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nateevs:
@Ibime.
VDV eh? I wasn't going to bring this up but this just might be a good time to.
Where from the sudden love for VDV. Remember when you thought I was crazy for suggesting "ninny" mid fielders who won't cut it in the prem?
Now dude's on your FPL team.

ifyalways:
Look mister,
I know your type and u aint good enough for my sis.Men like u have got just 1 virtue. . ."speed".We dont want no wham-bam-thank-u-mam.

medjai:
Ozil was totally drowned in the el-classico, he had to be taken off. He is begining to tread the path of Higuain, failing to show up in big games. He was also ineffective in the world cup s/final for Germany against Spain

Ibime:
@ DK,

In the interest of climate change, please stop chatting hot air.

Omo stop yarning! You said it yourself that as of 2002-2004, VDV was more highly rated than Ibra, Sneijder etc. Now zip it!

VDV has already had his big move, and he performed way better than Sneijder at Real, so what's all this nonsense you are typing?

VDV utterly embarassed Bayern in Bundesliga and you are here chatting poppycocks about Hoeness.

We all saw how VDV single handedly masterminded Reals passing game last season, putting Kaka in the shade.

Ibime:
@ DK,

Are you suggesting that Ozil is better than VDV? My friend stop yarning rubbish. We both saw them in Bundesliga and we remember that VDV was the King of Germany. Even Diego had more impact than Ozil before Ozil took his shirt.

VDV totally disgraced Kaka last season and left the Madridistas baying for VDV to play every game. Khaki no be leather abeg. Ozil has lots of growing up to do. If you cast your mind back to Ajax days sef, VDV has always been the bigger and better player than Sneijder. Sneijder is more of a CM, that's why he gets the nod for Holland. If Holland play with orthodox no10, VDV will get the shirt everytime, but Van Maarwijk prefers defensive approach with 3 central midfielders. Cast your mind to Euro 2008. After Xavi, Torres and Arshavin, VDV was the best player in that tourney. Italians remember him well.

Jencejyde:
^^^^^so Arsenal is a grade 2 club ba?

chamotex:
Have you seen the way VDV fight for the ball at Tottenham?
A little commitment goes a long way.
Maybe he will fit into your team at Chelsea.

chamotex:
Duh . . . his fitness level is shyte for one . . . even JM said that.
So why is he the only one getting subbed everytime . . . Ronaldo, Higuain, Di Maria etc no dey there?
So were they cruising against Barca when he came off at HT or was he the only one that play shyte.
I'm very sure he wouldn't have played regularly if Kaka was fit at the start of the season.

Ozil is no where near Kaka, so pls dont even compare them.
Kaka is the kind of player a team will be built around.
He's a far better player than Ozil.
Man Utd wont get Kaka anyway . . . . . . . .

duduspace:
Where are those who wanted to execute me because I told them the truth? Na youngsters be dis? MC DK pls can you play "E ti won bo ta" by special request.

HNIC:
MR DJ
Special Request
Eeeeeeeeeeeeee e gba mi
West Ham boys yi ma pa yin
pelu sweet sweet football l' asiko ta wa yi

lalaboi:
Ogini??, ogini ogini!
ko gbagidi . . . .

lizzybabe1:
Iragbiji LOL! I know that place.

Come on you Hammers!

The 2009-10 season was a runaway success on the field of play as Bayern claimed the double and reached the Champions League final, and the equivalent fiscal year was equally spectacular for the Munich giants. In the reporting year from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010, Germany’s biggest football club cracked the €300 million turnover barrier for the first time, while operating at a profit for the 18th successive year.

“Our sporting success has ensured we’ve yet again made a profit. FC Bayern is ideally placed to face the future with equity capital at 65.1 percent, or €206.4 million. It means our club is and remains financially independent and unaffected by market fluctuations,” Finance Director Karl Hopfner told around 2,500 club members gathered at the Olympic Hall in Munich for Tuesday evening’s Annual General Meeting.

FC Bayern München AG posted turnover of €312.0 million, up by almost 16 percent on 2008-9 (€268.7 million). Profit after tax rose some 20 percent to €2.9 million (2008-9: €2.5 million). Operating profit (Ebitda) rose to €61.2 million (2008-9: €45.0 million). FC Bayern München AG boasts equity capital totalling €206.4 million (€2008-9: 177.5 million).

A similarly positive trend applied to the figures presented for the FC Bayern München AG group (consolidated accounts for FC Bayern München AG and Allianz Arena München Stadion GmbH). The profit after tax was the same as for FC Bayern München AG at €2.9 million (2008-9 €2.5 million), on turnover of €350.2 million (2008-9: €303.8 million). Operating profit (Ebitda) was €86.5 million (2008-9: €65.5 million). All the 2009-10 figures represent new records.

hax:
you must be on some good sh-it if you think andy carroll is better than chamakh or van persie.

duduspace:
@Debosky

The game Barca played yesterday was from another planet, I was just bouncing up and down like a yo-yo. It will be extremely difficult for any team to get close but don't write off our boyz just yet, if they get anywhere near 90% of the level Barca was at yesterday, I will be very happy. It was a victory for everyone who likes to see the beautiful game being played beautifully and not a win at all costs approach which usually makes the game very boring as espoused by "The Special Mug".

1. Get the best technically gifted players from home and abroad together (they had an advantage here cos their catchment area isn't limited in Spain and not many upcoming spanish players will spurn the opportunity to play for Barca)

2. Get them playing a certain style of football from an early age so its virtually bred into them (we are well along this path now) and give promising youngsters opportunities to play in the first team early.

3. Enhance the team with some world class buys not requiring Galactico proportions expenditure (we aint there yet but signings like Chamakh and Vermaelen are encouraging).

Keep the faith guys, I don't think the likes of Iniesta and Xavi won anything until they were in their mid 20s. I'm sure they were also muscled around at various places as we sometimes are but Barca stuck to their strategy and its winning at present and sustainable too.

StarBoard:
Oga be objective,abeg for once. . .
Don't be unreasonably daft.Ronaldo has moved on from United and we aren't getting him back so there's no need for that post. . .
Did United attempt getting any of the above listed aside Benzema?Even that guy is so crappy and over-rated,it's not funny.
Try oiling your brain before posting. . .
Ozil needs to develop a work ethic-e.g. tracking back to help.

Midfield battle

Ozil’s defensive task was to pick up Xavi, but Xavi simply moved higher up the pitch where Ozil wasn’t comfortable tracking him – that movement was part of the reason why Xavi found himself in an uncharacteristic centre-forward position for the first goal. Xavi was able to leave the centre midfield area to Busquets, who kept things simple and distributed the ball forward excellently.

His World Cup-winning midfield partner Xabi Alonso looked much less assured, and Messi’s drifts towards him presented Alonso with a dilemma about whether to drop goalside and give Barca free run in midfield, or to let him go free and force one of the centre-backs out. It was generally the latter and Ricardo Carvalho put in possibly the worst performance of his career, stepping out of the defence and further exposing Real’s defence.

The pattern was so simple – ball forward to Messi in a deep position, he would then jink past the first challenge and knock the ball through the defence for Villa – or leave that part of the job to Xavi or Iniesta. Villa was constantly flagged offside in the first half, but eventually timed his runs much better and scored two goals in the second half. Real’s offside trap was astonishingly bad to start with and got worse as the game went on, though an equal portion of blame should be attached to the midfield for the lack of pressure upon the Barcelona player playing the pass.