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I'm going top of the league. I would like to thank my family, friends, well-wishers and most importantly the big man up above.

FBS:
If Conte survives this then surely he is the boss.

I fear they may sack him tonight. With all the beef he's been having, they are looking for any excuse.

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth tonight. I thought my situation was bad but I see some niggas are in real sunken place.

It's bad enough losing to fake Barcelona (Arsenal), now we're getting hammered by fake Arsenal (Bournemouth).

What will happen when we face real Barcelona?

MoR2:
meanwhile i hear kenedy is running things at newcastle tonight

Nothing is wrong with Kenedy. Don't know why Conte had bad belle for him.

diggz:
Ibime I am liking Barkley in this false 9 position....he has been able to hold up play and involve his teammates sofar...

It's not rocket science that his physique, close control and power may fit that position.

Greatihex:
The way we are bashing this Giroud signing, Are you sure he is not going to make us eat our words. Like play, he will now be the one to help us win the ucl.

Amen

Greatihex:
i believe Giroud will be signing not more than 2 years contract.

Where you expecting to be playing with only one striker, since batshuayi has asked to leave for more game time?

With all the injuries Morata has been copping why should Batsman not get more game-time instead of playing Hazard as false 9?

Clubs keep players whether they want to leave or not. He can do that in summer. I'm sure Kelechi wants to leave Leicester to get game-time before World Cup, as does Elneny and another hundred players. Batsman is not unique in that sense.

MoR2:
Pedro, hazard, Barkley

Barkley can play striker looking at his frame and his style. He follow Arnautovic mould small

Nihilist:
Tammy no be target man o.

He would need to seriously bulk up if he needs to play that role. At Swansea, he used to run in behind a lot, and swap out to the wing.

I actually have him down as a stiff central type. The running to the wings was when he was forced to partner Bony. Someone has to run out of those two, and it won't be Bony.

Na so Giroud go block Tammy Abraham next summer. They are similar players, only 6 months patience was required if Conte wants a target-man type.

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Alonso is just class in everything he does. His movements, his touch, his interplay, delivery and set pieces. If only he had pace, he would be complete.

Unlimited22:
He might still improve. He's been below par today though.
As for the other one...

What we can say is he is not hiding on the pitch unlike the other one who has no confidence in his basic technique to show for the ball. . . but Drinkbleach is still below average

Drinkbleach dey play nonsense abeg

Batsman 10th goal of the season.

angels09:
No governor has ever won Rivers State Governorship elections without the ikwerres

Post the splitting out of Bayelsa State in the 1990s you should have added

My boy Kelechi starting to find his feet. Happy for him.

Fitbillionairep:
This is a very disgusting hustler. Yes she Bleep him, then she got paid to blackmail him, now she gets paid again by the Fucker to deny. Why don't bois use idiots like this for rituals na

Don't hate her, charge it to the game

Billyonaire:
She was telling the Truth about the Sexual Intercourse, but this ? Is the lie.

She has been mobbed up by the Pastor, made an offer she can not refuse and of-course it clears her image, clears the pastor and his wife, put them back on sex mode while the 'flock of sheep increases' and believes in the holiness of the MOG and the man of God makes more money, fuccks her more with the wife and business continues to thrive.

I underrated this Pastor, now I know he knows the game.

BWAHAHAHAHA at the bolded

funlord:
E be like say cruciate ligament damage dey hungry you this year? You think say jogo Bonito na by weight?

Me wey be reincarnation of Rio, maldini and passarella rolled into one? If I mark you finish na so so bench you go dey signal every 5 minutes! You go believe say na voltron be the name wey dey on top my birth certificate!

I sure say you sabi wetin Ronaldo dey do Maldini for Serie A those days. See that nigga for far corner so, as I resemble Ronaldo, na so I go twist you like Ronaldo been dey twist Maldini those days.

Solmax:
OMG
I just followed the link and read the whole article.
It is surprising and sad that most of the stock fish we eat today is still being Imported!!!
Something we can produce locally

Does Cod swim in our waters?

Stockfish is freeze dried in cold Norwegian climate. They leave the cod out in the Arctic cold where it turns to stockfish after some months.

So how do you expect to produce it locally in Equitorial weather?

obainojazz:
Two hard tackles from funlord and Ibime is out for the year, I just hope airmark won't start falling like Morata.

That skinny nigga funlord would pop his ACL if I start to drimble him

airmark:
I'm also OK with bakayoko so far.

Me I'm OK with Zappacosta

Nihilist:
The point i made was very simple, im surprised you missed it.

The very same papers that you'vd been quoting all claimed that Morata was Conte's first choice, and touted it as a victory for Conte over the board....when in actual fact Morata was merely an option, a side chick, a spare tire and a sunken obombo.

You're speculating bro. You dont actually know.

Don't confuse me with that nigga you were chatting with earlier today. I am no JJC. I well know that Lukaku was Conte 1st choice and Morata 2nd and have always known before Emenalo interview.

If Manure bid for Morata fails and Chelsea have a clear run at Morata, yet lodge bid for Lukaku at the same time, don't you think a person with common sense would know that Lukaku is the no1 target? You did not see me in summer telling Manure fans we got our first choice, did you? If you combine that knowledge with newspaper reports at the time that Conte was angry at missing out on Lukaku, you will see the fire in the smoke and know Lukaku is first choice, and not have to wait for Emenalo interview in December to have it spelt out for you. One should know how to sift information appropriately to draw the right conclusions.

2nd choice or not, does not give Conte the right to disown Morata.

He may as well tell us Messi was his first choice and disown anything that comes after.

Going into each season, I have 3 or 4 players for every position I think needs upgrading, all within reasonable budget, and I'm just a fan. How much more a professional? How can a professional disown his second choice in an industry where you fail with 80% of your transfer bids?

We gave him praise for his 2nd choice of Kante after his 1st choice Naingollan was unobtainable, so we should equally give him stick where his 2nd choice fails elsewhere. Not that I'm giving him stick for Morata cos I'm OK with Morata so far.

It was even the player he chased with the most vigour ie Bakayoko that is the most disgraceful and calls into question his transfer nous, not his 2nd choices.

Nihilist:
Conte signed Morata for Juve and even called the boy and his father when he was at Madrid to ask him if he would come to Chelsea- Morata said this himself

Despite this, Emenalo came out last month and confirmed that Lukaku was the man Conte wanted.

Not getting your first choice is no excuse to absolve yourself of your 2nd choice.

Conte submits list of:

1. Lukaku
2. Morata


We bid for Lukaku and failed, he gets Morata.

So that gives him right in press conference to absolve himself and claim he has no hand in transfers?


Going by that logic, I will soon disown the car I'm driving since my first choice was Bugatti. I had no hand in the purchase of this useless car.

airmark:
No matter how you want to absolve 'the club' of our present situation, the monster will still rear its ugly head. Thunder must fire emenalo for signing rudiger for chelsea. I won't watch barca - chelsea, once i see that kpon kpon defender in the line up.

In your previous post, you claimed conte brought kante to chelsea, that alone trounced every good signing the club did for us during the period under review. Missing out on lukaku and forcing conte to fall back on a striker having back pain every month, is appalling.

It's on record that conte never wanted matic to go, i know you like him, who allowed him to go? 'The club'. Yet we should blame conte for all these.

Those 'old' and experienced players that conte wanted, may look old to you, but if conte could use luiz' experience to win epl, no one can tell what he would have done with those you condemned. We can only deal with what is in our front.

I am not absolving the club. I have been a longstanding critic of the way Romans court is run, however let Conte tell the full story. He is not totally blameless, after all the signing I most have a problem with, Bakayoko, is under his name.

Also understand that the way the club runs now has changed. If the manager comes with a reasonable transfer request that fits the clubs budget and age profile, it will be granted. This is not 2012 where the manager will be asking for central midfielder and the club will ignore him.

Ask yourself, is there any reasonable player under the age of 27 that Conte has asked for within the clubs budget? He asked for Bakayoko, 22 years old, £40m, the club granted him. Kante, 25 years old, £33m, the club granted him.

If he asked for Salah at £38m, Sane at £35m, Wijnaldum at £25m, Maguire at £17m, Robertson at £12m, even Mahrez at £45m, he will never be denied.

What the club is doing is signing players in that bracket and doing so poorly cos Conte does not have requests in that bracket, only Naingollan, Vidal, Sandro etc. What Conte should be doing is helping the club identify players in that bracket, not suggesting unreasonable players in a different bracket, then complaining when the club makes poor signing in the £40m bracket he neglected.

We are not asking Conte to do anything special. If he read Nairaland in summer, he would have got some of these suggestions.

Greatihex:
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/11221876/antonio-contes-attitude-increasingly-frustrating-chelsea

What I said below, you can take it to the bank. The names not attributed to Conte below are the reason he is making noise, but if you check his own transfer record, it is not better than the club

Ibime:
From my records, Chelsea signings are allocated as such:

Luiz - Roman

Batsuayi - Emenalo
Rudiger - Emenalo

Kante - Conte (but only after the club refused to spend £40m on a 29 year-old run-run player Naingollan)
Bakayoko - (Strongly Conte)
Morata - (Conte, albeit 2nd choice behind Lukaku)
Zappacosta - (Conte, albeit 3rd choice behind Walker and Ox)

Alonso - (Club - Unallocated, but not Conte)
Drinkwater - (Club - Unallocated, but not Conte)
Barkley - (Club - Unallocated, but not Conte)

He that will come to equity must come with clean hands. The club may be bad with transfers, but Conte is just as bad.

Conte should tell us which innovative sub-£40m player he has recommended, not Ronaldo and Messi. The worst transfer of the lot belongs to Conte.

Bakayoko interview:

"When I was at Rennes and he was coaching Juventus, he was already watching me. I wanted to work with him and I am convinced he is going to improve me and help me reach my goals, personal and team."


https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/conte-shouts-bakayoko-every-day-11047141

cc Airmark, Nihilist


Some of us do our research well. Anytime I come across relevant information on Chelsea transfer business I file it in my brain. I don't need to be in board meeting to know that Emenalo has been tracking Rudiger since 2014, and when Mourinho was at loggerhead with the club in 2015 insisting they sign John Stones, Emenalo recommended that he should manage Rudiger instead. Mourinho was so stubborn about John Stones that Roma swooped in for Rudiger while Mourinho was opposing the move. The club continued negotiations with Everton but Everton wouldn't budge on their price, and the only person available in that last week was Djilobolodji. For the record, Aldeweireld was the 2nd person Emenalo recommended instead of John Stones but Jose was stubborn on John Stones.

So when Ibime tell you in 2018 that Rudiger is an Emenalo boy, know there is years of research and long memory that went into that statement. Before I started speaking on Emenalo in 2012, I had been tracking his influence since 2010. I don't just wake up to yarn loosely.

Nihilist:
zappacosta did not make his debut under conte. Conte never played Zappacosta for italy.

Conte played several players at RWB for italy particularly in Euro2016 - Darmian and Florenzi both played there, i think even Giacherrini. i doubt Candreva played RWB more than any of those players. i find it hard to believe that he would lgnore those players and go and sign Zappacosta who he never even played as Italy boss.

so unless you're linking zappacosta to conte because they share the same passport, i dont understand where the confidence to say Zappacosta is a conte signing is coming from.

Never mind if he entered pitch or not. Conte called up Zappacosta in May 2016 and named him in 30 man provisional squad for Euro 2016. Conte later cut the provisional squad to 26 players naming Zappacosta among the 3 reserves. So Conte cannot divorce himself from Zappacosta.

Zappacosta is even the most circumstantial link. The strongest link is Bakayoko.

This is why you need to do your research. I read an interview with Bakayoko where he said Conte tracked him as a youngster since Juventus days. Conte even went with Emenalo in 2016 to scout Bakayoko in UCL match with Spurs, Bakayoko even said Conte called him on the phone to convince him, now you want to deny Bakayoko for Conte like Peter.

Nihilist:
the only 3 players that we know for a fact that Conte wanted and did not get are"

naingollan
alexis sanchez
Lukaku

and we know this because the interviews are on wax.

What of Vidal who said Conte wants him or Mendy who said Conte wanted him but he wanted to work with Guardiola. Are those interviews not on wax?

The club is very bad on transfers, but Conte is no better.

Name one inspiring signing Conte has been linked with for a reasonable price. Just one player under £40m that Conte has been linked with that will inspire you as a fan, not 30 year old players and unreasonable requests. Klopp signed Salah and Sane each for less than the price of Bakayoko. He brought Andrew Robertson for £12m while Conte would not get the message that Sandro is beyond Chelsea's reach.

Lord knows I am the first to defend Chelsea managers and blame the club on transfers but nothing Conte has ever suggested for Chelsea makes sense financially, talentwise or age wise. He just keeps suggesting nonsense that inspires no confidence that he watches football and can scout players well.

Nihilist:
your records are irrelevant unless you can categorically tell us that you have a guy inside the club feeding you info, or point us to an interview where Emenalo or Conte or whoever comes out to say "i signed this guy"

if you're reading daily fail or daily hoaxpress newspaper, and using their speculation as the basis of your list, then that's a foul.

Conte didnt even expect Bakayoko to see 1st team shirt when the boy signed for us. Conte never played Zappacosta for Italy despite playing a wingback system here. he's still being benched for moses now

so if none of these guys were in Conte's 1st choice plans, whats the proof that he was the one that signed them? Especially with the way the man has been denouncing transfer policy every chance he gets..

now that Emenalo don go, una wan sharply turn conte to the new scapegoat.

continue.

Conte gave Zappacosta his Italy debut. Conte named Zappacosta in his provisional Euros squad. Of course you should know Italys 1st choice righback is Antonio Candreva, another 29 year old player that Conte has been pursuing for Chelsea to the tune of £40m since his first day in the job. Just like all Contes recommendations (Naingollan, Vidal), they are all 29 years old and cost upward of £40m.

Conte signed Zappacosta and Bakayoko as backups to Matic and Moses respectively. He cannot deny them anymore than Pep can deny Nolito who he signed as backup. They don't need to be 1st choice for you to know they are Conte signings just like Nolito is a Pep signing as backup. If Conte did not rate Zappacosta at all, he would have him nowhere near Italy team.

funlord:
The signs were there that those 2 players were actually wanted by the club! Moyes had initially tried and failed in his first season to get herrera while van gaal openly showed a preference for dharmian.

Exactly, Moyes wanted Herrera, but he only signed during Van Gaal tenure, while Van Gaal pushed for Blind and got him. Someone who follows the club will not need to sit in board meeting to know that Blind is a Van Gaal boy given their past history, similarly if Van Gaal had treated Herrera in a suspect way, you will not need board meeting to know that is a club signing not Van Gaal signing.

Just like when Bakayoko stink every game, yet Conte play him and praise him, claim he is much better than Chalobah etc, then continuously treat Drinkwater in a different manner, you will not need a seance to know Bakayoko is a Conte signing but Drinkwater is not.

When you then read that Batsuayi was the only player afforded to Emenalo last season, and you see Conte treating him in a funny manner, you will not need board meeting to know Batsuayi is not a Conte signing.

funlord:
This una man never seems to fully endorse any signing even in press conferences so it's hard to believe he really has any say last last! That woman in the board room seems to be the puppet master and takes abramovichs wallet into consideration when making decisions rather than contes wishes! Is dzeko really the best target man you guys could acquire presently? By the way he wanted lukaku.....he was angry that the club did not sign him!

Go and read press conference of Bakayoko vs Chalobah, and you will know which signings had his approval. All this complaint is about Drinkwater, Barkley and co, not Bakayoko. When he is asked about Bakayoko, he will be nothing but effervescent in his praise.