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Batshuayi? lol, Origi decent but not exactly awe inspiring, plus a Benteke on the decline. I think Dessers would have had a fair chance against these guys.

Samueltemi337:
3 years ago Dessers was playing for Cremonese
He still wouldn't have made the team
There was a Batshuayi, Origi and Benteke who would all have been picked ahead of him

We've generally had very poor cadet coaches post covid.

The Olympics would have been a perfect place to try out all our prospects but the unseriousness of the NFF really cost us. Imagine we qualified for the last olympics in Paris it would have been a no brainer to take Ebenezer, Eletu, Daga, Benjamin Fredrick, Osuji. I'm sure featuring at sure a high ;evel of competition would have made them extra ready for the SE.

Napoleon55:
Including U-20 and U-23.

Appointment of the wrong set of coaches late and abandoning the system that use to work are the main reasons for this.
There are still talents at the academies and beyond across the nation.

Our U-23 team for instance should be best used in trying out some of these upcoming players and some of the not yet established foreign borns to give them a sense of belonging.
I remember when Siasia took Ekong to the Olympics, because if his good performance at the Olympics, he went straight to the main super eagles team back from the Olympics.

If we're talking 2-3 years ago I think Dessers would have the very least have been squad member of the Belgian national team. Apart from Lukaku which decent forward did Belgium have 3 years ago?

Samueltemi337:
Dessers is 30 years old and plays for Rangers
The Belgium team wouldn't be rebuilding with that

Currently Belgium has
Lois Openda
Leandro Trossard
Charles De Ketelaere
There is even a young Norman Bassette if they are looking to rebuild
Even Mbangula who can play as a second striker

There's no way Dessers will even make the bench

If the deal becomes reality Akor should give his agent a raise. Adams hasn't exactly been wow this season but see he's now going to La Liga.

charlesemeka85:
🚨🔴⚪️ EXCL: Sevilla are in advanced talks to sign Nigerian striker Akor Adams from Montpellier!

Negotiations underway and at final stages to get it done on permanent deal.

Deal close. 🇳🇬

#FabrizioRomano

Please go ahead.

Danielnino00:
Comrades, I apologise, but I think we will have to go with this as the final count... I've been very occupied with work, and I don't think I'll have time to do the count anytime soon.
Chrisooblog, kindly give consent for this to be used for the final count...
thank you

Agree that we shouldn't bring in too many new faces. Uche to strengthen the middle, Tella/Ejuke to put pressure on Chukwueze, and a fresh forward to bring dynamism from the bench.

Mujtahida:
Yeah
It's in one of those clips that I saw the guy. Chelle should not bring in more than two or three players now oo. We are at a crucial time. He should not make the mistake Eguavoen made in that our crucial world Cup qualifier against Ghana where he featured Bassey and Lookman as debutants

All the SW governors during that period did too.

Remember traveling to Abuja through Ondo State and seeing a similar billboard.

raumdeuter:
Tinubu did that in 2003 - 2007

Nigerian player of the year
Ademola Lookman - 25
Victor Osimhen - 1
Williams Troost-Ekong

Nigerian female player of the year
Rasheedat Ajibade - 6
Onyi Jenifer Echigini
Chiamaka Nnadozie - 19

NPFL player of the year
Sadiq Ismail - 7
Rabiu Ali - 9
Sikiru Alimi - 4

Most impactful new inclusion (2024)
Stanley Nwabali - 20
Bruno Onyemachi - 1
Fisayo Dele-Bashiru - 3

Best Ogedengbe goalkeeper of the year
Stanley Nwabali - 18
Maduka Okoye
Chiamaka Nnadozie - 7

Stephen Keshi defender of the year
William Troost Ekong - 18
Ola Aina - 6
Calvin Bassey - 1

Samuel Okwaraji midfielder of the year
Alex Iwobi -15
Fisayo Dele Bashiru - 4
Frank Onyeka- 5

Rasheed Yekini attacker of the year
Ademola Lookman - 22
Victor Osimhen - 4
Victor Boniface - 1

Most improved player (2024)
Ademola Lookman - 23
Maduka Okoye
Bruno Onyemachi - 1

Young player of the year (U-21)
Kparabo Arieri - 12
Ebenezer Akinsanmiro - 5
Benjamin Frederick - 1
Vince Chijoke Osuji ##

Female young player of the year (u-21)
Deborah Abiodun - 10
Chidi Harmony – 4
Shakira Moshood - 8

Super eagles goal of the year
Samuel Chukwueze goal vs Rwanda in Uyo (AFCON qualifier) - 11
Ademola Lookman goal vs Benin Republic in Uyo (AFCON qualifier) - 2
Victor Osimhen goal vs Benin Republic in Uyo (AFCON qualifier) - 9

Best assist of the year
Ademola Lookman assist for Victor Osimhen goal vs Equatorial Guinea (2023 AFCON) - 8
Victor Osimhen assist for Ademola Lookman goal vs Cameroon (2023 AFCON) - 5
Moses Simon assist for Fisayo Dele Bashiru goal vs Libya (AFCON qualifiers) - 4
Moses Simon for Ademola Lookman goals vs Angola (2023 AFCON) - 7

Team of the year (club or national)
Super Eagles - 17
Enugu Rangers - 4
Edo Queens - 4

Coach of the year
Fidelis Ikechukwu (Enugu Rangers) - 6
Jose Peseiro (ex-Super Eagles coach) - 15
Moses Aduku (Edo Queens) - 3

Prospect of the year
Ebenezer Akinsanmiro - 14
Kparabo Arieri - 7
Benjamin Frederick - 2

Lifetime achievement award
Stephen Keshi - 8
Rasheed Yekini - 5
Jay Jay Okocha - 8
Kanu Nwankwo(void vote)

Danielnino00:
Gentlemen, thank you all so much for your efforts and patience...

We're now in the final stage of the award process..

I urge you to please visit the voting thread and begin the counting of votes..
Each member of the committee will count the votes and submit his result and we will compare the results for the thinnest margin of error before announcement of the final results.
I understand that we all have our personal jobs to get to, so we should take our time to get it done..
Hopefully,by Friday, the final results will be ready..

Thank you


Cc:
Chrisooblog
Maidaboi
Psittacus
Aicon4s

For Anime and Castlevania fans highly recommend watching season two of the second series Castlevania: Nocturne. A bit of a slow burner but boy is the climax worth it.

Yobo made his debut for the national team in 2001 plus what did he do extraordinarily in the time frame you mentioned?

If you know you can't do basic research to argue your points please jump and pass my comments. I don't the time or patience to be engaging in childish back and forths.

bisqit:
did you watch yobo from 2000 to 2008? What do you know? Go and read your book and stop going off track

Ok

Subzerooo:
Peak Yobo was Nigeria's best defender in the last two generations, he may have his flaws but he can hold his own on his day

Which Joseph Yobo? Same Joseph Yobo that Keshi benched for the majority of our 2013 AFCON win?

Same Yobo I saw play in the national team?

Ok

Subzerooo:
You answered your question, our defenders have glaring limitations that could be exposed in a 2 man defence, the last defender that we had that could comfortably hold his own in a 2-man defence was Joseph Yobo

True but at least he scores the easy ones better than most. To score double digit goals for 6 seasons straight is no joke.

BascoVanVeli:
U can say the same thing about Victor Osimhen. There have been plenty games where he scores the harder chance.

Bro I'm really amused at this your Amunike agenda.

First of you make it sound like Emmanuel was some extra ordinary manager with innovative ideas whereas his only claim to fame is winning a cadet championship countless others have won.

Before you bring up Tanzania many coaches have managed and done even better with smaller African teams.

Now this sabotage and tribal talk is just excuses. Every national team coach whether u17, u20, SF, SE you name have suffered from maladministration, poor preparations, and 'sabotage' but we never used it to shield coaches when they failed why should Amunike be different?

If the late Amodu Shaibu could relate what he suffered in the hands of the NFF you would write a petition to Hollywood to produce a biopic directed by Steven Spielberg with Forrest Whitaker starring as Amodu cos the story is damn too emotional.

TheGoodJoe:
Let me still rephrase myself again.

At this point in our history with the NFF, I believe we are with a ring of people that are not patriotic or detribalized in their judgment.

I believe, Amunike's ethnicity played a part in so many rejections from the NFF chamber.

I also used his open sabotages he dealt as the reason to back my belief. It was too harsh and consistent. Giving Finidi the job over him was still the continuous sabotage he has dealt with when it concerns the NFF.

To chip in, Oliseh didn't understand the challenges Keshi was dealing with and thought it was all smooth. When he got in and saw how bad things were, he had to scream out and leave. Keep in mind, Oliseh was also sabotaged. His CHAN team was a crazy one. Oliseh was spending thousands of dollars of his personal money to feed the team. Peterside Idah said he flew to South Africa, paid the CHAN team a visit in camp and Oliseh begged him for money to feed the players.

However, Amunike's own was long and severe. I believe some bad eggs in the NFF are tribalistic.

Egbon I still feel Keshi should have found a way to take Uche to the 2014 WC. After all this same troublesome Uche was recalled by Keshi for the AFCON 2015 qualifiers when Nigeria was in danger of missing out.

Kog45:
Keshi was not,fact if am in Keshi shoe Uche will not make my team.....Uche frustrated Keshi during Afcon.He dropped him for bad influence, criticizing your coach and still want to be part of the team...I thought Osaze made the team..Echiejele replaced Taiwo perfectly.

At the end Keshi reached 2nd round of WC that Westerhoff reached,so nothing like fraud.

Westerhoff and Keshi remain the bests.

Unrelated but I think the NFF has to do better getting an insurance policy for national team players especially the junior ones.

Sad story of a career that might have been

This is really sad. @thenff you need to do better pic.twitter.com/zDBGSiTZOr

— Mgbadike (@MaziGomez_) January 11, 2025

Yep noticed here too. Sooner power generation and supply is decentralized the better.

BlueRayDick:
I noticed the way the light went off in an unusual manner less than 20 minutes ago.

Na wa o

I will be lying if I say I'm enamored with Chelle's appointment as SE coach. That said I mentioned before and I still maintain that the players are the major ones to step up and show character. If they can't be motivated to beat the likes of Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho (with due respect to them) then even hiring Ancelotti won't do the trick.

You're fully justified in your skepticism of this appointment and it will be left to Chelle and the players to win you over.

For now all we can do is give the new coach our full support until he proves (hopefully not) not to be up to par.

Goke7:
Let me quote from the article

He (Chelle) is a young coach, his record is blank at the moment but he's an ambitious coach

See what the nff has offered us but because of tiki taka we all should swallow it like that and shut up or be called racist. Trash

Seems to have that Kelvin guy on a permanent retainer hasn't stopped declaring how pure Dangote petrol is while constantly rubbishing NNPC about how crap their fuel is

Will personally try MRS to see what the fuss is about.

Ibime:
The petrol may well be of higher quality, but the amount of articles popping out looks like coordinated campaign from Dangote

I dey always knows when Dangote done pay media people to write because they will push the same agenda for 2 weeks, then the agenda will disappear, just like the time they were posting that refineries in "the abroad" are closing down because of Dangote. An organic narrative does not suddenly appear and disappear.

Please don't ask such a sensitive question we're going through a lot right now as a country

But in all seriousness I'm optimistic that the worst is over we had to undergo a hard (harsh!) reset.

AfriqueDuZuid:
On another note

What happened to Nigeria

Welcome back bruv

TheGoodJoe:

I am actually expecting nothing less than an explosive Super Eagles under Chelle. Our players need to buy into his philosophy and embrace him.

If they soak in his knowledge of the game, I see the Super Eagles flying high and becoming one of the most fierce national sides in the game.

Post updated.

Danielnino00:
My vote

Most impactful new inclusion- Fisayo Dele-Bashiru


Assist of the year- Ademola Lookman assists for Victor Osimhen goal vs E. Guinea

My picks in bold.

Danielnino00:
Sorry for the delay guys... things dey CHELLE....


4. Most impactful new inclusion (2024)
Fisayo Dele-Bashiru[/b]

13. Best assist of the year
Moses Simon for Ademola Lookman goals vs Angola


14. Team of the year (club or national)
Enugu Rangers







please, we need to conduct a final round of vote for the categories where there are ties..
CC: maidaboi, chrisoloblog psittacus

Same story every other market day.

Frankly speaking at this time he's not someone we desperately need in the team right now.

solonnachi:
Please how true is this? I just saw it now

Happy consecutive double digits day to the monster machine himself.

Still maintaining his reputation as one of Europe's elite forwards.

Bro should take his time and select a great club with an upward trajectory that will propel him further.

Looking more confident with his penalties lately like that should keep it up.

BankyGee:
Victor Osimhen's goal 🆚 Göztepe today marks:
- His 💯th league goal in his career.
- His seventh consecutive season of scoring double digit(ed) number of league goals.

Idan 💫

Welcome back GoodJoe and Happy New Year!

Continue to rest and get healthy. Shout out to your family too.

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Yes being played in a position you thrive in is ideal but if you're a tactician who knows his onions you will know how to use the tools (players) for every match situation not necessarily relying on the position they play in their club.

Still remember how Bonfere Jo deployed Tijani Babangida to devastating effect against SA in the semifinals of the 2000 AFCON on the left side despite being a right winger. Mikel too that featured as a DM for Chelsea was mostly a CM and occasionally an AM for Nigeria.

EEGA:
I reiterate, that every player should be played in the same position they play in their club and not in their preferred position.

Iwobi needs to play on the right as a winger, while FDB plays in the advanced midfield role.

Raph can take the CDM role while another CM, preferably Uche Chrisantus takes the CM or b2b role.

Plus Uche is a DM/CM not that kind of profile player who will be dropping goals and assists every match day. Happy New Year Egbon.

Kog45:
Thank you....Mikel in national team gave us good performances despite no goal or assist with Chelsea....Uche Christanus I watched is not about goal or assist but a player that closes spaces and give passes with ease even in difficult situations.

They really laid the foundation for lots of Nigerian youth to take Afropop/Afrobeats seriously.

afrodoc2:
I watched the first half hour. E no easy to watch 2.5 hours of image whitewashing. LOL.

On a more serious note though the PR job and image rebranding Kenny and D1 did for Nigerian music can’t be quantified.

This was a time when Nigerians themselves did not really like Nigerian music like that. No matter how wretched the Naija song was, Kenny would still call it a “haat new video”.

I get your point although I think since they made their debuts fairly late in 2023 and haven't featured much they can still fly especially Dele-Bashiru. Even Yusuf in your pick was called up in 2023.

Danielnino00:
Just to point out you number 4.... Bruno and Fisayo aren't exactly eligible for the category,seeing as they didn't make their debut in 2024...
I was thinking of not including Nwabali too, since he already played for the CHAN Eagles in 2021

Mikel had always been off and on as regards how consistent he was for the SE. In club football he was ok but ask Chelsea fan between him, Kante, Essien, Matic, and Makelele who they rated most in the DM and the answer will stare you boldly in the face.

Sorry I don't rate an underage tournament that much like the Olympics so using it to score points for Papilo won't fly. I admire Kanu but failing to score a single goal in 9 senior tournaments doesn't exactly wow me but that is another discussion for another day.

To remphasize Osimhen is the highest ever ranked Nigerian for Balon'Dor and FIFA awards. Lookman is the only Nigerian heck African to score a Hatrick in a European final feats the great Yaya Toure never achieved.

The only area of mutual agreement between us is that both need to win tournaments with SE to cement their legacy.

Goke7:
The thing about players like Yaya and Eto is that they were doing great stuff season after season and their impact even at their clubs was too much to ignore, you know why some folks here slam osihmen despite how excellent he is? It's because they want to see that dominance like Eto or Yaya cos that's how he can have 2,3 or 4 APOTYs. Mikel was also consistent despite the criticism and he was a major reason we won Afcon 2013, He's the reason Yaya couldn't do much damage to us in the quarterfinals that year. Lookman or Osihmen still needs to power us to an afcon title before we can finally consider them as one of our greatest players ever, Kanu won Olympic Gold for us despite not winning Afcon and that's why he's still miles ahead so Osihmen and Lookman still need to land us something big for us as a nation or surpass Yekini's goal tally. My view please

You're right although I find it a strange choice considering Odegbami and Lawal scored goals and got assists along the way.

forgiveness:
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