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melodyogonna:
Make Pogba getat abeg

The second most hardworking player in the squad should getat??

All you Pogba haters, your day of reckoning is nigh. I can’t wait for a proper manager to use Pogba effectively so I can come and mock you people.

Nezzjnr:
Ahhhhhhhh

Abeg ooo... Who dey link us with the player... Make dey better stop am if na joke

Werner is better than Rashford/Martial. If he’s available, we should sign him.

Martial should go and join Depay in Barcelona. Xavi wants him there. The evil he’s done at Old Trafford is enough.

melodyogonna:
Nobody cares how you rate the competitions tbh. You can call it inferior from now till eternity, it'll still be a deciding factor when it comes to awarding the Balon D'Or, especially if Messi is a contestant

The award is skewed to favor Messi. All those Spanish speaking journalists would always put Messi ahead of any player in a year he manages to win something(tangible or intangible).

Messi has a much bigger profile than Lewandowski and only one country speaks Polish language. Letting about 200 journalists from all spheres of the planet decide this award is the reason why it’s shit and has no credibility.

Messi can keep the award but football purists know he didn’t deserve it in 2010, 2019 and 2021. Lewandowski has outperformed any other player in the last 24 months……….and that’s my final say on the matter.

Maximilan:
We should forget individual stats as well right

Let's review the stats for 2021 Ballon D'or;

Goal;
Lewa 51,Messi 43.. let's Break down the these Goals;
Outside the Box Goals- Messi(7), Lewa(4)...... Direct Free kick goals- Messi(5), Lewa(0).... G/A Contribution Messi-52, Lewa-49

Assists;
Messi-17, Lewa-8
Goal contributed of the Club Goals:
Messi-45%, Lewa-39%
Goal Contributed to the National Goals;
Messi-52%, Lewa-50%
Important Goal Contribution;
Goal in knockout stage of their tournaments played;
Messi-4, Lewa-4
However Messi provided 2 more assists in K/O stage; Messi-4, Lewa-2
Goals In Fianl;
Messi-2, Lewa-3(lewa favours this)

International Tournament;
Messi won Copa America, Lewa couldn't make it from Group stage.
Goals in Euro/Copa;
Messi-4(Golden Boot winner), Lewa-3
Assists in Euro/Copa;
Messi-5, Lewa-0

Individual Awards;
Messi-6 , Lewa-4
Lewa's awards consists;
-Club world Cup Golden Ball
-Bundesliga Golden Boot
-Bundesliga Player of the Year
-European Golden Shoe

respectively Messi's awards consists of;
-Copa del Rey MVP
-Pichichi
-Copa America Golden Ball
-Copa America Golden Boot
-Copa America Top Assists
-Copa Player of the Tournament

Trophy;
Lewa-3, Messi-2
Trophies Are:
Lewa- Bundesliga Cup, DFL Supercup, Club world Cup

Messi- Copa del Rey, Copa America

Individual Records;
Messi-5, Lewa: 2,
Messi's records;
-Most International Goals from SA
-Most goals scored for a Single Club
-First Player to win International Trophy as well as Golden Boot, Golden Ball & Top Assists in the history
-Most Consecutive pichichi wins in La liga History
-Most Pichichi won in Laliga History.

Lewa's records;
- Most goals for Bayern for a season
-Most Consecutive Games scores in Bayern.

Other Stats;
Dribbles; Messi-276, Lewa-150
Key Passes- Messi-150, Lewa-49
Big Chances missed: Lewa-30, Messi-14
Big Chances Created ; Messi-34, Lewa-13

These r the stat. Under review for 2021 Ballon D'or.
If Messi isn't winning it, idk what Basis The France Football is giving Ballon d'or .. may On the Basis of Goals?? No! In 2018 Messi has the highest G/A & Also won Treble from the Club.. But he finished becoming 5th in the Ballon d'or race.



Here you go

Copa America is a shït tournament. Whatever Messi does there is irrelevant. We might as well compare the PL to the Somalian league. Messi’s only threat in Copa is Brazil. Lewandowski’s threat in Euros = pick anyone from Germany, Italy, Spain, England, France, etc.

So how can you rate the level of difficulty as the same when Copa is just an overrated principal cup competition? This is robbery of the highest order. I am now absolute sure that part of Messi’s deal to PSG was that he would win the 7th gong.

LostMyZeal:
Messi is a big sporting name nau

You think he went to PSG to take pictures of the Eiffel tower??

It was all planned and I bet it was majorly what they used to lure him.

They're the organisers but it's epileptic to try to set footballing standards with a series of undeserved awards

Nuff said

It’s crazy that someone can win ballon d’Or on the strength of winning COPA.

Copa that Suarez, Alexis, Forlan, etc have won in the past and getting nowhere near the top 3.

I pity Jorginho. In terms of big trophies, he deserved it the most. Lewandowski also deserved it based on the cancelled awards last season. At least, give him the award for last season.

LostMyZeal:
Omo... this is another robbery

I guess the plan is to pacify Jorginho and Lewy

Anyway, it happened to Sneijder in 2010 so no be new thing

But why must the beneficiary of a dubious award always be Messi?

If the beneficiaries are different people over the last 10 years, one could say it’s normal. However, anytime there’s a hint of an undeserved award, it automatically goes to Messi.

Copa America is a useless competition. I rate African Nations Cup higher and the Euros is definitely a better competition so why isn’t Jorginho(also CL winner) not the top favorite for this year’s award?

KingTom:
His partnership with Bebeto was a dream to watch, e get one werey wey we dey call Abiola, he was the Romario to my Bebeto, always fighting our teachers. The fool told our PE teacher/Coach that he was too fat to train us in other words He no know ball

Romario was a beast in his days. He’s got the stature of Aguero but with the killer instinct of Cristiano.

Expert17:
De Bruyne 8th



Big Joke

Best PL player = 8th?

This award is a joke.

LostMyZeal:
Exactly what I just saw
Best goalscorer of the year, really huh

What a freaking joke

Kane - 23rd best player
Lukaku - 12th best player.

This is laughable.

They created striker of the year award to cushion Lewandowski’s pain so they can give Messi the most undeserved award ever.

Messi has done nothing for the past 6 months.

raumdeuter:
How Ronaldo saw Ole as coach and agreed to sign might be one of the worst decisions of his career

Because he knows if the team doesn’t perform, it’s the manager they would sack.

If United didn’t sign Ronaldo, the expectation to perform wouldn’t have been there and Ole would still be here.

Ronaldo raises any team’s expectations by an exponential power of 5.

A40:
This part dey kill me I swear

Romario couldn’t leave Brazilian pröstitutes alone. He got his brace under 20 minutes to destroy his manager’s challenge.

Lana1:
Rangnick is official. I hope ahe comes in with one or two of his own coaching staff. These DNA people dont know anything.

Rangnick has his work cut out.

I have just finished reading an article. His style is the total opposite of what Ole turned United into. He will have to re-orientate the entire squad to play his ultra aggressive system.

I foresee a lot of injuries going forward. We have been badly coached by the previous manager. Some of the stats I saw had us as one of the worst defensive teams in Europe.

Ole is a lunatic. He should be arrested immediately.

ChristoBam:
I think it's because of how huge the fanbase is. So many agendas come up and most people just go with it.

Since SAF, we've not had a player as important and consistent as Bruno is for us. But guess what about 30% of the fanbase are Anti-Bruno. They've started with Ronaldo.

Ricky on United Stand calls Bruno and Rashford shitty players that need to be sold.

I'm just worried about the success of the club cuz all of these adds up eventually. These players end up caving to the pressure because of they know these things. It's an everyday conversation on social media.

Like how can anyone with a functional brain hate Bruno?

Oasis007:
Rangnick: "The squad is full of talent and has a great balance of youth and experience. All my efforts for the next six months will be on helping these players fulfil their potential, both individually and, most importantly, as a team.

"Beyond that, I look forward to supporting the club’s longer-term goals on a consultancy basis.”

This dude built Hoffenheim, RB Leipzig and RB Salzburg from the bottom. I trust him 100% to take United to greater heights with the amount of resources at the club’s disposal.

Oasis007:
OFFICIAL..... RALF IS HERE!

Congratulations!

No more talks of…..

United DNA
SAF’s non-existent philosophy
Cultural reset/reboot
Blood the youths
Attack with passion
My players won’t be overworked

Joezinho:
It’s funny that if we didn’t sign CR7, he would be banging goals in at Man city and we would likely be knocked out of the UCL. Then the nairaland pundits would be saying we missed out on Ronaldo and his goals while still shiitting on Ronaldo for betraying the club that gave him everything.

Smh. Some of you guys here deserves to be locked up in a cage..

90% of them here are absolute mörons. These are the same people that didn’t even know Ole is a fraud until September 2021.

How can you take them serious? They went from Ronaldo(36) won’t score in the PL to he doesn’t press in a jiffy.

You would think we signed Ronaldo as a defensive midfielder with the way his defensive attributes has been called into questioning.

Expert17:


My darling captain (Bruno) serving hot LLL to haters.

United fans are a weird bunch. Without Ronaldo and Bruno(the 2 best players in the squad), United would be in a relegation zone in the league and would be 3rd/4th in the CL table.


Yet, these 2 players get the most criticisms from those brainless Messi fans that support Man Utd. Now that they have realized scoring isn’t a problem for Ronaldo in the PL, they have changed the gear to “he doesn’t press”. When he was first signed, the initial complaint was that he was too old and he wouldn’t score in England.

Why should the greatest goal scorer on the planet add pressing to his resumé? Which other prolific goal scorer was pressing? Did Ibra press? How was Mourinho able to build a team around him to thrive? Does Lewandowski press? Even Pep said he could never ask Messi to press because he needed him fresh and clear headed when they have the ball in the opponent’s box.

A coach must show favoritism to his best players. Romario would miss training and bed pröstitutes throughout the week and on the day of the game, he would outperform those that didn’t miss training. Romario asked Cryuff if he could go to Brazil for 2 days and celebrate their carnival. Cryuff said if he scored a brace in the next game, he would give Romario 4 days to go enjoy in Brazil.

Romario scored 2 goals in the first half and told Cryuff his plane leaves in an hour. Cryuff had no choice than to substitute him off so he could leave for Brazil in the middle of the season. Cryuff said he broke his own rules plenty of times to please Romario. This is normal in the dressing room. The best players get favors from their managers. Even SAF broke his own rules for Cantona.

eph12:
I'm still amazed at Rashford. We would have lost that goal if Sancho passed to him. I was just screaming for him to step back. How could he not know that he was ahead of the ball and in a bad position to receive that ball?

He wasn’t in an offside position from the start. He waited and waited and waited for the pass until he drifted offside.

Sancho just wanted to keep Mendy guessing until the very end. A very good decision to slot the ball in. How ironic that Sancho who’s been trolled by every Chelsea fan is the one to score at the Bridge.

That’s 2 goals on the bounce for Jadon. Hopefully, he gets another one against the mighty gooners in the midweek.

Leyqute:
Maybe that was even what Fred wanted to do. It was just inaccurate

Nah, Fred wanted to score.

He didn’t look up long enough to see advancing players. He just knew Mendy was off his line and thought he would dink the ball over his head.

Poor execution
Poor decision making.

Imagine if it was Mata in Fred’s shoes at the edge of the box.

Uniquisite:
Mehn!!!

Ronaldo in a great position to tap into an empty net.

Fred is a lunatic.

michaellovaldo:
Unpopular opinion: Telles was impressive today,he should teach Shaw how to play corner kicks abeg

Telles is better than Shaw.

British passport is the only reason Shaw starts ahead of him. His crosses are way better and Shaw cannot defend for shït.

If Cavani was fit today, 3-5-2 formation would have worked a treat with Telles providing crosses for the two veterans.

raumdeuter:
This running around, Do you see Ronaldo doing it? or you just want to suffer the man for nothing?

You are talking as if this running around was a 90 minute job. It was just for the last 20 mins to help his team.

Ronaldo understood the assignment but the service was poor. Ronaldo is not daft thinking United would attack Chelsea pound for pound. He knows Chelsea are far ahead in their development than United.

Y’all talking as if Ronaldo hadn’t played in a park the bus tactics before in his career. The game suits him, he just needed a Modric/Kroos kind of intelligence to feed him the ball.

Leyqute:
In case you didn’t notice, before Mendy played that ball, Fred was running straight at him in another angle.

Then he read what Mendy was about to do, glanced behind him, saw the potential recipient of the ball and then changed his direction.

If he didn’t do that and ran straight at Mendy he wouldn’t have intercepted the ball.

Mendy didn’t pass to him. He intercepted the ball.

It was an interception. Mendy was lucky that Fred has no common sense offensively but he’s a defensive monster.

If we had Maguire and Shaw tonight, we would have lost this game by a 4 goal margin.

How can we send Maguire/Shaw to Ole in Norway?

raumdeuter:
Are you expecting accurate balls from who? Fred McTom or Matic? Or Bailly or Bissaka?

With the players on the field, Carricks number 1 aim is not to lose, Matic McTom barely crossed the halfway line. There is no way Mata wouldsee the field today.

If the players have a better training Ronaldo will excel in games like this, Its not like Chelsea has better individual players

It’s like you are not listening.

Chelsea were committing huge risks and daring United to attack them. In the mistake Jorginho made for the Sancho goal, it was 2 United players versus Jorginho alone.

The ball doesn’t even need to be super accurate, just launch it into space and let Ronaldo chase it - something like the offside call that the line assistant did spot. Matic can do that blindfolded.

Lindelof and Rashford also have a telepathic connection that has resulted in several goals like the Rashford’s equalizer against Leicester. I saw none of that today. It was a poor performance because of the gameplan.

The penalty Chelsea won was too soft.

Anthony Taylor is a spineless human being. He’s been accused of never favoring Chelsea. Chelsea fans didn’t want him to officiate this game so when that moment came, he couldn’t hold his nerves and gave the penalty to please Chelsea fans.

Chelsea fans signed a petition to have him banned from officiating any Chelsea game sometime ago so I don’t understand why he was picked to officiate this game. He was either going to punish Chelsea for having the gall to petition him or lick their balls to show he’s not against them.

elampiro:
A stoke city striker will not be so anonymous in pressing, tackling, chasing, involving in build-up play. Today, Ronaldo was a short one player. We would have done ourselves a favour if we played Sancho for 90 minutes. Every game is different.

Play Sancho for 90 mins?

Sancho that was running out of breath after having to chase and close down Chelsea players. You people watch the back of your TV during games. I am 100% sure now.

Lukaku came in for a team that 100% dominated the game, what impact did he make in the game but somehow Ronaldo should have scored a hat trick in the game we barely had a sniff in Chelsea’s box.

raumdeuter:
Carrick set out to defend and just lump balls forward to chase.

Is that what you want Ronaldo doing? Chasing hopeless balls and have Rudiger Silva and Chalobah toy and pass his around

That’s what Ronaldo can do. He had only 20 minutes to do it and if the ball was more accurate, you would have seen how such game suits him.

I wish we had Mata on the pitch.

raumdeuter:
I think taking out Sancho for Ronaldo at that time was wrong. Ronaldo cannot play the sufferhead football Carrick set out to play today

They were tired by then. None of them was making any impact. Rashford had a one v one with a defender and he couldn’t beat his marker.

When you set up the way the player, the ball carrier has to be sharp and be able to beat his marker or pass the ball vertically to a team mate.

We did none of that. Chelsea took huge risks and every time we broke, it looked like we had a chance but the ball carriers were woeful.

elampiro:
Ronaldo might chop bench with the new coach, except there is a new style that can favour him. This game is too physical and fast paced for a 36 years old

This is just nonsense talk.

Ronaldo is stronger than any player in United squad. I don’t know what you people expected. That Ronaldo should have scored a hat trick after coming on for 23 minutes?

nitrogen:
Matic is the slowest player in the Utd squad, yet he played 90 minutes and coped with the speed of the game, but Ronaldo that is almost the fastest in our squad will not cope in games like this.

Shame on you lots!

Don’t mind the agenda people.

Rashford that is miles younger than Ronaldo did nothing with all the counter attacks we had. Rashford couldn’t beat his man at any point in the game but Ronaldo is too old to cope with the PL?

Ronaldo = PL!!!

Trent Alexander-Arnold
Cancelo
Reece James







Aaron Wan-Bissaka.


The distance in quality between those 3 and our full back just sums up Solskjaer’s reign at United. The fool scouted over 800 right backs and he decided to sign AWB out of over 800 candidates they scouted.

That decision alone should have cost Ole his job.

I don’t know what Ronaldo could have done today.

No service throughout the time he was on the pitch.
AWB is the most useless player I have seen. Fred’s decision making is also awful.

Joezinho:
The way he shouts and has a presence is just like an army general..Some players are going to have the absolute shock of their lives.

Rangnick, the who inspired a whole generation of German pressing managers is coming!

A man with a clear philosophy...Any mental midgets will be found out soon and shoved out of the door. There are five or six players who should be very nervous about their futures at the club.

Little wonder, Klopp isn’t happy that Rangnick is coming to Old Trafford.