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Jollof Rice ❤

●Turkey
●Plantain
●Egg


Feliz Domingo a todos

Jollof wey go Harvard + turkey wey dey San Francisco jamming

This goes well boss !

Amoto94:
You are not alone in this I find boxing and other associated sports barbaric for entertainment but learning martial arts for self-defence should be taught to everyone male and female.

Me sef dey this Whatsapp group. I find it disturbing that audience will cheer two people hammering at each other with their fists, infringing serious damage to each other and even going as far as drawing blood ....... mehn !

Looking at that Anthony Joshua’s fight that it was reported he had to be rushed to the hospital cos his eye socket or something was fractured in the fight; the thing dey do me somehow.

To me , boxing just looks like a sport humans kept as part of the relics of the Stone Age . No matter how glowingly people talk about boxing , the knock out and points earned ..... I just don’t see myself enjoying the “sport”

Spy360:
What you have said is still speculation at best. Usmanov was dragging his feet and was usurped. Finish. Any other thing is old news.

Okay . It’s obvious U already have ur own preconceived believe going into this discourse .....there’s no need dragging this further , there’s nothing any of us will say that will make u see things any other way.

Smoked Fish and prawn scent leaf sauce ready to be served with white rice or boiled yam

iamoyindamola:
I remember wengay sef no like usmanov cause he once question his transfer policy, he was part of the leak when they offered him(wengay) 200m for transfer which he rejected.

Don’t mind dem. Wenger and the board were stuck in the past; Usmanov was definitely going to pull off an Abramovic on the club and the board + Wenger can’t imagine that happening

Spy360:
Only Arabs are sugar daddies I know. The closests are the Russian oil moguls like Abrahomvic.

U’ve not been listening / reading all I’ve been saying . Usmanov is just like Abramovic; an Uzbek born Russian oligarch. He’s got everything Abramovic’s got including closeness to Putin.

He’s a potential sugar daddy our board let slide because of whatever political reasons they can use to justify not selling to him. Now they sold to the Amrican silent Stan see where we are.

Spy360:
I agree it has nothing to do with nationality. But we all know where most of the money is coming from.
The Leicester owner did not throw in sugar-money. The success he achieved was largely a product of chance and opportunity. Ordinarily, his investment in Leicester, while credible would never be enough to usurp the likes of City and co. I stand with my Arabs.

I believe in sugar daddies irrespective of nationality

Spy360:
Exactly. That's what I was trying to let Blueray know. It's only Arabs that can really spend money for football. They do so without counting the costs, unlike others who want to be shrewed.

As for Usmanov I am yet to be convinced that he was serious to own the club. He may have made comments, but so has many others including me.

I already pointed out Leicester owner of blessed memory to you. He’s not Arab , he bought the club , clean up their debts and still got them players and a good coach in Claudio Ranieri and they ended up with the league.

Any billionaire that likes the sport and majorly has interest in seeing his club win trophies will invest in his club ; it has nothing to do with nationality rather it’s the passion

afrodoc2:
I remember this episode quite well.

Danny Fiszman and Lady Bracewell-Smith did not like Usmanov personally and did refuse to sell to him. Those 2 were the ringleaders.

Some believe they were the ones that actually secretly went shopping for an acceptable billionaire I.e Kroenke in order to avoid having to sell to Usmanov who they felt wasn’t classy/upper class enough for them.

God bless u! Spy360 believes everything is just bread and butter ; that no businessman will see money being offered andwont sell his shares to someone like Usmanov . He doesn’t know some of these guys can decide not to sell to u just because of whatever perception they have concerning u.

Those guys obviously don’t want Ismanov neat the club and it was clear some of the reasons going by what Usmanov’s wiki page says about him. Person wey don go jail for fraud charges , convicted of rape and fraternizes with Putin.

Spy360:
The error you are making is taking Usmanov's comments as intents. Any body can declare interest in something but it's those who actually put money down can be regarded as serious.
Why would the board refuse to sell to Usmanov and sold to Kroenke instead? Infact it was a rule that whoever has a majority stake of over 30% can declare a take over.
While Usmanov was dragging feet, Kroenke swooped in. Kroenke showed more intents by putting down money. Being a fan for seven years is no excuse or right. He is just using the current situation to draw sympathy. He could even be worse than Kroenke, we can never tell.

I was hoping u would ask the bold part of Ur post....well since u asked, here's few reasons I think the board didn't sell ro him:

1. Usmanov is an Uzbek-born Russian oligarchy that had spent time in prison for fraud/corruption charges in the past. He was later granted pardon

2. There’s been allegations in the past that Usmanov was convicted of rape charges, an allegation he’s denied vehemently .

3. He’s rumored to be close to Vladimir Putin considering his wife introduced a lady to Putin

We all know how the west particularly US and USA always act self righteous in matters like the ones above ...... It’s easier selling to an American who owns major shares in Walmart and other legal businesses than selling to a Russian Oligarch they believe is tainted with scandals and close to Vladimir Putin. I believe politics and political correctness is part of what got us(Arsenal) to this point

Spy360:
Read the story well, the board did nothing. Usmanov had the resources (he is richer than Kroenke) plus Moshiri as a partner, yet was too slow to take over the club. He wasn't serious about it. Kroenke saw his opportunity and took it. Usmanov was not interested in running the club, he only wanted to make profits, that's why he had David Dein in his corner. Forget Usmanov, the only investors that will make a club big are the Arabs. European or American investors are just there to make profits. That's apart from Abrahamovic.

You probably didn't read the story well or maybe u did but u already had something else in mind thereby making u interprete some parts of it wrongly.

What do u think this means; "Usmanov said he had been an Arsenal fan for seven years and he had a great love for Arsenal.[citation needed]

Usmanov's interest precipitated a "lock-down" agreement by the Gunners' board, whereby chairman Peter Hill-Wood announced that club directors could sell their stakes only to "permitted persons" before April 2009, and had to give fellow board members "first option" on shares until October 2012.[65] However, there was a termination clause in the agreement in October "


Usmanov declared his love for arsenal and his interest in future taking over bid....suddenly the board comes up with a "lock-down agreement" that had a clause saying the directors can only sell their shares to permitted persons. Do u know if Usmanov was among those permitted persons? ( We don't know and we can't assume they just came up with the agreement to favor him). Even the MD was boasting the lock down agreement was a bulletproof for them ( Whatever that means)

It is mere assumption on Ur part to say Usmanov bought the club just for money even when the article clearly stated that Usmanov held on to his shares for at least 6 more years even when Usmanov was flashing him money to buy him out. He even increased his shareholdings within that period sef.

As regards Ur last paragraph that only Arab's investors can help a club move up with funds, I disagree with that.Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha bought leicester, paid off their debts, pumped in money to the club and suddenly a club that was relegated to the third tier of football 8 years ago became league champions. Wo, anybody that loves a club and buys a club will help the club achieve great things like those good billionaires are doing.

We will never get any serious financial help from that yeye miserly Kroenke that's got stake in almost all American sports franchise......just look at how happy he was the moment they mentioned the ESL matter; because it means more profit for him irrespective of how good we were playing or how high/low our potentials of winning trophies is.

Can u just imagine the nonsense the board did that made us end up with Silent Stan instead of Usmanov who knew the club management was shitty?

MorataFC:
Unbelievable, so the owner of Arsenal is richer than that of PSG's?

I still can't believe it

It is true, that useless kroenke is the only billionaire on that list who doesn't pump money into his team.

He's like a rich Kanayo O. Kanayo in a Nigerian movie that is portrayed as having blood money but instructed not to spend it on his poor relatives.

Even when the club experienced losses during COVID-19 they had to take a loan of £120m from bank of England to sort things out.....Na later later he come help repay that loan sha.

iamoyindamola:
Turning things around I mean from L to W
We know our coach na God help us

Until I see us for at least top 6, I no dey believe any yeye turnaround o. I no trust that Arteta jare, today he's hot tomorrow he's not.

ObaIgwe1:
The problem is that many other rich owners see their clubs as their pet projects...something for fun and glory before thinking of business profit, our own owner see the club first as a business to profit from...Even for the last set of transfers we did, na loan the 1diot took on behalf of the club. This is why I prefer to loud Kroenke-Out more than Arteta-Out.

Kroenke and Wenger would have been best match made in heaven....both of them stingy people who don't like to spend.

You hit the nail on the head, that yeye Kroenke is only holding the club for profit reasons and not because he likes football or wants to see the club win trophies.

Arteta has won the EPL manager of the month of September; Congrats to him. I just hope he won't go back to default settings after the international break.

That's probably a prostate issue if u are above 40 years of age . I will suggest you visit the hospital today to see a doctor and run tests soonest to be sure what exactly it is .

The more u are unable to pass urine, the more your kidney is at risk. An elderly relative had similar issues and I really learnt a lot from it.

Bville02:
Today is my birthday. Make una pray for me abegg.

Ibime, send me money.
nihilistjnr, send me money
raumdeuter, send me money
Airmark, send me money
Griffon, send me money
Popiziano, do the needful
Roland17, boys need money for celebration.
Amoto94, send me money

Happy Birthday, wishing u the best of years ahead.

Amoto94:
I don't celebrate birthdays and I don't have money to give to celebrant.

U be Jehovah witness ?

iamoyindamola:
Until we relegate those fvcker aint leaving us

It's even better we don't have billionaire owner than to have a useless billionaire wey no dey gree spend to help the club.

iamoyindamola:
Better i was seeing welcome back super jack
I also went to his page he was saying something about arsenal academy

Na the same thing I Think first, until I see am for arsenal page on FB say we just dey help am keep fit like Bayern did for Boateng.

Tellwhat:
Lol. Which year

E no get year way dem no get students wey dey fry stew

The only time students dey fry stew steady na when dem just collect pocket money o; after that week na concoction sure pass o.

Jodera:
Lol... Las las arsenal is surely one position away from top four be that. Once Newcastle start pumping money in transfer market, even big 6 dem no go dey call us again.

Make arsenal and the board still dey talk about long term planning

##Long term planning in da mud##

The annoying thing is all these billionaires pump in good money to back their clubs and the fans are happy about it.....our own billionaire dey tell us to trust one rubbish process.

Shebi if woman husband dey do rubbish the woman can divorce and be on her own to attract sugar daddy. Shey this man no go leave arsenal and allow sugar daddies out there to help our case?

Anniemae:
Hello everyone
This is my first time posting here
Rice and stew with beef
Just a student btw

I love this! You are doing well

Wait o, Students nowadays are living large o....As a student dem no born us well to cook rice fry stew on top o. Where we wan see pepper? Na concotion sure pass that year.

dollyjoy:
My plate of white rice and stew

Just tell me the rice and stew is for the whole family o.

It seems I'm the only one that don't really eat much in the whole of this Nigeria . Where una dey see this appetite abeg?

Top 10 richest football owners ; na all of them dey pump good money into the club to make quality signings except Arsenal 4cking owner

Even the chink that owns Wolves Don nearly sign all the talent wey dey Portugal finsh.....

The God that delivered Newcastle from Mike Ashley can do it for us too! Somebody say Amen!

iamoyindamola:
It's like these useless people signed wilshere

No they didn't, he's only training with the club to keep fit while he's making plans to take his coaching badge. Arteta said this.

A001:
Still looking for the cogent points you're making here because so far, I've not seen any.

I told you to quote where I stated that some Africans didn't engage in barbaric acts as you claimed, but you couldn't.

Here you're with a new false claim. Quote where I told you that Africans aren't blameworthy as regards slave-trading on this continent.

I see you're not reading my posts you're quoting.

The proper thing to do is to first go through the posts you're quoting, and not quote me repeating things I already said, and you're still asking me about them when they're clearly stated in the post you quoted or the preceding ones.

Anyone that knows the history of Africa knows the current state the continent finds herself today was caused by European and Arab supremacists and many African people, especially her leaders, who either aided these foreigners or are still subjecting African citizens to new regimes of colonialism characterized with endemic corruption and poor leadership.

If u know this then why the whole superstory and big grammar u've spent the whole day writing?

Why do u make it sound like u just unraveled a mystery that no man has been able to solve for years ? U keep harping on Africans knowing their history as if u are the only African that has been lucky enough to know the history of his people .

Ur blood to dey hot. By the way, u need to slow down on the confrontational tone of ur arguments ; it makes less people want to engage u in any meaningful discourse. No be by insult and snide remarks dem dey know person wey dey knowledgeable about a subject.

A001:
Can you quote me where I said the highlighted?

The guy above is generalizing that the whole of Africa practiced such a barbaric act, which is simply false.

I said the highlighted below about what you stated and never denied some Africans engaged in few barbaric acts.

Please, read my posts well before saying what I never stated.



About the impact of religion on Africa, that's a topic for another day.

In a minute u are criticising the whiteman's account of history and in the next u are agreeing some of those things they said may actually be true.

My point is why then do u engage in a whole lot of argument all day giving the impression that the whiteman's version of history is majorly inaccurate when almost everybody knows no accoubt of history is 100% accurate?

I ordinarily wasn't going to get in u and and Havertz discussion on whether the whitemen Brough civilization/enlightenment to Africa or not, but Ur continued stand that the whiteman fed us lies as history just couldn't make me keep calm. Havertz made a good point that Africans ourselves aren't really blameless in the whole colonization/conquering of Africa by the whiteman ; or how do u explain an African selling his fellow African to the whiteman for gun, alcohol, mirror, etc?

I understand Ur African spirit, but Africans also underdeveloped Africa......I know this and I know peace

While I understand Teejay is angry and has issues with the way the colonial masters treated our forebearers, I don't really understand what he's trying to achieve by saying some of those things the whitemen documented about some barbaric acts done in the past really did not happen.

I mean look at the whiteman's account of the invasion of Benin kingdom; they mentioned human sacrifices being made, slaves being hung on stake to appease the gods, etc. You may want to believe these things didn't happen but was figment of the whiteman's imagination, however if u look at some communities even in this present day who still carry out human sacrifices, oro festivals that prohibits women from coming in contact with or else such woman will never be seen again, etc.....Then u should be able to deduce most of these things(if not all) did happen.

For the umpteenth time, religion is not the reason Africa is the way it is....rather it's our own people with their own vices ranging from corruption, tribalism, that have caused our own woes.

As I want and predicted it ; Tomiyasu is our player of the month .....And it's just his first month at the club

popizaino:
The only reason above is that he (Daniel levy) was unwilling to sell his best player to a direct city rival and nothing else,had other team come at that period he could have sold him without hearing any of this long story. Now, Modric's transfer is far gone,just recently the same Daniel levy sold walker to man city,is there any saga that went behind the scene that you want us to know?

Why do u think I gave Daniel Levy as the reason why Kane is not a Barca player? It's because he's a shrewd business man who will either milk any potential suitor of his top players or mentally drain the players before allowing them to leave.

Since u admitted in ur response to raumdeuter that there a lot of things u don't know in football because u are not interested, then I undertand why u don't know these things.

U asked if there was any saga u weren't aware of, well u should know Dimitar Berbatov suffered the same fate as Modric in his move to Man utd back then; and yes! Man utd was not tottenham's city rival neither were they direct rivals in the race to the league.

As regards Walker, we all know Pep and his Arab Sugar daddies had to break the bank to get him out of White Hart Lane. It's been over 4 years since he was signed yet he's still amongst the top 5 most expensive RB in history. You feel me?