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TheGoodJoe:

Rodgers has been insanely unfair to Iheanacho. That is all.

Rogers has been overwhelmingly accomodating to KC much more than any other manager. From Rainieri to Shakespeare even in interm managers didn't rate him or have.much time for him.

Is it not time to look at the player and stop blaming the managers.

It's the January transfer window and who wants KC the most lethal markseams in Europe ❓

Marjoribanks:
Then he should stop saving Rodger's job cos the guy is bent on making him useless. After his contract no team will come for him. He needs to decide whether to wait for Rodger's sack or move to where he will be playing regularly and who knows a club might come for him and pay him triple.

Of all the Manager at Liecester, Rodgers has given him the most opportunities.

charlesemeka85:
reading Dey play with 6 centre backs

Parking the bus without shame.

It was always going to be damage limitation.

charlesemeka85:
them think say na every legendary and mercurial midfielder go like Dey collect 3500 every week 🤣

€Euro or £pounds

Watching a full strength Manchester United against Reading FC.

First half is almost done and it's 0-0 both of them have two big lumps up front.

United will win but it will not be a walk in the park, Reading are at the lower end of the Championship Manchester United closer to the top.

Paul Ince is not necessarily your quintessential kick and rush manager, but not far off it. Anybody having Andy Carroll as your main striker says a lot.

Azeez on the bench and Ovie out of the picture, he has clashed with Paul Ince so he will be going somewhere else, his time is up with Reading.

codemaniacs:
his family was in England..
more money..
maybe K:omekn is one of his advisers..

Maybe you don't understand that football is a short term career. And the key 🗝️ objective is to maximize income.

When Awoniyi got that transfer to Nottingham for
£17 million, he would have got at least 10% that's £1.7 million in the bank then he has a 5 year contract,with at least £50k a week including increments , bonus, etc.

He has essentially secured his long term financial future.

BascoVanVeli:
If u can admit he is a baller at Udinese with 2 goals in 40 appearances over 2 seasons, how do u explain calling him a wasteman in England U act like he came to Italy and started leading the league in scoring.

My reference to the term baller is comedic sarcasm ,you should know that.

Marjoribanks:
He balled in Granada too. He had issues with injuries not that he was bad. What about Dennis that could not score a single goal at Cologne getting double digits in your EPL? It is not a hidden fact that EPL throws money anyhow. Lauratto, Oshimen, Vhalovic, Piatek, Dzeko will start for the top teams in your EPL. Facts!

Apart from from Dzeko, everything else in bold is speculation not FACT. It' may become true but for now it's speculation.

Dzeko played his last game in the EPL in 2014/15 season after 22 games and only 4 goals he had lost form in the EPL and went to Seria A, that is a fact not an opinion. Dzeko is 36 and balling in Seria A

Are you saying Issac Success had injury issues for the 5 seasons he was at Watford ❓ that's not factual.

BascoVanVeli:
Where are ur own facts U yarn all that dust about fact to end up giving your opinion. Let me hear word. U have no facts yourself

Here is one fact Isaac Success was a "Waste Man" totally woeful in the EPL after 5 year's and 63 league games 3 goals scored.

But is now a baller in Udinese.

Udinese cannot afford the kinds of players that Southampton have , confirmed FACT.

TheGoodJoe:
Who writes these headlines? Siasia was never banned for fixing matches but he was in communication with an agent that was later arrested for match fixing. The agent was trying to get Siasia a job and suspected of planning to fix matches.

So FIFA just banned him for life without any evidence and on negative speculation.

Can you please for once act with integrity.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/57552593

BascoVanVeli:
Did he start getting calls up when he got to Atletico or in the middle of his Udinese career Don't change the narrative.

I can't tell u who will make what team but I can tell that Udinese can beat Southampton and will definitely defeat any championship team u have in mind.

U know wayodude very kindly gave us a proposition from David Hundeyin investigate journalist. You probably read it and pushed it into the bin.

Let me quote ;

Facts are unAfrican.

We don't do facts here.

We feel.

We emote.

We BELIEVE.

Facts are for the obroni😐

You are the quintessential personification of that proposition.

You present no facts, no rational, no methodology, no appraisal, no subjective and or objective analysis. Just an assertion of emotive sentiment.

Well done .

How did you arrive at your conclusion.

In my opinion Udinese will get flogged by Watford from the championship.

wayodude:
Hahaha I really didn't want to drag this any further but couldn't help it sorry.

Don't drag your country into talk about being corrupt!? Hahahaha okay boss I hear ya.

That proposition exemplifies the majority or the minority here❓

Definitely the very loud vocal majority in my opinion.

BascoVanVeli:
What about Rodrigo De Paul who just won a world cup with Messi?

Let's be objective and not emotive.

Rodrigo is a very good player, after 5 years at Udinese he made the step up to Athletico Madrid. He had a very good world cup.

The rest of the midfield for Udinese, tell me one who is better than World cup finalist from Croatia M. Orsic, Dejenepo, and of course free kick specialist Ward Prouse. Nobody from Udinese will get into Southampton apart from Rodrigo.

The defence of Salisu, Caleta -Car, Walker- Peters is much better than the Udinese defence.

I will not talk about the forward players as you know that Success, the pivotal player for Udinese will not get on to Southampton bench.

So do you think Udinese is better than Southampton.

Let's drop to the Championship, it is very easy to make comparison with Watford but that's too easy. Watford is much much better.

I will like yoi to compare Udinese with QPR man to man and tell me what you think .

I initially felt that at least three players from Udinese would get into Southampton but I was being overly generous. I can only see one Rodrigo.

andrewbaba44:
You cap too much

Udinese will be struggling at the championship ,yen yen yen

You are talking emotively.

Please let's take a team you know well like Watford now tell me the players from Udinese that will get into the team please.

That should be simple for you.

For starters none of the forward players in Udinese will smell Watford bench. Including waste M Success.

You do the appraisal without prejudice and tell me how Udinese will dominate in the Championship.

wayodude:
I lived in Italy for 2 years 2015/16-17 and sure I suffered several issues that would never happen in the UK.

My landlady kept 3 quarters of my deposit cira €2200 because she said they had to repaint the house after I moved out. But, they didn't tell me that beforehand, it was not until I had arrived back in London they mentioned it. They knew I was travelling back home on the same day I was moving out so couldn't do anything about it.

A random man stole my my partners purse in Florence. She sort of figured he had done something because he came too close to her whilst walking past us in the opposite direction and when she checked it was gone. I confronted the man and after some pushing and shoving I got the purse back. Good thing I'm physically bigger than maybe 90% of the population anywhere I go

In Naples a taxi driver at the train station covered the taxi meter with his hat and kept it running even before I boarded. By the time I got in the taxi it was already reading over 10 euro and we hadn't even left. As he was helping put stuff in the boot I just thought to lift his hat and that's how I realised. again confronted him and asked to restart the meter or I jump out of his taxi. Simple. The list of atrocities are endless!

Italians are nice people but, if you don't have your wits about you they will soon find out and they will, like Nigerians pounce on you!

That was the people.

I had gone to a youth football tournament with all the top clubs in Europe U15.

If you think Naija officiating is bad well this was shambolic and blatantly biased, I mean over the top.

We had players being wrestled to the ground and the referee saying nothing our boys were getting kicked from pillar to post. And winning the game was not a priority it was praying nobody would get seriously injured.

Mujtahida:
Growing up in Benue state I dare say there's no specie of mango I don't know including the ones that don't turn green. In fact I typed that phenomenon as my last sentence but deleted it.

Well then, the point still remains that generally mangoes turn red or change color when they are ripe.

I remember year's ago going to Gboko through some village routes it was dark . And I needed to take a leak so I parked under a tree.

I got back in next minute I thought I was under serious attack I nearly had a seizure.

Well very funny it was just multiple mangoes dropping from the mango trees on to the roof of my car.

TheGoodJoe:


I think I read somewhere that the foreign players were to fly in themselves and get refunds in Nigeria. Maybe Owen was not interested in that and wanted the country to do all that for him.

I have know several Nigerian international in excess of 15, and all tell me that refund na STORY.

jihday:
imagine you in America holidaying then you meet police who decided to arrest you before conducting any investigation just because in the previous month they’ve convicted 10 Nigerians for fraud

And the minute you give them your name in 5 seconds they have all your financial and personal details and it's good afternoon sir, have a nice day.

Data is digital with multi faceted corroboration both birth and anything else.

However, if you have outstanding warrants, a person of interest on account of criminal behaviour suspected and or past convictions. Then it may be please can we have a few questions ❓❓

andrewbaba44:
Stop what exactly ,stop saying the facts ?
Bournemouth
Southampton
Leeds
Forest

How are these teams better than udunese ?

Wolves and Everton after splashing millions aren’t currently even better than udinese

Udinese would be struggling in the Championship not excelling. It's very simplistic without prejudice.

Consider Ekong and " WasteMan" Success they struggled in the Championship Ekong was not outstanding.

The easiest way to assess the validity of my claims is to make an objective comparison of players in Udinese against say th bottom team in the EPL Southampton.

First of all Ekong and Success will not make the bench of Southampton. Please look at the Striker's for Southampton the defence and Midfield and I don't see up to three players from Udinese that can get into Southampton first team.

Please be honest and objective , l could go into player market value but I'll leave that for now.

TheGoodJoe:
Stop throwing Ademola into the picture. They are not competing against each other. The point is that, that was the time Iheanacho had a run of games due to injuries and he was outstanding.

Finito.

First of all you need to understand your perception is not Fact, it's just your little mind at work and your parochial view..

You started off with your usual and consistent victim mentality


I countered your assertion explaining that Ademola Lookman started at Liecester as an outsider and had to fight his way through to get game Time. Sometimes it's not just about how much GAME TIME you get but what you do with it. Whether it's 45 minutes or 10 minutes.

Ademola is a winger and within 4 minutes of coming on he scored against Liverpool and got the MOTM award. He played 26 games and scored 6 goals that season and KC scored 4 with 26 games. Limited game time didn't stop Ademola from performing.

So all these excuses simply don' stand , just sour grapes and victim mentality.

elyte89:
Lol u were caught in d middle cos of nacho


Normally u no Dey rate any league aside premiership 😀😀😃 but cos of nacho u gaz rate serie A

Seria A is rated number 3 in Europe that's a a high level.

However the number one league is the EPL.

TheGoodJoe:
How else can someone earn the right to play if being the best player in the English Premier League for a month and inspiring your team to win a title in England is not enough?

Please, look for a better deceit.

EA SPORTS Player of the Month for March 2021 was KC.

it's a time limited award relating to oustanding performance at the TIME, that is near 2 years ago. Has he been consistently outstanding since that time or the EXACT OPPOSITE.

Can you for once have some INTEGRITY and be TRUTHFUL.

Danielnino00:
It sounds more like stereotyping to me... I won't say age cheating is part of our culture,but rather it is one of the pitfalls of being a third world country. We don't have the infrastructure required to correct that. People aren't age cheating,rather they are taking advantage of the broken system . It is like America that has a culture of gun violence because the system allows them to carry guns.
But still I feel it isn't right to judge people based on the action of others in their social class....

Is it right to assume that over 90% of our police are corrupt, at every point of contact with the Nigerian police you will face corruption. From bail is not free, to buying petrol for police, to paying for police to carry out investigation, etc ,etc.

Police corruption is endemic, institutionalised, ingrained and widespread.

So as a consequence we will assume every Nigerian police man is corrupt from the bottom to the top.

So considering that in Nigeria age cheating is endemic and institutional at every level of society, why should we believe any footballers age in Nigeria, where the financial benefits for football ⚽ are immeasurable.

In addition age is a key indicator for a football ⚽ contract, if you are 25 from Africa no matter how good you are the possiblity of getting a professional contract very limited.

Your know the truth but DENY IT.

andrewbaba44:
Udinese is better than many epl small teams

Success have been the top assister at udinese since he joined ,but he is not doing well there according to you

No it is not please stop that .

TheGoodJoe:
Iheanacho won the EPL player of the month. EPL. Like the English Premier League player of the month. If the coach has chose to leave such player out, that is his business and has nothing to do with his quality.

His stats are there to see with what he has done with the minutes he has been given. That stats you are throwing up there is deceptive and you know it. You have seen he did with the minutes given to him. One word. Outstanding.

Any other is really you thinking you are deceiving people but not us.

So he won EPL player of the month and so ❓How long ago was that ❓❓

Do we rely on past glories or do we understand that the component for quality is CONSISTENCY.

I did a comparison of Ademola who had to perform to claim position in Leicester. The more he performed the more opportunity he got and the more minutes by implication. That rubbishes your victim mentality claim that he KC didn't get enough minutes.

KC had been underperforming for 5 seasons out of his 6 seasons, in one season he had one goal in the EPL after 30 games.

Ademola played 26 games as a winger and scored 6 EPL goals and KC had 26 games and scored 4 EPL goals in 2021/22.

I dony what you are calling deceptive it's as plain as daylight, you are tur person that will call a bright white moon blue.

TheGoodJoe:
Impressive stats for Iheanacho but from what I am reading, he is on £90k a week and it is hard for clubs to meet that, going by his current rating.

He needs to take a massive pay cut to get a team with a good system to give him the run of games he deserves to prove himself

You are using statistics to overstate things and misinform and present a deceptive narrative. A player on nearly £100k a week and his core responsibility was to score goals in the EPL not against low level opposition in the cup games.

He has been abysmally poor for the past 6 years just one good season. You don't have entitlement to play , YOU EARN THE RIGHT TO PLAY.

Whatever minutes you get you make them count and create impact, Ademola comes on second half on the 56th minute as KC comes off . In three minutes Ademola has scored and gets the MOTM AWARD.

Quality doesn't hide it rises to the occasion. Good players adapt to whatever system.

charlesemeka85:
The Naples Public Prosecutor’s Office has reportedly requested a six-month extension for their investigation into the transfer of Victor Osimhen from Lille to Napoli.

The Nigerian forward joined the Partenopei in September 2020 from the Ligue 1 outfit in a deal worth €72m, plus €10m in various add-ons.

Prosecutor Francesco De Falco, working alongside Assistant Prosecutor Sergio Amato, believes that Napoli may have produced false communications in their financial statements for July 2020 to June 2021, based on that Osimhen transfer.

Should new evidence emerge, sporting proceedings could be reopened against the Partenopei, similar to the situation Juventus are currently dealing with.

#copied

Why are Italians so crooked and dishonest, is it a legacy of the Cosa nostta( Mafia) that has pervades their society

Last year I was in Italy, Sardinia to be specific got to the airport late 11pm + and the taxi took me on an Israelite journey from the airport to my hotel, I paid €185 it should have not been more than €80.

And throughout my stay I kept getting scammed by Taxi drivers in the end I just rented a car.

charlesemeka85:
na so una think say the serie A easy cus osimhen and lookman re scoring for fun?🥱

I don see how e too easy for success for udinese n lukaku on his return from Chelsea to inter Milan

Seria A is not easy by any stretch of the imagination it's still a tough league nonetheless.

However, it's not as competitive as the EPL .

TheGoodJoe:
Also, the lack of opportunity to harness quality talents early leave lots of players fighting to make it in football for a long time, whereas their counterparts are discovered and harnessed early and won't need to cheat to make something out of football.

From denying age cheating to justifying it.

That's bigoted.

Do you know how many players are released year out year in football clubs.

Eberechi Eze
Tella
Oviemuno
Semi Ajayi
Chuba Akpom

All released and had to find Thier own way through football. Not all make it .it's not easy at all in England

TheGoodJoe:
Only komekn that does not understand the very basic factors behind football performance. Like, does anyone need the bolded explained to them? Is it not common knowledge. Here you are having to explain it

Let's move away from anonymity but without specifics and tell me your experiential competencies. How many football clubs have you worked for ❓❓

I will admit to having a knowledge bias with England specifically and Europe in General.

Then add to that competency knowledge by association, how many English football league Manager do you know? How many European coaches and recruitment heads do you know ❓❓❓I will not talk about coaches

Mujtahida:
It is an error to think this way as far as the issue of age is concerned. Is there a culture of age cheating in Europe? A person will even be foolish to doubt a person's age in Europe because records are kept at birth.

In Nigeria, I'd rather doubt a player's age than willy nilly believe his age. The difference is culture. Not about whether a particular player is truly this age or that age.

'One of them, a prophet of their own, said, 'Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.' - Titus 1 v 2.

That's Paul referencing what is a cultural judgment about the cretans. Does that mean all Cretans are liars? No. But it means that mendacity is a cultural norm and they have no regards for truth.

In the same vein we have a culture of age cheating. It's in all aspects of our national life. So I wonder why this self righteous angst whenever the doubters raise their voices.

There is be a culture of self deception here, it reflects t he r national culture.

We have two criminal geriatrics vying for the highest office in the Land.

One saying he is going to build on the shambolic ineptitude and bigotry of PMB and carry the nation forward.

The other one an almost permanent resident of Dubai with wealth acquired by scandalous corruption.

Yet many are going to vote for them.

We all know that age cheating is endemic and institutional add to that corruption is so deep into our society it's normal practice we have very little of any integrity and some of us are saying we are being biased and we hate all things Nigerian.