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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 4:58pm On Aug 08, 2025

chrisley024:
Manchester United have completed the £50m redevelopment of their men's first team training building at Carrington.
https://www.skysports.com/football/live-blog/11667/13025492/man-utd-transfer-news-rumours-and-gossip-live-updates-and-latest-on-deals-signings-loans-and-contracts?postid=9992689#liveblog-body

New training facility to replace the previous one that CR7 said was outdated and not fit for purpose but efulefu were swearing with their lives had no problems.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 9:07am On Aug 08, 2025

BlueRayDick:
Exactly!

And who does the mentorship better other than the afro carribean doctor who has traveled many oceans and seas to mentor the mentorless mentees? 🤷‍♂️

I dey far. Na you go do the job on my behalf.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 5:03am On Aug 08, 2025

BlueRayDick:
Omo this pilot fine o. Make dem forgive am for afrodoc abeg 🙏

She dey very unruly. She needs to be mentored.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 5:00pm On Aug 07, 2025

odizeey:
This safe landing wey you keep for yourself nawa.

If we start playing well it will be because Amorim got it right not that they spent 300m to get him better players. E shock you?

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 2:54pm On Aug 07, 2025

raumdeuter:
Well said. Thinking you have monopoly of madness in this world is self delusion

It is where someone's madness ends that another one's madness begins.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 2:06pm On Aug 07, 2025

TemporaryHansel:
Sowore is more honorable than Peter Obi. People who claim they support Obi because they have the betterment of Nigeria in mind, should direct that support to the right person whom is Sowore.

I don't know how honourable the guy is but for someone who has always been allegedly campaigning for the common man he has not gained any traction. The first time he was expelled from Uni and arrested for protesting against the government i was either in Primary 6 or JS 1.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 1:51pm On Aug 07, 2025

Ibime:
Swiz123 should be konked on the head for such a gba take

I couldn't remember who said it.

If he is right and Sowore is indeed a government agent then just on work ethic, commitment to the cause and fidelity to the assignment alone we should make him president. LOL

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 1:43pm On Aug 07, 2025

akwesenana:
https://x.com/YeleSowore/status/1953410525792018788?t=_5ouOQUXcNLAbm8wLpfasA&s=19
Never knew they arrested Sowore.

The guy has been arrested and manhandled so many times by different governments even dating back to the era of military regimes and people still claim that he is a government agent. Which of the governments?

I think there are far easier ways of collecting egunje from government than to be sleeping in jail every couple of years and perpetually going to court.

If he is indeed a government agent i salute his work ethic.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:57am On Aug 07, 2025

MRTA7:
The total bid submitted for Sesko is 85m Euros including addons. Which is about £74m.

And Ekitike cost Liverpool 79m in pounds (or 90m in Euros).

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:55am On Aug 07, 2025

TrebleChamp:
Leipzig was always going demand something big for Sesko, maybe it won't be up to the €80m United is reported to offer if Newcastle hadn't made thier ridiculous €90m bid..

Eikitike cost Liverpool even more (80m Euros plus 10m Euros more in potential add-ons). That is where this transfer window went haywire.

Ekitike and Sesko are from the same league with similar stats and similar age. That is what set the standard for Sesko's fee.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 7:48am On Aug 07, 2025

engrelvis:
Yet people r saying we don't v the "pull power" again. From report also Baleba want his price cut down so he can come. If Amorim doesn't make top 4 he shud be arrested

If we add Sesko and Baleba Top 4 is achievable but we still might not get it as long as we have clowns in goal.

INEOS should do one last good thing after these Sesko and Baleba deals by signing a decent GK.

Right now, i am thinking we could come 5th. The teams that finished in the Top 4 last season are also buying players to improve their squad. We can make Top 4 if everything clicks but i will wait to see how things develop over the next few months first.

Anything lower than 5th would be a major disappointment.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 10:50pm On Aug 06, 2025

It will probably take 80m pounds to minimum to sign Baleba. If we wait a little longer it might even approach 100m and be impossible. Agents Onana and Mbeumo can do the job.

If after getting Sesko we get Baleba in, then Amorim has to make Top 6 and challenge for Top 4. If we get Baleba and a good 1st choice GK then he has to make Top 4 and be close to the top.

We go suffer for AFCON period sha: Mbeumo, Maz, Amad, Baleba.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 1:40pm On Aug 06, 2025

BlueRayDick:
How does secret service fit into treasury department ?

Shouldn't they be under ministry of defence? That seem like a natural fit for them.

Na wa o.

Their original job was to combat dollar counterfeiting after the US civil war. After yet another US president was assassinated, they were given the added duty of presidential protection.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 1:23pm On Aug 06, 2025

[quote author=TrebleChamp post=136364209]Here is your answer 😎

"SESKO FAVOURS OLD TRAFFORD" https://t.co/t37XIvt9CB pic.twitter.com/b1IwPpGfbC
— IMole (@_UTDIMole) August 5, 2025

, Adored, Never Ignored.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 1:20pm On Aug 06, 2025

BlueRayDick:
Oh really? I didn't know this.

Thank you for the clarification.

Yeah it seems a bit unusual.

The strangest one was US Secret Service was under Department of Treasury before Department of Homeland Security was established.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 9:25am On Aug 06, 2025

TrebleChamp:
😁 Small highlights i saw of him is turning my head, i thought i would get the chance to watch him play for like 20mins on tour but that didn't happen.
I think odizeey once said Kone reminded him of Pogba and was attacked for that comments..

He plays with an urgency that we don't have in the midfield. He punches the ball between the lines. He has a narrow turning cycle. He is a good ball carrier. He has a decent passing range.

But i don't think he is ready yet. He makes unforced errors. He sometimes disappears in games, and you start wondering if he is playing. He sometimes gets bullied physically.

I am sure Oasis likes him even more than you, but he is not shouting for them to play him and not buy an established player. Highlights can be deceiving. It is better we introduce him slowly rather than waste another talent. Mainoo is on the precipice of being wasted here. Like Garnacho. Like Adnan. Even to an extent Rashy. Amad's more patient trajectory is the best way to go about things.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 6:58am On Aug 06, 2025

OasisX:

........LOL!

Lamba Obi.

The man, the myth, the legend.

grin

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 4:37am On Aug 06, 2025

larride:
We watched Hojlund and Ugarte all through last season.

If I have the option of replacing one first, it will always be Hojlund.

I remember telling someone that Oshimen was that expensive, the club was just not interested in him.

If we get Sesko, he better perform for their sakes

If Chelsea waits till the end of the transfer window to offer peanuts. Reject them and send Garnacho back to the bench.

In a vacuum, you are 100% right but, in a situation where we have signed Cunha and Mbeumo, the CM become a bit more important.

My midfield concerns are not even about Ugarte alone. All of them have flaws. There is no single CM player that i can bank on currently.
That CM is a ticking time bomb if we leave it as it is. I hope Sesko does well if we eventually sign him.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 1:20am On Aug 06, 2025

Ellexy:
If this guy is our starting option, we are in for a long season.

https://x.com/twos6xes/status/1952710875678142668?t=EaZLA3AI4aGq6MyX5Gk0-A&s=19[/quote]I bin warn una. Well, what is dead may never die.

Any time your club wants to buy a player like this guy and AWB who has major technical deficiencies on the ball, but his supporters are talking about his off the ball qualities such as sliding tackles and work rate, your answer should always be NO.

Take it as a golden rule. Those qualities won't work for a top club in a top league.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 5:58pm On Aug 05, 2025

Roland17:
Professional players shouldn't be trying to get fit or conditioned during the new season because it never works and it increases the likelihood of injuries occurring. Players are supposed to be already fit/ conditioned at the start of the new season. That is what preseason workouts are for.

100%.

Preseason is for conditioning and getting match fit not for losing heaps of weight.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 5:51pm On Aug 05, 2025

TrebleChamp:
We have a Kone we can develop to be a very good DM, but na Baleba, Onana we want. When he joins a French Club and Brighton later sign him for cheap. We know what would happen next...

Firstly, he is not joining Brighton or a French club since he is already contracted to us.

There are other ways to develop a youth player other than dropping him into the deep end and asking him to be our saviour in central midfield.

The most recent players to be treated in that way are Mainoo, Garnacho, Greenwood, Rashford, Adnan Januzaj.

We can buy a senior CM who is ready to start and star for us now and still develop Kone by giving him minutes here and there in the league, extended minutes in the cup or loaning him out to a less intense league.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 5:45pm On Aug 05, 2025

Roland17:
Dem go soon ban am from traveling to Cameroon.

UK that is full of African food joints. God airpus!

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 5:41pm On Aug 05, 2025

Leyqute:
You saw that too eh?

He didn’t play too badly vs Everton. He just wasn’t looking as sharp as he should be

The guy is way behind in his fitness. I hope this is not his usual way or else he will be finished by 28. You can't be putting on weight like that in the offseason.

Let me not be alarmist sha.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 5:38pm On Aug 05, 2025

patrickmuf:
Please reveal your true identity. Are you in anyway related to Kone or by any chance, his agent? 😂😂😂

LOL. I tire for the guy. That midfield urgently needs someone that can come in immediately and be a star performer or else we are in big trouble, but he wants us to play Kone to develop him and not get a senior player.

The same Kone he says he has only watched highlights of in Under-21 football.

We have Obi and will develop him but that didn't stop us from trying to get a senior CF. We have Amass and bought 2 LWBs.

Signing a CM does not mean we won't develop Kone. Man City's Under-21 team keeps flogging other teams, yet they buy quality senior players too.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 4:49pm On Aug 05, 2025

ChristineC:
I don't think his passing is bad. being able to bulldoze through midfield and stop opponents bulldozing through is another quality that is sorely missing in the middle for United.
I think he will add something to this team and fits the physical specimen bill Amorim seems to favour in recruitment.
also he's the 6.5-7 consistent type of guy
problem is, I do t know if he'd be priced fairly by Villa. I'd take him for around £45m.

there's another black guy in that Villa's midfield that has similar qualities to Onana although not as big.

45 wetin?

They bought him for 50m and he is just 23yrs old with those physical attributes. They are not selling for less than 70m.

I think you are talking about Boubacar Kamara. He was linked with us in 2022 on a free transfer but instead we paid 60m for Casemiro and he joined Villa for free.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 4:28pm On Aug 05, 2025

engrelvis:
Even if strikers are over price are u saying we can't get one for lesser price in Epl even lf nt too popular?

I never said that. That is why i said it is difficult but not impossible.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 4:21pm On Aug 05, 2025

ChristineC:
what do you think of Onana?

I try not to think of him tbh. cheesy

.

Oh you meant Amadou. LOL

Great physical abilities and good ball carrying ability. I am not sure about his passing. I will have to check the stats on that. One thing that i am hoping for is for Mainoo to make the jump this season especially in terms of his passing volume & range and general work rate. If that happens then a player like Onana could work.

For now, every single one of our central midfielders is flawed.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 4:14pm On Aug 05, 2025

Ellexy:
Residents cry out as flood takes over their homes in Ijede, Ikorodu, Lagos State😳🙆 pic.twitter.com/IGng7HufMm
— CHUKS 🍥 (@ChuksEricE) August 5, 2025

All these floods ehn

There is no natural disaster like flood. I have rejected job offers purely based on the location of the clinics in flood prone areas.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by afrodoc2: 4:10pm On Aug 05, 2025

Theflint1:

Otunba Lamba!

Just the tip protocol wey boys don dey use since 19 gbogboro. grin

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 4:07pm On Aug 05, 2025

Leyqute:
FYI

He should decide on time. I hope he has been training o. Make e no present himself for 1st training session with potbelly like them Hazard, Sancho, Mbeumo. cheesy

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 4:05pm On Aug 05, 2025

odizeey:
Even the Baleba sef go cost pass 100m. Hmmm

That is where good scouting and negotiation comes in. Many of us are mentioning Baleba because he the obvious quality midfielder that we see regular. We all have our own jobs to do and families to feed but the club actually employs people whose whole job is to scout for players or negotiate deals. Those are the ones who should either get an affordable Baleba alternative or negotiate Baleba's fee down.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by afrodoc2: 2:02pm On Aug 05, 2025

odizeey:
If them buy Sesko, Amorim better turn him to a beast, scroing the same number of goals as Gyokeres for Sporting.

Amen!

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