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SirJeffry:
And some people still think one brown-teethed abbokk1 deserve NFF president more than this soccer patriot Ifeanyi Uba.

Alas! Alhaji Amaju Pinnick should be removed ba?!

Guess you are confused by the name..... it's Amaju not Ahmadu!

Lana1:
1. I dont watch my matches under Canopies.

2. I dont hope already substituted players come back on the pitch to score winning goals.

3. I dont talk shît all over the thread.

4. I'm a United fan.


So i dont know which fast-spreading infection u are talking about. Unless u're the one that is sick sha

You shouldn't have taken it too personal?! Simple joke and you bite back so hard!

Habaa!!!

"Every player is working hard and performing well, but every match is a match and I analyse the opponent and my team.

"I try to choose the best players and I know that nothing can change the frustration of the players that are not selected to play. But the reality is they all know they belong to a group of 23. To belong to that group, you must be a really good player, and they all are.

"At this moment, they feel the situation because it’s one match a week but September is around the corner and, in September, everybody is playing."


- José Mourinho

Diademk07:
Na people dey mention me na! At least if na better people, I go try reason small but not an attention seeking dolt.

But at this rate..... the thread will reach 4000 pages before next Weekend, with at least nothing less down 800 Pages filled up with your arguments!

Diademk07:
I'm just allergic to stupidity, especially someone trying to look smart. The bittch was even seeking Ramdeuter attention. Lol!

Ain't you tired at all?! At least pity your Fingers heh! Let those tiny things rest for few minutes!

^^^^^^^




Whoever does Diademk07 like that is really a wicked Person!

He should have been taken to Osun Osogbo Festival for a spiritual Bath!

When is he gonna gets tired and log off for goodness sake?!

Diademk07:
I'm not disputing the fact that Rojo played as a CB but he also had his time at the fullback role and he was shite there.

Tony V has been converted tey tey, so I don't get the magic of Mourinho there.

I've already made it clear nah! JM prefers Specialists, thus Tony V would only play as a Fullback..... unlike LVG who believes in utility Players!

ChristineC:
Shut up sir. My statement is pretty clear. A simple search can help you, don't be lazy. Should you substitute spread of cancerous cells to your spine to mean spine cancer or whatever you conjured inside your dead-cell filled cranium, I cannot assist you any further.
Like Raumdeuter told someone, I am not responsible for what you comprehend only what I write.
Get lost, Sir
Yours Faithfully,
ChristineC.

In Shao Khan Voice: Fatality!

Diademk07:
Did you really watch us play last season?

The same way you implied that Rojo is a better LB than CB and that Van gaal kept using him as CB.

You dey really confuse me o.

Chill!

He did play as Right Back under LVG but you know with the Mr. Philosopher nothing is impossible!

This is the same Manager that played Young a a Striker, hence I wouldn't be surprised if he plays Tony V as a CB!

JM has made it clear that he needs Specialists not utility Players! ATM, Tony V is a right back Specialist!

Rojo played as CB and LB under LVG. You can check out for facts simply by using Google, if you are indeed confused!

afrodoc2:
I am very happy with Valencia as RB, he is the best in the club and i am not sure we will easily get anyone better. However he should steer clear of the RW position where he is limited because of his predictability and lack of guile. He has found his natural position.

JM has found a befitting Role for him. I'm kinda sure he's not gonna be played as RW throughout this Season, cos we have Mata, Micki and Lingard fighting for it!

JM should also train Mensah to be his (2nd) Backup, while Dermian serves as the main Backup!

This Nigga never tired of Argument?! Ain't he has a work to do at all?! Seems his Phone is always on charging mode!


Free this Nigga, and let's enjoy better football GISTS on the Thread!

dopeJemi:
What was your old moniker?

Curiosity at its peak! You can't hold it any longer!
Everyone keeps saying it's Dadehmola........
how sure are they?!
Though it's indisputable that the Moniker is a Regular on this Thread, but connecting it to Dadehmola seems somehow!
Perhaps it's actually belongs to him! I hope he can identify himself and tell us his Old Moniker for Curiosity sake!

Diademk07:
Why you dey tag me in every post of yours na? Haba!

Cos you are simply a troublesome Troll!

Seun should help calling on Lalasticlala to do the needful nah!!!

Let Every Nigerian sees and understands the perception of NDA and their Struggles outside the Country and the Continent at Large!

This Post is not on FP yet?! Lalasticlala..... why?! Are you on Holiday?!

Lana1..... why?!
This is the reason we should get rid of Diademk07 on this thread simply by quarantined him!

Seems his infection is fast-spreading, and needs to be contained now! Smalling better on the Ball than Bailly?!

Guess a certain Fan of Moyes is seeing how the best Manager to ever manage United after Fergie is turning Stadium of Light to Stadium of Darkness?!

The same way he turned Old Trafford from Theatre of Dream to Theatre of Nightmare!

Diademk07 should learn from this..... the gap between Jose Mourinho and LVG is wide! He should cease fire like the NDA and save Thread's Pipelines from bombing!

SHAW'S JOURNEY: FROM SAINTS TO THE DEVILS

August, 2012. London and Great Britain are basking in the glory of an incredible Olympic Games, Sir Alex Ferguson is embarking on what would turn out to be his final season as United boss and, across the city at the Etihad Stadium, Luke Shaw is enjoying his first taste of the Premier League after being named as a substitute for Southampton’s match at Manchester City.

Shaw is yet another exciting prospect honed and developed within Saints’ famed Academy ranks which spawned Gareth Bale, Theo Walcott, Adam Lallana and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain to name but a few. The man himself is wracked with nerves, but buzzing with excitement as he watches on from the bench. 

Now, as we sit chatting at the Aon Training Complex about that game, he says he can still remember everything about the experience, and recalls with delight the day he made his first Premier League start, some months later against Swansea City in November 2012, and became the youngest player at the time to begin a top-flight match.

“I couldn’t believe it!” he beams, when he thinks back to being named on the bench to face City, following Southampton’s promotion back to the highest level. “A few weeks and months before, I’d been sat watching the Premier League on TV thinking I want to be playing in that one day. I remember I was on the bench a couple of times before I actually played and I was so nervous, even just being sat with the subs. The first game was City away and then I was on the bench again for the next home game [against Wigan] and the left-back at that time, Danny Fox, got injured in the first couple of minutes. I was so scared as I thought I’d be coming on! [Laughs] But I thought to myself ‘this is my chance.’

“It didn’t happen then but I remember we went away a couple of days before the Swansea game because, at the time, we weren’t getting too many good results and we needed something to change. I knew I was starting and I found it hard to sleep because I was so nervous and so excited at the same time. I didn’t tell anyone, not even my mum, until the day of the match as I think my family would have been just as nervous as me. It went really well though, it was a draw and I haven’t looked back since.”

He certainly hasn’t. Indeed, fast forward four years from that Manchester City match to the exact same day - 19 August - and Shaw is back in Manchester, making a welcome and successful return to Premier League action at Old Trafford this time, against his former club, following last season’s well-documented injury lay-off. 

“I’m feeling fit and I’m just looking forward,” he declares. “My main aim this season is to stay fit, play as many games as possible and win trophies. With the squad we have and the manager we’ve got, we should be winning trophies this season. That’s our aim.”

Aiming high is always what Shaw has strived for. And while determination, talent and hard work are key, the 21-year-old cites enjoyment as a vital part of the attitude needed to succeed at a club like United.

“For me, coming up through the ranks, the main thing was to always make sure I enjoyed myself whenever I went out onto the pitch,” he says. “Every game I play, every training session I’m involved in and even every moment around the training ground, you just have to enjoy it because I'm one of the lucky few who get to do this. I can imagine there are a lot of people that wish they were in my position right now or anyone’s position in the changing room, so it’s important to just enjoy every minute of it.”

Shaw admits there were times as a teenager when reaching the highest level seemed like a distant dream, but he learnt the valuable lesson of grasping any opportunity that came his way.

“When I was about 15 I wasn’t getting in the team at Southampton and was often on the bench for the Under-16s. I remember getting a chance when one player got injured. It was the one chance I got and I took it and it promoted me into the starting XI and that continued to the first team. When I look back, the most important thing for me was to take my chance, and when I got it, thankfully I did.”

But how does Luke Shaw then, compare to Luke Shaw now? “When I was younger, I used to think I was slow! [Laughs] I can’t even remember if I was quick or not – but I think I’ve got quicker and stronger and built up more confidence over the years,” he declares. “I’m still the same lad I was when I was younger, nothing too much has changed - apart from on the pitch.”

That it has. In June 2014, he became the most expensive teenager in world football (his team-mate Anthony Martial took over that mantle last year when he arrived at United) after making the multi-million pound switch to Old Trafford. “When I first came I was like: ‘Wow, it is as big as everyone says’ and I’ve always said about going on tour and seeing the amount of fans we have across the world, it was so surprising and amazing. I’d never experienced tours like that.”

He describes joining United as “the biggest step up you can probably make” but it’s a club he feels completely at home with, and he’s part of a squad that, he believes, can achieve big things under Jose Mourinho.

“It’s a fresh start with the new manager, he has come in and set his tone and brought in so many good players that have benefited our squad. He’s won so many trophies at so many different clubs and he’s going to bring that success into our club, so hopefully we can win many trophies with him as our manager,” he adds. “Everyone is excited and training hard. We’re just focused on winning every game and, with the squad we have, I don’t see why we can’t. Everyone is together in the changing room which is very important for a club to be successful. There are no distances between the age groups with the young players sticking with each other or the older players just being with each other. Everyone gets on with each other.”

Mourinho himself echoed those sentiments after last week’s opening-day victory at Bournemouth and also revealed the impact Zlatan Ibrahimovic has had on Shaw and co. "The first thing I can tell you is that at his table for breakfast, and for meals, he is surrounded by the young ones, the kids. Luke Shaw, Marcus Rashford, these are the guys who are with him at the table. He knows what he can be for them.”

Ask Shaw what kind of person the Swedish striker is and his face lights up. “He’s funny. He’s one of the nicest guys as well and he has a lot of stories that we like to hear; the way he tells them is so funny! [Laughs] We get on really well with him. It’s not like he’s just sat with the youngsters though, we all sit together and, honestly, listening to his stories is so good!”

Ibrahimovic has kicked off his United career with goals aplenty and finding the net is something that Shaw is on a mission to complete, with a first Reds goal still proving elusive - even if his near miss in Wayne Rooney's Testimonial against Everton suggests it may not be too far away.

“The goal is always on my mind whenever I play!” jokes the defender. Has he got a celebration ready or been working with Jesse Lingard on a ‘dab’ version? “No, I’ll stay away from Jesse with that celebration - he’s got his new friend [Paul Pogba] in to do that! I haven’t thought about any celebrations, I don’t know what I’ll do in that moment – I’ll probably jump into the crowd but we’ll see.”

For now, Shaw is focused on helping the Reds jump ahead in the league table, and two wins from two, with five goals scored, hasn’t been a bad way to kick things off.

AikayDaWrapper:
Too early to say this.

If he can keep up this level of performance come the end of the season then the statement will be justifiable.

I hope he does.

Take it as words of encouragement! This may boost his morale and ability to deliver more actions outstandingly!

It's not a breaking News to some of us though - cos we know NDA ain't Freedom Fighters, rather Oil Rebels!

They are not agitating for the betterment and Developments of the Region, rather for the Control of OUR OYEL!

The Ijaw ethnic people have long dominated oil rebel groups operating in the area, though experts say militants from other communities have also set up new branches.

Since the start of the year, the NDA has carried out a string of devastating attacks on Nigeria's oil pipelines and facilities.

Oil majors including Shell, Exxon, Chevron, Eni and the state-run oil group NNPC have all been targeted this year.

The attacks have reduced Nigeria's output by a third, hammering government revenue at a time of low global oil prices.

The oil sector accounts for 90 percent of the nation's foreign exchange earnings and 70 percent of government revenue.

The NDA has claimed to seek a fairer share of Nigeria's oil wealth for residents of the region as well as self-determination and political autonomy.


https://nz.news.yahoo.com/world/a/32400554/nigeria-oil-rebels-niger-delta-avengers-announce-ceasefire/#page1

Cc Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Arsenal Fans like Spy360, Pataki and Co keep hating on Pogba while their Club Legend - Henry - Dabbing with him!

“I know him and have always liked the way he plays.

“I know he’s not a normal right-back because he used to play as a winger, but I think that, right now, he is the best right-back in the world, maybe with Dani Alves, because I like Dani Alves a lot. I think Antonio is one of the best right-backs in the world.

“When you have a right-back who is quick to defend and he is crossing maybe six or seven times a game, always or almost always successfully, then he understands the football. When I have the ball, I know that Antonio’s always ready to receive it, always to give you one solution.

“I think he’s going to be very important this season. He has already been very important for the club, he has already been here eight years, but I think I told you at the end of the last season something good is being cooked and everyone wants to be part of that.”


- Ander Herrera

Whatever amount is to be spent now, prospecting for oil in the north, should, in my opinion, be considered a bargain.
I Just like football does to Nigerians in general, President Buhari’s last week directive to the NNPC to commence oil exploration activities in the Benue Trough, in addition to his earlier order to the corporation to re-ignite its search for oil in both the Chad Basin and the Kolmani River area following the reported discovery of hydrocarbons by Shell in the area, has since concentrated the attention of critical segments of the Nigerian society. The directive has seen literally all the politico-cultural divides in the country as well as relevant professionals, weigh in, for or against. Not surprisingly, the 19 northern state governors have been sufficiently optimistic about oil production in the region that they have since hired a British firm through the auspices of their regional development company, the Northern Nigeria Development Company, to embark on oil exploration activities.
Quite understandably too, interventions have been both politically and economically driven. To each of the Ijaw Youth Monitoring and development Group and the Urhobo Monitoring Development Group, the directive is ill-motivated, driven, as Kinsley Oberuruaria of the latter organisation said, by a strong desire ‘to annihilate the people of the region’ While Eric Omaleof the Ijaw Youth Council described it as a good initiative, he had no doubts whatever that the timing is wrong because of the prevailing situation in the oil industry worldwide, makes it ill advised. For that reason, according to him, the venture is economically unwise. While Muhammad Ibrahim, the National Publicity Secretary of the Arewa Consultative Forum, claimed complete ignorance of the directive, the Afenifere, whose two chieftains differed in their reactions, was more forthcoming. For Chief Seinde Arogbofa, Secretary-General of the highly regarded Pan-Yoruba Socio-cultural organisation, it is a move in the right direction as it is in accord with restructuring which the group has canvassed, like forever. Said he: “There is nothing wrong if they find oil in the north. That is why we are calling for restructuring. If that is Buhari’s own restructuring agenda, it is okay.” But not for the  organisation’s usually combative spokesperson, Yinka Odumakin, who sees it as a waste. Why? Because, 58 years  ago this year, a colonial Secretary of state divined that as a result of the north’s “ fears and dislike for the more educated southerners, if they were not economically bound to the federation, they would be glad to be quit of it.”  This, he concluded: “may explain the desperate search for oil in the north at a time oil is becoming worthless.”
Much more than the political commentary, I am, however, more enthused by the more nuanced interventions by the oil, financial and economic professionals who weighed in and spoke to the issues involved. For Dolapo Oni, Head of Energy Research, Ecobank Capital, the move must have been informed by the need to reduce the reliance on the Niger Delta with a view to reducing the country’s vulnerability to attacks in the region. Good as it is, the ideal model, he says, should have been a concession, emphasising that NNPC could gather data and allow companies to do their own search. But, he continued, it may not be the best of times if we are dedicating the NNPC’s scarce resources to going beyond the 2D and 3D.”
Abdullahi Bukar of Uquo Gas Field Development described the renewed efforts towards exploring for oil in the Benue Trough and Chad Basin as a very good development, hoping that ”a well-thought-out policy will be put in place because anything that will increase Nigeria’s oil and gas reserves is very welcome.” To Johnson Chukwu, CEO, Cowry Asset Management Limited, “the effort to diversify the nation’s oil and gas production is a good move, depending on the level of resources being committed to it.”
And as is usual on the ekitipanupo  web portal, the subject generated considerable interest, attracting as at the time of writing this, not less than 25 posts. One of them, by a university lecturer, was targeted at the objections from those who spoke for the Niger-Delta region.  According to Dr Eniola, the Ijaw Youth Council that could not call their rampaging youths to order lacks the moral right to talk about how to diversify an economy they are trying everything to cripple. If the monies realised from cocoa and groundnut had not gone towards building the infrastructure for oil exploration in the Niger Delta, where will Nigeria be today? Continuing, he   admonished the Ijaw  Youth  Council to busy itself with  unravelling why the  six years of Ijaw presidency,  with the  billions of dollars in appropriations through duplicated ministries and intervention agencies, have not impacted on the ordinary Ijaw man nor on the entire Niger –Delta area. What he believes should now concentrate the mind of the average  Ijaw  person is the decimation of their area by Niger Delta sons and daughters, even elders,  who collected huge amounts of money in the name of  Niger Delta development but simply refused to invest in their homeland.
If that was political commentary, not so Goke Omidiran, a geologist who commented as follows: “This is one development agenda that may have economic benefits for the nation.  I have been somewhat involved in my time in oil and gas exploration in Nigeria, including the Chad Basin.  Let me say first, of all, that this directive is  within  the president’s  powers and may be applauded if those who will implement  it would use their best business judgment to determine what steps to take and how far to go to achieve the goal. The advantage of finding oil is enormous when we think of what it promises – especially, its political implications on one hand and its economic benefits on the other.”  He would like to suggest the inclusion of the following processes:
1) NNPC should take the road of opening bids for oil prospecting licences (OPL) from interested and capable parties, both local and international,
2) NNPC should provide the exploration companies with the enabling environment including tax holidays and hefty rebates in area of customs and exercise and other relevant expenses.
3) Instead of basing exploration activities in the subject areas on the same mindset as the Akata-Agbada Formation sequencing prevalent in the Niger Delta basin, new models should be developed to determine the oil and gas trapping mechanism rather than rely on the Niger Delta model.
4) Finally, NNPC and the federal government must know when to pull the plug on the effort, should it end up  showing no prospects.
In concluding, I would like to say that I see the directive as a win-win situation. I believe that any attempt directed at increasing our oil resources is worth the while since we are not obliged to sell the end product only as crude which would involve so much money building a lengthy pipeline infrastructure from the north to the sea ports located in the south. It can therefore jump start our manufacture of the many byproducts as NNPC did when I was personally buying polypropylene from them with Ms Nzeribe as the manager in charge. Geo-politically, I strongly believe that discovering oil in commercial quantities in the north will create for the country, a ‘balance of terror’,  as a greater part of the   agitations/criminalities in the Niger-Delta area are fuelled  solely by the availability of oil in the region. It is the reason, for instance, why Nigeria no longer has as much as a third of the electricity generating capacity it had at the beginning of the present administration. Those worried about the huge funding exploration in the north would involve should   equally  think  of the huge resources that  would be required to resuscitate the oil  facilities bombed out of existence by those avenging political defeat in addition to the colossal   amount of money that will go into the Ogoni land clean up, for instance. It should also be of some moment that in the case of everybody going his/her different ways, which we can only pray God forbid, a landlocked  north, with no oil source of its own, can be trusted to fight with everything until all oil infrastructure in the Niger Delta becomes history. Whoever has seen what has become of Southern Sudan would never wish that for our dear country. Whatever amount is to be spent now, prospecting for oil in the north, should, in my opinion, be considered a bargain. However, seized, as we all are, of  NNPC’S  historic, endemic corruption and profligacy, the  president  must ensure that more than an eagle eye is trained on the expenses on this huge and  open-ended  national  assignment.


http://linkis.com/thenationonlineng.net/03Lo2

dunkem21:
Shebi, I dey tell people say no be Atiku..

I know the person

Guess the Person you know is not TINUBU?! The PDP nightmare since 1999?!

PDP is indeed dead and buried! They keep blaming others for their Woes! Who brought Sheriff to the Party?! Is he imposed on them by PMB or Atiku?!

Dokpesi, George have spoken a bitter Truth! Wike and Fayose are the Agents of Doom! They are the one causing rancor and unsettling the Party!

They begged and brought Sheriff into the Party for their selfish Interest and wanted to dumb him after he's been used!

FFK is only foaming in the Mouth because of the corruption cases against him! He's simply using the Media to turnaround the allegations against him to witch-hunting!

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Sunday denied media reports linking him to the lingering leadership crisis in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Atiku while reacting to reports in a national daily, not LEADERSHIP, said, I have no hands in PDP crisis.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain debunked the purported report in a tweet post via the Story Media Office handle @AtikuOrg.

http://leadership.ng/news/547088/i-have-no-hands-in-pdp-crisis-atiku

Fellaini was seeing as a rubbish Player last season under LVG, but with just a Phone Call from JM..... he's transforming to a Player to watch-out for this Season!

The Hatred for JM is kinda funny to think about ATM. He has won us Matches, his Signings are delivering, what else are we asking for?!

Those who are engaging him in a fruitless argument or discourse really get time! This is someone who is as stubborn as his Mentor (LVG), and you expect him to see light?!

I'm perplexed that Dudes could sacrifice "Bedtime" for a discourse with Diademk07!

No wonder NDA declares Ceasefire and ready for Negotiation.

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elampiro:
And who is calling for an argument? I simply stated my opinion.

Don't be annoyed! I'm kinda scared of being bombarded with facts, figures and illustrations!

elampiro:
I think sooner, Smalling is going to be chosen ahead of him permanently. Smalling was unlucky not to start the season.

I don't have the appetite of engaging in a lengthy argument like Diademk07 and the likes..... we shall all live to enjoy the Season to the end and beyond!

Except Blind loses form or gets injured, his position is sealed in the starting Lineup!