₦airaland Forum

nateevs:
We don't need any ke? What if something happens to Caicedo?

You are talking to someone who doesn't know the function of a midfielder and thought Bakayoko was a good one

lordfalcao:
this Wharton slow o, I dont think he has the leg to cover enough ground

Wharton is too slow to cover

fredoooooo:
Make dem no sha sign another Rasta again ..fed up with dem Rastas so far ..

Gbam

Unlimited22:
To be honest I don't want them to sign a CM

Make them go find DM

Someone who can sit and allow Moi to roam

They shouldn't have allowed Nico Gonzalez go to Newcastle. It was an easy swap

Rest in peace to Dolly Parton, the only woman to admit another woman was better than her when begging Joleen not to take her man

drisham:
Omo mehn looks like enzo is gone

Cry more

A great development if your assertion is correct

I only wish we collected Nico Gonzalez in exchange

So we are really selling Delap to Forest for £45m?

Football na Yahoo

3 points in the bag. . . .

Bluelines69:
Just call Emi Martinez, he’s done with Villa

Gbam

popizaino:
I say i am loving the new Palmer.

I hope he doesn't return to old Maresca settings.

Everybody knows Palmer had a chronic groin injury last season

Only someine who has never had a groin injury before will not know the impact of that injury on your game

Die unnecessary Maresca agenda

Rogeeeeerssss

When we complain about 3 ATB, they will think it's just about formation

It's about the whole summer transfer window and club direction

3 ATB is what will make someone enter season with Caicedo as his only reliable midfielder while signing 3 defenders and not have urgency to fix midfield

Then when you need midfielders, them no dey

We scored in 1 minute, dem dey shout 3 ATB done right

As if na formation go cause goal to be scored in few seconds

Calibrator:
You will soon be asked if GW1 BB is a wise choice by our resident BBC correspondent shortly.

That's why he is a paper tiger

While he is now wasting transfer to get a playing 2nd keeper and 3rd substitute, I'm moving on to the heavy hitters

31 points on my bench boost. . . . my most successful use of the chip ever

Villa down to ten men

They should try and leave Brighton with less than 5-0 please

Be like Aston Villa remaining players done down tools

Bluelines69:
Why Tielemans heavy like this

Tielemans has always been slow

Tielemans chasing runners after Bruno has lost the ball with a Hollywood pass go too stress their midfield

Even their partner Andrey Santos is too slow to cover both of them

Havertz grew taller which made him struggle as a midfielder

We suppose strip and flog Swiz123 and make him do the dance challenge

Emery admits Watkins could leave by deadline. That means Nico Jackson is on the move

izzou:
How come those who asked questions before her used "Sir"?

Was it a different policy they read?

Tony Elumelu is not a colleague of that young lady, but is a Non-Executive board member.

There is difference between Appointment and Employment. He is not necessarily bound by policy.

Sportsweb:
Delulu.

João Pedro outscored Kai Havertz as striker

Cole Palmer also outscored his best output at Chelsea (even when Kai was starting as striker.

Cart your Havertz agenda comot here.

You think we don't know you and Jude + one other were the 5 leprous fingers that year..

It's like you don't know the clown you are talking to

Rarre:
FPL nor wan let me enjoy my fa cup debut. I'm facing ipukulu FC and man has already used his Bench Boost in GW1

Ching, Ching, we getting points over here!

White, Calafiori, Havertz, we eating good

drisham:
Xabi Alonso says he wants to play Enzo deep in midfield


I kind of prefer box crashing Enzo

Good

Enzo does not have legs to boxcrash and do normal midfield duties

Sowore was right

Davido met Nyesom Wike in Abuja and started bragging that he defeated APC all by himself 😂😭

Wike quickly humbled him, saying he would collect the certificate back. Davido immediately folded 😂😭 pic.twitter.com/p2xvADw7Ry

— SKB (@seyikanbai) August 20, 2026

izzou:
How will the debt of 4000 be financed?

We stopped Subsidy to free up some debt (I agree with this), and then in 3 years, we plunged ourselves into a debt of almost 3 times that of subsidy.

So a debt of 1000 is crucial to be stopped, but a debt of 4000 isn't?

Atiku has now stated that he would add subsidy back. If you can borrow 4000, is it the 1000 that was the problem?

Anyone who thinks subsidy has ended needs a konk on the head

There is no way Nigerians are paying $0.60 per litre and it's not subsidised

Subsidy is larger now than it was before Tinubu

While the intention was indeed to end subsidy, where the Naira landed after devaluation meant that subsidy was continued.

Without subsidy, the cost of one litre of petrol would be N2,000 at minimum

Odumodu deep voice dey disguise Grade 1 simp. The wages of simp is tears.

Newcastle working on deal for Nico Gonzalez. Someone we should be including in Enzo swap deal

TemporaryHansel:
Nigerians love making messiah's out of people who they think oppose the current government.
If davido's uncle defect to APC today, davido will 100% start singing APC and Tinubu praises.

No matter what anyone says on the surface at first, self preservation remains the ultimate goal.

Just like Wike used to be the anti APC Messiah

GloriousGbola:
My point is Arday would not have gotten as far as he did if Cambridge mgt were not pushing for and focusing on meeting an unrealistic DEI target.

The target is not unrealistic. We plenty wey brilliant. The problem is they are looking for stories and narratives (box ticking) over brilliance.

One thing I've always known is Salomon Kalou was the best penalty taker at Chelsea

Now Makelele has confirmed hat JT stole Kalous penalty in the 2008 final

Makelele claims John Terry took Kalou’s penalty in the 2008 UCL final: “He could have TWO Champions Leagues now.” 😳

Rio: “You sounded a little bit frustrated about the penalty situation. Just explain that. What was you getting?”

Makelele: “No, because many times we talk about this. The young boy, Kalou, when the penalties are coming, I'm always putting my boots out.”

Rio: “Were you scared? Are you scared?”

Makelele: “Of course I'm scared.”

Rio: “You don't want to take it?”

Makelele: “Never.”

Rio: “Wow.”

Makelele: “Never. See, the last minute everybody passes. I have no choice, I'm going. But never, never. And the one I tell you is the story.”

Rio: “What was the story?”

Makelele: “It was Kalou's turn, but Johnny took his ball.”

Rio: “Oh, so John Terry took the penalty instead of Kalou to win the game?”

Makelele: “Exactly. But he's in a good way. But the way I'm saying, John, he can have two Champions Leagues now.”

Rio: “To this day?”

Makelele: “Because Kalou was the best penalty taker at this time at Chelsea.”

Rio: “Was he? Wow. So why at that time didn't you say something?”

Makelele: “No, I knew this later, because in the game, if I knew this, of course I would tell John, leave him, let Kalou take the ball. But you're concentrating, frustrated, we're at penalties, I'm focused on different things and it happens. But of course, he's my teammate.”

"To be a Black person in elite institutions, and particularly in elite academia, is to have the standards simultaneously set too low and too high: too low because only a Black person with Arday’s dubious qualifications and seemingly invented biography could have been elevated to the top of the mountain in academia and publishing; and too high because only a Black person could have been pushed off that mountain with such nakedly racist enthusiasm, his tumbling fall so ruthlessly documented, analyzed, and cheered. When a famous white man errs, people tend to rightly understand his mistakes or transgressions as an individual’s missteps. When a famous Black man does, the errors are typically turned into spectacle, characterized as proof of the inferiority, suspected all along, of his race.

Around the same time yesterday afternoon that I learned of Arday’s fate, I came across another piece of news: an announcement that Ross Barkan, a white novelist and journalist, had just been dropped by New York magazine after the publication—having investigated allegations regarding dozens of instances of plagiarism in Barkan’s writing—concluded that his work “did not live up to our editorial standards.” Swiftly afterward, Barkan announced that he would now focus on writing a new column at The Nation, another venerable outlet, where he will get a very public second chance.

It is impossible to know what is in someone’s head or heart in their final moments. I have to imagine, though, that Arday understood well enough the world he had entered and how its rules tend to work: When you are Black, some people will open the door for you far wider than they should. And when that door abruptly comes swinging shut, you will be offered no second chances."

Tyler Austin Harper in the Atlantic

READ: The Truths That Failed Jason Arday

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/08/jason-arday-cambridge-professor-death/688304/?gift=v-0hjcKeTUtA3JJp7LeBdLutCSe0xZNnAy0pVoRtVjg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share