₦airaland Forum

Kilishihunter:
If the Umtiti doesn't want to move nko? What can be done except terminating his contract which would still cost the club, Tbh this Emerson's deal is hard to accept just like you but then again what can be done when the finances are in the red, Just watch pedri, Fati or de Jong put up good performances and watch the hawks especially that fūcking PSG try to take advantage of the situation

Abeg, which one costs us more? Is it paying for termination of contract or paying the deadwood's salaries for sitting on his bum for the duration of his contract?

Note that his contract ends June 2023, earning €208,000 weekly, meaning €10+m a year.

jpmoriarti:
Antoine Griezmann in La Liga this season:

- 3 matches
- 0 goals
- 0 assists
- 0 shots on target
- 0 big chances created
- 2 succesful dribbles

Shambolic!

But, but, I thought someone said, Messi was the one blocking him from shinning before. Who's to blame now? Depay or Braithwaite?

Kilishihunter:
Bro you also forgot to add that their current manager is better than any manager we've had since Luis Enrique, Lampard had this squad minus lukaku and was largely clueless with it, Not trying to make a case for the flops but maybe just maybe if Hushbartomeu had used his church mind and the scouts did their job well we've have probably being more dangerous, As much as we rant, he has done the damage already and moved so it's left for the current chair or whoever to clean up

Cleaning up a mess is actually harder than creating one.

IKON360:
Meanwhile, Juventus TV will be streaming all of Cristiano Ronaldo's freekick goals with Juventus tonight.

It will start at 12.00 EST and end at 12.01 EST

Guy! This is not good na. Why u wicked like this?

Virus99:
Edaakun who's this guy

Virus99:
Awon eyan Nigerian League
GLO CAF Award

Better, I like this response without insult, you don't know who I may be to u outside this faceless forum, I may be your brother, your in-law or friend. Troll but don't insult. Shalom my bro.

Virus99:
Dumbo that's what separates Madrisdstas from Cules...unlike you guys who reason with your anus, we reason with facts and stats as sufficiently provided by the Football authorities.

Did I quote u? I didn't, because I know you don't post without insult. Not every poster insults. And moreover, to u and your coefficient England may be the best league in the world, but for me, it's La liga. That's why I am a fan of a La liga club. EPL is only graded higher because of its publicity and overhyping. La Liga is quality bro.

Kilishihunter:
We all know the source they came from na, But my guy You bad

I've actually been waiting for one of them to make that mistake in the name of trolling, I'm sure if Perez hear what he said, his fanship will be revoked immediately (if possible).

pu7pl3:
uhm, I'm sorry boss but La Liga is still the best league in the world

Sorry o, I know he is your fanmate, but is it because of CR7 that he quickly underrated the league he claimed to support? Beware of that guy o, he will soon tell you he is now a Man U. fan

jpmoriarti:
Transfer window is closing soon. Yet Barca and Laporta are yet to sort out any of issues that continue to linger.

Umtiti is still there.
No one want to sign Pjanic
Illiax Moriba issues remains unsorted
No striker signed

Only Messi were they quick to dispense with. I know we needed fresh start but the way everyone quickly admitted that Barca are incapable of keeping Messi is so surprising whereas it now looks like Pjanic and Umtiti will stay on, even though Koeman has no place for them in the team.

I dont even know what's happening in that Barca's board room.

I'm with you on this one o. Na like this e go dey be? Every other big club is strengthening their team, but nothing is happening at our end. So even if Messi didn't go, don't we need to buff up the team? I am not understanding again o

jpmoriarti:
And who says the rest of you contributes objectively? Who be the judge of that?

Opinions are personal, could be right or wrong but "majority carries the vote" is not just a saying, it is a fact.

jpmoriarti:
I have never watched Collado play before. So I cannot say what he can do and what he can't. Koeman looked at him and Demir, and he chose the later. I always like to think he must have made his decision based on what he think is best. He has seen the two, up close and personal. We only get to watch them online.

Besides, I don't know why everyone is making a big deal out of the ATH match. Our matches with these rivals are notoriously cagey and always close especially in San Mames. I don't know what Puig could have done differently. Koeman has absolutely no faith in him. He has told him this for a fact. Dribbling through the lines is good but there is no given that it would have earned us 3 pts yesterday.

As a matter of fact, if Koeman is currently no longer coaching Barca, who do you think is a good fit for the job? It is not enough to say, sack him, sack him. He is incompetent. You have to be able to proffer a solution, for if when he is indeed sacked.

Me I will go for Luis Enrique. He should quit that his boring national team job and come back to the bustling live of being a club coach of the best club in the world.

Sometimes you contribute objectively like the rest of us (most times after being over-battered), and sometimes you contribute like an alien from Mars.

Your point on Enrique is quite on point.

jpmoriarti:
We wont die. We're going to get better. We weren't better off even with Messi haven't won the league in the last two seasons. [b]Under Messi's watch, we have suffered back to back to back European embarrassment. [/b]I think we have seen it all already. Only way for us now is up.

Under Messi 's watch? Or you meant under Coaches watch.

The little respect we were getting as a team then was because of Messi. Remove his goals and see the outputs of our other strikers. That we "suffered back to back to back European embarrassment" as you put it, is not because he didn't play his part well, it's was because a tree cannot make a forest, he didn't get as much help as needed.

jpmoriarti:
Yes. Barca will unilaterally terminate his contract and meet him in court. Court will drag it for years. And Barcelona will not face FIFA sanctions. I hope the club does that.

Why does he not want to leave? He will never be in the match day squad for Barcelona again talk less of playing a minute. Yet he still stays. Nawao.

He stays for free money.

Read somewhere today that Umtiti has been given a week to find a new club and leave or his contract will be terminated. How true is this?

I don't understand this guy's yarns o. Is Nigeria an annex of USA? Can't we take care of our own problems without putting our burdens on other countries?

Nigeria should take care of its own problems. USA also has its own problems.

And here we go. 1-0 pique scores our first goal this new season and post Messi.

homesteady:
I love the intensity so far.

Same here,. I love that everyone is playing to their strengths. We've definitely started well.

jpmoriarti:
Lmaooo Bartomeu had brilliant ideas but led Barca to financial ruins and managed to distance all club legends from the club. No former club legends wanted to have anything to do with Bartomeu and his doomed management team. Only Eric Abidal came close. And he left with his tails between his leg That alone told me Bartomeu is leading Barcelona to a devastating end. We can all see it now

Bart should just shut his mouth and hide his useless face somewhere. Imagine blaming somebody else that just came in for his failures. Was Suarez not sold to Atletico last season because of the huge wage bill? The mismanagement of funds has been there all these years. Imagine buying bums with exorbitant and outrageous amounts and salaries, spending more than you earn. Rubbish

IKON360:
poor planning.
And his biggest wrong for me isn't even the overbloated wage bill, the biggest wrong is that he paid social media accounts to blackmail and insult people he should have protected their intrest and shielded them from the outside criticism.

And who's to blame for all that? Bros, you have just known the truth, and the truth has set you free.

IKON360:
I think Bartomeau is better. I can list some of his accomplishments. At least under him, Barca became both the most valuable club in football and had the highest influx of income 2 and 3 years ago. Has Buhari done something like that for Nigeria since 2015??

Most valuable club! How much did we get from Forbes for that achievement, Bros?

Highest influx of income for 2 and 3 years ago, nice to know, but where did that income disappear to? Why are we suddenly in debt? Don't bring Covid excuse o, cos that affecting every other club out there, not Barça alone, why are they not in financial mess like ours?

So, if an engineer builds a beautiful house, and the house falls apart because of bad decisions on his part, you will still call him a brilliant engineer?

IKON360:
Bartomeau had excellent financial plans for the club but the sporting aspect suffered. Barca is a sporting project before it's a financial project. The finances are necessary to support the sporting projects but they planned very very badly, the frightening wage bill was poorly planned and signing Greizman wasn't well thought through.
But they sha gave us De Jong and Pedri that's all. I am certain that 142m they used in signing Coutinho would have brought us someone good from the academy or some cheaper midfielder from Ligue 1 or Bundesliga. That's poor planning but economically, Bartomeau had brilliant ideas.

Yeah, you are right. And see where his 11 years excellent and brilliant financial genius brought us to . I dey clap for am.

IKON360:
And personally, looking at some of Bartomeau's wins as Barca president, I think he is a better leader than Buhari

You are comparing Pot to kettle, for blackness matter.

Buhari o, Bartomeau o, which is better, especially since since both of them start with "B", they are both failures and destructive.

jpmoriarti:
I wonder o. Busy body people everywhere

Na painment o. Wetin consine dem. We are free to discuss whatever we want on this thread, and we can choose to ignore any topic or poster, as we like.

If him no like am, make e go back to him club's thread. Who invite am before. ?

Let me drop this before this week ends.

jpmoriarti:
I understand though. I shouldn't hate Messi. Because I dont know if I can still enjoy him now he is no longer with Barca.

Its such a shame, you know. Those times we would be asking non-Barca fans to enjoy Messi. How hypocritical!!
Like how can they enjoy him when they're at the receiving end of his genius Sadly, we will soon find ourselves also in such an unfortunate position. Me, I can't enjoy Messi if we meet in the UCL and he fires goals to send us packing Well, Can you?

Yes I can. I watch football for the fun of its, not fanship alone. We've lost some games with Messi mesmerizing on field and still enjoyed watching it.

If we prepare defensively well against Messi's team in the UCL, we may just be lucky and go through, Cadiz beat us home and away last season with all our world class players, (Messi inclusive).

ddippset:
There are so many players that have graced the game of football that I follow them and watch them wherever and whenever.

E.G. Messi, Zidane, Ronaldinho, Maradona, Bergkamp and many more..

I support Barca but whenever and wherever I see a skilful player anywhere and everywhere, I stop and watch. Even if na 5 aside.

Are you seriously telling me that you're going to hear that Messi is playing a match somehere and you are not going to switch on your tv set and watch him play because he's no longer at Barca?

Tell me you're joking pls.

Abi o? I sometimes watch CR7 sef. (not to troll him o, but to enjoy his off the ball movements, his trickery and positioning. Am I going to hate Suarez now because he is playing for a rival?

jpmoriarti:
Jeeez!

So you will still be following Messi all the way to PSG.

Won't do that.

I dislike PSG as a club. That club has singlehandedly dealt with Barca. First, they snatched Neymar away from us. We havent really recovered from that shock. Now they take away Messi, even though it is more due to Barca's inability to keep him. Yet, they took him away. And they have never agreed to sell anyone to us.

My dislike for them even now increased by some distance, Messi or no Messi. Because of that, I am no longer interested in Messi's progress as a player. He is a former GOAT. I look forward to crowning a new one as soon as possible. Anyone who is not for me, is clearly against me. As much as we would not like to admit it, Messi is now against Barcelona. If he catch us for UCL, he won't show no mercy

My bros. Is there any written rule that one must be a fan to only one club?

I, for one is a fan of Barcelona primarily, but have love for other clubs as well,

I love Man city, Ajax, AC Milan and Real Madrid (just hate their trolls). I even wear some of their jerseys anytime I wish. Now I'm adding PSG's M30, and N10 to them.

My response will be " Yes baby, how much ".

I like her direct, straightforward question and so deserves direct straightforward answer. It removes all the awkwardness of the relationship, because all women nowadays are olosho.

ursullalinda:
Pls learn to use condom......it won't kill u

No be una (women) dey complain say d tin no dey sweet una with CD?

Kilishihunter:
Tbh you've said it all I rather we lose messi to a better side where he wouldn't have to work twice as hard as of the past few years at barca and recover financially than keep him and become more bankrupt and probably not grant him a fifth UCL title, Laporta tried all he could but sadly tebas tried to blackmail him, I assure you if the super league clicks many would come back to bite their words, If I was Laporta I would have done the same thing, messi deserves the best for the last few playing days of his career but not at the club's expense, The years of rebuilding post Messi have just been pushed forward, Other talent need to show us what they can do instead of hiding under his glory and masterclass, The journey would be tough, we might make references to him when the team isn't doing well in the final third, we might lose 6-0,7-0, might struggle to advance in the UCL, might end up trophyless, will be trolled till kingdom come but with the right decisions we would bounce back, We might never get a player as distinguished and magical as him ever, might never get one who delivers goals and assists both in bulk but it's great knowing most of the legacy in catalonia came from him, It's time to show what we can do post messi
Visca Barca

Very nice write-up. I hope we remember this your summation whenever the club underperforms to lift our spirit up that tomorrow will be better (hopefully). However, I'm still not over this Messi leaving cold. I too like dat guy.

If all these didn't happen, in the near future one stupid president will come and install this Abba Kyari as an IGP of the police force.

Ha! God help us in this country, na one-chance we dey o. Help us dey open their yansh like fowl own. Amen.