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We're still clicking into gear. I believe once one or two things are sorted in training we will be purring like a finely tuned engine.

Remember we scored 6 goals in our first 2 games so the attack can definitely be deadly.

Roland17:
Our chance conversion is beginning to really bother me. We are creating good scoring opportunities but our forward players are fluffing the lines.

Easily should have been up by 3 before the end of the first half but we couldn’t convert. Saka needs to better, he could have had a brace today.

We seriously need to focus on this aspect. This was same over the weekend, we failed to convert easy chances.

Me sef think say I miss the memo.

AndSunGorilla:
Is there a novelty game to honor any of our retired players coming up?

@Supernerd, Lovewins, and PDPGuy Kanyin came third at the Diamond League Final in a time of 9.97s.

Still room for growth but I'm really bullish on Ajayi's progress. He's now a consistent sub-10sec runner the first Nigeria has had for a while. With a bit more refinement and focus I'm optimistic he can do 9.7secs or thereabout. I'm looking forward to big things from him and Ogazi next year plus Olympics in 2028.

Bassey could but you're right Alex's consistency is mind blowing.

The funniest thing about it is that Iwobi doesn't look like some gym rat who's into fitness and healthy eating yet he stays injury free and always available.

TheSuperNerd:
It would take a really really really long long long time to see another Nigerian player replicate this. Infact, it may never happen again. This is insane.

Yeah I would have wanted a few extra bodies in attack before the window closed but let's not panic.

We still look solid and attack can only get better.

I trust we can get by till January. I believe in Arterta and the least he deserves from us fans/supporters is to back him.

iamoyindamola:
I hope this madness wont ruin years of hard work

Fantastic move! Upper midtable club that will definitely provide a great platform to excel.

If I'm to describe this transfer window for Nigerian players it's one for foundational laying. No marquee big club move but solid nonetheless.

Papi85:
🚨 EXCL: Brighton & Hove Albion reach agreement with Millwall to sign Femi Azeez. Deal for 25yo #Millwall winger initial £12.5m (package just over £15m) & Nigeria int’l given permission to do medical ahead of joining #BHAFC  on 4+1yr contract @TheAthleticFC

@DavidOrnstein

Zadok and Benjamin not in the squads to face Chelsea and Leeds respectively. Their time will come.

Bassey and Iwobi start as usual.

Hitman Hearns vs Marvelous Hagler one of the most exciting and brutal rounds of boxing I ever watched.

Upon all the nuclear bombs Hearns landed on Hagler's gorodom once the battery ran out. Marvin just efficiently took him out.

A40:
I can't get over how young he is. His corner let him down astronomically.

Fighting niggas with a chin you don't go head hunting. His corner should have drummed that in his head. Hrgovic is a speedbag that you use to spar. If the KO opening comes you take it. If not. You just box. If you're lucky you open a cut, you damage him enough that he's unable to continue. This should have been drilled in his head from start to finish.

This belief that you can just KO everyone is just not smart. That's like an MMA fighter entering trying to knockout Yoel Romero. Goodluck

There's guys that were unfortunately given fine China chin (Bruno, Hearns, Overeem, AJ, Khan) and certain guys were blessed with granite chin (Vitali, GGG, Hagler, Canelo, Ivanov, Romero)

Fight IQ should always tell you who you're facing and how to approach it

Happy Birthday Chief! Wish you more years of joy, fulfillment, and great health.

larride:
+1 today.

I am grateful to God for the gift of life.

Straw that broke the camel's back.

Amedino99:
Funny how the country as a whole decided that the super falcons not qualifying to the world cup was too much to take that we ensured that heads had to roll to atone for this trasvesty. Even the super eagles missing 2 straight world cups did not generate this much motion.

Heard Kunle Soname is being pitched to head the interim committee.

Sugarboyy:
For now I don't know if that's the plan. All my post concerning this NFF and the board been sacked has come to pass because I'm getting my information directly from someone that works with the president...an SSA.
If there is any news concerning who would head the harmonisation committee, I will still post it here. But, Fashola name was mentioned at a time to help salvage and bring good governance to the NFF, I don't know if he agreed to it because it would be a downgrade for him.

Heard NFF have signed with ADIDAS.

Well last time we won AFCON its their kits we wore so let's see how it goes.

Good step in the right direction if true.

It's not Uhuru yet.

The most important step will be the most crucial. If the statues are not updated, we will still be moving around in circles.

lovewins:
Breaking News from Colin Udoh:

NFF President Ibrahim Gasau and other board members Resign.

Will be monumental if confirmed true.

Femi Azeez named in the PFA Championship Team of the Season 2025/2026

https://x.com/PFA/status/2092322629835215095?s=20

Yeah like you I'm not sure he's worth all the wahala plus his numbers are not great for someone who is supposed to be close to being world class.

I trust Berta and Arteta to sort it out.

iamoyindamola:
I hope this obsession with alvarez won't back fire, the guy clearly want barca

Zadok on the bench. Must have really impressed his coaches.

All the best to him if he comes on today.

I get your frustration with Ian Wright however I think he's just saying for players who have served us diligently over the years let them have clarity of their place in the squad so they can adequately plan for the next phase of their career instead of being frozen out like black sheep.

That said I also find Ian's pandering and forming objective to be annoying. As if Carragher, Scholes, or John Terry would do the same with their clubs.

iamoyindamola:
Is something wrong with Ian wright with the rubbish he's spewing out, be like the club have given him too much respect for him to be misbehaving.
All these emotional outbursts on a player that doesn't want to improve, and cost us a lot of games
In the ucl final there's a ball he would have put mumuduke through on goal he foolishly missed the pass same thing the season we bottled the league when he couldn't pass to saka against lfc.
He should be warned severely if something like this happen he will be exile from arsenal committee, not like martinelli is playing for us for free he just refuse to improve himself. How can someone see tzolis and see be talking about martinelli
Nonsense and ingredients

I gave up on him after this. So did Arteta I'm sure. https://t.co/ZollXsg80V pic.twitter.com/OJPOnchBB7

— Kelvin Omukungu (@KOmukungu) August 22, 2026

Spurs...You can change the man but not the idea.

Sir Kazeem says hi.

Subzero047:
He's not even top 3 currently na recency bias dey worry una

Doc from today I agree with forgiveness Ajayi is the best Nigerian defender currently

Charles aka Papi85 how far na greet I dey greet o.

TheSuperNerd:
Papi85.... why you dey hide face? 😂😂

Come and celebrate one of our Super Eagles naa

Seriki dey sweet u to talk but Ajayi for EPL no dey sweet u abi

@mostob Semi Ajayi is using Man U to create highlight

Biko Charles na true?

Yet carry along couldn't win a senior national tournament for Nigeria. Shame no catch you that he's dragging underage competition glory with the likes of Rabiu Ibrahim, Nduka Ugbade, Musa Mohammed, and Co.

APOTY that couldn't score a single goal in 9 senior tournaments even though he's a forward.

Carry along attaching to other people's hard work throughout his career.

raumdeuter:
That dribble Oliver Kahn which is the highlight of Okochas career wetin he win

When they check Okochas trophy haul especially the ones he contributed to meaningfully na desert

If na by awards sef Kanu pass am 2 times APOTY. 6th Balon dor

Sometimes I wonder as he dey sit down for bench him no dey watch as him fellow wingers dey play?

Decision making almost always zero.

iamoyindamola:
Mumuduke for a reason

Don't mind them dey will soon invent another agenda.

BlueRayDick:
We've scored 6 goals in two games ( Community shield and EPL first game) and none of those goals was from corner kicks.

Suddenly nobody dey talk about us being Corner FC anymore. If next week we score just one corner goal, rivals go begin wail.🤩

Good domineering win last night.

Tzolis was fantastic unlucky not to get a goal or assist.

Odegaard nearly back to his full form. Saka also looking sharp. Good work out for Rice though I was surprised he started. Hope Arteta seriously manages his minutes well and eases him gently into the seasen.

MLS really staking a claim for the starting XI great to see.

Happy with the Konsa signing cos Big Gab is looking slightly jaded.

Overall excited with what the season has to offer.

Unto the next one.

COYG!

Awoniyi was decent the few minutes he was on. Ran the channels and had decent hold up play.

If he stays injury free by God's grace I see him realistically getting double digit goals this season.

yinkeys:
Who watched Coventry yesterday ?
How was Awoniyi’s play time ?
Hope he did okay
20 mins obviously not enough & I’m sure Arsenal had the ball most of the time

Hattrick wey no win any thing tangible? Talk another thing Amala whisperer.

Sorry there's nothing special in winning an underage tournament which you yourself are documented not to rate.

raumdeuter:
You sef talk am score hat trick. That happened on the field not all those voted by, named, gave him etc

Them no dey give hat trick nor give Olympic gold medal, you win it

Polling booth? Yet you hype carry along who won African player of the year for winning under age tournament and scoring hattrick against Chelsea.

raumdeuter:
what did he win on the fiel, everything na polling booth

Bench warmer was named into the team of the tournament. Mr. Carry along never win MOTM for a senior tournament match heck he hasn't even scored a goal. 20 years after Okocha retired FIFA still gave him a honorary MOTM award that's lasting impact.

Thank God Okocha scored in the quarterfinals of the same Olympics you use to hype carry along.

raumdeuter:
Oliseh as DM in Tunisia 94 started all our games and delivered like 5 assists from DM unlike Okocha who was a bench warmer

Nigerias biggest win in football was delivered with Oliseh anchoring midfield and King Kanu leading the attack while Okocha was busy missing balls and spitting

Oliseh suffered with Okocha he has an AFCON to show for it. Show us the senior national team trophy Mr. Carry along won for Oliseh with his soft life football.

raumdeuter:
Chrisooblog have you seen this? Show this to unlimited22 also. When I was saying this, people will think I dey beef am

Imagine all of you dey suffer for field while one person is there wasting the balls

The question should be the extra debt of 4000 is it going to going into something productive like infrastructure to make your country grow economically enough to earn money in the future that will pay off your debt?

We've blown billions of dollars in fuel subsidy payments from Yar Adua to Buhari nothing to show for it than to keep us in an unproductive economic bubble.

Like I mentioned earlier we have an infrastructure deficit that the money we've even borrowed can't begin to cover.

That's our present reality.

So we need hard truths stop borrowing to balance the books and most likely not witness any infrastructural development due to poor revenue or Borrow massively to modernize infrastructure and probably boost productivity with risk of unsustainable debt and higher corruption.

Alternatively elect a genius who can do both.

izzou:
How will the debt of 4000 be financed?

We stopped Subsidy to free up some debt (I agree with this), and then in 3 years, we plunged ourselves into a debt of almost 3 times that of subsidy.

So a debt of 1000 is crucial to be stopped, but a debt of 4000 isn't?

Atiku has now stated that he would add subsidy back. If you can borrow 4000, is it the 1000 that was the problem?

If Subsidy is brought back how will it be financed? Remember PMB did N30Trn Ways and Means that hasn't been fully paid back. So where will the money from subsidy payment come from? Will Dangote sell at a loss when subsidy is brought back?

As to the bold look at it this way.

Your house bill is N100 out of it you spend N40 to subsidize data purchase so madam and the kids can enjoy free monthly wifi. Meanwhile you earn N70 monthly out of which you use N40 to pay for wifi mentioned earlier.

Now you say everyone should pay for their own data. Now you have restored your full N70 that you earn monthly but you still have N100 as your monthly bill meaning you have to make up the remaining N30 and you don't yet have an alternative revenue so how do you make up the N30? Is it not by borrowing?

What I've described crudely it what is happening on a macro level.

Subsidy removal as painful as it is has freed up some revenue but not enough to cover all the government current expenditures which for now only can be covered through borrowings.

If someone else can find a way to fund all our expenditure without borrowing hey I'm all for it.

izzou:
So Nigeria saved 1000 from Subsidy removal, and went on to borrow 4000 extra?

So was it really the Subsidy that was the headache in the first place?

Also, with what Taiwo Oyedele showed us, is it fair to agree with Atiku that Subsidy should be brought back?