I see Kevin De Bruyne as the most important player in Manchester City, even more important than their highest goal scorer of this season who just joined them. In games where Kevin does not play for them, his absence in the team is usually largely felt. He is Pep Guardiola's greatest assets in the team amidst the many talented players the teams has in all positions. When I hear of teams that need players, I do not count Manchester City because I see them as a very balanced team that is not lacking even in their substitute list. It is a great team that Pep has assembled. Their first game is against Leeds United and based on their team form, that game should not be a difficult game for them to win.
Manchester City relies on collectivity in playing, so that all the players they have are quite developed and not a single player stands out. Pep Guardiola is a typical coach who likes to play tiki-taka and is able to mix the Premier League style of play that relies on speed, so many of Manchester City's new recruits adapted quickly. Not only Kevin De Bruyne, many other players also played an important role in every victory. Leeds United is not a formidable opponent for Manchester City, because the quality of the players is far different from the strength that Manchester City has, but the Premier League is so competitive that if Manchester City let their guard down, Leeds United will punish them at the Elland Road stadium. I stand with what you have said that Kelvin DE Bruyne is the most important player in Manchester city. It didn't start today, it started since 4 seasons ago. Kelvin creates 80% of the chances that hands Haaland goals. Haaland himself acknowledged it. Generally the team is balanced and should be able to win Leeds but I have long stopped to underrate any club in Epl no matter where their position is in EPL table. |
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Mbappe's hat-trick in the FIFA World Cup final game is truly remarkable. Mbappe is a smart and efficient striker. If he keeps his performance like this, he will become a great player in the future.
No disrespect to Mbappe but he was silent in that game till France got that penalty. The whole French team was outplayed. Mbappe was brilliant to convert 2 penalties (before the shoot out) and that was it. Many other players like Thuram were exceptional for France. All he did was score a beautiful goal and 2 penalties. But that won't matter now because when people talk history they will say Mbappe scored a hat trick in a world cup final. Yeah he was silent in the game but that was because of the formation and poor selection and tactics of the coach. The substitution in the 41st minute changed the game as Mbappe was moved to take on the Number 9 role which he handled perfectly and went on to score a hat-trick so ut wasn't his fault that he was in a position that he couldn't do anything, he just needed the right players with him to support him which Giroud and Dembele failed to do in the first half of the game. It was not actually about the number 9 and number 11 wing he played. It was about the game structure. The persons of Dembele and Giroud were lost. First time Griezmann was lost in the midfield and could not complete any pass. If not that the coach was wonder to detect the fault and corrected everything with his changes and that made Mbappe came back to be the dangerous player he used to be. |
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CBDC’s are evil, total control & communism by governments. The thought of them makes me sick. Imagine being unable to buy more meat this month because your social credit score indicates you’ve had too much so your government controlled CBDC payment is declined. That’s what this whole thing is about, a CBDC twinned with a social credit score for everybody.
I will not be a part of the Great Reset, this is why we have bitcoin.
I don't think that there is a great difference between physical fiat and CBDCs. If there is someone should let me know what I am missing. I think that the only difference is that one is offline while the other one is digital. Even if it runs on blockchain, it is still centralized. If it is tracking ones expenses, I think mobile bank apps are used by banks and other of their data base to know the spending habits and the worth of their customers. |
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According to Babangida Ibrahim, di chairman of di Capital Market & financial institutions come tok sae.
Make una no vex o, hope say na new Babangida Ibrahim be this? Me sef don dey lose interest for dis Nigeria koni koni movement. Everything about Nigeria dey tiring. If you never waka or get friend wey waka or get outside country friends you go think say dis country dey work. But honestly, nothing dey work for this country. Right from time Naija no get law na. Dem dey use decrees wey our colonisers keep, dey amend dem small small say na constitution. |
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According to the information on this info graphic, it shows that Mbappe has a very high chance to become the highest goal scorer in the history of world cup. This is because he is still young sure of going to next two worldcups. And if he goes to the world Cup he will score alot of goals like he did, unless he is unable to go world cup due to injuries or other circumstances. I doubt because he is not an injury prone player. |
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If you watched the final match in full then I think you should understand why there is so much hype about Mbappe. He played very well in the entire World Cup. France's performance in the first half of the final was very poor. Mbappe's superb performance in the second half saw France back on track. While players like Giroud, Griezmann and Dembele did not perform well, Mbappe attacked a lot. This is why there is so much hype about Mbappe.
Mbappe was carrying the club. That's they reason he has been getting so many attentions from various media and clubs. Mbappe was also act like a captain for the club while Lloris was the captain of france national club but mbappe has been boosting the performance from the team. Since france was losing 2-0 and most of players in france lose their mentality but mbappe has been trying to bring back their mentality after making the first goal. Adding the second goal was also boosting the mentality from whole of france players again. Mbappe has been playing so much for the club. That's why he was getting a lot of attentions. I will not be surprised that real madrid become more interested with him after world cup. In the first half I was so much upset because it was not looking like finals when France conceived two goals in the first half. ThankGod for France coach who saw that many things were wrong when he removed Giroud and Dembele and brought in Coleman to change the game. It was when this men entered and was able to send ball across to Mbappe that Mbappe started making those his dangerous runs. I knew if Benzema was there, France would have been double champions. |
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Bayern Munich are desperately in need of a goal keeper to replace Neuer who is aged and also injured. Neuer is getting close to finishing his contract at Bayern with no further plans of renewing so Bayern are desperately in need of a suitable replacement, someone that can fit in the boots of the departing Neuer. I can't say if Aston Villa will be willing to let Emiliano Martinez leave especially not in the middle of the season, probably a big money offer could do the trick.
Bayern have been preparing Ulreich for many years, perhaps this is his chance to become the team's main goalkeeper. He periodically played for Bayern, but this was not enough to prove himself, now he will have a chance to show all his abilities, if he succeeds, he will become the main goalkeeper, if not, then it’s good that it will be found out now. Neuer hasn't been the most reliable goalkeeper lately, he conceded a lot and Bayern would do well to find someone like Oliver Kahn. Finding a suitable replacement for Manuel Neuer will not be easy for Bayern Munich. Neuer was a very experienced and talented goalkeeper. He is a first-rate goalkeeper. Bayern Munich management is considering Sven Ukreich as Neuer's replacement. I wouldn't say that Ukreich is a bad goalkeeper. But he is not as talented as Neuer. However, if Ukrech gets enough opportunities, he may be able to prove himself. Bayern Munich will have a big problem in the goal post. They are so used to Neuer in the goal post, so any other person that stands on the post would be measured with the criteria of Manuel Neuer which will be bad. The best thing for them to do is to realise that another goalkeeper will not be like Neuer. So they should manage the person till the person grows in experience like Neuer. |
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Why not take a little pinch out of our bitcoin stash this Holiday and make it a special one even if the market is worst or the financial landscape around the world is at chaos. At least you got the money to enjoy with the families and bring food in the table for them.
Others might have different perspective though, they don't want to touch their bitcoin and will rather have this so called "delayed gratification".
So to each its own I guess, "Different strokes for different folks".
Same with my thoughts and what I have done. No one knows tomorrow and even no one knows where the economy is heading to. Christmas in my country try Nigeria is a period when people show love buying gifts for friends, families and relatives. It is a period when people that travelled for greener pasture comes back to dine with family. Selling some portions of bitcoin to enjoy this special season is not a bad idea. If you keep saving your bitcoin when exactly will you use it? That is not how Satoshi asked us to use bitcoin. |
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Despite what they say about bitcoin, I still think of bitcoin as an investment asset and nothing more. Bitcoin is not a religion, I believe in its potential as a profitable investment asset due to price volatility and rightfully so.
Bitcoin is bitcoin, not a religion and people can easily believe in it more than anything else but should not think that bitcoin is a religion. A person may pray based on their own faith and religion for bitcoin to benefit them, but that still won't change bitcoin's position as an investment asset or currency into something like a religion.
I think what the OP means is that when things are believed more than it should be, it is now a religion. Most people believe that it is a crime not to hodl Bitcoin. Some people believe that it is a crime to buy any other coins apart from bitcoin. People should just see bitcoin for what is it and don't try to be extremist in bitcoin activities because bitcoin is not a religion. |
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We have just a few days to Christmas, so I guess now, it's Okey if we start wishing everyone a happy Christmas in advance.
Don't sell your Bitcoin to buy stuffs that will perish few days or weeks after Christmas.
Why then lose your Bitcoin for items that perishes in such a short time?
To some people this is a good advice but to some people this is not the best advise. There are people who bought bitcoin for long so that it will appreciate by Christmas to give them money to spend. To those people they don't your advice. Money is made to be spent, if they want to spend it they shouldn't be restricted. I have sold much myself to send to family and friends so that they will look good and eat good foods. This is a period of merriment. |
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In fact, I don't see any difference for myself in which way the work will be paid, if it can easily be converted into fiat without significant loss of funds for commission services. So there are no problems for those who want to spend part of their salary to buy bitcoins.
I don't think it is necessary or a must to be paid with bitcoin. There are so many other requests you could tender to your boss apart from saying he should pay you in bitcoin. You said you created account for your boss, do you mean an account in exchanges? If yes you thought him the wrong way. Tbh, I don't see a boss who values his time that will go through a rigorous process to pay you when there is an option of fiat. |
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Some of your points are not completely correct, others are not well portrayed. If you are speaking about avoiding losses in crypto and you fail to add the aspect of personal security, the job is not complete. Avoiding losses of your crypto, also entails developing a consciousness that as you can face losses online, you can also face losses from offline elements. You must try to identify and avoid anything that can lead to loss of your crypto physically. Be careful with people you tell about your crypto investments, and be careful with the device that you store your crypto in. That is a very good point mate. When I was introduced newly to Bitcoin my greatest fear was when I was told that if your bitcoin lost no one will be accountable for it. It is your personal duty to protect your coin. Even when they told me the about of bitcoin that has lost forever and cannot be recovered, I was afraid. I was also told to be careful when making transactions so that I will not send to a wrong account that no one will refund me. But this days people are not very conscious about these rules. |
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It is not the centralized solutions according to you that makes people think btc is for investment.
It is how bitcoin was designed to be volatile that makes it an investment assets.
If volatility is no longer in bitcoin, ie bitcoin behaves like a stable coin, people will start using it as a currency because it will not rise in the future, needless of keeping it.
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Even though I am not an early adopter of bitcoin, I still have some shares in bitcoin. I buy bitcoin not to sell at anytime. If I am financially buoyant, I will not think of selling my bitcoin for any reason.
Apart from that, I do not intend to hold bitcoin till infinity. The bitcoin I own now is patiently waiting for the next halving bull run. If the bull happens and get a new ATH, I will sell. But if the bull fails, I will be very sceptical about bitcoin
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NEW TOPIC: Congratulations everyone, we made it, welcome to the Nigerian (Naija) Local baord. Congratulobia to us. I have been away for 3 days now because of engagement. I be prophet o. My vision was that theymos go give us board on 25th or 1st January. Though I no get time make the post. ... or each person can start a discussion he wants the community to engage in anytime he feel like with a new topic. This also relate to other discussion as well like Music, Football discussion etc. Abeg make everyone contribute so we fit move forward.
Make each person dey start post as e dey be for normal board. So that post wey person no like or no fit contribute, the person go pass. There is no implications just that the local board go dey get pages dey go which is not a problem. Once again congratulobia to us, we don win. |
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Argentina is performing very well at the moment. Two goals hit France's goalposts to tell history how Argentina is perfect for winning the World Cup 2022 dream trophy in Qatar. France can never afford a goal. Because so far Argentina has been on a massive offensive. And Argentina is going to succeed by winning the hearts of all fans of history and galleries.  In this finals Argentina has played more than France and I know they deserve the winning, even if I do not fully agree with the penalty kick but France was not prepared for this finals. If they will try and get one goal before 80 minutes this game will change and look like finals. They are not putting Mbappe in football. EDIT: Kylian Mbappe has scored brace within 5mins and the game has chnage. It is now 2:2 and the world cup has started now. |
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David de Gea will be the player who possibly will leave this summer this because Manchester United have a plan not to extended his contract but actually Ten Hag was satisfied with De Gea performance and the management should give him contract extension but rumours said why Manchester United aren't willing to extended his contract because De Gea as one of the player with the highest salary in this team and he is now 32 years old however actually De Gea still happy in Manchester United and he will waiting the solution of this issue and he said cut off salary on his new contract will be fine because he want to stay at this team
MU was willing to give him a new contract but that was a short term contract. De gea has not yet decided whether he wanna try to accept the new contract or not. I hope that de gea can leave from MU to get a better team than it. Manchester united itself may try to find a new goal keeper There are some MU that may leave from the club in january. Let's see how these players will be determining their futures. Im sure that one or two from them may accept the short term contract but that's has not yet decided by them. If Manchester United wants to give De Gea contract he will gladly accept because he is getting old and I read news somewhere that he is having some eye problems that was why Manchester United had to sign another goal keeper. I know that Manchester United has a goal keeper in loan in one of the English clubs and he may likely come back after this season. If Manchester United will give him contract it will, it will not be more than 2yrs. |
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 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604498679234273286?t=pJtzCDH0L4CYtibpoIwdUg&s=19Incredibly, Argentina are about to win the FIFA World Cup after 36 years. This World Cup will be memorable for Messi because this World Cup may be the last World Cup for Messi. Best wishes to Messi in today's game on his way to win the World Cup. You Lionel Messi will be in the hearts of billions of fans. Elon Musk has already congratulated Argentina for scoring two incredible goals today. The Argentine hailed the goal from his official Twitter page. Argentina us more organised in this world cup than France. I didn't expect France to be so poor in the finals. There was no force from France attack. Mbappe, Girond and Dembele was totaly not in the match. No single attack from them. It is a very disappointing. It is good that the coach has made double changes and I belive this second half will be more interesting. |
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If there is really an offer by Newcastle to Ronaldo then I think Ronaldo should absolutely accept it. I mean he should do this if he still wants to play European football. Of course I know that his priority is to play in the Champions League. However there is nothing to do about this as long as he doesn't get any offer from such team. We don't see any team like that being eager to sign a contract with him for now. Even Sporting refuted the speculations about them to be interested in Ronaldo. Besides we might see Newcastle in the Champions League in the near future as well. They have done a great work so far.
Ronaldo has a great offer on the table on one hand of course. I don't think Al-Nassr would give up on him easily. They are ready to pay whatever amount of money they need to convince him now. Ronaldo must also be aware of this as he is stalling them for now.
Ronaldo might not be fortunate enough to find a club in England that will sign him especially after having a fight with Manchester United recently.Newcastle have the money to sign and keep him at the club,but I don't think they will like to sign him,but if they are able to,he will definitely be a major addition to the squad. Newcastle are actually in a very good form at the moment,and I hope they will still add more players to the squad they have currently if they want to retain the position they are on the league table.They are currently sitting third on the table,and will be hoping to be in the top four spot to qualify for champions league next season. Ronaldo has had many problems this season right from his former club Manchester United to the interview that he granted. Among all the problems he went to world cup to vindicate himself but it was very unfortunate that he had more problems. He was being benched and later they were eliminated by Morocco. So Ronaldo has not actually done anything in the world cup to prove Erik Ten Hag wrong. The Purpose of any club signing Ronaldo will be for business and not for him to play as the Ronaldo we use to know. |
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Abuse of naira notes ...cut... I also support the account the CBN Dey take concerning the way Nigerians dem Dey abuse the Naira note. The Matta na serious matta but my own be say make them start from the top they enforce am, many time big men for we country Dey abuse the naira by spraying its at event to create attention. Senior man, for naira abuse I no sure say na policians dey abuse naira pass. Wetin dem dey do na to thief hoard am, or thief convertam to other currencies but dem no dey too show off to spray the money. Na we young people dey do the spreading. Especially Gguys wey don pick. Na youths get the abuse blame no be top politicians. May problem be say make the naira get value first. Na something wey no get value dem dey abuse. Something wey get value dem no dey rush abuse am. Use dollar for example. |
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