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CrystalTiger:
Unpopular opinion

I'd pick Olise over Yamal

Not unpopular. Olise every day of the week.

I still call him the one that got away.

Sportsweb:
They always use Chelsea to bounce back.

After Liverpool and co collect from Ole tax, e reach Chelsea time, they sack him and think Carrick was brought in.

Same thing happened under Ten Hag, and last season too

It always happens with United. Always.

popizaino:
Omo, the amount of Alonso out on X is quite astonishing.

Now, it seems we are not pretending to be sleeping again.

I just wonder if this will continue even when he wins without conviction again.

@lordfalcao @Thecassavona
@nateevs, do you still want Alonso to continue with us?

Chelsea is a big club. Chelsea does not concede possession to smaller teams. Chelsea losing to Spurs is completely unacceptable, even by my own patient standards. As s result, the backlash is wholeheartedly understandable, whether on Nairaland or on Twitter.


What I understand about Alonso is his ideas about building blocks. First build a defensively resilient team. This might involve conceding possession many times and not looking fancy. The idea is to build a team that is difficult to play and difficult to beat. He learnt this from Benitez and Mourinho.

Then he transitions the team to possession-based, dynamic, front-foot attacking football, on the back of aforementioned resiliency. This he learnt from Pep, Ancellotti, and being a Spaniard.


You could say this is not the place for this building blocks nonsense..... no time to check time..... Quite frankly, I have seen pundits, like Ibime, disagree with this methodology, calling it small-club practice. I don't necessarily disagree with this assertion either.

What I know though is that he is yet another young manager without a repertoire of ideas of reaching the same goal. Experience is what makes managers able to fine-tune as soon as a certain experiment is not achieving desired results. Unfortunately for him, he went and overachieved with his own methods. So it will be difficult to convince him not to try with what he knows.


The question is what to do. If you ask me, I say If we are honest, we have been in shambles for half a decade now. Going through manager after manager,..... method after method gets is nowhere. At some point, we need to settle on something. We have to..... or we fall into complete oblivion.

Everyone wants an Arsenal team now but few remember the 5shit they went through for decades.


Me I will not put mouth against the firing squad. I can just assure you that if we do fire, we will be right back in this same spot in a few months.

Ibime:
One, that Penders tried to reach out to punch the ball (rather than letting it hit his fists). That in his experience when you reach for the punch the ball usually flicks off the top of your fist and goes backward. That most keepers are lucky that when it goes backward, it's usually over the bar, but sometimes it ends in the net. However when your fist is already straight at point of contact and you let the ball hit your fist, it will usually clear the area.

Secondly how Emi Martinez has responsibility to pick Penders spirit up and work on his confidence. That junior players focus only on themselves but senior players responsibility is to build Penders up despite being his competition.

He added another brilliant point which has escaped me.

I said that in the context of, I usually zone out when English pundits are talking cos they state the obvious but none of his points were the obvious, and he's been on TV analysing for over 2 decades and I never noticed.

I heard the analysis in full. I never actually saw anyone talk about the fist... he was spot on.

popizaino:
Bros,i am not your regular fair weather fans that gets excited over winnable games like you. Even when we win i always come here to disagree but we have people like you who will shut us with your shallow view of football.

Just like you celebrated his win pls celebrate his lose oh.

You don't need fair weather mate. Bollocks like Ireola, Glasner, Poch, School Teacher, 4-4-2, Palmer at DM....... are only a sprinkle from gargantuan box of 5shit you consistently posit as knowledge base.

The clownish part is having no awareness of this at all. You really think you KNOW stuff.

drisham:
😂😂

Hehehe. Body dey pain me. Guy dey follow me talk nonsense. He should have started Estevao 100%.

popizaino:
When i called his win cosmetics,fake,facade, people like nateevs and lordfalcao who cannot think beyond the present will be telling otherwise.

They will always justify any manager's stupidity and foolishness.

You are a clown that finds their voice every 3 weeks. That's no voice.

You go silent for weeks when the trend moves against your position, then come and loud the room when you get the unfortunate incident. How do you reason like this?

Ibime:
See disowning

Failure is an orphan

No it's not disowning. It's telling my guy what the traditions and standards are.

We could be in building phase and not lose to freaking Spuds

popizaino:
@lordfalcao
@nateevs

I don't think two of you should be supporting this club.

Guy....I will curse you I swear.

Alonso brought this on himself. You cannot lose to f*king Spurs. That's unacceptable.

It's all fallen to pieces. Red Card

Na Quenda we dey rubbish like dis? Quenda na fine footballer o.

Damn! Should have scored that.

drisham:

Ibime and nateevs come see something

Dem don dey find out what we've been saying for years.

airmark:
At Jakujaku Jackson’s real age he must have played for a big club.

Coping mechanism is full swing.

popizaino:
He didn't beat Arteta with crystal palace, so what's your point?

What's his point? He needs to spell it? 😀😀😀😀😀

Look at this clown. Very unintelligent.

Narrowed his own angle to score.

Murrillo nearly pulled a worldie

Unlimited22:
I don’t believe my eyes bro

As in?

Na so. 3pts.

Clean sheet. Team getting resilient. Rogers' conditioning improving. Palmer putting in a decent shift. 3ATB working after solid midfielders step in.

Leprous fingers Inc running low on operating capital. Popi Wikesom football? Mtchewww.

Nateevs eating good. Loud it for them at the back.

Their father!!!!

Goalllllll

Hard work by everyone there.

Brave decision by Penders

Worried for Martinez. Looks serious.

bemeruca:
The election has made Trump and Elon betray Ukraine. Bad move, I hope just like they are doing with Iran, it is temporary. After the election, they should go hard.

First the Diesel deal with Russia, now cutting off Starlink.

Hehehe. A minute ago you were asking what's wrong with the diesel deal? But now you are surprised they would cut off Starlink.





Meanwhile, "Go hard after the elections"........But with what?

bemeruca:
You cannot go past semantics. Take your L to your white BF.

The facts are standing at my corner.
The Strait of Hormuz is governed by international law (the transit-passage regime). Facts

Even though the waters are technically territorial seas of Iran and Oman, coastal states have only limited authority. Facts

They cannot suspend, hamper, or impair continuous and expeditious transit of foreign vessels and aircraft (UNCLOS Part III, Articles 38 and 44). Facts

Coastal regulation is mainly limited to safety, collision prevention, and environmental protection. Facts

That's the legal koko of the matter. The distinctions international waters or strait is what you choose and what I choose, but it does not change the legal or practical result

Iran and Oman do not have the ability to close the strait or treat it like a private toll road the way Egypt treats the Suez Canal.

You don't take tolls or prevent jets from flying through your country, but you can prevent it from landing.

Iran signed the treaty; educate yourself.

In times of war, you can restrict enemy vessels, but it doesn't remove the navigation rights of neutral shipping.

It's been a long time since I have been here. These clowns are still here. Why complicate the matter with definition of international waters and straits?




When put in a difficult situation, Iran has a geopolitical and existential right to control and govern the strait as it sees fit, in the same way the US sees itself rightful to seize shadow fleet all around the world like pirates.

Everyone is acting according to its own perceived power.

If you engage in the shipping of oil using a shadow fleet..... it is quite frankly circumventing US-imposed sanctions, and deemed as "illegal".... by the US, even though said activity was conducted in international waters.

In the same vein, if you attack Iran militarily, it will be seen as illegal, by Iran, and Iran will act accordingly to preserve its sovereignty and territorial integrity by policing the Strait......

US foreign policy experts always knew this as a response mechanism by Iran in the event of an attack. Trump was briefed... and he knew this.

So if he decided to go ahead regardless, knowing the cost..... then it's his fault oil prices went up....... just like the US would say it's my fault if I was caught shipping Iranian oil around the world without US permission.


Shikena!

armyofone:
How is buying diesel from our enemy a good deal for us or a deal for the world ?

Why are we making a deal for the world ?

Wakanda confusion is this now

https://finance.yahoo.com/energy/article/not-a-usa-deal-trump-downplays-russian-diesel-plan-in-the-face-of-gop-criticism-182030595.html

Its not a deal for the world. It's a deal to serve American interests only..... And in particular, at this present time, the President's political interest.

bolu96:
My oga, na you get this weekend oo.
Maresca won plus three at the back blew the opponent away yesterday.
Enough food for you.

Add to this that my boy hit 9G/A in his first 7 games in all competitions.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that this is a Chelsea FC record. No player has hit 9G/A in their first 7 games for the club.

I laugh in Maresca.

Wooooww!

As innnnn?

Doku would have changed the game regardless of the red card.

Doku is a winger's winger. Impact player to jina.