AFCON
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Oh come on, we all knwo the world was created in 4004BC and Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden that is in Kent
That's pretty much what I do.
Where does it sit on the Arsenal scale?
You may be more intrigued once you learn Arsenal have a number of players at AFCON. You'll surely wish them well.
Keep dreaming. You wish you were.
Froggy's right. The human race originated in the Great Rift Valley area in E.Africa. Some folks' ancestors wandered away earlier/later than others, is all.
Problem’s getting work permits for them. Taiwo Awoniyi being a classic example. We had to farm him out to anyone who’d take him, probably funding half his wages each time. Allan Rodrigues the same (although not African, obvs). Legally, with no work permit, you can’t pay a player so if you don’t find a loan club he can end up cancelling his contract. To say nothing of it being difficult for young kids being farmed out all over Europe, another season, another language to learn.
It’s then pot luck whether they develop as intended at their loan clubs.
If you want the best young talent out of Africa you need to invest in local academies/teams and then a feeder club somewhere like Belgium where they can get an EU passport fairly quickly, giving them a pathway to get to the UK. Obvs, even the EU passport isn’t worth what it used to be. It’s not even blue FFS!
Your ancestors may have come from anywhere in africa, and they may have all wandered off at the same time. It is dreamy's ancestors who wandered off earlier, and eventually met their doom at the hands of your ancestors.
Yah I've always thought that we should invest in a 'mid-tier' Belgian team - send over mid to top level youth talent to get experience and sign best S American and African 15-17 talent and send them there for 3 years to play footy and get EU citizenship. Worst happens - you sell and make profit. Best case? We get a Mane or a Salah etc with reasonably small investment!
I'm ambivalent about AFCON. I fucking hate Arsenal. Spineless little turds.
I may have been aware of that fact.
Playing style??!!! HAHAHAHA!
It's absolute chaos! That's the style.
No wonder Matip told them to fuck off.
The Anal? Weird name for football analysts. Is there something they are trying to tell us?
Full of shit.
Cameroon-Ethiopia 4:1, I didn’t see it but sounds like a cracking game. I kind of expected the tournament to pick up after the turgid opening round; don’t underestimate how change of climate, lack of training time as a team etc can affect the performance. Now that the players are getting acclimatized and settled into their respective teams, the quality should improve across the board. In terms of talent, particularly up and coming talent, this AFCON is probably the strongest ever - they just need to create the conditions for the players to show it.
Or if a game will be played the full 90 minutes
Is this tournament over yet?
i think this every time a new post is added to this thread
Tbf, many of their players tested positive for Covid.
A lot of big names missing.
Idrissa Gueye, Fode Ballo-Touré, Edouard Mendy, Koulibaly
Also Sarr is still injured.
Imagine one of them injuring the other
It's a team effort in the end. I think Gueye is really important for them.
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