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Ibime:
It is outside the system. There is nothing they could do. People basically pay money into each others accounts without going through a central pot, so there is nothing the authorities could do.

Who remember Umanah Umanah in he 1990s? That guy chop a lot of PH and Igbo boys.

Yeh Umanah Umanah! Ran down a lot of guys. This Mavrodi guy has been a well known swindler with court convictions for 10 to 20 years in Russia running a Ponzi scheme which every smart person knows benefits only the early birds.
One needs a toxic blend of greed and ignorance to fall for such scams

elrony:
Only a lunatic will believe this crap

I concur.

raumdeuter:
Since stock market chop my money in 2008, I no dey do anything for Naija again

Lol shey na the regular market chop your money or na Nospetco?

This Mavrodi guy is a convicted fraudster, how come the regulators in Nigeria allowed it to flourish?

Ibime na mad man I swear

Ibime:
Lie from the pit of hell. Present your stats, I dare you.

This is just Alonso below. Lemme see how you make this to be below 66.8%.

Show me how Alonso who is averaging circa 80 most seasons below is below 66.8%. Get your calculator out and show me working. Lemme find out where you earned that Dr title, whether na real Doctor or Babalawo.

Put whatever money you want on proving the below is less than 66.8%. This is just one example. If I start picking others, it will look bad for you with that monumental lie you told up there.

Fat man farabuku bale . E be like say you get permanent apollo for eyes. Where did you see Alonso's name in the line where I mentioned number of passes per game?
I mentioned Alonso's name when it came to pass accuracy where he is below Iniesta.

You can't hold me responsible for your lack of understanding. I think you should stick to calculating profit and loss or whatever it is that you do, English Language is not your forte

Ibime:
And some think he is best AM of all time.

We asked why he is so unproductive as an AM, they told us he is busy recycling possession.

I dare anyone to show me stats putting Iniesta in the top 20 possession hoggers.

There are two big frauds in Barca. One is being exposed at Man City as we speak. Iniesta will never have that chance to be exposed but no one can show me that he does anything better than Santi Cazorla.

Since the start of 2009/20110 Iniesta in all competitions 66.8 passes per game, better than Cazorla,Modric, Kroos and Xhaka

In the same time frame Iniesta in all competitions 89.7 % pass accuracy, better than Cazorla, Modric, Xhaka and Xabi Alonso

Who are these 20 kings of possession that are better than Iniesta?

Lampard is truly very creative, please how many assists did he have for England?

People are still calling that activity former a.k.a Willian a creative player? If running upandan contributing few goals and fewer assists is creative then yes he is creative

No party here tonight
Opelope annointing

It might be a 4-3-3 without a 10 but with Pogba and Herrera playing LCM and RCM respectively and Martial n Mikki flanking Zlatan.
More of an issue to me is why Darmian gets to start when he helps neither defence nor attack.

nateevs:
Interesting topic. I just dey read dey laugh. Ibime and Dayo showdown.

Meanwhile, I will be careful about that statement above. You can probably say the same about most Managers. To be honest, the only Manager I can confidently say that doesn't apply to is Fergie. Anyone else, and you will be struggling to defend that theory in its entirety when stats begin to roll out.

In all, I ask all to argue with caution. Unless your point is rooted deeply is a proven ideology that has stood the test of time, this season in the PL is proving a lot of assumptions very wrong.

You have a point there but it is just a response to the Pep fan boys who think he is the 2nd coming of Da Vinci. Pep it seems has success only when his players are head and shoulders better than the opposition. Luckily he was blessed to start his career with Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Etoo, Henry, Zlatan before moving to Robbin, Ribery, Muller and Lewandowski.
With the former set he had the best players in Europe and he dominated Europe, with the latter he had the best players in Germany and he dominated Germany but was DISGRACED in Europe REPEATEDLY.

raumdeuter:
The coach of your team who is currently 9 points behind the overrated Guardiola what do we call him doc?

Tonight is about Pep, do we all agree he is overrated? Tomorrow we can talk about Mourinho

Ahh o ma se o! Just look at Guardiola's life for outside.
When I told Dayo that great players will usually trump great coaches he was arguing. Pep is proving that he is not as great as advertised and he is not adaptable and that only a certain type of player can execute his tactics. Can we say he is overrated?

Nairaland is overrated

All this on top 1 single word "overrate", Vocabulary na bastard

Mourinho is not special
Pogba is not worth the fee and will never be worth the fee. That 89m spent was a lost opportunity to strengthen our midfield for years to come. We spent all that money on the midfield and it is still our weakest area.

These are some of the home truths all reasonable United fans should accept now. Any non Meth addict United fan should not mention title race for now, as we continue to lose points all we are looking up to by the grace of Chukwu Abiama is top 4.

sinizia:
Anyone still want to dig up my post on Pogba? Where are the diggers? Still think I was hating on Pogba?


My stance still stands. . . For £89m Pogba is a fraud. Bookmark my post.

At least we are pissing in the face of Madrid, that is what matters. Though it would have to be jet stream piss because they are a great distance away in champs league while we wallow in Europa mediocrity.

Judas IsKarius betrayed Liverpool. Na dis kain keepers dey Bundesliga? Pep and Klopp go commit seppuku with these their footballing keepers.

Fabregas you sneaky bastard

Great goal Cahill! Oh no, it is an own goal

A40:
Opelope penalty the Greatest Batistuta would not have scored a single goal in the Knockout stage of the World Cup.

All these would have held water if the argument was Batistuta vs Shevy or Batistuta vs Romario.
But so we don't lose context let's pause to remember this debate is about

Batistuta with 0.57 league goals per game vs Elber with 0.51

Batistuta with 56 international goals vs Elber with 7

Batistuta with 10 World Cup goals vs Elber with 0

Batistuta with goals against Brazil, Netherlands, England, Mexico, Colombia vs Elber with goals against El Salvador and Ecuador.

Batistuta honoured with a bronze statue erected by a grateful club vs Elber with a brazen defence engineered by a grateful NL fan

Griffon:
It is finished!

I rest my case

A40:
Busting myths and popular urban legend is my forte. Too many people for here be sheep and would follow follow to their ruin if care is not taken.

I have brought out their numbers in league competition. Even at International level Batistuta is not as good as advertised. 3 World Cups. Not one goal from open play in the knockout stage. Just pumping goals vs Immortal football powerhouses like Jamaica, Japan, Croatia, Nigeria, Greece e.t.c

It is a joke to compare these 2 players, you can only bobo those that did not watch them play and even Elber himself no go gree say e better Batistuta.
Batistuta was scoring these goals in the hardened serie A when serious defenders were running that city. Yet he hit 20 goals at least 5 times something Elber did only 1 time in the inferior German league.
Talking about international soccer Batigol scored 56 goals in 78 matches including 10 in the World Cup. He also scored against Brazil twice, against chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Netherlands, England , Romania and Mexico.
Elber scored a grand total of 7 goals for Brazil, we thank God for his life. But who did he score against? El Salvador, Ecuador hat trick, Wales and Russia. TALK ABOUT PADDING STATS
I don't know about you but 56 is waaaay more than 7 especially when Mr 56 also has 10 goals against World Cup teams while Mr 7 is padding stats against never do wells like El Salvador, Ecuador and Wales that had not even smelled World Cup in decades.

It is blasphemy for anyone who watched Elber and Batigol to come here and say Elber was better or to downgrade Batigol and hype Elber.
I am at a conference now, will respond at the end of the day.

raumdeuter:
Are you replying to my post or something else?

Hahaha
I know say u no go touch am. It's alright , I just wan confirm
We are good

AdisaOwala:
How many of the aforementioned strikers 'beasted' a CL final the way Diego Milito did in 2010?

Your list is rubbish Oga Dokita

Lol you no well
See as I fear when A40 called Jardel a stat padder .This guy that was rodding Oliver khan and casillas with edge of the box headers and grounders in successive seasons with little or no support

A40:
Van Nistelrooy was mad overrated gee.

Elber vs Batistuta na matter of preference. I prefer Elber.

Elber is at least a class below Batistuta, if it is about preference anybody can prefer anybody. Coogar preferring Bebe and expired Torres to most players does not make it correct.
Van Nistelrooy was over rated but still waaaay better than Elber. Elber Ko, eba ni.
Jardel that woozed Bayern, Barca, Madrid and Ac Milan to the tune of 10 goals in just 2 years while playing for relatively small teams and you are here coming to blow fabu that he was padding stats against small teams? . Haba fear God now

raumdeuter:
On an unrelated note some of the best strikers today we claim are world class arenot even half as good as the worst in these set

Ronaldo, Sheva, Batigol, Ruud, Henry, Inzaghi, Vieri Raul etc were all significantly better than every striker today. If we want to use 5 as a cut off, that means there are some names who wouldnt even make it

Elber vs Batistuta?

A40:
That term world class is very relative. I see a lot of big names but most of them never delivered a CL for their respective clubs like Elber did. What Elber lacked was longevity but from 99-02 he was one of the best strikers in Europe. We are talking about a striker that scored crucial goals that helped his club win titles and advance in the Champions League. Not stat padders like Van Nistelrooy, Jardel, Makaay who could pump 4 goals in a match against the dregs of Europe. Or Batistuta who straight up has no CL CV of note

Elber scored 133 league goals in 260 matches. Roll out the others and we would see his numbers weren't shabby

Obviously you didn't watch these guys play. Jardel pump goals against dregs. Out of Jardel's 10 champs league goals in 99/00 a total of 7 were against giants.
He scored 2 against your darling Bayern, he scored 2 against Barcelona, he scored 3 against Real Madrid.

Batistuta that scored 20 plus goals on average every 3 years in his whole career in Europe and scored dozens for Argentina against Elber? you must be joking .

A40:
That term world class is very relative. I see a lot of big names but most of them never delivered a CL for their respective clubs like Elber did. What Elber lacked was longevity but from 99-02 he was one of the best strikers in Europe. We are talking about a striker that scored crucial goals that helped his club win titles and advance in the Champions League. Not stat padders like Van Nistelrooy, Jardel, Makaay who could pump 4 goals in a match against the dregs of Europe. Or Batistuta who straight up has no CL CV of note

Elber scored 133 league goals in 260 matches. Roll out the others and we would see his numbers weren't shabby

In other words Elber was better than Batistuta and Ruud Van Nistelrooy?

SIRcumalot:
i just dey hear say rashford no be striker for academy and has always played wide,
he doesn't look very good on the wing.
football dey strange sometimes.

Not completely accurate. He played matches at CF, in the hole and also on the wings. You have to remember that in the youth team players are more versatile and the coaches try them out at different positions not only during an injury crisis but also to see where they excel best.
For example Scott McTominay who has been a midfielder all through the age grades is presently being used mostly at CF by the reserve team, TFM played CB, RB, DM, CM and Roshaun Williams initially CB is now playing more of RB.

LOL
Irresistible force meets immovable object.