TheSuperNerd:
See what Boniface and Xabi's Leverkusen have caused

😁😅

I remembered that time elyte89 referred to this guy as world class due to the consistency at which he was winning trophies

Anyway, there is still the UCL for him and Kane

Boniface could easily be up to 20 goals in the league by now if he wasn't injured.....

Boniface with an assist

TheSuperNerd:
Was honestly shaking my head at Emeka's comment. I just can't reply everything for others anymore to be honest. Lol


P.S: Meanwhile Liverpool 0-1 Atalanta HT.

I don't understand this thing Atalanta are doing at Anfield o.. they dont have respect o

charlesemeka85:
wen u start to watch ball? Abi because everybody dey faceless forum dey chuk mouf topics wey dem sabi and the ones wey happen wen dem still dey wear napkin

Receive sense

U missed the sarcasm in his comment, and thats ironic cus u you were heavily involved in thegoodjoe's argument

komekn:


Belgium league is rated number 8 in Europe just behind the Turkish league.

Somebody tagged him supremely technical player

He has been in Europe for 4 seasons and he is playing in Belgium. My assertion by comparison of the top players in Europe 🌍 Ralph Onyedika cannot be a supremely technical player and still be in the Belgium league after four plus seasons in Europe.

Relax... It is a matter of time before he makes the leap to a bigger team... Even De Bruyne spent 4 years in the Belgian league begore being signed by Chelsea (I'm not making any comparison,before u come with your grammar)..

Plenty of takents have emerged from the Belgian league over the years, so it won't be long before Onyedika finds a biggrr club to sign him

SABC sports posted that they will broadcast the game.. but whether or not it will be streamed on their facebook and youtube pages, I'm not sure.. usually, their broadcast is quality

lovewins:


That case is settled. The committee ruled against Nneka and Elizabeth Williams, citing their extensive participation with team USA for at least ten years as reasons. Chiney I believe was cleared but could only play as a naturalized citizen. FIBA allows one naturalized citizen per window. Chiney I believe didn't like and planned to appeal. Chiney could have gone to the last Olympics but I think she decided against it.

The plan was to appeal using FIBA's rule on exception (basketball development) as a basis. Not sure they finally appeal, or if they did how that went.

With the situation of things with the NBBF now, I doubt if either of them is still interested in making the squad... Making the girls miss out of the world cup was probably the beginning of the end of the momentum our basketball had gathered starting from 2015 when we won the men Afrobasket.
It is incredible how low we have fallen..I mean, we beat France and gave the US a hard time some years ago FFS!... no disrespect to this bunch of players that won the Afrobasket for us recently, but they will get their ass beat at the Olympics if we don't inject one or two quality players into the team...

lovewins:


While your point remains valid, the Cameroon situation is a bit funny though. It's the ministry of sports that employed and announced him and not the FA. There seems to be a power tussle going on.

He is even another grade D oyibo coach..

Dem don use useless oyibo coaches swear for African teams..

Funny enough, most of them don't trust their local coaches due to suspension of corruption and nepotism, so they go for the cheaper oyibos.

komekn:


I would only have Finidi, he is of unquestionable integrity and is looking to make name he is not hungry for money.

He started making millions of pounds decades ago.

Amuneke has shown he has zero integrity and has his hands stained with outright corruption.

Integrity, honesty and truthfulness are UNCOMPROMISING attributes for me.

But you questioned Finidi's decision not to play Tella and Dele-Bashiru in the friendlies... suddenly, he has integrity.... na so you talk say Chris Houghton get integrity... we saw what he did with Ghana

solonnachi:
News I'm hearing from Soccernet is that Randy might not be available for Nigeria double leg games with South Africa. Seems his college team will also be engaged on the 6th and 16th of April.

Ashleigh Plumpre is injured and replaced by Jumoke Alani of Edo queens.

May God help us ooo

Does this mean Randy is going to prioritize his college team over something as big as the Olympics qualification?

lovewins:


I agree with you for the most part save for "football tactics" part. While I do not downplay the importance of football tactics, that sadly isn't the primary problem of most Nigerian coach.

Success is football is 90% Psyche and 10% skill. Average players with the best mental frame and great motivation will beat very skilled players with very little motivation and messed up psyche. Sir Alex Ferguson wasn't known for his tactics as his players have since confirmed. He was however a great motivator. He knew how to get the best out of his players. This was what the Big Boss of blessed Memory Stephen Keshi was known for. Keshi showed immense respect for his players and they respected him in return. He was reported to have motivated his players to play for him and almost always choose players that fit this mold.

The bunch of Nigerian coaches we have today are well learned but too distracted. They have all the UEFA badges, but will allow sentiments, ego etc to destroy their dressing room.

The last paragraph is exactly the point I just made...... Somebody like Oliseh had the credentials to successfully manage the team, but he couldn't drop his big ego and ended up destabilizing the the team before he left..
I hope Finidi isn't that kind of guy sha.. given that he spent a considerable part of his coaching career in Spain...

Two games are not enough to rate a coach, true, but it can give some hints of what to expect from the coach going forward. In Finidi's case, I would say his problem was players selection..
It makes no sense not to play the likes of Tella and Dele-Bashiru in a friendly.. Also benching Lookman, one of the best player at the AFCON over two legs.. I hope his decision wasn't influenced by sentiments.. sentimental selection has always been the bane of Nigerian coaches.. it was one of the things that affected Keshi's tenure as coach....always selecting funny names in his list despite being tactically sound..

charlesemeka85:
England losing to Belgium at wembley


The most over hyped national team in the world 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

England need to swallow their pride and employ a high profile foreign coach.. Its obvious that Southgate and all these English coaches dont know anything.. thats why they hardly get to coach top teams, even in the premier league...
One problem with the English is that they believe everything concerning football that comes from them is the best in the world.

According to reports, Bassey and Onyeka are unavailable for tomorrow's game due to injury

carbonado:
.. absolutely,also remember that promise is not a point guard,she is a 2 guard...if we are serious about this Olympics, atleast Vicky and Ezinne will have to comeback,then mix that with Kiki and Micheala, then Amy,Musa and the likes..infact invite everyone,let everyone fight for shirt,the most inform players picks the jersey.

I'm out of touch with the situation of the Ogwumike sisters... any chance one of them might still be able to join the team?

If we go to the Olympics with this same squad, we will be cooked... no two ways about it.

PDPGuy:
Not related to footie, but Nigeria is only one medal away from becoming the first country to achieve 300 medals in the Athletics event of the Africa Games..

We always dominate the short distance races in Africa most of the time..I hope someday we translate it to world dominance... Thankfully, more and more of our athletes are getting into US college teams and doing well in the NCAA

chrisooblog:
Don't bother arguing with CAPtain planet once he reads or hears English speaking football all logical reasoning flies out the window.

That guy behaves like every typical Englishman who is involved in football.. I mean their fans, pundits, media and even coaches... They have this belief that English football is the best in the world and anything else is inferior... It is very easy to see anytime they engage in football discussions..
Meanwhile, when it comes to the real thing, English football is actually inferior... When I say "English football" I mean the type of football made in England by the English..
Look at the premier league for instance, uts dominated by foreigners... Remove the foreign coaches and players and what you will have is crap... It's why no English manager has ever won the premier league and no English team has dominated the league or Europe with a squad made up of majorly English players like Barca, Madrid and Bayern have done in the past

komekn:


Before you leap without looking understand where the discussion emanated from.

Zuchyblink said we should stop 🛑 looking at England national team he said rejected players. I would say not selected.

The nonsensical proposition implied here is that if they are not selected for England then they are not good enough for Nigeria. That's downright deranged thinking .

I then said tell me one player in the current SE that will get into England as it stands in my opinion not one.

So objectively respond without getting all emotive and sentimental, if you can.

Zuchyblink mentioned "European national team" .. but as per wetin dey do you, you twisted it to "England national team"

elyte89:



I second dis idea reason y I find it funny dt nff is finding it difficult to announce my name as d new head coach .. I need to hit the ground running 🏃‍♂️ 😎

E be like say na Finidi go take charge for now...

It will really help the team if the NFF can appoint a new coach before the upcoming friendlies... we have a crucial world cup qualifier game coming up in June and this upcoming friendly could prove useful for the new coach to lay some groundwork.

lbrichman2:


Better is relative
I don't think historical sentiment is the issue here.
We mostly don't remember his exploits in Keshi's team
We're talking about the here and now
The key is, he delivers for the SE whenever called upon

The others should also show that they've got what it takes to retire him completely

The bolded is something he wont admit for obvious reasons... Since Omeruo made his SE debut, I can boldly say that he has emerged one of our best player in every major tournament he participates in.. the stats are there to see..
Funny enough, we have tried to discard him from the team in the past... at one point, he wasn't playing at all under Rohr who preferred Balogun and Ekong.. But gain, most of the CB that have been called up to displace him haven't loved up to standard.. Akpos, for example...

mostob:
I tire o. Baba say make we use assurance cap tie players.
As if the player won't japa if England call him.

I tire o...

typicalgamer:


The point flew over your head

No, its your head it flew over, and its still flying..

You don't use friendly matches to cap tie a player... play in for 90 minutes in both games and give him captain armband, he will still honour England's call up if they come calling... Its only a competitive game that can be used to cap tie a player..

typicalgamer:


That’s the perfect time to cap a player genius

Play him least 60mins then tell him how he’s part of the core foundation and he’s the future of the team

Let other players show him love, and post about him like ( bro congrats on a successful debut)

Watch and he’ll come running into your arms Simple as ABC

Does "cap tie" now have a different meaning ni?

comodo:

Egu, just give Osho starting shirt against Mali. Play him the 1st half, if he is killing it, allow him till 60mins. Start d sub, opari. U don Cap tie him be that. Pls don't use 5mins to do that. The match is in UK, some of the innit boys will be in the stand that day to see how he will be treated. If u can, Meet Tosin again and possibly Olise. Eberechi Eze go use him leg waka come meet u.

It's a friendly.. you can't cap tie a player with a friendly.. also, the games are taking place in Morocco not UK

MetalJigsaw:
I think someone should apply from here so we can be putting heads together and plan tactics🤔😀

Make our in-house Southgate apply.. Make he fill up the team with his innit boys

elyte89:



D man overpriced himself…I would av loved he took d $80000 offer to continue his work .

Make NFF just carry that 80k give our coaches wey don soak knowledge finish from Barca

On a more serious note, I would really like Amuneke to get the job.. I have always admired his style of play, especially with the u-17 and u-20.. Although he hasn't really had much success after leaving the national team...

Amedino99:
what if the football he gave us was what we paid for? 50k for Haram ball. Give him 120k and the world will tremble beneath his feet.

You cant give what you don't have.. Before the AFCON, many Nigerians had very little hope in the team making it far due to their recent result...
Sure, he got us to the final by making some tactical switches, but there was still many flaws he refused to correct, like overdependency on his first eleven which resulted in them being fatigued at the final..
The man deserves his praise, but $120,000 is definitely too much if we are being honest.. that's over 190 million naira per month (The naira has suffered o)

chuks404:
nff will still give him contract for the next edition. Naija my country.

Ladan Bosso and Chris Danjuma have held the u-20 men and women coaching job for years that you would think they signed a lifetime contract with the NFF....
Neither of them have shown any sign of being tactically sound or competent (or let me say, extraordinary) for the job... Successive NFF administration have hired them..

There must be something about them..

According to reports, NFF offered Peseiro $80,000 per month...he rejected it...he wants $120,000 per month.. lol..

$120,000 for playing Haram football?

komekn:


Transfer fees are a whole different ball game.

When the product is top class then you'll can dictate to clubs and agents if you even want to use one.

We are taking youth player compensation/ development fees.

Two totally different subjects don't muddy the waters please.

Lovewins, does this confer with your opinion abi na gibberish??