₦airaland Forum

dayokanu:
Whats European about Didier Drogba?

Whats not European about him?. . . he's been in France from the age of 5 (medical records, school records). . . and he returned to France at age 12. . . . he's been in the French system from childhood. . . his age is correct.

Am just waiting for Aguero to prove his fitness, not this one that he gets injured every 3 weeks.

BlueDiva:
To start with, how many African players are actually in their 20's?. Real age i mean.

Certainly not Eboue, Kalou, DD etc.
Apart from those born and registered abroad, all others are fraud.

IMHO, Essien still has it in him. Essien is X2 of a younger Mikel.

The Ivorians are relatively honest. . . . all Ivorians who came through Asec Mimosas academy cannot be more than 2 years older than they claim. . . I have seen video of Aruna Dindane as a kid training in the academy. . . . he looked like a real baby. . . . thats why he's still going strong at 30 yrs old. . .

dayokanu:
Didier Drogba, Samuel Etoo, Osei Kuffuor, Austin Okocha played the best football of his career closer to 40 than 30.

Nonsense. . . .

DD is European.
Eto only has + 2 years on his age (this has been confirmed)
Sammy Kuffour is still only 34 years old. . . . he has been finished since 2004/2005 when he was only 29.
Jay Jay never played well for Bolton after 2004. . . He was only 31 at the time.



During 2006 World Cup, a Ghanaian friend placed Essiens age at 29 for me. . . . I insist that it is time to sell Essien, before we are left carrying a useless player with no resale value. . . just like Mahmadou Diarra who was as good as Essien when they were both at Lyon.

dayokanu:
Dump an African for a South American based on age suspicion is a joke. Have you forgotten about the scandal of Eriberto/Luciano. Even Ronaldo Lima was useless before his "Thirtieth" birthday.

Fair point.

How many games does Aguero play a season? Atletico are not serious.

BlueDiva:
LOL,
I've never really had issues with age.

An 'old' Drog still contest with Rooney and Torres.
An 'old' VDS makes Fabianski and Foster look like trash.

Essien may still have another 5yrs in him. . .lol

Name the last African player that played well into his thirties. . . Oliseh? Appiah? Mahmadou Diarra?

Lets send Essien to Man Utd. . . they can give him 10 year contract. . . its time for us to get a younger model of Essien. . . Palacios for example.

Cristalz:
@Borat
Are you minding Ibime? Resident FPL bully.

The day of reckoning is here. . . . I wanna see your transfers by 10pm tonight!

Woh kamert?

BlueDiva:
LOL. . .it's an African thing.
90% of African players lie anyway, no biggie.

I think its time to start selling Essien though before age-factor kicks in. . . . if we leave it 2 or 3 years, we might not even cop £5m for him.

And here's Laryea Kingston lying through his teeth in a BBC interview:



http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/8651893.stm

http://ghanasoccernet.com/2010/04/ex-ghana-fa-boss-tamakloe-in-astonishing-essien-attack/




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Ex-Ghana FA chief Dr. Nyaho Tamakloe has launched an astonishing attack on Chelsea ace Michael Essien implying that he is an age cheat.

The former Hearts of Oak boss also accused John Pantsil of Fulham and Hearts’ Laryea Kingston, and Sunderland powerful defender John Mensah saying their recent injuries are testament to his allegation.

The ex-diplomat was not diplomatic when he implied that the four players are among the hundreds of Ghanaian stars who have been involved in age cheating which is now catching up on them.

In a sharp rebuttal Randy Abbey, the spokesman for the Ghana Football Association, says such statements are designed to berate the players and undermine Ghana’s World Cup campaign.

Mr Tamakloe made his attack in an interview with a local radio station Peace FM when asked about the growing number of injuries in the Ghana squad ahead of the World Cup.

“Essien is 1, Pantsil is 2, John Mensah is 3, and Laryea Kingston. Even if they say he is fit is a bit doubtful to me,” Tamakloe said.

“So if you watch carefully we don’t have frontline players we can call players who can take us up. It’s a bit disturbing.

“What I personally have observed is that most of them are burnt out now.

“I remember when I was the FA boss I insisted that anyone that would have to be brought into the Black Stars and for that matter even the junior groups must be right.

“We must make sure we bring people whose ages reflect would represent the exact tournament they are supposed to be playing in.”

The outburst was immediately criticised by the younger Ghana FA’s director of communications who fears not only a negative effect on the country but also far from the truth.

“I beg to differ with my uncle Dr. Nyaho Tamakloe. With all due respect, I think that the issues are unfounded,” Abbey told Peace FM.

“There are many players across the world who are injury prone and I think injuries are part of football.

“I do not think people should despair. I recall that Graphic Sports did an editorial during the Nations Cup after Ivory Coast had beaten us that this was a January Disaster and that the June disaster was about to happen.

“When (they make such criticisms) and things turn around, they do not come back to say that ‘what we said was wrong’.”

Meanwhile some football fans who Ghanasoccernet interviewed described Mr Tamakloe’s attack on the players as “utterly irresponsible”.

“The red mist comes down and his judgement flies out of the window. He has no right whatsoever to insult our national heroes who have got integrity,” Lawrence Opare a Ghana football expert said.

“The said players must actually come out to sue him so that he can come clean with any information he knows. Otherwise he must shut up. This is utterly irresponsible.

“Now Ghanaians are sick and tired of people of accuse our players of being age cheats yet they are reluctant to provide information or contrary evidence to back their scurrilous claims.

“This is not the first time we are hearing this but until such a time that a player takes someone to court to nail such accusers they won’t stop sniping.

“He has every right to his own view but not to express it especially when you are a former FA boss and have no evidence whatsoever to back your claims.”

Tamakloe is a well known football firebrand and in 1987 fired all the players of Ghana’s biggest clubs Hearts of Oak and replaced them with young players who went on to win laurels.

Yarima: My wife is not 13. . .


I am sure he is currently working on her passport. . . like our footballers who are 35 years old, but their passport says 25.

0hsisi:
What is happening to marriage
Paula white,Juanita Bynum now Benny Hinn?

All the ole barawo are being exposed. . . . Benny Hinn wife is tired of living a lie. . . . Juanita Bynum dey tell us say she be prophetess, but her Bishop husband dey brush her for house. . . . after spending 1 million dollars on their wedding and writing a book on marriage, their "holy" matrimony didnt even last 6 years. . . . . . at this point, its time for me to laugh in tongues! 

eldee:
Krayola Refuses intimacy and Food to Avoid Golden Question

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bleeping genius!!!

dayokanu:
I prefer Inter in the final as they would be easier for bayern

Yes, that was your only chance. . . however, while I rate your chance of beating Barca as 0%, your chance of beating Inter is still very low. . . . I would say 25% max.

ritchboy:
you need not worry. . . Ibime is fully aware who his intellectual equals are (dyabman, binghinya, cabali etc). the mere mention  of ma name makes him quake in his 3 dollar boots

don't you see him raising his white flag and asking for me to be banned in order to avoid public humiliation? 

Thank God that mundane subjects like football allow invalids to communicate across the intellectual strata. . . . there are not too many fields of interest in which a Mensa and a half-wit can communicate as equals. . . I think the word intellectual is overused. . . . if Ritchboy is an intellectual, then everybody is an intellectual. . . .

@ Nateevs,

Guillame Ballegue says that VDV is telling everyone he's going to Chelsea next season. . .

See as the Yoruba batty man just dey run 

How is that a climbdown?

I told you something is illegal (or at least restricted) abroad. . . and Sapeleguy confirms that people abroad are prosecuting for very same thing. . . I guess they wouldnt prosecute if it was legal. . . please follow the thread of the argument.

^^^Lets not digress. . . whilst I am sure that it will take Icelandic prosecutors 2 or 3 years to build a case against everyone, I am equally sure the the Icelandic central bank will move[i] immediately[/i] to restrict - or enforce laws already in place governing - the practice of margin loans for purchase of own shares. . .

SapeleGuy:
Harsh words old chap.  I know your assertion is correct in Sharia finance but conventional finance? How will the forex, commodity traders or spread betters cope? High risk, yes. illegal? Not so sure.

We are talking about the provision of financial assistance for purchase of own shares, a widely abused practice in Nigeria.

I am not a lawyer so I leave it up to you to counter my assertion citing appropriate laws.

yes, thats true. . . . where is MrCrackles aka the one and only Brash. . . .

mikeansy:
Foreign capitals have already reacted.

Since Sanusi told the world that Nigerian Businessmen are theieves are lines of credit have frozen as requests from Nigeria are now suspect.

When was the last time you heard that foreign banks are rejecting letter of credit from Naija banks?. . . . are they rejecting letters of credit after the audit exercise, or was that a reaction to the ongoing audit?. . . . please find me a recent link of such things happening. . . . or is this one of those short term things that RP have highlighted for you in order to fool you, just like many other arguments they have now dropped such as "Sanusi is killing the stockmarket", now one of the fastest growing in the world.

@ Mikeansy,


Alaba traders as I may call them, are entitled to complain as much as they want, as they are doing in every Western country right now (Google search if you may). . . but where Alaba market traders cross the line is when they start telling us definitively that Sanusi is the cause of the matter. . . . I have read many comments from many American market traders complaining about lack of credit, but I have never seen any of them mention Ben Bernanke's name, as our own Alaba-traders-come-economic-juggernauts are quick to do. . . . I think 4Play put it the best when he said that it is this kind of reasoning which led people to associate Malaria with Sunshine. . . . I posed a question which you were unable to address, which is to show me why our mini-liquidity-trap is different from any other economy in the world experiencing same. . . and I am still waiting.

As for you claiming victory on certain points, thats your prerogative. I think I have dealt time and time again with inane economic assumptions, and shut down enough nonsense arguments on Nairaland from sciolists.


As for whether SLS is qualified, you can feel free to read any of his texts or interviews and raise up economic issues contained. SLS remains a true hero who has tried to bring in standards which the Nigerian system and its "stakeholders" have fought tooth and nail. Same old story. A looter continue.

Someone said SLS is too controversial for the role. . . . I agree entirely. . . thanks to an unprecedented campaign against the office of the central bank Governor, the likes of which you would never see in anything other than a Banana Republic.

I will say this. . . . watch how foreign capital reacts if Sanusi is fired and the lions are allowed to regain leadership of the zoo.


Finally, like I said. . . . Sahara Reporters have always been on the right side of the debate. . . . in any debate concerning Nigeria. . . . no matter what we may say about the dark arts of journalism sometimes employed by them.

Criz, I think you should ban this punk called Ritchboy. How many warnings will you give him?

I already told him that NL prefects are coming to take names of noisemakers, but he's still making noise.

RoadStar:
Okereke-Onyiuke faults CBN's policy on margin loan

Okereke Onyuike can fault all she wants on a practice which is illegal in all advanced economies, and a practice which creates asset bubble. She is an idiot.


I expect Mikeansy to come up with nonsense yarns. This is all thanks to N300m campaign by Renaissance Professionals which convinces Lawyers, Medical Doctors, Sociologists, farmers and even common Houseboys that they know more economics than the professionals, and that the central bank Governor is inept. . . . or even worse, working to an agenda. I am yet to see a single analyst report or report by foreign analyst or body castigating economic policies of Sanusi, yet our "experts" in Nigeria feel they know more about economics because RP told em so.


One thing I know is this. . . you can criticise Sahara Reporters as much as you want . . . but unfailingly, they have always been on the side of the righteous.


Congratulations to all those who have bought into a swindle, starting from the "ethnic agenda" theorists to all sorts of inane economic accusations. You are part of the reason why our fatherland is fit to be called "the jungle called Nigeria".

Knowall has always proved that he knows nothing. . .

So we should wait for there to be a run on banks before intervening?


BTW, tkb, your friend Gusau done come again:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-437322.0.html

OK. . . Chief Rasputtin. . .


Its quite simple. . . . if Soludo did not want CBN to attend the IFSB summits, he shouldnt have registered CBN with the IFSB. . .

Look at those chinko men in the picture. . . are they also Islamic?

Should the Singaporean, Luxembourg and Mauritian central bank guys also be sacked for being members of the ISB?

Should Christian Noyer be sacked for hosting IFSB at Banque de France last year?

Should Swedish central bank Governor be sacked for confirming attendance at the next IFSB summit?


I am personally not against Islamic banking. . . I think its one aspect of their culture which is beneficial, especially in the area of microfinance. . . . but if you are, then at least be consistent in your argument and recognise that joining the IFSB was initiated under Soludo.


All these complaints remind me of my dad complaining about Nigeria being a member of OPEC because according to him, "OPEC is overIslamised!" 

As for me, all I know is that as member of OPEC, we dey set oil-prices as we want. Abi we no go chop again because of religious issue?

wales:
A lawmaker in Abuja who sits on the banking committee told Saharareporters that he was aware of the plot to have Sanusi dismissed. “Look, all of us know what is going on,” said the legislator. He added: “The problem is that those who want him out are frustrated because acting President Jonathan does not have the power to summarily remove the CBN chief executive.” The legislator disclosed that, “According to the provisions of a law signed by President Obasanjo, the CBN governor can only be removed if a two-third majority of this body [the legislature] agrees.”

The current administration has already started a quiet review of this law. . .


As for Gusau, he should concentrate on getting Aero contractors out of their debt with Oceanic bank, as Mrs Ibru has mandated him to do.

hehehehehehe. . . .


The fear of Islam is the beginning of wisdom


I go yarn una later. . . . hopefully OP will do some research before exposing his irrational fears anyhow. . .

Shock:
UK's net debt is over 160 trillion pounds, so WTF are talking about here?

160 trillion pounds?

hehehehe. . . you nor serious.

debosky:
My algorithm is highly different - mine has a decision box IF trophyless seasons =<5, AND same mistakes continue to be made THEN allow Wenger one more year before sacking.

Dudu's own says IF trophyless seasons =<10 THEN it is a HICCUP, GO TO 'we will improve next season' for another 5 Years. 

All you non-perceptive readers need to go to spec savers.

Time makes no difference to the solution of an equation.

You are at time t, whilst Dudu is at time t-1.

When you were also at time t-1, Dr Kit told you that you would converge to trophylessness by time t. . . . but you refused to believe.

Thats because Dr Kit was working with Crank-Nicholson method which is vastly superior to Implicit method. Now you have arrived at solution quicker than Duduspace's Explicit method. . . but your method is still slower than Dr Kit's method.

If all 3 of you had listened to Dayokanu when he applied Laplace transform to quicken up the solution, you would already know that the final outcome would be trophylessness anyway. . . . 

debosky:
Ahem. . . .as the man who invented grammar (c)  I believe the more appropriate term is 'recipient' not 'receptor'.

Whats to say that my object of reference is not a single cell organism? Or are you trying to give Ritchboy's immediate female progenitor more credit than it is due?