₦airaland Forum

jln115:
Ok and? Not my fault your boy lacks logic and can't see a very very very obvious mistake

And fyi according to the African wealth report Nigeria only has 9900 millionaires.... 3rd in Africa behind SA and Egypt

jln115:
According to your source:

"More than 400,000 new dollar millionaires were created last year as the fortunes of the already-well off ticked over into six-zeros despite the decline in global stock markets. It takes the number of millionaires across the world to 22.6 million."

But Nigeria has 29 million millionaires........more than the entire world combined

Austine1213:
Thank you

Thats reason i always saw rwanda is overrated that is fact

We all have short comings if you not there yet, dont paint your country as if its there

Austine1213:
Lol wow if Rwanda is number one in east africa, then east africa is doomed

Edopesin:
Maybe you skipped where some people were saying Iheanacho is better than Gabby and maybe you've made up your mind that komek.n shouldn't be taken seriously because you don't always agree with him even though some of his assertions are questionable because I believe Awaziem was tremendous in the Afcon and was my best player against SA second to chukwueze only

Besides that though
No striker literally only passes backwards or sideways when marked so I don't know why it's been taken literally in Nacho's case but more often than not he does passes backwards and sideways compared with Gabby

Edopesin:
See people crying tears and blood because they are being corrected

Iheanacho scored 12 league Goals in 46 Games for Man City across two seasons 1346minutes, with his best season still the 15/16 season where he scored 8 goals in 753min

He has also scored 9 league goals in 70 Games for Leicester 2648minutes

Gabby has scored 13 league Goals in 33 Games for Man City this season 1936minutes

If saying Gabby is better than Nacho is what you guys are tagging a "denigrate of naija home grown players" then you lot are lost

We dey watch ball and iheanacho is no way better than Gabby

People here support any Nigerian player regardless of where they are born but you lot are blinded by prejudice that any criticism of a SE player is automatically hate and asides the frequent attention seeking/straight up hate to Ighalo that one particular moniker frequents, you cannot say anyone hates a player

ChrisKels:
Still early days bro. We have been here before.

Philosopher1979:
Aribo is a very good playee BUT he needs to move away from scotland. He can easily make the english league or the very least French league. His perfomance against Brazil was memorable

ChrisKels:
He ain't no hit yet, he has only had two good games, it is still early days. I wouldn't want to make same mistake I made with Brian Idowu. He has moved to lowly rated Scottish league and hasn't lit it up to convince us that he is truly a quality player, more so, no team from an elite league seems to be looking his.

TheSuperNerd:
@bolded... That's not true. Someone, a stats analyst (non-Nigerian), has but it's not on this thread. Didn't share it here because of time and engagements. Truthfully I cannot share everything I see elsewhere here. I don't have the time for that.
But it was quite an analysis using different stats metrics. I went through it and it shows Osimhen is indeed joining a team not far off from the style he is used to.

It showed from a statistical sample of 674 teams that Lille is in the top 10% of teams similar to Napoli in terms of playing style. So Victor should have no problem settling into his new side since he thrived beautifully at Lille.

The only challenge here is the gap in league quality. Ligue 1 is not so similar to Serie A as Serie A is on a higher plane but that is why this is a step-up and a challenge for the lad. He stepped up from Belgium to France and he flourished so easily in France. Now he is making another step-up and joining a side that suits him perfectly. So time will reveal how the story goes.

I personally expect it to be good... And even better along the line.

komekn:
You are clearly biased and or you lack football understanding.

As a right back you consider the positive not the negative and you position yourself accordingly for that positive option in your positioning.

This was a long ball coming from the just outside the 18 of the Cameroon side, you are talking about a 60 yard long ball. You can see it coming you are a CB it's what we call, " bread and butter" defending very very basic.

This was Omeruo ball it's routine defending for a CB. That means the RB should be moving forward to receive the anticipated header from Omeruo. But he failed woefully, got bullied and Aina had to backtrack to cover the mistake and was wrong side of the attacker.

The first goal was also a defensive mistake by Omeruo wrong positioning and failed to clear and he was not even wrinwg sided.

Aina was never at fault.

After that fail, he would have realised that his CB us not good enough and us getting bullied all.rje time. From that point onwards he took up a negative position anticipating his CB is likely to mess up.

This is basic football formation it's not complicated unless you have a weak link.

komekn:
Playing out of position and doing a half baked job is not an excuse. He has no pace and he is not a RB makeshift or not he should not be playing in thar position, because he is not good enough.

I remember it very clearly Omeruo missed a routine clearance header from a long ball got bullied and then Aina tried to cover up for him in the Cameroon game.

PS. in all this your awaziem slander you didn't notice from your clip that he contributed to the equalizer but he was a liability honestly smh


Indeed in that game both goals came from poor defensive errors by Omeruo.

Video no deh lie see YouTube clip below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StpWi-U_lCM

komekn:
I repeat l do not dislike players.

Maybt. I am being too measured in a professional sense. So l look at the players attributes in relation to the club that wants him and their requirements.

Using that assessment framework, l found Awaziem too slow to play RB, but very intelligent to play within his limitations. Nonetheless, he was the weakest link in the last AFCON he was turned inside out as a right back. His lack of pace pulling the CB's put of position to compensate for him.

On the other hand Aina was the best defender despite playing less games the AFCON statistics proved that so it is not just opinion based.

TheSuperNerd:
Lol... That's Charlesemeka85. The number 1 hater of anything "-Spor", "-hir", Azubuike and Nwakali.

***Dodges his slippers and stones***

andrewbaba44:
Not good players can still come out of there but they do

If you want me to list good players that come out of the Turkish league I can do that

??

komekn:
Congratulations for where they are and where they have come from.

But this Turkish league is very low quality when we talk about quality leagues. And it cannot be a benchmark for attainment and or even consideration for the SE. It's rated below the top 10 in Europe.

It's a retirement league for players no longer able to meet the standards of better quality and more competitive leagues.

They need to do a lot more.

TheSuperNerd:
Okay now uhmmm... I knew I would make time to return to this so let me just drop this quickly.


✔European and International football:

Internationally, my Overachievers list will have Greece. Greece have won the Euros. Stronger football nations like England and Belgium haven't won it yet. I think they are the biggest overachiever in European football.

Another overachiever internationally is Korea Republic. They have reached the World Cup Semifinals and finished 4th in 2002. Something not even the finest African teams in history have achieved. The likes of Nigeria's Golden Generation of 1994 couldn't... Cameroun's Golden Generations of the 80s and 2000s couldn't. Korea is another overachiever.

I don't rate Germany as an Overachiever. They have always boasted real talents down the years and matched that with success on the European and International fronts. Germany is truly among the world class Football nations of all time.





Now for Underachiever, we have Holland without question. So good they have been across different generations of talents but are yet to stamp their authority internationally at a World Cup. Three WC final losses in 1974, 1978 and 2010 have seen them really suffer the chance of being regarded among the truly Elite Nations of Football.

Even at France 98, they were so good but still fell short in the Semis against Brazil. One of the French players from '98 once said something like, "If Holland had made it to the final against us, I'm not so sure we would have won it. We preferred Brazil". That's just how good the Netherlands were as they have always been but they just never hit that jackpot. Yes, they did win the Euros in 1988 but that is still so little for a nation so mightily blessed with some or several of the finest ballers of every generation.


Another football nation worthy of the Underachievers tag is uhmmm.... **Still thinking** (Forgive me, Spain has since left the Underachievers WhatsApp group chat .. so to find replacement come hard).
But I would say England on the European front only. Internationally, well... They have the World cup and did well in the last edition too.






✔African football

Coming to the African football scenes, yes, Senegal is Africa's no.1 underachiever. It's very obvious why. No need to say much as some of you have already done so.

Now, I don't know if Morocco should be counted as one because they conquered the continent in 1976. In 2004, they came close again but fell to Tunisia. Perhaps it is their current results not matching the quality of their present Generation of super talents (Hakimi, Ziyech, Mazraoui, etc) that will tempt us into adding them to the underachievers list.

Another Underachiever on the African continent for me again is Mali. Blessed with superb talents almost every nations cup year. Produced Salif Keita back in the late 60s and the 70s. Salif Keita was the first African Player of the year award winner. That guy ruled France and even made the Euros XI that faced the South American XI back in 1973. He scored in that game that ended 4-4 and played alongside Johann Cruyff and Eusebio in that encounter. He could only lead Mali to 2nd place at the 1972 Afcon.

Mali after the great Keita, had others like another Keita called Seydou Keita, then Mohammadu Diarra who played for Real Madrid at one time. They also produced Frederic Kanoute, the Sevilla legend.

Mali always have ballers! Even right now they have some very exciting players like Haidara at RB Leipzig, Sammasekou at Hoffenheim and so on... Yet they haven't made a mark continentally at senior level. We saw their beautiful football at the last Afcon in the group stages. Scoring world class goals and bossing teams... But they got the Round of 16 and became Chickens.

They are Big underachievers in the African continent for me. Second only to Senegal.



For Overachievers, I would mention Tunisia. They aren't always the most talented side or "side with the biggest or known names" at the Afcon but they are always normally tactically disciplined almost to a fault. Tunisia have had the likes of Radhi Jaidi, Francileudo Dos Santos and co but to be honest, they are not exactly big names but they are a solid unit.
Never among the teams you call the outright favorites and not always among the teams you mention as having the "Main Stars to Watch" but they have achieved Afcon success in 2004 and even finished FOURTH at the last Afcon. Also, how they have made it to the World Cup more times than Egypt is baffling. Egypt have always had the better footballers but Tunisia just seems more team driven and tactically disciplined enough to get the job done.


Cameroun as an Overachiever won't count for me in Africa. If I list Cameroun's big names of the 80s and 2000s, una fit run. Tunisia sef no fit stand alongside Cameroun for notable names in African football.

I could say more but this will do. My submission. Gracias.

TheSuperNerd:
So Unai Emery will be Chukwueze's coach as from next season?? Interesting.

I am seeing news of Unai Emery joining Villarreal.

andrewbaba44:
Zubby

Samueltemi337:
Victor Osimhen reports today:

Osimhen deal agreed, medical visits soon. (@DiMarzio)


Victor Osimhen has decided where he will go (Napoli). (Marc Ingla - Lille)

Osimhen’s new agent wants to talk with Liverpool and Man Utd first. (@AlfredoPedulla)

Take your pick

Shma:
don't be ignorant my brother
What do you mean by controlling??
Even in real estate sector we're ranked second after S. A in SSA where is naija.??
Entertainment?? How.
Bro. You mean nigeria controlling kenya.? come on dude.

Danielnino00:
The Kenyan Premier league will soon be known as "Betking premier league"

Nigeria betting firm, Betking have signed a sponsorship deal for the league

jihday:
I agree with your list but Italy too should get a shout out for over achievers, squad always not so great, struggle with qualifiers but somehow always turn up for the big event. Tunisia is another underachiever in Africa, great league,organized football, regularly blaze through qualifiers almost always qualify for WC but hardly impress during Afcon or the WC tournament itself, only Afcon title was on home soil where they could have easily lost to us in the semis

andrewbaba44:
I agree with holland ,but I will go with the Argentine as the under achievers ,I don’t know who to pick for the over achievers

And yes Senegal is the biggest under achievers in Africa while the over achievers goes to Cameroon

Agreed about your mention of Morocco

tbaba1234:
I am doing good. Thanks supernerd

jln115:
@AmenhotepZuid

Danielnino00:
The second person to congratulate Man City only mentioned TheGoodJoe..
Them no recognise you..
No Dy force am..
You this Guardiola fanboy.

Samorobo2:
Abuja roads...

Top quality