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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 4:30pm On Sep 18, 2023

Ibime:
I no fit talk. Na Onyemaair things

Say less.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 4:12pm On Sep 18, 2023

A40:
Bad weather is bad weather. They have explained severally that there's nothing they can do about that.

Expecting a cable service provider to cater to the tastes of a very small minority is a stretch. They don't pay for these broadcast rights in piece meal

As far as cable TV oh. Nigerians have no idea how good they have it. I hope you guys do not fvck around and find out. Paying one service provider for EPL, another one for La Liga and another for Champions League

But how come bad weather inordinately affects cable TV in Nigeria compared to many other countries. I know Amadioha and Sango are Nigerians but still e no suppose bad like that na.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 7:46am On Sep 18, 2023

BlueRayDick:
Why should anybody even think of protesting on the issue sef ?

Professional militant draggers and cancellers association of Nigeria.

Cause of death remains unknown but PMDCAN has to act.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 6:28am On Sep 18, 2023

BlueRayDick:
The fact that he’s an actor that has acted in romance movies makes his announcement as senior pastor weird in a funny way (considering how Nigerians tend to see pastors as “holy”)

I’m sure some of their members will just be confused trying to understand how the man they see pressing yansh and kissing on set of movies is now their G.O

He is just pressing down, shaking together, and running through. Sorry i mean running over. Quite biblical if you look at it in toto.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 6:38pm On Sep 17, 2023

GloriousGbola:
Jimmy odukoya is here to minister

End time ministry.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 2:38pm On Sep 17, 2023

Leyqute:
Mason Greenwood is coming on

Yup. Crowd dey impatient sef. LOL

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 2:19pm On Sep 17, 2023

Leyqute:
So, your source for accurate football stats is 101greatgoals.com?

If the fake stats didn't align with your agenda, maybe you'd have read the piece or at least verify their source, a parody account on Twitter, before trumpeting it here.

I'm not against having an agenda but let's make sure it's rooted in facts and reality, not emotions or fallacy.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 1:38pm On Sep 17, 2023

Leyqute:
Yeah. That u21 match was today.

You can see what I was talking about the other day?

Seems as if they are rushing him. I don’t think he’s ready for that level. Yet.

The match was on Friday.

Yeah i don't think he is ready yet for that level.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 1:31pm On Sep 17, 2023

nitrogen:
Well, i already blamed them for giving Ralf the coaching job that made everyone give up on him.

Btw, the guys that build skyscrapers started from somewhere. Someone gave them the chance to move away from Bungalows to mid-rises and then skyscrapers, and trusted them to do everything. It’s called a turnkey construction/contract.

So you will allow someone who had limited role and extensive support in building a bungalow have total control building your high-rise? Or will you ensure he has that same extensive support in building your high-rise? Dey play. Anyway, we are where we are now.

P.S I didn't give up on Ralf. Back then I said something along the lines of it was like sacking your plumber for not doing a good job with the carpentry job you urgently begged him to do for you.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 1:05pm On Sep 17, 2023

nitrogen:
But y’all say the fans are important, we need to please the fans, after all they drive the cashflow. Same way customers determine a company’s products.

Anyway, in this case, we wanted to have a ‘fantastic’ manager on board. This is not the first time clubs meet managers’ conditions. ETH had some leverage due to his stint at Ajax plus we have not had a good manager in ages.

LOL. I am not waiting for the day you blame the Glazers for anything.

You hear that a man built a nice bungalow. However, he didn't design the house, hire the labourers or buy the building materials. You now give him contract to build your high-rise. This time however you allow him to design the house, employ labourers, and buy the materials. You are now acting shocked that the high-rise is crumbling.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 12:46pm On Sep 17, 2023

nitrogen:
Well, I am sure they knew, reason they planned to have Ralf around him. I think the issue started when ETH asked for control. It was part of his conditions to take the job. We could not have said no to him at that point because the fans were already expecting ETH, plus there were no alternatives in the market.

If you are saying they depend on the fans for direction then we are in trouble. It is this PR-driven policy that has led us to this. "What will people say" is what they think about rather than "What is the smart/right thing to do". Imagine giving a man who was not even in charge of building squads of 100-200m total control of building a squad of 500m-900m. WITH NO EVIDENCE.

They get their instructions from fans that are so fickle that they will turn on a manager after 2 poor results. There is one popular YouTuber who was selling ETH "Ten Heisenberg" T-shirts a few weeks ago. The same guy is now ETH out. grin

Meanwhile when it comes to selling the club like most fans want, they have not done that one o. But when it comes to making ridiculous decisions they obey the fans.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 12:36pm On Sep 17, 2023

Expert17:
Ok, after just 5 games.

did you watch De Gea first season 2011/2012? Lol

The guy is conceding some eminently saveable goals sha. Let us not lie and let us not steal.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 12:34pm On Sep 17, 2023

nitrogen:
I am not a DDG fan. I wanted him gone too, but was hoping we’d get another keeper, not Onana. Ball playing keeper my foot!

I wanted Diogo Costa. Onana's brain touch moments are not new to me but even i am a bit surprised at how beatable he has been.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 12:31pm On Sep 17, 2023

nitrogen:
You are right. We did not understand what we were getting into. Everybody was happy that a successful manager at Ajax was coming to OT. We just started scrutinizing his CV. It’s getting clearer that the guy is not there yet and he’s not even close.

Fans are allowed not to know what they are getting into, not club owners. And are you saying they started scrutinizing his CV AFTER employing him? grin

You are worse than Maguire's mother. LOL

Anyway some of us here called it that he needed another person around him to help with squad building, cos anybody who follows football closely knows that Overmars firstly and VDS were the people who built those Ajax teams. If you are saying the Manchester United ownership and management did not know this, then the fault is theirs.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 12:09pm On Sep 17, 2023

Leyqute, Lacey played for the Under-21s in a friendly and provided the assist for the only goal of the game.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 12:07pm On Sep 17, 2023

Greenwood on the bench.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 12:05pm On Sep 17, 2023

Leyqute:
Rashford vs Brighton.

https://twitter.com/jm10ii/status/1703132954245968284?s=46

Exceedingly poor.

The fact that he completed 90 mins is another indictment on ETH.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 11:58am On Sep 17, 2023

Ibime:
Dangote and Otedola are in no way comparable to an employee

I have many contemporaries who fit Iyin description. They are still in grass. His pop sending him abroad does not mean pops can baby him past university. Neither do their responsibilities extend much past paying school fees. Lot of niggas over here were soaking garri in uni while pops carried a massive schooling bill. You could write what you wrote up there for many gees who don't have financial freedom today like Iyin does

Example is Keniebi Okoko whose pops was chairman of Ijaw National congress. Keniebi was in UK and Canada still hustling like all of us till Jonathan called him home and made him a near billionaire. That is grass to grace. If someone told me that Keniebi was always set pointing to his pops leading INC, they will be far from reality

It is still not grass to grace as the general populace would have it. One of my very good friends from Uni was sent abroad for his Masters by his dad and came back to be named a commissioner. Apparently his dad was a respected grassroots leader in the state. The boy don hammer now but he can’t open his mouth and talk about grass to grace.

We might have to agree to disagree because the same way you said there are different levels of grass I believe that there are different levels of grace. Your parents can’t send you to expensive private school after expensive private school in a country where the average man on the street is not sure of where his next day’s meal will come from, and you will now be claiming grass. You are living in grace, just that your grace no high reach them Adenuga own.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 7:02am On Sep 17, 2023

Puntingnoob:
Ten Hag decisions I still never understand since yesterday

Starting Bruno on the right wing

Leaving Rashford, Casemiro and Eriksen for 90 mins

Subbing off Hojlund

If Ten Hag no fit succeed in United I give up.

We have hired different mangers with different philosophy. Same sh1t year in year out.

Bruno didn’t start on the right wing.

We actually played a lopsided 4-4-2 with a diamond in midfield. Case at the base, Bruno at the top, Eriksen LM (but helping Case out situationally), McTominay RM. Rashy and Rasmus played on top with Rashy slightly to the left.

The thinking was to play narrow in midfield and stop Brighton from playing in between the lines in midfield which they are incredibly good at. It worked to a large extent but the problem was that whenever they cut us open there was no resistance from our CBs, GK, and CDM. Another problem was that as a consequence we had no RW threat and all our attacks were through a Rash who was blinded by greed.

It is quite telling that even playing at home ETH was so lacking in self belief that he changed his formation to try to combat a Brighton team that was without some of its key players. Meanwhile Brighton played their usual game, home or away, missing star players or not.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 6:50am On Sep 17, 2023

Puntingnoob:
Doc, you mean our academy player is better than our 60 million English midfielder?? What is Ten hag seeing that we the fans are not seeing?

I don’t know what he sees that others can’t see but maybe that is why he is the manager and we are mere fans. Even if Mount is presently marginally better than Mejbri (which I don’t think is the case) the difference is not worth the 60m wasted on that transfer. Plus Mejbri will be the obviously better player within 6-12 months if given the opportunities.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 5:15am On Sep 17, 2023

BlueRayDick:
We could as well add Deji Adeleke to grass to grace association of Nigeria since he also built on what his family had and became one of the biggest billionaires in the country

100%. Building on family wealth does not equate to grass to grace.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 4:59am On Sep 17, 2023

Gambit001:
Doc did you see Mejbri today? .
I was so happy he got to play and score too

If given game time Mejbri is better than Mount, Eriksen and McTominay. The only things holding him back are his temper, and a risk-averse manager with tunnel vision. If you combine his pressing ability, ball carrying ability, passing ability, speed and strength on the ball he is more complete than any of those other guys.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 4:21am On Sep 17, 2023

Ibime:
Going from Shell workers son to a near-billionaire is still a grass to grace story

There are different levels of grass.

And his pops only became GO long after Iyin had made it. Perhaps it's Iyins status and wealth that gave his pops rank to win the GO nominatin

Maybe grace to more grace. There are different levels of grace as well. There was no grass at any time. The man was an investment analyst who was in charge of pension funds at Shell. Then he became MidWest District Overseer a long time ago. He sent Iyin to one of the most expensive private secondary schools in Nigeria before he spent another year at an even more expensive prep school in Canada before he went to Uni there.

Has the guy made it bigger and utilized his opportunities? Yes. Is his story a grass to grace story as the average Nigerian would understand it? No.
If we become loose about our definition of grass to grace stories, we will have to add Dangote and Otedola. After all, they built on what they were initially given.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 7:46pm On Sep 16, 2023

chrisley024:
well, hopefully Amrabat and Mainoo step up cuz it's already looking like it'll be a terrible season

If the manager’s structure is defective even those guys will struggle. Also by the time Mainoo. And Amrabat get up to speed the season would have been lost.

IF Amrabat is able to perform as well as many think he can then Amrabat, Mainoo/Mejbri, Bruno would be our best midfield combination but it’s not going to happen. It is clear that we lack legs in midfield and you can’t play counter-pressing/transition football and depend on Eriksen, Case.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 7:34pm On Sep 16, 2023

Leyqute:
I also criticized him for that senseless behavior and got loads of abuses.

A lot of people on this thread are reactionary and they base their arguments on emotions.

Did you watch the U-18’s game today? I watched the last 20 or 25 mins of the first half intermittently. Musa needs more coaching. The kids’ final 3rd decisions need improvement.

Yeah I watched it. We used a very young team cos most of the best Under-18 players will be facing Bayern in the UEFA youth league in a few days. We started with three 16yr olds and a 15yr old (Kukonki), and we subbed on three 15yr olds (Amer, Thwaites, Bailey) and still won despite playing more than half of the game with a man down.

With regards to Musa, I really don’t think he has it in him to make it here.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 7:26pm On Sep 16, 2023

chrisley024:
then he'd at least stay close to the defence

That would destabilise the midfield and open gaps all over the place which is what we are seeing. We need work rate and pace in that midfield instead of the traffic cones we have there presently.

ETH has wasted over 200m on players that are probably not going to work out. Antony, Mount, Case are all looking suspect. Martinez is good as long as he has a solid partner while the early signs from Hojlund are encouraging.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 7:14pm On Sep 16, 2023

Expert17:
I will take my LLL on Casemiro

That guy is finished, we should bin him asap

Shebi when I criticised him after he injured Mainoo people were complaining. The guy can’t track runners from midfield, so he either lets them go like he did with Welbeck today for the first goal OR he fouls them like he did in the incident that got Mainoo injured. He runs like he is running on the beach. grin

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Nairaland Fantasy Premier League 2023/2024 by afrodoc2: 6:44pm On Sep 16, 2023

Omoh enu gbe mehn. Which kain week be this?

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 6:44pm On Sep 16, 2023

GloriousGbola:
Na so we see am

In the words of the great modern philosopher Chad Ochocinco, "I would lie for you before i would lie to you."

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 6:17pm On Sep 16, 2023

Trust me bro defence aka I no fit lie you.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 5:40pm On Sep 16, 2023

A40:
Google Sam Aboyeji. G.O of Foursquare Church. That's his father. Person wey school for Canada

He comes from a privileged background and thunder will fire him if he claims otherwise

Hahaha. Iyin the bobo master. The father worked for Shell for nearly 30 years before retiring to become Foursquare G.O.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 11:33am On Sep 16, 2023*

GloriousGbola:
https://www.nairaland.com/7842599/plateau-organ-theft-seven-other

@afrodoc - how much of this is hysteria?

is it actually possible for me to have a kidney removed and there would be no significant post surgical trauma? especially considering the nigerian approach?

can a person be stealth profiled a suitable donor?

The story is in incomplete in terms of where those kidneys were being sent to, however with regards to the possibility of a kidney being removed surreptitiously, it is possible. Reading the story it actually makes some sense because one of the approach options for right nephrectomy (removal of the right kidney) is actually similar to the approach for appendix removal. As long as the procedure was done under general anaesthesia and the same doctor was in charge of the post-op care, then it is possible. It is much more difficult to explain away a left nephrectomy scar so i wouldn't be surprised if all the kidneys removed were on the right side.

I am also curious to find out where the guy got his surgical training or learnt the skills, because nephrectomy is meant to be carried out only by a qualified urologist, although in Nigeria we tend to have surgeons who learn surgical skills across multiple specialties even though they might not have the paper qualifications.

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