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O boy you sure say no be python be that ?

Hi there bro. What's the situation now cause there's a customer ?

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Fake

what a hopeless f@@l. Pedo

I mean, what were you expecting ?

raumdeuter:


Mascots don't break assists records like Muller did last season

A40:
Go and ask Barcelona whether they see him as a mascot or not.

It's not like I'm saying he's not good, I'm just saying he doesn't seem that integral to Bayern's game. I mean Bayern scored like 150 goals last season, I think they could have managed well without his assists.

Tell me Muller goes on a season long injury and it affects Bayern adversely in any way whatsoever. But I could confidently say that about Neuer or Lewandowski......may be even Boateng If I have to take a long shot.

raumdeuter:


Why not Thomas Muller?

Muller, to me , has not been a pillar in Bayern football for a while now. More like a mascot if anything.

Alright, apart from Neuer , Lewandowski and Boateng, name a more OG player than Alaba in Bayern.

PS: Please don't bring Thomas into this discussion.

A40:
For this pandemic? Good for him if he gets his money. No rule that says Bayern must be the ones to pay especially with his performances of late.

Hmmm , A40 , we're talking of Alaba o. Okay .

pkasso:
City and PSG wey no get money to buy players again. Everybody dey tight-fisted now. There is little money coming in and clubs are losing as much as 100m a season.

No club would pay Alaba that much in this Covid era. He is just being greedy. You dey earn 11m/yr, the club is giving you 17M but no you want 20+. He was playing hardball in the hope that Bayern would yield. Now e go shock am.

Guy no be football ? Just wait till end of season and see. I was even thinking that negro was over 30 already. Remember he's a free transfer, under 30. We're talking about 6 or 7 years here.

pkasso:
LOL. Alaba overestimated his importance and decided to hold the club to ransom. Now, my broda is getting burned. You've been serving mediocre performances for the past 4 seasons and after one good season, you think you deserve 20m/yr. In this time and age. Madness.

Good thing, the club has refused to bend over backwards. It will be very sad if things really end this way. Nigga might have just ruined his legacy because of a few more bucks.

Looking forward to what he has to say at the press conference later today.

Don't be surprised when City or PSG offer him more than what he's asking. That's how crazy the money in the game is these days.

Better cool your horses. All of you saying you don't want to see Xhaka, Ceballos or whomever in that team should remember we still have close to probably 40 games to play this season. Every body will have their opportunity, how you they use it is left to them.

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#EndSars shows that Muhammadu Buhari is the biggest threat to Nigeria’s democracy


Opinion by Innanoshe R.A.
Oct. 29, 2020 at 7:21 p.m. GMT+1
Innanoshe R.A. is a Nigerian writer, editor, lawyer and activist.

Some things never change in Nigeria. Police and military brutality, the terrible state of governance, the ubiquity of corruption, extreme poverty and inequality, unreliable power supply go in an endless cycle, like the year’s seasons.

Nigerian elections are like gambling. We blindly toss a coin into the air — with no guarantee of what we get. We vote out one corrupt leader for an even more corrupt one. Or, as we like to say, “you go from the frying pan into the fire.”

Take President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, for example. As the first opposition candidate to mount a sweeping defeat of a sitting president in Nigeria, Buhari — a former general and military head of state —rode the coattails of rife anti-government sentiments to victory in 2015. To those who voted for him, he symbolized a potent antidote to the issues plaguing the country. He promised to blindly fight corruption and cronyism. He vowed to strongarm the terrorist group Boko Haram into retreat or surrender. He also declared that he would stabilize Nigeria’s dwindling economy and fix the existing gulf of socioeconomic disparities between Nigeria’s uber-wealthy few and the majority of Nigerians who are abjectly poor. In a campaign tweet two months before his historic win, he swore a solemn vow to Nigerians. “Let me make you this promise today,” Buhari wrote. “We will protect your children. We will protect your wealth. We will make this country work again.”


Today, nearly six years after making that promise, Nigeria has become a relic of what it used to be. Many signs point to Buhari’s failures. He must go.

The streets are raging with violence. Nigerians are under an unprecedented lethal attack by Buhari’s government, which recently killed unarmed citizens protesting against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a brutal and abusive police force in Lagos. The #EndSars movement has become a global phenomenon. After days of denials, the Nigerian army admitted Tuesday that their officers were deployed to the scene of the deadly attack to ensure statewide curfew compliance. The army still denies opening fire.

But perhaps one of the starkest portraits of Buhari’s failures to date are the graphic images and videos on social media that show multitudes of presumably hungry Nigerians fighting tooth and nail to get their hands on bags of rice, flour, noodles, sugar and other food supplies recently discovered in government-owned warehouses full of hoarded covid-19 aid across the country. The food was meant for Nigerians during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, but, like with most things in Nigeria, the politicians decided to reserve it for their own benefit.



In 2019, Nigeria dropped two spots lower than previous years on Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perception Index — which prompted Buhari’s administration to denounce the report as “baseless.” Additionally, a damning 2018 World Poverty Clock report said Nigeria, Africa’s wealthiest and largest economy, had overtaken India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty in the world. Similarly, youth unemployment has risen in recent years, and now stands at nearly 41 percent. Nigerian public universities have been shut down for the past several months due to the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ strike action. The situation may get even worse for my country. A staggering World Bank simulation suggests that “the dual COVID-19 and oil price crisis could push around 10 million more Nigerians into poverty by 2022.”

These reports and the events of recent weeks have made it abundantly clear for all to see that Buhari has not only failed in keeping to his promises, but he has also, more dangerously, defied rehabilitation from his dictatorial past. He is proving himself the single biggest threat to Nigeria’s fledgling democracy. His hands, and those of his accomplices, are covered with the blood of the young Nigerians like me whose lives, dreams and hopes he cut short for exercising their constitutional rights of assembly and protest.

In support of the recent protests against police brutality and bad governance in Nigeria, I published a manifesto on social media as a suggested framework of the ideological boundaries for the movement. There, I noted that a top-to-bottom leadership change in government and law enforcement agencies is the only path to real change in Nigeria. It seems to me, and possibly to an increasing number of Nigerians, that there cannot be any tangible or long-lasting reform within any sector in Nigeria without replacing leaders and the existing systems and processes.

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And perhaps, even more, this is the time to imagine a new Nigeria, that works for all. We need a new Nigeria that protects, defends and holds space for the most vulnerable amongst us — the girl-child, disabled, economically disadvantaged, women, and, yes, the LGBTQ+ community, too. We must also imagine a new national identity, one that is grounded in progressive ideals, such as equality, diversity, unity, justice, loyalty, hard work and selflessness.

Indeed, Buhari and Nigeria’s other useless politicians need to pass the baton of leadership to my generation of Nigerians who have shown a commitment to doing the job and will put the country before themselves. It’s time for Buhari to resign.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/29/endsars-shows-that-muhammadu-buhari-is-biggest-threat-nigerias-democracy/#click=https:///wQe6BAyJWs

Akinbahm:


If he actually leave truly then, wont you come for his neck?

Exactly!! Imagine if he had left to join Mourinho at Spurs.

It's really horrible what they're doing to our boy, see how pained he is. I really hoped Arteta would affect the situation positively. This will start to put doubt in the minds of our other stars, "could this be me next year ?"

Jodera:
Wait first..
Where is ceballos?



Well, my humble opinion is..

1... It's better Pepe is still coming from the bench. At least, let him gain his confidence and momentum coming from bench.

2... We all know ozil won't start, so putting him there,....

3... Xhaka can't be in this team when there's a ceballos.

4... Back 4 is spot on

So I guess the formation should be like this(against man city)

Leno
Bellerin. Luiz. Gabriel Tierney


Partey. Elneny

Ceballos

Saka. Auba. Willian.



Tho the midfield personnel might change, but this is what I feel it'll be

I think it's a compliment that for the first time in a while we have options going in against City. Last few years the best I'd be hoping for was not to lose or get trounced.

Yes yes I know, jungle never mature. But still....As in , the whole world o. In premiership he's 2nd.

https://football-observatory.com/-rankings-_none

BlueRayDick:


If Arsenal has insisted on 180k max and he refused and subsequently didn't join the club I'm sure most fans would be cursing the board and blaming them for failing to bring in a quality player.

Mind you, I'm not saying his wages are fair or any other thing like that, I'm just saying we don't know if the money was part of the reason he eventually joined us and not some " I've always been an arsenal fan since I was in my mother's womb " story.

I see most of these football contracts like normal employment contract where people jump ship to another competitor that offers a salary that will be higher than even Ur next salary of u are promoted at Ur work place. E dey happen

Logic.

Jodera:
Everything is wrong to overpay someone wen we can potentially pay him good.

But you guys stated earlier that the transfer was almost highjacked by another club but Partey insisted that it must be Arsenal. Don't you think the salary played a big part in that ?

mostob:
Arsenal still never get sense. Heard they almost quadrupled Partey's salary. From 65k to 260k. When even 150k should have been enough. So in 6 years time,we might find it difficult to sell him due to his wage?
I might be wrong sha

I've not read about that but if Ozil can sit on the bench and earn a million in less than a month then I don't see what's wrong with paying someone that could potentially move us back into top four that amount.

SyIvalord:
Remove Aubameyang's individual brilliance induced goals and tell me how many goals Arsenal has scored since Arteta became coach. Also tell me how many of those goals were created by tactical plays and not kick and run football and individual brilliance.

So what's unique about that , what is your point exactly ? Current number one football club in the world , treble winners and disgracers of Lionel Messi/Barca scored 150 goals last season. One man scored almost 60 of those goals.

Jodera:
Hian...
You for no answer that dullard troll na.
That wan can never give you any meaningful discussion

SyIvalord:
So what is it going to take for you guys to admit that Arteta is a defensive minded coach? Imagine signing Partey when he could have gone for a attack-minded midfielder.

When has scoring goals ever been a problem at the Emirates ?

iamoyindamola:
This shít here is funny

https://twitter.com/Lifegunnertev/status/1313389746333388802?s=09
Come to think of it we indirectly played atletico Madrid, if torreira gets injured they are in trouble

45mil with nothing to spend it on.

Spy360:

Are you sure of what you put up there?

There are players who were given free roles. That is not what we are talking about.

FYI, Firminho is not my preferred no 9, when there are humans called Aubameyang, Kane, Aguero, etc. And this is just EPL selection.

Many of us didn't understand Gerard's greatness till he was almost done. His versatility and skillset were incredible.
The article below is from 2010 btw ,

One of the biggest footballing debates in recent times, at least among the viewers of English football, has been Steven Gerrard’s best position. Is it out on the right, where he played from 2005-2007 for Liverpool? Is it on the left, where he’s occasionally played for England? Is it as an old-fashioned central midfielder, where he played for most of his Liverpool career until Benitez came in? Or is it just behind the centre forward, where he’s played since Torres signed for Liverpool? Lets take a look.......

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/454858-gerrards-best-position-wide-central-midfield-or-in-the-hole

@spy360 and Blueraydick stop arguing over what there's no clear cut answer. One of the reasons Steven Gerrard was being hailed back then by Pele was his ability to play almost as deep as a defensive midfielder and up forward almost like a supporting striker. Sometimes he'd slide to the wings and deliver pull outs even David Beckham would marvel at. It's all about athleticism, skill, versatility etc.
The modern day football demands you be more than a one trick pony and the philosophy of your coach matters too. Technically Ozil is one of the best midfielders in the world right now but let him make it into Arteta's midfield let's see now.
Ask most modern coaches for their their list of top ten number 9s and Bobby Firminho will feature in virtually all. That one I'm still trying to understand though I get their point.