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Nihilist:
Nobody said Bertrand failed. The question was did he do enough to warrant a first team spot? It's not it was Jose that refused to make him the first choice LB. Ancelotti and De Matteo also didn't rate him high enough. Neither did Benitez.

And this. . . . he performed more than competently for me. . . .no youngster will warrant a first team spot when Ashley Cole is his competition.

Under RDM and Benitez, Ashley was one of the best in his position.

If Di Matteo did not believe in him, he won't start him in the UCL final.

I always maintained he was a good left back at Chelsea. A solid 7/10 which is all I need from my full-backs. . . .

There is no point arguing whether he was good or not. He has proved it.

I'm sure there is an InterMilan fan somewhere opining that Pirlo, Seedorf and co never did well at Inter, while a Milan fan would be telling his peers that Patrick Vieira did not do enough at Milan. All that one na yarns.

Nihilist:
The Bamford excuse is just an excuse. Their current 9 is Connor Wickham. He definitely isnt a pacy player. Last year it was Glenn Murray no pace there either. The year before it was Marouane Chamakh. By now you get the picture.
Going by FIFA stats, Bamford is faster than most of those strikers. Dwight gayle is even faster than all of them but is also bench fodder. Its NOT pace that is keeping Bamford on the bench bro. It's talent..or more to the point, a lack of it.

How many games has Connor Wickham played this season? - 4 - and not all starts.

How many games has Dwight Gayle played? - 6

Marouane Chamhakh? - 0

Glenn Murray - Sold

Tip for your fantasy team - Bakary Sakho is their no 9 if you missed it.

Besides a counterattacking team needs 2 things - a fast no 9 or a hold-up play specialist like Wickham to hold the ball till wingers join him.

Bamfords main strength is neither of these things.

Nihilist:
Oh please....

Is it Mourinho that is keeping Bamford on the bench at Palace?

And Bertrand is an average Left Back. It's one thing to shine at Southampton who dont have any title aspirations and just want to finish somewhere in the top half. It's another thing to go to each match with the club, fans and manager demanding a win each game.

I agree that in hindsight that we maybe should have kept Bertrand...but as what? He had a few chances under several different mangers but failed to make the spot his own.

A little insight is needed here. . .

1st, Bertrand never failed as a left back at Chelsea. . . . all his left-back performances were solid 7/10. . . . it was as left-midfield that some ninjas got frustrated with him.

2nd, Bamford is "not failing to shine at Palace". It is a bad loan. Palace team is set up for rapid counterattack. Their no 9 must be fast to fit into their tactical system. It is no fault of Bamford, he is just not a tactical fit for Palace.

PietroRico:
Sigh
Sandro and munir, are crappy relative to Solanke and co?
It's OK. Can't make too big a case for them, I don't know any of them well enough ... But I've bookmarked this tho


There's a significant difference between b team and u19 btw

I don't know Sandro and Munir's game. . . . but I do know Barca B got relegated from Liga Adelante last season.

I'm not sure Chelsea reserves would get relegated from Liga Adelante.

Mourinholic:
Alli is from MK Dons, when baker went on loan there.....He was convincingly the best player during his stay.........
Alli has been called up for England,Baker called up for u-23......
We are ruining these boys

Baker wasn't rated over Alli at MK Dons. I was surprised because I rate Baker. Now I know why Alli was rated higher.

ollah1:
Cc thegoodjoe

LMAO!

Bimffo:
Right now, RLC shîts on Dele Alli in all Ramifications! Check how both play. Both are 19. Both are CMs.

Okay, what about if Spurs had bought Dele and Benched him.

And which games is Kennedy playing abeg? RLC has more appearances than him.

And I don't get your Logic. Are You saying, If we want to play Youth, we must buy them and not develop our own??

The difference between Alli and RLC is attitude, work ethic and pace.

At this moment, you cant compare them. Lewis Baker is even more ready and professional than RLC.

Kurt Zouma was also 19 last season and nobody was holding him.

If you know London boys and you know how to read personalities, you will see everything you need to know about RLC. He has a personality that reminds me of Ravel Morrison. His street upbringing and attitudes are more important to him than being a professional.

Roman knows who has done most of the spending, and decided which positions need the spending, most times against Jose's gut instints.

Time to let someone who actually has a tactical brain do the spending.

When Jose took £90m to buy Costa, Matic, Fabregas and Felipe Luis. . . the title was delivered.

When Emenalo spent over £200m, mostly on numerous wingers, na struggle for 4th place we dey do.

In the summer when Jose told the board the team that the team is wack and needs serious reinforcement, the board left the meeting with a resolution that in their opinion, the team is adequately equipped. You can be sure that there are only two football people on the board - Jose and Emenalo, so such conclusion was only drawn from the advice or support of Emenalo.

This was what sparked off Joses erratic behaviour in the summer and led him to be misbehaving all season. It was all rooted in that board resolution.

So one should not be surprised that Roman wants to give Jose time. First of all, he hardly gives Jose leeway in deciding the tactical direction of signings so he may reason that its time to do so. Second of all, he may see this as a chance to end player power at Chelsea, once and for all.

Whether Jose makes it to January is another matter. He is racing against results. Heres hoping he does.

KTBFFH!

Haha. Chill out ninja. No need for the long post. Its all good.

Aiiight ninja. . . whatever. . . just dont jump into issues without understanding background. . . like youve been since you came to this section. . . otherwise you look like a dickryder. . .out.

sinizia:
If you weren't fellating your ninjas anytime they break the same rule you caution Dark about, this section wouldn't be riddled with so much disorderliness.

Like I said, you have zero clue what you are talking about.

Dark has been cautioned a hundred times before you ever set foot in this section not to disturb ninjas threads or abuse them over nothing because it will come back to haunt him and we wont do nothing about it. He refused to listen.

You just landed yesterday, putting mouth in a matter that preceded you and now preaching fairness.

So keep your mouth out of what you know nothing about like the old heads told you.

But no, you are intent on sucking dyck till you choke. There is a reason why what you are doing is called playing Devils advocate. It means you are making a case for the Devil ie someone who deserves no decorum.

Excuse my French but you are chatting absolute bollocks. Do you think those in rap section who allowed Romance section members to troll a fellow rap member are stupid? No, they knew he had it coming.

And as usual, you were the only one there sucking dyck in the middle of romance section to defend him against jungle justice. To the point you offered to travel to Imo State to fight Giyazz over Dark matter. Talk about growing up!

Quit it!

sinizia:
I don't need Emaprince's chat to state my mind, if others can pay blind eye to your hypocrisy, I won't hesitate to call you out on it. They can keep ignoring your hypocrisy, but I won't as long your bring your BS my way.

Quit your born yesterday preaching. A blind man who doesnt know whats going on.

Thats how you opened your big mouth yesterday to claim all battlers fight each other after battles. . . and we asked you to show us which vets fought with each other except your lover.

If there is any decorum or code of behaviour in NL battles, it is the rules that we created over the last 8 years, which your guy has done everything to destroy. Every battle on here would be like 2go otherwise.

If your man was running this section and setting example of how ninjas should behave, it would have collapsed within 1 year, never mind becoming a place where people want to come because they know they can rap and battle in peace. Is it a coincidence that he could not sustain a tournament for 2 weeks?

We are trying to moderate Darks behaviour so we can all have fun here even if it means descending to his level at times. The likes of Sleakid and Illscripts were chased out of here once upon a time to allow reasonable people enjoy their stay on this section. Illscripts now comes back here at peace with everyone. So those textcees I named are not my friends, they are long term members of this section who are just here to have fun with no wahala. They are the life and soul of this section, not your wack @zz who serve no purpose except dropping wack rhymes and dyckriding!

I came here to let ninjas know that you cant battle ninjas who half the section refuse to vote in their battles. Either the ninja moderate his behaviour or no vets will want to battle him, because they dont want headache or for their battles to be decided by wack dickryders like Sinizia.

Quit it!

Sinizia, quit telling us your life story.

You and who dey argue salient points? Do I look like a ninja that pays any attention to your emotion driven yarns? Go and read Emaprinces post in chat section if you are feeling emotional. My only concern in this section is ensuring everyone in this community like Emaprince, Elymaxiimus, Jigsawkillah, Giyazz, Sosiqdude, Mikuz, Krone etc are comfortable and not disenfranchised by certain behaviours of members here. They are the ones who built this community and keep it going, not you. Dont preach to me about rules. Rules are there to protect the community, not to protect one man from the community.

None of the names above voted in this battle, and some claimed they dont feel comfortable to vote because they know what will follow.

Who cares what you are preaching? Do you look like someone I discuss rap with? We only know you as someone who came here to carry another ninjas matter on your head, not to rap anything decent. A ninja that will google almost a full verse to satisfy his emotions!

Keep your opinions on my actions to yourself. I have been on this section for 8 years and interacted with dozens of textcees without having issue with anyone except the one you love, which is what is making you emotional.

Your emotions will not get you into debate with me ninja, much less over technicalities of rap. Like I said "as much as you can", you should try to make your material relateable. I'm not here to argue English with you cos I see emotions behind you.

sinizia:
If there are 2 things I hate in life, they are hypocrisy and someone accusing me falsely. It irks me badly. I've recently known who Bis truly is but I discarded it coz of the respect I have for him as an oldhead on here. Ibime was cautioning Dark about swaying during Coog and Ely's battle, but in Dark's subsequent battles, swaying has gone on with Bis reading them and saying nothing. The one Dark called him out on it, he gave a hilarious excuse as to why he chose not to say anything about. Look at the BS he typed up there in an ongoing brawl, swaying it endlessly, yet he was preaching against swaying and telling me about God not giving him a friend like me, blah blah. As if I'd pray for a hypocritical friend like him. I wonder how people can hate so much online that it clouds their sense of reasoning. I use to think it's only prevalent in the kids we have here but subsequent acts has taught me better. I have never accused Ibime of dickriding Dark's opponent coz of him not giving him the W in his battles, but yet Bis typed those shít to me.


Now take a look at how Bis discarded Dark's punchline simply coz "he didn't understand them." He did the same thing against Coogar vs Ely coz he didn't understand Coog's bars. How can a vet like him discard people's punches instead of googling or asking about the punches will discard people's punches simply coz he didn't understand them? I didn't understand Dark's "Barry Allen. . . Iris" punchline as I don't watch Gotham or Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D series. So what did I do? I googled it and read extensively and found out that Iris which is a part of the eye was Barry Allen's (Flash) GF's name and then saw the beauty and creativity of that punch. That's how you judge a brawl not discard what you don't understand. But he threw away Dark's punches coz "he didn't understand them" yet he has the gall to say I give Dark W all the time like he has given him the W. Well, the deed is done. I pulled out my vote even though it will disadvantage Dark coz while I discarded the accusations of those kids that accused similarly, I couldn't take that from Bis. It has shown me what many people think of my votes when I vote. If the "seemingly" oldheads thinks such way, I'm better off judging upcomers brawl where no one will insult me over a vote that adds nothing significant to my being.

My message was to one man and one man only and that is 007Bruce. He got the message and that is all that matters.

The message is that Darks battles are always divisive because there are few neutrals. People would always be seen as haters or dyckriders if the battle is close. Some people will be tagged haters before the battle starts, and they will tag those who vote for him dickryders.

My point is that battling Dark is a waste of time, energy and unnecessary headache. You either find yourself defending his haters or arguing with his supporters, in the meantime being abused and called names, which is the situation 007Bruce found himself in. And 007Bruce is the most peaceful ninja in this section.

This is the environment the ninja creates!

If I was Dark, all this could be resolved by two easy steps. One, allow everyone vote in your battle and dont complain or curse when your "haters" vote against you. After 1 or 2 battles, they would approach you with a clear mind. At the same time, apologise to Ninjas for past arguments and agree to move on. You would soon see your "haters" voting for you.

All these other long yarns you are yarning inbetween is he say, she say. The clear fact is that all close Darkrebel battles end up in arguments and most other ninjas battle each other cleanly in the spirit of fun.

As far as the niche punches goes, as much as you can, you must appeal to the crowd instantly. Im not committed to anyone here to go googling their lines. Thats why different lines appeal to different people. Dont hit us with line after line of niche punches.

Eg. Obesemfs vas deference line was understood by few people who went deep into their Biology studies, but myself and many others wont get it. URL crowd wont pull out ipad while youre rapping to google your lines. You must really love a nigga emotionally to go googling his every line. A punch is something that lights instant lightbulb in the brain, not something you read and understand slowly. Thats why its called a punch! Its fast and hits you out of nowhere.

There is a reason Coogar gave Bruce the punchlines category. 007Bruce punches connected straight with his head, while Rebels are asking him to go to google.

007Bruce, you are a fool for agreeing to battle Dark. There is a reason Mikuz refused to rematch Dark . . .because it always end in controversy.

This is how a Dark battle goes. About 10 ninjas here would refuse to vote because they wants no wahala and have no time for arguments. The battle will then get votes from Sinizia, Punisher, Ksslib, Coogar, lirycist and co. . . the only ninjas who feel free to vote in his battles. Of those, Sinizia and Punisher would always vote for Dark, so you are starting a 5 voter battle already on -2 votes. The maths doesnt add up.

There are a whole host of ninjas on this section who are either barred from, or refuse to vote in Dark battles. Only a fool would battle Dark knowing they are evenly matched. The only Dark battle that passes smoothly is one where he either wins clearly or is defeated clearly.

Now thats just the honest truth about Darks behaviour and the environment he has created around his battles. Any top vet that agrees to battle him must want unnecessary headache.

Now let me drop my verd. . . . which will be followed by unnecessary headache!!


Opener - Bruce

Rhymes - Dark

Similes/ Metaphors - Dark clearly

Punchlines - Bruce (the soldier line was the super haymaker, a lot of Darks punches were quite niche, dont understand them)

Personals - Bruce

Flow - Bruce

Wordplays - Bruce (using D format allowed Bruce to clear this category)

Closer - Dark



Mvgt- Bruce

ELYMAXiimus:
but u forgot Krone is jeopardy, you’ll be found dead .. . lying on the express/ wait a minute . . .
you forget say Krone na ‘Geo paddy’ . . . you’ll be
found dead . . . lying on the express!!

-- kr0ne.

Hehehe. . .

What of Raplinx wey say Waste African = West African

ELYMAXiimus:
Yeah, but nail son/ nelson .

Dat na build up ninja. . . I threw it in last minute. . . Pique Junior was good to go. I just say make I add nail son.

There is no problem in nail = nel

Son = sun is the only slant there. It would come off in audio!!!

ELYMAXiimus:
Police will soon 'nail son'. . . for tryna 'peek a junior' . . . .like the Formula 1 Brazilian driver!!/ (Nelson Pique Jr)

-- ibime

Pique junior. . . exquisite!

ELYMAXiimus:
philandering paedöphile. . .Uncle borehole/
but if he 'fill his teens' with his funky hormones/

- ibime

Hehehehe. . .feck off ninja. . . you must be pronouncing Philistines like your local pastor for Okokomaiko. . .

Leyqute:
Diego Costa should be arrested for age falsification. That's fraud. How can a 27 y/o look older than my grandfather?

His age is actually correct. . .there or thereabouts

Nihilist:
I think the words 'new' and 'striker' should be somewhere on the shopping list for the transfer window.

Hopefully next to the words 'real' and 'age'

The ninja has always looked old. . .see him at 9 years old and his id card at 16, followed by him at 18/19

Hazard played nice today. . . but I agree with afrocdocs comment.


The purpose of Hazards first dribble is to stop, allow the defender to recover so he can dribble him again, by which time the defence is packed.

I always prefer Hazard on the right wing cos most times he crosses immediately.

afrodoc2:
There are great dribblers who move at pace and leave their markers for dead. Men like Maradona, Ronaldinho, Bruno Conti, Messi e.t.c

Then there are drimblers who drimble around without getting away from their markers e.g Okocha, Wiltord, Vikash Dhorasoo.
Hazard is a drimbler

This is correct

afrodoc2:
And all beef aside Hazard has actually regressed. He dribbles around without actually beating people and entering the box, his shooting is still inconsistent, he tends to waltz his way into blind alleys, his passing under pressure is mediocre AND very crucially he often kills the flow of attacking moves by holding on to the ball for too long and then doing nothing with the ball.

THIS!

lalaboi:
You should see the obvious that i didnt change my team. . .

Due to circumstances beyond by control you will win. Gloat all you want . .Only one team showed up and was given 3 points by default

Dat one no consign me abeg.

You been go forest abi you still dey do NYSC for that Ekiti village wey no get phone connection?

coogar:
it wasn't a penalty at all. there was no contact between butland & remy. remy landed awkwardly and lost his balance. if he had gone down, it woulda been a dive!

That is a pen anyday.

Remy had to jump high hurdles over the goalie which put him off balance.

Most referees call that back and give it.

This was a game of badluck and a poor striker. .

The lads tried. . . but sometimes you just need a change to get rid of badluck. . .

You also need a change to get referees to act impartial. . . without a manager that cries wolf every time, that Remy penalty is given.

I will never say Mourinho out, but whatever happens, Im cool with it. .

Clear pen. . .

Ibime:
Another Ramires brainfart

Make that two.

Phucking semi professional footballer

Another Ramires brainfart

Baba Rahmann coulda done better on the goal also

Unfair scoreline.

Everyones played decent. . . the weaklink is Costa today. . . a better striker sees us comfortable at this stage. . . Traore can do much better.