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Danielnino00:
Mbappe needs to leave PSG if he want to win the Balon d'or.. Real Madrid would have been the perfect place for him...

Benzema is in Madrid.

ChrisKels:
If Mbappe calm down, na him and Harland go take over the mantle from Messi and Ronaldo. How I wish Harland was also from a footballing nation. That said, I hope Vinicius Junior will give both a run for their money.

Mbappe has already taken over..

Vinicius is not even near Osimhen and Moffi.

Mbappe
Haaland
Osimhen ( injury free Osimhen )
Moffi

But Benzema, Lewandowski, Messi and Ronaldo haven't retired so until they retire.

charlesemeka85:
uncle we re talking of qualifiers not friendlies that nothing is at stake

Kingsley Michael, bonke and Yusuf? Mk una slow down a bit for this una hype cus it’s being irritating and worrisome

Nawaooo

Its not hype... its about trying different midfielders and picking the ones that click and work well...

and not sticking with the ones that failed to qualify for world cup...

people like you that call it hype are in reality making the S.E weaker and as if S.E doesn't have quality replacements in the midfield.

charlesemeka85:
Against Ghana during the World Cup play off we lost the duo of ndidi and iwobi to injury and suspension and we all witnessed how the void created by the absence of these two cost the team. Then imagine not having 4-5 main starters to a competition as big as the world?

The French even surpassed by expectations because I never tipped them to get to the quarter finals let alone the semis and final

How did Iwobi and Ndidi perform against Portugal

apart from Iwobi and Ndidi... there is Alhassan Yusuf, Onyedika, Onyeka, Nwakali, Bonke, Kingsley Micheal e.t.c..

we don't know if anybody forced Eguavoen to pick Shehu and ignore the guys I mentioned above and also have a thin midfield selection...

charlesemeka85:
Kolo Muani will be another big name to emerge from France in the nearest future

Kid has the qualities to become one of the best strikers in europe. Reminds me so much of osimhen

He is 24 years old already and he is older than Osimhen ( 23 ).

TheSuperNerd:
Hmmmmm.... Hmmmmm.... I marked this comment down just in case a penalty is given in this final... hmmmm... I have no words but hmmmm....

Hmmmm.

andrewbaba44 called me confused...

The French team is also affected by unknown virus

That's a dive..

They don't give yellow cards for diving anymore..

This is why I said that FIFA and football politics want Messi to win the world cup.

Mujtahida:
I thought it's been said that Moses Simon is preferred because of his contributions to the defense

that's during Rohr's era when Rohr played defensive football...

Amedino99:
Simon has better stats for both club and country. Please don't compare him with ejike

Ejuke has only played 3 matches for SE while Moses Simon has played 53 matches.. so you should take your own advice of don't compare with Ejuke.

For club, Moses Simon probably has a better agent than Ejuke because Moses Simon has played in more top leagues than Ejuke and has been playing in Europe longer than Ejuke..

Obviously Simon has more experience than Ejuke but changes have to be made in the wings of the S.E or you won't any changes in the team even if they bring in new midfielders and they will fail to qualify for the next world cup if the wingers aren't been substituted for others..

you should take your own advice of don't compare with Ejuke.

Philosopher1979:
Moses SIMon is a wide forward and not a right sided midfielder. He is better off in a 433 as a wide forward.
He can't operate in a 442
The issue is that we have many explosive forwards who can explode in the past third of the pitch but we lack midfielders.
The quality of forwards is a serious advantage we don't know how t Ouse.
Get alhassan Yusuf, ovie ejaria, iwobi etc in our midfield and let them liberate our forwards and we are good to go.
This thing is very simple I wonder why it is so hard for our coaches.

Moses Simon plays as a wide forward and winger for the SE.

He doesn't drop deep to help the midfield and defense..

Apart from midfield problem..

the SE also has a winger and wide forward problem.

Marjoribanks:
Have you watch the highlights of Chukweze or Moses Simon? Please do! I judge a player with real time match not highlights. Do you know why Ajax refused to sign him despite his dribbling abilities? Do you know why he is unpopular with Hertha Berlin fans? End product. Dribbling without assists and goals is crap! Who will he even bench in the SE first 11? Chuz, Lookman, Simon, Iwobi. or Moffi?

Ejuke has the highest assists for his club and is more direct than Simon in the S.E..

when Simon plays for the S.E he plays without intensity and intent...

Marjoribanks:
I hate people being economical with the truth! Lol!
Moses Simon was our best player at AFCON. You can go on YouTube and google Moses Simon. Wetin this one dey play! Google Moses Simon and see quality football.

If Moses Simon had quality football then we would have reached at least the semi-final of AFCON and qualified for the world cup.. Ejuke is more direct

Moses Simon should only be on the bench for the S.E or not invited at all he is always spoiling counter attacks of the S.E or losing possession or passing back a lot...

udemzeus:
Cut cost of governance, I am not saying it will solve all the problem but it a good starting point.

if you cut cost of governance then people will lose government jobs...

unless you mean reduce the salaries and allowances of state Governors. deputy governor, state senators e.t.c. their special assistants and other staff will lose their jobs...

apart from paying salaries of civil servants and paying pensions.. the budget also has to provide for:
- Maintenance of roads
- Maintenance of Schools ( public nursery, public primary, public secondary schools. polytechnics and universities).
- Maintenance of state government facilities
- Allocation of Funds to Local governments so that local governments can also pay their employees and do other duties in their LGAs and also maintenance of Local government facilities.
- Maintenance of state Airports ( if the state has an airport)
- Maintenance of state seaports ( if the state has an seaport)
- Maintenance of state refinery ( if the state has a refinery) .
- Maintenance of public ( state owned ) hospitals including maternity hospital, Paediatric hospitals, general hospitals e.t.c
- Maintenance of state owned oil depots ( if the state has an oil depot )
- Maintenance of state owned housing estates.
- Maintenance of state owned G.R.As.
- Maintenance of Ambulances and first responders.
- Maintenance of FireFighters and their trucks.
- Maintenance of Security.
- Maintenance of State owned Hotels. restaurants and other hospitality facilities and businesses e.t.c
- Maintenance of public transportation
e.t.c...

I can continue but those are the ones that I remembered....

the best thing to do is for the state government to increase its I.G.R by tolling roads, building refinery, building petrol stations, building gas plants, building power plants, building hospitality centers e.t.c..

udemzeus:
This is equivalent to $1 Billion, yet Delta state is still poor.

If I am governor of Delta,here is how this money can be used judiciously.

Delta state has 21 local governments area. $50 Million dollars should be allocated to road development, hospital construction, top notch schools and urban renewal.

This money will touch the grass root development and everyone would be carried along.

what will happen to monthly salaries of civil servants since you'll allocate all the money to 21 LGAs

you'll see government budget and don't even know that it will be mostly spent on paying salaries and pensions of state government employees called civil servants that are currently working and pensions for those that have retired.. even the governor also has to pay himself, his deputy, state senators. e.t.c.

your comment shows you've never owned or even managed someone's business in your life...

since delta state is an oil producing state the wisest thing to do is to build 25000bpd - 60,000bpd state owned refinery and make money..

Daninya33:

Out of respect for Morocco, I didn't want to say a thing.

France will successfully defend their title against Argentina.
Take a notepad and take note.

The football politics want Messi to win 1 world cup..

Expect Argentina to get penalties against France.

If Griezmann was a Nigerian player you guys will call him a midfielder..

the way he was dropping deep to help the midfield and defense and also help in build up play and transitioning the attack from midfield and defense shows what the Super Eagles attack and team is lacking.

Amedino99:
the Nigerian born players really have no other option. What I'm saying is that compared to those countries, the SE brand is less attractive. Some are just based on their identity. Most of them see themselves as English, swiss or German. Being connected to Nigeria is just jara for them.

that's the issue...

unlike the Moroccan players who see themselves as Moroccan first and being connected to their country of birth is just jara for them why don't the foreign born Nigerians see themselves as Nigerian first and their country of birth as jara for them...

Philosopher1979:
I think this attitude of not appreciating our need for midfielders has to change. Is it that the midfielders don't come from the agency of the coach.
Look I think we are our greatest enemy. Our officials are too short sighted.
If the world cup was held in 1996 we might have reached the final but within two years the team deteriorated.
Also we held Brazil to a draw in 2019 but within three years the team deteriorated again. I suspect these nff officials constantly okay favouritism and politics.
Again the way we don't like midfielders sounds demonic. Is it that someone does not like alhassan Yusuf, ovie ejaria etc. Maybe they don't belong to their agency.
Our officials are too myopic. Winning the nation's cup and getting to the semi finals of the world cup will generate money for them to steal.
There is a way you can steal money and still engineer development. You just don't steal like a mad man without any vision for development

SE midfield situation is shocking...

Amedino99:
I think it's about the super eagles brand. We are not that attractive to play for. Playing for Switzerland, england and Germany is more beneficial to their career than playing for Nigeria. That is why eze will be rejecting our callups just to honor england u21 invitation.

Playing for Nigeria was beneficial to Okoye's career...

so its like you said and this is what komekn does not accept and understand that the foreign players don't rate the SE and see it as a step down for them and they have the Napoli owner type of attitude towards anything African..

Too Nigerian born players, the SE is attractive...

jihday:
the way they get them if we go that route many of you will complain, they go after these players when they are yet to make their big break in Europe

my point is even after they make their big break why can't the foreign born players still declare their interest to play for the SE...

even if they after them before their big break they still reject the SE... Tammy Abraham, Eze, Olise, Chuba Akpom, Jordan Ibe e.t.c all rejected the SE...

most of the time SE already has Nigerian born players who have made their big break in Europe, so it the SE will have to sensibly distribute game time to foreign borns who haven't made their big break in Europe...

currently there is no foreign striker better than Osimhen, Moffi, Onuachu e.t.c.

komekn:
Can l ask before you came to this conclusion, how many players of Nigerian origin playing in Europe top League do you personally know. ❓

How much about the ingrained institutional corruption in the NFF do you know about and or have decided to pretend does not exist. ❓❓

Payment for selection and continuous selection has always been a part of the Nigerian football ⚽ structure for decades.❓❓❓

Nathan Tella declared his interest to play for Nigeria... nobody went to meet him, or snap pictures with him..

If the "good" foreign born players want to play for Nigeria all they have to do is say they want to play for Nigeria and the NFF should be quick to cap tie them....


the main problem is favoritism and favoring players they know which makes sure the SE formation does not change and why the SE consistently has a small number of midfielders invited...


payment for selection is not a problem for foreign born players.. foreign born players are richer than their Nigerian counterparts and if there's anything like payment for selection then that means the entire SE should have at least 20 foreign born players..

the other problem is the Nigerian coaches might call up and favor players that are in their Agency or affiliated with their agency..

zuchyblink:
Our rotten system is making it hard for us to secure good foreign born players. Moroccan and Algerian national team don't find it too difficult to secure the services of their foreign born players

"Good" foreign born players don't want to play for the SE.. it has nothing to do with rotten system..

Mujtahida:
All I know is that victory or a loss alters analysis. You are the best when you win and awful when you are defeated. Brazil were the best until they lost and all of a sudden I read how Vinicius, how Neymar don't track back. Now Morocco is the best. Okay ooo

Again everybody (except the winner of the final) who is rejoicing now will cry at the semi and the final.

Morocco scored in the 1st half at 42mins.... and held that lead for the next 45mins plus red card and plus 8 mins injury time that is holding a lead for over 53mins..

Brazil scored at 105 mins and lost the lead at 117 mins... Brazil could not hold their lead because they lost their defensive discipline or even because they normally don't play defensively and that has been one of the reasons they haven't won another World Cup since 2002 and accepting the fact that from 1994 to 2002 they had a super squad...

Morocco has shown that defending as a team is also important...

Morocco has only conceded an own goal..

England vs Senegal.. Senegal defended for the first 30mins and had chances they should have scored but they couldn't maintain that defensive discipline and formation and England won the match...

England vs France... England needed penalties to score.. they couldn't score from open play because majority of France players where defending and tracking the English players and that's how they conceded penalties.. Mbappe was in some cases behaving like Neymar and other times he was defending...

After the match against Tunisia.. France adopted that approach of players dropping deep to defend when France is not in possession...

In Summary...
After the match against Tunisia, France plays similar to Morocco but with better attackers...

If Brazil adopts such approach, they will be reaching back to back finals but that's not their style..

komekn:
Your IGNORANCE is beyond measure.

My tribe is not Igbo ,you lack knowledge and understanding go and discover where the people of Onitsha originated from and be shocked.

Unrepentant tribalistic bigot you are NAKED.

You're Igbo
Your attitude is Igbo
The way you write comments is Igbo..

Now you want to separate Onitsha from Igbo and you're accusing me of tribalism

You're an intra-tribal tribalist..

This comment tells me you will be tribalist to other Igbos who are not from Onitsha.. maybe that's why you don't like Nwakali..

I have never seen your comments praising Onuachu, Onyeka, Onyedika e.t.c..

You might be a fake Igbo person or an extreme intra-tribal Igbo tribalist.

komekn:
You are ignorantly recalcitrant, you know nothing and assume something you know nothing about.

Consider the excerpts in bold you have exposed and CONFIRMED yourself, you are THE NIGERIAN PROBLEM.

Tribalistic bigot.

I am PATRIOTIC NIGERIAN FIRST , I am totally detribalised I speak �️ Igbo ,my own language Isoko/Uhrobo, limited Yoruba and of course Warri pidgin wella.

I know more about Nigeria than you think , i went to two Russel group universities with the sons and daughters and grand children of the Nigerian Corrupt political elite, Ex Presidents, General, Governors, Ministers ,etc.

I witnessed first hand the brazen disgusting ostentatious wanton reckless spending of Nigeria public resources. By their children, I met some of their parents but I have no FELLOWSHIP with thieves and looters.

I was in Nigeria for 7 months last yearvover the stringent lockdown in the UK.

YOU ASSUME TOO MUCH.

He who knows not but thinks that he is ,is what ❓

Let the gallery Judge you, quintessential Nigerian PROBLEM, l rest my case.

There's no such thing as a patriotic Nigerian...

read what your fellow Igbo said below... you can click his username to see the comment he was responding to.

musicwriter:
Good day brother

I am going to tell you the truth and nothing but the truth even though you may not like it.

Unfortunately, what you suggested is the very thing that have us in this situation that we find ourselves today.

China can afford to do what you suggested because they evolved as a homogenous society with one language. And they've been that way for thousands of years. So, definitely a one-party state would work for them because it's second to nature for them.

Why would they want anything but a one-party state? Certainly, a one-party state would be the next natural thing for them since the society already evolved being homogeneous.

But in the case of Africa, our societies evolved heterogeneously as small nations (now called ethnic groups) speaking different languages.

Our ancestors didn't create a homogeneous society like China, instead, again, our ancestors created heterogeneous small countries (now called ethnic groups) which worked for us before the unfortunate arrival of Europeans.

It means that heterogeneity is our natural inclination as Africans. We as Africans work best when we work in small groups that contribute power to a central point. WHICH IS INDEED WHAT CHINA DOES FROM DIFFERENT DISTRICTS EVEN AS A HOMOGENEOUS SOCIETY.

When people work in smaller units and contribute to a central point, they work more efficiently. The US is a good example. That's the best way things should work!

If we practice TRUE federalism in Nigeria, we would get the same result. We would become more productive and would even live in peace.

Things work best when there's what Adam Smith described as "division of labour."

For Nigeria to become great, the different components (geographical regions not ethnic groups per se) that make up Nigeria must first recognize themselves as distinct people doing their own thing their own way. We must first acknowledge the reality that we're not one, and then agree that we want to be one. And finally agree in a brand new constitution how we want to co-exist as a true federal state.

Every region should go ahead and make their own laws, worship their own Gods, speak their own language, run their electric generation, run their system of education, etc. Then contribute to the central as one. That's when the Nigerian society would be next to natural and it would work.

And that's the most natural thing that would work for us as Africans, in line with the philosophy of our ancestors on how a group should exist. When that happens, competition would lead to giant strides in every region and we'll be better off.

We are not Chinese people and should not labor ourselves trying to create a homogeneous Chinese society in Africa. It won't work because that's not the type of people we are naturally!!

We are African people and our natural inclination is to work in small ethnic groups. All we have to do is exploit it by pulling power to a central point.

This concept isn't just known to work the best in economics but it's also known to work in computing.

Dr. Philip Emeaghali, the inventor of the supercomputer stumbled on the idea when he realized that thousands of little chickens pulling a cart would generate more power and would work more efficiently than one elephant pulling the same cart. The chickens would do a better job because they'll work more efficiently with tiny energy expended than the mighty elephant using all his energy at once. And using this idea he was able to create a super computer using thousands of small processors.

Secondly, Elon Musk has used the same idea to build the most efficient and biggest battery in the world by coupling thousands of small "finger batteries" together.

When the different ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria exercise their autonomy and work as federating units, we'll achieve enormous power. Until we understand this, exploit it, and implement it, we'll remain naturally heterogeneous societies forcing ourselves to be un-naturally homogeneous.

Emeaghali demonstrated the idea in the picture below.

komekn:

To quote you verbatim "you have come again with your nonsense talks"

unlike you and other foreign born Nigerians that's always badmouthing and denigrating anything Nigeria... they do not badmouth and denigrate their country...

First of all your diction is fractious, rancourous , and is anchored ⚓ on ignorant negative bias. That is not denigration but matter of fact, you have blanketed millions of Nigerians born outside the UK as HATERS of Nigeria. Thats downright stupid.

Because the vast majority of Nigeria's born and or brought up outside Nigeria. Refuse to accept the status quo of corruption, ineptitude, favouritism, mediocrity you find that denigration

You are the Nigerian problem , you have low expectations and even lower standards of probity and because we reject that retrogressive approach we have DENIGRATED the nation.

No apologies you need redemption and emancipation.

I did not blanket millions of Nigerians born outside Nigeria ( not outside UK ) as haters of Nigeria...

I said "unlike you and other foreign born Nigerians that's always badmouthing and denigrating anything Nigeria"... this means a profile of Nigerians born outside Nigeria that bad mouth and denigrate the country and they are definitely not into millions of Nigerians.

you have comprehension issues..

this is not a politics thread..

the vast majority of Nigeria's born and or brought up outside Nigeria don't know anything about Nigeria other than what they hear on their news stations which is mostly denigrating and bad news about Africa and that's also one of the reasons the foreign born players won't openly declare to play for Nigeria..

you are the problem and you are the one that needs redemption and emancipation....

there is no ethnicity called Nigerian... so in reality there are no Nigerians and that means there's no Nigeria....

the place called Nigeria.. is a place where different ethnic nations legally take resources of richer ethnic nations due to Ironsi abolishing regionalism...

so the corruption, ineptitude, favouritism, mediocrity you see in Nigeria today started in 1966/1967 because Ironsi's ethnic nation ( Igbo nation ) accused other ethnic nations of corruption, ineptitude, favouritism, mediocrity which did not exist and was not their place to do so because they had and still have their own region and revenue to develop themselves and their region's infrastructure but they decided to kill the leaders of other ethnic nations and destroy the regionalism system that would have made the entire southern Nigeria stupendously wealthy...

People that accuse other people of corruption, ineptitude, favouritism, mediocrity only do so because they want the power and position of the person they are accusing...

In Nigeria, people put ethnicity first...

so I am Yoruba first and not Nigerian..

so I can't be a Nigerian problem because I don't see myself as a Nigerian and as long as I am not wishing d:eath and d:estruction on other ethnic nations then I am okay... I don't concern myself with what happens outside SW Nigeria and I don't accuse politicians outside the SW of corruption, ineptitude, favouritism, mediocrity because its not my place to do so and I don't expect people that are not Yoruba to accuse Yoruba politicians of corruption, ineptitude, favouritism, mediocrity...

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komekn:
You are the quintessential personification of the Nigerian problem.

I'm not sure if it's your education,or limited exposure to see things in blinded negative parochial view.

You are the ones that will support a view based on affiliation not substance, subjective over objective. You create a unit of measurement to appraise those whose views you favour in isolation.

Consider the bold to the educated illiterate and narrow minded, criticism is an attack not an opportunity to appraise accept and move forward.

The acceptance of FAILURE is the beginning of SUCCESS, the denial is the continuation of FAILURE.

You clearly lack understanding, exposure and take comfort in crass ignorance. Your diction betrays you .

Unfortunately perception is birthed from personal perspective not substance or factual evaluation. With regards to crass ignorance and prejudice you are incorrigible.

If I ask you to give me one instance of where I have denigrated my country and or presented misinformation and disinformation you will EVADE. But for the sake of this open discourse I challenge you now.

I doubt if you have travelled outside your limited socio political local village area. Maybe you you've been to Burkina Faso or Mali, that's even doubtful.


Your essentially tribalistic bigot with no sense of patriotism or what it actually means.

How many Nigerian origin national birthed outside Nigeria in the west do you actually know. Add to that footballers, probably none. But you have such a bad belle blanket opinion. Are you JEALOUS of them ❓thr rancourous bitter dislike is too much.

This is the behavior and attitude I'm talking about.. there's denigration all over this comment .

jihday:
all these passion you people are seeing in Morocco is because their coach have a good tactical plan, when they lost to benin in 2019 didn’t they have passion or when they lost out earlier this year where was the passion? When a team is good and winning games you’ll think it’s being fueled by passion and commitment

You're right.

The players also have to respect their coach and national team to be able to successfully carry out his tactics.

Imagine having players like Neymar who will be strolling and walking back to defense or will not even help the defense at all..

I haven't seen 1 Moroccan player walking back to the midfield and defense even when they're tired they either jog back quickly or run back to help the defense and that's down to the players attitude..

My point is no Moroccan player feels too big or have too much ego to do basic football things..

Joebie:
And who are the administrators working for? Abi the players do not interface with them directly?

the administrators are not the ones on the pitch... football is about what performance on the pitch..

Joebie:
Oga so u are telling me the attitude of your bosses cannot affect your passion to work for the company.

My brother the environment does not encourage excellence.

the example you're giving is good but does flow with football...

In football, your main bosses are the clubs you play for... the country is secondary.. especially for those playing in europe or top 10 european leagues...

the attitude of the national team bosses should never affect how you play for the national team because you're not playing or working for the bosses in the national team..

you're playing or working for the citizens of the country which also includes your family members and not the FA of the country.