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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 2:19pm On Sep 05, 2014
coogar: so which part of what you fonted in red says the new contract would worth less than the existing contract. i just can't stand people who wouldn't admit they are wrong.
That was for 4llerbuntu who came here to drop subliminals...it wasn't directed to you. The man claimed that football transfers involved the sale of a contract, I simply informed him via a wikipedia entry that he was wrong

As you were... grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 2:05pm On Sep 05, 2014
I'm still wondering who this 4llerbuntu fella is....and if shots were fired grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 1:59pm On Sep 05, 2014
4llerbuntu: of course you are done.

you have little knowledge of how player transfers work, and you don't want to know despite being told for free.


if you cannot fathom that what is being 'bought' is actually an assignment of an existing contract which involves a footballer then u cannot grasp the nuances.
Errm excuse me?

since when do people buy contracts for less than its value? u mean if you have a contract worth 500 million with the federal govt you can assign it for 100 million?
Quick Wikipedia perusal shows this:

In professional football, a transfer is the action taken whenever a player under contract moves between clubs. It refers to the transferring of a player's registration from one association football club to another. In general, the players can only be transferred during a transfer window and according to the rules set by a governing body. Usually some sort of compensation is paid for the player's rights, which is known as a transfer fee. When a player moves from one club to another, his old contract is terminated and he negotiates a new one with the club he is moving to, unlike in American, Canadian and Australian sports, where teams essentially trade existing player contracts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_%28association_football%29

Like I said before, a football transfer does NOT involve BUYING A CONTRACT. No Contract is being RE-ASSIGNED....What is sold is the player's ECONOMIC RIGHTS.

The reason I didn't carry on with coogar is because I know he would never concede anyway even if Sep Blatter came down...so why bother?

You on the other hand....Where you from come? and Na only you waka come? undecided

why do you think 3rd party ownership is problematic? there's more than 1 person to convince to give up their rights under a contract and quite often each party wants a premium on their valuation of what will accrue to them over the term of the contract!
and this is even before negotiating with the player to enter into another one with you!
Also irrelevant...see above. Old contract's are passed away, all things have become new...
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 1:00pm On Sep 05, 2014
coogar: etoo was a free agent, rio was a free agent. no transfer fee was paid for any of them before moving to their new clubs. transpose that into garri/yam and let's see how clued up you are.



because you have belatedly seen your flaw. caroll was on £70k per week at liverpool & he signed a 5.5 years contracts - it means the value of caroll's contract at liverpool was around £19m.

west ham paid £16m for him after making his deal permanent. as at that time, caroll's contract was way less than what west ham paid for him. forget the £35m liverpool paid newcastle, they overpaid or overvalued caroll.
I am done.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 12:43pm On Sep 05, 2014
coogar: you are arguing in circles again. in what circumstance can you go to the market & get a sack of garri for free like everton got etoo for free? cheesy grin you are tying yourself in a tortuous knot of logic comparing players in a contract to food commodities - there's a universe of difference.
Everton did not get Eto'o for 'free'. As his economic right's were not held by any club, Everton were free(pun intended grin) to purchase his rights directly from him for whatever period of time stipulated in his contract. Which is why Everton can still SELL Etoo in January.

Like I said, I'm done with the whole Transfer Value Debate
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 12:33pm On Sep 05, 2014
I'm at work man...and I don't really have time to argue so I'll have to end with this:

Talksport list factors that determine transfer value here..including Nationality, Player Personailty and Desperation...factors which cannot be quantified

http://talksport.com/football/lukaku-ps16m-more-sturridge-how-transfer-value-determined-140730104723

A research paper from Hull University suggest that player characteristics (also non-quantifiable) play a part in determining transfer value

http://www.humankinetics.com/acucustom/sitename/Documents/DocumentItem/488.pdf

This website suggests that Iconic status also has a part to play
http://www.arsenalreview.co.uk/2009/07/9-factors-to-determine-football-transfer-value-fee-kaka-ronaldo-adebayor/

I'm done with this debate
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 12:22pm On Sep 05, 2014
coogar: in other words, garri & yam have existing contracts on the shelf & you might get lucky to buy a basket of yam for free cos the contract of the yam ran out? cheesy grin
I have explained that to you already: When a club buys a player, they are buying his economic rights. i.e The rights to make money via playing football in FIFA approved leagues for a finite amount of time which is stipulated between player an club. So when a player signs a 5 year contract with a club, he is effectively signing away his rights to make money from playing football for a period of 5 years. The parent club effectively owns the player's rights for the period of 5 years...and the rights can be traded to another club...which makes it a commodity...just like yam and garri.
but in a circumstance where the player wishes to leave, what happens?
The player is legally powerless because he has no economic rights for the period stipulated in his contract. However the player could choose to be a disruptive element in the dressing room/training ground/pitch forcing the club to assess his VALUE to the team, and choose to sell him at a knockdown price based on their VALUATION of his worth to the team....as we have seen with Tevez and Balotelli

and since the selling club would never sell at a loss, it then means the buying club must be prepared to buy out the existing contract first & foremost before they can even get near the negotiating table. that's the key!
Selling clubs routinely sell at a loss....Liverpool incurred significant losses on Carroll and Downing, and Chelsea agreed to bear part of the cost of Torres's wages simply to get rid of him

rooney could have gone to chelsea last season for £25m to £30m as he had 2 years left on his contract as at then at £200k/week. that's £10m x 2 =£20m. it then means chelsea were willing to add extra £5m to £10m to rooney's contract value if we were willing to sell.
You are confusing yourself about the way transfers work. There are two transactions during a player purchase.

Firstly, The buying club pays the selling club to relinquish control of the player's economic rights

Secondly, The buying club then offers a contract to the player to purchase his economic rights for a another set period of time.

Rooney's contract with Manyoo has no absolutely bearing on the transfer fee negotiations between the two clubs, and only serves as a precedent during negotiation between Rooney's camp and the buying club

you are just going round in circle. if a buying club were to approach rooney in january, how much do you think rooney's transfer fee would be. he's got 3 years left on his £300k/week contract.
I don't know
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 11:47am On Sep 05, 2014
coogar: you are looking at players like they are commodities like yams & garri. it's not so. when you buy a player, you are buying his existing contract & whatever it's on top which are determined by age, influence to the team(goals, points, etc)
Without a doubt, players are commodities exactly like yam and garri...and when a club buys a player in association football, they are NOT buying the player's contract, but the economic rights of a player...hence a purchased player has to negotiate a new contract with the buying club.

Even if a buying club presented an offer for a player that represented the exact monetary amount that had been invested in the player so far, the selling club are not obliged to sell.

The selling club will only sell when they receive an offer that they consider appropriate recompense for the player's economic rights. Of course, the buying club might not consider the seller's asking price to be commensurate with their perceived estimation of the player's economic rights and break off negotiations.

It is the very considerations in the paragraph above that constitute player value .

coogar: rooney has a £15m per year contract he signed in feb this year. any buyer that wants to buy rooney in january next year must have £45m as his starting point cos rooney still has 3 years left on the contract. regardless of the buyer's valuation that rooney is crap - he must have £45m before he can even start negotiating.
Contract worth is more or less irrelevant when it comes to negotiating between two clubs. The only factor involving contracts in player purchase in contract length. The longer the contract is, the less likely the player is to try and force a move.

Why should a buying club offer Manyoo a minimum 45m for Rooney based on the value of his contract? grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 11:10am On Sep 05, 2014
coogar: the market value - to both the buyer & the seller. actually, this is how buy-out clause came to be. it serves as a starting point where the negotiation would start from.



value isn't subjective - price is.....
value is the same everywhere. something is either valuable or valueless. value is the bar, the price can then be over the value or under the value depending on the circumstance.
You have absolutely no idea what the meaning of value is.

Every commodity has a:

1. Value
2. Utility
3. Exchange Value
4. Price

That is economics 101.

The first 3 are subjective, as the seller and buyer have different ideas of how much a commodity is worth to them. A price is merely a means of quantifying value.

Value is subjective because it encompasses emotions like greed and desperation etc, on both sides and cannot be calculated.

CIE attempt to calculate how much a player is worth based on statistics. But the player's value is also decided by how much profit the selling club wants, how easy it is to get an adequate replacement, How the loss of the player affects reputation, how desperate the buyer wants the player, how the purchase of the player affects reputation, etc...

These are factors that cannot be calculated....but yet are integral to assessing the player's value to either seller or buyer.

The article also tries to assess player worth based on the amount invested in him by the selling club...this also a pretty stupidd approach....Beat's headphones reportedly cost only around 3 dollars to produce per unit....but a set of beats headphones are not VALUED at 3 dollars are they?

Despite their calculations,Even CIE admit to estimating rather than stating outright value...because Value by it's very nature is not absolute
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 10:48am On Sep 05, 2014
coogar: it's not rubbish - those are the key parameters in determining the value of a player. jeeeez, if they are rubbish, they won't make the headlines of all major newspapers across europe.
Determining the value of a player to who? The buyer or the seller?

Economic Value is not the same as Price...Value is subjective...especially Exchange Value...Which is why the report is extremely stupidd.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 10:28am On Sep 05, 2014
Purist: If you read the report, you'll see that they included details of the other guys you listed here as well. For instance, Madrid overpaid for Rodriguez too. Barca actually underpaid for Suarez. Chelsea underpaid for Fabregas, etc. CIES calculate using variables like age, contract length, goals, points per match, etc.

You can calculate yourself using their online tool: http://www.football-observatory.com/The-CIES-Football-Observatory-transfer-value
That report is just silly....
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 8:51pm On Sep 04, 2014
This is already the scariest united team in history....

Everyone is scared of the kind of football Ebola that Manyoo has contracted... grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Nihilist: 8:46pm On Sep 04, 2014
Dhellake: Ibime the dribbler
You mean the drimbler?

That small boy just dey use respect tackle uncle Ibime because camera dey on....

That nigga dudu anyhow....you really think some yellow looking mofo can 'drimble' him on a normal day?

Make that boy catch Ibime for field...
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Nihilist: 8:34pm On Sep 04, 2014
And his ball control is sloppy as fvck...his 1st touch when he moved to the left before his backheel would make rapeests everywhere proud...and that was against the pikins dem grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Nihilist: 8:30pm On Sep 04, 2014
Ibime is obviously the one who got tackled...


Both men are fat though...so I'm guessing this was before his career ending injury in London in 2004 grin
Nairaland GeneralRe: German Scientists Prove There Is Life After Death by Nihilist: 11:16pm On Sep 03, 2014
erasokafor: what is wrong with it
1)The study claims to have induced Near Death Experiences in the subjects..that alone is a dead giveaway pardon the pun.
The report even suggested that subjects were rendered 'Clinically Dead for 20 Minutes'. This is a direct contravention of the Nuremberg Code which states "No experiment should be conducted where there is a prior reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur; except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as subjects"

The Nuremberg code by the way, is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation set IN GERMANY as a result of the reports of Nazi human experimentation during WW2

No Government/ University will even sanction or fund such an unethical and ILLEGAL practice...and no insurance company would touch it with a barge pole...so what happens if the subject dies? Who pays compensation? Who is liable for the death? The researcher? The University?

That's Lie Number 1


2) Your article states that:
This controversial process that was repeated on 944 volunteers over that last four years, necessitates a complex mixture of drugs including epinephrine and [size=18pt]dimethyltryptamine[/size], destined to allow the body to survive the state of clinical death and the reanimation process without damage. The body of the subject was then put into a temporary comatic state induced by a mixture of other drugs which had to be filtered by ozone from his blood during the reanimation process 18 minutes later.
As soon as I saw the drug mentioned, I burst into laughter.

See below wikipedia's entry on DMT
N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT or N,N-DMT) is a psychedelic compound of the tryptamine family. Since DMT resembles the basic structure of neurotransmitters, when ingested, DMT is able to cross the human blood-brain-barrier, allowing it to act as a powerful hallucinogenic drug that dramatically affects human consciousness.Depending on the dose and method of administration, its subjective effects can range from short-lived, milder psychedelic states to powerful immersive experiences; these are often described as a total loss of connection to external reality and an experience of encountering indescribable spiritual/alien beings and realms
So basically, the subjects were injected with a known hallucinogenic....and then the researchers recorded their psychedelic experiences as factual evidence of the gateway to another world? grin grin It's like giving a man igbo to smoke and then claiming that his highness is proof that Man is naturally euphoric and relaxed by nature...

That's Lie Number 2

3) A study of this importance and scale would have appeared in peer review papers and journals...None exist.
Beacause it's a Lie...Lie Number 3 to be exact

4) The most important of all the lies...the gargantuan lie of them all....Technische Universität of Berlin is an Engineering based Uni...with NO MEDICAL WING/DDEPARTMENT....so what team of doctors is referred to in the article?

According to Wikipedia

Since 4 April 2005, the TU Berlin has consisted of the following schools:

Humanities
Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Process Sciences and Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Mechanical Engineering and Transport Systems (including Aerospace engineering, Automotive engineering, naval and ocean engineering, and the planning and operation of transport systems)
Planning – Building – Environment (merge of former schools of "Civil Engineering and Applied Geosciences" and "Architecture – Environment – Society"wink
Economics and Management
So unless they had Mechanical Engineers welding combustion engines into the so called subjects, I dont see how TUB could have been involved in such an Experiment...Lie Number 4

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Nairaland GeneralRe: Interactive Thread With Nairaland Owner. Come In With Your Questions! by Nihilist: 9:30pm On Sep 03, 2014
Seun

Why are we still unable to deactivate our accounts?
Nairaland GeneralRe: German Scientists Prove There Is Life After Death by Nihilist: 9:12pm On Sep 03, 2014
So many things wrong with this post...so many lies
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 10:14pm On Sep 02, 2014
A40: Milner, Welbeck too smart? Hahahaha mo daaran
Guardian's description of Milner

Milner's intelligence means he can take on board a hastily imposed game plan and his dedication means he sticks to it. He is perhaps not Mr Right in the confusing scheme of greater, grander domination, but he is an excellent Mr Right Now.

It would be wrong, though, to paint Milner as a bloodless figure, some clanking iron man emerging from the sea with a tractor in each fist. In fact he has two qualities often missing in English footballers, tactical intelligence and physical robustness. This is a man who has played more than 500 professional matches at the age of 26
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2012/jun/22/euro-2012-james-milner-england
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 9:53pm On Sep 02, 2014
The fans, in particular, have never really warmed to Sturridge since he moved to London on a free transfer from Manchester City back in 2009. His individual style of play, a combination of trickery and excellent footwork, is not always favoured by the Chelsea supporters. Mix in his tendency to shoot from range rather than pick out a teammate, and Sturridge is usually the man to blame if the West Londoners fail to take their chances in front of goal.

In football, any player that possesses a high level of confidence in their ability is sometimes prone to becoming over confident. Take Zlatan Ibrahimovic as an example. The Swede is a huge asset to Paris Saint-Germain and his country Sweden, but sometimes his belief in his own ability is high enough to alienate his teammates and cause unrest in the squad. This isn't so much the case with Sturridge, but his focus of scoring individual goals as opposed to team goals could be a reason as to why his chances have been limited on Kings Road.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1462692-why-signing-daniel-sturridge-from-chelsea-is-a-risky-move-for-liverpool
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 9:52pm On Sep 02, 2014
Dhellake: Sturiddge was also starting in big domestic and European games, he even won us some big games, as much as he was played out of position, he got into double figures for us, what more?? Welbeck can't be selfish when he can't even dribble, he can't even think out of the box, he plays football the raw way, that's not intelligence, compare their goals, their movements and you would know who is more intelligent
I'm not sure you understand football yourself.... close control and off the ball movement are functions of technique and instinct respectively....

Intelligence is understanding how to function optimally in an overall tactical system. Sturridge has one playstyle and he's either reluctant or unable to adapt\change it even to his team's detriment....The cleverest players are the ones who can adapt their play in different roles/positions...and they often suffer for it because the most prolific strikers are usually one-minded and unable to see the whole picture...

Mata, Silva, Rooney, Welbeck, Milner have all been pushed out of position often because they're too smart for their own good
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 9:32pm On Sep 02, 2014
afrodoc2: You have to look at the context, why won't Sturridge have played matches that season? He was competing with Darius Vassell, Benjani,and Valeri Bojinov cheesy
Welbeck was competing with Rooney,Tevez,Berbatov,Cristiano Ronaldo and Louis Saha shocked

Tell me who would get more opportunities?
What happened this Nigga sef?

The great Benjani of Pompey....e no get any nightclub for Portsmouth\Bristol wey the man no dey rock back in the day
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 9:29pm On Sep 02, 2014
A40: You this ret@rded phaggot again?? If you don't have anything intelligent to say why not do humanity a favor and asphyxiate yourself
A40 is that all? Come on man...you can come harder than this na ? angry
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 9:26pm On Sep 02, 2014
Dhellake: Forget about national team, Bernard plays for Brazil while Coutinho doesn't, as at 08/09 season, Sturridge was already starting league games, he played 16 games, scored 4, 3assists, Scored 8 goals in 12 while on loan at Bolton, He dribbles better, obviously has more football intelligence than Welbeck, how then was Welbeck a better"TALENT"??
You fvcked up when you claimed Sturridge had more football intelligence than Welbeck.

Most Chelsea fans I know will tell you Sturridge was extremely wasteful on the flanks, reluctant to track back, trying stuppid skills were a pass would suffice ultimately giving away possesion....and I dont blame him...he is a natural striker...and the best strikers are naturally selfish

Welbeck on the other hand, understood the game well...perhaps too well...and that's the reason why he was starting at the biggest club in the UK in some of the biggest games domestically and in Europe.

He ended up suffering for his versatility by displaying his intelligence...Hodgson and Ferguson knew that he understood thier tactics and would play to the letter...unlike Sturridge who played like a 9 even when he was on the wing....

Sturridge's stubborness paid off in the end....but Welbeck has always been miles ahead of Sturridge in the intelligence category
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 9:06pm On Sep 02, 2014
PietroRico: this illiterate didn't see was there. Smh.
Shots fired grin grin grin

This one na confam shot o...shakabula...No pishaun cheesy
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 8:57pm On Sep 02, 2014
Dhellake: Can you expantiate what you mean by a better talent??
They were both strikers who were played out of position at their clubs at the time...but Welbeck was already an established member of the England squad before Sturridge's move to Liverpool.

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