₦airaland Forum

diggz:
Hope you realise azi is not known for his attacking prowess? He is known for not letting people pass him on the left flank. However, just because you desperately wanted to justify the shyyyytttie ghanianmans position in the team, you claimed defensive duties are secondary.

Nihilist, luiz was miles ahead of azi attack wise but poor defensively compared to azi.... Who featured more for mou? Yes! Azi.......

So you can't justify buying baba rahman @ 22 so we could loan him out to develop him .when we should or could have given that space to a player from the youth! @ a zero cost to the team and club!

Secondly, if your guy is poor defensively and useless going forward @ 22years, what makes you feel he will suddenly develop the basic defensive or attacking boots to fit in CFC or command a reasonable fee... When na blackman he be from Ghana and not British?

Either way you decide to see this, baba na complete waste of money and space..

Ibime:
I have already showed that Ake has not spoken to Conte, and the only communication he had was with Emenalo.

I showed that Ake knows nothing about whether Conte sanctioned his move or not, Ake said he BELIEVES Emenalo will speak to Conte.

New Chelsea boss Antonio Conte is behind the idea of a midfield role for the Netherlands Under-21 international.

Please tell us who is Chelsea's current right back, Chelsea's current left back and their back-ups, and stop telling us stories.

When Ake was sent on loan, you told us it's because Baba is better.

Now Baba has been discarded, you are telling us it's because Azpi is better, and we only need a Mikel at left-back grin grin grin



Keep making it up as you go along. grin

Ibime:
Baba Rahman, a £22m signing needs to go on loan to get minutes.

Nathan Ake, who proved himself last season also needs to go on loan and get minutes.

So what now?

Do we have to buy another £20m leftback as backup to Azpi (who is also needed at rightback in the absence of a decent rightback)?

Nihilist the more you keep talking, the less sense you keep making. Sometimes you just have to sit back and take the L. . . .


The Real Story is this. . . .

As reported last season, some Chelsea board members are starting to question Emenalo, pointing to the fact his last two big money signings (Cuadrado and Rahman) have been mega flops. You should have seen how touchy Emenalo got when questioned on Cuadrado last season.

A TD is judged on his signings. If you make too many big money duds, you eventually lose your job.

Emenalo tried to play a fast one to park Nathan Ake away from Chelsea, to give his big money signing Baba Rahman ample opportunity to recover his value, so he doesn't look bad.

What Emenalo didn't reckon with is that Baba Rahman is utter shyte, and it only took 2 weeks for Conte to figure it out and spoil his plans.

In the meantime, the club have lost the use of Ake, who could have either served as back-up to Azpi, or potentially taken the position himself, allowing Azpi to take the rightback position.

That's just it.

Ibime:
No need rehashing what we've already been through.

Emenalo na big phuck up.

A former leftback wey no fit scout leftbacks. Incompetence is his middle name.

diggz:
Examples of peeps fantastic going forward and can do more than a decent job defending. Not one who can't attack nor defend to save his life......

diggz:
@ Nihilist

You just type plenty things to justify the uselessness of baba and yet you didn't sat much!

Baba is 22years! So fvck what? He is not the second coming of Roberto Carlos, maldini or Ashley Cole so, what the fvck? Ki ni big deal?

I do not understand why you still think paying a kobo for baba makes any sense at all? Same 22yrs old who couldn't nail a spot were we had peeps like aina balling in preseason and got loaned out.

Sincerely speaking, baba is a cost center and a bad business!

mithel:
lmaoo solid defensive core abi.....in the same season where ivanovic ,cahill and terry were the rest of the defense in the team...what prevented Azpi from joining them.No defensive core??Are you implying that Ryan was the main man in the core since he was the only one who made the cut from that solid core?? ehn?

And your age analogy is stoopid,so Drogba who was a late bloomer too would have been considered shyte by you or another player like payet sef.

Lool same Baba that got displaced by a 19year old LW from Brazil with no knowledge of english and people were more comfortable with kenedy playing there.He should cry back to germany.

diggz:
It is funny to see how peeps are giving excuses for a supposed player who was bought to walk into the first team.

A player who can't defend to save his life, not a genius at attacking either, yet we are being told he will develop.

@ Nihilist, how is a LB defensive duty secondary and not primary?

mithel:
Bertrand is useless....but was voted ahead of same Azpi(and you all know i am an Azpi fanboy) in the 2014/2015 team of the season...same season we won the league.His game time last season was hampered a lot last season due to injuries. If you hate someone,say you hate him,dont come here and say things that are not true.

Heck,even Van Aanholt is better than Baba. Mourinho effed us up big time and thunder fire that emenalo for making the Bertrand deal permanent. We have spent so much on that position, its almost unbelievable

diggz:
I like the way you call Bertrand useless but, ever willing to accommodate a glorified otondo like baba. One useless expensive shyyte of a player who can't even do his primary duty to save face.

How has baba been better than Ake....? Lol...bro you kinda funny sha! Once you have your mind made up there's no changing it.

Please, try look into useless Bertrand time with us at 22 and tell us if we deserved to be punished with bad signings like baba.

afrodoc2:
That Baba is a baba nla of a defensive liability in my own opinion, aside his lovely pullouts not much to offer.

And the full-back told a number of national newspapers how he owes much to Bould's assistance, saying: "When I first came to Arsenal, I didn't know how to defend.

"If there was a person who I had to identify as helping me a lot, that would have to be Bould. I was a winger but from the Under-18s up, I remember him just showing me the basics.

diggz:
Bruv, baba got enough playing time and chance to show the world how Uber useless he was defending and clueless attacking....

I don't know why you want us to be patient with someone who is 23years old? Do you have any reason for this, asides him still being young?

I hope you remember Bertrand was about his age when he featured in our UCL victory in the finals against Bayern? Plus judging from the little I have seen of Bertrand , he was a better defender than baba at this age.

I sincerely do not have a single iota of hope/faith in baba. Even if he turns 19years old in 2years time,I will still pick taiwo taiwo ahead of him.

afrodoc2:
Chelsea is not making any bank balance gains from Rahman, he is going to be sold at a loss. All he has done is dog-in-a-mangerly block the growth of the Chelsea youth. Ake is miles better at left back despite Ake himself preferring Central Midfield.
It makes no sense to sign mediocre mercenaries for millions and not play your youth team players who are even better and have real potential for improvement.....if you are waiting for this "22 year old" Ghanaman to get better as he approaches his "peak" you are on a long thing.

diggz:
Baba couldn't hold his own... What a gigantic waste of money! Keeping faith in some of this youth guys should be the way forward especially when we are not 100% sure if the quality we are getting is better than what we already have.

GBR1:
2 Top coaches infact the best coaches in the world have expressed their interest in this guy and that's something to think about.

I wouldn't be so swift to dismiss him because there's definitively something they've seen that we couldn't. Pep could sign him for city today and in a few years, he could become among the best CBs in the league and the best English CB.

Gbola5:
Are you saying that the show is canon ?

Gbola5:
Ser Alliser didn't plot to kill Jon in the books;he wasn't at the Wall. Robb was 16 when he died, 283-299AC, 16 is "man grown". I can agree on the show being an alternate universe, but only perhaps, because its seems like an excuse for the writers of the show.

SIRcumalot:
@nihilist
The way I like to see it is,
two different ending to the same story.

age and appearance all fall under artistic difference,
,the age of the stark kids,and dany in the book won't be believable on screen or just turn your viewers off.

Aegeon isn't the only character whose absence affect plot point they're numerous.
instances were character can't be totally absent their storyline is joined with another which I believe is what is happening with young griff
this hasn't change some basic thing,like Jon dying or Tyrion lack of direction after his patricide.

it also helps that I believe that some of the plot point introduced by G.R.R.M are just red herring and going nowhere.
and the rest just won't make for great TV.

SIRcumalot:
@nihilist
make the bolded clearer,
but gun to my head I'll say the tower of joy scene.

I understand if you say starting from the six season the plot of the show and the book have both taken different turns.
(even that isn't certain)
but from the 1st season to the 5th their really isn't much difference. what little there is can be explained away as creative problem as some stuff don't translate well from paper to screen.
you could say the same for HP and LoTR.

BraniacX:
The pre-show history is essentially the same! The history of the kingdoms and great houses before the show is essentially the same, not sure why you think otherwise

Gbola5:
Not entirely. They still have the same past and history till the start of the series, whether it's shown or not. Also the Vale and Bear Island didn't have a succession crisis.

The first unusual thing about Stones’ transfer (or, more exactly, the transfer fee) is that Everton are not an elite club and Stones is not yet an elite player. Of the top ten transfer fees in history (€69m+), four involved a superclub buying from another superclub, while five others (Luis Suarez, Gareth Bale, Neymar, Kevin De Bruyne and Gonzalo Higuain) involved players recently named as the best in their respective leagues or continents. The only exception (James Rodriguez) had just won the World Cup Golden Boot.

Stones is different. Not only is he a defensive player (only David Luiz has similarly moved for more than £40m), but he is – even by his own admission – neither at his peak nor in good form. This is a player left on the bench behind Ramiro Funes Mori and Phil Jagielka at the end of last season, and whose only competitive international start at centre-back came against San Marino. Stones has started 68 top-flight matches, and has played 242 minutes of European football.

Nor too could you reasonably say that Stones’ game has improved over the last 12 months. He committed fouls, received yellow cards and missed tackles more often than in 2014/15. In fact, no outfield player in the Premier League made more errors leading to goals last season, hardly the tagline of a £50m man. Roberto Martinez took the blame – and paid the price – for Everton’s defensive uncertainty, but Stones was at least partly culpable. Manchester City are paying an extortionate amount of money for an idea of the player Stones could be.

nateevs:

PietroRico:
agreed.
What's also equally or even more shocking is paying a kobo for djibololojiibidigidi