BascoVanVeli:



But she sef, how do u forget u got a red card just last season?

The thing tire me o.

It's not even as if it something happened years ago, it's just few months o and she forgot

TrebleChamp:
I like Russo and still wondering why she has rejected a contract extension, i just think losing her for free to possibly same Assnal doesn't make sense...

If she indeed has an aspiration to win stuff and shit. Arsenal is the last place she needs to go to. They haven't won anything since 2019.

If she goes to Arsenal, then the aspiration talk is just BS from her. Anything from Barca, And Lyon, then she better stay put at Man UTD and help them win their first major trophy because they are getting closer than most people think

TrebleChamp:
I don't understand why United rejected that bid, Russo has refused to sign a new contract and will be free next summer. Unless United can manage to convince her to sign before summer, she is a very important player to the team but losing her for free will be very foolish...

:DWe are top of the table.

You expect the club to sell one of their best players to people you are in a title race with? Make it make sense bro.

In comparison, Its just like Man city sending a world record bid to buy Saka this January window, even though saka has like A year left on his contract and there is no breakthrough on the new contract talks yet, also both Arsenal and Man city are currently in a title race.

Im sure Arsenal fans will clap for their management if they accept that hypothetical Saka bid, because its a world record fee

Yea, thats the same scenario.

Its not a pogba scenario, like someone below you opined, because nobody will bid for her if she was pogba esque in terms of situation.

olabode89:


If you saw Almiron 1 year ago, you no go talk this thing. Make we give Poco Lee small chance.

Damn!! That's true. I don't like Poco lee too but Almiron was 10 times worse than Poco lee last season. Today, he's a different player entirely. So you're right. Let's give Poco lee this season.

naptu2:
I knew that it couldn't just be an error or because of lack of planning, because it made no sense at all. I have been trying to find the reason since then and I've found it.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iQPIkYrbHA

Foolish Spanish FA executives will throw away a golden generation of club and National team just because of their ego.

Imagine the FA trying this shit with the men's team. They would treated their f*CK up since and most of the FA executives would have been forced out by now.

Mrviktor:
Anything wey pass 50m for osimen na nonsense scam..

That ship has sailed bro. Players like Osimhen are not even going for 80m let alone 50m. EPL donnspoil market with the expensive inferior players like Poco lee and co who went for 80 to 100m

nedekid:

The school authorities cannot be dumb, they must have reasons why they insist on the ban.

You underestimate how dumb our Academia people can be in Nigeria, with their decisions.

To be fair to The polytechnic Ibadan, even bigger institutions have made worse dumb decisions.

CrystalTiger:
How Odegaard no make am for Madrid abeg

Simple


The midfield trio of Case Kroos and Modric. Efficient footballers, they are always present and available. To make matters worse, they are not injury prone..

Same happened to Barca during the era of Busquets Xavi, and iniesta. Good young midfielders couldn't break through because those trio were brilliant. That's why a certain young Thiago couldn't break through and had to leave, despite being very good.

Pedri and Gavi are only lucky to break thru in this Barca rebuild era, if not they would have suffered the same fate

GTOkowa:
Am beginning to think Roman didn't really sell the club cos I can't imagine an American billionaire spend like this.

It's a possiblity. Todd boehly might just be an administrator.

This suspicion will be cemented, if they sack Potter before the end of the season, then I'll finally believe that Roman is still calling the shots

Bluelines69:
The more I watch Brighton play the more it feels Potter was not that important as it seemed

Yep. Brighton has created a system similar to Bayern Munich, whereby the coach is not the most important in the grand scheme of things. Any half decent coach will always win the league with Bayern and go far in the UCL(and sometimes win it. )


Brighton has created a lite version of that system for their level of ambition

Ekemeze:


I stand to be corrected but I believe that the more Republican party fight this cultural war and moral decadence, the more Gen Z embraces Democratic party. It's obvious now that the democrats have successfully convinced these youngsters that the republican party is anti-science, don't want LGBTQ, conspiracy theorists.

If majority of Gen Z embraces Democratic party, then what will be left of republican party in future?

It's only temporary bro. Half of the Gen Z will become conservative again as they become older, and realities of life challenges start setting in. It's always been like that.

saxywale2:
For anyone looking to snap up a Tesla, this might be the time to start following prices.

People are seeing the price reduction as bad for Tesla or as Tesla doing badly, but me thinks that they simply just want to expand their market share in the Car industry generally, and not only the EV sub division, but to dominate the entire Industry.

The fact that you guys are happy and are all talking about getting a Tesla for cheap shows that it's working.

In 2/3 years you'll probably be finding more Tesla saloon cars on the American road as much as you'll find a Toyota due to this step. More money from After sales service and spare part sales will increase their revenue as well, with more people using it.

Leyqute:


You didn’t get me.

I said he’d get the Wan Bissaka treatment. He’d be forced to work on his weaknesses and once he does so, he’d be exceptionally better than he used to be. He’d be unplayable. Every freaking time.

The problem is that, can we trust him to be humble enough like wan bissaka to put in the work.

Because with his ego, we can't trust that he won't throw in the towel like CR7 did and start attacking the manager via proxies.

do4luv14:




They should make an example of them, The player even scored too

According to what I heard, the people in charge checked the Spanish FA website portal where all these things are recorded, and it was all good.

Meaning that the mistake was from the Spanish FA (RFEF) who didn't record the booking on the portal.

If it turns out to be true, then Barca might escape punishment.

Sevilla also had the same issue as well, they played a suspended player too.

So two high profile clubs having the issue at the same time in the same day is fishy. Seems it was a fxck up from the Spanish FA

patrickmuf:
For real?

Yes

Source:

https://sportmob.com/en/news/991213-ten-hag-takes-charge-of-manchester-united-u21-to-develop-players

https://theathletic.com/4049164/2023/01/01/erik-ten-hag-manchester-united-reserves/

paafin:
Slept and woke up wondering how Elanga even managed to graduate from our Academy

Probably why ETH decided to take charge of the U21 himself.

Man saw the abominations in Mctominay and Elanga and flipped

IjeBos:
If anyone is really interested in learning how the parties realigned. Google the Southern Strategy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Some of those posts are beyond nonsense and insulting to the legacy of African Americans who fought and died for the freedoms and liberties Black people enjoy today. Make your arguments consistent with History, not using the rewrites of the very racists who don't consider you human nor worthy of those freedoms. Do better.

You don't even have to believe my words. Here are the words of the Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman to the NAACP in 2005 apologizing in the most minimal way possible:
"By the '70s and into the '80s and '90s, the Democratic Party solidified its gains in the African American community, and we Republicans did not effectively reach out," Mehlman says in his prepared text. "Some Republicans gave up on winning the African American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."
https://kenmehlman.com/ken-mehlman-remarks-at-naacp/

The republican party only crime in US political history is not fighting to get the African American vote. That was their only crime.

They are fighting to correct that mistake today but it's too late.

Another mistake the republican party is making is not bringing Gen Z people closer to their party like the democrats are already doing. Those ones are the new voting block the democrats are grooming.

IjeBos:


You would probably due well to pick up a US History Book. Black Nigerians supporting the party of racists. lol. This forum.

Imagine calling the republican party racist, meanwhile you support a party(Democratic party) whose history was built on racism, blood and sweat of black slaves. They enslaved black people physically in the past and are still doing the same today via mental manipulation and slavery. To the Democrats, black people are just their vote plantation where they plant and haevest vote without question

benalvino3:


Ben Carson is a white supremacist?

Anyone who does not kowtow to the dems is called racist. no matter your color.

If you want to work with republicans or support them... they call you house nigga, token nigga, and all sorts of names. sellout etc.

then when blacks are afraid to associate themselves with the republicans they say the republicans don't want to work with blacks or don't like blacks... but we know the first ever black person in government was in the republican party.

Your Biden was racist to Obama and was praising a prominent KKK member till today but it's the republicans that are the racist... see no evil, hear no evil. Democrats the party of slavery is the angels.
Dems are now posing as white supremacists in support of republicans during elections.

Democrats are very smart. After cornering black votes, they made sure to build a wall to prevent them from. ever crossing sides via manipulation and all sorts.

Any black man or woman who runs as a republican or support the party automatically becomes a pariah to the community, and called all sort of names, no thanks to years of brainwashing from the democratic party. The last Presidential election where Biden made a statement to black americans saying "If you don't vote for me(democratic party), you ain't black"

The republican party don't have a lot of black people /politicians not because they are not welcomed or the republican party ignore them but due to the fear of the black community. However, things are changing gradually, the Democrat manipulation of the black community is wearing off, and they are loosing the graps on the community gradually as a record number of black people are now voting republican and a lot of black politicians are now joining and contesting for various posts under the party. Something that wasn't popular 10 years ago.

The crazy thing is that it's happening during the Trump era, where democrats and MSM all see as a racist. What an irony.

adamusuleiman3:
House Minority Leader Jeffries becomes the first Black person to lead a major party in Congress.

Democrats and useless box ticking exercise with black people.

They couldn't make a black person speaker when they had the majority, only to be electing a black person as a minority leader(figure head with no real power) after they lost congress.

I bet you that once or if they get back majority in Congress by 2024, that guy won't be a speaker. They will elect another person instead of continuing with the guy that used to be the minority leader just like republicans continued with McCarthy that used to be a minority leader

The democratic party give their black constituents just enough to keep the around but not enough to get them to the big table.

Jokerman:
Cristiano Ronaldo parted ways with agent Jorge Mendes in November.

After the Al-Nassr deal, his new representative Ricardo Regule pocketed €30m from the operation. (Onze)

One man poison is another man's meat... €30M, one man... na wa o

If Mendes left Ronaldo in November, it only means that he was clearly against him doing that Piers Morgan interview. Probably that was the issue that cause the final split

lovewins:


It's how American sports in general work. They have built a system where players transition from high school to college then to professional sports. Football (or soccer like they like to call it) isn't an American sport. They sadly are yet to realize that what works for other sports may not necessarily apply to football.

The system is only built to work in a monopoly. Unfortunately, football is not a monopoly , and they are not on the top of the food chain regarding the sport either, (Like basketball/NBA) so it won't get them anywhere.

If they don't Adapt and change the system, as the women's football continue to develop and become more lucrative in traditional football powerhouses like Europe as the years go by, they'll (NWSL) continue to loose relevance and eventually become another MLS where top talents, home and abroad, in their prime won't want to play in.

Deltamani:



UCLA striker Mia Fishel was drafted fifth overall in the first round of the 2021 NWSL Draft to the Orlando Pride. Except Fishel never played for the Pride, instead she used the draft to assess her options. With the start of her potential future in the NWSL set for her, Fishel sought other offers before eventually agreeing to join Tigres Femenil in Mexico. A year later, Fishel won the league’s Golden Boot and helped lead them to a championship.

“I wasn't expecting to be here [Mexico] a couple of months ago, but with the whole NWSL draft, I felt like I wanted to take control of my own destiny and where I want to play, and with the draft, you just can't do that,” Fishel explained to GOAL.

Fishel isn’t the only one. Catarina Macario went straight from Stanford to European club football (Lyon) without ever declaring for the draft. As did Canadian talents Jessie Fleming (UCLA to Chelsea) and Deanne Rose (University of Florida to Reading).

The draft system is really stupid and will never work for football in particular. It's one of the reason the Men's MLS is still shit after all the year of injecting money into it. A system that doesn't reward success nor failure. No relegation or promotion. Nothing.

Imagine players not having the choice to choose a team they want and the league deciding a team for them.

Deltamani:


I just went to the league site and Nighswonger who’s arguably one of the best if not the best set pieces taker in the college game still hasn’t declared her intention for the draft. Not everyone wants to play in the NWSL

Everyone, both young, new and old players are running away from the NWSL now. They now prefer Europe or Mexico

patrickmuf:
He has got to be pragmatic else we suffer another embarrassing defeat...

De Bruyne finished us in the first leg because Eriksen couldn't deal with him so, we need an extra body of strength together with Casemiro to shut down the midfield...

Ten Hag will definitely do something to correct what went wrong in the first leg. However whatever correction he will make will not involve being pragmatic or conservative. That man is not built like that. Lol

olabode89:


Don't forget Eriksen too. We don't have to play everything through Bruno anymore.

Having Eriksen has somehow removed the predictability from our game. Before Eriksen, all the opponents had to do is just Mark out Bruno out of the game, and we become toothless.

LostMyZeal:


Please call a spade a spade oh

Newcastle will be nothing like Lei City and those confused teams you mentioned

It's clear for all to see that they're trying to come up with a project like City's

Haba wolves & Burnley

You dey vess oh

Na here we dey. We will all see how it goes.

It's still honeymoon for them currently. Replicating what man city did is not easy. The only reason man city succeeded was because of Fergie and the glazers. If we had spent that 1 billion pound that we eventually spent under Woodward post Fergie during the 2008 -2012 period during Fergie era, and monopolized the league, Man city wouldn't have succeeded. Instead, we went to sleep and city caught up with us. Heck, if we were a money spender, Guardiola would have succeeded Fergie and agreed to join us, and he won't have joined City.

But the parasites we had as owners then went to sleep and never gave a f*CK about the bigger picture. They were only interested in how to pay out their dividend at the end of every year

Man city won't repeat that mistake that man UTD made, so Newcastle won't get anywhere.

First come first served

TeslaFC:


Difference between both clubs. The man was aging and they quickly replaced him despite still playing well.

United would have stuck with him till the day his leg breaks on the pitch out of old age

Yep. Like we did with the likes of scholes, Giggs,. Ferdinand etc.

eph12:
What's Newcastle doing differently?

Nothing different from what the likes of Leicester, Wolves, Burnley have done in the past 5 seasons, most especially Leicester. They tend to always go back to their level after that. Right now, they are overperforming, just like Leicester were few seasons ago.

Newcastle has taken Leicester place as the usual midtable club that usually bump into the midst of top 4 race. In 2 or 3 years max, another team will replace them. If you are a regular EPL follower on the past 10 seasons, you'll see it as normal.

BascoVanVeli:



What is the conspiracy Did u watch the match or do u just want to argue?
That lady worked her F@cking azz off yesterday. Who cares about a couple missed opportunities when she put in a complete shift. What u are advocating for is complete wickedness. If Messi can pass players the ball even after they miss I don't want to hear anything from any scrub.

If Ada was scoring every chance she got common sense would tell u that she would score at least 100 goals a match.

In fact show me one male player that scores even half of his chances? Why must the case be different for Asisat Oshoala

Unfortunately, she'll never get what you are suggesting at Barca. Even if Asisat was Ronaldo, they won't do a Man UTD and change their style to all ball to Ronaldo/Asisat style of play.

Any body in the best position in and around the box will always score in Barca system. That's why they are so difficult to defend against. No particular person to Mark out in that team. Every midfielder/defender/foward is both a potential creator and/or a goalscorer.