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Food › Re: Cook In Your Kitchen, Take Pictures And Post It Here. SIMPLE! by BlueRayDick:
All day at work I was cooking fried in my mind, I nearly typed fried rice in a mail sef grin.

By God's grace I will cook it for real tomorrow cool
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 10:56am On Aug 28, 2020
mostob:
Talking about style, someone once called him a driver.He loves driving the ball forward. I think he might have to do with a positional change.
Actually he does this ball driving really well, what makes him shit is he lacks awareness. He doesn't know when he's being marked out or when opposition players are advancing on him to get him dispossessed of the ball; he just keeps holding on the ball unnecessarily after driving the ball up to the point he's supposed to pass.

Take away his lack of stamina and questionable decision making; he may turn out as good as dem Wijnaldum over time.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 6:38am On Aug 28, 2020
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Food › Re: Cook In Your Kitchen, Take Pictures And Post It Here. SIMPLE! by BlueRayDick: 6:17am On Aug 28, 2020
Petyprincess:
Like seriously,if he was a woman i wouldn't be this surprised.
I'm just imagining how lucky his partner will be wink
As for us that our partners can't cook the lord is our strength grin grin
Teach him jor.....shebi he learn book for school and he understand, he go learn cooking for relationship and he go understand tongue
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 3:21pm On Aug 27, 2020
afrodoc2:
The most common cause of what you have (Hyposmia) is a viral upper respiratory tract infection.

Most of the time this would resolve with time with you doing nothing, apart from maybe rest and staying hydrated.

The fact that COVID-19 also causes similar symptoms should not therefore be surprising because it is after all essentially a viral respiratory infection.
Thank you doc, I got back my sense of taste and smell since yesterday. I only used actifed and a malaria drug I got on a Pharmacist's prescription for a few days.

Thanks to iamoyindamola , leyqute , skimpledawg and every other person that showed concern.

Losing those two senses can be very terrible o, u fit drink poison u no go know sef
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 2:11pm On Aug 27, 2020
Spy360:
They were all once Arsenal players that were let go because we felt they weren't good enough.


Saying Sylvinho went for right price makes me question your thinking. Why not browse first.

The point is not even letting them go, but to acknowledge that we can make a mistake. Blueraydick saying we cannot regret selling AMN that he has past his best is despicable and totally insensitive having no atom of regard for the player.
Honestly u are starting to irritate me. I deliberately ignored your last post for a reason. You've been pushing words into my mouth since the beginning of this discuss. I tried as much as possible to focus on the subject matter despite your continous use words like myopic, despicable etc while responding to my posts/mentioning me.

Is it so hard for you to respect people's opinions?

If u must continue with the Mitland-niles discussion, please do well to miss my mention I already told u I'm done with that.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 12:28pm On Aug 27, 2020
Spy360:
Knowing that there is a risk is not the point. But hastily concluding that he cannot do better than what he has already done is it.

Go through your comments and see your subtle view. You are like let's sell AMN, we won't regret it.

If you deny this, then you win.
Baba I Don tire already. Let's just accept we have different opinions on the same matter
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 11:45am On Aug 27, 2020
mostob:
Even though,I'm still keeping my fingers crossed about Partey but What really happened to my arsenal.? Na on deadline day we dey sign players during Wenger era. In fact the day we signed Ozil and Sanchez were like Christmas days at that time.
grin grin

I know this feeling. But I'm happy we are getting the Wenger days behind us. I remember that 8-2 flogging from manure, we signed I think 3 or 4 players the next day. Those days were not good times at all
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 9:04am On Aug 27, 2020
Spy360:
I get your point here. But when I mentioned Gnabry, someone we sold believing then it was the right thing but now turned out a far better player leaves us with regret- with that I compared him with AMN and you opposed.

My point is every young player a club sells is a risk taken. An opportunity cost. That's why some smart managers add a buy back clause- just in case.

You are like selling AMN is not a risk, like he CANNOT be better than what he is now.

And how the hell can you say his case is different from Pogba, Fabregas and Coman? angry

The trio above had even worse case of reject than AMN.

More names for you to ponder: Depay, De Bruyne, Pique
If u must know, I hold a masters degree in Risk Management as such I understand fully what risk is. There is risk in every business decision one takes, so singing that there is a risk in selling Mitland-Niles to me is just raising alarm over a non-issue. What makes or mars a business is knowing which risk to take and which not to take/take and manage.

Mitland-Niles staying and ending up like Theo Walcott is a risk......Mitland Niles leaving and turning out to be a superstar is also a risk . But u have to do analysis, look at historical records and take a decision. At this point sentiments are taking off the table; u look at how well he has fared in the team vis-a-vis the oppotunities he has been handed, his potentials and also history of players like that in the past....How many of them turned out good?

If the club is putting him up for sale knowing all these things me and u may not know, I believe they know what they are doing.

I already told u those players u mentioned had limited playing time at their respective clubs before they were sold, Mitland-Niles has played well enough. He played under Wenger, Emery and now under Arteta.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 7:24am On Aug 27, 2020
Spy360:
I will leave the decision to him and the handlers. But personally I have seen potentials in AMN since Arteta came in. Before then he looked distraught, but one cannot deny his tactical flexibility and positional awareness. A huge quality modern players like Kimmich, Saka etc are developing. AMN is surely one for the future. If he wants out no problem, if Arsenal no longer needs him no problem. But his talent is unique. No doubt about that.

Just for memory sake...

Man Utd resigned Pogba for 80m
Barça resigned Fabregas for 35m

Not all these decisions are cheap.

Letting academy players go will always be. But concluding that they will never reach stardom is myopic to say the least.

Ask PSG how they felt when Kingsley Coman scored that goal for Bayern.
You like to quote people out of context to drive home whatever point u think u are making.

I pointed it out to u that at age 22 Mitland-Niles has had 53 EPL senior appearances for Arsenal. This was obviously not Gnabry's case, neither was it Fabregas or Pogba's case.

I'm talking about letting a player that has not impressed coaches and fans with his on and off display but u are talking about academy players that weren't given chances by their respective clubs allowed to go and then growing to superstars elsewhere.

My point was clear from the onset of this discuss that players like Walcott were allowed to stay despite their inconsistent display over the years and Arsenal as a club regretted that decision.

In my opinion it makes no sense keeping a player like Mitland-Niles till maybe 26 years despite not breaking into the first team. It only makes sense to sell him and have other players fill his slot. I'm not God and don't decide what people will become in the future but Niles has not shown the potential that should make us keep him as of today
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 5:19am On Aug 27, 2020
Spy360:
This post is very insensitive.

And for the emboldened, the answer is a profound yes, just as it will be for any prospect that has passed through this club. I have faith in all our youngsters and hope they accomplish great things. I accept they should move on if they want to. But we must consider it as a risk taken because these lads can and i mean CAN turn out into big stars.
The same way a whole lot of our other youngsters have turned out to big stars àbí undecided

Everybody understands Gnabry's situation. There's no way he would've gotten opportunity he got in Germany if he had stayed in England hence he had to be allowed to go. He played in an Era when Arsenal still had enough senior players that kept him out of the team for as long as possible.

At 22 he already has 53 EPL appearances within 3 active seasons and u are saying his case is like that of Gnabry. Abeg let him go if it will guarantee bringing in New players that can hold down a shirt and step up when they are called upon to do so.

I've watched Mitland-Niles now and at best his potential is just average, nothing promising about his game. I don't know about u sha.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 10:31pm On Aug 26, 2020
I hope this is/was not true o. grin

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 9:44pm On Aug 26, 2020
Spy360:
Like we didn't regret Gnabry
undecided
Did Gnabry get to play and anybody concluded he's not good enough?

Are u comparing Gnabry's case with Maitland 4cking Niles?

Do u know how many coaches have given Niles opportunity to play and he's not lived up to expectation?

As far as I'm concerned Niles is just like Ìwobi that refused to hold a place in the team and just needed to go.

I don't know if some fans are so sold-in on Wenger's style of managing the team where players that are potentials will be allowed to stay in a team for so long till they are aged and still potential; but I learnt my lesson from Walcott's case. I will always be vocal about allowing such players find their way out of the club ASAP. Never again should any player be a Walcott kinda potential
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 9:38pm On Aug 26, 2020
mostob:
Had it been we have good options in our midfield, I will never object too. But as at now,Xhaka is the only sure CM we have ...that is why I feel we shouldn't let him go for now.
Realistically speaking arsenal must sell to be able to buy. Who do u think Arsenal needs to sell if not players like Mitland-Niles who don't stand a chance of making first team?

If Arsenal fans want to see players like Partey, Thiago etc don arsenal jersey in the future then we must be ready to let players like Mitland-Niles go. You may want to argue that we need them to play cup games even when he doesn't make first team in the PL but then cup games can be played by youngsters who need to grow into the team.

What is the eseence of having a senior player like Mitland-Niles who cannot be called up to step in for injured players for as much as 4 -5 weeks and u will be assured of consistent performance? The truth is Mitland-Niles has had several opportunities to be a mainstay in the team but he messed it up.

Let the club sell him and bring in fresh legs with fresh ideas and if need be promote some youngsters too.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 8:41pm On Aug 26, 2020
mostob:
He rarely play as midfielder for us. And when playing as FB,at least he is more reliable than Kola.
They are both not good enough for Arsenal. I don't see anything wrong in selling a player like Mitland-Niles provided he's sold for a good fee.

I will never object to his sale. He's not someone we will regret selling.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 7:41pm On Aug 26, 2020
mostob:
This one no follow at all. We are currently looking to sign more midfielder yet we are letting go of the reliable ones.
Maitland reliable midfielder? When?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 4:32pm On Aug 26, 2020
Roland17:
You are already making my point. Read your second paragraph and you should see the answer there.

According to your post which is the fact but you don’t even realize it is “It will cost Arsenal“ is different from “it cost“, more importantly “in the long run”. One is probable, the other is definite.

Consequently, outside of his weekly wages, Arsenal only paid 20M in 2019 which is the koko of our argument.

And yes! You will add the installment for this year in your expenditure for this year because it is included in the terms of the contract. We have 52M with no accrued interest staggered over 4 years.

With this new information, get a calculator, do the math again and check back with me.. I am waiting..
Alaye already say "In my calculation"....U suppose know say na Shekpe Financial Reporting Standards (SFRS) he dey follow na grin
Food › Re: Cook In Your Kitchen, Take Pictures And Post It Here. SIMPLE! by BlueRayDick: 2:19pm On Aug 26, 2020
cococandy:
It’s salty tongue

You can try sweet soy sauce though. So much better. Since I started using it, my Chinese fried rice has been better than restaurant quality.

And it has less sodium too.
This is true actually. But I don't know there is sweet soy sauce again o. I will also look for it when next I go shopping and give it a trial.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 1:02pm On Aug 26, 2020
iamoyindamola:
They no fit chop pass 8-2 grin
Who tell u?

U can't shame the shameless, those guys go chop pass am and Papasthapopulous go still score own goal sef
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 12:31pm On Aug 26, 2020
Messi, Debruyne and Aguero inside one team..... Now imagine say Arsenal wan parade those clowns at the backline grin
Food › Re: Cook In Your Kitchen, Take Pictures And Post It Here. SIMPLE! by BlueRayDick: 11:03am On Aug 26, 2020
pocohantas:
Lol. It went well... The chick asked me, dark or light one? What does a village girl like me know? I just blurted out, “DARK!!!” grin

Thanks guys. kiss kiss kiss
I always use the light Soy sauce for my stir fry noodles and spaghetti; it usually comes out well
Food › Re: Cook In Your Kitchen, Take Pictures And Post It Here. SIMPLE! by BlueRayDick: 8:22am On Aug 25, 2020
Something light for breakfast

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 8:48pm On Aug 23, 2020
Roland17:
Oh boy! That can go anywhere..Looked like a PK
He was already going down.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 8:47pm On Aug 23, 2020
Mbappe what the 4ck is that!
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 8:37pm On Aug 23, 2020
Hmmmm....age will certainly tell on Thiago Silva if he eventually comes to EPL. All those Jambody strikers go give the old man knock o
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 8:28pm On Aug 23, 2020
I'm supporting Psg tonight whole-heartedly
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by BlueRayDick: 9:00am On Aug 23, 2020
iamoyindamola:
Blueraydick how are you doing bro?
I'm fine, Thank you.

I'm presently treating malaria and I can smell and taste partially but not fully sha. I believe in the next few days I will.be perfectly fine.
Education › Re: Buhari suspends Babalakin as UNILAG Pro-Chancellor, sacks Acting VC by BlueRayDick: 5:22am On Aug 22, 2020
Now this makes sense. Babalakin whose Children don't school in unilag cannot hold the school community to ransome because he doesn't see eye to eye with the VC he didn't appoint.

Let him go and establish his own private university so he can hire and fire the VC's at will without recourse to any university governing Laws.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 1:19pm On Aug 21, 2020
hensben:
My nairaland peeps I'm happy to inform you that my wife has delivered a bouncy baby boy.

I’m a father now.

Cc: Airmark, ibime, Raumdeuter, afrodock, nihilist and co
Congrats on the arrival of ur bundle of Joy. I pray God keeps the child and his parents
Food › Re: Cook In Your Kitchen, Take Pictures And Post It Here. SIMPLE! by BlueRayDick: 12:52pm On Aug 21, 2020
Happy birthday olùkọ́ àgbà. Oya use this my colorful noodle throwback to hold body before yam wey I dey ship come arrive Istanbul port grin
Dyt:
Oooiiinnn

Food › Re: Cook In Your Kitchen, Take Pictures And Post It Here. SIMPLE! by BlueRayDick: 12:46pm On Aug 21, 2020
LadySarah:
Cc. Sunbestie. Ppl who sell foreign used kitchen /electric appliances usually have it. Mine is the double like the one up there. You won't regret it.

Single is lyk this
U people using this hot plate I want to believe you are using the old analogue Electricity meter or probably on estimated electricity billing system....Cos if you use prepaid meter and can afford to use this Electricity sucking Hot plate I must confess u are living large ó grin

The small white slows hot plate someone posted yesterday ehn, the day I had prepaid meter connected was the last day I put it to use. Local man cannot be using all his money to buy electricity units because of one small hit plate when gas still cheap.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueRayDick: 10:38am On Aug 21, 2020
afrodoc2:
The most common cause of what you have (Hyposmia) is a viral upper respiratory tract infection.

Most of the time this would resolve with time with you doing nothing, apart from maybe rest and staying hydrated.

The fact that COVID-19 also causes similar symptoms should not therefore be surprising because it is after all essentially a viral respiratory infection.
Okay, thanks doc. I will drink more water then.

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