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Akolawole:
Are you enjoying the forced public holiday in London today?

O-boy, I am loving it! I just woke up to receive the best news ever - that the trains are not running!!!!   Lazy man!

BTW, how come Akola always knows what is happening in UK?


Anyway, back to this LPS argument. It is quite obvious our squad needs an overhaul, however LPS should be doing a lot better with the players he has. I remember that Grant used Claudio Pizarro for 2 months in November and December last season and we didn't lose a single game. During the same period, we had many players injured, including Essien, Makalele and Lampard. Grant was smart enough to convert SWP into a central midfielder and SWP had the best spell of his Chelsea career.

I am not one for sacking managers. It is quite obvious to anyone that LPS was going to change our style of play, and that we were going to lose some points during such a transition. It is also quite obvious that the set of players we have are not built for the type of game LPS wants to implement. OK, no problem there.

But, if LPS wants to change our style, he needs to suggest players we can buy to play his system, not just banging on about Robinho all the time. We don't have that kind of money for such an overhaul. Go to the board with a list of 20 credible transfer targets who can all be bought at a reasonable price. I'm afraid that LPS has a limited knowledge of the transfer market and that is not what we need right now. In this period, we need an Arsene Wenger type character. Even Avram Grant knows the transfer market very well. LPS should stop harping on about £32m Robinho and look at some boys like Gervinho, even Savio Nsereko. Otherwise, he MUST achieve with the players he has, even if that means playing the Mourinho-style football we are used to.

I think we need a proper director of football like Gianni Nanni to help LPS. Just look at some of the players Nanni has brought to West Ham. They have lost half of their first team, yet he replaced them effortlessly with players like Herita Ilunga, Valon Behrami, Di Michele, and now Nsereko and Radoslav Kovac.

debosky:
it has made Ade more profligate and less able to harry and chase defenders,

Oh - so you now know what I have been going through with Drogba these last 2 years. Later now, you go come Chelsea thread begin dey yarn dust in support of Ajegunle touts. 

I call it the "I've arrived" mentality. Symptoms are akin to the same symptoms you find in the nouveau-riche. They have one good season, make a name for themselves and start behaving like superstars. The youngest sufferer of this disease known to mankind is Lukman Haruna as witnessed in the recently concluded AYC 2009.

debosky:
If those subtractions were simply it, why have Clichy, Sagna, Gallas, Toure and Ade not achieved the heights of last season??

Simple - There is no DM cover infront of them. Imagine playing Denilson at DM! As for Ade, we all know last season was a fluke. You should have snatched that £25m from Barcelonas hand when you had the chance.

HNIC:
and really, how many times as AW played song at CB this season,even altogether.
Everytime Song has had to play at CB,it must be that all the available CBs are injured or suspended.
And may I even add that he's never been horrible playing as a CB, in fact he's put on some great performances as a CB(the match at OT in 07/08 season comes to mind).Wish I could say he's done well at DM for us!!!!

Thats rubbish! He's been disastrous at CB. Anyone who thinks he played well at OT needs specsavers. Profligate finishing and wrong selection of passes by United attackers was what saved him that day.

The reason Arsenal did so well defensively in CL that season is because they played a 5 man midfield. I don't know why Arsenal didn't carry that on.

Can anyone explain Arsene's insistence on playing Denilson as a DM? Your midfield is too porous.

Look at these onyoshis. Does Eboue know how to defend? I have said it before - if we are going to talk about Arsene's record with defenders, lets talk about centre-backs cos Arsenal full-backs are not required to defend.

How can £15m turn Arsenal into contenders? Okay, maybe £20m.

One DM and one decent centre-back will turn Arsenal into title-contenders.

Arsenal were title-contenders last season and all they've lost is Hleb, Flamini and Gilberto.

Common £80,000, a week, you cannot give Flamini.

Why didn't you guys try and sign Olof Mellberg on a free transfer last season?

I keep telling Arsenal fans - Steven Taylor of Newcastle will solve half of your problems! Carlos Cuellar nko? How much is he? Simple £8m! Can you compare Gallas and Toure to him? What of Vincent Kompany who cost £8m? Simple signings like this would transform Arsenal.

Infact, we will loan you Alex and Ivanovic. Even Mancienne alone will turn you into title-contenders.  

And I will not hear anyone diss Alex Song after the best DM performance he put in at Ghana 2008. Arsene has ruined that boy's confidence by playing him at CB so often.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=226256.msg3412154#msg3412154 date=1233521008]Makes me wonder if all those Arsenal's "undisclosed" transfer fees are not really 30 million or 25 million quid.
Arsenal are only 3 million pounds short of Man Utd's wage bill and these GAYnners won't stop telling us about financial constraints and reh reh reh.[/quote]LMAO!! Na wetin I dey wonder myself. Fergie when asked yesterday: "Which manager is best-value for money?" replied thus: "I would choose Wenger, but he chooses to spend his money on the youth team and other things, so I choose David Moyes." lol.

All I can say is that there must be a thousand players in Arsenal youth team.



@ Debo,


Lets not even talk about full backs here. Ashley's defensive frailties have been exposed because he was FORCED to defend, unlike in his Arsenal days. Lauren never progressed from his first day at RB. He was ready for that position. Same with Flamini when he played left-back. Its got nothing to do with Wenger's genius.

Lets talk about centre-backs cos Arsenals full-backs are not required to defend.

Arsenal will never have players of the calibre of Bergkamp, Pires and Henry again. Therefore, you need to tighten up your defence in order to win the league. Infact, the fact that players of such calibre only won the league once from 2001-2006 is a damning indictment of Arsenal's defence.

Like I said, these 'financial constraints' are a ruse. The £15m being spent on Arshavin could turn Arsenal into genuine title contenders if spent in the right positions. It is just a continuation of Wenger's psychotic obsession with attacking. Your team is being held hostage to the delusions of a lunatic.

Arsenal's attack is better than everyone except Man Utd, but their defence is a bottom-half defence. Djorou is a joke. Infact, has Arsene signed a decent centre-back in 12 years, except for ready-made Sol Campbell? Kolo Toure is shite, ditto Senderos and that clueless French idiot who is now at Villareal. I don forget him name. Alex Song is a DM, not a CB. Stop destroying that boy's career!  

debosky:
Defence has NEVER been an Arsenal strong point, so no great discovery there. Who should he dash the 2004 title to? Campbell? I guess he scored the goals, created them and even was the goalkeeper.

Defence has never been an Arsenal strongpoint UNDER Arsene Wenger. Just confirms my point.

What has been Arsenals problem since 2004? Certainly not the attack. The roof has been leaking for the last 4 years and he has been busy painting the house instead.

debosky:
I guess it was JM that taught Terry and Gallas how to defend? I wonder why Campbell didn't win the trophy at Spurs. Didn't Fergie buy Rio for 30m no, he was brithed from Fergie's womb,

The decline in Gallas' game PROVES that he has not been having defence coaching. At Chelsea, Desailly and Terry always told him where to position himself. But hey, don't take my word for it. Arsene's own DEFENSIVE COACH is the one telling you this.

If Fergie bought ready-made Rio, then Wenger needs to go and sign his own READY-MADE defender, cos he certainly doesn't know how to train one. I feel sorry for Djorou. He will never learn anything under Wenger.

The fact Wenger feels Djorou is ready shows me that Wenger knows nothing about defending. Same with Senderos. Even Kolo Toure would not last half a season at Chelsea with his poor positioning.

debosky:
Oh Wenger can't teach defence, but he teaches a midfield player in Lauren to become one of the best RB's in the league. He develops Ashely Cole to become one of the best LB's around that Chelski (kings of defence do everything possible to buy) . He brings Kolo in and converts him into an excellent CB (before the recent slump). But hey, take Ibime's word for it, we can't defend.

Lauren was already a qualified player who didn't need any coaching from Wenger. Maybe you will tell me Wenger taught Flamini to play left-back just because he put him there once and he excelled.

Wenger did not teach Cashley anything. Cashley came ready-made from the youth team. Plus he was always an attcking full-back, and defending isn't his strongest point, as witnessed today. Any defending he knows, he learnt in his first season at Chelsea. Ask any Chelsea fan, they will tell you he was suspect defensively when he first came.

Kolo Toure was playing centre-back for Ivory Coast way before Wenger ever dreamed of it. BTW, who said Kolo is a good defender? You must be having a laugh! Mr "always out of position, don't worry, my pace will always help me recover". He reminds me of Micah Richards and William Gallas. We call those kind of defenders 'field niccas'! They are lost without someone to help them organise the defence. Kolo is no defender. What has he done without Sol Campbell's hand to guide him?

debosky:
How much does AW spend on the youth team? What teams are you referring to as 'most teams' and how many titles have they won? Baseless claims are easy to make - please back them up with figures,

Why don't you check? Arsenal wage bill is the third or fourth in the whole league. This is all for the 100 eggs they have in their incubator.

Arsenal's financial constraints are a ruse. Wenger spends as much on his youth team as most clubs spend on their first team.

Arsenal will never win the league under Arsene Wenger again.

Since Bould, Adams, Keown, Dixon and Winterburn retired, Arsenal have only won the league once, thanks to Sol Campbell.

George Graham's defensive coach said that Arsene has never once held any defence coaching in training. The guy was kept on by Wenger after Bruce Rioch left and was there to witness everything. He said Arsene virtually ignored him and only did attack training. His pursuit of Arshavin is just a continuation of his psychotic obsession with attacking; instead of concentrating on Arsenals weakness which is defending. Wenger was lucky to have someone like Sol Campbell who didn't need defence training, hence they won the league in 2004. Besides that, Arsenal will NEVER have the kind of attacking talent they had in those days to cover their defensive frailties. Arsene cannot organise a defence to save his life. He should dash his 1998 and 2001 medals to George Graham cos it was George Graham's defence that won him those titles. Arsene is a classic loser. Thats why Marseille President called him "the eternal bridesmaid" when he was at Monaco. Simply, he can never teach Djorou and Gallas to defend. He needs to go and buy ready-made defenders instead of bringing defenders in through his youth policy.


Player for player, Arsenal should have won at least 7 league titles under Wenger, if only he knew how to coach his defence.

Alex didn't even see Torres. Torres came up behind him.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=227275.msg3411779#msg3411779 date=1233513240]Was he not supposed to be tracking Torres for the 1st goal??[/quote]Not at all. Terry was marking Torres, and Torres left him and snuck up on the blind side of Alex. In defence, we were taught that if your man leaves you, you must shout to your defensive partner to let him know he is coming. Alex got no shout from Terry.

It is time to stop all this 'umu' propaganda.

Since when was Rumuokuta called Umuokuta? The Ikwerre's called it Amanweke, then the Igbo's changed the name to UmuOkuta. When the regional government was dissolved, the Ikwerres changed the name to Rumuokuta.

If you want to know the Ikwerre's view on this whole schnitzel, read this:


http://www.ikwerreusa.com/achinewhu.pdf

Who the hell said Cech was man of the match?

Cech made a mistake for the goal. Completely wrong positioning. Dude aint been the same since Steven Hunt put him in a skull cap.

Alex was MOTM by far.

No wingers, no creativity.

I would give anything just to have SWP back, looking at that idiot Malouda on the pitch.

Still, no need to get carried away.

When was the last time we played well at Anfield?

We need Essien back ASAP! Ballack's legs are looking tired.

Bring Drogba on!

We need the long ball option since we are outnumbered in midfield.

Gerrard getting away with murder is typical of the way the English treat Gerrard.

Every move of his is highlighted. Even if he does nothing all game, they will edit the highlights to look like he was man of the match.

He dives, wins any freekick or penalty he wants and he gets away with murderous tackles without getting a yellow card.

I am fed up!

May this referee rot in hell.

That was not even close to a yellow card.

Meanwhile, what does Gerrard have to do to get a yellow card? Shoot someone? His tackle was way worse than Lampard's and he even told the referee to 'phock off'.

I am incensed!

Match is too open. It can only end in a Liverpool win.

We need to push them back. Bring Drogba on, move Anelka to the right, Kalou to the left, and take Malouda off.

Whats up guys?

How una see game today?

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=226153.msg3409631#msg3409631 date=1233440535]I am hitting the studio tomorrow.
Watchout for Ibime's diss(Deathblow II) from me.

#using modenine's blueprint#
Your neck thick like pitbull/Ibime wearing headwarmer in Timbuktu/while visiting Archbishop Desmond Tutu/. . . . . . [/quote]Mode9's 'headwarmer' diss is a legitimate punch against Rugged. . . . you must have forgotten that Ruggedman likes to wear headwarmers. . . . Ruggedman is a bush man. . . . go and watch his Baraje video where he is wearing headwarmers, like say sun no dey shine well well for Naija

BTW, does Rugged have 1/100th of Methodman, Redman and RZA'a money?. . . . Redman was just clowning on Cribs.

Sorry, I used the wrong analogy. Do Methodman and Redman boast?

D'banj lived in London? For where?

auwal87:
1. I am not BLACK

So what are you, Tuareg?

You must be one of those 'light-skinned' fulani's. 

Abeg, go and join your brothers in Chad Republic and stop disturbing us here in Naija.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=226153.msg3409399#msg3409399 date=1233432325]Classic trumpery. . . . . .He doesn't have Naija mentality of flashing money OR he doesn't have money to flash??
Jay-Z, 2Pac, Nas, Weezy are Nigerians?? In Rap industry, flossing is the name of the game.
This is no gospel music where artistes are meant to be conservative. . . .This is Rap music and itz all about bragging.[/quote]Modey is from the Redman/ Methodman school of rappers and such who do not boast. All the rappers you mentioned above did not go to school, dem just dey behave like agbero.

Half of Ruggedmans wealth is a fable. E just dey flash wetin him no get. The fact he has driven 5 cars tells us nothing except that he sells his old car and uses the money to buy a new one. Can he afford to own 5 cars at the same time?

What is Ruggedman's net worth? How much does he command per show? How many endorsement deals does he have, and for how much? Abeg if we want to talk about people who are really making money, lets talk about D'Banj, P Square and such.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=226153.msg3409399#msg3409399 date=1233432325]I disagree. . . . . .Mode9 has no delivery. . . . .
People have praised his lyrics but whenever i remember "Neck long like fowl and headwarmers in a blazing sun", i get discouraged.
Ma worst bars in a cold weather is better than anything Mode9 has ptyalised in his poverty-stricken life.[/quote]Onyoshi. . . . oya drop audio snippet make we hear.

First of all, Mode9 is nowhere near broke. He just doesn't have Nigerian mentality of flashing money about like pesin wey never see money before. Modey is from a middle-class family, not a tout like Rugged wey dey behave like nouveau-riche.

Mode9 get money pass all of una for here wey dey shout anyhow, except me sha.

That said, Mode9 is losing fans by refusing to spit in pidgin or local dialect. He is not keeping an eye on his business.

Skill-wise however, Rugged is no match for Mode9. Lets not bastardise HipHop by making this all about money. Skill for skill, Rugged must bow to baba Mode.

Wetin concern me with post #3092?

He is probably referring to a blatant penalty we should have had against Middlesbrough.

Wetin that one get to do with me? Am I Scolari's advocate? Abeg stop linking me to that guy. The same way you criticise am, na so I dey criticise am.



BTW, Zola is doing a brilliant job at West Ham. He started slowly, but he has built a very good brand of football there. They are passing the ball well and are hard to score against.

Savio Nsereko is tha bomb. Juventus wanted him a few months back but never made any bid. He is from Uganda BTW.

egheleghe, na native wrestling logic wey you dey use create argument for Nairaland?

egheleghe:
as for all those so called borokiri and co,they were more or less uninhabited waterlogged areas which were sand filled.they therefore belonged to no one and claimed afterwards by okrika people because of land scarcity in their area.whether ikwerre is igbo or not is reserved for another thread.thread closed.

It is a well known fact that Igwe Ocha or 'Borokiri' as the Okrikas call it was the first settlement in PH. Igwe Ocha or Borokiri was sold by the Amanyanabo of Okrika to the British and these transactions are recorded for anyone who wishes to check. PH started at the Wharf in Borokiri and only later spread out into Ikwerre lands. Borokiri was no swamp. Aggrey Road is part of Borokiri and was the administrative centre of old PH. Any claim to the northern part of PH is between the Ikwerres and Igbos to fight over, but history clearly shows that PH started in lands sold by the Okrika to the British. The fact that lands such as Lagos waterside, Bundu waterside and the land at the back of Comprehensive Secondary School were later reclaimed from swamp does not mean that the larger portion of Okrika-owned Borokiri did not exist. Infact, the original PH was built on Okrika-owned land in Borokiri.

This Negro guy is surely arguing with himself. I wash my hand kpatakpata. They say anybody wey argue with crase man na crase man himself.

Doyin, abeg spit knowledge make we hear something worthwhile.

I don't know.

Moderator! Clear this rubbish!

[quote author=Negro_Ntns link=topic=226064.msg3408445#msg3408445 date=1233411764]Yeah, I lost some money dear. But it's limited to the odds on his retaining office, everything else as predicted is still standing okay, I will regain the loss on his criminal trial. Some of the stakes are long term and may not even mature for another 4yrs, depending on when trial starts and how long it takes to wind up. That's beneficial because the longer it stands the more people join in and raise the stakes even higher. It's just like stock trading - loose some gain some.


Ibime,

I don't water ski, I don't ice ski, I do not motorcross. . .I consider it wild and risky but I respect the guys who take the risks of adventure and enjoy those sports. Sometimes they fall and get hurt only to return soon after and continue their hobby. They have experience and exposure that I can never have. They have touched places and enountered life boundaries that I can only fantasise about. That's the way you have to take this INTRADE loss.

My forecast was strong on his impeachment. What you are looking at is a dangerous territory. A Senate trial that bars witnesses! I did not fathom that could ever happen and that was my miscalculation. But this is my territory, not yours and you can only fantasize about the ifs and buts, but you can never touch what I have encountered nor experience the boundaries I have laid foot on in POLITICAL ANALYSIS & PROSPECTING.

I am a Sheperd and you are still a sheep. A lot of what you read in the news, beside what is directly sourced from government, are taken from chatters and trends in political blogs and event forecasts. If I ask you to name 5 top outcomes for the newly enacted Guantanamo order you cannot. A person that attempts the test and fails at it is better than one is intimidated by it. Using my earlier analogy, the skier that fell and was hurt is better than me, intimidated by the risks. So until you can be like me and give predictions, shut up and continue to play Nintendo!![/quote]Intrade ke? 

Look at this gambler. You no go snap out of your childish fantasy.

Placing bets on people's decisions. Nothing scientific about it.

Who be this fake Nateevs?