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Android22:
I never at any point said or presented any evidence alluding to Conte wanting to sell Matic to United. The journo in question did not either. Every major article use clickbaits as the headline which is why I also posted snippets of the actual article where Jason Burt said what he was told. Then I presented Conte alluding to dropping Matic because the player refused to recognize his authority.

Stop making noise. Conte never wanted Matic sold, period. He said so several times, but you wouldn't know as you are not a Chelsea fan

Upon all your words upon words, you are yet to show one statement from Conte showing his problem is with who Matic was sold to. Rest.

Android22:
It is as simple as bringing the evidence to justify your position. That, "You are not a Chelsea fan" argument is not very robust in holding up for your claims. He wanted him as first choice yet did not take that first choice to the preseason tour? .

Airmark has given you all the evidence you need, you continue to act foolish.

As of the tour, the transfer was 95% completed, that's why he didn't go on tour. You continue to foolishly use not going on tour as reason Conte wanted to kick him out when every Chelsea fan knows he wasn't taken on tour because he was on the cusp of finalising his move to Manure. The journalists only asked him about Matic because they knew the transfer was almost done and his absence was a telltale sign of the impending transfer.

Hence if you are not a Chelsea fan, keep quiet about what you know nothing about. It is better to concede an argument when those with more intimate memory of the topic tell you you are going offside, than to look obtuse and strong-headed.

You started your argument with Airmark with a post from a foolish journalist from Daily Express of all tabloids claiming Conte wanted to sell Matic to Man Utd. When shown Contes own words, you changed your argument to "Conte wanted to sell him, just not to Man Utd". You can see how you have no knowledge of the topic at hand, and now just arguing for argument sake and running your mouth like tap water, contradicting yourself.

Android22:
You cannot prove Matic was sold without Conte's wishes. You will have to speculate with only Conte's quotes saying he wanted Matic to mentor Bakayoko and that he was not happy he was sold to a direct rival as your evidence. But when I throw in the fact that Conte did not travel with the player he did not want to sell, you will easily speculate without any shred of evidence. And when you have Conte's reason for not traveling with said player, you now accept that Matic "may have done something to get his deal over the line". Yet in all of these, you do not see how it proves the point I had been making all along which is that Conte was expressing his dislike for the fact that Matic was sold to a rival, not that Matic was sold in its entirety.

Are you a Chelsea fan? No. Don't talk what you don't know. We will not rehash the numerous Conte interviews and press conferences on the matter here for your benefit. I did not speculate anything. It is known that Matic was forcing the move. The only thing I don't know definitively is what he did to force it. If you want to talk about the finer details of your club, Ed Woodward, Sandro Rosell or whatever, go ahead no one will argue with you. But you won't come here and start telling us about the finer details of what we all witnessed four years later. Conte said definitely he did not want Matic sold, he wanted him as first choice (did not trust Bakayoko as a starter), you started adding your own Maggi about direct rival. He did not want him sold, full stop and he said it, not a journalist or a gossip column but Conte himself korokoro live on camera.

And to highlight the inanity of your argument, not wanting a player to be sold is not mutually exclusive to not wanting to strengthen a rival. If you value a player not to sell him, it's just adding insult to injury if he goes to a rival, but the injury is already there. If Barca don't want to sell Messi, will you come and argue that Barca would love to sell him, they just don't want him to go to Madrid? They want neither, and one does not invalidate the other.

airmark:
Conte wanted Matic to remain at Chelsea until Bakayoko mastered the league. Conte was quoted, but you wanted me to jettison that and accept diverging information brewed by speculations from commentators and unknown journalists. Bro, rest.

When people don't follow your club in-depth, they will be arguing what they are just piecing together, something you already knew as it happened. The club already agreed to sell Matic against Contes wishes. At the last minute, Chelsea threw some extra demands in the agreement after Matic had already agreed good money with United. Whether Matic misbehaved to get the transfer over the line, who knows, but we can infer so from Conte comments. None of that means Conte disciplined him and sold him for misbehaving like Android22 is piecing together. Man is putting the cart before the horse and piecing together what he doesn't know. All that Summer, it was clear Conte was keen on keeping Matic. Nigga literally said Bakayoko was not ready for Chelsea before Bakayoko kicked a ball. They then made it worse by adding Drinkbleach to his options, as well as Barkley he never gave a fück about.

This is what some guys are comparing with Pep who discuss with friends over whiskey at the restaurant they all co-own (Pep, Bergiristain, and Soriano) who they will sign, including who they will sign if their preferred choice is unattainable.

seankafor:
So tomorrow all things been equal and if my transactions go as planned

I'll be introducing new money into the crypto market..

Whale kinda money

So make d market dip all it wants untill tomorrow when I load up my bags..

I'll be adding and distributing my bags to these projects

Divine protocol..(I'll go for staking for 6 months plan)

NFTB.. (I'll also go for the 6 months staking plan)

RADIO CACA.. (I have been trying to stake but not going through so I'll just hold)

I'll go heavy on the above..

Then the remaining bags I'll be playing on binance listed coins..

Be careful bro. I don't think we are done. BTC $38K, then $30k is in play. I don't think BTC can escape tightening of Fed Monetary policy

A smart investor DCA small percentages on the way down if market is turning bearish.

Times like these, I prefer buying BTC while it's in accumulation phase after a dump.

I'll give you an example. This time yesterday BTC was $41k, right now it's still $41k. . . but this same time yesterday BNB was $440 now it's $420. This is what happens to ALTS when BTC is accumulating. Don't be surprised to see BNB at $200 and Solana at $50 by the time we're done.

During accumulation phase, buy BTC, during expansion phase, sell BTC into ALTS. Like my man Jedisco says, we only get two or three periods to buy ALTS in a year.

jmanity:
We need decoupling, where the market doesn't depend on Bitcoin.

Alex Becker is somewhat of a degenerate

Institutions are the ones who buy BTC. They give us money by pumping BTC that we go and spend on ALTS. Long live BTC

I personally like BTC dominance, it adds a layer of complexity that means those who don't watch BTC lose to those who do. The gains in crypto don't appear from thin air. Someone must lose money for others to gain.

jedisco:
Stumble upon the weekly chart of ftm.,.

I'm curious, what do folks think about last weeks candle (arrowed)

$3.50 is heavy resistance for FTM. A lot of people rushed it at that price in October anticipating a big announcement with Bïnance which turned out to be a damp squib, leading to a selloff. So a lot of bagholders at $3.50. Coincidentally it was approaching that same $3.50 last week when BTC took a heavy dump, so more bagholders added to the ones stranded there.

Android22:
You are right that everyone chased Koulibaly which supports my point that he was better rated than Diaz and City went for him as their priority as a result. It is like if City signs Vlahovic and he ends up being their greatest scorer in history. Someone can claim in hindsight that he was always their first choice but we all know they want Haaland, Kane and then Vlahovic in that order.

Age factors into it. Who was first choice at 26 can no longer be first choice at 30

Android22:
I have seen your ensuing argument with Trevor012 as well and he is right. You have forgotten that City chased Koulibaly even before they got Laporte and only went to Laporte after the Koulibaly deal did not work out. Then they went for him again after the 2019/20 when the manager had to use Fernandinho and Eric Garcia as CB pairing for City because Kompany retired, Stones was depressed and Laporte was injured after game 2 or so. There is no way to spin this one chairman, Koulibaly was clearly City's first choice. They proved it in back to back years.

Everyone has been chasing Koulibaly for four years, the price has always been £90m and nobody took the bait. Going back to Napoli to see whether De Laurentis has finally got sense to cut his price drastically given the player is 30 and with the economic reality of the pandemic does not make him your first choice over a 22 year old who is also coveted by all the top clubs. If their price match, you will prefer the younger version. Koulibaly will have to be at a significant discount to make sense and he wasn't, so back to preferred choice.

What's up with AFCON and 1-0 scorelines?

basilico:
Big story. Djokovic. Tested positive for the rona in December.
Secured a visa to defend his crown Down under with fact that he has antibodies to the Rona.

Wait. The only antibodies are from the vaccine

What do Aussies do? They want to ban him for three years from stepping into their hallowed grounds.Despite a judge ruling in his favor.

He said he tested positive for Covid on 16th Dec. On 17th December he was handing out awards at a tournament named after him. The deadline to submit circumstances for VISA exemption to Aussie authorities was 10th December meanwhile.

Trevor012:
Even more


https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/man-city-fail-jules-kounde-22715197.amp

You are now contradicting yourself. Your first post said Koulibaly was the main target, now this one is saying they bid for Kounde first and are now going for Koulibaly. According to your theory, who they bid for first is the primary target.

The fact remains these are all second choices after they decided Dias would be too expensive. Same Dias they have been chasing since 2019.

Trevor012:
I already said sell this your bull.shit lie to someone else.

You can rant all you want. They got their number one man. They thought his asking price was much, and explored other options they thought would be cheaper but still came back to number one when others priced themselves into his price bracket. That's how people with budgets make financial decisions. Those who collect pocket money can never think like people who have financial choices to make, so you won't understand.

Trevor012:
Not interested in your make believe scenario. City went for koulibaly chased him all through the transfer window before going for Gimenez then Kounde before settling for Ruben Dias very very late in the transfer window. Sell your bull.shit lies to someone else.

Simple. Dias was first choice. They thought they could get a better financial deal elsewhere, and when they saw others asking outrageous amount, they might as well pay the outrageous amount for their first choice. City link with Dias has been going on for a year before they signed him

Trevor012:
This guy and fabricating scenarios from his head and passing them off as fact will never stop surprising me lmao. Watch how he will defend this nonsense with vigor. The fact here is city went for koulibaly first as he was their main target then Gimenez before Kounde and lastly settling for Ruben Dias. Whatever shalaye is for your own pocket. Nobody is interested in what you thought happened or didn't happen.

I am showing you how people who make financial decisions think. Someone who collects pocket money from his parents should not question how financial decisions are made. Dias was City's first choice. Financial considerations is what made them look Kounde and Koulibalys way thinking they would be cheaper. When they saw Kounde and Koulibaly being priced like a Dias, they went back to Dias.

A compromise is when Conte ask for £70m for Van Dijk and the club offer £30m Rudiger, or asking £60m for Alex Sandro and being offered a £20m Emerson

Not requesting a £55m Kounde and getting a £65m Dias

Android22:
Diaz did not cost more than Koulibaly or Kounde. Napoli asked for 90M for Koulibaly when City only wanted to pay 70M and Sevilla were saying 70M or so for Kounde when City wanted to do 55M or 60M with add ons. Diaz buy out clause was 65M yes, but City were able to trade Otamendi and 50M for Diaz. So no Diaz was cheaper essentially and ended up proving to be far better than both Koulibaly and Kounde.

There is nothing second choice about Dias. What is likely is that City thought Dias is £65m and thought they could do better financially with Kounde at maybe £40m. When they saw Sevilla asking Dias prices for Kounde, they revert to first choice. Same with Koulibaly, nobody will expect Napoli to quote £90m for a 30 year old, and probably hoping to get him for like £30m. When they saw both players back at Dias price level, they go back to Dias.

Na so market be. If you go to market with a thought of buying ofada rice to save cost and you see Ofada being priced same as Basmati, you kuku buy Basmati.

Kounde was not quoted any £70m in 2020. Sevilla won't ask more than £55m if you really want the player and negotiate in 2020. Meanwhile Koulibaly quote was £72m. Who will pay that for a 30 year old CB. When City saw them being unrealistic, then they might as well buy the real thing.

Whatever the case, everything Man City sign is approved strongly by Pep while at Chelsea, the manager will come and complain that he knows nothing about the signing.

If Dias at £65m cost more than the so-called 1st to 3rd choice would have cost, you can assume these clowns are just amusing themselves.

Maybe Ake was the one who was fourth choice, not Diaz, afterall they needed two.

It is only Chelsea that the club will sign a player and the manager will come out in press conference to disavow the signing.

popizaino:
It is the new normal, once your favourite manager fails blame it on the board forcing players on him. We saw it from Conte and Mourinho fans when both of them were relieve of their duties so Pep can't be an exception.

You saw it from Mourinho and Conte at Chelsea.

If you don't know what Chelsea is like by now, you're on a long ting

No need lying about what happens at Man City to equalise matters

airmark:
So they forced Grealish on Fraudiola? Even Dayo would never tell this lie.

It's only today I will hear that Pep best friends Txiki Bergiristan and Ferran Soriano forced Grealish on him. Popi is something else. Nowhere has this even been gossiped in media

Cameroun stadiums look good but the way the grass keeps cutting up shows they only laid the pitches recently. I've seen this too many times in AFCON and the host countries never learn. Every time player kick ball, you will see the turf breaking up

Ibime:
Without digressing too much, Crypto is a game of perpetual learning, absorbing information from various sources etc. 9japple does not have to be an active trader for me to know from his analysis that I can learn a lot about TA from him. I may even be better at applying it when I add other knowledge I have such as wider market information, Fundamental Analysis, tokennomics and macroeconomic trends. One of my senior accounting colleague at work has been learning TA on a course since January and is yet to even actively trade till now, just HODLing BTC until he perfects his knowledge, and advised me to sign up to the same course. I said let me cut through time by just asking 9japple to take me through his TA module and signed up 4 of my friends to join me. We were even able to curate his course structure and cut out the elements we already know for the sake of time. I'm not writing this to promote his course, just to say that one should never stop learning in this game, whether that's making the time to find online resources etc. You will hardly find anyone successful in this game for a long time who hasn't learned their TA. Even the ones that got successful by luck in 2017 and are still successful this bullrun still went and hired someone to teach them TA.

I can't really recommend 9japple TA course enough. Me and my guys have learned so much from the course and can be more deliberate about our entry and exits going forward. Baba knows his onions. Now I know why Jedisco sets certain price levels to enter and exit trades

Looks like Arsenal will miss Partey during AFCON

armadeo:
Everything don run leave me and my bids......


Lol.

E go come back

Almajirihunter:
Ibime tomorrow vested Divine coins are released, what’s the best thing

Your entry is at 20. Price is at 9

Guys will dump tomorrow despite 33% tax including me, as I still have more tokens vesting in April and my bag tomorrow is worth $7k, which I can use to chase better ROI elsewhere, so I can derisk now and if it does well, still catch the upside with April bags. Also to avoid others dumping on me.

So you either ride out the dumping and turn to a long term HODL or cut your losses. I don't think the Dev will start marketing and work until the dumping from the second vesting is complete. But he has ability to pump the coin after that. Bear in mind price has taken two trips to 60 - 3x your entry

Unfortunately in Crypto, we can all get caught offside not taking profits

Ibime:
Today's pump was caused by Fed announcement of no new interest rate rise, but 3 were promised for next year

Still on this. Tech stocks and BTC will continue to get hammered as interest rates rise while banking stops will go up. I see no reason to commit funds to the market while this hangs over us. It might be months before I make another purchase if my hunch is correct. The theory remains the same. In times of cheap credit, risky tech stocks and BTC go up. In times of expensive credit (interest rate rise), they go down. My belief is that a mini bear is just starting. I will only buy new releases or MVB coins in the meantime. I DCAd 15% of portfolio into ETH and EGLD at $42k and that's enough for me. Next purchase will be in the $30k zone and it will only be BTC. Golden rule, when BTC is accumulating, buy BTC, as ALTs dump while BTC accumulates. Sell BTC when it pumps, and buy ALTS when BTC is in distribution phase.

donjazet:
Good you've finally seen this. You were defending government's antics. This COVID something is just a big fuss over nothing. It has been extremely exaggerated. I don't see need for any lockdown or isolation. Let life return to normal and everyone will develop herd immunity.

Na Omicron give you mouth. Vaccine and lockdown saved a lot of lives

jedisco:
https://koinly.io/guides/hmrc-cryptocurrency-tax-guide/

It's quite detailed... Wondering what exchanges share data with hmrc

Thanks bro

Dujon Sterling was at fault for both goals conceded by Blackpool today. He lost his man both times

donjazet:
Ibime remember when we were arguing about a 3rd booster shot.
Now see another one oo. At this rate, we'll be talking about a 7th and 8th booster shot in no time.
People there just have to learn to live with COVID and develop herd immunity.

Expected, but with Omicron being milder, na to catch Omicron go make sense to develop immunity with lower risk of dying. Both my parents caught it over the last two weeks and are doing OK

BlueMann:
Hall really impressing me

Against non league team?

Can't make that judgement against this opposition

NinjaXmetahuman:
Kovacic is an overkill for Chesterfield

We suppose dey see all these Barkley, Harvey Vale, Lewis Baker in this match. Why kill a non league team with Kovacic, Lukaku, Werner, Pulisic and co. Tuchel is wicked.

donjazet:
I don't know why I'm not seeing all these names here.

Haters gonna hate afterall.

We know those games. Crotone, Newcastle etc