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The Real Madrid star has tipped stars from the likes of Monaco, PSG and Manchester United to follow in his illustrious footsteps and land top awards


The Portugal international has been locked in competition with Barcelona’s Lionel Messi for such prizes over the past decade, but he acknowledges that there is plenty of potential within the game ready to inherit the most prestigious of crowns.


Asked by reporters to name his possible successors after picking up his latest award, Ronaldo said: “That is a very good question. I see some with great potential: Asensio, Mbappé, Neymar, Dembele, Hazard, Rashford ... and some others. In the next generation there are at least 10 players with very, very great potential.”


http://m.goal.com/x/en/news/8/main/2017/08/25/38058372/ronaldo-sees-mbappe-neymar-and-rashford-among-his-potential

The giant Swede has signed a new deal at Old Trafford, but Romelu Lukaku's arrival and the new approach at United does not play to his strengths.

In many ways, the announcement could not have come at a better time, with United buzzing from their pair of 4-0 wins in the Premier League and about to enter the Champions League once more.

What's your take base on this current Manchester united team?

Even Guardiola's tiki-taka legends couldn't retain their European crown and the question now is can anyone stop Real winning three in a row?



There comes a time when it should dawn on you that the players and teams you are watching before your very eyes rank alongside the all-time greats.
This realisation is as much about the observer as the teams and players observed and requires clarity and decisiveness in opinion-making.


It requires fans to be able to stand back and be solid in their convictions that, yes, this team or this player is the best and would probably be the best in any era.


When watching certain players this is not too difficult to manage. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are held to be better than any player that has gone before.


Team-wise, it has become widely accepted that Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona team from the years 2008-2012 were the best.
However disorientating it might be to have two all-time great teams coming one almost immediately after the other, we are now forced to consider the reality that Zinedine Zidane’s Real Madrid might already be better.


With the squad he has at his disposal, given their ages, there is no question that Zidane will have two or three years to verifiably prove that his team is the best and the signs are already there that his side could well put Pep’s in the shade.


For 27 years the record stood. No team in the European Cup or Champions League could retain the trophy. That was until Zidane came along and dismantled that record in little more than a year in charge.


He didn’t request exorbitant sums to carry it out. Indeed, he has spent quite a bit less than any other Real Madrid manager of the modern era. He turned a healthy profit this summer and last, and won those two Champions Leagues with largely the same squad.


The odd blending of young talent here – in Marco Asensio - the odd tweaking of a system there – integrating Isco into the midfield – has proven that there need not be a huge ideological uproot in order to create history.
Then there’s the small matter of Real winning their first Spanish and European double in nearly 60 years. Many have tried, many have failed. It took this squad of players, bonded together by Zidane’s gentle touch, to write a new chapter in Madrid history. No one would back them against sealing another this season.


Madrid appear to be on a higher plane than any other domestic challenger and any other aspirant to their European throne too. There is a fundamental simplicity to the type of football Zidane has requested they play.
There is a big echo in the work of Carlo Ancelotti in his system. He doesn’t ask his players to adapt to his preferences; instead he plays to their strengths.


Zidane is no zealot. He moves between systems, subtly, without dizzying his players with a raft of demands. He lets them go out there to showcase their qualities.
He now has the best centre-back in the world in Sergio Ramos, the best left-back in Marcelo, the best midfielder in Luka Modric, the best striker in Cristiano Ronaldo and the best young player in Asensio.


This is a liberated Real Madrid, utterly transformed from the day Zidane arrived. Madrid have such a characteristic habit of self-sabotage that it was hard to think anything other than implosion when Zidane was hastily announced as the replacement for Rafael Benitez.


Rafa had ridden roughshod over a group of talented if egotistical players who decided to quit on him. Zidane, with scarcely the experience or pedigree of a top-level coach, was drafted in.


Since then, Madrid went 40 games unbeaten in La Liga – setting a new record – and won seven major trophies, placing the Frenchman fourth in the all-time Madrid honours list after barely 18 months in charge.


He’s promoting from within and eschewing massive transfer fees for players which some clubs hope are the quick hit needed to find ecstasy. He is content to work with players he knows and likes – and who look up to him – which settles the squad, gives it continuity and trust inside the group. It is a very traditional method of managing the biggest example of a 21st century club out there.
But it’s not simply a matter of Zidane having made Real great. The players have to take the bulk of the credit. Whether it’s controlling the pace of matches through the wizardry of Modric, Toni Kroos, Casemiro and Isco or striking on the counter with the pace of Marcelo and Ronaldo, these men provide the template of how to play football in this era, just like Guardiola’s team did for the first time nearly a decade ago.


To promote this Real to the rank of Guardiola’s world-beaters is not to diminish the status of Barcelona. They were great; the greatest club team the world had ever seen.
They democratised a game that had seen the fittest, the fastest and the biggest come out on top. They struck a blow for the little guy – the Xavis, the Iniestas and the Messis – who were not bestowed physical gifts but cerebral ones. They showed it didn’t matter how big you were if you were well-drilled and skilful then you could compete right at the highest levels.


There was a reinstatement of the ideals of Barcelona with youth products like Pedro and Sergio Busquets promoted and Gerard Pique brought back to the club.


Every other top team looked at what Barcelona were doing and attempted to implement it themselves. Tiki-taka became the only show in town.


The success of Zidane’s Real Madrid does owe plenty to that Barca – you could imagine that midfield plus Asensio all playing in blue and red – but this is a team out on its own.


It relies less on one overarching philosophy to which all the players should adhere than it does to promotion of their intuitive skill and understanding.


It is a group which survives the absence of its most potent member in Ronaldo. It is a group which has the world looking around for a real challenger.
It would need to be a very good day for any other team and a very bad one for Real Madrid to see them defeated in any final.
It would take a monumental effort to prevent them from winning their third Champions League title in a row.


While right now these efforts to compare them to that great Barca might be immature, would anyone argue the legitimacy of their legacy if they perfected the trifecta?

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Many beggars in Kano have returned to their businesses in spite of a state government order in 2016 which banned street begging.
Our correspondent who visited some streets in the state capital on Friday, reports that many beggars were seen on the streets, including Sabo Bakin Zuwo road leading to the Kano Government House.

Some of the beggars who spoke to NAN said they returned to the streets because they were dying of hunger.
Malam Adamu Babale, said he came to Kano daily from his village to beg for money to cater for his family.

He said if he had a trade to engage in he would not have returned to street begging.
A female beggar Malama Batula Sa’idu, explained though complied with the order banning begging in the state, but could not help but beg once in a while.

The management of the state Hisbah Board said they usually conduct a surveillance aimed at arresting beggars and charge them to court.

The Director-General of Hisbah, Alhaji Abba Sufi, told NAN that the agency arrested the beggars because the state had earlier empowered them before banning the act.
He expressed concern that though some of the beggars had invested in the trade they were empowered, yet they were not satisfied.
Sufi, however, warned beggars to desist from the act, saying that the board would soon strengthen its surveillance with a view to prosecuting those of them found disobeying the law banning beggging
Kano State Government banned street begging about a year ago after empowering thousands of street beggars in various trades.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/kano-beggars-dare-gov-ganduje-return-to-streets/

adonismuller:
Who cares.. ...
I don't care about Kanu or Nigeria.. .

All I want is to make money and leave the country

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chivic:
I don't like government and I don't like KANU.

which one you dey self?

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has withheld its ruling on the Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu’s immediate return to Kuje Prison, for breaching his bail condition




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Real Madrid have dominated the shortlist, with over 20 players vying for the personal accolade after impressive seasons


BEST FIFA MEN'S PLAYER NOMINEES
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund)
Leonardo Bonucci (AC Milan, Juventus in 2016-17)
Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)
Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
Paulo Dybala (Juventus)
Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid)
Eden Hazard (Chelsea)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Free agent, Manchester United in 2016-17)
Andres Iniesta (Barcelona)
Harry Kane (Tottenham)
N'Golo Kante (Chelsea)
Toni Kroos (Real Madrid)
Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)
Marcelo (Real Madrid)
Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
Luka Modric (Real Madrid)
Keylor Navas (Real Madrid)
Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich)
Neymar (Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona in 2016-17)
Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid)
Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal)
Luis Suarez (Barcelona)
Arturo Vidal (Bayern Munich)

Who do you think that worth to be the list



m.goal.com/x/en/news/1716/champions-league/2017/08/17/37862992/messi-ronaldo-iniesta-neymar-among-nominees-for-best-fifay

Remimadrid:
If you guys had won yday, there will be no talks of messi leaving.
op HALA MADRID! respect the king.

hope Ronald case is settledbecause na dugout I dey see dat guy...Hola! Madrid

The five-time Ballon d'Or winner is the only good thing about Barcelona currently and he would do well to consider the prospect of winning elsewhere

This summer has brought into sharp focus two things; one, clubs are having to pay more than ever for elite talent and two, Barcelona’s buy-out fees in that context are set tantalisingly low.

Neymar went to Paris Saint-Germain for a fee of €222 million (£200m). Casting the eye around the other completed deals you are left with the impression that €222m for Neymar feels about right in the current climate.

If Romelu Lukaku for example is worth up to £90m then Neymar is priced correctly. Buy-out clauses are supposed to be a deterrent; at Barca, they are more like an invitation.

Consider that Messi’s buy-out currently stands at €250m. If Lukaku is £90m and Neymar is €222m then Messi comes in positively cheap at €250m (£225m).

Messi “agreed” a new Barca contract earlier on this summer but as yet it remains unsigned. It is, however, reported to be a formality and the new deal will see Messi through to 2021. A new buy-out will be set at €300m (£270m) - still a bargain given Messi’s credentials.

Madrid don’t fear Barca; they toy with them and Messi deserves better.


Do you guys agree with this?

A new deal for the Argentine attacker was announced earlier this summer, but the document is still missing his signature
Lionel Messi is yet to sign the new Barcelona contract that was announced in July amid an early-season meltdown on and off the pitch.
Barca revealed last month that the five-time Ballon d'Or winner, 30, had agreed a fresh deal which will see him stay at Camp Nou until 2021.

A press release on the club's website stated: "The deal will be signed in the coming weeks, when Messi returns to the team for pre-season training."

But after Wednesday night's 2-0 loss at Real Madrid in the Spanish Supercopa - a 5-1 aggregate defeat - Barcelona were forced to defend the fact that Messi is yet to put pen to paper on deal.

“Leo's renewal is something we are totally clear about and we have worked on it for a long time. Everything looks very good and I would be very surprised if the signing didn't happen."

Messi's previous deal, which is still valid until the new contract is signed, expires at the end of 2017-18 and the Argentine has a release clause of €250m.


http://m.goal.com/x/en/news/8/main/2017/08/17/37857862/barcelona-in-lionel-messi-limbo-as-new-contract-remains

geunik:
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Stoke City can now boast that they are the Premier League club with the most Champions League winners following Jese Rodriguez's loan move from Paris Saint-Germain.

The forward, who has struggled for playing time – and goals – at Parc des Princes was announced as having signed a season-long deal with the Potters on Wednesday morning.

Jese joins fellow Champions League winners Darren Fletcher (Manchester United), Bojan Krkic (Barcelona), Xherdan Shaqiri (Bayern Munich) and Ibrahim Afellay (Barcelona) to see Stoke become England's top flight side with the most UCL winners with a total of five.

Chelsea follow Mark Hughes' side in the leaderboard with four, while Manchester City have three, Manchester United have two, while Arsenal and Liverpool boast only one each.

Juventus lost the Supercoppa Italiana for the third time in four seasons as Alessandro Murgia gave Lazio a stoppage-time triumph.
Alessandro Murgia came off the bench to snatch Supercoppa Italiana glory as Lazio secured a breathless 3-2 win over Juventus amid remarkable late drama at the Stadio Olimpico.