BiafranDel: you talk like a fool. what has reading the whole post got to do with nigerians being lazy readers. Who are you to decide what people reads or not. How many books have you read or written in your entire life to make such nonsense comment. Una go just dey do oversabi for internet meanwhile nothing to show for it in reality
Who is this illiterate? I have read so many books to know 'people reads', is a grammatical blunder. Lazy reader.
lordfalcao: keep disgracing yourself. Every coach from heynecks, low, guardiolar, ancelotti have placed boateng at the heart of defense and won something with him.. and you keep wandering why he is always first choice ahead of Hummel's Even with one leg.
When will it be so for bonucci, van dijk.
Lordfalcao in action. I ain't from Bolton, why would i be a wanderer?
lordfalcao: rudiger is going to world cup.. an L for you.
Danilo is going to the world cup another L.
Meanwhile. Krychowack the solid midfielder rejected.
Now
lordfalcao: Poland is parading mediocres as mildfielders.Krychowack is just like a one eye king in the land of the blind.. in westbrom we know the players making him to sit.
raumdeuter: In a country like Poland that begged Emmanuel Olisadebe to lead their attack to a world cup, they will take anyone who's a professional footballer
A typical example of Calling a dog a bad name just to hang it. Pathetic!!!
It is as if many people lose their sense of judgement and a drastic reduction of their I Q when it comes to Pep and everything relating to him. Must you appear shameless just to maim him I know he conquered Your league and did things no manager as ever done before but your inability to swallow the fact that he is bossing Your league is giving you severe nightmare.
Anybody with a common sense should know that Yaya is being hypocritical here, Abi no be d same person who whined about CAF not giving him the best player award despite winning the previous four editions. Cry cry baby at its best.
Yaya is a sore loser, he is yet to succumb to the fact that he was chased because he was unable to unsit Sergio busquet from the starting eleven at barca. Yaya is an excellent DM no doubt, probably one of the best of all time but it is common sensical to note that not everyone fits in to Pep philosophy or any other coach as the case maybe. Kante fits into the Chelsea system like glove but might look like an academy player when playing for barca ( ask Alex song) Same way Busquet will struggle with this chelsea side, that is no rocket science.
Y'all need to pick a struggle, Is it about pep hating black players or Pep hating Africans, both ways, Yaya's conclusion is lopsided. About six black players were core squad members of Pep all conquring team this season, some of whom were of African descent, when talking about Racism, everyone know that a person with a black skin is more liable to racist attack than a white skinned fellow even he is from Africa. in other words, Mendy who is a french player is more liable to racism than Mahrez who is from Africa.
Pep does not need to prove anything to any doubting thomas.Keita, Benatia, Mendy, and maybe Mahrez were either given opportunities by pep or are in his transfer list. It is not a pep thing, Barcelona as a club seldom sign African players. In fact, at present there is no African player in their squad, not even one. The last Africn player i can remember was Alex song who left long ago.
I don't see people slaying Ferguson for not signing african players either. In fact the only notable African i can remember in the fergie's list is Eric Djemba Djemba, but no nobody is shaking any table because he isn't Pep, y'all need to be subjective and don't let your hatred for pep reduce your IQ below sea level.
Lastly, as if i have not seen it all, some people were even complaining that Yaya left City unceremoniously, i dont get it at all. Someone who was substituted by Pep in order to get a standing ovation from the crowd because of his legendary status, please what else do you expect him to do, Solicit the Mayor of Machester's approval for a curfew and a public holiday in the city because the greatest player of all time is leaving the club Honor him with the Are ona kakanfo of Machester title just because he was signing off in my opinion, Pep did his best to give him a fitting send forth. Xavi was a bench player in his last season in barca despite being a legend of the club, ditto to Raul, Lampard and Terry all sat on the bench prior to their exit, they are all legends. If he is looking for a perfect example of a bad send forth he should ask Casillas abeg.
And those shouting Yaya should have been given more chance, how many of you can actually accept a 35 year old being in your squad,playing week in week out, i dont get this, Na keeper him be? if y'all can complain about Bakayoko's slow pace, you will definitely slay your coach for giving an oldie an opportunity at the expense of the youngster, Yaya wey be say na only name he carry for head like 20 naira last season, no wonder Barca and Madrid are jostling for his signature immediately he was released by city. Yeye dey smell.
popizaino: I wonder y we all become very sentimental when it is to criticise pep.Now airmark I know you are a chelsea fan like me.let apply the bolded to chelsea scenario and see how everyone one that agreed to the bolded reek of double standard.
In 2012/2013 under 6months without any marquee signing except demba ba RAFA BENITEZ won us the europa league and got sacked in favour of mourinho who later finished trophyless for 2013/2014 seasons with key signings like Willian,eto,salah but was still allowed to continue for 2014/2015 season.
Etoo, an old man with walking stick?
hensben: You nor go understand sha. You nor know ball.
A ucl, uefa super cup, 3-times burndisleaguedown, Germa super cup, fifa club world cup winner (in raumdeuter's froggy voice). A player, Bayern's best coach ever said was one he liked to put on his team sheet first and Lahm said was one of the best defenders he had ever played with.
Eruditor: He did same to Henry who even scored a goal. Yet one person learnt from it and the other person turned NaCl.
Tell me that match that Henry was as impressive as Yaya on that day? I know you lie like your mentor.
Eruditor: If he greeted him behind the scenes: he is a pretender. He appreciated me only behind the scenes. In public, he did as if he did not know me.
You can greet a player before and after the match. You can't because of camera, start doing like a nice man. Yaya toure als said same thing about the two-faced fraudiola, doing one thing publicly and doing contrasting thing behind the scene.
Eruditor: So 2-2>0 stemmed from what? Or were you arguing blindly per usual?
You are beyond repair. Even Dayo would look at this with disbelief, wondering how could someone be this shallow.
Quote where i argued that which you lied about. Lruditor.
Debroslink: Actually, Eto'o ended with 36 goals that season. That's twice the output of the previous season. Meanwhile, he played as a RWF while Messi played false 9 in the 2nd half of that season.
The treatment of Eto'o by Guardiola wasn't that good.
He is an irresponsible man. Dante defined him well as a bad human being.
Yaya was given a standing ovation after an impressive performance in a match they won, the mofo didn't allow him get to the seat, he started criticizing his play, to the amazement of his mates. I hope one day one player spanks his head publicly.
Etoo: "He shook hands with me when I was at Inter and I played against Barca, but this was just for the cameras and TV. Behind the scenes before the match, he did not greet me."
Eruditor: [s]So you are clumsy with numbers, cannot read, logically bereft and now cannot comprehend a simple video.
How many seasons did E’too play under Pep Mr “Next Preseason”?[/s]
Hahaha @ matches and minutes. I am not arguing that with you. Just the same way it was insufferably daft of you to argue 2 UCLs in 3 years to 2 UCLs in 22 years with Raumdeuter.
Or else 18>19. What say you?
I told you before to visit clinic as you showed all the symptoms of dementia. Quote where i argued the highlighted with your mentor, raumdeuter?
airmark: Memory loss is a critical medical condition. If you can't remember what we discussed in less than 24hrs and you are not 60+, you need to see your doctor asap.
19 in 47 matches is not better than 18 in 28 matches, if you like check the minutes played too, all covered. Lruditor.
Eruditor: A winger scoring 19 goals in his first season (where he is the top scorer and runner up assister) of the team is on decline.
[s]Yet same player playing from same position the following season scored 26 in 36 starts.
So in your judgement, going from 19 to 26 in less appearances is declination.
Maybe you need to summon that niece of yours to help spin you out of this web you just found yourself in.[/s]
You may even be bald like Dayo and Pep, because you also lie like them.
Henry played 14 matches as CF, he could only score 7 that season. Don't come here to tell us nonsense about him playing from the wings throughout. That was 1 goal in every two games on average from his favourite position. Fraudiola saw this low-scoring output in his attacking team as unimpressive, in the next preseason, he started sending Messi and co to beg the Etoo he initially humiliated. The Cameroonian slapped him with 35 goals that season. The shameless fraudiola had to ask other players to thank Etoo for his professionalism that helped the team, despite a difficult season.
Eruditor: [s]Just the other day, you were accusing Raumdeuter of saying 2-2>0 when he was showing you that winning 2 UCLs in your first 3 years of coaching is more significant than winning 2 in 22 years. Today, you want to use the same logic you scoffed at to make a moot point.
I trust you to use Hazard’s playing position in a few weeks to defend his poor stats even after your next move will be to discredit Henry’s subpar showing based on that very fact. It is your stock-in-trade. To use your own logic in one post to argue against yourself in another.
PS: both links are connected.[/s]
The gibberish you typed up here has nothing to do with the fact that your premise was faulty. You claimed that Henry wasn't on a decline because he outscored Etoo. 19 goals in 47 matches in an attacking barca team of those years, was unimpressive. Etoo didn't score more than Henry because he missed a lot of games due to his fitness. For you to have used that moment to prove Henry wasn't on a decline, is another confirmation of your renowned wack judgement of football issues.
I gat no time to waste on you.
Ibime: No mind that mumu. I no want answer am. Eto that came back from 7 months knee injury to almost catch Henry.
Seluk told Sport24 : “If my grandmother became manager of Bayern they would still be champions. This is the enviable consistency of Guardiola’s career choices: he arrives at a club with a huge budget and which already wins titles without him. Once again: Guardiola’s actions towards Pellegrini, who reached the semi-final of the Champions League that year, were horrible. But Guardiola has taken similarly horrible actions on many occasions.
“What has Guardiola achieved? In two years he has won as much as Mancini and Pellegrini did. In fact, Pellegrini reached the Champions League semi final, and Guardiola hasn’t done that yet. Manchester City just renewed his contract for three years.
"I would bet that, in that time, Guardiola will not win the Champions League, no matter how much money he spends, and he loves to spend money. When he spends £200m on the defence alone; when money is no object, then I can only agree with (Mauricio) Pochettino when he says that he likes to win trophies, rather than buying them as Guardiola does."
Dante: "He doesn't speak to you so as a player you don't know where you stand," he told German newspaper Bild. "There are coaches who are world-class from a tactical point of view, but who aren't good on a human leveland this is the case with Guardiola."
Disrespect is subjective. A player with a big ego will react in a different way to a slightly more humble person.
It is difficult to objectively judge whether a player like Etoo is not overreacting to perceived slights.
The only people that are in his camp are known egoistic troublemakers - Ribery, Zlatan and Yaya 'Cake' Toure.
That suggests to me that Etoo is probably the one who let his ego get in the way of a working relationship.
The man himself says that he refused to speak to Pep at a peace meeting his manager organised. That says a whole lot
I know Etoo didn't tell all that he experienced under Pep in that interview. That's why i believe any of his reaction that looked out of order might be at the climax of a build-up.
Why would a coach lie to the media, that a player didn't want to play?. No big player would take that lightly, as such move might prove fatal to his career. He mentioned this in the interview among other stupid moves to frustrate him. So unethical and childish from fraudiola. We shouldn't drill Etoo's outburst and sidestep Pep's antecedents. Etoo was once a 3rd best player in the world for crying out loud, and shouldn't be treated like one muniru.
Pep knew he messed up, that was why he couldn't meet him subsequently. Etoo knew his antics and i was happy he won ucl with Inter, beating Barca on the way.
Nihilstjnr: I'm not speculating...only going by what he said.
Etoo has a history of fighting his managers. At Everton, there was the story about how having been benched for the start of a game, Roberto Martinez asked him to warm up to sub in. He refused because he was sulking , and started shouting I am Etoo.
Remember your interview starts with Etoo trying to explain why Rijkaard went to a press conference to say he didn't know why Etoo refused to warm up.
At Chelsea, he called a Mourinho a fool.
He fought with Pep
He fought with Cameroon Manager.
fought with rijkaard
fought with Ronaldinho
Even fought with Referee.
I see a trend here...
Yes you are right, Etoo has ego, but that doesn't stop us from knowing that Pep lied to the media that Etoo didnt want to play a match as reported in that video i shared. Etoo exposed that lying cunt.
No big player would be happy being disgraced by his coach repeatedly. Franck Ribery and other players said the same thing about Pep, so it's not about Etoo bro.
Nihilstjnr: I personally don't think that was disrespect tbh.
Henry was the bigger name when he moved to Barca...by far sef.
Anyway even if he felt a type of way, the way he openly challenged his manager made his position at the club untenable.
nothing to do with race for me.
Remember Etoo has previous for this kind of behaviour. Even with Rijkaard. He says it himself on this interview
There was everything wrong in telling a player that helped your team to win ucl and liga, to drop his jersey for Henri, in the presence of other players. No sane coach would have done that, if it wasn't to humiliate Etoo. Etoos reaction might be as a result of so many of those disparaging actions.
We were not with Etoo and Pep at Nou camp, we could only decide based on what Etoo said, which wasn't debunked by Pep.
How would a coach ask his player, who is still banging in goals, to take an offer from Kazakhstan? Bros, Pep is a cunt.
Nihilstjnr: Etoo said Pep told him to switch shirt number with Henry and he got upset.
Pep tried to make amends even got them Xavi to call him into a room for a face to face chat. He told his coach that he wasn't interested in peace.
Pep his coach, told him about the runs he wants his strikers to be making on the training pitch. Etoo told him to his face that Pep was a midfielder in his playing days not a striker so he should keep quiet.
if I was half this insubordinate to my manager, I'm not sure I could even get a job in my current sector anymore...
Pep discovered that he would be in trouble without Etoo after disgracing him several times and most big boys supported Etoo. He wanted to force Etoo out of the club unceremoniously, Etoo refused.
They later played a friendly match and he didnt use him,, they couldnt score, Etoo was introduced for 20mins and won the match for them. Pep knew the team would be in trouble without Etoo as Henri couldn't replace him. He had to try to make amends after disrespecting oe of barca's legends.
Would Pep have disgraced Iniesta, puyol, Ronaldiho openly by telling them to drop their jersey for a new signee? Etoo said everyoe was shocked. Etoo knows his worth and he proved it, even after joining Inter.
Yaya singing a konvict muziq like his brother Etoo:
‘I tried to understand it and I even asked the coaches for my stats,’ Toure told France Football. ‘When I realised that they were as good or better, both in training and in matches, as those who played and were younger than me, I understood that it was not question of physicality. I don’t know why but I have the impression that he was jealous, he took me for a rival. ‘I have the impression that Pep, without acknowledgment or respect, did everything to spoil my last season.
‘He was cruel with me. Do you really think he could’ve been like that with Andres Iniesta? ‘It got to the point I asked myself if it was because of my colour. ‘I’m not the first, other Barca players asked the question too. ‘Maybe us Africans aren’t always treated the same by certain people. ‘When you see the problems [Pep] has often had with African players, everywhere he has been, I ask myself questions.
‘He’s too intelligent to be caught. He’ll never admit. But the day he picks a team with five Africans in it, I promise I will send him a cake! ‘Beyond that, Pep likes to dominate and wants to have obedient players who kiss his hands. I don’t like that kind of relationship. I respect my coach but I’m not his thing. ‘He stole my farewell with City, a club with beautiful fans. ‘I would have liked to leave with emotion of this club the way Iniesta [left Barcelona] or Gianluigi Buffon [left Juventus]. But Pep prevented me.’