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4llerbuntu: why not try Raul Gonzalez too, makelele?

I'm hearing opening bids of 13mill and 130k salary but the hot 29 yr old we had was sold because?

Because your club is pennywise and pound foolish

lalaboi: As for Sturridge, I think he'll flop again, unless Rodgers teaches him how to pass the ball. They already have one selfish striker, having another is suicide! But studge wont out-selfish suarez the king of all selfishness in football!

As for Ba and formation!. Benitez will try and fail to play them together. . we saw as it happened in

Suarez selfish?? That's a first

Lol Gasol is a wasteman! Dwight might be limited offensively but at least you get effort. Gasol playing buttersoft right now

CP3 was really clutch last night! For the Clips you have to wonder who else they can go to in half court offense apart from CP3

Gasol is Blake Griffin's biatch I swear

Hahaha Superman ma a$$! Dwight Howard is being pissed on at the moment. Lol maybe Royal was right after all

I hope the Qatar heat puts some fire in the team's collective bellies. We have to go one better in all the competitions we find ourselves this season

This man crush on Sanchez by Rex Ryan is bordering on disturbing. Is this ninja into cuckolding? Lol at least get a decent QB tatted on your phat a$$

Vikings @ Packers
Probably the game I'm looking forward to the most. You know its going to be a shootout whenever Aaron Rodgers is involved and the question is can the Vikes hang? They showed they could with the playoffs on the line but that was at their home. You wonder if they can replicate the same at Lambeau field in January! Packers have been losing playoff games there a lot lately so you feel the Vikes have a fighting chance
Conventional wisdom would tell you to put your money on the Packers but as we've seen many times before a great QB can lose to an inferior one anytime (Brady vs Flacco, Brady vs Sanchez,
Brees vs Smith) are reference points
[quote author=الملكي فوق الله]Ray Lewis Trynna Sign a Deal With Espn.

Good Pick up for Espn if it goes through

I love hearing Ray Speak. Whether it's a passionate speech or a calm humble sit down interview, the guy is Class.[/quote]The guy can talk tho!! Master motivator! Blitzing machine! Even as a Steeler I'm gonna miss his antics. You never know with these players though he just may return but probably not to the Ravens

Ibime: Only if RA continues his foolish policy of trying to get returns from the £50m Shekpe cancer.

Benitez is already talking about playing 2 strikers. I hope not!!

Y'all can play 4-4-1-1 a la United lol

Really playing two strikers would mean there would be only room for one of Mata,Hazard,Oscar and we all saw how clueless Chelsea looked against meagre QPR when both Mata and Hazard where rested! we can only imagine how bad it would look against a decent side

For me both Torres and Ba can finish games but definitely not start em

Bengals vs Texans

Truly don't see Matt Schaub generating enough offense to get past the Bengals so if Dalton can avoid turnovers they should win this game. JJ Watt and co seem to have run out of gas and we don't know if Arian Foster would be 100%

I have travelled far and wide looking for objectivity in your posts on Walcott and sincerely I can't seem to find it! The other day you claimed Giroud came on and made Walcott look good. Forgetting Walcott was already on a hat-trick before Giroud sniffed the pitch even worse both Giroud's goals where actually provided by Walcott

4llerbuntu: before u crucify me, please list the strikers that have played for Arsenal and compare with theo and consider the issue yourself.
of course excusing Chamakh


Wrighty
Bergkamp
Kanu
Henry
Eduardo
Adebayor
Van Persie
for example

i guess u can find flaws in this, as with practically any footballing opinion, but C'mon even just put Theo beside Eduardo

Theo? Top Striker, Top Dog? Theo? Abeg

Eduardo?? Eduardo was a dud nicca!
Look you need to face reality! You don't have those caliber of strikers on your books anymore so till yall have enough money to buy one Theo is your best alternative. In the last 3 games he has won a penalty,scored a hat-trick and provided the assist for your only goal! Maybe you would rather take Torres sha

4llerbuntu: been thinking about how players, esp Arsenal players are so prone to magically becoming the bestest thing since sliced bread when contracts are to be negotiated.

When you score 14 goals and dish 9 assists in all competitions before January you kinda are a big deal

4llerbuntu: Rosicky is the most recent example.

Rosicky never managed that

4llerbuntu: and truth be told, im suspecting the same for Walcott.

C'mon this is Walcott we talking about. That Walcott..............

What is wrong with Walcott? Over the last 2 and a half seasons he has been top 3 producers for your club
He is among the top 3 wingers in the country!! If we take a sample size of goals and assists in the last 2-3 seasons I'm sure only Gareth Bale would be ahead of him

4llerbuntu: besides, question which must be asked is: Has the club fallen in standards so much that the likes of Theo are looking so good as to be indispensable?,

or is it that Theo has improved so drastically that he is finally Arsenal standard, or rather a top side standard seeing that Arsenal can not be really regarded as a top side anymore.

Looool so you just dey realize say your standard don fall. How did you come about this epiphany?

4llerbuntu: Honestly, will Theo play upfront for any top four side in a top league in Europe if he were not to be at arsenal?

i guess the answers should color opinions on this his contract imbroglio. for me, i think he is being offered exactly his value by wenger, and thats even because he is English

Yoruba go talk say 'oun ta ni la n gbe laroge' presently Walcott is better than any player you have at Center forward. If a wasteman like Gervinho can play center forward for yall surely Walcott can

3rd match in a row now and still no goal from Torres despite owning the CF position at a top 4 club with zero competition
7 goals in 21 is a disgrace!! Dude has been outscored by wingers (Walcott,Bale) benchwarmers (Hernandez,Dzeko)
I hope Benitez does not make the fatal mistake of accommodating and pandering to Torres's fragile ego by playing Ba on the flanks as that would most likely be a lose-lose situation

ddippset: you have consistently ducked my question which is this; messi hasnt won a major trophy for argentina and yet some say he is greater than maradona and pele or their equal. so what will happen by the time he wins one? it's even advantage messi because despite having not won the world cup a lot of football luminaries have rated him above his world cup winning rivals. well for me he is already the GOAT, and for you he's definitely NOT. some football fans think he is, others think he is not. even pele, some think he is GOAT, others think he is not. likewise maradona, some think he is GOAT, others think he is not. our debate is senseless. even if you take some zidane, take some pele, take some maradona, take some cryuff, take some de lima and mix them all up in a cup, there will be some fans that would tell you he is not GOAT. i would be an 1diot to think that the whole world would agree with us who take messi as our GOAT. a lot will differ and you're one. footballers who get compared to legends like maradona and pele do not come a dime a dozen. for me just the mention of messi in a sentence having words like maradona and pele is good for me. iam done and iam outtie.

Messi would get those accolades cos he is the rave of the moment!! De Lima in his pomp got those accolades too! Like I told you before he had won 2 WPOTY by 21. He was the best player at a World Cup before 22. He was also being compared to Maradona and Pele. They called him The Phenomenon but had he not won the WC in 2002 the dynasty would not have been complete
Only Barca fans would rank Messi as the G.O.A.T. He aint no G.O.A.T!! Not without a world title

Lol they broke as hell!! Have u seen their stadia?

A friend of mine works for the CIA. He intercepted the following telephone conversation and sent it to me. I transcribed it for your reading pleasure.
A cell phone rings

Big Ben (BB): Yo Romo, whaz up? Great job the other night.

Romo (R): (Giggling), Yea I know. I took a lesson from your play book. But I had to throw three interceptions.

BB: I saw that, not bad. I particularly loved the "Agony of Defeat" look. It was great. Better than mine.

Romo: Thanks, so how is this supposed to work?

BB: Let me call Rog (Goodell). He can explain it better than anyone.

Goodell’s phone rings

Goodell: Yea Benny.

BB: I got you on a conference call with Romo.

Goodell: Awesome. Great job the other night Romo. Three of them and no one could tell the difference. Not like that O’Donnell idiot back in ’95.

Romo: You mean he did the same thing? Wow.

Goodell: That’s right but he almost blew our cover. Ben’s got it down pat and you are not that bad yourself.

Romo: So what happens now?

Goodell: At exactly 1600 hrs on Thursday, a man will leave a briefcase on your porch. Everything in it is yours, a cool 500K in cash.

Romo: Holy Smokes! Where do you get that kind of cash?

Goodell: Fines against players for late hits and such. Oh yea, and the United Way too.

Romo: So that is where the fine money goes, I never knew. I thought it went to charity.

BB and Goodell: (Laughing) Charity, yea right, that’s a good one.

Romo: And did you say the United Way?

Goodell: That’s correct. It’s the NFL charity. For some reason, people think the United Way gives to children and the needy but it really is a charity for needy NFL football players like you and Benny. Think about it for a second. Do you know anyone who has received money from the United Way?

Romo: Golly geez, I don’t think so.

Goodell: That’s right; it’s all funneled to us. Every once and a while we will sprinkle a few bucks to some school or sick kid but most of it is for us. We’re going to need it when the head injury lawsuits hit us.

BB: It blew my mind when I first got involved.

Romo: When did you get involved?

BB: In the Superbowl with GB. Myself and Mendie.

Romo: No way.

BB: Way.

Goodell: Yea, and he has done a good job ever since. But don’t get greedy. New Orleans wanted to win another Superbowl and I put a stop to that with their bounty-gate scandal.

Romo: Suffering succotash. So what does this mean? Do you control the outcome of the entire season?

Goodell: Not exactly. I just like to spread the wealth and get more money. Look at how many rookie quarterbacks are in the playoffs. That is great for ratings and rating means money.

BB: Yea, they sent a "Cooler" to help us out.

Romo: What’s a "Cooler"?

BB: When a team is hot they bring in a coach who will cool things down.

Romo: You mean Haley?

BB: Bingo! Look what he did when he was with the Cardinals in the SB. A 100 yard pick-six with seconds to spare in the half. Where do you think I learned how to do that?

Romo: Leaping Lizards Ben. That’s amazing.

Goodell: It makes for great TV doesn’t? Look, the NFL is more popular than ever. We need to keep it that way. We can’t have the same teams winning over and over again.

Romo: What about the Patriot’s?

Goodell: What about them. I made them pay me 750K and they haven’t won a Superbowl since.

Romo: Holy smokes. Will the Cowboys ever be allowed to win again?

Goodell: Probably not for a while. I had to make your owner popular by letting him win three Superbowl’s so he could build that stadium. Afterwards, I made him fire his coach and sent in a "Cooler."

Romo: So I’m going to be a loser?

Goodell: Yea, I’m sorry kid but you’ll be a rich loser.

Goodell: I have to go. Remember, don’t screw things up or you might find yourself in an accident or getting a DUI or in a "bar miss-hap." You know what that’s like Benny, don’t you?

BB: Yes sir won’t happen again.

Goodell hangs up.

BB: So, do you get the picture.

Romo: Yea, I can’t believe it but I know I will be richer for it.

BB: That’s right. Don’t go spending it in once place.

Romo: There is one thing.

BB: What’s that?

Romo: I want the fans to like me and not hate me for loosing.

BB: Oh, this is what you do. After the season ends, have your agent tell the media that you played injured during part of the season. Once the media prints that, you are golden. Everyone will forgive you and send you get well cards. Now, I am off to Georgia where it’s warm. I am sick and tired of this snow and cold.

Romo: Thanks Ben, for everything.

BB: Baby crying in background.

BB’s Wife: Your turn

BB: Gotta go.

http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/2013/1/1/3823832/conspiracy-theory

ddippset: i didnt say sh1t about a defence line. ur man goddyjay did. like i said before its quite sad that a so called football fan would say that someone did not score a goal and so he didnt play well. would you say higuain played better than messi in the world cup? higuain must have scored a million goals but he wasnt half as good as messi. did you just say mere compliments. someone is being called the best ever and you say mere compliments!!! damn damn. in ABC, you just a hater. A-40 says messi must win the world cup b4 he becomes the best ever. sorry boss messi is in the league of pele, maradona, zidane, and cryuff. not cristiano and co.

Abeg Messi was a flop at the World Cup and Copa America!! Wasn't he booed at the Copa America? How can the bestest player in the World not score a single goal despite playing all the matches?? Was he injured! What is the excuse?? No one is comparing him to Higuain. I'm only stating why he can't be referred to as greater than Ronaldo De Lima,Zidane,Pele,Maradona
Messi's greatness starts and ends at Barcelona! Let's even agree he is a one club man! I for one don't belong to the school of thought that insists he has to leave Barca to perform at another club! However I do expect him to replicate that form for the Argies.
Only Barca fans would call him the GOAT. Greatest Of All Time My A$$!! When he conquers the World with Argentina that's when he would fully deserve that title. You can call me a hater if you want but it really doesn't matter to me cos I know I'm not one. Presently he is waay ahead of Ronaldo you would never catch me arguing to the contrary. What I take offence to is labelling him greater than Pele and Ronaldo when he is yet to win the biggest tournament of them all

ddippset: you just shot yourself in the foot. 8 te8m with no defence line you s8id. So give him 8 good defence line 8nd the lil genius will deliver the world cup.

What do you mean by no defence line?? See excuse oh! Must he have Maldini,Gentile and Beckenbauer before he can win a World Cup? Before he can score just one goal!
When Argentina qualified from their group and trashed Mexico in the 2nd round no one talked about them not having a defence line! What does Argentina's lack of defense have to do with Messi in his prime not scoring a single goal in two major tournaments he played in!

ddippset: th8ts 8ccording to you 8-40. But for ddippset, rooney, etoo, f8breg8s, pep, souness, grondon8, 8rdiles, etc etc etc he is 8lre8dy the best best best ever. For wenger he isn't just the best ever he is from pl8y st8tion.

Those are just mere compliments. What are they supposed to say? "Ehn Messi is just there" that would make em look like haters. You can never be the greatest ever in a team sport without winning its biggest tournament.

Ray Lewis: This is my last ride

Hmmm I wanna believe you this time tho you've said so before. All the same #Legend

Looking forward to Wildcard Weekend

Lol but he is kinda right!! A lot of people have not being playing to their billing! Gasol and Dwight just don't seem to fit into the system on both ends of the floor

Can't believe we dragged the Heat that close could easily have won that game

Johnpaul88: @A-40
If you sincerely wants to see Messi win a major trophy with his country, you 'll see him indeed. Do not you worry.

That's all he needs to join that pantheon of immortality! To be World Champion

lekkie073: the guy baines dey score, dey assist...e beta pass a lot of midfielders...he s definitely worth it

Everton don't keep clean sheets. So his goals and assists are of no use to me

ddippset: ron8ldo de lim8 w8s not c8lled the gre8test of 8ll time. In this gener8tion only messi h8s been touted by so m8ny 8s the best ever.we re not progr8mmed robots. We don't keep our eyes inside the go8l post do we?in the world cup higu8in scored 4 but w8snt h8lf 8s good 8s messi. In the cop8 messi g8ve 8 good show 8g8inst urugu8y only for tevez to throw 8w8y his p.k. I wouldn't tell the 8rgentines 8bout messi, I'd tell the world. The whole world is his jurisdiction. Messi isn't the gre8test if you s8y so. But let the world keep on comp8ring him to pele 8nd m8r8don8. Th8ts more thxn 8n 8chievement for 8 25 ye8r old. For me 8nd so m8ny he is not from e8rth.

At his peak! Ronaldo was rated that highly! Please don't let your love for Messi impair your judgement! 2 times WPOTY before turning 22. Won the Golden Ball at the WC before 22! If not for tearing his Cruciate ligaments twice who is Messi to compare himself to Ronaldo De Lima?
No disrespect to Messi winning a WC catapults him to that elders table in an instant! But till then please Messi is only the greatest Barca player ever! I want to see Messi lead Argentina to a major tournament Final.
Football is a team sport! You can't divorce team achievements from individual achievements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sBOseFQUuQ

The official How Market song of 2012/2013 season

Asuegbe!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI0gk2KJeho

BAnds a make her dance
BAnds a make her dance

azpeculiar: Baines... 20% still own him. for 7.5m that guy na big fail this season!

7.5 for defender? Is he Beckanbauer? He might have the odd good game but men I aint keeping a defender that commands that much cap space. Plus I looked at Everton stats they've hardly kept a clean sheet

ddippset: m8y I dis8gree with you sir.th8ts your person8l oppinion I think. He h8snt won 8 world cup but 8nytime the deb8te 8bout the gre8test ever comes up, messi is mentioned 8long with pele 8nd m8r8don8. Its not me, check ur internet, check ur tv. Zid8ne in his prime w8s not c8lled the gre8test of 8ll time, ron8ldo in his prime w8s not c8lled the gre8test of 8ll time despite their world cups. But see messi so m8ny people h8ve suggested him 8s the best ever, he is consistently mentioned in the s8me sentence 8s pele 8nd m8r8don8. So I 8sk 8g8in, wh8t would he now be c8lled when he wins the world cup?

You don't have to agree with me that's why it is a forum!!
Who told you Ronaldo De Lima was not called the greatest of all time in his prime?? Please we are talking about O Fenomeno here not Cristiano
Go and tell the average Argentine that Messi is as good as Maradona and he would ask you what he has done outside Barca??
The greatest player of all time goes to the World's biggest tournament and doesn't score a single goal!! Are you for real??
Copa America hosted in his country with the Mighty Messi in his prime and not a single goal!
Stop it homie! Without a major international title Messi would go down as the Greatest Barca player ever but there's no way in hell he is going down as the GOAT

El Pistoleroo scores again! Haha Azonto Fiesta

chamotex: 90 points and counting...I can't shout

Lol you could use a break

Johnpaul88: You guys are talking as though you are so concerned for Messi to win the world cup. You are only looking for a reason to mock him.
But never mind; Messi has a way of shutting down his detractors up. He 'll win the world cup.
But with or without it, he is already football god.

Don't get it twisted! I think Messi is better than Ronaldo by miles at the moment but to be the greatest he has to win the World Cup! Simples! Only Barca fans would argue in the opposite
100 WPOTY would not make him the GOAT without a World Cup! Its like Michael Jordan winning 10 MVP's and not winning the Championship yeah Messi would be remembered as a great! No different from Cruyff,Van Basten and even those ones came closer to winning International titles

azpeculiar: Piennar sef na doubt. Suarez must score hattrick!

El Pistoleroo doing the business! A goal and assist already