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patrickmuf:
. It's just his age that is the problem, but then, he is a good striker, I particularly love his runs through the channels...

He has decent movement and finishing. Decent pace, decent holdup play.

He is a decent striker and goal scorer.

BARAJ92:
Without a solid CDM or Cm and goal keeper

I never said that. I mean the attack would be a Top 4-6 attack.

The other parts of the team can be discussed on their own merit and improved upon, but if we add Watkins, Mbeumo, Cunha to Amad, Zirkzee, Obi, Mount that attack compared to other attacks is Top 4-Top 6.

Ellexy:
There seems to be a dearth of top strikers in football now but Watkins will be at best a stop gap. He's not a world class striker.

Yeah I agree on all 3 points.

There are very few top strikers available and Watkins is not world class.

He is however EPL proven and has some good attributes. If he is not signed to ridiculous money and wages he can be a stop gap until we are able to get a top level striker down the line OR someone like Obi matures.

The major issue with him is his age. Only Newcastle and Man City in the top 6 from last season had better strikers than him.

Watkins, Cunha, Mbeumo, Zirkzee, Obi, Mount, Amad should be good enough to compete for top 4-6 this season.

The extra improvement needs to come from the coaching staff and building team chemistry on and off the pitch.

patrickmuf:
There are reports that we will move for a striker next...I'd be interested to see which striker we go after. I don't want Jackson anywhere around Manchester...

Seems Watkins is the most likely at this point. It depends on Villa’s evaluation.
He might be the cheapest available

TheLequte:
Due to his physicality, Leon looks more ready for PL football. Amass is likely more technical - I haven’t really seen Leon play, but based on training videos, he looks stronger than Amass.

A loan away from the club would do Amass a lot of good. They’ve found one for Dan Gore already at Rotherham. Rooting for him.

I have watched 2 games of Leon at the South American CUnder-21 Championships. He very strong and might be one of the strongest guys in our team right now. He is definitely stronger than Amass. Amass is better technically but that WB role needs athleticism.

Leon might even be competing with Dorgu before long cos he might have better technique than Dorgu.

Another dark horse is Mantato but I am not sure where they intend to use him. He can play 3 positions in this system.

Segelanky:
No be only sugar baba

Anxiety even worse


The technique is to try and distract ur mind with other things

You and him are saying different things.

You say you reach your own 1 hr by talking, chilling, relaxing, and deviating with more talks.
He says he reaches his own 1 hour by continuously firing with no break.

The difference is clear like 7-up. 😀

BlueRayDick:
So one round involves u taking multiple breaks that runs into minutes while knacking?

What then is the enjoyment/satisfaction in such type of coitus?

To claim 1 hr geng.

TemporaryHansel:
Men wey pack sugar full body many for here oh.

Na so

Oasis007:
Cunha has been handed the no.10 shirt, and it has been confirmed that Leon will wear no.30.

Several other members of the squad will also be sporting new numbers, including Diogo Dalot (2), Chido Obi (32) and Tyler Fredricson (33).

I think Diego Leon has beaten Amass in the preseason competition.

Amass played with the Under-21s yesterday so I suspect he will either stay with them or go on loan.

BlueRayDick:
Exactly! That's what they mean by going 1 hour on top woman.

Unfortunately, people like the deceased lecturer go think say they mean the 1 hour literally begin mix aphrodisiac and energic drinks together only kick bucket in the process

So na Sege and TemporaryHansel mislead the lecturer. 😀

Oasis007:
......surprisingly, no club seems ready to get our available players for sale. EtH doesn't want Antony at Leverkusen. Chelsea choose to pay fines than to buy Sancho. Villa shipped Rashford back to us. Malacia couldn't stay back in his home country. Garnacho.....?! Tough!

Garnacho will move and it will be pure profit for PSR purposes. That is the most important exit financially. The next is Rashford which will also be pure profit.

Sancho and Antony might be loan deals. Even if we sell them it would be a loss on our books and not helpful for PSR. The main benefits to them leaning are reducing team toxicity and offloading their salaries.

BlueRayDick:
Don't mind Sege.

He still wan dey renovate meaning of one round again.

We all know what one round of boxing is; dem go use blow collobi person head until the person either gets knocked out or finds means to counter before the round ends.

E reach to count wetin be round for knacking, we begin hear u go chill, relax and blow

I come dey hear deviate with other talks. 😀

So if Sege enter woman for 5 mins come out and deviate with other talks for 50 mins, to go complete another 5 mins, himself go dey claim 1 hour geng. 😀

Oasis007:


.......I won't be surprised if we close shop straight up.

We are buying 1 or 2 players. GK and CF most likely.

I think the Mbeumo negotiations were protracted not just to bring the fee down ( we failed in that) but to try to reduce the initial lump sum payment ;we succeeded in that).

I hear that we are paying less than 20m in this window for him. I think there is still room for 1 or 2 moves, especially if Garnacho and Rashford are sold.

Segedinho:
Yeah very well

Blow well,relax chill and talk start again…continue anywhere around the closet…..

Deviate by bringing in more talks

All in one round


U can last more than one hour bro


Trust me

LOL

Which one be relax, chill, talk, bring more talks?

If it is by that then people can last 1 year sef not just 1hr.

They are talking about 1 hr of continuous kpa kpa kpa kpa.

swiz123:
Makalele wasn’t tested during the high press era.

I will go for Busquet, Xavi and KDB.

The 3 you have chosen are good but Makelele would not have any problem with today’s pressing.

His touch was secure, he could collect the ball on the half turn, and he was very adept at shifting the ball and beating on rushing players when he needed to.

TemporaryHansel:

I'm not sure I'll be able to adapt. With the small change I make I here, I live like a king, and people accord me my maximum respect. I'm not sure I'd get that in Europe or USA. Some of us can't live a normal life anymore. I'm exploring some options sha.

It would also be more difficult to avoid paying taxes abroad.

Not impossible, just more difficult. So hope still dey be that.

diggz:
Yar’Adua spent just three years in office, and since his demise, we’ve had eight years of remote governance from Buhari and are now set for another eight under Tinubu. Instead of allocating funds to that empty clinic, wouldn’t it make more sense to spend the money on something else?

I am not tackling that point. I was just responding to your statement to let you know this issue is a recurring issue and that absentee presidency predates Buhari.

With regards the appropriation or misappropriation of funds, what do you expect?
That money does not have 2 heads that will prevent it from being stolen like all the other funds that have been misused.

Ibime:
This is actually cheap and tells me there is little to no primary healthcare provision there

None of these figures can install an MRI machine, common fixed X Ray and/or Ultrasound go gulp half the yearly budget. Electricity cost for a Magnetron can gulp 10% of the 2023 budget.

Na only plaster and needle dem get for Aso Rock jor. The last 44 bed, 4 theatre, 6 ICU hospital I was involved in cost £132m, £100m to build, £32m for equipment and furnishing. That's all CAPEX, no OPEX.

2015 - N3.9 bn
2016 - N3.87 bn
2017 - N3.2 bn
2018 - N1.08 bn
2019 - N850m
2021 - N1.3 bn New Wing
2021 - N693m
2022 - N708.75m
2023 - N455.2m
2024 - N1.33bn under BAT

You are using today’s exchange rate to judge.

That 3.9b in 2015 would have bought between 5 to 10 MRI machines back then.
Same for 2016 and 2017.

132m pounds was about 3.9b naira in 2015. So we should be asking if that money spent gave us the quality of hospital you were involved in that you mentioned.

Those 2015 to 2017 frauds would have been punished by clan extermination in Ancient China.

GloriousGbola:
you be pesin wey i suppsoe do deal with. aussie to naija plane ticket na die. you no go fit dey come down. na to dey send you doctored pishure of progress, then drop the natural disaster fabu at the right moment. bros na raijn ooo - rain wash all the crops away

act of God

The ticket no be the major problem. Na the time spent/lost and potential earnings lost be the koko.

raumdeuter:
Na like that you sef go dey follow Akala family fight on top land, After una deal with court and legal fight finish, you go begin deal with assassin and kidnap threat.
Investment wey you sidon there daily sef, dem dey swerve you, Not to talk of one you dey Aussie and just sending money. You go just dey Give Help without getting anything back

My guy don pour millions of Dollars into a project in Naija finally admitted that he isn't doing it for profit anymore but for legacy. The project when anytime he visits the site, he travels with 4 Mopol, They have actually warned him several times that people dey plan kidnap am if he comes there and his wife sef claimed she saw bad things for "dream" about him visiting the place.
I come ask am say how many of your abroad born kids will grow up and relocate to Naija to enjoy the legacy?

Na only Odogwus and Olowo ti n fowo sanus fit invest in Naija now.

It was your line of thought that held me back as well as thinking if things go pear shaped, who I fit challenge for Akala family. I just hold my peace.

raumdeuter:
What is the purpose of doing any project in Naija? It will be hard to fund your abroad lifestyle with proceeds from the Nigerian project. You will end up spending more money than you will recoup
Unless na govt contract wey you won't do anything and just collect money run

That is how someone invited me to come and invest in some farms belonging to Akala’s family.

The profit looked juicy in Naira until I started converting to dollars (and this was before Naira plummeted).

I am sure those farms are part of the property they are fighting over now.

chrisley024:
Axel Tuanzebe has sued his former club Manchester United in a clinical negligence lawsuit.
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13396493/tuanzebe
@doc, what's going on

He believes the club mismanaged his injuries and I would not be surprised if that is what happened.

Proving it to a tribunal though is another matter entirely.

patrickmuf:
True that...Sels is another keeper I like. I saw you mention Vitek or what is the name again, is he good enough to start for us right now?

Vitek did really well on loan. In the best of worlds Onana would be a competent GK and Vitek would be going on another loan in the Championship to develop him even further.

I am not sure he is ready to play for us but I guess the coaching staff will assess him during the preseason and decide on the next step to take.

If we were flush with cash, I would advise sending him on loan, selling Onana for peanuts and getting a top replacement. The problem is that we need those transfer funds in other positions cos we are as broke as they come.

akwesenana:
And he's old.

Not necessarily old for a GK but I think his level dropped a bit last year.

His aura, charisma and penalty stopping heroics might be skewing people’s perception about him.

Main thing is that we can’t afford to have both Onana and him combining to guzzle a salary of 300k or more every week.

patrickmuf:
I suspect the club will make a move for Martinez.

They should just be careful who they move for. Martinez IMO has started dipping in terms of performances. He has 4 years left on his contract and is already on 150k per week.

The fee won’t be cheap and the salary won’t be cheap either. It makes sense only if we are able to sell Onana.

Onana out with a hamstring injury for 2 months.

Vitek might have an opportunity here.

ChristineC:
I don't know who sanctioned the sale of this guy to begin with. It was obvious he had a pathway to top level football, even if they felt he lacked the pace.
the club need to do much better.

I do commend the recruitments channeled towards the youth though. it's the long game that will certainly reverse the ugly transfer trend since Woodward.

Murtough and ETH were in charge when the Alvaro Fernandez deal was agreed to in Jan 2024.

The academy recruitment has been the only positive in the past few years. The credit for that goes to Cox and possibly Murtough I believe.

This year if all the eligible players play Under-18 we will have another dominant side but I think players like Obi and Mantato will spend more time at more senior levels. The new scholars this year are very good as well so I expect another good season.

odizeey:
We can use this deal to collect one of their players sef

We almost never think creatively in these situations.

Leyqute:
Benfica and Madrid didn’t come to sell beans now. The kid is also beefing the club, so won’t want to allow us to make money from his sale.

The negotiation will be very difficult but we might be able to salvage something. Probably going to be the sell-on kini.

Buying him back to sell to Madrid is very unlikely. The risks are just too much.

I know we don't have the competence to do it but if we try it only Benfica will suffer for it. Madrid will benefit.

Benfica are selling him to Madrid for 50m. We can buy him back for stipulated 20m and sell him to Madrid for 35m-40m (that is why i said discount). We make 10m-15m and Madrid saves 10m-15m.

We have a sell-on clause though, so we don't have to employ such underhand tactics.

Leyqute:
Fernandes’ case is dicey. We may not even have agreed on a sell-on clause with him.

I read that we have a both a buy back and sell on clause for him.

If we don’t have a sell on clause then the smart thing would be to activate the buy-back clause, buy him ourselves and then sell him to Real at a discount.

We sold Alvaro Fernandes to Benfica for €6m in 2024 and a year later he is going to Real Madrid for €50m.

We sold Elanga for £15m and 2 years later he is going to Newcastle for £55m.

We sold Oyedele for 500k and a year later he is about to move for 5m.

If not for the sell-on clauses it would have been disastrous.

We don’t know how to buy players. We don’t know how to sell players.

BlueRayDick:
Ọmọ! 😥

See the way the boy dey carry dem play sef.

I just hope it is content sha

It might be content but based on what people say about these content creators he can afford it easily and based on what the time is saying one would not blame any unemployed person who tries his shot at the job.