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??

Deltamani:


Caster Semenya (33yrs) case came to my mind as the IAAF didn’t allow to participate in International Athletics Championships again because of her testosterone level, World Athletics had previously made its rules for Semenya and other athletes with certain disorders of sex development even more restrictive in March 2023, requiring affected individuals to lower their testosterone levels below a threshold of 2.5 nmol/L for at least 24 months before competing..

This Caster Semenya was a cheat code.. won everything winnable.... I stopped watching women middle distance races at the olympics and world championship because of her, lol..

lovewins:


My guy. Don't do this now. You're comparing apples and oranges. Halaand's dad was a co-agent with Ravioli and got paid as that. This also isn't a new practice as footballers usually do this to either keep money in the family or as a way to get a family member paid. Victor Osimhen and a number or Nigerian players did this.

FIFA has however put an end to this as only licensed agents can be now get commissions during transfers. There's also a cap to how much they can get now. Everyone you listed above are those who should ideally get paid in a transfer; the club selling and the agents (Raiola and his dad).

No one has a problem with Amuneke getting paid in transfers, he however should not eat his cake and have it. He should register as an agent and not take up any national team appointment so he can pursue this full-time. What he did in Nwakali's case is wrong.

Well, you are quite right.. By FIFA law, an individual can not register as a football agent if he or she is "an official or employee of FIFA, a confederation, a member association, a league, a club, a body that represents the interests of clubs or leagues or any organisation connected directly or indirectly with such organizations and entities"
However, I can't verify if the law was updated before or after the money was paid to Amuneke.

charlesemeka85:
na still dubious practice cus it’s not obtainable in football business

Such only happen in Africa and South America

It happens a lot in Europe too... For instance, Man city paid Halaand's father a sizable amount of money before his transfer from Dortmund. that doesn't include the transfer fee they paid to Dortmund and the agent fee they paid to Mino Raiola.. the total transfer package is said to be over 300m or so.

komekn:


He is not my friend but I've met him on several occasions talked with and know him, I do not have his phone number.

Kog45 can easily verify the authenticity of this information

komekn:


Welcome back Numero uno, Supremo Delusional.

It's obvious 🤔 you are still asleep or maybe something deeper coma.

Dude has been in the Segunda Division for four seasons of extreme mediocrity. How low can you go❓Heusca tried to offload him for €300k but nobody wanted him in the entire Segunda, I guess he was too good for the league.

The entire network of coaches, analysts, recruitment heads,scouts, etc after four seasons could not 🙈 him , l guess they were all blind because you seem to be the only one with eyes 👀👀 to see him .

Huesca were so desperate to get rid of him they even illegally terminated his contract prematurely. I guess he was too expensive 😞. So Ponferridina picked him up for nothing and made him the second to the last lowest paid player In the club , why ❓

He has left the relegation Ponferridina from one sinking dead ship 🚢 to another anchored ⚓ permanently in the Portuguese league one relegation zone , Chavez FC.

If you wanted to create a CV for abysmal MEDIOCRITY in football this would be it.

Tell me Dr 2 know one thing I have said here that is not TRUE. But then that is a waste of time your too far gone on the delusional highway to nowhere.

You don't have any shame.... see all the energy you're using to criticize a young man who is just trying to earn a living from his sweat. Meanwhile, some of the innit boys that you tried to force down our throat (who you ironically used to boast are better than some of our homegrown players) aren't doing any better for themselves. Ejaria and Josh Onomah for instance are club-less.. Fred Onyedima barely plays at Luton.. Dominic Iorfa is still languishing in the lower division of English football.. If their career gets better now, you will not let us rest with epistle of how you ate akpu and egusi soup with their families and how well you know them..

Peseiro might still return.. his contract expired, so it's up to NFF to offer him a new one.
One thing is for sure, he will want a better deal than the one year deal that just expired..

ChrisKels:


Jibola Adebola!!!

Bolaji!!

charlesemeka85:
JUST IN : Eguavoen steps in as Super Eagles interim coach.

He will be assisted by Finidi George, who has stayed the longest with Peseiro among all indigenous coaches appointed to work with the Portuguese by the Amaju Pinnick led board for 22 months.


Maestro will be back to the national team soon 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Jibola Adebola is coming back to pepper you 🤣🤣

MallamSpicey:

Abeg don't tell me it's what I'm thinking...

Report says he has been appointed as interim coach

Lol, Eguavon again..

Goke7:


and 7 years to you is still a sprint? what a contradiction! At this point, it's obvious to everyone that you're confused. The more you talk about this player the more you're confirming his exceptionalism. English is just your problem. You're expecting him to be Methuselah before he can convince you he's world-class. Kotinu

"Football is a marathon not a sprint". Ironically, this same guy is fond of using the phrase "football is a short term career".
He isn't just confused... he must be doing weed, cus it doesn't make sense for a grown up adult with such exposure as his to use different metrics, criteria, theory and condition on different players just because he prefers the English born players...

komekn:


Go and get a bottle of coke 🍾with a smile , you are getting agitated and all fired up with rage 😡😡.

But why 🤔

It really depends on what unit of measurement will you use to decide world class.For me it's one word CONSISTENCY over time.

When I say Kane, Lewondoski, Mbappe, Ronaldo, Haaland, Salah, Messi, Lukaku, are WORLD 🌎 CLASS what you will notice is CONSISTENCY. These players have been at the top of the goal scoring charts for some over a decade.

VO is an absolute excellent player in what he does with a unique skill set. However, last season 2022/23 after three seasons in Seria A he was the golden boot winner. He did not do that in the Belgium, Bundesliga and French league one.

Now that he has achieved this outstanding accolade the real test is to do it again or at least stay in the top 5. To prove the consistency of world class top quality,it has to be done , in this season and the coming seasons.

Without prejudice I would not call him world 🌎 class yet. He is getting there but has not arrived. Unfortunately this season if he can get to the top 5 that would be outstanding to prove he is truly world class.

Would you call call Martinez, Dusan Vlahovic, Giroud world class ❓

You can cook up your own metric for rating a player as world class and twist it like semovita all you want... Osimhen, by global standards is a world class player... He has reached the level where he is regarded among the best in his position in the here and now.... Your opinion doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, sorry..

comodo:

This man and capping. Ighalo is scoring in Saudi league. See capping. I am talking about Ighalo and not Saudi League. So the here and now if he is good, he should be in top league no follow again. Saudi league finally no be backwater league again. Please Onyekuru is also scoring in Saudi. Let's recall him also. Shifting narratives here and there. U don dey talk of player and not the league. A Nigerian has been a top scorer in indian league

That guy and his hypocrisy..
There waa a time he used to rubbish the Turkish league especially when we used to call up players from there, but the moment one of his innit boys, Fisayo Dele-Bashiru moved there, he stopped criticizing the league and clamoured for Bashiru's invitation.. ironically, he bragged that Bashiru was headed to AC Milan until they guy carry am handicap anf ended up in Turkey

Goke7:


Don’t mind him, this is how Yekini was criticised in those days that he has no skills, yet till today he remains Nigeria’s highest goal scorer.

A player returned from Afcon and have score two goals in a row yet he’s not considered consistent in their eyes. phew

If Osimhen was a foreigner, I'm sure some of his critics will worship him.
IMO, one thing that sets Osimhen apart from other crop of talented players we have produced over they years but didnt live up to expectation is his dedication and hunger. You can see the determination in his game anytime he is on the pitch.. that is the mark of a man who knows that he hasn't arrived yet. Missing those chances at the AFCON was painful, but it wont take away the fact that he is an amaing player.

komekn:


Agreed 💯% without question ⁉️✔️✔️

However, the true test of quality is CONSISTENCY the ability to replicate outstanding top quality performances week in week out.

What makes Kane, Lewondoski, Mbappe, Benzema, Messi, Ronaldo true world 🌎 class is they do it year in year out.

The same thing goes for top clubs the ability to be top of the game season after season. Like Bayern M (fallen off this season) , Manchester City, Madrid, Liverpool, Barcelona, etc

Osimhen at club level has 107 goals and 27 assists in 211 games in addition to having a Serie A title, Serie A golden boot and Serie A player of the year under his belt..... If that isn't enough for you to label him world class, then you're just hating.. bad belle, full stop!

kendrick9:
Who knows. Maybe Nigeria would have done better without him. All he did was run around.
No finesse

2021 AFCON, we went there without him.. how did we fare?
No matter how much you try, you cant deny that Osimhen was pivotal to our success in the tournament.. The only thing he did wrong was to miss chances..