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Joebie:
Adebayo Akinfenwa's passion for Nigeria is as strong as it is for Liverpool
Ed Dove | ESPN



"I know there was a campaign one time to try and get me out there, but they weren't really feeling me and that... maybe they haven't got a kit that can fit me."

Starboytwo:
no 9 will look very beautiful on him... Infact I will know how serious Napoli are by just the jersey number... Make I no see any number twenty or 30 something ooo....

TheSuperNerd:
Ajayi's passing caught my attention keenly today. Baller defender.

Danielnino00:
Now, this is interesting..

Thesupernerd,how come we have never heard about him ?

TheSuperNerd:
The way things are going. Osimhen could become Africa's most expensive signing of all time, this summer, beating the Nicolas Pepe transfer record.

81 million euros being mentioned which translates to about 73.5 million pounds. That's a little more than the 80million euros (72 million pounds Arsenal spent on Pepe).

Time will tell if it is a new African transfer record fee or not.

But one thing I know is this: Osimhen will move for a big fee. He will most likely do well in Italy and achieving star status in the Serie A will fetch an even bigger transfer fee in his prime or near his prime. This young man is gonna cost 100million + euros someday. Just watch out.



L'equipe reports that Napoli Coach, Gennaro "Rino" Gattuso is willing/ready to take a pay cut just to see Osimhen's transfer fee completed and his personal terms met. It is L'equipe reporting. That's some real desperation if true.


Thursday approaches fast.

jihday:
And Klopp did send a video to him on whatsapp

TheSuperNerd:
Time will tell. He has featured three times for them since his return to action and has been decent each time. They had a chance to loan him out to the third tier but they didn't. They kept him and have included him in every matchday squad since the restart.

TheSuperNerd:
Just finished watching the final 45 of Zaragoza and Real Oviedo and mehn what a game. James Igbekeme is injured so he was not listed for the game.
The English Championship isn't the only super competitive second tier in Europe. The Spanish Segunda got it also including some entertainment and highly technically proficient football.

Igbekeme's Zaragoza lost 4-2 at home to a side battling to stay above relegation waters. The other day, Nwakali's Huesca fell to last placed Racing Santander. Such is the competitiveness and excitement of the Segunda.
This means with two games to go, Nwakali's Huesca still sit in 2nd place (one of the two automatic promotion spots). Cadiz in 1st has already confirmed their automatic promotion to La Liga.

Question is who joins them next in the other automatic slot and through the playoffs slot.


Zaragoza go away to Albacete in their next game. Huesca hosts Numancia next.

Almeria has a game in hand and will play Rayo Vallecano Monday.

Time will tell if Nwakali's Huesca hangs on to grab the other automatic slot. After the 2nd place slot is sorted, the playoffs between 3rd to 6th will take place to reveal the third team that will be promoted. Hopefully, Igbekeme's Zaragoza makes it through the playoffs coz I don't see how they will grab the second automatic slot anymore.

But yeah... In time we will know for sure.

komekn:
Yeah yeah yeah see how Solanke moi moi respond to my dissing.

He just slapped me in the face and scored his first goal in the EPL after 38 games and two seasons he has scored.

And to add salt to injury Leicester most important defender and key to thier success at the back Soyuncu sent off.

This game is crazy, against all odd and my earlier prediction Bournemouth could win this one.

Shocking

With just a goal in 39 games and you get a slap. When Nacho scores 10 in a Season, it'd be a kick to your groin.

TheGoodJoe:
What objectivity are talking about?

Are you not the one I showed quotes of Rodgers than when Iheanacho gets chances he will perform?

O! Mr. Objectivity.

What was your response?

Rodgers is not saying the truth.

Now you expect objectivity.

komekn:
I expected more from you a bit more objectivity and balanced.

Football is always time specific and AT THAT TIME my views were very clear. And yes he would not have made it into many EPL academies again AT THAT TIME.

I then gave him some advice again AT THAT TIME which was simply stoop to conquer. Drop to a lower league and reinvent himself and he absolutely took that advice and the rest is now history.

komekn:
It's called having balanced non partisan view and not giving a player specailconsideration and or double standard because he is a Nigerian.

komekn:
Jokes apart which Championship team looking for promotion will look at him.

Then the main problem is his wages, who in the Championship will pay £75k a week for an impotent striker. In reality they cannot afford it most clubs under 10 in position.

ChrisKels:
No reason am bro, some days are like that. Apologies from this angle too.


But but...how kwanu u go reason say I be gay, me of all ppl? gay? Tufiakwa!!

When you suggested that I was, how did that make you feel, up?

Edopesin:
I sincerely hope it turns out the way you imagine

But I would still prefer if he is loaned out to a mid table team and try to get game time... if he doesn't go on loan and maintain his form is also fine by me

rabzy:
Systemic racism can be entrenched and enshrined by politics. After the emancipation of slaves in US, the southern states could not stand the success of their former slaves and they used politicians to establish Jim crow laws that led to to lynchings and eroding of African American human rights..these laws were abolished through the civil rights movement and political changes and laws were forced to be made.

Edopesin:
Are we talking about immigrants or actual US citizens? Or do you still classify Black Americans as immigrants?

Joebie:
I don't get the point trying to prove that there were always slaves before blacks.

Joebie:
And the slaves in other eras just sat back and accepted their fate.

Edopesin:
At the bolded, What failure's are you talking about? Who uses racism as an excuse for failure? the fact that you acknowledge there is systemic racism and still try to justify it is bewildering

Check the data on the average wages for white people compared to other races and tell me that these other races are failure's

Black unemployment rate is almost twice that of Whites every year, these majority unemployed blacks are not unemployed because they are failure's or didn't hustle

Edopesin:
Lmao you bringing out situations where blacks killed white doesn't justify anything and doesn't deny the fact that there is systematic racism in the USA as I can also bring a list of black people since the turn of this century that have also died in the hands of white cops for the most mediocre reason you can think of.... And because you sought out to improve yourself doesn't others don't

Edopesin:
At the bolded, Why must I improve myself because of anyone when I'm fine with who I am? and I'm sorry but you have no choice but to care if God forbid your Loved gets shot by some racist cop. The same cop who wouldn't have been given the job if the system wasn't broken

ChrisKels:
In every Rashford, there were Cleverly, Jesse Lingard et al

Kalapizim:
I watched Amokachi on tv before Afcon 2006 leaning his opinions that he would love to have Mikel play a a deep laying playmaker and not 10 as people where wanting him to fill into to Jay Jay's position the.

Da bull and Jose surely saw something we fans weren't seeing.

Edopesin:
It's one thing to be mean to your slaves and it's another thing to be racist i.e the feeling of superiority over other race, that's the issue here.... A white supremacist might not necessarily be mean but he definitely is racist

You cannot use these scenarios you wrote in that sense as it doesn't define racism which is more than being mean

rabzy:
Any race, tribe or colour can be mean and cruel...we just look for excuse to justify such actions..be it colour..tribe. or religious escuse.
The Barbary pirates or moors of north africa took whites and were very mean and cruel to them..the Roman empire was built on blood and toil of the franks, Germanic tribes..the Saxons and Celts..all the tribes of the world except the greeks, were barbarians to be enslaved and misused.
Efunsetan aniwura a warrior chieftain in Ibadan was very mean to her slaves, if any female slave becomes pregnant, they are beheaded.
Slave owners here could do and undo with their slaves. Madam tinubu was of Lagos told a white slave dealer that instead of selling her slaves cheaper she would rather drown them.
Slaves in Africa were often buried with their owners to continue serving in the after life.

zuchyblink:
at this age they tend to flatter to decieve.very soon the guy will go off the radar

TheSuperNerd:
✔From Several hours ago (Osimhen Transfer Update).

Osita Okolo, Victor Osimhen's Manager and Brother-in-law (one of his reps):


“Victor went to Naples with his representatives. We talked and exchanged views on the city: the impressions were good, to tell you the truth.

“Victor isn’t always shy, although he would’ve preferred to make an important decision with less media exposure.

“After meeting De Laurentiis, Giuntoli and Gattuso, he told me he needed some time to make a decision, without any pressure.

“Later this week he’ll drop his concerns and confirm his decision, whether he decides to accept Napoli’s offer or not.

“We’re waiting. [His decision] may come not long after today. The coach made him feel wanted. He believes a lot in [Osimhen’s] ability and what he can do.

“Victor told me there was an agreement on everything but that there was still a couple more things to iron out before the final decision: the announcement should be made by tomorrow.

“I think it’s important for him to have a starting place, to grow further, even if there are no guarantees in the world of football.

“At Wolfsburg they promised him several things, then they moved the goalposts. Victor doesn’t want to get this decision wrong.

“I think Napoli would be the right place for him to grow, but he has the final say.”

Odunayaw:
Were the Europeans slaves at one time in their past?

Edopesin:
I hear say Lloris and Son throw way blow on live TV

Son for re-arrange person teeth

seankafor:
guy u dey funny ahswear..
Even racism dey for UK.. ask sterling..he has been racially abused many times..

Thing is, once you no dey your house, don't be expecting to be treated same way with core indigenes of where you migrate to..

Just imagine one Hausa man come your community dey drag kingship or community leader with you..how you go feel?