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The other I was arguing with Coogar, I stated that Giggs and Valencia are more intelligent among the wingers in getting behind a defence line and creating havoc thereof. I watched a lot of clips again now about our wingers. The truth is that none of our wingers can replace Giggs. His speed at what he does, his quickness, his precision of pass and picking his man. Up to last two season he did it, even this last season. In the second part of two seasons ago, he came from the bench to rescue situations in a dramatic fashion. When will United replace him squarely? One match was UCL 2011 quarter final in which United scored three goals and he provided them all. At Stamford Bridge,a magnificent first touch control saw him rounded Bosingwa and got him behind Chelsea defence to deliver a perfect pass to Rooney to score. See link below. Also on youtube. http://www.soccer-blogger.com/2011/04/06/chelsea-vs-manchester-united-0-1-champions-league-highlights-2011-video/ At Old Trafford he intelligently got behind the defence line again from the right and delivered a perfect telling pass to Chicharito. Then finally he picked JS Park from the middle. Manchester United 2 Chelsea 1 http://www.soccer-blogger.com/2011/04/12/manchester-united-vs-chelsea-2-1-highlights-champions-league-2011-goals/ Valencia is also capable of a precise cross and pass once he gets behind the defence or out runs them, except for last season. But compare to Giggs, the rest wingers have a long way to go. They should be blamed for SAF keeping Giggs relevant.
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I still want to know, did Rooney request for a transfer? Moyes should start talking straight away and kill all these rumours circulated by papers. David Moyes has secretly met Wayne Rooney in a bid to persuade the troubled star to stay at Manchester United. During the hush-hush meeting, Rooney revealed his anger at Alex Ferguson’s claims he had handed in a transfer request. An insider confirmed: “There is little doubt the new boss wants to keep Wayne. Any suggestions the two don’t get on is complete rubbish. It was an amicable meeting but it gave Wayne the chance to get a lot of things off his chest. “He’s always denied handing in a transfer request and like all top players, he was upset to be dropped, especially for the Real Madrid match.” Roo and Moyes intend to meet again this week as the world’s top clubs monitor the situation. (Source: The Sun, Daily Mail) ………………………………. Barcelona new boy Neymar says it would be "a dream" to play with Wayne Rooney and has urged the Manchester United forward to join him in Spain. Ahead of the Confederations Cup final, Brazil star Neymar wants Rooney to follow in his footsteps and move to Spanish heavyweights Barcelona this summer. Neymar said: "The style of football we [Barcelona] play and the level of the players we have - we are the perfect club for the top players to join. "I have met Wayne on a few occasions and he seems a good guy but importantly, he is one of the players I admire most in the world. Wayne is one of the most gifted and technical players in the world. "Of course he would improve Barcelona. He would improve any club in Europe. And on a personal level, it would be a dream to play with him." (Source: football365.com) |
1st July has arrived. Moyes officially resumes duty and his first press conference is 4th of July. |
Looks like United are going to up bid for Baines to between 15 and 20m pounds. Can this 28 years old left back be part of our solution? However, he seems to be far better going forward than Evra. Also he makes fewer mistakes. It also looks he will block the left full back better.
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dademola: so, u're saying dt welbeck and cleverley dont fall into d category of overhyped english playrs?? Lololol. U make a list of overhyped plyrs, u include hart and walcot, and u exclude welbeck and cleverley?? U say cleverley isnt overhyped? When d british press and even sme pple here hav started mentioning his name in d same sentence as paul scholes, and smeone(elampiro, i think) compared him to xavi?? D same cleverely dat has been sed to be very good, cos he has d highest game/win ratio at man utd?? Welbeck?? D same welbeck cooger was saying is betta dan goetze sme weeks ago?? A striker dt wld alws hav d attribute of "being a menace and a handful", but neva a goalscorer?? Some pple will be like:aha, shebi d gentle giant was like dt too. We obviously see things differently, bro.Yes, I said Cleverly plays like Xavi. That doesn't mean he has attained the same game control as Xavi. He moves the ball, turn and releases quick accurate passes like Xavi. If he keeps moving at same consistency, he will get there. Cleverly also covers so much KM in a match, he runs in all sides of the field and moves releases the ball fast. But the last part of last season his consistency dropped and he could only play one half of a match. Lets see where he goes from there. |
Pep Guardiola: "I propose that from the next season, Referees for the knockout stages of the Champions League should be from the best leagues - Not from Leagues that have been known to fix matches. You all saw what happened to Manchester United last season against Real Madrid. That was a horrible thing. United deserved to reach the semi- finals at least. They played with their heart. They were unbelievable." |
Katangora: Wetin we won use Baines do? Pls we have Buttner & Evra is still buzzling... I'm more interested in thn MF, why the mute about Thiago? Goal.com report on him today about a utd move is equivocal, the transfer window is boringI beg Butner is not a United material. He doesn't have the quality. Evra leaves so much space on the left of our defence for opponents to explore. He is easily beaten too. But I can't tell if Baines is the answer. |
Everton has rejected Manchester Unityed £12m bid for Baines. Will the bid be increased? Does this mean Evra will go to the bench? There is something special about Evra's game but there is also something wrong with his defending. |
Manchester United have just bid for Everton left-back Leighton Baines as David Moyes looks to strengthen his squad ahead of his first season at Old Trafford . The left-back if signed would replace the aging Patrice Evra who is wanted by former club Monaco. The bid is around £10million, an amount that is understands will be rejected out of hand by the chairman Bill Kenwright. (Source: The Mirror, The Times, Red Mancunian, Metro) #mufs |
StarBoard: The issue here is not who insulted first. You insulted people and you want respect.You are correct. But there is an adage in my place- 'if you push even a goat to the wall it will bite'. |
StarBoard: Firstly, if you dish it, you should be ready to take it.My insults were only a return for earlier several insults. I never for once insulted anyone first. Once I realized that someone keeps repeating insults on me, I hit back to let the person know exactly that I too can be hard. When I left here temporary due to insults, I never for once replied anyone. That first time I was just bearing it, when I came a second time, I would tell the other party first that he is resorting to insult, but when they persisted, I retaliated. Go back and check the history between two of us- elampiro vs starboard. I had earlier pointed out that there is no moderator here that the insults were too much, but Coogar said football is an emotional game and there won't be way without some insults. Last Sunday I made a resolution that I am never again going to indulge in such. Go and read if for once I retaliated any of Coogar's insults last Sunday. Moreover, in my 8 yrs in nairaland, this thread was the first place I insulted anyone. I was forced into retaliation and to refused to be bullied. My question is, is insult not part of the rules? Why is the moderator not acting? Second question, how does derailing a thread warrants an insult? Go back to the two people who reacted to the Tevez post. Compare Xailor's reaction to Coogar's. |
StarBoard: Na wah o.When I first came to this thread, I posted everything about United. But the insult was too much then I left. I came back and we were arguing about Wayne Rooney. I got insulted several times for no just reason, then I realised it was to frustrate me to leave. I decided not to let anyone to bully me. For no reasons people insult and you Starboard was the second person to insult me for arguing about Rooney. On the issue of derailing thread. I am sure I have posted news about Madrid president on Ronaldo and Bale. I posted about Neyman going to Barca. No one insulted me them or accused me of derailing the thread. It was only when I posted about Super Eagles. I am sure if I posted about Berbatov, you guys wouldn't have complained, but since it's Tevez you guys are angry. Tevez is an ex United player and his news will always be a big news in football. I will also post news about Becham, Cantona, etc when they become good football news. They are ex- United. Even if a thread is derailed, is it with insults you correct people? |
A social forum is like a class, when you enter you become same with everyone in the class/house. But housemates/class mates are meant to treat one another with respect and dignity. Some people here adopted insulting method in order to try and bully or intimidate others out of arguments. There are some other reasons some people will chose to insult. People should be able to separate insults from jokes. There is little or no joke on this thread at all. Insult is the reason why this place is dry. I can bet that. Not everyone can take it. Imagine some people are parents who have kids, some are bank managers with intelligent graduates working under them, some are business people with adult employees, some are medical doctors, oil workers etc. They have not been disrespected for many years, the don't know the meaning of insults and they have never on their part insulted people in recent years because of their status. Now they come to nairaland and someone hide behind a social forum to insult them. I am sure many quietly walked away. When you get to meet some nairalanders face to face you will wonder why on earth you wasted so much time and energy debating unnecessarily. It is always said that two wrongs cannot make a right, once you realize as a human being people are dragging you to a level you shouldn't be, you have to respect yourself and maintain your principles and dignity. This is the reason a lot of people have stayed away. Are you going to drag yourself to the level of someone who takes delight in insulting people by continuously exchanging insults with him? Some are so intolerant of other people's ideas. Some feel the thread belongs to them and as such they must dictate its direction and ideology. Here some people have tried to laughed at me that I joined nairaland only recently, some have called me a newbie, some said I am new to online forum. Don't these people know it is possible to check when someone joined an online forum? Don't they know it is possible to check someone participation in a forum by checking on the history of his posts from his profile? Funny, I joined nairaland before many people here. I have even been called a houseboy . Why do we have the impression that we are more knowledgeable, better, higher or wealthy than the man at the other side? Only last year I met two nairalanders whom I had a high opinion of based on their postings and they were belittling me, but at the end it was like ""oh! I have been wasting my time all the while, I should have just left them to their ideas and the way they see life based on their lack of life experience and exposure" |
Gays won in the two big rulings. Obama has single handedly turned America upside down in terms of morals, and he is not even doing well in economy. The most painful thing is that a lot of people are blind to this evil. Religion apart, gayism or homosexulism doesn't follow any natural or human sense yet the satanic men succeeded in blinding people to accepting it in the name of equal right. |
SailorXY: ^^bros make I no lie, this news no concern uslol Guess you will like this kind of speculation in Spanish and British media. Barca are rumoured to be willing to offer £30m + Thiago for Rooney.
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Tevez off to Juventus. Manchester City has agreed on a transfer fee with Juventus for striker Carlos Tevez, Goal has confirmed. The Serie A champions will pay 10 million pounds for the Argentine forward with an extra 5 million pounds to be paid if Juventus wins the league and reaches the Champions League semifinals next season. Sky Sports Italy first reported the two sides reaching an agreement on Tuesday. Real Madrid and AC Milan are both monitoring the situation and City thinks Massimiliano Allegri's men may counter with an offer of their own. However, Milan admitted it may need to sell before it can buy this summer. Tevez has endured a controversial time at Manchester City since moving from rival United in 2009. Despite helping the club win both the Premier League and the FA Cup during his stay at the Etihad, the striker also spent five months out of the team after clashing with Roberto Mancini during a Champions League match. Tevez eventually returned to action for City and was the club's joint top goalscorer last season, with Sergio Aguero, scoring 17 goals from 47 appearances. Juventus, meanwhile, has also agreed terms with Gonazalo Higuain but looks set to miss out on the Real Madrid man after Arsenal officials flew to Madrid to finalize a deal. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/manchester-city-agrees-juventus-fee-202000173--sow.html |
dayokanu: Calculate both percentages and lets seeWhat is the need of the percentage to the topic at hand? Lampard is one of the best penalty takers ever. |
[quote author=A-40]But you know your boy Rooney is arguably one of the worst high volume penalty takers in the league[/quote]26 penalties, scored 18. Lampard has a remarkable conversion rate. He has scored 48 out of 54. |
coogar: balotelli has scored 22 penalties out of the 22 he's had in his career. who cares how many lambert has scored at the saints. it's one thing scoring in a bottom side with little or no pressure. southampton were not in the premier league for aeons so far majority of lambert's pens were in a 2nd tier league(no pressure).Do you know which matches Baltelli scored his considering he only scored a few ( I think eight) for City? And how many has Lambert scored in the EPL? But Lambert must still be commended because even great players like Messi missed even when there was no pressure at all. |
coogar: rooney is shyte!My write up was not about Rooney or comparing players. Lambert has scored 31 out of 31. He is currently best. He never missed for Southampton. Matthew Le Tissier is all time best hitting 48 out of 49. Mario Balotelli didnt score 22 penalties at City, I guess it is his all time record. |
montelik: Funny, Rooney has one of the worst PK conversion rates in the EPL.This is not the point. But he is also above many scorers. Lambert is the best, followed by Lampard. Rooney must be within the first eight, I can guess. |
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[b]How important are great penalty scorers to teams success. In so many arguments here we have seen some comments trying to downgrade goals from penalties. Penalties have to be won, taken and scored. Sometimes enormous tension and nervousness follow when a penalty is won and before it is taken. It is particularly a big moment for the penalty taker as the burden, load, and pressure of scoring the penalty has to fall on the shoulder of one player who takes the glory or blame for the outcome. We have seen many goals which were scored from a simple tap-in with the goal keeper displayed and they were much easier than penalties. We heard Pele scored 1,000 goals plus, not Pele scored 900 goals plus 100 penalties. We heard Messi and Ronaldo scored certain number of goals which broke records, but not Ronaldo and Messi broke records with xyz goals with z penalties part of it. We have not heard how many penalties are part of Lampards record as the highest Chelsea's midfield scorer of all time. Most great players have missed penalties and even some of the missed penalties could have changed the outcome of the match. 1. Maradonna missed a penalty in the world cup. 2. Messi missed a penalty against Chelsea that would have shot Barcelona to the UCL final of last year. 3. Ronaldo missed a penalty against Chelsea in UCL final 2008. He missed against Bayern Munich in last year's UCL semi final. He had scored 13 in the league before the match, and these 13 goals added to his statistics towards a FIFA best player award, also the gaols formed part why Madrid were on the verge of winning the league at the time. Had he scored that penalty, he would have gone home a complete hero and in a much better position to contest for the FIFA best player. It would have meant he played his part to the full, unlike Messi who missed against Chelsea. Look at the way CNN captioned it 'Ronaldo went from hero to zero'. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/25/sport/football/football-champions-league-madrid-bayern . He was criticised for not taking one of the early penalties against Spain in EURO 2012. 4. Drogba missed two penalties in two AFCON that would have helped Ivory Coast. 5. Robben missed in the UCL final last year late in the regulation time that should have taken his team to instant UCL glory. We can go all and all. Being a penalty taker for the team means the coach has so much trust in you, it is a great responsibility that even many players run away from. You have to be calm, intelligent and calculative. You have to be able to shoot accurately and you have to be able to move your body and feet in such away to send the goalkeeper the wrong way. In summary, I can say penalty taking is more difficult than a third of other chances which strikers score from. Penalty taking is usually left in the hands of strikers who have confidence in their abilities and whom coaches have so much trust in.[/b] |
dademola: [b][/b] aha. Nobody wld struggle with ronaldo for 7shirt anywhere in d world?? What happened wen he 1st got to madrid?? My point iz dt, when u gv a plyr's jersey no to anoda playa, u're indirectly telling d former dt he aint needed at d club again. I see things like dis as unecessary distractions, especially for a new, inexprienced manager like moyes. D club may be looking at d financial aspect sha, as CR7 is now a brand, and wld definitely boost d sale of dat particular shirt. Unless valencia has been seen as being surplus to requirements sha. Considering valencia's nature sha, he might not mind..Na dem know jor. Fans are are tired of their silence. However, Raul was an icon, it would have been disrespectful for Madrid to have even tried talking him to leaving the shirt for a small boy who just arrived. And some people are different in their approach to things. Valencia is not being neglected. The only players under uncertainty are Nani, Anderson and Rooney. But SAF said no one is leaving, but Nani has to decide his case. Whichever way, all we want now is Moyes to tell us who they want to bring. Among all the players we were linked to, only Falcao has moved. Possibly we might get one or two of the rest. The only one no other club is struggling with us is Strootman. His current club are ready to free him, he on his part wants Premier League and United seem to be on the driver's seat. Bale is excited about Madrid's interest in him. Lewandonsky (I don't want him) is being held tightly by Dortmund and he too doesn't have a mind of his own, he is not sure what he wants. Thiago and his dad want United but Barca aren't giving up at all. Despite the situation, I still believe SAF had already put some things in motion or even sealed before he left. |
dademola: and den?? Y wasnt scholes given his no18 shirt back, wen he came outta retirement??Scholes didn't start with 18. As he got older he left the preferred numbers for the rising stars. He is the most humble footballer you will find on earth. Moreover, no one will struggle the number 7 with Ronaldo any where in the world. If Ronaldo were to need the number 10 or 20 (should Rooney stay), that is where there would have been clashes . Paul Scholes was asked recently why he is not using facebook and twitter. He said ''what is the use telling people what you are doing in your private life.'' He is not interested in any show. |
SailorXY: ^^Valencia can't even wear 14 unless Moyes is passing the No. 9 shirt to ChicharitoRVP has said he won't wear 9, so only Chicha can wear it. |
dademola: even if ronaldo comes, hw can he expect to get d no 7 shirt just like dat?? Valencia wld now hav to wear anoda nmbr?? Wen it hasnt been sed dt he is surplus to requirements?? If ronaldo cmes, he shud just take d no9 shirt like he did at madrid in his 1st season jare!! He shudnt come and cause unnecesary tension at OT!!He wore it before Valencia. |
Michael Carrick tweet implies Antonio Valencia will be wearing number 14 but later said it was a joke that he was referring to a Rugby game. As usual papers are quick to add their dimension, now they speculate that Valencia no.7 shirt print has stopped as such CR7 might be on his way. Well, I still want to believe SAF had negotiated some signing before he left. We certainly cannot start a new season like this. |
montelik: Yes "white Pele" is Lord and master of soccer. Hence why he has less world cup goals than Yakubu?So how many does Messi have in the world cup? Messi is still far behind Bastituta in Argentina score sheet. |
coogar: this is stupidity at it's best.....Anderson and Cleverly drew West Brom 1-1 until Evans and Jones came again as they did against City. Then they continued the winning streak. Barca's game was a friendly of inconsequential importance. Stop deceiving yourself about Anderson and Cleverly with a short fluke. |
coogar: city game - match fitness100% in how many games? What about the 5-5 draw against West Bom, don't tell me of nay nonesense discounting of goals due to substitution. History books are not recorded that way. Moreover, they had the help of Smalling, Jones and Evans. To show they were not the real factor, the streak continued when the left. The real guys of 2011/12 season are: 1. Valencia---- voted by players and fans as best. He won the award. 2. Rooney------ 2nd best. He is always one of the best. That's where he is a unique. 3. Scholes----- He single handedly redefined our midfield. He knew how to give a telling pass to Valencia and with Rooney they created havoc and went on a wonderful streak of 8 matches. What Anderson and Cleverly were part of is a child's play to what happened later in the season, and what has always happen in United from time to time. We also had a winning streak this last season. so keep the hype.
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. Why do we have the impression that we are more knowledgeable, better, higher or wealthy than the man at the other side? Only last year I met two nairalanders whom I had a high opinion of based on their postings and they were belittling me, but at the end it was like ""oh! I have been wasting my time all the while, I should have just left them to their ideas and the way they see life based on their lack of life experience and exposure"

