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bros arsenal, chelsea, man u, liverpool, tottenham, man city have always had good representation of english players that they can't win anything is a mystery only they can explain

komekn:
Firstly the premiership is totally unique amongst all football leagues in the world. In Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy all these leagues are overwhelmingly dominated by thier own national players.

It doesn't reflect the quality of the national team because only few of thier English players are able to get into these teams. The top teams in the EPL are truly international with players from everywhere.

However, the English FA is addressing this problem I was at a premiership academy and the former assistance manager of Brazilian team Sao Paulo is in charge of the first tier youth team training. The emphasis is on skill and the difference is clear.

Some of those changes have seen the hitherto unprecedented England winning the two U17 and U20 world cups. That says things are changing can I also add there us now an over representation of African origin players as opposed to Oyibo.

forgiveness you said two things are involved you can't for the purposes of argument exclude one to the detriment of the other.

you typed these words using your own fingers not mine

1. playing in the top 10 best leagues in the world
2. playing for the best clubs either in the top 10 or outside

so based on the bolded does ajagun play for the best club in belgium? simple yes or no

forgiveness:



He plays in the top ten best league in the world which is ×10 better than where chidiebere Nwakali is presently playing. Sorry.

He passed the two tests wella.

abi the man that jumps higher than a gazelle

Joebie:
It doesn't matter where Ajagun goes, as long as he plays
We are talking Ajagun!

the truth is until recent nigeria never really sort out players from england. we have always gotten players from various sources age grade teams, npfl, various european leagues etc it's just of recent we have had good head way mining talents from queensland. like i said before yes i find nwakali's call up questionable but i've seen so many nigerian players of old come from so called inferior leagues who gave good years of service to the national team to dismiss the young man based on where he currently plays his football

komekn:
Firstly Rohr can not do everything he will have to rely on some people and recieve and accept reports from them.

If those members of the scouting team are from the NFF then we'll you know what's happening.

Then you ask what was the nature content and process management and delivery that led them to think he is good enough.

For most Francophone countries in Africa the first port of call is the French league. It's simple that's where the largest overwhelming number of thier players are.

Where is the largest pool of overwhelming number of Nigerian origin players outside of Nigeria

Add to that the level of available quality. Then what on earth are you scouting for players in Norway for.

There is no EPL academy without a considerable number of Nigerian players. From the EPL to league one there are way too many Nigerian players who are not on the radar of the English FA.

forgiveness:
two things involved.

1. playing in the top 10 best leagues in the world
2. playing for the best clubs either in the top 10 or outside

This is where you scout for players and not in d bottom of a league. I mean not in where Nwakali whose club his carry all the clubs for head in the league table.

does ajagun play for the best club in belgium?

komekn:
Firstly, I talk about what I know abou and incidentally I am very heavily involved in and have indepth experiential knowledge of.

The EPL is the most physically demanding fastest and intensely competitive league in the World.

IT IS NOT THE BEST TECHNICALLY. I have never ever said that.

However, it is largely regarded as the best league in the World by many internationally recognised authoritative and indepenfent bodies. Are the very worst it's rated no. 2 or 3.

That being the case and not in dispute what's wring with using it as a benchmark for quality. Our best ever players predominantly played or seeked to play in the EPL. For instance, Amokachi, JJay, Kanu, Kanu, Yakubu, and more recently Mikel, V.Moses, Iwobi, Ighalo and KC. The SE would essentially flop to complete obscurity without its EPL players.

Tell me a top 5 FIFA ranked national team in the world today that doesn't have at least 3 players out of the EPL in most cases it's about 5.

Standards will not change because of Nigeria. If our players are not stopping off in La Liga, Bundesliga, French League 1, Seria A and other 10 leagues in Europe but choose to go the backwaterd of Europe in a league ranked near 30.

It's not racism or restricted work permit rules. It's simply means they are not good enough. Mikel was in Lynn prior to making a decision which way to go. Meanwhile his agent J. Shittu was playing Maradona with all the premiership clubs who wanted to sign him. Do you know how many millions of £££ not naira that Shittu made out of that deal after Man U. was realed in deceptively and then reprimanded by FIFA

Mikel was given World wide FIFA recognition work permit was never the issue he was exceptional talent at that time on the same level as Messi. So don't misrepresent the dynamics of the situation to present an argument that's not tenable.

Dude wake up the smell the hot pepper soup. In this game the club you play for matters. It is your unique selling point and branding.

With regards to City and other top EPL clubs buying 20 youth players for under £400k is just chicken change. They can buy you this year and drop you for nothing next season. Or they can hold on give you a couple of games in the youth team or pre-season tour. Now you have the club branding and sell you to some lower moogoi club for a few million. It's business they have made profit even when they had no intention whatsoever of ever playing you. This is the business of football. Consider the profit they made on KC and the peanuts they paid for him.

All that rhetoric his agent is using to garnish the product he knows the people who will buy that fairy tale, those on the outside. Also that's where his limited network reach hence the need to go to Norway.

If and If X If +IF Nwakali wad born in the UK, played local football if got scouted, if he passed a trial then if his performances warranted a youth scholarship,then if he wasn't dropped for a foreign player bought with big money or displaced by a better player in his club. And then if he wasn't injured and didn't face any racism or favouritism then he might just have made it IF he was born in England.

So if you like go sign with am that's where you go remain or progress to Turkey at best.

[b]
Best players play in the top teams and the top teams are in the best leagues. Finito

[/b] nobody has argued otherwise all some people have argued is that there is no guarantee that with top players from top leagues you will beat a ''lesser opposition'' if not england should have crushed iceland, while uruguay, italy and england would have wiped the floor with costa rica in 2014

i'm satisfied with the squad chosen for the algeria and argentina games. only sticky point for me is ahmed musa's continued inclusion despite his inactivity. kayode should have been called up IMO. C.Nwakali's invitation? like komekn and forgiveness i find it somehow where i differ from them is that i don't think there is any conspiracy or egunje factor at work. i'm willing to give rohr the benefit of doubt that he has seen something in chidiebere that he feels could be an asset to the team

these are not top clubs like that

Mickael2:
they had players from Club Brugge(top club), Copenhagen(top club), Mainz 05(top club), Olympiakos(top club, Greek champions too), PSV Eidhoven(top club), Rosenborg(champions of their league, Austria I think), add Keylor Navas and you factually have a starting eleven of players from quality leagues.

it's not unheard of for people to recommend players to the national team coach. sunday oliseh was recommended to westerhof in 1993 before our AFCON qualifier against ethiopia and as they say the rest is history but you are right that unfortunately in this part of the world people usually abuse the process to foist mediocre on the super eagles. with coach rohr i have not seen such shenanigans (even though i know you will not agree )

forgiveness:
Do you mean even if the sweet player is a none league player, he can wear national team number 10 jersey?

I think this analogy is only applicable in age grade competitions and to be precise, it should be strictly U17 below.

It is unacceptably at the Senior level otherwise corruption continues. People will continue to bring their brothers, nephews, relations, clients, villagers, tribesmen etc into the national team. This is called nepotism and it's also a form of corruption.

wow he's really good comfortable with both feet. long i've seen a nigerian footballer effective with both legs. will definitely play in the epl next season whether for chelsea or not. only little criticism i have of him is that his physique looks like someone who would put on too many pounds if he doesn't stay disciplined with his weight. other than that boy has natural talent

tbaba1234:
Ola Aina highlights for Hull this season


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToJxi_bmm90

expect headline like ''why ajiboye was dropped'' really poor journalism

Mujtahida:
As per our impressions about them here I hesitated to post the news but I couldn't help since we've all been waiting for the list. And I had to put that note of caution.

This gaffe on their part further confirms how horrendously poor those guys are and confirms our position to either blacklist them or exercise serious discretion and caution when posting their news. Owngoalnigeria.com, verdict : zero credibility. You have been weighed in the balances and found wanting.

actually if we include the pre-world cup group qualifiers we scored a total of 13 goals so simon moses's tally will be up to 2 while ambrose has a goal too to his name. really happy to hear uzoho has gotten a call up (waiting for confirmation) if joel obi gets invited i'll be so ecstatic.

Kog45:
Do not vex.We view football differently and sometimes u must accept that or else u w continue having headache on nothing.

I remember i made an analysis here that how many goals do we want from our striker at WC coz sometimes highest goal scorer at WC normally score 5 ,6 , 7 goals meaning we should be expecting like 3 ,4 goals from our striker if we reaches 2nd round or quarter final.

Thank God Jobie posted Nigeria all time goal scorers at WC and i realized highest scorers(2 goals)like Daniel Amokachie,Emma Amuneke, Uche Kalu,Ahmed Musa were not our top striker.

Then why are we calling for d head of this present team strikers to d extent we are calling for d spent force to come and rescue us when we are not having any problems so far with d team performance index.

I think any of our discussion should be based on fact not just mere saying sake that d team lack potent striker.Our WC qualifications was based on d fact that d team was very potent and I don't think at this era we should be relying on one striker to do it for us.We nearly paid for it at US 94.

The team so far has scored 11 goals in 5 WC qualifying matches which showed 2 goals per match,so what do we expect,3 goals from Victor Moses,2 from Kelechi Iheanacho,Alex Iwobi,Mikel Obi,a goal from Odion Ighalo, and Simeon Moses.

Now let's take our two strikers performance into our analysis, Ighalo and Nacho into consideration.Some who don't really understand d game or are always economical with truth we try and condemn these two lads.

Ighalo had 3 games out of 5 and a goal,in his first match against Cameroon he had a wonderful game and scored a powerful goal,in d second leg he had a better game though he did not score but work for the team tirelessly,through him Simeon was able to score a goal,against Zambia he had average performance due to two chances he missed but still work for d team,with this performance i w still give him the nod to lead d attack.

Iheanacho has been wonderful in eagles colours and his goal ratio is a top notch.In WC campaign so far i w say he has been a good player scoring two goals,one against Zambia in the first leg and one of his best match for eagles,against Algeria he had very average performance.

In Cameroon match he came from d bench and scored a goal which showed he is a reliable striker.In the 2nd leg he couldn't do much,also against Zambia he was on d bench but his total contribution to d team so far was awesome,2 goals in 4 matches mostly from d bench.

Pls my good friend with this simple analysis what do we expect from these players that warrant unnecessary remarks,are the old legs we were clamouring for better,honestly they are not even better than Kayode, Nwakaeme, Onwuachi.

Mind u we have Awoniyi, Osimhen and co knocking d door and some still want to draw us back coz they don't have respect for d team or they just being sentimental.

The old ones are welcome cos they are Nigerians and national team belongs to all players if Rohr want them,no issue but from my own perspectives they have nothing to add to the team.

were rabiu ibrahim, paul onobi and sylvester igbonu not part of the 2017 WC qualifiers?

forgiveness:
Was Martins not part of the 2017 WC qualifiers?

true martins hasn't been really part of our squads to the few tournaments we have attended between 2013 till date. we won AFCON 2013 without him, got to 2nd round of 2014 world cup without him, now we have qualified from arguably nigeria's toughest world cup qualifying group ever with a game to spare also without him so i don't think the heavens will fall if we don't call him back. yekini's own could even be excused since he is our all time leading scorer i can see some sense in why he was recalled

Icon4s:
Yekini was actively part of the 98 WC qualifiers.

When last did Martins play for Nigeria?

Let's call a spade what it is and move on.

i share your sentiments about quality being quality whether you are 50 or 17 years old if you can still perform i'm all for it. that's where i have my doubts about martins can he still bring that quality? from what i watched in his previous recent matches for nigeria against venezuela, kenya and swaziland i'm not so sure if he can still do it for us. however if rohr looks at martins and feels he can offer something hey what's my own as long as the team is improved on i'm all for it. my main concern is anybody we are going to add to the core squad of players should be adding something extra and not making the team weaker whether from a first XI or bench perspective

komekn:
You deviate from the substance of this discourse with a your question, which really is sour grapes.

Are any of these remotely, Ighalo, KC, Kayode anywhere near the tag best striker in the world.

So then why use it with regards to Obagoal. The simple question is are the better than him as it stands.

That's why I said consider the ability and experiential know how of Obagoal and put him in Girona or Leicester what do you think the outcome would be

We really don't know the true quality Of Obagoal until tested. Put any of these players in his Chinese team and would they excel

So to write Obagoal off is grossly unfair and certainly not in the interest of the national team.

reporting for duty boss! ok here goes for 1994 i would say the preparations were excellent. we played some good friendlies in the lead up to the tournament. our squad selection was excellent and in my opinion still the best of the 5 times we have participation. if i'm being hyper critical i think dropping nduka ugbade for emenalo and also taking efan ekoku who in hindsight didn't do much was a small low point. nfa as they were called then largely behaved themselves. i think we could have gone farther than the second round we did in 1994 but a combination of lack of tournament experience, naivety on the part of coaches and players plus little player indiscipline both on and off field led to our ouster

1998 was a shameful show of indiscipline from both the fa and players. fa started it by firing trousseir who brought some discipline and team play and bora milutinovic who barely knew the players and could barely impose himself on the players. squad selection was ok but a lot of sentiments were involved. for instance taking an injured amokachi in place akpoborie who was fit and playing well for stuttgart was a really poor decision. our first XI wasn't too bad but the bench were mostly retired or semi-retired guys who couldn't do much. after our surprising victory over spain in the first game the players became arrogant and conceited which largely led to us being knocked out

2002 again the nfa brought confusion by sacking amodu and co so close to the world cup. squad selection was largely poor because the fa exiled key first team players in a knee jerk reaction to our poor AFCON showing. the replacements were either not good enough or not matured or experienced enough. that said our group was pretty tough sweden, england, argentina and even argentina was knocked out

2010 was just a coming together of every bad decision we had in the past world cups. sacking amodu just before the world cup, player indiscipline and in fighting, nff sports ministry cold war, not the best squad selection, naivety inexperience infact excuse my language but it was just a cluster f**k of everything bad that could have happened happened. that experience should be used as an eternal example of what not to do

2014 nff largely was ok but still that lingering cold war with sports ministry and coach keshi. poor squad selection basically no bench, inexplicably we left our best or better legs behind. i think keshi did his best to squeeze out some good performances from the squad but we were just not good enough. player indiscipline again onfield/off field affected us

going into next years world cup, nff and sports ministry should be on best of terms, squad selection should not be a drastic change from what we currently have but an addition of 4-5 players who will improve the team, as much as possible sentiments should be avoided in players selection. money issues should be sorted out and agreed way before the world cup in russia. players should continue to be united and level headed. we pray for a good draw and luck to see us through

Icon4s:
Goke7 and realpoacher's posts just sparked some thing off my mind.

Can we do an x-ray of reasons for our failures in our last 5 participations?

Best way to solving a problem is actually to get to the root of the problem.

We as fans will not play for the Super Eagles in Russia. We are not part of the coaching crew. But we can make our own contributions by profiling the reasons for our 5 previous failures to go beyond the second round of the world cup.

As I have always said here, do not underestimate the contributions we make here. They go very far.
To be honest , some times, I feel Rohr and his crew get some things from here because we have seen things play out severally after we discuss them here.
Plus I know a couple of officials visit here. Eg Amuneke's U17 media officer and Siasia's late U23 media officer.

Most of us here know the history of Super Eagles participation and performances better than Rohr. So he may just learn a thing or two from us.

I expect opinions and counter opinions. All the same we can keep the discussion or arguments constructive.

To discuss this issue I need enough elders in the house as we may need to go back in time to address issues even from 1990 when Westerhof took over.
The younger generation too can equally contribute as a lot of those old games are available on YouTube.

enomakos, Kog45, forgiveness, tbaba1234, TheGoodJoe, Goldfish80, Michael2, Joseph1013, joebie, komekn, safarigirl, mujtahida, terzurum5, icon79, do4luv14, omanbala1, Chriskel, Chrisoblog, Orkpekyandega, Humility017, elyte89, Dedebanky85, soetanoreoluwa and many others.

It must not be in any order. Discuss any one you followed from 2014 to 1994.

icons is right if we had better options simon would be chopping bench. not that he hasn't tried in the super eagles shirt but he can do better. s. moses is the kind of player that will be forming activity but no end product but i will admit he produces once in a while but not enough in my opinion for someone of his ability

krattoss:
and it seems rohr prefers him likes that...and that also suits the gaffers tactics...cos explain to me how he has played almost every match under the German manger while ur onyekuru looks on from his plastic television screens and iwobi comes from the bench??

If u 're questioning Moses Simons ability and style of play?? Why don't u question vic Moses 's cos I think they have similar style of play...

for the super eagles i would like to see onyekuru given more of a chance to show what he can do. hopefully he will get good minutes against algeria

tbaba1234:
For the Super Eagles, Simon has paid his dues and deserves his position.

At club level, Onyekuru is currently better.

i wouldn't be too quick to say he's a first choice. for me his lack of defensive discipline and his inability to track wouldn't make him an ideal winger for me. yes he does show flashes of brilliance in that role but not on a enough consistent basis but as an AM i think that's where he will eventually belong

Icon4s:
Iwobi and Victor Moses are the first choice wingers.

you are spot on about simon he doesn't always make the right decisions in the attacking third though i wouldn't yet categorize him in the pius ikedia headless chicken runs but he can surely improve.

iwobi on the other hand is a different kind of winger because he is naturally a midfielder he will always gravitate to the middle. playing for nigeria and arsenal how many times have you seen iwobi try to beat his man at the byline and whip in a cross? can't recall sey? i guess like you said that's the way of modern football.

Icon4s:
Reason why Simon is still in the Super Eagles starting 11 is because we don't have so many wingers better than he is at the moment.

If he Doesn't change his style of play he'll end up like the likes of Pius Ikedia and Ahmed Musa.

Simon has a lot to learn in terms of his final passes.
He works so very hard but the product of all those hardwork is just average or less.

You saw how Iwobi changed things upon his introduction against Zambia? That is how a modern winger plays.

You notice Iwobi didn't run much on the wings which gave Shehu acres to make his runs. Iwobi went deep close to the AM position which was where Shehu's cross came to meet him and the rest is history. Ahmed Musa does that too once in a while but Simon is always on the flanks and doesn't really combine well with the number 10 player. His own is to take on defenders one-on and finally play one way-ward cross. You saw how Iwobi combined well with Mikel and even Ighalo. Same thing in the game in Ndola.

Yes Onyekuru is up and coming but as you rightly said I would like to see him develop as a striker.

We are blessed with wingers in this team but we don't have depth in the striking department.

Rohr should draft in Onyekuru among the CF jare.

personally i think it's a mistake compering S. moses to onyekuru. even though they play in similar positions their styles differ. onyekuru is more of a striker cum winger in the mould of CR7, thierry henry, osaze etc guys who can play on the flanks but always have a goal threat in them. such players will end up in the number 9 position. it will be more logical to compare onyekuru to kayode olanrewaju both play on the wings and have an eye for goal

simon on the other hand is a pure winger who just loves to take on and beat his man. the main stat that would be used to judge him is his number of assists but he will be also expected to contribute his fair share of goals. simon's game is most similar to people like hazard, robben, di maria and the likes. it would be more logical to compare simon to vicmo, peter olayinka, samuel kalu or even ahmed musa.

that said based on team honours obviously simon moses is ahead but on individual achievements henry is definitely ahead. more goals, good number of assists, signed by a club in a higher ranked league, better career trajectory etc but like i said before i think they have different roles for us to be putting them side by side. it's like comparing hazard to morata

Humility017:
did you just write Ambrose...?

please spare me that....let uche Agbo or awaziem replace him...

Ambrose is still decent full of experience too. Awaziem has always been the mix but agbo hasn't quite nailed down the fourth center back spot why my call for efe

tbaba1234:
Nov 14

big commendations to the nff for making this happen the Argentinians will definitely test us and expose our weaknesses for us to improve on. If Leon doesn't recover on time kenneth or Ambrose to replace him. Uzoho if he continues to start in goal for derpotivo. Henry to come in too

a bit of unrelated news super falcons player (and my bae ) francesca ordega joins athletico madrid women's team

nigerians do plough back ask any average nigerian who has a relative overseas can attest to. go to most nigerian corporations you find british/ american born or educated nigerians taking up positions. you also find a lot of returnees setting up SMEs. yes the black population in SA may not travel but the caucasians definitely do. you find them in australia, new zealand, uk. to the extent some even represented other countries in sport. crickets kevin peitersen, jonathan trott and strauss readily come to mind. you spoke about countries with high populations being scattered all over the globe ethiopia and sudan these countries also have high populations in western societies have you ever heard their expats dominating the educational and corporate world the way nigerian expats do? yes black SA musicians influenced us same as congolese musicians, west african musicians of various countries to mention. yes nigeria has suffered a lot of brain drain compared to other african countries but we are making progress no matter how slow. no matter how you may wish to deny it the impact of ''onyibo'' in SA society is undeniable

LeSudAfricaine:
It's useless to brag about Nigerians in the diaspora who wouldn't even be bothered to plough back to their native land, what are those in left in Nigeria doing to improve it?FYI there are plenty of black South Africans in the UK but they eventually comeback to settle in SA. South Africans as whole don't travel to other countries that much and yes even your 'beloved' oyinbo, we don't travel much and there's nothing wrong with that, we much rather explore our beautiful country, I myself have been to all SA provinces bar one, although i plan to visit Mozambique and Kenya in the near future.You fail to realise that nations with big populations often have it's people scattered all over the world, you find Indians and the Chinese virtually in all countries, it's not for some supernatural abilities, the Nigerians in the diaspora you allude to obviously make use of the resources the first world affords them, but in the end plough back to the same first world like the US which is tragic. you hardly find kenyans in great numbers overseas too but they are doing in their own country which is important!

You mention the likes of Elon Musk, Charlize Theron and even swimwear models but you forget that these people have had centuries of socio-economic advantages over black South Africans and we have been catch up, don't act like there haven't been black SAns influencing even your life, you probably grew up listening to the likes of Brenda Fassie, Lucky Dube etc Black South Africans brought grammy's in Africa for the first time, the first player to play football in Europe was a black South African Steve Mokone,who doesnt know Miriam Makeba the world over? are there better athletes currently than Wayne Van Niekerk and Caster Semenya? Trevor noah and others? these are black South Africans and you're playing down to fit your 'onyibo is god' agenda. you may say we are 'not pulling trees in our country' but we have become the biggest middle class in a short space of time and that's no small feat!

you sponsor football clubs we own european football clubs
https://guardian.ng/lead-story/nigerian-businessman-kunle-soname-buys-portuguese-club/

TayserMahiri:
Still waiting for that Nigerian company that will go this global like Kenya's very own SportPesa.

SportPesa is sponsoring English Premier League teams left right and center.

Solanke/Osimhen debate is straight forward really. Solanke has had years of exposure to top level football but is yet to show much of that promise. he might still come good but as of now i haven't seen him do anything which i find abit awkward considering that he should be having chances to play based on sadio mane missing alot of liverpool's recent matches and kloop not fancying sturridge that much. so it's logical that the ''hot english prospect'' and u20 mvp should be having playing opportunities but he's chopping bench. if we say we are using past glories of u17 to rate osimhen we shouldn't also use past glories of u20 to over hype solanke. at the moment based on the opportunities and exposure solanke has enjoyed he should be light years ahead of his peers but he's still not doing it. osimhen on the other hand barely 3 years ago was hawking in lagos traffic no professional exposure to football but through hardwork, talent and a bit of good fortune he's now found himself at one of germanys most prestigious clubsides. that wolfsburg is at present battling relegation doesn't mean they are not a solid club. didn't dortmund find themselves in relegation waters in the early part of the season under kloop some years back? so downgrading wolfsburg to slate osimhen as being a poor player is a bit unfair. let's still give him the benefit of doubt and let time judge. rohr has sha not been calling him up if that is what is vexing some of us. i will still give solanke time to prove us his doubters wrong but so far i'm not impressed

yes she has i'm sure her silly team mates who were jumping all over coach sampson recently in a match as a sign of support after they scored a goal will have eggs over their faces now

tbaba1234:
Eni Aluko has been vindicated. It has been proven that he did make racist remarks against her. The FA tried to cover it up and she faced a lot of backlash.

same way your opinions about ajagun are also inconsequential.

you talk about facts?! same person who claimed to have gone to national stadium surulere to watch nigeria matches during afcon and said fans never threw missiles at our players you now want to talk about facts? you are really funny

forgiveness:
Your opinions are inconsequential because they lack merit and facts.

Bring it on with facts. No talk talk without facts.

Show facts.

elyte89:
Its a lie o,baba,his twin brother is hale and hearty google d story,its d pure truth,it almost bursted taiye taiwo den in france

I knw him very well(taiye taiwo),we lived in d same area when he use to hawk pepper in d neighborhood
My elder brother who is 35years old now,was abt starting his secondary skool when taiye taiwo was in ss2,Taiye taiwo attended imetropolitan skool(mentro high,okota Lagos state),for those who live in okota will knw dis skool very well,so popular.u can confirm

Same Ramon azeez dt capped his set during d u-17 lived in ikotun b4,he has 2kids b4 d u-17 tournament, those who knw him very well can testify to dis also
Now back to iheanacho,anybody dt knows him very well,or grew up tgeda with him,can only convince me dt hes real age is not 27,but if u re following d FIFA WEBSITE, to debunk my claims,den u re on your own,dts ur opinion,my verdict still stands,if u like kill ursef but I will say d obvious act


IHEANACHO is not below 27years(real age)

guy besides the jokes do you have any evidence or you are just using the ol' ''naija we know ourselves'' side talk to judge KC's age? Just because some Nigerian players are age cheats doesn't mean you should paint everyone with the same brush. The fact of the matter is that KC passed the MRI test end of discussion

Joebie:
SE boosted Ndidi's stock?

I dey come for you. Let me get more time on my hands.

lol guy I'm seriously laughing just because I exposed his false assertions about his player he's now bringing out all this irrelevant information

i appreciate your points raised but i have doubts if the 3 gentlemen you mentioned are the solution. first of osaze is no no. not because of his age but his cruciate ligament injury. this has effectively done him. before that injury he hadn't lost much pace but afterwards he really declined badly to the extent he couldn't even cope in the championship now he's in indonesia. let's leave him to wind down his career in peace.
the issues i have with ike uche are more of a tactical nature. to put it bluntly ike is a selfish striker who thrives on service but the way rohr's team sets up i'm not too sure he will be a perfect fit. plus in all the years i've been watching uche i wouldn't describe him as a selfless runner who will exploit the channels to free up his team mates. with martins if it's the same guy i saw under keshi and oliseh then honestly we don't need him but if his game has picked up out of the three he's the one i would still give a chance

Mickael2:
No No No, Ighalo cannot do what Emenike was doing then. Do you think Ighalo could have created that Bosnia goal? For one he doesn't have the pace to even do something like that, he is not the type of striker that can go out in the wing thus allowing another unsighted player free reign in the 18yard box which was what Emenike brought to the party then.


Then let's take a cursory look at all the to strikers in the world right now-Suarez, Benzema, Lewandowski, Kane etc etc. All these guys have one thing in common, their ability to also drift away from the box and giving the two CBs a false sense of security allowing their other attacking teammates to score. If Kane does not drift from the middle Alli won't score two goals in a season, same for Suarez and Messi, Benzema/Ronaldo, Lewandowski/Muller(you can see here that Ancellotti disrupted that Lewandowski/Muller, sack letter). This is what worked for us at the last world cup, Emenike drifted away from the box and created a goal for Osaze, he drifted into the middle and created a goal for Musa, this is the type of striker we need as out starter not some kwatankwa striker like Ighalo, which is why I really hope and pray and wish that Iheanacho will check his development because in the present crop of guys he is the only one that can remotely do that. Tammy Abraham cannot do it and so I do not expect him to be a hit for any National Team he plays for.


Now that brings me to the two/three guys I have always been clamouring for. Martins, Ike Uche and Osaze. Now Martins and Uche are two strikers who can drift well, infact sometimes you would be left wondering if they are playing as the winger just like what David Villa used to do, no need telling you his achievements from such play and/or Suarez's achievements too. So me clamouring for Ike Uche or Martins isn't because they bagged some goals recently, I am looking at their style of play, Ighalo is the type of forward we should look for when we are chasing a game, never a starter. There is a reason why the Three Lions will still invite Defoe ahead of Tammy despite our show of interest, they are not stupid, they know Defoe drifts more than Tammy thus providing a whole lot more attacking dimension.


So please, next time I mention Uche or Martins, it is not because they bagged a couple of goals, it is because their style of play will provide a lot more than what we have now.

Cc Joebie, Humility, Icon4s, Kog45 these guys that always attack when they see these names take note