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chic2pimp:
If the amount being quoted is the price you guys are paying for Vidal, take it from me a Milan fan when I say it's an absolute steal. Especially when you consider Raheem "a had one good season" Sterling is costing City £49M and Pogba would cost around the same amount too. Also I know everyone keeps harping on about his work rate and energy levels but his passing skills are highly underrated. You are getting a quality player here. Top class performer for both club and country.

The systematic disintegration of Juve must fill you with excitement I'm sure

raumdeuter:
I think this transfer makes a whole lot of sense

1. Vidal is like 3yrs younger than Schweini. Vidal just turned 28 Schweini would be turning 31 in 2 weeks

Paying 35m Euros for Vidal is a steal if you consider his experience at top level and what other teams are paying for less talented. I dont see any player of his experience and talent going for less

Someone would easily pay 50m plus for Vidal in England and still think its a deal No be Benteke wey miss over a season injured just recently na him Liverpool dey price for 45m Euros.

Vidal should play 3seasons and by then we would see how much progress Hojbejer and Kimmich make

Reschke was the one who discovered Vidal in Chile and he was instrumental to this deal

Below are the injury record of Vidal and Schweinisteiger Vidal only missed 17 games due to injury in his last 7 seasons while Schweini missed more than that last fall alone. Schweini injury list even spills to page 2

Yeah I clearly over-estimated his injury or maybe I'm still salty about Schweinsteiger's exit.

I don't think its even a question if he is a capable replacement. He's a tad overrated but still one of the best box to box mids in the game

Its an awful lot of money and brings our spending to €65m and I still feel we need a Ribery replacement.

Robben could not even travel to the Audi tour in China because of muscle problems

That Latvian kid really balling in the Summer League

So its Williams and Pachulia

Roland17:
The modern era of social networking gave birth to unprofessional and immature means of communicating and resolving differences amicably within the business circle, the whole debacle with D. Jordan, M. Cuban and the Clippers organization shows how immature DJ truly is.

Cuban is a successful businessman, I want to believe he is used to buyers remorse but he also anticipates the buyer is classy enough to express themselves when buying out of a business, DJ blew this one for me, I personally believe he weighed circumstances after verbally committing to the Mavs and made the best decision for his career because let's be honest, even if the Mavs succeeded in getting DJ they would struggle for the 8th spot but his chances to the championship are stronger with the Clippers but sending tweet messages to apologize is flat out disrespectful to a man like Cuban and the Mavs nation, DJ is a wimp let me just put it that way, he easily could have met Cuban who I want to believe already knows DJ was backing out and talk heart to heart with Cuban, this whole shenanigans questions his personality.

To the Mavs nation, I feel the pain...trust me, I would be rooting against Clippers all season for this one even when they play against Lecramp and his whining lot..

DJ is a douchegoblin. Its not that he scorned Cuban its that he waited the last possible minute with all potential replacements gone to do it. This is someone that praised you to the highest level even talking up his mediocre and non existent offensive game

I'm consoled with the fact that the Clippers would once again not get past the 2nd round and with any justice in the world DJ would shred his ACL on opening night

Word on the street is Vidal's agent is in Munich

What is on the cards is

€37m with potential €3m add-ons

We can't possibly still be interested in Di Maria if we land Vidal can we? Not to sound racist but wouldn't three South Americans in one window be a bit OTT

bigkesh:
I gbadun our thread,Always doing our thing on our own until any bagga trespass......
I remember when DAYO and A40 where doing their thing then,after they got destroyed here when Dortmund beat them,the following week was badt for there thread because of Boateng.....U go fear as guys rushed for the party

Just that some trolls are to useless to reply,Imagine trolling an Arsenal fan....When their existence alone is trolling itself

Destroyed who? My friend its too early in the day to be drunk

Who has argued with me and not gotten a verbal UFC beatdown even worse than the one Werdum put on Velasquez

[quote author=iconp post=35911631][/quote]No Goetze? This guy you kala gaan oo

A Thiago, Vidal and Javi midfield will be brutal though. Exquisite balance of power and guile if they can stay healthy they would batter opposing midfields to submission

raumdeuter:
Rumours linking us with Vidal heating up
I would really welcome his work rate to the midfield

I don't have that same ginja. The guy is too injury prone

I do understand the exit of Schweinsteiger has left us no choice but we are grossly overpaying again. Albeit a necessity

pkasso:
I can almost picture your 'best friend' toba reading this with a smug smile saying "i told ya!".Come to think of it, i've not heard from him in months.Our differences aside, i think it will be nice to have toba back around here.

Wetin him Kroos do for Madrid? No be trophyless

AirborneLacer:
Buddy no one dragged you into anything, I only quoted your opinion which has been rendered irrelevant by Europe's renowned journalists.

The link you provided is the UEFA team of the year, which is selected by UEFA.com users. What that means is that, even the agbero who reads Complete Sports every morning in orile junction has the right to decide who makes the list and who doesn't, given he's a registered user of UEFA.com. Little wonder Tevez also failed to make the team.

That is in stark contrast to the UEFA best player of the year award, where 54 renowned sports journalists representing each of the UEFA national associations provide a list of their best-ranked players.

Mate there's a gulf difference in both calls.

When Hazard won the PFA award, most of you tagged it a ''Local Award'' that counts for nothing.

Funny how this ''local award'' have seen the lad join Europe's elites.

Journalists? Since when did journalists become the universally acknowledged talent evaluators?

So if I work a different profession but watch the game as much as most journalists it means their opinion holds more relevance than mine.

I need a journalist to tell me that Arjen Robben and Thomas Mueller had a better season than Arturo Vidal?

You better read that link well. The people who selected the players are listed above and below. Users can vote who they please but it has no bearing on the final list

I don't know why una go get eyes but opt not to use it

jimmy4x:
lmao....that still doesn't make them better than him, like Hensben will always tell u, soccer nd winning trophies is a collective and a team effort, if not, Messi could av been a WC winner and also win the last Copa America.
Even Andre Schurrle, wey be small boy to Hazard, wey no even near am at all, is a WORLD CUP winner as a Chelsea player.....find better thing talk my broda.
Let Muller and Gotze come to the EPL, at least, dere senior bros don dey Man u now.let's see how many UCL nd league Title they will lift in a team like Arsenal.

That is also why team always takes precedence over individual, you cannot rubbish the accomplishment of a team just because you are a fanboy of a certain player.

If Hakeem Olajuwon ended up in Dodan Warriors playing for D'Tigers I doubt he would have gone down as one of the greatest basketballers of all-time so you don't have a point. Schuerrle has only failed to live up to his potential I don't see why you should bring that up as an excuse to exonerate Ikedia who only has two goals from open play in the last three years of Europe's biggest competition

Schweini only came to the EPL to collect his retirement check. Everyone knows your league is full of generous magas and is the easiest place to come and collect free money.

Why not tell Ikedia to join Southampton and lift them to a league title. Do you people think at all?

jimmy4x:
Lmao....now the tune has changed, didn't yall opine he was a loyal champion, now he's proved yall wrong....made top 10 among elites....Messi, Ronaldo.....where's Muller, where's Gotze..? hahahahaha

Vidal and Pogba made the list they must be better than Fabregas.

Ikedia will kill everyone in Belgium for this feat

jimmy4x:
The other day, either you or A40 was like Hazard winning the EPL best player has nothing to do with Europe, the person even went on to claim that, each league, Serie A, Laliga, Holland league, Bundesliga, Scottish league, French league all have best players nd the league winner, how come UEFA deemed Hazard fit to make top 10 in UEFA elite competition best player nominees and not the best player in other leagues?
No player in the Bundesliga, No player in France o, no player in Holland league, Infact, ONLY Ronaldo represented Madrid, the others who dominated the list are Barca and Juventus players, how come the best player in other leagues didn't make it, na only the local champion, from the overhyped EPL kon make am...Has Quaresma, Denilson, Ahmed Musa and ikedia ever crashed out of UCL at d round of 16 nd still got nominated for UCL BEST? shey na useless players dem dey nominate for this kind award?? ..UEFA has rubbished all of you.
I no wan dey use derogatory words on u again cos u be my Oga.....buh pls sir, stop calling Hazard useless, if best players are being rated by just goals and assists alone, Hazard shouldn't be on this list....can you now see what we have been telling you people all along??

When people diss Boa-TANK do you see Bayern fans crying? His titles have done the talking for him so when folks compare him to Shawcross, Distin and other mediocre players from the British Isles the titles tell us different

Opinion is always subjective. Arturo Vidal made the top 10 list as well but if you ask me he has no business there

Juve produced 5 players! Even more than Barcelona! Can you explain that?

jimmy4x:
For whatever reasons, we have been justified, A40 and Raumdeuter have been shamed , Eden Ikedia Useless Hazard made top 10, where Muller and Gotze who got to the. UCLsemis missed out....what a way to vindicate the hardworking lad.

Justified? You no like Justin Timberlake

Mueller and Goetze have accomplishments Hazard would never reach let him cradle his top 10 nomination while Goetze and Mueller hold their WC and UCL medals

AirborneLacer:
Don't be so dumb, what point are you trying to make with the emboldened? You've always been of the opinion that Hazard is a local champion who dribbles with no good end result, now we have UEFA mentioning him amongst the elites and you're still yarning opata.

The over flogged debate here about Hazard has been about his talent being questioned. I wasn't comparing anything with 40 when he asserted these:




So mate, this is a case of your opinion and that of your crew about Hazard being duly noted and flung into the trash can.

www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=2255077.html

Why do you vagrants always feel the need to drag A-40 into your megedefegede

Anybody with two functioning braincells would know that Hazard being the EPL player of the season would automatically boost his chances of making this list.

Its an opinion poll. And the link I posted above Hazard did not make the list. That should tell you you will always get varying responses depending on who is asked.

timbros:
Isn't that childish?
Once again, you are surprise me. So if I type 128 as the answer of 26 x 7, common sense won't tell you it's a typo?
Fact is, Gotze played more minutes than Hazard but Hazard outperformed him overall. Deal with that.
Your opinion doesn't matter. Squawka's matter a whole lot.
Good night.

Chale why so salty? 'Mathematics according to Timbros' is why you are acting like a diva? You were fronting like a virtuoso data analyst and you can't even take playful correction

#facepalm

Hazard out performed him but Goetze scored more goals especially from open play and provided as many assists.

Hazard 1 goal from open play in 653 mins
Goetze 4 goals from open play in 747 mins

The best player in your league can only score 1 goal from open play and fail to lead his club past the 2nd round of Europe's marquee competition. Ohh what a national disgrace

SailorXY:
no he's not
£4m sign on, £180k weekly - 3 year's deal.

Chale Schweinsteiger was sold for €15-20m

How can we sell him for £4m? Did you see tribal mark on our face?

Haywhymido:
ode, so full of himself. what n where as ur standard IQ brought n take u. Grow up dude. cant ur mumu self analysis football without been insultive. go f*ck urself

Haywhyokponu! Because of your low IQ the senility that should have started worrying you much later is already applying full court pressure on you 45 years earlier

This eran iya osogbo cannot even remember he was the one that started with the insults

Nuisance

Bimffo:
Lahm = Ivanovic.

Benatia = Zouma

Alaba << or = Apzi

Toh.

So when I say Boa-TANK is better than Terry why do some of your compadres like Haywhyokponu and the other members of the league of Xtra-Ordinary eediots start displaying warapa symptoms?

Haywhymido:
hating him can never make u mate with him u knw. the world knw JT, the question is who knw u n ur silly ass in ur area ? go n get busy with work nt with hatred.

Haywhyret@rd! I don't hate John Racist. The Boa-TANK is just better. I don't expect your sub-zero IQ to process that

timbros:
Which kind of yeye analysis be dis?

Honestly I've been following your comments here and I respect them even though we are always in opposition camps so to speak. So I am VERY surprised to read this from you. Are you sure you are the person who typed this thing above?

Gotze played almost 100 minutes more than Hazard IN A WHOLE TOURNAMENT and you are here breaking down their average minutes per game? When you were dishing out goals and assists, was it not for THE WHOLE TOURNAMENT? Was it for one match?

Dude stop quoting stats that you don't understand.

You tried making it sound like Goetze played a significant number of more games but we can clearly see that it adds up to just one!

Ikedia played almost 10 hours of football and scored just one goal from open play. Its a crying shame! Stop defending nonsense!

timbros:
26 minutes disadvantage? Really? OK let's tow your line of argument for a minute. What happens to the extra 4 matches which Gotze averaged 67% and Hazard 0%? Which is more disadvantage? Gotze's 26% disadvantage x 7 matches which equals 128%, or Hazard's 67% x 4 matches disadvantage which equals 268%?

Do you even know how per90 metrics work in football? Please take your time and go through this link and understand more http://statsbomb.com/2013/08/an-introduction-to-the-per-90-metric/

Na wao...

26 x 7 = 128?

Mathematics according to Timbros

Abeggi you are not focusing on the most relevant stat

Ikedia only scored 1 goal from open play.

I'm glad you mentioned per 90 minute metric because if you didn't know you ought to have realized that in 3 of the 11 matches Goetze played less than 55 mins infact in 2 of them he featured for less than 15mins. If that doesn't show how biased your stats are I don't know what will

So don't tell me that goals and assists the most important metric of all don't matter all in a vain effort to defend Ikedia

hensben:
You are a m.0r0n, @bolded, FIFA n UEFA. yes! his individual performance gave him those awards. With your logic, messi n cr7 are overrated since their team failed to lift WC, copa america n euopean tournament.

The Boa-TANK is better than Terry. You can impale yourself on a high tension plant if it aches your belly.

CR7 and Messi have dragged their teams to Finals and Semis performing in the biggest of matches. Only an eran iya and eran ibiye like you will dare mention them in the same breath as John Racist

Haywhymido:
guy u mumu no be small. so u expect terry to defending n scoring winning goals in every match so dat england can make final na wa how sum fans think. football is made up of 11players each so dont expect 1player to do it all. funny enuff u r comparing boateng wit JT. let see how he will fare at JT current age. if people like carragher n rio ferdy can acknowledge dat JT is boss who d f*ck r u nt to. stop been a bigot n say d truth.

You are a buffoon!! See name 'Haywhymido' its not hard to tell your IQ is at sub-zero, even before you typed anything to confirm your stoopidity I could already tell you were a ret@rd

Since you know its a team sport why bring up individual awards in the first place? What of the likes of Makelele, Carvalho who were doing the dirty jobs as well.

Who gives a rat's a$$ what Jamie Carragher and Rio Ferdy think? You can go and impale yourself on their blockus if their opinion means that much to you.

Overhyped John Racist keeps going to major tournaments and failing while Boa-TANK with his performances always helps his club and country go far.

John Racist is the most overhyped player in the history of football.

hensben:
Lol...Now i know you are just a troll..Do you even know the meaning of individual award at all? So you mean to tell me boateng won world cup alone. This is a team trophy not roger federal vs nadal. Either you show me boateng individual award or keep mute.

Shut up my friend. What is individual award? Who determines the criteria for that? Did John Terry win the awards by himself? He doesn't have a defensive partner and a goalie that spares his blushes? If he is so great an individual why can't his greatness rub off on his teammates and help his country to a semi-final

Show me Terry's semi-final appearance or keep mute!

raumdeuter:
Can anyone see incisive analysis and compare it to the claptrap Shekpe fans have been spewing on here daily?
Jerome Boateng was the best player on the world cup final field while John Terry is usually the worst player or totally ommited from critical finals

John Terry is one of the most overrated ninjas in the history of football.

Chelsea's park the bus style is a defender's paradise.

Two seasons of JM at Inter, Walter Samuel and a washed up Lucio were looking like Baresi and Beckenbauer. Making FIFPro lists. That just says it all

Its because of this manic overhype of average joes like Terry that England have not gotten to the Final of a major tournament in almost half a century. Let them go on soun

SailorXY:
bros why na

oya...

I go take orobo. Orobo can always lose weight. Have you seen Rick Ross lately?

timbros:
LOL... Suddenly A40 doesn't need squawka for stats! So squawka isn't a reputable source now. I see.

Weldone.

Don't swallow their stats hook, line and sinker

These stats are clearly dubious.

Hazard 7 games 653 mins
Goetze 11 games 747 mins

Hazard averages 93mins per game

Goetze averages 67 mins per game!

That's a whopping 26 mins disadvantage. To put in perspective Germany were already 4 goals up in 26 mins vs Brazil

So even if Goetze played more minutes and made more appearances. Thorough analysis clearly showed Goetze sonning Ikedia.

Hell even Boa-TANK from CB

3 goals and 3 assists from open play

Looool! Hazard is too overrated abeg

hensben:
Individual honors..

John Terry

FIFA worldcup TOTT 2006

FIFPRO world eleven 2005, 2006,2007,2009

UEFA club football best defender 2005,2008,2009

UEFA TOTY 2005,2007,2008,2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Terry

Can i see that of Boateng?

What shall it profit a player to get listed for individual awards but cannot lead his country (a footballing power in its own right) past the Quarter Final of any major tournament. If this does not show you how criminally overrated Terry is I don't know what will

Mueller has never made FIFPro or UEFA TOTY but he is better than Rooney so its not by that one

Can we see that of John Racist?

lordfalcao:
Did you just bark

Spot on! I was about to call you a flea. But I guess swine will do

JigsawKillah:
I don't really think so
Talent wise, decision making wise, goalkeeping, striking and all that
JT is so good, he's defending and attacking as well as goalkeeping skills goes with him.
ask Wayne Bridge what happened to his wife

Your park the bus system would make Romanus Orjinta look like Beckenbauer.

The Boa-TANK has played at LB, RB and CB at the highest possible level.

John Terry's talent is negligible. Any doofus will shine playing behind two banks of four.

For only 6 months John Terry played in a highline he was easily the worst defender in Europe. Niggas be dissing Pique and Barca defenders but put your defenders in their system and let's see how they survive. Can Terry thrive in a system that demands him to play almost at the halfway line?

Forget media hype! Its not a coincidence that the Boa-TANK is a key member of a WC Champion and one of the top 4 clubs in Europe

timbros:
Hazard tracks back to help Azpi. That fact can NEVER be argued.

Why do you guys always rush to goals scored and assist when players are being compared? What happens to a players overall performance?

Hazard murders Gotze in the just concluded UCL when you compare their total performance.

But for your sake, let me add goals and assists in the comparison index. Bear in mind that Gotze played more games, more minutes, more rounds.. .

I still ask: if we call Hazard useless, what should we call Gotze?

Of course we saw him 'tracking back' vs Atletico Madrid where he was easily the worst player on the pitch, we also saw him 'tracking back' vs PSG.

What megedefegede "overall total performance" are you guys always on about? They are both attacking players!! The number one currency are goals and assists!

Murder ko Murder Inc ni.

What is Total Score and how is that one derived?

I don't need Squawka to tell me Goetze outperformed Ikedia, Goetze had to contend with Robben, Ribery, Mueller and Thiago so his creative stats might not be as gaudy as Hazard's but it is clearer than daylight that Omo oro Goetze is the more productive player

Mario Goetze - 4 goals and 3 assists from Open Play

Ikedia Azadus - 3 goals (2 penalties) 2 assists

Goetze outplayed Ikedia. Shikena

timbros:
Neymar is a forward in a 4-3-3 formation whereas Hazard is a midfielder in a 4-2-3-1 formation. Can Neymar do the track backs Hazard does in his team? Do you expect Hazard to score all the goals Neymar score from his defensive position? Yet you are comfortable to compare them. But I cannot compare Boateng and Messi trophy-wise.

Defensive position? Ikedia tracks back? Maybe in the EPL sha cos we see him in Europe and observe none of that. He must be really terrible at it

Messi has 4 UCL titles he can boast of plus dragging his team to a WC Final. Which of these feats have Ikedia accomplished that makes you argue that its an injustice to compare him with Neymar

timbros:
Concentrate on 2014/15 UCL where Gotze played more games, more minutes, more rounds over Hazard and talk to me.

If Hazard was useless and a flop last season in Europe, what should we call Gotze?

Haa!

Goetze - 4 goals and 3 assists (all from open play)
Ikedia - 3 goals 2 assists (only 1 goal from open play)

Jowo when it comes to Europe's premier competition please no compare Ikedia to World Cup finisher Goetze

Hazard has always been useless in Europe. Even the year you won Europa he was outperformed by freaking Victor Moses, for a player supposedly listed as one of the elite his records are laughable . Its not by argument or quarrel Ikedia is a local champion.

The Boa-TANK is hundred times better than John Terry why una dey rehash old argument

lordfalcao:
you forget to include A40

Who is this asinwin halfwit? Keep my name out your mouth.

FastShipping:
English League was not popular back in the 80s as it is now but was followed by some football fanatics in Nigeria; especially those Nigerians who schooled or had close ties with UK in the 80s. I was a little kid back then I remember my dad and his friends used to discuss the likes of Aston Villa, Wimbledon, Nottingham Forest, Liverpool and Arsenal. These were the top teams in U.K back in the 80s. I remember back then when adults were checking newspaper for results on Sunday mornings. English League was not on TV back then but people still followed it through other means. I don't know if anyone still remember the pool page in the national dailies with above British teams listed in them. There were pool papers available in Lagos back then with British teams listed in them. I grew up hearing those names from adults who love football in the 80s. By late 80s and early 90s, Bruce Groebbler, John Fashanu, John Barnes, Bryan Robson, Lineker were names in people's mouth on weekends. The way Manchester United sprang up from no where around 1992 was a shock. The Manchester United jersey with SHARP logo in front of it was the most popular jersey back then. It was during that time that NTA began to broadcast British League sponsored by Rothmans PAL Mall. Another thing that brought awareness of British League to Nigeria was the move of Daniel Amokachie to Everton in 1994 from F.C Brugge. Back in those days, Amokachie seemed to be the most popular Nigerian player in Europe in which boys were following his football progress. The moment Amokachie moved to England, Nigerian were always following his progress in England. I can remember when Amokachie got to Everton but couldn't get games under Joel Royle and then John Toschark but the moment Amokachie scored two goals in the semi final of the FA Cup against Manchester United and then won the FA Cup final, British football was finally born in Nigeria in 1995. Another factor that created awareness about British League was a broadcaster named Larry Echiejiele/Izamoje who was fond of bringing news about British League. I still remember the likes of Segun Odegbami, Larry Izamoje and Tony Akiotu always going to England to interview the likes of Afan Ekoku, Amokachie, John Salako, Reuben Agboola, and Fashanu brothers, etc.


When it comes to German League in Nigeria, it started in 1989. German league was the first and most broadcast European League back in the late 80s and early 90s on NTA 2 Channel 5 from 8pm - 9pm on Sundays. The like of Uwe Bein, Andreas Moeller, Maurizio Gaudino, Andreas Brehme, Stefan Reuter, Thomas Haessler, Lothar Matthaeus and co were some of the famous names to play in the German League in the late 80s and early 90s. Players like Sammer, Effenberg, Elber, Sergio, Tarnat, Jeremies, Ulrich, Andreas Moeller, Oliver Khan, Martin Darlin, Andreas Anderson, Jorginho, Allain Sutter, Chapuizat from Switzerland, Ossei Kuffor, Anthony Yeboah, Okocha, Akpoborie and others were the names that brought fame to German football between 1995 and 2004. The best of the German club teams back in those days were Bayern Munich, Duisburg, Karlsruhe, Dortmund, Monchengladbach, Weder Brehmen, Nuremburg, Stuttgart, Kaiserslautern, Dusseldorf and few others.

These were the times I enjoyed football matches that are not available today. Football is now about running and less about skill. Is there a football player today who can pass ball better than Steffan Effenberg? Is there any defender today close to what Sammer was between 1993 and 1999? Is there any striker today better than Roberto Baggio, Christian Vieri, Ivan Zamorano, Marcelo Salas, Davor Suker, Alain Bosic, or Mihajatovic? These players wouldn't make first 11 at Chelsea today with the way Mourinho plays football.

You are mostly right but I can recall very vividly that the EPL was the least popular league especially among the younger generation. You can see that na your dad you mention and not yourself. All the best players in the world back then played elsewhere.

Even as at the mid-90's you mentioned the German League was more popular than the English League.

EPL teams were still a laughing stock in Europe back then so the likes of Ajax, Ac Milan, Madrid, Barca, Juve had actual fans
I even knew niggas who supported Marseille, PSG and Inter

I was a fan of anything German so Bayern was the natural choice while certain players in Dortmund (Sammer, their keeper Stefan Klos, Andy Moeller) also made me root for them when Bayern failed to make the CL

From 03 or thereabout German League completely vanished from the Television both local and cable and they took their precious time before making a return

Football was awesome those days. Especially the Champions League. Too many classic matches

Bimffo:
Dayo and A40 Thanks..

But you know, I just wanna enjoy football this season.. It does not change the Love, I have for Chelsea.. ..


I will support these 4 teams for 12 weeks, after that I will drop it to 1..


Hamburg, Wolfsburg, Mönchengladbach, and stuggart..


NB: A40, has Hamburg played her play-offs..?

Hamburg stayed up. They won

Who saw the Telekom Cup games?

Lordave:
I still believe in Pep.

I pray oo! My faith in him is dwindling everyday. And e dey pain me cos I have defended him so vehemently on this thread

Look at that small boy Yannick Carrasco that went to Atleti for €15m isn't that someone we coulda gone for as a prospective long term replacement for Robbery instead of pissing €30m on Douglas Costa

raumdeuter:
Not in Nigeria. Bayern isnt popular unless it has changed now. Almost every viewing center I went to, I am always the only Bayern fan.
Even In a University of over 15,000 student the Bayern fans there as at early 2000 were less than 5. I knew this when I first tried to start a Bayern fan club in Nigeria around yr 2000. I contacted guys in UI, UNILAG but very few responses
It was so until some Benin boys hijacked the Bayern fan thing when they saw that they could use it as a way to apply for Schengen visa and I backed out when the thing wan become matter of life and death.
Me I am just a fan for the love of the club, dem wan use am as money making to get boys and say they can apply for visa together as fansclub some of them dont even know any Bayern player
One day my friend found one Bayern fan in Shitta Surulere he had to call me from Egbeda to come meet am

Definitely not. To be very frank German football administrators didn't push the game hard enough and that is why the followership wasn't strong. I grew up following the Mannschaft watching Football Made in Germany and was also able to follow the likes of Bayern, Dortmund in the Champions League circa 94-98. (I was a massive Klinsmann and Elber fanboy) and Andy Moeller was the best midfielder in the world as far as I was concerned. Nothing like EPL then! Rothmans Football used to run weekly roundups of leagues around Europe and there were no highlights sef so if you grew up in Nigeria around that time and you tell me you were a fan of any EPL team other than Man U you are most likely lying

It all went to sh!t From the late 90's up till 2010 or thereabout, German Football was pretty much non-existent in Nigeria and that coincided with the boom in EPL followership. La Liga and Serie A were still thriving and you had ninjas tell you they supported Man U and Barca, Arsenal and Barca. We had raves in early Uni years mid/late 00's where repping one English club was the cool thing to do niggas putting name and numbers of their favorite players on the back of their cars

By the time BuLi came back around 2010/2011 period if you didn't have cable which viewing center/lounge wan show Bayern vs Gladbach when Chelsea and Stoke City dey play unless na your papa get the place.

I doubt the BuLi will ever catch up. I know only one Bayern fan in person and I met em through social media

Hahaha Bini boys are very dangerous, those people no dey happy at all! na all of them dey play runs and always show their logo whether in school environment or not. I dey always comport if I go see my people for that side

Bimffo:
I am a Premier League fan, and I am so happy Bastian came to the league at least b4 he retires. He may be off his best but he can still deliver when he is in form..
2ndly, I wanna follow Bundesliga this coming season.. So, I wanna support a team(Excluding Bayern).. I am looking at Wolfsburg or Borussia Mönchengladbach.

A40 and Raumdeuter, anything please.. I am not trolling, Just advice me a little..

And Lastly, Dayo U'v got to resume on that Chelsea thread. The trolls we get these days don't know nada about football, they just keep looking for errors and throwing insult..

Na wa for you ooh! So na team wey dey play good football you dey find? So why you come dey support Chelsea

They don't play Chelsea's brand of negative football For someone like you I'd recommend Schalke, Hamburg or Cologne

This time last year Mario Goetze was deciding a World Cup Final
Guardiola can only try. God no go let you spoil this boy career

Spy360:
Why would CL chasing Bayern let club hero and national captain leave for €12m? Speaks volumes. There is something they are not telling LvG.

I heard he is going for £14.3m

Well we have sent them no testing before sha (Hargreaves) but he still helped them to a league and a CL

Basti is still good for another 2-3 seasons at least. Its a massive steal

Nihilist:
Well ,He seems to be suffering from recurrent injuries over the last two seasons.
The same old flare ups.

Deep runs in major tournaments over that timeframe were also a factor. He even went to the last WC injured. Provided he is well managed Fussballgott can still give Man U 3 solid seasons. He relies less on athleticism and more on intelligence now plus Ana's puna is another potential factor