₦airaland Forum

Kimbeast:
China didn't sign any big names.

Sheikh is too rich to watch football. I'm not watching half empty stadiums mate.

How will you carry Ronaldo and be playing with empty seats everywhere. They are not serious. If they can't generate interest in their own fans, they should forget generating interest in me

timbros:
You don't need to know players from the whole league before you enjoy Saudi league.

Just keep tabs with Al Hilal, Al Nassr and Al Ittihad and you're good to go.

Any match those 3 trams play will look like a UCL match because of the European names we are used to.

There are reports sef that Saudi Arabia wan reach agreement with UEFA to give 'wild card' to the winners of their league to participate in UCL... If e mistakenly happen, you know wetin e go mean? Ronaldo fit win another UCL

I don't watch football for names. All those players are retired as far as I'm concerned. I didn't watch names in China and I won't start watching them now

reccy:
@ Ibime, raumdeuter and other helpful brothers.

How genuine is this?

What does it entail?

Scam

Griffon:
Ibime abeg check your mail boss.

I did bro, I will revert

potland:
just say you hate Arabs. You and your antisemitic rants will never change the fact that Europe will someday lose its monopoly on football

I am responsible for what I write not what you understand. Like I said, I have no familiarity with their football clubs, their players or rivalries, not to mention linguistic challenges in differentiating their names. There is no backstory. I know almost all MLS, Mexican and even most South American clubs so I can relate. I would relate more if Egypt was the one importing these players as I know the Zamaleks, Al Ahlys, Ismailys and co. Nothing to do with antisemitism but familiarity. If I ask you to name 3 players from Saudi team at the last World Cup without google, can you? Have you ever watched Asian Champions League much less care about what's going on there?

Itzlinda:
What do you think is the present cause of naira free fall.

An analyst on radio station said it is the excessive spending of buhari administration financed by cbn and budget deficiency to the tune of 10 trillion. That it has nothing to do with import as our import/export is balanced.

What's your opinion on this

Yes to large extent, but other factors dey. He is talking about our balance of payments which is OK right now with oil price increase but our current account also took hits in 2015 to 2016 and 2018 to 2021 with oil slump which eroded our foreign reserves and our capacity to prop up the Naira. So any small gyration now and we are defenceless. I even read somewhere that the foreign reserves is only on paper and that the money doesn't exist, it was used as collateral against foreign loans. Nothing will surprise me again in that country if true.

So you have Govt sourcing dollars for external debt servicing which was about N900bln last year. I also don't believe our balance of payments is accurately captured as there is a lot of shadow importing going on outside the view of CBN which is putting pressure on Aboki source of FX.

popizaino:
Same with me too.

Which makes me wonder why Klopp is bidding £16m for a 30 year old Japanese dude but can't bid £30m for a 28 year old Ward-Prowse who fits the energy demands of his midfield and has the sweetest delivery

I don't know about y'all but nothing will make me watch Saudi league even if they sign all the stars from Europe. I am more likely to watch MLS. Messi made the right move

Football is a full package. I will pick more interest in a Mexican, Paraguayan or American dude playing in MLS than an Al-something playing in Saudi league. If I can't relate to all 11 players, I'm not interested. MLS commentators are well known, they know the league and can tell me about a player who came from Tigres or Penarol playing in MLS league. Saudi league would import some obnoxious English speaking commentator who knows nothing about Bin-Rahman who used to play for Al-Ahli, and mesef can't relate to Al Ahli

Sulele04:
He is not coming good kan kan, he is a shit left-back.

The truth is he ismore of a midfielder than a left-back sef, he is only good when he inverts to help build-up that's all.

He can't overlap so zero attacking value, & he is massively overrated defensively, he is not spectacular in defence walker, awb esq to compensate.

There's a possibility that starting him as a LCB in a back 3 dented his confidence

Cukuruku was a winger at Getafe that takes people on. This Cukuruku has lost all his mojo, could be a confidence factor

Cukuruku can still come good if he finds his confidence, let's not write him off yet. Better to keep him than sell him anything below £40m

Griffon:
Why are we looking at offloading him while letting Cucurella stay?

It doesn’t add up.

To balance books

Lewis Hall is pure profit

Cucuruku sale would be a major accounting loss

£35m for Lewis Hall is fair.

We should have a buyback for £55m though

Hall has a delivery and final ball that less than 5% of players possess. I always value those players with that delivery

larride:
Our production level will likely get back to pre Buhari level where we are doing 1.6m - 1.8m barrels per day.

Are there any definitive steps to ensure that? That means actually catching and prosecuting several politicians and big men stealing the oil

larride:
Its Ribadu.

According to the NASS, Na security clearance hold his confirmation.

Ribadu and Bichi fúcked him up.

Ribadu no get that kain strength jare

Dem use Ribadu as cover-up to kpai the guy

There are many other monsters in that cabinet like Wike that they could withhold security clearance for if they want. They simply don't want El-Rufai and Tinubu agrees. What will it take for Tinubu to tell Ribadu to kill whatever report he is writing?

Unlimited22:
You have come again. After all these years you won't let this name go

Why would I let the reliable and still cheap option go. Someone who never let Newcastle down when he stepped in. Plus he's English, filling up HG spot.

afrodoc2:
Players can't dribble like before. Some players of past decades will dribble shege out of your life in a small circle cos they didn't need that much space to dribble. Now what most players call dribble is simple push and run. The major reason is because all those shege dribbles are coached out of most players these days at a young age. The coaches will rather ask them to pass back and build up from the back again rather than try to find creative individual solutions. The player who dribbles rather than follow tactical instructions will soon find himself on the bench.

I agree about the defensive blocks being an issue these days though and alluded to that in my earlier post. The days of a winger twisting and turning his full back's blood into thick clot are long gone.

I strongly disagree. Defenders are no longer mumu. All of them have seen those skills a million times and many of them can do those skills. This is not the days when every team played in a silo and you'll be seeing some skills for the first time when you meet the opposition

There are much more dribble types than before and players are all exposed to them. Even on amateur level, there are far more dribbles and dribbling styles than when I was playing actively. The amateurs of these days can twist blood out of some of the pros of those days because those pros won't have seen those skills. Go to any power league or YouTube amateur channel and see what I'm saying

larride:
Ribadu most likely.

Who dash Ribadu such powers

Ribadu that cannot deliver his local Government

Who is the hand behind Ribadu?

raumdeuter:
Nyesom Wike – FCT Minister

Festus Keyamo – Minister of Aviation

Adebayo Adelabu- Minister Of Power

Adegboyega Oyetola – Minister of Transportation

Dele Alake- Minister of Solid Minerals

Muhammed Idris – Minister of Information

Mohammed Badaru- Minister of Defence

Minister of State, Defense – Bello Mattawale

Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy – Wale Edun

Minister of Works- Dave Umahi

Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare – Ali Pate

Minister of Agriculture and food security -Abubakar kyari

Minister of Youths- Abubakar Mohmoh

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy – Bosun Tijjani

Minister of Foreign Affairs – Yusuf Tuga

Minister of Budget and Economic Planning – Atiku Bagudu

Minister of Water resources and sanitation – Joseph utsve

Minister of Steel Development – Shuaibu Audu

Minister of State, Agriculture – Sabi Abdullahi

Minister of Trade and Investment – Doris Anieete

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation – Betta Edu

Minster or Sport – John Eno

Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy – Bunmi Tunji Ojo

Minister of Petroleum Resources – Yet to be allocated

Minister of Labor and Employment – Simon Lalong

Minister of Special Duties – Zapahnnaih Gazza

Apart from Umahi, no Igbos

Very easy to squeeze out Igbos from political calculation if you can get Rivers State and part of AkwaIbom as Tinubu has done

raumdeuter:
Tinubu nominated ElRufai while some powers didnt want him and blocked his path

Which powers? Ganduje camp?

Is it true that El-Rufai got squeezed out of ministerial slots even after delivering Northern Governors bloc votes for Tinubu?

afrodoc2:
A good example is how many games in the earlier Women's World Cups ended 6-3, 7-1, 5-2 etc but now partly due to better tactically prepared teams we are getting lower scorelines. There are creative tactics but a lot of the tactics in football are set up to stop the opposition. Also, the focus on tactics means freelancing flair players are often overlooked for players that can follow the manager's tactics to the letter.

Instead of Maradona collecting the ball and dribbling through a maze of defenders or Michael Laudrupp throwing endless risky through passes from his own half you now have endless passing at the 1st phase until a clear opportunity opens up. Because of tactics you now rarely have fullbacks isolated against wicked wingers like before as their own winger will often drop back to give cover unlike before when your own winger will stay forward lazily leaving you to be tortured by Ryan Giggs or Marc Overmars all game.

A very good team will usually flog a mediocre or bad team but the inferior team can use tactics to reduce the difference in quality. It is far easier to devise tactics to neutralize a team than it is to devise tactics to open up a team.

The biggest change from the 80s is two more players in the defensive block (7 as opposed to 5) and each player covers 5km more than those days so space is at a premium. Players can still dribble and even better than before, but the space to dribble no dey again

nihilistjnr:
At this rate guyman might not need to wait for December to enter Naija.

The olosho discount is looking pretty bänging right now

BlueRayDick:
TINUBUnomics

https://www.nairaland.com/7805723/nnpc-secures-3bn-loan-stabilise

@ Ibime what does this translate to in layman’s terms ?

I guess NNPC are the biggest eaters of dollars as they are main importer of finished crude products

Why Central Bank does not have enough to forward to NNPC is another question

Whatever it is, it's only plaster on a gaping wound. Slowly but surely Dollar will find it's way to N2k with some minor bumps on the way due to Central Bank interventions

Chelsea should buy Karl Darlow as backup goalie for £3m and forget those yahoo boys

popizaino:
What is the situation of Mason Greenwood? We should be all over the place trying to get this natural born striker.

We don't want wahala please

Griffon:
Liverpool fans were chasing me in my dream last night, immediately I shouted Todd Boehly they all disappeared into thin air.

Singapore1:
Is there any reason why you are not factoring additional revenue streams such as sponsorships, shirt sales, stadium income, and TV rights ?

Commercial and TV revenue alone is very significant

This is just factoring the impact of transfers alone, not including revenue streams nor costs which are also significant

Jane74:
yes, the news about Volkswagen's return to Russia is clickbait, fake.

But there is another news, maybe you will like it more:

Production of Volkswagen cars will begin in Uzbekistan. German automaker Volkswagen is considering the Jizzakh Auto plant in Uzbekistan as an assembly site for its products. As stated in the government decree, the local Ministry of Economy and Finance should develop documentation, conclude contracts with the bank, perform construction work and installation of equipment by December 2023.

Do you know that Uzbekistan is a member of the association of stupid putards, the Eurasec (formerly called the Customs Union)?

Putards may be stupid, but they are not greedy at all; it is very good for stupid putards if Uzbekistan (the former Soviet republic) can launch high-tech production at home.

If Volkswagen produces cars in Uzbekistan, then any russian putard (if he wants) will be able to buy new Volkswagen cars.

Never has losing FDI to a neighbouring country sounded so good. Ride on.

timbros:
Ibime how far with your BB?

Seytiano:
So you didn't win with your bb?

Haters, calm down fess

ariesbull:
Do you have a dysfunctional family and were you raised badly

Must you always insult. .

Did I mention your name?

I don't exchange pleasantries with murderous double digit IQ cockroaches but if you feel you own a general insult, I will never fail to greet "Good morning Putards"

Ballzproblem2:
🚨 FFP : Chelsea’s estimated amortised spending in the past three windows under Boehly and Clearlake, using initial transfer figures reported by The Athletic, comes to £157.2 million - this significantly lower number is almost entirely offset by an accounting profit from player sales of £149.6 million over the same period! (@TheAthleticFC) genius in charge

However what you don't realize is that £157m will recur in the books for the next 7 years till those players contracts expire, while there will be no more homegrown players to sell to offset the £157m

The profit generated by player sales is a one time profit (Profit on disposal) while the amortized spending is recurring each year

Meaning Boehly has done all his spending upfront leaving little wiggle room in future transfer windows

Gallagher, Chalobah, Odoi and Broja sales will be pure accounting profit since their carrying value is zero and are more likely than not in order to balance the books either now or next accounting year

When Lukaku, Ziyech, Sterling, Kepa, Cucurella and Fofana are eventually sold, it will also generate huge accounting losses to offset.

That's why I said months ago that Chelsea will need to sell most homegrown players to generate accounting profit to offset the amortized spending