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raumdeuter:
This was Gustavo aka nihilist some yrs back



Now Lescott is with the worst team in the EPL Nastasic is with Schalke and Demichelis benching at City

None currently rates as highly as Boateng

Like I said whatever I say is right, whatever you say is wrong. Just repeat it. Raudeuterr is always right, Nihilist is always wrong

What is this nonsense? Lescott is now 34 and Demichelis is almost 40.

If Boateng wasn't at least better than these guys by now then big yawa go dey

Dayo your submissions Don dey poor these days. Hope you haven't joined Boateng in sleeping under the bed?

raumdeuter:
Dante Demichelis, Van Buyten were all defenders for Bayern how come none was rated as high as Boateng has been

Look at who you're comparing Boateng to. That just tells you how dire Boateng is.

He is supposed to be an elite defender today, yet he is the least individually decorated centreback in the elite bracket.

Even in a Fifpro XI voted for by fellow professionals which would have included his own teammates and even his blood brother, none of his contemporaries thought him good enough to make the first 22.



Dayo your hero Boa-stank is a fraud...just like you!

raumdeuter:
Thats why UEFA, FIFA Even a UK website magazine rated him above all PL defenders

Boateng could not make the first 22 of the recent UEFA TOTY for good reason. You too think about it, why did 3 fellow members of the Bayern defence make the cut, while he didn't?

Airmark will soon come and give you the 'gif-torial' evidence...

Boateng is just a joke.

A defender that is known not for solid defending but for throwing long pass.

A 6'4 giant that is known for being weak in the air.

A member of a highly tactical team who is well known for lacking concentration and regular brainfarts.

A black guy with an English first name, Ghanian last name but plays for Germany.

Everything about him is just useless. I bet he sleeps under his bed and eats with feet.

This Dayo is just a criminal. He went to bring out my post from 2013 to buttress his point.

The season before and the season after, Boateng was constantly isolated and dribbled for being useless while Cahill was an integral part of one of the tightest defensive units around.


Then last year, when Bobo was supposed to have 'Matured', Messi still caught him in the corner and gave it to him hard.

Yes the argument is that Messi could have done it to anyone, but there were 10 other Bayern players there that day...yet it was Boateng yet again who had to die on the cross

Somethings change, but I assure you Boateng is not one of them...

I think your friend is Lucky. More money to save and flex...

DollyParton1:
Aint concerned about the club life or party life or whatever.
Was referring to his branding Sheffield "an asylum seekers den"

You're not from Sheffield, are you?

dmcdad:
I thought everyone in my team is average including Messi, especially since he won't succeed in the EPL.

Can Messi do it on a cold wet Wednesday at Stoke?

Untill the day that he does this, he will forever be inferior to CR7...and Eden Hazard

Raumdeuter what do you have to say about this?

Rooney is the problem.

See how that other guy scored 2 goals and setup another last night. That guy even scored a confam long shot...

Rooney needs to learn work

DollyParton1:
Wow!!!
Sheffield a den of asylum seekers?
Gerrarra hia men!!!
You don't know nohum!!

Sheffield nightlife is not that great though and Naija girls in Sheff have always been dead

Once you do West Street\Carver street that's it...and there are no clubs to cater for Naija girls sef these days(Thank God)

And this is from someone who has clubbed in Sheff long enough to remember Niche, Empire, Embrace, Fontana, Static and Bar24...

chic2pimp:
Loool... Bopsing Mandems!

Nihillist dem don bops u before?

lol me ke...

I said No to Dudu a long time ago bruv

capricornian:
Hope the boys can give me a Birthday gift with a win...I no even mind even if it's just by a lone goal

Happy birthday bro.

Still hope you lose tonight...

Bimffo:
Away from the Fifa Ballon D'or.

FA Cup draw.

I can't wait.

We're traveling away to the winner of MK Dons v Northampton.

As a Northampton dweller, I am hoping and praying that they win....though Dons stadium is only 30 minutes drive away

tbaba83:
You sir are a legend.
I hope u dont go madison in manchester tho lol

Why Goalkeepers And Defenders Don't Win The Ballon D'Or

Of the 23 players longlisted for the FIFA Ballon D’Or back in October, only four could be described as out and out defenders.

Philipp Lahm of Bayern Munich (as creative as defenders get and playing this year in midfield), his club-mate, goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Sergio Ramos and Chelsea's goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.

In fact, since the award for the world’s best player began back in 1956, only four defensive players have won it – Franz Beckenbauer, Matthias Sammer, Lev Yashin (the only goalkeeper) and Fabio Cannavaro, who had to captain Italy to an unlikely World Cup win to be recognised.

Against this historical bias, it was a big surprise to see Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer joining Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo on the three-man shortlist. Is this finally a sign that FIFA is recognising the art of goal stopping? Or is he just a token nod, the exception that proves the rule?

The question that the ballon d'or brings up is whether all of us - the people who watch, report on and even run football - are guilty of completely undervaluing the defensive side of the game?

Are we so enamoured - obsessed even - by attack and goals that we ignore the importance of its counterbalance?

The short answer is yes. The goal, after all, is why we watch in the first place and the relative rarity of its occurrence in a football match is in many ways what makes it different from the higher scoring team sports like basketball and rugby.

The whole framework of how we watch football supports this. The sport can almost be split into the good guys, the artists - those trying to create, to score, to win – and the defenders, those trying to negate, block, and not lose.

We remember goals, moves, flicks and finishes. Rarely do we look back misty-eyed at a defensive hoof that may or may not have prevented a goal.

It’s why huge transfer fees are paid for goalscorers and creators and clubs don’t sell as many shirts for its full-backs as its centre-forwards.

In the excellent book The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football Is Wrong, authors Chris Anderson and David Sally outline these reasons but have also gone one further in analysing the phenomenon.

They analysed a decade of Premier League matches to determine the relative value of goals and clean sheets in terms of picking up league points.

The conclusion turns our understanding of football on its head. “It turns out that clean sheets on average produce almost 2.5 points per match. Compared to scoring a goal, which on average earns a team about one point per match, not conceding is more than twice as valuable.”

In other words: "Goals that don’t happen are even more important than goals that do".

So why does everyone in football overlook this? Part of it is simple psychology. “Attacking has one best outcome: a goal. But defending is quite the opposite: there, the best outcome is a goal that is not conceded, an event that does not actually happen.”

It explains why the human brain prefers the immediate pleasure of a goal to a vaguely defined non-negative. It's hard to stand up and cheer and shout for a non-event.

The more fundamental argument offered by the authors though is that defence is simply not understood by those who analyse and assess football: “We strongly suspect that goalkeepers and defenders are less likely to become managers of the world’s top clubs simply because defence is neither well understood nor highly valued.”

Despite the amount of money and analysis and coverage in football, everyone involved is still swayed like dizzy fans by the power of the goal. As the authors put it, 'forwards are loved, defenders are respected' and there's little here to make us think that will change anytime soon.

http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/sport/5443/why-defenders-dont-win-the-ballon-dor/

More here:
http://www.espnfc.co.uk/blog/tactics-and-analysis/67/post/1839815/cox-why-dont-more-defenders-win-the-ballon-dor

ollah1:
He is talented yes but saying he is better than Vidal is your opinion. Vidal played more defensively while he was at Juventus. The same Vidal played a key role in the Copa America wining team (Chile)..

Dude this list is all about marketing. What would you say about Chellini, Alaba and Godin? What would you say about Rakitic replacing Modric?

So you know better than industry insiders?

ollah1:
Where in my post did you see boateng? Why are so fvcking obsessed with boateng and busi?

What is ramos, marcelo and silva doing on the list?

No Chellini, Godin, Alaba. These players played way better than those listed. Perez isn't even happy Ramos extended has a longer contract with Madrid

Pogba who?? He wasn't even the best Juventus player. Why ain't no Vidal?

Modic?? Rakitic even murdered him to be the best Croatian player of the year

Well, at least you voted according to your heart, and that's what counts...

No Wait...



[size=22pt]You are not a professional football player!![/size]

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adeyemi2015:
What exactly is flawed in the list(s)?! Is it the presence of Rooney in the fifth Team?!

It's the fact that Alago Boateng was voted the least useful member of that Bayern defence...

Just look at that 2nd team - The voters would rather field 3 short fullbacks and Pique than play Boateng at centre half. Coping with the height disadvantage is still more palatable than having to deal with Bobo the conqueror.

It has pained all the Boatank bully boys - Ollah1, A40, and Raumdeuter.

I can't wait for Airmark's comment

Urine:
Lmao! Very funny but you have a point.

The OP is new to this and it's pretty obvious.

The chances of pulling a takeaway are usually not that great anyway. Main target should be kiss and phone number, anything else is a bonus.

Core naija man gets one dance and literally tries to kidnap the chic via the nearest Taxi.

He will soon learn that most night clubs have nice white chics, nice black chics, the fat chics, the mamas 27-35 range, and the grandmama mamas.

He will soon learn how work the categories and where the core naija man stands in relation to them.

He will soon understand why the core naija student and the Jamaican yardies are always competing for the same kind of women, and what category of women that is

OP is probably a student with his Nigerian accent and maybe wore an office suit to the club.

And by 'helping their ministry', he probably meant plonking himself behind the girl and trying to grind up on her straight away...

Generally speaking, core Naija men just don't get UK clubs. They don't know how to dress, how to look cool, how to approach, how to speak,how to dance, or how to close...

You can always spot the core Naija man on the dance floor, looking like a perverted uncle.

OP you need to work in your game. My experience in Scotland is the complete opposite to yours...I found them girls veeery friendly up there.

Tval:
I even heard someone laugh

Bwahahaha

raumdeuter:
A passenger just won the coach of the year. A driver is currently jobless

K sir.

Boateng is not rated highly enough by anybody in the game.

This guy won his league last season, yet industry insiders decided to pick centrebacks who either play in a lower league or finished trophyless over him.

I bet even Kevin-Prince saw his brother's name at the ballot and still voted for Thiago Silva instead

Can't Alago get no love?

raumdeuter:
Nihilist

A coach that buried his own ego

www.nairaland.com/attachments/3284108_screenshot20160111191046_jpeg8d0d002ed1b5286cc5c543c9a823d274

How won't he bury his ego?

When he knows that he is a passenger in Barca's success.

What does Alago have to do to get the recognition his acolytes keep clamouring for?

You mean Thiago silva made the Fifpro XI but Alago the World Cup Winner couldn't make it?

Alago played for a team that went further than PSG in the UCL last season, and also won a a league that is rated higher than Ligue Un.

So what logical reason could drive the decision to pick Silva over Bobo the conqueror?

Probably YouTube clips of Bobo being mortally destroyed by Messi.

afrodoc2:
Who were the people hyping this okore when villa signed him? The guy is a very very untidy footballer, plays as if the ball is hexagonal in shape.

Ibime was one of them...

amicable09:
Very insightful but I feel this is most suited for experienced hire and in advanced/developed countries. I'll like to know if you did this for entry level jobs when you were just starting out in your career here in Nigeria.

My career experience in Nigeria is limited to NYSC, and even that was 'worked' if you know what I mean.

That being said, I don't believe that the job market in the UK where I live and work is significantly different to Nigeria. As you might have seen from most of the other responses on here, most of the people who put their references on their CV are doing so merely to impress the readers by the stellar names willing to act as personal referees.

I don't feel that I need to impress anyone based on my contact list, when my CV is good enough to speak for me. Thus, I can afford to withhold my referees until such a time as is necessary. In a worst case scenario, where a job description and remuneration package sound really attractive, but the recruiter is resolutely demanding a reference before getting the ball rolling, I am not above giving a fake name, along with matching fake email address, and phone number(Both of which I have access to)...

I don't supply references until I get an offer of an interview ESPECIALLY, if I'm applying for a job through a 3rd party recruiting agent.

The reason is this: Several agents advertise fake jobs for the purpose of generating leads -if you're leaving your job and put your hiring manager down as a reference, it's logical for recruiters to chase him/her down and try to backfill your position.

Nothing for nothing is my motto. If I'm on the phone to a particularly pushy agent, I always politely inform them that I am happy to provide a reference only after an interview is secured.

Most professional agents understand this. The ones who don't, or refuse to, are probably people you don't want to do business with anyway...