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Abia State Government is a joke. No amount of propaganda can change that.

Niger Delta ko! Niger Delta ni!

Igbo scumtwat jam people, una dey yarn Niger Delta up and down.

I am sure it was Presido.    We haven't seen him since the final. 

FBS:
What the heck were they looking at by allowing a dimunitive Messi to spend close to 27 secs in the air uninterrupted?

My mother-in law could have defended better last night. Mind you she is close to 60 if not more.

Ask Vidic!

Also ask him what he was doing when Eto turned him and he turned as slow as an HGV truck!

Vidic is simply overrated!

The player I feel sorry for is Evra. . . . he had been hyping all week about how he was gonna take Messi down, only to find that Guardiola played a trick on him by playing Messi as a CF, denying him the chance to make his name as the 'man who shackled Messi' like he did last year. Evra spent the whole game confused. He didn't know whether to attack or defend cos he had primed his mind for a game of defensive football, but was left with no one to mark.

Krayola:
My team jus win CL and u wan make i sharap!?!?! hahaha i no need to insult u. . . the more u yarn the more of ur low-level thinking na im u dey advertise.

Last time i checked away goals were worth more. you scored a home goal, we scored an away goal. How the hell is that a draw? If it was a draw then we would have played extra time.

I'm sure you can do better than that. try again

Na draw wey you dey take make mouth, even upon referee help? Abegi make I hear word! See as Barca players dey celebrate at SB like say dem done conquer Mount Everest. . . . and you are coming here to yarn nonsense about Man Utd coming out to play. . . . what exactly did Man Utd play yesterday?. . . . . the only difference between Man Utd's 'attacking football' yesterday and Chelsea's is that Chelsea actually hurt Barca. . . . and any objective observer would swear that Barca are only in the final based on refereeing incompetence. . . . so shat it!. . . . . if parking the bus means that Chelsea created 5 times more shots on goal than Barca, then parking the bus seems to be a better attacking philosophy than the nonsense you are praising Man Utd for. . . . . I don't blame you, you just want every team to rollover and produce a spineless performance against Barca. . . . when faced with real competition, you start yarning 'inanities' about the beautiful game. . . . . a beautiful game that produces one shot on target in 90 minutes. . . the truth remains, that if not for the referee, you would not be here yarning nonsense cos the game at SB would have ended 3-0!. . . . now, dispute the fact that you would not be at home watching the final as a neutral if not for the referee!

Nateevs, I am awaiting your comment on the Makelele story!

Krayola:
How low will this club go?

the "Great" Chelsea's bragging right have been reduced to the fact that you only conceded one goal in 180 minutes of football by parking 10 players behind the ball. AND YOU STILL LOST!!


The best team Barca played this season was Espanyol. They gave us the hardest time in both legs, and even beat us at home, by playing us pound for pound.

Nigga we didn't lose. . . . in the event of a draw, the team with the most away goals goes through. . . . .emphasis on the word 'draw'. . . .in any event, everybody knows that under Football Association rules, if applied properly and correctly, Chelsea BATTERED Barcelona. . . . I do not wanna open old wounds. . . . you got through and kudos for that. . . . but I would shut my mouth if I were you knowing that you only got through on the[b] gross [/b] incompetence of a referee. . . .

Krayola:
Thank you . . .  my brother. Den ruin semi-finals for everybody dem come wan dey claim one kind second-hand glory, wey come be borrow-pose on top dat one. dem no dey shame. . .

Man U played in like 5 or 6 competitions. They are exhausted. I'm a Barca fan and we have at least earned the right to brag. They did better than Chelsea in almost every competition and you still dey make mouth. NONSENSE!!

My friend sharrap dia. . . . pesin wey take parsha enter final get mouth to dey yarn opata. . . . even Barca players go tell you say "CHELSEA IS THE BEST TEAM WE HAVE PLAYED THIS YEAR!"

Nothing dey happen. . . . .


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1189148/Chelsea-set-agree-record-43m-deal-Bayern-Munich-star-Ribery.html


[size=14pt]Chelsea set to agree record £43m deal for Bayern Munich star Ribery[/size]

Bayern Munich star Franck Ribery is reported to be on the verge of agreeing a stunning £43million move to Chelsea.
The French international winger had been heavily linked with a switch to Manchester United this summer, but reports are now suggesting that he will sign a deal at Stamford Bridge, after the two clubs agreed the mammoth fee.

Talks between Chelsea officials and the player's representatives are believed to have dragged on after it was revealed that Ribery has demanded a weekly salary of £125,000 AFTER tax.

The Blues are said to be reluctant to offer more than £90,000, although discussions are at an advanced stage and there are no suggestions that the deal is in serious danger of breaking down.

The 26-year-old Ribery currently earns around £134,000-a-week in Germany but is apparently desperate to leave the Allianz Arena, and may be persuaded to lower his wage demands.

If the Londoners do close the deal it will considered be a bitter blow to Premier League rivals United, who have long wanted the Frenchman as a potential replacement for Cristiano Ronaldo.
However, Ronaldo's apparent willingness to stay at Old Trafford after the long-running saga over his prospective move to Real Madrid means that Sir Alex Ferguson has cooled his interest .

Ribery has also been linked with Real in recent months, while Barcelona dropped their interest after talks with Bayern over a possible deal were made public.

Interesting!


No wonder EFCC has been going after El-Rufau.

Hiddink's undefeated approach of containing and frustrating Barcelona was more sophisticated despite the accusations of brutality, but the United manager chose to ignore it.
Maybe he thought his team could not defend well enough to hold Barcelona and by the performance of Nemanja Vidic he was right.
The defender turns at the speed of an ocean liner and all those who thought he should have been the Premier League's player of the year despite his humiliation against Liverpool must be relieved they didn't get their way after last night's repeat.

The writer is spot-on. . . . . Vidic is overrated. . . . if he played in La Liga, he would collect 10 penalties a season with his penchant for pulling players to the ground. . . .

dayokanu:
Debo try and watch football and not dictionaries.

Leverkusen played Madrid off the pitch on that night with Casillas having to make a triple save after Cesar got injured making saves left right and center from Basturk and Olaf Kirsten

Debo knows nothing about futbol. . . . .I dont know how many times he is going to prove himself incompetent at footie analysis. . . . . Leverkusen deserved to beat Real, and Real only won on moments of individual brilliance, not team play. . . . .no one can forget Klaus Topmoller's system of triangular passes between Ze Roberto, Ballack et al. . . . .Debo is simply incompetent!. . . . . my overriding memory of that match was Makelele running around like a madman to save his team's bacon because Real's midfield was under so much pressure. . . . .

You are right. . . . .yesterday's match was the most one-sided final since Porto-Monaco or even Real-Valencia.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=268431.msg3935732#msg3935732 date=1243459824]You are a dolt!!!

Before United played Jose Mourinho at OT in November 2007, United were 3 points clear.
A victory for United woulda stretched it to 6 points but Chelsea got a draw and i remember Jose Mourinho saying United had lost the chance to extend their lead at the top of the table.
United damaged any team that stood their way in that campaign. Saha was very fit with Rooney playing just off him.

Mourinho's comment after the game against United in Nov. 2007:

[i]On referee Howard Webb, he said: 'Webb did his job well. He had a good game and I think this is what people around the world want to see - a lot of good players and a lot of respect.'
He argued that the result was better for his side than the league leaders.
'It is a good result because Manchester United lost a big, big chance to open the gap to six points,' he said.
'I think they faced this game when mentally very strong. They thought it was a big chance to open the gap but they couldn't do it.
'In the second half we showed we were here to win the gam[/i]e.[/quote]You are a fool!!! Of course you mean 2006, not 2007. I know the loss is hurting, but no need to lose your lucidity bruv!  

Nevertheless, we overturned Man Utd's lead and were neck and neck with Utd until our draw with Arsenal in December 2006. Three unfortunate incidents changed things - (1.) Petr Cech's head injury (2.) John Terry's injury.

(3.) Coming into December, we were ahead until JT suffered an injury which was later compounded by an injury to Carvalho. Our only back-up defender was Boulahrouz, but instead of playing him, JM played any two of Essien, Ferreira and Geremi at centre-back (with Hilario in goal) which meant we dropped points against Fulham and two other teams which I can't remember. Coming into January, JM asked RA to buy a new defender and RA refused, telling JM to take Alex from PSV. JM refused, presisting with Essien and Ferreira at centre-back. This meant that we dropped points in another game, and lost 2-0 to Liverpool. United opened up a 8 point lead and the rest as they say is history.

The next season, we sacked JM in November (whilst 3 points behind Man Utd with a game in hand). . . .

This season, what can we say about Scolari. . . . no doubt, with Guss in charge we would have won the league. . . .

Not to worry. . . . next season shall reveal all!!!  

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=268431.msg3935690#msg3935690 date=1243459321]So it was United's fault Chelsea cannot get things right??
United were superior in 2006/7. Better than the team that won the league this season by a mile.
Pundits still believe that was the best attacking side United have produced since 1999. . . . .
United led the league table from September till May. . . .[/quote]Sharrap. . . . . we were leading the league until December. . . . after Cech broke his skull and JT got flattened, that was when you started to inch ahead. We dropped 8 points in December alone, and we were still almost level with you, then we dropped another 5 points in January due to JM/RA beef over not buying a centre-back.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=268431.msg3935618#msg3935618 date=1243458499]U are very stupid for saying something as moronic as this.
When United undressed Jose Mourinho in 2006/7, were you having managerial problems.
You are a penis. [/quote]My friend sharrap!!!

Who can forget the injuries to Cech and Terry and the internal fight between JM, Arnesen and Abramovic that meant that JM refused to play Boulahrouz, whilst RA refused to give him money to buy defensive cover, forcing us to play Geremi and Ferreira at centre-back. That was when we started haemorrhaging points and lost the league, not because Man Utd were superior.

The truth is, Chelsea are the best team in England!!!  

All you suckers know that if not for beefs between RA and JM, Avram Grant, Scolari schitzo etc, Chelsea would have taken the last 3 league titles at a canter. The prem is only on lease to you guys. We're coming back for it next season!

@ Akolawole & Somze,

I dey call una for the last time!!!


All my criticisms of JM (for which I was roundly lambasted) are coming to light!

First of all, I told you guys that JM fostered a 'culture of greed' at Chelsea by holding Chelsea to ransom over a new contract just 8 months into his reign and giving the silly excuse of 'the Anders Frisk' affair as reason. Now he has done the same thing to InterMilan.

My second criticism was his wastefulness in the transfer market. That has been proven over time.

My third criticism was that he destroyed the morale of Chelsea's fringe players and now, a former Chelsea stalwart has come forth to make the same claim. . . . .

This was in the Sun newspaper yesterday. . . ,  but I'll only give you the quote from goal.com. . . .


http://goal.com/en/news/10/italy/2009/05/25/1285345/jose-mourinho-destroyed-chelsea-psgs-claude-makelele



[center][size=14pt]Jose Mourinho Destroyed Chelsea - PSG's Claude Makelele[/size][/center]

The Frenchman has openly accused Mourinho of being Chelsea's ruin,

Paris Saint-Germain and former Chelsea midfielder Claude Makelele has launched a barrage of hard-hitting criticism at Jose Mourinho, claiming the Portuguese coach 'destroyed Chelsea'.

Makele played at Stamford Bridge between 2003 and 2008 before joining PSG last year. He spent three years under Mourinho's tutelage, but he believes the 'Special One' was less than deft inside the dressing room.

"For two years we were like a group of friends, then Mourinho arrived and he ruined everything," claims Makelele in his new autobiography 'Tout Simplement', as reported by Il Corriere Dello Sport.

"There was an extraordinary solidarity, but he destroyed everything by excluding key elements, and treating other players like stars.

"In 2006/07 Mourinho moved away from the players, and the brotherhood spirit we had in the group ended.

"In his third season, he forgot about the players to take all the merits himself. He used to get scared if a player came under the spotlight more than him."

Startling revelations from Makelele continue as he claims the current Inter coach had a bust-up with his former boss.

"Also, Mourinho had a fight with Roman Abramovich. The president wanted players to express themseleves freely on the pitch, but Mourinho didn't want to change his methods," added the midfielder.

Mourinho is likely to react to Makelele's comments. The coach has already lost his temper when provoked this season in Serie A. Many will remember his feuds and outbursts with a number of Italian coaches.

The truth is, if not for managerial upheavals and internal schisms at Chelsea over the last 3 seasons, Man Utd would be nowhere near the EPL title. Man Utd are false champions due to Chelsea self-destructing.

Man Utd = Ronaldo + 10 men!

Ronnie has to leave. For how long can he be forced to carry this team?  

[size=14pt]Man Utd are a disgrace to the EPL!!![/size]  

You think this is Premiership where you get everything your way?

At least Chelsea came out from their encounter with Barca with their pride intact. One thing is for sure - UNA GO RESPECT CHELSEA!

Where is that wormface Eastbay who was yarning shit about "Chelsea should have taken their chances". . . . . . motherflipper, first create some chances, then we talk about taking them later. . . . .sucker!!!  


Dayokanu, please come and take it home for these scummies. Tonite is your nite  

Come on Utd!  . . . . . . . shit, even Chelsea put up a much better fight than this. . . .

Giggs and Anderson are missing! Anderson is a sorry excuse for a Brazilian in terms of technique.

Only Carrick and Ronaldo don show face today.

Park needs to come off. . . . . .funny enough, Nani would thrive in this game today.

Berbatov also needs to come on to occupy their central ground.

Poor man dey suffer, monkey dey chop.

Brashy, ya arms are too short to box with me!

Arthur Wharton

Britain's first black footballer. Born in Ghana in 1865 to mixed-race parents (his father was half-Scottish), Wharton joined Preston North End in 1886. He was a brave keeper, in an era when they received no protection from referees.


Walter Tull

Born in 1888, Tull played for Spurs and Northampton in the years leading up to the first world war. Despite the poorest of backgrounds, he also became Britain's first black army officer.


Lindy Delapenha

Delapenha, the first Jamaican to play League football, was the first black player to be part of a championship-winning side, with Portsmouth in 1949.


Teslim "Thunder" Balogun

Balogun, a lanky forward nicknamed 'Thunder' because of his powerful shot, was the first Nigerian to play in the League, with Peterborough in 1955.

Middlesbrough have had one of the strongest youth teams over the past five years. Where are they now? Liverpool have won 2 of the last 4 finals and been to the final on 3 occasions in the last 4 years, yet I see no one from their youth team in the first team. It is a big leap. Abeg save story for trivia.

Who cares what Ahmadinejad wants to do? Anyone who supports this hare-brained heory is insane! Have you ever seen a President debating another President? Which kain nonsense be this?

Not Premier League per say. That was created in 1992, but Rueben had been playing in the top division in England as far back as 1982.

Fash the bash or Rueben Agboola. Someone said Thunder Balogun used to play for Plymouth. I no know sha.

I think they are just trying to smear Ribadu again. This is someone who turned down $15m cash from a sittting Governor. By their fruits we shall know them. Either Waziri 'dissappeared' the files, or her predecessor who was in charge on an interim basis was there on a 'clean-up' mission.

wow. . . . . this is very interesting. . . . its long, but worth the read. . . .



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1188368/Ancelottis-Chelsea-suicide-note-Carlo-lets-fly-revelations-doomed-Bridge.html


[size=14pt]Ancelotti's Chelsea suicide note: Carlo lets fly but revelations may have doomed move to the Bridge [/size]

Carlo Ancelotti has sensationally revealed the details of his secret meetings with Roman Abramovich, providing a rare insight into the clandestine world of Chelsea's Russian owner.

The Italian has also said he could be confirmed as the new manager at Stamford Bridge as early as next week, but only if in a meeting with his AC Milan employers he is told that his services are no longer required. 

Ancelotti was here in Rome yesterday to launch his new autobiography and it was the stunning revelations in the first and final chapters, both about Chelsea, that attracted much of the attention. 

Abramovich might consider much of it extremely inappropriate, not to mention poorly-timed, given one particular passage that talks of him describing Chelsea as a team without 'personality'. Not ideal when Guus Hiddink is trying to prepare the players for Saturday's FA Cup final.

He writes of two meetings with Chelsea. One in Geneva and one in Paris. More than once he compares himself to James Bond. No, really, he does. It is an extraordinary book. So florid in its delivery. As fascinating insight into the 49-year-old Italian as it is Abramovich. The impression we have of him in England is of a dour, slightly sour-faced Italian. As the book and yesterday's press conference in the Via di Ripetta demonstrated, nothing could be further from the truth.

The man has a vibrant, at times almost childlike imagination, and a wonderful sense of humour. At one point yesterday he pulled on his glasses and read a passage about a practical joke that was played on Mathieu Flamini. Apparently the former Arsenal midfielder was tricked into declaring a desire to give MouthAction to all his new Milan colleagues. 

He does make some incredible disclosures. From his dislike of Jose Mourinho to his desire to sign Franck Ribery and Xabi Alonso for Chelsea. From the two years he has spent learning English - on yesterday's evidence he is not the best student - to the dozens of DVDs he has watched that has recently left him feeling that, 'on paper', he is 'already the coach of the blues'.
Whether the book makes Abramovich withdraw his offer remains to be seen. Whether Ancelotti actually wants to move to London is also now a little difficult to ascertain when the book could be seen as career suicide.

He reflects on all the job offers he has received over the years, declaring yesterday that for as long as Milan want him he will never leave the club he regards as 'family'. That said, he also admitted yesterday that he has lied to the press when he has considered it necessary. Was he telling the truth about not having met Chelsea since last summer. 'That depends,' he replied with a wry smile.

In his defence, the book has been written only to raise money for Stefano Borgonovo, Ancelotti's former Milan team-mate and someone now fighting the killer disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

'Me and Abramovich, Act Two. Nobody should know anything, we're all agreed. I'm wearing sunglasses. I look around and with the typical expression of a secret agent'

But it will nevertheless be interesting to see how Chelsea react when they review some of the extracts below. Even if his ghost writer, Alessandro Alciato, does admit to making it sound 'spectacular'. 'But Carlo is happy with the tone,' he said yesterday.

In the opening chapter, entitled 'Called up by Abramovich - the beginnings', he writes of two meetings with Chelsea last year. One in Geneva and one in Paris. More than once he compares himself to James Bond. No, really, he does.   
He writes: 'The taxi driver (in Paris) is studying my facial expressions in his rear-view mirror. He's looking for answers but I can't give him any. At least for the moment. I am somebody who has left in a clandestine manner looking for love, or at least it seems that way. A strange sensation, it's not something familiar to me.
 
'The manager of Milan is on a secret mission. Me, like 007 on my own, sat behind a driver with the face of a killer. More than a taxi this is like a time machine, from Milanello to Stamford Bridge, from yesterday to tomorrow, from one devil to another. And there I am, in Paris, going to Roman Abramovich, the Russian who has come from nowhere but above all - as far as I'm concerned - the rich owner of Chelsea. Who's looking for a new manager. 

'Nobody knows this but we've already seen each other once, a couple of weeks ago. In Switzlerand, in a big hotel in Geneva, just outside the city centre. I would tell you the name but I swear I don't remember it. It must be my age.

'I was on holiday on the lake, relaxing by the sweet water after the bitterness of failing to qualify for the Champions League with Milan. Abramovich came after me, it's a good thing but how many bodyguards! They are the ones who accompanied me to the Big Chief and to Peter Kenyon. Their team was completed by a lawyer and an interpreter.   

'We sat down and greeted each other cordially, and then we started to talk. Always about football and only about football.   
We are in May 2008. Abramovich wanted to know everything about me, my way of working, my philosophy.  He was and is still looking for a team with a precise identity: "Like Manchester United, Liverpool, Milan, certainly not like my Chelsea."   

'Abramovich says "Chelsea don't have a personality. I have the ambition of winning every competition in which my team takes part, a team that at the moment I don't recognise"''While he was talking, my curiosity perked up. He wasn't the monster that papers painted him to be. The first thing I noticed was his timidity. The second his great knowledge of football. The third his hunger, his bulimia: "Dear Ancelotti, I want to win everything. Everything." I remembered of another president. He made a great impression on me. An hour flew by during which we never talked about money. "Goodbye, see you soon."   

'So here we are, back in Paris. The George V, great hotel two steps from the Champs Elysees, a spectacular terrace with a view over Paris, and in this case over his London too.   

'Me and Abramovich, Act Two. Nobody should know anything, we're all agreed. I'm wearing sunglasses. I look around and with the typical expression of a secret agent. I make sure there are no photographers at the hotel entrance. Yesterday, a few minutes away from here, Massimo Moratti of Inter Milan met Jose Mourinho.

'I didn't want to have the same end. Road is free, nobody suspicious, I can enter. But no, f**k. I don't believe it. Just around the corner I see Federico Pastorello, an Italian agent that I know very well. I hide. I go to the far end and bump into a very dear colleague and friend. Another Italian manager who works in a city that occupies. (Roma coach Luciano Spalletti, who clearly has also met with Chelsea that day).   

'I laugh. "What are you doing here?" "No, what are you doing?". I laugh again. This improvised refuge is starting to make sense, I feel like I am in a supermarket. Everyone here to talk to this chairman, and maybe we're his shopping list. A bench for two, for three, for a hundred, who knows how many? 

'I go to meet him one floor up. He's waiting in a conference room and has the same people he had in Geneva sat around the table. I immediately make one thing clear.

"I have a contract with Milan, I'm very well there, and an eventual agreement with Chelsea can only happen if Milan is also in agreement".   

'Again we only talked about football. How would I make Chelsea play in case they got me as a manager?   

'"President, your team is very physical, you have to put more quality in the middle of the pitch," I tell him. I gave him two names, Franck Ribery and Xabi Alonso. Players that would have made him very happy.   

'We looked up at the TV and there was His Mourinhity (Jose Mourinho), comparing himself to Jesus. I thought "forgive him his sins, he knows not what he is talking about''. He thought of a third name, that of Andriy Shevchenko, who was close to his heart and it was easy to see.

"I can't understand why he's not playing., because since we brought him to England he's not the real Sheva, he's in difficulties."   

'"President, I can't know the reason myself." We talk and talk and talk some more.   

'I find I can easily chat with Abramovich. He doesn't make me feel uncomfortable, not even when he says with a low voice: "We've just lost the Champions League final, and the League, I can't certainly be satisfied. Chelsea don't have a personality. I have the ambition of winning every competition in which my team takes part, a team that at the moment I don't recognise."   

'He thinks so much about the results and the beautiful game. Another forty minutes fly by. "Thanks Ancelotti, we'll meet again." No financial offer. OK everything clear, for now there's no offer.   

'A couple of hours later the phone rings. "Hello this is (Adriano) Galliani (Milan vice-president). Beautiful Paris isn't it?" Pause. "How did your elopement go?" He already knew everything. Like Moratti and Mourinho the day before.   
'I said: "I came to talk to Abramovich. When the president of a club of that important calls you, it's fair to at least go and meet him."

"Nevertheless, you're not leaving."

"But I don't want to leave."

'It was my curiosity to meet a man so important in our world, that yes,  but not the fierce desire to leave Milan. At that moment we were very well together.'   

At the end of the book he reflects on even more recent events. 'It was April 1 2009. Up to 7pm that night I was thinking mainly in English. After lunch that day I gave an interview with Sky Italia. I remember every word.

'"I have a contract to 2010, so I am staying. You can say I am staying."

'"How many lies have you told," he asked.

'"A few, just to defend myself."

'"And if I see you again in a few months, will I discover those lies?" '"In a couple of months, yes."

'It was a safe way of saying I would've left. Surely, I was starting to put my hands forward to prepare the ground. I had been taking English lessons for a long time and not by chance. I had three per week. I was a model student.
'That afternoon I was answering questions with a stern face because I knew that evening I was going to see Galliani in Via Turati (Milan offices). It was the same situation as last year. I had an indecent offer from Chelsea and I started to feel shivers. That was a surprise.

When we met I said: "Listen, Galliani, I need to tell you something. I would go to coach Chelsea."
'He said: "No question; you can't talk about that.' It was the same answer as when I had been going to go to Real Madrid."
"So you want to keep me?"
'He said: "For sure."

'I said: "I will need a definitive decision at the end of the season, after May 31." 'We looked up at the television and there was His Mourinhity (Jose Mourinho), comparing himself to Jesus. I thought "forgive him his sins, he knows not what he is talking about".

'I was thinking of Chelsea. I confess that at certain points in 2008-09 I watched my DVDs of John Terry, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba. I was already the coach of the blues on paper. I thought, there are worse things in life than me and Abramovich together. The worst for him had already been and gone. He had already worked with His Specialty, Mourinho.'

Wait for which time? How many heartbreaks have we had in the last 6 years. If it is anybody's time, it is ours, going back to when Ranieri had a clear run at the CL but threw it away with insane tinkering at half-time at Monaco. Talkless of JT's miss last year, and this Ovebro nonsense. Too many false dawns.

Does anyone else find the Champions League final build-up nauseating? Its everywhere on my TV. I can't fight the sense of injustice and the overwhelming conviction that we have been denied our place at the top table, our chance of glory, and the £30m pot we would receive for appearing in the final. Its difficult to get my head around how an ingrate of a referee can deny a club such rich pickings. Methinks Chelsea should launch a civil suit against Ovebro for monies lost due to his incompetence. I hope Barca get stuffed.

I know this pastor Kure (or Prophet Kure as he was called back then). He was a friend of my fathers and used to stay in our house whenever he visited PH. So Kure is now making political statements brazenly? This is the same guy who prophesied in our church in the mid-1990's that Abacha would be good for the country. To use his words, he said that Abacha would be a leader in the mould of Jehu (David's General) and would clean out corrupt and inept leadership with his no nonsense style. I laugh in Spanish.

[quote author=na_so link=topic=276528.msg3925552#msg3925552 date=1243340695]The problem in the ND is that the people do not like the miilitants, however they hate the government more.[/quote]Gbam!!!


You hit the nail on the head. If the FG want a change in this impasse, they must change the balance of these relationships.

@ Akolawole, FBS & Somze,


Why does Mourinho feel the need to behave like a disloyal and greedy player? How many times will he pull the same trick to get more money from his employers? Also, how do you expect InterMilan players to approach contract negotiations, looking at the example of their coach? - The same way Chelsea players used to approach contract negotiations during JM's tenure! Is this how you expect a top manager to behave? Do AW or SAF behave like this when it comes to contract negotiations?




[center]OFFICIAL: Mourinho Extends Inter Contract Until 2012[/center]

Inter have revealed that coach Jose Mourinho has signed a new contract with the club, expiring June 2012, through their official website.

Real Madrid presidential candidate Florentino Perez has allegedly been pursuing the services of the Portuguese tactician, trying to lure him away from the San Siro after just one year.

However, after the coach has won the Serie A title in his first attempt, Nerazzurri president Massimo Moratti has offered 'Mou' an improved deal to ensure he remains with the Italian outfit.

"In response to the wish of the coach to continue the project started together a year ago, a wish welcomed with pleasure by the club as a sign of attachment and winning spirit, FC Internazionale announces the extension of Jose Mourinho's contract until 30 June 2012," read the brief statement on inter.it.

It is rumoured that his new contract includes a pay raise that sees him earn €10 million per season. The former Chelsea boss' previous contract expired one year earlier, in 2011.

This move will likely end all speculation that Mourinho will join Madrid this summer.

Adam Scime, Goal.com






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Mourinho played the Real card to get Moratti to improve his pay package (the same card he played one year into his Chelsea contract) but we all know now that Perez didn't want him at Real afterall. Moratti must be looking like someone with an egg on his face after Perez came out with the denial. Poor Moratti. Should have known better than to fall for an age-old Salesman's trap.

I agree with Iax usa/india Mourinho is using really cheap ways to get a pay raise. With the 99.9% chance he stays and all. If I were Moratti I'd tell him you'll earn it when you actually get the CL. It is ridiculous that he already was the highest paid coach in Italy and now he gets more because he only got the Scudetto which was so easy when you have a team like Inter. Moratti is weak.

i am a milan fan, but it feels disgusting,  mourinho is holding inter for ransom,  it might have been better with mancini, atleast he would have been loyal,  who knows what mourinho will come up with after next season

Murinho is so smart he used madrids interest to get a betta contract at inter

so all of real madrid talk was about a raise?? all u have to do mou is asking insted of all this mambo jambo u did over the last 4 days , so nobody can blame players to do the same in order to get a raise tow such as ibra, can u blame them