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IfoyinTEDO:
yes I are (pun intended)

Nice one. I grew up in Idiroko, attended Iko Gateway Grammar school. I hope the ifonyontedo axis of the area is improving still without the smuggling biz that's not moving as before?

IfoyinTEDO:
Throw her into the zoo, lion cage, that will reduce cost of feeding the lion.

Are you truly from ifonyintedo in Ipokia LG in Ogun state?

Cules, this argument about Messi and CR7 will drag forever, you can never change these trolls opinion, you can never win them in argument because once you debunk them on one issue, they shift the post to another.

Best option is Silence. once you answer them, they become glad. But if you ignore them, they sulk around and move to another thread.

As far as I'm concerned the yardstick of claiming the G.O.A.T. honour is not about what your team achieved, if it is then players like Pepe, Ramos, Xavi, De lima et all should also lay claims, but it is about the individual player and how influential he is to the football world.

You wish to know how influential Messi is? Simple, He is the only player that has been compared to both the past and the present greats in football.

This is about being the best player, not about how many clubs you play for, not about jumping from leagues to leagues, not even about goals, not about trophies, its about being the best football player. The best could be a defender or a goalkeeper, does it matter?

Thanks.

Ishilove:
I hear Idiagbon was the man with the power. Buhari was just the puppet. Is this correct?

This question or remark is one if the reasons Nigeria continues to lag behind in development even in this 21st century. We are always looking for an excuse or reason to belittle or overpraise our own leaders. Who cares who did it? People complain about everything. Buhari/Idiagbon came they complain, Babangida came they complain, even today we are still complaining.

andrew444:
Lol
Anyway sorry for being rude
Hope my apology is accepted
Cheers

Ha ha ha . Nooo, my guy, you don't need to apologize, but apology accepted.
We are cool my bros. We both want the best for our darling club.
Mes que in club.

andrew444:
We should Kukuma buy pogba ,you better shut your mouth if you don't have anything to say

The ones wey una buy say una don use am finish ?

Malcom and co don see playing time finish ?

Barcelona squad is almost complete

Do you know what Madrid suffered last season ?

You wan buy players when una no va even know where to play coutinho

If Barcelona buy griezman then it's okay

Madrid buy players you dey make noise ,shebi last season Barca dey spend 160 million for one player ,what about dembele own ?

Guy Abeg make I hear word ,like say no be coach be una problem

Mtscheew

Guy, why are you so pained on simple transfer matter? Easy naaaa, after all no be me say the coach should stay.

If you are okay with having only Suarez as our only option upfront, say so.

If you are happy with Alba having no backup, say so.

I for one am not.

I'm not going to engage you with abusive words like you and your cohorts do. I'm more than that.

Mcleo007:
In all fairness, we have one of the best squads in Europe but have the dummiest coach ever. With the signings made, we still have a better squad than Madrid. If we get A. Griezman which is looking likely, and get DeLgit, then we dont need any other signing. We should only get rid of lightweights in the team and balance the wage book. We can bring back M. Cucurella to compete with J. Alba and thats all.

As good and soothing as your opinion is, you included some "ifs". It all goes back to the dummy coach and unserious board. The Griezman, De ligt and Cucurella you mentioned may slip through our fingers.

My point is " making hay while the sun shines"

kodded:
between barca and madrid who need improvement the most ?







....all this barca fans sha

I only use Madrid as an example in that context, it is you that is comparing them.

Moreover, we waited all through the transfer window last season without getting an alternative to Suarez, even sold the two backup strikers we had. What did that cost us? almost everything.

Are you saying that Barca squad is okay and needs no improvement?

I believe that every team needs tinkling with to bring out the best in them every season, and it is not always good to buy from leftovers at the eleventh hour. (Boateng comes to.mind)

Na so Barca go dey look tiil dem buy all good players finish from market?

Madrid don buy a new striker - Jovic, a new midfielder - Hazard, a new rightback - Mendy and still in the market for more.

Apart from De jong who was bought months ago, who else have we bought? Don't we have scouts and transfer market department anymore?
O ga o.

martowskin1:
why are the intelligent ones against buhari, but the dumb ones always run after him

Because your so called intelligent ones have never, ever contributed anything meaningful to move this country forward except bamboozle us with big grammars and complaints.

Were they not alive all these years?. Were they not intelligent enough till this country got to this stage of hopelessness?

Note that I'm not excusing the present govt. of all these blames either. but I don't like the idea of the so called intelligent ones always complaining even when it sound senseless and idiotic.

modextus:
This thread in now more of football arguments than actual barca news and transfer updates which was the reason i started following this thread in the first place. What's happening now?

We the fans caused it. Some of us cules like giving trolls undeserved attention even when their trolling sounds stupid and idiotic.

We tend to think it makes the thread fun at the expense of club news, tactics, transfers, schedule of clubs matches, season's goals and objectives, constructive criticism of our own players and coaches etc

Many cules are in "Ghost mode" because they are tired of these senseless and repeated arguments that does not change anything nor profit the club or the fans anyways.

I hope that we will be able to enjoy being a fan of this great club when this Messi/Ronaldo rivalry is finally put to bed whenever they both retire from football.

megamank:
This girl like play sha.... I wounded how she go be with man for bed.....

Ask the man wey carry am... No be me talk say the bouncer don dey shag am o. But if you know, you know.

snrman:
I read somewhere that this Nations league was used to replace friendlies so I don't think there should b a fuss abt winning it.
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Messi might not win the Copa but let's keep our fingers crossed

Replace friendlies when a trophy is involved? OK. till then sha.

snrman:
with the way things are going and the media is pushing van diirk who might win it. Remember this was how modrics own started

At this point, if Netherlands goes ahead and win the Nations league trophy and Messi misses out on the Copa America, Van Dirk may win it despite not doing anything special compare to De jong in the matches.

If Portugal wins and Ronaldo scores, then CR7 jumps into the fray again.

The only thing that can help Messi stand out from this group is winning the copa.

snrman:
I think we should be more worried how to win a fvcking ucl next season.
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I noticed that when a certain moniker is online the issue of rashford and barca will b in one sentence which is insulting.
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Guy, nawa for you o. You had to drag us back to that Rashford issue. I brought the issue of the Ballon d'or up so they can move on from that silly topic.

Rashford kor , Rabies ni.

Does anything that happens in this Nations league final have any bearing on ratings for the Ballon d'or?

Varlverde will be good for Barca B.

I don't understand all this hullabaloo over just one slap. I expected the church and its members to forgive and forget.

After all, we Christian should obey Jesus teachings. He asked us to "turn the left cheek when slapped on the right." He also said to forgive 70 x 7 times.

So, pray for her instead of judging. Remember Mathew 7:7 says "Don't judge, for ...,"

Olamyyde:
360 man is still defending valverde

Surprising right? I quoted that his long epistle to Hamid, wanted to respond but then a thought came into my mind like "Why bother myself?". I erased everything I typed and went back to my "lookman mode".

Hamid7:
I was never pro Valverde. I never liked him for his disorganized gameplay. He can't get his players to perform at their peak, the ones doing doing well were established players left hehind by Enrique. The players signed under him haven't really justified their price.
I know you are hoping that Barca will do better next season, but reality has not given us any sign to sugest there will be improvements, and If I'm to pick between hope and reality, I will chose reality.
Let's wait for next season.

Same way we waited for this season.

Hamid7:
Pep definitely had a plan B, he didn't approach every game same way. Enrique had Ney and Messi in his squad, you can't have such players and not rely on their speed and skills. Every team have their strength, they have players they rely on, Valverde has just Messi, If he doesn't score, we are domed.
Valverde's Barca may not be the most conservative, but they are the most conservative Barcelona side of the past 10 years. They now sit deep and await opportunity for counters.
This team doesn't look capable of wining UCL
Pique: Slow, unnecessarily overlaps
Lenglet: Good but equally slow
Alba: Fast, technically good but panicks
Sergi Roberto, doesn't panick, good going forward but defensively not so good
Busquets: Slow, error prone
Arthur, controls midfield well, almost zero creativity and vision
Rakitic: Not as creative as a CM should, poor vision, sometimes walks around without contibuting anything meaningful
Coutinho: Loses the ball often, lacks everything except, maybe his trademark long range suprises.
Suarez: Good connection with Messi, misses the easiest of chances, dives too often
Messi: Good creativity and vision, good finishing, Manages to deliver even when heavily marked, Not as fast as in his prime, but isn't poor either, walk on the pitch sometimes, but does well when he gets the ball.
Dembele: Fast, fair creativity, poor decision making
Now tell me if liverpool is as weak as the team above. Worse, there is a coach who turns every player into a weakling.
If you are the CEO of a multinational, will you keep staff members who failed in their duty for two consecutive years? How long will you endure before you realise your investment is vanishing?.
I have been a cule for at least, 12 years. If you became a cule after 2010, or you ported from an EPL team you will think it's okay to win only the league or go trophyless( yeah, english teams can retain a failed manager or player for several years.)
Having a finisher won't solve our problens. We signed expensive wastes, thinking, they will solve our problem, no they made it worse. These board doesn't now the right players to sign.
Ending our misery should start from getting another coach, everything else can come after that.

Spot on analysis IMO.
I couldn't have said it better.

Kimbeast:
Barcelona should never be reliant on one player, to think people are saying they need to get a messi heir is just a complete slap in the face to Barcelona’s own Philosophy, they need to get back to being a well oiled machine and get back to the passing and pressing teams of old where every player is important in their own sense. Barca need pep Back.

Correct one my guy. We should learn from the Super Eagles, ever since Okocha retired, we've been looking for another him to carry the team, instead of playing as a team, we started doting on one no. 10 after another, they all tried and failed (Mikel included).

Let's play team football, where every player is allowed to play according to his strength and creativity. Messi's magic should be a cherry on the cake. A plus and not the strategy.

Na so we go dey complain, twist, suggest, and waste time till another transfer window will close without getting another striker? This same thing happened to us last season o, until the board forced Boateng down our throats.

Barca should take interest in this chukwueze guy o, if he's for sale.

Debroslink:
Messi is the reason Barcelona keeps appointing average coaches. Why? Messi makes them feel world class by winning them trophies.

By the time Messi retires, Barcelona will return to appointing world class coaches.

Good point.

airmark:
Jovic is going to score loads of goals with supplies from Hazard while Salah does his thing. I don't really need Mbappe again. These three are enough for me.

Wait o bros, which club do you really support sef? or you are just a fan of any club playing against Barca?

Just asking o, no pun intended.

tesppidd:
you sure say that noose for fit enter that head at all?

Guy, wetin be.your own der naaaa. The man with the head go know how the rope go enter that big head naw.

See head, see rope. The issue don finish.

cumz:
Who noticed that, it was messi that first left the field yesterday without even applauding the fans and he didn’t even celebrate the forced own goal

The guy, like you and i, does not like everything going on in and around the team.

Its obvious that he is not happy. He is just keeping a brave face, deep down, he knows they furcked up.

tesppidd:
Line up announced!

Roberto Umtiti Pique Alba
Vidal Busquets Rakitic
Messi Coutinho Malcolm


About match time,
Remote in hand:
Sighing and wondering whether to flip the channel.


What an anti-climax to yet another very successful domestic season.


Mtcheeeeew!!

No goalkeeper? Wait o, where is Suarez the iroko tree?

Abeg, how do I download this video to my mobile. I can't stop laughing o

Since every dick and harry dey become Oba away from home. Call me Onisambi of Sambisa kingdom