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TheSuperNerd:
Bassey played in the 2021/2022 Europa League Final for Rangers and dropped a world class performance from LCB.

He also made UEL Team of the season (see below) yet somehow the English Media stayed blind. May this sort of blindness continue as we approach other Anglo-Nigerian talents like Emmanuel Opeyemi Fernandez and co.

Now that was Bassey in 2022 just few months after his Super Eagles "baptism of fire" debut in the WCQs playoff vs Ghana in March of same year.

Now Bassey in 2025/26, Bassey is making Afcon 2025 Team of the Tournament (see below again) as the undisputed Best CB at the competition.

May England stay blind. While they bag the likes of Ethan Nwaneri, Ebere Eze and co, we will bag the likes of Fernandez and a few more whose quality will eventually shine.

Ebere Eze ??

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Ship has sailed na

Mujtahida:
Moroccans love Bassey oo

The Moroccans 🇲🇦/ North Africans were really impressed with Calvin Bassey 🇳🇬, He was a beast at the AFCON, Time to move to a top team (Liverpool, Man City, PSG, Real Madrid, Barcelona etc)

📷: Fabrizio.oriano pic.twitter.com/AV2iexOTHe

— Albahaca (@abuotor) January 23, 2026

Sadly he may not even be considered

Do you know why? Because of his black skin and the fact that they don't rate AFCON.

Don't be surprised if he remains at Fulham for the remainder of his contract. Thw truth is when it comes to Africsn talents, clubs have an innate bias against them. That's the way it's always been.

Let a white European give same basseys performance and watch the media go crazy and hype him

Also, many Nigerian stars font have good agents. I don't knownwho basseys agents are but onyedila is a perfect example. Such form in rugged and na Turkish clubs dey eye you??. As how?

Onyedika with good agents should be playing in a better club by now

For a black man to enter top 4 club in a top 4 league, it's either you play out of your mind or you have a wonderful agent

Goke7:
If it’s possible let Nigeria employ that Morocco coach in addition to Chelle cos just like Mali some African countries are just plainly stupid in sacking very high quality coaches.

Nff should call it another role I don’t mind

Can't happen

That man is too high profile to be an assistant.lolll🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. It's times like this you which that football was like FIFA

As Marvellous as it is, It can't happen

If Morocco sacks him, then they fully deserve all the failure that will come after his ouster

Arab nations are sore loosers

elyte89:
This must be fake 😃, aw u go sack this kind coach

It's all over twitter

They are looking to sign iniesta

Papi85:
19-year old striker Precious Benjamin has joined SCR Altach in the Austrian Bundesliga from TSG Hoffenheim on loan until the end of the season. He was part of Nigeria’s bronze medal winning side at the 2025 U20 AFCON.

19 years of age

Lollll

chrisooblog:
Toor! Pesin wey headbutt fellow teammate.

Let's not forget during the AFCON 2000 finals he punched a Cameroonian player who tackled him roughly. Had VAR existed then would definitely have been sent off yet he goes around pontificating.

Who was the team mate he headbutted?

yinkeys:
That age sha
But the guy must be a baller

Saw the news on twitter

That guy is nothing less than 26 years of age

Na him career him dey take play. Wetin concern me

Mujtahida:
When I say that Oliseh does not like Osimhen I do not say it frivolously.

It's easy to tell especially when one looks at patterns. You can easily tell when someone does not like you in that when you do something good, he never praises you but he praises others. But when you do something bad, ohhhh he'd talk about it to no end. Ohh so he didn't see the good you did but he sees that of others.

Oliseh should stay far from our football oo. What a toxic soul. I like him but I see now that he not good for our football.

Remember the coaching stint he had in Netherlands do you know why he was sacked?

Not for a poor run of games ooo. Baba was do toxic to player and staff that a player cried after Oliseh scolded him during half time

That's how he is.

If he had good character, he would've made a great manager. Tactically, I think he's the best from that 94 set

Kog45:
Let me start from did Senegal face Mozambique?but they faced Botswana,rate Mozambique and Botswana...yes they drew Congo,we lost to Congo via penalties...Senegal defeated Benin 3-0 the same Benin we beat 4-0...yes won Egypt by lone goal, against Egypt poor officiating denied us outright victory,Akor goal?Senegal showed resilient took Morocco to 120 minutes football just like Nigeria,what separated us was that goal, respect to Senegal but fact that Senegal team will only defeat us via penalties which can go either sides

You raised valid points I can't disagree w8th boss

But I don't want us to seem like we are head and shoulders above senegal

Bossoflife25:
This quote was from December 12 before AFCON. lol!

Like I said I look at events not the end-goal only.
We are building something very powerful, and the result will shock the world pretty soon!

Remember this statement for 2027 and 2028!

Of all the teams that played the semis, Nigeria is the only team with its core players at 30 years below. (Akor 24, Osimhen 27, Lookman 28, Ndidi 28, Frank 28, Iwobi 29, Bassey 25, Chukwueze 26, Bruno 26, Osayi 26).

Then you have Aknisanmiro 20, Nnadi, 20, Fago, 20, Dele 24, Aina, 28, Benjamin, 20, Ogbu 25, Ryan 24, Ejuke 26, Suleiman 19, Rafiu 23, Uche 22, Tolu 24, Moffi 25, Boniface 24, Orakpo 19- Nice, Ibrahim 19- Reims, Orban 22, Sor- 22, Genk, Anthony Dennis 20, David Moses 20, Onyedika 24 etc.

Just dey play!
That run from 1994 to 2000 that hayatou and his touts denied us is coming soonest!
Mark this post!

Sor has only 1 goal and 1 assist as an attacker in a Belgian league this season

Boniface would never be the same player he was and frankly in all his games for us, he was shit!!!!!

Moffi is without a club

Ejuke is all dribbles with no end product- another chukwueze in the making but less talkative

Please when listing talents, do your homework well. Some of these players may not pan out the way we want them and I daresay, they are below average.

Now compare to Senegalese talent pipeline

I rest my case bro. This ain't personal

Bossoflife25:
Every pundits and international stars rated us as the best team at this AFCON but a penalty loss to a cheating host nation suddenly made the team very bad.

Wow! Wow! What a shame!!

But a team whose striking force contributed just 2 goals in the knockout stage with a porous defense that conceded a stvpid penalty that should have been punished is now the team the Super Eagles should emulate?

What a disrespect!

In our last two knockout games, how many dud we score?

Did Senegal face Mozambique? What do you think the scoreline would be?

When people compare Nigeria to another country like Senegal, it's because we ought to be miles ahead of them with the human capital we have at our disposal

The truth is this, this Nigerian team is still a work in progress and isn't there yet.

We always struggle with teams that sit back to defend and are very disciplined with their movement and sadly, our coach doesn't know how to respond to adverse situations tactically. He's a good coach but he isn't Zidane or Klopp.

I really want us to start organising friendly matches against top European teams because I believe this AFCON against low ranked African sides may have given us a false sense of satisfaction

Let us see where we truly are on the world stage. Let use see what Bassey would do against an Mbappe, Yamal, Desire Doue or Harry Kane.

Let's celebrate the improveme t but let's not get way over our heads. There's still a lot of work to be done

Papi85:

A short horror storypic.twitter.com/M6zgyZtPWc

— Troll Football (@TrollFootball) January 19, 2026

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This shit is funny

Look of unbelieve on his face

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Hardrive:
Can we reach out to the Liverpool guy Rio ngumoha to see if he would be interested in playing for us.

Is he Nigerian?

Bannedlargejr:
See as Mane conduct himself as a Leader. No unnecessary shouting at his teammates at any mistake and just encouragement, support, Hardworking despite winning almost all trophies in world Football. If he was a Nigerian, he would be clowning with instagram yes-men, wearing Bling bling and shouting upandan as if, he owns the world. Most of Super eagles players need to learn how being a professional and acting like a Professional

Him fan boys go come for you oo

Ecowas haaland
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elyte89:
Can we learn from Senegal 🇸🇳 …no b everything person Dey do big man for ,at times u must fight for ur right …Una wey Dey mumu call nff protest against dr Congo as backdoor , make Una continue

Wrtin our players sabi na Vlogs and cracking fldry jokes inside team bus and carrying loud speaker to pitch

I quoted someone here and told him- you'll see how Senegal will execute this match

And truthfully, it panned out like that

Lolll

Lilll. Moroccans are beginning to cry on tiktok

9ne said he will never allow Brahim Diaz play for them.if it was up to him and even went as far as saying thwir coach is the worst

ThunderFireAgba:
Our midfield sold that match. You see how they Senegalese midfield operated with agility? Tactical awareness?
That's what we need in that middle and we lack it. We need a leader who inspires players like Sadio Mane in that team.

I said it before but thank God people's eyes are beginning to open.

Theobangs:
why people especially Nigerians think it fair is what I don't understand.....Conebol will never hire a Brazilian referee In an agentina game,euros will never hire a Serbian referee in a Croatia game,a Ukrainian referee in a Russia game,or a Armenia referee in a Azerbaijan game,.......infact euros try as much as possible to avoid all this nations playing each other,....it common sense,we only see this kind of nonsense in Africa....were a Ghanaian and a south African was hired to officiate a Nigerian game

They had an agenda

It was clear.

They know this. But they wanted Morocco to advance by all means as a "compensation"

Unlimited22:
They will still lose.

To be honest, the quality of their women's football isn't even close to ours

ThunderFireAgba:
No, leave them make dem dey wait for FIFA final verdict wey dey don settle since last month.

Nothing bad in hoping sha

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Goke7:
Forget wetin, no cheat shall be rewarded. If Congo has not cheated then fine

My brother, we can only hope

But I've lost faith in fairness on football

If Congo cheated, it shouldn't have taken FOFA this long to announce it
.as I said, we can only hope

ThunderFireAgba:
Prince of Morocco was around to kick start the AFCON. And was also around for today's finals but disappeared from the scene when it's time for CAF presentations. And you say these Arabic immigrants from the East value African ancestry??

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My brother, they don't

I tell any Nigerian that ARABS don't like blacks

I don't take their support for face value. They see blacks as slaves. See what Algeria did to ishowspeed. An influential person for that matter

They think they are superior genetically to blacks and to the white man, there's no difference between a black and an Arab

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Omo, the Egyptians would have a field day today and for the next weeks

It's going to be a long night for Moroccans

Expect worse officiating in the women's AFCON

mostob:
no chop am na host nation

Senegal
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FiveFootNinja:
I thought Morocco loss would make me happy, but if anything it has made me more depressed. I can never feel comfortable celebrating another country's victory. It should have been us in the final. Congrats to Senegal all the same. We now look forward to the WAFCON, and hopefully the World Cup if the case goes through.

Forget the WC case

We ain't going bro

Hope you people can see how to win against a dirty playing country

Meet madness with madness and fire with brimstone

Not the nonsense or niceties . African football is different

If only, if only..kai

hatakekakashi:
The team as a whole has regressed badly, it's almost as if Spaletti overachieved last season. If you think it's Osimhen's fault, check Kvaraskhelia stats too or any other player in the team.

Also, Osimhen has been battling injuries, he didn't start yesterday.

Bro...there's a reason I said all I said

I have nothing against oskmhen as a person. I wanted to call out the hypocrisy being exhibited

Another game and another goal drought for osimhen

But he is a world class striker

It is now clear who the sentimental lots are

But for sure it's not komekn

Joebie:

He was on colos when he typed it. Forgive his indiscretion

GSW is going back to the dark ages. Any hope of a resurgent dynasty is gone.

It was fun while it lasted sha. Let's go back to tanking like we did in the early 2000s - 2010s.

Still a fan by the way but this season is a snapshot of 6 yrs to come

chrisooblog:
Hakimi ko, Morufu ni!

mORoCCo cAMe 4tH aT ThE wORld cUp in the mud.

My heart is so full right now when a number of us tipped Osimhen for greatness we were mocked, called delusional and wallowing in mediocrity thank God we have been justified.

I see one or two monikers who were vehemently against Victor in the beginning now shining teeth but hey it's all good love and light

Call me out with your full chest