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No matter how good Guendouzi has turned out to be, he just has a problem if holding on to the ball too much

kokaneprodigy:
Emery is not a coach Na permutations him just dey do. I will keep saying this to anyone who cares to listen. ( call me names idgaf).

Week in week out he comes up with different lineups that are always ridiculous.

Ozil hasn’t kicked a ball this season we’ve seen how well we’ve been playing so far. But but lazy Ozil was the problem.

Whoever doesn’t know that Emery is the common denominator here needs his brain checked.

I dey always laugh anytime I read that "lazy ozil" line here. I go just shake my head.

I dey just reason am say na so life be sha. People commot wrapper, handkerchief and even leave to spread for floor for Jesus on Sunday(palm Sunday) and by Friday of the same week dem Don knack Jesus for cross.

How much more of ozil that was the spark in Wenger's last days along with Sanchez?

LegoxMetahuman:
all goals came from the youth team

All goals from.Nigerians

What nonesense is happening in this RUGAslavia we call Nigeria?

So employment has turned to padi padi now. Whh can't Eboyin first class graduates take the same rigorous recruitment process along with their peers?

Like what the helll

Nepotism has been institutionalized in this country. A whole central Bank of Nigeria. Whatever arrangement Eboyin state government has with CBN is Nepotism at best.

The CBN is supposed to be an institution where every Nigerian have equal opportunities to work. Not a particular set of Nigerians from certain states.

So what happens to the first class economic graduates from other states?

If Eboyin state civil service commission had planned on taking all first class graduates and absorb them into their civil service it would've been commendable, but a Federal government institution openly endorsing Nepotism for whatever reason is not acceptable.

A40:
Never in the history of niggerdom have I not seen a bad worker man blame his tools.

Guardiola my left nut. When England hired Capello nko what happened? Nobody get time for all these kanipe talk

Didn't Brazil win the World Cup with Scolari aka Papa Ajasco some years back. France with Aime Jacquet who the French wanted to chase out of their country prior to the tournament? Abi Roger Lemerre.

Abeg spare these excuses. Isn't it the same Pep that hasn't led City past CL quarterfinal? What's the guarantee he would do diddly squat with England and their over hyped squad?

Oil dey Ur head.

This is exactly what I told him ó. It's mere wishful thinking for somebody to stay one place reminiscing and fantasizing what would've been saying ceteris paribus (All things being equal, when in fact all things can never be equal)

It's just like a case of if messi had opted to play for Spain and won the world cup and euros with them. Make Aguero or Di Màríà come sit down dey talk say If messi had played for them at the national level they would have World cup and Copa America medals.

What nonesense are we really doing with this Saliba deal sef?

Who brought this yeye idea sef?. The Saliba deal just be like PES commentary : Now you see him, now you don't.

popizaino:
You posted a screenshot were english players were rated lower than their counterparts from other countries and i gave an honest reason of fifa using national team performance for the ratings, only for you to select some random players which I said England it didn't make the euro 2008 as the reason for why those players you selected were higher. So if you are talking about 2006 I still maintain my initial point that their world cup performance was still the reason.

Your confusion is confusing me. I Don tire to explain abeg. Let's agree you are right

I wan go drink abeg

popizaino:
England didn't make euro 2008, it is reflected in the ratings.

What has not making Euros 2008 got to do with their 2006 performance for both country and club.

You really need to make me understand you o

solomonbrown64:
...... Lacazette is out for a month. We will have to depend on Auba all through the period he is out as Nketiah is on loan. Jules will have to step up now.

Chai

popizaino:
Those players from other countries were only rated higher than the English players on the basis of their performance for national side and not club side.

So Ronaldinho, Messi, Drogba, C Ronaldo, Kaka, Puyol were rated above England players because they performed so well for their countries ?

Abi I'm not reading u well ni?

raumdeuter:
Tery and Rio were not the best in their position, Their club defensive partners were the best in their position

Exactly. vidic is better than Ferdinand. Even utd fans know this

Kimbeast:
Are you alright? Terry and Ferdinand were not the best in their position or Scholes, Lampard, Gerrard,Owen,becks,Rooney etc just stop. If the only thing you do is go to Google and look at Wikipedia then forget about it.

Oga! You claimed England had arguably the best team in the world 10 years ago, that was debunked. You turned back and and admitted not reading it right.

Now u brought England 2006 world cup team and Italy's 2006 team up to buttress the point of the England golden generation being better than what other countries have on display. You will not agree Rooney was not better than Luca Toni as at that time, you will not agree had a team that was well balanced in all department(having an extremely good defenders, compact midfieders and strikers that deliver).

Maybe you should forget it really.

Kimbeast:
We are talking about the England team.

But the supposed England super squad players are not the best whatever position you assigned them you claimed in your initial post na?

Why was ur best left back in the game?

I asked you for what metrics u used in assigning the positions u are turning amala. Baba dey plead 5th

Kimbeast:
Who do you feel was hyped?

Ashley Cole, best left back in the game.

Rio/Terry 2 of the best center backs in the game.

Gary Neville, arguably the Premier League’s best ever right-back.

Scholes/Gerrard/Lampard – 3 of the best midfielders in the game.

Beckham the face of football at that time.



Rooney best young player in the world that time.

Squad players like Michael Carrick/Joe Cole

See when you say best left back, best right back...etc. you have to put a time frame to it. We are talking pre-2006 and 2006 here.

Bellow is FIFPRO XI 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 respectively. Count the England players there and count the Italians there.

Kimbeast:
Mbappe going to world cup 2018 was special talk less of Rooney back then in 2006 man please stop tripping. Man for man England was better than most teams in that tournament,poor management and bad luck was their downfall.

There's an England starting eleven up there that shows Rooney as top striker. It was on that premise I told you a Luca Toni who scored 31 league goals that season was way better than him as at that time. How Mbappe came into the discussion I may never know.

You keep repeating the same thing the english team was better than other teams but you havent told us what metrics was used to arrive at your assertion.

Something is wrong with that man Ned. That man must have a whole lot of Barely legal porn on his mobile devices. Abi what's with him and young girls who just crossed into adulthood

Kimbeast:
The point I was making is that England had the players and talent but not the coach/Management. Then I showed you teams with less talent than England that achieved more during that tournament and Period.

Okay what metrics do you use in arriving at the fact they have more talent?

There is Luca Toni that finished highest goal scorer in the serie A with 31 goals leading Italy's attack vs Wayne Rooney that scored 16 in the Epl.

Baba forget that thing. There was nothing special about that England team as at that time. You are only looking back at what some of the players later achieved hence why u think they are shiii back then

Greatihex:
“What a pleasure it was to play alongside N’Golo!" he said to L'Equipe .
"He is an adorable guy alongside being a fantastic footballer: when we lost the ball, wherever that happened on the pitch, boom, he would appear and win it back for us.
"In training, it was so easy for him that I was convinced that he intentionally gave the ball away sometimes just to enjoy winning it back again.
"One day he said to us that he was seriously considering running to the training centre each day, which came from the fact that he would always add a little running session for himself.
"In the moment, we were all a bit taken aback and convinced him not to. In any case, each time that we saw him arrive at training with his Mini Cooper, we were reassured.”
Kante went head-to-head with his former side in August, as Leicester held Chelsea to a 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge.
And Kante used the opportunity to catch up some old team-mates, including Vardy.
“Last month, after our match at Stamford Bridge, he came to say hello to us in the dressing room," the England international said.
"The first thing that I asked him was: 'Are you still driving your Mini Cooper, mate?' He said to me that he had sent the model that he had at Leicester back to France but that he had bought a new Mini Cooper in the meantime!”

Funny enough I saw one mini cooper on the island and the first thing that come to my mind is Kante. . Since the day i read he drives a mini cooper despite his improved contract at chelsea ,anywhere I see mini cooper my mind automatically goes to him

Kimbeast:
Did I mention pirlo,buffon and cannavaro .

Seriously Materazzi better than Ferdinand/Terry

Okay since you decided to do a Terry/Ferdiand tag team, i put it to you cannavarro is better than either of them.

By the way, u are drifting away from the main discuss which is the fact that Italy had a more balanced team. They had decent players in each position on the Field. Their strikers aren't firing blanks, their defenders don't allow you breathing space and their midfield contains all your firepower in the middle.

That's what wins you trophies. England never had that.

Kimbeast:
England had the best players all in their prime, some of whom were genuinely world class


Here you go.
Paul Robinson
Owen Hargreaves
Rio Ferdinand
John Terry
Ashley Cole
Michael Carrick
David Beckham
Steven Gerrard
Frank Lampard
Joe Cole
Wayne Rooney

Baba u are tripping. The Italian team thay paraded Materazzi and Cannavaro doesn't have players better than John Terry and Ferdinand?

Even Pirlo is better than Carrick....abeg. Buffoon and Robinson

Kai!

Kimbeast:
If you look at the Italian team that won the World Cup. Grosso, Toni, Materazzi, Perotta, Camorensi, Zambrotta and Gattuso all started in the final . None of them were better than the players England had in those positions - Gattuso is the only one for which this could even be debated. The talent they had was insane, its a shame the coaching decisions were very poor. The only team head and shoulders above England in terms of players was France and even then their best player was already Old. Just to drive my point home here's the four semi-finalists from 2006. Its glaringly obvious that 3 of these teams were not as talented on paper as the England team from that period was.

Are you for real? Indulge me please. Post the England starting 11 Lets see.

popizaino:
What is with this constant disrespect for pep guardiola self?pep guardiola can use every Tom dick and Harry that's why players like gudjoshen, seydou keita,pique, slyvinho were all pats of his all dominating barca side. And in no world were the Spanish players you mentioned above were superior in quality to the English players mentioned by Rooney. What was the difference between them was the coach that's why Rooney rightly opined a brilliant coach like pep guardiola would virtually win it all with them just the way he did with barca.The 3 lions has always paraded some of the finest players in the world over the years but their greatest undoing is always mediocre coaches. If you don't believe pep guardiola would win it all with the three lions you might as well believe Diego Maradona could have won the world with la roja in 2010 if he was their coach.

You obviously didn't get my point when I said pep can't use every Tom, dick and harry. we all know Pep has a pattern he prefers to play which has been why he's won everything he's won. Those players you mentioned- Keita, Pique etc fit in into his playing style. Now look at what happened when he got to city....before he even got to city he already made it known Joe Hart won't be a starter. By the time he won his first league he had weeded out most players he feel won't fit into his team.

He is good coach no doubt, but you think he can overhaul the team like that in a national team ? Where will he get the players from?

Of what use will Guardiola brilliant tactics be when the players can't execute his style? Abi you think Lampard, Gerrad will pass , pass , pass and not shoot like Guardiola will want ?

See Rooney just dey talk based on how high he valued those players, he's not considering the quality of players available in other countries around that same period.

I refuse to believe he would've won world cup and Euros with that England team with teams like Spain having players popping up in the balon d'or that same period

purplekayc:
why is he always injured

A player doesn't determine when and how he gets injured na. Although being the only senior right back week in week out may have a telling effect on him