₦airaland Forum

Unlimited22, been watching your Sangare guy, not a fan of his technique on the ball. He looks uncomfortable receiving it and spinning with the outside of his foot to escape a presser. He's not as bad as Bakayoko in that aspect but nowhere near Bissoumas level of comfort and technique

Raphinha and Sterling is a good combination. Raphinha for the one-v-one dribbles and Sterling to make runs and score. Good balance between the two wingers

lordfalcao:
Buying raphinha and sterling means we are not buying any center forward this summer

Havertz and Broja competing for CF is fine

donstan18:
Bole >>> Romans

Holy Boehly, we believe you die!

andrewbaba44:
How many players for your team go start for mancity ?

Which of your cb is currently better then any of these Laporte ,Ruben Diaz ,John stones

You go tell me weda na aboki melang sarr or hunter chalobah go bench am

The wahala be say at the end of season when Diaz and Stones were injured, they played Fernandinho instead

Boy has looked shaky at centreback at City. If you ask me, he is a bit too skinny for 2 man defence. E easy to chance am.

Griffon:
Anti-Japa food don don.

But why Nigeria no come follow?

Griffon:
I’ll have Ake over most names we’ve been linked this window.

He’s solid, EPL seasoned and versatile enough to play as a CB, LCB and LWB.

The LWB no follow but he can play LB

He can also play DM if pressed. However he is inadequate for a 2 man defence

My problem is we are signing players with no resale value. Sterling, Ake are all 27, that's an age you won't get resale value from. We bought Ziyech at 27. Now Ziyech is 29, about to go on loan and return at 30. We made mistake with Tomori and Guehi who have more than doubled their value while we were giving chances to depreciating assets

izzou:
[color=royalblue]How do you invest in Solar equipment, and it generates money?

Maxwell Odum wan strike again [/color]

Solar panel wey dey print money

Griffon:
Speak of building the team around Havertz.

DeLigt and Thiago in a back 2? Who will run for who? Dem go wipe this team ehn

Griffon:
Todd Boehly is cooking

Another job for Boehly in addition to Chairman, CEO, Technical Advisor and driver.

Bayern want job Dead Barka with all this talk of 50m and they don't want to sell. Who wouldn't want to sell a 34 year old in last year of contract. If Barka pay more than 20m for Lewa, they are real mugus

hensben:
Ake is the only problem there. Zincheko and Sterling are good

But not good enough for City

Ake, Sterling, Zinchenko. . . .Chelsea starting to look like Man City B team. . . still it's an upgrade on some of the dross we have in our first team

Oilwell:
Have you ever wondered why there is less traffic and less population in Lagos during the Christmas/new year period?

While growing up we were told to face our businesses and forget about government/ politics. But everything has changed in the last 8 years of APC.

This 2023 will come as rude shock to many.

There is less traffic in Xmas period everywhere in the world because people are not going to school or work. You only need to take 30% of people off the road to see a massive improvement in traffic. Christmas period does that naturally

andrewbaba44:


Prophet

Christensen won’t be a Barca starter sha

Pray for rudiger to bench militao first ,with his gidigbo football in a technical Laliga

Militao is technically substandard compared to Corporate shoe

Boehly pricing transfers

Unlimited22:
Why do you say so boss?

Wetin goalie know about setting up outfield players?

Unlimited22:
Marina gone and now Cech is gone too.

Goalkeeper as Technical Advisor was never a good idea

eitsei:
he was pivotal, yes but not the most pivotal

What is more pivotal than defeating the main threat Ivory Coast and winning the final?

This EPL record still stands undefeated amongst midfielders. EPL games only.

Griffon:
I think we’re going all out for Sterling, Dembele, Rice and De Light. Those deals are on the card.

If this is what Tuchel can come up with as suggestions (all overhyped and overpaid), then we need a new Director of Football ASAP. Some managers spend too much time planning training sessions and don't watch other teams to know what good players are available at good value. Tuchel is one of those.

Roland17:
American owner/ investor? My prayers have been answered on top una head. Una go see shege! Every American, no exception, is a shrewd capitalist. I don’t need to teach you the ideology behind capitalism because you your sef na Prof on top economics.

If they don’t micromanage you, they will as hell keep the health of their businesses to their chest through a team. Una go need to dey patient because Baba dey look through him books and go need to strategize him spending.

Nigga thinks this is America where we celebrate players signing new contract like it's a new signing. We already expect to keep James, he gets no kudos for that. I can just picture him thinking that James signing new contract is an achievement the fans will credit him with, like an American owner of say LA Lakers celebrating achievement of Lebron signing new contract.

donstan18:
Humiliation at World Cup is different from Friendlies where nothing is at stake.

There is no such thing as a friendly with Ghana

eitsei:
too much disrespect on Mikel.. because Sunday MBA scored two goals in the QF and in the final, he was suddenly better in that tournament than Mikel?

Nigeria is not winning that tournament without Mikel.. how has Nigeria fared since he retired?

That QF was against Ivory Coast, the deadliest team we all feared, and the final goal was the winning goal. Yes, I can say Mba was the pivotal player based on that

These stories of Boehly personally doing this and that is becoming too much. Guy dey whine us abi wetin. I no know say Billionaire fit dey jobless like this. He suppose get other businesses he dey run abi he no get work?

Cujo007:
Those directors and their rise to where they are now can be traced back to the garages where these companies were started. Every penny gained or lost can also be tracked. Can Tinubu say the same for himself? His supposed rise to wealth is only similar to those of the Italian mafioso, and we all know there's nothing legal about such lot.

If he can prove his Uni of Chicago certification, there's nothing left to prove in terms of secondary education. All this one na story.

hardbody:
Very funny. We were just reviewing a Director for appointment into our Board and he provided his first school leaving certificate as part of the requirements. He also provided his GCE (passed when I was still a toddler)...

My point? You either have it or you don't. No lies.

Go on linkedin and review 100 directors of Fortune100 companies and tell me how many have their secondary school results up there.

Xbobtage:
Well Mr. Tinubu Sir, you said you went to University of Chicago right?, then they would be able to provide u with a copy of the secondary school transcript that was used in securing your admission.

Why does his secondary school matter when he has University to cover it.

Senior men don't write their secondary school results on CV, only fresh graduates and people new to their career.

Imagine Okonjo Iweala putting NECO or WAEC result on her CV for a second, you'll know how preposterous this sounds.

raumdeuter:
What was the duration of Olisehs career and what was the duration of Mikels career. I mean active playing not just sitting on the bench or as a time wasting substitute

Mikels most active phase is 2009 to 2012, and even then at no point was he guaranteed except during RDMs spell and Hiddinks two short spells.

chrisooblog:
Mikel had world class competition in Lampard, Ballack, Kante, Essien and yet was able to enjoy a fruitful career with Chelsea. Considering that he didn't start out as a DM I think Mikel deserves his flowers.

On this point I will add that there is no way prime Oliseh will be in a club and the likes of Oriol Romeu and David Luiz will bench him in DM position

So although the plenty competition of Ballack, Essien, Makelele sounds like a good argument, the counter is that when all those players left, Obi was inadequate without them and could not even keep his place against yeomen and centrebacks. Mikel has been a bench player since January 2013 and even the Matic that finally chased Mikel away will be nicely benched by a prime Oliseh.

chrisooblog:
Chief to be factual Mikel's stats in the national team are also as good as that of Oliseh. Obi dropped 4 assists in the 2013 AFCON in addition to one lovely pre-assist against Burkina Faso in the group stages. Mikel qualified Nigeria for every single world cup that he was involved in.

Yes Mikel didn't do as much as he could have done with the national team but consider the caliber of players Obi had to mention compared to the great talents Sunday worked. It will be easier to get more assists when you're playing with the likes of Yekini, Amokachi, JJ, Finidi than Brown Ideye, gabriel rueben, sani kaita etc.

Club football yes Oliseh tried but it wasn't all rosy. He was a permanent bench warmer in Juventus, played for Ajax that dominated a farmer's dutch league. His time in Dortmund was here and there plus Borussia was in decline when he was with them.

Mikel had world class competition in Lampard, Ballack, Kante, Essien and yet was able to enjoy a fruitful career with Chelsea. Considering that he didn't start out as a DM I think Mikel deserves his flowers.

For the record I also agree Oliseh was the better player but I disagree that Mikel was a mug.

Point taken, this is a reasonable position

Joezinho:
Mikel sef be like who no too reduce age.. Peter of Psquare said something about the fact that Mikel Obi was his junior at the Pepsi Football Academy in Jos..
Obi is 35years. Peter is 40..

Mikel came in the era of football academy when they take them young so usually they only cut 2 to 5 years. I think Mikel will be within 2 years of P Square age, maybe 38. It is uncommon for players with 5 years age gap to play together in teenage years.