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FBS:
Don't you know how to read in between the lines? Do you realistically think we can last 2 seasons with our current squad?
For the record: I said 3 and not 3 or more. Besides, I have not even suggested any player for us to buy.

Aite my bad,  of course I'm talking about short term here therefore THIS season, my stance still remains the teams quality and depth is sufficient

to deliver trophy(s) at the end of the season, however I can understand the need to deploy a long term strategy, but what I oppose is some people's

(not implying anyone specifically,just speaking generally) believe that the teams problem is down to lack of adequate and/or right players to play the diamond system.

FBS:
@Ibime, but we were scoring lots of goals (and kept clean sheets) even with the diamond formation, yes?
How do you explain that?

Your stance on buying 3 or more players as the solution to the teams crisis on the pitch, is highly contradictory, you clearly acknowledge the teams

excellent performance from both ends of the pitch, just over a month ago with the SAME CROP OF PLAYERS, if i could recollect vividly, Aguero, Gourcuff et al

were not in the Chelsea line up when we were decimating teams or were they?

~Sauron~:
That goal had to be the best goal scored in the whole of 2009.

I concur, A goal even puskas will be proud of

platinumnk:
Two differnt types  

[img]http://2.bp..com/_u3--I1q8j8Y/SeK8a506u8I/AAAAAAAAK1k/-V4Aq4Q4zZM/s400/abcde.jpg[/img]

Now the first girl is thick and sexy, that is what I'm talking abt. Now tell me what successful, confident and good looking man would go for the 2nd chick

in that pic

Kenny_G:
so by implication, you would rather have a showpiece wife who offers nothing more than looks than a fat woman who can help build your life/home? strange choice considering the fact that fatness can be sorted out but a "foolish" woman who can help??

I suggest you take a comprehension lesson, what I am saying is a man would rather have a woman both looks and personality if he can have his way

What sort of man would wanna wake up to an unattractive woman every morning for the rest of his life, what you need to understand his if your game is

tight, you can mold an attractive girl with stinking personality into what you consider ideal given she is passionately in love with you, she

will be willing to make the relationship work) however there is nothing you can do to turn a naturally ugly and fat woman into a damnsell.

Bottomline there is hope for a man that dates a physically attractive woman with ugly personality given the right conditions

Ebonyeyes:
This Nugor is probably sporting a beer belly I swear some of these Nugors are reaching for the stars, if you look like a catastrophe dont look for a model type. That is all

The stone cold truth is, Women are emotionally driven, given a guy has all/most of the attribute women seek in a man beside the look

hence he is oozing with confidence, intelligent, successful, great sense of humor and so on, he WILL always bag attractive and quality chicks

however the same can not be said of women, cos we men are highly motivated by looks, if you are ugly and fat, it wouldn't matter what attribute you

are able to bring to the table (personality wise).

It's a shame to see guys supporting mediocrity, maybe there is something I don't get here but what is physically attractive in a fat babe?

only ugly, broke a$$ or guys with low self esteem find fat girls attractive (I am sorry to generalise but if you have your

stuff together , you will can never settle for less) all that shitzo about preference and "beauty is in the eyes of beholder" is bull crap in

my opinion, all men want an attractive woman and when you see one , you will know, I am yet to see any man on this planet earth find someone like Halle

berry or Genevieve Nnaji physically unattractive. when guys think they do not deserve any better and lack options, they resort to dating fat girls.

What is more disheartening are girls that let them selves go fatty bum bum even at an early age, I can understand the argument for married women with kids

gaining weight that is only natural but what is the excuse of young girls who are not yet pregnant.

It is important for people men/women to stay in shape not only to appear more attractive to the opposite sex but also for health reasons which should be the

primary motivation for staying in shape in the first place.

~Borat~:
Is Jackal the same person as Sharon?
Because they seem to share the same vile persona. . .

Yep

Dr Kitaun:
@Cristalz

Never try to outshine your master !

I totally disagree with your idea of discreetly pruning down the list of nominees in your closet . . . why do we blame OBJ for enforcing Yaradua down our throats

ordinarily the awards would have made more sense if u had different categories with different nominees from which people can now exercise their franchise . . .

and I wonder where u get the idea of SOUND KNOWLEDGE from ? what of COMPORTMENT ?

Its ridiculous that Dayokanu that is my protegee is one who u even vaunt in saying that he is not abrasive, considering his vituperativeness, his vulgarities and his propensity to forment unwarranted trouble the threads over   

See this thread and roger how any credible awards should be conducted . . .

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-33799.0.html

God bless the oldies !!! 

The most sensible post so far, criz you might as well go ahead and pick a winner since our choice of who to vote for is so limited,

what if a member feels like casting his/her vote for lets say sauron/nateevs or any other member for that matter

Emperoh:
Bia Jalether;
Dem send you abi u see us for dream? Why u no fit enjoy our quietly and leave our battered emotions alone?
No make person follow u bumper to bumper oo
We no say we lose by 3nil must u rub it in? Shuo wetin self? Anyway, enjoy am but make your team no just lose
Cos i will certainly pick on you in particular. . . enjoy sha cos true true my market bad and i no blame you, na Fergie we play wack formation
na im i blame!!

I go don travel go Ipswich like sauron , moreover my team can never lose in such a disgraceful manner

edoyad:
My brothers of NL section, it seems we've failed as men. How can a donkey over full blooded men ?

I started my own rebel Awards in revolt to this one and Guess what ? Dayo's name is the only ish being mentioned there too

Quit while you can

debosky:
Conceding goals can be due to having no defenders, but is that also the reason for the poor form upfront?  

It is astonishing that this side relies on the contributions of Giggs so much - he was sorely missed.  Playing with Rooney, Berbatov, Owen, Ando, Valencia and Scholes yet few chances created. . . Fergie needs to reexamine his squad ASAP and look at where he needs to buy.

I am still worried about Crizzle. . . .has anyone seen her yet?

PS - give Utd some credit, they did have 4 shots on goal according to the BBC. 

Debosky why are you talking like you are unaware their top [b]strikers [/b]Vidic and Ferdinand are out through injury, where do you expect them to

get the goals from

Eastbay:
jalether,
if i'm having a mid-life crisis,it's better than having a no-life crisis like you seem to be doing.
I'll send you some toys and lollipops with which you can entertain yourself with in the spirit of christmas

#
What a generous boy, make sure it's vanilla flavor lollipops , more peeps should be like this guy, God loves a cheerful giver

but your team still s u c ks sha

tkb417:
thin?
whats wrong with typing thin?

ure new on this forum? read ma posts very well, i dont give a rat backside about spellings and stuffs
regarding ma vocab spat? u sure need a brain booster

i meant u have no stuff in your medulla to banter someone like eastbay
if tht was hard to figure, then i apologise for quoting your posts
i dont do doofus

illiterates can be managed but from what im seeing, ure not an illiterate, ure just one of the factory rejects when God was doing his works


@Yjay
babes, i don tire
werrin man go do than to pray for them to come back
i hope we wont be 14th on the table b4 they come back

Too many Albert Einstein's on this forum, I have a great piece of advice for you though, no matter the outcome at the end of the season

Do NOT commit suicide and remember God loves you , because at this rate, thoughts of suicide is inevitable

Eastbay:
You never learn.
That's your problem.
We lost twice in the space of a week.Like it's never happened before.
Stop sounding like a broken LP
Hankies?
You're a lost cause.
Do us all a favour and Stop sounding like a scratched LP.
As for tkb,
He never pretended to be smart like you,so there's no issue there.
Your case is one of tenses:simple construction of sentences.
when you work on your grammatical structure,get back to me.The guy is just a dry piece of poop hanging from from an as.shole.No relevance whatsoever:just blabbing on the same thing over and over again.
Makes me think the giraffe is a student from one of these mushroom universities.

, 3 nil is a biatch, he dey pain so tey , , Nas said it best, "your N*ggas deal with emotions like b*tches"

You are in a mid life crisis simply because United lost a game, what will happen WHEN you end the season trophyless, hang yourself

Oma se o

Dayokanu has my vote, carry go baba chi town

rasputinn:

I never knew a 3 - zip thumping could result in instant amnesia

, Never underestimate the power of 3 Nil walloping, it can force a Ghanaian to type in Chinese

tkb417:
Eastbay
free this dude joh

he doesnt have 'plenty' vocabs to trade words with ya so free him

lets discuss better thin

i swear
e be like say we don tire to dey win games
make  we go on holiday
na only us?

So much for vocabulary , jesus wept, BTW I don't give a f u c k if 8 defenders are out injured, I thought sauron once claimed man utd always have

a way of dealing with unforseeable risks/injuries, so what happened, does that also explain your lack of goal (s) against A.Villa and Fulham

you guys have been beyond pathetic and WILL NOT win the league this year, so put a sock on it

Eastbay:
Anuofia.
If you're that smart,your tenses would be spot-on.
You started this,so don't cry when I point out your mistakes.
Frustration?
You're a lobotomised ape.
We didn't have a shot on target?And so?
Is it the end of the world?
My guy,go and read,sorry dub for your test at hand.
If I'm a he-goat,you're a she-goat as well.

That was a weak comeback by the way, getting hammered 3 nil by a mid table side without having a shot on target is a big deal

you are in the frustration phase now and I understand, BTW hope you received the pack of handkerchiefs I sent to your address. I expect the whole pack to

have been used up by now , two defeat in the space of one week life must suck being a manscum at the moment,

Eastbay:
Look who's talking.Common grammar/tenses, zero.
ASUU really needs to check their standards before going on strike next time,because the kind of daft graduates they mass-produce (who can't even speak simple and proper English) will not help their cause.
By the way,get a life.

Mr lecturer, what a loser you are, you are so petty you had to find a flaw in my post, now tell me how pathetic can one get, don't come on here venting your

frustration on me, it's not my fault your team were disgraced by fulham 3 nil without having a simple shot on target WTF

now take that to the bank you senseless He-goat

Eastbay:
Only jobless retatards like you live,breathe,s.crew,eat on NL.
Some of us have lives outside footie,you know:menaingful lives,unlike you.

This is why student fail in school, answer the question and stop deviating by going on a senseless rant, I ask one more time

scummies how market , how rude can I be, didn't even ask how your anus is faring, pardon me

tkb417:
fool

we dont live on NL. I cant remember when i posted on matchdays here in months
i dont do NLs on weekends so get your head straight b4 u spew too much fckery

if my team were disgraced by fulham 3 nil without having a single shot on target , I had be bitter too, I understand the frustration

so I ask scummies, HOW MARKET?

tkb417:
your uncanny ability to exhibit some idiotic traits sometimes make me think u came into this world with your bum

kindly use bojan and messi as defenders in a la liga game and get back to us

**hiss***

na today we don dey lose 3-0?

@Mancs
how market?
e be like say market no wan good o; now the loss to VIlla is coming to hunt us

i hope we give a good response to this ouster against Hull City
and when will our defenders be back?

One United!!

Eastbay:
End of story.
No league for us this season.
The only reason we're still in the hunt is because Chelsea is almost as clueless as we are.

Emperoh:
Guy i for like follow u for this line of thought but men. . . . . .4 points is still a touching distance
U just saw how 5 points could be blown away last week with even the Chavs faltering
So until that gap reach 9 points, i ain't giving up. . . . . this season is very freaky and people ain't taking adv of it

The only signs that tell me it could eventually not be ours is the way Chelsea manages to grab a point or 3 from lost or drawn games
Everton, Portsmouth, Westham easily comes to mind. So dude, lets wait and see as January go end.
If u ask me, the trophy that is very important to me this season is the FA Cup. . . . .its been a while we won it!!

TK
Market bad today i swear!! How u manage for fuel? Abi u trek come work>

The wimps are coming out, one after the other. thought you guys had some balls but now I know better

@ dayo, Follow the link below, BTW how do you guys embed videos


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1KRYc5hnJE

dayokanu:
Is it this dificult?

Tel us Joe Coles best performance on a football field in his miserable 28years and compare to Bastian Schweisteiger against Portugal at eitther the Euro or the world cup

Below is a Bastian performance with a goal and 2 set piece deliveries

[flash=500,400]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/DTXdjjq4KAA[/flash]

Joe Cole vs Man utd 04/05

Joe Cole Vs sweden WC 06

Joe cole vs Liverpool UCL 06/07

And that is just a tip of the iceberg

lalaboi:
Erm  how old is he? 25 . . .Joe cole 28. . . Comaring when he was 25

I'd say theres nothing "Great" about these 2 players but comparing them on overall ability and choosing bastian is a joke. . . . .Only thing bastian can do better than Joe is play outside shots with good accuracy and pace!. . .What else??

Joe's flexibility on the ball makes him unpredictable and a natural dribbler! He dont need pace to beat a player! He'd rather set up a chance to score than take a shot from 30yards!. .

bastian schweinsteger ko. . .  Arnold schwarzenegger ni. .

You dey mind dk, next he will tell us Gomiss is better than Rooney and Drogba put together

debosky:
As long as he remains top of the table come new year, Carlo might decide to stay on with this side. . . .with good reason too. It will be very difficult to bring in quality that can quickly gel with Chelski's current mode of play and make a difference.

The OAP are not performing and this is costing us relatively easy points, now if we buy younger WC players what have we got to lose?

at worst, they take longer to adapt to the system hence bad perfromances and poor result which wouldn't matter because this OAP are not

exactly producing the goods.

debosky:
As a bunch of OAPs, y'all were bound to have a slowdown at a period in the season. . .as long as that doesn't lead to losing the top spot I wouldn't be too worried.

This is the premiership not Qatar, pace is a major component of the league, imagine Deco against Song or Mascherano

debosky:
Shekpe is in big trouble this season. . . .once DD and co take off, the train will truly come off the rails.

When you need penalties to get points against the two worst teams in the league (while playing at FULL strength minus Bosingwa & Essien) then you know you're in deep poo.

And no. . . .there's no comparison of Utd losing to a very efficient Fulham side (who beat them last season as well) while playing without CBs to this utterly shambolic performance by you lot.

@ nateevs

At the rate things are going, the EPL winner will lose more than 5 games. . .the point dropping by top sides is simply astonishing.

I agree, the spirit of gaynerism has been inflicted upon the rest of the big four this season, I rebuke such spirit in the name of jesus

on a serious note, I think the gap between the top four and rest of the teams is becoming increasingly slim, this is a great season for Williamhill

and skybet

nateevs:
@Jalether.

I am the last to have knee jerk reactions on here. I do not absolve Carllotti of any blame on the tactical side of things. His insistence on the diamond in every game, I cannot understand. However, we have a fundamental personnel that if not tackled now will lead to destruction . . age and pace of the team.

Be it a 4-3-3, 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 we have a pathetic personnel im midfield. And playing a 4-3-3 will not help Kalou put the ball in the net and not over the bar from 5 yards. Yo have to go back to about 6 matches away to find a Ballack shot on goal . . a 4-5-1 cannot change that. . neither can it help him running after a player and help the RB. .

A 4-3-3 cannot help Lampard stop kicking the freekick into the wall . . always! Neither can it stop him putting a corner kick straight into the palms of the oppo goalie. The last time we scored from a corner kick was against Wolves and Malouda took that corner. Before then we scored from a Lampard free kick against ManU 40 yards from their goal. Anyone could do that. When was the last time we scored from a free kick that Drogba did not take?

We've not scored from a through-pass to the attackers in along time. .Why because we don't have good passers of the ball in midfield. If we don't have a big striker like Drogba that can force his way and create things for himself, our midfield can't just create.

Bosingwa is prehaps the best crosser of the ball in wide areas. . . perhaps Zhirkov.



These are fundamental problems that are fast showing their faces. And it don't matter what formation you are playing they will come back to hunt you. . and the only way to solve those problems is to go out now and buy while we can. . If we don't, we won't be able to buy for 2 years. Simple.


Players always show best form when there's a new manager, or when the season begins. The true character and quality of a team starts to show mid-season. . and that's exactly where we are now. So all the flashy performances in the beginning will fade away . .

Bros believe or not. . . We have to buy.

God bless you on the Lampard observation, dude is on the verge of competely losing it. I totally see where you are coming from

but (a very big but) Carlotti, considering his managerial approach to footie as evident during his ac milan days, is not the type to buy worldclass

players to replace players like Lampard, Deco, Ballack simply because of their reputation.

We can all come here and wish for some spectacular signing in the transfer window but I tell you one thing if players like pirlo, Inzaghi,Seedorf

Gattuso were not replaced by younger, fresher worldclass players during his tenure @ milan then do not expect anything different from him now.

that is the sad reality, didn't you notice I never really supported carlotti from the start, there is no smoke without fire.

if he buys young WC players to replace these guys then he would have proved me wrong and gain my respect, bookmark this page for future

reference/evidence if at all carlotti buys any player in Jan, it will be motivated by the loss of key players to ANC rather than lack of right personnel

in certain position on the pitch and I still think that is unlikely to happen

dayokanu:
Is this the Joe Cole someone said was better than Schweinsteiger?

Jalether and co, If you dont come here to apologise, All the 77 gods of Umuleri and Aguleri would attack your abode tonight

I was comparing the pre-injury Joe cole with Basten, Only a retard will question Joey's quality as a winger and play maker when he

was at the peak of his game. at the moment, Basten is better than Joe Cole but to question his quality and label him as mediocre is just ridiculous.

give credit to whom it's due

nateevs:
I am telling you Joe Cole is 28 and has been injured for the best part of 2 years. This is the best he can be. . nothing better. Joe in his prime could not touch Deco in his prime. . what is the chance he will get better. .? Joe is only marginally better than Deco now and it's just his pace. We need to move on. ManU dominated the world with Ronaldo, which player do we have that's half Ronaldo? None! We have to move beyond this abeg! We are a big team in many competitions, we shouldn't condone mediocrity.

Sturridge cameo today and Borini's on Wednesday confirms that only a mad man will play Kalou as our third striker. Like I said on Wednesday, if Borini is given the time Kalou has had, he'd miles ahead. Positional play, Zilch. . Decision making Zilch! . . Ship out!

Ballack . . We can't be serious offering him a new contract. In that same 82nd minute incident Ibime mentioned that Parker broke out, Ballack was closest to him when the attack started. He left Ballack like a Motorbike accelerates past a bicycle. He just kept jogging. If a player plays in the midfield and can't beat a player. . . then there's no midfield. Sharpness, decision-making, passing and shots-on-goal have just disappeared. Who can replace him at the moment. . ? no one!

In the summer, I talked about Xabi. . . Ibime laughed at me. . Mikel plays like a typical Nigerian. . No urgency. . "take am easy we go score" kinda attitude. That's no the demeanour of a modern day player. .  He can't even shoot on goal even if his life depended on it. It's why I always prefer Essien in DM . . . Is it conicidental that we started becoming lethargic midfield ever since Essien stopped playing in DM. . . ?


If anyone thinks we should not buy in January . . I will be laughing my head away. We need a overhaul of the midfield. One player to play top of the diamond, one to play the right . . fast moving, quick-thinking midfielders with massive technical abilities, can dribble, shoot from distance and have an added skill like a dead ball speciality. . I am fkucing tired of seeing Lampard kick every free-kick into the wall and every corner into the hands of the goalie.

And then we need one more midfielder to act as a sub, with Matic and Kakuta as understudies.


Can we have players in the mould of Hazard, Giovinco, Dzagoev. . . These players are abound and are available at the right price. WE are Chelsea and should have the best midfielders in the world, individually and as a team. Carllotti is flipping Italian and knows damn well what a trequartista is. . that's what we need.



Move Essien to DM, sit Lamps down when we can. Play Zhirkov on the left of the diamond. We saw what he can do today.

And we would be bloody fine . . even with the diamond. However if we fail to buy in January. . . kiss the CL and PL goodbye. .

Nateevs I agree with most of your post (esp Kalou and Joe), just 3 weeks ago, we were arguably the best team in the EPL, our form and performance was through the roof, the million dollar question then is what happened?

remember it is this same Ballack that was winning tackles and dominating play in the mid field just 3 wks ago, I sense some knee jerk reactions from some
people on here.

all of a sudden, we are in big trouble and must buy players as soon as possible.

I certainly agree with Ibime, our problem is CA inability to take a practical and flexible approach to each game. your tactics and formation should never be the

same all year round, what worked against Liverpool may not be effective against West Ham.

rasputinn:
@ Criz,

First and foremost,I totally disagree with some of the criteria you put out there.They're anti-democracy

However,just so we move on and to allow you present the award to the winner,I'd vote for Dayokanu(my decision is based more on humanitarian than anything else),he's been the loneliest sports-section nairalander in that lonely thread for that team from the wack bundewackza league.Let's give him some cheer @ christmas