charlesemeka85:
Chelsea starlet Fikayo Tomori could become the most expensive Nigerian defender in history if transfer speculations are anything to go by.

The Daily Star is reporting that Burnley are hoping to clinch a £15m deal for Tomori, who is also eligible to represent the senior national teams of Canada and England.

Should Chelsea agree to do business with The Clarets, Tomori will become the costliest defender eligible to represent Nigeria, surpassing the 12 million euros Inter Milan paid Auxerre for Taribo West in June 1997.

Tomori was loaned out to Derby County for the entirety of last season and was named the club's Player of the Year and spent the previous season at Hull City.

With Chelsea slapped with a two-window transfer ban, it is thought that the central defender is in the plans of new Blues boss Frank Lampard as he was included in the pre-season squad for games against Bohemians and St Patrick's Athletic FC this week.

Although Manuel Akanji is a Switzerland international and no longer eligible for the Super Eagles, he is the most expensive defender of Nigerian descent in history, costing Borussia Dortmund €21.5 million when he was acquired from FC Basel in 2018.

Tomori has upped his game.

I siad sometime ago that Fikayo was arguably the best CB in the Championship 2018/19. The very successful season that Frank Lampard had was predominantly anchored on the performances of Fikayo.

I doubt if Lampard will let him go on loan and or be sold for the paltry sum of £15 million right now is way undervalued for a young promising and outstanding CB that he is.

2017/18 l slated him as bang average and not good enough as a RB for the SE when l watched him live up close and personal several times that season. But he has turned it all round in one season.

IMO the best Nigerian origin CB yet to be capped.

Allnigeriasoccer.com understands that Belgian First Division A side Club Brugge have won the race for Nigeria U23 international David Okereke.

Club Brugge have reached an agreement with Italian club Spezia over the transfer of the talented winger who was courted by a host of clubs in the English Premier League.

Southampton, Newcastle United, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Crystal Palace were monitoring the situation of Okereke with a view to a summer move but they have missed out on his services.

The 21-year-old will undergo a medical with Club Brugge on Monday, July 8 ahead of his unveiling by the Blue-Black.

He is highly thought of by Super Eagles boss Gernot Rohr who invited him to beef up the senior national team squad ahead of a friendly against Egypt in March after watching him in action for 12 minutes in an U23 AFCON qualifier against Libya.

Okereke was one of the outstanding performers in the Serie B last season, scoring 10 goals and providing 12 asssits in 30 appearances.

He is represented by renowned Italian agent Patrick Bastianelli, who used to handle the affairs of Odion Ighalo on behalf of Atta Aneke during his time with Udinese.

TheCongo2:


Can't Nigeria develop its own league? Why do Africans have to rely on western countries. What was the point of getting independence?
Sorry for my venting.

One can't wait for the other.

The ideal thing to do is depend on the foreign alternatives while we build our leagues, in fact, that's the only way.

forgiveness:


Please, watch the match again. All Nigerian's players were in the half of the Camerounians and about 5 or 6 players were in the box to receive a cross. That was part of Rohr's tactics not the movement of Chukwueze.

Agreed without reservation.

Not every one has the capacity to be objective on this thread. Many are carried away on a wave of sentimentality and emotive favoritism.

him and uduokhai are the best for now

komekn:


Tomori has upped his game.

I siad sometime ago that Fikayo was arguably the best CB in the Championship 2018/19. The very successful season that Frank Lampard had was predominantly anchored on the performances of Fikayo.

I doubt if Lampard will let him go on loan and or be sold for the paltry sum of £15 million right now is way undervalued for a young promising and outstanding CB that he is.

2017/18 l slated him as bang average and not good enough as a RB for the SE when l watched him live up close and personal several times that season. But he has turned it all round in one season.

IMO the best Nigerian origin CB yet to be capped.

cc12:
I hope he becomes serious this time around and gets a club in Belgium Pro League

On what basis, poor performances playing before the youth team of Porto.

However, it depends on how good his agent is its still possible. A lot of the time particularly in lower level league and clubs, players through agent influence can be given opportunity.

andrew444:


Another person that doesn't know anything about football

Where semid dey ?

Quit this puerile stunts. Instead of you to reply him fact to fact you decide to go low trying to shame him.

You na old hand here na.

AIG07:
Ighalo is similar to Emenike. Ighalo like Emenike is inconsistent. Emenike did well and contributed his quota to the national team and won the AFCON abut was never loved by Nigerians... Ighalo is towing same path.


Nigerians don't just like him. Nothing more.

I disagree l am Nigerian and consider him our best striker with nobody near him.

Joebie:
if Rorh still can't beat SA wetin remain?
No excuses, we have to avenge our Uyo loss, else we should never boast wherever they are.

Exactly

Just for that Uyo loss, I'll be going with the SE 100%. I will be dusting off my optimist cap and putting it on

Especially to melt the mouth of a certain IronGalaxy on this thread

komekn:


I disagree l am Nigerian and consider him our best striker with nobody near him.

So you alone is representative of the broad Nigerian people?

Ighalo is not fan's favorite. That's a fact.

Not many know that Kanu never scored in an AFCON. And someone posted that ighalo has ten goals now same with Kanu yet Kanu is regarded as a Nigerian soccer god.

Ighalo is like Akpoborie more or less.

darkelf:


Exactly

Just for that Uyo loss, I'll be going with the SE 100%. I will be dusting off my optimist cap and putting it on

Especially to melt the mouth of a certain IronGalaxy on this thread

Abeg ooo continue to wear your pessimist crown ooo cos we've been winning inspite of it. No go dust your optimist cap now and we come go lose.

darkelf:


Exactly

Just for that Uyo loss, I'll be going with the SE 100%. I will be dusting off my optimist cap and putting it on

Especially to melt the mouth of a certain IronGalaxy on this thread

I'd prefer the pessimist you Sha.....since you nor support us we dey win, now that you wan support like this make you nor go pour sand sand for we garri abeg....

Kindly be a Zulu man for the next couple of days

Mujtahida:

So you alone is representative of the broad Nigerian people?

Ighalo is not fan's favorite. That's a fact.

Not many know that Kanu never scored in an AFCON. And someone posted that ighalo has ten goals now same with Kanu yet Kanu is regarded as a Nigerian soccer god.

Ighalo is like Akpoborie more or less.

ighalo is our best striker at the moment, I don't know bout you or the remaining NIGERIANS but I love him and follow him on all social media accounts.... He is a senior man, case closed

Pls don't try to compare with kanu Abeg....that's a shiity comparism....

Mujtahida:

Abeg ooo continue to wear your pessimist crown ooo cos we've been winning inspite of it. No go dust your optimist cap now and we come go lose.

Hahahahaha. Nice one

Starboytwo:
I'd prefer the pessimist you Sha.....since you nor support us we dey win, now that you wan support like this make you nor go pour sand sand for we garri abeg....

Kindly be a Zulu man for the next couple of days

Hahahahahaha. Why are you guys talking like this now

DOn't worry, we will win by even a bigger margin

lexyman:



The Coach of SA made the Egyptian team to look Ordinary , he is a good Tactician

It's not hard to make the Egyptian team look ordinary

Just block Mo Salah

darkelf:
Football isn't math but I don't see Tunisia getting past Ghana tomorrow

Mali vs Ivory Coast is going to be a tight affair. May go to extra time

I wanted Mali vs Ghana, Tunisia vs Ivory coast

safarigirl:


This isn't the league

The league has 32 games, home and away, this doesn't have any home and away, there are no do-overs, no chance to correct a bad formation. You lose, you're out.

Hey girl, I was lost in the celebration yesterday

I'm waiting for the transfer window to close to make up the rest of my FPL team

darkelf:


Exactly

Just for that Uyo loss, I'll be going with the SE 100%. I will be dusting off my optimist cap and putting it on

Especially to melt the mouth of a certain IronGalaxy on this thread

We have a convert

Welcome brother Light elf

Earthquake3:


We have a convert

Welcome brother Light elf

Its Just for the SA match

I will always be Darkelf and look at the darker side of things

charlesemeka85:
Allnigeriasoccer.com understands that Belgian First Division A side Club Brugge have won the race for Nigeria U23 international David Okereke.

Club Brugge have reached an agreement with Italian club Spezia over the transfer of the talented winger who was courted by a host of clubs in the English Premier League.

Southampton, Newcastle United, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Crystal Palace were monitoring the situation of Okereke with a view to a summer move but they have missed out on his services.

The 21-year-old will undergo a medical with Club Brugge on Monday, July 8 ahead of his unveiling by the Blue-Black.

He is highly thought of by Super Eagles boss Gernot Rohr who invited him to beef up the senior national team squad ahead of a friendly against Egypt in March after watching him in action for 12 minutes in an U23 AFCON qualifier against Libya.

Okereke was one of the outstanding performers in the Serie B last season, scoring 10 goals and providing 12 asssits in 30 appearances.

He is represented by renowned Italian agent Patrick Bastianelli, who used to handle the affairs of Odion Ighalo on behalf of Atta Aneke during his time with Udinese.

Hmmm don't know what to think of this. I'd rather he moves to Serie A than go to Belgium.
Our players need to grab any opportunity they have to play at top leagues.
Look how much Aina and Omeruo has improved. Omeruo was wasting him time at Turkey all this while.
Put development first when you're young and you can run to China or wherever for you last payday later on(i.e Ighalo)

lexyman:



The Coach of SA made the Egyptian team to look Ordinary , he is a good Tactician

He's impressed me no lie. I never rated him(thought Ruud Krol would've been a better option) considering how he flopped with a more talented Mzansi side back in 04-05.
I think he just took Mashaba's formula and ran with it (keep things tight and hit on the break).

edi287:

He's impressed me no lie. I never rated him(thought Ruud Krol would've been a better option) considering how he flopped with a more talented Mzansi side back in 04-05.
I think he just took Mashaba's formula and ran with it (keep things tight and hit on the break).

Mashaba remains the best coach for SA and don't understand why sacked him

samtol4:
Mashaba remains the best coach for SA and don't understand why sacked him

He's the Amodu Shuaibu of South Africa. People didn't like him because he didn't play entertaining football. Dude got the results when it was required.

Sorry to derail o
Allison Becker:

Champions league champion

Copa America champion

Champions league golden glove

Premier league golden glove

Copa America golden glove

62 games played and 36 goals conceded

36 clean sheets

A sure Top 5 balloon D'or finisher if not a contender

#YNWA

According to Abola.com, Ligue 1 team, Nantes, want to sign Nigerian international defender, Chidozie Awaziem on a permanent deal. Awaziem played on loan from Porto for Nantes in the 2017/18 season.

jihday:
Hmmmm

These are not TRUE.

Awaziem got dribbled countless times. One even earned him a yellow card

Omeruo got beaten once that I can remember in the Cameroon game

Mujtahida:

Abeg ooo continue to wear your pessimist crown ooo cos we've been winning inspite of it. No go dust your optimist cap now and we come go lose.

Chaaaaiiii..... Elf of Darkness oooo....

Mujtahida:

Quit this puerile stunts. Instead of you to reply him fact to fact you decide to go low trying to shame him.

You na old hand here na.

Alright

I have reasons to believe that Mikel, jamilu, shehu all came to camp with injuries..why was seyi ajayi dropped.
Nigerians need to demand a better explanations from the coach

Mujtahida:

So you alone is representative of the broad Nigerian people?

Ighalo is not fan's favorite. That's a fact.

Not many know that Kanu never scored in an AFCON. And someone posted that ighalo has ten goals now same with Kanu yet Kanu is regarded as a Nigerian soccer god.

Ighalo is like Akpoborie more or less.

First of all, l gave my personal opinion to negate the proposition that nobody likes Ighalo. Because I unapologetically do.

Nairaland does not represent the views of all Nigerians neither do you and I.

How popular he is l really don't know because we would have to have substantive survey to ascertain that.

Nonetheless, one thing that's apparent here, is that accolades and ability are not based on proven established fact but emotive sentiment. Even when the facts are right before our eyes.

But then it should not surprising. The terminology football fan is derived from the word fanatic. People who are fanatical are usually unable to be rational, objective, balanced and devoid of emotive prejudiced sentiment.

So let's find it all good comedy never to be taken serious.