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airmark:
You are ridiculous, Barca have so much quality in attack to kill all the eibars in laliga. How many times did Barca win ucl without Messi playing from the knockout stages? How many classicos did you guys win without Messi?

I wasn't talking about Busquets in laliga or barca, i'm talking about in epl, where Busquets would be chased up and down and where he also needs to do some chasing. Why do you think people are praising Fernandinho in Fraudiola's team?

Oga,I no understand your argument.How many matches has Barca played in the champions league with Messi injured.Barca were winning RM 3-0 at Santiago without Messi until he was brought in.Demolished them this season without him

First using Busquet argument to try to substantiate the very fact that Jorginho has been poor is what I can't fathom. Jorginho is not even a good player and I have said it before.Coupled with the fact that he has a coach that has refused allow Kante cover his deficiencies And to make things worse off,the whole team is built around him.And I have already mentioned time and time again,unlike Jorginho,Busquet is not the type of player you build your team around so you can't just mark him out.No good epl coach will build his team around him simply because he doesn't have that ability.You don't build your team round a DM.I have not seen where a DM is being marked out by the opposition.Physicality is not his strong suite and that is where an energetic Box to box midfielder comes in to provide that extra shield

airmark:
So you've agreed that teams haven't paid him attention, right? Why were you now arguing blindly? That's the reason why he should come to where they would pay him attention every week.

When we started this season, teams didn't pay Jorginho attention, now all guns are pointed to his head by opponents.

As I have already said,teams play can exist with or without Busquet.If the guy is in Chelsea with a good coach that will utilise him well,marking him means play will go through Kovacic and Kante.All he needs to do is play one or two passes or no passes at all.He can easily just shield the defense by just dropping deep and being an extra man thereby allowing Alonso more freedom to push up or drop in as an extra midfileder.This means is either the strikers mark him or an extra man from midfield will just like Ramsey did yesterday thereby leaving extra space in the midfield for players like Kovacic to expolit.The team will easily channel the ball from the defense through Kante who is more energetic.Imagine what will happen if Pep gets him.Man city struggle without Fernadinho who is not even technically gifted and is less football intelligent than busquet.What then will happen if he plays under Pep??

airmark:
Who will you easily replace Messi with? Keep deceiving yourself, if you think teams are afraid to go all out against Barca, because of one Busquets?

Replacing Busquets with CM, is to show you how poor defensively Busquets is, such that a CM could do what he does and better.

Busquets would be exposed when he has to fight more for the ball, rather than relax and do his 'receive and pass' thingy. Much of his energy (ofcourse low), will be burnt running, marking and battling for possession. He is buscuit for a reason.

Barca win more of their games when Messi is injured than when hes around.The argument could be null though given the ratio of matches played with and without him but you can't overlook it.They've shown they can cope fine without him and this are facts.But Busquet??Barca can't play without Busquet.They struggle heavily without him and that is the more reason why the club has slowly integrated him from DM to CM over the years.Because the more he plays as anchor,the harder it is to find a replacement.So the only option is to play him as more of holding CM.But still at that you won't ever see Barca drop him or give him rest.Be it cup or league games.


The False 9,Anchor role are if not the most difficult roles to play in football and that is why players that are good at this positions are once in a life time kind of players.Players like Messi,Makelele and Busquets are priceless to their clubs.Ask RM what happened when they sold Makelele.Any player with flare and vision can play as a Regista,playmaker,striker etc but it takes a special kind of player to play the above mentioned rolea

eph12:
How would you know if he can't be marked out when opponents have their hands full with Messi and other attackers?

Because he has done it in Spain where there's no Messi and where there's no particular player to be stopped.Trying to mark him out in a game is utterly useless because he's not a player to build your team around.The teams rhythm and style of play will exist whether he's marked or not as he's not a priority player neither is he a player that scores goals or makes defence splitting passes.So coaches have no other option than to pay him no attention which then allows the team to channel their build up play through him.Thats why he was and still the heartbeat of both Barca and the Spanish team

airmark:


This one na jjc.

Let's assume i didn't watch Busquets that much. Read the opinions of Barca fans, who watched him more than i do and let me know if you have collected the amala stirrer from our own Dayo.

One persons opinion is now that of the whole fans?Have you ever watched Barca without Busquets??Barca can easily replace Messi than Busquets even though his more of a CM this days than a DM.And the guy was suggesting Vidal and Pogba to replace him.This goes to show you his ability to analyse football.How do you replace a DM with Box to Box midfielders?Simply laughable

Don't know how to quote Posts on other threads but this what I once said

Sarri is a very predictable coach that the word Rotation is an alien language to him.Hes going to use the same starting line up and formation in his next match

airmark:
He is softer than Jorginho by far. He's lucky to be in a team like Barca and Spain, where his mates quickly give him options each time he receives passes.

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Oga,no dey try sound smart with all this gifs and actually watch some football match.Its just like showing gifs or videos of where Messi or Ronaldo missed seaters and say because they did on some occasions they are poor finishers.Absolutely ridiculous.


No other CDM is good under pressure than Busquet.He hardly loses possession or composure even under intense pressing from opponents and that is his greatest strength as a player..Hes very good at intercepting and has vision unlike what is obtainable in Jorginho and You cant simply mark him out in games just as you can mark out Jorginho due to teams heavily rely on his transtional play rather than his ability to play some key passes which Jorginho cannot do.Note the difference.

House,please I have a question.

I have a treasury bill of due date 15th of next month.I
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Hello house,What do you think the projected interest rate of TB will be next month especially it being the month of election l??

nohitch:
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Zedoo:
Sell whackitic

Are you OK at all??Sell Rakitic?? lmao.Wetin person no go read this days.I see some people complaining about Rakitic and I just laugh.Just like Busquets,many dont know the importance of the role Rakitic plays in this team.Just because you don't see him popping out with goals or going forward or doing some defense splitting passes doesn't mean he's dispensable.Rakitic gives room for a box to box midfielder like Vidal to operate.Without a CM like him who just patrols the midfield area,Vidal's function will be highly limited and this will mean lesser attacking threat and just trying to dominate the midfield which we are no more playing this days


This days we play a flat 4-4-3 system in which Busquets now is no more fulfilling that DM responsibilities he's known for.Hes no more "Shielding" the defence or being that anchor that translates play from the back to attack.Playing him in an advanced position as a CM,means a natural CM like Rakitic must come in,in order for for them to form a double Pivot and not to only protect the defence but to give us that compatibility in the midfield we have been lacking for years.Infact Rakitic is now used more as a DM than Busquet.Thats why Busquet at times is substituted and Rakitic slots into that role.Hes highly underrated but there's a reason why he arguably played more minutes than any other player last year.You all should actually watch football and not some livescores

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goldfish80:
First of all, Ekong was not Nigeria's best defender in Russia. You can't tell me he was excellent in any of our group matches in Russia.
Recall his childish grappling of Manzukich against Croatia cost us a penalty in that game. In subsequent games, he was nothing special. So please put world cup performance aside.
The Egyptian centre back, Hegazi should feel aggrieved before Ekong as he was solid for Westbrom last season and was very good for Egypt in the AFCON and world cup qualifiers and even the world cup.

Coming to Ndidi, I don't believe he had a better season than Keita. Note that Keita played up to the Europa cup semi finals for Leipzig and he made the Europa team of the season and Bundesliga team of the season.
You can't say by merit, he doesn't deserve the recognition by Caf.

Truth is that there is a dearth in world class talent from Nigeria,unlike how it used to be in the past. There was a year 6 Nigerians dominated this Caf awards.
Instead of always crying foul, we must dig deep and ask ourselves how we can get back to being the best In Africa.

Hegazi was good in the world cup??Dude,it's like you didn't watch Egypt at the WC??They were utter shiit from Keeper to Striker.Got beaten in all their games,conceded tons of goals and played poorly.Remind me of how he was good again

As for Ndidi,dude was solid for us throughout and had a pretty decent season and maintained consistency all Year round to make this team.Maybe Keita should be there,But no way should Mahrez make that team.Should be a back 3,Partey and Ndidi at the midfield to make it pivotal players then the front 3


Africa should really step up because apart from Koulibaly who's arguably the 2nd best defender behind VVD,Salah and Aubemayang, others are not world class players

MrTobi94:
..well, Ndidi was not part of the team that won the epl...Ndidi plays regular football at leicester so does partey...Althetico is a much better club than leicester.

Performance wise,both have been good.This not because of who plays for a bigger club.Partey won Europa league and super cup while Ndidi has been instrumental for Leicester and played very well at the world cup.Question is what is Mahrez doing there??No trophy,No WC apperance and was average.Keita had a good first half of the year but has been unfit and hasn't had a good 2nd half performance of the year

Bailey,Aureri,MahrezNo Ndidi??lol. This guys are jokers.People wey no go WC wey dey play averagely for club side.Bunch of European ass lickers

Its called Personal opinion and mind you that music is subjective.I can say Hiphop is the best because it's the genre I really like and feel more inclined to.Everybody has their own perspective,taste etc

IKON360:
oya Lenglet is useless, who should we replace him with? Lenglet is still good and he will improve. The defender with the most yellow cards and the most red cards in La Liga is Ramos, yet he makes some mistakes but the whole world excluding feel that Ramos is easily the best defender in the world... Leave Lenglet he will get better. Besides he was signed as back up, however Umtiti has been injured so he's development has been hastened. By this time next season he might have improved so much you will forget all these complaints.

That guy has not improved 1 single bit.If he has improved,I will be happy that someone will be giving competition to either Pique or Umtiti.He still struggles with aerial balls and almost cost us a goal which was cancelled.He was beaten aerially again for Getafe's goal as Getafe kept on sending crosses to his position.Its
no fluke that any game Pique doesn't play well,we struggle at the back and concede.Hes not physical and lack technicalities.He looks world class because he plays around world class players.This guy can't get into France national team..

On him being a back up,Its no excuse for his deficiencies.He should really step up or be replaced by this new guy we bought.If we meet a pacy attacking side that also crosses like Juve,they are going to kill us especially if Pique decides to be inconsistent cause this guy cannot do anything

For those that said Lenglet is not a shity defender,una see say Getafe's poor finishing was the reason they didn't come out with at least a draw in this game?? Pique didnt play well in the game and we were utterly exposed.I have said before.If not that Piques form had improved massively from the form he had earlier in the season,we wouldve been eating goals as that Lenglet is useless.Cant win aerial balls and is easily bullied off the ball..Its just like pairing Van Virgil or Koulibaly with Smalling.They will make him look so world class.Let them have a bad game or get injured,then you will see Smalling for who he really is.smh

A close.Minister says that the president DOES NOT CARE.So what else.do y'all need??

philfearon:
You guys have still not come to terms with the fact that La Liga has improved, hence why the big teams are finding it hard to win as usual!!!

There's certainly improvement in the league but that is not really down to Madrid as they are just having a terrible season and finding those post Ronaldo effect not funny as they didn't prepare for him leaving.Thats why I have to give it up to Valverde for filling that Neymar role and making us not to miss him

Anyways for the season,teams like Alaves,Eibar and Levante has really improved.Especially for Alaves.They improved massively and now win their away games.They play beautiful and attacking footbal.If someone like Ronaldo had bought the club or any serious investor will buy that club,they will be competing in the champions league at least in the next five years.They have already won Barca at Camp Nou and competed against Barca in Copa Del Rey final.It seems they are moving in the right direction to be La Ligas Dortmund

Aint nothing to add here as many have really said it but in case you read this,look at this

1)You cannot point a particular flaw of hers that's preventing you from putting the ring on her finger

2)She's independent and makes her own money

3)Is reaching out to your family.Has already gotten your moms approval which is the most difficult part

4)From your own words,will make a good wife irrespective of the amount she makes

5)Is not a leech that depends on you

WTF are you still waiting for??You have your own money,she has her own and you want to own to whole world before you make her your wife??You think there aren't richer and more successful folks than you that are hitting on her??Her working at Oando means she's meeting a very good caliber of men that are willing to love and cherish her and she still with your ass??Bro,once another man starts showing her the attention you are currently denying her,you will lose her for good and trust me you will never meet anyone like her.You will regret for the rest of your life.Act fast and wife her up you ungrateful nitwit or drop her info here
A lot here are looking for this rare gem and trust me she will get married before June.Act wisely

Passionate888:
Where was Sarri's 'RIGID' philosophy when Chelsea defeated Arsenal?

Arsenal outplayed Chelsea in that game and if not for their lack ruthlessness and shambolic defending,they should've bagged the 3 points.Truth is,it just takes one game to expose a teams flaws and teams will start taking advantage of that loophole in the system. That's why good managers continue to explore that weakness and continue to spend huge amounts of money to buy better players that they feel will tie up a particular lose end.

Any manager that faces Chelsea already knows the attacking formation and players he will face and he knows he just has to take out Jorginho and whole supply line dies because Kante will be busy trying to score goals instead of doing his job which is tackling and stopping the opponent from moving the ball in the midfield area,Hazard and the front 3 will be useless because the transition line between Defence and attack will be dead.And Sari will not make changes to that effect.smh

I swear to God,Buhari is a criminal just like all the politicans in this country. 700 Million just for refurbishment??What happens to selling it off??He's just a 2 bloody faced hypocrite

Greenvaiper:
@Memphitz537

Pls i am not responsible for any more trolling concerning you or your family in the sexuality thread.
Pls i beg you, dont involve me or mention me in the matter again. I am not involved. I believe you know who this is.

Oga una no dey tire

hyfr:
you discuss football like a kid no offense, asides the fact we have series of injured players, Sarri is trying to turn the team to adapt to playing good football, if used to watch chelsea game 3 seasons ago, you can tell there is a great step n their games, no more backing the bus waiting for hazard and willain to do some crazy counter attacks, they just start from their sides and build up a goal thats what sarri wants them to adapt to, thats more reason he's hunting for attacker's to pair with the squad, we are playing hazard as a false 9 thats the worst thing ever to ever do, why because morata has failed to live up expectations, hazard is match winner not really a goal scorer. Did u know, liverpool were struggling to get Jorginho's signature. The guy is so good, it seems you watch football with sentiments. The only problem we have now is our attackers, more reason we've been fighting to get higuain to sign for us, i believe in Hudson-Odoi but the coach doesnt want to test run him in these crucial times, bayern and Barcelona are scampering for him too. Chelsea is on a path barcelona was some 4 seasons ago, and thats the build up. The Epl is not our focus for now, we just the UCI qualification them watch out for us next season

Lmao.All this are excuses.Its no magic that the team didn't score yesterday and its not because of any injuries but because the team has been playing poorly due to rigid and static management from Sarri.Yesterdays team were decent enough to get maximum points and score at least 2 goals.I can go on and mention games where Chelsea had a very good squad and still fumbled like the game against West Ham earlier in the season.

As I said any manager with a decent team will win this Chelsea because Sarri has no clue what he's doing.He plays a flat 4-4-3 formation with Kante as a Box to Box midfielder. Who does that??Kante is not a technically gifted player that will get you goals still he plays Kante up field and still expect him to cover Jorginho.And for Jorginho,he's just a regista that contributes nothing else in his game play.That Liverpool wanted him has no meaning.Hes very poor in defending,Lacks pace,easily loses duels and is very easily bullied off the ball.

With the way Chelsea have been playing,if Arsenal and Manchester United can add a couple of additions in terms of defence and midfielders,Chelsea will not any top 4 irrespective of who they think they will buy

Ekaka1:
I have a funny feeling that it's no longer the depth of the squad or the teams' scoring prowess that plagues us this season but now more of Sarri' s RIGID philosophy and lack of tactics including bench management....I'm very afraid for us

It was never the depth of the squad.The bench are pretty decent and with proper rotation,they have young and experienced players that can guarantee a top 4 finish.The problem is that goofy Sarriball that has maintained same formation/players and has refused to play Kante in his natural position rather insisted in playing him in an advanced position.Whats Kante business with scoring goals??Why is the mumu not giving other players in the squad chances.Hes not flexible and relies on Hazard to always save him.No formation change,no adaptation to opponets tactics.Take out Jorginho and he does not know what next to do.No plan B,nothing.Sack that mofo

hyfr:
i'll take you seriously when u understand football is played 22 men with 11 on both sides, more so when u talk about Epl when a team at last 3 will beat a team in top 3 black and blue

Against Southampton??Why then do top teams buy top players if not to get leverage at home against smaller teams.


This Sarri ball abi na wetin uses the same set of players and formation for his matches and a very good coach with a decent team will win him at home.The only players he rotates is Kovacic/Barkely.Take out Jorginho whose only talent is passing and not playing key passes and the whole team goes clueless on what to do.The transition play between defence and offence is totally lost.The front 3 relie on the midfield with no creative or attacking midfielders there.Kante is played high up the pitch while he's job is to cover Jorginho.Not to even talk about strikers that are as useless as water poured on a stone. Smfh

This Sarri na confirm idiot that is average at best.Dude plays the same formation,same set of players,plays Kante out of position and has no plan B entering into any game.What he sees in Jorginho I don't know and he doesn't make changes relating to any game.He doesn't adapt at all to his opponets and he depends on players to pop out and do magic.Thats why this team has been struggling in terms of goals.Watched him against Fulham at home and I knew he won't last past next season

Seahawk:
So many dumb comments

Why don't you offer your best advise that is not dumb and hop off my nuts you fucking retard.

What's with the validation?Won't you live if you don't get validation??The obsession for attention and validation is really over bearing