Yaya Toure and Ramadan ...

Football clubs spend hundreds of thousands of pounds a year on sports science, and a key part of this is dietary requirements as adding even a quarter of a percent to an athletes performance is an achievement. To think that we have had a number of devout muslims who are also top players in our league over the last 10 or 12 years, but have only just realised now that muslims need to fast during Ramadan is extremely unlikely. Someone at City is being paid a 6 figure salary just to make sure Yaya has the optimum slow release energy diet during this period.
 
And these players have been Muslims for life, not like Ramadan is a new thing to them, cant see the worry or problem myself.
Thread is still shit by the way.
 
And these players have been Muslims for life, not like Ramadan is a new thing to them, cant see the worry or problem myself.
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Agreed, he didn't waste away to nothing last year unless Ramadam was cancelled. I am not worried.
 
BoringCity said:
what im trying to say is, there is no such thing as being a "orthodox" muslim. your either a muslim, or a "fake" muslim. bosnians are fake muslims. if you are willing to pray 5 times a day, all the other obligations to be considered a muslim arent even noticeable, if you pray 5 times a day that shows you really believe your faith. also if u dont pray 5 times a day ur not muslim, simple as that.
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Who are you to talk about who is a real muslim and who not??? The Bosnians gave 200.000 lives in the last war to defend Islam in Europa. Only Allah swt knows who is a real muslim and how big is his Iman. So please brother dont talk like that.

Anyone who says the Shehada (and truly believs in it) is am muslim.
 
MSP said:
Those clerics giving permissions for people to break a fast if they play football are doing that just to make some people happy to hear it, there's no any single way it could be allowed if it does not make their health and life in danger.

I'm pretty sure Yaya would fast and that he doesn't rate those "fatwas", I don't know for Clichy, haven't got idea he is Muslim at all and I don't see Dzeko is too religious at all. Yes he usually makes a dua pray before the game but I've seen him drinking beer when Wolfsburg won Bundesliga title so he's probably one of those "yeah, I'm Muslim but I don't care about Islam rules too much".

dzeko is unorthodox and prays only once a day... i pray only once a week and i am a muslim... bt i does fasting a lot... for a muslim,fasting is very important...
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we're going to theology stuff now but that's a complete bullshit what you've said. Praying 5 times a day is strict Islamic rule, the main and most important one after saying you're Muslim and doing that doesn't make you a damn orthodox.

the quran says that you are allowed to drop fasting for doing hard physical jobs...
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Find me that verse in Qur'an and I'l give you 10k in whatever currency you want. I'll bring them on your hands as I guess you're Bosnian, only my felow Bosnians are saying "Qur'an says" stuff even when they don't have idea what Qur'an says.
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The Qur'an was out way before football, and probably hard work was even thought of. I think your 10k is safe cheif.
 
can tell from his performance today that he was hugely affected.

expect him to be like that for the next 3 games
 
Akai said:
can tell from his performance today that he was hugely affected.

expect him to be like that for the next 3 games
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i guess same goes for clichy and dzeko?
 
It took Yaya until November to get fit last season. Ramadan might have had something to do with it but I also thought from summer to November he was the fattest player in the Prem. Maybe his metabolism is slow and he naturally carries a lot of fat when not in full season mode, and takes a lot of time to lose it even when he is.
 
what a load of bollox
if its ramadan the players mentioned have nothing to do with todays performance they are trained over years to deal with it.
Today we got beat because we were shit at the start of the second half when the scum strarted to pressure us and we couldnt take it.
The last minute goal is the norm the game is a pisser to take but this is the scum thats how they win
We will overtake them this year, they all know that but let them enjoyn there lucky day.

CTID
 
Ramadan is obviously about fasting but this includes fluids.

Surely these guys must abstain or something otherwise they would be in some danger if playing during Ramadan and not being able to take on water during training or a game?
 
He looked shattered today and it was one of his worst games in a city shirt , he didn't impose himself and he seemed lazy in everything that he did . Lets hope he does up his game for next week with the rest of the team or the Swans could nick something.
 
I have a big problem with this. Players are paid huge wages to be at there peak fitness. These players that fast during the Ramadan are nowhere near there peak fitness during this time. I know there is not a lot the club can do about it I just wish that the players would just knock it on there head as it would benefit them longterm.
 
It can't benefit them longterm if they put their religious feeling before anything else. Any there are loads of them who do exactly that.

Muntari's career probably went down significantly after Mourinho excluded him from Inter's team with poor Ramadan performances as a reason but I doubt he cared too much.
 
This is nothing new for them is it? They have made it to a very high standard in thier career with this problem all of thier lives.

It is not really a very good point is it?
 
Shame he's fasting because I'd like to shove my £45 ticket stub down his fucking throat after that disgraceful display. And my £50 train ticket.

What a fucking joke.
 
Johnsonontheleft said:
Shame he's fasting because I'd like to shove my £45 ticket stub down his fucking throat after that disgraceful display. And my £50 train ticket.

What a fucking joke.
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Agreed. His two important goals from last season are his saving grace, he's yet to convince me he's owt special
 
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