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andrew444:
Recommend those players minus hazard....I love dimitry payet so much and ngolo Kante...hazard is overrated...payet is so good at free kick,scorer about 3 or 4 in his first Epl season with west ham.....scored 10 goals with west ham and about 12 assist,while hazard could manage only 13 goals with Chelsea when they won the league.....Bros hazard is good but overrated....with due respect to all Chelsea players...Diego costa won them the league twice,costa is a beast,I will never want hazard at Barca,hazard is just an upgraded dembele....take my fact or leave it

Mind You bros dimitry payet is one of the most underrated player I have ever seen....he was earning 120k pounds per week at westham...that says a lot...only few players at arsenal earn more than 120,no player in Tottenham earn 120,harry Kane is just 100k,I am just making an example with payet....even when at westham he was a regular with the French team at the euros when they lost to Portugal at the final,it's hardly for a player to be regular at the French team with a below average clubs like westham....Even nzonzi of Sevilla hardly make the French team

Payet has always been known to be talented, the problem is he's been inconsistent. Only started showing a bit of consistency in his last season at Marseille and West Ham. That's why Arsenal didn't sign him. They scouted him much much earlier.

komekn:
Well if he doesn't sit up and improve he can be shifted out. Time and opportunity wait for no man.

If Wenger leaves I honestly will be very very afraid for him. This is not about hate or bad belle but forward projection and reality.

Iwobi will come good. Think a new manager might actually be good for him. He'd thrive under a coach like Tuchel or Pep. Wenger is a great man manager, but he's no longer hands on with players like before. He's lost his touch.

daveP:
Golovin will bench him straight up. But the guy can't dribble like him, and that team needs a dribbler. I saw the futile attempt of Ozil to try dribbling. what a joke.

He just did what would make Ozil not to be passing to him once he sees he is free.


I expect improvements soon. I wish we were still in the era where Ayers were not social media friendly. Just the game week in week out. But merits and demerits abound.


That Golovin, might be an answer to set piece issues from the right side of the pitch.

Musa played well to me.... They played to his strength and I'm still very much skeptical that we the GWG have such a midfield that can't just be spontaneous and playvto the strength of the striker they have in front of goal.....


The tactic for Cska for 20mins was simply "all balls to Musa"

Golovin is great man...very very smooth on the ball. He's versatile just like Iwobi. They could both play together sef in certain coaches.

Mujtahida:
Ehen well, my mistake then. They say he doesn't have the eye for a pass as in those long passes. But most people forget that before Mikel grew to being good at long passes he was a master of the short quick passes.
Iwobi is the natural heir to our midfield. I just don't know how they keep playing him from the wings. He is not a winger at all

He's good outwide. He's an inverted winger. He plays well when he has a fluid number 10 that can swap positions with him throughout the game like Ozil does. Unfortunately he won't get that will Mikel playing. He's our source of creativity out wide

goldfish80:
He needs to play in a team who will build their midfield around him. Teams like Chelsea, Man city, Arsenal and even Man utd should be banging the door for him if they knew what they were doing.
I know Madrid wouldn't be crazy enough to sell to Barcelona, but he is exactly the type of midfielder the Catalans need. He can do beautiful things with Coutinho going forward.
He's my favorite midfielder in the world now.

Yep. He's also very versatile. Can play as a 6, 8 and 10.
Rumors are going round that Madrid might sell either him or Isco to fund their next galactico move. He's exactly what Arsenal needs at the moment in midfield.

daveP:
To me, his development for the next level is for him and him alone, I expect that with all that footwork of his, he should have it at the back of his mind that the best footwork is packing R2 goals once in the box.


No doubt AFC fans are overreacting and are being stupid. They didn't see useless Wilshere all thru 90mins. Arsenal needed Iwobi for his speedy runs than Iwobi needed them. Winger knows that. His speed made the Cska to try set an offside trap that Elneny and Ramsey exploited finally.


If I were Iwobi, I would train extra 1hour just to know how to shoot at goal.


It would be an Insult if Bellerin gets that perfect before him.....


Players should emulate Pirlo and Pires now, extrahours of training that only makes you indispensable.

Yep. Honestly I've been very disappointed with him this season. I expected him to push on considering how well he played in pre season and the community shield vs Chelsea.
With the rumors of Golovin and maybe Forsberg coming in, he needs to really sit up.

goldfish80:
KOvacic is another impressive player I have seen this season. I was in awe when I saw him play against Paris. Honestly, I have never taken notice of him till that day. The guy is absolute mustard.
He can easily develop into the best midfielder of his generation. According to opta stats, he's the best dribbler in Europe this season. The world cup will be interesting, thats for sure.

Yep Kovacic is a major baller. I've been harping on about Croatia midfield for a while now. Kovacic, Rakitic, Brozovic, Rog, Perisic, Pjaca, etc. We need to be on our A game.
Shows you just how good Madrid's midfield is that a player of his caliber is on the bench.

tbaba1234:
They should free the boy... everyone misses chances...

Arsenal fans are something else. They made Xhaka do the same thing as well. More demanding than Real Madrid fans

isan:
This isco sef how can u have 100% passing against atlhetico and juventus mad stat

Better than any midfielder in the epl top 6

Iwobi closes his comments section on IG again!. SMH

lexyman:
dont forget Mandzukic is a player that know's how to use his head , the team played to his strength , remove Douglas Costa , and see how ordinary Mandzukic is .

They have Perisic so it's the same thing. Croatia are going to be very difficult.

Chrismario:
We have mikel

The truth musa and many if not all our forwards don't know when to make such run. Our problem is consistency in poor decision making

Mikel is great at holding the ball up, but he doesn't put the eye of the needle pass regularly. Watch Musa vs Arsenal and see how often he was getting in behind. It's just his poor football IQ that kills him when he's in that position.
Anyhow you're right. He's good as a sub.

Humility017:
you mean you prefer musa as a CF?
you're funny...it seems you don't know how wasteful he is in front of goals...please go re-watch Nigeria vs south Africa match in uyo during keshi era...


musa is better as as sub....keshi used these rhythm to get the best from him during the afcon 2013....he can always come in to outrun the defenders.....during 30-10 minutes left to play...and he should be deployed to the wings.

I say so because of the runs he makes. He gets into better scoring positions than the forwards we have.
Unfortunately we're not blessed with a playmaker like Ozil, De Bruyne, Eriksen in our team.

Joebie:
One of the ills of Manu Garba. How so?
"there are somethings one know but shouldn't say". Then what then?

He sounds like someone disgruntled.. If he had something to say Simon, he should come out and expose it instead of making a fool of himself with riddle-like news.

As regards Rohr, we are waiting.

Forget that guy man. He goes on the rant about the history of coaches promising to invite players for the WC if they sign for them. Gave an example of Tijani and how he was locked in his house for 24 hours by his national team coach (Westerhof I suppose).

Joebie:
what is he yapping?

The "source" that leaked the naija player playing with a fake passport. Now he's come out and said it's Moses Simon. Said he'll expose DFW and Rohr

gamaliel9:
The level of football is improving though i rate the players of 1990s- 2000s better that the players of this era. Check out AC Milan,Inter,Parma,Lazio[Gazza was once here],Ajax,PSV,Barcelona[at a time,Stoickov,Ronaldo,Hagi etc were in this team],Bayern,Hamburg,etc,. English teams were nowhere then except perhaps Man U[Always beaten then]

Musa has not improved,he was even better at u20 with Kayode. Now,he is no longer needed.


I am still waiting for Musa s three crosses in eight years!

Always viewed Musa like Walcott. More of a wide forward than a winger. I personally prefer him at CF than outwide. He makes some good runs in behind at times.

EmmGee:
... what do you think of the penalty and red card..

Very soft call. Benatia got the ball. Not a penalty in such circumstances.

tbaba1234:
It is 100% false... Yesterday, the sports agency refuted one of ANS stories on twitter and he started attacking them.

The guy that runs ANS constantly writes made-up stories.. It is not new.

Well that pissed him off..

gamaliel9:
Please what does Ahmed Musa bring to the Nigerian team? Those two goals against The Argies,we still lost. What is unique about him. He should be replaced by Samuel Kanu,who is by far better than him and will add more depth and options to the Nigerian attack

Looks like Rohr sees him as an option at CF. I'm resigned to the guy going to WC. Onyekuru, Kalu have been better than him for 2 years now.

tbaba1234:
Musa's coach, Vikor Goncharenko, didn’t take kindly to Musa’s actions, approaching the 25-year-old and reportedly telling him that he “will sit on the bench forever”.

More trouble for Musa??

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/leicester-city-transfer-news-live-1436218

Disappointing. He played well against Arsenal. Make him just apologize afterwards

Chrismario:
Is like you don't know the root of this Argument

Abi...

andrew444:
I did not say Suarez at Ajax....Suarez in general is better than van persie and has scored more career goals than him despite him being younger.

I no argue again google and Wikipedia is there for you....make I watch ball.... One love

Who was arguing if Suarez is better overall?? I said he was not better before 2013/14. That's my argument.

andrew444:
Van persie is never a better player than Suarez take it or leave it.

The highest goal scored in a premier league season is 31 and its between cronaldo alan shearer and Luis suarez,thou mohammed salah will break that record soon

Suarez only spend 3 seasons in the premier league and he scored 69 premier league goals in 110 games.

Van persie spend 11 seasons in the EPL and he did well.

Van persie is 34 and suarez is 31,Suarez is younger and has scored more career goals than van persie,that said it all,if you doubt me check google for stats.

Ven persie is a world class player...But Suarez is a better player than him...take it or leave it

When did Suarez score 31?? 2013/14 season.
Van Persie played 3 seasons fit as a striker and those were his numbers.
If you think Suarez at Ajax and his first two seasons were better than Van persie, then you didn't watch RVP enough. Suarez only surpassed RVP after the 2013/14 season. This is a fact!

forgiveness:
Did Suarez join Liverpool in 2011?

Yes. Were Liverpool in the Champions League?

andrew444:
Those players you mentioned was rated higher than Suarez apart from Robin Van Persie...abeg no allow us argue another one remove van persie there na God I use beg you,rvp is a world class player but there is no day he was rated higher than Suarez,the rest player you mentioned are fact

Van Persie scored 18 in 25 in 2010/11, 30 in 38 in 2011/12 and 26 in 38 in 2012/13. So yes, From 2009 - 2013 Van Persie was better than Suarez.

andrew444:
Then who was the best striker the past 8 years is it ibra?

Was Suarez the best striker in the world when he was at Ajax?? This is the main argument. You said the last 4 years which actually confirms what I was saying that Suarez only started getting recognized as the best around 2013/14. Why is this argument still going on?
Ok let's do this - bring proof that shows Suarez was rated higher than Eto, Drogba, Villa, Lewandowski, Rooney, RVP from 2009 - 2012.

andrew444:
Hope you mean then and not now...Because for the past 4 years suarez has been the best striker in the world alongside lewandowski

Thank God you said the past 4 years and not 8!

andrew444:
If Ibrahimovic is world class at Ajax when why not Suarez who scored more goal than him.

I don't have all link because it's being long,take a look at the Chelsea link

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/6777610/Ajax-dismiss-Luis-Suarez-move-to-Chelsea.html

Do you guys have hate for Suarez? I need to know now so I will stop the arguement

If Suarez is not world class at Ajax then who are the players you regard as world class at that level at that time,I guess zlatan and Kezman?

And tell me which football club you support so I will know where you are comming from

I didn't say Ibra was world class at the Eredivise, I said he was rated higher. Point to where I said Ibra was world class??
I repeat - Luis Suarez was NO WHERE close to being the best striker in the world or even world class for that matter. He was a promising player and that was it. Period!!

forgiveness:
Oga, you claimed Liverpool was not playing in the UEFA and Euoropa as at then but fact proved otherwise.

Chelsea and Manchester were not in the Champions league last season, are they small clubs?


From 2008 - 2010 EPL was viewed the best in the world.

This was the post you replied to

edi287:

[/b]I compared Juve of 04 to Liverpool of 11 because that was when they both moved to their respective clubs. As of 2011, Liverpool weren't even in the europa league talk of ucl. You want compare Liverpool of that time to a Juve side that was competing for Serie A and had players like Del Piero, Trez, etc?? Ibra moved to a MUCH better side. Facts![b]

Now can you show me where I mentioned Liverpool's Ucl/europa league record from 04 - 10??

andrew444:
Suarez turned down Bayern and inter to join Liverpool,Liverpool offer more wages.

But how far who later conquer the world ?

Proof please.

We're not asking "who later conquered the world", we are asking if Suarez was the best striker in the world at Ajax. The answer is NO.

andrew444:
Scored many goals for Ajax but not more than Suarez ,and mind you ibra is a living legend

Why didn't Suarez move to a bigger club than Liverpool if he was world class or the best striker in the world like Forgiveness claims??

forgiveness:
Liverpool finish 3rd, 4th and 2nd on the EPL table from 2006 - 2009.

Liverpool were UEFA Champions league champion in 2005, Runner up in 2007, Semi finalist in 2008, Quarter finalist 2009 and Europa semi finalist in 2010.

Tell me something.

Why stop at 2009?? Tell us where they finished 2010 and 2011?
Juve won the league from 2001 - 2006(when Serie A was viewed as the best league in the world). Oh and they were still playing the Ucl when Ibra joined. Suarez joined when they weren't in the ucl yet you want us to believe Liverpool was a bigger/better team when Suarez joined than Juve were around 04 -06?? Comparing the players of both teams would even kill any chance of having such a lame argument