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raumdeuter:
If you know how many people believed Oyedepo drove on empty tank from Abuja to Lagos or Adeboye when he prayed for God to join him when drinking tea and the cup became empty, or Apostle Suleiman say he enter toilet for Germany came out in Belgium

Na why dem ban my former moniker from religious section because I simply cannot any longer

Hehehehe.

Oh, ye of little faith. What God cannot do, does not exist.

Ibime:


Christ Embassy brought one Pastor Femi from Christ Embassy USA branch to collect award on behalf of Elon Musk. No be today Pastor Chris dey do Yahoo.

Fact say many Nigerians believe it means they should just drop nuclear bomb on the country. We are irredeemable.

maik99:
Which is the sensible thing to do
But won’t be surprised if I see ETH whitewashing even before the end of this season

God forbid.

BlueRayDick:

Another case of brutality pic.twitter.com/Dsf1hjcnU5

— oseni rufai (@ruffydfire) November 19, 2024

A Major in the Nigerian army actively taking part in brutalizing a citizen in broad daylight.

Shame! 🤮

To him that guy is a bloody civilian. That is a sub-human species.

maik99:
It’s not about you but the general feeling around Amorim’s appointment and the good vibes following his resumption
Fans were going to give ETH a whole season when everywhere was already on meltdown after that 4-0 loss to Brentford?
I wish Ruben all the best at arguably the toughest job in football

Yeah, we have very fickle fans. Unless he takes us into relegation waters i will give him until next season. After 2 transfer windows and a full preseason we should see dividends of his coaching.

Leyqute:
Thwaites also joined up

Nice.

If Amorin is who people say he is then he could not have gotten the job at a better time for the youth players. This is the deepest collection of talented youth players we have had in maybe decades. Surely some of them will make it here.

nihilistjnr:
You na OG for real for real

John Woo was legendary and his influence was still felt in the mid to late noughties from the Matrix to almost all of Jet Lis movies in his Hollowood Era to video games most notably Max Payne. I would even argue that any video game that has a 'rage mode' from OG God of War to Spacemarines 2 is paying homage to John Woo the god of slow motion.

100%. John Woo na Mt Rushmore action director.

slow motion sequence god. Mexican standoff god. He mastered the use of the set location in his sequences. Whether it was a church, a factory, a restaurant, an office complex, or a warehouse; anything and everything could be used as a prop...... and the bullets were never in short supply.

His influence goes beyond Jet Li to even the John Wick and Equalizer movies. Antoine Fuqua (The Equalizer director) used Chow Yun-Fat (Woo's fav actor) in his first movie The Replacement Killers, and that movie looks like a John Woo movie (but just not as good).

CapitalCee:
Really? Good then, I haven’t noticed it in his game sha. Na only Licha we all know that is a great passer and ofcourse Magwaya

Evans is better than all of them. He can ping with both right and left.

maik99:
All of these is easy to say lol
At Manchester United you have to find a way to get results while the players are trying to learn the style
All of you are over the moon but a poor run of results and we start seeing funny takes on this thread

There is nothing over the moon about what i said. I have stated here repeatedly that i will suspend judgement until i see workings from him, but the point i was trying to make is that if Amorin does not keep the faith with his system and instead switches system from year to year like ETH, he too will fail.

ETH wasted his first 2 seasons. That was why he lost his way at the club. Most fans would have accepted if after struggling in the early part of the first season we saw incremental improvement. Most fans will prefer struggling in the 1st season while addressing
the core problems and improving from there INSTEAD of chasing results in the first season and struggling into the 2nd and 3rd season because the core problems were not addressed.

What ETH did was akin to putting lipstick on a pig. Amorin must start by addressing the core issues now and then improve slowly from there. Most fans will forgive poor results while he still has lots of goodwill. If he chases results now and neglects to address the problems in the team, he too will go the way of ETH in 1-2 years' time.

CapitalCee:
aftodoc2.

From the training video that I saw, Evans the CCB was tasked with finding attackers with long passes, especially the LWB. Can De Ligt do that? I doubt it oo, if there is one thing Delight can’t do well, its pass out from defence. Martinez and Maguire are the best in doing that.
Yoro has always been tailor made for the RCB, and thats where I see De ligt thriving.

Yeah, i saw Evans making some long passes but remember that it was a short video.

What most of the analysts that i watched said is that the RCB and LCB are the ones that make the long passes in the first phase of buildup play, while the CCB moves to form a double pivot with the more defensive CM and the other CM moves up to join the AMs.

de Ligt is not a natural fit as CCB in possession in either scenario, but he is probably the best fit as CCB out of possession. Iti is the job of the coach to improve the players he has available, so he has to get to work now. The problematic areas can be addressed in January and in the summer.

DeadPresidents:
Anyone willing to appreciate how much film-making technology has advanced and is willing to bear the perceived low visual quality will be in for a treat. With regards to movies, I’ve seen at least one movie from every decade from 1930 till date and I feel the scriptwriters of the classics past really earned their pay.

If you want visually aesthetic and pleasing pictures, watch modern cinema. If you are a purist paying attention to the quality of the scripts, dig into the past!

I watched Casablanca and a Howard Hughes directed movie on a long ass flight to the Middle East and even in Black and White, the story was quality.

You make a good point. The storylines were often more original, and the movies were often longer, allowing for more detailed storytelling. That is why for instance, it is currently almost impossible to improve on the Western or Mafia genres.

GloriousGbola:
a good movie is a good movie, imho

the difference between a classic and pop

the big problem with cgi is that it does not age well. while movies from the 80s that used practical effects still look good to this day.

and there are movies that have been redone multiple times - 7 samurai stands out in this

I do not disagree but for most people there is a minimum level of picture quality needed to capture their attention. That is why from an artistic point of view movies like Citizen Kane, On the Waterfront, Casablanca are top tier, but they can't be released for the general public in their original format at this time.

I definitely agree that movies with great storylines and excellent acting are more enduring than movies that depend on special effects. Science and technology are ever advancing. Art and technique, not so much.

Theflint1:
Lol, movies wey the quality of their effects and stunts go make you vex sotey you no go care wetin the IMDb rating be before you shut am down.

Those from 1980s down should alright in that regard, but those Dr Strange Love Dem wey Dey shoot when Naija neva gain independence, might be hard to sit through if you can't shut your mind off aspects of the film that have aged badly.

Hehehe.

Only a movie nerd or film student can appreciate an Akira Kurosawa movie in this day and age.

But that Hard Boiled na another matter. John Woo was the action god of the late 80s and early 90s.

A Better Tomorrow 1 and 2, The Killer, Hard Boiled.

They must have used over 1 million bullets in those 4 movies combined.

BlueRayDick:
Thanks, lemme bookmark this and look them up fess.

Na suicide mission the guy wan send you go. LOL

Most of the movies on that list are legendary sha but some are as old as Methuselah.

Oasis007:



Case sef see better difference. Its no longer Rondo week in week out at the training. LOL!

Calm down until we see workings. There are loads of pics of Case smiling and laughing at training when ETH was here.

larride:
3-4-3 straight from the beginning.

Nothing like we don't have the player to play the style. You don't fit in, you get shipped out.

This was the most significant coaching error that ETH made. Instead of sticking fully to his principles he was sitting on the fence tactically.

Playing high press (following his principles) while still playing a low defense line (going against his principles) because he felt our defenders were not pacy enough. This was the origin of the donut midfield and the wasted 2nd season that spiralled out of control and ultimately led to his sack.

I said it here then, he should have stuck to his principles (combine the press with a high line, compress the midfield, and even though the defense might suffer in the initial stages, at least the players will over time master a particular style.

Instead, every season the mumu was changing his tactics based on temporary situations. If Amorim wants to succeed here he has to implement a system that he will be consistent with. Those players that can't cope will be shipped out and replaced.

In the training, the available senior players trained against the academy players.

This was the set up.

........................Yoro............Evans.............Shaw..........................

.......Antony........Casemiro........Mainoo.............Malacia..........

.....................Amad..................................Mount........................

......................................Rashford................................................

Leyqute:
16-year old Kukoni trained with the first team today. Nice to see the younguns getting a run out with the first team.

Kukonki is one of the academy players that this move to 3-4-3 favours the most. Mantato as well.

Oasis007:


In summary, once a virus always a virus.

100%.

Oasis007:


He is 31 hence except he accepts £100k per week a year contract with option of renewal based on performance only, I wouldn't take him back.

On a low-key, I wouldn't mind him back though.

He has a toxic attitude and will destabilize the team. He is a notoriously poor trainer who might be able to get away with it because of his talent, but when players of lesser talent like Lingard and co start copying his ways the team spirit will dissipate.

He is also nearly 32 and has been injured for 2 years. The reason he might be coming to train at Carrington is because he is an ex-Academy product. All ex-Academy products are allowed to utilize the club's facilities for training if they are in between clubs. The day Amorin accepts him back as a player is the day he starts the journey to getting sacked.

chrisooblog:
Yeah unlike that NTA News atrocious theme music they still use nowadays.

Na to go bed straight once it comes on by 9pm

Lol i have not heard that cacophonic NTA News sound in years.

semid4lyfe:
I just can't understand how a "multiracial" country and supposedly rainbow nation can be so xenophobic.

Una say make person no contest for una pageant cos she be nigerian, no wham. She leave am for una.

Una revoke her citizenship, e still no do una.

She come contest Miss Universe Nigeria for Naija but una still carry una bad belle try sabotage am.

She later go Miss Universe, una still petition the organisers make dem disqualify am.

If this isn't witchcraft, I don't know what is.

It is collective victimhood. Collective victimhood is the origin story of xenophobia.

BlueRayDick:
Omo! The way America attracts all the bright minds from different parts of the world is crazzy. You just randomly lookup that the name of the most brilliant science student in Ur secondary that year and u see he's already a cancer researcher in the US. You look up that commercial class chap in secondary school today and u see he's leading some startup fintech with reasonable American dollars as seed capital.

That capitalism and relative meritocracy u mentioned is very key.

But from where I'm standing it appears America's liberalism and freedom will be their undoing in the future.

It is the natural order of things that civilizations and nations will always rise and fall. There was a historian who classified the reasons for the fall of powers into 2 broad groups, excessive love of war and excessive love of pleasure. America might ultimately fall victim to both. Iti is just heir turn cos nothing lasts forever. In 1940 Winston Churchill was still entertaining the idea that the British Empire might last a thousand years, and it was gone by 1960.

BlueRayDick:
The US is just a case of when money talks, bullshiit keeps quite. They know they are responsible for funding most of the UN agancies ; the American dollars is the air those agencies breath in and they are using that position to their advantage.

When I saw that Arab resolutuon Amoto posted earlier, I just laughed. All those talks about UNGA going after Israel/Netanyahu na just paper talk. The funny thing is that even all those Arab/OIC countries holding meeting every eke market day posting on Palestine's statehood, they mostly don't put their money where their mouth is. Even US and the rest of the world dey show Palestine love pass those Arabs sef.

Egbon I have a question ; What do u think is responsible for America coming out of World War and becoming a modern day world power that is so big other nations can't challenge? Is it because the Theatre of the war was not set majorly in America and they were able to progress economically while other countries Like Russia, Germany, etc were busy rebuilding? Or what exactly?

1) Vast natural resources that in the early 1900s were just starting to be properly utilised. No European country apart from the USSR could compete in terms of agricultural potential, energy resources, manpower.

2) Vast landmass of arable land with a relatively smaller population, allowing for the population explosion and economic growth that took place in the 20th century. UK, France, and other European countries, on the other hand had limited room for such growth.

3) The 2nd world war destroying much of the infrastructure of the European countries and also the subsequent loss of their colonies. This stripped them not only of potential source of raw materials to drive their industries but also of readily available market to consume their products.

4) Capitalism and relative meritocracy in the US fuelled the American dream in each individual’s hearts. Many other countries lost some of their hardest workers and smartest innovators to the US.

The summary is that based on its natural advantages and also the type of society it had, the US was always going to rise to the top, the world wars just accelerated the process.

raumdeuter:
Gen Z like Unlimited22 and seankafor go think say music from avengers

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCcBPVQNDrS/?igsh=MWlvZmg0N2RlY3ZhMg==

Omo na one of my jams be this.

Once I hear this sound I drop anything I am doing and I sit in front of the TV.

MorataFC:
Wetin Hakimi dey do there?

Who would you rather have?

Oasis007:


.....I have the feeling Amorim will succeed. I did enjoy his first interview. He is full of confidence and ain't gonna sacrifice his philosophy and tactics like ETH did.

Amorim will be the coach we ever wanted to succeed Sir Alex - so I pray and hope.

I don’t know yet. By his fruits we shall know him.

patrickmuf:
Me I go support Amorim until I see that we are not going to make any progress under him but some folks here are already writing him off even before we see the team play a couple of games under him. If after 1 he full season, I start complaining (that's assuming things are not going according to plan) they'll say I'm impatient but we have not watched even a game under him yet some fans are already sure he will struggle here.

Amorim has my full backing until I watch the team under him for some months and he has at least two transfer window under his belt starting from the January transfer window.

If Amorim fails, a lot of coaches will not be keen to take the job at Old Trafford.

It is recalcitrant ten Hag fan boys that are against Amorin before he has even coached a game.

Coaches will always be interested in the United job because it is a high profile job, and their egos will always make them believe they can turn things around. That is why ETH took the job despite stark warning from LVG.

Comedy half hour. 😀

Some people would have spent their life savings to buy ticket to watch Iron Mike Tyson.

😂

raumdeuter:
What's the deal with biting the mouth guard sef

Not just biting but fiddling with his hand. I really don’t know.

Many people don’t know what ageing does to the human body.