Correct score 6-2

popizaino:
Trent is not a good defender in the dustbin.



https://twitter.com/CakeyPiesDad/status/1574707080497594369?t=Ap2WHEF0r7oWLCgmv91iqQ&s=19

Lol, that guy is a very bad defender, that puts in zero efforts in defending

YeyeGbami:


Some VPN companies have strict no log policies

Lol, what? You do know they keep logs of where you connected your device to their VPN from abi?

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airmark:

That Barca team with Xavi and Iniesta in the middle only needed a good short passes giver like Busquets and Jorginho with minimum defensive duties to face as opponents were mostly subdued, defending in their halves. The moment Xavi and Iniesta left, Busquets was getting exposed getting his defence battered in Ucl, while his fans were giving flimsy age excuse. Those that Barca brought couldn't do those collect and pass thing like Busquets that's why they couldn't dislodge him. There's a reason Fraudiola was also interested in Jorginho as he knows how to do those short passes for the rest of the team to destroy the opposition.

Prime Busquets in Chelsea team won't survive 1 season as he will be targeted weekly and like Jorginho he will quake.

Valdes was hyped and we were telling people that it was the Barca team shielding him as he was facing limited attacks from oppositions. When he arrogantly and mistakenly came to Man UTD, the rest is history.

Same way Rodri is being targeted at Man City? Mind you, this guys have the same profile

Jorginho has never been a player comfortable under pressure. So it’s very easy for teams to exploit him. Eddie Howe was the first manager to see this. Put Bournemouth players on Jorginho, and he collapsed like a pack of cards cause he had no clue what to do when players pressed him. This was killed Sarri cause he was too stubborn to play out without Jorginho.

Busquet on the other hand even without Xavi and Iniesta, is still a key player benching Rodri at Spain. Besides targeting Busquet in his prime was useless cause he will always beat that press.

Busquet without Xavi and Iniesta reached Euro semi final last year and won 2015 champions league with Rakitic benching Xavi and an already declining Iniesta. He has excelled in that DM and have redefined the role in such a way that in the modern game, managers now also look for players that have that technical ability, not just physicality.

airmark:


Towards the end of the video, Makelele said a DM position also demands physicality among other things. If you are just intelligent and can't defend you will only be suitable as a DM for a team that consistently attack opponents to submission.

Jorginho probably would have fared better like Busquets, in a Barca team of MSN in attack with Iniesta and Xavi denying opponents the breathing space in the middle. Opponents would rarely torment a DM in such team and he will shine with his 'pass and rest' football, with people hardly noticing his defensive frailties.

Jorginho fared better than Busquet? Man, you disrespect Busquet a lot and that’s not even funny anymore.

How many DMs have come through the ranks of Barca and Spain over the years that have taken that role from Busquet. The likes of Carrick and Busquet have proven you don’t need physicality to comfortably play that role. What they lack in physicality is highly compensated with their intelligence on and off the ball. This is what is heavily lacking in Jorginho’s game.

Jorginho cannot play that lone DM alone. Kovacic, Veratti and Kante must be there. He’s easily dispossessed and bullied off the ball under high press. Busquet literally made his name in the game with his ability to beat a press.

Over 10 yrs, Busquet is still an integral part of Barca and Spain. If that’s not greatness, I don’t know what it is

NinjaXmetahuman:
Tlona1

There is nothing like football philosophy again in the last decade or so.

Success is the new philosophy for all big clubs now thanks to the big money football. All clubs now want success not some nonsense philosophy. That's why managers get sacked all the time immidately they start failing.


Back in the days,
La masia and few established players were barca's philosophy, today, they are big money spenders.

Galaticos was Madrid philosophy, but now, Madrid has one of the lowest netspend in Europe.

Buying cheap players and achieving success with them was arsenal thing but now arsenal has one of the biggest NetSpend in Europe.

Not firing managers is man UTD thing but how managers since Ferguson left? They fought to keep the philosophy going by keeping failures like ole for 3 seasons. 3 fhucking seasons.

I can go on and on but you get the idea.

Infact Chelsea is the only club with philosophy that all other big clubs are copying now if you look at it closely.

If you’re backing a manager with over 250m, practically buying the players he wanted, you’re surely buying into his philosophy. He’s only had one training session with Auba and probably none with Zakaria. Just 2 games after the closing of the transfer market. 3 wins off the bounce like Manchester United, this team will be right back. Makes no sense sacking him

popizaino:




Was he sacked when he won the league ? How was that football we played in 2010/2011 called beautiful kwanu ? The same season we signed Ramirez ? you are joker. Don't distort history some of us have firm memory of what happened pls?



He won the league in his first season and lost to inter milan in the round of 16 in the UCL and the following season we were someone abysmal in the league,if my memory serves me right we even lost to Arsenal for the first time at the Emirates in the league,he still lost UCL quarter finals to a bitter rival Man united but some way, some how,he would have won the UCL for us because he went on to win the UCL with real Madrid 4years later. If you are emotional about sacking Tuchel then it is your problem but don't start distorting history.

Man, it’s been just 2 games post transfer window. Yes, the footballing hasn’t been great but it’s not like the man has lost every single game he has played this season. Leicester are bottom of the league with no wins and are yet to sack Rodgers. Madrid lost their first champions league game last season and still won the competition.

Teams, players and managers go out of form all the time. The season barely started. It’s not like it’s the most crucial stage of the season. Back your managers ffs

Culer:
@ emboldened, you lost me here, didn't even bother to read the rest part of your write up

If verratti was tasked with winning balls what role was paredes and gueye tasked with? Controlling the midfield? Lmao

Go and sit down abeg.

What’s Veratti’s job in Italy? To spread 50 yard passes abi?

airmark:


Don't mind them.

Makele joined Chelsea at 30 and spent good 5yrs with us, during which he clinched Chelsea's player of the year and made Fifa best 11. Their best DM ever has become old since 7yrs with barrage of excuses to defend him.

So making fifa11 is now a criteria? This whole obsession with individual trophies is what I don’t understand from so called football fans

Culer:
Omo I'm done here.
you don't even know how a controller functions, it's why you've been arguing nonsense pointlessly.
How can you say Bernardo is a controller?
Yes all controllers can be creative but not all creative midfielders can be controllers.

Bernardo, Ozil, de bruyne, Eriksen, Bruno, are creative midfielders, but they are not controllers, Bernardo is even a psuedo midfielder.

Controllers are the Xavis, iniestas, pirlos, modrics, Kroos, pogbas, thiagos, verrattis, FDJs etc.

Pogba and Veratti are hardly controllers. They don’t dictate the tempo of games they play. Pogba feeds into that space where players like Kante, Pirlo, Marchisio do majority of the work for him and he has free license to do whatever he wants and Veratti on the other hand is like Gavi. Mainly tasked with ball winning in the team.

Bernardo on the other hand is a game controller. As someone already said, Bernardo is too versatile, so he hardly plays that position where he controls the game. But whenever he plays that CM/CAM role, he helps to dictate things. That’s why I personally wanted him

Some clowns wanted us not to spend because ‘you’re going to go burst in the next 2 years’ and become the next United

Neymar1095:

Your president idea of cutting down wage bill is buying more players and adding to it.

How so? Shipping players like Lenglet, Coutinho and probably Braithwaite and replacing them with Kounde, Kessie and Lewandosky all on reduced salaries makes a lot of sense business and sporting wise.

Jodera:
For every top club's CEO, president and top level member to be saying such a thing about Barca, isn't it a cause of concern? I mean, don't you see it as one?

It's more than one or two top club member that have said such and to me that's ringing something in my head Tbh. If to say na nairaland analyst, papers or pundits talking all these things, I would have dismissed it without second thoughts but once people who also run top clubs are saying something like this repeatedly, then it means it's something new and strange and obviously cause for concern.
I don't feel they'll be trolling or insulting Barca at this point, they're too professional to do that — at least, my years of following football and its news tells me so— so it's very very concerning

Anyways, make I dey watch.

We’ll be fine. The whole buzz about Barca is issue of wage bill which is the major headache not the transfer fees or the debt itself. Some of the debts have been repaid already and others have been structured to be paid in medium to long term.

Major headache is the wage bill. Bart gave out 300m+ in contract extensions to 4 players 1 week before resigning just to save 30m due to Covid. That’s where this whole problem is. We need to cut down that wage bill drastically.

Laporta planned to activate 4 levers but after activating the 2nd lever which is the sale of the Barca studios felt there was no further need to sell more assets. All was needed was to ship the dead woods to cut down the wages.

Problem is that a player like Umtiti can’t be moved due to his knee issues as he failed his medicals to move to Lens if I’m correct. Braithwaite is refusing to leave despite receiving 3x his current offer and wants to leave if the club buys out the rest of contract. Frenkie is also refusing to leave or accept a pay cut.

Also La Liga is not allowing registrations so Barca have to go ahead to activate the full levers as planned before.

All this will end at the end of the transfer window. We have a very good squad right now that’ll compete. If we win La Liga this season, it will make things much easier in other to ship out guys like Braithwaite and Umtiti and probably De Jong. I think we’ll be very fine

I love Frenkie but the club will always come first.

Not reducing his salary or leaving will only make things go down hill from here. He won’t get any minute here and the club will probably send him to Barca B.

The fans will turn against him as it’s already happening. If theres any case in the whole illegality issue about his contract, he’ll probably be embroiled into an unnecessary legal war with the club. This will make clubs stay away from him and that will be the end of his career as we know it.

If you love the club as you claim, just cut down your wages to help the club help you. The club can’t pay your current wages if it doesn’t generate revenue and that can’t happen without players who will win trophies getting registered because of your wages.

If not, just leave and save everybody the stress and embarrassment. Win win situation for everybody

The true winners of this saga will be Sevilla.

KIDfurniture:
No Dey brag here . We know you can’t afford it (lowkey) hope nobody sees this comment sha.

I can’t afford it? Lmao, just cause you are broke doesn’t mean others are

I use iPhone 13 and I love my shorts, so bro…

peacettw:


People are indeed wired differently. If he had presented that to me, I will never contact him
again.

A professional will never go with those colors. And that is why i have a lot of respect for front end developers who understand the golden rule that simplicity goes a long way.

@op Dont let the critiquing deter you. We are all learning and must start from somewhere. I trust implicitly that you will improve with time.

Well done

Apt. He’s trying to fit in a lot into one space which makes the whole thing too noisy. Everything he did is good except that part which to me once he gets it right, he’s good to go

There are lots of noise. Try to tone it down

Acidosis:


Okay. Average white collar man?? So how's your opinion different from mine, exactly?


By the way, I'm surprised you had to bring tribe into this. Yul is not Kunle, Tunde, or Abiodun so there hasn't been any reason so far to lash out at any tribe. We all know what people like you would say if Yul was a Yoruba man.

So please zip it in too. I am not blaming Yul or any other Anambra man over what they choose to do with their gbola. He won't be the first and the last Igbo or Anambra man to cheat or get a second wife.

Being Catholic is also mostly by mouth. These day, people only bear Christian names and do whatever they want. When last did he attend a church service? Pesin wey no dey go church would probably not need his church for anything.

Bro, i tire. A civil servant in the 80’s poor?? The money in Nollywood then was understandably small as it was an emerging industry and Pete is one of the reasons the industry is where it is today but people forget that civil servants were middle class then.

Like how’d you forget that this were folks driving Peugeot, getting lands for free in choice areas as per govt allocations etc. The area Pete and his family lived in the 80’s someone already described here is still a high choice area in Enugu today. Smh

Great victory but every time we trash Madrid like this, I’m happy not all that happy. Apart from that 5-0 score line, other big victories, we keep on missing big chances that really flatters Madrid and tonight’s game was the worse

advanceDNA:


He can’t be that stupid

With the 20,000 capacity of O2 arena, Davido made around 1.5M£....he will pay tax ooo

why will he want to throw away over 20% of his earnings

Is that not witch craft..

Artists do it all the time, nothing new. Besides, typically the money is nothing to them

sirDUKE:


This the West game plan to get Putin our of the picture, they believe he is become too powerful and no one man should have such power, and also they feel threatened by him.it just a pity that American and the entire West could sacrifice the life of Ukrainians and inflict so much hardship on Russia citizen in other to arrive at their goals. Shame

Someone in his position should know better and should not be making such rookie mistakes. This is what happens when you are surrounded by yes men who agree with everything you say out of fear.

Every indicator points towards the invasion being a total disaster from the go and just playing right into the hands of the west. If people were talking to him at Kremlin, this would not have happened. Unfortunately, America has been playing this game long and well enough

tonididdy:

Ukraine borders about 5 EU/NATO countries. A missile fired from outside Ukraine towards Moscow will be far less effective or likely fail because Ukraine is huge on land mass.
If you have any military experience even from reading books, you would know this is an advantage for any nation.
If Ukraine joins nato it is a direct treat on Russia soil. You think Putin just woke up and decided to invade Ukraine.
Even the Bible says, if the hand is corrupt and will lead you to sin, CUT IT OFF!

Except that NATO was never going to admit Ukraine. NATO knows that any admittance would lead to nuclear warfare which frankly neither Putin or NATO wants.

Then Putin went and now played his whole hand. Dude was clearly holding all the cards regardless. Pulling back his troops after the threats last week was just enough to strengthen his position of power.

Ukraine was a bait which he whole heartedly took. The whole thing looks so Ill prepared. He neither has his people’s support or any support from the outside. It doesn’t even look his soldiers are fully motivated for the fight. The China he may have been banking on have been unusually quiet.

He’s now talking about getting the nuclear units ready. Ready for what? Nobody is ready to drop any bomb in Russia, so why is he now talking about Nuclear. Your country’s life support is clearly been targeted. Economic sanctions are flying in from left right centers, It’s open season for hackers to target your your financial institutions. Everything leads right to internal implosion. Your people will revolt and kick you out. Dude fuccked up big time and he will pay for it

Jackanda1:
America played Putin like a puppet, isolate and turn Europe against him without risking the lives of their troops.

America was never going to admit Ukraine into NATO, it was a ploy to get putin emotional, so sanctions can be issued and economy crumbled. Putin let his ego get the better of him

Aptly put. Thank God someone shares the same sentiment with me.

Dude miscalculated big big time and fell right into the hands of the west without the west firing a single shot. The invasion was not necessary at all and was totally needless. Pulling back his troops from the border was enough to send the right message.

Now with the evasion, I don’t think anybody expected the type of resistance Ukraine has put up so far. Plus it now means playing into the hands of those who’ll now see all reason to cripple the Russian Economy with FULL support of the whole world

Dude is not smart at all

AnfieldFan:


Now get this, as I've said, if Abramovich is complicit, sanction him...
Threats of sanctions on Abramovich have been floated ever since Russia f*cked Georgia but alas, nothing seems to be done...
2014 comes to mind....
Several issues involving Russia has happened over the years since Abramovich bought Chelsea...
Now, Russian Oligarchs as well as the most corrupt individuals and corporations have always effectively used British banks as stash houses, the British government has proved time and again to pay no mind or pretend these things do not happen except the odd prosecution here and there...

At least the Swiss are open about their greed, Britain on the other hand just thinks the rest of the World are fools...

If you can't spot the pattern, then it means you don't even know what you're on about...

They didn’t know he was complicit when he was pumping in money into their economy investing money into Chelsea and the local communities around the club and buying up hundreds of millions pounds yachts and condos. Last year during the height of the pandemic, he gave out the club and his hotels to help the govt curtail the spread of the virus, Boris and co didn’t know he was using “Putin’s Money’ to do all that.

I’m all for sanctions but using excuses of having ties with Putin is such a laughable argument. He’s one of the world’s richest men so of course, one way or the other he will always have ties with Putin. It is what it is.

By the way, the same UK that’s huffing about seizing his assets whole heartedly accepted the Saudi govt’s money for NewCastle despite a track record of killings and human rights abuse. Guess who buys most arms from UK? Well, you already know the answer. Tomorrow if they fall out of line, the UK will come back with the argument that they will seize NewCastle cos they just found out Saudi govt kill oppositions.

By the way, dude is an Israeli citizen and Chelsea is indirectly indebted to him to the tune of $2bn. All this stuff na noise. Nobody is touching him

BlueMann:
Who's watching AFCON? See officiating drama late in the game between Tunisia and Mali.

First, a penalty was awarded to Tunisia which caused controversy. Then a Malian player was shown a straight red; debatedly harsh. Finally, it seems the ref blew the final whistle even while there was still little time left.

I wasn't even watching closely so I can't say anything for sure.

The penalty was rightly given. Djenpo stretched out his hands instead of tucking it in his body, so not much complaints about that. Then he blew full time whistle at 85 mins, gave a straight red afterwards for a foul of yellow then blew full time at 89 mins.

I’ve never seen this kind of thing in my entire life of watching football

Anybody watching this Tunisia Mali game?? Possibly the worst refereeing in football history

We’ll be back

Let me drop this here