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TheSuperNerd:
Please I have gone past these una rubbish takes on Ivorian obsession and have done justice. I have better things to post about. Merci.

My guy dun japa

drDoom3:
Pepe plays volleyball, then.
Sangare at PSV and Akpa-Akpro at Lazio are at higher levels clubwise than Aribo at Rangers.
I wonder how Akpoguma suddenly became our best CB, better than Bailly of Man United and Boly of Wolves. If it is by injury, Akpoguma has also been injured too. Bailly without injury is a starter at Man United. Can Akpoguma even start at Arsenal?
Lets not even discuss how Chukwueze is better than Cornet at Lyon, after Cornet's UCL heroics last season. But let's leave that one. Even Jeremie Boga? Haba.

Bros na the kind things we dey read here oo

TheSuperNerd:
Lol... Nice try but not good enough. Below is also stats attributes comparison between both players with Akpoguma trumping Boly in three of the five major parameters Based on the last two years according to Sofascore. Since na stats you wanna use.
But also, a simple eye test also shows that Akpoguma is far more composed and more technically sound as LCB or RCB than a Boly.

First you try to deceitfully twist facts on Kessie as a DM, you failed and now you wanna score with this Akpoguma vs Boly Argument o kwa ya. Oga... That's also dead on arrival.

The Ivorian obsession is strong with you and as usual, you will see all these your Ivorian noise brought to nought (as it always happen).

So cease with the Ivorian deceit and obsession. It is you I wanna protect the folks here from because you always wanna force Ivory coast down their throats.

Ciao...

You gave us of Boly's and hid Akpo's. Also give us those of Aribo and Kessie

TheSuperNerd:
Kessie is a CM you say, yet he had played 19 league games as a DM this season and only 9 as a CM. He is both a DM and a CM but he has featured predominantly as a DM so don't tell me crap about a lad I follow so well despite not having an Ivorian babe like you.
You want to forcefully present Kessie as a "CM only" by fire by force to smuggle him into the team abi. Kolewerk.

Stop deceiving these people, compare the stats of Kessie who alternates positions from CM to DM, to the stats of Aribo who plays consistently as a CM, to understand you making mockery of these players you over hyping. I wonder that sane coach that would bench a Kessie to accommodate an Aribo in this planet.

1st frame - Jessie

2nd frame - Aribo

Boly's Stats

TheSuperNerd:
That's the whole point and it defeats the fallacy that CIV have got a stronger XI than Nigeria now. The end.


As for that Ivorian Obsession demon that is tormenting you..... I speak to it right now!!!

No coach in his senses will ever play Akpoguma over Boly. Also, statistically, it is an insult on Boly having Akpoguma placed beside him.

1st two frames are Akpoguma's stat, while the last two are Boly's. See for yourself and stop deceiving these people

Harland Xup nah

TheSuperNerd:
In fact, I will also address this lineup Chris posted of his inlaws pages back.

Even in a 4-4-2, we trump the Ivorians.

GK- Okoye/Uzoho over Gbohouo.

CB- Akpoguma over Boly
CB- Bailly keeps his place.

RB- Aurier keeps it (but I insist it can be debated also)
LB- Zaidu owns it.

CM- Aribo over Ibrahim Sangare
CDM- Ndidi over Kessie

RW- Chukwueze >>>> Amad Diallo. I cannot actually believe someone thinks Amad will be picked ahead of Chuks right now. Being at Man Utd is no guarantee. He is not even as important or as influential to Man Utd as Chuks is for Villareal.

LW- I will drop Pepe and all our left wingers and move Zaha to LW.

CF (SS) - Kelechi Iheanacho undisputably trumps any Ivorian central attacking option. He will bench Zaha too in this position but I believe Zaha deserves to be in this lineup which I why I pushed him back to LW over Pepe. Can't have Pepe at LW while Zaha drops out just because we have a better CF than him.

CF (Main Striker)- Undisputably Osimhen. No caps. No further words needed.


Oya Sebi CIV still get Stronger XI pass us?? Na wa for some of una. This Ivorian obsession sef...

Stop deceiving some guys who do not keenly follow African football. Kessie is a CM not DM. So, it is Kessie over Aribo. Ndidi battles Sangare and fit again Jean Gbamin of Everton.

Zaidu >> Singo and makeshift Cornet

Aurier >> all our RBs

Baily >> Ekong, Awaziem

Boly >> Balogun, Akpoguma

Ndidi >> Sangare and Gbamin on DM

Kessie >> Aribo in CM

Zaha >> all our LWGs

Pepe = Chucks. But in dept, Amad(Man United) and Hamed(Sassoulo) over any other player we have behind Chuks

Iwobi >> Boga

TheSuperNerd:
The love portion your Ivorian babe gave you has really worked shaa. You only think in terms of CIV and Senegal nowadays. So I don't blame you. Bailly is old glory man. Wake up!

May God keep us all alive

TheSuperNerd:
Chris, it's only in your world that CIV has depth compared to the Super Eagles or has a better team. But it's what obsession can do.

We have an Incoming Torunarigha and I will pick him over Boly. We have Akpoguma and I will pick him over Bailly. No be by "I get am before".

But for the sake of durable synergy and understanding, Ekong and Balogun is good to go because they have this balance and maturity in their combo.

The bolded is the partnership I want to give a shot. It looks good on paper. Ekong is too error prone for my liking and he ain't got no pace, neither can he pass to save his life

Akpoguma better than Baily? Chai!!

Even Fabyom no do reach like this

charlesemeka85:
Which bailly re u insinuating that that Akpoguma is just as good as him? Bros fear God kwanu

Leave am, make him dey misyan until him mistakingly talk am outside

TheSuperNerd:
The Ekong-Balogun combo have better synergy than the two ivorians mentioned. That is a fact.

If we wanna go individual. Akpoguma is just as good or could even be better than either Bailly or Boly in the here and now.

But you see, what the need having a good CB when he doesn't have a sound partner? We have a partnership that works and that is all that matters.

Only in your world would any of our center backs be chosen ahead of either Boly or Baily. No go talk this thing outside oo make people no beat you scatter oo.

TheSuperNerd:
Bailly is a choir boy now. Not the force he used to be. Boly?? Where was he today? Not even in the matchday squad. Using the fact they ball in the EPL is not enough. Bailly isn't even a starter anymore.

Osimhen will tear them apart. No caps.


As for Senegal, the fact that synergy and that understanding is yet to be established between Diallo and Koulibaly is the one reason why Osimhen or even a Moffi will tear through them with the help of our creative wingers and AM.

Believe me, the Synergy between Ekong and Balogun is greater and far more durable than the Diallo-Koulibaly you mention. Ekong and Balogun have been together and played together for longer than this new shiny duo still trying to understand each other's left and right.

Meanwhile Nigeria kept 3 clean sheets in the qualifiers unlike CIV that conceeded in four games having just two clean sheets against Niger. So CIV is likelier to concede every game compared to My Super Eagles.

The end.

You dey funny

charlesemeka85:
same here man, I don't rate any of them one bit. I can settle with only balogun based on current form and can't wait for torunarigha to be cleared as rumored

Ajayi, ekong, omeruo and awaziem re just below average CBs.

I even prefer awaziem as a rb than in the cb position

Omeruo we have waited forever for him to improve but no signs of that happening

Ekong is mistake prone same as ajayi

My instincts tells me that Akpoguma may be better than ekong and ajayi if paired with balogun at the hrt of defence but as a rb which is not his natural position bobo na calamity

The Sheffield Wednesday lad is a good option as well but I am yet to watch the juve starlet play so I don't know how good he is

If these are the guys we going to the world cup with, once again, then, expect nothing different from what we got the last time. Ekong, Omerou, Awziem and Ajayi should be warming the bench at best

TheSuperNerd:
Awo's potentials definitely surpasses Ujah's by far. You forget this Awoniyi gave the Bayern Defence hell and also made mince meat of the Dortmund defence all in this current season. Awo is definitely among our long list of quality options in the CF role.

Never mention Ujah and Awoniyi in same sentence again like this one.

I don't rate him

forgiveness:
Begging for attention!? Lmao. Ekpe!

I just Dey deflate your ego and I can see you are reacting.

Wow! But your name wasn't mentioned, or do you consider yourself a mumu?

TheSuperNerd:
The centre backs we have go still cage your in-laws' Haller

Same defense wey dey chop goals left, right and centre? Have you seen Haller's stats since joining Ajax?

Can you penetrate any of these CB partnership;

CIV - Willy Boly and Eric Baily


Senegel - Abdou Diallo and Kalidou Koulibaly



By the way, did you know the worst defense of the AFCON Qualifiers was Nigeria's, both for the qualified teams, and the teams that couldn't make it? No defense shipped in more goals than Nigeria's

Don't know how this is gonna come across, but I don't rate any of our centre backs. They all have huge deficiencies, albeit Balogun is slightly ahead of them all. I always wish we had Tomori to partner a player like Torunarigha, but right now I'm looking at Paul Chigozie Iweru of Juventus and Osazemwinde Uroghide of Sheffield Wednesday as possible CB options

TheSuperNerd:
Lol... You are not nice Charles. Lol... Onuachu is still a young man at 26 and having the best season of any African forward in very recent times. He could end up in a top 5 league club also.

SADIQ is 24 and a real baller tearing up La Liga Smartbank and is also heading to Sevilla all things considered.

And Simy... Well, 28 or so and doing it in the Serie A.
No way he won't be making a move to a serie A side or any top 5 league side too. These "Iroko trees" are all worth the attention.

Daryl is good but he is doing it in the Championship. Being linked with the Big 6 clubs in England is good but you know how "links" stories can go. It can be realised or not.
Also, we have a Moffi who is just as young and already doing it in Ligue 1, a top 5 league.
Awoniyi was also on fire in Germany (Bundesliga) before his injury.
We have an Ike Ugbo also doing it very good in Belgium.

So you see... It's not just the Iroko trees we have.

We can try to talk to the lad (Dike) but if his mind is made up already about his chances with the US (who lack truly top CF options compared to us) then there's nothing we can do and it won't be a big deal because we are well covered in that position. The Super Eagles No.9 position is brimming with quality and we boast strikers better and with much higher ceiling than Dike even now.

The end.

I don't count Awoniyi as our options, to me, he is just another Anthony Ujah

andrewbaba44:
You have a point

Once they play their competitive game I will join their fan boys

You get sense pass this mumu wey dey quote me left, right and centre dey beg for attention

charlesemeka85:
god bless you, a big striker who can bully CBs any day any time no be this irokos wey we dey produce of late wey no even get off the ball movement let alone balance

When i see real talent I know and I bet you this guy will explode in the epl if he makes the leap next summer. Imagine his stats after just joining Jan abi feb

The only striker that has such built that we can boast of is Moffi. I rate Sadiq because he has the Kanu flavor in his game not just only goal scoring while osimhen is a born hustler of the ball who fears no defender and has pace to burn

If only you knew how much I love Mitchel Antonio and Daniel Amokachi. I like bulldozers as strikers, that was why I loved Emenike and Bright Dike. I liked Anichebe too but him and Ighalo be like dem cut dem from same cloth, so I withdrew my "like"

Danielnino00:
Emeka was swearing here and there that Eze would play for us

I have never talked about Olise on this thread because I'm not really into him..until he plays for us..
I don't buy into this idea of praising FBs to the high heavens like they carry some special super powers..

Bros an Eze behind a crazy striker like Osimhen will definitely see Eagles sodomize many teams at the world stage.

charlesemeka85:
Nwakali has all it takes to get back to reckoning soon. I just pray and hope he continues with his current form.

So day dun break for your eyes finally

andrewbaba44:
But I am sure you will see ebere EZE as a great loss

Our team needs an Eze, I still hope he comes. Our team needs an Olise, I pray he comes too, but I can't ass lick them because I believe we can produce them here if we do the right things. Our team is not in dire need of a Saka, he was not gonna bring nothing different.

forgiveness:
Your don’t know anything about football. All your target is self glorification. That’s why you always misyan.

Have you forgotten so soon how you mocked Simon Moses? Can you tell me who is doing better between him and Kalu?

Honestly, keep to nollywood movies.

Pull out their respective stats for the ongoing season oponu

charlesemeka85:
saka is good buh to be honest bro I myself dont rate him nor see him as a great lost to the English

Saka is just good at the basics of football nothing more

You get time

charlesemeka85:
i wanted to make a case for him few weeks ago buh for the fear of been tagged an asslicker I just respected myself

The boy is even currently linked to man untd, Everton and cska Moscow and his stats is one that shouldn't be ignored

It won't hurt if the nff reaches out to him before he gets cap tied by the US

Omo that guy is bomb, and he still has age on his side. He is my kind of a point man, he is well built like his older brothers Emmanuel Emenike(cousin) and Bright Dike, and he is just as strong as the two.

TheSuperNerd:
Sometimes, making a step-down with a view to stepping up do work out.
We see it with SADIQ UMAR and now we are seeing it with Ekong at Watford. That's football. Some things aren't scripted.

Would be really a sweet end to the season to see Our National team's Vice Captain gaining promotion to the EPL.

Don't mind Chriskels. I go wait for am for Afcon. Na we go break him Ivorian relatives' heart if dem dare cross our path.
As for Senegal, o boy, those ones dey highly strong with great depth. Country of Chris' concubines dem. Would surely be one of the favs for the title but time will tell.

Danielnino00:
The move was similar to Etebo to Stoke city,hence the doubts..

We thank God that it's eventually paying off..

When the AFCON starts, we might probably present the best star studded squad after Senegal and Morocco... Chriskels ivorian in-laws got nothing on us

Bookmarked for future references

TheSuperNerd:
Chris, the U.S. can have him. With two caps for then already in friendlies, it's only a matter of time before he is capped competitively.
Also, with the crazy depth we have got in the CF position, where even the likes of Simy isn't yet sure of another look-in despite his wicked form, I think we will be missing nothing With Dike.
He is a good young player but we have so much depth and even better quality in some of the CF options we boast.

Yea, good luck to him

Kog45:
Chriskels baba with his third eye.I remember your thought about Saka.

Walahi you would have been a very tough coach but as you said hope he proves you wrong.

Never ridiculed Saka, I always acknowledged his great talent, and I loved him for his sincerity, but ain't hurt over him playing for England because I never saw and I don't see what he wouldda brought to our team but dept. Yes, I don't miss him

JohnBullMySon:
I thought he's already played for the USMNT

Friendlies not competitive matches