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andrewbaba44:
Maybe because Drogba played for Chelsea and won them some trophies that’s what makes him ahead

Drogba is a finisher but I still wonder why dude cannot 1 goal in every 2 games

Yakubu got 95 epl goals and Drogba got 105

You should know the teams yak played for yo get these goals

Yea, drogba was better due to his All round Qualities i.e heading, freekicks, shooting etc and he won more individual and collective titles than Yak but the conversation shouldn't be a DOA (my tuppence)

JohnBullMySon:
As far as this season is concerned, Simi has been a better finisher than Osimhen, Should we compare Osimhen's one touch shots to Simy's own this season? If you are interested in painting serie A with goals, then your one touch finishing must be good.

Don't mind them you didn't even say that Simy is a better player than him you only said that he is a better "Finisher" and if you check this season statistics, Missed chances vs goals scored, you're Right. Please, don't let anyone belittle your opinion and make you have doubts. This is a place to dialogue and everyone opinion must be Respected as long as you provide Data supporting your notion and is Respectful. For example, me and you have had disagreement here in previous topics but does that mean that we are Enemies? NO.

kellycute:
so we should drop Osimhen as super eagle number 1 Striker for Simi? Answer that question.. In forgiveness voice.

It should obviously be a conversation are you okay isi adighi mma 1 player has 10 Goals at the Worst club in the league while another one has 3 goals at the 6th team in the same league and you believe that the 10 goals striker shouldn't be given a chance?? Are you okay Sir?? Super eagles number 9 belongs to No one and you must earn it and continue impressing for your club. Otherwise, someone else performing should be given a chance. And I think Osimehn is a better overall striker than Simy but what I cannot stand is "Selective judgement" "biasedness" or "partiality" NEVER

Super eagles number 9 shirt doesn't belong to Anyone. Whoever is in the best Form for his club Must Start. Although I don't rate ("Farmers league") highly but You can't just ignore everyone else scoring and say it's for 1 person. For example, on current form, I will play "iheanacho"in the next game because he is our most inform striker considering the league/minutes/goal ratio.
9 (osimehn) 8 (iheanacho)
But we must stop this nonsense that a player is guaranteed any position irrespective of their club performance.

To be fair, Osimehn is a better all round player than simy, but simy is a better finisher. Today, osimehn could had scored a Hatrick but he missed. Personally, I will take Osimehn over Simy despite him scoring 3 and simy scoring 10. His all round game is better. (MY TUPPENCE)

Osimhen had a good game today and napoli played to his strengths. Playing the ball for him to run at is one of his best strengths and napoli did it also, he should had scored another

JayromWrites:
Nobody is stopping you from hyping your own player... If you believe Simy is good, keep dropping alert of Simy... This thread no be person family house


No be here we dey that guy wey get name from Mortal combat dey drop Haaland subs, person shoot am?


All these favoritism and bias BS should stop abeg.. Hype your own player, talk about him.. Nobody stop you.. Las Las Rohr no dey Consult person for here before e drop list


Dante

"Your own player" Nah thus ain't family business. We should collectively analyze all these guys impartially

If simy can score 10 league goals in seria A, then I think osimehn issue might be psychological and he might come good since he is a better player than simy. (Just my opinion)

JohnBullMySon:
yet he keeps getting underrated here as if he is playing in a farmer's league.

Lool most of the pundits here are selective analyst. They already have our inner favorite and will be partial to those favorites. But tbh simy wasn't impressive in his few games for Nigeria. Infact all these tall guys are the poor man Kanu

TheGoodJoe:

I think Rodger knows Nacho is good but he does not like him for whatever reason best known to him.

I hope this is Nacho's last season there and also hopes Ndidi leaves that club.

Nacho's handlers must seek a team that will sign on paper they will give Nacho playing time.

Before blaming the coach have you asked yourself if you can vouch for iheanacho attitude, work ethic, seriousness and professionalism in Training? Iheanacho is the only one responsible for making or breaking his self. I was really impressed by his last season performance

Icon4s:
Kelechi Iheanacho or Kelechi Nwakali?

Or our own Chriskels here

Kelechi iheanacho of course. Nwakali hasn't proven himself internationally

This kelechi is so talented that I wish he can just add utmost professionalism, seriousness, work ethic and anger to his game and he might blow. If not, we might keep getting 3B 1G from him

smartsmith0907:
There is no reason he shouldn't be winning afcon.....we gave him all the time in the world to build his team we gave the resources we havent been giving to all other coaches all this while as in FR do you know how much it takes to organize a friendly and we organized more than 4 friendly prior to the WC 2 prior to the AFCONQ i mean high profile friendly one with Brazil now he has even tabled team he wants to play friendly with and probably will be having having friendly after the qualifier ......what will be his excuse this time around "the team is still young" He already has all the support in the world and asking for a gold medal in the AFCON is not too much for Nigerians and if he is not ready to give us that then he should be on his way to paris if he cant win a gold medal then what kind of miracle should we be expecting in WC ....or you think is small footballing nation you need to check the number of high profile coach and well proven coach that are vying for his position.

Nigeria isn't the number 1 ranked team in Africa, pound for pound, we're still on number 1. Clubwise, we're still not number then what gives us the birthright to say Win or Termination? DELUSION OF GRANDEUR!

smartsmith0907:
I didnt say he should be sacked try to understand me I only pointed out the fact our chances to qualify for the WC is very slim just like Andrew pointed let's see how things unfold if rohr no win the next AFCON then he will surely sack cos of the clause on his contract to win AFCON and qualify for the WC.

Sacking a coach for not winning the ANC and worse of all in the same year as the world cup is the height of MADNESS and going by history, that project always end up in abysmal FAILURE i.e 2002, 2010. The best time to have sacked Rohr was not to extend his contract but to sack him in a world cup year assuming we qualify is MADNESS

smartsmith0907:
How on earth do you know what on my mind
The chance for qualifying for the next world cup is very slim

And you think the sack of Rohr will guarantee you a world cup appearance? Keep being deluded. Let's assume that we sack him, what's the basis of his termination?

Clementoke:
All those na past tense jare. In the here and now,were Ighalo to come out of retirement now, which 3 of this should be invited and which should be left out.

Ighalo
Osimhen
Moffi
Onuachu
Iheanacho
Umar Sadiq

The level that most of these guys are now are the level that ighalo was 6 years ago. Remember, the Bobo played at Lyn, udinese and even scored 20 goals in the segunda to get Grenada promoted back to LA liga? My point is that he has passed this guy's level and don't need to be disrespected

Clementoke:
All those na past tense jare. In the here and now,were Ighalo to come out of retirement now, which 3 of this should be invited and which should be left out.

Ighalo
Osimhen
Moffi
Onuachu
Iheanacho
Umar Sadiq

Please don't insult Ighalo. If he comes out of retirement, he will still be the first name on this list. Let these young guys go and become the top scorer at ANCQ, ANC or score 16 goals for Nigeria before they compare theirself to ighalo. I didn't even mention sign for a "Big team". Personally, if I'm picking 3 on this list,

Osimehn
Ighalo
Iheanacho

The remaining 3 are superb talents performing at FARMERS league. I want to see how they perform at the big 3. Remember, ighalo was a 1 season wonder at EPL for Watford

JohnBullMySon:
pls, read my post again, did I say he wasn't good enough? and, by the way, what did ighalo even achieve at man united?

Now you want to trivalize his few united goals? If you think that it is easy for a Nigerian born to score at man utd, let another one sign for them. Haha!

zuchyblink:
Super talented Messi made it in Barca because he had the likes of Puyol,Pique,Iniesta,xavi, Ronaldinho,Eto'o et al behind him.

But he won another champions league in 2015 without all of the aforementioned bar pique

zuchyblink:
Nothing can substitute experience. We keep on saying give the younger ones a chance and the cycle continues when the younger ones become men.let us learn to give experience a chance while the younger ones develop without pressure. Ighalo's performance and Omerue's performance in the last AFCON was as a result of experience. You will hardly see a successful team without experienced players,even if they get to semifinals or final, their inexperience will give them away

A player that was just the top scorer at the last ANCQ, ANC is definitely good enough to play for Nigeria in 2021. Although, Nigeria is bigger than any individual and should never beg anyone to come out of retirement, but if ighalo willingly decides to reverse his decision, I am in Support. Enough is enough our players should stop ending their international career prematurely

andrewbaba44:
At least ighalo was out of man united squad due to Cavani presence

No Nigerian striker will start at man united self make we no lie

Musa was a flop at Saudi arabia

Some of them are only talking to get a response. A player that was just at man utd could had signed for an epl team if he wanted, but he choosed finances

komekn:
First of all, lf Ighalo wanted to continue playing in the EPL he would, maybe not neccesarily with Manchester United.

Ighalo has nothing to prove, he has decided to follow the €€€£££$$$ thats his choice.

None of the current set of strikers in the SE have surpassed his achievements and indeed may never and that includes Osimhen.

So please let's give respect to whom respect is due.

Can you imagine the audacity? Someone that has 16 in 35 almost 1 in 2 goals for Nigeria, was recently the top scorer at ANCQ, ANC, just recently played at the greatest English team in the world isn't good enough for Nigeria 23 because we want to give youngsters chances? Let it make sense please!

Clementoke:
What an assertion!. However quick questions.
Are Ronaldo and co playing in the middle east?. Are they bench warmers like Ighalo was at Man utd (He was even left out of the squad on many occasions?)
Lastly, if our talented youngsters playing at a much higher level than Al-Shabab are deprived of opportunities NOW, when exactly is the "experience" going to come?

A proven experienced player with a history of Top notch performance and fit/playing has nothing to prove anymore. As long as igjalo is Fit/playing now, he can still contribute to SE. For goodness sake, the guy is just 31 WTH

Elyonisable1:
Supereagles homebased players or the ones overseas?

The 2, but mostly foreign based. Sometimes, the sort of promotional news they convey just makes it obvious. That site reported that "micheal olise" of reading fc will be included in Nigeria squad and penciled down in a 433 formation only to counter that claim by saying "Micheal olise" isn't interested in playing for Nigeria. This is Exactly what we call "Junk Journalism"

JohnBullMySon:
pls, read my post again, did I say he wasn't good enough? and, by the way, what did ighalo even achieve at man united?

Well for one, he is the first Nigerian to have played for man utd big achievement itself paving the way for future youngsters. Why do Nigerians like its stars retiring at a young age BTW when the likes of Ronaldo, Ramos, modric, etc are still playing for their national team in their mid 30's. Also, most of those guys you listed are inexperienced" talented but inexperienced

JohnBullMySon:
Sincerely I see no sense in recalling ighalo to the national team. dude has done well, but right now he's not really needed. we have a ton of strikers flooding in now, there needs to be healthy space for competition and not ranks and seniority playing out. if ighalo comes back, he'll love to be there till afcon and world cup and likely may be captain and be invited. So where will you keep onuachu, moffi, Simi, iheanacho, Maja. who are pushing their game up. these guys have even shown more consistence than ighalo lately, nobody can show with any evidence that ighalo will perform more than them currently. so how will things look like by 2022? we should learn to leave out old players who are past their peak, except they are extraordinary. it's a regular practice of the best national teams in the world.

A 31 year old/late bloomer and most recently just played for the biggest club in England and was the top scorer at the last ANCQ and ANC is not good enough for Nigeria?? You got to be kidding. The only thing that I would say is that Nigeria shouldn't beg anyone and the way ighalo retired is how he can come out of retirement

Stop posting news from owngoalnigeria.com they have a low percentage truth Rate, always divisive, biased and Untrue. The height of their unprofessionalism waa when they said that Adarabioyo was cleared to play for Nigeria, then reported few days later, that Adarabioyo isn't interested in playing for us. I suspect there are super eagles players on their payroll

Sainty92:
Is this a sign that he is still an Eagle?

At the prime age of 31 and a Late Bloomer that recently just played at Manchester United and was also just the top Scorer at the last ANC, he is still needed in SE. Maybe not as a starter, but his experience will be Vital. This is a proven player that has performed for SE his league doesn't matter. He can still contribute as a substitute player

andrewbaba44:
You guys need to stop this big 3 crap

I will only agree with you on division 2 players and not players playing in the French league Belgium and co

Bros, you simply cannot compare the Quality level of Seria A, Epl, or LA liga to Belgium or French league. A player scoring 10 goals in Seria A/epl/ la liga is more Valuable than scoring 20 goals in Belgium, French, p
Russia or even Turkey League. If you doubt me, check transfermarket ranking of the aforementioned. (They're not 100 factual) Also, the level of moffi, onuachu, Sadiq now is the level that osimehm was 2 years ago. Make dem come big 3 before dem get chance to replace Starboy. This na my opinion Uncle I respect yours too

andrewbaba44:
You guys need to stop this big 3 crap

I will only agree with you on division 2 players and not players playing in the French league Belgium and co

Egbon mi I dobale but foreal, the quality of a league/team that a player performs is a huge measurement of his Quality. In order to achieve something significant at world stage, we need our best players at the BEST Clubs/leagues in the world. If not, r32 or r16 will always be the end. Of course, there are exceptions to these rules, but even the exceptions best results were World cup Quarter finals. I.e ghana 2010, Senegal 2002 etc. If the league or team isn't significant, then Indian league players should be called up to SE after all, A Nigerian is probably the top scorer now at Indian league. A player like Osimehn, kelechi are out of form now in the big 3, but their Quality still supercede anyone in Farmers league. Infact, Osimhen despite being out of Form in Seria A is still SE BEST striker now.

Note: This is my analysis sha, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion

Philosopher1979:
My best strikers on immediate form are Terem Moffi and Sadiq Umar.

Striker Analysis

Paul Onuachu does not fit our formation and we need immediate results at least for next month.
As time goes on, we will figure out how to use him effectively

Taiwo Awoniyi only has 5 goals. Forget the top 5 league rating, his goal scoring is not enough even though he his good at
bothering the full backs and he is mobile

Sadiq Umar offers something different with his creativity. His style of play is unique and that is his major selling point
Remove the fact that he is in a lower league and you will see that he offers a lot to a team in terms of not only
goals but mobility, creativity, defense splitting passes etc

Moffi's style of play easily fits into our own as he is aggresive and mobile.

The problem with you guys is comparing Farmers league stats to The Big 3. For example, osimehn isn't scoring at the big 3 but his level is still better than Sadiq/moffi who are at Farmers league. They would have to prove themselves at the big 3 to even have a chance of Replacing osimehn or iheanacho

andrewbaba44:
Agreed

I will say samuel Etoo but we can agree to disagree. Winning 3 champions league and contributing immensely wasn't an easy feat. Suarez na genius sha