₦airaland Forum

Ibime: If you no captain Diego for FPL this week, just delete your team!!!!

Ibime: Rami coulda done better with that pass.

CFCfan: Costa and Fabregas are the new aki and paw
Paw!! Great understanding between the duo.

Keky: Costa keeps pouring out the goals now. We will be here when it dries off.

AirborneLacer: Perhaps to provide Cesc with the freedom to move upfield and exert a hell lot of damage.

nitlad: Kpatakpata, £1B will turn SB to the best stadium in the world, and also sort out structural issues with surrounding infrastructure.

Abramovich can easily write this off as 'philantropy' na.

nitlad: No sane person go pack comot from im own house for Banana Island, Ikoyi go dey squat for Ijora Badia. Abi you think say na ordinary eye make CPO d'Etteh for SB ni? Bros forget East London jare. Like the CPO folks, I also don't think we've exhausted all expansion options for SB.

Bimfo: Abeg shift, make we share the front seat together.

Katsumoto: Davids played the same game as Makelele and did more; it wasn't different. Davids, Keane, Vieira were all anchor men who HAD the ABILITY to go forward in top tier football. We have seen footage of Makelele doing the same in a second tier French league but not in Spain or England. Davids started in the second tier as well but moving to a top league (Seria A), he did not become limited. He excelled at Juvey.

Makelele played a different game in France than what he played in Spain and England because he was simply limited. Essien who replaced Makelele went forward more than Makelele or why wasn't Essien also just a sitter

Bale changed position to enhance the skill he has; Makelele didn't change position; he only stopped going forward in superior leagues possibly because his coaches and himself likewise realised he didn't have what it took to play box-box in top tier football.

Mikel is another example of a Makelele; he regressed as a footballer. Whatever Mikel may have done in Norway, he never attempted to replicate at Chelsea. Was it not the same Mikel we saw at the WC who kept slowing the Nigerian game down and did fork all?

Training and actual matches are very different things. The pressure and opposition are different. We can all do things when we have time to do it without the concomitant pressure. The best students at Uni don't usually become the most successful in life.

Anyway I have made my point; I won't belabour the point any further.

Makelele was an excellent anchor but he wasn't the best because he was limited, at least in a top tier league.

debosky: Yet Matic was on the pitch when Everton threatened to scored 3/4 goals in how many minutes eh? Let's see how many goals y'all will concede this season and whether it will be considered BM (before Matic) or AM (after Matic)

coogar: thanks chelsea fans for having us

my time is up here - the best centre forward in europe is about to play against brazil. we just used you guys to kill time so we won't sleep off.

we shall be back next friday.

coogar: so what did you win last season with matic? as at the time he joined chelsea, the league, the champions league & the fa cup were within your grasp.

with matic, you won nothing!

Dhellake: Courtois > Tea
Brana > Rafael
Terry > Jones
Cahill > Rojo
Luis > Shaw
Matic > Blind
Fabregas > Mata
Oscar < Di Maria
Hazard > Rooney
Schürrle < RVP
Costa = Falcao

SailorXY: not every team requires a brute in dm positions. United won many trophies without one after the days of Roy Keane, Barca has been doing it without one. some coaches prefer intelligence (Mouthinho doesn't fall in that bracket) over sheer blockades as their DMs.

and for all the sorrows about aspitypwriter, he's finding it difficult to hold down a shirt when the squad is fully fit! so how do you fall on a conclusion that he's a better player than Rafael

SailorXY: what Brazilian team exactly are you referring to? the one that got all the official push to semis for hammering? the one that a certain Luiz walks into? abeg no talk that thing again for public..

Matic is just like a large bag of sand used for barricades, too heavy to move about. he's a good player, that's it. how will he get into City's or Liverpool midfield?

Rafael made the EPL team second to Zabaleta only a season ago, an injury-laden campaign last term doesn't take anything away from the guy.

coogar: mata is better than all your attacking midfielders. the only player slightly better than mata in your squad is general fabregas! stop overhyping oscar - he's not better than a fit anderson.


Yet a fit Anderson will not play for Brazil. He's busted. You don't wear Brazil's No 10 if you are not fit to. Anderson has 8 caps for Brazil. When is he going to be fit?



matic won't walk into man city, barca, athletico or madrid. i doubt he would get near bayern sef or juventus. he's not world class - pogba & vidal are better than matic.

I expect your younger boys to be saying this. Not you. Chelsea conceded 20 goals before Matic joined Chelsea. After he joined, 7 goals.




rafael is better than azpi & any other defender you play in the right back.

I think you are mixing threads up now. This ain't battle rap and word play.

SailorXY: I'm sure you would Ashley Cole & Lampard to your list

PietroRico: yea right.
The intelligent one who thinks oscar, terry and matic are world class.

Thanks for your suggestion. I'lll consider it

SailorXY: how is a world class GK on the bench?
Ivanovic - pass
Terry - past glory ( this is just like say Rio or Campbell is world class, lost glory)
Matic - really? where does he rank in the world of DMs?
Fabregas - pass
Oscar - so Oscar is a world class player ok
Hazard - benefit of doubt (he's not in the bracket of the di Marias, Bales, Reus of the world) how did he fare in WC?
Costa - still a learner, one good season & he's the shii? how did he fare in WC?

manager is not a footballer***

PietroRico: world class tag don suffer

Courtois? Terry? Ivanovic? matic? oscar
Lool.

If thats the case we have degea, rafael, herrera, mata, falcao, rvp, rooney, di maria and even januzaj

coogar: •de gea > courtouis
•blind > terry
•matic > carrick
•cesc > mata
•falcao > costa + remy + drogba

SailorXY: hahaha put out their names let's know who exactly we are examining.
who is the DM, who are the CMs, who is the winger?