₦airaland Forum

The signing of Thibault Courtis for large sums only to loan him out for "3 years" is another questionable transfer policy. Cech would be playing for the next 10 years so I dont see how this boy would get a chance. What we should be concentrating on is getting an able deputy for Cech not a replacement.

BTW Nateevs, did Slobodan Rajkovic get his work permit yet, and is he ready for the first team?

FG need not release funds for Lagos lack of proper drainage. It is not an ecological disaster nor is it a natural disaster, simply a lack of proper drainage.

Bayelsa should also ask for funds cos they stay "flooded" by natural causes all year round. Hehehe

Nigerian politicians have never lived on their salary so why the raised eyebrows. Even Jonathans 31 year old protege in PH makes more than $2m monthly feeding off his connection, much less GEJ himself.

The answer for Nigeria.

First off, I doubt the accuracy of the figure.

Second off, a lot of posters are asking ridiculous questions. Who told y'all that Imports have anything to do with National budget? The National budget is only about N4.7 trillion. When a country is said to import certain amount, it refers to the citizens of the country importing stuuf (Dangote et al).

I would expect our imports to exceed our National budget ($27bln) and our oil income (which is roughly equal to the budget), but the only reason I doubt the figure is that it is higher than the GDP ($300 bln) which is the combined worth of the whole country.

Odechukwu ratified this minimum wage malarkey before elections knowing fully well we can't afford it. Another example of the wishy-washy character of Odechukwu, a man who makes a million promises to placate people, yet with no plan to implement. Odechukwu would borrow billions from World Bank next year just for overheads. Yet the elephant in the room (corruption) which hampers every single attempt at budget implementation.

Nigerians!

Nuff said!

debosky:
Don't y'all know Ibime's analysis is more watery than a bowl of peppersoup?

I know say hungry man peppersoup is always watery, but my peppersoup is always full of "activity". You cant touch the bottom of my pot of peppersoup due to interference from stockfish, kpomo, cowfoot and goatmeat.

@ Nateevs,

Im happy we didnt sign Neymar after watching this Copa. A friend of mine who lives and works in the footie industry reckons Robinho is even better than him. Im not saying he cant fulfill his potential, but check this out:


By the way, I believe he can still shine in Spain but would struggle in England. . .



Copa America flop proves that Santos star Neymar is not ready for Real Madrid or Barcelona


Neymar is regarded as one of world football’s great emerging talents, with Barcelona and Real Madrid in the midst of a war over the player’s services, according to the 19-year-old’s agent. But after Brazil’s elimination from the Copa America, now is not the right time for the attacking prodigy to undertake his big move to Europe.

During the tournament in Argentina, he displayed youthful naivety. Showing a desire to be the main attraction, the Santos man too often made the wrong decision at crucial moments, selecting egotism over altruism to the detriment of his side.


In this uncomfortable mix, Neymar showcased glimpses of genuine and undoubted class, but these were clouded by the numerous occasions in which he squandered possession or flopped meekly to the ground seeking a free kick, allowing pressure to unnecessarily be released on his opponents and failing to endear him to an already hostile Argentine crowd.

"There is no doubting Neymar's talent, and seeing him with the ball at his feet is at times a real joy when he leaves a marker standing. The Copa America confirmed, however, that he is still not ready for the weekly clashes and tussles of European football. I trust that Neymar could one day become one of the world's premier players, but it is imperative that he continues his football apprenticeship in Santos and does not get his head turned by the tempting calls from Europe."

At either of the Spanish giants, such a mentality cannot be considered healthy in a player so young. Anything less than victory in each game Barcelona and Real Madrid play is not sufficient, and Neymar’s propensity to make the incorrect call means that he would need only be a liability on a handful of occasions over the course of the campaign to damage his side.

Even at this early point in his career, it is clear that he is an individual who needs to be the centre of attention. His style on the field, and off it, is flashy, and to be relegated to the role of bit-part player would be a sobering experience indeed for a man used to the spotlight since bursting onto the scene in 2009.

If he were to join Jose Mourinho’s side; who could he displace in the first team? Already the artillery at the Bernabeu is impressive, with Cristiano Ronaldo, Gonzalo Higuain, Karim Benzema, Angel di Maria, Kaka and Mesut Ozil vying for a variety of attacking spots – and these six are simply the tip of the iceberg.

Neymar is not presently as reliable as any of these players, and even if he jumped ahead in the pecking order of the seemingly exit-bound Sergio Canales, would a handful of appearances over the course of a campaign really benefit his career? Of course not.

The price tag and reputation of Neymar would demand greater usage than the Spaniard, but he would equally require some shoehorning in by the Portuguese coach.

Barcelona might be a better option in terms of game time, as the Catalans don’t boast such depth in their squad as the La Liga runners-up, but in terms of style, Neymar would have to show the malleability to transform his self-centred game into the team-based approach that is now so synonymous with the Camp Nou outfit.

As yet, there has been little evidence to suggest that the teenager is capable of doing that. When his international colleagues needed him most against Paraguay, he persistently chose the wrong option, surely leaving doubts in the minds of Barca scouts, who know full well the value of having an attacker who can be trusted to pick the best alternative in a tight fixture.

A distinction has to be drawn between a world class player and one who has world class potential; at present Neymar falls into the second category.

Already used to taking centre stage, having played the best part of 150 senior fixtures, Neymar’s position cannot be compared to that of Cristiano Ronaldo, who was another attacker criticised early in his career for being too greedy. When Ronaldo made his big jump to Manchester United, he had barely played 20 league games for Sporting Lisbon over the course of two seasons and he did not possess the same self-confident personality, at that time, as Neymar.

The young Brazilian will have to find his own way to the top of the game, but having established himself as one to watch early in his career means that taking a shortcut to the top will be tricky, as he is still someway short of an elite footballer. Instead, more time with Santos would appear to be advisable, and perhaps this time next year he’ll be in a better position to consider one of Europe’s very best clubs.

C'mon mehn, why should I have to explain to a grown man the meaning of "tongue-in-cheek"?

coogar:
passing it is not the greatest attribute of a defender. . . .the tackles, the physicality and the reading of the game(positioning) is the key!

So whats your point? I said he is a great defender but his passing is too piss-poor to play midfield after Montelik suggested he could play DM.

coogar:
oh shut your dirty traps. . .smalling is better than david luiz, alex, ivanovic and john terry cloned together. where do you get lethargic statistics from.
in 09/10, smalling completed 216 out of his 293 passes. in 10/11, he completed 369/470 passes. i guess the ones he completed were passed to ghosts and not his team-mates.

Thats a 78% completion rate as compared to Vidic, Rio and Evra who all scored in the mid-to-high 80's. Second of all, Smalling does not pass to anyone other than his fellow defenders with no pressure on the ball unlike Vidic, Rio and other class defenders who step up into midfield with risque passes. The stats you have just provided prove my assertion that Smalling is a piss-poor passer.

You can compare that with 88.4% for John Terry, 93.1% for Alex, 82% for Ivanovic and 86% for Ashley Cole. Truly, Smalling is a "semi-professional" passer of the ball especially as he never makes any other pass except to the closest defender. . . or hoofs the ball out of play.

http://www.thechels.co.uk/keeping-the-ball-pass-completion-201011/


Read this:


Giggs also offered United a calm, reliable passing route out of defence – something they desperately needed, with neither Nemanja Vidic nor Chris Smalling having a good game with the ball at their feet. Ferguson has been impressed with the way Smalling has deputised for Rio Ferdinand in recent weeks, but while his defensive work has been excellent, he has a long way to go before becoming as assured in possession as the former England captain. Smalling played too many wayward, ambitious passes when under little pressure at Upton Park, and ended the game with a 62% pass completion rate – the last time Ferdinand played a Premier League game, against Aston Villa, his was 83%.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/apr/04/premier-league-chalkboard-analysis

chamotex:
The same Ibime that lived in Woolwich for many years?

My lawyers are gonna sue you for libel. . .

Pastor Adeboye is a bastard and a cretin, a charlatan who sells the candidacy of thieves and oligarchs to the Southern Christian proletariat.

What kind of dark-ages mentality would prompt a man of dog to ask for prayers for a road which has already had 3 failed budget allocations and is now being put up to tender to be financed by the private sector by a thief with a long history of fraud, incompetence and debt-default? BTW, the Lagos Government has never had any problem getting the Private sector to finance its infrastructure projects, but nobody trusts the rotten PDP Govt with their money. Why should straightforward engineering projects be shoehorned into the realm of religion whilst the bovine-brained congregation are coerced into believing that "spiritual forces" are behind the incompetence of Government officials as they cart away the nations wealth through the back door? How many prayers were said in the Developed World for them to build their bridges, roads and infrastructure?

Instead of the conniving man of dog to call leaders to account, he habitually serves as an image-launderer for these thieves and murderers. It is no surprise that some of the biggest thieves worship with him and some even take shepherdry of his flock (Akingbola). If a true revolution was carried out today, the man of dog called Adeboye would not escape the hangman's noose.

duduspace:
Just checked actually, they are not too high brow areas but they are far from my place of work jare, remember though, we don't earn as much up North as you people down south o, if yu're earning 30k here, yu'll likely be between 35 and 37 down south and you get enof to spend it on as well  . Up north we dey try achieve greatness like Arsene but e be like say you people in the south had greatness thrust upon you like Arab money?  I'll consider your advice sha, I've got only a 6 month lease but I'm sure I'll be too lazy to move by then. Shey na Didsbury dey near Manchester Uni abi na the other one? I still dey try manage Salford Uni babes here but I'll go with the flow sha.

Well MMU has a campus in Didsbury, but its about 30 minute walk from Fallowfield where the main campuses are for MU and MMU. Sharon/Coogar can brief you better on the intricacies of scoring with Fallowfield chicks.

Its good to have a Didsbury address, all the actors and actresses live there but poor man fit get decent priced place in such high-end neighbourhood too. For example Fog Lane is in Didsbury, but house prices there are not far from Salford prices.

duduspace:
Chei see alakoba o, Naija people and our elitist wahala sha. Me wey be illegal alien make I go dey stay for where moneybags dey? why yu sef nor dey go live for chelsea for london? Abeg na where head put person, person dey stay o. Person wey dey stay Warrington sef dey claim manchester.  
I like my Salford jare, close to work so I can cycle or stroll to the office jeje. Infact na Salford surburb I dey sef nor be inner o. 

How you use know say I no dey live for Chelsea?

BTW, Ive got friends in East Didsbury. . . you dey complain say rent dey high but rent for Didsbury is lower than rent in the most Ghetto area of London. Ask Chamotex how much rent he pays in Woolwich. If rent in Didsbury is too much for you, then you may have to sell your grandmother to live in common Woolwich.  

duduspace:
Na there I dey o, I don follow kolitos advice comot for bushy preston, come dey manage the babes for Salford 

See your mouth like Salford. You for kuku upgrade levels go Didsbury or Whithington area. Preston to Salford na sideways step.  

@ OP,

You be very useless guy. After 9 years, you no fit marry the woman, come here dey complain say she dey fat. Maybe she dey fat cos she no send you again sef cos you useless no be small.

Na so ninjas just dey waste woman life. If you know say you no like woman from start, you for end relationship, not keep someone hanging on for 9 years just to satisfy your needs.

@ Ekt bear,

Germany are not laissez faire capitalists due to the need to integrate East Germany into the country. Whilst Britain was downgrading its manufacturing sector and focusing on "service economy", Germany was upgrading their manufacturing sector in order to provide enough employment to account for the East Germans. Germany is no longer price-competitive with regard to Labour so they focus on high-end manufacturing which needs an advanced skill base, similar to the way Taiwan re-engineered their economy to highly advanced manufacturing.

@ Pifa,

You can read here:

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/1579643/

Some start as low as 15k so that documentary (Michael Moore, hehehe) was telling the truth, although obviously, pay can rise to close to $100k over the years.

@ Topic/Ajanlekoko,

I get pissed off when people talk in absolute terms about ideologies as being superior. I'm of the Perronist school of thought when he said "If it suits Argentina to go right, we go right, and if it suits us to go left, we go left".

@ the OP complaining about Airline pilots pay, I was in Cuba 2 months ago where I found that doctors earn $25 per month. Perhaps you would prefer that. At the same time, nobody goes hungry or homeless or "education-less" in the country unlike similar countries such as El-Salvador, Honduras etc.

I like the European model very much, especially Germany, Britain etc. The Scandinavian model may not work if they had a very large population.

Airline pilots in Yankee do earn a pittance. I watched one documentary where this pilot was getting something like $20,000 pa and supplementing her income by working at Walmarts.

There is no perfect ideology, whether Capitalism or Socialism. Most perfect societies run a mixed economy.

Mehn, I'm so happy for these Japanese girls. . .

Nna men, Coogar drop that noise. . . from what Ive heard of all the tracks, and what Ive read from the reviews, Nickle9 outshone Eminem on the album, although Eminem also killed it.

Feeling this a lot. . .

According to Montelik: Smalling can adapt to defensive midfield.

Please don't do the abilities needed for midfield a disservice. Smalling is a semi-professional footballer with amazing physical superiority and good tackling and reading of the game, but he is the worst passer in the top two divisions (Premier League and Championship). I've been watching Smalling closely, and I don't think he has ever completed a pass to a team-mate in his career. Even at the Under 21s, all he does is hoof the ball upfront.

Smalling ko! Midfield ni! Wetin concern fish with raincoat?

nateevs:
I wonder why many Chelsea players hold this view. Anelka is one of Chelsea's best players. You just need to know how to use him.

You dey mind them? A lot of troglodytes with zilch knowledge talking a lot of shyte on this thread these days. The only issue hanging over Anelkas head as regards his future at Chelsea is his contract expiry next summer and the decision on whether to give him a high paid contract into his old age. Other than that, based on pure ability, Anelka is one of the key members of the team.

The three players of most concern to me are Ferreira, Bosingwa and Zhirkov (injury seems to have turned him into a shadow). Apart from that everyone else is ready for the new season. In a perfect world, I would question Ramires and Torres but given the huge financial outlay, I would stick with them one more season. Ramires specialty seems to be in the Brazil set-up where he plays a perfect role by covering the forward runs of Dani Alves/Maicon, but we dont have such role for him at Chelsea. My main gripe with him is that I dislike central midfielders whose first urge is to run with the ball (often into trouble) instead of first assessing his passing options.

Other than that, the only issue we have is long term replacement of older players and grooming replacements slowly, but as concerns the immediate season about to start, I am confident in their ability to compete for the title. As I said earlier, this same team would have easily won the Prem if not for the Nov - Jan implosion that we always see under Ancelotti, and perhaps if not for the destabilising effect of Wilkins sacking.

Calm down guys. AVB knows. With or without signings, we can still win the league. If not for Ancelottis famous November - January collapses, we woulda comfortably won the league last season.

One more thing to add. . .

I'm glad the Lukaku deal is dead in the water. That was an Abramovic deal which he was trying to push through with no concern as to the overabundance of strikers we have at the club.

Likewise Falcao. Both he and Lukaku are good players, but they are not wise "signings" as we cannot even accomodate the strikers we already have.

I expect AVB to enter the market for one more wing-forward.

Word from the Wycombe match is that Anelka and Torres looked very sharp together. Word from inside sources is also that Torres maybe first choice next season.

Sumptuous goal from Benayoun! He always had the coolest head in the penalty box unlike others who blast shot first time.

Regarding Anelka, except the powers higher up consider its the best time to sell him with one year left on his contract, I think he is a Villas-Boas style of player. AVB liked playing 3 forwards at Porto with Hulk on the right wing. He really played his three forwards high up the pitch ala Ancelotti style. Unless Chelsea buy some winger/forwards this summer, Anelka and (but less-so) Malouda are the only guys who fit in to AVB' tactical set-up. . .although word on the training ground is that Chelsea coaches think Kakuta can score as many as Malouda and Anelka.

Good to see Di Matteo back! His Chelsea career was cut short by injury. I don't think he did much after the 2000 FA Cup due to a niggling injury that lasted 2 years till his retirement.

Scott Parker? He's done well at West Ham. I just hope he won't catch the blues again like last time where he put himself under too much pressure to live up to replacing Makelele. Speaking of Makelele, did he get that job at Chelsea? That's my favourite Chelsea player of all time, closely followed by Lampard and Gus Poyet.

Jerome Boateng was by far the best centre back at Euro U-21 in 2009. Playing at right and left back has led to some missing the point - that the boy has the potential to be a very good centre-back. I thing Bayern have done a good deal, proviso they paid the same amount as Citeh paid Hamburg, not the £20m City were quoting.

^^ Don't get worked up till it becomes official.

This Modric saga is peessing me off. I'm not saying Modric is not good, but I prefer players who deal in HARD CURRENCY. My Spurs mate told me he would bite Chelseas hand off when we offered £22m. He said Modric only looks good doing things that make up for his lack of size. Modric would have to quickly dribble a player to get away from a tight situation whereas a bigger player would not be in that situation anyway cos he would use his body to shield the ball. In other words, he was saying that some of the flashy things Modric does add little to the team in general.

The one hope though is That Modric reproduces the goal-scoring form he had in Croatian league where he was quite prolific.

Did someone say Koscielny has good concentration? If so, tell him to stop making silly lunges all the time. Every tackle looks like it could end up in a penalty for the opposition. The only thing Koscielny is good at is pressing high up the pitch, snapping at the ankles of whoever tries to dribble him on the ground. Anything in the air or in the penalty box, he becomes a liability.

BTW, I'm taking bets on how many penalties Koscielny will concede next season (provided he plays enough games)