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alfablondy: @ natural waves I like your response it shows you are very objective, unlike some Nlanders that argue out of points, not addressing the crux of the matter and refused to be convinced even when someone directly involve explain things to them. That is very good of you!

texazzpete: You gibbering cretin! Do you really NEED me to tell you that YES, if you aren't paid you get demotivated? You oafs love to fling about the words 'medicine is a calling' and 'love', forgetting that those words cannot pay for your house rent in Lagos. Why would you expect someone to forgo the chance to legally give his family a better life just because they should be 'Mother Theresa' like people?

Just because you got an A1 in Biology it doesn't mean you'd have made a good medical doctor.
Here's a fun fact for you: Nearly everyone in Nigeria with any power see themselves as 'tin gods'. get over it and move on.





the imbecility of your post above is proven by the large number of Nigerian doctors thriving in the UK. Why would someone hire a doctor to be 'carrying trays'?
As for the Nigeria - UK comparison, there's nowhere i said they must be paid the same. I am suggesting that the nIgerian society should show a similar level of respect and understanding to these overworked, underpaid professionals. These people spend their lives working in a dangerous environment with myriad of infectious patients carrying innumerable diseases. They have to sit through rigorous working hours that usually amaze all visiting regulators. Only 788 state doctors to 17 million Lagosians and people like you see nothing wrong!




To be honest, your words give away the lack of any reasonable processing power between your ears. I have seen no attempt to logically evaluate and analyze both sides of the argument before making an informed decision. All i see is the same regurgitated, stereotypical arguments that the lagos State government has been carefully feeding to halfwits like yourself...in a desperately egotistical bid to avoid shelling out peanuts to these doctors while they waste your tax money on frivolous things. Shamefully, you self-proclaimed intelligent folks swallow these lies hook, line and sinker.

texazzpete: You gibbering cretin! Do you really NEED me to tell you that YES, if you aren't paid you get demotivated? You oafs love to fling about the words 'medicine is a calling' and 'love', forgetting that those words cannot pay for your house rent in Lagos. Why would you expect someone to forgo the chance to legally give his family a better life just because they should be 'Mother Theresa' like people?

Just because you got an A1 in Biology it doesn't mean you'd have made a good medical doctor.
Here's a fun fact for you: Nearly everyone in Nigeria with any power see themselves as 'tin gods'. get over it and move on.





the imbecility of your post above is proven by the large number of Nigerian doctors thriving in the UK. Why would someone hire a doctor to be 'carrying trays'?
As for the Nigeria - UK comparison, there's nowhere i said they must be paid the same. I am suggesting that the nIgerian society should show a similar level of respect and understanding to these overworked, underpaid professionals. These people spend their lives working in a dangerous environment with myriad of infectious patients carrying innumerable diseases. They have to sit through rigorous working hours that usually amaze all visiting regulators. Only 788 state doctors to 17 million Lagosians and people like you see nothing wrong!




To be honest, your words give away the lack of any reasonable processing power between your ears. I have seen no attempt to logically evaluate and analyze both sides of the argument before making an informed decision. All i see is the same regurgitated, stereotypical arguments that the lagos State government has been carefully feeding to halfwits like yourself...in a desperately egotistical bid to avoid shelling out peanuts to these doctors while they waste your tax money on frivolous things. Shamefully, you self-proclaimed intelligent folks swallow these lies hook, line and sinker.

opokonwa: I have read everyone's comment here with keen interest.
Pr01's and Ibime's and other comments have entertained me but the insults?...just too much.

My own take:

None of the earlier comments here ever noted that in all of Guardiola'a 4years of coaching Barca's Senior Side, he never took/signed more than 1-year contract. In fact, he opted out of any contract that will tie him for more than 1 season at a time. His contracts were often renewed yearly.
4 years and 13 trophies later, Guardiola has written his name in Gold. He may even add a 14th trophy come Friday, tomorrow.

That said, i don't think that Chelsea's 1-year contract to RDM (if confirmed) should generate such a fuss. If RDM proves himself like Guardiola, he may likely get a renewal just like Guardiola did three times with Barca.

That said, I think RDM is a very intelligent man and tactical coach with lots of 'Good Luck'. However, I do not think he left most chance to luck. Chelsea team worked really hard in most of their crucial matches against Barca, Bayern, Napoli and even Liverpool(FA Cup Final).
It takes a higher mental state to withstand the onslaught of both Barca and Bayern and hit them devastatingly when it matters most.

Besides, how do you play attacking football with Barca and Bayern when your team's best quality is its resilience in both the Goal-keeping and Defence?
Chelsea had no Mid-Field and the attacking options were limited to Drogba, Ramires(suspended) and Torres(Unpredictable-Undependable). RDM simply used his best asset and hit on a counter....the posts and Lady luck helped him more than a few times but I doubt if Lady luck would have succeeded if he changed his pattern in the short term.

Rumor mills have it that Chelsea wants to buy players like Neymar, Hulk, Falcao, Eden Hazard, Lucas Moura and others. Give RDM a 1-year contract and sign a few of these attack-minded and game-changing players and see if Chelsea will play the same.

A coach defines his tactics by evaluating the individual strengths of his key players against their individual weaknesses and blending them into a team.
Di Matteo inherited a team of demoralized, aging, ego-tripping, confused and slow individuals and brought out the best from them, beating the best in the world, even winning two very-important cups, one of them the UEFA Champions League! when everyone including the whole lot of us posting here wrote them off?! All these in less than 3-months! Come on! I do not know how else to define a Great Coach!

Abramovich's reaction is expected! For someone to buy a middle table club for £120 million and spend over £1 billion turning it into the biggest threat in European football, it simply speaks volumes about his passion for the game, his expectations from coaches and the type of results he expects. His decision (if confirmed) to give RDM just a 1-year contract is on point!

Having said this, I think Abramovich having tasted European Glory once, is impulsive as ever about staying at the top and will pull all the right stops to remain there. RDM's one-year contract(if confirmed) is just the beginning of it. For Abramovich, Chelsea is not a toy or hubby, Chelsea is a full-time job! An expression of his passion, love, competitiveness, tenacity, ego, image, dominance and an extension of himself!

I think that Chelsea Football Club has just gotten more vicious in their competition to attract the best talent and the best winning formula.

Chelsea Fans should just sit tight and brace themselves up for some of the best dominance of European Football.

pro01: Na wa oh. I understand people tend to get carried away by the euphoria of victory and success, and then forget the details of how such victories were achieved. If I may ask, was it part of Di Matteo's "tactics" that Barca would hit the post twice in the first leg at the Stamford Bridge, and then hit the post thrice in the second leg? Was it also part of the tactical script that Messi, of all people, and Robben, would both miss penalties that would have sealed our fate? Was it part of tactics that Barca, Liverpool, and Bayern would lose a plethora of chances, including one that perhaps crossed the goal line (in the FA cup final) but was overlooked?

The tactics were indeed woeful, not necessarily because of it's sheer ugliness, but because it was defective and designed to depend on luck more than efficiency. A more effective form of the same tactic was masterfully used by Mourinho's Inter Milan in their treble winning season last two years. Although Barca outplayed Inter, they didn't create many chances - that is the ultimate aim of a containment tactic - to suffocate the superior attacking team and prevent them from creating chances! Not to allow them create uncountable chances and hope that they fail to convert the chances (and penalties)! How on earth can you call that "tactics"? If Messi had scored that penalty and made it 3-1, we would have been forced to attack, thereby exposing our 'yansh' at the rear. . . and then the game might have ended 5-1 or more.

I believe so much in destiny. Chelsea were destined to excel this year, against all odds. It was written in the stars. Simple. There is no logical or rational way of explaining our miraculous triumphs in spite of so many near-death moments, other than to attribute everything to divine intervention - rather than tactics. Which kind tactics be that?? As such, we can't be sure of Di Matteo's abilities until he spends one full season in charge, without the notoriously promiscuous Lady Luck by his side. Let's not make it look like it is his right to get a longer contract; that is the privilege and prerogative of the owner, Abramovich, who has rewarded Di Matteo enough by giving him a bonus of £1m for the UCL win as well as a one year contract. Is that not fair enough? ? ?

Reference: The team that plays the closest thing to the Barca style in England is Arsenal. Clearly they have not won the UCL and the EPL in ages because they lack the player quality in sufficient numbers to execute this tactic and without a plan B Wenger is often stranded.

RDM had seen that his best players were over thirty so why play tippy tap or attack madly. Is it Drogba that will drive the ball 50 yards or Lampard that will take on 3 defenders. But Drogba doesn't need 3 shots on goal to score. Lampard needs only 1 good pass. That is experience. So what do you do with the rest of your time. Defend of course and wait for mistakes. That is smart. That is tactics. RDM did it five times against Pool, Barca, Napoli and Bayern. How can that be luck.

Reference: No Sir, the end product determines the efficiency and superiority of team tactics in any sport or confrontation for that matter.

The Italians of which RDM is one are well known for this type of play. They beat brazil famously in 82 and France more recently. Why every team must play like Brazil or Barcelona beats me. The beauty of football that athletics doesn't have is diversity.

And for goodness sake with the exception of Mata who else is a ball jugler and speed passer in that team, none. The team is just not like that. The quality which RDM had was playing to the strengths of his assets which AVB failed to do.

Lampard will never be a Messi, Xavi or Fabregas, neither will Mata, Mikel, or the others.

Ibime: Except to say that Abramovic could not find his ar.se with his hand when it comes to football matters nor could he "critically evaluate" anything to do with football (which he only started watching in 2003) as he has proved time and again.

Just because RA is owner and billionaire does not prevent me from saying he knows nothing about footbal. . . and you my friend are talking absolute rubbish.

RA "critically evaluated" the signing of Torres and Shevchenko without asking the manager whether they fit in with the style of play, "critically evaluated" the sacking of Mourinho, "critically evaluated" the sacking of Ancelotti, then "critically evaluated" that AVB was better to replace him than Guus Hiddink.

My friend, quit talking jargon. My neice knows more about football than Abramovic.


Luck is RDM winning one competition, not TWO.

You might say he used tactics combined with some good fortune to win the UCL, but what do you expect him to win with. . . better players that Chelsea dont have?

A man used Salomon Kalou, Ryan Bertrand and Bosingwa to win Champions League and all nincompoops like yourself know to do is shout "luck, luck, luck".

Perhaps a footballing neophyte like yourself expected him to use these players and outplay Barca and such.

He finished 6th in the league yes, but you forgot he played 20 games in 60 days and used his reserve team for those league matches, besides those matches were not like Bolton or Stoke, more like Man City, Spurs, Arsenal, Newcastle sandwiched in between Barcelona and Napoli and other heavyweight matches and no way he could use the first team for those matches and still stay in Europe.

You think RDM is going to accept "probation" contract when at least 5 clubs would offer him good contract this summer?


Roman Abramovic is a fool when it comes to football matters. . . .and so are you!

pro01: I wonder why most of you are so naive and sentimental about this issue. As a passionate Chelsea fan, I can say that Roman Abramovich made the right decision yet again. If you look at how Di Matteo won the FA cup and the Champions League, it is impossible not to notice that he was extremely lucky on too many occasions. The tactics were particularly woeful and a bad advertisement for the beautiful game of football. How long can you ride your luck? Besides, don't forget that he finished an embarrasing 6th in the league - and before you blame AVB for that, you must also remember that as at the time of AVB's sack, Chelsea were in 5th position. So you can't say Di Matteo improved Chelsea's leasgue form; if anything, he worsened it.

Having said that, and in light of the sheer fact that he managed to win the coveted UCL, the only fair thing to do is to give him at most a year 'probation' contract to see if he is indeed a good manager that can challenge for the league and all the other competitions. Don't forget also that the primary task Abramovich wants the next manager to achieve is to rebuild the team with new players and make the team's style of play more positive and entertaining. Regardless of Di Matteo's unprecedented luck, it is clear that he does not seem to have what it takes to achieve this difficult long-term task - not with the embarrasingly negative and ugly tactics Chelsea used to overcome Barcelona, Liverpool, and Bayern by sheer luck. The best thing is therefore to give him a short contract to see if he can prove himself. That is what our Big Boss Abramovich has done. What in the world is wrong with that?

He certainly didn't become so rich and successful by being foolishly sentimental. He has to take decisions based on empirics and critical evaluation of things.

allycat: I used to work in LASUTH so let me reply to your statement that u need to know someone to be seen! When you have over a hundred new patients showing up each week and just a handful of doctors to attend to them, you definitely will have a long waiting list. However one of the few perks of being a doc or medical person is you can call in a favor ie ask a collegues to help you see someone knowing that one day you too will need help. Before the strike our waiting list was up to nov 2012 and that is because each week we see about 30 to 50 new patients and about 200 old patients. In between we still see emergencies,operate and take care of patients on the ward and since it is a teaching hospital, give lec true to medical students and find time for practical teaching sessions.. The government wants 1 person to do the job of 5 and wants the best from those people. The truth Is that for me to fully examine a patient as a specialist I will need at least 30 minutes per patient. Multiply that by 30 and you will see that no patient is getting that kind of attention. Nowadays everybody wants to come to LASUTH even for malaria. Unfortunately doctors are running away. Residents only come to LASUTH if they cannot get into other teaching hospitals and even those that do come in. Of every 5 that take up an appointment 3 leave within a year. Leaving the remaining doctors even more overworked
I don't do any PP at present but if today a doctor calls me to attend to his family member , I will do so! Any other person I will direct them to a hospital government or private.

Reference: You guys take it easy. What is all this 'my daddy's car is bigger than yours'. There's no dispute here because in football you're only as good as your last game and your achievements will only be weighed when your time is up. That's why Messi at 24 may not be the best player ever because time is running out to catch Pele in the World Cup race. That is settled. Every other argument as to the best coach, best club, etc are very much open. Who says Pep at 41? can't win trophies in 5 different countries. Who says Jose can't win the treble back to back in Spain.

If Pep says he needs a rest, if Jose says he's the best, its their personal opinion.

mba emeka: I hope i can dissect your gibberish and show you were youre getting it all wrong.

The table never turned around that season barca won the league and the UEFACL they knocked Mou out of the UEFACL. In that march pepe and sergio ramos should have been ban for 8 matches!
The question of sending Pep packing cannot come to mind at all. Its like saying Fergie sent Mou out of Chelsea. Yes fergie won the league before Mou left and looked more likely to do it again but Mou was sacked for internal problems in Chelsea more than not winning the UEFACL or the EPL. Pep didnt leave because of Mou, dude he had beaten him in all the important competitions- he did it in the UEFACL, Laliga. . . when folks like you said why didnt he do it in the Copa del rey he waited and did it this season. Unlike Mou pep lacked the motivation to continue. .Mou is only staying back because he is yet to win the UEFACL with Real Madrid. He is also looking at the possibility of being the first to do it with 3 teams.

As for the all too familiar talk of Barca being a UEFA team. . .i beg to differ (i am an Arsenal supporter BTW). If a referee is bad on a day then it is the ref and not the team he supposedly supported. you do not see the barca players push the ref or Pep criticize them after loosing a match. He always congratulates the opposing team. besides, Anelka dived to get Abidal sent off why didnt you blame the ref then?

Mou, knelt down to beg for the Barca Job. He did it after Rijkaard left in 08. he incidentally was Clubless then. He was even interviewed but Laporta and co were convinced that he lacked the knowledge of the tenets via through which Barca played so they gave the Job to relatively unknown Pep. Like Mou did to chelsea when he beat Ancelloti and won the UEFACL in 2010 he wanted to prove to the Barca board that they had made a mistake. Today we know they didnt.

Yes Mou is a wonderful manager-amongst the best but like Wenger said a manager should be Judged by his success coupled with the resources he has to pull it off. At Porto he enjoyed a fluke in the 2003/2004 seasons CL and he admitted it himself. Its like saying RDM is a worldclass manager because he "undeservedly" won the CL with chelsea in so short a time.The same RDM was sacked by WBA.So He (Mou) enjoyed the same fluke. other than that porto had won the CL 2 times before then in their history. As per the Europa cup. . .well we know what AVB did too. Mou goes to teams with resources- Chelsea did, Inter did (before him they had won the league 4 times!!!!) when he came he garnered 7pts in the group stage at Inter and still qualified for the KO stage (PLEASE remember Pep beat him 2-0 later)He got knocked out by Utd. then he said he needed players. the following season he bought. . .wait for it. . .7 players! I can list them out for you. Remember he had frittered good money on Quaresma and Mancini That flopped at Inter a season before. He bought -Millito, Etoo, Lucio, Meriga, Pandev, Schneider etc. . .Then he won the treble. He had spent more than a $100million acquiring these players. Whats the fuss?

Even when he beat barca 3-1 and lost 1-0 he had already lost to them (and Pep 2 times out of 3 in one season) and the trouncing continued at Madrid. When i stated 5-4, 2-1 these were over two legs. Did you ask me about el classico? How many times is it played in a season in the League? 2 times right? yeah. . . guess who won head to head? Pep again. . .3-1 win and a 2-1 loss. . .who is whose bitch?

Alex Fergie, Capello, Wenger are better managers than Mou and he knows it. He is however on par with Pep. In his time he has been voted coach of the year once and so has Pep too. You can also google that

ddippset: Do you become the gretest team because you gain a hundred points or beacause you win six trophies in a season. Football pundits would tell you that this barcelona team is arguably the greatset in the history of the game. You don't suddenly become the greatest by winning a la liga title or by winning just one el classico out of the season's six el classicos.peps a very wise man.his ovation is loudest right now.he did the right thing by quiting with his legendary intact.there are two catergories of coaches. Those that ve been sacked and those yet to be sacked.if a coach does not leave as a legend, he will be sacked later on.mourinho will be sacked someday from madrid.for now mourinho needs to get even with pep.by winning a treble next season and beating barca 5-0 on the way. Until then he will always be pep's female.

ddippset: How is mourinho different to guordioala? He recruits mercenaries, wins titles and runs to another country without staying to defend his achievements.it is most difficult to stay with one team and defend than jump from one billion pound club to another.mourinho, the greatest coach? Heil no! The most ambitious coach? A big yes.let hime go to west brom or levante or parma and prove he is the special one. Some would be quick to say porto-at porto, he won the league, no surprise porto was always the best team in portugal. He won the champions league for two reasons, one man u were robbed in the semis, two all the big teams under acieved. I mean how in the hell did monaco get to the finals? At inter he killed them. Imagine an italian team without an italian in the first eleven.his arrival coincided with the relegation of juve and the end of a golden ac milan generation.hw won the champions league due to very questionable decisions from the ref.against barca.now he has at madrid the freedom to but a player even if he cost 1 billion pounds.pep has beaten him squarely in la liga.barca has won 3 in a row. Madrid has the title its not such a big deal. But if they defend it for 2 more seasons then kudos to them. Mourinho greatest? Rubbish. Most ambitious? Yes yes.

mba emeka: Did a simpleton make this statements?

let me help you from your folly:
1) What should be the reason any team would get beaten 5-0? Excellent calculations? Why did the "Genius" not know what to do? First, he bragged before the game (his usual ploy), other experienced managers like Wenger predicted dooms day, he called their bluff. He got royally fawked at the nou camp he gave excuses ("my team is developing, the other team is fully mature" why didnt he say it before the game?

2)No team has won what league loosing just 2 games? seriously? go and check barca's 2009 season and 2010 season. They lost just a game!

truth be told pep has nothing to prove against Mou. No manager has screwed him over more than pep. he beat Mou 5-0, 2-0, drew 1-1 (twice) and lost once after playing like chelsea (even the madrid prez and fatefuls criticized him for playing like a chicken-playing 3 defensive midfielders and kicking the barca players everywhere)

The following season Pep dished him out an exhilarating 5-4 victory (despite having his major players unfit), beat him 3-1 at the bernabeau when madrid was supposedly on a high, then proved it wasnt a fluke by dishing it to him again 2-1 in the CDR. In that match (at Bernabeau) Madrid where contained at a half field and 3 of their players should have been sent off. Please take note that everybody claimed madrid only needed to score first and that they would beat Barca- 2 times they did yet they still lost.

Mous angst is that he wasnt given the Barca Job even after he begged for it kneeling. He felt he would tell them they made a mistake for not signing him but Pep steps in and does an excellent Job. 13 trophies out of a possible 16. I dont even know what the fuss is about having back to back semi final exits. Barca in the last 5 seasons have either won it or have exited from the semi final stage yet they make little jabs of it.

If people feel anybody couldve done a good with the current ensamble of Barca players they should ask themselves why Rijkaard couldnt do it. Afterall xavi, Iniesta and messi where all part of that Barca. i tell you a truth these barca would trash Rijkaards own 5-0 too.

People should be circumspect about saying the tenure is over (word to Mou and his egomaniachial protege) Fergie went 3 seasons winning the league at the EPL then Wenger peeps him and people make similar assertions. what ensues? United win 03,07,08,09, (they finish a pt behind chelsea 10, win it 11, and then have equal points with city).

ziga: Your point here is null because you refuse to even look at his point of view.

And my answer to you is that the docs were not requesting to be paid the same as UK docs. They were asking for the implementation of CONMESS, which had been previously agreed on.

Come on guys. . . Is that too much to ask? You are here talking about docs leaving their duty post. You really think it is about greed?

If you employ houseboy and you work him like a horse and you no feed or pay am appropriately, he will eventually either rob you or kill you!!!