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Icon79:
Ekong is better than Lenglet.
Forget what Sarri did to him, VicMo can play RWB for both FCB and Real Madrid.
On current form, Ndidi is better than both Casemiro and Busquets (Busquets legs are gone).
Both Alex Iwobi and Sammy are good enough to play for either teams but maybe not as a starter.


O pari

bros i like ndidi wella but the bolded is a bit far fetched casemiro and busquests are better passers than wilfred and can also match if not surpass him in tackles and interceptions

o pari master nice to see you have recovered lol but liverpool bad oh they do messi strong tin sotey he commot bear bear

honestly Liverpool is too strong for spurs. i only see tottenham winning by having a lucky day or liverpool playing poorly but if salah, mane VVD and co should show up omo na correct beating dey in store for spurs

Icon79:
Bros, I have already predicted it on twitter. At the end of the day, Liverpool would end up exactly where they ended up later year - second best upanda. I have warned them to slow down with their celebration the win over Barca, because the job isn't done yet. Against Spurs, they Klopp will be facing one of the best coaches in the world so it isn't gonna be an easy game for Looserpool, especially if Harry Kane is fit and ready to play. As a matter of fact, I have actually called the game for Spurs.

I am a big fan of Jurgen Klopp but I think that defeating Barca would end up being Liverpool's climax for this season


O pari

yeah i agree even with chukwueze and ndidi it's only wilfred i think is probably ready for the challenges of a big team

andrew444:
None of the above

Chuks and Ndidi have the potential sha

But I repeat none of the above

andrew444:
Why didn't you hail me ? Forget say I be Barca Fan o ,u suppose know my love for city

Anyway I love my my fraudiola more than jurgen flopp

please don't be angry congratulations to you as well lol

goodjoe eruditor congratulations your team did you proud all hail the fraud lol

forgiveness:
How can you accuse me of being emotional and rude when it's written all over your post?

Remove the beam in your eyes before you do that for others.

How many players currently in the national team have won the best player award in their leagues before they got into the National team?

Did Etebo win the best player in Nigeria league before he made his debut for the national team?

Did Alex Iwobi win the best player in Arsenal academy before he made his debut for the national team?

Did Shehu win the best player in the Kuwait league before he made his debut for the national team?

Did Wilfred Ndidi win the best player in Belgium before he made his debut for the national team?

Why must Abdul Ajagun win the best player before he is called into the National team despite the fact that these aforementioned players didn't achieve half of what he achieved in the Nigerian league and with Panathinaikos in the Greek league before they even made their debut for the 'national' team?

But all these made their debut either from the same Nigerian league, academy, Kuwait league and Belgium league.

Are these league better than the Greece league that produced the Greece National team that reached the Europe 2012 quarter finals as at that time?

Why raise the bar for some players and lower the bar for some players in the supposed 'National' team?

Is this not another emotive and subjective reasoning?

I smell double standard. Isn't it?

Why won't I mention Awaziem? Is he not a Nigerian?

We should compare both performance in the Ligue 1 because they both played there at the same age (21).

Tiago Ilori outperformed Awaziem in the same Ligue 1 despite the fact that they were both the same age as at the time they played there. Fact

How come you claimed Tiago Ilori flopped in Ligue 1 but still commended Awaziem who didn't have a better stats than Tiago Ilori in the same Ligue 1? This is Nigeria where sentiments has beclouded people's sense of reasoning. They only praise their own and try to put down others just to feel good.

If you have problem with whoscored, why don't you create your own double standard siu measurement?

For a 20 years old boy who went to la Liga during the summer transfer with just 18 matches left and still went ahead to start to finish in 9 matches with a MOTM against almighty Barcelona confirmed he was successful in La Liga. Despite the 9 games, his stats is better than Omeruo.


Anyway, according to you, la Liga is better than EPL. Isn't it?

See Tiago Ilori made la Liga team of the week too. How come you took notice of Omeruo but couldn't do the same for Tiago Ilori? Wonders shall never end. I smell double standard.

Ebuehi was outstanding in the Eredivise league and that was why Benfica bought. Hmmm!

So, why did Liverpool buy Tiago Ilori?

Why did Sporting Lisbon buy Tiago Ilori back?

Who told you Ilori didn't get game time when he was fit in Ligue 1 and la Liga where he won motm and even made the team of the league?

Who told Tiago Ilori didn't get game time when he was fit in the Championship? Person wey play in the Championship play off final self.

Who told you Tiago Ilori only played 4 games this season? Somebody wey play against Manchester United and Watford in the FA cup and EFL cup. He even played in the Europa League against Villarreal self but you claimed he only had 4 games. How truthful are you?

How can I take you seriously for your last two paragraphs?

My friend, get hold of yourself before sentiments blind your eyes.

physician heal thyself and stop with the hypocritical posts

All I have gathered from your ranting and long-winded epistle is average players have been called up into the national team so why haven't my own favourite average players being called up

Please spare me with your Defender of defenseless bullcrap Samuel was doing well in Belgium I didn't hear all this your noise Paul was doing well in Denmark I didn't hear all this your noise but when it comes to your favourite players your eye will be shining like a lightbulb with High Voltage

if you like call me biased sentimental or even the evil affecting Nigeria football that is your business reasonable people have seen through the b******* you are selling and refuse to buy it

if pep was not operating on a budget he would have bought sanchez, jorghinho and fred

bazooka1:
The facts are there to prove Pep is operating on a budget?

thegoodjoe i happy you saw it and pointed it out

TheGoodJoe:
Point the facts he is missing without calling him names. Thank you.

lol putting pressure trophies

Earthquake2:
Overated Pep has won every trophy there is

Klopp is winning 'putting pressure' trophies

first of why are sometimes so emotional and rude when passing across your points? if it were just bants i would understand but this is the uptenth time you are doing this. dude you are a christian or so you claim we can debate issues without throwing insults. have i referred to you as an ignoramus in any post before? forgiveness be guided.

now to your points for ajagun it's not about the span of his career but how well he has done so far. he won one miserly greek cup because of that we should do somersaults? answer me was he ever voted one of the best in the nigerian greek dutch or belgium leagues that you will not let us rest?

who mentioned awaziem? we are talking about ilori who you claimed is supposed to be a marquee defender trust you to cherry pick the stats that fit your narrative even if we compare the two tiago at 26 years old should be nearing his best not competing with a 22 year old awaziem who is just in the early stage of his career? how the "mighty" have fallen.

ebuehi before his injury was outstanding in his dutch club den haag that's why benfica bought him. tiago you will probably claim has been blighted by injury but he hasn't suffered season or career ending type injuries so how come the times he's fit is he not getting playing time? he for instance has only played 4 times this seasons while being injured for just a month what happened to the remaining months?

you call playing 9 out of 19 games successful? omeruo has played almost every game for leganes has been named in team of the week twice was ilori ever named man of the match in spain?

yes he ran back to portugal cos that's his comfort zone to revive his career.

what even brought nwakali into this matter? have i ever hyped him or campaigned for him to be invited to the super eagles? nwakali is poor, iheanacho is poor, ajagun is poor, ilori is poor cest fini!

forgiveness:
Did Okocha football life span come to an end or not?

Atleast, you have agreed what you won determines your achievement in football.

But an ignoramus like you didn't know Abdul won laurels locally and internationally with Dolphin fc and Panathinaikos. Stop disgracing yourself in public, mister.

Ohooooo! You can factor in injury for Ebuehi's predicament but can't factor that in in Tiago Ilori's case during his sojourn in Ligue 1.

Get this, Tiago Ilori despite injury had a successful season in the Ligue 1 than Chidozie Awaziem did. Do you want to dispute this?

The universe Ilori also had a successful league in La Liga (the one man league) as our universe Omeruo is doing in the la Liga. How about that?

Wait! Didn't you you say universe Omeruo is doing well in LA Liga?

Tiago Ilori didn't run home to an obscure league nor club but to the Portuguese first division with Sporting Lisbon, the third biggest club in Portugal.

Atleast, Tiago Ilori has successfully played in the La Liga, Portuguese Liga, Ligue 1 and Championship at 20 but you didn't tell us Tiago was a young man and time was still on his side then.

Okay, tell me where Nwakali has played so far and where he is now. In Portuguese lowly second division yet struggling to get game time.

Mister, you reck of bias.

of course money plays a role if not why do all the top coaches always go to top teams to prove themselves buying expensive players? why kloop didn't he join burnley or cardiff or brighton to prove his coaching ability? pocchentino should also have remained at southampton to show he can succeed without spending money

Bunique:
pep is the best coach at the moment but let's not act as if money has not played a role in his successes at city. any good manager will once in a while win the league with city but pep is doing it in grand style that's what differentiates him from the rest.
do you think pep would have achieved much with 70m transfer budget to start with?

rodgers almost won the league with players such as mignolet, mamadou sakho, ageing kolo toure, lucas, joe allen with a sprinkling of quality like gerard, suarez, sturrigde so much for shitty squad.

mahrez was supposed to make an instant impact it hasn't quite worked out pep continued to worked unlike some coaches that will blame the failure to sign one miserly defender (maguire of all people smh) as the reason for squad imbalance

Danielnino00:
The reason Klopp had to spend that much on a goalkeeper and a defender was because the likes of city and PSG have inflated the transfer market!
Check how much Klopp spent at Dortmund and how much he achieved with them..

He inherited a shitty squad from Rodgers.. He needed his own players to rebuild the team and that involved spending money...if Roma had asked for 200m for Alisson, Klopp would have paid it....if Southampton had asked for 500m for Van Djik, he would have paid it. he needed those players...

Unlike Pep that spent £60m on Mahrez to use him as a back up player, Klopp doesn't spend big on players he doesn't need in the starting eleven..

as in honestly! kloop spent almost $200m for a keeper and defender but pep is the one buying the league. mahrez like you rightly noted hasn't even been that impactful for man city. you are so right alot of his haters always decide to develop glaucoma not noticing how much sterling has improved to beast mode. even the "anybody can win stuff with messi" jibe they love to throw they won't tell you what were messi's numbers before pep came and how messi was pushing out unreal numbers under guardiola.

Eruditor:
You are so correct!

The core of his squad is the one he inherited. The rest are to augment the depth. He literally improved every single player in the club. All of them have exceeded their past performances bar none. I don't understand all these lies about money. The only player City signed this season was Mahrez. Add to that, KDB who was City's best player last year was out for long yet they are going to peep LFC to the title. How many times the key players go down and yet Pep reinvented the squad to compete. I don't know how people don't see that as great coaching. Someone even tried to make Zinczenko look like a formidable buy. A winger that Pep has turned to a LB. I can't deal.

Liverpool are having their best ever season historically (at least by numbers) but they are still behind this juggernaut called City. Somehow people forget the quality of City's play and make it look like City were always this way. I mean, every English team spent money. Chelsea have spent more in the last 2 seasons than City but nobody says peem about them.

true that whatever is bad for business should get their attention

Fkhalifa:
You are welcome bro, that's my initial thought, but fans here believe spurs success won't move kroenke and I want to agree with them.One sure thing is the fury from our London fans will yeild result when they start boycotting our games. Kroenke can't afford to go broke.

the point goodjoe is making is that other clubs are also not spending peanuts everyone has spent big to compete. when it gets to that point it's then coaching ability that will separate men from boys. let's even analyze who were the lynchpins for pep's success last season aguero, sterling,david silva, de-bruye, fernadinho, Kompany was it pep that bought all these guys?

one thing i always find funny is why the same energy is not maintained to criticize mourinho, alex ferguson, ancelloti to say they bought the league

Bunique:
you are not really getting the point. pep for me is the best coach currently but to be honest, his quick successes in the EPL is largely due to the amount of cash at his disposal.
the replacements were necessary and justifiable but pep was able to carryout the cleansing exercise quickly because there was cash available to do that.
look at Arsenal for example, the coach will have to work with the players he has despite everyone knowing the players are not really good enough. It will take Emery several transfer windows to get the squad of his own choice.
in all honesty do you think pep would have achieved this much with city if he was handed 70m as transfer budget? pep would have eventually transformed city but it would have taken time like say 2 to 3 seasons to get them to this current level.

i agree about our local coaches being corrupt but it's the way they argue the matter that ticks me off. look at tbaba how he has been calling out aigbogun with verifiable evidence. not the ''chrisooblog drops andrew444 because of poor form in camp. na lie chrisooblog is corrupt"

andrew444:
Concerning the league ranking issue ,laliga will remain first and best

Epl has already won the champions league

But Spain has dominate for 5 years and they have produce all Spanish final twice in the past 5 years ,thou man you and Chelsea firstly done that on 2008

English team should dominate counting from now on to the next 5 years then you can be first ,but I know that won't happen .

Liverpool fans Tottenham no go gree for una o ,make I dey observe sha

Bro our local coaches are corrupt

I am a big fan of iheanacho and I am hoping he will be back to his best .

okocha won bbc african footballer of the year i doubt ajagun has even won best footballer in his local government

you are actually comparing injured tyronne to defender of the universe ilori

nwakali is a young man time is still on his side while tiago is a 26 year old up and coming player who couldn't cut it anywhere and had to run back home to portugal like a baby and he's still not cutting it

forgiveness:
Okocha the greatest mildfielder disappeared like a smoke in the air.

Footballers get live span.

How come you are too slow to understand this?

It is their achievements that lives on. Next!

Oh! I see. Ebuehi is struggling to revive his career in Portugal?

The Portuguese league must be a usefulness one.

Imagine, our hero Nwakali is struggling in Portugal in the second league for that matter.

How are the mighty fallen!

hi everyone i'm an Arsenal fan but don't post here regularly. hope spurs getting to the UCL final is the shock to the system the board needs to wake up from their slumber and back emery. we need serious defensive reinforcements both at the back and midfield.

ajagun the greatest midfielder that ever liveth has disappeared like hillary clinton's presidential ambition

ilori after failing to cut in france england is now struggling to revive his career back home in portugal

solanke sef that your tag team partner denied follow for the matter

forgiveness:
What happened to Ajagun?

Where is Tiago Ilori today?

You just want to make noise. That's all.

ajagun and tiago ilori say hi

forgiveness:
Glad you tell me the other I got wrong?

Oh! You just want to be noticed. I see!

well like all of us sometimes they are right but a times they are way off the mark.

on the iheanacho issue we thought KC was doing decently but sadly his form has dropped. even some of their favourites who they were hyping as the next big thing haven't come good so it cuts both ways.

how is it breaking news that some of our local coaches are corrupt? what i always argued against is them using the corruption tag as an excuse for average or below average players they like not called up.

on the league ranking issue la liga is still better. UCL finalists from spain twice in the past 10 whereas this is the EPL's first in a decade. Spanish finalists 9 in 10 EPL 7. Europa league spanish clubs won 6 in the last 10 years england 2 barring this years own.

bro solanke is one in many they have gotten wrong

AIG07:
As much as we do not like to admit it, komekn and his friend have always been right...
From Iheanacho, to bribery allegations against our local coaches, to league rankings, these two guys have been spot on... We often think they are sentimental in their discourse. Some tag them haters, tribalists, English asslikers... and so on.

But repeatedly, they've been vindicated... I like how komekn handles those who oppose him. He back up and defend his opinions without resorting to insults and name callings... I think it will be good if forgiveness too can do same.

TIME, overtime has proven these guys right. Still watching Solanke... The only thing they both seem not to get right yet.

nawa o literally taking the piss

chimjoshjuan:
Barcelona team bus left Lionel Messi at Anfield, following the Spanish Giants' defeat by Liverpool even with a first leg advantage.

Recall that Barcelona appeared to have a commanding advantage after securing a 3-0 win in the first leg at Camp Nou last week. Messi suffered a miserable night for his club as Liverpool completed a stunning comeback to knock Barca out of the Champions League on Tuesday evening.

Messi who was required to undergo a doping test immediately after the crushing defeat Barcelona suffered against Liverpool at Anfield, was left behind by the team bus. El Chiringuito reported that the process took so long, that Barca’s team bus headed to the airport while Messi was still at Anfield. Messi was eventually able to provide a urine sample, while special arrangements were made to reunite the Argentine with the rest of the squad and coaching staff before they traveled back to Spain. Messi also walked through the mixed zone at Anfield much later than the rest of Barca’s players, but said nothing to the media as he was escorted out of the stadium.


https://unclesuru.com/2019/05/08/barcelona-team-bus-leaves-lionel-messi-at-anfield-after-liverpool-defeat/

klexycole:
Liverpool 4 - 0 Barcelona

Icon79 right now.

lol at least we will rest a bit from Messi is the best gist

Earthquake3:
If blocking shots is not one of the primary duties of a defensive midfielder then I don't know what is

yes you can block shots when in the right position not when you have been drawn out of position due to lack of tactical discipline this is one of the issues I always had with onazi

Earthquake3:
It was not an image, it was a gif can't you see it?

it is? My phone is not rendering it that way maybe network

Earthquake3:
Yea Choudbury was the one who backed off to afford Kompany the space

thanks for the image we can see ndidi was just coming from the right side to help in marking Vincent while the other Leicester City players in front of kompany were backing off

TheGoodJoe:
I wonder where you got that from. Ndidi's primary duty is to shield the back four. Not leave them in the name of pressing a central defender.

It is very logical and does not need a long debate.

exactly they think being a defensive midfielder is about running up and down like a headless chicken it's more about tactical discipline blocking all the passing channels knowing when to track and when to maintain your position so you won't be drawn out allowing attackers free rein at goal

Mickael2:
First of all, Laporte who made the assist was squarely in the middle so Ndidi should have been mindful of his position, then when Kompany got that pass I don't know why you'd be blaming Chillwell, the FB for that matter to cover someone running free in the middle? That means you don't know the job of a FB, if he rushes Kompany then he is out of position and that is a problem. Closing down Kompany is 100% the DMFs fault due to his position before unleashing that strike. Then when you consider that Kompany advanced well over 6-10 yards before taking that shot then it becomes a schoolboy error by the DMF.


Ndidi was at fault 100%

just watched the goal again I still don't see why you are hell bent on blaming ndidi for it.

ndidi was in front of laporte when the pass got to kompany on the left side who then advanced forward. at this time two Leicester City players near Vincent didn't stop him from moving towards goal which ndidi noticed after which he came over to the left to try and close him down which was unfortunately too late.

The only thing ndidi is guilty of is leaving his primary Duty to go and help his teammates try and stop Vincent as well as not being omnipresent

it would be stretching it abit to blame him for kompany's goal. at the time vincent collected the ball and advanced ndidi was shielding the centre of the defence. when vincent advanced further ndidi moved to the left to help chillwell who wasn't closing vincent down. by the time ndidi was thinking of getting close kompany unleashed that unstoppable shot.

if i'm to apportion blame i would first query chilwell for affording vincent so much space to advance and take a shot. ndidi could be blamed but that would be harsh cos he was protecting his own zone so chilwell's failure to ward off vincent meant wilfred had to come over to help but bear in mind he couldn't have come so quickly because he was mindful of man city players around his zone.

after all this however i would choose to commend vincent it was a world class strike which he's not known for hitting it could have beat any team in the world

Mickael2:
I am not sure he remotely deserves that rating.

Do you agree that he was at fault for Man City's goal?

berti vogts i hope you know won euro 96 with germany

Humility017:
Lol.... dull fellows
berti vogts was the worst foreign coach ever.
even Germany laughed at US for hiring an unknow coach.... that man deceived us with his German nationality and skin color

agree although i think only ferdandinho and kante are currently better but liverpool, man u, tottenham, arsenal most definitely he would play in there first team

andrew444:
He will only play as a squad player in mancity

He will not play as a squad player at the rest of the teams

Who dey Arsenal ?

hmmm really sad to see how low iheanacho has sunk. no excuses he should have done better with yesterday's chance. i think moving to another country might do him some good. to be fair to kelechi the talent is still there but his confidence is gone. however i will not knock the young man there's still time to change his current trajectory but he really needs to be determined to rediscover his form. personally i hope rohr doesn't for some inexplicable reason take him to the AFCON the national team is not a rehabilitation centre. he should only be selected on merit and at the moment he isn't deserving of a place in the super eagles.

as for ndidi dude is fire could easily play for any of the top 6 teams even if as a squad player. nobody can tell me that wanyama, dier, torreira, xhaka, henderson,, matic (as of current form) et al who all play for top 6 teams are better than wilfred. beginning to see rodgers bringing out the best in him