Segun Oluwaniyi

I was a top player in the Ibadan school yards, tbf, just because I was taller and larger than most anyone else. I just struggled with passing, controlling the ball, dribbling, and other things of that nature. And if I had made it, supporters would definitely regarded me as a mercenary.

I'm not too emotional about club football, tbh. Obviously, the results hit me like they hit everyone else, but at the end of things, these people on the pitch just happen to be ones that are slightly more qualified to perform the job I spent the first 16 years of my life applying for. If I had made the grade in football, I would have wanted to make as much money as possibe and win as many things as possible. They shouldn't need a connection to the club, they are employees.

Do you take random news stories from unreliable stories to represent the intentions of our club? Aliadiere is 29 and had scored more than five league goals in season one time in his career. To be fair, he's done well for a Lorient team that is performing well this season, but he's not good enough (though he would be our second best forward if he came). I'm actually not talking about rumours. Just didn't know where to put the question? Honestly, the club has known we were short and targeted the position as shown by the failed pursuit of Mariappa our first season in the league as well as the Sol Campbell experiment. With the team doing so well last season and Perch probably showing himself as an adequate fourth choice in the eyes of management it became less of a priority I suppose. Even still, we seem to have been actively pursuing defenders. Any problems with this club recently have been related to financial inflexibility, reluctance to pursue beyond Carr's first recommendation, and execution in terms of negotiation and actually completing transfers. I don't think our problem has been intention.

Do you take random news stories from unreliable stories to represent the intentions of our club? Aliadiere is 29 and had scored more than five league goals in season one time in his career. To be fair, he's done well for a Lorient team that is performing well this season, but he's not good enough (though he would be our second best forward if he came).

Do you think there is any chance we could bring Zat Knight back from the Championship? What would the cost be? If we need more than one CB this window, I would prefer that one was heavily experienced in the English leagues.

This season just continually find it way towards new crises. If we lose Coloccini, I will be very scared for the future of this team. The first half of this season, we've lost no one of note from a team that finished fifth and now sit barely above relegation. Can we take losing our best forward and best defender within the same month. This would be devastating.

I know Roman is essentially the one that built success at Chelsea, his decisions and actions since the first two title seasons under Mourinho have been consistently negative and harmful to the competitive chances of his teams. Idiotic and scatterbrained.

First Burundian to play in the Premier League. Now we want to be trailblazers for the Gabonese and the Central African Republic. #investinafrica Daniel Cousin has already taken the Gabonese virginity of the Premier League. I'm not sure she'll want more after what he did to her.

That might be true but he's been playing on right wing ffs. He didn't even play down the middle against Everton. Give him a run down the middle and he'll get goals as it's his natural position as proved last season. I don't understand all the excuse making for Cisse. He has been extremely poor 99 percent of the time this season at whatever position he has played. He hasn't been finishing and has managed to contribute almost nothing else to the team. Outside of Man U and Bordeaux in the cups and two decent finishes recently, when has he actually played well this season? I genuinely cannot remember any other quality performances, which is alarming given he has played in every meaningful match this season. Even his "positive contributions against Stoke, Wigan, and West Brom are a result of Ba. You can blame Pardew ad nauseum if you would like, but unless he is poisoning his drinking water, the manager is not the only problem. Frankly, I think the effects of managers can be overstated. At some level, players simply have to perform, and Cisse has the ability to do better, regardless of the boss instructing him.

It is a basketball rule. If you have a clear path to the basket, meaning usually a dunk and two points, and someone fouls you from behind, you are given two free throws (one point each) and then one free possession (in a sport where good teams score 1 point per possession. He wants to apply this to football, where teams score on 1 percent of possessions rather than 50 percent. He also wants to replace free throws with penalties, which are inherently much more difficult.

This is one of the most ridiculous and nonsensical posts in the entire history of my duration on this forum.

To be brutally honest, he hasn't been the same player since the Keegan left. Since then he's always been a player than can retain the ball, and that's pretty much it. Just to clarify, he played four matches under Keegan.

Norwich are a bottom half Premiership team who have lost four consecutive matches in the league. Definitely this is a match we have no opportunity of winning. We should rest our players.

He was sold for 8 million euro (I think) less than one year ago and is inferior to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Loic Remy.

To be fair, we were in the Championship at the time with what was by far the most expensive team in that division and he probably wouldn't have contributed right away given how his career at Wigan went (didn't really come into himself until late 2011). That wage does seem high given the circumstances.

It's tough to point it out as a failure on our part given the players we later signed (HBA, Ba, Cisse), but signing Moses in January 2010, when Wigan were the only Premiersip side interested, for 2-3 million would have been fantastic business. I've watched him many times since the change in nationality and he's a genuine star. We are a big enough team that he might have stayed as well. He has been horrendous in France and has high wages, but I wanted NUFC to sign Kalou in the summer for that exact role.

We are not going to spend for a top forward and a top defender in the same window along with Debuchy. Not unless we are selling another. I wonder how negatively the club views Williamson and even Perch in terms of playing centreback. If Taylor is really meant to come back at an effective level, than all we really need is experienced and capable Premiership quality cover. Surely we can get this on loan or at a low price.

Martins, 28 "21 or 28" was seven years ago. My God, life goes so quickly and football makes it worse. The age of 16 seems a lifetime ago, but Glenn Roeder and 2006/2007 Premiership seems like last week.

It is a negative sum game for me. I don't want him representing my country at Nations Cup (Keshi would like to leave Oba who is playing well and Odemwingie who is talented home for Ameobi?!), especially since he rejected us when he was a mildly desirable commodity, and I do not want him in the team at NUFC or giving an excuse to the powers at the club. He just isn't useful at this point Very well. I have a broken leg and decided to visit my women's people for the holidays. I am not which of these is more regrettable.

Yes. To begin on a markedly combative note, Nations Cup has been held on a two to three year interval ever since its inception in the late 1950's. This is the way we do things. We should change because Europe has the money in football? I hope that when China has brought the world to its knees and owns the best football league and the players, that Europe is willing to move the "more prestigious" European tournament and even the World Cup to fit with the Chinese season, which runs from March to November, and hold it at an interval set by the Chinese. It angers me when these people complain of our tournament. Holding it in two consecutive years is remarkably naive and foolish by CAF, though. Groups A and D should be quite entertaining. You would figure that Morocco should stop underachieving at some point and it will be a scrap for second place in D. I would favour us to take our group, but Zambia and BF are good sides. Cape Verde are my dark horse. They play good football and beat the hell out of Cameroon in the qualifier. In my life time, Nigeria have finished second in this three times. We have finished third five times. Also, we have withdrawn once as favourites and been banned once as favourites. We have more "medals" than any other team in history, but have won only twice. Surely whatever curse this tourney has on my country must soon end.

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What is obvious is that these issues should be handled internally by the FA/UEFA/FIFA. If players think they have been treated in any sort of way that is unacceptable, they should report it to the authorities and not be criticised for this. It is their right. At the same time, this sort of thing should not publicly released until an investigation is complete. Once again, we will have a long saga with players and officials being called liars and racists for months. Why are these issues tried and handled by media? Why do the supporters know the details of the incidents before the authorities have even had a chance to sort through everything? Very unfair to everyone and amateur.

Suarez is the most overrated diver I can remember. Every time the guy falls over the world media vilifies him to an incredible degree. A few weeks ago, he fell in over once in a match where a massive man decided to impale his chest with his boot, and Tony Pulis/the media has used this an opportunity to further the campaign against him. He's been singled out to a crazy degree (Everton's best player is the dirtiest in the league for example), and that is why I find it funny when does something like that. It reminds me of Balotelli, his reputation is such that it will be talked about for 10 minutes on MOTD if he stares at someone.

He never learned how to use it to full effect playing on the shoulder, but to claim the guy isn't fast, is a completely mental thing to say in public.

We've papered over the cracks for one more week. My eyes are not lying to me. We may have good footballers, but we rarely play anything resembling good football.