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akwesenana:
Tomorrow, I'll be there to shame y'all. (as usual)

Your problem is comprehension and that's why you keep misrepresenting the opinions of others here.

I don't trust our guys when we have games in hand...Liverpool are 1 point behind.

Absuchat:
Me send 2500 to a Nigerian girl?
Unless the Aboki that prepares suya opposite my house no dey again.
Suya 1500 and two bottles of Trophy

Hehehe

odizeey:
Till Liverpool buys him and we start admiring him. Hahahaha.

Typical of some of the fans here...

Mac Allister is a very good player.

Prectega:
A team vying for the premier league title need to move away from De gea.

Do you know how many times he played high balls directly to the opponent?.

Let us be fair in our criticism. De Gea attempted to pass from the back and we were almost punished for it due to a very poor touch from AWB. After the incident, De Gea started hoofing balls.

As much as I agree De Gea has to improve, we currently do not have the players in front of the goalie to perfectly play from the back.

Nobody hates ETH, some of us argued on his side here before he was appointed so, when next you see me asking questions about where we are headed you should think twice before implying I'm hating or demanding too much...

The team out there tonight have the quality to do much better. Take a cue from Villa with Gerard and Villa with 'Good ebening' as coach.

ETH should have us playing better, he is not Ole FFS!

Bruno can be annoying sometimes.

Wagwanbrethren:
Yesterday na Ukraine, today na US! 🤣
The same thing Russia is accusing Uncle Sam of is what they've been doing in Ukraine, so wetin come be the noise? 🤷‍♂️

Even if this was US doing,then the assassination on Putin is somewhat justifiable since Putin attacked Ukraine and the US didn't attack Russia.

In March 2014, Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine. This was a direct violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and it posed a threat to the international community. The US as a member of the international community had a responsibility to respond.

However, the US did not attack Russia in response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. I will say this was a mistake. Well,they had their reasons.
Putin took advantage of the US's inaction and he continued to violate Ukraine's sovereignty. In addition, he began to meddle in the US elections, which posed a threat to the US's democracy.
So, Putin and Russia with em wailers should shut their damned mouth! 😏

Can you please provide verifiable and factual evidence that points to Russia meddling in the internal affairs of the US?

As for the invasion of Ukraine, no global superpower will entertain the presence of her enemies around her. America will invade Mexico or Canada if they gave approval for Russia to establish military bases in their sovereign territories . Sudan's problems away from their minor in-house issues started since their government gave approval to Russia to establish a military base in their country

buygala:
Idris Abdulkarim is just like Sowore.. Not knowing the difference between being silly and being an activist... After he was caught begging Keyamo for favors, he had to go on a shameful rest for a while..

As much as I hate Buhari, I prefer him to that miscreant called Sowore who is still doing Student Union Aluta brand of politics at past 50 years of age

As for Tony Tetula, he ran out of steam after that his "My car" song..

ArtQuake's 'Alanta' song ruled the naija airwaves around 2007-2009....and he kept on remixing it until we all got tired of him and his remixes


All in all, it's a bit comical seeing old guys like Idris and Tony still doing the childish "wosup nigga" kind of dressing....These two have refused refused to admit to themselves that that are now Grandpa materials and should stop dressing like drugged-up Juveniles.

In a club, should they be all suits and ties?

How does the likes of Snoop, Eminem, The Game and co dey dress?

Unlimited22:
Guys......I finally did this thing...


I promise it's not AI generated🙃🙃

A debut publication, carefully curated from a raft of stories and poems.

Links coming soon...

Congratulations.

mrvitalis:
Why should anyone be left behind

You did execution by state of origin n Igbos that are minorities are left behind ....while North that are majority are not left behind

If it's through Igbos should just independently get our brothers out of Sudan even if it means us contributing

Ok hope Allen is seeing the people he wants to help

Are you on ground?

cjudy:
Which Russia? Russia that couldn’t defeat Ikorodu Ukraine within one year. Shey Finland have join NATO, make Russia test their power there na and see wonder from 32 Nations

You are not updated.

SARSCoV2:
Even after a year, Russia is still struggling with Ukraine.

A war that was tipped to last just 2 weeks 🤣😆

Make no mistake, Russia is taking on the whole of NATO.

masseratti:
From where oga Sowore? Where is the money to pay over bloated Civil service on this country?

You people act like it is not in this same country we see politicians and civil servants stealing billions of Naira and in some cases dollars.

ChristineC:
how many players-in are you expecting this summer?

Depends on the number of departures else we need at least 5 players. A CF, a DM, a CM, a RCB (Varane is injury prone) and a LB (Shaw can deputize for Lisandro or play LB)...I will keep AWB and Dalot as RWBs.

LostMyZeal:
That's usually the part I no dey like think about. You know why? The owners who should avail the funds aren't serious.

I won't be surprised at all if we don't buy more than 3 players this coming TW. It's like a ritual in this club to have a dull TW.

We can't catch up to city overnight; it's a gradual thing because we're in a rebuild. The scary thing is a typical rebuild involves clearing out unwanted players and bringing in players that fit in.

But at what pace can one rebuild if a club takes forever to clear out players, takes forever to acquire players and also has a useless scouting system?

These are the issues. We should take our eyes off City right now and trust the process

Won't be shocked if ETH rebuild no reach Arteta own cos of lack of support from our stupid club

ETH should resign if the club does not match his ambition else he'll share in the blame.

Talking about support to buy players, I will say the owners have polished the cash but we have been very irresponsible in the market making rash decisions time after time. Let's stop overpaying for players and sign players that fit a defined pattern of play. Talking about pattern of play, do we even have a recognizable pattern set?

LostMyZeal:
Takeaways

Sancho is improving

Dalot is recovering his old form

ETH might convert Shaw and make the CB position permanent for him.

Sabitzer is more suited to the hole

Eriksen and Rashford are just there

Then finally, ETH surpassed expectations

I see some of you blaming and threatening, implying that Carabao ain't shi*t

Yeah, you might be right. But be fair in your assessment and think about where we're coming from

I know it doesn't hurt to have expectations, but y'all need to cut ETH some slack

The players did very well today, but who knows what they'll serve us in the next game?

It'd be good to see them chasing every team down just like they did today.

If they play City like this at the finals, then there's something to be hopeful about.

Baba if we must improve, we must look at what we are up against to assess if we are making progress...At this rate, unless we have a flawless summer of transfers-in we won't pose a threat to City.

If that was Caesemiro, It is a red. Skipp is lucky.

We make teams look better than they are because we can not maintain the intensity we use to start games...

Bombblacks:
This applies to all top clubs.

No, it doesn't.

Bayern, Madrid, Arsenal, and others sign players who are not superstars in most cases and they go ahead to do well.

I know what I am saying. I mentioned Danny Ings here 3-4 years ago and guys here laughed off the signing but this same club signed Ighalo, Cavani etc. In the same period, Ings scored more goals compared to the ones we got.

It's less risky to sign 2 players for 50m each than a single player for 100m.

The first time I heard of Caicedo he was being linked to Manchester United but as usual, the fans wanted established footballers and will always pressure the board to sign established players. Now, the same fans want the board to go after Caicedo and pay a huge fee.

If anyone had dared mentioned Bruno Guimaraes here when he played in France, people would have written him off because he plays in the French league.

The club should not pay above 50m for any player and should go after players who are excellent on the ball and have high work rate.

CapitalCee:
Am I the only one that is not comfortable with the signing of Kane at this stage of his Career? We need a striker that is Under-25. If we have the Qataris we can sign Kane and another young striker, because Kane for me has the Sanchez-vibes and Lukaku-to-Chelsea vibe written all over it

👌

eph12:
I'm afraid we will continue to struggle unless we can get a forward and midfield line up that can play with high intensity for 90 minutes. Everyone presses as a unit and show up for passes, not what most of our players are currently offering

I didn't even see this comment before replying to Doc. This is the main issue I am on about.

afrodoc2:
On paper our midfield should be better than Brighton's and i agree that we should be performing better than what we are seeing, but you also have to consider the actual characteristics of the players.

Only Bruno out of our 3 midfielders can press in a manner approaching that of his Brighton counterpart. Both Case and Eriksen at this stage in their careers can never press the way Caicedo and the other Brighton midfielders do.

None of our 3 midfielders can progress the ball through midfield with runs. Casemiro and Eriksen don't have the legs and Bruno does it mainly in the open field on the counter. He doesn't have the technique to consistently dribble through a set midfield. Fred and McTom that can do it with pace (not technique) are horrendous in so many other things.

So what we have are midfielders that have no solution once the passing lanes are blocked unlike Caicedo, McAllister, Bernardo Silva, Partey, Gundogan etc. that can break a press or even settled midfield by running with the ball.

We desperately need a proper no8 who can send Eriksen to the bench and enable us to offload McTom and/or Fred finally.

For this specific game however i think it was more because our players didn't have the gas tank to step up to Spurs partially because of our 120 mins game a few days earlier. ETH still struggles with his substitutions though.

You have made very good points but on the whole, it points to a lack of proper game management from the coaches. They should have locked up shop in the second half rather than sit and watch Spurs continually play through us.

Another thing I have noticed is that our players do not take up the right positions in games and that makes it practically impossible for us to retain the ball. You watch City other top teams and it is different, the player on the ball almost always has like 2-3 passing options around him that's because they move into space to receive the ball but our players hardly do that save for a few. You'll see your teammate being closed down but instead of running into space to receive the ball they hide behind the opponents.

The lack of movement and intensity characterized our play under Ole and we still haven't showed considerable progress at this stage.

Jokerman:
🚨🇳🇱 Ten Hag: “Of course when you’re 2-0 up you are a little bit disappointed when you draw. It’s obvious. We had the chances for 3-1, but after this week 2-2 is a good draw.” #MUFC

We need an elite mentality from the coaches to the players. Send 9ut the right signals, he should be saying It's 2 points dropped and reiterating that it's not acceptable going forward.

nitrogen:
ETH is not who we think he is. Maybe with time, he will get there, but he is shitty right now. We are known for nothing except counterattacks that happen sometimes when Bruno is on the pitch. The players are lazy, the ones that are not are just workaholics with no sense.

We all attacked previous managers for not telling the players to do the basic/simple things, but we want to exonerate ETH. No way!

People are saying since we won the Caraboa cup, we should cut ETH some slack. Like say na UCL we win...

We need to improve o! Why can't we play with intensity like City?

LostMyZeal:
Lol... that second paragraph omo

One thing United fans don't want to come to terms with is the fact that our players are not as up to par as they might think

It's not a coaching thing. That's simply what you get when your midfielders are not that good on the ball.

I watched the Brighton game as Caicedo kept dribbling and breezing past our players but it didn't shock me.

Forget about the big name and focus on the display. A player's abilities are in the display and not the name

We saw Aston Villa battling relegation with Gerard as a coach and now the same Aston has Europe in their sight.

Our midfielders are better than those of Brighton but as a unit, they function better and that is down to coaching because there's no way you'll tell me Caicedo is better than Casemiro neither is Gross better than Erikson nor Mac Allister better than Bruno. Our midfield today should have controlled the game against Skipp and Hojberg.

Leyqute:
Not true.

The average cost of Pep's defenders is 50m.

Ruben dias - 65m gbp (2020)
Nathan Ake - 41m gbp (2020)
John Stones - 50m (2017)
Cancelo - 60m (2019)
Kyle Walker 45m (2017)

Manuel Akanji is the only defender they got for peanuts - 15m or so.

His midfielders are more expensive. Graelish was 100m and Haaland would've cost them much more than the officially quoted transfer fee.

Can you compare that to United?

Can you compare that to Maguire, Sancho, Pogba, Lukaku, and Antony?

If Antony performs like a 100m player, do you know where we will be as a team? Check Maguire, check Sancho, check Martial, even Casemiro is beginning to frustrate me and I will not hesitate to call him out for his poor performances.

All the City players you mentioned have been integral to the advancement of the City course over the years.

Winning the Caraboa cup is welcomed but if we keep playing this way we will struggle big time next season.

See the number of goals we have conceded. We know the level of Liverpool at top form and with Chelsea you know they'll bounce back especially when you look at their owners and the amount of money they're willing to spend come the end of the season.

LostMyZeal:
No coach can implement any playing pattern or philosophy apart from the Ole pattern with our current players

If ETH doesn't get good support to bring in his kind of players... then it's Ole pattern till mama calls

Our midfield is Casemiro, Eriksen and Bruno yet we can't dominate the play or string meaningful passes together in midfield.

Isn't our midfield better than that of Gross, Mac Allister and Caicedo? But you watch Brighton's play in midfield and you're impressed compared to ours.

ChristineC:
you are seriously blaming Ten Hag for cost of players?
lol calm down. it's one game. we'd get the top 4, which the goal at this stage.
it could be worse, we could be Chelsea.

Pep as City coach has never hesitated to move onto other targets if the selling club is playing hard ball. Will you blame the board for EtH's insistence on De Jong?

Martinez even had to beg EtH to look at his side if not EtH wanted us to go all out for Timber.