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Dean Smith back in the dug out sharp sharp.

popizaino:
Save for Yaya toure, pep Guardiola used every player you mentioned there very well and it can be said that Joe Hart wasn't old, so find another excuse. Ancelloti is not stupid for calling Gareth Bale back, we are also enjoying Thiago Silva whilst klopp has refused to sell milner, scummy always lament at the absence of varane at every match day so pls wanting Marcelo who is a proven winner isn't a crime or a stupid decision.

How Varane take enter category of old players bikonu?

airmark:
You want Popizaino to ask us to sign him.

How could I completely forget that this ever happened?

2 apps, 1 goal.

Finish.

donstan18:
The way Nigerians dey take announce their wins these days sha.

Just wake up, drop one line, waka pass.

De Boss, PlayHouse, 411 and ThePlanet club just lost a comrade in Ph.

Happy Married Life Big Man!!

You be bahdoo

Skimpledawg na true say you be comrade for these spots?

Skimpledawg:
I Got married today guys.

Wow..

Congratulations bro!

Why you no come tell me again? I for no drink pass 2 bottles nah

May Jehovah bless your new home man. This is lovely.

Congrats again..

Jodera:
1. I compared Salah and drogba with their EPL stats only (reason why I brought goal and assists). The appearances I brought also was to show how better he was than drogba reason why my opening sentence says "salah is better than drogba in EPL"
I was specific!
Also, I just used cl as an outlier to to answer hens.ben that you can't shame salah with champions league too.


2.. You're the one that's twisting my point and giving it another interpretation. I said nobody rates EPL great with Carling cup and fa cup. You went ahead and said "jode.ra says nobody rates Carling cup and fa cup"
Further claiming that fa cup and Carlin cup that are route to Europe. I said I didn't say nobody rates the cup, you now said I'm speaking with double mouth.

My point is clear...
Nobody rates EPL GREATS with Carling and fa cup. It's their sole exploits done in the league that counts, not cl, not fa cup, not carling cup simple. So you bringing clutch game in fa cup or Carling cup to prove drogba is better than salah is void. After all how many first team players of big team play in the early round of the said cups if not in the semifinals?

Ok.

BlueRayDick:
Drogba na better striker on his days; u can take that away from him. He's a nightmare to defenders and he's a Chelsea legend no doubt. It doesn't matter who the opponent is, he scores when the team needs him no doubt.

But pitching him against his superior like Henry and trying to rewrite history is what will never fly. Anybody that watched Henry hitting 24 goals and 20 assists in 2002/2003 season and further leading the invincibles to the golden trophy in 2003/2004 with 30 league goals haul will not be spewing thrash about "impact", "clutch" and other nonsense they are bringing up to put Drogba in this EPL legend conversation.

All this Henry talk isn't necessary. I don't think anyone here is comparing Drogba to Henry (maybe only Donstan18 who went to the extreme in some of his comments on Drogba). Don't make it look like there is Henry vs Drogba debate here.

Look at the Jodera post you quoted earlier. It was a Salah vs Drogba comment. He just added that last line about Henry from nowhere and you just capitalise on that.

For someone that didn't follow the conversation few pages back, he will feel its a Henry vs Drogba talk. The next thing will be, Chelsea fans are comparing Drogba to Henry.

Calm down with all those stats. No one is comparing Drogba to Henry.

Jodera:
Only player who are retired are inducted in hall of fame, yet drogba still dey probation.

I'm talking facts here.
The criteria is league goals, assist and EPL trophy to be inducted. Na fact be that, no emotions . No cl, no fa cup, no Carling cup

Below is Henry's own even tho he won the fa cup. Face facts with EPL not me abeg.

Moreover I didn't say nobody rates it, I said, to become an EPL great to be inducted, those appearances and goals/assists plus trophies are not rated. Simple.

I don't like shifting goal post when engaging in discussions. I will paste below your post that I reacted to in the first place and would like you to show me where in the post you were talking of induction to Hall of Fame.

Below is the post....

Jodera:
Salah is better than drogba in EPL. That's facts.

In just 169 games, he has 107 goals 41 assist

Drogba 254 games, 103 goals, 55 assist.

From their ratio you should know who is better.

Drogba won league wen Chelsea haven't won it, same can be accorded to salah
Drogba won cl league wen Chelsea needed it most, same can be accorded to salah

So I don't know the clutch or impact you and hensben want to brandish around here when even salah is more impactful than drogba

Another thing be say Henry pass drogba for England.

In the post above, you were specifically comparing Salah and Drogba. Even mentioning their UCL exploits (which I don't want to go into). I responded to the bolded by telling you the clutch or impact moments that Drogba have over Salah.

How the discussion jump into Hall of Fame induction which, according to you, Salah is not qualified yet, I don't know.

Jodera:
If I tell you now many goals he had in fa cups and Carlin cup, you can't tell.

No body rate EPL great with Carling cup and fa cup. It's the league that's the koko. It's a reason why with all his Mr Wembley title, him still dey probation list while lampard a better scorer is already inducted and shearer is inducted without EPL officials thinking twice

Was I the one that typed the above? Why saying that you didn't say nobody rates Cup competitions?

The thing with you guys here is, not sticking to the subject under discussion. You said Salah is not yet qualified for Hall of Fame induction, why using it against Drogba in a discussion that involves Salah vs Drogba?

Na wa.

popizaino:
Who asked you to talk baba mount and if my memory serves me right Drogba also has only one epl hat trick too against Watford in 2007 so what are you insinuating again baba mount ?

Oga go and update your memory.

Jodera:
If I tell you now many goals he had in fa cups and Carlin cup, you can't tell.

No body rate EPL great with Carling cup and fa cup. It's the league that's the koko. It's a reason why with all his Mr Wembley title, him still dey probation list while lampard a better scorer is already inducted and shearer is inducted without EPL officials thinking twice

Is Salah inducted in the Hall of Fame?

Please respond to comments accordingly. Check the comment I made if I remotely referred to Shearer or Henry.

Why will you make such a post @the bolded? Cup competitions that serves as a route to Europe is what you say nobody rate? Na wao... The way people throw comments here just to win an argument.

Jodera:
Salah is better than drogba in EPL. That's facts.

In just 169 games, he has 107 goals 41 assist

Drogba 254 games, 103 goals, 55 assist.

From their ratio you should know who is better.

Drogba won league wen Chelsea haven't won it, same can be accorded to salah
Drogba won cl league wen Chelsea needed it most, same can be accorded to salah

So I don't know the clutch or impact you and hensben want to brandish around here when even salah is more impactful than drogba

Another thing be say Henry pass drogba for England.

Drogba is called Mr. Wembley for a reason.

Club football played in Wembley are semi finals and finals of Cup competitions. Drogba turns up in such matches, scoring 10 or more of such goals (not sure the actual numbers of goals off hand but around 10). Those are big moments that defines big players.

I am trying as much as possible not to take sides in this comparison. But the fan in me won't allow Drogba to be dragged here

Ibime:
No problem with his pace over long distances. My question is whether he is agile enough over short distances to quickly close the gap between the wingback and defence. Big players tend to turn slowly over short distance

True. I hope his body size won't hinder his acceleration.

Rudiger might just be leaving. I want to see Mbuyamba (spell check) in the first team too. I just have a feeling he will be a revelation for us.

I think we all should have an agreement on what categories to use when comparing players here.

G/A? Trophies? Individual awards? POTY won (if any)? Eye test? Something else?

People tend to use a category that suits them to try to win an argument.

If you argue Salah>Drogba because of G/A, I can argue Drogba>Salah because of trophies won (both England and overall). I can also argue that Drogba played alongside a goal scoring midfielder that is the penalty taker for the team while Salah is the penalty taker for his team.

Drogba vs Salah is an arguement that will go on for months nonstop without a clear winner.

Both are African greats. Let us be thankful to have watched both play in the EPL.

Ibime:
Left footed player. Looks like they are prepping for Rudiger departure. Only concern is the boy is very big, not sure how mobile he is to play LCB in a back three but he looks quick enough on YouTube. Not sure how quick he is in short spaces though

He is quick. He plays LB too and very attack minded. I like what I see in his YouTube compilations. Although YouTube is not the best place to scout players.

raumdeuter:
Is this true cos sometime you wanted other times you said

Why are you like this?

popizaino:
It is easy till Benitez was asked to coach a world class Madrid, it is easy till mourinho won one league title with world class Madrid in 3years, it is easy till ancelotti was sacked at bayern Munich despite having world xi .

Shut up.

The same Benitez broke Madrid/Barca monopoly to lift La Liga with Valencia. Went on to Liverpool and lift UCL without Messi help.

How much is Mourinho's Porto worth when he won UCL with them? Can Pep use old men Zanetti, Samuel etc to win UCL like Mourinho did? When Pep win UCL with 2 different teams, you bring his name near Mourinho.

If Pep had the old men in Ancelotti's AC Milan 2007, he would have needed 1b to overhaul the team. Ancelotti made UCL final and lost 2005. He maintained the core of the team and bounced back to win the trophy 2 years later. Pep would have made 15 big money signings those 2 seasons.

Rudiger and Silva

And now, Sanchez.

I'm in pains.

Airmark you are a wicked somebody

From 4 consecutive semi finals to 3 consecutive quarter finals.... Meanwhile the signings keep piling up!

Are you going front or going back?

popizaino:
Your initial post doesn't make any sense and that is why you are struggling to defend yourself by asking me questions that doesn't make sense after I flawed your earlier logic.


Now tell me how benching a 100m player is the luxury afforded to only pep when Ole too can comfortably bench a 80+m and 60+m players at the same time .

Stop dragging this. How does 80m and 60m equal to 100m.

I made the comment. I set the benchmark to 100m. Stop bringing anything less than 100m to counter what I said. You can't even use a 99m player to counter my comment.

Stop sounding ridiculous. What should I defend in the first place? That Pep didn't buy a player 100m? Or that he is not benching him? What exactly am I struggling to defend?

Ibunkun1:
Boss not every criticism is an agenda. Is it until our rivals overtake us on the log that you'll feel disturbed?

Disturbed? How? One draw after how many matches? Did you expect we will win all the remaining matches till season end?

This is just a frustrating draw. Yes, it feels like losing but it happens. We were just unfortunate today. Period.

This place is unbelievable.

A draw and agenda starts popping up everywhere. Names to blame start springing up. Wetin dey do una sef? Was it only Barkely that missed a chance? How about acknowledging Pope's heroics? What of the defence that switched off for their goal? All of a sudden una don know say Chilwell no sabi play ball. Really?

Tueh! I spit on this thread. Disgusting

popizaino:
You know I told you to focus on the quality and not the price now you keep proving me right. Well pogba was signed in the region of that if you consider inflation.

Abeg make I enjoy the remaining part of our game pls

It's either your Pep is stupid to pay 100m for a low quality player or Grealish is worth 100m and Pep has the luxury of benching him. Choose any.

What is region? Is Pogba signed for 100m?

popizaino:


Now you just shot yourself on the foot by proving what I said earlier, you focusing on the money, keep it up .

My post is talking of a 100m player being benched and you are comparing Pogba and Sancho who are benched. What kind of comparison is that? Are they bought 100m? What concerns me with Pogba and Sancho?

Ibime:
Na wa for Brentford oh

Me wey go double up Mbeumo and Toney

popizaino:


Agreed my post makes no sense as I was replying to your initial post which makes absolutely no sense and aimed at being biased at pep guardiola. How much did man united signed paul pogba and Sancho that are always on the bench,maybe it's the same luxury Ole is using to win league anyhow

Pogba cost 100m.

Sancho cost 100m.

Right.

raumdeuter:
I ask again

Is Pep the one benching Coutinho Hazard and Dembele

Yes he is the one. And that's the luxury I'm talking about. Satisfied?

popizaino:
My point is simple if you only farabale cool down to read. You opinied its only pep guardiola that has luxury of signing a 100m player and put him on the bench, your point focused on the[b] 100m and not the quality of the player[/b] and I am indirectly telling you that you should focus on the quality and not the price, because benching a 100m player isnt luxury in any form,benching a world class player is luxury,price doesnt equal quality,messi who could have been here in the summer for more lesser price and wouldnt have been on the bench in games of the magnitude.

You are making absolutely no sense here.

- Do you know what 'luxury' means in this context? How many teams can afford to buy a player 100m, not to talk of benching him, if its not luxury?

- If price doesn't equal quality (in the eyes of the buyer), why will player A be valued at 10m while player B valued at 50m?

- Why will you 'indirectly' tell me what you want to say instead of directly making your point?

- On my own, I made the statement. What makes you think you should direct me where to focus? Why shouldn't I focus on the price tag? Or are you somehow telling me that your idol, Pep, is stupid to shell out 100m for a player that shouldn't be valued at that price? I get it, Popizaino knows more than Pep because he thinks Messi would have signed for Man City for 25m abi? So Pep isn't that genius you are portraying him to be after all.

Oga your post makes absolutely no sense.

I hope Rudiger and Silva keep cleansheet. Livramento is my first bench player and he kept a cleansheet already. I thought Silva won't feature. Hopefully he scores a header.

Meanwhile Cancelo hauls!

Cancelo cleansheet

raumdeuter:
Your team has a world record transfer keeper on the bench. You are complaining about Pep.

Should we check how many league minutes your world record keeper has?

My post is perfectly clear. Is Kepa a 100m player? If you can't answer that, just rest.

Is Tuchel benching a 100m player?

VAR didn't even check it!

Lol