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Danielnino00:
Gbam!!!
You have said it all.. I'm surprised that Pinnick and his colleagues from WAFU allowed this nonsense to go on for so long until it extended to the women senior team.

Imagine, out of the 24 teams heading to the AFCON,only 2 from COSAFA zone qualified...12 from WAFU!

Pinnick is stupid. That one is not interested in football development in the country, he's busy looking after himself, contesting for every CAF and FIFA executive positions he can lay his hand on.

Imagine they implement that useless zoning for Afcon qualifiers, better west African teams will start loosing out.

And na that Ahmad Ahmad start that nonsense because he wants to help his East African friends qualify for CAF tournaments through backdoor

Danielnino00:
Just saw the draw..
CAF have definitely gone crazy..
How is it West Africa's fault that the rest of the continent (especially southern Africa) suck so bad at football that they have to introduce zoning just to give them the chance to qualify for tournaments??

This method of qualifications is very bad. it's not merit based and encourages mediocrity. Zoning won't improve competition, it will only encourage mediocrity.

Imagine the Men's National teams qualifiers being done via zoning, countries like SA won't have problem qualifying because of their weak zone, meanwhile they are shit and could not qualify based on the current merit based system of random draws.

Now west African countries with better teams won't qualify.

Zoning from CAF might not be a bad idea if they actually took into consideration the strength of different zones by allocating more slot to the stronger zones(West and North Africa) and giving lesser slots to the weak zones, this way , the weak zones compete fearlessly for the slots, while at the same time the representative from those zones will put in a better fight in the competition because they got there via a rigorous hard work in the qualifiers.

The CAF zoning system became flawed immediately they started giving every zone equal slots . I might still accept it for underaged competition, but doing it for the women's senior teams is very wrong. When the likes of Cotedivoire, Ghana , Eauitorial Guinea or Nigeria who are one of the strongests in the continent don't make the tourney because they've knocked themselves out during the WAFU zone qualifiers, then you'll be left with shitty teams.

This will not improve the women's game, infact it will further draw it back

FIFA that allocates competition slots based on the strength each Confederations instead of giving every continents equal slots knows what they are doing and are not stupid.

We in Africa just know how to copy good innovations from the white men in the wrong way with wrong implementation. Na curse ?

olabode89:
That's why I said they bottled the top 3 position finish. losing 5 games in that league is unforgivable. It was more unforgivable that they lost 3 games to the other teams below them.

Lol. To be fair, they had injuries to the key players that were killing games for them at the start of the season.

The moment those players got injured, they lost back to back games, and before they got their mojo back , the damage has been done.

Botfuss:
I’ve said it countless times, if you people don’t want mount—give us. We will give you van de beek.

Abi make them give us Mount

We will give them Van De beek. That one get talent Wella. Him body na talent full am

GloryIsaac:
Thank God for Fernandes, highly doubt if Maddison would have had the level of impact Fernandes has had at Man United.

May be , may be not.

But a lot of these English players sabi do one season wonder performance sha. They are never consistent except for a very few of them

handelex:
Ole has fairly rotated our frontliners. Has alternated between Bailly and Lindelof, infact Bailly was starting at some period this season.

The major person behind the "he's not rotating enough" is VDB because even Pogba at some point was getting benched and VDB was not playing.

The mainstays in our starting eleven this season has been Maguire, AWB, Shaw, Fred, Bruno and Rashford. Other spots has been fairly rotated.

Even Rashford has seen a lot of rotations.

I don't even know where this ole doesn't rotate comes from. Even McFred has seen lots of rotations this season.

May be they want Ole to turn to Arteta who doesn't know his first 11 and starts tinkering his formations every game to look like low budget Pep.

Joezinho:
These man utd fans believe they're the gatekeeper of football. The Glazers have spent lots of money for you lot. Moyes, LVG, Mou gave you trophies. DNA has given you zero. Direct your anger at Ole too...

Agbero fans.

This your talk about directng anger to Ole no too gel at all.

If the owners feel the employee (Ole) is not successful and wasting resources, it is their responsibility to sack him and look for someone that can deliver the glory. After all, Amaka didn't appoint himself.

BlueMann:
Chelsea all the way oh!

As a neutral, Barca will edge it. That Barca team mad gan. They play like Guardiola Barca then.

Expert17:
So you want the club to sign 30 years old Dr. Hazard for 100M+ / swap with Pogba?

Lingard all the way please

Abeg die the Hazard/Pogba swap matter.
Woodward can be mad, but he's not this mad.

Even Madrid won't come with such offer themselves because it's a waste of scarce time

Beorn:
The preceeding sentence before that the "serious" line clarified that Roma ain't a quality side. It was the reason Scholes even complained in the first place. It was an integral issue in my posts as well. I pointed out that double DM against top sides is okay but against the weak teams, we ought to demolish them with one of McFred.






I agree with your point that Matic is the only one capable of playing the sole DM role very well in our team, and that his legs are gone. But what I don't understand is why Ole couldn't see that, or saw that but PROBABLY didn't feel it was worth addressing before the season begun. Well, let's hope he addresses that position before next season start.

Abeg make una leave scholes o. He might be a wonderful footballer, but being a manager is another kettle of fish. As per the latter, there is a reason why him and his other friend at Sky sport failed at football management.
There is having good coaching plan on paper and there is reality. The lofty plan is to have one DM , but the reality is that using one of McFred is suicidal. Ole knows this, that is why he persist with them to give the team some balance.

Even though I feel that the talk of McFred limiting our attacking potential is just a Myth conjured by "online coaches" , because the last time I checked, we don't usually lack creativity in most of our games and we are not playing Binary scorelines every week. We score a lot of goals with those two in the team.

Jodera:
I don't see how he's blaming xhaka and chambers there. Those two are poor in their present position they're playing and that's one of the reasons why I'm blaming Arteta. I mean, how will you have Cedric yet you play slow man xhaka at left back?(who can't even attack sef). What attacking advantage is Chambers giving you at that Rb role? What is the reason for playing a false 9 when none of the attackers(or midfielders ystdy) aren't great goalscorers. Like his decision in games for the past 2 months or so is really head-scratching and such decisions is really making me doubtful about his long term success here.

Arteta behaving like low budget Pep. The guy just played a false now just for the sake of it and so as to appear tactical. The last time, I checked people who play false 9 positions are always goal scoring players . You can't just put anybody there just for the sake of it.

It's just like throwing Daniel James into a false 9 position when he has low IQ scoring ability.

haryomikun:
Most celebrities pay with a NDA so they don’t get involved in scandals. Besides it can be wiser to pay someone off with 350,000$ for something you didn’t do than shout that you didn’t do it and lose millions in endorsements or deals

Gbam.

It's standard practice among celebrities

Jinad50:
Paying her off, doesnt mean Ronaldo is guilty of anything. It could just be a way of avoiding nagative attention to his person. A Star who represent diffirent brands and stand as a role model to young footballers doesnt need such nagative accusations around him whether or not the accusations are true.
I am sure thats why he paid her off, in a bid to end the unnessecery drama.

In my estimation, the lady is simply looking for where to selfishly get some cash.

Thank God you replied the guy

Paying people off is very common with rich and famous people. Most of the time, it is to avoid bad press and not because they are guilty.

Danielnino00:
To hell with experience... Performance is the first criteria to consider when selecting players for a team .And as it stands, Iheanacho, Osimhen, Moffi,Simmy and Sadiq are performing better than Ighalo..
What experience does Ighalo have to offer the team? The experience of scoring penalties and missing crucial goalscoring opportunities abi?
Abi the experience of some nonsense holdup play?

I wonder where Ighalo see the experience

The guy is not even more experienced than iheanacho or even Iwobi in the national team , yet they talk about him like he's one national team legend that has played multiple competitions

SyIvalord:
No wonder we don’t get Mike better than Maguire Smalling alerts anymore

Na so dem do do . Play well to get new deal, after signing, they go back to default mode. That is why I'm not moved by Lingard form. Make Ole sha no get tempted into allowing him to stay. They better cash out on him because I can bet it with you that he'll become shit again after signing for Westham permanently.

Leyqute:
Ole deserves to be sacked TBH. We just need a capable replacement.

Anytime the board gets serious and wants on-field success, they will sack him.
For now no amount of wailing can remove Ole, so I'm not wasting my data for ranting

Lana1:
Which Europa? Abeg o

They probably already conclude in their mind that United will lose another semifinal. I hope they get surprised

Oasis007:


I intentionally ignore the Toad. I've known him quite a while for his stupidity on this Thread. He lacks sense to engage in a Discourse without throwing Tantrums.

The Dímwit is so mannerless that no one really cares about him or his Opinions on this Board any longer. Ain't sure he's not a Disgrace to his Family.

The mannered one.

As*hole

IGpro1:
so in your mind, Nigeria that rejected Africom will now accept Common AU troops. seems you don't know your country.

Even though I no too like our military, but I still respect them for that singular action of rejecting AFRICOM till this day.

The military might not be getting a lot of things right, but at least they did not allow their greed to stop them from rejecting an American military base on our soil

olabode89:
I didn't mention those guys as they were already in the first team.

The guy just want to react for reacting sake
Nuclear reactors

Oasis007:
Most of the mentioned Names won't make it to first Team. They should scout quality Teens that won't take years to join first Team.

How many of the ones that Man City signed will make it.

After all the years Guardiola has spent at City and with the myth of developing players that they claim Guardiola does, I wonder how many of those young players has made it to first team at City apart from Foden. Meanwhile, I can count four of them at United in that same time frame.

olabode89:
This is not true! Our scouts have been doing a great job. We have been snapping up promising talents between the ages of 16 to 18 for about 2 years. The likes of Garnacho, Mejia, Jurado and Fernandez were brought in from Atletico, Barca and Madrid. We also got from France, Kambwala a highly rated 16 years old CB from Sochaux for 4M and of course Hannibal for about 10M.

Top prospects from England such as Hugil and Charlie McNeill joined the academy not long ago. Therefore our scouts have not been sleeping. It's difficult for young players coming in from South America to adapt far away from home.

You even forgot to add Amad and Pellistri.

That guy that said our scouts have been sleeping just wants to yarn dust.

They are the type of fans that just like to react to everything whether it has sense or not.

When it comes to signing youngsters, infact Ed Woodward has signed more of them than actual first team players, yet that dunce said our scouts are sleeping .

raumdeuter:
In Germany they do now allow one investor to hold majority shares, the members of the club fold 50 +1%
The Executive board is voted by the members after they answer questions

No wonder big investors rarely go to Germany and pump in money to break the Bayern monopoly.

BlueMann:
And the male side is devoid of sex scandals abi?

I think you missed his point, What he meant was that there is no genuine rivalry and competition among the teams like we have in men's game which makes the men's game interesting

You see a female player transferring from one Rival team to the other as a normal occurrence and a lot of absurdities that will be frown at normally in male football.

Women's football is an afterthought to these clubs, they are just doing it just to fufil all righteoness. Most of those teams are run at a loss

Odunharry:
Ed Woodward resigned as Chairman of Manchester United..

Apparently, the Glazers sacrificed him as the fall guy. This is pretty normal in the coperate world

I'm sure he's been rewarded handsomely with a fat pay out check as we speak, either way, my guy will go back to wall street and life goes on.

Damn!! Coperate world is bloody

Havertz10:
sighhhhh


How much is stadium revenue compared to broadcast money


Get real abeg

Na you get time to reply am.

Those international fans that are to far away to attend matches in stadia are the people most of these clubs care about most in the order of customer service. They are the ones that bring in the most revenue via TV broadcast.

Without these international audience no one will give a fvck about the clubs because they won't be different from Wycombe FC , after all Wycombe too have local fans that fill their own stadiums too.

Havertz10:
When they gave Qatar hosting rights, it didn't destroy football


When uefa gave more money to big teams and caused the segregation that we see today it didnt destroy football

When they created the coefficient system to favour big teams, it didnt destroy football

When big clubs in England broke away to form the premier league and teams went from having 90% British players to 20% British players e no destroy football


How was the champions league formed? All these things were created out of greed, uefa and fifa dey form saint, the sport has evolved

American sports teams had to evolve to be what they are today, go and read their history, as long as there is money to be made, grassroot football will still exist but you see that gist of small club in division 4 climbing and dominating the world one day na gist it will never happen, let's stop fooling ourselves

Emotions has finished English fans . They won't think rationally, with a certain failed coach come Pundit(Neville) being the leader of irrationality

BlueAngel444:
But would such parliament disagree on the basis of 6clubs bringing in that kind of finance into the economy and probability of the next 4 teams playing in UCL. Meaning half or more EPL teams may be playing in Europe next seasons. Then you consider the number of English players that would benefit

Parliament will still abstain from the whole thing when they see the full details of the deal. The reaction from Boris and his gang is still reactionary at best and was initially based on the media rhetoric of "ESL will kill football and English league" which is not true. It's just Skysports and other english media with vested interest in the UCL as per broadcasters who are just using the line to gas light people because of the introduction of a UCL competitor that could affect their market

Havertz10:
queens gambit

Omoh. Perez and his American friends are playing 3D chess with UEFA oo For every scenario I looked at , UEFA is always in the worse end of it

Bombblacks:
And you think playing for your nation is about money? You think giving the chance to represent Brazil in the World cup or Psg in the champions league Neymar will pick Psg? Or Ronaldo playing in the world cup with Portugal or champions with juventus he will pick juve?

This bro thinks we are still in 1980s

Money talks now. Back then football was passion, even club football is not even as lucrative because footballers are not even rich back in the days. The guys that played football those days did it for passion not for money because there was no money there as incentive that much. Reverse is the case today

nitrogen:
But it’s a tricky situation, you know? Basically, Britain is no longer part of Europe, therefore they need to back UEFA for so many reasons. However, dont forget that it won’t make sense for them to screw the owners of the six clubs. If that happens, the investment community won’t be happy with the UK. You know what that means right? Especially considering the fact that COVID has humbled every economy.

Tricky situation, the government should not interfere, or better still, tell UEFA to negotiate.

@Bolded is what any sensible government will do. I'm sure that is what they plan to do underground. Abstain from the issue and let the clubs and FAs negotiate with themselves

I'm sure Boris just made a statement today just to appeal to the current emotions of his people. They probably won't do shit after that

Bombblacks:
Which player told you that?

The ones that earns millions of pounds every year from their clubs, as against the paltry 5k dollars appearance fee they receive from their countries per game which they get to play twice or thrice every 3 months