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May his suffering continue and worsen.

On a comparative note, I want to point out that while IBB is known as the father of corruption, he still had the competence to complete key projects like Third Mainland Bridge, built the City of Abuja, Onne Fertiliser plant, built over 90,000 kilometres of rural roads, started free immunisation etc etc etc.

If GEJ had done 1/10th of that, some of these cretins would hail GEJ the best President ever. May GEJs suffering be ten times worse than IBBs.

Dongorgon5:
Hmmmn
But can we fight for the title next season or at least top 4 with traore as the 2nd striker with costa injury problem(hamstring)
I believe if there is also competition, costa will drop his bad attitude knowing fully well their is a quality back up.

To be honest I done tire for Costa sef. I need a striker with more pace that will allow us vary our game.

Dongorgon5:
For me I don't think we need 3 strikers
Since we are not going to europe, we just need Costa and one Top striker(Dembele doesn't cut it for me) then traore to play in cup games or when the two strikers are injured.

Traore has proved himself as a 2nd striker as far as I'm concerned, at least the equal of Remy.

So Traore as 2nd striker and Dembele as 3rd. Both have great upside and can go on to do big things.

You don't need a plethora of strikers to be successful. This club was great for many years with just Drogba, Anelka and Kalou.

Most top clubs have just one main striker, and upcoming strikers sitting behind them.

Looks like we're signing Moussa Dembele from Fulham. Good move.

Dembele, Traore and Costa (or a faster no9) suits me fine as our 3 strikers for next season.

Van Ginkel is thriving in his natural position - an attacking midfielder in a 4-3-3.

I always felt his touch was slightly loose and defensive education not complete to play in a pivot. I would be willing to give him a good crack in a 4-3-3 because I think he is a perfect 4-3-3 AM with his runs and stamina.

And they said, although John Stones can't defend, he can pass the ball.

How about our very own homegrown John Stones?

eyoniggar:
With a fatigued team, it would have been somewhat possible for us to muscle out wins provided we arent being bus parked as we have been seeing in recent games. So one now expects Ini to burst through a wall of 6-7 defenders? I suspect a pained chelshit fan whose Iniesta heartbreak goal still hunts till date,

During Scolari era, where every team used to park bus against Chelsea, Lampard was still popping almost every game to give Chelsea a narrow win or draw.

This is one of such goals during that period - in the 90th minute after being frustrated all game by a parked bus.

No need dribbling through 6 or 7 players like a visionless nigga who can only see his own feet, when you see the full picture of the goal and where to place the ball.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unX1SV4R1zI

sinizia:
I just felt like you'd have driven home this your point after the UCL loss. That's why I was asking you why you waited this long.

I have to give it time because statistically I can't expect a midfielder to produce every game. Now we have 5 or 6 games his team is losing and he's done nothing. An elite AM should produce once every 2 or 3 games, so I was giving him more rope to hang himself. Also you know these Iniesta dickryders, if I talk too soon and Barca start winning again thanks to MSN, they will claim he is the GOAT.

Now we have 5 or 6 games on the spin that MSN are playing slightly less than extraterrestrials, the nigga can't produce jackshyt to help his team.

Funny enough, if you take his EXACT SAME PERFORMANCES over the last few games, add a few MSN goals to give them the wins, at the end of the season, they would give Iniesta award for Attacking Midfielder of the Year. THE EXACT SAME PERFORMANCE!

Imagine now this same Iniesta playing every week with Drogba, Kalou, Malouda and Anelka as his attackers - that is the exact same situation as Barca has seen over the past few weeks. What would Iniesta do to give his side victory? NOTHING!!! Na trophylessness go sure pass.

That's exactly my point - he is a CARRYALONG attacking midfielder.

Greatihex:
how can a player play very well and yet be benched. It does nt add up. Though kevin was hardworking, bt his poor ball retention and his aimless crosses,passes and volleys are what let him down.

He got benched because:

(a.) Willian was signed at the end of August for £32m (not Mourinhos signing but he was expected to make the Willian signing work)

(b.) Mata who had returned late from Confederations cup got up to full fitness - the 2 time club player of the year.

(c.) Schurrle the £18m signing who had had an illness in July reurned to full fitness.


So DeBruyne wasn't dropped. He returned to his rightful place in the pecking order which was always the squad plan for the 'small boy' by Emenalo. These multimillion signings were always planned ahead of him in the pecking order as well as MaZaCar who were already first choice. He had played very well in his first 3 games.

sinizia:
LWKMD!! I've been waiting for this post from you ever since ATM ráped Barca. What took you this long?

Go and find out what Lampard was doing during Chelsea's worst run in his tenure under Scolari. He scored about 10 goals in 2 months, even though Scolaris team was dropping points. He even kept Scolari in the job a month longer than he should have stayed thanks to his equalisers and few winners collecting points here and there.

I said it before - I will never choose a carry along AM over a difference maker.

Greatihex:
i don't knw why u guys keep saying that kevin was nt played straight away. Kevin started mou's first three matches at his return. He simply didn't satisfy mou with those three starts.
The players i remember mou did nt do very well in letting to go are, salah and lukaku.

De Bruyne played very well in his first 3 games. We scored 2 wins and a draw away at Old Trafford.

After that Willian was signed at the end of August, and Schurrle, Mata and co gained full fitness and took priority over him.

The only match they claim he played rubbish (which I didn't watch) was Swindon match.

For example, below is the aggregate player rating for our 1st match vs Hull (Aggregate of all the British newspapers Player ratings)

It is times like this, I expect Iniesta to produce something to help his team now that Messi, Suarez and Neymar aren't scoring.

When I said he is a carry along Attacking midfielder, no be play I dey play even though some niggas trivialised it by digging out old posts of me praising his possession skills as a central midfielder.

If Suarez and co had fired Barca to glory this season, they would still have crowned Iniesta midfielder of the year. Oya show us what you can do in the absence of Neymar, Messia and co helping you along to victory, you would hear he dribbled 5 players in midfield.

rusher14:
Not hating but I think we should concentrate on making one or two stroke engines from 100% locally fabricated materials.

What's the whole idea of designing the chassis of a vehicle from imported materials?

Beating metal sheets over assembled engine parts already in existence is for me not worthy technology.

Let us make simple motorcycles, wheels and pistons locally.
Ignitions, combustion engines and shock absorbers.

That is the technology.

My guy, collect one stout there on me.

Nihilist:
KDB dribbles roughly as much as Silva, Sterling and Navas

Certainly not. . . .KDB dribbles exactly the same amount of time as Dmitri Payet. . . they don't waste time caressing the ball. They just shift body and deliver pass or cross.

Funny enough, the Oscar and Willian you cited as Mourinho players dribble and caress the ball way more. Oscar and Willian will be tapping the ball from foot-to-foot 3 times, when one touch will suffice, by which time the opportunity to play the first-time pass and catch the opposition defence has gone. They will be on counterattack, stop the counterattack and start dribbling men they have already run past.

De Bruyne doesn't waste time with that. He transitions the ball from midfield to attack quicker than any other AM in football today. Yesterday was prime example.

Nihilist:
Its not a lazy Mantra- It's a fact.

All those players are the type that like to dribble. Remember how Schurrle lost his job?

Willian and Oscar have more in common with each other than with DeBruyne Schurrle or Mata.

You have a point with Cuadrado, though, but it's no coincidence that both Ronaldo and Hazard who are the skilful type clashed heavily with Jose

In that case Jose should have no problem with De Bruyne because De Bruyne doesn't like to dribble.

DeBruynes game is first time everything - first time pass, first time cross. If he dribbles, its only to create space quickly for pass or cross.

Nihilist:
At Chelsea, Jose had a bit more authority, and it showed. Any player percieved as 'skillful' was shipped out and that includes Cuadrado, Schurrle, Salah, Mata and KDB.

You're just repeating lazy English journalists mantra.

Cuadrado who can barely trap a ball can never be described as skillful.

Schurrle was known as the hardest working winger in football before he contracted the immunovirus which still troubles him to date.

Salah simply suffered the same fate as DeBruyne - he is the 'small boy' brought in to make up the numbers and take the 6th choice AM position.

Nihilist, another one for you. . . DeBruyne was the 3rd hardest running player at 2014 World Cup behind Michael Bradley and Marcelo Diaz.

Nihilist, this is for you.

Don't believe what lazy English journalists float in the Press. The hear the story of how De Bruyne left Chelsea and turn it into hyperbole saying he's lazy and hates running. I heard one fool on 5Live repeating the same mantra yesterday.

When we played Genk in 2011/2012 UCL, De Bruyne covered so much ground that day and you could see then he wasn't lazy. He is a 12km a game man which is as good as any of the hardest working central midfielders in the game today.

Nihilist:
Mourinho is squarely to blame for the loss of KDB though.

Jose favours workhorses - KDB, Mata,Schurrle, Salah and Cuadrado out, in favour of William, Oscar, Pedro...

I don't understand how Jose was under pressure to play high value purchases as insinuated by Ibime, when he actually got rid of most of them.

To be fair, KDB didn't exactly make a case for staying with his rubbish play...but Jose's hand wasn't forced.

I still haven't forgiven for Lukaku

Schurrle, Salah and Cuadrado are actually workhorses.

That has nothing to do with it.

Dont assume because Jose got rid of Mata that he can't carry De Bruyne. Matas own case of laziness and physical deficiency is that of a 12 year old boy playing with grown men.

The same Jose that carried Ozil for 3 years in Spain will carry De Bruyne easily.

The funny thing is De Bruyne is actually hardworking. Don't let the debate in the press deceive you.

The situation at Chelsea then was extraordinary in that Chelsea had a nonexistent midfield and Jose had to get the wingers to cover their part of the job.

Only a foolish manager would play Hazard, Mata and DeBruhne ontop midfield of Lampard and Ramires (our starting DMs at the time). The disbalance in the midfield caused Jose to play Schurrle almost every time at the start.

So there are many political, financial and tactical reasons why De Bruyne would not start matches straightaway.

It is nothing for Jose to play DeBruyne when he plays Ozil and Ronaldo in the same midfield.

Greatihex:
Sometimes, i am surprised by what i read here.
I remember in 2013 when KDB was fighting for a place in chelsea's team. Then, any one who dares to say that kdb is better than hazard will attacked by all chelsea fans. Then hazard was chelsea's messi, the fulcrum of all our attacking play. The player bold enough to drive through defences. I remember a commentator once saying "he has the key to all defenses". I also remember that kdb was started in our first three matches that season and he was busy trying the goal from outside the box without results.
Fast forward to 2016, hazard has lost form and kdb is playing well, someone is now saying that he has always regarded kdb as better than hazard. Look at human beings.

For the records, kdb is simply afraid of competition. That is why he ran away from chelsea. A player who has nt proven himself to the manager, yet he does nt want to stay on the bench.
I remember william starting from the bench when he first came to chelsea, bt look at how the story has changed. He has simply proven himself.

Let me ask, where was kdb when has was busy winning back to back player of the year in ligue 1?

This is one Chelsea fan who begs to differ. You can dig up my records. I have never been crazy about Hazard, whilst I have had nothing but praise for De Bruyne.

Did you watch Bundesliga in 2013? How would you know De Bruynes quality then? Your experience of DeBruyne then is watching him 10 mins here and there. Don't label me with your experience of him . I process a whole load of information when watching football, for example I hated Oscar since 2012 years before ninjas clocked how useless he was. The same nonsense you notice now, I noticed as soon as he joined the club. Also I understood how detrimental Mata was to our stability and wanted him out right from 2011 when he was the darling of the club. Also I let niggas know just how limited Ramires was right from time, even when Ramires was the darling of Chelsea. Not to blow my horn, but don't label all fans with the same brush. I've never been crazy about Hazard, though he's OK for me whilst I've been a superfan of KDB since 2013.

KDB epitomises what I like in a midfielder - first time passes, vision, straight making assists and goal attempts without taking too many touches. I don't like attacking midfielders who caress the ball too much before passing. He fits my profile perfectly. Call it the luck of having Bundesliga on ESPN back then, but I was well aware of his talents 3 years ago.

raumdeuter:
Debruyne said it openly is clear to the blind that he didn't get a fair chance from mourinho compared to what other attacking midfielder got. He now called them out to embarrass KdB by comparing his stats with those who played more minutes

So who's to blame here? Was it Roman who refused to play KdB and pursued a vendetta to humiliate him despite him training extra than others.

Who's responsible for team selection that didn't choose KdB but favored some others over him. Kevin just returned from a sterling world cup where he was one if the best performers for Belgium

Point is KdB was never given a fair chance by the manager and he had to leave.

KDB did not return from any World Cup. He left in Jan 2014.

If you just walk into a club and they give you:

£32m Hazard
£32m Willian
£25m Oscar the Brazil "wonderkid"
£25m Mata, twice player of the year and fan favourite
£18m Schurrle
£7m KDB

As a manager who just walked which of these are you expected to play first, especially when MaZaCar are already the first team regulars, then you have Willian and Schurrle to integrate? 4 months is not enough to shoehorn such a player into the team at the expense of players that the club has bought for megamillions, when as a manager you are expected to keep the value of your players. Willian himself took about 5 months before he started collecting regular shirt.

Besides Mourinho already had to concoct his argument to the press as to why he wants to sideline Mata, which he marketed as "giving the shirt to Brazil's no 10". In the middle of all that, you cant be promoting KDB.

For example, a manager who walks into a team today containing a £60m Hazard, a £60m James Rodriguez and a £80m Gareth Bale bought for him to use will never promote Riyadh Mahrez over them instantly. He will lose his job for not getting the best out of his assets. It will take many months before he can shoehorn Mahrez into the team.

This poor squad planning and unfair competition is what made InterMilan to lose Andrea Pirlo and Clarence Seedorf in the early 2000s. It's not on the manager. The fool Moratti just goes to buy any big name on the market, not knowing what talent he already has at his club, causing them to leave because of overcompetition. Emenalo is the Moratti of Chelsea in this case.

Eastbay:
like you indomie generation clown.

That is the phrase I've been looking for to describe the sorry excuse for under-25s that Naija is churning out these days!

Indomie Generation!

He went to Naija to change his life, not knowing he was running after a charlatan. Now his life is wrecked.

I told y'all that blind cùnt Emenalo knows nothing about talent. He only knows who can dribble and couldn't properly assess a player with vision when he sees one.

Whilst the media narrative is always that JM didn't give De Bruyne a fair shot, I have always argued that the condition to give DeBruyne a fair shot was nonexistent because Emenalo did not appreciate De Bruynes talent and put him in a situation where there was unfair competition for his position.

If its to clear the decks and strip the club of midfielders so Mikel and Ramires can keep their spot, Emenalo is a specialist. If its to clear all the strikers for Torres and constantly harass managers as to why Torres isn't playing well, Emenalo is a specialist.

But when it comes to true talent like DeBruyne, what did Emenalo do? Despite the fact DeBruyne already has Hazard, Mata, Oscar and even Lampard to contend with for an AM position, Emenalo went and spent £50m on Willian and Schurrle the season De Bruyne returned to the club. How many AMs fit into one starting 11? Not mentioning Moses and co who had to be sent on loan.

The fact is any manager walking into such a situation is mandated to play the big names and the big assets, rather than promote an unknown nigga over them.

Mata, Hazard and Oscar were already 1st choice and fan favourites. Then you add Willian and Schurrle, you have already set them as 4th and 5th choice.

A TD who knows his onions would not sign any other AMs that year, if he knows the talent De Bruyne possesses.

So its not surprising to read below that the blind cùnt had nothing to do with DeBruynes signing. A common scout had to go directly to Abramovic in breach of chain of command, for DeBruyne to get signed.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/508562/Kevin-de-Bruyne-Chelsea-transfer-news

Scout told Roman Abramovich: You have to sign this man… he will be worth £70m

Chelsea's Holland/Belgium scout Piet De Vieser. . .

"About six years ago I was for a while in Belgium to look around, because they already got some talent.

“Kevin was eighteen. Even then he had a great technique and at the same time outline. I had rarely seen such a thing.


"I had to take action, I plucked up courage and took a tape to the big boss of Chelsea, Roman Abramovich.

"Roman is a true football fan, who wants to not only win, but also want to see good football.

"He looked at that tape, said nothing, but went straight to call the scouting. 'That De Bruyne has to come' he said.

chic2pimp:
Just finished watching the Chelsea vs Man City game on MOTD and I have to tell you while Hazard is definitely the more skilful player, Kevin is definitely the more intelligent one.

I dont even know what ninjas define as skill.

Skill is simply the ability to make goals and assists.

De Bruyne has therefore always been the more skillful player by far for me.

Kevin De Bruyne’s dominance of Jonh Obi Mikel stood out during Manchester City’s 3-0 win against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

It was a reminder that Mikel will never again be good enough for a first-team place if Chelsea have any ambitions of returning to the top level of English football. It has been a depressing season for Chelsea and parts of the squad need an overhaul. Maybe they can start by bringing Roma‘s Belgian midfielder Radja Nainggolan to replace Mikel.

Readmore http://ssportsng.com/de-bruynes-destruction-of-mikel-proves-chelsea-kept-wrong-talent-at-club/

This gameweek go cause massive shift of positions in FPL.

As for me, na Green arrow all the way. Could be even better but I have more long term strategies at play.

chrisley024:
De Bryunce having an enjoyable evening in this midfield.

Nonsense!
Let me go and prepare for this evening party

Everybody has enjoyable evening in Chelsea midfield.

Man City playing in our midfield with impunity, and their midfield is even crap!

Someone should kindly kill whoever signed Baba Rahman please!

Thank God Conte is getting a chance to watch him play indepth till season end, before Emenalo will come and tell him in preseason that left-back position is well covered.

tankara1010:
I warned about this to SE people....they will make sure that Billion worth of Sport Complex in SE doesn't happen. They are out to cut this Igbo man to size as the largest oil distributor in Nigeria...they have been plotting this! THERE YOU HAVE IT!

A lot of Nigerians are oblivious of the systematic marginalization of SE and SS. There is a reason why Onitsha, Calabar, Port Harcourt and Warri ports are not in operation or fully functional as Lagos ports despite SE and SS/energy companies accounting for nearly 70% of all imports. There is a reason why Enugu, Port Harcourt, Calabar, Asaba Airports are not as functional as Lagos, Abuja and Kano despite SE and SS accounting for nearly 75% of all international travels. Something is not right if you have conscience and ability to reason!

As I write now...Niger Delta is under attack by Nigerian Navy in the name of Fishing Out Militants!
https://www.nairaland.com/3051660/navy-launches-massive-operation-secure

Ranting of a typical ethnic jingoist and ignoramus with no clue as to the back story

In the banking crisis of 2009, Capital Oil was one of the biggest holders of toxic loans owing N100bln to the banks.

The CBN bad debt vehicle AMCON bought the loans to stabilise the banks, and now Capital Oil is unable to meet the finance charge of an obligation he signed, you are bleating like a castrated goat.

Thunder fire anyone who liked or shared the utter peabrained litany of ignorance you typed above.

Is is today that Ifeanyi Ubah became a thief and a 19? How about when he stole N21bln from Cosmas Maduka?

https://www.nairaland.com/1093865/ifeanyi-ubah-fraudster-cosmas-maduka

Meanwhile . . . Chelsea fans react to The Times report that Chelsea are finally ready to sell Oscar. . .

theshadyexpress:
she did not double speak,it was you that just heard what you wished to hear, Every sane mind know who is to blame for lack of savings and if you need a hint just check the zombie cabinet

And you heard what you wanted to hear.

I was following developments in January 2010 when Jonathan used the ECA to bribe Governors to solidify his power base.

Once he opened the honey pot, the bears knew he was a weak President and held him to ransom over the ECA for the rest of his tenure.

It all started with a bribe.

Why didn't the Governors hold OBJ to ransom over the ECA.

A weak President ransomed the future of this country for his personal progress and una dey hear dey yarn opaks. No be today Governors dey disturb OBJ to share that account with them. Jonathan was the first to do it willingly.

If there was any will to save in that reprobate thief, why didn't he save the FG portion of the ECA?

The ECA should hold $180bln in savings today based on official NNPC stats.