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Blueelf:
After 1 match?

Lolllllllllllll

If I talk them go say HATE.

Joebie:
I would be curious if he could tear up the Championship. Just looking farther ahead.

Look at the top 4 goal scorers in the Premier league two of them have come directly from the Championship Mitrovic and Toney.

That should tell you about the Championship quality.

Although Onuachu is best suited to aerial balls and crosses. This is the bread and butter or the EPL and defenders are much more physical and faster.

If they play to Onuachu strength l expecte he will be ok but outstanding and getting 10 goals before the end of the season. There is a lot of desperate panic buying at moment.

There will be tears and gnashing of teeth at the end of the season.

It's a very tightly contested relegation battle , that includes Everton, this has made the top 6 of the championship to have much more quality and depth and yes money ££££££

Meliforme:
Very Solid.

What many fail to realise is that stats such as the accuracy of short passes, crosses and long balls, the ability to create goalscoring chances, are independent of league quality, these qualities resides in the player's skills and intelligence (decision making).

The bold is a nonsensical proposition without any iota of substance.

The quality of league will determine the difficulty of execution and quality of delivery. The creation of a through and or long pass in Seria A is not the same as the NPFL. The quality of a cross in the EPL is not the same as Serbia league.

Quality of football is still relative to the league you are playing in, that can not be dismissed. In this inglorious quest to overcome quality with mediocrity to hype a player who has done nothing beyond regression in the past 8 years. Nwakali midfield maestro.

Consider Ivan Trichkovski top goal ⚽ scorer Cypriot League (rated 21in Europe) with 14 goals this season, he is 35. About 10 years ago he was in Belgium league his best tally at his peak 5 goals.

Alexander lacazette in 2016/17 got 28 goals from 30 games in the French league one. After 5 years at Arsenal his best EPL goal tally was 14, he has never been a top 5 goal scorer, not sure even top 10 in the EPL.

He has gone back to French League one , no longer in his prime at 31 , he is now joint number 2 with 4 other players in the French league with 12 goals. That tells you something.

Statistics are absolutely relative to the league you are in. You cannot dismiss relative quality in assessment of statistics . All because you want to hype the best midfield maestro.

I haven't followed the Spanish Cup , how many Segundo teams❓ were able to beat La Liga opposition how many from the Spanish 3rd tier ❓

I will reiterate the Segunda division is poor quality particularly once you below 4/5th place.

Ponferradina will struggle in my opinion without prejudice in English League two.

Marjoribanks:
Of course, I did not say all!

Then which ones are you taking about those playing in the NPFL.

What I am saying in today's football all quality forward players and most midfield players will have both feet proficiency.

I explained at age 13 in most top premier League Academies it's already an expectation.

mostob:
Lol... people who get nausea from a mathematical equation can still justified that. Imagine a self-aclaimed widely traveled man writing trash everyday on a public forum.
Mahrez, Sala, Saka, Robben... How often do you see these guys put in crosses from the by-line when playing? But because hate has blinded you, you just have to use an unfounded theory to pull down Chukwueze.

It's not amazing to see what deep seated dislike and prejudice can do to the mind. It makes it bitter and rancourous.

I did not mention Chukwueze is any way shape or form.

But the topic was that all players should be able to use thier so called weaker right foot in reference to left footed footballers.

Do you know that Mahrez, Foden, Saka, Raheem, can dribble but you hardly see them doing unnecessary dribbles. It's all about end product.

And when the needs comes to crosscor shoot with thier weaker foot they do .

mostob:
You know, I sometimes wonder if the guy is really what he claimed to be. Some of his posts are sometimes nauseating.

Remain where you are , some people get nausea from a mathematical equation too much for there little brain to comprehend .

Ignorance is bliss, remain where you are please.

What have I claimed to be ❓I am certain I've never claimed to be anything.

Danielnino00:
Stop capping... Lookman is two footed..he can use both feet well..

Basic requirements in academy bla bla.... The academy can't alter your genetic makeup from teaching you how to do this and that.. Some players are predominantly left footed just like we have people who are predominantly left handed..

Salah and Robben are two players who are predominantly left footed and played on the right wing for most of their careers just like Chukwueze..they hardly cross...they cut into the box and lay passes...


Go to an academy and ask left footed players who play left back to start playing on yhe the right and be delivering crosses if it was the easy...

How many Academies have your been to❓

This is a basic requirement for players who want to go to the top of the game. Day in Day out you will practice crossing with your weakest foot as well as shooting with it.

But you are making assumptive noises from your imagination and total lack of knowledge.

I remember Jedi doing a lot of of work on in his right at Everton now at Fulham LB.

lbrichman2:
Thanks for taking the time, I remember Komekn said Taiwo got £1.7M from his transfer to Forest
Wanted to know if that was standard practice

Actually that's standard official practice 10% FIFA regs.

However,in reality there is the hidden sums and negotiated sums, particularly when a club is desperate to get you.

I remember when Danny Wellbeck left Manchester United to Arsenal I know his brother Chris who is his agent made a killing way and above any assumed agency fee.

This is a very sometimes murky world of hidden sums and payments.

Marjoribanks:
At club level not National team! He plays on the right, you can't expect him to cross with right. He is simply playing to the coaches instructions. Salah, Mane, Vinicius, Rashford and Mahrez etc do not cross. They cut in or lay forward passes! Most left footers are unable to utilize their left unlike right footers who can use thier left.

Bukayo Saka, Phil Foden, R.Mahrez, says , B. Silva, Kai Havertz, Say a very big resounding No to you

To mention just a few left footed players.

Danielnino00:
Chukwueze is a left footed right winger... How do u expect him to cross all the time with his weaker right foot?

Go and ask that question to Ademola.

Do you know these are basic requirements in most top academies at even age 13

charlesemeka85:
lookman getting goals doesn’t mean he is a striker just that gasperini’s tactics gives him the freedom to roam around mostly as an inverted striker from the flanks

I don’t see him playing that way in the national team so you better cut your expectations to avoid wailing and trashing the guy here if he doesn’t give as much as he does in serie A

Lookman remains a winger/forward who can cut in from the flanks to score goals like salah,mane, cr7(before he was converted to a number 9),rashford,mbappe etc

Well what was Ronaldo coming from the left.

Football is no longer a strict number 9 , Liverpool proved it with Salah and Mane.

However, in recent times there seems to be resurgence of the traditional number 9 ,. Haaland is helping to change that even V.O.

Mujtahida:
What I mean is selfish to the degree where a player is so determined to be on the scoresheet and is therefore blind to see his teammates who are better positioned to score if he passes to them

Some players have an exceptional skill set and are able to do the extraordinary and will take shots others cannot take.

The Ronaldo and Messi of football ⚽ have proven this.

They are confident in doing the exceptional sometimes impossible, it's not selfish but Exceptional ability.

charlesemeka85:
haba tell yourself the truth I never undermined osimhen when he was at Lille but when he was with charleroi



Moving to Lille and performing immediately made me take him serious without hesitation

A striker I prayed United signed when he was about to leave Lille for Napoli then na wey I go still Dey bash? Nah!

Had doubts when he was at Wolfsburg,moved to Charleroi and was doing well but I wasn’t convinced but he shut me up when he earned a move to Lille and started scoring every week

Football is speculative but essentially it's a HERE and NOW assesment until proven otherwise.

I have watched Chuba Akpom for several years and l essentially have writing him off as a quality striker.

But after years of dormancy some how he has woken up , can he be consistent with outstanding performances ❓I am restrained to say yes. But time will tell.

He is top goal scorer in the Championship that's not an easy feat.

Consider among the top 4 highest goal scorers in the Premier league are Mitrovic and Toney directly from the Championship as the top goal scorers.

My comments were very to the point 5 years ago with V.O. And he has exceeded most expectations. His first season in Seria A was just about ok and the second above average. It's taken him his third season to get here ,top of the pile and numero one goal scorer in Seria A.

It's always a gradual process but he is learning and improving and not remaining stagnant like many others.

How far can he get only time will tell.

On the other hand I've always know Ademola Lookman was exceptional winning MOTM as a teenager. But what's he is doing equates to running before learning to walk, totally unexpected.

He is now competing with V.O. for top goal scorer in Seria A. That l never expected he had adapted and learned and is learning.

Mujtahida:
You are free to draw your own conclusions.

Why would I not know that Osimhen is unselfish? Have I not watched him play over ten times in the SE?

How many times has Lookman played in the SE?

All good strikers are selfish in my opinion.

It's a question of degree.

charlesemeka85:
🎙️ Sadio Mane:

“Liverpool poor form has nothing to do with my departure. I am the legend there, I won’t allow bad energy to get between myself and Liverpool football club."

"We just didn’t see eye to eye with them with my contract. In which was far from realizing my responsibility back home in my village in Senegal."

"I work for the community to go to bed with something to eat and have proper basic services”

Liverpool and Klopp did not treat Mane well AT ALL .

humility33:
But true Komekn when u look at yourself in the mirror what do you see

Unadulterated TRUTH and OBJECTIVE appraisal.

Mujtahida:
I hope if Osimhen and Lookman play for the SE, they'd be unselfish with each other. No be say Lookman go come dey try by force say na im must score likewise Osimhen. Osimhen I know is not selfish sha

You have ALREADY shown your preferential bias.

But then it's very normal here.

charlesemeka85:
maybe na you rate onyekuru ahead of ademola

Onyekuru hv never been a good player to me and I remove hand for em matter when he couldn’t strive at Monaco for globetrotting, from turkey to Belgium to Greece to turkey again 🤣

Onyekuru is simply not the crowd favorite here , he hasn't been outstanding but then he is not really liked.

Justice505:
He See's a cretin who never see anything good in home grown players.

These are several Born and Bred in England players that he keeps talking about with overhyping preference for;

Etebo
Ighalo
Awoniyi
Ndidi
Mikel B.
Dennis E.
Moses S.
Osayi B.
Iwobi
Obagoal

And his old time favourits were also born and bred in Peckham, London.

Yobo
Yakubu
Anichibe
Abbey G

He really dislikes Nigerian born players just the English born and bred players are his overwhelming bias for.

Hanibal:
The thing is your track record here ideally shouldn't give you the moral right to compare Osimhen with anyone...

When this Osimhen was at Wolfsburg getting sub in to get 3, 4, 5minute cameos, you said he was no good and wouldn't make the academy of championship teams, if he was any good, he would get game time at " lowly Wolfsburg"

He went to Chaleroi got to start a run of games and today the rest is history .

Baba I when you look yourself in the mirror, what do you see?

It's easier to use a person that many worship here as the world standard for football strikers.

But you still will not accept that KC is where is because he is simply not good enough, it's not a crime. After six seasons at Leicester what more is there to say.

Similar narrative with NWAKALI making never ending excuses for that which cannot be excused.

Hanibal:
The thing is your track record here ideally shouldn't give you the moral right to compare Osimhen with anyone...

When this Osimhen was at Wolfsburg getting sub in to get 3, 4, 5minute cameos, you said he was no good and wouldn't make the academy of championship teams, if he was any good, he would get game time at " lowly Wolfsburg"

He went to Chaleroi got to start a run of games and today the rest is history .

Baba I when you look yourself in the mirror, what do you see?

Can you stop telling a false narrative and jumping on a false train.

Go back and look at my comments in full not just the bits that suit your false narrative.

And don't forget the phrase AT THAT TIME.

charlesemeka85:
that Elliot boy looks funny. Em be like dwarf wey big 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

To be honest I wasn't impressed when I first met him and many in the academy were not either.

TheGoodJoe:
Jamie Vardy started 11 games and scored one. Yet he remained the ideal choice. Let Iheanacho start a game and not score, Rodgers will kick him out of squad list for months.

That's not true you are giving a false narrative.

Comparing Vardy to KC is an insult to intelligence.

charlesemeka85:
The issue with liverpool is not poor run of form but end of an era

They need to rebuild seriously most especially in the midfield

The weakest link is Harvey Elliott, but Klopp gets all emotional about him.

Harvey can't tackle, has zero pace, no physicality, has no aerial ability ( shortee) and doesn't back track.

I think there is some unconscious bias in Liverpool to be dilpmatic, James Belaghezi is much much better and can do the requirements of a box to box midfielder.

But he is not even invited to the first team.

wayodude:
Deep down you know goal per game stats is rubbish when compared to goals per minute on the pitch. But continue afterall it's you.

Football is not mathematics.

There is no probability theory that if you play more minutes you will score more goals.

Give V.O. 136 games over 6 season by the 3rd season he would have retired Vardy completely.Do you disagree ❓

Your performances earn you game time, the less you perform the less you play.

You don't seem to understand that.

Ademola was not given automatic game time he had to prove himself. He had same number of games as K.C. but scored 6 goals from the wing and earning MOTM against Liverpool. After KC was substituted he scored within 3 minutes a solo goal.

Nomyth:
Man, u need to stop using this argument already.

A premier league club struggling to beat a lower league club does not necessarily mean the level of competition in the lower league is high, for one, remember the premier league teams often present very weakened side in such circumstances.

Again, this happens every where and all the time where teams from lower divisions upset teams in the elite division.

In Nigeria for example, during the state FA playoffs, even non league teams have always defeated mighty NPFL clubs.

Eyimba and Akwa united have been victims of this in recent times.

When you present an argument it has more weight if it's balanced ⚖️ with facts and objectivity. You have made an assumption ( see the bold)

What is at stake pride and shame or victory and defeat. For the lower great pride and victory and achievement to beat a EPL team , the lower team is highly motivated to win. They will fight to the end.

For the EPL team the shame of defeat and the depression of loosing to a lower team. This motivates the EPL team to win , in addition players who are not first choice regulars, see it as an opportunity to prove they have the Quality to be first choice.

Players like KC who are not first choice it's an opportunity to score emphatic quality goals against lower level opposition.

In both cases all teams are highly motivated. For individual players it's a chance to show case their talents and get a huge big money transfer to a better team.

For example DJed Spence from Nottingham forest (loan) was a Middlesbrough player transfer fee of £20 million to Tottenham. His wages probably increase 20 time's what he previous was getting.

So you can see your assertion is wrong these games are hotly contested.

Manchester United fielded a full strength team not even any academy boys, see screenshot below. So you are completely wrong.

TheGoodJoe:
Stop dribbling around the point. Iheanacho has been treated unfairly at Leicester City and he has done enough to have a decent run of games with the club.

Anyone disagreeing with this is a blatant liar. Simple.

Finito

He had been treated over favourably by Roger's.

Watching the Roma game is balanced on a knife edge.

Great goal by VO.

It's a great game not sure how Roma are languishing in 6th position but they are inconsistent. Blowing hot and cold.

Napoli have been consistently consistent and will win this league, left everybody behind.

TheGoodJoe:
The bolded is exactly what Iheanacho did. Despite limited run of games, he has an impressive goals to minutes ratio.

For a professional as you claim, you can not pretend that cameo appearances is the same as full games.

That is a blatant lie.

136 games in the EPL and a mere 26 goals, your cannot get away from that.

Why do you think nobody is interested in KC in this January transfer window, is it because He is too good ❓

STOP changing and misrepresentating my position, I didn't talk about cameo appearances.

You've moved your position from oh he doesn't get enough starts to cameo appearances, you makes excuses for what's not inexcusable.

oloriooko:
Lookman setting Serie A on fire!!!
Scoring goals as if going out of fashion
Keep it up lad, wish you injury free season, so Osi can be pushed

I don't think it's about VO being pushed , it's about who will end up with highest number of goals at the moment they are competing.

Who wins I don't know either way from obscurity Ademola is proving all doubters wrong.

Danielnino00:
Iheanacho's Leicester career stats:

191 games
50 goals
29 assists

Out of the 191 games, he started only 92..

You are misrepresenting the facts to present a FALSE narrative.

136 games in the EPL and over six seasons he has scored 26 goals , the clinical best finisher in Europe.

First of all minute's played does not automatically equate to a probability of goals to be scored. Good players make a difference irrespective of the minutes scored.

Do you think if V.O. had played the same number of games and or had the same game time he would have scored just 26 goals from 136 games in 6 seasons of football at Leicester Consider this in 2018/19 season KC played 30 games and scored once , is that not shambolic ❓

Ademola came on in the latter part of the second half of last seasons game Liecester Vs Liverpool. He got the winning goal within 3 minutes of coning on and was awarded the MOTM.

According to you you need to start games before you can be effective, that proposition is simply not TRUE.

Rashford has come onas a substitute and scored and or been substituted after performing.

You always change the goal posts to accommodate your narrative which is simple not standing up to inspection.

Danielnino00:
If it was that easy, Iheanacho won't be carrying the team in the competition to the extent of winning it for them despite not being a starter...

Walsall are below mid table in English League two that's the 4th tier of English football.

And Leicester city struggled to beat them 1-0, that's not an accolade or a to celebrate.