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Itsrm:
Nawa o

That one go be like 50m per delegate.

Na wetin interesting for primaries be that, seeing how far these politicians are willing to go to buy Nigeria

If delegates for Kaduna House of Assembly could receive N2M each from one candidate, then delegates at the Presidential primaries should prepare for a huge bonanza next week.


https://www.nairaland.com/7142691/adam-namadi-asks-delegates-return#113127640

lordfalcao:
Chelsea are now open to sell Hakim Ziyech in case they will receive an important proposal. � #CFC

Marcos Alonso will leave with Barça still leading the race - talks soon with N’Golo Kanté to discuss his contract situation, Jorginho’s waiting too.

Romano..

Oga which club is Lacazette heading to this summer?

Singapore1:
dollar is actually performing better than any currency right now.

I am also with havertz10 on this one and i don't think Russia is going to be significantly affected as expected. Europe is still buying Russia oil and they are making money, except they find a way to cut Russia off totally, then they are just indirectly funding the war which doesn't make sense imo

Don't forget US companies are also buying ruble's future. I think the greediness of western companies is going to make this go on and on

The good thing about speculators is they speed up price discovery. So the same way they flattened Ruble in one day (which was overexagerated) is the same way they will flatten it again in quick time if capital controls are lifted at once. Russia will have to lift them slowly one-by-one over a long period. You will be surprised if Ruble start to behave like something Do Kwon put together if kasala bust.

Havertz10:
west can’t stomach shit, they are battling inflation, the government used the military to import baby food, it’s getting really bad, stomach it fire, Americans are wailing everyday on twitter about gas and this guy is talking about stomach

The baby food is because their largest manufacturer shut down their production facility after 3 babies dies from bacterial poisoning. But of course anything is convenient for Russian propaganda. Even Covid supply chain effects is ascribed to Russia. Like how someone said Russia is affecting price of chicken wings, not the fact that there has been a shortage of Chicken wings since last year due to the fact it has more processing need and production staff have been taken out the production line due to Omicron. I was watching Katt Williams Netflix special at the weekend and he was joking that how is there a surplus of chicken thighs but a shortage of Chicken wings. Abi don't they come from the same chicken, or do some chickens grow 4 wings and two thighs. Maybe Russia seized the chickens, sent the thighs to America and withheld the wings.

Havertz10:
You make me laugh, the same you that said that Russian economy is less than apple, is the same one that is saying that 80% of the earnings by Russia companies is strong enough to pull down the dollar

Dollar isn't being pulled down. Dollar is gaining in strength and should be the third best performing currency in the world this year. Last year I often exchange £1 for 1.40, now I exchange for $1.23, and I exchange almost every month. Which tells you dollar is still the choice of capital flight. Ruble is the one being artificially propped up, not by free choice of capital flight, but by forced coercion of Russian companies, a form of self cannibalisation. So once again, dollar is only strengthened by conflict and represents the peoples will. Below is dollar to Yen.

Nigeria can achieve a similar effect as Russia by forcing MTN, Etisalat, Dangote, Shell etc to convert everything to Naira. Either Emefiele is stupid or he is wise.

Havertz10:
If you like follow ibime and be eating msm propaganda

Bread prices are going to rise for the poor in Nigeria, less bread for your money, all because you chose to chase American dollar instead of a better future, open your eyes people

https://qz.com/africa/2139160/how-will-the-russia-ukraine-war-affect-bread-prices-in-nigeria/amp/

No, all because they chose to support a foreign invasion that the West can stomach but they can't. Putin is the one blockading Ukraine wheat shipments, while America is the one trying to get it to the market. I told larride Nigeria will be the one to suffer but he insisted we will starve here.

Havertz10:
Ibime you disappoint me, everything is built on of demand and supply

If you have more demand, than supply then prices become expensive, and if you have more supply and less demand prices will drop

Its very simple

Russia simply said that if you want our products, pay for it in our currency, because they have products that are valuable to the world, there was significant demand on their currency causing an appreciation, how is that fake or propped up, I have explained this thing multiple times, Russian are very isolated, they only like expensive western things, basic commodities are locally made, making them largely self sufficient

Oga stop your propaganda. Like I told you Russian companies were already mandated to convert 80% of their earnings to Ruble.

If I was to pay Gazprom £1k before, they would still have to convert £800 to Rubles. Now they have to convert £1k to Rubles.

They will still need to reconvert a small percentage of that £1k back into pounds to oil their operations abroad so it's almost a fait accompli with minimal effect.

The material effect on Ruble growth is simply a 30% tax on currency conversion, Central Bank foreign exchange propping up ruble, banning foreign entities from converting ruble, forcing all Russian companies to convert to Ruble, banning selling of Russian shares (which are sold into dollars), lack of importer demand for dollars due to sanctions on importing, and restriction of Ruble trading virtually everywhere outside the MOEX. It's just a propaganda piece at this point which will unravel itself when capital controls are relaxed.

Havertz10:
American inflation skewing the metrics, this is the milkshake theory at play, those metrics change their dynamics, if we replace the dollar with another currency with intrinsic demand values

Then large countries will pay the price, that’s the global inflation that Africa and the global south have been subsidizing for decades, I told you that Russia will change the game, you called it nothing, they are competent people in charge there not buffoons, if Nigeria can pivot to china and Russia, the benefits are endless

Russia will use their commodities based valuation to trigger inflations and unrest in the west, the drama has only just began

How is America inflating the GDP of the world? You have come again. Is America responsible for Egypt or South Africa GDP increasing? GDP increases as production, farming etc becomes efficient and population expands, creating value that didn't exist before. A commodity we dig from the ground like gold can never account for the wealth of the world that has been created in the last 150 years by industrialisation. Save neanderthal ideas for the Roman empire. Gold itself has little utility except the value that we humans give it as a store of value. It is no different from cowries that we held as a store of value before. There are many other metals more useful in production processes, so we humans are the ones that gave it its value, and we can also take its value away like we did to cowries.

On your second point, na democracy make you believe the West is anywhere close to suffering. It is normal in any democracy for any increase in inflation to become the talking point. All opposition need is to grab votes from the 10% poorest of population for whom £100 increase across the month makes a difference. Of course you won't hear of this in Russia whose inflation is more than double the West but don't have an opposition nor any independent media to make it into an issue. It doesn't mean anybody in the West is suffering or in danger. Imagine a nigga with a weekly shopping bill of £100, now paying £110, maybe paying an extra £20 per week for fuel and another £30 for electricity. Same nigga saving maybe £1k to £5k a month, do you think he is in danger?

Like I told you and larride, who is in danger is the third world. Make una go beg Putin. Why should I care that my 30 pence bag of pasta is now 40 pence, or my 40 pence bread is now 45 pence? You done confirm am below who is in danger. BTW 90% of Russia and Ukraines wheat export goes to the Middle-East. Let's say they can't get their supply, they will then go to India or US and outbid Africa for the wheat they need. Las las na the poor go suffer while shouting "Up Russia".

Havertz10:
no export indeed, Nigeria buys wheat from Russia, turkey buys wheat from Russia, thanks to Nigeria position as being ass lickers of the west, you wouldn’t get discounts for wheat, fertilizer and other essential commodities, keep dreaming that the ruble isn’t valuable, that exchange rate means that wheat imports into Nigeria will become very expensive soon and you will pay more for bread

Kimbeast:
Russia reported a budget deficit in April, VAT collection is down TWO THIRDS, 63% of their budget income was from oil and gas exports vs 28% in 2020 while military expenses have more than doubled.

If anyone thinks that the current exchange rate is real then he definitely is not sane.

Oga let the naive keep deluding themselves.

If CBN can tell us dollar is N400, then anyone can fool themselves.

When all Russian companies are forced to convert their foreign exchange earnings to Rubles, you get 30% tax for converting any currency to Rubles, you can't sell your shares in order not to convert Rubles to foreign exchange. It will be epic when these controls are lifted and Russia returns to normality. We go dey here. A big company that needs dollars to import will go to their CBN for the subsidised rate while the small company will go to black market for the real rate. Roundtripping subsidised by their CBN, bleeding money and creating inefficiencies. I'm not seeing much difference from Nigeria at this point. Dangote gets what he needs to trade internationally while everyone else go to Aboki.

Feel for a mid-size Russian company earning foreign exchange which is 30% less than it was when converted to Ruble. They then need to pay 30% tax to convert to Ruble, then need to pay their workers in Ruble which is 30% more expensive.

Dem go drink oil. As you have rightly pointed out, their revenues is showing signs of converting to a mono-economy. From 28% oil Revenues to 68%.

None of these are new economic tools, they have been tried and tested and failed. We go dey here. After all Soviet Union maintained peg and Abacha maintained peg through his whole tenure. I hope Havertz will be here for the reckoning. An economy the size of Portugal going to trade war with the West. Only a child will think it ends well.

Havertz10, gold marketcap is less than $12trillion

The world economy is worth $85trillion

How do you want to peg the worth of the world economy to gold. There is not enough gold to capture the value of everything if it needed to be traded. That's why gold was dropped. Maybe small island countries can back fully with gold, not large ones.

Kimbeast:
Stop focusing on short term. The ruble can't be traded right now so it doesn't matter what it's worth on paper. This doesn't accomplish anything for the Russian government.

Leave that one

raumdeuter:
He's the first manager to spend 300M to finish top 5

Do you remember another one cos I have been trying to since

No matter how.much you repeat this lie, it will never make it true. Because Comte sat in several press conferences and told the journalists to ask the club about transfers, that he's not involved. Only compensation stopped Comte from resigning that year. Most of our transfer decisions came from the brain of an American woman.

obainojazz:
Thanksss boss, na una mentor me.
Got a job as an Accountant

I reckon I’m almost grounded in their ways

Correct gee

donstan18:
Do you think Pep can do with Spurs what Conte did? Honest question...

I know Pep can never do what Conte did at Chelsea because he asked Roman for 10 new players to be competitive

If Pep managed Chelsea, we would be hearing now how Chalobah ended up in Watford, Baba Rahman in Reading, Moses in Spartak Moscow, Ivanovic in West Brom, Cahill in Crystal Palace, Batsuayi in Turkey and how Pedro was chased from Roma. . . .just like we hear about Clichy, Zabaleta and Sagna

obainojazz:
If not for exams and later a new job, I was really doing well this season

Congratulations bro

Your leg done strong for Oz be that?

raumdeuter:
The below was written before Cuntay even resumed at Chelsea and 1yr later he signed Morata. Was this also to encourage a player who was not in his team

Morata was £25m then and Costa was Chelsea number one striker so leave all the backup yarns. And guess what, Chelsea ended up paying £33m for Batsuayi instead as backup

Like saying Flick asked Bayern to sign Choupo Moting so Choupo-Moting must be his ideal striker

Opata yarns

raumdeuter:
Debunk which lie that Cuntay himself said he wanted Morata?

"I like his [Morata's] technique. Physically he is a good player and for sure I need to work with him to ask him what I want from his job in the game. Morata is a good finisher, he showed this in the past.

"I think he made a good step (over the last three years) and now he is one of the best strikers in Europe.

"He has great potential, he can improve a lot and last season didn't play a lot of games and scored 20 goals.

"I wanted him when I was at Juventus before I left, in that period he was very young but now with experience at Juventus and Real Madrid, he is ready to come to Chelsea and to play as striker for us."

Stop making noise. Wanting a young player at £20m to be a sub player for Juventus is an entirely different prospect to choosing your lead striker at Chelsea. Just like I can want Broja as sub striker for Chelsea, doesn't mean I will carry him to lead my line if I'm made Madrid manager.

Everything Conte said is normal encouragement that every manager gives his players. You don't expect him to come and start downing his players and killing their confidence. He has said what he wanted definitively and that's the end of story.

PDPGuy:
The UK government is set to approve the sale of Chelsea to Boehly within the next 24 hours, subject to the approval of the Portuguese government because Roman is also a Portuguese citizen.

Which citizenship Roman no get?

This guy na James Bond

raumdeuter:
Pep also used 35yr old Fernadinho 35yr old David Silva to win the league multiple times. Lets know any key player for Mourinho that was 35yrs old

How old was Materazzi and Zanetti in 2010, Terry in 2015, Jorge Costa in 2004?

raumdeuter:
So other coaches don't have their scouts to evaluate and buy Sagna, Hart Clichy, Fernando Yaya and Kompany? Chelsea signed Thiago Silva at 35, why no top club sign those players?

You listed Sagna as Pep starting RB yet say he disappeared him for 1yr, which one should we believe?

Sagna that played 25 games for Pep was not seen by other coaches? Or why did they not rush to buy this great RB? Nor Clichy nor Fernando Nor Yaya Not Joke Hart?

Stop calling bench players. We can as well call Terry, Begovic, Batsuayi, Chalobah and co that Conte used to win league, talkless of Cahill, Alonso, Moses, Luiz that actually played.

Pep best 11. . . .

--------------Bravo

Sagna---Stones-------Kompany------Kolarov

--------------Fernandinho

----------Gundogan------KDB

Silva-------Aguero---------Sterling

And he disgraced himself because of Sagna. . . . France 1st choice rightback

That means he will disgrace himself with any rightback from France

Pep skill is at being the most dominant when he has the better players. No manager does it better. Give him equal or lesser players and he starts to disgrace himself like he did at Bayern when facing Real and Barca

raumdeuter:
This great Sagna left Pep and he couldnt get a club for 6 months, after that Benevento signed him for 6 months before offloading to MLS

That is the great Sagna that Pep should have used that no one in the entire European league deemed fit to give a contract

Zabaleta left Pep he landed in West Ham bench
Joke Hart left Pep, he landed in Torino where he was shipped out immediately
Clichy left Pep he landed in Istanbul Basaksehir
Fernando left City he landed in Turkey
Kompany that was always injured should have been forced to play by Pep, Immediately left City to retirement
Yaya left City tried his luck in Greece and went to retirement

All these players became irrelevant in football in less than 12months of parting with pep are the same ones pep should have miraculously made to perform

Why did Mourinho not use Babayaro Melchiot

That's how you said the same about Kolarov then slyly cut his name out when he called bullshit on your narrative by making Serie A team of the season, entering Roma team of the decade in just 3 years, reaching UCL semis and winning scudetto

This is Pep best 11 that year

--------------Bravo

Sagna---Stones-------Kompany------Kolarov

--------------Fernandinho

----------Gundogan------KDB

Silva-------Aguero---------Sterling

But we should absolve Pep for disgracing himself because he had Nolito on the bench who was a Spain International while the Pedro that Chelsea used to win league as a starter had since been bombed out of Spain team

Ok maybe Sagna was the one who made him disgrace himself . . . .the same Sagna Deschamps used to just reach Euros final and was the 2nd best RB in that tournament after Kimmich

Of course, if you disappear a 33 year old player for one year, other clubs will assume he is finished and won't take a chance on him. Some old players run out of options not because they truly lost it but because their clubs start planning for the future and they lose visibility to other clubs. Who would have thunk Ibrahimovic will come back from USA in his mid thirties and still be a top player, or Pepe still be playing for Portugal and Porto till 40. Deschamps still used that same Sagna to reach Euro finals that very summer and he was the 2nd best rightback in that tournament.

Emaprince:
Maybe next season some one should create a separate league . Those interested should stake something where the winner and runner up take the prizes.

Legends like Ibime and raumdeuter won't be among. Na rookies like timbros, pamcode, donjazet, obainojazz etc

lalaboi already has such a league and advertises it at season start

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raumdeuter:
So Pep should have won with Sagna, Clichy Yaya Fernando, Zabaleta Demichelis and Hart? who went into full or semi retirement?

Why did Mourinho not win with Mario Melchiot, Hasselbaink and Babayaro

Sagna was one of the best rightback in Euro 2016 only losing to Kimmich for the TOTT, and Kolarov showed he was still a very good player in his Serie A career. That's your two fullbacks.

You have KDB, Silva, Aguero, Sterling, Fernandinho, Gundogan, Stones and Kompany and asking why he can't put up a decent challenge. Pep the manager of fullbacks

Conte was using Cahill, Luiz, Azpi, Alonso and Moses as his backline but let's excuse Pep because he didn't have £50m fullbacks. The Terry, Cahill, Ivanovic that JM used to win league in 2015, how old were they?

Pep ruined the later stage career of Sagna in particular. A player is only old when he shows it on the pitch, not because his manager decides to disappear him for a year. Then other teams will conclude he is past it. At least Kolarov showed in Serie A that that narrative was wash. Pep should be good enough to use those players to mount a challenge, on top of all his other world class stars. Cheque book manager.

Pep wasn't challenged to prove himself in EPL. Pep was challenged to win with normal players he met at City at the time and he failed.

These bloody agendaists. While he failed, they said local league doesn't matter, only UCL matters. So why should we care that he has become a local coach even with billions spent and complete control.

If nobody press charges, nobody will have Police problem. Real niggas

Ihebu4chelsea:
Funny.. Nobody is talking about Tarkwoski. Decent CB... Burnley is relegated

Tarkowski is a bus parking defender. We don't need him

Griffon:
Well, shouldn’t be much of a concern I guess. Johnstone and McCarthy are very good cheap alternatives.

Can we even succeed in letting Kepa off our wage bill?

I'm sure dead barka will take him

Griffon:
Going forward, I wouldn’t mind building this team around Havertz, as much as I hate to say it.

The fluidity of the positional setup is just one part of the beautiful game. TT was trying this out this season with the triumvirate of Pulisic Havertz and Mount, but then, there was no way that could have effectively worked without a solid midfield base.

We tend to look predictable when Lukaku leads the line. He simply finds it tough getting involved in a fluid attacking play with his teammates, this of course can be attributed to his poor technical ability.

Since ‘rebuilding’ is the word on everyone’s lips, I’ll say let’s prioritize the acquisition of a top attacking midfielder to line up with Mount and Havertz upfield, a top CM, a backup LB for Chilwell and two CBs.

We can try prizing away either of Chiesa or Gnabry from their respective teams. If Dembele is available, then he’s equally a good alternative.

Tchoaumeni should be the man for the CM role, then Kounde/Fofana/Colwill should sort the defense out.

If we must challenge on all fronts next season, this is what we should be looking at or a template as such:

Mendy/Pope

Kounde/Azpilicueta Silva/Fofana Colwill/?

James/Sterling Kante/Kovacic Tchoaumeni/Gallagher Chilwell/?

Mount/Pulisic Havertz/Lukaku Chiesa/Gnabry/Odoi

No need paying for Pope.

McCarthy and Sam Johnstone are available on free transfer. Can even get Karl Darlow sub £10m

Havertz10:
I don’t get why the board can’t see it too, havertz is the future, all these mount trash is heading nowhere, the sooner we all realize that that the better for the club as a whole

CHO, Ziyech and Werner are priority to move on in those wing spaces but you are focussed on Mount

BlueMann:
Christophe Lollichon is leaving...goalkeeping coach/adviser.

His job was as a dressing room spy for Roman anyway, same with Paolo Ferreira who left immediately Roman was sanctioned. The main reason for their job is no longer around.