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Enzo5:
finally one less team to worry about next season

Their rumoured new coach is actually very good.

10 of the EPL teams going into the season are starting with a new coach. If we hit the ground running we might have a good chance of going all the way. Arteta is the only proven manager currently in the top teams and with injuries to Saliba and Rice, they might start the season slow.

Ibime:
This is the reason I'm not going overboard on Alonso

I have seen him and my former manager performance against PSG in the space of just 4 days and khakhi was not leather

One had full season with his team while the other was appointed on May 25th and played Psg July 9th. Unfair comparison.

Chalobah is a good squad player, we should be selling Badiashile and Tosin first.

popizaino:
May your team be coached by a cancer patient and a Jordi Roura level coach

Popi guess who knocked Ancelotti and Psg out.

drisham:
USA media and English media are now on thier case😂

Biggest spreaders of propaganda

I even saw Samuel L. Jackson talking about Argentina and calling them racist. That should tell you how widespread the backlash has become when someone who doesn't even follow football is making comments like that.

This one Madrid are ready to drop €100m on Diomande. Are they preparing for the eventual departure of Vini, or is Diomande comfortable playing on either wing? If that's the case, then they've given up on Olise.

Ihebu4chelsea:
Conditions ko, Air conditioner ni, Ronaldo is Ronaldo, Messi is Messi.

You don't say. I thought Ronaldo was Messi and Messi was Ronaldo.

Enzo5:
bro let's not lie, love ronaldo but Messi is the better footballer not by a mile, it doesn't take anything away from ronaldo

Have more favorable conditions can be considered a talent as well, you don't buy it, it is given

By favourable conditions I meant coming from a better nation and starting out at Barcelona. At worst they are equal, at best Ronaldo was objectively better and it doesn't take anything from Messi as well.

Ihebu4chelsea:
The way you dey carry this Ronaldo hatred ehnnn? Na you serious pass for una camp. For me, there's no point abusing and trolling Ronaldo because of world cup, Messi even without the world cup is still a better player.

Messi was never a better player than Ronaldo. He just had more favorable conditions all through his career.

This world cup has done irredeemable damage to Argentina football image. The hate is actually now worldwide.

Ferran Torres to Chelsea is gathering up steam.

I think I speak for everyone when I say Ferran Torres should win player of the year.

izzou:


See as the thread dey slippery

Catarrh just full ground

Do anyone even read those posts.

Please who has a link to the world cup final highlights. I want to relive Ferran Torres goal.

popizaino:
Una too hype this France team sha.

@drisham you see another one?

Who cares? In hindsight I am glad Spain won and went to the final. France would have bottled that game to Argentina. Spain were the perfect opponent for that Argentinan team and they did all of us proud. They didn't only dominate but rendered them completely useless. What more could anyone ask for.

I would have loved to see Psg go head to head with this Spanish team.

Fabian Ruiz with the best 3 year period a player could dream of. Treble, back to back champions league, Euros and World cup all as key player.

drisham:
Dembele already won it last year, there's a huge chance the favor will sway towards mbappe

Kane , haaland, yamal are also in the running for it

Yamal is not in the running for anything.

Unless Spain magically flips their form to what it was in the 2024 euros they have no chance of beating this current France.

Unlimited22:
Proper twisting and turning in the wind 😂😂



Btw so after this is over I will have to start watching Chelsea football club again? God abeg

Well if Xabi is as good as I hope he is we are in for a much more exciting and better season. We just need to hit the ground running and start strong from day one. Pre season will tell us more on what to expect.

Ibukzy:
How is a stamp on the foot a slight foul

do you have TV at home?

If it was Madrid that conceded and the goal had been ruled out like that you wouldn't be saying this. But carry on. Once the season starts, it won't even take until Matchday 3 before the usual complaints from you lot begin again about Tebas and whatnot. Don't carry it here.

Jamiuokolaa:
Why are they not generational players?

Is WC win/bossing finals no longer the main criteria again or goalpost don shift as usual ?

Why won't you allow Dayo rest lmao

MorataFC:

A lot of top players have moved from Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Portugal, and the Netherlands to the Premier League and done really well.

Thierry Henry came from Serie A and became an Arsenal legend.
Cristiano Ronaldo came from Sporting in Portugal and became one of Man United’s greatest.
Luis Suárez came from Ajax in the Netherlands and became one of the league’s best strikers.
Sergio Agüero came from La Liga and became a Premier League icon.
Mohamed Salah came from Serie A and became world-class at Liverpool.
Kevin De Bruyne came back from the Bundesliga and became one of the best midfielders in Premier League history.
And Erling Haaland came from the Bundesliga and started breaking scoring records right away.

So how come a player of Messi’s caliber would flop in the EPL?
Sometimes agenda will just make people to talk "anyhow talk".

It also sounded anyhow that Messi would score just six league goals in an entire Ligue 1 season for PSG, yet it happened. That's why saying a player did this here or that there isn't an argument.

Leyqute:
Well, that’s a different argument then. Teenage Ronaldo scoring one league goal is different from a veteran Messi scoring 6 league goals in a season after winning

For the period you’re actually talking about… If you examine the stats closely enough, you’ll notice these facts:

Messi scored 6 goals in 24 starts. 2 as a sub.
In a full season.
In a team that was in a title challenge.
A team that won the league the previous season.

Ronaldo had 1 goal in 5 starts. 5 sub apps.
Half season.
In a team that was in crisis with him having a huge fight with the manager.
A team that won the league a decade ago.

The idiot then went ahead and scored 14 goals in 16 apps in Saudi in the second half of that same season.


Make of that what you will.

There was really no point for this long explanation. Ronaldo has already performed In England and won everything it has over there. So even if he scored 0 in 38games in his 2nd stint it changes nothing. Don't change the discussion to something else.

raumdeuter:
Your lack of understanding is not my problem

My understanding is perfect. Your zigzagging and Rastafarian habit of bringing up unrelated points instead of addressing the actual discussion won't work here. Stick to the main point that's league football.

raumdeuter:
Ronaldo has been underwhelming at the world cup even in games vs subpar players. How can we be sure he will perform at big stages? Does he have stage fright? The Euro Portugal won too, he had to leave the field

Yet another meaningless post that adds nothing. Where do you come up with all these comparison?

raumdeuter:
Messi spent almost 15yrs in one league, Ronaldo never played in French League so we will never know

What we know for certain is that Messi thrived at the CL and at the world cup, We have seen how much of a flop Ronaldo was at world cup level

Messi has scored in the last 9 consecutive games at world cup, While Ronaldo struggled vs Congo. Imagine if he had to ply in Congolese league vs Motema Pempe, We never know how it will pan out

You keep making comparisons and arguments that have no foundation. Ronaldo proved himself in three different leagues, so there's actual evidence to support those claims that he could do this or that. Messi left la Liga and only managed just six league goals in his first season in Ligue 1. That evidence proves the opposite for Messi but like I said we don't know. Just because he was underwhelming in Ligue 1 doesn't mean he wouldn't have light up the premier league.

rooftops:
That guy dey always hide and no one is even showing interest in buying him. Like this he is one of the first to show up for preseason but we know how his season will go.

He looks like someone who will run down his contract to the end.

Lavia will have a full season. Pastor skimple has declared it

Unlimited22:
When that guy come Chelsea Tinubu just Dey become president


He never complete 90 minutes for Chelsea reach now

He just has one Belgium cap to his name till date despite being better than all of Belgium’s central mids bar maybe Tielemans


Lmao

Hope Uzodimma ko

I am just as tired as you on this Lavia case. The only thing we can do is hope but this is definitely his last season at the club if he cannot stay fit.

raumdeuter:
This is like saying We dnt know if you can beat Anthony Joshua because you have never fought him and you likely will never

Joshua has beaten those significantly better than you but since he never fought you directly we never know who is the better boxer betwen you and Joshua

Same way we dont know if Ronaldo can survive Cyprus or French League since he never played there

Your examples don't match the argument.

Jamiuokolaa:
That's why the word "consistently" is key.

One off K.O games don't apply in this context - UTD also got eliminated in domestic cups during this period.

We all saw how Messi fell off with his 6
and 16 goals respectively in Weak French League after years of dominating laliga

Perfectly summed up. The answer is we don't know. Until you do something it's just speculation and guess work.