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Watching Zizou’s documentary on YouTube and the narrator brought up the point of the French maestro not having the best of Stats when compared to some midfielders in his era and now but finished it up with

“ you won’t know how good zidane was through stats until you watch him play live with your eyes”

The above statement gave me chills and one of the reasons why I don’t enjoy football anymore unlike years ago because of so much reliance on stats and robotic tactic 🤦‍♀️😔

🇳🇬 Wilfred Ndidi (28) has a relegation release clause in his Leicester contract. ✅

He's available for £9m this summer, reports @BBCSport.

ChrisKels:
How is it done?

I wan learn too 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

BankyGee:
Atalanta still dey foolish dey go...

na dem go win the league

Small small Boniface shine don dey fade

I believe that failed Al Nassr deal really affected the guy. Baba don already prepare em mind to go use bullion van pack money 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I hope he bounce back stronger and better next season

Portuguese giants Benfica among clubs interested in Genk and Super Eagles striker Tolu Arokodare

nominees for 2025 Ebony shoe, awarded to Belgium's best African player or player of African descent.

🇳🇬🇨🇦Promise David: Union SG
🇧🇪🇨🇩Noah Sadiki: UnionSG
🇳🇬Raphael Onyedika: Club Brugge
🇳🇬Tolu Arokodare: KRC Genk
🇧🇪🇲🇦Zakaria El Ouahdi: KRC Genk

Winner👟TBA on 12 May

👤 32 games
🧤 18 clean sheets

Arthur Okonkwo has been Wrexham's safe hands this season – and now they have secured promotion to the Championship 👏🏽

Firebox123:
commentator of nairaland

Make nairaland kuku dey pay you

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤣🤣

Fabrizio Romano on why English clubs (including Man Utd) aren't going for Victor Osimhen:

"He wants the same salary he's earning at Napoli — €12m net, plus commissions and his €75m release clause.

"No English club is ready to pay him €12m net." [@FabrizioRomano, YT]

Man United striker Rasmus Hojlung has reportedly been offered a way out of the club in a deal that would see Ademola Lookman go the other way.

According to The Sun, United are considering offering the 22-year-old to Atalanta, the club they signed him from, in exchange for Ademola Lookman.

TheSuperNerd:
Christantus Uche In La Liga 24/25

Uche has won the most fouls and is among 3 players only to have won 200+ duels.

a club like ATM go fit this guy wella

typicalgamer:
Salary
Publicity
Guaranteed champions league football every season

Guy why you do this ?

Not every football fan sabi ball 😊

yinkeys:
VO9 please go to Arsenal
That’s where he’d flourish
I hope Arsenal try to get him
I’m sure Osimhen’s asking wages will be between £300k to £400k
The joy in Africa if he goes to Arsenal ehn
Arsenal will win the league next season provided he stays fit, that AFCON in December/January would be very tough

Arsenal aren’t showing interest in him for now maybe that will happen as we head into the summer transfer window

Also he wage demand is scaring many away

TheSuperNerd:
So after all the talks and rumor mills, Man Utd are not in for Osimhen.

Charles, you can rest now. Na Cunha una manager want. Lol

yea United board don comot body for osimhen interest 🤣🤣🤣

I think it all boils down to his wage demand, heard epl clubs too aren’t too keen because of the same wage issue

Osimhen may go back to serie A likely Juve. Epl clubs aren’t ready to pay him the wages he is demanding for but as for interest they are concrete interest from top clubs in the league especially Man United

Bennycollins:
Ok. But what's the update on SA fielding an ineligible player?

none yet but SA will surely be deducted of 3 points

Toylove:
I do not agree with this.
In the europa league, in the champions league and even in their respective leagues, atalanta doesn’t come close to atletico Madrid.
It’s a big upgrade. Even in terms of fan base

ATM has bigger pedigree than Atalanta by far in European club football

Atalanta that just became stable in serie just over 10 seasons ago na wey u wan compare ATM? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

yinkeys:
Chukwueze needs to leave AC Milan urgently
His agent needs to get to work ASAP
Alejandro Jimenez is preferred by this Milan coach
Aston Villa would be fantastic if you ask me, favour from his former boss
His butt will be on that Milan bench for ages

samu can’t get into this current Villa team

If he wants to bounce back to his best he should join a less competitive team in Italy, Spain or England

Clubs like Fulham,Everton, Palace, Valencia, Sociedad, Sevilla, Bologna, Atalanta, Udinese won’t be bad

Napoleon55:
club that can easily buy a $100M player and u are calling them "I get am before"?
If they ask u to put ur money on which club is more likely to win EPL between Man U and Fulham in the next 5 years,which club would u bet on?

Man U remains the biggest club in England, the most successful beside Liverpool in England.

Man U,Chelsea and Arsenal,any of these clubs can bounce back at any time and dominate EPL unlike Fulham.

u sabi game bro

Napoleon55:
Right now,No,Aston villa is not better than AC Milan.
Some of una self, Aston Villa manage came 4th last season and suddenly they become better than AC Milan? AC Milan that won league three seasons ago and came second last season.

even if Milan won their last serie A title 15 years ago Aston Villa is no where close to Milan’s pedigree in world club football

Napoleon55:
Right now,No,Aston villa is not better than AC Milan.
Some of una self, Aston Villa manage came 4th last season and suddenly they become better than AC Milan? AC Milan that won league three seasons ago and came second last season.

u dey mind pple wey they tag clubs to be big judging by current form and position in the league

U no go surprise when dem tell u say Atalanta is bigger than Milan or Forrest and villa are bigger than man united 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Following the NFF formal protest to FIFA, Zimbabwe have now moved their home game against Bafana Bafana out of South Africa.

The NFF, as first reported by SCORENigeria, complained to FIFA that South Africa have been handed an unfair advantage in the qualification race to the 2026 World Cup as their final four qualifiers will all be played in South Africa.

This is because both Lesotho and Zimbabwe picked South Africa as their home grounds after their own stadiums were not approved to be staged the World Cup qualifiers.


On Tuesday, Zimbabwe announced that they have changed their home ground from South Africa to Rwanda for their World Cup qualifier in October.

Zimbabwe initially played the qualifiers in Rwanda before they settled for South Africa, were they recently forced a 2-2 draw with Benin.

The three other qualifiers involving Bafana Bafana will be played in South Africa – vs Lesotho, Super Eagles and Rwanda.

They lead Group C with 13 points from six matches.

Firebox123:
low-key budget nairaland Fabrizio Romano

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Bayern are monitoring Genk's Nigerian striker Tolu Arokodare (24) as a potential backup for Harry Kane. 19 goals in 34 league games for Genk. €25M price tag. Dortmund and Stuttgart also made enquiries [@FT_schneidi, @FT_Redaktion]

AndSunGorilla:
I think Luku might prefer to go back to England if he gets an offer. With Salah staying, I would say No to Liverpool, Newcastle already have their Murphy, Gordon and Barnes, so No to them too. Maybe Aston Villa if Rashford leaves. Spurs and Fulham won't be bad in my opinion.

he should remain in Italy and if possible move to Juve

Wants he coming to Fulham to do? Villa is a strong team now but the competition to start games maybe tough for him

Gianni Balzarini: "The name still being considered to strengthen Juventus is Ademola Lookman of Atalanta

Fulham remain keen on signing AC Milan winger Samuel Chukwueze (25) this summer after failing with a January move for the Nigeria international. (Calciomercato)

Everton target Moses Simon to strengthen their attack this summer.

FC Nantes are reportedly ready to let him leave for 15 million euros € . The player, who is under contract until 2026, has already given the green light

elyte89:
£40m no fit buy osimhen na except that f Dey re adding eida garnacho or hojlund as part of d deal

they want to add Hojlund to the deal

Napoli are interested in the Dane and Ganarcho as well

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Manchester United are pushing ahead with a £40m move to sign Victor Osimhen.

Ruben Amorim has made Osimhen his top striker target, he favours the Nigerian forward over Liam Delap.

(Source: Daily Mirror)

🟡⚫️ Borussia Dortmund will open talks with Chelsea to keep Carney Chukwuemeka also next season.

Deal conditions to be discussed again, but BVB wanna try to keep Carney at the club after 6 month loan

lordofstrings:
@charles it's happening!
Osi bobo don agree oo
i don find your comment tire for twitter i no see

na still rumour