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chic2pimp:
100% disagree. Bar Messi, this Current Barca Team is at par with this Current Liverpool team based on skill alone. At worst maybe Barcelona has a slight edge but the difference is minute.

that 2nd leg liverpool team? Come on.
Lmao.

I no know wether people dey dope or not for football.
But at the level I play(Dean's cup), where we are all terrible and coaching input is zero, the class with no exam in sight, and more time to train, hence more fitness usually outperforms all the others.

My class won the competition when we were in 200l (non exam year) mainly because we could outrun and outlast every other team

I Don represent my medical school at national level for football, that's as close to any pinnacle that I have to reach and when your body is tired, trust me the mind follows.
You will be seeing the right thing to do but will simply be unable

raumdeuter:
There are some who believe blood and fire running and strength will win you games. Adama Traore is the fastest player in EPL, when he was young and in La Masia it definitely made a difference but among matured professionals, he cannot make Wolves first team

There have been many players who were either smokers or physically unfit yet had a great footballing career. Berbatov used to chain smoke and barely run, At a point, Kanu couldn't use the staircase and always took the elevator yet was playing better than the fit ones. There have been many advancements in physical training that many people are stretching limits of physical abilities. Gone are the days where you only have to run laps. That cold freezer you mentioned for City is one. Nowadays a players diet and sleep ruotine are even watched closely

I read the write up that simonjassy referenced and it pointed at a few footballers over 50yrs which are not even confirmed cases
Someone was talking about Sakho like he was any more than a decent player and some players can have a good streak for some time and fall back to earth without drugs

Everyone used to swear that benteke will solve all striking problems at every club, for the past 4seasons he has been beyond useless

you are taking examples from the 2 extremes to argue and it's disingenuous.
No need to compare a normal messi with an enhanced Adama Traore.
The point of this whole discussion is what difference of PEDs will have on footballers of largely similar skill level.
And a vast majority of professional footballers in the top 5 leagues for example are under the gausian curve dome.
You cannot be arguing this case with outliers from either side of the graph. It's mischievous

Use of PEDs in this situation cannot be taken to just not count. If people use PEDs.
The gulf does not have to be wider than gulf of Mexico.


A normal kdb will not get anywhere close to a doped pogba for example

Lukaku is going for sure

Looks like inter cannot go beyond 50m for lukaku.
We are not that desperate to have him gone, they can remain in their lane.
Lukaku is still a very serviceable striker

Dembele is better in the air than lukaku, knows how to use his physicality unlike daddy lukaku and will not be having spells in the middle of the season looking overweight.
If at all lukaku is a better goalscorer, the difference is negligible.

Dembele will also hold our general play back several levels like daddy lukaku

And he is sure as hell sending Rashford back out wide in a few months, if he comes

MRTA7:
I don't want Lukaku to leave.

For one he's still better than Rashford.
He's a good small team bully.
If he was in a team that creates lots of chances he would score more than 30 goals.
I'm not saying he's a world class striker but he can be a good piece if he was in a good team.
I'm also not convinced about replacements out there for what we need.
We wont get our money back if we sell him, no way inter can pay £75m+ so its better to keep him than to make a loss.
I can't deal with Rashford being our main striker next season. It might send me to the hospital with an aneurysm.

lukaku's case is like Sanchez but to a much less egregious scale.
The club is looking at the financial package and his projected contribution side by side and have nothing against cutting ties.
Ole doesn't trust him enough to be first choice and we can all see why.
First touch aside, he's not nearly mobile enough to play the way Ole wants. It makes no sense to keep him as a 2nd choice striker/auxiliary right winger, with his financial package(fee and wages).

It makes sense to sell him and use the money to get a 1st choice striker that we can actually use or get a more financially viable 2nd choice - Moussa dembele of lyon is someone I like for this role

Rated at 40m, wage will not be more than 150k, will bring to the table almost everything lukaku has to offer but with a much better 1st touch.

eph12:
Mehn I hate this Raiola guy

lol. He's the only reason we have a 0.1% Chance in this transfer.
That Barcelona were willing to deal with him is a surprise and the guy is pushing the club to their limits on top of all of this.
He's such a bastard. Lol

Ibime:
So why Rohr no dey use am?

I don't trust Naija players. After few years, Dem dey kpafuka due to age factor

Rohr likes his wingers and strikers old fashioned.
Wide men running down to the byeline and strikers being a physical menace.
Onyekuru can play both positions but he's more of a modern attacking player.
An inside forward who can play down the middle as a striker.

Rohr is ready to die on his front 3 of Ighalo, Samuel Kalu and Simon Moses/Musa
If Ighalo stinks too much, there is that lanky midget land striker waiting.
Even iwobi plays central and deep for him.
Na force them dey force am to even invite Henry.


If you get spare time, look up the kind of strikers wey Rohr don play around with since he come. Lol.
Nwaekeme, lokosa, etc. There's 1 common denominator.
I'm sure it Anichebe or Ameobi were still relevant, they would be in the thick of his super eagles team.

Lol.
How do people even begin to support another club?
How do you begin to get familiar with their history and legends?
Except I wan Port to clubs like city and shekpe wey no get legends.
How do you begin to learn about the nitty gritty from the administrative structure and youth set ups?

There's a host of other technicalities to navigate on top of all of these

Ibime:
Is Salihamidzic the new Emenalo?

onyekuru is a baller.
I've been a big fan from his eupen days

PietroRico:
Sometimes these hazard fan boys set him up for unnecessary bile.
They always want to be elevating him to levels he hasn't gotten to yet. Eg Ronaldo, 2 seasons ago.

Now 1 solo goal and they are screaming puskas. Smh.
Solo goals wey Henry onyekuru dey score for fun In Belgium.

PietroRick:
a year after, and onyekuru is doing his stuff in the champions league while hazard will be dancing one corner with Azerbaijanis in the yoruba league.

If any of Una mistake talk any of that hazard >Neymar for my front, na slap I got use blind your eye.

Rubbish

Ribery's replacement sorted for the foreseeable future.
Emenalo could never

Ibime:
I've never written anything about Bayern destroying their rivals. I'm sure Bayern have eyes on bigger prizes this summer such as Leroy Sane.

and onyekuru. Lol

afrodoc2:
The best news of the month. That Sbragia dey iron out skills from the young boys. I am sure he was sacked.

I was worried that the string of good performances the newly promoted boys were putting together, towards the end of the season would buy him some more time.

Nicky Butt looks like someone that knows his onions.
He has been silently doing an excellent job with the youth set up.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned him for the TD role when guys like Rio and fletcher are being considered.
Then again, this is probably because Ed knows that the TD appointment is just to keep fans quiet.
I saw the job description of the position the other and I couldn't help but laugh at how redundant it would be.

In one of the concluding matches of the season, Chong came on as a sub and in the first few minutes, he was opening as much space as he could with some intelligent movement but the 10 other idiots had no idea how to help him utilize it.
Before that game finished he had regressed to the level of their Moronic and lifeless off ball movements.

There's a rotten culture of laziness and a host of other vices in the squad at the moment and we run the risk of corrupting/infecting new arrivals and promotions if we don't attack the rotteness from the core by decimating some of the dead wood that are reservoirs for these diseases

There's Neres and Van de beek in that Ajax team sef, no spotlight on them and they will improve us significantly without bleeding our budget.

Make we sha sit down dey watch Ole and Ed..

Leyqute:
What do you guys think about Joao Felix? Will he fit in? Rumors say we're ready to pay his 120 million Euros release fee. I know it's a rumor but still would like to hear your opinions.

that guy looks like the truth but that release clause stuff dey make the issue complicated.
Intelligent footballer, with very good movement and calmness in front of goal.
E sha no make sense to blow half our budget on the guy but I would love him here.

In an ideal world we would bring him and Sancho here.
Sancho is originally From the a LW anyway.
If martial does not want to compete he would then be asked to fúck off.
But the gaping holes we have all over our defensive line and midfield, sigh.

All the MBS takeover rumors just die once, I no know wetin happen.
I was a little hopeful

Abeg I don rant finish, I will see you all when I see you all.
Happy Sunday to all of you.

If we have to go the entire season with Shaw as our only left back and Ashley Young rotating with Dalot for the RB spot, not even van Dijk in that central defence will make us finish above 6th again

Clever ways to spread the budget, and improve the squad even if na small, is imperative.

Otherwise we for just buy all them Sancho, dembele, koulibaly, De Ligt, wan bissaka, chilwell, jovic, Ndombele, Neves, tielemans in one window.
I mean, I don't think there is anyone on earth who would complain if this became a possibility

Alderweireld 25m
Muenier 25
Grimaldo or someone in his mould for about 35m is already 85m.
If you don't already see the instant and massive face lift the defence is getting wiry these, then no amount of explaining will do.

Herreras replacement will not cost less than 65m especially if we are looking like players in the mould of Partey or Ndombele. Maybe Tieleman for less, still we looking at 40m here.

Ideally we should be looking at a specialist dm, players in the mould of rodri, Neves or Ndidi, even gueye. Nobody here will cost less than 40m.
The less matic involvement next season, the better our chances and neither mctominay or Fred can take us anywhere as his replacement.

These already leaves us about 20m shy of 200m and I never talk of any attacking signing.
The championship speedster, 15m and money don finish

All the so called younger defenders will cost an arm to get and many of them are not as good as alderweireld is, and will probably never even be.

We might as well spend our budget on Maguire and go into the season with 1 or more of

*fatty as our only recognized left back
*young as starting right back
*Fred Matic Pereira and mctominay as midfield options behind pogba, if this one remains.
*lukaku as first choice right winger with Mata and Sanchez as back up. Lol.
*martial as our only real LW

All these positions to fill with 200m in this market and 25m for alderweireld is not a no brainer?
Ok then. Make we go buy koulibaly for 120m then

We are trying to build a squad with the future in mind, no mean say we go totally ignore the present.
Otherwise we would have given the mantle fully to Greenwood, Gomez and all their youth counterparts.

I can't believe believe a central defense that has Smalling Jones and Rojo will have any doubts about adding alderweireld for next to nothing because he is 30 years old and will die of stroke in the next minute

Then again, some of you saw wan bissaka and had Doubts about his addition to the squad
So I cannot be too surprised here.


Anyone that believes we cannot get 2 years out of him, at the level he currently is, is just being overly pessimistic or paranoid. Fúck, in 4 years he is not deteriorating to Jones or rojos level.

30 year old alderweireld is a massive risk but we can splash almost half our budget on koulibaly who is a massive 12 months or so younger.

We don't have to wait until he doesn't have the legs to play football anymore before we buy another CB too. So it's not like once we buy him, we are stuck with only him as our CB purchase for the next 3 to 4 years.

MRTA7:
Toby A is already 30 years old. Not sure thats a good idea considering his wages won't be cheap even at £25m. Plus I think he'll renew at Spurs.

if he wanted to renew at spurs he would have, last season.
No way we activate the clause and he opts to remain.
30 years is not the age of death for footballers, especially not central defenders.
Go and see what he is earning for spurs, you think he will come here and be demanding pogba money? Lol.

There's the problematic right wing and the holes that may open up in attack with lukaku leaving.
We already needed midfield reinforcements before the depatures of Fellaini and Herrera
Pogba is not nailed on to stay on top of all of this.

Midfield is where we need to splash this cash

Why are we sleeping on 25m Alderweireld??
He and Tuanzebe are enough central defensive reinforcements for me.
We need a left back and a right back too, still for that defence and we don't have unlimited funds.
25m alderweireld is a no brainer.

patrickmuf:
Umtiti will likely be available and much cheaper but Ed won't look his way.

umtiti is washed my guy

Was here

What a usueless league. Spits

elampiro:
Young was not a defender from the beginning. How can you blame him for our disorganisation in the beginning when he was not even there?

If anything, yesterday proves Young has been a super hero in the right back.

we started with a 352.

elampiro:
Last night again vindicated my stance that Ashley Young is currently our best player. Just that una no know ball.

Our defence was in disarray and we looked like we were going to concede ten goals until Young went to the rescue and organized it. Making two desperate clearances to bail out the Central defenders.

Una no sabi read game. You people just have players you like and once you gang up, no one can convince you guys. The best is to stay away.

until Bailly was taken off and the defensive shape changed. No dey misyarn anyhow.
Young was just as bad as Bailly before the change of shape and it was understandable because Bailly is a serial confusionist.

He improved a lot after, put in a few vital blocks but still had moments of drunkenness.

He had an okay game all things considered.. but for you to come here and call him the best player yesterday is just beyond ridiculous

hoopLA:
bros you're my Gee and all,
But in the words of the OLX advert. SELL IT!!!!
Bailly has been here 3 seasons.
No progress.
No signs of reliability
Always using dis Femo Scorpions of Eruwa hot headed approach of miss-the-ball,dont-miss-the-leg.
Airmark knows that style of agbowo football that's why Bellotti's ligaments remain relapsed.

Hes just no good.
Caused the goal by refusing to concentrate and track his marker.
Was just a catastrophic idìota till Dalot came on and even the slightly above useless Young drafted to RB.

We need to get rid of the deadwood.he has worked hard to be included in that group. Darmian is more reliable and useful than this useless Ivorian.

He cant grow beyond this level abeg.

if na just rashness we dey deal with, e for even dey manageable.
Nigga dey daydream when live action dey go on for pitch.

His concentration levels are appalling and this only leads to even more rashness to make up for it. He really can fúck off now.

Lana1:
I remember an argument we all had here in 2016 when he was signed.
People were saying Bailly was better than Smalling because of some non-existent ability on the ball. I disagreed and almost got my head bit off. Lol.

The guy is too rash and his football is too untidy for him to be a Starting CB for a top team like United. Smalling over Bailly anytime.

I'd still keep and sell only both Rojo & Darmian from that defence tho. He(Bailly) can still be useful as a squad player. We're going to need enough squad depth if we're to compete for top honors next season.

we are supposed to be bringing a CB in the summer and that should ideally mean we offload 2.
Any two of Smalling Jones and Rojo have always been the popular choice but it really should be Rojo and Bailly.

He's not young, forget that his fake age so there nothing like he will grow.
He wasn't cheap, we should be looking to recoup as much as we can when we can.

Smalling, Jones, lindelof, New centre back and Tuanzebe should be enough depth for us at centre back.