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No mind Torres jare.

He's just sealed his death warrant at Chelsea.

I guess Iniesta, Pedro and such are also too old and slow that's why he's an absolute liability for Spain.

I agree that the build-up is slow and ponderous, however any waste of space who criticise teammates is just useless. Torres can't stretch and defence, he can't come short to receive the ball. The guy is an absolute liability. I hope his agent is looking hard sha.

@ Nateevs,

Abi you never play footie before?

If you're central midfielder is running into space, what are your wingers and full-back supposed to do - enter midfield and pass to him?

Midfielders are supposed to move toward the ball whilst wingers and fullbacks move off it. Shebi Ballack and Makelele used to run into space or toward the ball? Even Lampard who likes making late runs into the box recognise his primary function is to be in the thick of the midfield whilst Ramires keep running into space that nobody asked him to run into.

You call it running into space, I call it running away from his responsibility. How many of his runs into space have been fruitful? Shebi Meireles was "running into space" or was he getting busy building attacks and delivering the kind of pass that Sturridge can capitalise on?

Ramires simple has no confidence in his ability to trap a ball and play a simple pass, that's why he is always running headlessly away from the ball or as I call it "hiding" on the pitch.

Why those people wey no qualify for Europe last season want enter Europe.

Even Mukina sef wey carry last dey try enter Europe. Una no get self-respect? This game has no rules

^^How can someone who just broke into the team be inconsistent. The ninjas been brilliant since the second half of last season, and carried on into this season. He started his career very slowly but he is blossoming into a real prospect.

Mehn, this Junior Hoillet boy is something else. These are the kinda young ninjas we should be looking to purchase.

I waz tempted to delete ma team but then I saw TBOOGIE, Kokomaster and Feasy 11 behind me with Galacticos and Mubz in close proximity. Take heart ma fellow musketeers for we will soon rise again!

They can't keep our name out of their mouth. What is it about the Ijaw that makes the neighbours go ballistic?

Ownership of riverine areas would always be contentious because any family can hop into a canoe, row to an uninhabited island (surrounded by people from other tribes) and settle it confering ownership on their tribe. It is impossible to delineate any of Ijaws borders. Even within Kalabari areas and Bayelsa state, we have people from upland Igboid areas.

If I find myself more than 80 points behind the leader after this week, Ill delete my team from FPL. Ipukulu Marines don't just play to compete, we are either compting for the title or we fuhgittaboutit!

@ Debo,

My problem with Ramires is his position on the pitch. Its all good being able to track opponents which he does well, but in Chelsea, the tracking should be done by the DM not the CM. If Ramires had the body frame and composure and passing to play DM, then all well and good. But his tendency to run with the ball as his first move rules him out from playing DM as he always gives possession away and you can't have someone constantly giving away possession in your own half.

As far as I am concerned, Ramires is a waste of an attacking space. When we're playing Stoke and Norwich, that's when we need our CM to step up into the opponents half and keep the passing moving, however you give the ball to Ramires and he kills the momentum of the move instantly. He will either underhit or overhit the pass, causing you to lose precious milliseconds needed to exploit space. When he is needed to pass the ball to, you will see him running away from the ball. Infact, Ramires can only be useful to me if he can play DM. Our CMs are not needed to track players with speed, they are only needed to press the opponent ala Ballack and step up into the opponents half to make a contribution when needed.

@ Nateevs,

Torres playing with Danny would not help his cause. Danny is not a player to bring the best out of teammates. Only Mata and Anelka can help Torres and so far, Torres cannot do shishi with Anelka.

Forget about Torres, whether the guy scores one or two goals or not, he is a tactical liability, a lightwieght who gets bullied off the ball, gives possession off too easily and someone who doesn't add anything to the midfielders around him. He neither offers for the short ball nor does he have movement (ala Chicarito) to stretch the opponents backline to create space for others.

I don't mind having players in the team who struggle. The likes of Malouda, Anelka and Kalou struggle at-times, but they never compromise the style of play or put their teammates under pressure. Even if DD doesn't score for 50 games, he doesn't put his team under pressure and serves as a decent focal point (except those times when his fitness is low and his touch is awful). With Torres however, you have midfielders and wingers running off him and he just gives the ball away cheaply and weakly, putting his team under pressure and in AVB's words "compromising the team". There are only two nigguhs in Chelsea today who compromise the style of play of the team and that is Torres and Ramires, the two biggest CANCERS in the team. No matter how bad Kalou plays, I know the team still retains its shape and attacking intent, but whenever I see Torres and Ramires on the team sheet, I get HBP!

Since Ramires replaced Ballack, my team is no longer recognisable.

^^ Wilson Palacios is the best marker in the Prem and his passing and midfield play is 10 times better than Ramires, yet Palacios passing and midfield play wasn't good enough for Spurs.

@ Debo,

Torres and Ramires are the biggest cancers in Chelsea.

Ramires still thinks he's playing for Brazil where his job is as a "false midfielder" whose main function is to cover the runs of Dani Alves/ Maicon.

When you analyse anything that makes midfield play, the dude is seriously deficient.

(a.) He hides during the game, never involved in the play

(b.) Soon as he get the ball, he blindly runs into his opponent. The instinct to run as soon as you get the ball is the instinct of a full-back. Ramires used to be a right-back, and IMO he has never been a midfielder. The first instinct of a midfielder is to trap the ball, shift his feet and lift his head up to look for a teammate, but NO, as soon as Ramires get the ball, he immediately hits it into space to start running, usually running into an opponent who would disposses him. This tendency of Ramires is the main reason he can never play as a defensive midfielder because DMs cannot afford to run with the ball. Even if all our DMs are injured, you would see Ivanovic and Luiz playing DM before Ramires. Even Meireles has to play DM because Ramires is simply a liability in that position.

Need his pace for what?

What central midfielder is used for his pace? If he wants to use his pace, he should go play right-back.

Chelsea fans talk a lot of nonsense on this board.

Ramires is the worst central midfielder to play for Chelsea since Eddie Newton.

Why does Ramsey usually shine for Wales but look useless for Arsenal?

Lesson learned: Always stick to your long term team, and stick to form.

Quote from Nateevs:

vs:
Scare at the end. Poorest last 20mins. Very indicative that the supposed depth we have is garbage. Mata and Danny get injured and we are back to Chelsea of last season.


This is more due to change of shape. The substitutions left us completely shapeless rather than the choice of players. You go from a front three of:

Studge

Mata. Anelka

Lamps. Ramires

Meireles

To:


Torres

Malouda

Lamps. Romeu. Ramires

Meireles

Is simply a loss of shape rather than a judgement on the subs. Where you had Mata and Anelka on the wings, you now have central-tending Malouda and Ramires on the wings. Its even unfair on Torres cos that is not the kind of wing-support he would need to ginger his confidence.

Why SAF dey like wicked Da Silva twins?

At least Nasri don cop assist sha. But na Aguero dey pain me sha.

Toba done run?

Mario, Carry Go-Mez jor!

The only issue I need AVB to solve is the Ramires issue, but at least with guys like Mata around, and with the quicker passing of Meireles (as opposed to Mikel's snailpace passing which give opponents too much time to organise themselves), Ramires utter hopelessness is less of a problem.

Sturrrriiiiiiidge!!!!

AVB is a wise man for recognising that Anelka is still very useful for Chelsea and for noting that Meireles is the best DM at the club and is a vital body needed for both DM, CM and AM given the fact that (as far as I'm concerned), Lamps is the only Chelsea midfielder since Ramires is rubbish, Mikel is too slow, Essien perenially injured and old and despite all the overenthusiastic misyarns by pederasts on Chelsea thread recently, McEachran is not near close to being a first team player for a League chasing team, whilst Romeu is as yet untested.

Why should Lamps be doing 15 mins when his fitness is high? Wetin concern Chelsea with England. Lamps is a distraction for England cos guys like Rooney and Young can play his role a lot better. As for Chelsea, Lamps is still untouchable as long as Ramires is the only alternative.

Ramires always running away from the ball? Diggz just spoke my mind since we signed that nigguh. Always running away from the ball and "hiding" on the pitch.

Goal JT!

^^The weekend from hell!

I knew today would be Agueros day but I couldn't find the cash to cop him so I settled for Dzeko instead whilst Nasri also fall my hand.

Sanusi's friend Mukhtar would not be happy with these revelations.

Once again, the cable confirms that SLS is an upstanding leader, however, as Gbawe pointed out, Nigerian officials should not be spilling the beans to Yankee Ambassadors. Too much enmity between Naija officials so I guess things fall apart when the centre cannot hold.

GEJ has been in power since February 2010, making that 18 months of doing nothing at all except bribing the whole nation.

^^^ My friend shaaaarrraaaaaaaaaap!

Stick needles in your eyes if you can't handle the yanks opinions about the grossly ineffective and corrupt Governor from Bsayelsa State!

Retardeen Jonathief Odechukwu.

Pls tell that to Deborah, a preacher of the Merte-sack-her doctrine over the last 3 years due to his limited knowledge of footie.

Only those of a putative primordial predilection to mediocrity would eschew the verve and panache with which the esteemed and peerless Patrick Obahiagbon aka Igomigodo delivered his magniloquent, lexiphanic sermons and sardonically and jocularly excoriated political adversaries through his mastery of the most passe entries in Samuel Johnson's thesaurus. Unlike his peers who have been consigned to oblivion, Obahiagbon was infinitely amenable to the hoi poloi of the 4th Republic whether regaling listeners with tales of his ravenous consumption of literature, railing against the "sardonic lugubrious state of disma pisma" in the nation, or rendering "apologia" to the Representative caucus.

Needless to say, the proliferation of the English language as the primary means of communication amongst the South-South tribes of Nigeria who lie outside the Wa-Zo-Bia triumvirate of peoples who still communicate chiefly through their native dialect has spawned a lot of quirksome cerebral characters in the lower Niger such as Jakumo and Aribisala who specialise in fantasmagorical deployment of verbose vocabulary, and I, Ibime, Amanyanabo of Wakirike Kingdom am proud to be even considered within such elevated company.

The quixotical musings of the venerable gentleman called Jakumo is laden with a cornucopia of verbose grammatical gems whose sole purpose is to obfuscate the message with an avalanche of indecipherable lexicon, in a manner which is congruous with the ethos promulgated by the avuncular Obahiagbon, whose verbal dexterity resonated so perspisaciously through the cacophany of uneventful jargon generated in the lower House of Assembly.

The mestasasis of copycats proliferating the world wide web with lame attempts to copy the inimicable and intransmutable form of expressionism espoused by Patrick Obahoiagbon has assumed critical mass, however I believe a  juxtaposition of Jakumo's prose against Obahiagbons would show any discerning reader that both characters are eiusdem generis. Onus probandi now lies on the honourable Jakumo to show that he is not Mr Obahiagbon as the eery similarity of both writers seems to suggest that Jakumo is simply the Nairaland nom de guerre for Mr Obahiagbon.

When they said Gunnerz are dumb villagers, I thought they were joking.

Dgunnaz just put in his bid for the greatest GUFFANTI of all time. Kai!

mykali:
same here bro . . .14points

Liars are now populating the FPL thread trying to entice us to make transfers and waste points. 14 is not divisible by 4. I wonder who Michael is trying to fool with that yarns. 

[quote author=aloy-emeka link=topic=751894.msg9079882#msg9079882 date=1315184362]Yessssssss

OBJ embarked on ethnic cleansing of the Yorubas using Al Mustapha & sgt Rogers-----Abacha didn't do such evil.

OBJ tried to succeed himself to the point he was carried out of Aso Rock on a stretcher----------------------------Abacha never did such thing

OBJ murdered Olu Onagoruwa's son, shot Alex Ibru, Kudirat Abiola-----Abacha protected Nigerians from death

OBJ imported proostitutes from around the world at the cost of $1M/day at tax payers expense---Abacha only prayed at the mosque.

OBJ imported over 1000 marabouts from around the world at tax payers expense----Abacha only belived that Allah will protect him.

What shall we do to this evil man called OBJ? [/quote]OBJ killed Marshall Harry and Bola Ige and carried out ethnic cleansing of 10,000 people in Odi so whats your point?

OBJ is as evil as any that came before him.