’s Rashford’s greatest asset if it’s not playing off the shoulders of defenders, isn’t that what a striker would do? You would serious pick a winger whose trait is that? I think you’re being sarcastic lol. If you had a LW problem and have options Like Dembele and Musiala, who would you start?


I know almost every Barca fan detests the Europa league, but what we’re asking for is to trash Manyoo not win the Loser’s competition.
Last season we beat Napoli who looked like they’d have won the competition but lost to Frankfurt, that one no fit pain us like if we lose to Manyoo…you get my point?

Iqtest:
I feel same too, if Barca win laliga I might stop watching it and switch to epl. This current Barca team won't make EPL top four

They might actually do well in the EPL, but for me I just think there’s a mentality that comes with playing in a big team, many of these players don’t have that.
I can only count about three or thereabout that know what it is to put on the Barca shirt.
Araujo
Gavi
And Balde

The rest crumble like a pack of cards when under pressure.

FirstbornWds:
There are no many better left-wingers better than Rashford right now. You might be right about the English style of play but I can tell you that under proper grooming, Raahford has got mad potentials.


Whether we win the game or not, we completely deserve the La Liga and your seeking of validation because of Man United cannot change that.

They are two different competition

You’re saying this because he’s in a fine goalscoring form.
Pray tell which one of this wingers would you bench for rashford if he wasn’t scoring?
They’re faster, they score and dribble better.


Kvaratskhelia
Rafael Leao
Vini Jr
Dembele
Leroy Sane
Coman
Musiala

If the goals dry up today, he’d be back to his default setting, an average overrated English bum. He might do well as a striker but I can’t have this listed players and bench them for Rashford.

I can’t be watching Madrid pummel Liverpool day-in day-out while we only turn mentality monsters against them, beating Manyoo in Europe is the biggest mentality test for wimps like Jordi Alba and Xavi and they mustn’t fail.

My 2 cents.

If Barca fail to beat and demoralize Manyoo on Thursday then they’re not worthy of the LALIGA…the EPL is filled with overrated dunce’s…I’ve watched Rashford times over and there’s nothing special about his game. Not the fastest, not the strongest nor very smart with the ball(including the bum Bruno Penandes).
Those two would would be begging for game time in Spain.

dreamxhaser:
I see lots of Braca and Chelshit Fans coming to this thread to spill their hatred.

Barca Fans, no worry, we go humble una for Old Trafford come Thursday. Better use una best XI ooooh. I no wan hear story like Dembele or Blade no dey.

Assholes

Omo this Manyoo fans dey get mind oooo…😂😂

Una tears go begin from Thursday no worry.

As a Barca fan, we no need the Europa ooo…but we go comot you first come dash anybody else. You see this Manyoo una go too collect even if na team B we field for una

My problem with yesterday’s match was Lewandoski…his positioning in the box was abysmal. There were many times when he could have just waited for a cut-back or release the ball one time for Pedri to play a diagonal to someone on the flank but he chose to be stupid. What does he think he is? Our savior or what? Without him, we would still score goals so he either hustles like everyone on the team and quits his superstar playing style. He hasn’t done better than Luuk de goat to me.

Explains why he was acting in stupid movie’s recently

FirstbornWds:
If you think Xavi is leaving anytime soon.. You'll wait till eternity.


I agree with the Lewa assessment though

I fear Laporta may stick with Xavi for the long term but I really don’t see him doing much. The man’s inexperience may cost this youthful squad.

How can you explain playing drab football after getting all the players you wanted even the bums you requested were delivered and then bench them when they’re to be utilized.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Lewa is a cl0wn. dude is always talking rubbish while ghosting in key match

We should just look for a young hungry striker not this one that became relevant 2 years ago, also a good tactician who’d put this team to good use not Xavi who should be a team B coach at best.