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Last season Liverpool(with Coutinho,Sturridge,Lallana, Emre Can,Benteke et al) finished 8th
Chelsea senior team finished 10th
Everton with Lukaku, John Stones,Ross Barkeley, Deuolofeu et al finished 11th.

BUT CHELSEA YOUTH TEAM WILL EASILY FINISH IN EPL TOP 10?

Why are you guys disturbing Ruudie now, i believe he is now a Sevilla fan. I only hope Sevilla can appoint Moyes after Sunderland sacks him so he can buy Cattermole and Rojo (the new Vidic) to take that club to the "next" level

To be honest though i believe Pep would have benched Rooney ASAP.

elampiro:
It is an evil thing that on a day our problems were caused by Mkhitaryan and Lingard, you people have decided to shift the blame to Rooney who was among the few good players for us. Shame that this is the case now. Rooney is the scapegoat every time we don't get a result.

Without Valencia, Shaw, Fellaini and Rooney, we would have been completely annihilated in the first half. Every time we managed to go forward in the first half, it was something that involved Rooney. Go and watch the highlight again. He almost set up Ibra for an equaliser with a pin pointing cross to his head but Ibrahimovic headed straight at the goalkeeper. He and Valencia were the two who managed to go forward in the first half.

The Mkhitaryan I saw in that game wouldn't even make the bench if Mourinho were to be fair. I have never seen such a woeful performance, and I rated this guy high based on what I read here. Instead of talking about Mkhitaryan, Lingard, Pogba, Blind and even Bailly, you people put the blame on one of those who ensured we were not humiliated.



Rooney is the reason why crude oil price collapsed from $140 per barrel to $40 in the international market.

This is my main point.
This match's problems started from
1) Mourinho being over cautious and selecting the wrong wide men
2) Those wide men Mkhi and Lingard not being able to control a first time ball or even pass to their team mates. Mkhi in particular looked small, afraid and jittery.
3) When things got difficult in midfield Fellaini of little talent stood up like a man while the more talented Pogba ambled around like a man still doing his warm ups....the boy is naturally lazy, he is loftus cheek's mentor
4)Blind and Bailly were not at their best also and even their passing was off.
5) Then you can talk of Rooney or Zlatan or the other guys.
Rooney is a problem in this team generally but he is not the only problem AND in this particular match the problems were Mourinho, Mkhi,Lingard and Pogba
Blaming Rooney first every time something goes wrong is a very lazy and simplistic way of addressing the problem

But this was how Coogar convinced most people here to reduce all United's problems to a Rooney issue. There were other problems in view yesterday right from the fecal display of both Lingard and Mkhi to the pathetic display of the world's most expensive player. Then we saw a few cracks in our CB partnership. The only positions were we are very good and consistent are GK and FB.

Ibime:
Mehn Brook tried abeg. There's nothing you can do when your eye socket is fractured and you can't see. The amount of punches he took in that 5th round alone without flinching shows that he has the concrete jaw required to fight GGG. GGG has been dropping even light heavyweights in training so for a welterweight to stand that punishment only shows his calibre. Other fighters woulda dropped from just one of those punches, especially that pùssy Amir Khan who keeps ducking Brook.

IMO Brook showed enough in that fight to earn a rematch.

Rematch ke? u wan kill am?
Hmmm e be like say u owe d guy money wey u no wan pay am. GGG na devil incarnate. Like A40 said i see only Andre Ward troubling him.

Nihilist:
Kell Brook took the fight that the World Champion ran away from, literally dashing his title away for free.

That already makes him 'a winner'.

Well every boxer is always one lucky/unlucky punch away from a defeat but beating Golovkin would be difficult for any man right now.
Only good thing is that he is 34 and theoretically should be passing his peak. His economical knock outs are scary. There was a fight in which he barely moved his arms and knocked the guy out, the opponent on waking up was blinking his eyes like he had dust in them

Nihilist:
Brook...though that's based a bit on sentiment.

Hmmm GGG is the truth

elrony:
Somewhere on this board...

Haba this guy you be Interpol? See as you trace the guy until you catch am?

Sinizia sinisterly laying down the law.
Before long people will claim we bribed Dayo and UEFA to defeat Bayern in Fergie time in 1999
When we beat City in "Fergie time" it was corruption, when City won the league in "Fergie time" it was persistence and "never say die" attitude

So Benitez with the right side of his mouth said Ferguson was banned for improper conduct and with the left side of his mouth said Ferguson could not be banned for improper conduct. LMAO
Nihilist you need to come with better evidence.......all you have given us are instances were Fergie asked for favours and was DENIED. That was not the way PDP ran things when they were in power.

United bribed Mrs Aguero to give birth to Kun Aguero and teach him football so that he will play for City, elbow an opponent and be suspended for the derby.

Dopejemi the business idea is not a bad idea however you have to remember that not everybody has the talent to be successful in business.
He has to factor in his skill set, his education, his interests, the state of the economy before making a decision.
The same capital some people used to build empire others used it to become debtor for life

Congrats greatihex
Now it's time for MAN decisions rather than boy decisions.
Like some have said, Use now and your NYSC year to obtain extra professional qualifications and extra skills. You also need to narrow down your career path to a few options and start plotting how to achieve those goals.

raumdeuter:
If he wants to do USMLE I fit give am hookups, shey na Uworld he want or MTB

I fit do mercenary and enter write am for am wey he go score 255. That would cost him $20k

For CS expo na $11K

CK orijo na $15k

And step 3 expo na $25k (You dont have to write this until you enter)

I can forward my paypal account

Lol you too bad.
Me I go link am to people wey go give am job as per residency .
But e go need truly blast d exam, no DK orijo. D guy dey behave like sure man so I no doubt am

Nihilist don catch oyinbo habits
Omo these people sabi give opiates! After dem go dey wonder about drug seeking behavior n headache.

raumdeuter:
He can enroll under you to learn better work and his first patient would be pataki and airmark

Lol
Na life matter I dey yarn d guy. I am sure he would have senior ones though.
If he is thinking of Yankee the best time to start writing the USMLEs is while in medical school as step 1 go still gbona feli feli for your brain
For jand, aus, can, Ireland etc he would need to finish Skool first

Congrats Bigkesh
When will you be doing your final year exams?
And it's never too early to start planning what you want to do after graduation and where u want to practice

This Bremen defence na paper bag defence.....Bayern playing at a faster tempo, no be like Pep's borefests

Funlordjnr:



2 hours to kings cross? This nigga dey try gan! What if you get pissed the night before in error?


What time to you normally have to leave your house each day? Like 5am? Cause I guess you need to hit the office before 8am!

Omo i bow o. Last time i had to go through all that was when i was in Naija. I live 15mins from my office.
But wait o Nihilist, you mean 2hrs by train?

bigkesh:
You are not intellectually sound,stop thinking with your spinal cord
Even before the league started you should know you were gonna end in the second pot

Ending in the 2nd pot means you are gonna be paired against one of the big boys from pot 1 hopefully Bayern,Barca or Juventus......That's an automatic 2nd

As the 2nd you are gonna play a group winner which is most likely another bad boy,let's say real Madrid in February, Boom you are out as usual

Considering that you are already 11 points behind United and Chelsea ( we all know you can't Jose and your sorry ass can't handle chelsea) by February u re chasing top 4 ,even if you win the race for Ucl you are not gonna be seeded among the big boys and you start the cycle all over again

Even mosquitoes have a more dynamic life cycle than Arsenal as a club



Shut up when the big boys are talking

With this kind wickedness you want to start taking care of sick people in the future?
When we say Nigerian doctors are heartless some people will be arguing.

raumdeuter:
The best teams are those that limit the number of shots they are exposed to which is the reason why the midfield is the most important part of any team.

If you have Maldini and Nesta at their peak and teams are averaging 10 shots per game against them, they would still concede in bucketloads.

Proactive midfielders and even defenders move up to break up potential attacks before they develop because at the edge of your box if opponents are settled and shooting, then your chance is less than 50-50.

A random deflection, a rebound, an outstanding shot, a genius move would always get a goal

Not if you had Baresi and Bergomi lol. However i get your premise, back to wall defending rarely works over a long period of time. Great defending starts from midfield and in some cases attack sef.
Having said this Ivanovic was especially crappy last season at an individual level which went beyond lack of protection from the midfield.

This Nihilist , you no well o
I just dey read popping debates on these threads na.
Omo i get some serious decisions to make offline now so me no get energy for back n forth lol

Lana1:
Hmmn. Arsenal is now poor??
Few weeks back someone here posted a link from one mumu website of Arsenal being richer than United and a certain somebody was even hailing him and y'all were clapping for him.
But now, Arsenal is poor is d new excuse for not signing players??
Oga o!

Na so we see am o.
It is the same when they say " Cech is the best keeper, Kosileyin is a boss, Cazorla and Ramsey are world class, Ozil is better than Zidane, Sanchez is the best, Giroud is a top striker..........but wait o, WENGER IS A LEGEND TRYING HIS BEST WITH HIS MEDIOCRE PLAYERS!

A40:
See this oloriburuku alainironu. Your handle says (m) but you keep displaying ogbanje behavior. Na me be the Oluso Aguntan and Iranse Oluwa that would deliver you from your stewpidity

Jaguda? Lewwwl! Won ti t'eba werey fun e walahi!!!! You are a shameless, old empty barrel with no self-worth or esteem. You are almost 50 yet still beating your anorexic chest like a Silverback ape
on top A-40 wey no send your lineage

A-40 jumps on any thread whenever he pleases. Won ti bi eni na, A 100 of you sodomites are not enough.

Watching you and your partner in sodomy Airmark fellate each other on this thread is really nauseating, lame.and grotesque. Two midlife crisis suffering mofos inundating us with their disgusting Bromance. I would derive great pleasure in bashing your collective heads to a bloody pulp a la Brock Lesnar

I hope your frustration does not drive you suicidal like Kurt Cobain one day. I know it probably takes 3 months of tips from your go-go dancing to get enough to purchase your favorite team's shirt. Ozuo! Abajo wey he dey pari wo say he wan go watch Nelly for club in 2016. Hahaha low taste having mofo. Agbaya Omo abule feeling funky. Iya ma je e gan oh.

You are a bipolar, Lilliputian with a Napoleon complex and Ogbanje tendencies.

Awon adofuro alabosi jati jati.

Ah han, that is a bit HARSH!

Kante's ball carrying ability is obvious to anyone watching and he applied it many times last season also.
He is best used in that position in my opinion and i believe as the season continues we will see more of that.

raumdeuter:
2 coaches whom Kante have worked with Ranieiri and Deschamps played Kante as their main marker

Conte has adopted the same yet we believe Kante is best in a position 3 coaches have never played him?

"The Teams:

Antonio Conte’s first Chelsea team was full of power, he played a 4-1-4-1 formation with Nemanja Matic and Oscar ahead of new signing Ngolo Kante. There was no place for Cesc Fabregas in the team. The front three for Chelsea was the expected front three with Eden Hazard and Willian flanking Diego Costa. Chelsea’s back five was the same despite the fact they played poorly towards the end of last year."
http://readwestham.com/2016/08/16/chelsea-2-1-west-ham-tactical-analysis/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cp-iizXXYAE5Pse.jpg

Conte is playing Matic in a more advanced role than Kante, and you think that makes sense? Coaches too make mistakes.

Notice i have not explicitly supported Matic. In my opinion Matic and Oscar are both not good enough for the roles expected of them.
However i am of the opinion that playing Kante in the ultra-defensive role is using him at 60% capacity.
Nobody should be shocked here if Mikes gets back to the starting line up on his return from Rio

raumdeuter:
Or in Frances

Kante-Pogba Matuidi who was the runner here? Obviously not Kante

It is about options and the French coach was a confused man anyway as we saw in the final where he used Pogba in a holding role.
Out of that 3 obviously Kante will hold cos KANTE CAN DO ALL THIS THROUGH CHRIST THAT STRENGTHENS HIM .

I have not said Kante can not hold but based on the options available to Chelsea i think he is better utilized in a running, to n fro role while somebody sits behind to protect the defence. This will then give the full backs freedom to play in more advanced positions.

70% OF THE WORLD IS COVERED BY WATER, THE OTHER 30% BY NGOLO KANTE.

Nihilist:
If we judge based on Leicester and the Euros, Kante is the one who sits back, wining the ball and laying it off to Drinkwater.

Leicester used to/and still do sit very deep and only press in their half, so I'm quite surprised you think Kante was pressing high up the pitch.

I am not really talking about what he did for Leicester but what my eyes tell me are his best assets. Energy, Pace, stamina for days, aggression, decent technique, great on the ball runs e.t.c He will be underutilized just marking and shielding the defense. His runs with the ball from deep would prove useful to his team especially in order to make quick transitions and launching counter attacks, you cant have your main midfielder marker doing that IMO.

Fabregas is so creative that the onus is on Conte to find a way of fielding him. Playing these other guys will only guarantee Chelsea a top 6 finish but to go to the next level you need someone to enable your strikers thrive.....and that is Fab.

Luke Shaw is better and just 2 years older. Chances are CBJ was never going to make it here anyway unless as a back up