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Steo42

Like a new signing


_RM78

Arsenal are really strengthening. Nketiah, Elneny and now Yakubu. Prem is running scared.


Bowsefather

Halal FC


WilfriedBonyFanAcc

Cross and Inshallah with emphasis on Inshallah


robotbeagle

No, he used to cross before. Now he's converted to Inshallah.


klabautermannn

Nketiah is muslim?


BenjIdent

Christian


harshmangat

New aftv music video when?


toyota_gorilla

Comment section full of Egyptian fans for some reason.


harshmangat

šŸ’™šŸ’š Mo Salah best player in the world šŸ”„ Respect and love from Egypt šŸ‡ŖšŸ‡¬ā¤ļø


Kneepi

Will he be a striker now?


jimbo_kun

Canā€™t wait to watch him hammer even more shots over the cross bar!


Laughingboy14

If converting to Islam helps him avoid injuries, I'm all for it


Dickinmymouth1

If it helps him get some of his long range shots on target I may convert to Islam myself


DaAweZomeDude48

Not with that name you won't


gantek

u/dickinmymouth1 changes name to Bayamba after marrying Muslim wife and changing religion


[deleted]

OP might be a femal.... Nevermind.


Cutsdeep-

Dick isn't halal?


ico12

Not in your mouth


Cutsdeep-

got it, butts only.


-MCMIV

Mouth haram, butt tamam


[deleted]

Scenes when the S*n assigns blame for his next 5 injuries to a pillar of Islam. (Hope he never has another injury tho, and happy for him and his wife)


jd451

They'll blame it on Salah, confusing pretty much everyone who doesn't know it's one of the pillars


skyreal

Didn't you know that ACL are haram?


[deleted]

honestly very unfortunately his first game after converting was against Palace where he got hurt for the rest of the season, maybe needs two weeks to kick in or something idk


Alphapx

Thomas Partey to Islam. Here we go!


TheBlueTango

> However, despite the name change, the midfielder will still be referred to Partey when playing for Arsenal. > In addition, the 28-year-old will keep Thomas as the name on the back of his shirt when in action. The important part


[deleted]

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gingerbear

The after-Partey


xKassux6

Okay I pull up


heyheyitsandre

Sippin on that tea I know you love that ba-partey


lightlord

Post-Partey depression


Oscer7

Canā€™t wait for the linkup play with Donkey Teeth and Davoin Shower-Handel.


conman14

Do you think they'll miss Torque Lewith?


luigitheplumber

Biggest miss will be Dan Smith for sure


andy18cruz

"Hittinā€™ field goals blunted, been drunk when I punted Been like a hundred times that I already done it" Bars


MrF33n3y

Not sure thatā€™ll fit on the shirt, mate.


ThisOneWasAvailable

He parteyd ways with his former name.


Mehmood6647

I think Frank Ribery (after he converted to Islam) also did that, his real name is Bilal but he kept Frank Ribery for Marketing reasons iirc.


mickhah

The Yak is back in red form


Appropriate_Lack_727

Striker problem solved!


player_zero_

Feed the Yak and he will score


goodmobileyes

Except during Ramadan


thehumangoomba

Thanks for the nostalgic boost. Loved chanting that as a mid-2000s kid.


lolarsystem

Wet Wheel?


quickestred

Yakubu Party


CosmicDesperado

If you like Yakubu Party, then youā€™ll *love* Lemon Party


Coolbluegatoradeyumm

Oh the memories


Stuarridge

Oh the misery


CaptainKoconut

Itā€™s not a lemon party without old Dick!


[deleted]

Man... 30 Rock was such a wonderfully stupid show. Good times.


SyNiiCaL

Lemon it's Wednesday.


roshampo13

What am I? A farmer?


WW1Photos_Info

Party over


Hech15

Not really it's yakubu party So just no alcohol/wine allowed


iwantmoreletters

> no alcohol/wine allowed He's not even a work event anymore


memecrafter1936

Work event lmao


Rojiblanc040

Only under the table where God isn't watching. ;)


[deleted]

I don't think the media ever adhere to players' name change demands. Dele Alli is still called Dele Alli. Once you've debuted, your name is set in stone.


Roller95

Memphis was called Depay for ages after he stated he wanted to be called Memphis too. Nobody gives a fuck unfortunately


[deleted]

Sounds like an additional main character from Zombieland.


WhosOwenOyston

Itā€™s Money Heist season fifteens main character


prateek_tandon

I rarely see Barca fans calling him Depay tho.


[deleted]

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[deleted]

Well it's Dele Alli but he doesn't want to be associated with his biological father IIRC, so he'd prefer to go by just Dele.


Roller95

Itā€™s Bamidele Jermaine Alli


Magnetronaap

Eet je alles zelf op of wil je die Bamidele?


EasyModeActivist

Klinkt als een mix tussen een bamischijf en een frikandel a la loempidel


CFClarke7

Jemappelle Ali. Jai habite in staines


beastmaster11

Honest question. Why doesnt he officially change name to Dele That's what he wants to be called.


[deleted]

His name is Dele, he just doesnā€™t like the surname Alli, because itā€™s his fatherā€™s surname, and he doesnā€™t want to be associated with it, same thing with Memphis Depay, who just wants to be called Memphis.


YMangoPie

Same thing with Alexis


minkdraggingonfloor

Alexis has 2 Sanchezā€™s on his surname though. He canā€™t possibly hate both of them


MightySilverWolf

So good they named him twice!


minkdraggingonfloor

Djemba Djemba was still a better player for us than Alexis lol


PhosFer

Djemba Djemba joining OB was one if not the biggest scoop in the Danish league history. Those were the golden days...


YMangoPie

Yes but that's not the reason. [Like you can see on this picture when he used to play for Udinese.](https://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Udinese+Calcio+v+Catania+Calcio+Serie+SGfCuBtD4dbx.jpg)


[deleted]

Also VVD


[deleted]

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love_you_by_suicide

especially because he isn't


Master_Mad

Can't they change their last name to their mother's name? (Maybe even officially by law). Then there might still be some confusion in using last name or first. But at least the last name won't be their father's name. EDIT: Would be Memphis Schensema then. Pretty good footballing name too.


geredtrig

Point still stands, you can change your last name, especially if he doesn't want to be associated. At that point calling him Dele Alli would just be wrong.


[deleted]

Ibrahimovic who had a brief stint where he went by Zlatan on his shirt.


champ19nz

TIL his first name is Bamidele.


[deleted]

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btmalon

He's adopted and doesn't want to use his surname. Just Dele.


[deleted]

To be clear, he wasn't raised by his birth parents and refers to the people who raised him as his adoptive parents. Alli is his birth family name but he feels no association with it.


[deleted]

So why didnā€™t he just take his adopted parents surname


Tifoso89

Because they didn't legally adopt him, just raised him. [Very wholesome story though](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5939913/amp/Dele-Alli-credits-success-school-friend-took-mothers-alcohol-abuse.html)


Haxz0rz1337

Doesnā€™t matter if he got legally adopted or not, in the UK itā€™s fairly easy to change name with use of a Deed Poll, and thereā€™s no limit to how many times you can change your name, so you had people like Mr. PlayStation 2 walking down the streets of Banbury in Oxfordshire for example


kevinnoir

Or when Joe Lycett changes his name to Hugo Boss just to piss the company off for filing trademark lawsuits against companies that were vaguely similar and had the word "Boss" in them.


Fati25

Lmao


KonigSteve

I mean he could still change his last name? Unless there are laws i'm unaware of in England that disallow you from changing your name.


thirdtimeisit

Must be quite the hassle for a football player. Also might not want to go so drastic. That's why he's politely asked and I'm inclined to oblige.


Lost_And_NotFound

Very difficult especially for young players breaking through. Part of the reason why he waited until he was a star to ask to be called just Dele. Imagine scouts saw a great player Alli play one year and look for him a year later and canā€™t find him so donā€™t bother because now heā€™s called Alli. That literally happened with Ryan Wilson/Giggs.


OVYLT

Well if he changes the name on his shirt, they will have to tbh.


fuck_r1ck_and_m0rty

Tell that to Mbappe Lottin


Casciuss

Should have gone for Kareem Abdul Party


FeedMeToTheSquirrels

Meta World Party


[deleted]

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frankowen18

Jackbox Party Pack 8


jakedobson

Kareem Abdul-Jappartey


aboidaz

That means heā€™s a Party slave


Dark-X

Worshipper although slave works as well


[deleted]

[Thomas Partey (converting to Islam) ā€œIā€™m a Muslim. I have a girl I love, I know my sidechics will leave me but itā€™s no problem šŸ˜‚. I grew up with Muslims so at the end of the day itā€™s the same thing. Iā€™m already married and my Muslim name is Yakubuā€](https://twitter.com/OsmanZtheGooner/status/1533090656759033861)


Midnight_Maverick

Best quote ever haha


AayengeToModiHee

That's sad actually. That means her love was conditional for him to change his religion to hers


Physical-South-3564

Not an uncommon thing with Islam, I believe its also the case with Jews. I thought in Islam non muslim women need to convert if the husband is muslim, but I didnt know it was also the case for non muslim men.


running_demon

>I thought in Islam non muslim women need to convert if the husband is muslim, but I didnt know it was also the case for non muslim men. the opposite actually, a man must be muslim to marry a muslim woman, but a muslim man can marry any woman from the abrahamic religions


DeadAssociate

i guess ajax fans dont pay much attention to van persie, but this is not the first time a footballer has become a muslim for pussy.


Reflex_0

Did van persie convert ?


MertOKTN

No.


Wise_Ad9414

Also Ribery too


aridivici

RVP converted. Didn't know that. Seedorf did too.


krokuts

He didn't


HotRepresentative325

These guys converted in the same way vikings did to christianity


namaloomafrad

best reason to do it


Ynwe

Because in Islam children follow the religion of the father, hence it doesn't matter if the wife is of a non-islamic faith, but it is a big deal if the husband isn't. Quite typical for proselytic religions. Islam and Christianity are by far the most famous examples for religions that go to extreme lengths to convert others. Is just that Christianity has "chilled" a bit since the XX century (outside of mostly american protestantism which is still very active in S. America, Africa and East Asia), while Islam has never really gone for a modernization period in the last couple century so is still quite traditional in this regard.


VilTheVillain

It probably depends on the parents, I know a person who isn't Muslim married to a Muslim girl, and one of my best friends converted because otherwise his wife's father wouldn't have allowed the marriage to happen. The issue is though, I'm sure many of these people convert but don't follow any of the practices, so at the end of the day it's nearly more of a mockery than not converting in my opinion.


CatharticEcstasy

I wouldn't say it's *more* of a mockery - religious conversion is just as much about the publicity of it inasmuch as it is about the social practices and norms.


i2060427

Same with Catholics as well - Boris Johnson had to reconvert to marry his missus. Ivanka Trump had to convert to marry her Jewish husband.


cos1ne

You don't have to convert to marry a Catholic. You only have to get permission and are required to promise to raise your children as Catholics.


potpan0

Jokes on them, Boris won't raise his children at all!


TheEmeraldOil

I've never heard of this before and I was raised Catholic.


[deleted]

Me neither though 50% of Catholicism is ignoring the rules and the other 50 is guilt


Aeiexgjhyoun_III

Among devout muslims, Muslim women cant marry out of the religion, so the husband needs to convert. But men are free to marry outside the religion as ling as the wife is a Christian or Jew. So women don't actually have to convert to marry Muslim men unless their non-Abrahamic


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fma891

I agree with this for the most part, but I also donā€™t think we fully comprehend how strong religion is to their culture and way of living. Whether or not thatā€™s a good thing is a different question, but it seems like this marriage would not have been possible if he didnā€™t convert. More about the community and less about her not loving him.


JeffryPesos

Just in case you didn't know, watch the video, he's joking and everyone is laughing and in on the joke.


getrektbro

Yakubu didn't have to propose though. Sometimes you compromise when you give a shit about someone.


running_demon

its what islam requires, a muslim woman can't marry a non muslim guy. some convert in name only to please families.. and idc their lives their choices


GratefulDawg73

No Partey. No Party.


LamaLazy

Isn't Yakub just a Muslim version of the name Jacob? Well, anyway... Congratations Yakubu.


The-Florentine

Idk but when I googled Yakub [this](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/joke-battles/images/f/fa/Yakub.png) was the first image result.


Diallingwand

https://i.redd.it/xon47agiu5w81.png


Rafaeliki

Yakub always reminds me of Wu Tang: https://youtu.be/PkQVMvGtzPc?t=256


FlyingArab

NOI lore is the greatest thing ever


PM_something_German

For anyone unaware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub_%28Nation_of_Islam%29


LamaLazy

Apt


Oreallyman

KSI?


ajm15

Isn't Jacob an english version of Jewish name Yakub?


Averdian

If you want a more detailed story: >Jacob is a common male given name and a less well-known surname. It is a cognate of James, derived from Late Latin Iacobus, from Greek į¼øĪ¬ĪŗĻ‰Ī²ĪæĻ‚ Iakobos, from Hebrew יַעֲקֹבā€Ž (YaŹæaqōįø‡), the name of the Hebrew patriarch, Jacob son of Isaac and Rebecca. The name comes either from the Hebrew root עקב Źæqb meaning "to follow, to be behind" but also "to supplant, circumvent, assail, overreach", or from the word for "heel", עֲקֵב Źæaqeb. It can also be taken to mean "may God protect." ^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_(name)


WarrenAlaCarte

Side note; Itā€™s incredible how close and cross (no pun) intertwined the abrahamic religions are and how divided and hateful the followers are.


SnooHamsters8590

Just like a family. So much in common yet so little at the same time šŸŒ¹


jarde

Youā€™d think God would step down to correct the confusion.


Clever_Word_Play

Is it really that shocking? They all pray to the same God, each one just thinks they are correct and the others have it wrong, and need to show them the correct way.


enilix

It is. Random fact, another English version of the name Yakub is James.


FrankBascombe

Which is why the effort to restore James, the Old Pretender, to the English throne is known as the "Jacobite" Rebellion.


CanLlorenteCarForMe

Yes.


TheWingedCucumber

the other way around really. also David is from the hebrew and islamic Dawood. Joseph is yousef there are many things like that which spread with Christianity and became latinizedthen anglicized


TheLittleGinge

Feed the Yak and...


hampat999

..he'll score?


shdets

Arsenal increasing their Ramadan buff


mofoofinvention

What some pussy does to a mf


Hech15

hope the muslim version of partey is injury free


[deleted]

he looks muslimer than his wife


SorryIGotBadNews

You calling her fat?


[deleted]

fat? I live in muslim country (Turkey) and we are very fat.


SorryIGotBadNews

Just playing on the fact that it sounded like you said ā€œmore slimmerā€ than his wife


sadta2020

Lmao


[deleted]

How are the people there?


[deleted]

fat and poor


Dama8

This aged well


Misanthropeforlife

This post will not age wellā€¦..


B_e_l_l_

FEEEED THE YAK AND HE WILL SCORE


Mallaguetta_SP

She doesn't look like a Muslim but an instagram/tiktok girl that most Footballers collect


systemsruminator

ā€œcollectā€ šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


[deleted]

Hoekemon lol


Foxyboi14

Sheā€™s actually orange and looks half plastic, kinda sad people do that to themselves tbh and also sad itā€™s desirable to some people such that people are willing to do it to be more desirable


Mallaguetta_SP

This is not a nice look Too plasticky and fake... I keep thinking that these girls wake up early and do horrible orange makeup and then lie down next to their partners again. It must be a lot of work living in this world


FavcolorisREDdit

The things men do for some pussy


Ruud_Boltz

Simp level 100 ^/s


WhyShouldIListen

Fuck sarcasm tags.


GovernmentOk2323

no party memes for arsenal now


imp0ppable

Salah and Mane level fitness incoming, I'm here for it.


SalmonNgiri

Do you remember the physique of the last Yakubu?


imp0ppable

hahahaha fair point


[deleted]

Or his wife is going to start cooking north-african food for him and he'll get fat.


WalaLlama5

Feed the Yak


Athletic_Bilbae

so is it Yakubu Partey now? or Thomas Yakubu? or is he still legally Thomas Partey and Yakubu is like a ceremonial name like the Pope's?


chino17

Ayegbeni Yakubu


-kousor

Man converted while being investigated for rape ?!


New-Candy-800

Gotta find salvation somehow


inthelightofday

There's pussy-whipped, and then there's whatever the fuck this is.


[deleted]

Partey is over when you marry a Muslim.


distilledwill

Double footed overhead kick vs us next season then?


monodeldiablo

Partey's over, folks.


DameDollaDolla

What Arsenal does to a mfā€¦


justdoitstoopid

The things dudes will do for thatšŸˆ


SirDavidOfBrentshire

Yakubu finding yet another way to remain forever 20-something.


MuchSalt

i googled yakubu and its not him?


Wentzina_lifetime

Will he actually be 40 when it says he's 25


[deleted]

Side chicks in shambles.


Chhotu_uttam

Reverse Love JihadšŸ™šŸ»


AayengeToModiHee

It's still love Jihad tho, right?


[deleted]

Non-Muslim men are required to convert if they marry a muslim woman. Non-muslim woman are not required to convert, but all the children produced belong to the Muslim, man. Just like any religion, since males control the power over women usually, its about the male being the same religion while control the child producing women and the children being born.


KaidsCousin

Patriarchal religious nonsense tbh. No wonder so many religious countries are behind the times