₦airaland Forum

drisham:
We dey face Paraguay next match 👍

Those ones will park babanla bus and turn it to gidigbo.
Let’s be guided.

ChristineC:
when this club went down the stump up cash route, at least it was for players that were mostly already established, and we cannot even say it was a successful period.

dumping such amount and wages on players of Matheus Fernandes' levels will be an even bigger disgrace.

Unless you want us to focus only on non-EPL players.

When we were being fleeced and targeted by other clubs it was a disgrace but this situation is a little different.

Like I predicted, the Anderson deal has reset the market for EPL players (esp midfielders ) for this summer.

If we want to spend 60m on a midfielder it’s either we look outside the EPL or we go for a player much worse than Fernandes or an older player/soon out of contract player.

Newcastle are said to be asking for 100m pounds for Tonali.

All EPL clubs are experiencing the same issue. Yesterday’s price is not today’s price.

I will be patient and wait for the window to end before making a judgement but I am suspecting it will be another 1 step forward and 2 steps backward situation.

Leyqute:
Hincapie is the second player in this World Cup to chop red for covering his mouth.

I knew it would catch those Latin players pass anybody else.

MRTA7:
The transfer fee was the impact I meant. And since FIFA will now pay Ugarte's wages, that might help with Wage space but maybe Mount would be the one on the chopping block. I heard rumours of him being linked with Amorim at AC Milan. Although I doubt they'll take on his wages.

The problem is that we can only get peanuts for Mount. Nobody is buying him for significant money.

If INEOS are serious they have to cough up the money cos Arsenal, City, Liverpool are going to strengthen significantly this summer. I don’t want a repeat of the Glazers MO of one step forward and 2 steps back.

MRTA7:
Looks like we cant sell Ugarte anymore this summer due to his serious injury. Hopefully he recovers well and can continue his career at a good level. I wonder how that will change the thinking of the midfield signings.

I don’t think it will change the number of signings planned because we were planning the season without him anyway.

The only issue now is that our transfer funds will be minus his expected fee. I hope the club just bites the bullet and replaces his expected fee with extra money from our coffers.

Theflint1:
If Peter Obi invested the state's money in SABMiller and other companies, was he supposed to continue to oversee said investments even at the expiration of his tenure?

Situation Renovation. 😀😀😀

andrewbaba44:
I Dey talk my own nah

If 2 people Dey same situation I go take 3 draws over 1 win

This is not Eleyele Cup. Before the tournament started the rules and regulations were known to all the teams including how 3rd placed teams will be ranked.

Points
Goal Difference
Goals scored
Fair play score
FIFA ranking

That is the order in which it was to be decided. 3 draws > 1 win is not one of the criteria and I have never heard of it in all my years watching football.

Iran lost according to the rules. Their goal was correctly ruled offside. They should try again in 4 years.

andrewbaba44:
I no no how dem Dey do am sha

But normally 3 draws >>>>> 1 win

3 draws > 1 win? Where did you see that rule?

Goal difference, goals scored, head to head, fair play points depending on the rules for that particular competition na wetin I know.

That’s a trust me bro offside.

Roberto Martinez is the real MVP.

He changed Vitinha and Joao Neves to Etebo and Ojigwe.

Unlimited22:
VAR backed him

Interesting. They didn’t show the replay for long.

Assistant referee needs new glasses.

Wow. VAR said no goal?
Maybe na me need glasses. Lol

[quote author=Leyqute post=139841839]The kain confidence wey this guy get…

Mbappe sent Micheal Oliver to give the armband to Tochameni when he was substituted 😭

Emperor 🔥🔥https://t.co/2xpavPk5K4

— POOJA!!! (@PoojaMedia) June 26, 2026

Dictator. Field Marshall Killah Maobappe.

Kikelomogbenga:
100%


You were spot on with those two posts and speaking my mind then you went and disappointed me by mentioning Mbappe and Haaland as generational talents. Those two are on course to become generational players, but I wouldn't call either of them generational talents. Mbappe is a world class effective speed merchant with good finishing and an ok technical ability. There's nothing to his game that's generational when compared to someone Like Lamine yamal an actual generational talent.


Ronaldinho, Delima, Messi, Maradonna, Neymar, Cruyff, Iniesta, Okocha, Yamal are generational talents.

Ronaldo, Mbappe, De bruyne, Lewandowski, Zidane, Haaland, Modric, Xavi are
generational players.

I typed 250 word essay in response to you but immediately I saw Okocha on your list of generational talents I deleted my response.

raumdeuter:
What do you think of Zidane, Dinho, Xavi, will you say they were generational given your criteria

If we are talking about generational TALENT:

Xavi definitely not. I watched him fairly well as a youth player. Somewhere down the line his game developed and evolved into the GOAT midfielder that he became.

Zidane most likely not but I didn’t see much of him as a youth player but I believe his game evolved too.

Dinho is the one that has the best claim to being a generational talent cos everything he became from a technical point of view was already on display from the earliest sighting of him.

I am saying this as someone whose favourite 2 midfielders this century are Zidane and Xavi.

andrewbaba44:
Okay agreed but I no want make you add Messi cr7 and neymar sha

Haaland, Mbappe, Yamal are the only undeniable ones.

It depends on one’s standards for generational talent. If we use quota system and eye of pity and under duress, Vini, Pedri, and maybe Musiala can enter.

chrisooblog:
Fair point but Kane was already banging in 30 plus goals per season by age 21-22 so I think he deserves to be in the conversation.

I think you can be a slight late boomer and be a generational talent.

It's not beans to be England's highest ever goal scorer surpassing greats like Rooney, Bobby Charlton and co.

In my opinion, late bloomer already cancels out generational talent.

Anybody who is not already showing signs that he will be an all time great as a teenager can’t be a generational talent. Generational talent is not about achievement but what you came into the senior game with. Whether you go on to be a legend of the game is a different story that depends on luck, discipline, hard work, sacrifice, etc.

Generational talents do not get loaned from place to place at age 18-20 like Harry Kane was.

A generational talent can end up being an underachiever while an average talent can end up being an all time great. Many other factors influence the end result.

andrewbaba44:
Abeg make una give me like 5 current players wey una think say he generational talent 🙏

I Dey argue with person

Messi
CR7
Neymar
Haaland
Killah Mbappe
Yamal

chrisooblog:
outside the obvious ones Messi and CR7 I would say Yamal, Vini Jnr (debatable admittedly), Kane, Mbappe, and Haaland.

Kane no enter.

A true generational talent will show extreme ability from a very young age. Basically from teenage years we will know that this player is special.

Kane is an all time great in terms of his performance and overall ability but he worked and developed it more than being a pure talent.

kodded:
what happen to calling for backup?


Abi network no dey to send emergency message to oga at the top to send more men to attack them from infront and behind?


Even the army can join in the operation

😀😀😀

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AirBere:

Afrodoc2 must not see this lol...

Hahaha.

Killah Mbappe aka The Dictator aka Maobappe is on his way to joining those gods of the arena.

The funny thing is that for a myriad of reasons he is actually underrated by fans.

AirBere:

Wahala dey ooo lol.

Real wahala.

If you put R9 in this era where everybody including moi moi teams play high line and play out from the back AND you isolate him repeatedly with jeun jeun defenders that can’t slide tackle him, omo e go bloody.

andrewbaba44:
The only fraudulent legend here is drogba

Go check the achievements of others and see for yourself

You come even get mind put r9 here 😂

Real mind. The guy too bold.
R9 and Cruyff in a list of frauds and in the same breath as Drogba.

raumdeuter:
Koulibali is a Total liability

Kouliability.

The guy just use Serie A deceive guys. There is minimal evidence that he was ever a top defender.

raumdeuter:
Means we play 100 something qualifying games home and away
One game every weekend for 2yrs

Shogun laye ni? 😀

MorataFC:
I think CAF should adopt the CONMEBOL style World Cup qualification format, with all teams playing in a league system and the top teams qualifying automatically. That way, Africa’s 10 strongest teams would earn their places at the World Cup. If this format were in place, I doubt Nigeria would miss out on qualification.

CONMEBOL can use league system because they have few countries. How do you run a league system for 50 plus countries?

Lana1:
you will never find nitrogen in these types of situations to come and tell us to be like Madrid.

But when it comes to sack....
"we should be like Madrid"
"we should sack like Madrid"

Hehehe.

izzou:
I no sow any seed for Kebbi oh.

Thanks doc. Saw the news yesterday and I no come understand wetin person wan do again

Grow what you eat. Use only animal manure for fertiliser.

Store your water inside large earthenware.

Might still not be enough. Hehe

izzou:
Eleda mi

So, as someone who lived in Nigeria, do we just accept our fate and drink from bottled and satchets, because carrying glass bottles all around might be difficult.

And after drinking the water, na still satchet or bottled water we go still buy and pour inside

Your Kebbi kids dey there now. Why you dey fear? Hehehe. Is your Christian name Abraham?

I think the plastic bottles are still relatively okay as long as they are not old, damaged, scratched, left in the hot sun, and the water is not hot. So it’s best to use glass bottles but plastic bottles can still be used with precautions if unavoidable.

The microwave one sha, I would say avoid plastic.

TemporaryHansel:
Tribalism should be kicked out of Naija first.

Not before kicking out stealing. For example, stealing of pictures.

We are all Czechs today. Ich bin Czech.

Kick Xenophobia out of football.