edi287:

Link??

pussypounder:


I like safarigirl and I no go mind pour akamu for clean pot if una agree for here

Icon79:
This tells you the kinda of crazy stuffs you'd read on this forum. So that mugus haven't even watched Vanzekin played anytime recently yet the mugu boldly declared that he's better than Ezenwa and Akpeyi?

Bizarre people


O pari

TheGoodJoe:



I think the most remarkable part of the article was how he took time to break the space-time philosophy, especially with the full backs moving into the midfield and creating passing lines. It will take time for that to sink in but the idea that it all falls down to space-time, makes it interesting.

pussypounder:


I like safarigirl and I no go mind pour akamu for clean pot if una agree for here

komekn:


100% this is the business model that Benfica, Porto and Sporting have had for years.

Just when you are dealing with them watch the buy out clause. I do feel that his pace will give him an edge in that league.

Nonetheless. I feel if he could overcome the physicality of the championship he could be in for a much bigger money move to the EPL.

Which is best difficult because I don't know how sincere Benfica is.

somehow:
Yea right. He dissected football movements on the pitch and why players should even move. Imagine evening saying, a player must know why he's coming for the ball, why he's where he is and why he's into space. Xavi is suppose to have PHd in football matters on the pitch. So deep.

somehow:
What's there in the championship to learn from? Apart from the physicality, what else? Football has moved away from power play, it's now about technicality and talents. He's better off in benfica than any of those championship sides.

As for moving to the EPL, he can do that from Benfica or any other clubs outside UK as long as he becomes better. We have had players moving easily from other leagues straight into the EPL so no need going to the championships to lose some of his best attributes, sensible run ins and outs.

goldfish80:
Interesting article. Something is definitely wrong with the black man's mind.
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How Can We Be So Myopic, Where are the Sponsors as the NPFL Resumes?


The Nigerian Professional Football League begins the 2018 season this weekend without any major sponsors. Despite years of hard work to keep the league alive with lean resources, the expected sponsorship windfall has failed to materialize. It costs hundreds of millions, even billions, to run the league, so how do we expect success without quality sponsorship support? Nigerian brands like everyone else are struggling to meet their targets under the harsh economic realities we face, yet, rather than support the domestic league and create jobs and wealth locally they have continued to spend their dwindling resources on further entrenching the English Premier League and the UEFA Champions League in Nigeria – feeding the already fat Europeans while deepening poverty in our country. What I find incredibly surprising is how these brands cannot understand that they kill their own businesses doing this.

N igerians have probably blown over one trillion naira on the European game over the last 20 years, money that when it leaves our shores never comes back. Even as broke as we are now, in 2018 we will blow at least a further N50b. The sub-saharan broadcaster currently pays 84m pounds (N40.9b) annually for the EPL TV rights. Nigeria probably accounts for half its revenue projections, which would mean, plus profits, an amount in excess of N20b. Add the vast sums we spend travelling to the UK to watch live games and buy merchandise. Captains of industry who should be concerned about the capital flight and top political leaders who should worry about creating value for the electorate, are the ones in the vanguard of this detrimental culture. A few fly in their private jets to watch EPL games live, while some others join resources to charter planes. Some fly first class in commercial airlines, many fly business class and thousands fly economy to watch these games. If 25,000 trips are done yearly with an average of 2,000 pounds spent, that is a further 50m pounds (N24b) out of our economy to the UK.
Then there are those who do not travel but order club items online or buy directly from retailers across Nigeria. That is probably another N3b-N5b industry. Then add the billions some of our brands spend to bring us the games. Some even sign direct sponsorship contracts with EPL and other European clubs. That is likely another N5b taken out of our economy. By the time you add the UEFA Champions League spend for rights, advertising and tourism, we would be way over N50b. This is a joke, and it is why we are seen as a basket case around the world. Chances are that of every N100 we make in Nigeria, N70 finds its way overseas under different guises, football being just one of them.
No nation can survive, let alone prosper, that way. How does it make sense that Arsenal FC of London has more fans in Lagos than in the entire UK?! How does it make sense that outside London, Third-World Lagos is the city where the most Arsenal jerseys are sold – not wealthy cities like Tokyo, Shanghai, New York, Berlin?! How does it make sense that fans die in Nigeria defending the honour of their foreign clubs?!
If we continue to invest in other people and economies and not our own, we will continue to be poor however much we pray and whoever the leaders we elect into public office. Just to underline the poverty in our minds, China currently pays just 13m pounds to watch the EPL. For some perspective, sub-saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world, while China is the second largest economy in the world. The Chinese also love football and have a larger population than the entire Africa, yet they pay six times less to watch the EPL than us in sub-saharan Africa.
Of all the sponsors perpetuating the European game in Nigeria, the ones I find most frustrating are the banks. Banks are supposed to understand the way money works, but sub-saharan banks appear a different breed. Around the world banks are leading sponsors of domestic sports, it makes easy sense. All the money generated from sports ends up in banks. When people travel around the country, when lawyers negotiate business deals for clubs and players, when architects and builders upgrade infrastructure or build new ones, when medical practitioners manage the health of stars, when hotels accommodate visitors from other cities in town to support their clubs or favourite stars, when farmers increase sales to food vendors as fans celebrate, when retailers sell club merchandise, when advertising agencies get briefs to build sports brands, the list goes on, all the money ends up in banks.
In South Africa, for instance, ABSA bank has sponsored the Premier Soccer League for ten years, and recently signed a five-year extension of the contract. In Nigeria, rather than build our local sports, our banks splash the scarce resources they (we) have on the European game, under the guise that they are reaching more eyeballs. As I have asked many times here, are they not aware that many of the eyeballs in Nigeria have lost their jobs, or had their salaries slashed, or have not been paid for months, meaning many cannot even take action if they find the advertisers’ proposition interesting?
One day we will wise up to how the world really works. Meanwhile high fives to the League Management Company for keeping the league running even in the face of scant sponsorship. They must however engage society more to succeed. They must also work more with key professional bodies to help sell the message that football is a multi-billion naira industry from which every professional benefits handsomely.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/01/13/how-can-we-be-so-myopic-where-are-the-sponsors-as-the-npfl-resumes/#

tbaba1234:


He will probably get more game time in Greece but it seems like a backward move to me just in terms of the quality of the leagues. If he plays in Benfica, it will be better for him.

TheGoodJoe:


That why part was also intriguing. Xavi already is calculating the next phase of football development. Says a lot of the Legend of the game.

TheGoodJoe:


There are good technical sides in the Championship. Swansea got promoted from the Championship playing some brilliant football, I think with Roberto Martinez in charge and later Brendan Rodgers. Bristol City is also playing some good technical football. Then we referring what Notthingam Forest did to Arsenal playing some sound technical footie.

Icon4s:


A lot of us here are also guilty of this.

somehow:
God bless you for posting this. While we are so good blaming govt for everything, we have all forgotten we are the genesis and Revelation of all the problems facing us. Everything happening in Nigeria today is directly the fault of the citizens. Leaders are citizens and followers are to. Our priority in this country is sickening and we ignorantly flaunt our ignorance for the rest of the world to see.

We're so good downgrading ours, yet accuse other countries of hyping theirs, you think the others are beatdowns like Nigerians? If you don't encourage and praise yourself and your own, who then should do it for you?

Our mentality (majorly) has been our major setback in life.

Humility017:

but not to this level....
I know I am like one of those you may think is guilty because of my earlier stance on sokari

Joebie:
Pls respect her like you had a sister. This thread is for SE enthusiasts, and a few ladies here also happen to be one. I urge every guy in this thread to speak out and resist posts like these. It’s disrespectful to our sisters here.

Icon4s:

Hahaha.. No comments.

Humility017:
oga icon....it's okay...ooo

komekn:


That's not what I said dont change the substance of the discussion.

When you are an England youth international to keep your value and club options. You may not commit publicly to your preferred country.

It was made intrinsically clear that he would commit at 23 when his club future not national allegiance was clear and settled i.e. long term contracts.

However, once he had got his long term future sorted out he made that commitment last summer at 21. That means he has shown far more integrity than most.

However, there is a double standard and hypocritical one at that. These German boys rejected Nigeria at the initial stage openly. We are now courting them and essentially pleading that they choose Nigeria. But to date no commitment.

Compare both situations and tell me who is the more honourable and truthful.

Icon4s:

But I said no comments naa...
Some one cannot chose not to comment in Peace again?

Mujtahida:

Yes I was referring to you and to every other person that took shots at him but I saw where you later apologised and corrected his errors. Earlier you were a bit harsh in the way you put him down calling him a joke particularly that you are one of the thread's regulars and he seems to be a newbie. His opinion was way off the mark but at least his person ought to still be respected. I trust you won't like it if someone calls you a joke just because you aired an uninformed opinion.
But it's okay. You have settled with him

komekn:


100% this is the business model that Benfica, Porto and Sporting have had for years.

Just when you are dealing with them watch the buy out clause. I do feel that his pace will give him an edge in that league.

Nonetheless. I feel if he could overcome the physicality of the championship he could be in for a much bigger money move to the EPL.

Which is best difficult because I don't know how sincere Benfica is.

Joebie:
Pls respect her like you had a sister. This thread is for SE enthusiasts, and a few ladies here also happen to be one. I urge every guy in this thread to speak out and resist posts like these. It’s disrespectful to our sisters here.

TheSuperNerd:

Looolll... Take am easy with am naa Sir Royalty
Maybe that is the "boy's" way of being "blunt"
He is Bluntboy after all

Curtisaxel27:

True word.
Many female sports lovers avoid threads like this one because of such perverts.

If una make Safarigirl commit this thread ehn....

MetalJigsaw:
Any misdeed on his part other than derailing the thread?? Àkàmù
simply means pap if I'm right, bro

Humility017:

don't tell me you're ignorant of what he means....

Edopesin:

How Do We Praise Our Own When There Is Not Enough Coverage For The Matches? We Alone Are Not The Prob

Humility017:
no you can't..... not after indirectly laughing @ me... it is well sir...how is your Saturday going ?

MetalJigsaw:
Pap, the Corn cereal Of course. My favorite in those days. Especially when milk is added to it... My lawd!!