Just because you are fond of Ameobi

Am not fond of him but I dont see what the rest bring to the party,  can you imagine Naija gets paired with South Korea or one of those countries that are extremely fit, that could run for 90+ minutes! thats when you would realize how lazy our players are,

Ibime:

Ameobi is good at holding the ball up with his back to goal. . . . within a team setting, his presence may actually be beneficial to the Super Eagles.

U don collect bribe, when did backing the goal post become a skill?

meine:

U don collect bribe, when did backing the goal post become a skill?

NL IT IS! Yes, I said it. I love NL.

  U don collect bribe, when did backing the goal post become a skill

What a Shame, well Just ask Didier Drogba

he doesn't deserve to play 4 us, when those guy were called super chickens were was he?,now he want 2 come we don't want

Shola is passed his prime.

Give home based lads a chance.

Shola ko, Shole' ni!

Tne beautiful thing here is that no one here would have a say on who steps on the plane smoking towards South Africa,

what club is he playing for now?

Shola Ameobi was born in Nigeria and his parents who relocated to Newcastle got him into the youth team, selected to the England youth set up to pre-empt Nigeria from putting a claim on him, I believe.

I do not know what overtures the NFF made to call him to our national set up, from experience I know the NFF makes approaches on the pages of news papers. When they do come over you will not as Nigerians be amazed by their ineptitude and approach, honestly would struggle to convince someone to come for a holiday.

Shola is also a victim of racial preference, imagine if Okocha or indeed Shola was white, and you will know what I mean. On the few occasions they played together Obagol and Shola have run riot on teams. Pedigree consider Shola’s hat trick against Reading in August 2009. Age, if he was in Nigeria he could have been contesting for U20.

Compare him to Enaromo, Akpala, Makinwa, and who would you rather have, my view at least invite him to camp, my fear no egunje so selection by the powers of vested interest will prove problematic.

No way!!! The Super Eagles coach should never invit that stupid, useless Ameobi, he was invited in the past, he shunned the call, now the Eagles have qualfied for the World Cup, and he wants to be part of the train to South Africa, no way, since he didn't take part in the qualifiers, he should not be invited, and also considering the fact that he is not playing in the Premier League.

England, the country he choose to play for at U-17, u-21, have rejected him and seeing that he has no chance whatsoever to be called up, he turns he attention to Nigeria .

Lawyer,

It takes a lot to impress me and most of your posts do, particularly on the discourse of land, property,  landlord and tenant law.

In this instance you make an assumption not based on knowledge, fact or indeed observation, FIFA changed the rules that opened the door for these guys to come home.

From experience of association, I am associated and I use the word carefully with a number of players who play for premiership sides at under 18 level, they dearly wanted to play for Nigeria, however, the politics of the NFF  or should I say the issues of egunje and who your sponsor his simply axed them out.

If you knew the extent of the rot in the NFF you would understand how certain players were ignored because of vested interest, and when you ask the NFF  will tell you they tried, but ask what was the substance, nature and process of thier TRYING and the real truth comes out.

My view is have an open mind where Shola is concerned.

Martins looks he has seen the last 3 eclipse of the sun and the 2nd one was in the 80's

nigga u are funny

@komekn



Spot on, we all know that this guy is about to reach his peak at 28 years he would give us energy and power, something the like of Yakubu and Co. can never give us playing big man's football, Kalou was about to play for Holland only for his nationalisation didnt come through, guess what 2 years later he was playing for Ivory Coast, Its only Nigeria or Nigerians who acting "Shaki trying to be like meat" we are not BRAZIL, if a player plays in the Indian league he should be given his chance,

We do not want to be the whipping boys of the competition

Lai lai wat is he looking 4

hmm, tHE DECISON to sign him should be left with the coach since he is the one that would be sacked if we fail iin the tournament and also to take the blame if he does not take good players along! but sincerely i don't think we should take him to the nations cup talk less of the world cup. To me he does not have any quality we do not presently have in the Eagles, he's just another slimer Yakubu Ayegbeni without goals before and after december in the premier league if you know what I mean. Where was he when we were struggling to qualify? Has he ever voiced his support to play for the Eagles?

i dont know why ameobi will want to play now, when our boys were struggling for qualification, where was he,
let those that won the ticket play the raffle.
I dont even want a foriegn coach

Joke of the day !!

kenerep:

hmm, tHE DECISON to sign him should be left with the coach since he is the one that would be sacked if we fail iin the tournament and also to take the blame if he does not take good players along! but sincerely i don't think we should take him to the nations cup talk less of the world cup. To me he does not have any quality we do not presently have in the Eagles, he's just another slimer Yakubu Ayegbeni without goals before and after december in the premier league if you know what I mean. Where was he when we were struggling to qualify? Has he ever voiced his support to play for the Eagles?

Is the Super Eagles a club?

God bless Nigeria. Where was Shola when all other players were labouring to secure the world cup ticket. Now that he realised he will never play for England, he wants to sound up Nigeria. I remember he was called up sometime ago and he shunned the country. More like what Fashanu did in hay days. In any case Ameobi can not even make our 1st eleven even if he bribes his way into being called up. Anichebe is currently struglling to make the team and I think he is a better player than Ameobi.

the guy should go and play qualifers.
they should just forget the guy
england should take him
england dey go world cup too
on a good day the guy no fit take any shirt from any of our player

He should come to naija and 2000hrs community service . . .was shalanga and do all those sturvs!! Then i'll say yes!

YES MY FOOT!!

I remember the time they wer practically begging this mofo to play for his fatherland. . .he was waitn for the England call up. . .He should rot in the championships!! Worthless piece of doughnuts!

to be honest

we dnt need him

dnt understand all the noise

I want coach Amodu to Denis Aogo. he's young and athletic not a garbage player called amoeba

Ameobi for what?i prefer this selfish striker(Emmanuel) from the under 17 to him.May be Amodu need some money or any of the technical crew want to collect some money from the guy,they will take some money from him invite him only for some friendly games and drop him for the world cup.if hes wise enough or have a very good adviser i suggest he just sit down at his Newcastle, people need money and ready to dupe even Nigeria now,

No, He won't play for Nigeria now. Wetin be that. Monkey don work, now Baboon wan chop, shuo!!!!

The Problem with alot of us is that we think we know when actually we know nothing.
in 1994 Efan Ekoku played both the Nations Cup and World Cup for Eagles when he did not play in the qualifiers. He was playing for Wimbledon as a Striker, but was used from the Midfield in the eagles squad. He performed well in those matches he was called to play in. After the Nation's Cup, Chidi Nwanu was brought in from Anderlecht in Belgium to man the Defence, even when we still had Stephen Keshi and Uche Okafor who played both the qualifiers and the Nation's Cup. We all knew what happened with Chidi Nwanu at that World Cup. We almost Forgot we had Keshi. Mike Emenalo was brought in from Belgium or so after his stinct in the USa, to deputise for Iroha , who virtually had no competition at all at the left back, and some how Emenalo played about three matches out of the for Nigeria played, with some degree of competence.Why i gave this brief historical background is for you to understand that in the business of selecting the best players for your National team, it goes beyond personal interest, rather it is for the collective gain of the country as a whole. We are not MORE NIGERIAN than SHOLA AMEOBI, If he wants to play for his country now, its all well and good, he should be given a fair chance just like the others, and if he deserves it , then he can go. We need the best and not this thing that some of u are saying.When we had a solid team in 1994, people were given the opportunity to try out, now that we dont have a good team, we dont want to try out other fresh ideas, .Ameobi please Come on Nigeria Beckons! come show us what you can do.Only the coach should decide whether you are good enough.

The world cup is still a long way off
we could have massive injuries before then and have to fall back on 'rejects'

E get plenty plenty things wey no suppose to happen for this life plenty plenty things plenty plenty nonsense. This thread should be moved to the joke section or featured on Saturday Night Live

Has Shola Ameoba not heard of that saying "eni ti o ra ankara o le je semo oo" has our standards fallen that badly? Come on he is not even a starter at a championship club like Newcastle he should stay in England and try to break in Capello's squad

FOOL that is what HE IS. Why didn't he honour all the past invitations? We don't need strikers, we need defenders and solid midfielders so he can Bleep off.

Kanu almost Huh well he looks like he was present during the last supper

Up nairaland . . . this is why nairaland is better than facebook . . . there are so many potential Basket Mouths in this place . . .

Yea, so many baba Suwe and Mr Latin . Only if he's better than Yak and Obagoal, we can consider him.