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i think taiwo has more experience than echiejile.
the current soccer formation of these days does not restrict a player to a particular spot.
everywhere outside our national team under amodu, these left full backs and the right full backs act as attackers as well to put preasure on the oposing teams.
the coach missed out on the right instructions on how to cover the spaces left behind in the course of attack.
if a player is playing a first team game in marselle, he is over qualified to play in the super eagles.

when? if he will go, what is he waiting for now?

the so-called speaking all these grammer when he is yet to see yar adua so if he happens to see him, he will pull than the walls with grammer.
since yar adua go down with sickness, how many healthy politicians have died?
well, u don't blame this doctor because if nigerians will have access to the real medical reports of yar adua, all these hear-say and make up stories will be put to bed.

Absolutely rubbish!What kind of journalism is bn practise in Nigeria?It's only in Nigeria a journalist will pick up his pen and turn rumours,mere imagination into news for the public consumption.Glorious days of investigative journalism is fading, something must be done quickly.

@sojjy,
it is also only in nigeria that such useless rumours turn out to be true at the end of the day.
it is only in nigeria that a seized ship will miss over night.
it is only in nigeria that a yar adua will appear and disappear without notice as a president of a country,
it is only in nigeria that known and notorious criminals are the kingmakers.
brother, everything is possible in nigeria especially under obasanjo and pdp.

@poster,
to be dedicated to the team sometimes can be different from the other leadership qualities.
all the same, i like ur wish and i will also be happy if he gets that.

I guess every other player in that bus should do the same. Togo's lose Man City's gain. He was always reluctant when it came to national duty.

@zoraro,
maybe u are mistaken adebayor for someone else.

@topic,
hayatou and co are killing african football.
a team was invited to a tourne, they were hijacked, attacked and killed and what did caf do in consolation? ban them. that is the height of madness.
is good that adebayor retires alive to concentrate of his carrier at least to be alive to take care of his family.

mamma vasta my foot. he was a millitary man like ibb and both of them knew the implication of having a successful coup and the implications of failing so friendship shld have came to the mind of vasta before he made his move. if there was a betrayal there, mamma vasta was guilty.
on the other hand, ibb did not kill half of what obj killed even as civilian head of state.
it is this same ait that was beaten and destroyed by obasanjo for airing a live broadcast of the senate seating on third term agenda.

the list is incomplete and believe me, the case will die like every other sensitive case that happened under thsi pdp between 1999 till date.
the only case that will move the whole country is case against opositions.

the s east criminals want iwu to remain just for their sole interests of remaining power via their do or die affairs without considering how that is affecting the masses.
God will surely punish all of them.

this thread is no longer relevant to me. essien is undoubtedly superior to song in every way right now. this does not mean song is poor.
playing in a poorer club does not make one a poorer player. is park better than gerrard? is eagles better than lennon? is macheda better than torres? park, eagles and macheda all have premier league medals while lennon, gerrard and torres have never smelt them. dos this mean they are less talented? but it does not matter. to me song is better and to you mikel is better. who cares?
im sure you do not watch manciennes matches regularly if at all. u exaggerate wildy because you think i dont know this player. a complete footballer already? lol april 1st passed ten days ago. every top club sends out players on loan to gain experience. surely you dont think this practiceis limited to chelsea do you?? check out arsenal's wilshere at bolton if you need one example. goodbye to this thread from me.

@kgdavid,
i have been waiting for this goodbye of urs. u are a PHD holder on progressives. do u know the full meaning of PHD? PULL HIM DOWN. u are out to redicle mikel because he dumped man u or whatever envious reasons u have but God has made him supperior to u and whatever is behind u.
if ur gerald and torres are not ambitious, they all will end up behind js park in the history of soccer. this is not going to be based on sentiments.
soccer is about winning games and winning games is a pre-requisite to winning trophies.
at the end of their carriers, an autobiography will always say, he won this and he won that, he participated in this tourne and that tourne.
the only story okocha is living on today is that he made enough money for the games he played while players like kanu will be pointing to trophies and funds, etoo will always be addressed as a 50 times winner of this and that. even among the coaches, they are addressed as world cup winning coach or a champions league winning coach.
look at wenger, he is a great coach but something is still lacking and that is champions league. do u think that is not bothering him?
next season, if nothing happens in arsenal, ambitious players will leave the club to clubs with trophy ambitions to avoid playing and quiting soccer as trophiless players.
there is this joke about a yoruba man explaining a football match to someone else. he is will tell u; arsenal o play gooo but chelsea o win. ball posssessions are not part of history.
if song will do better than mikel, it is a future thing but with what we have in hand at the moment, song is still in the school of learning of which when he grows, he will move to ambitious clubs like chelsea, man u, man city, liverpool, barca, madrid, inter, milan, buyern just to mention but a few.
do u think if the long awaited sale of arsenal comes out real tomorrow, most of these children in the team will remain there.
like i said earlier, song in a chelsea team can only from time to time get 5 or 10 mins playing times while a mikel in arsenal will play till and after the end of a match.
as stupid as u are, i know u wull wait for another fool to start another negative discussion about mikel for u to come out and back him up.
u are less informed about soccer. hard players go for greater competitions and that is what mikel went in for in a star studded chelsea.
be a patrotic citizen of nigeria and that u can only do by giving support to our heros and mikel is one. pray for them as they are bringing good name to this god forsaken country.
when next u talk about ppl well placed above u, do that with respect especially ppl who never seeked ur vote in becoming what they are rather they achieved their greatness through personal efforts.
if u do not have any reason to respect these guys, do same for the single purpose of having the same two legs that these guys have.
am sure this ur goodbye will mean bye to envy and jealous, greed which has overtaken ur sense of reasoning.

our jonathan is busy travelling to usa while our ppl are dying here and there.
can someone pls tell jonathan to come back home and put his house in order

are you trying to tell me that mikel carried chelsea to those two FA cups and whatever else? you must be a buffoon. do you know what it means to carry your side to a trophy? how many goals did he sore?how many assists? by your foolish primary school argument, every player in a winning team is great player and therefore js park is a better player than gerrard. no? mikel played in the nigerian team that made bronze but has he ever played a nations cup final? song has played in one and won a silver medal. however this is not what proves the quality of song as football does not work like that. again by your argument jj okocha was not as good as mikel?? right? after all jay jay only played in bolton and never won anything for them. true or false?

@kgdavid,
if u have finally resorted to insults, then i know u have finally run lack of points.
i mentioned the achievements of mikel as a player and u mentioned insults.
well, song anchored the arsenal team that met chelsea two times this season home and away. mikel and song were there to make sure the oposition teams did not mess up their defence lines and get a go and their net but what happened? song was reduced to nothing on several occassions and arsenal were demolished mikel led chelsea side on a 5 - o agreegate.
pls if all these are not the bases for judging good and quality players, tell me the best way to judge.
do you know a player called micheal mancienne? he is currently on loan to wolves. he is everything a player shld be and he is carrying the club very high. if chelsea is ready to let go, i know wolves will try to make his stay there a permanent one but back in chelsea, he is not a first team player and the reason is not far fetched - quality.
whenever u hear commentators talk about a player as the most decorated, it is not about how many times he can run arround the pitch rather it is about what u have been able to win during ur playing yrs.
a team like arsenal is a very good side with a very big BUT in the last five seasons.
the goodness of a team or a player depends on what he has been able to win.
can u name any world footballer of the yr whose side did not win anything.
u made me laugh when u said mikel and song are not playing the position in ntheir various clubs. and u went ahead to say mikel and essien play together which makes it possible that song and essien play in the same position and if it like that, will song bench essien to play in a chelsea team?
remember, okocha is a very good player with a very big BUT in his carrier especially at club side.
henry knew he will not be a complete footballer without the champions league trophy that was lacking in his soccer carrier hence he left for barca and no cv of henry in soccer will be complete without addressing him as a champions league winner, a world cup winner etc.
on the other trade, u joined the train in saying that mikel is over rated but as the day goes by, mikel gets involved in many games and has continued to grow from strangth to stranght.
that embecile that started this topic has nothing to offer while as a co saddist, u have presented urself as a god good enough to decide someone else's future.
by the way, if mikel and song are not in the same team and the y not from the same country, not even playing in the same position as u said, WHAT ON EARTH DO U THINK IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS COMPARISM OUTSIDE ENVY AND JEALOUS?

all nigerian politicians are shameless so it is not about atiku.
if anyome is shameful, he will not be a politician in nigeria.
let the shame continue among the so-called politicians.

i don't know why every nigerian wants to die on any post given to him.
amodu go - na war, obasanjo - third term, iwu leave - no way, ribadu go - war upon war, el rufai waka - ok i am leaving with all documents, which kind of ppl are these. when u are working and the ppl no longer have confidence in what u are doing, quiting is the best and next action but what do u have here? i will fight with my last blood. even the dying yar adua is ready to fight his position from the sick bed.
if i may ask, is the fifa coaching lisence of amodu restricted to nigeria?
u have tried and you have done everything right here but it is time to go and try a different challange somewhere else.
the most stupid thing here is that this same amodu will remain jobless until the dumb men of nff come back calling and because he does not have a choice, he will foolishly come back to coach the eagles again.
if u know u are a good coach as u claim, why not go and coach another national side and prove ur goodness to us. i only want to see u seat down throughtout a match even when ur team is loosing.
amodu, thank ur stars u are a nigerian otherwise u will die looking for who to coach.

no matter how responsible a man looks or is, ganja will surely have a different view of the person and that was exactly what happened to this gentleman.

Why is Ikedi Ohakim there??

@mahal,
ohakim played a vital role in bringing the imo state govt over to pdp and this is a role that ccan make him do whatever he like and get away with it.
goodluck jonathan played the same role couple of yrs back and earn himself the trust of obasanjo hence he became the vice president and president respectively.
ohakim having played out his role very well, will be on the road to places in the politics of nigeria as long as obasanjo is concerned.

@topic,
even if they like, let them visit pope benedict, obasanjo has the final say when they come back to him here in nigeria.

Very good that a lot of guys understood that electro-energy is different from the banking sector where one can make a reform under 24 hours without serious research.

@nakedall,
u and ur group are responsible for the backwardness in this country.
research! research!! research!!!
u are in the same school of thought that believe that rome was not built in a day. how long did it take to build rome?
how old is nigeria and how long does it take for researches to be concluded? since 1999 till date, it has been pdp in power. tell me if there was a proggrame in place, will this long 11 yrs be enough to conclude ur so-called research? will the world come to an end before we enjoy what other less priveledged countries are enjoying? tell me, where did all these poor and wretched countries of africa get what made them have and enjoy steady power supply?
how come each and everyone of these politicians come on board with this same empty promise of steady light within 48 hrs? have u ever looked into how much within this wasted and useless 11 yrs of pdp madness have been invested in the unfulfilled promises of giving us steady power supply?
if it takes endless years to reseach on power supply, how long does it take to vote out funds for looting?
nigeria is a case of bad leadership with no good intentions for this country.
are u saying if laws are made against the use of generators in anyone's house in nigeria. all these high blood riden rulers will wait for 2 weeks to give us steady power supply.
get a radical into power not vegetables like jonathan, make and enforce laws banning the use of generators in our homes, ban nigerians from schooling abroad and ban rulers from foreign medical and see within one month if nigeria will not be a heaven out of this present hell.

sometimes i can't help but think that amodu's coaching carrier is restricted to the nigerian football.
with the qualities claimed by this man and his supporters, why is it that he always wait for a chance with the nigerian super eagles.
other quality coaches are making things happen outside nigeria or is his qualities afraid of other qualities?

i dont think so. no chelsea player deserve any award!

@wicth411,
u will make more sense keeping quiet rather than exposing how timid and retarded u can be.

@topic,
caf is a very confused organisation led by the worst sets of being alive.
many unreasonable decissions but if we have to take all that, we have to take this one as well.
drogba even if he was not the best last season, he still shld be among the best.
if caf and its awards are about african talents, whatever happens to our home grown talents?
the disolution of the present caf exco will do african football good.

@poster,
who do u think is better and why?
such a topic must starts with u while others will come in, in agreement or disagreement.

the way i see this jonathan of a goodluck, he will end up not doing anything meaningful with this opportunity he got.
how can a normal person spend the ppl's money on a case we know nothing about.
there is a need for the medical report of the president to be made public and then nigerians will know why there is a need to make another trip in the bid to cure this man.
why will everything be secret yet the tax payers' funds are involved.
the truth is that jonathan is just there to serve the purpose of the cabals.
democracy does not mean anything to pdp.

The US dictating to Nigeria will only bring more problems for Nigeria and Nigerians in the long run and it is sad to note that we are not seeing things they way they should be seen.

@afam,
this same type of reasoning gave birth to nigeria's independence and 50 yrs on, see where we are even in the presence of all natural and human resources God has blessed this country with.
we have shown on several different occassions that we cannot take our decissions.

@topic,
i don't see usa taking our decission for us here rather i see them supporting the ideas of the mjority of nigerians. 99% of nigerians want Iwu out and under the obj led pdp, the opinion of the masses does not make sense hence obama is calling jonathan's attention to the people's interests.
if we are capable of taking our own decissions even with our constitution, what will a sick man doing holding tightly even unconsciously to the presidential seat not minding the implications on the masses and their day to day business lives.
how can the interest of a few surpass that of over 150 million?
we must open our eyes and minds to things that will develope nigeria and not sticking to things thagt have been drawing us backward yet because of pride, we still say we can do it. the truth is that we can't do it now especially with the crop of uncivilized creatures occupying our seat of powers.
even those occupying our seat of powers do not believe in themselves as that counts for their reason to always go to the western world with all their loots for safekeeping.
how can u tell us not to mind the west and whenever u steal here, u run to them to guide the loots for u? that is another way of accepting and appreciating their supperiority by the criminal rulers we have here.

@chidichris

you are a darlin

@MeGaStReEt,
too sweet of u.
u v just made my day and i dey feel like dangote now.

good players take their clubs to glories and today, mikel has taken chelsea to fa cup finals and are league leaders at the moment.
he has won three bronze medals at nations cup. he won bronze medal in holland 2005 and went ahead to win second best player in that tourne. maybe two fa cups with chelsea.
pls in a brief statement, lecture us on the achievements of song that put him on the same platform for this comparism.

i can tell u all that alams has paid all the prices that needed to be paid and if ribadu lays his hands on alams again, it will never be the same.
all these noise making here are just empty treats.
every case of corruption in nigeria linked to obasanjo and as soon as ribadu notices that obasanjo is involved, he drops the case.
i have asked here on several occassions, what happened to the established case against atiku? why is atiku not in jail?
nigeria has three tiers of govt viz; federal, state and local govt area and if u want to put it the other way round, it will be local govt area, state and the federal.
any real war on corruption must start either way. the idea of selecting and jumping the lines is another form of corruption itself.
if efcc believes that everything is ok at federal levels, let them line up all the state govs and not because someone has said no to the dictator, he becomes the criminal.
it is a shame that most of here do not have crtical analyses of what they are told. i am not moved by the ribadu noise making. let him point to the changes his noise making brought in the eight yrs of his deciet. how far has the recovered loots helped in changing our lives. ribadu must tell nigerians how come no one is standing trial on all the federal govt contracts between 1999 and 2007.
why was mrs etteh who duped the federal govt as a speaker of the house of repnot jailed?

may his soul and that of other passengers rest in perfect peace.

kgdavid,
look at the ac milan line up u posted above, there is no flamini and the same flamini u said is a first team player.
ur new found formation of chelsea team now accomondate essien and mikel the same essien u predicted ealier on that will send mikel to the bench as soon as he comes back.
it is very very important we let these players be. song is doing his things and the coach and the team are happy with him. mikel is doing his thing with chelsea and everyone there is in love of which what nigerians are saying has little or no impact in the guy's life.
it is only nigerians that call mikel names.
if u hear over-rated, it is u and ur group but what aspect of ur lives have donated to this country?
if we go by ur analyses, mikel and song are different players at different team playing different football parterns so the worste among them is better than the best among u critics.
finally, mikel is not a play maker at chelsea rather he is a holding or defensive midfielder and as long as the present chelsea team is concerned, he is the best for the role as his only competition(essien) is more attack minded hence he leaves rooms for the opposing teams to expose the chelsea defence line.

not sure where to start to reply but yes flamini does play for ac milan and yes he plays holding midfield. you are probably not aware that there are two variants of the holding midfield position- defensive midfield and the deeplying play maker. flamini is a defensive midfielder and his job(like songs) is to break up play. pirlo is a deep lying play maker and his job(like mikels) is to control the game with passes. they both play at the same time. this is a fact you need to go and check by yourself. yes arsenals defense is not as good as chelseas defense but your points about wright phillips and the others are off point wright phillipps was unlucky under mourinho in the sense that he did not fit mourinho's style and found himself redundant at chelsea. some say mourinho spoilt his career. joe cole went through the same. i dont see how any of what you have said proves that song would fail at chelsea. you have ommitted the likes of pires who went on to villareal and played/plays well there, edu, gilberto silva, adebayor all of whom are doing well after arsenal. and even viera who up until recently was having a great time in italy. or u have forgetten that ashley cole was an arsenal player? the point is no two players are the same. and there is no evidence that song would not do well at chelsea.

@kgdavid,
i must confess here, i do not know abt any formation in football that hosts deeplying play maker and defensive midfield. be careful what u feed ppl with here.
well that is not the issue at hand. going by what u have just narrated here, song is a defensive midfielder while mikel is a deeplying play maker according to the highlghted line on quote? and if that is correct, they are not playing the same role and shld not be compared.
again, since song is a defensive midfielder in arsenal and mikel is a deeplying play maker, who is chelsea's defensive midfielder?
to help u the more brother, in chelsea, our play makers are joe cole and deco and malouda of late is making a claim so go and get real facts before u analyse.
i did mention it to u that arsenal players making waves outside are rebels. pires cld not get a two yrs contract from wenger who insisted on a yr deal. ashley cole cld not get a pay rise, adebayor cld not get a pay rise. remember the sale of all the above players cause problems in the club.
i was an arsenal fan until the sale of viera. wenger believed that veira having a yr runing on his contract will be a free agent the next and because of his age wenger was not going to give him any contract that exceeds one yr hence the idea to sale making mega bucks of which worthy replacement was expected rather the era of school boys.
not to waste ur time, mikel is a defensive midfielder but if there is anyother name for his position it is holding midfielder and not deeplying play maker. this role makes mikel the relationship between the defence and the attack.
he drops the preasure of the attack on the defence and he initiates attacks. in times of danger, he takes the ball to comfort zones hence the backward and sideways passes.
in his position, cards are inevitable but what every football analysts is surprised at today is how mikel has succeeded in reducing to the barest minimum the number of cards he get to the extent that he has not gotten red since last season.
pls check ur sources very well and tell me that mikel and song are not playing the same role so that i will call off this unnecessary and uneducative arguement.

when i look at the evils of IBB as a millitary president and that of obasanjo as a civilian president, i do see IBB as a saint.
pls, nigerians, instead of a one man show of obasanjo, let us all go for chop i chop.

"There might be a self-inflicted disability on the part of the leadership of the EFCC, because once the leadership is compromised, then the operatives will no longer be safe. The commission must look inwards to find out what they have not been doing right to protect their operatives,"

Very instructive

@rasputinn,
when efcc came on board, it had all our supports as we believed that the time had come but like u said, what they did wrong is called SELECTIVE JUSTICE.
selective justice as we saw under obasanjo can be more dangerious than the massive and free for all looting that we used to have.
will it be necessary for me to draw ur attention to the case of ptdf scandal in which ribadu told us his findings. the laughable thing in the matter was that atiku did not deny rather he told us that they were two in the business. it was rather unfortunate that atiku swore not to go down alone and the authorities that be knew the implication of such statement hence the death of that matter till date.
were u aware of the money laundary case established against andy uba the then special adviser to obasanjo? he was found guilty in the usa and the matter involved the use of our presidential jet to carry raw cash to the usa. he was found guilty by a law court and was fined and the money seized. when did ribadu say when the gentle man came back - IT WAS CIVIL CASE.
until the efcc and whoever is fighting corruption in nigeria make it an everybody's problem, the idea of catching some and leaving some will never help nigeria.

unfortunately, i was unable to finish the whole write up but i would love to know WHEN?
this particular word WHEN has been the major problem of the past presidents who made similar promise in the past.
the old fool said the same and the sick fool promised us same and now u - jonathan.
my only problem here is WHEN
i will make anambra dubai and japan, i will fire the whole nigeria, i will make abuja a heaven on earth all words of mouth.
jonathan! jonathan!! jonathan!!! do not tow the same path that ur predecessors towed.
by the way, why is it that every nigerian ruler use this electricity as a charm on us? even this one wey we no elect?
anyways, like i said, everything is possible as many will tell us rome was not built in a day but let someone tell us the WHEN