₦airaland Forum

akwesenana:
🤔

Take a look at the massive difference. It's no surprise he has been called the new Toni kroos. That's the kind of profile we need in midfield not Baleba unless Amorim isn't concerned about retaining possession.

Ellexy:
So after we got rejected, we stayed?

Getting rejected and walking away from a deal due to high price is not the same thing.

Gucciboy:
Barcelona is demanding £26m for Marc Casado while Stiller is €40m(£33m).

Good players all around

We could realistically get 2 good midfielders that are better than Baleba for less than £60M. Our scouts should be doing better.

Ellexy:
What are you talking about... Even this Sesko we just signed wasn't our first or even 2nd option. We went for both Gyokeres and Ekitike before him.

We didn't walk away from those two, we were rejected.

patrickmuf:
If Hojlund stays, Obi has to go out on loan or be the third-choice striker and play the Carabao Cup...He should also get games with the U-21 side.

Back to Baleba, I think he will be a good buy for £60m, but Brighton are very tough to deal with, so I won't be surprised if he is slightly overpriced...What I don't understand is why some of you are trying to downplay his talents, he is an excellent ball career and his passing from deep is impressive , so I don't get the comparison with Ugarte...If your argument is AFCON, then you have a case but not for those who are trying to downplay his talents. Having said that, Casado is not a bad option too, but I have my reservations about young Spanish players; there's always that possibility that they'll get homesick and, in a few years, will start angling for a move back to La Liga, especially if the big boys come calling.

I hope we sign a DM and a CM...Casemiro should go to Saudi abeg!

Even when all stats says the opposite. Watching highlights will you give the wrong impressions of players.

Ornestein is saying it's €76M base fee which is a reasonable deal. It's the same amount we paid for Cunha and less than Mbuemo.

engrelvis:
Hujmland( sporting) n Balena Who will u prefer we sign? Baleba is premier league proven but Hujmland has worked with Amorim b4 so can easily integrate him.

They are so many better options than those two. Baleba for example is not a passer or a controlling midfielder. He's another Ugarte type of midfielder(ball winner). His progressive passes and carries are average . We should be looking at deep lying playmaker in the mould of casado, Stiller etc

Jamiuokolaa:
Rich PL clubs are on a mission to Fund Brighton's existence...

After they sold Caicedo for 100m, they paid 30m for Baleba as his replacement. Now they are looking to sell him for Megabucks after 2 seasons.

If Man utd never pay that mugu money, our body no fit calm down. It's in our DNA

I still feel its better than this Sesko deal sha - we are literally paying more for Sesko compared to what Reputable Goalscorers like Osihmen and Gyokores cost.

There's nothing wrong with the Sesko deal to me. It's a better deal than Cunha for £65million and the potential £90million for someone like Baleba. Osimhen and Gyokeres are both 27 which impacted their fees and even at that they went for €70m plus each. Osihmen is not a reputable goalscorer as well.

Why is this club hellbent on wasting funds. They are better options than Baleba you can get for half of the price. You have casado available for £30 to 50M, Hugo Larsson from Frankfurt,Stiller, Rovella etc. You could get two good midfielders for that outrageous price.

Just one goal from Madrid and it's game on.

BlueRayDick:
Wait fess!

So, if I wake tomorrow and decide to start typing in proper English instead of pidgin and code mixing ( most especially substituting "U" and "UR" for "YOU" and "YOUR" respectively); people will assume it is ChatGPT assisted and me typing it? 🤷‍♂️

I used to think it is common knowledge that most people prefer to type in less formal way online simply because they feel comfortable doing so, not necessarily because they can't.

Even if you decide to wake up tomorrow and decide to start typing in proper English, that wont give you perfect punctuation and diction or make you start using the em sign —. That's the number 1 giveaway. There's no shame in admitting to using ChatGPT to reconstruct your own words. I was making an observation not criticizing.

I don't think Klopp realize NBA teams play 82 games a season sometimes 2 games in 2 days before making that comparison.

It's very easy to spot a post that has been edited by Chatgpt.

Topuria is becoming something else.

MRTA7:
He has been learning Spanish for atleast 2 years.

You can learn Spanish in 6months. Infact you can learn any language and be able to hold proper conversation in a year.

CrystalTiger:
Scenes when we sign all these guys and Onana concedes with the first tame shot on target 🤣🤣🤣..

What stops us from scoring two or three after that?

Some of you are also forgetting Psg with Mbappe, Neymar etc also got to the champions league final but instead of Inzaghi inter, it was Flick treble winning Bayern team.

WhoDeyHause:
But how you go calm down go lose 5-0 for champions league final.
If I be Italy president I go declare state of emergency this night.

Conceding 5 in a Champions league Final is brutal

Agadinaagwuofe:
Bros you sabi watch football! Joao Neves has been a revelation. That guy is a "total package" midfielder. Tackling, passing, retaining possession, close control he has all above average. He is the unsung hero that makes that team tick. I logged in to just tell you say "you too sabi ball"

Switching Dembele position to false 9 and the purchase of Kvaradonna is why they ticked. They were almost knocked out of the group stage with Joao neves doing nothing special.

Leyqute:
They probably wouldn’t win the UCL with Mbappe in the team. He’s their Coutinho, only that they didn’t need the funds from his sale.

They reached the semis last season with Mbappe and only wasteful finishing stopped them from reaching the final.

Shegzdave:
Selfish isn’t the word to use
He was too ambitious to win the CL and D’or

He will still win them at Madrid.

A40:
People have made more money than Osimhen and blew right through it. So rest with that narrative. Poor money management can wreck anybody

I'm saying steady flow of income over 40 years is smarter than lump sum money in 4 years that you have to stretch over 40 years. Anyone with common sense will take the former.

Our resident money expert in the house Ibime already gave a detailed breakdown on this

Poor money management can make one waste 500million dollars or 1 billion dollars that doesn't mean it isn't generational wealth. I don't really think you grasp what the actual argument is here.

The scenario I gave to you is totally different from what ibime did calculation for. In this case you are earning the same amount. Inflation will erode all those monthly payments significantly. Back in 2015 if you were offered 36million lump sum or 300thousand naira monthly for ten years and your picked the latter, you would be in tears right now.

Theflint1:
Osimhen billings no be the small small eye billings wey you and I dey grapple with, as the money dey enter, the lifestyle go change, it's unavoidable ...na just to dey keep that rainy day funds for one corner na im go be the main thing.

If these footballers and celebs tell you the kin billings dem dey face, and the angles dem dey face am from, you sef go surprise...no be Mr Makaroni dey talk about how e take rack up debts going 500M within a space of 5 years...this na Macaroni o

I had to check on Macaroni and he said he fell to scam and bad investment in 2021 plus reckless spending so he had to borrow and pay interest which resulted in debt.

A40:
Expenses pass expenses Broski. Not even comparable what you spend vs those guys. We've heard and seen too many instances

Only a crazeman will take 40 years money in 4 years. Do you know how short 4 years is? That's a World Cup. I can still remember Kolo Muani last minute sitter of Konate's hoof and another World cup is barely a year away

4 years is a fuckin short time to stretch money for 40 years

So you think Osimhen who earns approximately 20billion yearly has more pressing expenses than a career person with two kids and other relatives on a descent salary? I would love to see how you came to that conclusion. Either you can't really quantify how big his salary is or you just purposely making excuses for being wasteful.

So you would rather work for 40years to earn the same amount you could have earned in 4? That's absurd.

Amigoss:
Al Hilal have 45million Euro 3 years contract offer on the table for him if he decides to join them, this money will set him,his kids and grandkids up for life ....No mismanagement or inflation go ever make am broke again

His entire generation is already set for life with his current salary. Take note this is just basic salary. He would still be earning huge amounts from Sponsorship, Endorsement and commercial deals on the side. Anything more is just luxury.

AbokiWam:
Na all footballers de enter the top clubs?

Even those at the championship level earn descent amount. According to the research I just did the average championship players earns 10k to 20k weekly. Capalogy has Spain average segunda division player ( Spain 2nd league) making 300k plus annually.

A40:
It's a very wicked reverse. The athlete earnings decline as they age. The others earnings increase as they age. If you're not a 1percenter 1percenter you're basically in the hands of God.

From feeding your entourage (I can't imagine the kin billing person like Osimhen go dey face)

Then the fact that you have to stretch that paper as long as possible to maintain lifestyle will have you taking all kinds of financial risks and you get burned

Osimhen earns £10 million yearly that's approximately fifteen billion, eight hundred and ninety-eight million naira. His one year salary would set 100 people up for a life time if not 200. Stop playing

A40:
What of expenses? Don't underestimate the advantage of steady money. 4 years is a very very short window to make money stretch for 30-40 years

The career person also has expenses. If you are given the choice to make your 40years salary in a 4 year window won't you take it?

raumdeuter:
Like afrodoc said, Besides you having a very short window to make money max 15yrs when other professions can be making money for 50yrs. Ozekhome, Afe Babalola Doctors etc can make money till 80yrs while their agemates that went to sports would have stopped making money like 40yrs ago

2. Sport is usually physical, So any injury to your body means the end of your earnings, So the 15yrs projected career can end in 3yrs, or 5yrs or even 6months. A knee injury, you will quickly spend the little money on t so you can get back, thats how you gradually blow everything on it
Lawyers can got court even on wheelchair.

3. You make money when you are young, when you are not wise about how to manage money. Imagine person gave 20yr old izzou $1m. All the girls from Enugu to Imo to Lagos go don hear am finish. Plus 500 Timberland boots 5000 Polo shirts

4. The money usually do not keep up with inflation. The guys who played ball in the 80s and 90s didn't really make as much money as they are now. Players like Maradona, in the 80s might be making about $80K per year which is big money then but not comparable to the money in sports nowadays where a top player like Ronaldo Messi can make almost $100M per year

Take 2 people top footballer from Nigeria, and top Lawyer or Banker from Nigeria. In the 20s the footballer will be way richer, 30s still be richer but gap is closing, by the 40s the career person will likely have caught up, and till they die no way the football can meet up again

The average Nigerian ex footballer anything above 15yrs of retirement , is broke. Thats why they hustle for NFA jobs, NPFL coaching jobs before you know it they have started gofundme for health cases

Even a 4 year career at a top club generates more money than a career person would in 40years, stop playing. Footballers are just wasteful.

Conte didn't use 3-4-3 through out the season. He was changing formation base on the players available and opponents. His versatility is one of the reasons Napoli won the league. 4-3-3 was the formation he even used the most.

toluxe0075:
The best way to know an unserious club and fanbase is how they react to winning trophies or other teams winning them.

Chelsea had so much success under Abramovich because of how they treated every competition. The fans, the owner, and the team go into every competition with the mentality of winning and never undermining anyone.

Here is an example. After winning the Champions league in 2012, chelsea had a not too good season in 2013 in the champions league and had to relegate to Europa league for finishing 3rd. Rival fans mocked them including myself.

And what did chelsea do, they went to the Europa league with the aim of winning, their fans, their owner demanded they win it and Chelsea won it; adding to their trophy cabinet and bragging right against rival clubs. At the end, Chelsea has won every major tournament winnable and are on the verge of winning a newly added competition.

But here at my club, we see being among the top 4 in the league has success. The new information now is that placing second in the league and getting to the semifinals of champions league is better than winning a trophy. Funny enough, some of our deluded fanbase look down on a trophy we haven’t even won in our history.

Interestingly, many of these same fanbase still hate Emery till date for losing that same Europa league trophy to Chelsea in the final. In addition, out messiah coach failed to win it for 3 good seasons.

Tell the same fans to show us the trophy they highly rate in our trophy cabinet, we have none to show for the past 22 years. How do we win big when we don’t even value the lesser trophies or acknowledge that other teams have done well for winning them. It’s not like we are Madrid or City in recent times who have had dominating wins in recent decade.

If una like, celebrate another second place next season while other clubs win trophies, na una know because me I’ve given up.

Just out of curiosity, Would you rather have spurs season or yours?

This is the current league table. Compare and contrast if you won't get blown away. Palace currently have 13 more points than we do from having 7 in 11 games.