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Sugarboyy:
The real Madrid of Asia are playing well not because Asia players in the team are representing the team well, but the foreigners in the team that has played to the highest level in Europe are the ones given Madrid a run for their money.
So, it has to do also with the country economy.
Give Enyimba like 7 unknown Brazilians and Spanish players and see if they won't start holding their own against semi elite European clubs

Abi. they did not develop those players themselves. They just brought them ready made like that. The only league that produces players that can match up with Europe is South America. Its funny what he is saying. We dont even have to go far. What if our economy was good and our home grown professionals abroad play for enyimba. I mean osimhen, arokodara ebenezer akinsanmiro etc. For all saudi arabian money west africa produces talents for the top 5 leagues of Europe.
As i said before only south american league players can compete with European teams and even defeat them

Mear23:
While many are depending serious on AI with AI eroding their thinking capacity.
Few others are seriously working smart to improve their intelligence.
I have Reasoned this alot, since AI algorithm for now depends on other sources to generate responses. Then if we all depend on AI, after sometimes, AI may not have something new again except if the algorithm is changed

Yeah, original thinkers will be rewarded in this age of AI. People with original ground breaking ideas will be rewarded. Ai needs data or it will stagnate

emapeteum:
My guy, ai can finish the code faster than the best programmer. Not long ago, Microsoft laid off 2000 software engineers. Maybe you are using a free one, but paid ones do wonders. I subscribe for one, about N42,000 monthly, and this thing does wonders. It helps professionals to think in a deeper, more complex way.

In the next 20 years at mist, quantum computers will be commercially available. Quantum computers will need a new programming m language and so programmers will be needed again ad AI had to learn this programming language. There is even neutomorphoc computing comming up soon

thesolutions:
The problem is that politics is far behind technology. That is why everyone is talking about work.
If politics and technology ever get along, government will be funding innovations that would get machines do everything for you. You just have to eat,play and sing/sleep.

It will lead to massive suicide and unhappiness. Work and self actualisation are as basic to human naturecas food and sex. Expression of creativity is a human need. When it happens people will start committing suicide anyhow. Humans can't cope with whatever thing tells them not to use their brain, work and actualize their potentials. In fact rich kids have that problem and that is why some rich kids actually leave home and fight for their money. You need to understand human psychology. I know ot will happen one day but the day it will happen is when humans will realize we have created a big problem

TheSuperNerd:
Zaidu Sanusi on the bench for Porto as they get set to battle Brazillian Champs, Palmeiras at the Fifa CWC. It is Group A Action.

Palmeiras has Chelsea's Estevao Willian starting. Watch out for that boy. He is a dazzler.

Samu Omorodion Aghehowa starts for Porto also.

If south american leagues had money like saudi and retained their best players, they will beat European teams. This estavoa is even from palmerias. South American league is tge talent league. Its tge only league outside Europe that is at par with Europe. Uo till the early 2000's it was at par but money from Europe is needed

Starboytwo:
My humble wish.

Arsenal should get Gyokeres. So that utd will have no other choice than to sign Osimhen.

Plus Napoli like Garnacho and lodged a 40 million which was rejected by utd in January.
Additionally, Ganarcho was last month informed he would be sold if the right offer appeared....

So, Garnacho + some money = Osimhen
OR
Hujlund + money = Osimhen...
All the permutations are looking great 👍

Now Osimhen to utd. No 9 Jersey 😎
A more focused utd without Europe distractions.
Osimhen bags 30 EPL (or close to)
English press will do their thing 🤷
He becomes the poster boy of a resurgent Utd.
Put 🇳🇬 firmly on the map..

And we live happily ever after. Simple.

I was meditating and the universe yold me to tell you that is what will happen. it may or may not be at manu but something similar will happeen. we human canconnect to God and metaphysical forces in the universe. ami loruko Jesus. Amen in Jesus name

TheSuperNerd:
Expected of a proud inlaw. Senegal is not small but are they bigger than England?

I am impressed they didnt need Sadio Mane in the lineup to achieve this result.

Can we achieve same without Osimhen?

Yes we can with a good coach. Our 9layers are competent. If we focus on tactics we can. Just one idea. Get chidera ejuke to win a penalty and a red card with his dribbling skills. Leverage on cyriel dessers in attack. Play well, close down the opponents. Stuff like this happens. It's football. Get sofiq ismail to cross. I k ow a lot of people do t rate the okayers I mentioned but this is TACTICS TACTICS TACTICS. TACTICS and what exactly a okayer can do trumps where he plays. Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. It's about how the okayers move and synchronizer with each other

TheSuperNerd:
Senegal beating Tuchel's England without Sadio Mane is a big deal.

Their young guns such as Habib Diarra of Strasbourg and Lamine Camara of Monaco shone today.

What a win! Chriskels will be proud of his Senegalese Inlaws

Superhero, it shows Nigeria can win the world cup if we are well coached. There us nothing Senegal and Morocco have that we don't have. We just need some good coaching

Mujtahida:
Why can't we find wingers who can cross the ball? We have tall strikers

The problem is our coaches want to olay sofiq ismail as a defender when he us actually a winger. As a winger he crosses well. So our coaches should please stop putting him anywhere un defence. It won't work. The young man can't defend so save his life. He is good when crossing the ball

Napoleon55:
Skilful as Ronaldinho,
Which Ronaldinho?
Who is better all round than Ronaldinho, Yamal?
You watch a kid yet to last more than 2 seasons at the top and he is already better than one the very legends of the game.
Nothing wey some of una no go write for this thread.

Okay im exagerrating. Im just asking a question. Its too early to even judge the boy anyway

TheSuperNerd:
Nuno Mendes. Without this lad, Portugal arent winning sh*t today. What a player. What a left back.

He has locked up Saka, Salah and now Lamine Yamal this season and also provides genuine attacking threat. He is possibly the best LB in the world now.

Congrats to Portugal and CR7 has 3 major international titles with Le Seleccao now - 2016 Euros, 2019 Nations League, 2025 Nations League.

Maybe i am wrong. But couldnt yamal move to the other wing or to the midfield if the left back was giving him problems. Mobility is a key in attack. Also, i dont think this boy is as skillfull as ronaldinho. he may be better all round but ronaldinho was a better dribbler

TheSuperNerd:
Optaanalyst and Opta stats are the protagonists on this. Honestly I think, on a general level, and I quote, they make their calculations by taking the average power ranking for every team in the respective divisions/leagues, which helps inform them about the relative strength of the competition.

At the specifics... I know not but Saudi Pro League is ranked 33rd in the world league rankings according to Opta.

Rating mls above the Mexican league is somewhat. Mexico is a major footballing nation compared to America. The Mexican league may even be at par with the belgian and Turkish league.

damagnificentusb:

Osumhen should reject this , take a pay cut and go to a top 5 league. Time is sometimes mire important than money. He needs to be in the top 5 league fir the next 7 years. Money cannot buy back that time. He can go get his money in 7 years time. He will regret this decision. Heard real madrid ate interested. He should insist on real madrid and take a paycut

AndSunGorilla:
Midfield has died!!!! Igoh Ogbu in, be like say na draw we dey find now.

From my observations I think the midfield collapsed a little when chrisantus uche left

M7even:
Moses Simon tried to beat the Russian right back and couldn't..he tries to cut in through his right he couldn't and square a pass he couldn't. I hope he realizes barring his goal against Jamaica he didn't really play well.
No excuses here about season fatigue. They all played in their various leagues. He is beginning to drop in his quality. And we will be needing an upgrade on him.

Chelle should try olakunle olusegun and see what happens. That is whatva friendly is for

Subzerooo:
Another day for Ekong to remind us that he has outlived his usefulness in the GWG, I hope Eric Chelle is a fast learner

Ekong can't okay with 2 central defenders because he us now slow. He can only play with 3 central defenders. Peseiro noticed that just before the nations cup and chsmged our formation for him. I hope chelle notices on time

TheSuperNerd:
Moritz Jenz. His constant loan spells doesnt seem to have helped much in terms of stability although he is a physically imposing CB profile.

The positives with Jenz is his decent tackling and positioning skills in ground duels and close combat situations onfield. A strong presence at the back (thanks to his height and propensity to duel) and can also sometimes step out into the midfield area to snuff out danger before it gets close to goal.

He is also aggressive but his aggression-styled defending has both the good and the bad. The good is his aggression brings presence and sees him use his physicality to put off opposition attackers but the negative is that his aggression is overdone often times and leads to rash decisions and lots of fouls in dangerous areas in or around the box. This in particular is a bad trait coz it can turn against his own team

For instance,
Calvin Bassey is an impressive powerhouse of a CB but he doesnt commit fouls as often as Jenz. Bassey played 35 EPL games (started 34) in 24/25 season and averaged a fouls conceeded of 0.7 per game.
Jenz on the other hand hit 1.4 fouls conceeded per game from just 19 league games ooo (started 18).

So Jenz is more likely to give away fouls in dangerous areas. He needs to work on how to tackle with composure and keep his aggression from going overboard.

His other weaknesses are his recovery pace (not as good in recovery when taken on or beaten), his timing/game reading (his aggressiveness can make him commit too early to a tackle resulting in penalties or more fouls), his susceptibility to skilled forwards (he struggles heavily against skilled attackers able to get pass defenders with skills and pausa (Jenz's over aggresiveness is a flaw that makes this possible) and finally his decision making/tendency to rush into decisions due again to his tendency to aggressively react.

So that is it on Moritz Jenz, if you ask me, I would say Youngsters like Benjamin Fredericks and Vince Osuji edges him heavily in the Composure metric which is the biggest metric for me as a central defender.

I have not seen him play but from your analysis, he seems like a modern version of Azubuike Egekwe one of our home based defenders during i think Stephen Keshi era. He was a very unintelligent defender even though tall and strong and could tackle even though rough. He seems like a very average player to me. Thats all. Im speaking from your analysis not club. I dont care where he plays just how he plays and contributes to the team

The skilful winger tunde akinsola stays in porguguese league with avs futebol.
They won their 2 legged relegation playoff and he scored 3 goals in both matches
So he gets to spend a second year in the portuguese league first division.
Good for his development

jerryola1:
I vibecoded a complete startup product for UK 🇬🇧 companies.

The thing is, you still need to be familiar with coding, you must be at least a beginner level programmer, if not AI model will keep taking you round the corner especially when they exhausted context window lenght. Or they might even expose your API keys if you don’t know what you are doing.

Did you modify the code at all pr you did not even modify or write any code

Kog45:
I met Benjamin Frederick in 2022 in Ilorin playing for ABS though an academy player from Simon Moses academy managed by his wife Bunmi....I told my brother an agent that my fear for this boy is spending more than two years in Nigeria league but good just after a year from ABS to Nasarawa he moved to Brentford through Simon academy.

Sodiq issue is lacking basic things about the game, meaning something is missing in our coaching structures.

Congratulations to Moses Simon for discovering Benjamin Frederick and he was the captain when his boy made his debut

Yeah, sodiq is badly coached. Typical npfl player. Crude talent but badly coached.
I'm asking can sodiq play as a winger. Maybe he can come in and give assista and goals if we need a goal but he will be a winger.
If sodiq hoes to Europe they might convert him to a wide forward or wide midfielder. If not he will need 6 months of intensive coaching in the academy of a good European club.
That is the problem of npfl players. They need 3 to 6 months of good coaching to take the bad coaching of playing in the npfl away from them

Sodiq is mail is not a defender. He is a winger forced to play defence. They should take him forward. He at least is effective in the forward position

drDoom3:
Chuks should leave that right wing and change his position to #10 permanently.

Thought as much. It seems samuel chukwueze can olay as an attacking midfielder. It will be nice. I always thought he will be good as an 8 or something through the middle

Tinneh:
He impresses me a bit, just need to improve his defensive abilities,

Maybe he should be moved to a forward position ad a winger. He seems effective in attack. Our coaches need to be tactically creative

victorian:
Am not demonizing men.. That's the reality.

While I was living alone, I was almost raped three times on different occasions cos I wan marry!
First rape attempt! Was in my office! Yes in my office ,some years back. I invited guy wooing me, we've been chatting for a while. And we were like let's hang out. Let meet up at my office, then we can hang out. He came when I was about to close office. I showed him round, he had this innocent smile. I never knew he was a devil. As we were about to leave, I had a pressing headache, I was like u know what let's call it a night. Am not feeling fine. He said eeyah sorry. Anyways to cut long story short, he hugged me , relaxed then he wanted to kiss I pulled back. Come and see his hard grip, I was like pls stop. He had this mad excited look in his eyes. He said cmon? Relax.. I was so pissed, I was struggling, he was laughing saying am. Making him more excited by my struggles, then he pinned me by one of my tables, his hands were just like iron. I was scared, I then remembered security guard is not far from my door.. I said if u don't leave me I will scream and security will throw u out! Leave me now! Then I screamed, he thought I was joking. Security knocked at my door. Madam are u okay? . That's when he let go off me. With shaky hands, I opened the door Security walked him out immediately that's number one

Number two, after some months, I say make I date again. At least I can't be single But I will be careful. We met at my place. Foolish me.. I easily forget. That one sef also tried raping me, but I pushed him and ran out of my house with speed of lighting.

Number three, after a year, I say make I date again. Sighs.. This one happened in his family home. He said everyone will be at home and wants to introduce me to the family, whereas it was just him and his friend. God saved me. Immediately I notice no one at home. I became nervous and ready to run. Lol

And I did ran, when opportunity came.

Ha! God!.. Some men out there are evil. Ladies beware o! Be very careful and alert. Not all. Men u see walking towards u with a smile is harmless. Some are demons! And that's the truth!

There are bad eggs among us men that have spoiled everything. Girls have lived with me for months before without me touching them.
Some of us men ate simoly stupid.
Sorry. But men like this make it difficult for decent men to date ladies

Meliforme:
NPFL players do not have the kind of drilling in tactics that many of the foreign base players have been exposed to.
Rohr complained so much about this.

In fact, NPFL players are still crude.

It shows that 70% of Nigerian coaches are not in tune with the modern game
NPfl players are talented but raw and crude. Its not their fault.
Its like bad teachers in a secondary school.
We need to do something about coaching in Nigerian football.
The knowledge of most Nigerian coaches is maybe 35%.
Something very well below average

zoboizee:
Only God knows the reasons and logics behind NFF calling up players from abroad is all about. They are adding a right footed full back to the national team from Germany when they actually need to fortify the left back position in the national team. A right footed leftback (improvised) will not have the foot convenience of a left footed left back. Felix Agu is right footed, Plays as right or left back. The nff should have gone for decent left footed left back. And the right Felix should had been Uduokhai.

I am always baffled by the logic behind inviting players.
Not where they come from but just the tactics and coaching.
I mean i often wonder how the players we invite fit into the tactics of the coach.
I suspect we just invite players based on where they play or clamouring from some quarters in order not to make some people feel neglected.
When foreign born players are neglected we start calling them
When home based players are neglected, the coach calls them
When players in obscure leauges complain, we call them.

Calling players is just based on maybe sentiment or the present mood or if someone complains
or peharps knows someone. Its not based on coaching tactics or merits. Its funny.
There seem to be little coaching or tactical logic in our call ups. Just to make some people happy that all.
Like "Let us call home based players now so they will not say we neglected them". Its funny

TheSuperNerd:
Antonio Conte is a winner. He's won in England and Italy. Won Serie A at Juventus (3x), Inter (1x) and now at Napoli. He is the reason for this. He is a serial winner. Kudos to him and Napoli.

Bringing in decent EPL-certified MFs in McTominay and Gilmour did good to Conte's title quest.

There is a certain Ibrahim Alani that has already played 2 matches for Real Valladolid. He is a midfielder and he is still under 20. Tell me more about him.

Kilishihunter:
He should go to Al Hilal if there's no serious interest from any of the heavyweights, the Saudi league is a little competitive

If he goes to saudi its on one condition
1. After a year he will be a free agent and will be available to anybody for free. That's it. The audio can have him for only 1 year and he will be available for free for any European club

crossbreedwears:
What's wrong with this man na?

Donald Trump is needed and necessary.
America is a Christian deomcracy and not a muslim one.
There is a limit to which a country can be tolerant.
America is not anti muslim or anti russia or anti chinese BUT
it is a western Christian civilization.
These things must be upheld.
Some of these immigrants come from culture where a woman can be raped for being scantily dressed and no one will punish the offender
You cannot tolerate everybody and everything in the name of LIBERALISM.
LIBERALISM will destroy the western world if care is not taken
A country needs an identity to develop.
Also, America has always culturally supported Israel with its Judeo-Christian, zionist mentality and its good it remains so.
You cannot destroy everything about your identity because of liberalism and freedom. Freedom for what exactly?

Its like because you are liberating yourself from your father, a stranger can come and claim your fathers property.
If America looses her Judeo-Christian, western identity it will become communist and Islamic which will lead to her being defeated by her enemies
Ok, can Saudi Arabia allow Christians to build a Church in their country?

God is not a product if our human consciousness.
2. You are trying to make God in man's likeness. That is the opposite. Humans are to try to be like God. God is not supposed to try to be human. Man is made in God's likeness. Man cannot make God in his likeness.
3. Your idea is exactly what the serpent told Eve that she will be wise and become one of the gods. As in all that stuff about conquering the universe. That is the deception mankind fell into.
5. God actually wants us to conquer the universe buy it will be when we ate united with him. We can't conquer the universe in our rebellious state. It will be doing the right thing the wrong way.
6. Jesus is comming again not to judge but so as to unite with Man, restore his ability to conquer thr universe and live with him in a newly created universe
7. As per being like God we are made in God's image and likeness so we are already like God. BUT we need a relationship with God in order to fully activate our God potential. Then we can conquer the universe in unity with him

BankyGee:
Juventus are reportedly ready to table €80 million to acquire Victor Osimhen's services, but I'm seeing another news that De Laurentis is saying he'll accept nothing less than €100 million from them.

This man na weapon fashioned against Osimhen?

If he goes to saudi arsbis. The deal should be that after one season he will be a free agent. That means napoli manager gets his money while after a season he is available for free.

2. I suggest the nff president or some top football personalities should wade into the matter and try and talk to the napoli manager. Thr man is stubborn and has a serious ego

7demons:
I will advice him to remain in Gala cos they need him badly cos these premiership teams are not serious except for Juventus which is against Napoli release club to any Serie A club. The UAE clubs want him but Osimhen isn't ready for them now. The only viable option is to remain in Gala which he said he will consider if the talks with the premiership fails.

He should lower his wage demands and go to a top 5 league. Records matter. 5 to 7 years from now the record will be he scored 300 goals in Turkey and that will not be rated. Let him dominate the premiership for 7 years and after that he can go to saudi arabia. This is the time for him to shine. He should ot let the fact that he will be underpaid get on his way. The time is now.