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Ibime:
There is no attack on Chelsea fans. There is attack on foolish posts like below:

Players are clearly injured and someone thinks Lampard is hoarding them. This is what spending money causes, such that people's expectations and impatience are through the roof and blaming manager for not playing injured players. Spirit of foolishness has come over this thread. That's what you need to pray against Pastor, rather than dishing out advice to the rational ones.

It's pathetic. I for land one guy slap the other day for pub wey I dey watch our match with Spuds. How's Lampard supposed to be blamed for Emerson's poor tracking of Lamela?

He had already brought Kante on to shut the shop, how is he supposed to save the mistakes of some modafuckers on the pitch?

Some of our fans too dey para walahi.

macjireh:
anyhow,, let's see something fresh in d attack....we were never told they got 6months injury at any time,,don't know d reason Lampard is hoarding dem

Oga this is the same issue I'm having with my paddy wey be Chelsea fan. How's it Lampard's fault that they aren't playing?

Lampard isn't Adam Burrows nor Chris Jones who are expected to work on players' fitness and injury risk. So wetin you dey yarn sef?

macjireh:
Mount again? Haba...we should be seeing ziyech today at least na

Ziyech isn't fit yet, Pulisic is the one in contention and the one you should expect to see albeit from the bench.

EarlRagnar2:
Chukwueze

Boy visited his childhood academy sometime last year. Man already.

Amoto94:
A cousin of mine was with Iheanacho during at U-17 camp and he was a young boy then in the picture he took with Iheanacho they were both babyish

Kelechi na my mate. Samuel Kalu should be 30 or 31, dude was a star back home before leaving for Belgium. Na SK we dub am that year.

Around 2012, Victor Osimhen still dey knock leather for one academy for Lagos. Majority of these guys are 1988-1993 niccurs. That's pretty much better than having men of 70s in your national team.

EarlRagnar2:
lol baba ibime don finish these Ghanaians ......I just feel this new generation will at least cut there age by one or two years

Actually that is what this current crop of Super Eagles players are all about. Na small small boys dey knock leather now, no time for old papa dem.

The picture below was taken like five years ago in Umuahia, you can guess who the lad on ATM shirt is.

Ibime:
Say no to 27 year old West Africans footballers. Real age will be somewhere around 32.

In 2 years time, you will start wondering why he dropped off.

Name a Ghanaian CM who was not in steep decline by 29. Essien, Muntari, Appiah, Asamoah were all washed at that age.

Though not a Ghanaian, John Obi Mikel.

ennyjay72:
dude went to the team bus after getting hooked at halftime, lampard para for him

Players dey talk say the dude fit no play for Chelsea again.

Alonso don get problem for Chelsea.

MaziAlaye:
Barnsley be giving this people hope that they're going to do well this season..... Lmfaoooooo

Ok.

What stood out from Havertz's display, aside from the goals, was his workrate.

Let's see more of tonight's performance against West Bromwich Albion.

donjazet:
This was quite brilliant. Very funny.

This:

"Manchester United are even yet to wear that their black and white jersey but they are already delivering colourless zebra-like performances.

Maybe they should consider bringing Wilfred Zaha back after he tormented them on Saturday. But we must confirm Ole Solskjaer does not have a pretty grown daughter first."

Skimpledawg:
Na family man Griff. What's your problem

Oh my bad, that means you take the two for a 3some. Lucky bloke!

timbros:
I dey show Aba at least once every month... But my hand no dey for the red part of that bolded o.

You fit convert am to bottles eheeen

You be boss na, you need to relax and be taken care of. These ones no carry STDs, trust me.

timbros:
That your buddy na real bahddoo

I take public transport to Aba. Galopin Motors dey carry 2 passengers per seat, #1,500. Its better for me that way.

I no fit use that Owerrinta road. It's better I reach Control, Owerri then start head to PH.

I doubt if PH - Aba expressway can EVER be smooth from beginning to end.

But from after Aba, around that junction that diverts to Owerri (forgotten the junction name).... From that area straight to Umuahia to Okigwe na smooth express way... You fit close eye dey drive sef

That's Isialangwa junction. That express way na still FG construct am, the contract is overseen by Arab Contractors. Nothing good can ever come out of that pot-bellied he-goat we have as a governor.

Give him that express way to construct, and watch him award the contract to low budget simps like Setraco and Marvelous Brothers.

Nna eh, make una two talk when to hit Aba again, I wan arrange two olosho wey be Chelsea fans for una.

BlueMann:
Jorginho is one player you would expect to do that more often. His passes to Abraham (vs Watford) and Giroud (vs Spurs) last season come to mind. Even Kovacic suppose sabi run that level.

Jorginho is supposed to be on that level, he is technically adept, however, there is a question mark on the level of his awareness and the ability to pick out a player with a quick pass.

You can only mention few times he has shown that vision and timing. He's more comfortable with possessional play.

Midfield bosses like KDB, Alcantara, Kroos etc they run 1.8-2.5 key forward passes per game. None of our midfielders dey that level.

DExponential:
He is better than our midfielders but I don't see him as an assist freak. He is also a bit injury prone. I need someone like Fabregas. Jorginho should have been a close replacement but he is more interested in back and side passes.

He's better than our midfielders in that regard but then he isn't a midfielder, he's a winger. When a winger becomes a team's ONLY creative outlet, then there's a problem.

DExponential:
Fashi Alcantara. That should have been Ziyech

Creating chances is more like Ziyech's prerogative. That's something you can't say about our midfield hence the mention of Alcantara.

We don't have to rely solely on our wingers, we need a midfielder who has the technical ability to unlock a stubborn defence with a single pass. Our current pack lacks that creative nous.

DExponential:
Our players don't like looking up. See Werner and Havertz again

This is where having Alcantara would have been essential.

Finally uncaged. When are they going to start benching Kepa?

Jürgen v Frank II is a mouthwatering piece of froth, not to mention an easy dichotomy to draw. Klopp is, if nothing else, a self-made presence in professional football. His father sold wall fixings and had nothing of any sporting value to bequeath but a fierce competitive spirit. His honours as a player were easy to keep track of: there weren’t any.

As a coach, Klopp took six years and three seasons in Bundesliga.2 to get his big break.

Whereas Frank Lampard: Elite Level Manager is something else altogether. Success is what happens when talent meets opportunity. What if you just keep on getting a lot more opportunity than other people?

Lampard’s father, Frank Sr, played for England and was the assistant manager at his first Premier League club (assistant, lest we forget, to Lampard’s uncle). In his autobiography, Rio Ferdinand recalls being stunned by the sheer opulence of Lampard’s home life as a young footballer – “the Ralph Lauren jumpers and shirts piled high in his wardrobe, a different one for every day of the week”.

Before long uncle Harry Redknapp was telling a televised fans forum that Frank would go to the top – “right to the very top” – as a player. Reassurance, good choices, strong connections: none of this can make you succeed. But it certainly doesn’t hurt.

Management has been a fast-forward version of this process. First up uncle Harry got him a job at Ipswich (“I said: ‘You need a manager; Frank Lampard is your man.’”) but Frank turned Ipswich down. The budget wasn’t up to scratch. But wait! Harry has heard Derby need a manager, too. (“I rang Mel Morris… I said: ‘Take Frank Lampard.’”)

There is, as yet, no word on Harry phoning Roman Abramovich on his yacht (“I said: ‘Roman, mate, take Frank …’”) but by now that path looked set, eased by Morris’s relationship with Chelsea, by Maurizio Sarri’s poor fit with the fans and by some flattering coverage of the failure to gain promotion with Derby.

Even then the move back to Stamford Bridge found an additional note of fortune with the concurrent loosening of the financial fair play shackles. And so here he stands, a 42-year-old with no real managerial pedigree beyond the one he was born with, in charge of the highest close-season spenders in European club football.

It is a theme Klopp turned to in the post-Anfield rumblings with a reference, as Chelsea hoovered up assorted shared transfer targets, to “clubs owned by countries and oligarchs”. In return Lampard noted that Liverpool’s own recruitment has been “at a high level money-wise”.

It seems likely to be a theme of the day. Tory boy Frank and his endlessly gushing money well ranged against Jürgen and the hedge-funders, with their moral rectitude and their spending caps, the authority born of finely budgeted success.

There are two points worth making. First, as ever, the truth is more blurred. The idea Chelsea have embarked on a wild, generational spending splurge is only half right. The summer brought a series of fantasy-football-style additions, but as the financial blogger Swiss Ramble has pointed out this is just the usual business model in overdrive.

Chelsea are a selling cub as much as a buying one. Their net player spend in the past two years is around £60m. The market is depressed. Youthful talent is up for grabs. It is the moment to invest. If Chelsea don’t buy Kai Havertz now then they can’t also sell him on in two years’ time at a profit.

Plus, Lampard is right to an extent. Chelsea’s purchases may be backed by Abramovich’s willingness to lend cash, their economic heft an unearned, ersatz thing. But their starting XI on the opening day of the season still cost slightly less than Liverpool’s own. The real point of tension is that Liverpool have been cautious while Chelsea have stomped right across the set. Liverpool wanted to sign Timo Werner, but the gossip well suggests they have also looked at Havertz, Ben Chilwell and Hakim Ziyech in the past couple of years.

It may seem a deeply Lampard kind of moment that all four of those players should arrive instead at Stamford Bridge this summer. But favour and patronage only take you so far and there is a pressure with this, too.

The decision to hire Lampard was commercial as much as sentimental, a way of appeasing the fanbase and burnishing the brand in a year when the ability to build a team was curtailed. That has now gone. There is no reason to assume this group of players can’t stay on Liverpool’s shoulder into the new year and perhaps even prevent them from adding to that total of one measly title.

At Brighton on Monday Chelsea were sleepy for 45 minutes, then energised by the sheer quality of replacements Lampard could send on. Werner looked like what he is, a stellar attacking talent. Havertz will get better (he couldn’t get much worse). Ziyech and Christian Pulisic are still to enter the frame. A new, or at least mildly competent, goalkeeper would round off the picture, and a £22m deal for Édouard Mendy has been agreed with Rennes.

The path to this point may have been smoothed, paved at times with blue privilege. But Lampard will be judged by the hierarchy on his results this year; no doubt with the usual degree of ruthlessness.

Is Lampard enjoying a 'blue privilege' as Guardian's Barney Ronay will put it?

Your thoughts.

kokaneprodigy:
Look no further bro, You can put the blame on me.

DJ Griffon sama me “blame it on me” by Akon.

At this rate, these niccurs will end up blaming it on the English climate


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynMk2EwRi4Q

Expert17:
Watch how this stupid coach will start Pogba, Degea, Lindelof and James in our next EPL game.

If you ask me, na who I go ask? The matter wey you see so, e heavy for mouth. No be me go talk am. . .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9qlFvlmZtc

izzou:
[color=royalblue]The Nani guy is definitely starting a movement

Patrickmuf don join
Nezzjnr don join
Expert17 don join
CapitalCee don join

Afrodoc is still observing

KingAlabi is still confused.

See as 3-1 reset people thinking for here [/color]

"Woke up in a panic, Like somebody fired a gun I wish I could be dreaming, But the nightmare's just begun.

There's flooding in the basement, There's water all around. There's woodworm in the attic And the ceiling just fell down.

I'm in a state (state) Of confusion (whooooh). I'm in a state (state)"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu_ySvjRVz8

Edumare soro mi dayo. Baba Obey the chief commander seems to have stolen the show from Chinyere Udoma.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM2z4Eaj7I8

Edumare adupe!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl0jX-zBM1E

Ota mi dehin lehin mi.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ09gQBt1IU

Schlupp - Zaha - Ayew - Townsend?

Palace dey well loaded.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q44llFLIIw

Celebration time. Chinyere Udoma is here to lead the morning service.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGujNB1I5xQ

FBS:
The amount of bonus tracks on this page no be small thing...

Is it ok to ask for more?

Why are you wet? Is it raining in Russia? Oh I remember, you're on the scummies' thread and it's all filled with tears.

River of Babylon. . .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3QxT-w3WMo

airmark:
Dj Griffon pls play Laycon - Fierce for Zaha, the former United player.

It was requested by Laycon's number 1 fan on this thread, Oasis007, but shame wouldn't let him ask you openly.

What took you so long to help a brother? Oasis007 welu ya. . .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIhpBerWR6Y