Happy Hour

Lover. Believer. Winner.
Supporter of Arsenal Football Club.

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

we beat these people finish one of them tell one of our players make he go pay the money wey he dey owe am. 😭

[now.arsenal @now_arsenaI]

🚨Gabriel Magalhaes is the first player ever in World Cup history to contest seven or more duels in a single match and win them all, as per @Sofascore.

- Ground duels - 2/2 won
- Aerial duels - 5/5 won

The best centre-back on the planet. 🇧🇷

[Blxckie🥷🏽 @Blxckie1__]

What doesn’t kill you keeps you like this at 3am.

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

make scaloni no even try bench Messi for Jordan.

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

sorry o.

[N5⭐️ @Afc_Nels2]

You cannot be a real Arsenal fan if you’re twerking for Messi this much

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

don't sell me dreams

[HandofArsenal @HandofArsenal]

Julian Alvarez Update

If you remember, I stated there was another attacker I chose to keep anonymous. That player was indeed Julian Alvarez. The reason I said it was sensitive was because one of our players (Gyökeres) was potentially involved but let me just provide the facts for Arsenal fans. To my understanding the following statements are 100% factual.

• The players dream is Barca (personal terms agreed already)
• Barca have always wanted Julian to go public with his desire to force Atleti's position
• Atleti are adamant they will not to sell to Barca and would rather sell abroad but it wont stop Barca from trying
• PSG to my understanding left the race due to Campos / Enrique not wanting a player who doesn’t absolutely prioritise them but I wont be shocked if they return due to the players quality
• Julian has been a target for Arsenal since last summer
• After our group stage game Arteta made it clear we must atleast be in the race for the Argentine
• I can 100% confirm Atleti have interest in Viktor Gyökeres
• Andrea Berta has maintained contacts with the camp since last summer and has explored 'different structures & mechanisms' to bring Julian Alvarez to North London in the recent months…
• Reports about 'the English weather' being a reason Julian and his family would not return to England are absolutely false.
• The player would be very open to joining Arsenal and has directly told us should his dream to Barca become impossible
• Arsenal are yet to officially formalise their interest but Atleti are well aware of our interest.

The situation is chaotic but my role is to provide the absolute facts to the best of my knowledge in real time not predict the future. Its difficult enough tracking Berta and his 1000 spinning plates technique, its even harder when he silently speaks to ex-colleagues at Atleti with whom he has a lot of trust with but I have presented the facts. Genuinely feel a lot of relief talking about this all as its been exhausting to track for 14 months. I need to sleep now as I have been awake all night contacting sources 😂

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

@ErlingHaaland my 🐐

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

Messi🤣🤣
Undisputed

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

you don kill me.

[Mr Jimmyahu @Jimmy_lovo]

@DrMel_ Why you dey open up to everyone? Are you the strait of Hormuz

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

@itsteazz Ohhh, I see

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

🐐

[Madrid Zone @theMadridZone]

🚨 Kylian Mbappé: "My thoughts on hydration breaks? Don't ask us players for our opinion, we're very reactionary.

If tomorrow we're dominating at the 25th minute, and there's a hydration break, we'll be angry, because it breaks our rhythm, but if the weather is hot, or we're being dominated, I'll be happy."

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

"where was Messi last year? Getting knocked out of the Copa America in his own country."

Ronaldo na one very useless guy. 😭😭

[ChocoTribe 🇦🇷 @Debbybruno3]

He downplayed everything as Messi was winning more than him 💔

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

@TheMrGrandeur How bad was Messi for psg?🤣🤣

[THE POPES ✞ @ThePopeProjectX]

AZA - DMW, DUNCAN MIGHTY, DAVIDO & PERUZZI {2018}

[THE POPES ✞ @ThePopeProjectX]

BEAUTIFUL RAIN - THE CAVEMEN {2020}

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

I should name my child Palmwine Express? or Roots?

[vespera @vesperamyst]

normalising naming your child after a 10/10 album

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

was she not already seeing a therapist before she met Tony?

[: @loveuwaa]

Tony Soprano almost made his therapist lose her mind,she had to go to therapy herself.😭😭😂

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

🤣🤣🤣
Before 2021, it was a different narrative. Now they've all become poets and preachers.

Talmabout belief and faith.

[Rasheed || Securities Counsel @AromokalaRashid]

Thank you for this.

What stats can measure my certainty on 12 April 2016 that Real Madrid would overturn a two-goal deficit against Wolfsburg.

Tell me what metric captures the belief of millions of fans who looked at that scoreline and still thought, “Ronaldo is on the pitch; this isn’t over.”

Tell me what number records the feeling when he completed the hat-trick and turned what looked impossible into something that suddenly felt inevitable.

Stats can count the three goals. They can’t measure the faith that existed before the first one, or the eruption of emotion after the third.

That is why I laugh when people say Ronaldo begins and ends with goals. Some of the biggest things Ronaldo gave us were never recorded on a scoresheet. They live entirely in the minds of those who watch, adore and have belief in him.

Stats can't explain all that. Even words go tear ACL.

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

Oh please. All this talk about feelings and whatnot. You could make this case for any player who's achieved something they've sought for so long (Messi easily comes to mind).
The GOAT debate is not about feelings. Messi is better at every metric you can ever put a footballer on.

[Ajoje⚽⚖️ @israel_ajoje]

Messi v Ronaldo: With Bias, You Will Always Find the Narrative You Are Looking For

With bias, you will always find the narrative you are looking for. Nowhere is this truer than in football, and nowhere in football is it more visible than in the GOAT debate. The conversation is inherently subjective.

There is no universal scorecard. And because there is no universal scorecard, bias fills the gap, and people argue across decades, across continents, across generations, and never quite arrive anywhere.

Please just stay with me. You will see my what I am driving at if you do. I assure you.

Before Messi and Ronaldo consumed the debate entirely, there were two names that occupied that space. Pelé and Maradona. So dominant was their standing that FIFA conducted two separate polls in the year 2000 to determine the Player of the Century.

Maradona won the public internet vote with 53.6%. Pelé won the expert panel, composed of journalists, coaches, and officials, with 72.75%. FIFA, diplomatically, named them joint winners. Based on the foregoing, he debate was officially sanctioned as unresolvable.

But here is what makes that remarkable. Look at the era Maradona actually played in.

Michel Platini for example won three consecutive Ballon d'Ors between 1983 and 1985, a feat that had never been achieved before and has only been surpassed once since.

He scored nine goals at a single European Championship, a record that still stands more than forty years later. He won the Serie A title, the European Cup, and a European Championship with France, all while being the best player in the world for three straight years.

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge won back-to-back Ballon d'Ors in 1980 and 1981, reached consecutive World Cup finals, and was widely regarded as one of the most complete strikers the sport had produced.

Marco Van Basten won three Ballon d'Ors, led the Netherlands to the 1988 European Championship with one of the most technically perfect volleys ever struck, and was so far ahead of his time that multiple coaches called him the greatest they had ever worked with.

Lothar Matthäus, whom Maradona himself named as his greatest rival, won the 1990 World Cup and the Ballon d'Or in the same year, with 150 international appearances that remain the German record to this day.

So on paper, the 1980s was overflowing with players who matched or exceeded Maradona by almost every formal measure available.

Platini had more Ballon d'Ors. Van Basten had comparable individual awards and a Champions League.

Rummenigge had consecutive golden balls and World Cup final appearances. The likes of ROmario and Gerd Muller(of dufferent generations of course even had more goals tha he did).

And Maradona, remember, never won a conventional Ballon d'Or at all, because the award excluded South Americans throughout his entire peak.

And yet none of them are in the conversation the way Maradona is. Not even close.

Because in 1986, Maradona did something that no trophy, no award, and no statistical record has ever been able to replicate or contain. He carried a nation of forty million people to a World Cup on his back.

He scored the Hand of God and then, four minutes later in the same match, the Goal of the Century against England and at a World Cup quarter-final.

Yet the hand of God wasn't a taint on his legacy or his stake to the claim of being GOAT. The weight of that moment, and what people felt when they watched it, permanently overrode every comparison that statistics could ever produce.

That is the thing about legacy. It does not care about your trophy count, individual awards, or goals. Yes all of these contribute to what one's legacy eventually becomes. But they are not the main thing.

Let us consider something closer to our present. Henry, Ibrahimovic, Benzema, Lewandowski, and Suarez represent one of the most decorated generations of strikers the sport has ever produced.

Between them, only one won the Ballon d'Or. Only one won the World Cup. Does that make either of those individuals definitively greater than the other four? Just think about it.

Modric, Pirlo, Kroos, Iniesta, Busquets, Scholes, Gerrard, Lampard and Xavi form a midfield generation that may never be replicated. Between all of them, only one Ballon d'Ors.

Does that mean the one who won it was undisputably superior to the rest, or does it mean the award simply could not accommodate the scale of that generation?

You may not agree yet. But I think this will drive it home for yous. Dembele. He has a Ballon d'Or and 2 Champions League titles. Mbappe, widely regarded as one of the two or three best players alive today, has neither at club level.

So on paper, in this single snapshot of time, Dembélé outranks Mbappe. You can ask anyone who watches football regularly whether they actually believe that, and watch what happens.

Now let's bring that exact same reasoning forward to the crux of the conversation. Messi has 900+ goals, eight Ballon d'Ors, more than any player in history. He has a World Cup, a Copa America, four Champions League titles, and forty-three major trophies, the most any footballer has ever accumulated.

Ronaldo has 950+ career goals, the highest verified total in football history. He has five Ballon d'Ors, a European Championship, five Champions League titles, and so on.

By the numbers, Messi leads the argument in almost every category. And yet millions of people around the world, right now, would fight you over that conclusion.

Not because the data is wrong, but because Ronaldo made them feel something the data was never designed to measure. He made people believe that wanting something badly enough, working for it hard enough, refusing to accept its absence long enough, could actually get you there. That feeling does not live in a spreadsheet.

Here is what Pelé and Maradona already showed us, and what we are watching unfold again right in front of us. Trophies tell you who won. Legacy tells you who mattered.

And the saddest and most beautiful thing about this debate is that by the time it is finally settled, the two men at the centre of it will be long retired, and the people who watched them will still be arguing.

Not because they cannot see the evidence, but because the evidence never quite captures what they actually witnessed.

That is not a flaw in the debate. That is the whole point of it.

I say this because people are saying now that Ronaldo doesnt deserve to be in the GOAT debate with Messi. Well, I am a Ronaldo truther. And I believe Messi is greater. But from the above, you'll be very dishonest to tell me you don't see how that can be subjective.

Please, with civility, let me know what you think in the comments section.

My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.

[Happy Hour @Adeyfero]

I pity you gan.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

5 aside is harder than 11 vs 11.