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A timely reminder that My divider has more points than Arsenal
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TRendlona:
Neymar led them to glory and everybody knows dat. This is Brazil's first gold in their history in an Olympic competition, something Kaka, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo and Rivaldo couldn't get 4 Brazil, Neymar got it.

Henceforth, ull b flogged with cane if u ever tell us Hazard or Bale is better than Neymar.

Neymar beats Hazard internationally for now but not Bale

What Bale is doing for Wales is sooo lovely abeg

What exactly did James do to Zidane??
It is becoming embarrassing, even with Key players my guy is still on the bench


Get him please.... He can give us goals

FBS:
You sef.

It was for those who felt the likes of Rahman and Calcum are the best things since olele elemi meje.

That was not for you o

It was for the Rahman fans,they were the ones who called him mediocre

Dhellake:
LOL

Who judges left backs by number of goals??


Abeg!!

No one is saying he is on our level but he has something, what can Iya Rahman do

You mean the 'mediocre' PVA ;DD



I always and will always rate that guy....Offensively he is great,just needs the right guidance defensively which is something he would have had if he trained well enough with World class players like Cole and Terry

sebod:
Neymar finally won for Brazil what the have been missing over the years. #legend

Marquinhos finally won for Brazil what have been missing...Congrats to him too

#Legend

hensben:
I still prefer Kante, Oscar and fabregas midfield.

Can't you guys see that Kante is wasting away at DM...God the guy should be winning the ball in the opponent's half

I don't like him as a DM,he is marvelous as a CM

Kante is the reason we are conceding just a goal per game,Matic is still misbehaving

Let's us hope we get defenders in very soon and Conte picks Chalobah,then we have the right set-up to more than accommodate Fabregas

Conte has not been selecting his team on merit.....
As per Conte's era,Aina has been better than Iva
Moses and Cuadrado have been better than Pedro and Willian
Chalobah has done more than Matic

He should do something, Matic and Oscar is a duo that lacks everything apart from work rate

Chalobah,Fabregas and Kante in the midfield will take us places

lordfalcao:
forget chalobah abeg, how many player he bench for mildfiield for napoli? a player that only made 5 appearance in a napoli shirt. that ninja is not ready Biko.

e better we buy another CM

Na this kind talk dey put us in trouble..... Do you know the circumstances surrounding the loan?
How many times have you seen the guy play?
Trust what you see nigga


The Matic that's experienced and ready what is he offering?
You wanna buy another CM when you have Kante,Fab and Oscar without mid week footy?

lordfalcao:
To me ,Conte is better than mourinho tactically

Tactics no be by super subs......Mourinho kills games 24 hours before kick off,he has watched the opponents,analyzed them and boom

You think subs will safe us in UCL,imagine getting it wrong against Barca,by the 50th minute you are out of the game and subs can do nothing


He has to start getting it right before the team enter the bus

Ogun will make Conte bald if he ever goes back to 4-1-4-1

4-4-2 has always been my best but if we must use 3 MFs then it should be Chalobah,Kante and Fabregas.....Kante is wasting as a DM


Moses is way better than Pedro,that one isn't better than anyone anyway
Ycee is 10x> lukaku,Bobo na striker....He just reminds me of Drogba
Costa is an Idiot, I want him out.....

When Mourinho is managing HIS team it's always trouble.
The only season he designed his team during his second spell we were the champ from WK 1 till the end

We all still have hope this season but we have none next season because when Mourinho gives that ' we are ready to challenge' speech during the first presser of his second season,then its on.........Not even the greatest team of all time could stop him

OEmperor:
Chai imagine miki starts and martial is in form and epa Rooney is chilling on the bench united will be the team to watch

Lingaard holds the key to getting rid of Rooney
Mou won't play Mkhi and Mata together, if Jesse fires up Mourinho will have to choose between Rooney,Mata and Mkhi and Rooney isn't gonna win that battle

De gea is now looking neat after every game unlike during LVG era when he always looked dirty and frustrated liked a junior student without a school father after every game



Between,what has mourinho done to fellaini?

SailorXY:
it was around this period I started doubting LvG's sanity.

That day at white hart lane,I remember him playing Young as a 9 and put Martial on the wing then used Lingaard as a 10 with Mata on the right flank.......


It was then I realised that GK sub at the World cup was because he was actually sick

Diademk07:
Lol!

Who says I'm even good at punditry? Good keh? You no well.

I was just laughing at Mourinho insinuating that Mata would drift inside. But that's what Mkhi does.

At least he won't let Jones take corner kicks

Mahrez signs new Leicester contract

Chelseafan1:
But that guy is actually dumber than I thought judging by his come back to GBR1, person expose ur nyash, u kon dey yarn about Barca winning the UCL just last year, wetin dem dey talk, wetin hin dey reply, I can't but shake my head, only God knows how he's coping in Medical school.

Homesteady is a med student?? Oh Bleep
Which school? And what level?

Nihilist:
I generally believe that player recruitment is done better on the continent anyway, but not for any of the reasons you've listed up there.

The first thing you need to understand is that the UK as a country is a less appealing destination to many foreign players than say Italy France and Spain.

Italy, France, and Spain benefit from better weather,lower taxation, and cultural similarity. Their press/paparazzi are less aggressive, and the game is played at a slower pace, and arguably the chics are hotter sef.
Skegness or Nice/Monaco. Blackpool or Marbella/Ibiza. Eastbourne or Palermo. I know which beaches I would rather be on. Ask Di Maria.

The second thing you need to know, is that the people who carry out these transfers,especially in the UK, are business men, not coaches. They are using business eyes to look at the transfer.

While a manager can see how his target can fit into his team, and use that as justification for the transfer, the money men tend to look at the player as an asset and look at his individual(and potential) achievements to justify whther on not they will be able to reap a really good ROI. That's why you will hear rumours of the board insisting that a certain player must play either because he is sponsored by Adidas, or to raise the club's profile in Azerbaijan or fuckknows.

The third thing you need is that players themselves don't like stress. They would rather go to a place where the title is guaranteed(or almost guaranteed) than EPL where oloriburukus like West Ham and West Brom will come and derail your title race and even give you a career ending injury on top.

Finally, you need to know that the likes of Madrid/Barca/Juve/Bayern are the football equivalent of Oil Companies in the Nigerian Job Market. Look at Ronaldo who won EPL/UCL with Manyoo and still practically forced a move away to Spain. When those clubs come calling, sometimes all the money in the world is not enough to deter your players from answering their call.

The question you should be asking is, despite the fact that Manyoo has been one of the richest clubs in the world for over a decade, City essentially being an apparatus of the Abu Dhabi state government, and Chelsea spending Oligarch money,why is Pogba is the first global superstar in his prime to come to the EPL since inception in 1992?

I agree with all these..It makes sense but the quality still needs to improve or else the league will keep going down

homesteady:
Overpaying for Neymar? When was the last time a player from your club mounted the Balon d'or podium?

Barca fans always behave like the electric potential in their brains is controlled by NEPA


Wetin we talk,wetin u dey talk

Nihilist:
English clubs earn more money.

Last Year Aston Villa earned more money from TV revenue than Real Madrid earned from winning the Champions League.

That's why, you will see player x going to Spain or Italy for 15m pounds, but once an Enlglish club should gboriwole, they will quote him 45m.

That's the real reason why it seems like we're buying average and untested products for large amounts of money. Just look across to Manchester and check how much world class players actually cost English clubs, and you will never need to write these your epistles again.

If you are richer then you should have more quality unless you are not spending enough which is not the case in EPL
EPL is getting more,spending more and still buy less quality in the transfer market, no logic in the world can explain that except the fact that the people in charge are dumb which is exactly my point


In some cases what you explained happens but its the normal thing to do....Jeez that's why you earn more,blow them away...
The fact that English teams aren't buying certain players because of the inflated prices would suggest EPL teams spend wisely,which is not the case

It makes little sense to overpay for an inferior quality because you don't wanna overpay for a superior talent!
Everton were asked to pay €25 for a 22 year old Boufal,they didn't want to overpay so they went for a cheaper 30m Bolasie

Overpaying shouldn't be a problem for the right talent
Its one thing to Overpay for Hazard,its another to overpay for Willian or Sterling
Back then we overpayed for Hazard,who would complain now?
We overplayed for Drogba and m sure I speak for everyone when i say we would be happy to do that over and over again

If English teams are backing out of a deal because of the cost and go make a worse deal for the back up,then we have a P...
We didn't want to overpay for Costa,so we overpayed for Cuadrado

If Dortmund bid 25m for Dembele,we should pay 35 for him,at the end of the day we both are bidding around the same percentage of our budget
It makes no sense for a rich girl to lose a girl because he doesn't want to spend

By the way despite withdrawing from great deals because they don't wanna spend,85% of EPL deals are still inflated
Its not like EPL teams still don't overpay despite withdrawing from great deals because of the price
Fellaini,Sterling,Bolasie,Willian,Mangala,Otamendi e.t.c
Why not overpay for the right quality and let us bully teams all over Europe with money

Even with the Inflation excuse,we have seen EPL teams like Spurs and Leicester make bargain signing.... Alderwierld, Dier,Alli,Mahrez,Kante,Vardy and co

Even if I agree 100% with you,it's is not enough as an excuse

2- Even without the inflation,EPL has scouting issues
Bayern got Coman without competition
Dortmund got Dembele without a fight
Juve got Dybala without stress
Atl Mad didn't compete with any EPL team before signing Niguez,Carrasco, Griezman

It's a different thing if you don't wanna overpay,it's another thing if you didn't even scout the player


So you can't say Inflation of prices is the only problem the league has in bringing in talents



Lastly EPL teams aren't the only ones that face the inflation problem,Bayern,Barca,Madrid and Juve also face it and they still manage to get cheap and quality signings and yes they overpay for some too

Those clubs would hardly let Lukaku and KDB leave without a buy back clause and the would choose Cuadrado over Costa or Bolasie over Boufal...

We need to do something about our scouting network mehn.
We should get someone from LA liga or French league, Barca,Bayern and Atl Madrid keep getting gems for chicken change..
Lucas Digne,Jimenez,Niguez and co

We have spent over 150m on Moses,Cuadrado,Salah,Pedro,Willian,Schrulle and Marin in the last 4 years.....Kalou who use to ride our bench years ago is better than all of these guys
Something is really wrong

Clubs like Bayern and barca who don't need quality midfielders are getting superstars while Chelsea that needs them are getting average players to play back up to average players

I don't even get paid to be a scout and yet all my targets have been a hit,back to back .......From Umtiti to Dembele to Ben Arfa....It's not hard na
Its not actually just a Chelsea problem,its the EPL problem

We will soon cross the 1bn mark of last season and I could hardly count 10 world class signings we have made in England

Imagine paying 50m for Sterling and Bayern got Conan for around 30m,that's a little bit lower than what someone paid for Fellaini and his Afro
I almost cried when I heard Everton paid 30m for Bolasie,Give Sevilla or Valencia that 30m and see how they gonna build a solid team

Roman looks kinda tired to spend,The guy at Atl Madrid can give Conte a strong team with peanuts


Clubs like Barca and Bayern hardly get it wrong,even when its looks like they are overpaying e.g Renato,Neymar,Costa, Vidal....


Rodriguez is available, we are going for Hector
Diawara is available,we are going for Maia

No wonder those mumus can't even see talents in our youths

Elxandre:
Big kesh, you've been silent these days.
How far?

I dey bro.....
Just nothing to talk about or comment on and m soo not in the mood because m expecting my MB result any moment

I don't think I have been quiet though,at least not on my thread

Oscar displaced Mata
Oscar displaced KDB
Oscar wants to displace Fabregas


ItS like i need to visit our village to end the curse of having this miserable slowpoke of a babyface........


God,I hate that idiot........That's how he will be forming Zico when a new manager arrives and send real ballers away
This time Kolewerk!!

I hope Fabregas,Chalobah and Kante start today but I know it will be Matic,Oscar and Kante.......

I want Cuadrado but I will see Willian....
It should be Aina but na Ivanovic things


God help us

With that defence not befitting of a principal cup champion,I am not hoping for much...

Payet,Lazzini,Ayew and Feghouli will run us down...


But still am hoping for a win,say 3-2 because we are surely gonna concede

Ousmane Dembele.......

Shey una dey see player


Elaboi,does he look like an Aston villa quality??



I be scout abeg

Wijnaldum,Chambers and Coquelin all useless together in one half
While Dembele,Ben Arfa and Umtiti are all endearing themselves to their club's fans


*sips Fanta*

raumdeuter:
When was this time Cahill was ever good? In Bolton or where?

Cahill has done the only thing you claim Boateng has done in his entire career-'Bossed the biggest game of his career'

Cahill did that with injury


Oya turn it around and tell me Cahill was never good

Wait

So Martial cheated on his wife and destroyed his family and inherited the '11' jersey

Legend in the making

raumdeuter:
By 2010 everyone knew Torres was a flop, you can ask people who were posting here then

2. Messi point doesnt make any sense, Even though you were trying to troll, its still a troll-fail

3. Xavi that is retired in Qatar? Try use some logic and compare apples with apples even when trying to troll

How doesn't it make sense

You said Cahill was poor when he was very good,now that he has lost it you are claiming you were right
I also said Messi was overhyped even when he was winning the ballon d'or,now m right and you no wan gree


Did Rakitic bench Xavi? Yes or no



We don't have to fight,we are both Prophets