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Spurs present structure is anemic to success. Irrespective of how talented the manager is, they don't soar above their average. Chelsea is going to face same issues, Roman knew how to always get them out of a hole with money, but the new owners won't be willing to go that far. Spurs needs to be sold to solve it's problems.

The last line is so true. There is an internal culture in that club causing their instability.

Poor recruitment as a long standing tradition is the bane of Tottenham. Excessive turnover of dysfunctional players.

Tottenham has a penchant for recruiting strong, burly, forceful players of which they have in excess at the expense of creative, technical and thoughtful talents leading to serious midfield problems that has haunted the club for years and the unending search for a coach that plays 'attractive' football.

Their recruitment is the problem.

They should take a leaf from their cross city bitter rivals, Arsenal who have taken the other extreme position albeit with a better balance and has all these little midgets running rings round opposing defences.

There is a saying here that if you are not close to a 6 footer Spurs are unlikely to sign.

That is between N40,000 and N80,000 to fill up from empty.... interesting.

Yugoslavia247:
Abeg.

No end times Stories.
This is just planets. It has always Happened and it wont be the last.
Please.
It is a beautiful sight to behold.

Don't be too hasty in dismissing 'end of the world as we know it' aka endtime theorists.
Yes, it has happened before, perhaps thousands of times in the lengthy history of this solar system, but the simple physics of such huge bodies with monstrous latent energies in line or closer proximity will have certain effects that could endanger this planet down the line.

Imagine two speeding heavily laden trucks or trains passing each other on the high way or overtaking one another side by side.
You can imagine what will happen to a hapless 'okada' of an asteroid in between them or an unfortunate taxi that comes near.
The outcome remains uncertain.
I hope astrologists are on the look out for any potential 'event' because our precious earth is an okada when compared to some of these planetary giants.

PerfectJUSTICE:
The Osimen Napoli released to Nigeria

Kai, you people are mean....
But Osimen didn't have anything like the Napoli players around him after all soccer is a team sport.

The next four years will be very turbulent in this country with all manner of civil strife due to the unpopularity of the outgoing and the widely perceived injustices associated with the incoming one.

If the Buhari regime had it rough with the citizenry of this country, I cannot fathom what is coming next.

The Tinubu regime will have to go over and beyond performance expectations to be let any breathing space. And that is far from guaranteed noting the decrepit state of the nation.

I remember the period and all the talk around that time and the conclusion was that it was all about the money. His wages at PSG was paltry and Bolton came up with the best offer.

The problem was that with all his skills and abilities Okocha was a late bloomer. He got into Europe like his senior contemporaries of that time when already in his prime so he didn't really have a long enough career to make better, strategic decisions.

Absolutely correct.
So that when the misrule starts you can freely criticize like me with a clear conscience.
All these, 'come and let us work together' is camo for 'append whatever I intend to do'.
Those who live by principles and follow ideologies either have it their way or not.
There are clear divisions in every serious democracy worldwide.
Winning or losing elections is not the end of the matter.
It is governance that matters.

If this is a foretaste of what will happen over the next four years of the Tinubu led APC government then it clearly going to be a torrid time.

But I guess that is what happens when you are elected by a simple majority, but not by a popular vote.

The truth is that only 1 out of 4 people who went to the polls voted in this government and the ambience of this uncharted trip remains uncertain.

Just watching Cameroun now. Similarly went down to a minnow Namibia in the first half but see how they are playing with all their might and determination and they have drawn level.

Their pitch too is horrendous and their players are not too skilful but they have given it a go.

We just don't have this spirit or will on our shores these days.

Testimony1988:
Hahahahah, I just don't know why he's offside.

He is used to those behind him reading his movements and making those key passes in a timely manner. I guess both wingers and midfielders today were only interested in dribbling into the box.

This is what a good coach should have noticed and cut it out. But the second half was exactly as the first indicating Pesiero saw nothing wrong....

I hope the technical department notes that.

RockyEyo:
Can this country go on break for sometime??
We used to be the envy to many but now....
Can we just go into recess??
Take a break?
Timeout?
Whatever we going to call it....

Even the hardiest optimistic or strongest delusionist will have to admit that Nigeria is not heading in the right direction in almost every aspect of life. Sports and football in particular feeds off this debasement and is just a barometer of the times we live in.

A fragmented society, uncaring but self serving leadership that is bereft of ideas and the spirit of excellence....a nation just drifting.

Wotowotoman:
If he remove Chukweueze na you go still come here and crucify him say na chukwueze for score. Na today?

How many goals has Chukwueze scored in his career for the coach to depend on him for goals. His value is in his link up play and he wasted many opportunities with needless dribbles that wasted time and caused the GB defence time to fall back and consolidate time and again and then his poor crosses....

I hope the coach sits them down to review the match tape. It will make for sore eyes.

The point man in that team is Osimen. But none of the forwards played to Osimen's strengths which is either through passes on the run or well flighted crosses. Then the daft coach brought in Onuachu who plays exactly the same position leading them to get into each other's way frequently.

Just schoolboys errors all over.

Twhyhenry8296:
There’s no excuse for failure. Let’s support this boys to win d match before we start castigating the officials for using this stadium.

Oya, match is over and lost woefully, so start castigating.
Because if we keep quiet, NOTHING will change in Nigeria,but progressively worsen.
The unwillingness of Nigerians to demand better in every aspect of life has brought this country to her knees in every possible way.

At last he has seen that Chukwueze was just a waste of time. It took him all match long.

Onuachu is poor. What has he brought to this team for the past 5 years or so....

Can anyone critique this team to find out if there has been any improvement since we went out of the world cup to Ghana.... because I cannot see any whatsoever..

On the pitch I think the coach either reign in Chukwueze's needless dribbles or looks for someone better suited to team play. The defence is new so I don't blame them much. The keeper department is the biggest problem with this team. We completely lack talents here.

xynerise:
Despite all our star players, yet we always disappoint

Nigerians are cultured around individualism.
It is ingrained in our DNA, in our society, our politics, in our businesses and careers.
We find it difficult to succeed in anything TOGETHER, to build a prosperous society.
We really need to sit down and converse together as a nation (restructuring) because we seem to be drifting apart and it affects everything.
Win or lose these soccer stars will be back at their bases within a week leaving Nigerians celebrating their individuality not what we have all be able to achieve.
Nigeria is breaking down gradually.
Guinea-Bissau for heavens sake..... just sad.

Defence is shambolic.
GB walking around like its Christmas.
Our football has indeed collapsed.... like most things in Nigeria.

Twhyhenry8296:
The pitch isn’t the problem cos d our opponent just scored there, so we should be able to beat them if our boys are serious with this match.

The pitch is terrible.
Stop making excuses for mediocrity.

The match has started since.
Is this the best this forum can put up on match day.....

One thing this saga has proven, is that Nigerians are not as innovative in a positive way as one was thought.
You would have expected so may alternative payment systems springing up to serve every strata of society.
If it such opportunities were created to criminally exploit systems billionaires will have emerged long ago.

The citizens of a nation that are not respected by themselves deserve to be maltreated by a feudal leadership class.

For a governor of an impoverished state within in a country reputed to have the largest number of super poor people on earth to be preparing himself to live like a monarch is just amusing to some of us.

Can the people of the state, at least the enlightened ones care to inquire how governor's and state level political representatives the decent world over conduct themselves, project their characters and align their interests.

What a pity.

HighTableVoice:
Better ignore the narrative. It is impossible for even a small guest house not having a standby generator, let alone. Abeg. It's still people trying to tarnish this country image up and down calling it a zoo. That pic could have been taken before the players even arrive. Realease the training in darkness video.. don't be sway by a thing like the disgusting blogging write up on a single laptop. I refuse to believe

There are even worse stories we have heard here in Abuja since Monday when they started arriving.
Players being crammed into aged 14 seater buses, etc.
Leave this 'ostriching' abeg.
The NFF is a mess and a reflection of the country presently.
And you can imagine the new head was elected just a few months ago.
Then you ask, on what basis.
But then this is Nigeria where elections are just for elections sake. Nothing ever changes positively.

That is what we keep on saying.
That the nation is stagnant at best but for the most continues to slide into hopelessness.
Yet we are content with electoral victories, who has won and lost and who we are handing over the keys of the nation to.
But after decades we cannot admit that it is just not worth it.

Indeed they had better because with the lowest political capital since the restart of democracy in 1999 (only 4 of 10 Nigerians who went to the polls voted for the ruling APC), the incoming Tinubu government is hamstrung at taking the hardest decisions to move this country forward.

So the Buhari government which has exacerbated the country's economic woes by reckless borrowings and other acts of financial irresponsibility over the past 8 years should honorably fall on its sword and go out in infamy by plugging the bleeding public finances since it cannot summon the moral courage to reduce the horrendous cost of governance or this coming government will be suffer serious governance problems.

TheGoodJoe:
Keep wasting money. Instead of investing heavily in human capital development and pulling people out of poverty. You are investing in flyover.


HE THAT BUILDS THE CITY WITHOUT FIRST BUILDING THE MAN, BUILDS THE CITY IN VAIN.

There is a wiser way to do both simultaneously. One that is lost on our leaders but is used all over the world by nations that have been transformed.

That is by doing these necessary public works but by growing indigenous capacity particularly geared at local materials, onshore equipment and direct labour.

To really pull a citizenry out of poverty in our case government must of necessity stop the economic tradition of contracting or adopt it only in private public partnerships.

Ah, ah.... I thought we all agreed a while ago that the government was... 'doing well'....
Why can't Nigerians just face the reality of their actions.
They say one thing today, undermine society with their sentiments and biases and the next day wail when their very actions push back against them and to their detriment.
We must be the most self deceptive people on earth.... or the slowest mentally amongst the planet's species.

anigbajumo:
Na wa oo, I dey Ekiti and I don’t even knw his daughter is even in the race. If he is a bad person his daughter supposed to loose that election.

If you ask me, na who I go ask.....
Nigerians are funny people.
After collecting crumbs to empower their oppressors they later lament.

They said he had no impact..... yet he got there twice.... by what means.....HOW?... only in Africa.

And then we say the colonial was bad... what is the difference?

If you had hinted them all those years ago to vote right and for the right reasons they would have insulted you from head to toe just as they are presently doing today.

Elistho:
My vote counted, but we didn't win because others bought votes. They're two different things, get it straight.

How exactly do you mean by 'votes COUNT'

For this has been peddled over the airwaves throughout Nigeria in this season of elections.

Is it the physical counting of votes or the electoral impact of polling and casting of votes to determine leadership.

If it is the former, yes you participated in a game and scored a goal, if it is the later then VAR has checked and ruled your goal null and void.

For some it is pointless voting in a SYSTEM that cannot guarantee the just rules of the game, just like playing a match with a weak willed referee who cannot officiate properly. What is the point.

So who wins, because a trophy must be presented. Well, there is always the option of a walk-over so that you don't give the cheating side the satisfaction of a competition. That will definitely blunt the celebrations.

Perhaps Nigerians can force constitutional changes by not playing compromised games with dodgy referees. It is not new. People all over the world boycott elections for various reasons particularly where they see that elections for elections sake is not moving them forward.

For why participate only to legitimize a flawed process and a rogue government. So sorry for the people of Akwa Ibom and the rest of Nigeria. There are many things to learn from those who have developed their nations and we have got to gain knowledge of how this democracy thing really works.

Kobonaire4:
The funny thing about this thread are the number of fans of army rule that have sprung up.

These people are Peter Obi supporters whose side lost, and who, in their anger, think that army rule is the way to stop Tinubu from taking over.

At the end of the day, they are mad their side lost, and are basically calling for victory to be taken away from the winning side because of their anger.

Typical human nature.

I know tho, that if it was Tinubu people who lost, they too would be calling on the army to take over. Some of them were during the PDP admin calling on the army to remove PDP from power.

At the end, people need to understand that in democracy, there are winners and losers. The last thing we need is a coup. It is not like the millitary era was any better anyway, it was even worse in many ways.

Anyway, too bad PDPAPCLPNNPP would be ruling us again for another 4 years.

One can see how the typical Nigerian thinks. It is always short 'termish', only about 'winners' and 'losers' not about the quality of the process that would make the quality of the product, which will in turn determine the experience of the user or consumer.

If your pure water was made this way, with the exchange of money for compromises will you drink it in that knowledge.

How about if you discover that the grand looking building you live in is compromised similarly, ir the car you drive, the aircraft you fly, the drugs you take or the quack doctor who is about to perform an intervention.

But Nigerians don't think this far or will not search this deep to find out why their beloved country simply cannot make headway despite two and a half decades of democracy, countless elections costing them trillions of naira.

Can you personally spend so much time, effort and expense on anything in life and still make no progress and be contented....