₦airaland Forum

ChristoBam:
Let's not start this please. Pull out of the Antony deal and use pellestri or wetin?

You expected him to have stuck to the same ones that failed Ole and Rangnick back to back?

Ajax fans all over especially that Europeanlad on Twitter were crying all over that Antony deal. He was highly rated. He obviously couldn't make the next step.

He bought him cuz at the point he left, he was a highly rated upcoming winger. The type you'd say has the qualities but didn't have the stats.

As for Mount, hasn't the guy been injured most of the season? So what're you on about?

You were the one asking us who should replace Rashford and now you are asking who should replace Antony...If ETH did not play Garnacho, we would be here thinking it's only Rashford we have got as an option on the LW.

Amad is there, even Garnacho is an option as is Rashford...We must not get stuck with players who are performing poorly...

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ChristoBam:
You think he wouldn't make the mistake if he was at United?

This is why I used to go on about structure structure structure, to the extent that guys on here troll me consistently. You can't have the likes of Omar, Ashworth and then make mistakes like Antony.

So if you have clowns in charge and they go on to negotiate a 100m deal for a player like Antony and he ends up being a bum. What can you do?

Except that ETH coached Antony and should have asked the club to pull out of the deal knowing too well that Antony was not worth the money...

Let's even forget about the amount paid and consider the qualities of the players, for a manager who spoke about ending the era of dominance of Liverpool and City, how exactly do players like Mount and Antony help his course...

Englishisamust:
He should not bench him because they bought him for 100million .. thats one of the reason why he will always be a mid coach!!! but werey get chest to bench 80M maguireooo last season.. mumu coach

Another angle...

ChristoBam:
Not everyone has the war chest Pep deals with.

Antony is a cross he'll have to bear till the summer. Same for Harvertz at Arsenal.

Even Klopp can't bench an 100m mistake.

Klopp has not made such a mistake...If it's Nunez you are talking about then, he might not be clinical but he is sure to keep the opposition defenders on their toes for the entirety of a match.

Arteta and ETH have other options so, I don't get why they must stick to the players they brought in who have thus far underperformed.

Ivory Coast should be eliminated today else they'll win it. They have managed to turn things around either by luck or by sheer desire...You don't want to play them going forward...

Mali are no pushovers...They parade a very good team, especially in midfield...

Mrviktor:
Mactominay.


We allowed wolves come into the game..
Case should have scored 2 in the first half.
Bruno also

Rasmus too in the second half.

By the time wolves got the pk.

It should have been 6-1

So scoring the winner in a game where we were 2-0 up as at 65 minute against wolves isn't mind blowing

Lie to yourself that you did not celebrate the goal.

Puntingnoob:
Anthony is the worst signing of the season. Diallo dey bench, ten hag na werey

Most coaches are so stubborn. You sign a player that is not doing well, shit happens, bench him but not ETH and Arteta...

Pep no dey waste time...

afrodoc2:
When i crown a youth player you can take it to the bank.

Meanwhile those who criticize Kobbie after every game won't praise him now. It is a low down dirty shame.

Mrviktor, abeg who scored the winning goal?

Mainoo...I fit mad...

Omo! This club go kee me...

Since 1:29 pm no post for here. Una want abandon una thread like Arsenal dey do before now?

izzou:


[color=royalblue]Come and take this club!

I dash you.[/color]

Club wey dey parade Disasi, Mudryk, Madueke and co?

Baba thank you but I no want wahala this year...

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Reduce the margin

Thank you![/color]

😂😂😂

Very uneventful transfer window...

You look at Doyin Okupe and his reason for leaving the LP and you realise that of truth people just jump ship looking for any vehicle (party) that will provide a platform to drive their political ambition. Otherwise, how will someone who was the erstwhile presidential campaign DG of the party say he left the party because of ideological differences...It goes to show you that regardless of the party at the centre, these politicians will shamelessly jump ship...

BlueRayDick:
Normally I don't like to chook mouth in this kind talk, but on this one I would like to share my opinion. Firstly I agree with izzou on the fact that we need to cultivate the habit of voting out a party if they failed or didn't meet up to our expectation even if it's just to send a message to those people who populate the party at that point in time.

To buttress my point, I will use the Fulani Herdsmen crisis as a case study. Yes I'm aware Fulani Herdsmen-Farmers crisis has been a re-occurring issue in this country, but it never became as serious as it was under Buhari's 8 years. Yes there are rumors that the Fulanis who are terrorizing people across the country were actually foreign mercenaries brought in by APC to force Jonathan's hand if he had plans not to concede defeat in 2015. I won't dwell much on the rumor since there's no way to confirm its genuineness, but the body language of Buhari and APC as a party over the past 8 years has shown they don't have what it takes to stem the tide in the escalation of these Fulani herdsmen attacks.

Yes I'm a Yoruba boy but I served in the North West at a time the entire north viewed Jonathan as a Southerner who didn't care about the boko Haram insecurity issue in the North East that time. The South and the entire North (North west, North Central and North East) agreed it was the right thing to send PDP being led by Jonathan parking because he has not shown enough grit to nip the Boko Haram issue in the bud and they voted the party out. In fact some of those in PDP with Jonathan who agreed with that viewpoint left PDP and moved elsewhere.

Now fast Forward to 2023; Boko Haram did not only refuse to die in the hands of APC, but so many other insecurity issues grew exponentially under them including the Militarization of the Herders-Farmers crisis where herders now carry automatic weapons resorting to killing people and burning down villages/farmlands, different non-state actors in the Southeast and Southwest engaging in kidnapping for ransom/killings and even Banditry in the North West.

It makes absolutely no sense to me that people will know all of these aforementioned facts and then still look at APC as the party that will solve these myriads of problems that grew under their watch for 8 years when majority of those who formed the party are still there . E no just make sense to me.

If membership of a political party is founded on sound ideology then, I'd accept the argument that a party that fails should be voted out but that is not the case. Amaechi, Saraki and other PDP stalwarts jumped ship and were placed in exalted positions in the APC yet they still lampooned the PDP for being a failure, a party they formed a core of its fulcrum...

What happened to the PDP in the lead-up to the 2015 elections where Amechi and his crew decamped should have happened to the APC but the PDP missed the opportunity by handing over its ticket to Atiku. It just did not make sense that Atiku who is a Fulani man would succeed Buhari, another Fulani man, that move was a recipe for disaster and that is what prevented a lot of disillusioned politicians in the APC from leaving the party.

Obi and the LP on the other hand were not an option for these political heaveweights with influence and deep pockets, no thanks to the hate for the Igbo man. Truth be told, most people who did not support Obi in the North did so because of that seed of distrust planted in their minds and secondly, the LP did not have the political machinery to penetrate some of those places which would not have been the case if Obi had flown the flag of the PDP.

So, for me, I think the victory of the APC was more or less made easier by the miscalculations of the opposition...

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Good point.

But i would agree completely with you, if it was the poor, hungry masses were the only ones voting these failures.

But when we have educated, enlightened ones voting a party that failed, what would be the justification for that?

On this thread, people who supported APC here clearly told us here that APC failed, so what is the justification for voting it again? Abi dem collect crumbs?

No guarantee that LP would be better, but the gain would be to checkmate mediocrity, and send thieves to retirement. If LP fails, they already know that o ti lo

If APC had lost, Matawalle will not suddenly decamp and get a position. He will wait for 4 years, at least, assuming the new government doesn't open his file.

We reward mediocrity too much in this country. What we would not accept to run our business, we would gladly apply it to run a country [/color]

For the poor, it is the crumbs and for the educated, it is the ethnoreligious bias.

Roland17:
Our politicians have mastered the populace, them no rate Nigerians at all. There is no consequence for failure in Nigerian politics. Patapata, you take a break for a few to enjoy your loot. If they end up in jail, they are given palatial treatment there and are out before the end of their sentence, maybe forfeit a % of the loot.

We are wailing about APC who have been a disaster, but let me assure that if PDP or LP wins, those same criminals in APC will decamp and join the PDP/ LP or the winning party, so what gives?

Increase fuel to 2000/L, they know Nigerians will only wail but they will buy. Insecurity can meet everyone at their door step except the rich and politicians, nothing will change, they know Nigerians will only wail. This is especially sad for a country with the amount of educated citizens and tertiary institutions littered around the country.

I can go on and on. We need to start from the process that nominates these criminals for elective positions. Until parties begin to present credible and prepared candidates across all levels. Also, Our institutions are extremely weak, I keep saying this.

Thank you so much for the bolded.

Folks keep talking about the APC as if it is a person. 80% of politicians in the APC were once in the PDP so, it has more to do with the class of people we elect to lead us than the party and our knack for not holding elected officials accountable.

Even if LP had won, the national assembly would have frustrated Obi and who's to say most of these crop of failures wouldn't have decamped? It is the sad reality of the society we find ourselves, see Doyin Okupe who was indicted by the anti-graft agency rose to the level of campaign DG all because he has the resources. If Atiku or Obi had won, they'd easily welcome into their fold someone from the APC who was a former governor/senator/minister than elevate a modest party faithful. The system rewards people with no values.

Looking ahead, will the average Nigerian demand good governance instead of asking for crumbs from politicians?

Will the average Nigerian grow above ethnoreligious bias when the law catches up with someone from his/her ethnic group?

When I served in Osun State, I got to meet one of Aregbe's SAs from Ipetumodu in Ife-North LGA. Every other weekend he comes home, and the whole community flocks to his compound, they have to cook from Friday to Sunday when he departs and not just that, he dispenses cash freely. So, where exactly do the people think he gets all that money from? Also, how will they be able to ask questions about the government he works for after eating their cake?

Nigerians first need to set our priorities right. To demand accountability is to reject the crumbs but seemingly, it is a big ask for Nigerians...

Make I just dey watch see whether na today the hammer go drop for ETH head.

MRTA7:
One thing we know for sure is that he doesn't know how to identify talent. This is a fact. He has realised his mistake with Bayindir only after seeing him in training. I won't be surprised if Heaton starts ahead of him.

We get to see him today...

ETH deserves the sack. How you go buy second keeper yet you no want use am even for cup matches...The guy gets paid weekly for training...ETH is a yahoo boy....

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Bowing out when the ovation is loudest?

or staying at the top for a long time?[/color]

For this line in your comment; "Creativity and staying at the top can be mentally draining"

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Respect to Klopp for saying this on time.

Gives the board the opportunity to look for a replacement.

Klopp says he has run out of energy, and cannot be doing the job again and again and again.

Creativity and staying at the top can be mentally draining[/color]

The reason Fergie is my GOAT.

TrebleChamp:
If he came to United instead of City and flopped like he did, some of us go say na the United kill him carrier.

Did he flop? I think he wasn't allowed to nail a starting berth in the team and rightly so because of Rodri...

liveLongNprospa:
Wetin kogi and kebbi dey contribute 😁.

Just playing oo😂

Baba if them catch you for street you go know how far...

The dick measuring no make sense. Akwa Ibom is a very important state, no one can deny that, their contribution to the nation says so.

Every state has their comparative advantage...

Guys, what Disstroy said is not wrong so, I don't get what the fuss is about.

I also understand why a lot of people won't discuss issues peculiar to their state here but rather on Facebook and other platforms. For instance, if I talk about Cross River here, it will be mostly me dishing out info which might not be factually correct because we do not have a lot of Cross Riverians here or people who reside there to engage me. The same can not be said of Lagos...For Rivers, I think it's Wike and his antics that made people start discussing Rivers State.

In all, we should at least hold our state governments accountable in any suitable measure, it just doesn't have to be on these boards...

Amigoss:
Same foool who bragged about the atrocities of Calabar south boys on here having much to say about cultist and insecurity in other states.....

Asides white elephant project and good hospitality in which your baddies are good company for the night,nothing dey your akwa-ibom which you keep making noise about....Highly ranked and competing with almajiri states in out of school children,high on employment and poverty rate,indigenes are flocking to other south south states....Akpan,Rest!!!

Akwa Ibom and Cross River are two different states bro.

Seun and other mods, please go and clean the first page of this topic...

ChristoBam:
The structure we've been shouting about for years is finally being built. And it's looking more impressive than we ever imagined.

*Sir Dave Brailsford as Sports Director for inneos.
* Omar as CEO
* Dan Ashworth as football director
*Hopefully Paul Mitchell as head of recruitment.


If this gets matched with good investments, even average managers will thrive.

I thought Blanc was pencilled down for a role, no?

raumdeuter:
Mine is simple what makes Gill a football CEO and not Woodward given their profile. If football CEO is the difference between successful club and an unsuccessful one

You are narrowing it down to CEO which is not the bone of contention. What folks here clamoured for is a rejig of the management team across the board from the youth set-up to the scouting to the DOF role to the CEO...