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Benitez aint going to meet Mike Forde to ask for transfers. . . he goes straight to Emenalo and Abramovic.

Someone show me one link where Mike Forde is said to have signed or recommended a player.

Mike Forde ko, Mike Hyundai ni.


https://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/nov/30/chelsea-rafael-benitez


Rafael Benítez has expressed concern to the Chelsea hierarchy that the European champions' first-team squad is critically thin on numbers and has been rendered more fragile by a cluttered fixture schedule which is damaging the players' fitness levels.

The interim first-team manager outlined his initial impressions, after a week in the job, during a board meeting attended by Roman Abramovich and the sporting director, Michael Emenalo, on Thursday. 

Money will be available in January, though. With Benítez contracted until the summer, Emenalo and the board will direct transfer policy while seeking input from the Spaniard

This is why this guy is a dullard. Never in that post did Mike Forde say he makes signings. He used the adjective we to describe the process Chelsea FC go through to make signings, and never said that he makes any decisions, he can only describe his input into performance analysis. His input is not more than a mere number cruncher as directed by Emenalo, with no decision making powe.


Like I said before, some of us who know our club know that Frank Arnesen was replaced in all functions by Emenalo in 2010 and allowed to see out the last year of his contract as a lame duck while Emenalo made all the transfer decisions.

Emenalo signed Ramires in 2010 for example, and was already in control of Transfers from 2010. This is Emenalo in 2011 (while serving as Ancelottis assistant) already making the transfer decisions.

This is not rumour, this is Emenalo giving interviews on who he wants to sign in 2011. . . Mike Forde ko, Mike Hyundai ni.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/8396945/Chelsea-assistant-manager-Michael-Emenalos-open-discussions-about-transfer-targets-not-champions-style.html


Emenalo’s previous job was to help compile scouting reports on Chelsea’s opposition but there have long been strong suggestions that he has also been recommending potential signings to Abramovich. Emenalo was himself recruited by Avram Grant when he was Chelsea’s manager.

Emenalo was in the Croatian capital on Saturday — before returning to sit on the bench for Sunday’s Premier League match at home to Manchester City — to watch Dinamo Zagreb face Hadjuk Split.

Emenalo was spotted in the Maksimir Stadium by Croatian reporters and was approached after the derby match. In the newspaper he was quoted as saying he “really liked” Vukusic who is described as a “born goalscorer” before adding that he was “really interested” in the teenager. Vukusic plays as a central striker and has been watched by several leading clubs for the past two years.

Emenalo also named the Dinamo midfielder Milan Badelj, who is 21, and said that he and Vukusic “definitely have the quality to play for Chelsea” although he added that he did not know whether the club would bid for the players or another, the 19-year-old right-back Sime Vrsaljko, who also plays for Dinamo and is close to making his full international debut.

Interestingly both Vukusic and Vrsaljko have strongly been linked with Arsenal in recent weeks.

What will also cause some irritation at Chelsea, as sources pointed out last night, will be the description in the newspaper of Emenalo as someone who has the “trust” of Abramovich and that he has the say in the buying of players .

Mike Forde indeed. . . .show me one link where Mike Forde ever identified a player for signing. . . clown!


Lets rewind back to 2012:




Chelsea are without a permanent manager with interim head coach Roberto Di Matteo on holiday and not dealing with transfer targets and negotiations.

Instead, technical director Michael Emenalo is working with Abramovich to conduct Chelsea’s transfer business, which has so far included signing the German international wide midfielder Marko Marin for £6.5 million from Werder Bremen and releasing Jose Bosingwa and Salomon Kalou, while Didier Drogba, also out of contract, is leaving having agreed a deal with the Chinese club Shanghai Shenzua.

Nihilist:
Is this guy not a born fool?

I posted information from Mike Forde's own website:


http://www.mikefordeperformance.com/biography

I posted information from Mike Forde's profile page as a motivational speaker




I posted Mike Fore in HIS OWN WORDS talking about his work at Chelsea.



I can even post the man's Linkedin.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-forde-44198237

Yet one dimwit that bottlefed on raw crude oil is posting an article from BEFORE Mike was even hired...that doesnt note what Mike was supposed to do, as his proof that Mike Forde had never been a decision maker at Chelsea.

This a claasic case of an unfortunate fellow, a mad man desperate for a market to roam, a dimwit from Idimu.

FOH nigga!

This is an example of a fool who knows nothing who read something on the internet and doesnt know what he is reading. Nothing posted there tells you he is responsible for signing players. He is involved in performance analysis, the TD makes the recruitment decisions.

I am holding plenty information to prove for example in 2012 summer in the absence of a manager that Emenalo decided the direction of the team and signed all the players from an interview with Emenalo himself (prior to RDM being appointed). I will supply that when I'm back in the UK. In the meantime,


https://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/jun/14/chelsea-abramovich-aide-marina-granovskaia

It is the line of communication between Granovskaia and Abramovich – similar to that enjoyed by Tenenbaum – that has thrust her into this position of relative power. She will speak to the oligarch on other business issues aside from Chelsea but, as the most direct line to the owner whose own interests mean that his visits to Stamford Bridge are relatively rare, she has been key when time has been tight and an immediate decision has been required on the football side. She played a key part in negotiations over the recruitment of players and managers alongside Gourlay and the technical director, Michael Emenalo, was involved in the talks with Liverpool and Benfica to secure Fernando Torres and David Luiz towards the end of the winter transfer window of January 2011, and is understood to have travelled to Madrid in April to discuss Mourinho's return to the club once it became clear he was intent upon leaving the Bernabéu.

In the above player recruitments, Ron Gourlay and Graianovska are the Corporate directors while Emenalo is the football director


And the below dileneates the difference in role between Emenalo and Forde

The football club board, meanwhile, comprises Buck, Tenenbaum, Gourlay, Barnard, the football operations director Mike Forde and Emenalo. They focus entirely on football matters, with reports submitted by the manager and medical staff, Emenalo on recruitment and player issues, and, for example, Forde on training techniques and facilities from information he has gleaned visiting institutions around the world. Abramovich usually attends two or three football club board meetings over the course of a season

Overopinionated Google analyst that doesn't know his own club. Just woke up one day, started googling and decides he will try to look intelligent. Overopinionated dullard.

You refer to me in your post nigga, I will address you directly.

Mike Forde was discussed extensively by Nateevs and myself in 2012. A fool who just woke up with zero understanding will come and tell us Mike Forde is in charge of player recruitment because he contributes to operations. The fool might even tell us later that David Barnard is in charge of player recruitment because he sits on the football club board and draws up the player contracts. Meanwhile the man in charge of player recruitment has always been the Technical Director. Mike Forde was Director of Football Operations, in other words a Performance Director ie data analysis, performance maximization etc. He has never been the transfer decision maker nor the TDs boss and he has never recommended a player to sign in his life but he might be asked for his input from a performance point of view. One fool just woke up and started googling and feels he can open his loudmouth. Thats why I call you an overopinionated dullard.


https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/aug/17/newsstory.sport2


Chelsea are set to make a major addition to Jose Mourinho's backroom staff with the recruitment of the former Bolton Wanderers performance director Mike Forde, a highly regarded figure within the game, who would adopt a similar position at Stamford Bridge.

Talks are going on between the clubs and, should a deal be struck, Forde would be expected to take up his new duties in London before the end of the month. He would join a backroom staff which includes Frank Arnesen, the chief scout and head of youth development, and the recently appointed director of football, Avram Grant. However, the 32-year-old's involvement is unlikely to unsettle the manager, Jose Mourinho, in the same way that Grant's appointment did when it was first mooted in the new year, with Forde's role very much geared towards off-the-pitch matters.

Every lizard lies on it's belly so you wouldn't know which lizard has bellyache.

This clown likes to define all his views in opposition to me. Even if he has no knowledge or background, he will see whatever Ibimes view is and oppose it.

When a fool doesn't know his club and start posting rubbish.

Mike Forde? Hahaha. What an eediot.

Emenalo has been in charge of player recruitment since 2010 when Frank Arnesen was allowed to see out his last year as a lame duck.

When I'm back home, I will show how unknowledgeable this loudmouth fool is

Abagworo:
Nigeria has been experiencing inflation over the years coupled with our growing population and recent dwindling in foreign exchange earnings. Tomato scarcity should be a lesson to Nigerians on the importance of agriculture over anything. We must feed ourselves well before any other luxury.

Tomato is actually something we do well but a virus affected the crop this year.

MizMyColi:
Your comment is very insensitive!

If everything were expensive, food should not be. If we had pragmatic labour and agricultural ministers, this would be a very good time to mobilise farmers at the grassroots. We don't import soil. We don't import land. We neither import hoes and cutlasses.

Instead, they removed the subsidy on fertilizer.

It's not you I blame. God punish poverty.
My bet is that you and a number of your loved ones have valid international passports.

It is not insensitive. It is reality, though sometimes I do think that societies get what they deserve. What is due to a people who support the brazen stealing of their commonwealth? A nation of economic illiterates and ethnic jingoists who think inflation is caused by their President, never mind the Purchasing Power Parity formula. Do they not see what is going on in Venezuela, Angola, Brazil etc? He who allows someone to rob him blind should not plead poverty.

And last time I checked, Agriculture is a private enterprise. Farmers will set any price they need to survive.

donbrowser:
Stop using low oil prices as an excuse for Nigerians to go through hardship, Buhari saw this coming and promised to diversify the economy yet he allocated more money for Information minister than Agriculture.

The prices of oil is low and how has that reduced the money being pumped into the pockets of legisila-CHOP, Execu-THIEVES and Judi-SHARE ITS.

These people should also be considerate enough to reduce all allowances and salary to what a University lecturer is earning then we can move forward.


[size=22pt]STOP BLAMING OIL PRICES, BLAME BUHARI[/size]

So you expect Buhari to diversify economy in 1 year that has not been diversified in 56 years?

Your deliverance is on its way.

Nihilist:
UK based nairalanders would know that Rob Beasely and/or the Sun is as untrustworthy as the Buhari Government

There are hundred other sources nigga including a senior insider at Chelsea. That's just one I picked for convenience.

Nihilist:
Man you need to plonk your fat self on a chair somewhere, take off your bra, and go back to enjoying the beach...

I'm fit as a fiddle nigga. Tell that to you know who not far from you right now.

tonytony208:
Well your dullard Fulani murderer president told us he was gonna convert 1 naira to 1 dollar. He also promised to perform miracle in all sectors. But here you are talking about more suffering. Are you saying your dullard president was lying?

I don't know what the phuck that ninja was thinking when he said that!

Wilkins being sacked is one thing (he was sacked when Gourlay approached him on the training pitch to explain some substitutions and he told him to leave football matters to the football men).

Imposing Emenalo on Ancelotti is another thing. You don't impose assistant on a manager especially a slimeball who is known for backstabbing and who the manager suspects is the owners spy.

Its the same way the slimeball Avram Grant went on training pitch and started querying JMs players how they feel about JM. These are not qualified football men. These are opportunist ball lickers. Emenalo was coaching under-12 girls team in USA until Avram Grant called him and he learned that sucking ballz can get him promoted above his competence.






But Beasley, The Sun's chief sports correspondent, says the problems run way beyond what is happening on the pitch. And more pertinently, he pointed the finger directly at Abramovich.

He believes the Russian billionaire has already undermined Ancelotti's position by removing Ray Wilkins in a move that smacks of the steps that led to Jose Mourinho's shock departure in 2007.

The fact is Chelsea are in the middle of a shocking, terrible run and they're are a lot of various reasons for it - it's not entirely Ancelotti's fault.

"I would point the finger at the people at the people at the top," Beasley told the Supplement.

"You've got to remember Jose Mourinho had a contract at 2011 with Chelsea and because they started interfering at the top and he wouldn't have it.

"But what they did back then to upset Mourinho - and effectively he left a few months later - was to bring in Avram Grant, impose Avram Grant on Chelsea and Jose Mourinho against his wishes.

"What have Chelsea and Abramovich done this season? They've taken out Ray Wilkins against the manager's wishes and they've imposed Michael Emenalo against the manager's wishes and again, Emenalo is seen as Abramovich's 'Chelsea's spy in the camp' - and the whole thing's gone.

Griffon:
Jose can have Mikel for free, we can give him Remy if he likes too, just let him stay off Matic.

Yeah the Serbian had a stinker of a season, but who didn't? On his day, the ninja is twice the player Mikel has ever been.

Make we try learn from the mistakes of the past.

Griffon, pass me that ace of spades in your profile pic.

Meanwhile wake me up when one single player nominates Mikel for the below. What he couldn't smell in 10 seasons, Matic did in his first full season.

CarrotAndStick:
I'm wondering why the same inflation did not affect minimum wage. Any idea?

Less dollars to pay you with

Nihilist:
Ancelotti didn't hire Wilkins in the first place. He met him there.

So it's not like Ancelotti had the power to choose his own assistant in the first place.

He got.on well with Ray who actually speaks Italian. He was obviously upset that his friend got sacked, but let's not pretend that he was stripped of any sort of power in this incident.

Yes, it's alright to sack assistant and impose a spy on the manager.

Perfect way to run a club.

The manager is just a zombie to treat how you want. Sack his coaches, buy and sell his players, no problem at all.

When this decision was taken, Chelsea was running away with the league. Ended up not even challenging for the title. Straight from the Emenalo book of football.

No wonder they are denying Conte his fitness coach and 2 assistants.

Some of us do follow our club and have encyclopedic memory of every event unlike some opinionated dullards who don't know their nyash from their elbow. You cannot just wake up in 2016 with no background knowledge and launder Emenalos image for us. Coming soon. . . . how Emenalo stabbed Di Matteo after he won the UCL.

Inflation is caused by a shortage of dollars due to the fall in oil price. Less dollars to sell means Naira depreciates and inflation goes up.

Wail all you want. Even Barrack Obama as your Presido cannot save you from the inflationary effect of the oil slump. More suffering is on it's way.

Flashback to the beginning of Emenalos backstabbing days. . . .2010

The first good manager he helped chase out of the club was Ancelotti.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/8150102/Chelsea-changes-have-left-Carlo-Ancelotti-brooding-over-future-as-tensions-mount-at-Stamford-Bridge.html


Carlo Ancelotti is understood to believe that the sacking of Ray Wilkins as his assistant and appointment of the little-known but influential Michael Emenalo has, perhaps fatally, undermined his authority at Chelsea.

The 51-year-old Italian is, according to sources, considering his future at the club, as revealed by The Daily Telegraph on Saturday, because of his anger over Wilkins’ sudden departure.

Ancelotti, who concedes that he does not have “total control of the team”, is concerned that he has let Wilkins down and that his own standing in world football has been damaged and his reputation reduced by recent events.

Sources said last night that the man who brought an unprecedented Premier League and FA Cup Double to Chelsea last season believes that “something is broke” and it might not be possible to repair the damage.

Emenalo is close to the club’s demanding owner, Roman Abramovich and the elevation of the 45-year-old Nigerian — also revealed by The Daily Telegraph – has parallels with Avram Grant’s arrival at Stamford Bridge which eventually led to Jose Mourinho leaving the club. Emenalo was brought to Chelsea by Grant also.

One source said last night that it was hard to envisage Ancelotti remaining at Chelsea after this season and there was even the possibility of him leaving before then, although that seems unlikely. His contract is due to expire in the summer of 2012 although talks over an extension would not take place until after the end of this campaign, which has become derailed with three defeats in the past four league matches.

Ancelotti had no say in the decision to sack Wilkins and has made clear his unhappiness. Having claimed on Friday that Emenalo would not be allowed to coach the first team and was not Wilkins’ direct replacement, Ancelotti conceded after the defeat by Birmingham City on Saturday: “He’s doing the same job as Ray Wilkins.”

When told that such a state of affairs would never have happened to Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, Ancelotti said tellingly: “You have to compare me with Ferguson? It’s a different position because Ferguson has total control of the team. I am just technical direction. Full stop.”

Interestingly Emenalo sat next to Ancelotti on the bench at St Andrew’s — the manager did not actually want his new assistant anywhere near him — and the body language between the pair betrayed the awkwardness of the situation.

Abramovich and key decision-makers at Chelsea may have thought differently, however, and Emenalo, who has been the 'opposition scout’, has been groomed for promotion for some time. Indeed, there had been some suggestions that he might even have been earmarked to replace Frank Arnesen, the club’s technical director, whose contract expires at the end of this season and who is considering his own future.

Dongorgon5:
Bigkesh nailed it.
Signing papy djilobdji is a sackeable offence.
I use to think ibiime hate emenalo until that guy signed pato when we have dead wood like remy and falcao in our team.
Athletico madrid technical director get sense.
Emebnalo should learn from that guy.

Thats because Andrea Berta (Atletico TD) works with his manager, not against him.

Meanwhile when you have insecure niggas like Emenalo who happened on their job by chance, you will find them playing power games with the manager.

From backstabbing Ray Wilkins and spying on Ancelotti

to

Arguing with RDM, choosing every single one of RDMS players to buy or sell, arguing with RDM to always play Torres and ignoring RDM when RDM asked for £10m for Wanyama for his midfield

to

Arguing with Benitez when Benitez told the board he needs a central midfielder

to

Signing plethora of wingers Jose was not interested in, telling the board Jose does not need new players, then getting Roman to release funds for his own signings (Baba, Papy, Adrian and Kenedy), then keeping Lollichon as a spy when Jose and Courtois wanted him out.

His is a history of power games and politics.

Bigkesh, please ignore niggas who don't know their own club


When Fabregas said Jose missed his son's football match to come and meet him in London to convince him to sign, he did not know.

When Jose said "I did not sign a striker in 2013 because I knew that Diego Costa will be available in 2014 for a set price", he was not following.

There are those who have depth of understanding and there are opinionated niggas with very shallow knowledge who've done zero research and take everything at face value.

Imagine someone asking you for proof that Costa and Fab4 are JM signings? Is that a serious Chelsea fan? When we are busy following our club maybe he is following models on Instagram, yet wants to argue indepth details of Emenalos signings with us? Before this season, such shallow person couldn't tell you where Emenalo sits in Chelsea organisational structure.

No time to educate niggas. They should talk less and follow the happenings at their club more.

raumdeuter:
This is an example of what I am saying. All the poor buys were never Mourinho buys. All the good were his.

This is why you should stick to Bayern talk where you would have more intricate knowledge than us.

What I just told you about Boulahrouz and co is a fact which is instantly googleable, and was the reason for the infamous "Waitrose eggs" rant by Jose.

Don't let born yesterday Chelsea fan who doesn't know his own club make you take everything at face value.

raumdeuter:
Who is responsible for these signings Jarosik, Smertin, Maniche Bhoularouz, Del Horno, SWP, Pizzaro, Ben Haim, Sidwell, Belleti, Alex, Quaresma

The same nigga that dominated the league with them.

When people are talking about their club, you would do best to stay out, just like I cannot give you specific detail of Bayern.

For example:

Quaresma joined Jan 2009 after Jose.
Alexei Smertin was signed 2003 before Jose.
Alex was signed 2004 before Jose and loaned to PSV for 3 years (he's a good player though).

Ben Haim, Sidwell, Boulahrouz and Pizarro were all signed by Frank Arnesen in 2006 which is what made Jose to fall out with Roman first time round leading to his sack.

Same things repeating in 2015 with Baba, Papy and co.

Nihilist:
This is the kind of thing I dislike.

There were a few people shouting 'Bleep Emenalo', only one of them took my post personal and started calling me clown and posting pictures of bar beach.

When we clap back now, we'll start hearing stories of degrees, and certifications.

Its already pretty obvious that no sense can be made of this conversation. I though Emenalo signed Lukaku? Now it's Emenalo that sidelined Lukaku

The same once proud team that finished 1st and 2nd actually finished 1st last season, and 3rd the year before only 4 points behind 1st place.

Emenalo became TD in 2011. If we judge by the shallow logic of team achievements, then we should consider that we've won multiple FA cups, Multiple European Titles, the league Cup and the actual league during his reign.

"Guus Hiddinks points per game would have seen us finish 9th. Who do we blame for that?"

Ermmmm I don't know....how about the freaking manager?

I don't see why the TD should be blamed for underachieving players.

Mehn I won't even bother responding to you again. Enjoy Bar Beach.

Meanwhile can any non-passive aggressive Emenalo hater table their factual reasons Emenalo is behind our alarming slump this season?

I am genuinely interested in hearing them

Edit: Forgot to add my own view
Absolutely loving this chair in front of me

You are an attention seeker ninja. No point you raised hasn't been covered copiously and several times over by me.

Go and revise where all those points have been covered and stop disturbing us.

We agree with your view and expect Baba, Papy, Pato, Adrian, Mikel and all other Emenalo favourites to take the league by storm next season. Afterall he told Roman the team was good enough to win the league this season and Roman believed him. We entrust our future to Emenalo, the same ninja who has steadily stripped all spine away from Chelsea since 2011.

Nobody claimed Emenalo is the reason finished 16th.

But Emenalo is the reason a once proud team that always finished 1st or 2nd has been struggling to finish in top 4 since 2012.

Guus Hiddinks points per game average would have finished Chelsea in 9th position this season. Who do we blame for that?

Every point that clown made has been covered copiously by me.

I will not have shekpe-lovers who supported Emenalos marginalisation of Lukaku and Sturridge for umpteen years in favour of their lover Torres tell us Jose chased away Lukaku. Lukaku had marginalised for 3 years, and was tired of waiting, only one of those years under Jose.


Please, please, please. This is my view right now. One attention seeker should not come and spoil it by bringing up matters I have covered several times. If he did not challenge the viewpoints then, then the shekpe-lovers should not come and form ITK now. Its been 4 years since we started discussing Emenalo, not today. Lemme enjoy my evening.

mathys:
Ibime you are wanted here asap to defend your take on emenalo.

We have spoke enough about Emenalo already. Aint got time to answer that clown. I'm on holiday right now.

Give him the list of Emenalos last 11 signings.

Goddyj:
Meanwhile, in this context, the opposite of 'hang' is 'hanged' not 'hung'. Thanks

That is true as it leads to his death, however you surely mean past participle and not opposite.

Griffon:
It's too early to say definitely that Jose Mourinho has perpetrated the ultimate treachery.

I cant help but think his desire to head up north is a way to get back to the CFC board. Of that there can be little doubt.

Do we have to blame the man? Hell N0.

Best we can do at the moment to avoid repeating the mistake of the past is to provide Conte with a maximum support. Surrounding a world class manager with overseers, second-guessers and spies reporting back to the owner is a practise that must be dropped.

I heard Hiddink would be replacing Emenalo as the director of football, speak of the best substitution ever.

Conte must be trusted to do his job unfettered. SIMPLE!

Jose is faultless.

You interfere with a niggas job twice and eventually sack him twice, na your own wahala be that.

I trust Conte to be able to compete with JM and Pep eventually but only if he is given 100% free rein to mould the team in his image, not in Enenalis image. The first year may be spent learning the Prem and learning his players though.

Hiddink is not becoming TD, he is only going into an advisory role with the academy. Slimeball Emenalo seems to be sticking around.

lalaboi:
LOL.

Dude wil run back to spain now

Don't be surprised if Chelsea buy him back. Infact Jose wants Matic, so a swap won't be a surprise.

It's a shame that Nigerians are completely illiterate of what's going on around them.

MEND never supported the amnesty program because they felt it did not address their concerns, it just paid off their commanders like Tompolo and Boyloaf.

MEND is Henry and Charles Okah, and they are the ones writing this statement.

jonhemma11:
According to the person who shared the photos on Facebook,the elderly man pictured above committed suicide today in Gombe State.He shared the story in Hausa.I am not very good in Hausa.Our Hausa readers should please explain more

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/05/man-commits-suicide-in-gombe-statephotos.html

If he hung himself, why is there blood on his back?

Did he also matchet himself on his back before hanging himself.

Na so una go just go spoil a mans name after someone has murdered him.

Why are Nigerians incapable of thinking?

Juan Mata right now. . .

Don't fret guys. . .

At least we still have Emenalo. . .

diggz:
Bros the thing dey do me like say my eye no dey see well. I don't even get it. Oscar of all people....

I am in shock for words to describe the blasphemy.

Please ignore that clown. He is the Spy360 of Manure thread.