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Joebie, did you watch Pele? Or are you solely relying on those grainy video clips we see on youtube?


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Joebie:
Put Pele as #1 ever, and everything you say is valid.

The Messi and Ronaldo debate have gone on for so long that people, even editors are daring to place Messi as the best ever. That's the greatest football sin ever.

Other arguments and comparisons I don't care.

Yea, like Ronaldiho. But one thing that makes Messi stands out is his ability to control the ball even the tightest of spaces. And the way the ball can stick to his feet is amazing to watch too. Most of the time the only way an opponent can dispossess him of the ball is by fouling him. gosh, if Messi gets half the calls that CR7 gets, he would be unplayable.


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Daejoyoung:
Messi is skillfull in the sense that he is tricky and fast but relies more on pace and a good ball sense. The others on my list are to a greater extent ball jogglers and are more entertaining to me.

Are you kidding me He displace even Ideye? A dude who can't score to save his life? Do you know when I nicknamed Brown Ideye Mister Miss-It? It was during the first Keshi tenure, when Ideye was playing with Emmanuel Emenike. That dude knows how to miss sitters no be small. He's definitely not going to the World Cup, if we qualify, talkless of displacing Nacho.

And by the way, everybody is jumping onto Ighalo's bandwagon now because he scored against Cameroun. Wait until he starts another one of his trademark dry spells for the Super Eagles. I will definitely take Kelechi over Ighalo any day, trust me on that one. And while at it, you can go re-watch our first match with Zambia - Kelechi and Iwobi were on fire. I just hope that Rohr can start both of them again on Saturday.


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Batty word! Like Zlatan Ibrahimovic puts it, "Messi is natural, Ronaldo is a work of training." But, hey, why did you say "and maybe Messi"? Messi is more skillful than everyone you listed on there, except for perhaps Ronaldihno.

And by the way, you don't wanna be around me when I am watching any Baca games! All you'll be hearing is 'merciless Messi .... inhuman .... the little magician .... the best ever ..... blah blah blah!!!'


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Daejoyoung:
Lol, ladies would easily kill for Ronaldo, experience has taught me that.
On this topic though, Ronaldo is definitely one of the greatest players of all times, but while l would pay to watch Pele, Ronaldinho, Delima, Okocha, Neymar, and maybe Messi, l don't think l'll pay to watch Ronaldo, Drogba, Van Nisteroyl or Eto. There are great players and there are in the same vein also very entertaining players for the world to have her fill.

Oh, I see. He took what belongs to you boy, Mikel

Nne, I am yet to forgive me for that heartbreaking loss. And don't forget the Beijing Olympics as well .... na that one hurt me pass. I stayed up until almost midnight watching that game only for Angel DiMaria to break our hearts at the end.

Anyway, you gotta forgive Messi. The bobo brings joy to the game. He makes football looks easy and effortless.


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safarigirl:
lol...CR7 fine reach Giroud or Ramsey? I leave Toni Kroos, na CR7 I go dey crush on? Kingsley Coman sef dey, na CR7 I go dey waste crush on?


I would forever support CR7 because he is the person that competes with Messi and I will forever support ANYBODY against Messi because of that U20 World Cup

FIXED.....

My preferred line up, but I am sure Rohr would stick with the team that beat Cameroun.


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BascoVanVeli:
First thought in my mind is that we will line up with the same Cameroon XI but I could also see us lining up like this,


----------------------------------EZENWA------------------------------------

Shehu----------------Ekong------------Balogun------------CHIEJIELE (would prefer Aina)


--------------------------ONAZI-----------Ndidi-----------------------------

Moses---------------------------MIKEL------------------------------IWOBI (or ETEBO)

---------------------------------IHEANACHO-------------------------------------

Safari, you're obviously a CR7's fan. No surprise there, most women are

Don't get me wrong, Cristiano is a fantastic player. One of the best strikers ever. But where I get mad is when people try to compare him to the most complete player to ever play the game aka Messi. There's no contest. Cristiano gives you goals, Messi gives you everything!
The only reason why serious people are still making that comparison is because FIFA and UEFA are desperate to make Cristiano the face of football. He's much more marketable than Leo Messi, for obvious reasons:
#1. Pretty boy (now they can sale the game to billions of female fans around the world)
#2. White Euro boy
#3. Speaks good English

The whole FIFA's marketing stunts actually started the time of David Beckham and the real Ronaldo (the Brazilian one). Ronaldo was the best player in the world by far but Beckham was the one getting all the accolades and the marketing deals. Go figure ....


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safarigirl:
he's a bloody striker! His work is to score goals, of what use is a striker who doesn't score? His USE is to score, not to defend or create, to SCORE....why you people want to diminsh his efforts is beyond me. You must all be Messi fan boys. CR7 has broken how many goal scoring records and some of you still think he's no different from any other striker

This argument is appalling to read.

One of the best conclusive evidence of the better phone is to check their resale values. Go to eBay and most other auction websites and the Samsung Galaxy S8 plus goes for between $400 to $500 whereas an iphone 7Plus (we're NOT talking about the iphone 8 or 8plus yet, mind you!) sales for between $500 to $600.

That settles it. There's no need to add anything else.


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FFK is clown. FFK is to the political world, what Kemi Olunloyo is to the blogsphere.

Don't take him serious....just use him as a comic relief.


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akinade28:
Somebody should pls explain to me exactly what is FFK's problem
I just don't get, though I'm not a Buhari fan, I'm anxiously anticipating 2019 so that we can vote him out

Wow. Strange coincidences.

Good one, Joebie!!


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Joebie:
NGR VS ZAM: The Similarities in their Road to Russia
Joebie|Nairaland

1. Zambia has scored in every game in the road to Russia.
2. Nigeria has as well.
3. The only thing Zambia has not achieved but Nigeria has is beating Cameroon at home. But that's because that match has not been played.
4. The only thing Nigeria has not achieved but Zambia has is beating Algeria away. But that's because that match has not been played.
5. Zambia and Nigeria's scoreline away to Cameroon is identical. Not only that, Cameroon needed Vincent Abubakar to equalize from the spot on both occasions.
6. Zambia and Nigeria's scoreline at home to Algeria is identical. Not only that, Brian Mwila scored a brace against Algeria, just like Victor Moses scored 2 goals against Algeria. It will also be interesting to note that all the goals scored by Nigeria and Zambia in their Algeria home tie were all scored by players with their shirt name starting with the the letter M. The other scorers being Mikel and Mwepu.
7. Another coincidence as seen in Point 6 above: ALL the goals were scored in similar timeframes, with Algeria's goals (Brahimi and Bentaleb) sandwiched between their opponents 2nd and 3rd goal.

Kpom!


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Mujtahida:
Akpeyi subliminally spreads panic. Fear is poisonous. It affects the team and our collective unconscious.

You nailed it bro. To add anything else would be uncivilized!


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Mujtahida:
I understand you. There's this extra invincible something, this quite unnameable stuff that marks out great players which Ronaldo doesn't have. Great striker but no magic in him. But I think the difference in perspective on this issue is informed by how long a person has been a football fan and the players one watched in his formative years as a fan. Go to the youtube videos of players like Van Basten and Baggio and read the comments.

The fellow is probably a double ID. It's probably one of those monikers you rub the wrong way, but s/he is too scared to confront you with the real moniker so s/he decides to hide under a pseudonym to get back at you. Don't sweat it, babe.

Just ignore....


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safarigirl:
Cc Seun, semid4lyfe, mynd44, icon4s, joebie, icon79, thegoodjoe

I don't even know this fellow and I have said NOTHING on this thread for ANYONE to come at me like this. But this is how some people come out of nowhere to seek relevance on top my head.

Please, ask this uncle what I said that has him spitting saliva in this manner.

Thank you!

The one that bothers me the most is his attitude anytime he doesn't score in a game. I was closely watching him at the end of last Saturday's game against Espanyol, the dude was pissed and that's despite the fact that Real Madrid won the match. His attitude sucks!


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Mickael2:
the thing tire me oo. His teammates will strive to create great chances for him atleast 10times in a match and he puts away 5 and everybody will forget the rest of the players. Hardly can you see another madrid player scoring 30goals a season because all the chances are for Ronaldo to score. Anyways let's stop spamming the thread

My brother, I am considering declaring another fasting and prayer session, but I will wait until I hear it from a good authority that Rohr has decided on Akpeyi. I don't think that's gonna happen tho. I mean, not after Daniel Akpeyi's piss poor performance against South Africa and even against Algeria ... but who knows?


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Danielnino00:
Celebrate what?
.You don't know how icon79 and I prayed hard for Akpeyi not to start.


honestly if Akpeyi starts against Zambia, I will be having a heart attack throughout the game ...

Bingo! As I had said over and over and over again: take away Cristiano's goals, he's useless to any team. Anybody can score goals if you're playing with the likes of Marcelo, Luka Modric, Toni Kroos, Isco, Casemiro, etc. All Cristiano has to do is to play at the shoulder of the last defender and meet the final pass. Does anybody realize that a vast majority of Cristiano's goals these days are mostly tap ins!

And I am not the only one that have said this because even Sergio Ramos once said openly that Cristiano is excused from doing any defensive works because he's expected to score 30 goals per season for Real Madrid.

The real super stars like Messi and Maradona can change the game even without scoring goals. You cannot be the best player in the world if all you do is score goals....there's more to football than goal scoring!


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Mickael2:
CR7 is not a football, a goalscoring genius yes but not a football genius. Come on, apart from posting astronomical goal scoring returns, what else can Ronaldo do with the ball that.....Hazard cannot better? His goalscoring ability is at a genius level but generally he is not a footballing genius

Naija sports journos are the worst in the business. So Ezenwa has been on "holiday", huh? Somebody was played all the matches at the just concluded WAFU tournament. And we're talking about a tournament that ended 10 days ago!

It's definitely a bloody waste of time relying on naija newspapers for anything especially football news.


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Joebie:
OwnGoalNigeria Report:

Exclusive – Chippa United Ace Akpeyi In Line To Start Ahead Of Ezenwa Against Zambia
October 3, 2017010

Coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria Gernot Rohr ‎appears to have handed back the number one spot of the Super Eagles to Chippa United ace Daniel Akpeyi, according to scoop gathered by Owngoalnigeria.com.

Injury ruled Akpeyi out of the Eagles last World Cup 2018 Qualifiers games against Cameroon, with Ikechukwu Ezenwa manning the post in both games but Akpeyi is back to full fitness and in line to return as the first choice of the team.

Akpeyi has been splendid between the post for Chippa United in their last three games in the Premier South Africa League (PSL), with two Man of the Match award to his name.

On the other hand, Ezenwa has been on holiday since captaining the Nigerian B team to a second place finish at the WAFU‎ tournament in Ghana, a tournament which he was voted the best player despite conceding four goals in the final against Ghana.

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A decision on who will start will become clear in the coming days when the team begin their tactical drills for the October 7 game, which Nigeria need a win to progress to the World Cup 2018 in Russia.

Ade Emmanuel

I seriously doubt it. The only way I can see them scoring is if Rohr makes the mistake of starting Daniel Akpeyi in goal


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daveP:
You mean dem no go even score?

Yup. I am predicting a minimum of 2-0 trashing on Saturday.

Folks are forgetting that Zambia had only beaten the Algerian team in disarray.


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daveP:
thank goodness we're not in the calculator zone, else we would be permutating the influence of ref on our qualification. Glad our guys are fired up for this.

Haha!! Icon, the ghananese fans can definitely do that b'cos they always perceive this rivalry.
However, their refs and officials know that we friendly neighbors.
After all, didn't they let us win when we needed a win at WAFU tourney?


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Icon4s:
The Ghanaian ref will blow in favour of Egypt. Gba bee.

Trust me, I know
I've got a lot of female soccer "fans" in my life.
I like 'em tho. I often say that female soccer fans say the cutest things


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MizMyColi:
I knew someone will sha talk in this direction.
Lol
I support footie clubs and players for very weird reasons.

Don't even get me yapping on why I support Barcelona, and LFC.

yea, they could've find someone from North Africa - Egypt or Morocco would've been better.


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daveP:
Toh, i thought as much, a kenyan ref as alternative however would kill the game as times past when se was involved. Hope we dont have any bookings on key players?

Hmmm. And who do they like at Chelsea?


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soetanoreoluwa:
Lol.. I tell you... That's why most ladies love arsenal football Club... Theo Walcott is the man... Lol

But why didn't the NFF protest this Botswana ref thing sef? Botswana has a affinity with Zambia. It's like asking a Ghanaian ref to officiate in a game between Nigeria and Egypt.


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daveP:
Botswana ref to officiate. Zambia to arrive on thursday 4rm Accra.

Tru. But that's the kinda comments you get from a typical woman, even from the so called avid soccer fans, when you ask their views on a hot topic like, "Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, who is better?"

You'll always hear stuffs like "Ronaldo for me because he's hot".

And I'll like 'woman, this isn't a beauty contest'.


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soetanoreoluwa:
New madam in the house...

Mine was 4 pieces of clothing (2 pairs - top and bottom each) plus the cuff links.
I think it was a fair price.

Like I said, on this case, if the N84k price was just for one article of clothing then it's too expensive.


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chukzyfcbb:
na your type we dey like sell material for, coz una no sabi anything.

selling average clothes at an exhorbitant price gets customer like you feeling high
and makes sellers like me feel on top of the world with excess profit

Haha!!! Well, that's what you get when you try to discuss soccer with women



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MizMyColi:
Well, I'll choose Iwobi because he's a handsome Chap.

Thanks for the pic. Keep them coming....

Saturday can't come soon enough.


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soetanoreoluwa:
Pictures..land in uyo

The main question is: are we talking about N85k for one or both of them? If it's for both of them, then that's a fair price.

They sewed me some traditional attires (the type they call Naija Delta style) when I travelled home in August - two pairs, and I believe that it cost as much if not more. And mine was done at Onitsha, so imagine what it would cost at Lagos.


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olasaad:
The Ankara fabric itself is #2500. So how much is sewing? Well maybe the shop is located at Oriental hotel

So who is Junaid Muhammad

A nobody seeking relevancy ....
....Next


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ProWalker:
https://m.guardian.ng/news/ipob-proscription-southeast-governors-are-confusionists-says-junaid/

Wow. She has lost a lot of weight!

A ton of weight, I should say.


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Did Wenger really say this? Because I didn't see the interview. If he did (and that's a big IF), then I think he's making a mistake because Iwobi's game should not be evaluated on the basis of the number of goals he scores or doesn't score. He's more of a creator not a scorer - an Iniesta type of midfielder, if you will.

Having said that, like I had said several times on here, Iwobi would need to add goals to his game if he wants to maintain his position. because, as a black African man, that's basically the only way he can stay in the first team at a big club like Arsenal. Jay Jay would've played for teams like Real Madrid or Manchester United if he were a prolific scorer.


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soetanoreoluwa:
Arsene Wenger : Iwobi Must Contribute To At Least 16 Goals Every Season

Published: October 02, 2017

Arsene Wenger : Iwobi Must Contribute To At Least 16 Goals Every Season

Speaking at a press conference following Arsenal's 2-0 win over Brighton & Hove Albion in the Premier League on Sunday, manager of the London club, Arsene Wenger, has set a target for Alex Iwobi, saying the Nigerian must contribute to at least 16 goals every season.

The Nigeria international shrugged off an injury before netting his first goal for the Gunners since January 2017, and his display against the Seagulls was pleasing to the eye.

''I think he’s a kind of player who has a good availability,'' Arsene Wenger stated.

''He helps you a lot to get out of pressure when you are in a build up game and creates spaces.

''What you want from him is final balls and goals as well. A player like him must score 10 goals and he must as well give between six and 10 assists and that’s what I want from him.''

Alex Iwobi made his sixth appearance of the season in all competitions against Brighton & Hove.

Igho Kingsley

Photo Credit : arsenal.com