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Very few of these so called actors and actresses in Nollywood are actually making a living wage. Forgettt all their lies and bling,bling lifes ooo.
Most of them live a. Very fake life and actually live hand to mouth,wwwwhile the producers smile all the way to the bank.

@OP,
Be warned. Do not embark on a fruitless journey that will leave you crying tears of frustration in 5 months time. A word is enough for a wise man.
Save upp enough money and visit any car mall and purchase your vehicle and drive it to your house in peace. If you can not do that visit Cotonu yourself and purchase your car then drive to the nearest customs outpost and pay your duty in the bank.
Be warned. Money does not grow on trees,and according to Chief Zebrudayah,"Had I known,is the brother of Mr too late."
Nuff said.

The Glazers continue to thrive while Manchester United flounder

David Conn

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This summer the owners have boasted about how much they have increased ticket prices since their takeover – at the same time as Ed Woodward struggles to attract top names 
• Glazers rule out selling United for at least five years 
• Marcos Rojo set to complete £16m move to Old Trafford

Manchester United's shortcomings were evident in the opening-day defeat in the Premier League by Swansea. Photograph: Michael Mayhew/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar

Wednesday 20 August 2014 15.07 BST

Amid the reams of corporate boasting in the Glazer family’s pitch to make $200m from selling a small slice of Manchester United plc shares, a section trumpets to likely investors United’s concerted raising of Old Trafford ticket prices since the Americans bought the club in 2005 and loaded it with their own £525m debt.

The timing, following the £75m the family made selling shares when theyfloated United on the New York stock exchange in 2012, is painful. The thinness of the club’s squad was exposed by Swansea City’s 2-1 opening-day win at Old Trafford last Saturday and there is an unconvincing late transfer market scramble to shore it up.

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Supporters are confronted with the legacy of £700m drained out in interest, fees and bank charges by the Glazers’ takeover, botched planning and underinvestment, which can be traced back to 2009. Then United reached the Champions League final,where they lost to Barcelona, then sold Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid for £80m, a windfall that was not reinvested in recruiting new players.

Edward Woodward was in 2005 a banker at JP Morgan and the chief architect of the Glazers’ debt-loading takeover, including the high-interest £265m “payments in kind” loaned by hedge funds, which has cost United so far that scarcely believable £700m. Woodward is now reinvented, installed by the Glazers as the club’s vice-chairman, charged with actually running the famous club. With #GlazersOut trending on Twitter for two days following the defeat by Swansea, Woodward is tasked with showing he can negotiate the thickets of football administration and, by extension, that the Glazers should be trusted.

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He will point to this week’s signing of the Argentinian international defenderMarcos Rojo from Sporting Lisbon, which was complicated by the endemic Portuguese spectacle of investors owning rights in the player, as evidence of sure-handedness. Supporters, however, will take much more convincing.

On 30 July, with the season about to start and player reinforcements clearly needed, the Glazers released their 167-page prospectus, tweaked a fortnight ago, to sell 12m shares at $17 each in Manchester United plc – registered by them in the Cayman Islands tax haven and floated on the New York stock exchange. The document extols with familiar breathlessness the money made, the 659m global “followers” for United and listing 29 of the club’s “global and regional” sponsors, from Chevrolet on the shirts, Japanese instant noodles company Nissin, to Cho-a Pharm, United’s “official pharmaceuticals partner in Korea and Vietnam”.

At Old Trafford, the Glazers’ prospectus explains they have increased matchday income “by restructuring the composition of our stadium”. A section has been coralled for some fans who still like to sing in the way they grew into as kids, when entry was affordable, but the prospectus does not mention that. Instead, it stresses modern Premier League reality: “A particular emphasis on developing premium seating and hospitality facilities to enhance our overall matchday profitability.” The Glazers have also “changed the composition of our general admission seats,” creating many different “options” for buying a ticket and introducing, like most Premier League clubs, “a categorised approach”.

This, the Glazers assure investors, means fans are now paying significantly more. “Between the 2005-06 season [the first after their takeover] and the 2013-14 season,” the prospectus says, “the weighted average general admission ticket prices for our Premier League matches played at Old Trafford increased at a compound annual growth rate of 4.4%.”

That has been over nine years with inflation at historic lows, through the banking collapses and recession, which increased the strain on football supporters and lent leveraged financial buyouts such as the one orchestrated at United a toxic reputation. Now the fans paying the big money in their socially re-engineered football ground are looking down with dismay on the team United are fielding and increasingly questioning the Glazers’ and Woodward’s competence as well as their money-making motives.

The prospectus shows that while huge money has been taken out of the club to pay takeover debt, United were steered through potentially rocky years by the force of Sir Alex Ferguson and the sale of Ronaldo. That can be seen as the watershed, when United floundered in football’s dramatically inflating transfer market, first underspending, then turning to the comfort zone of promising Premier League performers, while allowinggalacticos to go elsewhere.

Robin van Persie, Ferguson’s pre-leaving indulgence, andthe hurried January signing of Juan Mata for a suffering David Moyes, were late exceptions. At the same time United’s youth team cadre, the Class of 92, were reaching the end of their wondrous service. Yet replacements from within United’s academy for Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs remain theoretical.

United’s financial picture does not look quite as bright as the club paints it, despite income for the year ended 31 March 2014 – £111m made at Old Trafford, £183m reaped by the sponsorships and other commercial sweating, and an extraordinary £128m from broadcasting income – totalling £422m, by far an English football record.

Yet the Glazer debt for a club that had no borrowings before the takeover, is still about £342m and finance costs were another £53m, reducing pre-tax profits to £22m. United’s cash reserves – £34m – would still be the envy of most other clubs but are shrunk from the £151m in the vaults in 2009. Ronaldo’s £80m sale, according to investment analyst and United supporter Andy Green, was spent paying off the Glazer debt.

While United have declined dramatically since, failing even to qualify for this season’s Champions League, Ronaldo has raced on to win for Real Madrid a 10th European champions trophy. Sheikh Mansour’s Abu Dhabi multi-millions, combined with concerted professional planning and a top football chief executive, Ferran Soriano, have arrived to arm derby rivals Manchester City, while Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool have strengthened their squads and operations, concluding major signings early this summer.

United, once impregnable rulers of the Premier League era, look hollowed out by contrast. Ferguson’s retirement loomed as the one big decision the Glazers faced after they captured United, yet there was no evident succession planning. Ferguson seemed to shock the Glazers when he finally announced his leaving and they then compounded the error by allowing him to anoint his own successor, the unfortunate Moyes.

Player recruitment planning looks years behind City, where the board developed a dedicated system after Mansour’s 2008 takeover, installing a director of football, now Txiki Begiristain, working with managers and directors to a stated aim of two world-class players in each position, backed by limitless cash.

Woodward would argue United’s system is sophisticated, too, with the chief scout, Jim Lawlor, researching players in depth, then managers, now Louis van Gaal – his arrival delayed until after the World Cup – deciding who he wants. Rojo, Ander Herrera and Luke Shaw are the fruits so far, and Woodward would emphatically reject the perception that he struggles to close deals, arguing that agreeing terms with a club willing to sell is the most straightforward element of a transfer.

It is, though, baffling that United allowed three champion defenders – Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic and Patrice Evra – to leave together this summer, with no replacements signed except Shaw, the £27m 19-year-old left-back. Woodward now has less than two weeks to shore up the squad, with the season already started.

In another announcement to the New York stock exchange a fortnight ago,Manchester United plc said British investment firm Lansdowne has bought 7.5m shares, half through two Cayman Islands funds, paying the Glazers $127m. This is what the family envisaged in 2005 when Woodward and his banking colleagues organised their high-interest takeover: that the great club itself would pay off the Glazers’ debts, and they would cash in.

There may be a #GlazersOut day eventually but it will more likely be selling to investors at a great profit than a chasing out by fans, outraged at what has been done to their beloved United.

lipseal: Those pics were from inspired, he was going to deliver it like that...I asked if he would be proud to put his "inspired autos" stickers at the back while delivering before he got wheel covers on the worn out tires, certainly not a preorder experience I want to duel on, trusted the name way too much. (Wonder Wtf I was thinking preordering a 2.4 which is everywhere sef)
My 'incentive' was 'new car batteries', follow come I saw were dead, had to be jump started.
My take? Go to inspired autos f

or high end cars... And hope you have better luck
I wouldn't pretend I am happy because I am not so if I seemed nonchalant at the end of this long thread, its definitely cos of this. nothing to do with the very supportive followers, hadn't imagined what traffic this would gather, so thanks again everyone. Work schedule has lately been crazy amid making out time to finalize my inspired deal and update thread
I moved on already...like someone consoled me lol , its a Camry, hoping there's life left in it. God bless!

I have never believed in juju/black magic/hocus pocus or otumorkpo,but after reading this I had to change my mind.
This is in no way an ordinary event. No be ordinary eye at all.

Hmmm.
When I watched the United-Valencia game,I noticed the three centre halfs maintained a high line that left a tremendous amount of space between the defence and the goalkeeper.I remember thinking to myself that such tactics would be brutally exposed in the EPL by fast counter attacking teams. Unfortunately it happened today. Swansea sat back and let United huff and puff and then hit them on the vounter with fast attacks. It is still early days and yhere is enough time for Van Gaal tto make amendments and sign some quality defenders that can at least understand and execute his yavtics. The defenders we have right now are not good enough and injury prone.
Certainly we neeed defenders of the class of Vidic and Ferdinand in their prime and not the ones Van Gaal is trying to manage.
Generrally the whole team play was poor and I honestly pray Van Gaal gets it right because I feel the press are waiting for him to trip and fall so that they can rip him to pieces.

@OP,
You are too soft.
Your room/house:Your rules.
She either shapes up or ships out.
You buy food stuff,cook food and she brings her friends around to consume it all without a thought for you? Shocking,positively shocking!
As some one said earlier-you need to grow a pair.
If she can't keep to rules at age 27,then she should rent her own freaking apartment or return to your parents in the village.
Rubbish-Asa palapala!

The mother of all threads on inspired is still to come.
A certain person pre ordered a vehicle from Inspired and has still not taken delivery as I post this. This character has been a staunch supporter of inspired on all these other threads with the hope that inspired will deliver his vehicle.
I can see the character peeping as I type this.
Expect fireworks in this section in the weeks to come. It is going to be interesting.

TheMadame: All I can say is people never learn. This is how the dealer called German 007 Ajakaiye went under.
Why cant people walk to a dealership and buy a car? Why cant people visit Cotonu. Why cant......gosh!
Abi them take inspired swear for una?

Actually I think some people's umbilical cords were co-joined to Inspireds at point of birth.
I ain't blowing no gasket if people are silly enough to keep giving this guy your hard earned money and he keeps taking you guys for a ride.
@OP,good luck in getting your car or money back.
I agree with themadame,this is how german 007 started going down.
Phew!

1.Oyinbogoju.
2.chaircover.
3.blackashi.
4.richvkunt.
5.obowunmi
6.irunobo.
7.borntofuck.
8.wonlasewonimi.
9.Hon suc madiq.
10.sniper in a diaper

99% of women claiming to be feminists in Nigeria are hypocrites,liars,fakes and big frauds. They are arguing a philosophy they do not understand nor believe in.
100%of the feminists on Nairaland are fakes,liars and frauds who do not practice what they preach.

Caveat emptor.
Listen to that woman at your own risk.

Role in spread of diseasesEdit

Apes may harbour pathogens that can affect humans. Ebola virus disease, for instance, may also be found in chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos, and might spread to humans by handling the meat and consumption of such great apes. Gorillas and some other apes may also carry other diseases as simian foamy virus, smallpox, chicken pox, tuberculosis, measles, rubella, yellow fever and yaws.[3] It has occurred, on numerous occasions, that people that ate apes have caught such diseases, or even died.[4] In addition, besides posing a significant risk to the people eating the meat, it also poses a great risk to the human population as a whole, as it opens up a doorway through which animal viruses can evolve to also have effect on humans.

African squirrels (Heliosciurus, Funisciurus) have been implicated as reservoirs of the monkeypox virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and their use as bushmeat may be an important means of transmission to humans.

Research has shown that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus which causes AIDS, originated from a similar virus in primates called simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV); researchers believe that HIV probably initially jumped into humans after people in Africa came into contact with infected bush meat.[5] There are several distinct strains of HIV, indicating that this cross-species transfer has occurred several times.[6]

In many instances, catching the diseases mentioned above often occurs due to the cutting of the meat, in which animal blood, and other fluids may wind up on the people cutting it, thereby infecting them. Another way that people get infected is due to the fact that some portions of the meat may not be completely cooked. This often occurs due to the type of heating source employed: open fires over which the meat is simply hung.[7]

The problem is not selling the players. The problem is getting a club rich enough to pay the ridiculous weekly salaries,that Chelsea agreed with these players in order to dominate European football. Whiich club except Chelsea would agree to pay Torres £175,000 weekly? Which club would agree to pay a player like Mikel Obi over £100,000. a week except Chelsea?
In my opinion only Cech is worth over 100,000 pounds a week out of these three players.
Mikel and Torres should take pay cuts and join any of the newly promoted teams if they want to play regular football this season.
Either way some Chelsea players will end up unhappy this season.

Quinton Fortune
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Quinton Fortune
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Personal information
Full name Quinton Fortune
Date of birth 21 May 1977 (age 37)
Place of birth Cape Town, South Africa
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position Left midfielder
Left-back
Youth career
1994–1995 Tottenham Hotspur
1995–1996 Atlético Madrid
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1995 Mallorca 8 (0)
1996–1999 Atlético Madrid 6 (0)
1996–1999 Atlético Madrid B 81 (6)
1999–2006 Manchester United 76 (5)
2006–2007 Bolton Wanderers 6 (0)
2008 Brescia 1 (0)
2009 Tubize 9 (0)
2009–2010 Doncaster Rovers 6 (1)
Total 193 (12)
National team
1996–2005 South Africa 46 (2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).
Quinton Fortune (born 21 May 1977) is a South African former footballer who has represented a number of European clubs including Manchester United, Atletico Madrid and Bolton Wanderers. Fortune has earned 46 caps for South Africa, including playing in the 1998 and the 2002 World Cups. He most recently played for Doncaster Rovers, but failed to earn an extension to his contract when it expired in January 2010.

Club careerEdit

Fortune left South Africa at the age of 14 and moved to England where he played for the Tottenham Hotspur junior team (whilst attending Forest School), but never made a senior appearance for the club. After having trouble obtaining a work permit, Fortune moved to Spain, where he played for Atlético Madrid.

Manchester United purchased him from Atlético Madrid on 1 August 1999. He made his first appearance for the club on 30 August 1999, against Newcastle United. Fortune was initially brought to United as cover for Ryan Giggs, and was thought of primarily as an attacking left-sided midfielder. Fortune, however, proved himself a capable and dedicated performer in a number of positions. It was Fortune's strength as a defender, rather than his qualities as an attacker, that Alex Ferguson depended most on, and Fortune was often deployed as a central midfielder or as a left-back.

Despite playing in three Premiership winning seasons (1999–2000, 2000–01 and 2002–03), Fortune never played the required 10 games to earn a winner's medal, making 6, 7 and 9 appearances respectively.[1] He did however receive a Premier League winner's medal from United that had been left at the club by a former player.[2] After being used mostly in a squad rotation basis for his career at Manchester United, he was released by the club ahead of the 2006–07 campaign. In total, Fortune made 126 appearances for United, scoring 10 goals.[1]

After a successful trial, he joined Bolton Wanderers for the 2006–07 season and made the left back position his own for the club's opening games. However, the former United player was injured against Arsenal and appeared for Bolton later only in their cup game against Doncaster Rovers prior to being released and later joining Blackburn Rovers and Sunderland on trial.

In September 2008, he joined Sheffield United on trial. On 6 October 2008, Serie B club Brescia confirmed to have reached an agreement with Fortune;[3] the transfer was finalised on 23 October, with Fortune signing a one-year contract with the Rondinelle.[4]

On 2 February 2009, Tubize signed Fortune on a free transfer,[5] although he was released by Tubize at the end of the 2008–09 season.

On 4 August 2009, he signed a short term deal at Doncaster Rovers.[6] He scored his first Rovers goal against Ipswich Town on 19 September 2009.[7] He was sent off in a 2–2 draw against Scunthorpe United. Fortune was not offered an extension to his deal at the club and was released on 4 February 2010.[8]

shadrach77: Aren't you silly? Mikel has spent 8 years in Chelsea. It's obvious he has to go at some point. Nothing lasts forever. But saying if he had gone to Man U he would have done better sounds phoolish. What happened to Eric Djemba Djemba? How many players of African descent lasted 2 seasons in Man U not to talk of 8? Let's not make it look as if Mikel leaving Chelsea is a big deal. Chelsea is not that big, moreso he has spent almost a decade there and has won everything winnable with them. Nothing lasts forever. Please cut him some slack!

QUINTINE FORTUNE!

Its a hard knock life.

Had to visit the OPs blog to try and understand him better. Have to admit I left it more confused.
A mixture of mumbo jumbo signifying nothing.

I remember when this same inspired was duped by Madam Wunmi Allen,Most of the protesters the here were up in arms against her. Some of us just abhor injustice in any form.
I hope you can understand that. No one envys you,neither are we car dealers. Understand that and do the needful please.

dayokanu: How's your Robben purchase coming? You were so sure just a month ago. Or should we wait till August?

The transfer window is not closed yet. I am positive and hopeful in this Iron tulip era. Keep hating dayo.

There are many more.
Be warned.
Caveat emptor.
A word is enough for the wise.

Betalyf: The update is dat there is good progress abt the complaints and hopefully the car should b picked up this week according to him..Im in ph at the moment due to work engagements that's why av not bn able to go there physically to see how far and give a first hand update but going by the mail received frm him today the car should be ready tomoro all things bn equal.i cant thank u guys enuf for ur concerns and contributions.

While it is cheering to hear from you,I would advise you to see the extent of work on your vehicle before jubilation. TRUST NO ONE. I repeat TRUST NO ONE.
A word is enough for the wise.

Looking forward to this season after the disaster that was David Moyes. Though the 7-0 debut for LVG was only against LA Galaxy,I saw a lot of positives and potentials and I am quite sure United will be challenging for the league title this season. Let the IRON TULIP era begin. Lets see who has got the bigger BALLS!

TheMadame: Very funny. Did you see the damage control thread opened by inspired,where he was talking about a Mercedes Benz truck. The moderatoir did a good job hiding the posts of all opponents of inspired,while leaving the posts of his supporters. The bias was so glaring. Inspired was going on about people envying him and such.... Was quite hilarious.
Dont really blame this OP because he appears ignorant of what happens on these boards.
By the time he realises he has been taken for a ride,it will be too late and he will have lost all his supporters. Another one bites the dust.

Saw the damage control thread posted by inspired. It was actually funny. The moderator did his best to protect inspired by hiding posts. However where is that thread today? His supporters were the same butt lickers,however they did a good job of mast/urb/ating inspireds ego if you pardon my French language.
As for the OP, he will soon learn a big lesson. No body is fixing anything on your car and your silence will help your thread to die a natural death,which is what your enemies want.
Take care.

Which OP?
OP wey dem don intimidate. So many of us were banned because of him. So many had their posts hidden because of him. Yet he has choosen to go incommunicado because he has been decieved that inspired will fix his radio.
Watching from the side lines. The OP will soon learn his lesson.

The similarities between this thread and the Wunmi Allen/Shopclue versus aiermon thread are incredible. Its like deja vu all over again.
The seller failing to produce the expected product.
The buyer who is totally annoyed but is cautiously protesting because he still hopes the seller will meet his own end of the transaction.
The supporters of the seller,some who are clearly alternate monikers of the seller.
And of course the compromised moderator,who is always able to get through to the seller when every other person can not do so.
Back to the present I expect this thread to be shut down very soon.