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Offline Risso

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Re: Amadou Onana - Signed
« Reply #510 on: August 18, 2024, 07:01:44 PM »
So his dad's from Cameroon, maybe from the Anglophone area.


I'd have thought the fact his dad lived in Belgium would suggest the French bit? Not guaranteed obviously, but people often like to move to where they speak the language.

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« Reply #511 on: August 18, 2024, 07:03:37 PM »
He speaks very loudly, his dad's from the Microphone area.

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« Reply #512 on: August 18, 2024, 07:05:15 PM »
So his dad's from Cameroon, maybe from the Anglophone area.


I'd have thought the fact his dad lived in Belgium would suggest the French bit? Not guaranteed obviously, but people often like to move to where they speak the language.

Could well just bilingual due to being Cameroonian, to be fair, many are.

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« Reply #514 on: August 18, 2024, 07:09:10 PM »
Why's he speaking Dutch and German in Senegal? Just learning them at school?

Either way he's a hell of a smart lad.

Offline Risso

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« Reply #515 on: August 18, 2024, 07:13:21 PM »
Why's he speaking Dutch and German in Senegal? Just learning them at school?

Either way he's a hell of a smart lad.

He's played for a German team and a Dutch team!

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« Reply #516 on: August 18, 2024, 07:13:43 PM »
Why's he speaking Dutch and German in Senegal? Just learning them at school?

Presumably he's learning Flemish while living in Belgium as a teenager and then German at Hoffenheim and Hamburg. Rather than as a child in Senegal.

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« Reply #517 on: August 18, 2024, 07:15:53 PM »
Why's he speaking Dutch and German in Senegal? Just learning them at school?

Either way he's a hell of a smart lad.

He's played for a German team and a Dutch team!

Which Dutch team?

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« Reply #518 on: August 18, 2024, 07:17:17 PM »
He said 'growing up'.

Aaaand I just realised that that includes Belgium, where German and 'Dutch' live.

Offline Chico Hamilton III

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« Reply #519 on: August 18, 2024, 07:21:05 PM »
I’m sure that this has probably already been posted somewhere but it’s a classic. Sarf London perfected

https://youtube.com/shorts/KT4ENL-l7KI?feature=shared

Offline AV84

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« Reply #520 on: August 18, 2024, 07:27:26 PM »
He also speaks Spanish as someone else posted here recently. He's asked Emery and his coaching staff to speak to him in Spanish so he can get better at it.

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« Reply #521 on: August 18, 2024, 07:39:29 PM »
Future captain and will be the one to raise the CL cup when we win it

Offline Duncan Shaw

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« Reply #522 on: August 18, 2024, 08:12:00 PM »
Best debut since Beni Carbone!

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« Reply #523 on: August 18, 2024, 08:18:45 PM »
How good's his English by the way! Is he a sneaky native speaker? It's exceptional.

He spent two seasons at Everton.
could teach them scousers to speak properly :)

Offline edgysatsuma89

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« Reply #524 on: August 19, 2024, 01:10:22 AM »
I sort of feel sorry for Everton fans automatically thinking their midfielders must be shit when really it's just because they don't get their feet on the ball.

... aaaand now I've stopped feeling sorry for them and hope they finally go down. Nothing against them, it just sort of needs to happen. Stop stinking out the division like we did for years.

 


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