tbaba1234:


We are currently churning out better talents from academies than the NPFL.. There is a fundamental problem. The clubs should be the ones fishing out the best talents around and grooming them.

Our clubs need to be more professionally run. Government needs to leave club management to private firms.

somehow:
But unlike Stuani who had enough time to prove himself in Middleborough, Kayode wasn't given enough time to prove himself.

Anyways use same logic for Kayode, he's in Shaktar a bigger club compared to Girona and doing well just as Stuani is in Girona a bigger club compared to Middlesborough and doing well.

Martz101:


he was just nominated

TheSuperNerd:
Henry Onyekuru news


There are strong rumors of Henry Onyekuru being on Besiktas' wishlist this transfer window for a loan arrangement of course.

Of course, I doubt Onyekuru will consider Turkey.

TheSuperNerd:
Henry Onyekuru news


There are strong rumors of Henry Onyekuru being on Besiktas' wishlist this transfer window for a loan arrangement of course.

Of course, I doubt Onyekuru will consider Turkey.

Joebie:
My friends.. Usman Muhammad has played only 1 minute this season in Europe. K.Nwakali had a meager run of games. However, these two players were one of the stand out players for SE Team B yesterday, in fact they scored the goals for Naija. Should we have a standard of giving players with potentials but less productivity, over players with better productivity at the club level then? Ezenwa is behind other keepers in the NPFL but he is ahead of his contemporaries in the national team. Is it good for our football in the long run?
The point is there has to be a standard. For me I think Nigeria needs a Team B, C, and D also, and it should be based purely on performance. Special talents should be allowed to train with the higher grade teams regardless.

Martz101:


turkey to basiktas is not bad

Joebie:
My friends.. Usman Muhammad has played only 1 minute this season in Europe. K.Nwakali had a meager run of games. However, these two players were one of the stand out players for SE Team B yesterday, in fact they scored the goals for Naija. Should we have a standard of giving players with potentials but less productivity, over players with better productivity at the club level then? Ezenwa is behind other keepers in the NPFL but he is ahead of his contemporaries in the national team. Is it good for our football in the long run?
The point is there has to be a standard. For me I think Nigeria needs a Team B, C, and D also, and it should be based purely on performance. Special talents should be allowed to train with the higher grade teams regardless.

TheGoodJoe:


Fine input and I agree with most you say. Just to add, the different grades (B, C and D) can have different scouting and camping sessions to identify true potentials and give them room for exposure with the team.

somehow:
Even at that, He's faster than some of our defenders.

Joebie:
Ok let’s focus on ur Team Natural claim. What’s the proportion of girls going natural to those still buying hairs of other races? how about the proportion as regards those wearing Afrowigs to other-races looking wigs? No be the same Abuja I dey? Abi do I have to come to ur school first to know?

Jokes are jokes. But what makes a joke funny or not depends on the mentality of the people. Which is why something that is funny to us may not be funny to people of another country. However this one you made is peculiar to Nigerians. I’m questioning why. If you think deeper you will know. No be over-analyzing o. Let’s be true to ourselves

TheSuperNerd:

That is the key word in all you just said. Many here will still ride and die on that one term... "Special talent". Many here will not agree that some are special and many will also want to present players that they think and feel are special. To them, since no cogent/stand out criteria exists to define a special talent so anyone can be special...

Another wahala. lol


But I am in support of Classifying our teams into A (The main team), B and C. Forget D... A to C is okay.

In my very own personal database of our players scattered around the world which I update from time to time, I classify them.

Anyway, one thing we must understand is that for every era or generation we must be sensitive to the atmosphere of that particular era. Truth is we have a standard for invites to the Super Eagles... but it is just that there are exceptions to the rule and these exceptions are made certified by the coach in charge at any point. Not by us... but by the coach. We can only pray and hope that the coach, in making these decisions on who and who can bypass this standard rule, pick the right players with huge potentials for immense benefits to the team and not for his own selfish/personal vendetta to the detriment of the team.

Joebie:
Oga no be hope and pray matter. This thing needs to be standardized and coaches need to make their case for any players they consider to be in that special talent class. I'm only looking at the long term benefit.. I think players would want to work their way up the ranks. It would promote excellence.

Joebie:
Oga no be hope and pray matter. This thing needs to be standardized and coaches need to make their case for any players they consider to be in that special talent class. I'm only looking at the long term benefit.. I think players would want to work their way up the ranks. It would promote excellence.

tbaba1234:


We are currently churning out better talents from academies than the NPFL.. There is a fundamental problem. The clubs should be the ones fishing out the best talents around and grooming them.

Our clubs need to be more professionally run. Government needs to leave club management to private firms.

tbaba1234:


I still feel we missed an opportunity to see talents. It would have been a great opportunity for us to see, Alampasu, Maduka Okoye (GK), Tosin Kehinde, Ebere Eze, .....Samuel Kalu & Olayinka are still playing games. Alampasu was in Nigeria, It would have been good to see if he is still decent. Femi Thomas did not inspire confidence.

Salisu did not make too many subs because we did not really have many quality substitutes.

CaptainStephen:
that one is another debate oh

Martz101:


where was kayode when he was his age?

tbaba1234:


I still feel we missed an opportunity to see talents. It would have been a great opportunity for us to see, Alampasu, Maduka Okoye (GK), Tosin Kehinde, Ebere Eze, .....Samuel Kalu & Olayinka are still playing games. Alampasu was in Nigeria, It would have been good to see if he is still decent. Femi Thomas did not inspire confidence.

Salisu did not make too many subs because we did not really have many quality substitutes.

TheSuperNerd:
I'm afraid you cannot standardize everything for absolutely 100% effectiveness when it comes to talents. Lol... this is why "hoping and praying" is part of it because like the bolded shows arguments can be made from various angles and depending on how strong the coach pushes his case for a player, you just can never tell sometimes.

A coach at any given point in time will come with his own attitude, Idiosyncrasies and more. How do you handle it also if a coach hates a player who is actually doing well enough and he makes the case that The player is not ready and lacks this or that... stuffs made up by the coach to keep the player down.

How do you handle that? sack the coach? lol... Mehn... Hope and pray is a parr of this as much as our efforts to give things a level of standard.

TheSuperNerd:

Uhmm... perspective. That game was to involve a better percentage of the home based lads... Salisu only had a couple of slots open for some from outside... and he made his choice. He cannot invite everyone at once.

AIG07:
World Cup is approaching, the thread is moving fast. The problem now is that :how does one keep on with the thread.? You come online like this you see like 5-10 pages within few hours of absence and yet one will not want to any.


I suggest that tit - bits and news pertaining to the WORLD CUP should be bolded and coloured to help people like me.

forgiveness:


At 19, he scored 1 goals to help his Isreali team win the league to gain promotion to the top tier. The next season he was the third goal scorer in the Isreali first division.

Joebie:
well fine, the purpose was to promote the NPFL. You had 5 slots for foreign based players. Who would you have picked?

Joebie:
I agree with your last sentence. But don't you agree with me that there were some home-based revelations yesterday? Players that probably won't have gotten their chance even in the next CHAN. Now there is hope for them.

TheSuperNerd:
And does knowing my choices even sound relevant to the issue here? The coach is Salisu... not me. His choices... his decisions. See? It is about the coach too.

chrisooblog:
hmmm interesting simy nwankwo performed better than ogbeche during his time so his call up is understandable. ''what how dare you don't you know ogbeche played with ronaldinho, okocha, hessenesy sorry i mean heinze'' kayode performed better than k. nwakili ''what egbon don't you know kelechi trains with ozil, sanchez and ramsey'' abi no be so based on your logic?

Joebie:
it's still the coach that has the final say as to who gets promoted from one grade to the other. of course we can't have 100% efficiency but we can start from somewhere to make it better. There are so many Nigerian footballers out there. we must find a way to at least screen through most of them.