NewStats: 3,263,812 , 8,181,482 topics. Date: Sunday, 08 June 2025 at 03:35 AM 2x501c

Illimitable:
I can’t even front, Fred deserves it.

He’s the most hardworking Brazilian in the PL. It’s just that his distribution is useless and that’s on Ole.

Fred shouldn’t be making more than 2-5 yard es when he wins the ball. Ole should be using him like Mourinho used Makelele.

The task is simple: win the ball and give it to the next available player within a 5 yard radius. No Hollywood es.

his midfield partner is usually McTominay. Lol

I came to gloat about fpl a bit but I'm not quite sure of the right place to do it.
Anyway, na me be current number one and e remain just two masterclass for me to clinch the first ever edition.

Shout out to those of you still holding these zones down after so many years..

Lana1:
Where is dopejemi?
Where is funlord?
Where is starboard?
Where is GBR1?
Where is Dahdemola aka AdisaOwalla?
Where is danhumprey?
Where is sinizia?
Where is sailorXY?
Where is Ruudie?
Where is nyabinghi?
Where is Pietrorico aka PietroRick?
Where is UniqueGem?
Where is SirCumalot?

brotherly..
Nigeria hard but I dey. Lol

afrodoc2:


He is more ready than Shoretire na so if Shoretire was judged ready then he is also ready. Problem is that it has to be in the EPL cos he is not eligible for the B list in Europe.

I'm pretty sure Shola was made promises when he first signed AND with his last contract. He was hotly contested when he signed and some clubs were circling before his pro contract. One of the ways to get him to commit would have been to make promises.

I think his first team involvement and subsequent debut has more to do with these promises than him being physically ready. There's the obvious talent and the club obviously believe in it as well

timay:


Reason why one southampton youth player Making his league debut wanted to cripple Mctominay the other day. Those refs have allowed those small boys to get used to reckless and dangerous tackles

refereeing in the pl is bad, but at reserve level it is 50x worse

Trevor012:
https://twitter.com/tobi12311312/status/1362822870603358210?s=19

Take a look at that ball from Pogba. O my days. That's a perfect Midfielder not the attacking Midfielder we have masquerading as a striker and stealing goals from our forwards.

this insanity dey exist here too? Lmao

Oasis007:


Lineup

GK - Afrodoc2

RB - Nitrogen
RCB - Elrony
LCB - CapitalCee
LB - KingAlabi

DM - Lana1
CM - Nezzjnr
AM - Patrickmuf

RW - Handelex
LW - GloryIsaac
ST - Leyqute

Bench: Larride, Oasis007, ChristenC, Olabode89, PietroRick, LostMyZeal, Eph12

Manager: Nani667

no way I'm sitting on the bench for elrony

afrodoc2:
Under -18s leading 2-0 against Leeds. McNeill with both goals.

there's the general idea that only a small percentage of youth players end up making it at big clubs.

But there has been a change in the manner with which big clubs approach youth recruitment and development lately, probably motivated by the crazy nature of the market these days.

I think that percentage may go up a bit in the coming years.
The United academy recruitment has been aggressive, and we do look like we may have a few gems in there.

it's difficult to think most of it will end up being for nothing, with very little changing in of how many of them make it here.

1realBobby:


from what I heard, I don't think so..

I traveled all the way from Lagos to Benin to watch this match live... Too sad covid 19 ruined everything.

I just kukuma use the opportunity visit my parents, whom I had not seen in a long while. Not a wasted journey after all

this one pain me.

Sorry and thank you. Lol

Does anyone know if fans are allowed in the game today?

Nezzjnr:
Greenwood said his Target is to bang in 30 goals this season

I see him hitting double figures though

the only thing that will stop him is his lack of status in the club at the moment.
He is the one being shunted around for Martial and Rashford to play in their favoured positions

The moment this changes, the number of goals this kid will score will stupefy everyone..

. In addition to understandably not having a strong enough standing in the squad yet, he is also the most adaptable of our 3 front..

Make we go collect Marcus Edwards. Left footed RW, wicked dribbler, 21 years old English man who was tearing shit up at the liga nos last year. A release clause of 15m means there are not many ways this could go wrong.
We will try again for Sancho next year, even with the increased competition.

Excallibur:
sorry, please which app is this?

sofa score

OJURONGBE1:


Is't not better to let Fikayo Tomori go and get more playing time rather than loan him to Everton where he will find playing time hard to come by?
Everton have Sidibe and Jonjo Kenny waiting to pounce on Micheal Keane & Yerry Mina's loss of form.

Shaw has been fully fit a handful of times in his United career and on those very rare occasions, he looks very decent.

The injury comes, he gains weight, comes back and takes forever to reach full fitness and loses his place in the process and the situation gets worse with him on the bench until he probably injures himself again

It's just a shame that we are likely going another season hoping this year will be different instead of actively taking steps

Panther7:
One quick question who provides width? Certainly can't be Shaw and AWB?

first things first, the possibility of a left back coming in was left open in my post. I said wide forward

Then again, Shaw just needs to work on his fitness. A lot of times he doesn't make the runs he is supposed to not because he doesn't know what needs to be done, he often doesn't have the lungs for it.


AWB just needs more personal coaching. He often doesn't know what to do. His execution while not the best, isn't really bad.. He just looks awkward doing whatever he does and that skews perception a bit.

Once he gets the idea right..the rest will be history

GloryIsaac:


The coach has chosen his preferred system.

Why be forced to play differently from what he wants?

If the team plays this way and performs poorly, na still for here dem go crucify the same coach

So far in the league, it’s only United & West Ham that don’t seem to know how to go about the football aspect of their respective clubs.

Maybe this is why Pep chose Manchester City over United, because I know say that man no go get time for okoto yarns

So as he hasn't got the players he needs, to make his system work from the board, for whatever reason, he should not adapt his system to suit what he has?

Or should he down tools/self sabotage or just walk away

I'm not sure what you are saying..

If you are asking me why the board failed in the first place, na only them know for sure and their failings isn't what I'm talking about here

PietroRick:
If we don't bring any other wide forward in this summer, we should just use formations that have no wide men. Our only genuinely wide player is James and he's just not very good.

We have the players to play the system Everton played in the last game, to a higher level

Rashford in the Richarloson role, Bruno for James

Matic pogba vdb for Allan, doucoure and Gomes. Pogba even gets to go back to his favoured LCM spot. He he has been having to oprarate on the RCM lately

Greenwood rotates with 4 players in this shape (with a slight reshuffling of Bruno when needed), depending on form, fitness or just to keep everyone fresh.

That or we use 352 and depend on our fullbacks (gulps) for width

If we don't bring any other wide forward in this summer, we should just use formations that have no wide men. Our only genuinely wide player is James and he's just not very good.

We have the players to play the system Everton played in the last game, to a higher level

Rashford in the Richarloson role, Bruno for James

Matic pogba vdb for Allan, doucoure and Gomes. Pogba even gets to go back to his favoured LCM spot. He he has been having to oprarate on the RCM lately

afrodoc2:


These were the people that preached the gospel of Pepe to me. Can you please read out their names?







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The pepe I saw on those clips and the pepe I watch these days are not the same players.

I liked what I saw of vdb today.
Rash, vdb and Bruno as the attacking Midfield 3 behind Martial should be an option for us.

Bruno is smart enough to operate from the RW without his levels dropping too badly.

afrodoc2:


They are loading the under-18s with attackers so hopefully in about 3 years a couple of them might be ready.

And the scouting has been extensive and top notch too......at least on paper.

McNeil was scoring loads of goals at under-16 level.

Aaroen was highly rated in Norway.

Mejia scored 60 goals last year in Spain and everybody wanted him.

Garnacho is also highly rated from Atletico.

very little has been heard of about Mejia since he ed. Injuries?

I think McNeil goes straight into the u23s

afrodoc2:


He suffered a bad knee injury 2 years ago that finished him. His game was built on athleticism not intelligence or technique so any loss of physical ability is sure to cause a major drop.
The same thing would happen to full backs like Kyle Walker, Alfonso Davies et al, especially if close to 30.

there's also all the plenty talk about mental health problems, depression, etc

It's unfortunate how quickly things can change with some of these players. Makes you wonder what would happen if we went all out to bring him at that price when mourinho (ironically), was demanding for him.

I'm ole's ostentatious reds this year

The schedule this year is crazy. If higher management expects Ole to go through this season with back ups that he clearly doesn't rate, then we might be in for a very long season.

That dip in form post lockdown na small thing

I was even beginning to think I had been ignored

Damn. Got the cup mail 6 days ago but I somehow didn't see it. Now I'm going to miss out Yet again.

Mukina2

7th last year.

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