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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m):
Havertz10:
After spending half a trillion dollars on subsidies cheesy

Meanwhile even a nato member is ditching the dollar
Turkey currency has collapsed from 6 Liras to one dollar to 20 Liras to one dollar in the last 2 years. They can do what they want, their businessmen will always hold dollar

Turkey is getting ready to invade the Kurds in Syria in 2023 to create a 30km buffer zone between PKK and SDF who are US allies against ISIS. They will need to protect themselves from sanctions naturally,though the US won't censure them, it is only sensible that they take all precaution. Turkey is already under some small sanctions for buying S400 air defence system in 2017

Meanwhile your Putin is increasingly asking for peace. Current expenditure from their foreign reserves is $13bln a month to defend the rouble. They started with $630bln, $330 bln got seized, leaving $300bln though they still reflect the seized reserves on their balance sheet. Help me do some Maths on how many months they can afford to keep up the war before their Reserve gets dangerously low and they have to let their currency float. October balance was around $218b with $13bln monthly cost to propping up rouble. My maths says another roughly 12 months will bring their available reserves down to $50bln, similar to Nigeria, and the point at which their Central Bank will stop buying rouble. Expect their call for peace to increase before the clock runs out. Tick Tock mudafucka

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m):
swiz123:
I looked at Pele's best goals, without bias, they look so ordinary. You could tell those players marking him were amateurs.
Those defenders had never seen those tricks before. Pele invented them. Those defenders marking him are all-time greats like Beckenbaur, Schnellinger, Bobby Moore, Maldini Senior, Trapattoni, Jack Charlton, Fachetti and co

Unlike today when players learn their tricks from watching countless videos, Pele did not have forebears videos to learn tricks from and invented all the modern tricks himself. That's what makes him the greatest. Almost every modern style of dribbling originated at his feet

Similarly, defenders back then had not seen those tricks before and were bamboozled, making them look like odè
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 10:43pm On Dec 30, 2022
Havertz10:
‘international politics’ indeed, for you to even say that self cheesy

I will take my time to explain, hopefully, you can really see what i’m trying to say, you can do your own research to confirm but most importantly take advantage of the situation


Geopolitics is my religion, I follow every story rationally, particularly those that will bring about a multipolar fair world for everyone, it’s our world after all

Let me explain why I believe that the west is bleeped, by the west I mean America, European nations are vassal states

Let’s say, I wanted something from china, normally I would convert my local currency to dollar or whichever intermediary I use will do the conversation then pay the dollar to China, doing that depreciates the value of my currency against the dollar, that keeps the demand for the dollar high, If a significant proportion of the world is actively seeking the dollar, demand > supply would automatically inflate the value of the dollar relative to other currencies

if you look at that example rationally, dollar actually serves no intrinsic purpose, it only provides a means of transaction basically a needless middleman

I could trade my currency for yen negating the pointless need of the dollar, if all countries traded in their own currencies, asides fairness that it would promote, most countries would be forced to optimize their territorial advantages, American dollar is basically the mason mount of global progress

Which brings us to today, when Russia started the SMO in Ukraine, American government knew that they couldn’t attack Russia directly, so they went nuclear financially, seizing the country’s sovereign wealth because it was under their influence, many nations didn’t like that

there have been grumbling for decades about the dominance of the dollar but with American military enforcing it, most nations simply expressed their grievances subtly but when Russia said that it would demand ruble for its gas, we all saw what happened to their currency, many countries used that opportunity and today, Russia and India are trading without using the dollar, china and Russia, a few more countries too, you can check, even Saudi Arabian government have been talking about reevaluating their relationship with America as equals

Many of these nations have been reducing their dependence on the dollar for decades, American dollar percentage of foreign reserves have been declining, most countries are now bold enough to publicly say that they want to trade outside American financial space, something that was unthinkable a few years ago

If a currency is inflated against other currencies because demand is high, what happens when demand is low? lipsrsealed

Lastly, Americans wasted their opportunity, they should have given their people better social privileges, for instance how can you spend 800billion on military but can’t spend 15billion for homelessness because it’s socialism, in the supposed greatest country in the world, a significant proportion of Americans are unhappy with status quo, some are even supporting Putin cluelessly, imagine what would happen when the dollar crashes

They are already raiding stores to the point that it’s now legal to steal in certain states, in a few years, I can’t even imagine, most are predicting a civil war but I doubt the liberals have the stomach for it, it’s not looking good


This fight is our fight, for us today and for generations to come, let’s make the world fairer. open your eyes, don’t be misled by MSM

Goodnight, Bleep the west
Good morning Sir

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 10:32pm On Dec 30, 2022
Ballzproblem2, you want Chelsea to spend £120m on DM, but you don't want Mount to ask for £300k per week? Don't you know Maga gets billed according to the level of his magacity?

There are many problems that stem from overpaying for players, not just running out of funds for other positions, you then overpay for other players and agents take you to the cleaners when discussing salary.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 9:58pm On Dec 30, 2022
Ballzproblem2:
arsenal don't have good players, Liverpool spent £100m on Darwin Nunez
Arsenal LW, RW, AM, DM and Saliba are top 3 to top 5 in EPL in their positions
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 2:38pm On Dec 30, 2022
OhBritannia:
And the president of the united states of America had to mention the name of Messi first.
Note!!! There is a psychology when your name is mentioned first when people are mentioning great men.
It means mentally they have already placed you as the 1st, as number one in this modern era.

Even the president of the united states of America knows who the GOAT is right now.

Rest in peace Pele but right now Messi is the greatest of all time alive.

Before you argue with me, go and argue with the president of the united states of America.
The fact he mentioned Beckham with those names means he should stick to baseball and leave football for those that know
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 10:48pm On Dec 29, 2022
airmark:
Neymar wasn't shipped to Europe to play until he was 21 too, so it's not all about quality, especially at Chelsea. A Brazilian Mendel-Idowu would have got a season in his belt for Fluminense.
Neymar started playing for Brazil at 18 and Santos at 17, with trophies at 18 and won Copa libertadores at 19

Which one you dey?

I don't see why a great player won't start playing senior football at 18. Chelsea needs a left footed right winger badly. I don't see why he shouldn't play if those videos you showed are reflective of his ability
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 10:25pm On Dec 29, 2022
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 9:57pm On Dec 29, 2022
The Black Pearl

King Pele

GOAT of goats

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by Ibime(m): 7:34pm On Dec 29, 2022
Donjazet2:
This is an example of what I'm saying.

Warning; very graphic display of raw violence. A graphic evidence of man's inhumanity to man. People who call other people cannibals.
This is the literal graphic representation of that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/eyeblech/comments/zxlnw2/stabbed_and_beheaded/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

This is the link to the entire section.
Ps; I don't know if you can view these without having an account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/eyeblech?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
What is to gain in watching this sort of thing? Roland17 once said here that protecting mental health is a deliberate action. Anything like this cannot be good for the soul. I have a friend in Angola that used to send me these Whatsapp videos of gangland murders in Brazil, I delete them as soon as they fly in and ask him not to send me that kind of stuff again
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by Ibime(m): 7:28pm On Dec 29, 2022
Donjazet2:
Very wild story I just seen. shocked
Teachers must be very wicked to be using koboko on head, yet I have seen it countless times in school. There was even one teacher that uses broken leg of school chair to flog students. Some teachers should not be allowed anywhere near children
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 7:20pm On Dec 29, 2022
BlueMann:
You are not ready for the news that is about to come out of Chelsea Football club

Things are very hot
Chelsea to sign Mbappe?

Make it plain so the people can see
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 7:16pm On Dec 29, 2022
Ballzproblem2:
I saw something on FB , casemeiro vs Kante who is better,hmmm,very tough
Different positions. And Kante ended all comparison in 2021 UCL

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 7:11pm On Dec 29, 2022
airmark:
You get eyes bro.

At 17, he is looking beautiful. At 20, he should be banging.
He will be 18 in two weeks

A generational talent (like Neymar you compared him to) should be playing at 18. If that video translates to even half of what he can do to senior footballers, and we have no natural right winger on our books presently, then he should be playing already if he's that good
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by Ibime(m): 6:15pm On Dec 29, 2022
Good morning Basilico

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 11:27am On Dec 29, 2022
swiz123:
Enzo might not be worth that amount, but the boy was used as a DM to play in an aggressive high line. Passing 9/10, press resistant, sharp half turns, pace for recovery, good shooting technique and he is just 21. This boy is armed with skills to become very successful in football, you would have known this if you watched Argentina with a little less hatred
I know all these, and yet the price on all this no pass £50m-£60m
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by Ibime(m): 1:19am On Dec 29, 2022
OasisX:
grin

I checked your score last night, fear catch me. You don close the gap on me no be small.
You done dey flop now after making so much noise at season start. I done almost catch you. Within two weeks, I suppose done lap you
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 1:15am On Dec 29, 2022
Ballzproblem2:
rejected by Newcastle, truly truly jorginho is finished,yet his foolish fans will tell you "football is not about scoring and assisting",then what does he do ,"he calm games". SMH
"He doesn't have the mobility" to play in Newcastle midfield. What a whole Chelsea have been carrying for the last 5 years.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 1:13am On Dec 29, 2022
FBS:
Ibime never followed him, you never did, certainly I did not. Not sure if anyone did.
As per Ibime's theory - never sign a player from the World Cup - James Rodriguez comes to mind.

Amrabaat is energetic, committed and I watched his 50m recovery run- I like that but he also gave the ball away in dangerous areas.

My concern is this - are you guys proposing the club buy this guy because he is on a cheap or because he is good enough. Is he the long term solution or a quick fix?

Forget all those half turns megedefegede Ibime mentioned, strikers have way better half turns, that's how they are sometimes able to beat their markers in tight spaces.
Let the scouts go and their job having been given introduction at World Cup

The best way to scout a CM/DM is type in "their name vs" in YouTube and watch all their touches in a particular set of matches. This will tell you if they have the required technique. I did this for Amrabat vs Juventus and was satisfied. Following Bimffos set of posts, I will go and review more.

That's how you scout central midfielders as a layman rather than highlight reels which do not identify weaknesses. Using this method is how I saw Bakayoko was a fugazi and a danger to his own team, when everyone was hyping him here. A good central midfielder is summarized by the absence of his weaknesses, both technical, physical and positioning, and watching all actions in a game should give clearer picture.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 1:02am On Dec 29, 2022
Ballzproblem2:
I'm not saying he is worth it, I'm saying we need Midfielders like now ,hence desperate times calls for desperate measures,and if it is to trigger Enzo Fernandez clause,so be it ,see as casemeiro change man U Midfield set up ,is it worth paying that amount for a 30 years old? no ,is it necessary yes
Copying other clubs spending obscene amount because it worked for them is no guarantee it will work out well for you

That's how VVD success convinced Manure to spend same money on Maguire, and Bayern to mumu themaelf for Hernandez, while Allison success convinced us to mumu ourself for Kepa. Same for Dembele, Coutinho, Griezmann, Joao Felix and Lukaku. The hardest mistake to undo is big mistake. It's best you try to scout well within reasonable sums than make big mistake. Spending £100m is no guarantee of success anymore than £40m, infact the failure rate is higher at the larger sums. Those are sums that wreck clubs for years. See dead Barka for example
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 12:51am On Dec 29, 2022
swiz123:
I don't know why I think you are using cost to hide your concerns that Enzo's versatility could mean Jorgiboy continues as a DM for Chelsea.

Like I said before, Enzo will come and learn from Jorginho himself and perhaps take over from him soon.
You are projecting your insecurities on me and hoping Chelsea sign a CM to play alongside Jogginghoe rather than a DM to kick him out after 5 years without competition for his spot

Am I mad to agree with Chelsea paying £105m for a DM? You no know me before?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 12:06am On Dec 29, 2022
Ballzproblem2:
all of you barking Enzo is not worth that amount,we know, but we want to address Midfield issue,If we ignore am now same idiots we be barking like dogs ,the money no dey affect you ,my happiness is jorginho is finally leaving,no more hiding for that fraud
No be so you dey shout say Kukuruku and Fofana money is worth it to address problem at leftback and centreback? You done start another shout

Rational people believe if you spend £105m on DM, other areas will suffer,or you will need £2bln to complete a full team. DM job is to keep you competitive in the game, not to win you the game. There are many DMs that will keep you competitive for £30m

Well, it seems Boehly has come up with a convincing scheme to deceive UEFA that Chelsea are within FFP boundaries while splashing £1bln on players. Make we dey watch
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 11:51pm On Dec 28, 2022
Bimffo:
This are Jorginho's stats in yesterday's match, against Zagreb and against Arsenal.

Was not impressive yesterday but he created 2 chances. Made 1 tackle. Made 3 long balls

Against Zagreb, he had 2 interception. Made 1 long ball. Created 2 chances. Won 4 out of 5 tackles. Made 76 passes.

Against Arsenal, Attempted 7 long balls because we were defending, interception 2. Tackles 3. Jorginho even jumped once and he won that duel.


If in all these matches, we castigated Jorginho and said he had a bad day in office, then why are we romancing Amrabat.

Is it because France President said Amrabat is the best midfielder in the tournament? grin grin

Person wey Onuaihi (abi wetin be that young player name) dey carry along.


IF WE CLAIM JORGINHO IS NOT GOOD FOR CHELSEA, THEN AMRABAT IS NOT THE PLAYE FOR US. It is not about forming busy for camera. Are you really doing the work? Lukaku of Midfield.
Comparing Jorgjnho vs Bournemouth or Zagreb vs a Moroccan midfielder vs possession heavy teams like Portugal, Spain and Croatia is the height of comparing apples with oranges

Secondly learn to differentiate between being dispossessed and pass not finding opponent. The way you kept quoting "Amrabat lost possession 9 times" as if 9 of Jorginho passes do not go astray per game. You then used poetic licence to frame it as "losing possession" in dangerous areas, even if he attempted a long pass and it got cut out

Amrabat was dispossessed 0.4 times per game in the World Cup on average, similar to Jorginho stats in EPL

Secondly in Serie A, Amrabat attempts more passes for Fiorentina than Jogginghoe does for Chelsea

We don't need a DM at 10/10 in passing. 8/10 is OK, while the other parts of his game are also 7-8/10

Unlike Jogginghoe whose passing is 10/10 against small teams, 5/10 against mid-teams and belleface back to sender against big teams with no risk taken at all. While Jogginghoes physical attributes are 1/10.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by Ibime(m): 11:04am On Dec 28, 2022
afrodoc:
The only coding I know is when you are secretly kpanning a babe and you don’t want your friends to know. cry
grin grin grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 4:44am On Dec 28, 2022
FBS:
Is that based on his world cup performances or have you been following the player before that?
Last I remember, you've always preached against signing players who perform well in the said tournament?
Central midfield play is different to strikers and wingers like El Hadji Diouf or Enner Valencia hammering in a tournament. If you watch a CM or DM a few times for 90 minutes, you can tell if they have it or not, unlike a forward that might just be going through a purple patch

I'm talking touch, not losing ball under pressure, proficiency on the half-turn, pressing, positioning and following runners. This is what you use to judge a DM and a tournament can tell you enough, certainly enough for me to go review his tapes. The icing on the cake for me was after showing all these, he chased Mbappe down from the halfway line in a straight footrace and caught him in the game against France. That shows me a DM that you can play aggressive football with without fearing counterattack too much

His contract expires 2024 which pegs his price around £25m. That makes sense unlike spending £100m plus on a DM which is the height of foolishness. For £100m, you better score me 40 goals a season , that's what the big money is paid for,.not yeomen positions
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 1:51am On Dec 28, 2022
Forget Enzo Fernandez deal, sign Amrabat for £25m, use another £25m sign another one. We need two DM, not one

It's only Chelsea that will sign 10 forwards and be managing 0 to 1 DM for the last 10 years, that DM will be getting overworked
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by Ibime(m): 11:44pm On Dec 27, 2022
Ibime:
Tesla down another 10% today while Nasdaq, DJ30 and S&P500 are flat

Rats fleeing sinking ship
Update - make that 13%.

Stock wey dey behave like rugpull

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 11:10pm On Dec 27, 2022
swiz123:
While at it, analyse the maestros game today.
Not interested in maestro that only plays when the opposition is weak and parks bus or escorts when they are mid-to-good
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 10:42pm On Dec 27, 2022
Ballzproblem2:
hmm , nawao the Kain players wey we get on loan ,which one be dujon Sterling,his name isn't quality self grin, nevertheless I don't think they are considering him ,how you see today performance?
I slept off after returning from plenty waka. I go look highlight later
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 10:35pm On Dec 27, 2022
Ballzproblem2:
they're smarter now , cucurella and fofana really burn us
They should recall Dujon Sterling for now and plan well for the summer
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by Ibime(m): 10:27pm On Dec 27, 2022
adamusuleiman3:
A Michigan federal Judge Robert Jonker (appointed by George W. Bush) sentenced a man convicted of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to 16 years in prison on Tuesday.

Prosecutors said that Adam Fox was the leader of a plot to kidnap the Democratic governor from her summer home in 2020.
Good morning Benaldinho Benalvino3

Entrap ko, entrap ni
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 10:21pm On Dec 27, 2022
Whoever they recruit to replace James, the name Dumbfries should not come into their thinking please

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