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All of a sudden these people want to talk about stats. Nobody had better stats than Messi in 2018 but he came 5th.

TheGoodJoe:

Sneijder was key in treble-winning and champions league. The person that they gave was not key in that.

CR7 was key in the Champions league that Modric won and was also impactful at the World Cup. Even though Modric was brilliant, he was never close to CR7 in comparison for the year.

Finito.

So maybe the 2010 ballon d'or should have been given to milito instead? Cos he performed better than sneijder at club level but did f.uck all at the world cup, just like Ronaldo.

chrisooblog:
You must show me actual numbers not popularity contest this is not Nigerian elections.

Sneijder had the highest number of assists in UCL, man of the match in final. WC highest number of MOTM Awards, joint highest goal scorer
yet he's undeserving?

Modric was he Madrid's best player that year? Player of the tournament that lost world cup final how many goals did Luka even score or how many MOTM performances did he win to be named player of the tournament? UEFA best player that had less assists than James Milner abeg no use laugh kill me

Milito that scored 6 goals behind Messi and CR7 just proves my point how ridiculous the awards system is.

You see, unlike you, I do not use only numbers to tell me what I watch with my eyes, if I did, I'd probably be among the lazy football fans who believe lampard is better than iniesta.

See, if you watched the 2018 world cup and honestly don't believe that modric played the most significant role in taking Croatia to the final then maybe we should not be having this conversation.

My point from the beginning of this is that modric had as much impact in 2018 as sneijder in 2010, and if you believe sneijder deserved ballon d'or in 2010 and modric didn't deserve it in 2018 then your bias should be glaring to you.

You speak of numbers, if we pull up Messi's numbers from that year, will sneidjer's hold a lamp to it?

jihday:
so because he scored a hat trick in a competition where they were thrown out in the R-16 it shows he’s better than a man who carried his team to the final of the same tournament?

You sef see how illogical that sounds?

TheGoodJoe:
I started suspecting Messi from Netherlands in 2005. How they gave that man 2 penalties and gbam best player over Mikel was straight shocking. Since then they have been bending anything bendable to call him GOAT.

And ofcourse there is always a sad origin for these people looking at Messi's achievements through biased lens.

Either a Nigerian pissed at Messi for his showings against us, or a man u fan yet to recover from the torments Messi inflicted on their greatest ever coach, or a Madrid fan that watched a 19year old Messi pummel them with a hat trick at the bernabeu.

There is always a sad origin for the illogical bias

chrisooblog:
Modric example and that of Sneijder is not the same. CR7 had also won the UCL that season was even more instrumental than Modric for Real Madrid. At the World Cup Modric wasn't the obvious best player of the tournament so how they decided to give him the Balon d'Or only the organizers and people that voted for Luka can decide but don't forget Ronaldo had a rape accusation hanging over his head which maybe scared voters.

Sneijder I repeat performed excellently at two of the biggest football spectacles for that year no one would have batted an eyelid if they had given him the Balon d'Or for 2010

Sneijder lost UEFA player of the season to milito, lost world cup player of the tournament to forlan but deserves ballon d'or.

Modric won UEFA player of the season, won world cup player of the tournament but didn't deserve ballon d'or. Got it. Loud and clear.

chrisooblog:
Yes Sneijder wasn't Inter's best player but he contributed. Plus his performance at the World Cup that year clearly showed he was deserving of being named world's best player. Performing at two of the biggest grand stages of world football and still not being considered? Haba mana!

Fast forward to 2018, modric had almost the same season as sneijder 2010 and majority of football fans said Ronaldo was robbed.

It shows that many people didn't genuinely believe sneijder should have won that award, they were only angry Messi won. Give that award to Ronaldo and the conversation would be different. We saw it in 2013.

andrewbaba44:
Ribery was Bayern best player that years bro’s

I blame kante and France for making people like forgiveness dream of back passer Jorginho winning the ballon d or ,is this guy even better than prime obi Mikel ?

Bro these people do not care about fairness, all these talk about fairness Is disingenuous.

If they did care about fairness, they'd talk about Ribery 2013. A year when ballon d'or voting had closed but had to be reopened after Ronaldo scored a hat trick at the world cup qualification playoffs.

Ronaldo did not win any trophy that year and remains the only trophyless ballon d'or winner.
He won that award solely for qualifying Portugal - not even through normal qualification route, but through playoffs - for the world cup. That also against a Ribery who won almost everything.

So anybody talking about ballon d'or robberies and doesn't mention 2013 is a hypocrite.

chrisooblog:
Sneijder won UCL that year na!

Ribery wasn't Bayern's best player that year. CR7 and Messi had almost equal records that season but Ronaldo edged it.

Going by your logic, sneijder wasn't Inter's best player in 2010

What are they smoking over there at CAF??

AndSunGorilla:
Chairman!!! Good to see you back. What's your opinion on the current hullabaloo, shenanigans and brouhaha going on with Rohr's continued stay as coach. Please look into your plastic ball and tell us the "next" anointed one.

Lol.. Let's hope the Rohr debacle is sorted out this week. On the next coach, you never can tell with this NFF, we can only hope they get a coach with a clear style because as it seems, we have been lacking that for a while.

islayer do you remember this convo? You doubted Barca would take a chance with xavi and I told you it'll happen in 2021, this was in 2019

Akinkunmi Amoo Ending careers in sweden
https://twitter.com/ScoutedFtbl/status/1381214697316306944

Varane tests positive for Covid, Will miss El clasico

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iheanacho wins pl player of the month

TheSuperNerd:
The Super Eagles Chief Scout, Tunde Adelakun has denied the story in its "entirety". But that's not to say a couple names there are not close to wrapping up their switch.

Some are true. Some are false.

thanks

how true?

tesppidd:
They actually called it player of the century; but what they actually meant was "Player of the century so far"

That's actually a big joke.

But what is a bigger joke is the fact that the awarding body still has the temerity to continue dishing out awards year in year out.

Ronaldo has won 8 of their last 10 player of the year award and his agent Mendez has won 9 out of the last 10 agent of the year award.

And then the biggest joke of all is Ronaldo organizing a presser and declaring "I am honoured to receive this award"

Even funnier. They'd go any length to massage their paymaster's ego

TheHulk616:
this is not true. GOAT Ronaldo won player of the century. You cant logically say messi is the greatest player in the world ever, and he can't win player of the century. It doesn't make any sense.

The century is just 21 years in. Who gives player of the century when there is still 79years left in the century? It's like giving player of the year in January with 11months yet to be played. Clowns

eni4real:
Musa scored just 2!!

Yeah. I somehow mistook Iceland for Argentina and counted his two goals against them.

Subzero047:
Messi has scored 4 goals against Nigeria

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Barça XI: Ter Stegen, Semedo, Piqué, Lenglet, Firpo, Busquets, De Jong, Arthur, Vidal, Messi and Griezmann. according to sky sport italy

phr0nesis:
What if the shooting is just Ghost faking his own death to start a new life elsewhere, away from the limelight

This is the likeliest scenario tbh. There is a spin off billed to begin sometime this year that would be focused on the life of Ghost after these events.

Zach Lowy just did this piece on Osimhen.

Weekly Wonderkids: Episode 2

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Age: 20

Club: Lille

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Introduction

From battling relegation to finishing second, it’s been a volatile two years for Lille, who currently find themselves 8th in Ligue 1 – six points behind 2nd-placed Marseille – and bottom of their Champions League group. One can attribute this drop in form to their questionable transfer window, which saw Nicolas Pépé, Rafael Leão and Thiago Mendes depart for three of the four most expensive fees received in the club’s history.

It’s a case of quality over quantity; Yusuf Yazıcı and Timothy Weah have failed to replicate Pépé’s impact, whereas Renato Sanches and Benjamin André are struggling to fill Mendes’s shoes. But while Leão continues to lag behind Krzysztof Piątek in Stefano Pioli’s pecking order at Milan, Osimhen has announced himself as one of the breakout stars of the season at Lille.

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As Jonathan Ikoné and Jonathan Bamba struggle to recover last season’s form without Pépé, Osimhen has taken the goalscoring responsibility of the team on his shoulders, having already netted more goals than Leão managed over the entire course of last season. But while this is the season that catapulted him onto newspaper headlines and Champions League nights, Osimhen first revealed his star potential four years ago, in the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Record-breaking Dominance in Chile

Osimhen grew up in the Lagos neighborhood of Olosun, home of the largest open-air dump in Africa, and helped his family stay afloat by selling bottled water on the streets. At a time when other strikers were gaining valuable training sessions and world-class coaching, Osimhen worked hard to make ends meet, following his mother’s death and his father’s dismissal from his job as a police officer. Nevertheless, he never gave up his dream of becoming a footballer, and in the U-17 World Cup, his dream finally came to fruition.



Alongside an attack featuring Samuel Chukwueze and Kelechi Nwakali, Osimhen scored in each of Nigeria’s matches to amass a total of 10 goals, powering the Golden Eaglets to the trophy as the Golden Boot winner. To this day, nobody besides Osimhen has ever netted double figures for their nation across a U-17 World Cup.

His goal-scoring figures propelled manager Samson Siasia to start him in next month’s U-23 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) Final, which would also be won by Nigeria. The likes of Inter, Dortmund and Arsenal showed a strong interest in the teenage striker, but it was Wolfsburg who managed to pry him away.

Struggles to Adapt in Germany

He officially joined the German club on January 5, 2017, but his start to life in Europe came to an abrupt halt just weeks later; the €3.5 million new arrival, who had completed surgery on his knee just two months prior, was forced to undergo a meniscal procedure that would rule him out until the penultimate Bundesliga match of the season.

Osimhen made his full debut nearly a year after joining, leading the line against Hannover. But he only managed two more starting appearances for Wolfsburg, with new manager Bruno Labbadia opting mainly for veterans as Die Wölfe waged another relegation fight.

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At 19 years old and with only 333 minutes of club football under his belt, Osimhen decided to head west for greener pastures, trying out for several Belgian clubs. Malaria had weakened his body to the point where neither Club Brugge nor Zulte Waregem were willing to take him on loan. Instead, it would be Charleroi who took a chance on him, signing him on loan with a purchase option for €3.5 million.

Resurrection in Belgium; Breakthrough in France

Osimhen took the opportunity by the scruff of his neck, scoring 19 goals in 30 appearances and winning Charleroi’s Player of the Season award. The club just barely missed out on a spot in the Europa League play-offs, after Antwerp came from behind to earn a spot in the ensuing qualifiers.

Nonetheless, this would not dissuade Lille from signing him to replace the departing Leão, and it’s thanks to this signing that despite a substandard start to the season, Lille still have a decent chance of beating out a staggeringly weak group of contenders and securing Champions League football for next season.

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It didn’t take long for him to open his tally under Christophe Galtier, with the Nigerian scoring a brace on his Ligue 1 debut against Nantes. Another brace against Saint-Étienne soon followed, and by the end of November, Osimhen had already registered 9 goals and 2 assists. Perhaps most impressively, he’s done it in a Lille team that looks devoid of ideas going forward, last season’s counter-attacking demons withering into a stale, overly conservative side that fails to strike the same fear into defenders. That’s the kind of player Osimhen is though – a natural born killer who only needs a half-chance to bring home all three points.

Apart from carrying Lille up top, Osimhen has also filled the sizeable shoes of Odion Ighalo, who retired from international duty after last summer’s semi-finals exit. During last month’s qualifiers for the 2021 AFCON, Osimhen netted the equalizer against Benin and fired in a brace against Lesotho, as the Super Eagles retained leadership of Group L.

Plotting his next big-money move

His performances in the league and Champions League have brought about several potential suitors, such as Barcelona, who will be on the lookout for a long-term replacement for Luis Suárez next year. José Mourinho, who frequented Lille matches prior to replacing Mauricio Pochettino as Tottenham manager, has been rumored to be interested in signing him as competition for Harry Kane. The Special One already raided Les Dogues last month, adding Nuno Santos and João Sacramento to his technical staff in London. Should Kane’s ankle injuries continue to resurface, Mourinho may have no other choice but to sign the 20-year-old forward to reinforce his attacking options.

Less likely is a move to Real Madrid, which Osimhen previously admitted to being the “club of his dreams.” Nonetheless, if Osimhen can keep up his red-hot performances into the new year, expect him to be one of the hottest items on next summer’s market.

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Komekn, Hope you can see the bolded. Osimhen is Mourinho's type of striker and mourinho is monitoring him.

His fans are secretly hoping VVD wins it while VVD outchea throwing shots at him. Try and make this up

obainojazz:
Messi just equalled Ronaldo's la liga hatricks... Even after playing more games and staying more years.. That didn't make headline, no one is interested in that dead league... Ronaldo already conquered it

Nothing to see here. In the 9 years ronaldo was in the league, messi had more goals, won more top scorers award.
Messi had Neymar and Suarez to feed balls to and he typically starts looking to get them on the scoresheet after scoring.

TLona1:
Madrid players don enter am. Hazard fan boys will soon start blaming all of them for Hazard's failure.

Asin eh

Clementoke:
Golden Eaglet Lineup

Amoo on the bench still

I thought amoo did enough to justify a start today. Well..

Humility017:
and who are you to judge my words
I should maintain my chase and keep talking on how good he is of a footballer?

my Dad used to say....there is no one that is indispensable.... even though we adore and want them so much when the good leaves the best comes....

so please.... just the fact that some of us point out his obvious weakness in the last match which I didn't even make comment because I didn't watch it does not mean they've not being consistent with words...or rather they're hating on him....

it is the psychological....sometimes you focused your mind on the shortcomings of that desire beyond your reach just to discourage or take your mind of it...

Whatever you say, man. Cheers

Humility017:
he is not an exceptional lad...even though I believe he has something the current super eagles lack...

getting him to play for us would have be a win win situation for us both....but since he does not want it...
what next we better forge ahead....

please Dude is not messi or ronaldo... we simply can do without him.... don't expect us to lick his booths simply because we want him play for us.....

we have tried, Rohr has done his part.... in one of my posts on Twitter rooting for his call up...he liked it.

You have your opinion as does everyone else. I'll be the last person to chastise you for your opinion, but when that opinion becomes swayed by your emotional state, you have to really sit down and ask yourself what it's worth.

Let your truth be consistent is all i'm saying.

Humility017:

na wa for you oooo.
where you expecting us to lick his booths ?
or start chanting EZE RONALDO MESSI LAMPARD,MODRIC....
dude is just there not an exceptional talent self

You did not realize this when you thought he was going to put on the gwg?

This was you just a few weeks ago

Humility017:
tell your coach to go cap EZE abeg. with that guy in the team we won't miss iwobi input much

This was you supporting a post calling Rohr a corrupt coach because he didn't call up Eze

Humility017:
I think Chriskels is right....
this man is not that clean...

wish NFF can pay a good foreign coach we would have gone for someone like arsene Wenger even if it is not possible but someone obviously better than this old German that has no clue

Again, you're calling for his invitation

Humility017:
nobody is asking you to beg him...
call him asap

And now you're referring to him as 'Just there'? What changed?
Seems this cap fits.