₦airaland Forum

Amoto94:
Drogba: "I don’t recognise my club. It’s no longer the same club. There is a new owner and a new vision. Of course, we try to compare it with what happened during the Abramovich era where a lot of players were brought in, but the decisions were very intelligent."
: "Bringing in players like Cech, Shevchenko, Crespo, Essien, Drogba, Malouda. It was done to win titles. They are players with a certain experience. The strategy is now different; we bet on young players. But a dressing room of over 30 players is difficult for a manager."


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Boli you've done it again.

Boli, fun ara e brain o.

I don't even have the energy right now to have a go at the manager or any of the players. For me its just Boli. As it is now, that man is a disease to this club. I'm surprised at myself thinking he was RA 2.0.

What's the job title of the Winstanleys of the world in the club? Na wetin dem dey do? Can't they talk to him?

It is not luck to win the Champions League. It is real hard work.

Hope Boli enjoys watching it on TV next season.

It is well.

raumdeuter:
Imagine in April barely a month to the end of the most grueling football season ever seen a coach is saying players are not fit?

After 8months of football plus world cup between

Assuming they weren't fit in 1month pre season so 10 months of football is not enough?

Some of them went to the world cup and did well for their country, they played multiple internationals yet we are to believe they are not fit in April when other coaches are complaining of player fatigue

There is no excuse a clueless coach will not come up with sha

Na the thing wey I no understand be that. Like fitness should be on the list of issues. The players just look lost and have no idea what to do.

Why Boli waited this long is anyone's guess.

Skimpledawg:
FBS, was there hope before to beat Madrid?

So the mountain wey you go, you no see anything positive there?

There is always hope bro until the final whistle.

Even when I say there is no hope, there is still hope. That has always been my default mode.

Amoto94:
FBS, kingbolton, nateevs and popizaino



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qap1nCYolg

Insightful video though I am not convinced about the false 9 thing. We definitely need a striker.

kingBolton:
Quite insightful, tuchel came and was able to set up the team in a way which hide their flaws and the team played well. Everyone thought getting a striker in the summer would have solved our goal scoring problem but it rather created other problems. Lukaku's profile didn't just fit into the system( couldn't press) and this is where I think Tuchel's problems at Chelsea started. He was a good tactician( never wanted him sacked and will still take him back in an heartbeat) but most of his transfer decisions were poor.

Boehly cannot also be exempted in how we found ourselves in this terrible situation, if he knew he was going to revamp the teams scouting and transfer network, why sack the manager and then replace him with a total fraud?

Boli. Boli and Boli again. Plus a little of the British obviously. haha.

The man single handedly destroyed the season for reasons best known to him.

But season ain't over yet. We will find out very soon.

BlueRayDick:
Na wetin make some musicians get money be this . If K1 the ultimate an Ijebu guy starts singing ur praise as a core Lagosian , na to commot seizable amount of cash spray him say he dey tickle ur fancy when he sings “ èkó náwó, náwó owó yọ......"

Anytime I go to the village and my grannies start the oriki like this kai - omo this, omo that, Ajani, Adio....
Oriki ilu, oriki oruko, oriki idile, Oriki oba

Oriki is poetry that just makes you feel so special you could fly and it's in the name. Ori - head, Ki - praise.

BlueRayDick:
I don’t really know if there’s an actual English word for some of these things; but Yoruba oral literature is 🔥. There’s ewi, ijala ode, sisun rara , oriki , etc and each one has its uniqueness

Those two are my favorites.

When the oriki start like this, your head go just dey swell. There is nothing like it really. It's special.

kingBolton:
Season boehly single handedly destroyed himself. Sacked a coach you just gave millions to spend and hired a coach that has never managed any big club in his entire career.

true talk.

larride:
Indian and Chinese movies ruled supreme.

MAD had to be one of the best Indian movies I watched then.

yes sir.

The big boss, way of the dragon, shaolin master, drunken master, enter the dragon, kung fu master.....

The number of times those fight scenes has been re-enacted while growing up is uncountable.

Bruce Lee, Rest in Peace!

Unlimited22:
Lol
My first foray into home video, and even edutainment videos were VHS tapes.

I still remember when we got our first VCD player. My dad still has a cupboard filled with VHS tapes

lol @vcd. I think I got my vcd player back when I was already in school. omo time just dey fly o.

We started from Betamax tapes on the likes of akai and all those japanese techs.

And on days wey light no dey, it's a trip to the "cinema" to watch india movies. Amtaab and Dramendra. Actor and boss.

GloriousGbola:
to this day, NOTHING will make me watch cinema dubs. it does not matter how far they say the quality has come

back in school, one weekend my guys crashed in my place. we watched the lost world jurassic park. a cinema dub. we all agreed the movie was shit and a complete waste of time. then a year later one uncle in yankee sent me a clear copy. i actually got one of my guys to come around and rewatch the movie. the guy was like - what - that shit movie. at the end of the movie he looked at me. "comp video club is fuuucked! "

and that was the last time i ever watched a cinema dub

Nothing will make me watch cinema dub now. Nothing. No matter how good the movie is.
If it ain't in the cinemas or 4K, count me out.

GloriousGbola:
Awon gen z will never know the struggle of rewinding video tape, or of tape getting mashed in the vcr

Or of extra low quality cinema dubs

Or video tapes split into wrestlemania 1,2,3

And of course the jackpot of a mislabelled tape with alternative content. Or improperly dubbed over tape with same.

omo, you nailed it on all fronts. hahahaha

Unscrewing the case and gently pulling the tape out and back na science and a work of art.

Man. It's hard to believe what you'd do to get that daily or weekend dose of wrestlemania. lol

GloriousGbola:
and they did us all a soild

before audio downloads, if you were a regular bros, your only option for music was tapes from DJs, tapes dubbed from radio station, or tapes dubbed from connecting your tape deck to the video audio output.

back then i had a massive tape collection - but since i was buying basic tapes sony [who dash me high end maxell] as you dey play quality dey drop over time.

when i started working in lagos proper - i found that you could buy CDs direct from alaba for n100. so every other weekend i would go to alaba to buy cds for my collection. then one day i realized i had most of my music in mp3s, most of teh devoces at home supported usb purts and i had no use for dvd or cd players. and i got a ghana must go and gave them all out.

And for those wey no get proper walkman, na to dey use bic biro rewind and fast forward tapes.

Doesn't get better than that. lol

nateevs:
You can see time and again, that when we come up against a top team, we were always second best at every metric, especially at everything that had to do with running and reflexes. It points to sub-optimal fitness levels.

I imagine that if Potter told the fitness coaches to relax the fitness intensity, then they wouldn't defy.

As a team hoping to win the league when the season starts, we should not be at the bottom of the league in any meaningful metric. Not especially the yards put in by every participant. We should be out-running every team from 4th downwards......but it seems we are not even close.

It could also be the reason why our top players are picking up injuries left right and centre when they get into duels. See CSO pulling a hammy the other day because he dared to run for 40 yards at full speed.

Something is fundamentally wrong.

Yep @ bolded. This has always been my stance.

What I fail to understand is this - even if a coach tells the fitness manager to relax the intensity, there is still the minimum required of every player and unless they are not even doing the minimum then problem is even bigger. Besides, Boli hired all sorts of coaches to boost the overall performance of the team. What happened to that?

The other question is this - Is Brighton now a top team? They outplayed us in every single department and not just on fitness level, they played some orgasmic purposeful football.

If this is a fitness related issue, then there is no hope against Real Madrid.

airmark:
Shortcake aaaah.

Who knows Biscuit alata here?

hhahahahaa.

Pito, Zobo, Kunu.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]If dem operate me now and open my belle, dem go find particles of these inside.

I chop am tire [/color]

There is nothing better than Okin biscuits. Nothing. Not even shortbread.

Okin biscuit ruled supreme

nateevs:
To be fair to him on this one, he might not be wrong.

There was a report released some weeks ago about running stats for all PL teams. It pointed out that we were either the team with the least collective distance covered or one of the worst, at best.

It pointed to a relaxed team training regime over several months (perhaps also from pre-season preparation), with severe lack of running during training, resulting in sub-optimal fitness for what should be an elite team. I read it at the time and ignored.

If this is resurfacing, then it means that the story was indeed true. It also means that if the story is true, then Lampard is correct and truly, he cannot fix it.

While he might not be wrong, I do not want to believe this to be true.
We have a fitness coach, diet coach, mental coach, aggression coach, dancing coach and whole lot - what exactly is their job?

Every team in the EPL or any level for that matter have a threshold that every single player must meet. Your Speed, kms, Cooper fitness test, your weight and a host of other metrics- this is all tracked, monitored, analysed and compared with other teams/players.

So tell me, how could any of those coaches including the manager not have noticed that the boys are not fit?

Jodera2:
Liverpool own it's somehow understandable but West Ham? It was mind boggling.

I just believe ystdy was an off day cos they felt overconfident(going 2 up) then instantly starts feeling the pressure (after the first conceded goal).

It won't be a pattern .They'll learn from it.

We shall find out soon but if y'all bottle this one peren.... omo, hmmm....You will all have to deactivate or create new monikers.

nihilistjnr:
Bruh Lampard is a bona-fide clown

Brah. Help me understand. Did he just give up on the team or all na tactics?

MorataFC:
I just pity the manager that is coming, because he won't become messiah overnight, what Tuchel can't fix, Potter can't fix and Lampard can't fix, can't be fixed overnight, something is fundamentally wrong.

You are echoing the statement I made some days ago, something IS fundamentally wrong.

Certainly a new manager is needed and a monumental brain shift starting with Boli.




Or as it is with in life sometimes, maybe a simple tweak is all that is required.

Jodera2:
Lol... I just felt disappointed but I didn't really feel angry ystdy. We shot ourselves in the foot and sometimes it happens like that.

I just hope we learn lesson from ystdy game and push forward from there

This is gradually becoming a pattern now. Score 2 and then oops, y'all did it again!

Liverpool
Westham

Who is gonna be next?

Amoto94:
Frank Lampard reveals his Chelsea players aren’t fit enough and lacking the physical capability is what people are mistaking for a lack of hunger and effort. (
@NizaarKinsella
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Wait. What?

WhoDeyHause:
Kepa is not the reason why we faced over 20 shots from Brighton. If a good coach is brought in we would be the ones doing that to the opposition not to us. I was glad some of the Chelsea fans sitting above boehly in the stadium told him what they thought in their mind.
No wonder he was vibrating like ddildo later in the game. Somebody should have just stoned him yoghurt on his head and run away so he will know he's not here to play with his data.

Spot on on all issues mentioned.

A001:
Make Lampard go learn coaching under Pep or Ancelotti. He doesn't even know the basics.

Just look at what his fellow legend Xavi is doing in Barcelona.

You can only but admire what young coaches like Arteta and Xavi are doing in Arsenal and Barcelona respectively.

You can say that again but come UCL night, he will have to muster every brain cell remaining in his body to get our boys to score goals. And yes, I will be supporting him on that day.

Plus we have our resident pastor Skimple just returning from the mountain.

Hope still dey.

Jodera2:
Hmmm...

How are you feeling right now boss?

omo if una bottle this league title - the trolling no go contain nairaland oo

popizaino:
Before things deteriorated to this level,we should have called back Lukaku and play 4-4-2 formation.

Flat midfield or is it straight line midfield. Havertz or Fofana should be asked to support Lukaku upfront. Enzo Fernandez,Kante,Mount,Gallagher in a straight line midfield.

Erase the idea of playing like prime Barca when you have no decent ball carrier like iniesta or Hazard and deploy carragher to crouch approach, the ball that misses Lukaku won't miss Havertz or Fofana.Trust me we won't labour for goals or be in this kind of situation with winless runs with such approach.

The earlier we realise we don't have decent wide men on the wings who can't create on a one on one situation the better it is for us to go back to the fundamentals of having two men upfront. My ten cent.

As much as I like your idea, do you honestly think Lukaku is what we need upfront?