A40: What did Mascherano win before joining Barca? That means Subotic must be better than him
Passenger that Captained and lifted two of the biggest trophies in football
Made Euro All-Time XI
Finished 5th and 6th in European Player of The Year and FIFA Balon D'Or awards
3 Time World Cup All-star
2 Time Euro All-star
I want to be a passenger like this man
While you are at it tell us why Alves has not been able to win the World Cup or even make any contributions to the cause of a 5 time Champion? An International nonentity who could not achieve anything of significance in elite competition outside Barca
Even Nzonzi, Tremoulinas and Krychowiak have won back to back Europa League titles so say something else
Alves owes his career to playing with Messi, Xavi, Iniesta and Suarez
He is not better than Abbey George if we look at it critically
Using this criteria, can you please tell me why Boateng Is better than Abbey George?
chic2pimp: Dude I care o. Those Eastern European Chics are very hot. Lest I forget good in bedmatics too. They must not be allowed to leave abeg.
Thats the thing.
In or Out, the EU immigrants already here cannot be kicked out, at least according to Michael Gove.
Why should I waste my time and energy voting for or against a policy that has no direct effect on my life, when I can sit at work,drink coffee and watch gladiatorial contests on Nairaland.
airmark: It's not difficult to detect a foolish comparison from a dolt. I await your boss rebuttal. I will be stvpid replying you again. He wanted to come and use you guys to resurrect, but despite a weak start from you guys, it seems another debacle awaits the ajakaja-40. He thought barca thread would be a fertile land to grow up. I think A-40 needs to appease the gods.
dmcdad: I thought you don't throw insults. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
E Pain Am!
I'll be a complete pillock to be schooled by someone as low level as yourself. Dude, you ain't got a mind of your own. You have been schooled in every sporting thread on this board. AdeLaNa1 uses you for breakfast. Airmark uses you for lunch. Bigkesh? Ahh! That one kill you, bury you come judge you and sentence you to hell all in the same day. That's what I call total decimation, or more appropriately, annihilation.
You are very lucky I don't take the insult path. You for hear am for my hand this morning.
Back to the reality, you are and will always be DK's lie-around boy.
A40: Shut your smelly Apoche cra cra mouth. You reek of stewpidity. Portugal is not a superpower so Ronaldo helping his country to the semis or Finals of major international tournaments shows his credibility. Stop making eediotic comparisons you bloated swine
No size is too big. No waist is too small. Apoche Cra Cra Suplex is a signature move developed in the mountain caves of Tibet by reclusive monks of The Black Hand.
A40: You know a sucka has been served when they start talking about Raumdeuter
You are a monumental phool. Is this your last resort after getting schooled? Brainlessav Moronovich
You think football analysis is about shouting Up Barka all around the place. Oponu
A40: Lmaoo. This is getting desperate. Why stop there. Let us get Maldini's total goal and assists for club and country.
What a wawu!!!!! I didn't know fullbacks are rated based on goals and assists. See viewing center analysis
Ironically when they bring up Iniesta's poor goal and assist ratio na these same people go dey hyperventilate. Now you are bringing it up for players playing even further from goal. Jesus Wept
A40 showing some nice moves in the opening rounds.
GBR1: I see it's getting hot here. I think Nihilist has time on his hands to promote this one.
Yes, thank you Mr Gbr..
As you know, I like my threads like I like my steaks....with a little bit of blood in the middle.
Today's bout has been a funny one,
In the blue Corner, fighting out the Raumdeuter stables, we have the mean, lean, killing machine known as A40. An excellent fighter on his day, he's a proven brawler who is known to have caught a few bodies, and claimed a few scalps back in the day. The problem is, recently A40 has been involved in some ill-advised bouts, occasionally involving facing a tag team on his ones, that has left his body battered and his reputation in tatters. He has recently lost bouts to Dahdemola, Airmark, and most devastatingly to BigKesh in the last 6 months.
Brawlers like Airmark and Pataki have teamed up to mount a formidable challenge to A40 at home, and so it seems like he has had to pick his fights away from home, in faraway sunny Barcelona, to begin to rebuild his title challenge and reputation.
The only issue now is that some how Airmark and Pataki(AirTaki for short) have managed to start a vicious smear campaign, insinuating that A40's brawling career has been heavily subsidised by his Stable and Stablemate (Raumdeuter), and that he really isn't a reknowned pugilist, but merely hanging on the coat tails of his "master", and benefiting from some form of Nepotism.
As someone who has seen A40's signature 'Apoche Cra Cra' suplex move deployed to devatsting effect, I know that this isn't the case. However A40 has to prove to the crowd today, that he deserves to be seen as one of the top killers on this these boards...
Which brings us to today.
In the red corner, Dmcdad, aka The Mac Daddy, aka Mac and Cheese, sometimes mistaken for French Montana. Dmcdad isn't exactly known as a skilled fighter, and I would have to rack my brain to point to any particular victory of his that has stood out. Yet, DmcDad is extremely popular in his home turf of Barcelona, and he has been able to put that popularity to his advantage, with many of his team sneaking in to the ring to rain cheap blows and sucker punches on A40's dome whilst the referee was distracted.
Fellas like Debroslink have been seen smashing folded up chairs on A40's back, homesteady went to kneel down behind A40 so that his eternal nemesis Airmark(who shouldn't even be in the stadium letalone the ring) could push him over.
This fight hasn't been fair at all. You have renowned haters like Dadehmola and Bykebyke laughing in the audience like Muttley and Dick dastardly, but Still A40 has put a decent fight.
Let's take a quick commercial break, and we'll be back to analyse some of the best moves after the Cut.
parrotibaba: I suggest you give that true detective time, na the season 2 I get problem with.
I no know the kind shows you de like but if you de like British shows then ninjas like koice and bykebyke can help you out.
I only get around 2hrs a day to watch shows, and I tend to watch the shows on Sky, cos I can download them and watch on my commute.
I dey watch all sorts sha...
Maybe I will go and try that Supergirl sef....I used to watch Birds of Prey back in the day and enjoyed it, so maybe another DC 'feminine' show might not be too bad.
Bratking: man this biitch must be on pms. why so emotional? all this monologue and yet so little substance? na wao. take a chill pill gal and learn to chillax, life is too short.
Emotional?
Why won't I be emotional?
A lot of great black men have die this year - Prince, Mohammed Ali, Stephen Keshi....yet an infantile creature whose mental immaturity extends to point of dubbing itself the king of brats is left alive to roam cyberspace.
Surely even you can appreciate that this is a tragedy worth getting emotional over?
parrotibaba: You should know that assumption is the mother of all f'ckups. I'm one of the folks that criticize supergirl mainly because of the crappy storyline. You can criticize a show but do not criticize the person watching it, that's my problem with you.
Then again I watched limitless and I liked it, I'm not a one genre man, I cut across almost all the genres on TV. I have never for once criticized those that watch shows I don't like and you should do that.
I didn't even realise that you boys were here sef.
So you sef dey see the kain nonsense wey I dey see.
Bratking: chill bruv no need to get emotional. I'd seen season 1, wasn't encouraged to see season 2 cos season 1 kinda suck, you feel me? A lot of people in this thread certainly knew gomorrah( I think I had a discussion with koice and co about the show a while back in this thread). Yes we know it's an italian series, yes we know it's about the mafiosi, yes it's a sky italia/netflix show. what's else is there to know about. Dude, I'm as intelligent as anyone, the question tho is are you?
You most definitely cannot be intelligent.
I said that Gomorrah was one of the best shows I had seen, and then you came around with your assumptions that i ''haven't watched a lot of shows''.
When I asked you if you had watched the show, you started quoting reviews. If you have to give someone else's opinion when asked for your own, then we have to question if your brain is strictly necessary, and if your cranial cavity would not be put to better use keeping fufu warm.
This doesn't even take into consideration the fact that Gommorah is actually rated higher on imdb than both Lillyhammer and Boardwalk Empire whose ratings you were ranting about.
Your moniker is really a good fit for your personality. Next time, I suggest starting a conversation rather than jumping to conclusions otherwise you risk a lifetime of perpetually making a fool of yourself.
Bratking: how can something with only 2 seasons be better than cult classics that have more than 4 seasons to their names respectively and more than that garnered rave reviews from home and international media alike?Just because Gomorrah impressed the shiit outta you cos of it's olde world take on the mafiosi doesn't make it the best thing since sliced bread. come to think of it, reviews of the series weren't great. Lilyhammer(Scandinavian/American Mafia themed series) is better by a mile and still bows to Sopranos.
I don't think you're very intelligent.
You haven't even watched the show and then you're so dismissive.
Gommorah is a show in neopolitan and Italian, and aimed at the Italian public
Very few people are even aware of the show, let alone reviewed it.
Yet despite zero knowledge of the show itself, youve quicky concluded that it is inferior.
Radja Nainggolan says Thibaut Courtois and Eden Hazard are both “trying to convince” him to join Chelsea.
Roma midfielder Nainggolan is a reported priority target of incoming Blues manager Antonio Conte, who faced him while manager of Juventus.
The Belgian admitted that he would consider a move to Stamford Bridge if ever the option became apparent, and the 28-year-old says that compatriots Hazard and Courtois are both attempting to persuade him to join them in the Premier League.
Nainggolan also confirmed that he had held discussions with Conte, saying: “We’ve talked. He already wanted me at Juve, but I told him that I would never go there.”
Speaking to Belgian media, he added: “Now he’s trying to convince me to go to Chelsea and we’ve had a chat about it. He’s an interesting person. We’ll see [if I stay at Roma]. I don’t know.
“[Thibaut] Courtois and [Eden] Hazard are trying to convince me to go to London with them.
“I know they’re a big club, but I’m not going to get obsessed thinking about it. It’s been ten years that I’ve been linked with a new club each year and yet I’ve only played for three clubs.
“We’ll just have to see what happens. Certainly Conte’s a good coach – you could see that at Juve, where he won, and also at Siena.
“He’s told me what he expects of me and what type of a player I could be for him. It’s important to know that a coach wants you so much. I’m not a player who scores 20 goals a season and provides 20 assists, but he appreciates the silent work that I do.”
I thought there was a time when it was illegal for Managers to talk to players of other teams before agreeing a fee.
I was speaking to a pro Rugby player today, and he was telling me about their off-season/pre-season schedule.
Their pre-season started on Monday, and he only got 3.5 weeks off. He said that this week has been hell for them. Apparently they get pushed on their exercise bikes till they literally puke, and then they have had to pull cars strapped to their waists in muddy fields.
I wonder what football pre-season is like. Does anyone have a clue?
Bratking: then you haven't watched a lot of shows then. Sopranos and Boardwalk empire are way better and better still you don't need english subtitles to watch them
I'm guessing you live in my head and know which shows I've watched
For what it's worth, I don't think the shows you mentioned are better than Gommorah. Come to think of it, have you even watched Gommorah?
ChristineC: The 34 year old proven winner Jamie Vardy will not be bold enough to offer assistance in boot cleaning. Who is the '30M disaster' A constant in defence as Ivory Coast stumped to the African title Ever present as Villareal moved in leaps and bounds in the Europa Imperious for Villareal as the qualified for next edition of the champions league. How's good is your use of adjectives young man
These are exagerations and lies though
Let's talk about that Nations Cup first.
Bailly that conceded freekick inside his own box 18 against Mali? The next game he commited a needless foul and copped a yellow in the 26th minute and his manager was so frustrated that he couldn even wait for half time and subbed him immediately. In the semi-finals against Congo he was at it again, conceding a penalty via handball. In the final against Ghana, he started fighting with John Boye and was lucky not to get booked for that offence, but trust Eric, he still managed to cop a yellow.
Infact the guy was a liability to CIV throughout that tournament, and they won the tournament despite not because of him.
Now to Villareal.
Bailly only entered that 1st team because Mussachio copped an 8 month Injury. As soon as he came back, Bailly dropped to the bench straight. Then Mussachio copped another injury. Ever present bawo? Bailly only played just over half the league games for Villareal...and only because first choice was injured.
I read somewhere that Villareal conceded 1.1 goals per la liga game with him and 0.5 goals per game without him....though that was a comment on a skysports article so I can't confirm. But I know the guy copped 7 yellows in his first 9 games of the season.
When even his own manager has publicly complained about him twice, then larm don blow.
If you actually dig deep, you'll find out that every defender MUST goof once in a while.
The match that's being talked about, I watched that match live and I think it ended 1-0. In that match, Eric Bailly (I didn't know he's the one then though) was superb in that match along with his co-CB. They frustrated Athletico for almost all through the match till towards the ending when Torres was introduced and he went on to score that goal. I'm pointing this out coz people are disregarding his entire performance in that match.
I'm not gonna hold briefs for Baily, but I know I won't bring out my sword of judgement till I've actually seen his displays for United. If Smalling can eventually become a rock for us, then Baily can come good for us. As for now, I won't judge him yet. Time shall reveal all.
Mou should sign more please. Let's have too many options available to us.
I particularly liked that match cos the Villareal fans were chanting about how sheet Torress was before, he showed them that shoe get size.