footiemaniac: I don't know why people think making wholesale changes to a squad in one transfer window will have any positive impact . Even when we were far behind Arsenal unbeaten squad and Jose Mourniho's chelsea with Roy Keane's wahala, fergie did not go out and buy 7 players at a go. He signed Ji-sung Park and Van der sar in the summer of 05/06 and Evra,Vidic jan transfer window, then only Michael Carrick the next season to win the league ahead of that strong Mourinho's chelsea.
Only one or two major signings(Alison and van dijk) can make a huge impact in a team,ask Liverpool. I understand the pessimism because the major signings we have made so far is defensive and not the blistering big name wingers that will excite fans. After all the excitement in signing offensive players in Di Maria,Falcoa, Sanchez,Depay etc what did we get in return?
We have talents in our squad, the coaches are there to bring out the best in those group of players, that is what they get paid for, not to start giving them 6-7 brand new players every summer. Who is to say the players we have been asking the club to sign will settle quickly and be better than what we already have. If Lindelöf can improve and now making every fans proposed 1st team line up, don't see why the rest can't improve this season.
I remember last season, how fans were celebrating buying a solid Brazilian midfielder (FRED),not british midfielder oo, under the nose of Mancity. Now, I cannot even see Fred name in any of your line up, everywhere is now McTominay our home grown talent that was given a chance. Now i am even seeing bruno fernandes that we have not even signed on our line up.The management team has backed Ole so far, if he fails no excuse from him or me.
If Liverpool can win Champions league with a midfield of Henderson,Wijnaldum, Fabinho , Milner,I don't see why we cannot compete with a Midfield of Pogba, Fred,McTominay ,Matic, Perreira if they all work hard for each other.
Well said bro.
If Lindelof can improve, and everyone now sees him as our best defender, I see no reason why other won't step up .
so far in the pre season, the attitude of the players have improved. And the attitude is what matters, because individually , those guys are good, they just need the right attitude to be winners
BlueAngel444: na real destiny.. lol, which kind contract be 7years o boy
When it comes to business and deals, Ed is a genius, If not, how did u guys think he was able to make the players agree to the 25% pay cut for non appreance in Champions league. An ordinary person can't do that shit.
gustav25: So much for Best players in Africa and no African country can defeat you
It's Mahrez !!!! And the Lord's work was done on the Lord's day several weeks ago but that pain inflicted on them felt like the Philistines capturing the Jebusites
Odunayaw: SA knocked out? by Lesotho! dem get league? So much for their "glamorous" PSL
SA is like an olodo child , no matter the amount of Extra lesson teachers the patent gets for him,he will always fail in class.
the south African FA is one of the most organized , if not the most organized in Africa. Administratively, the got everything right. They have the best facilities, good leagues and the likes,but they have shitty players that always make those things go to waste.
Imagine Nigeria having half if the organization that they have, we would probably be ruling African football by now.
Despite the fact that our league is not great, yet we've done well in this past years in CHAN competitions, even getting to the finals twice in the short span that the competition started.
The SOuth African FA will just be trying but the talent is obviously lacking.
Someone even said that SA can't qualify for any competition unless they host That is how bad it has become
BascoVanVeli: The Turkish league is more competitive. France is already over. PSG has already won. While in Turkey there are 4 teams fighting each year.
A team that spent over 300milion on just two players, what do you expect.
PSG will rival any top team in the top leagues they find themself, so no shame in that
LoveJesus87: You must be in dreamland if you think this one will worth it. Seriously. Well can't blame you maybe you are a man u fan. Make ursef happy
Your pessimism is expected and I won't really blame you for that, considering the fact that English players have acquired the tag of "Overated and Overpriced flops". But trust me, Maguire is good. I've followed him since he signed for Leicester.
LoveJesus87: Very Clueless, dumb club. I think this club is being managed by kids without any experience in football. This boy for £80m? Can he kick the ball to the clouds or can he be in two places at the same time on the pitch?
Trying to copy Manchester city but they don't know that those one know what they are doing. Imagine Man City or Real Madrid or Barca or Bayern Munich paying £80M for the services of this boy. Only Man U.
I would they sell this club to more intelligent owners cos even this season they are going to finish 7th on the table from the back oh sorry from the front
Real Madrid and Barca have paid more money for expensive flops over the course of their signings. it's not a new thing.
People said worse to Liverpool when they signed Van dyke, but my guy proved them wrong. Harry is a good defender and I hope he will proof y'all wrong
ChrisKels: While Onyedinma who gives consistent top quality performance, joins Wycombe Wanderers in the abyss of the league one, on a permanent basis from Millwall,
Pretender Osimhen lands in France for his Lille medicals.
BascoVanVeli: But this is back to back years in the champions league. This work permit thing is just funny sef
Something tells me the work permit shit is a lie. Everton doesn't want him yet. With all the club appearances even in the Champions league over the past 3 yrs, I believe he should be more than qualify.
He would probably get loaned again. His handlers are just using it as a way of not letting his value drop.
Everton is about to sign Moise kean from Juve , for 27.5 million. If they needed Onyekuru, he should have been staying cos it's not as if they don't need a Striker.
tbaba1234: That's the thing.. The league had better quality then. Odey failed several trials abroad before getting the FC Zurich deal. Lokosa also failed several trials and it took Rohr's recommendation to get him his Esperance deal.
There is a huge gulf in the quality coming out. What about Mba and Oboabana who were given national team boosts, where are they now?
Academy players are securing better deals without national team support.
True. The few ones that had the national team exposure especially during the time of Keshi , didn't make anything out of it. I wonder why
BascoVanVeli: Stephen Odey failed trials but yet he got bought for millions just last month. Failing trials doesn't mean you lack talent. Alhassan Ibrahim failed trials and didn't get signed until he played for akwa united.
For every Stephen odey, there are Tons of others that came back empty handed.
BascoVanVeli: Forget talent because it is just a means to an end. The real koko is the better life you are looking for. Nobody is saying let me go to Europe because I have talent. They want a better life for themselves.
. Yet a lot of them went for those trials abroad , but failed to get clubs.
Greener pasture is obviously one of the reasons, but if you are not good, even Sunday league team, you won't see
tbaba1234: The quality is not there. Anyone with any quality leaves in 1 or 2 years.
That's true. With the way the league is, anyone with just little quality moves immediately, cos staying too long will be counter productive for the player. That is how bad the league is presently
MRAKBEE: Largest producer of rice but I still buy foreign rice from the market. Shey our rice farmer produce and consume all? Or there is not enough bags for filling the produce for sale like what Audu Ogbeh said the other day?
Bro, you don't get
We consume a lot of rice daily in Nigeria, so our own local rice is not enough to satisfy the demand.
Going by the amount of rice produced , we are the largest producer in Africa , and as well the Largest importer.
So it will take time for it to balance out. More people are going into rice production every day, so with time , rice importation will phase out. And we might even start exporting in future. The point is that, the govt took the very bold initial step of banning importation at first, so as to stimulate local production.
In the cement industry for example, when cement importation was first banned, Local production began, and the likes of Dangote, Lafarge , etc started production. Then we used to still import, despite the ban because we couldn't sustain all demands with local production. But as time went on, Cement importation dropped, and now we are self sufficient, and we now export cement to other neighboring African countries, to the extent that Dangote now has plants in a lot of African countries.
And Nigeria is Africa's No1 largest and biggest economy.
I have always known you're a big shame tormented by spiritual interferences and very logically hollow!
I will request nitvot have correspondence with me again. You're not worth the digital imprint conveying this convo.
Chai
Can you imagine the guy.
Just to ridicule Nigeria, he had to ignore his own source and jump to Rwanda as number 8, meanwhile the Nigeria that he's trying to ridicule is on Number 3.
chinavs9ja: You are on point...In South Africa, they prefer house song(native) to hip hop songs...that's why he wishes to be a Nigerian. But here, our youths embrace the so-called artistes with the rubbish they are singing, neglecting the valuable songs.
The only valuable songs that teach morals are Gospel and Islamic songs.
The other Genres are not meant to teach morals, but to entertain. So GTFOH.
If you want songs that teaches values and morals in the society, go and listen to Gospel songs or it's equivalent. Even most Gospel songs of nowadays are now local contents. Not many people listen to Foreign gospel songs again.
So this local music contents also has effect on the Gospel music industry as well
theenchanter: u well? Where's d excuse in my post? I said we all have diffrent power demand, how's that an excuse?
Kenya's power supply is 2100mw and lagos' power demand is 4000mw.
Get sense before vexing me abeg.
You are right.
Kenya currently has an estimated capacity of 2250MW, and are looking to expand to 5000MW by 2030. Meanwhile the power need for Lagos alone is over 5000MW. Yet some people are saying that kenya is developed.
For them to be using 2250MW and not experience power cut, it means the country is basically a glorified village, with very little Industry that needs power.
The long and short of my story is that Kenya is also basically a shit hole. Inferiority complex will Sha kill some Nigerians
Most people just travel to the capitals of those mumu African countries and they start saying nonsense about how good those countries are.
Even a foreigner that lands in Nigeria via Abuja for the first time will think that Nigeria is an eldorado, because of smooth roads and well planned and arranged city.
michlins: look around the world and tell me which country has the highest rate of migrants. It's us Nigeria. Go to Afghanistan you will see Nigerians and doesn't mean they are better than us. Just because she came here doesn't mean Nigeria is better than her country. Lost of our countrymen full Kenya. You just have to go to where your fortune can be made. But like I said, let's assume we better and winning it
I'm sorry , if Nigeria has the highest number of immigrants, where will you put India and China.
Joebie: List of jobs Siasia has applied for over the years:
1. Cameroon National team 2. South Africa National team 3. Gor Mahia (Kenyan former league champions and CAF champions league qualifier bound at the time) 4. Zambia National team job 5. Kenya national team job ?? 6. Rwanda national team
Danielnino00: Gbam!! That was the argument here the other day!!! Countries like Senegal and CIV have players in bigger clubs than most other African countries because of the France connection. I suspect that's why they underachieve a lot in football.. most of their players are bang average...
People will not agree na.
The only real big players they gave are the likes Of Mane, Yaya Toure , Drogba Eto'o, the Toure brothers that play in real big clubs not those washed up French teams that people in this group will not let us rest about.
When someone wants to bring up their players , they will be mentioning mid table clubs in Ligue 1, as if they are any better than the stoke city, Leicester, Galatasary or Watford of this world.
The only good team in France is PSG and Lyon. The rest are not even as good as Wolves or Leicester city