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In the Premier League, the resources of Chelsea and Manchester City far exceed those of United, who remain burdened by the debts imposed on them by the Glazer family. Chelsea have spent around four times as much money as United over the past five years, and that sort of spending is bound to tell eventually, no matter how many bizarre managerial decisions Roman Abramovich makes. City, meanwhile, have just hired two of Barcelona's most senior men to transform them into a global superpower, and are sure to come out all guns blazing in the summer transfer window as they seek to reclaim the Premier League title.
In Europe, the challenge facing United appears even more ominous. Bayern Munich have emerged as Europe's leading club, and the new parameters set by Financial Fair Play appear perfectly suited to their savvy approach to spending and deal-making. The German club are already in the Champions League final, having beaten Barcelona 7-0 on aggregate, and they are about to become even stronger with the arrival of Pep Guariola as coach and Mario Gotze as star player.
Ferguson has spent the past five years desperately trying to match Barcelona; the challenge ultimately proved beyond him, as United were utterly eclipsed by the Catalans in two Champions League finals. With an even more daunting prospect appearing on the horizon, the United manager may have finally ducked the challenge, content to bow out with his reputation at its zenith.

baby_mama: Igbo women are fine o
Just look at this random cross section
If this were somewhere else,the ugly things that will be displayed here eh

olajide_07: Look at the larger picture people and look at the game being played love them or hate them, this is chess *politics* a game of intellectuals OBJ was the only good player - look very well at the options available, two performing available governors and another in waiting from the south south edo state, subsequently, their are other patterns I see panning out and a change from the norm, to performance Hmmm! I like where this is heading you want a igbo president Okorocha, you want yoruba president fashola, you want a south south option oshimole, this looks quite nice - no word President Obama is backing APC as a viable option.

El Guapo: [color=#0066ff]Sub-par performances could still contribute to the Exit but then u're Perfectly rightly On Instability of managers influencing the Shipouts.

Dayo would talk about Melchiot and Lebeouf Staring in many games [Must be Vialli and Ranieri's regimes], when am sure the duo dare not smell around our dugout Under a Modern day Chelsea manager - They could still be a fit at Manure though.

And Dayo, I dont think by any Standard Mikel is a Bad Player, U dont expect all DMs to Play in a Conventional manner.[/color]

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nateevs: 'Long serving managers' talk is a myth. To put things in perspective, Jose is currently the longest serving manager in the whole of the La Liga. Yet Jose is supposed to be the restless guy.

Welcome to the real world guys. Only Fergie, Wenger and Moyes have held a single job down in a top flight European club for more than 5 years.

Broken TV: i want you to know that your are dealing with the whole of anambra now not just anambra north senatorial zone check the margin she take beat Akunyili. And let me remind you people did not vote for ngige because of acn. Whether you like it or not Apc will fail.

Hugoboi: How come no one is even looking the direction of Jurgen Klopp? That dude has been phenomenal if you ask me

funnyx: Could you please desist from quoting me you deluded lost souls? you called me a bigot yet you have no proof, you claimed to choose your word carefully yet all your posts proves otherwise. I have told you before and let me remind you again, I DOT NOT ENGAGE WITH PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO HAVE PROVED TIMES WITHOUT NUMBERS THAT THEY ARE INCABLE OF REASONING LIKE HUMANS SO PLEASE WAKA PASS.

rhymz: Not to sound insulting to the Yoruba political class but I have noticed that they are in the habit of exaggerating the relevance of the SW votes in the way they tailor and talk about votes from there. This is not the first time I have seen such antics. Truth be told, the SW is just a sub-region, they can never have a voting effect similar to any region no matter how much noise they make about some imaginary effect they are going to have in the next elections.

Like I have always reminded the people of the SW that like to bask in such wishful thinking, how much effect did the SW vote had on the victory of GEJ in the last elections? Lagos was the only SW state that could deliver up to a million votes to the GEJ and the reason for that is so obvious; Lagos is not your typical Yoruba state. We are yet to see this "almighty" voting power replicated in the core Yoruba states, even Oyo state with a fairly big population could not even give up to a million votes yet you lot are in the habit of exaggerating how your votes can cause any candidate to win or lose, so laughable and childish. I dare any of you to come up with the total votes from the SW to GEJ in the last election and compare it to those from other sub-regions, I can bet it that SW probably was the least or close to the least. make no mistake about it, Jonathan still would have been the clear winner if those SW votes, about 4.5 million votes were removed from his total votes. abeg make una stop to dey shout SW like say each SW person votes go count as 2 at the poles. . na wa o

naijababe: The revisionism has started already. The same man that was so slow in decision making that folks ordering snails in bukas would call it Yar'dua

El Guapo: [color=#0066ff]And when would u Jump ship for Inductive reasoning?

Last time he was relevant could mean a game and he sure had a decent game whenever he was featured FYI.

I dont think a Player who could garner up 250th Caps for Chelsea is a Joker, if he was never good he wouldn't Last that Long.

After the Surgery in 2008, he started Losing it and Chelsea couldnt have hesitated in dishing him out when his contract ran out in 2010.[/color]

nitlad: Van Basten got injured and copped out, Joe Cole had numerous injuries, fought back and continued playing. Who is more gallant?

El Guapo: [color=#0066ff]I Pointed out Age and Injury as the two core factors that could hamper a Player's performance thereby getting him sold. And Cole's was more of the niggling Knee Injuries he'd suffer.

He was relevant to our winning United at OT In 2010 - A win that enhanced our chances of winning the League.[/color]

FBS: if this was an attempt to joke then sorry to say this but you again failed on that.
point is this- just because a certain player (whether 120 or 150 years of age) played for different teams does not mean he ain't good. This at least you should know.

nitlad: How old was the legendary Marco Van Basten when he retired from the game entirely?

nitlad: Something dey worry Gaynners o.

Shey you dey follow celebrate Manure's treble ni, abi wetin concern you there?

Alainitiju.

FBS: No, I wasn't the one but that's not even important.
I was only replying to your earlier post. You had no points there. rara. at all at all.

nitlad: The great Rivaldo of Brazil played in ANGOLA!

FBS: thats bull.shai.t . sorry but you have no point there.
wetin be the name of that Brazilian boy playing in Kazakhstan now?

El Guapo: [color=#0066ff]Dont tell me that is new.

When U decline in age or go through series of Injuries, there's every big Probability that ur blistering Career would surely be hittin' the rock. And when such times call, u'd be surplus of requirement at the 'big' team u are, leaving u with One Sinister choice - To Join a Smaller team, where ur experience would serve as an advantage.

Socrates ended up In Fiorentina and later Garforth town, Edgar Davies to Barnet, Claudio Caniggia....Etc and where the fark Is Hleb now?[/color]