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ChrisKels:
No this guy has a better command of the English language. He is semantically more advanced than Andrew444. I know the kinda English Andre444 writes, and I can easily detect when a post comes from him even without looking at the moniker. He has got a huge challenge with lexis and structures, especially tenses that he makes so much grammatical blunders unconsciously, unlike this Barcelona guy. So unequivocally, I can say they ain't same person.

TheSuperNerd:
Ehen Bia Charlesemeka85 and Andrew... Make una pack well Biko.

Free K.Nwakali naa... Free the guy abeg. Haba... Loolll

BascoVanVeli:
Ramon Azeez really showed himself for Granada in their last match. He definitely is the much talked about competition for Iwobi.

OMANBALA1:
Little wonder why why we are not winning any match...when a toothless player like Iwobi coordinates your attack you are in for some sorry experience.

charlesemeka85:
Lol @the bolded. Nwakali the lubricant. Oke aha na egbu nwa nkita


Overseas –based professional players, Tom Dele-Bashiru and Orji Okonkwo have joined the camp of the Nigeria U23 team, Olympic Eagles preparing for next month's U23 Africa Cup of Nations taking place in Egypt.

Earlier, midfield lubricator Kelechi Nwakali, who captained the U17 National Team to World Cup glory in Chile four years ago, had rejoined the squad that he helped secure victories over Libya and Sudan in the qualifiers to earn Nigeria a berth at the finals in Egypt.

Bologna winger Orji Okonkwo joined the rest of the team on Monday as the overseas –based professionals continued to stream into camp ahead of this week's departure to Egypt.

His arrival has given Head Coach lmama Amapakabo and his assistants more attacking options ahead of the tournament.

The Olympic Eagles are expected to the leave shores of the country on Thursday for the tournament which holds 8th – 22nd November in Cairo, with Nigeria playing in Group B which also has Cote d'Ivoire, Zambia and South Africa.

Another overseas –based professional in camp is Tom Dele-Bashiru, who featured for the U20 National Team, Flying Eagles, at the FIFA U20 World Cup finals in Poland in the summer.

The 20 -year old midfielder plies his trade with English Premier League side Watford FC, and was born in the city of Manchester, England to Nigerian parents.

He scored Nigeria's third goal as the Flying Eagles obliterated Qatar 4-0 in their opening game of the FIFA U20 World Cup in Poland

TheSuperNerd:
Lol... That's a maybe. Also, Tomori said we never approached him when in fact we did.

Truth is throughout today, Dutch Twitter space have been livid over losing out on Dest. Several wish him an "L" with USA. I think Holland were so confident he would feature for them and were taking their time until he debuted in the UCL and had a super game. Holland is not happy to lose out on their nation's number 1 Club team's Top RB option.

timay:
He does his job as a 10 well, which is to create chances and carry the ball to your forward players as quick as possible. He might not be a fancy ball hugging kind of player but he's very efficient. Modric that is a balloon d'Or winner, how many assists does he have ? But modric is rated because he does the simple things efficiently and transition the attacks very well

TheSuperNerd:
Honestly, I am with you on Saka. The good thing is the NFF are already on his case and I hope we yield positive news in the end. The lad has all it takes to give everyone including Chukwueze a battle for our wing roles. He is fast, skillful, direct, left footed, sleek... I really like Saka and I do hope we bag him. He has made me forget a bit about Lookman sef. Lol...


And yeah Iwobi over Eze for me but I believe it won't be bad having Eze among the options we can call off the bench in the team. The lad was average today but he is really a fine talent.

charlesemeka85:
Which last 4 matches re u talking about? Iwobi was one of our best players at the last afcon, against Ukraine he was immense.

He has been among the few shining lights in Everton this season n had a good game against westham. I doubt if u watch Everton games at all.

How many goals hv eriksen scored for spurs this season? Does that mk him a bad player?

All of us here know Iwobi not to be prolific in front of goal but he has qualities that made everton spend 30m on him. His link up play, vision and work rate is top notch.

Iwobi was among players in the epl last term that created more chances and the stats re there for u check.

darkelf:
He underperformed in the last 4 matches for us. Even in his club, when last has he scored a goal or given as assist. I am being objective here please.

To think he is the only AM we are relying on now is a damn shame

And at the bolded, I will continue to say my mind and give my opinion irrespective of whether anyone is rude to me or not. It's my own opinion and I am entitled to it whether it pains certain people or not

safarigirl:
they tried to get Zaha, but Palace wouldn't allow it. Some Arsenal fans are still bitter about the Zaha move that tanked, Pepe was the alternative

nuban07:
U said what? Delete the last paragraph

Stillthebest:
What do you know?

charlesemeka85:
likewise mikel agu

charlesemeka85:
hmmmm ndidi wey no sabi pass ball

charlesemeka85:
Leicester City thrashed Southampton 9-0 at the Saint Mary's Stadium Friday evening which has helped the Foxes move to third in the Premier League table with 20 points and the impact of Super Eagles midfielder Wilfred Ndidi in that annihilation has been highlighted by former Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers defender Stephen Warnock on Monday.

Leicester's massive win has the become the highest away win in the English Premier League.

Warnock was speaking on Sky Sports News as he reviewed the matches played over the weekend alongside former England's women international Sue Smith.

"The whole (Leicester) team played well. The defence, the midfield. Ndidi was so clever in the middle of the park.

"He (Ndidi) plays just like Fabinho at Liverpool. And when you have a player like that, it just frees other players to play their games," Warnock said of the Nigerian.

Ndidi was in action throughout the duration of the match. He has played nine league games so far this season and scored twice with one appearance in the Carabao Cup.

Fellow Nigerian Kelechi Iheanacho is yet to play in the Premier League this season and has been restricted to just one appearance in the Carabao Cup against Luton Town back in September in which he scored a goal in a 4-0 win.

Eartquake1:
If his fatherland was Nigeria he would have dumped us a long time ago

Eartquake1:
US pay as much as Netherlands and have same if not better facilities and he will be a national hero

Why wouldn't he accept

Toylove:
I saw him vs chelsea, he held his own. He has what it takes to bench that dumfries

Eartquake1:
Saka is already playing for Arsenal first team, he should be invited for Benin qualifiers

I want to see something

TheSuperNerd:
He will be 19 in a couple of days. And the matter of his allegiance has been settled today. He has chosen the USA for life.

Humility017:
for Dest to make mention of it...it means he considers it too while thinking on both nations.

you think this players only considers football when making this final choice.... didn't you read the huddersfied guy reason why he won't have opt for Nigeria...because he doesn't feel it, he don't even know how the country look like unlike the Anglo Nigerians... this dudes are already feeling and living Nigeria while I'm the UK since birth hood....

they have learnt and come to know some certain rich and proud assets of the country, that possible will also influence their decision.

players think beyond football in this case most times

TheSuperNerd:
Not so fast. Dest will only have Dumfries to compete with had he chosen Holland and several reports out of holland affirm he is a much better RB than Dumfries. Inspite of this... Dest chose the lesser option in USA. His fatherland.

In all, it is a choice. Not everyone will choose like Dest.

Humility017:
8 Oct, 2019

ESPN


"When I thought of football when I was younger, it was always Ajax or the Dutch team," Dest said in an interview with U.S. club teammateAlex Mendez, published on the Ajax website.

"Never the U.S. But I haven't been approached by the Dutch team."

Asked whether not being contacted by the Netherlands had been a factor in his decision, he added: "Maybe."

Dest grew up in the Netherlands to a Dutch mother and American father. However, Dutch has always been his first language and Dest said it was only when he visited the U.S. that he began to embrace his American heritage.

"My father is from Brooklyn, but we spoke Dutch at home," Dest said. "Actually, until a few years ago, my English was very poor.

"I wasn't thinking of my American roots at all until I went to play in an American youth team. From that moment, my English improved, and I started to feel more American.

"I realised that: 'Hey, this is my nationality, too.' Now I think it's great to be an American as well. It's an asset and as well. T[b]he U.S. passport is one of the best in the world." [/b]


Serginho Dest

chrisooblog:
i disagree! these players have added distinct value to our team and made us better. how many local based players have broken into the super eagles all these years and made a long lasting impact? mikel basically had no competition throughout his stay in the national team but iwobi, aribo and potentially ebere's addition has our midfield now looking half decent.

like tbaba rightly said if countries that have better structures and talents are not shy to go for foreign born players that will add value to their team why should we feel ashamed to approach nigerian born players?

Italy in 2006 used camonaresi an argentine when they won the world cup. spain used senna a brazilian when they won euro 2008.

hell even cameroon used equitorial guinean lauren when they won their afcon titles in 2000 and 2002

charlesemeka85:
i am really surprised at you for saying this. so the nff and rohr reaches out to a player and the player and his representatives asked for more time for them to come up with a decision which will be best for the kids international career literally means the door to the national team should be shut on that particular player?

so if the likes of torunarigha,uduokhai,akpoguma,eze,lookman,ejaria,billing or even tomori rescind their decision to player for their country of birth and place a call to pinnick or rohr tomorrow announcing their readiness to change allegiance to us so they should be ignored just because they didnt decide on time?

nawaoooo! too much pride dey kill ooooooo lolz