₦airaland Forum

Vital win. Kudos to the boys:

Best performers for me are:

Aina
Nwabali
Lookman
Ajayi
Bassey
Ekong
Osihmen (for winning the penalty)

We go harder next game

Where did 9 minutes come from biko?

veekid:
For me, Ola Aina is the man of the match

I agree. He completely shut down Fofana and the left winger on that his side.

Angelfrost:
Only gifted and smart strikers can convert chances, whether they are headers or tap-ins.

Osimhen is well above average.

Why I like Osihmen is that he doesnt give up. Even if he misses many chances, he keeps trying and for the most part gets rewarded.

He is a high volume chances striker like Haaland.

abbyyzino:
Jink or Jinx

Bro, abeg leave Amokachi and Ikpeba English as long as you understand whatever they are saying. Those two are exempted from grammatical rules

Nwabali pls be kiaful o

Referee will be under pressure from the Ivorian crowd to also give them a penalty.

EKONGOAL!!

Osihmen smart o. He deliberately stayed down so that VAR can pick up the incident and award a penalty.

Now finish it off!

Nazgul:
When I said Oshimen is overrated after our game against EQG, some frustrated people started masturbating on my mentions.

I hope they're seeing how useless he is. I'm very sure that even if he gets a one-on-one in the second half he'll still miss it.

Also our players lack accuracy in their shots. To get a shot on target has become a very big deal for our players. Ivory coast players were able to hit the target from outside our 18 yard box.

This team is a disaster. If they manage to scale the group stage, they'll be sent home in the quarter finals. That's for sure.

I get the urge to always vex for 9ja matters, but to be honest our boys haven't played that bad at all so far.

In my opinion, they've actually matched the Ivorians and only need a killer blow from Osihmen and co.

If na Uzoho dey in goal now, that Fofana shot will push him enter net.

Nwabali has been good so far.

Damn, the house where the explosion occurred completely vaporized!

I can only imagine the state of the people present around that time. They'd be lucky if any of their body parts are found at all.

OJEEMAH:
😂😂😂😂

Happy New Year bro

Happy new year my guy.

Abi shey they want Messi to kill himself ni for an award he didn't even want

Haaland should just go and wash his head African style cos it seems he is an award-repellent at the moment. This is the first time a favorite has been clearly usurped. Fifa should have extended the deadline like they did for Pendu in 2013 to force Haaland's win.

hensben:
Get your facts right. Messi won World Cup 18th of December 2022, while fifa best player achievement started counting 19th of December that’s how he won it. Modric, Vervelde, Ancelotti and Halaand voted for messi. It’s not rigged, Messi deserves it. Man city win was a collective one, Halaand didn’t dominate in terms of impact in the team like Messi for his team. Halaand has been given what he deserve which is golden boot/highest goal scorer award.

Lol did I say it is rigged? I said that RM boys voted Messi and thats why he won over Haaland. But personally, I don't think Messi deserves it as within the validity period, Haaland and Mbappe did better in my opinion. Obviously, many of those that voted used the World cup win factor which should not have been so as Messi already won 2022 Fifa best correctly on that basis.

If you didn't know, haters can use this one undeserving award to try to belittle previous awards won by Messi validly. I stand against that.

You can't be more Messianic than I am. Check my receipts on this space.

Theuniverse:
all this voting na nonsense. fifa should have technical and analysis experts that should judge the winners of fifa best. it should be based firmly on stats and performances, not popularity contest. wetin nonsense captains and coaches and journalist know about football. once one player day popular all of them go just day follow that person like boy boy. and if a player no day popular because e no day give a Bleep about anybody, even if he's the best, they no go like am. this rubbish voting must end. even if they must vote it must not be allowed to be final determinant. a kind of American style electoral college or British style indirect election must be included to vote a fifa best player, and checkmate nonsense. but congrats to Messi. e just be fifa pikin.

Bro even Messi no want this particular award. It's a stain on his legacy which is why he didnt attend.

They should knock Valverde and Modric's head and give the award back to Haaland; this is coming from a big Messi fan.

Na Real Madrid sha make Messi win. F.Perez still wan pepper See Ronahdo.

Beverlyjean:
Mbappe has been hot ...he is recognised in 2orld football... pls tell me why Messi won it ...

Errmm BJ, just to let you know that it's your fave team players that gave Messi the win.

There was a tie with Haaland, and whoever had the higher captains votes was used to select the winner. 13 captains voted for Messi while Haaland recorded 11 captain votes.

Well, the tie breakers were Modric, Valverde and Mbappe himself. So direct your queries to them

cc: obonujoker, Ojeemah, Real Madrid won this award for Messi

OJEEMAH:
Samehere!

The date confused me too!

Imagine what it would have done to eligible voters

Absolutely. I remember a lot of people here did not have clarity on the voting rules when the award opened and I even had to go and read through the Fifa brief to understand the criteria. Did they think many of those football captains have that patience?

They should have kept it simple.

obonujoker:
See Ojeemah supporting corruption 😂😂😂🤣

I'm still wanting for these guys too...😂

Theirryjay
Almiron
Numerouno94
And other uefalona fans

So why didn't Martinez win best goal keeper, but Ederson of man city won it...

Personally, I did not expect Messi to win it. Obviously the World cup win still somehow had a major role to play and that blame rests on FIFA.

FIFA putting the voting commencement period in December must have confused several voters that the World cup was still a factor. Many of these footballers are not as arithmetically accurate as some of we fans and the WC sentiments played in. Voting period should have been clearly stated as Jan - Dec 2023.

This is the only Messi award that I'd clearly say another player deserves which is Haaland. I'm sure even Messi did not expect it and that may have influenced his absence.

Like I said the joke is on FIFA and doesn't take anything away from Messi's previous successes. Messi is the GOAT but he wasnt the best player of 2023.

Hmm, to be candid, I never experred this.

Since there's a tie, I think this should have gone to Haaland.

The blame is on Fifa though confusing the voters by fixing the voting period to commence from 19th December just a day after the WC ended. This made many of the voters to still consider the WC cos there's no way only Lique 1 trophy and MLS cup will give Messi an edge over someone who won an European treble.

The Fifa award really fell off in its organization. None of the 3 contenders even attended. Ballon D'or has been the real deal for a while now.

DesChyko:
Yours is way simpler, I agree. I guess I did too much by also considering inflation. The naira had more value then, going for N125 to £65. I also made the error of computing with less than 2 million.

No P bro. Inflation is what already pushed the fares from 17k then to 2.5million now. So that has been factored in already.

Note that this comparison is only relevant specifically for the air ticket. It's likely that 125 Naira then could buy more regular commodities than the current 30k.

It's a similar way mobile calls were more expensive back in 2002 than now while other things were generally much cheaper.

DesChyko:
1985. Minimum wage was £65. A worker earning minimum wage and keeping half their salary for such a trip would need 23 years of work to be able to afford this fare at that rate.

In 2024, Minimum wage is £25 Same worker earning minimum wage and keeping half their salary to pay for this trip would need 83 years of work to be able to afford the average round trip fare today.

This your analysis no too clear. Let's keep it simple. Both our minimum wage and air fares are in Naira.

In 1985 when minimum wage was 125 Naira, you needed to earn it 139 times to afford the Lagos to New York ticket then.

Now with min wage of 30k and average lag to NY ticket of 2 to 2.5 million Naira, you will need to earn 66 to 81 times the current min wage to afford the ticket.

Seems like it was way more expensive back then.

Other than Rashidi Yekini, I think Martins and Osimhen reached the highest world class levels of a striker for Nigeria.

Kanu is not really a striker to me. He's more like a supporting forward. He's the best for Nigeria in this category.

I feel Martins particularly underachieved as he had the highest potential among our strikers with his demonic pace. Between 2003 and 2005, Martins level was among the world best with the terrific partnership he formed with Adriano that tore Serie A defences to shreds. He was like a mini-version of Samuel Eto.

I remember Martins making a mincemeat of Maldini in UCL semifinal in his goal against AC Milan. I remember him singlehandedly destroying Arsenal's defence at highbury in 2003. It's a pity he did not maximize his potential for Nigeria. The 2006 World cup miss stunted his legacy for Nigeria.

Gamesmart:
My God!



A Investment Fund is different from Corporate Equity.

Those that own capital in the fund are just interest-seeking investors and own no share in the company.

Those that own the equities of the corporation own the company.

As in ehn. I no fit laugh. The guy is just displaying his ignorance of business investment architecture quite blatantly. He just wants to argue without knowing details of what he's fishing about for.

It's like someone carrying a gun and pointing it at himself unknowingly.

andrewbaba44:
Egbon Hope you saw the extreme precaution yesterday just as I was telling the guy I quoted ?

Dem no even save our till finals or Laliga dem play am yesterday ,but what an impact and what a player ,non wonder they won’t let him rest

Pedri is him abeg

Don’t mind koeman jare

Osim extreme precaution lol I never see am. The very fact that he is playing in a non-essential supercup tournament already flings out the extreme part.

We can still debate the precaution part sha since he didnt start the game yesterday. But I will still throw the pre away and maybe leave caution sign for that guy.

Na me dey project Pedri above Vinicius back then. Injuries have slowed down my prediction but my guy will still show himself.

andrewbaba44:
No extreme precautions was never taken with pedri ,once that guy becomes fit he always get minutes immediately

E be like say na olympiakos you Dey watch and not Barca ,despite his injuries man has been playing up to 30 games all season and most of those games he was starting

Extreme precaution una

Na Koeman wreck Pedri o. Bombarded him with an insane number of games that a 17-18 year old can only carry so much.

Pedri did 3 years work in just one season under Koeman. Now his bones and muscles are buckling under the accumulated stress.

Let's hope he fully recovers and doesnt become a customer daadaa for the surgical table like Fati.

blkmum700:
RIP to her. Am I the only person with a contrary view on this? I believed the whole thing was staged; someone probably killed her inside that toilet and had it staged as suicide; she could have just committed suicide in her house. Why the bank toilet?

She must have used the bank premises so as to clearly implicate the bank as the primary cause of her decision.

If she committed suicide at home, people might attribute it to relationship issues or some other remote causes.

It's her way of telling the bank, "this is on you", and by extension she's brought the plight of other hapless bank marketers to limelight for others to fight their cause.

I nominate:

TheDarkporeShow, and
Pocohantas / Pansophist

They are both very capable.

He's the GOAT. He deserves it.

Maradona did well for his clubs but it's just that he is way below Messi in this area while Messi's national career is on par with Maradona's or even better as some may say.

Retire the goddamn number please.

HeatSeeker:
🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️

As I saw this your post, I hurriedly ran to my kitchen to check the soy sauce I have with me. Na Amoy'c I buy o!

Na Amoy degree centigrade you buy. E go regulate your body temperature

This picture must have been taken in OAU Ife where they all attended.

But wait, what's the probability that three undergraduate friends will all then go on to become celebrities a few years down the line? That's remarkable!

TheFacelessMan:
Bought 2 fakes on Jumia...

But have had a great experience buying.

Wouldn't give any stores free adverts though.

Be careful out there.

Leave the high end brands like Dior , Guerlain etc. Retail for 80 - 150k.

Of course leave the Creeds, Initios that are close to 300k.

Do the Lattafas, Rasasis... 10 - 30k.

Lol, based on 2 personal experiences I've had, my mindset now is that all perfumes from Jumia and in fact online are fake.

I prefer to walk into a physical store and test the fragrance before buying.

Wait Chief, are you saying the Diors, D&Gs, YSLs and the likes of between 80 - 150k and the Creeds of 300k plus sold in Nigeria are also fake?