Goke7:

if mikel is benched, same Nigerians will shout, do you know that Nigerians called for the removal of ideye, keshi listened and when ideye was dropped, same Nigerians crucified keshi saying that was the reason emenike was not scoring. Don't you see how funny we are.

We simply don't know what we want so if mikel is dropped and we don't win matches, don't you think we will all shout for mikel to be reacalled just like we are now calling for the return of coach siasia who has been jobless for years.

Are we not comedians? lol

elisinho: he is too pompous and feels like he is perfect he should be sacked jor

Emmysteve: where does this Agbero come from

mpowa:

We have good enough players to prosecute African matches and even win the nations cup again, if Keshi has not been picking issues with all of them, if our best player had been playing, we would have picked at least 4 pts of the last two games, for Africa, our players are not too bad, but the team keep getting more inferior by the day. The next on the line is Eminike, he's already having issues with him too, he's even quarrelling with Enyeama, he's just patching it. we are not playing Brazil nor Germany, we're playing African sides and we're better than most of them especially the group we found ourselves.

You talk about players running to the media, what does Keshi run to when he wants to criticize his players or Nff, how does he announces his resignations?

Some players will definitely give the coach problems, but in the case where you're having issues with most of the players, especially those who'll make your job easier, then it's not the players but yourself, if we're playing with our best legs we won't be discussing qualifying by now.

mpowa:

Nigerians did not call for the removal of Ideye, the issue most people have with Ideye is the final ball, putting the ball in the net, he's not a great finisher, but he's very good supporting striker, so people criticized when Keshi went to the confederation cup and our top striker was Ideye. Agreed Eminike was injured but we have other proven strikers, he ought to swallow his pride and call them - Uche, Martins, Obasi, Osaze etc. but none could be called because of one reason or the other.

Goke7:

Let's not be double mouthed, we all said Ideye was not fit for our national team and keshi listened to us, what do you mean that he's a good supporting striker, is it because emenike is no longer scoring goals? obasi is injury prone, no good coach will risk him and for the likes of martins and uche to be in the team, emenike, musa and others may have to be benched or uche and martins may have to sit on the bench for emenike, martins and uche are very senior players for Nigeria, they will never be comfortable sitting on the bench even if they are not scoring goals and you think its easy to handle such players? my brother its not easy coaching Nigeria with the kind of players we have even taiye taiwo who is almost finished said he can't sit on the bench for keshi's boys.

There are lot of intricacies surrounding our national team and even if we sack keshi now, it doesn't solve anything.

Goke7:

so how do you handle players who are under-performing and refuse to raise their game, mark my words I mean 'refuse to raise their game, is it by patting them on the back? Emenike has refused to raise his game and you are still blaming the coach, Enyeama despite how good he was cost us two conceded crucial goals at the world cup. No coach will be happy with mistakes by players who in turn affect the whole team and the coach himself, blaming keshi all the time when players are making silly mistakes is not fair.

Can you tell me why Emenike has not become a deadly in free kicks today after the wonderful one he scored against Ivory coast at the last afcon? Our players loosing form and inconsistent and we are still blaming keshi who has paid his dues as an ex-player

mpowa:

Ok so he removed Ideye and replaced him with who? there are some players people where actually clamoring to leave the squad, but they hoped they'll be replaced with better players that we obviously have, but alas we get more inferior players.

Talking about managing big players, the Nigerian squad doesn't really have such big players that good coach can't manage, Drogba is no more playing full game for ivory coast and there's no problem, you can't shy away from your best legs because you're afraid of managing them.

mpowa:

E,enike refused to raise is game when he doesn't have supplies like before again? throughout the world cup, Emenike played from the wing, and he's supposed to be our top striker. Has and ordinary football fan i noticed this and hoped Keshi would fix it after the world cup, but alas! a coach who gets 5m per month couldn't spot that, he keeps blaming his players.

Enyeama had been saving his as*ses if he make a mistake at anytime, he shouldn't be made to carry the responsibility for the failure of the whole team, when we actually have someone in the middle causing the whole problem for him in the 1st place. if he'll blame Enyeama, he should've blamed the whole squad first before getting to him. When a keeper keeps getting pressurized continuously, he'll definitely make mistakes eventually, but good coaches knows to well to cover there players, if Keshi was Van gaal, i wonder what he'd have said about Rooney's red card.

kaorama: Keshi's time in super eagle is up. That he won nations cup does not make him a good coach. Chelsea fc won champions league with a coach who has since then disappeared from the radar of the round leather game. I still believe Siasia is a better coach than Keshi, irrespective of the fact that Siasia could not qualify us for nations cup during his spell with the eagles. Keshi is preoccupied with doing business with the players than getting the best legs. How can Keshi say Kelechi is too young to play for super eagles? At what age did Messi start playing for his national team. Keshi took the world best U17 goal keeper, Alampasus to South Africa and never used him. He clung to the goalkeeper that was obviously deficient and caused us a lot of headache in the tournament. What kind of sentimental treatment is that? He should go, please.

Goke7:

@the bolded, FIFA can ban us for that statement of yours, doesn't make sense at all. siasia was sacked for keshi so how is siasia better than keshi, I repeat sarcastically we can be banned by FIFA for this. Chelsea has gotten a coach better than Di matteo, the present coach has won two champ league, now if you are sacking keshi, get a coach who has surpassed his achievements, that should be the standard unless we are mediocres

kaorama:

Well, am being careful not to attract the vengeance of FIFA upon Nigeria. Am not saying Siasia must be brought back, but when u check the no of matches eagles played and won under Siasia and compare it with the record Keshi has so far paraded u will know am not far from the truth. Untill the present coach of Chelsea wins a champions league trophy with Chelsea, he is still miles away from the coach that won them the champions league. The credit unit of winning a champion league is like that of wining an epl 10 times or more. Silver and gold are not in the same class

elisinho post=/post/26814274:
he is too pompous and feels like he is perfect he should be sacked jor

Hackin: i'm sorry man, forgive me.

arabbunkum: I totally agree with this man. Keshi is an analogue coach who does not fit into the required level of a modern football coach.

mpowa:

Nigerians did not call for the removal of Ideye, the issue most people have with Ideye is the final ball, putting the ball in the net, he's not a great finisher, but he's very good supporting striker, so people criticized when Keshi went to the confederation cup and our top striker was Ideye. Agreed Eminike was injured but we have other proven strikers, he ought to swallow his pride and call them - Uche, Martins, Obasi, Osaze etc. but none could be called because of one reason or the other.

Goke7:

a coach is measured by his results, play all the expansive football in this world without results, all na wash. we are all complaining about keshi today because of his last two results, saying siasia is better is hypocritical cos siasia never gave us the result we wanted then, just like siasia if keshi fails to qualify for afcon he will be sacked. Dimatteo was sacked for poor results by chelsea then even after winning the champ league. mourinho left real madrid when he failed to get desired results but if you go to the same real madrid and say pellegrini is better than mourinho, you will be stoned. Coaches are graded by the results they produce, that's all.

blackchief: I stand by Keshi when he applied for the SE JOb and still sand with he till date.
Nigerians,learn to treat your hero right,if not, we will be chasing our tail all the time. Amodu shaibu did a lot for this country and was push out for chains of white coaches which could not win the nations cup or qualify us for World Cup.

We are heading the same road again

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This is the problem with Stephen Keshi, nay any black man that makes a "little stride of success"... He now feels he is the next best thing after the invention of Microwave!

My own suggestion is that he (Keshi) needs to calm down and stop acting like without him we cannot win any competition; otherwise let him try his luck elsewhere.

But personally, l will prefer that NFF send him on to a sort of "Apprenticeship" under seasoned coaches like Maurinho, Acellotti, Van Gaal, (I would have mentioned the coach of my darling Arsenal but that "Arze Whinger" would only make him worse!

Let him spend Two years understudying them on "tactics and man-management" (especially man-management, which 90% what a National Coach does anyway).
During that time, his salary should be paid in full (with a proviso that he cant work for another country/club within 5years of being trained, else he must refund the country a certain amount equivalent to our loss or his gain, in training him)

He is definitely getting very short on ideas and is taking it out on his players.


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thegoodjoehunt3: Hypociritcal. When Coach Keshi begged for the recall of Sylvanus Okpala a member of his technical staff, you guys said no.

By the way, How are these guys sure Coach Keshi does not have a tactician in his team reading weaknesses of opponents. For instance, Musa utilising the space created by Zabaletta's overlapping to score two goals.

Goke7:

all this talk about man management is crap, siasia had problems with same players keshi had problems too, Eguavoen had issues with Yakubu, Amodu and chukwu all had problems controlling some big players in their time even the foreign coaches were not left out lagerback had problems with osaze just like keshi and siasia, westerhof benched and dropped some very good players we had then and so on and so forth.

Are you saying that all the coaches who has coached the eagles all lack man management skills, common man remember the social media is more in use today than before and its so easy for all what goes on in eagles camp to get to the media easily, I think we are just getting too bias as regards to keshi and posterity will judge us all. siasia who failed as eagles coach did not get all this bashing for christ sake, some of us are even clamouring for his return. Nigeria I hail thee

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Your post is full of EMOTIONS but lacks substance!
First, highlight one single line where you saw the name of Siasia, in my post which you quoted! yes, go ahead and do so or STFU!
You come across as one of those people who cant set standards for themselves, talk less of doing so for others, you know the typical Nigerian that rationalise failure by saying because APC is a Thief, therefore it is acceptable that PDP too should loot or because Tinubu is a thief therefore there is nothing wrong if Jonathan loots us dry, afterall, he is not the first person to loot!

That is the kind of mentality that got us where we are today and that my friend, does not cut it with me.
if you take your time to "reason" on my post, you would deduce the following.

1.) keshi has tried and has been successful in the past
2.) Keshi's recent performance, since the completion of the Confederations Cup, has been going downwards.
3.) That second reason shows that he needs a refresher course, just like most big time coaches do refresher course (Jose Maurinho and Arsene Wenger was in one, a few weeks ago. if l can get the link, l will post it here). Keshi does not know it all and so has to keep abreast with current trends in coaching ..... l even suggested it should be done with FULL PAY to him.
4.) Any seasoned coach would tell you that at the level of the National team, you are not teaching players how to trap the ball or how to dribble or make a clean throw-in. They already know all these, that is why they are National team players!

What National Coach does is BLEND AND MANAGE FOOTBALLERS under his watch.
Once you as a coach can manage your players such that they understand themselves, become telepathic during play, understand and follow your tactics, then you are home and dry.

Keshi will benefit himself, if he learns how to manage players. Remember that these footballers are not your usual "well rounded/morally upright teenagers" (except for the likes of Odegbami, Adeolu Adekola, e.t.c who are University graduate Engineers). Most of them are very rude, egoistic and selfish. It is he job of the coach to know hoe to manage them (Man-Management) so that he can get the best put of them ...... Instead of taking to Tweeter to denounce your own player or banning your best "Striker option" because of some squabbles that can be avoided. Players will always be players;
Look at how current Liverpool Coach is trying to "manage" Baloteli (The same Player that was almost punching that Italian, former Man City Coach!) .. and we can see the difference already showing in Balotelli as he now marks and works for the team while maintaining a "level head", even in the face of provocation on the field. THAT IS "MAN-MANAGEMENT!

Tactically, no Coach is perfect but some are better than others. Keshi is still a long way off in terms of reading a Match!
Its not just by shouting at the side-line or chewing Gum endlessly that would give you the tactics of somebody like Sir Alex Ferguson!
The best way to learn "tactics" is to understudy those that know and practice it.

That is what my post is all about. I dont get involved in all those childish gang-ups against a coach or try to run-down keshi, just to promote Siasia. Both have the strengths and Weaknesses but anyone of them that wants to go far, will embrace Knowledge.

My take.

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dedons:
Keshi should start considering coaching that sickness striken liberia...


He's only after our money...



Wait o...




What tribe is he again?







Hope he's not a flatie?

peppyluv02:
He is a connie but far better than the men in your tribe who are only after vag!nas...

austinbrown:
Not my business pls

JoshuaKay:

Why did u bother urself to comment at all...