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Faithful007:
add Nigeria to that list of allies. Forget about China. The US still controls Nigeria whether APC or PDP no difference. I earlier stated here that by 2023 there would be US military presence in Nigeria. There is a current contract to expand kainji base to accommodate larger military aircraft like c7

@bolded. This won't happen. If it is to happen, it would have happened a long time ago, especially with the insurgent issue we have been facing.

There was a time USA wanted AFRICOM headquarters)base in Nigeria but the government refused. Something of that magnitude will have to pass through the National assembly and I trust that it is where it will be crushed,m

GloryIsaac:
Lmaoooooo I remember when this was flying around.

Good thing times have improved.

To be fair, I also belonged to that group of thought.

I think the board just decided to trust him and have faith in him. I hope he equally rewards that faith by winning something next season and challenging for titles. May be he can start with this Europa league.

Tobiloba2407:
I must say, Egypt getting both the rafale and su35 is a master stroke...especially if the rafale came with the meteor missile and spectra electronic pod. India just got some, at the price of over 200 million for a piece, and they immediately started poking their middle fingers to China.
I think India needs to calm down, their whole military is basically imported, and can't survive a 7 month attrition war with China.....but the writing on the wall seems USA and France, are using them as stooges to undermine China.

Instead of India to focus on their economy and continue to grow it like they have been doing in the past years, they are allowing themselves to be used by the west to fight China. Something that is not sustainable for them

ugo4u:
You say useless??
Don't be tempted to fall into their trap, Trump isn't really interested in happenings in other countries which is a totally different approach by the Democrats even his own Republican party, he is more or less interested in his America first policy. Ask Iran and China how e be them for body.
Infact you see that trade war with China, is the greatest mistake Beijing will ever do. America have already started lobbying one of their strongest ally in the region (India), they're now aggressively implementing policies that will deal a great blow to the Chinese economy. Africa generally is more or less of no concern to them(economically) as we don't have any leverage, oil that was once the bargaining chip is now almost irrelevant to the US with discovery of Shale oil.

i know someone will come up with the trump policy excuse.

Me I'm just waiting for trump to loose the election. So that that excuse will stop . May be by then you guys will see that US are gradually loosing their grip on the global level, no thanks to the Russia - China cooperation.

bidexiii:
Egypt flouts sanctions as Russian Su-35 fighters arrive





https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/egypt-openly-taunts-us-with-russian-jet-fighter-purchase/

US sanctions are becoming useless day after day. Everyone is now calling the bluff of Uncle Sam and giving no f**ks

youghs:
If you think US gives a sh*t about Africans because of fear of migration then you don't know abt Libya.
it's not the first time US is doing things like this so it's possible..Trump's administration is trying to do things differently but America is an institutionalized country which means it would take more than trump's administration to totally change the game.

Ironically, the Libya situation is the reason why the thought of destabilising a country of the magnitude of Nigeria won't cross their mind in a very long time, at least not in the nearest future. What happened in Libya was an attempt to effect a regime change and not necessarily destabilise the country but it went haywire.
If a homogeneous country like Libya was a failure when a regime change was effected, now imagine a country like Nigeria where on a normal day , an Ijebu man is always suspicious of an Ẹgba man not to talk of the other major tribes. The fall out will be devastating.

Why do you think all those Western countries usually abstain from anything cessation when any group starts agitating in Nigeria . It's because if they decide to support one group, numerous group will follow and it's a recipe for civil war and unrest.

The only meddling that the western countries do is subtle Election manipulation to put their own man their, but even at that, the Nigerian political landscape is evolving and it won't be effective much longer


In the long run, the better thing for all parties is Nigeria to remain one. The longer our democracy, the stronger our constitutions will become so as to effect checks and balances due to constitutional amendments that would have happened over the years and by then the issues of every tribe sections would have been attended to.

dubylhover:
Isn't it obvious by now that ogs sees martial as the main man to lead our front line?

And isn't it obvious that he's grown into that position to make it his own?

What OGS will need to do is to get a better CF who is an upgrade to ighalo to give Martial a proper competition again, because it seems ighalo has lost a little bit of steam in terms of competing with martial

Faithful007:
Brother, why? The US is Nigeria's biggest partner on anti-terrorism, why would they want to destabilize Nigeria? Is it even news that we have those elements in the north? Let's face eradicating terrorism, not countering reports.

The US might not necessarily want to destabilise the country (as it will take more than this kind of report to do so), they just like to use this kinds of reports to undermine any administration that their relationship has gone sour with.

I can now see the reason why Ole is usually reluctant to make substitutions during games. The second team players are trash, especially the forward lines

Geestunnar:
Lineups

Las Las Na Ole go finish Maguire. He couldn't even give the guy a break

sylvalord:
DO NOT! I repeat, DO NOT believe a word that comes out of this man’s mouth.

Have you guys forgotten how he said Sanchez will come back and prove all his doubters wrong? How did that turn out? Smalling has just been brought back to be sold to the highest bidder since Roma are too broke to afford him.

Gbam!! You get the idea. Roma were pricing him for peanut, and with his performance at Roma this season , they brought him back because the board must have felt they should be able to squeeze out 25-30 million from his sale

OJURONGBE1:
He passed the British citizenship test in February

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8025409/Willian-reveals-family-dont-want-leave-London-despite-having-six-months-left-Chelsea-deal.html

Oh. Then perhaps he's grown accustomed to the UK. Cos someone like him could easily go and make some cool retirement money in Asia or USA

OJURONGBE1:
Him overdo too much.
Is he Messi/C Ronaldo/Nueur that can dictate what they want from a club?
Even the great C Ronaldo was turned down by Real Madrid when he nagged at them for more wages.
They should free him jare before him start to dey give him usual bad energy.

The fact that the issue on his contract is about duration and not wages can only mean one thing, he wants a British passport before leaving England.

blowjohn:
Google knows everything about u but is not using its ability for sinister motives.
Between america and the chinese who do u trust?

Google is not using your info against you because you are a nobody in the grand scheme of things and you are also not an important person of interest.

Most important people all over the world don't use all these Google and the likes, most of them have private and encrypted server for their online activities devoid of spying, the popular ones among them with public figure status only have social media accounts controlled by their assistants and only post info online subject to their approval. So man like Dangote might be posting about an event, meanwhile, the assistant posting it for him might not even know where he is

raumdeuter:
EPL has been a top rated league way before 2007

This is not true. Except may be you are talking about the 70s during the Liverpool era in Europe.

But 90s to around 2004/05, EPL were toothless dogs in Europe. Things began changing in 2004/5 for EPL teams in Europe.

Before these periods, the best leagues then was the Italian league followed by La liga, the teams from those two leagues were the ones bossing Europe then.

raumdeuter:
Ferguson time was between 1986 to 2013. So you mean EPL was that lowly rated in that time?

He meant before EPL became a top rated league from around 2007. And from 2007 upwards, Ferguson did very well in the UCL. Between 2008 and 2012, SAF made 3 UCL finals. He could have won the three of them , he was just unlucky that he met a Barcelona team on steroids in two of those finals. But pre 2007, the best leagues then was Italian league followed by La liga

paafin:
We should not expect consistency from this guy or a prime Ronaldo performance week in-week out. He's good but he's not worth the hype! We are not linked to any CDM this transfer window, Garner should be integrated IMO like Greenwood. Get a new LB, CB and a CF and this team is good to go.

I hear that Garner and 3 other Academy players are about to be sent on loan for the next season

Gracia

temmypotter:
This is why China may never clinch World Capital Status.. This is extreme!

Let's not allow our hatred for Nigerian politicians cloud our judgement, a Government that executes politicians for corruption is not stable.. trust me.. as much as it is made to seem like it's a rule set in stone and no one is exempted, there will be certain people in power who can easily subvert this law for nefarious purposes like eliminating political rivals and what not.

The United States has so many Isis and Al -Qaeda tourists captured who have killed thousands, these folks deserve straight up death if you ask me. But the US is a country that at least tries to hold true to liberality and fairness for all, this is more than I can say for the likes of China and Russia

@the bolded, is a lie.

Arrested terrorist in the US don't have rights, they are not treated with dignity and what not. What do you think Guantanamo Bay prison is for? It is a torture den for terrorists .
No country treats terrorist prisoners like a regular prisoner including the US

andrewbaba44:
Thats english media for you , thats why i dont like them

Gnabry no play but na flop, dem even dey call am west brom flop

Imagine gnabry na nigerian and we dey talk about am for this thread, oghenekome go don use our eye see pepper, e go tell us how the guy take fail for english football

Im telling you bro.

it's one of the reasons I'm not happy with Nacho's insistence of staying out in Leicester. The quality is there obviously but he won't get a lot of chance to prove it while warming the bench. English league is generally overrated, no thanks to their media

andrewbaba44:
How is this guy an ex arsenal flop?

Like he played and didn’t do well

I tire for all this people ,the way they label players flop ,someone didn’t play and yet he is a flop ,how is that even possible

The same way they usually described Gnabry before the guy came to England and destroyed both London clubs in the UCL

Very annoying description

GloryIsaac:
Rotation.

Taah!! Which kind of rotation. Even Man utd rotate more than Liverpool.

Liverpool is always starting the same players every week, except there is an injury to one of the starters. Those guys are too fit. Well it took them 3-4 years of mastering that demonic tactics sha before they start getting used to the running.

komekn:
The possession statistics are shocking at this point it's 78% to Fulham and 22% to Cardiff.

Cardiff are not passing anymore It's just police game hoofing the ball.

Three Cardiff players all on Tega and they still had to foul him to get the ball.

Hope they can do it in the premier league, if they get promoted. Cos the EPL is a different thing altogether.

If you saw the way Norwich played in the Championship last season , with their beautiful football, you won't even think that they will get relegated so quick. So all this one Na wash

BlueMann:
Greenwood
34 appearances
10 goals
1 assist
0.29goals per game
0.34 goals/assist per game
1 big chance created

Pulisic
25 appearances
9 goals
4 assists ( asides the three penalties won)
0.36 goals per game
0.44 goals/assists per game
6 big chances created

Hope you can hear this one.

I'm sure pulisic has more minutes than Greenwood. Majority of those 34 appearances were cameos and subs. Greenwood started starting games after resumption when Daniel James drop in form became worse.

Modified;
I'm even correct.

Pulisic played 1727 minutes

Mason Greenwood played 1311 minutes.

So using 25 appearances vs 34 appearances is a deceptive ways of bending the stats to suit your agenda why not use a fair stat , which is per 90 minutes. Useless shekpes and stat bending.

That was how one drunk shekpe fan said Fernandes has 84 career goals in which 78 out of it were penalties. dumb shekpe fans everywhere

Oasis007:
Georginio Wijnaldum failed to record a Premier League assist for the second consecutive season in a row.

He's made 72 appearances.

Masterclass!

it's an open secret that Liverpool's midfield is dead in terms of creativity. No thanks to Klopps style of play. No wonder someone like Henderson is a legend

Klopp tried to bring a little bit of creativity into the middle by spending so much to bring in Keita,but that one is a bad business because he's always injured. And also the reason why he brought in Minamino too,

The good thing is that those midfielders make up for it with their work rate

TalabiAudu:
Only 2 pundits predicted Chelsea to finish in top 4.

They didn't also predict Man Utd to finish in top 4.

Aresenal and Tottenham really fuçk up

I guess most of them low-key never rated both OGS and Lampard.

Expert17:
We hold the record for having atleast 1 academy graduate in our match day squard since 1960s (the record still stands- 2020)

I think they celebrated it earlier in the year before covid 19 break.

2000 PL matches of having at least an Academy graduate in the match day squad,

CapitalCee:
You forgot. Perriera, Timothy Fosu-mensah and Lingard

Ahh thank you jare. As well as Tuanzebe.

The thing is Chelsea fans are not used to this kind of arrangement of having Academy graduate playing an integral role in the first team, it's alien to them, that is why they are making a big deal out of the whole thing. No wonder a guy called Odoi could scam them by collecting huge salary just because he played well in few matches last season.

Man utd on the other hand have made it a tradition up to the extent that most people in the club now see it as normal.

Expert17:
For the first time in their history, they played with academy products we no go hear word......

We have 9-10 academy graduate in our team also.....so make them go sleep.

As in ehn. Sounding like broken record everywhere.

The way they are talking self, you will think they played the whole first 11 of Academy players. Not knowing that it's just 3 at a time. Something that Man utd does regularly over the years up till this moment and nobody makes a big deal about it.

Segedinho:
And shame no catch you as you they type the amount...?

Yea like we bought them all in the same day or same transfer window . mtchweew.

BlueAngel444:
Chelsea's first XI this season

Kepa
James, Zouma, Chris, Cesar
Kovacic, Jorginho, Mount
Willian, Abraham, Pulisic

That's 3 players from academy, 21, 21, 22yrs, even Christensen follow, 4, or Tomori. Let's just leave it at 4


United
De gea
AWB 55m, Victor 35m, Maguire 80m, Shaw 30m
Matic 40m, Bruno 55m, Pogba 100m
Greenwood, Martial 65m, Rashford

so Greenwood and Rashford-2years experience

It's funny how you conveniently omitted Brandon Williams and Mctominay who also played a key role during the season, while inflating the price tags of our players just to make meaningless point.

let me correct you.
Pogba 90m
Martial 50m

AwB was 50m
Bruno was 49.5m with add ons it will increase latter in future .


Mind you , your so called Chelsea Academy players have gained experience from playing on loan in multiple championship/EPL teams e.g Mount, Tomori, Zouma, Abraham (who has played a full season in the EPL in the past with Swansea). Compared to inexperienced Academy players from man utd who went straight from Academy bto the first team, e.g Greenwood, Williams, Rashford, Mctominay, and fringe players like Chong.

Oga find your square root biko

raumdeuter:
City ban lifted
10m fine

The fact that they had to change the punishment to paying of fines shows that money has changed hands at high places. No wonder those City executives were very confident