Greatihex: Havertz as a striker will blossom against teams that play high line or come out to play, but if teams sit back, no chance, because his strength is in sneaking behind defence, and that would be difficult against defensive teams, and he does not have hold up play. We need a complete striker.
His hold up play is Ok if you ask me. He looks skinny but he knows how to lever his body with a man on his back
BlueAngel444: Did Busquets not play Barca half way line pattern or didn't Sarri play such at Napoli
Remind me the scores everytime Bouquet has played halfway line in the UCL for 6 years. I heard they even conceded 8 goals in 90 minutes.
When Sarri brought Jorginho to halfway line in UK, that's when Bournemouth started flogging Chelsea 4-0 and Man City 6-0. Sarri had to respect Jorginhos capability and park the bus for the next game.
benalvino2: DissTroy should I show grandpa holiday photos of me and family? I know he might kill himself if he sees me in civilized countries he is talking about
Go ahead my gee. Remember to limit to the 4 countries you claimed to have visited though. Anything above 4 na offside.
BlueAngel444: "Jorgi is a bit more the strategic guy who helps us in the build-up and he makes good decisions and helps us to escape the pressure," Tuchel said
Capello said: “Jorginho, he’s Mancini’s main man. He was a player who didn’t convince me completely.
“But in the matches I saw him live, I watched him carefully, and he is a midfielder who knows how to stay on the field and direct the team.
“The fact that Italy didn’t concede many goals is due to his ability to intervene at the right time in the actions of the opponents.”
Catenaccio talks.
Our vision for Chelsea is not Catenaccio (community defending).
I actually agree he is very alert in snuffing down opposition in tight spaces. That won't help him with a vision of Chelsea that requires midfielders to play on the halfway line to push the team up.
Havertz10: What you like or don't like, don't mean shittt
If your opinion had any weight, you would be on Chelsea's board making such decisions
Haaland is the choice that the board is going after and no random individual with passive affiliation with Chelsea can shift the focus of the club
If you like lukaku with no potential to be a world beater or Arnatovic that is a known egomaniac that will cause disharmony in the dressing room, thats your nairaland thread opinion, the board is going after haaland and that's it
If you aren't comfortable with it based on your vast experience in player deals and extensive knowledge of player potential, find the door and close it on your way out
This guy is one of the biggest assholes in world football. I would even pay to not have him associated with us
How so?
I have not seen any teammates or clubs complaining for a long time and the guy said he has changed. Definitely a 32 year old cannot be the same as the 20 year old version of himself. West Ham even want him back.
I think Mourinho damaged the guys reputation at Inter. Maybe Mourinho would have done the same to a young Abramovic. Bare in mind wetin these guys like Arnautovic did in 2010 that caused Mourinho to label him a hothead is probably choirboy stuff compared to the spoiled players of today
Why was Biden in favour if sagregation? From NBC News
If you don forgot, Biden give the eulogy at Robert Byrd's funeral. He was a klansman recruiter who filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights act for 14 hours. Biden call him a "mentor" and a "friend."
Joe is the racist. They should not just take down statues, they should look at Biden's past and ask him to resign. Ibime you should support this but you are in favour of a racist president. But wait there is more.
Biden, who has faced criticism in the past over comments he made about working with segregationists, gave the eulogy for Byrd at his funeral in 2010. "Bishop, Reverend Clergy, Mona and Marjorie, the entire Byrd family—if you didn't already know it, it's pretty clear the incredible esteem your father was held in," Biden said in his opening remarks.
Byrd, a member of the Democratic Party, served as a U.S. Senator from West Virginia for more than 50 years, from 1959 until his death. The politician's past was not without controversy, however.
In the early 1940s, Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to form a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, a designated hate group, The Washington Post reported in 2005. In his autobiography Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields, Byrd wrote that he viewed his leadership in the Klan as a helpful platform from which to launch his political career.
Ibime, if the parties flipped which is nonsense, democrats would have supported the 1964 Civil right bill more than the republicans do. They even filibuster it.
I believe dems killed John F kenedy because of that proposal. Luckily his VP a democrat as well followed through.
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States and elsewhere within the United States. These laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by black people during the Reconstruction period. Jim Crow laws were enforced until 1965.
This is rubbish. How do you in Umudike know more that the blacks in America who know who is for them and against them?
Both parties had Conservative and Liberal wings based on Geographical location. Generally North was progressive and South was Segregationist. The Conservatives supported segregation while the Progressives supported integration. Progressives include Northern Rockefeller Republicans.
So this was a fight between North and South, between Conservatives and Progressives. Republicans ended up absorbing and playing to the segregationists and that defines the Republican party till today.
The parties as how they stand today coalesced around this issue with Segregationists moving to join the Republicans due to Democratic leadership support of civil rights. The career of Strom Thurman shows a racist who moved from Dems to Republican over this issue while the likes of Byrd and Biden recanted their previous positions and continued with the Democrats.
If you want to know who is who now, just check who the Confederate States vote for and who the Yankee emancipator States vote for. That's all you need to know. Stop trying to tell Akata people what they know all the way from Umudike.
DumaEmpire: Arnatovic is already old. Highly doubt he'd be able to keeo up with the intensity nd congest fixtures. Moreover the board is building for the future. Atleast need a striker that can give up to 5years to the club. Nd not signing an old man today nd start looking for a striker 2moro.
Arnautovic is 32. He has 2 years in him. That is enough time to maximise Havertz utility as a striker and give him space to grow into the role knowing you have a backup that can deliver for 2 years. In that same two years, someone like Lukaku will be turning 30.
It's the same as when we advised back in 2013 to let Lukaku grow rather than chasing Eto and then Costa. We lost out on maximising Lukakus utility for the next decade rather than chasing already made products that are already on the wane.
Chelsea often put money in depreciating assets rather than utilising their own assets first as squad players that could grow and add financial value. I am talking not using Ake and Chalobah as Matic replacement instead of Bakayoko and Drinkwater, chasing Zappacosta when we have Moses and Azpi, with youngsters like James and Sterling coming through that could take over in the nearest future etc.
uglymods: Let me get this straight, Democrats become Republicans and Republicans become democrats how?
Democrats were racist and Republicans were emancipators. This changed in the 30s when Northern Democratic leadership started supporting civil rights and the racists in the Southern Democrats all moved to the Republican party. What we have is simply North (emancipators) Vs South (segregationists). That's why we have a democrat of this thread named after Lincoln (a Republican).
The current Republican party is nothing but the Confederate states.
hensben: Go for Lukaku instead. This Halaand matter go turn problem for the club
I don't support buying any 28 year old at £100m or even Haaland.
Left to me, I jejely allow Havertz keep developing in the striker role and will take Arnautovic on free transfer from China as someone I can rely on if Havertz chooses to be unfortunate.
benalvino2: @ Ibime, this is a fact and maybe the democrats are trying to wash their hands off. They are claiming they freed the slaves and there was a flip in ideology between Republicans and democrats.
McCarthy (R-California) backed the legislation, but nonetheless hit out at Democrats during floor debate on Tuesday, claiming that every statue slated for removal portrayed a member of their own party – which once harbored pro-slavery and later segregationist politicians.
“What’s interesting is the statues that need to be removed were sent to the Capitol by states that were majority-controlled by Democrats [and] sent to a House that was majority-controlled by Democrats” who approved them, McCarthy added.
Yes, and now those Southern Democrats of those days have been fully Republican since the 1930s (Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Texas etc) and are defending their slavery culture by voting to keep the statues.
Like I told you, don't bother about who was Democrat or Republican in those days, look for who was from the South and who was from the North and which party represents the racist South now
benalvino2: It is on topic. It does not stop where it is at at the moment. I don't care about the statues they just voted on... The end goal will reach the founding fathers. See the highlighted parts in the screen grab.
Keep quiet and stop deflecting.
Protecting founding fathers does not mean drawing the line in the sand at treasonous Confederates. The GQP is a racist party drawn mostly from Confederate States. Stop your founding fathers büllshit. No founding father rebelled against the State in order to keep their slaves.
swiz123: Rice is just like Horjberg. Their two get low IQ. I can't spend more than 15 million on those type of players when some Mushin hustlers can still do the Job
So Mushin hustlers can rank in top volume of passers amongst EPL midfielders?
The ones who only pass back to defenders cannot even make the list
benalvino2: And it does not change the fact that there are calls to remove statues of the founding fathers while they erect criminals like George flyord. Understand?
Stick to the topic of what was voted on in the house. Why are majority of GQP reps fighting so hard to keep their slavery heroes?
I will remind you of our conversation few days back when you and basilico tried to convince us GQP is the abolitionist party. Yet here we are.
benalvino2: They are building statues for criminals like George flyord and taking down statues of founding fathers. Make sense.
History is history.
Which founding fathers fought for Confederate side to keep slavery?
Stick to the topic and stop digressing to founding fathers. There was a vote to tear down statues of Confederate soldiers and majority of GQP house voted against, this one is talking about founding fathers.
How I wish GQP will be stüpid enough to protest when it comes down to tearing down the statues of these Hitlers. I am interested to see how depraved you Umudike coons and cultists will be and what lengths you will go to to keep those statues up.
You have already started by calling them founding fathers.
Now you are saying history is history. I did not know Germany were keeping statues of Hitler and co claiming history is history
Kilishihunter: Germany's last world cup win was in 1990 they were not even United with east Germany then, Euros 1996, After they either get dealt with at the semi final or final, Pep came there and most of his players contributed to the win with GOTZE scoring the winner,
Nonsense and ingredients.
Germany won Euro 1996, even made Euro final in 1992 after that 1990 win, made WC 2002 final, made Euro 2008 final, WC 2010 Semi, Euro 2012 semi. One of these days it would click.
The foundation of Germany 2014 WC win was due to a generation of players coming through, the same generation that won Euro Under 21 competition in 2009 and manifested itself in Bayern and Dortmund performance in 2012 and 2013.
Kilishihunter: 'They would have', 'They would have' Why didn't they win before 2014? Leave speculation and let's focus on reality, Heckynes came in 2011, lost to Chelsea in 2012, Germany went to euro 2012 and lost to Italy in the semi finals, Pep took over from heycknes in 2013/14 Won all but the UCL and a player that featured under him not Heckynes came off the bench to deliver a major title since 1996, Why won't pep's name popup since an almost similar occurrence happened in Barca and Spain?
You guys are funny.
Gotze that could not get game time under Pep is the reason Pep won Germany the World Cup
If Argentina had won that WC, you would claim it's Peps influence on Mascherano and Messi
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