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Panther7:
There are reports saying pogba's agent Raiola offered him to Barcelona I hope this is not true because pogba's body language suggest so, I think he is not happy with mourinho.

I hope it's true and Barca are willing to pay up to 180m for him. I say, sell him and get Eriksen fast.

Oasis007:


Guess you know I've stopped being a Fan of Mou since last Season?! Do you really think we are ready for the Title Challenge with the current Squad?!

I don't think we are, but it's nobody's fault but Mou's. So, no excuses for him will be accepted.

larride:
Oasis, don’t angry me

How is expecting a league title from the highest paid coach in the league lofty ambition that can’t be attained. If after 3 season we still can’t challenge for the league then Mou has no business being our manager. That we are silent in the TW is also in part to Mou, this man gave Afroman a new contract ffs

We are the richest and most successful team in England, Mou better deliver the league or bounce. No excuse.

You dey mind Oasis? Excuses already being made for Mourinho after 2 seasons, backed by cash even if it's not up to Pep's own. Mou has no excuse. If he renewed the contracts of deadwoods he complained about, then he has no excuse.

eph12:
I'm not sure that's the case. His inability to take responsibility for his team's poor results, outdated mentality is the the issue here

Mourinho's number one problem @ embolden. Even if he refuses to accept responsibilities, if he doesn't use outdated and backward tactics, we'd have still been good. His outdated mentality is why he's okay playing a right-footed winger as our left full-back. No top club does that in EPL except backward Mourinho.

JayKayMaybachz:
Manchester United have been strongly linked with Bale in recent months and TeamTalk are citing a report from the Manchester Evening News that claims the Reds are in advanced talks over a potential £70m deal.

Bale and his agent wan use us convince Madrid's new coach that he's highly sought after. Las las na to sign new contract after meeting with the coach while we end up not beefing up that RW position. Make Mou forget Bale coz Madrid no go gree let him and Ororo leave in the same TW.

larride:
Maguire that’s not better than Smalling. Forget all the abracadabra that he does with ball at his feet, his composure is zero and he tends to draw foul easily. Maguire shouldn’t be mentioned in the same sentence as Alderweireld.

I prefer Smalling to Maguire, but Maguire has better composure than Smalling.

weedtaker:
make mourinho no just disappoint next season na en be my own.

Na the way forward be this. Make Mourinho do as em like, but no excuse next season. Shikena.

patrickmuf:
I'd rather have us sign Alderweireld than Maguire right now, we could do with some experience and leadership in that back 4...

Same here. I just don't understand the hype on that Maguire lad. Imagine 50m. Say na Sergio Ramos em be? He's okay but he's not a top defender jare. English medias overhype their players a lot, I pray Mourinho doesn't fall for the words of those hype men. Alderweireld is a better defender than Maguire.

Graeme Souness believes England have been a “back-to-front team playing very basic football” at the World Cup.

The former Scotland midfielder was speaking in his role as a pundit for BeIN Sports after England were knocked out by Croatia in Wednesday night’s semi-final.

Croatia came from behind to win 2-1 after extra-time – a result which prompted Souness to attack the Three Lions, with Jesse Lingard and Dele Alli specifically criticised.

Souness said: “I want to emphasise the midfield. You can’t win the big trophies, you can’t dominate football matches, you can’t put yourself in a position where you are not giving the ball away unless you’ve got good players in midfield who can keep the ball.

“I come back to Lingard and Dele Alli – two players who want to get on the end of things after there has been clever play by somebody else. “They don’t want to get involved in keeping the ball and dominating possession.

“They want to be involved in scoring the goals and getting on the end of things.

“And the make up of the team was all wrong tonight. All wrong tonight. When they come up against a decent team, I think it was inevitable that they were going to struggle.

“Let me explain. They played the worst team in the tournament in Panama. They played, along with Saudi Arabia, probably the second worst team in the tournament, Tunisia. “Put a line through the Belgium game, that doesn’t count.

“Then they play Colombia and in the second half, Colombia were much better than them. England came back in extra-time but only after a Colombia player hit the crossbar. “They get through on penalties.

“Then they play a team in Sweden who were in awe of England. Both played a similar sort of game; long ball and feed off the bits.

“Tonight is the first time, other than the Belgium game, that they have come up against a team who wants to pop it around and keep possession – and they really, really were shown up for being a back-to-front team playing very basic football.”

Harry Kane is two goals clear in the running for the Golden Boot, but Souness reckons the Tottenham striker will become fed up with playing such a style of football.

“Harry Kane never got a kick tonight,” said the former Liverpool midfielder. “Prior to tonight, he had five shots on target in all the games.
“Harry Kane does not get shots on target because nobody is passing him any quality passes.

“He’s not getting any supply. Harry Kane will come back from that with the Golden Boot, but I don’t know the boy he might be happy, but Harry Kane will not be happy playing in that style of football.”

Souness reaffirming my analysis last night. Every complaint of mine repeated by Souness. I knew I was right when I said Alli and Lingard were no match for Modric and Rakitic. While the latter duo controlled the game, the former duo ran up and down cluelessly, more concerned with scoring than controlling the midfield in order to wrestle the initiative from the Croatians. England were more concerned with kicking the ball forward for Sterling to chase. They couldn't string passes together for 20 secs without kicking the ball up handing the momentum back to Croatia every time. No striker would thrive in that tactic, not even the best CFs out there. And Pep's fanboys were already cűmming in their pants blindly attributing England wins and style to Pep when England were not playing anything close to Pep's style.

Odizeey, come read what I've been telling you since.

odizeey:
I meant Croatian defense. sterling was running riot yesterday.

Run which riot? Aba Women Riot you mean? The only running Sterling did yesterday was headless chicken running alongside Lingard and Alli.

odizeey:
sinizia just dey talk as if England played so poorly. wen England was tearing their defense apart you were hiding o. England's childish behavior affected them. trying to waste time from 60 mins. lingard hold ball wen free kick was to be taking. walker same thing. na wetyn kill them, coupled with that clueless rashford.

Who were those defence? Panama? Tunisia? The quality of the defenders matters. The way they tore it apart matters more. England that can't string delicate passes for 30 seconds together were tearing defenders apart? How's that possible? Do you know apart from set pieces England scored I think only 2 goals from open play. The only defence they tore apart and bossed from start to finish was Panama. Even shame suppose catch you. Columbia took them to PK while Croatia, their first real test, battered and outclassed them from start to finish. Overhyped players!! Go rewatch the match and see as determination and great skills coupled with endless pressure exposed their mediocrity.

raumdeuter:
Sinizia call them by their names, e.g patrick

LOL. You forgot Unku Chic2pimp ChiLLLc2pimp and his IT'S COMING HOME band.

When we said England have been playing weak teams and will be eliminated once a stronger opposition arrives, some people doubted us. First real opposition (excluding their match against Belgium), they're dominated and outclassed in ALL departments except for goalkeeper position because Pickford couldn't catch a break all night.

England lost tonight solely because of Southgate's naivety, I'll explain. Southgate got both his formation and choice of players wrong.

1. Formation: the 3-man formation have been working against weak teams because none of the weak teams knew how to press well and put England's average and mediocre midfield to real test. Southgate went for a 3142 formation and it's all shades of wrong. When Conte used his 3-man defense, he played a 343 formation, with two defensively disciplined DMs in Matic and Kante. These 2 DMs act as an extra shield for the defense who will be left terribly exposed when the wing-backs who are expected to bomb forward, attacks. But Southgate started tonight's match with just ONE fuckîng DM against a midfield that contains naturally talented midfielders like Rakitic and Modric who CAN CONTROL THE TIDE AND FLOW OF A GAME AND CAN PASS UNDER GREAT PRESSURE AND IN TIGHT SPACES, ably supported by the workaholic Brozovic. But take a look at England's midfield cast. ALLI, LINGARD AND HENDERSON. How can you compare both midfield? Lingard is no CM, but a winger used sometimes as an AM by Mourinho. Even as an AM, he's more of a goal outlet than a midfield enforcer. Same applies to Alli who used as winger but can come in as an AM to play off Kane and score while. Both Lingard and Alli have midfield enforcers and controllers at their clubs in Pogba and the Denmark guy respectively, who can pass in tight spaces and give pass-splitting through balls. England sorely lacked ANY FORM of creativity tonight in that midfield. At point I was pitying them. What Southgate should have done was go for a 343 formation (if he'd wanted to persist with a 3-man defense)with 2 DMs, with Dier providing an added help to Henderson who was overran in that midfield, or go for 4231 formation with 2 DMs to reduce the endless wave of midfield pressure from Croatia; and while the more attack-minded Henderson move forward to attack occasionally, Dier would sit back to mop up loose balls. Which leads me to my next point. . .

2. Choice of players: I've said it before, I'll repeat it again, if Mourinho endorses Young as our first choice LB in the coming season, I'll confirm once and for all that Mourinho is outdated and living in past glory. Southgate is foolish for playing Young in an attacking set-up. All you need to understand what I'm saying is to go again and observe Rose's contribution immediately he came in and that of Young's. I doubt Young even whipped a single cross or did anything meaningful "attack-wise" till he left. Rose introduction lit up that left wing with his runs and within the short time on the field, he delivered some good crosses. Playing Young is a way of defending never attacking. Young attacks against average teams, against good teams, he spends his time defending all through.

Alli and Sterling: these guys have been mediocre and shockingly poor all through out this tournament, England's wins have been their saving grace covering their assës. Amongst the duo, Alli has been the worse. I'll make an excuse for Sterling because like I pointed out before, Southgate is very naive and couldn't recognise that Guardiola used Sterling to a devastating effect as a RW in a 3-man forward, instead he forced him to SS position which meant he couldn't stretch opposition defenders with his pace, and most importantly, gave oppositions the chance to easily close him down and dominate him aerially. In fact, I remember the match against United, ahead of City's UCL return leg against Loserfool, Guardiola played Sterling as a striker in that game while giving Jesus and Aguero who's coming back from injury some needed rest ahead of a do-or-die match. Sterling singlehandedly cost City that match with his brainfarts and horrible misses till United were able to recover and win the game from 2 goals down. That match made me realise Sterling sucks as a striker or SS. Southgate repeated that mistake through out this WC but never bothered because he's intoxicated by the wins and the rubbish IT'S COMING HOME nursery rhymes being belted out by dreaming England fans. Coming home my black hairy ass!! The only thing coming home are the players and their luggages at Heathrow with shattered hopes and unfilled lofty dreams. Southgate should have changed to 4231 after seeing the enormous pressure England were under. All he needed to do was to attack some more to reduce the pressure and push Croatia back. He'd have achieved that by switching to 4231, removing Trippier and pushing Walker to the RB (Walker will give you the attacking prowess of Trippier and he's more defensively stronger than Trippier, so he's not going to miss Trippier going out except maybe his crosses), bringing Rashford, Rose and Dier to replace Trippier, Young and Alli. Rashford moves to the LW to run at the Croatians and keep them a bit pegged back, while Sterling keeps Strinic back by forcing him not to attack much to avoid getting caught off guard during counters. Dier provides more steel for Henderson who can bomb forward without fearing of leaving his defenders open to attacks. Rose replaces Young and together with Rashford puts the fear of God on that RB, forcing Rebic, Perisic and Mandzukic to fall back to defend, thereby giving a breathing space to Maguire and Stones and England's defence in general. Southgate was instead contented with the endless pressures on his team, hoping IT'S COMING HOME anthem will somehow make the Croatians have mercy on them or defend for them. Dumb move!!

PS: Dayo is the biggest winner in this semi-final. Hazard shaku-shakus his way out of a possible WC win, while England got booted out. He'll be boisterous tonight and have the edge over EPL fans again. What a dose of double blessings for him.

I'm officially moving to Team France. Pogboom, Kante and Mbappe, no fall my hands abeg.

raumdeuter:
Thats just official time, not considering the extra time added for each half o, if you add those extra minutes , At least 6 vs Brazil and another 6 vs France, thats 192mins

192mins > 3 hours of football and 1 chance created, without traffic in 3hours you can travel by car from Lagos to Ife.

That means hazardfan1 can leave Ife drive enter Lagos, enter olosho joint finish 2 rounds and Hazard still wont have more than 1 chance created.

This is the zenith of trolling.

sod09:
another waste pipe is Matuidi...getting off too

Effect of Oshogbo weed while watching football. How can any sane person watch today's match and call Matuidi a waste pipe? He's one of Les Blues best player tonight. If not for him and Kante, Belgium would've wrecked havoc in that midfield. He's MY best French player tonight.

Lana1:
Who did what?? Na ur people's foolishness for here dey always carry me come here.

I've said this b4 and i will say it again....
I want someone to bring out proof of any post where a United fan was caught saying "We won the transfer window".
If NL is not enough, y'all can widen the search parameters to include Facebook, twitter, reddit, tumblr, etc....

Na noise una sabi make for here. All bark no bite. Toothless dogs everywhere!!

Whenever I read comments about winning the transfer trophy jabs aimed at United fans especially from Gayners fans, all I see are hypocritical statements borne out of hate, out of the fact that other clubs can buy a player they so much love but can't afford.

The same Gayners (including others that type that bunkum) will be on this thread insulting Wengay for being too stingy and not buying a player they want. It smacks of hypocrisy and jealousy as they go from dreaming of buying a top player to denigrating United if we buy such players. Man City have out-spent all EPL teams in two seasons in a row, and not to mention of their massive spending in past years, but nobody mocks them of winning transfer window trophy.

Barcelona bought Dembele and Coutinho in one season, their fans were happy, but Gayners didn't accuse them with that boring statements. If it's United now, you'll see them crawl out of their holes in droves talking about winning a transfer window.

I mean, are fans of United supposed to be mourning when a player is signed? Are we supposed to keep quiet when we sign players or what? Imagine if it's us that have been discussing our imminent arrivals like these Gayners have been doing for a month now, we wouldn't have heard the last of it. They'd have been on our thread reciting their frustrations.

dopeJemi:
This picture just make me remember "the hitman's bodyguard". Samuel L Jackson is a fncking bastard sha funniest movie I have seen this year, Dead pool 2 is second

You sabi carry last sha. Old movie wey come out last year. It's quiet interesting, though.

raumdeuter:
Ferdinand is not right, this England team has yet to meet a strong traditional football nation

In 2002 England was stopped by Brazil, 2004 by Portugal on penalties(Figo RuiCosta, Ronaldo), 2006 by Portugal(On penalties again), 2010 by Germany, 2012 by Italy and that was the end of the Golden generation. Shows the golden generation were stopped by stronger traditional teams. Before the golden generation, 98 team was stopped by Argentina, 96 by Germany, 90 by Italy, 86 by Argentina

In this world cup who are the teams England has faced Tunisia, Panama, Belgium(which they lost), Colombia(won on penalties) and Sweden

Your progress in a knockout tournament depends on the caliber of teams you meet.

Germany reached the world cup final in 2002 with a very weak team because they played very weak opponents like Saudi Ireland Cameroun Paraguay, USA Korea, Germany in 2010 with a stronger team didn't reach the final because they played stronger teams in knockouts like Australia Ghana Serbia, England Argentina and Spain(who knocked them out)

If the golden generation was fortunate to play against these caliber of teams like Tunisia Panama Belgium, Colombia and Sweden
I am sure they will make a semi final

Very incisive post. I agree with you. The only tough team England have met was Belgium and they lost. I seriously doubt England would've eliminated Brazil like Belgium did.

larride:
You better don’t let raudmueter bobo you. Scholes is a known Pep ass licker.

If anything Conte made 3-4-3 more popular in England that almost everyone started using 3-4-3 and Southgate is playing 3-4-3 and sometimes 3-5-2. It’s not like Pep introduced 3-4-3 to England or anything.

Ask yourself, is Southgate England playing tiki taka? Or would anyone see this England team play and still go ahead to say it was Pep philosophy that was influencing how they play.

Scholes should go and sit down.

Pep's style influenced Spain's style of play but there's no single Pep's style in the way England plays. All credit should go Southgate's way and to some extent to various coaches like Pochettino, Mourinho, Pep, Conte who played their little parts with the players and formations. But attributing England success to Pep alone is the highest form of asslicking.

raumdeuter:
Scholes, who played for Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, praised Guardiola’s coaching ability and says the Spaniard has helped England’s progress.

“He is definitely [an influence on England],” Scholes said on Bein Sports.
‘Especially when you see the way they’ve got the back three, the way they’ve got the goalkeeper playing.
“I don’t think Gareth [Southgate] has made any secret of that. He’s been to see Pep and he’s picked his brain.
“He wants to know how he produces that type of football. As an England fan and ex-England player, we want to see the best possible football.[b][/b]

https://sports.yahoo.com/scholes-guardiola-gets-credit-englands-success-160742234.html

Argue with your legend

There's nothing to argue here, Scholes is just vomiting crap.

Pickford doesn't pass or keep the way Ederson does, either for England or Everton.

Walker plays as a RB for Shitty, Southgate converted him to a CB all on his own against earlier and still persisting public scrutiny. Pep has nothing to do with it.

Southgate went for a 3-man defence with 2 wingbacks, something that Pep doesn't use at Shitty. If anything, Conte should be the one being praised for England's formation.

Sterling doesn't even play like he does for City, in short he's having an average tourney. England doesn't play the Pep's way.

Last match, Southgate pushed Alli into a midfield role away from his previous wing-forward role where he's underwhelmed, and it has nothing do with Pep but Southgate's thinking outside the box to get the best out of Alli.

Scholes should get his head out of Pep's rectum.

Lana1:
So many people now hate Neymar because of his diving.

Mans spent 14+ mins on the ground throughout the tourney via diving and/or simulation. That's enough time for Brazil to score one or two goals in those respective games.

Mehn fûck Neymar. Hazard >> Neymar. Cant be rooting for a player with that kind of dirty attitude

Any love I had for Neymar vanished this WC. The greatest injustice in football history would've been Neymar winning this WC. In short, I'm already against Brazil winning the next WC if Neymar would play. Fucktãrd wanted to turn a physical competition into a swimming competition. I cussed Thierry for consoling the hediot. Even those under T.B Joshua's anointing dey learn work for that Oscar actor's hand. What a fool. Hopefully, PSG witness more UCL heartbreak with him on their books.

My dream final will be between Belgium and England or Belgium and Croatia. Anyway, any remaining country can win it now that, that pathetic kid called Neymar is out. I can't remember the last time a single player made me hate a team so much like Neymar. What an obnoxious cùnt. Let him continue his diving lessons with Micheal Phelps in USA during his holiday period. Onye ara!!

Greatihex:
Players from EPL who are still in World Cup

Manchester united
1.lingard
2.Rashford
3.young
4.Jones
5.linderlof
6.Pogba
7.Lukaku
8.Fellaini





Tottenham
1.kane
2.Dier
3.Tripper
4.Rose
5.vertonghen
6.Toby
7.dembele
8.dele ali






Manchester city
1.De bryune
2.Sterling
3.Stone
4.Delph
5.kompany
6.Mendy
7.walker







Chelsea
1.kante
2.hazard
3.Batshuayi
4.cahill
5.Roftus cheek
6. Thibaut courtois






Liverpool
1.arnold
2.Henderson
3. lovren
4. mignolet






Arsenal
1. No one �
2. No body �
3. I said no body�
4. I repeat no body�
5. I said no body�
6 my friend i said no body��




Some people don craze. Lol

Lindelof eliminated yesterday, while Assnal have Welbeck on the wheels of bench for the 3 Lions.

RuuDie:
I see... Fellaini is the man you bring in when you want to tiki-taka the opponent to death abi...

When Mourinho employs the route one football with Fellaini, two things are evident.

1. There will be little or no knocking of the ball around.

2. There will be influx of crosses left, right and center aiming for Afroman's head.

Before or after Fellaini's goal, Belgium were still knocking the ball around and weren't just aiming numerous crosses Fellaini's way.

RuuDie:
E be like sey u no know how Belgium take equalize!

Equalising with heading doesn't mean cross and nod route one football that Mourinho employs sometimes.

RuuDie:
So we just gonna pretend that Belgium, with all that talent, are now resorting to the same tactics that Mourinho is constantly being criticized for abi!

So once Fellaini scored with header, it meant Belgium resorted to route one football?

I'm happy Belgium won, but I feel genuinely sad for Japan. They didn't deserve to lose.

Yes!! See sweet counter mehn. Ukaku with that sweet move.

Tonight's not Ukaku's night. This keeper no wan gree for am.

See as they dispossessed Fellaini easily. Apart from aerial prowess, Fellaini is average.

I was telling my friends offline, Japanese players are short, Belgium should use deadly setpieces to out-manuever them.

odizeey:
so difficult for the keeper

These Japanese players are not tall, Belgium should exploit their heights.

Goal ball Fellaini. United players repping hard.