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Mujtahida:
We were busy playing the ball from side to side against Russia like a crab.

Gaurdiola destroyed football. But the game is healing because many people now recognize the damage he did to the game.

When people make statements like this, it actually shows that they do not really watch football. No disrespect meant.

Under Pep Guardiola, we have really seen brilliant players express themselves, especially at Manchester City. You just need watch Bernardo Silva dazzle under Guardiola.

Watch this short clip.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajQv9xqzNm0

We have seen magic from Sane, Foden, David Silva, Bernardo Silva. Watch Doku and Savinho. Watch Oscar Bobb
Watch these guys play under Pep Guardiola.

We are seeing players moving faster in tighter defences. Pep Guardiola has actually improved football.

Mujtahida:
playing from the back becomes useless nonsense when it is done all the time. One other thing is this playing from side to side. Is this how football has always been and I'm just noticing it now or it's a new trend?

This side to side is boring and aimless. It's psychological but takes away the entertainment from football. Spain and Pep with this mentality. Germany has the hack to it but they always slip when you don't expect them to, especially with the low quality of their forwards lately. Na same way Arteta dey play. Same for Bournemouth. Marco Silva mixed his with a break and run approach at Fulham.

Low block teams flourish always against it. Shebi if craze meet craze, craze go high. 🤣🤣🤣

typicalgamer:
Nigeria ??

Super eagles ??

😂

Personnel no dey? 😎🥱

charlesemeka85:
Congrats to CR7 and Portugal 🇵🇹

Well deserved. Ororo go still wan play WC o. This man sef. Mendes having more dribbles than Yamal who he locked up and threw the key away with....

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.

Add Villa Winger and City too. He should be the most valuable fullback right now.

This nations league na ojoro sha. Shey Euros is not enough ni? Motsepe, oya cook up some caf tournament abeg.

daveP:
This nations league na ojoro sha. Shey Euros is not enough ni? Motsepe, oya cook up some caf tournament abeg.

The options are;
* Have nations league and make AFCON are quadrennial tournament. Or
* Have NL and scrap CHAN. Players based in Africa should focus on club competitions.

Subzerooo:
Epl is the best league in the world man, more exposure,stronger teams, 8 teams playing in Europe you won't get it anywhere else and your claim about no Epl team playing in the final is ignorant because Uefa coefficient is a better way of ranking leagues and Epl is far and away the best league, I want Osimhen to reject Saudi Arabia but that does not mean that I would be happy with a sideways or a backwards move.

I don't have power to engage on baseless arguments.

Real Madrid has more champions league trophy than your best 10 premier league clubs combined and u are here shouting "EPL is far and away the best league"
If something is far and away better,it means it's better by considerable wide margin, how is it so compared to La Liga and Serie a?
If they are far better,they should be dominating every other clubs from other leagues whenever they meet.

EPL is considered best now does not mean it's going to remain so in few years to come,or that they were the best few years ago.

daveP:
This nations league na ojoro sha. Shey Euros is not enough ni? Motsepe, oya cook up some caf tournament abeg.

An African equivalent is long overdue. This "friendly" tournament helps to emulate a high stakes competition, akin to the world cup, and as result, European sides are improving much more rapidly.

Odunayaw:
The options are;
* Have nations league and make AFCON are quadrennial tournament. Or
* Have NL and scrap CHAN. Players based in Africa should focus on club competitions.

Option 1 is much better imo. Can even do option 2 as well and eliminate CHAN altogether so as to not clog up the African football calendar.

Ppogbae:
Option 1 is much better imo. Can even do option 2 as well and eliminate CHAN altogether so as to not clog up the African football calendar.

The fear I have for NL is that the continent seems to be slow to accept new things. I mean look at the club competitions, they copied a single leg final and they've run back to 2-legs.

The qualifiers do not generate as much frenzy so I don't know what a "competitive friendly league" drawn over a long time will be like

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:
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.

😊

Odunayaw:
The options are;
* Have nations league and make AFCON are quadrennial tournament. Or
* Have NL and scrap CHAN. Players based in Africa should focus on club competitions.

scrap Chan abeg

daveP:
Well deserved. Ororo go still wan play WC o. This man sef. Mendes having more dribbles than Yamal who he locked up and threw the key away with....

Mendes lock yamal throway key 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Napoleon55:
I don't have power to engage on baseless arguments.

Real Madrid has more champions league trophy than your best 10 premier league clubs combined and u are here shouting "EPL is far and away the best league"
If something is far and away better,it means it's better by considerable large margin, how is it so compared to La Liga and Serie a?
If they are far better,they should be dominating every other clubs from other leagues whenever they meet.

EPL is considered best now does not mean it's going to remain so in few years to come,or that they were the best few years ago.

Na you no know the difference between best team and best league and you are talking about baseless argument, go and check uefa league coefficients and revisit your post and see if you made any sense

Omoh..Napoli fans dey para all over... Calling him all forms of unprintable names because he botched the Saudi deal

Samueltemi337:
Inter
Milan
Juventus
Atalanta
Bologna
Lazio
Roma
Fiorentina

All played in Europe
Is that not 8?

Yea I stand corrected

His napoli contract ends June 30, 2025..

Philosopher1979:
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

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 of the very legends of the game.
Nothing wey some of una no go write for this thread.

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

Subzerooo:
Na you no know the difference between best team and best league and you are talking about baseless argument, go and check uefa league coefficients and revisit your post and see if you made any sense

From the all-time “top‑first‑place” tally:

England has ranked 1st in the UEFA coefficients a total of 20 times.
While
Spain (La Liga) has held 1st place on 23 occasions,
do the math.

From the recent rankings,
La Liga was on top from 2012 to 2019,
while EPL reclaimed top position from 2020 to 2025,
do the math.

This year EPL has 115 points on top,
while the Serie A on second position is on 97pts,
That's just 18-pts margin,
and this year is probably the highest point margin they've had against the 2nd ranked league, the rest are just 1 2,3 - 15 points margin.

Do your math properly and revisit your post and see who is making more sense between me and u,
And whether if your claim that EPL is by far and away better than other leagues is correct or not.

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.

Better than Bruno or Roadrunner Zaidu?

Samueltemi337:
Howfar?

Victor used the weekend to get educated

Subzerooo:
Epl is the best league in the world duh and with good negotiations he can get a good epl team like Man U, why would I want him to go to Juve or Gala what is there to achieve that he has not already done

‘what’s there in Juve’ but bro wants him to end up at Man United, God forbid

jihday:
‘what’s there in Juve’ but bro wants him to end up at Man United, God forbid

He wouldn't mind west ham
As long as it's an epl team

nairalandankrah:
His napoli contract ends June 30, 2025..

Who? If it's Osimhen, then that's not true. Infact, no club will negotiate to pay the release clause when they know they can get him for free in a couple of days.

nairalandankrah:
His napoli contract ends June 30, 2025..

which means he can leave for free?

BankyGee:
Okay sir.

Lautaro Martínez's career
🎮: 393 games
⚽: 178 goals
➗: 0.45 goals per game

Victor Osimhen's career
🎮: 265 games
⚽: 151 goals
➗: 0.57 goals per game


Any other thing to say?

First of all once again it's not so simplistic but your presentation is misleading.

Martinez has spent almost the entirety of his adult career in Seria A with Inter Milan. And his league goals are primarily in a top tier league.

However, that's not the same with VO, Belgium, French and Turkish retirement league not the same level 🎚️ as Seria A.

Don't get negative perception misled, l am not saying Martinez is a better striker than VO, I am saying he is more consistent but nobody calls him world 🌍 class.. The term CONSISTENCY is the core subject here.

That doesn't constitute HATE, maybe 🤔 in your small mind it may be so.

chrisooblog:
Chukwueze should be doing better how is that breaking news?

Tella like I said is not an upgrade. His numbers at Leverkusen say that much plus he's not even a starter.

Using 'defensive duties' and Championship numbers will not fly try something else that will stick.

In addition is it Samuel's fault that Nathan hasn't been getting games in the SE when it's the latter that is almost always pulling out when called up?

Please have some INTEGRITY.

Let me quote you verbatim, "club and national team football to be devastating when on his game"

It's that false proposition you made when you described Chukwueze,I challenged as it has no substance,no matter how you look at it.

Why will championship 🏆 numbers not fly as a unit of measurement for outstanding quality ❓

I am comparing Tella who some of have thrown under the bus 🚌 and dismissed. He has played two games and how many minutes but you dismiss him.

When VO played for Nigeria his first game was abysmal and it took several games for him to have impact.

Many of you including you choir master dismissed Aina as not being in good enough. Even justified him being dropped for the 2018 world 🌎 cup in place ofba completely dead Echjiele, Shehu, Ogu, J.Obi and now he out best defender for several years.

The prejudice is blatant and unguarded and some of you have bare faced cheek to call me a hater.

marvin906:
Managed how..
So how is la Liga and serie a mis managed please educate me
Remove the epl money do you thing big names would near the epl.
The epl is not an achievement that depreciates other leagues..

The same EPL teams wey the so-called "farmers" league PSG use climb ladder reach final...

Na only one English team reach semifinal seff, Arsenal - the rest na La Liga, Ligue 1 and Serie A, but na them dey mismanaged.

Samueltemi337:
8 serie a teams played in Europe last season and you just said you can't get it anywhere else 😒

These ones dey always argue without facts, it's like they don't even know how football works, just carry keyboard dey type.

At least if you no know something, you no go try do small research so your argument go dey valid.