₦airaland Forum

Odunayaw:
Is leaving for greener pastures suppose to DRAIN the league? Isn't it this just a buttress of the dearth in the league? How is it that less than 3-5 players leave the league and it altogether becomes dull at once.

Do the Belgian,Danish league etc not get a talent drain but replenish just as quicker? Why don't we have same here?

LZAA:
Sorry but i disagree with collins udoh
It's not about the players but the coaches
We just don't have excellent coaches or the structure to produce them(please dont call N.I.S)
Ajax thanks to the cryuff plan implemented after the defeat to madrid in 2010 have become relevant in europe again
Rohr is not the coach to take nigeria forward
QED

realpoacher:
Oga not everyone is an ardent follower of Nigerian football, so what is saying is new to a whole lot of us because many ignorant Nigerians believe that we can gather 11 world beaters straight from our league.


Which in reality its a fantasy.


What Collins has done is to bring to the fore(and by extension to the world) in one concise piece, a summary of our inherent football problems and solutions.

breezy147:
Good,
So if Emenike has 4 goals, 3 assists and you praise him why are you talking down down on VM who has 2 goals, 4 assists in the same tournament? Is there much difference between their achievements?

breezy147:
This is a total lie and misinformation. Emenike had 4 goals and 1 assist, not 3.



Well by stats, VM won us the nations cup in 2013. You still have not disproved. And by virtue of his performance at that tournament and in the qualifiers for the world cup, he earned the praise of his fans.

You do not have to be a fan of his and you do not have to like his personality, but you would still be unable to deny the fact that he has been very instrumental to the success of our national team, much more than some of the players you are trying to praise above him.

For the records,
VM had 5 goals and 1 assist at the world cup qualifications out of a total of 12 goals scored.


Attached below is Emenike's stats.

darkelf:
The truth is it will be unfair unfair to single out any player from the 2013 team

They all contributes in one way or the other except for Joseph Yobo

He was minus one in that tourney and had to be benched. Even Fegor Ogude; one of the foremost carpenters of the Super Eagles

Lana1:
These our youngsters dey try. I just wish we could get a body into that midfield b4 the window closes.


And not like we all haven't said this b4, but Matic, Mata and Lingard should not be playing anymore for this club. I just wish Ole can wise up and bench their destinies.

lexyman:
i was Expecting Nigeria to drop further down after the Mad boys dealt with us in the Afcon...thanks to the beating we gave to Cameroun ... i think that is the only match that gave us the point to still remain where we are

breezy147:
So who gave Mba the assist to score in the final?
Look at it this way. Everyone in a team contributes, but not everyone wins the man of the match award. You measure a player's contribution by the value they offer. Messi for example makes the difference in a lot of games for Barcelona.

Victor Moses at the Afcon was immense. We scored a total of 11 goals in that tournament and VM was involved in almost all the goals. He had 2 goals and 4 assists. Infact his assist got Mba the goal in the final.

So back to the bone of contention, when we praise a player like that, it is not an attempt to belittle the contribution of others in the team. Rather it is a venture to reward the effort of a player who has been more outstanding than the rest.

Based on stats (ceteris paribus), without VM we would not have won that afcon. It is as simple as that.

breezy147:
So who gave Mba the assist to score in the final?
Look at it this way. Everyone in a team contributes, but not everyone wins the man of the match award. You measure a player's contribution by the value they offer. Messi for example makes the difference in a lot of games for Barcelona.

Victor Moses at the Afcon was immense. We scored a total of 11 goals in that tournament and VM was involved in almost all the goals. He had 2 goals and 4 assists. Infact his assist got Mba the goal in the final.

So back to the bone of contention, when we praise a player like that, it is not an attempt to belittle the contribution of others in the team. Rather it is a venture to reward the effort of a player who has been more outstanding than the rest.

Based on stats (ceteris paribus), without VM we would not have won that afcon. It is as simple as that.

breezy147:
If Victor Moses had not won those two penalty kicks versus Ethiopia, we would not have even qualified for quarter finals. Moses earned the praise.

breezy147:
Rohr may get exposed soon and his contract may not be renewed.

Open your eyes very well. Rohr's system needs either a very good target man to flourish or atleast one player with individual brilliance. This is because everyone plays close to the defence except the target man.

Ighalo was a good target man. He literally carried us through the AFCON qualifiers scoring the bulk of the goals. Ighalo also won us the bronze. He scored 5 out of the total of 8 goals scored in the tournament.

Likewise, It was the individual brilliance of Victor Moses that carried us through the world cup qualifiers.

Now that Ighalo and VM are gone and there are no solid replacements, that's a serious detriment to the team.

Except the likes of Iheanacho, Osimhen, Nwakaeme etc come through as the target man or the likes of Iwobi and Chukwueze come through as the brilliant player with the ability to carry the team (which does not look likely in the immediate), Rohr's team will definitely struggle for goals and the cry for his sack will soon be deafening.

charlesemeka85:
Oga u can coach a team 4 10yrs but there is tendency to succumb to defeat against a more organized team who hv better quality players.

Fergie spent over 20 yrs coaching in man utd but lost games to lowly rated clubs in England and Europe.

Jarus:
They told us Feghouli is not world class but Ndidi is.

Jarus:
We would not have scored.

That's where big players come in.

Folks refused to agree Mahrez is a big player.

forgiveness:
I am not talking about popular, I am taking about big name player. Iheanacho is not.

mechanics:
startimes must show the match because am ready to watch the match.

forgiveness:
To you.

A one time BBC player of the year is not popular? Do you think people watch only EPL?

Brahimi being a free agent doesn't tantamount to being a poor player.

Besides, Arsenal and West Ham United want to sign him.

See his stats for Porto this season.

andrew444:
Brahimi is not lacking offer

Mahrez is not algeria best player this season

So ndidi is not performing abi? Uncle clap for your self

forgiveness:
Brahimi was once La Liga African player of the season, BBC player of the year and CAF team of the year.

Feghouli was la Liga African player of the season.

Mahrez doesn't need any introduction.

But I will have to agree with you Musa is a big name player.

nitrogen:
Exactly my point, we dont need to bring in more English players, it's BS. We got Daniel, right? That's okay, lets target players from other climes. We should try and discard the silly ones that we have. I do not know why some people in here are not getting it, and our Rookie manager, that guy is fuvking clueless and act like a baby.

Fuvk, fuvk, sh1t, sh1t, we are in deep sh1t!

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MRTA7:
Mane,Salah,Firminio,VVD. Alisson. Fabinho. These are not average players.

Ederson,Laporte,Mendy,Fernandinho,debruyne,DSilva,BSilva,Aguero,Sane, Sterling,Mahrez, Jesus, Gundogan. Not average players.

GloryIsaac:
I've always mentioned that Pogba will never be at his best when he's the main midfielder, Pirlo and co. were what helped him at Juve.

Rashford on the other hand has lost focus, he's now more bothered with his looks than his football.