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Looks a lot like a schoolmate of mine back in the days...It's sad that youths in my village have embraced cultism and other social vices...

Someone should login with an alternate and download us with info on the latest gang war...

Unlimited22:
Says who?

Rakitic, Modric and Kovacic

elrony:
Patrickmuf beloved country!!!

Lol we're not going to make it past the group stage...

edidiongmichael:
Wouldn't have mattered even if they didn't decamp. Akwa Ibom is a core PDP state and nothing will change that... Not while Godswill Akpabio is still alive and a PDP member.

A country that promotes strong men rather than build strong institutions is doomed...
Akpabio has just one vote bro, we should stop making this kind of callous statements.

diggz:
Out to where exactly? Ogbeni come back here ojare.....I still have an important question for you to answer....


Are you the one without a functional brain?

Nope...

Hausa diggers are here, I am out...

For some, it's only members of Redcafe that have sense...Lol

Nihilstjnr:
lie that you did not complain about Zlatan spoiling ball with his lack of pace

We are not talking about Fabregas or Cahill here...

afrodoc2:
Shuo! Person cannot play with you again?

Hawk imaginary beef. Shey na Satis or Gala?

Most likely gala... Lol

neezar:
I just taya....Is he angry with himself or what

E get people wey dey carry imaginary beef for head dey waka but if you call them hawker now na problem...

It's all a matter of perception, leaving while the ovation is loudest or when you can't give enough...
I always prefer you don't leave whilst you're hot (that's how Mace screwed up), keep going till you can't move no more, keep conquering until there's no new lands up for grabs...
Zlatan came, saw and indeed he wrote his name in gold...Old Trafford will never forget you Zlatan, at some point, I binned the world time and only knew Zlatan time, a beast right from his youthful days all through to Ajax, Juventus, Inter, AC Milan, Barcelona, PSG and finally, the grandest of stages, the Theater of Dreams, Old Trafford, he treated us to magnificent football defying his size every time he took to the pitch...
Zlatan like Ronaldo De Lima changed the way strikers played, known for burying even half chances and highly involved in the build up play he was class apart.
Old Trafford will miss your big personality, your dedication and huge ego matched with your intimidating size... They'll never be another Zlatan, take a bow Ibracadabra. #magic #Beast

neezar:
In summary, what's the message of this post oga

Very good question, some of us are at war with ourselves...

Nihilstjnr:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/21/cambridge-analyticas-ruthless-bid-to-sway-the-vote-in-nigeria

Things a gwarn in this Nigeria of a country sha.

Expository...The things people do to cling on to power...

Diggz who is behind this your proposed transfer?
I'm asking just so that I can come here and cuss the hell outta the person when you start beasting in faraway lands just the way you do Mourinho each time De Bruyne and Salah scores...

dubylhover:
Not saying that bro but there's a reason y mourinho is at Old Trafford and we are watching him from a screen.. If his previous record that made him manager fails him, then we look for a[b] better manager[/b].. We all saw what happened with Gary Neville and sincerely amongst all those Sky Sports and bt analysts, we know he's d one that actually seems to know much about coaching, albeit from a screen also like us

Valencia were that bad, it has very little to do with Neville, we have also seen top coaches fail, who would've thought Benitez will be coaching a wack team like Newcastle after his early years with Valencia and Liverpool...Coach are paid to do their job as II is for analyst like Jamie Carragher and Neville...

dubylhover:
Sorry O..who is Jamie redknapp in d world of football, a renowned ex footballer or a renowned ex coach?

Then we shouldn't be here cos we are not ex footballers or coaches...

raumdeuter:
Messi won 3 CL finals and played a dominant role in each of them. Can we say any f these about Terry or Ferdinand

Ferdinand won the UCL...
Victor Valdes also won 2-3 UCL too, does that make him better than Kahn?
Torres has won the UCL and World cup, is he better than Lima Ronaldo?
Ryan Griggs never won an international trophy, does that make Nani better than him?

raumdeuter:
So I need to tell you average get levels? Everton is average does that make them peers with West Brom or Hull City

Carvalho with Portugal reached a Euro final in 2004, a world cup semi in 2006, these are still better than what England ever achieved with Tery and Ferdinand

Messi reached numerous finals, does it compensate for not winning one?
Oga, the motto is get rich or die trying. If you're not rich, you're not rich...

raumdeuter:
Is Serbia a football nation on the level of England? Vidic and Carvalho have great individual performances to point to in their career

Terry and Rio are the perfect carry along defenders

But but you always say England are a pack of average players...
I'm curious to know why you choose to focus on Serbia, how about Carvalho with Portugal or is Portugal also a small team compared to England?

chic2pimp:
You have opened up a Can of worms now. Dayo will start listing the Numerous finals and Semis they played in without actually telling us what they won.

Btw Carvalho won the CL with Porto.

Ferdinand won also won the UCL...
Wes Brown also did, so winning trophies is not a yardstick...
Terry and Ferdinand were class...

Lukaku was scoring frequently at West Brom and most recently Everton thus for him to be posing lesser numbers here, we need to take a close look at the coach and the system cos the advantage in quality we have over West Brom and Everton is unquestionable...
Our build up play is slow and our fullback are most tasked with defending rather than joining the attack (sorry Luke Shaw), we are treated to uninspiring football after spending bucket loads but no, let's blame Lukaku who gives his all on the pitch.
He has limitations but it's obvious he is working hard to get over them, you can't fault him, not after seeing he plays with Lingard, Fellaini, Smalling, Young etc

raumdeuter:
John Terry is a very mediocre defender carried by others. Him and Ferdinand were 2 useless defenders who tagged on to the work of their hardworking defence partners.

Whenever they leave the club and pair for England, their poor quality always shine through

Oga stop it already, what did Vidic and Carvalho win with Serbia and Portugal respectively? How well did they shone away from their respective clubs?

weedtaker:
Trash bro, he fvcking owned you.

lingard is all about forming activity you said, yet niqqa has 13, more than rashid and the holy grail anthony martial, shey una the yab hazard as activity specialist cuz of his low output, why tune come de change now for the matter wey de ground?

Ramuzaki don too spread dis amala turning virus.

Pray tell, how many assist has De Bruyne playing a similar position to Lingard?
Lingard scoring goals more than he creates is only a pointer that he isn't quite as effective as an AM, that's where he comes short, his contemporaries at Man City, Arsenal and Co are popping up with assist and some goals and generally affecting the play more but he doesn't do his primary role well enough.
The goals are they to mask his otherwise poor performance as the main link between our defense and attack. De Bruyne night not score but he makes City tick just as Ozil, Erikson, Coutinho, Willian etc Please look at the aforementioned players and compare them to Lingard and tell me if he is delivering half the performance they put up week in, week out.

elampiro:
Let me make you understand the role of Lingard even though not as efficient as Rooney.

Firstly, Rooney played in the wing in his first season for United. He played there many other times throughout his career particularly when SAF emoloyed a 4-3-3 formation.

Take for instance, our match against Inter Milan at Old Trafford, once we went a goal up, Rooney was moved to left flank to protect Evra who was facing the most difficulties on the night. He played more as a wing back, then overlap to Assist a goal for Ronaldo. Giggs was moved to number 10. Same way against Madrid where he was meant to help Raphael stop Di Maria and Ronaldo. I think he did similar work against Barca in two or three occasions. In our UCL against Chelsea, Rooney was instructed to occuppy Michael Essien once we we lost the ball. Rooney was increasing protesting his defensive roles.

According to Ferguson, Welbeck got the nod ahead of Rooney against Madrid at Old Trafford because of Welbeck's ability to track back faster.

So you can see that even SAF always needed a player who could attack and work hard. That's the work of Lingard currently. Lingard has performed or bailed us out where Martial and Lukaku failed. True.



I am not arguing the quality of Lingard, Park and Rooney. What I said is they are made to play same role. Lingard has a unique quality Martial, Sanchez, Mata, etc don't have. So he will come ahead in selection or substitution in some situations and matches.

When we play against a fast physical side which are dominating us, Lingard will be ahead with his ability to go to our defensive third and win the ball, then drive it forward.

However, your claim that Lingard is all activity is rubbished by the fact that he is our most productive player on goals per minutes. He is also our second highest goal scorer in all competition despite having less minutes than Martial and Rashford.

Stats don't tell the whole story, Mkhitaryan comes to mind...
So you mean most of the matches Lingard has started, the plan was to counter the threat of the opposition we came up against? If so, then that's the issue with Mou, setting up always to contain the opposition rather than the other way around.

We all depend on what we're fed, it's Mourinho who has been talking ever since the disgraceful outing vs Sevilla, it's him who told he had spent two days practicing quick transition all because he was criticized for being too conservative.
He is talking now that the players didn't implement his method as much as he would have liked just so he can be absolved of any blame, that's cheap if you ask me.
I watched Man City for the first time against Arsenal last season in a friendly match after Pep had just taken over and the first thing I noticed was each time the keeper had the ball, the two CBs split and the DM drops back to occupy the auxiliary CB role giving the keeper 3 options to play out of defense. Now that's a coach whose imprint you can immediately point to.
This season, when Walker was bought, the rave all over the English press was that Pep had gotten his man, another Alves but Pep came out to say Walker is quick, yes but also brainless and noted that he'll go about teaching Walker to use his brain often...Now go and watch Walker and tell me if he isn't playing better and playing more with his head rather than pace...
I can't point to a pattern under Mourinho, at least with LVG, it was possession football (only downside was the lack of penetration), with Mou, we just seem to go out hoping one moment of individual brilliance decides the contest or long hopeful balls to Fellaini...
If Mou continue pushing the blame to the players, be rest assured that sooner rather than later, they'll revolt...

Inconsequential match, this is not against Messi in a UCL semi final.
And I hope you're not praying for errors like these to happen often just so you can come back to Airmark here with your bants. Na your team oh!

eph12:
When Lingard is not in a goal scoring position, he's actually useless

Very useless, only thing he's got is good shooting technique and sometimes, positioning otherwise he is the perfect representation of a headless chicken, he beats Pedro to it...

elampiro:
Ferguson used Rooney many years for same job Lingard is doing. Nothing Bad in it. Even JS Park was preferred for big games over better forwards because of his work rate which you call activity.

Oga easy on the lies, Fergie used Rooney in the Pogba role, how do you keep a straight face and compare Rooney's role in midfield with Lingard who ordinarily should be linking our midfield and attack but due to his technical deficiencies is forced to run around just to deceive folks like you.
Next time you sit to watch our match, take a closer look at Lingard, he'll drive forward with the ball when there's space but once he encounters an opposition player, he'll run into him and lose the ball...This is serious activity...
J.S. Park was not just all hustle, he could pass, dribble and score occasionally, he was perfect almost every time, his role was even limited at United compared to his PSV days where he played mostly from the wings/AM position (case in point, watch PSV vs Milan, UCL semis or quarters in 2007)...Park was a very intelligent player, hard worker, yes but technically good.
I am of the opinion that he should be loaned out if Pogba must blossom cos he plays too much and ends up distracting others, all those childish handshakes and stuffs are not for serious footballers...

elampiro:
And you count Lukaku's hardwork beneficial? A player that is suppose to be scoring is not scoring but doing hardwork, you praise him. The one that is suppose to do hardwork is doing scoring on top and you dislike him.

[b]Lingard is mostly used to face physical and fast opponents so that he can help the right back or DM. He deserves praise[/b]s.

This bolded sums up our approach to games, we now set up to counter the threat of teams instead of teams setting up to counter the threat we pose...This is the reason why Lukaku isn't scoring enough...
How on earth do you start Fellaini in your most important game of the season and expect your striker to thrive, Elampiro, if you saw that game vs Sevilla, we kept on aiming long balls to Fellaini who originally was part of a two man midfield, this stupid tactic left Matic all on his own for the most part in that first half.
We hardly create goal scoring opportunities for our forwards compared to our rivals and to be honest, our best croses into the box this season has been done by who? Lukaku...He isn't the standard but he has been class above the rest for the past month and a half...
I still don't know why Mou disrupted the Lukaku - Martial partnership in favor of Sanchez...

joeace2020:
To the Mourinho haters and conspiracy theorists, let me ask one question. Would Mourinho come out in front of the world and lie to the press about the tactics worked on in training and what the players put out there? If your answer is no then we know who deserves the blame?

This was Mourinho's comments
"When I spend two days on faster building up with the ball arriving earlier in between the lines in attacking areas and that depends on qualities and decisions by defenders in possession, but also depends on movement from attacking players.

"When I have spent two days working on this and I arrive here and have attacking players were hiding behind the defenders and not wanting the ball and defenders playing just square passes and taking 10,12 passes to go from one line to another line. I have to feel frustrated."

Can he come out to lie about what the team worked on and what the players whose brains Mourinho doesn't control did?

Oga leave that thing, what is the responsibility of a coach if not to get his ideas across to the players and interpreted on the pitch?
If the boys are not playing to instruction, you have a large squad, make changes.
This is his second season and we can't point to one area of improvement in our team, if the players are not good enough, whose fault? Most definitely his fault cos he has had four transfer windows already and close to 300m pounds to fix this yet we are still treated to uninspiring football.
Whilst he is at his business of blame games, he should tell us who is sanctioning the contract renewals of the same average players.