₦airaland Forum

Sugarboyy:
Osimhen and Tolu hasn't really been bad.
But I personally love Adams decision making when with the ball. Na that Boniface I nor wan see anywhere near the SE

Thank you!! You saw that in the game. Those two had chemistry immediately. Best to take advantage of it

Just like Boniface and Osimhen didn't work imo, i doubt Osimhen and Tolu will work. Its Akor and Osimhen that will work. Infact, Akor and Tolu will work more if no Osimhen. What do you think?

jihday:
Eletu? Genuine question, when was the last time you saw Eletu play a football match

Sugarboyy:
Tennis 🎾 has not falling off, rather I think you are the one that has lost interest in it.
Alcarez and Sinner are the young guns ruling the world of Tennis today and I can beat my chest and say these 2 would have done same thing during the time of Federar, Nadal, Djokovic, Murray, Juan Martin Del Potro, etc

Oga mi, Tennis has fallen off. You can't watch those aforementioned and not admit this. Football fans used to discuss football and switch effortlessly to Tennis in discussions among the boys that years, even the mendem.

Now who dey follow like before? Where's that drive and competition? Asides Alcarez and Coco, who is making that game near as used to be?

This is stale though. He had one full term as 001. Why all these mental gymnastics though?

Subzerooo:
Are we forgetting Vincent Enyeama? I know he has no club right now but his cat like instincts will still be valuable

You guys have taken this sarcasm to level 24 o. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂


Since Nwabali dey misbehave, lets call Ezenwa and Agbim.

do4luv14:
Chaiii you be oldies Sir, from Today's sport to thisday sport, and Soccerstar paper, it was always an avalanche to choose from, then came completesports, and I fall helplessly in love with all their sport contents, including their success digest 💕💕💕


You are right about the sport minister and Nff interviews, those ones no sabi shishi about what they are doing especially Nff then, not forgetting AA and Chief Taiwo Ogunjubi

😂😂😂


Those guys were so so good at reporting. If they all had social media presence then, they'll be doing way way better than the current ones. Paul Bassey too that year. Watching Aisha Falode for sports news at night as well. AIT crew as well.

That Chief ehn..... Chai. Times of chest pain as a boy reading this man's delulu talks. We pray for more better days abeg. Lol.


Someone needs to do some program to honor these sports reporter giants. They deserve top recognition and appreciation for making the path this sweet and memorable.

Philosopher1979:
The world cup qualifiers might actually make us win the nations Cup. This is because it will sharpen us as a team. We will now go into the nations cup with a mini tournament behind us. If we make it through the world cup qualifiers our confidence will be sky high. We will then be a different animal in the nations cup.

Provided NFF doesn't kill it eith off pitch drama and mediocrity

TheSuperNerd:
Just finished watching Akinsanmiro stop a 2 v 1 situation on the Pisa Right Flank (Lazio's left), won the duel and came away with the ball.

He played only 25mins+ off the bench but won the most tackles in the game (3).
He shows his quality yet again.

Yet someone will come and say Akinsanmiro is weak and not strong enough or fast. Fallacious takes.

He and Eletu should be sniffing call ups alongside Kayode. Infact I'll prefer the trio than any for Tosin right now.

do4luv14:
Chaiii you be oldies Sir, from Today's sport to thisday sport, and Soccerstar paper, it was always an avalanche to choose from, then came completesports, and I fall helplessly in love with all their sport contents, including their success digest 💕💕💕


You are right about the sport minister and Nff interviews, those ones no sabi shishi about what they are doing especially Nff then, not forgetting AA and Chief Taiwo Ogunjubi

One could never be a full football fan with these papers. They'll insert Roland Garros, Wimbledon, Open here and there and the pics of our fave, Roger Federer and Serena. Lol. Now Tennis has fallen off.

do4luv14:
But let's see sha, cos I don't believe he stole, much of his tenure was thate battle between him and Giwa, who was backed by then Dalung the sport minister,

Who with-held the Nff funds, hence he went to scouts sponsors,

Let's see, more will come out soon

Stole o
Mismanagement o
Fraud o
Alll join are on his neck and he can't even drop documents to back him one bit till now.

Fear Pinnick. That's how devils operate. Innocent till proven guilty no doubt but all these monies and he can't even convince us all that he's been trampled on in the media?

do4luv14:
See ehn that completesport, I used to go hungry just to get that paper 7days a week, Omo I was an stunch reader of that paper,

Can you believe I was seriously scouting for it earlier this year ,

Eagles Euro roundups, Soccer talks, and the Mathematical, those topics got me hooked good

From 20 to 30 to 50naira. We dey😹
The Nigerians abroad part especially. 😂
I hated interviews of the nff presidents and sports minister then. Low iq as they talk. Lol

Spy360:
When Kai returns he will ease of the goals burden. Hope you're not using Kai to hope to unlock for Gyokeres?

Lol. Spy spy.😂

Unlock where? Kontunu

I see a parallel line between mismanagement of these funds and the collapse of our u17 and u20 structure. We used to wait for when these guys will qualify before we begin to identify the next big talent. Now na Bameyi be face of team, twice. Na Olowookere, skilled in apology and medicine after death naim we get, also twice. Lol

mostob:
November soon...

Can't wait. Lets pray Lookman eveb steals the show. It will be a relief

do4luv14:
Thanks for these, that's what love wey dey wins no fit decipher, he had already attributes that 2013 wins to Aminu


I see you were a superb fans of complete sports and it's sisters publications, yes I look forward to every Thursday and weekends for both Mumuni and The Mathematical,

Pitifully the paper is no longer in print, I miss that paper like madt


On Pinnick, there is something we must come to terms with when judging as per the funds he received, the exchange rates during his time and now are two major things,

I only defended him on whats on ground, as per those revealing things coming to lights,

To be honest we must look back to know where it came from, cos the one presently on ground the $1.2m kebbi stadium, many are using today's exchange rates to judge him on it

It was a must buy that year😎😎
The leaders in that era could control how print media went. But since the social media came, we've been seeing more than we ever imagined, that's why they hate it with passion.
Sad the paper wrapped up as they couldn't fully transition to online. For transitioning, i give Punch Newspaper kudos. E no easy but they pulled it off. Goal com too was a must visit then. Lol.



As for this man, even if the exchange rate was low then, if we use the eval of today value to judge him based on what such funds could do, he becomes a bigger devil. That's why I'm less bothered about if it was 360/$ or 9000/$
The man tiff no be small.

Some of the others didn't even see funds and so they replaced it with incompetence and corruption, nepotism. This one? He saw funds like water. Like water. Mehnn...

Bottomline

Shame on Lagos!!!
Where Govt and the Trad Rulers are more concerned with Aesthetics and PR than with making that city way better than Nairobi or Windhoek.

They're trying to silently prove that without FG, they have no grand plan to be a top world destination for tourists to come and splash funds the way they do at Rio de Janeiro, Banjui, Capo Verde, or even Zanzibar.


They boast of trillions annually but even Accommodations issues are less important than demolition works.

Lagosians deserve better. A former capital city deserves even wat better. A city with ports of such magnitude deserves the roads leading to the ports to be multilayered, topnotched and even a cargo train ought to be in place by now. But here we are.


I'll leave the dirtiness to others to harp on.

Blame Men that feel that they can't demand more from women once in a relationship. They just want their money to be eaten while she slays and all that.

The truth is many women will always see that kind of man. They take those stuff as care compared to the non-monetary ones sadly. The men involved don't mind. But they rather keep such as trophy and find one that connects genuinely to them. Infidelity? Still bad all the same.

Poverty is tye foundation. But many ladies are not seeing the opportunity to be the fore of changing the poverty status their own way. They want the 1% of the 1% to do that for them.


Billing is not a good guage to know a serious person ladies. Use it to chase guys all you want but you'll be increasing the ones that won't feel the billing but will deny you the freedom your owns self needs day to day.


Lastly, Men need to do better. What do you have aside this bag? How are you helping your fellow men and families to set up what's permanent so they ladies in your families don't end up in this sinkhole?

Everyone to their own anyway

Tim is funny and i say this in a sincere cool way.

He wants to swallow more than he can chew and the fact is if he stands in a room filled with sincere, well grounded MoGs, sound in the word and purely scripture focused with no bias, na him gaaan go run comot when they use bible scatter am finish. If he wants to use that verse to justify association with darkness, there's a 100 more than can be quoted.

I see he can't deal with it and it's making him all the more defensive which isn't good. Hopefully i hope he is restored fully to the truth because of what he represents and the influence he has.


This is how Kirk Franklin was that year. If he was fully confident, he won't be having track records of repenting and going back and then repenting and rinse and repeat.

Tim, you'll be fine.

do4luv14:
Wast it same Aminu that was gunning for a third term in office

Mumini Alao articles and the Mathematical and Solace Chukwu columns daily, weekly that year. I can't forget.


The success of teams in our sports barely transcends from good leadership. I've learnt that a long time ago to never mix the two.

That 2013 success, they'll attach it to nff president. Lmao. The wafcon we just won, they'll do same for Gusau and Madugu. Lol

Format is win something and then what follows is terrible administration covered by that lone success.

But you see this Pinnick??

This man gat the funds combined of the last 3 NFF bosses and he squandered it in a Wolf of Wall Street way. That's a huge huge devil there. Forget all those PR he was a genius at. I loved it too. But those funds were enough to return all the National Teams to compete with the best of Europe if they went in the right coffers. Im judging him mainly on a what would have been.

Heck more exposure comes to light and now I'm on the "what more do i not know mehn?" Level.

Spy360:
Kai played as an AM when he joined not as a striker. SonI would not have laid a goals burden on him.

As a matter of fact, I don't put any burden on Gyokeres to score goals beyond what he has done. It's was only in reaction to those who feel he should have a Haalandesque effect.

Lol.

This is my issue with you.

When he was on a goal drought and they gave him pk to open confidence for him, where was he playing in our lemon jersey?

Overall, me didn't expect him to cos of Arteta factor. I knew he is capable of doing Auba numbers in an instant (Arteta enjoyed that yet refused to get such striker all the while. Lol)
So im just on a "this man wan dey use Gyo a different way and then everyone is not looking, maybe unleash him like Haaland" mode.

It will be all the more lethal when Kai and GJ returns.

For those quick to react, reread her reply to why she's not using the name at the fore of her identity in such a vast, modern and public oriented space.


That's a sad sad thing to have about your identity i won't lie. She also gave the impression that she doesn't want to change it to a tribal name that she likes if she didn't like the one given her by her parents(assuming it portrayed tragedy or a sad event, some weird sound, or funny meaning)

It might seem harsh but identity is a volatile situation these days and it plays a part in mentality that people want to pass down to next generation.


Could he influence her to change? Yes he can but it might come off as too invading

Could he have encouraged her to see everything in new light while as friends? Yeah

But we all know how many will see genuine, sincere efforts of such nature as offensive.

So he let her be. Sad sad

He's young. He's good. Just 21. Get him now and let him fully understudy Ola Aina in the NT.

This guy with Benjamin Frederick and Bassey at the back is already a solid 3/4 defenders one day. We need to be catching the defenders at the turn of 20yo.

lovewins:
My point being he was the better of the bad bunch. Again like I opined yesterday, it's impossible to have one good NFF president with the current composition. It's just not possible when 37 of the 44 voting delegates are politicians. It's amazing many people don't realize this. If nothing changes, the next NFF President after Gusau will be another of the state FA chairmen.

The lesser devil. Well even that is had to admit but i get your POV. That vote of no confidence and financial secrecy even to the executive..... Sounds like a Lesser Pinnick.

The centre will soon collapse. We have one of the dumbest structures for football administration down to the lane where we are sweating hard over foreign borns vs local grown takes preeminence.



I wish there was NL Polls, I'll put it to a test of who was indeed the worst NFF president.

lovewins:
Amini Maigari was a lot better. He was the one who pioneered the u13 teams in the NFF which has helped Nigerian football in no little way. It's still a wonder how this program wasn't allowed to thrive under Pinnick

He was terrible with administration overall. The idea was good but i felt that was a coyish move to pretend to show workings. I hate to look at all the names of these presidents and realize we've not had ONE good one since the hand over from military to civilian. ☹️☹️☹️😤

Now we are currently in the era where the journos are loyal to someone so they can't criticize. Smh. Such nonsense was not in complete sports era.

Kashimawo Laloko
Aliyu Ibrahim
Galadima
Sani Lulu
Aminu Maigari
Amaju Pinnick
Gusau



Thr fattest era of triangles in rectangular holes was from that Galadima to Magari.


But you see this Amaju Pinnick!!!


Man borrowed from the Sepp Blatter Style. He mixed it well to stay in the middle but he was actually in Hayatou mode with funds. Ambitious and corporate world smart in a Corleone way.

For those terrible 3 muskeeteers from the North, they couldn't hide their own mismanagement and lack of knowledge of the game, amongs other disabilities. But you see Amaju 'Whitebeard' Pinnick.....

Alalalalalala. He's left office and we keep hearing new things. Like the legendary Sani Abacha. I guess the media space in the sports word in Nigeria are 4times more lenient with him than they ever were with Sani and Aminu.

What are the use of these useless tracks in these stadiums for heaven's sake? I saw an aerial view of many of the home venue of these NPFL clubs and the tracks make them a complete eyesore asides the obvious lack of maintenance by these clubs. Someone should tell me the last 3 times these tracks were used for something serious since they were built. Smh.

Roland17:
Arsenal v Palace

Carabao Quarter Finals

Na Man City and Chelsea be the only encumbrance right now to lifting this trophy for a start.

Spy360:
This was what I suggested for Gyokeres for like two matches to boost his morale and you thought I was hating.

Show me where i thought such abeg.
Besides, remember you never supported same for Kai intil they gave him PK to boost morale. You forgot? What changed then?

lovewins:
Possible Ways of Solving the NFF conundrum

The corruption and incompetence problem that pervades the Nigerian football federation isn't new, and it can sometimes appear like an unsolvable problem. This however isn't the case, should you have the person with the needed political will, it is one that can be easily solved without the appearance of interference that could elicit a ban from FIFA.

How then can the Federal Government solve this problem?

1. The President has to be on board for this to work? Without the President this may be extremely difficult as you need the leverage of his office to pull several strings for this to be possible.

2. The composition of the NFF board is largely political. 37 of the 44 voting members of the NFF delegate are state chairmen. These chairmen from the states 100% of the time determine who the NFF chairman is and they almost always pick amongst themselves the next NFF President.

3. How do State chairmen emerge? The state government almost always picks them. So the governor of each state of the federation indirectly determines who the NFF President is. They of course of a semblance of an election but the governor's choice is always the end result.

4. These positions usually are given as reward for party loyalty just like they do the ministry of sports at the federal level. I said this to say it isn't exactly consequential to the governors as they can easily cede the position with the right incentive.

5. With the political will, the President only needs to request for each governor to fire their state FA chairman and put someone of competence of his choosing. He doesn't even need all 37 to get the desired outcome, 23 governors are enough to get this done. With the right incentives this isn't a difficult ask from the president to any governor in the federation.

6. After, replacing them with the right people, you can either easily impeach Gusau following the NFF constitution, or just wait till next year and elect the person of his choosing as next NFF President as he now has the votes to do so. I'll go with option 2 as it prevents the need for court cases and the likes.

7. Upon electing the new board of competent people, the first goal will then be to change the NFF constitution. Item one will be to overhaul the voting process of the NFF, wrestling power from state FA chairmen as delegates and instead gives voting power to technocrats, player association, and career administrators. Include laws in the new constitution that incentivizes competence and makes changing bad leadership easier should it be necessary.

8. With a change in constitution, you remove forever the sway politicians have over Nigerian football.

The good part is, all of the above steps haven't violated any FIFA rule as they are steps that align with the current NFF constitution.

The idea looks good but it is still terrible politicians that will be at the helm of it all. Plus they'll all want to get some form of loyalty back from the new appointments which alone defies the good already. 😹

Na if sensible Governors dey to start. Not these current ones wey dey do like LGA chairmen of OBJ era. They no dey think in direction of greater good. Hence that number 8 is already defeated. Its a cesspit of a rinse and repeat of wahala. So sad this is a fix but not impossible. Plus if President wants to achieve this, he will have to concede some leverage to these governors.

Gov A: GCFR, abeg help me push that efcc case to the grave and your wish is my command.

BascoVanVeli:
No I'm talking about the U17s. Those were players part of the qualifiers.

Noted.

Imagine a situation where Saka comes off the bench to be scoring instead of starting. 😂

Well ma just imagination sha. Omo make Odegaard shapali fo abeg. The flair of GJ will also come in handy some day if that's all he can add. This Andre Annous no good reach Butler one bit sha.