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semid4lyfe:
Bro, forget the U-20. Na overage dey full there most times.

I prefer we focus more on the U-17's to unearth talents because of the MRI scan requirement.

Osimhen, Chukwueze, Iheanacho, Kelechi Nwakali etc were all discovered at the U-17 level.

Like TheGoodJoe says, we need a good coach without ethnocentric bias and proclivity who will do an open and national screening and selection process to select the best players.

If I'm not mistaken, the last coach to do such was Emmanuel Ammuneke and we're still reaping the benefits.

From U-17. they can transit to U-20, professional football in Europe and play for the Super Eagles.

Amuneke did well. Each day passes and that sacrifice he made is still helpful to the SE.


I personally hate this age grade repeat that is now the norm. I do not believe it helps at alllll.

Plus the age cheating for that level at both boys and girls own. You play u17 world cup at 15. You're back 2 years later to play it again. It looks like a waste of space to me. Let other age grade players have their shine. Now see the Bameyi set repeating u20 like say all of them there be jss3 boys currently in ss2. Shuuu

That method needs to be binned
Whoever brought up the suggestion too needs cane cos it is counterproductive in the long run.

As for that non bias coach, i hope we find another one soon. Some decent managers are in the npfl and nwfl. Let them have a chance at the cadets. But are they impermeable to external influence?

BankyGee:
Which kind question be this?

This is his 5th career hat-trick.
🆚 Sassuolo - 3 goals
🆚 Sassuolo again - 3 goals
🆚 São Tome e Principé - 4 goals
🆚 São Tome e Principé again - 3 goals
🆚 Antalyaspor - 3 goals

Make he come my club and increase the hattricks abeg. He's such an enigma. Defenders are terrified of how he's energetic off the ball. He mustu find way.

I believe his 1v1 is getting better.

Osimhen will reach 40GA. Its inevitable.


Each day that passes, i dey vex with the u20. Why? Cos why we may agree that talent dey, they're not all that exceptional to break into the SE as we are right now. We can't even see 1 or 2 creatives to be in the squad. Either it is political or they're just not good atall.


Pls don't bring me that development talk. It will be a flimsy excuse.


While we are banking on VO for the 2 games, i hope someone else also comes hotter.

mine3112:
Arsenal will qualify regardless of the players Arteta feeds that day.

I really want to have your level of faith. Especially the one without analysis and probabilities. I just want us to replicate the Henry brilliance. Senderos was that night as well sha

iamoyindamola:
The guy assisted 2 goals by fluke he no let us hear word 🤣🙃
Only for him to miss one on one

I was pissed. And then hours ago i saw a clip of Giroud scoring such lone man 1v1 without looking. Sterling looked twice and still couldn't. Omo!! I noticed efforts for him to get a goal.

iamoyindamola:
Come again
Raya is good in penalty ke🤣🤣🤣

He is actually good. But we shouldn't hop on pk atall solely because of how great Thibaut is there. Any level Raya is on won't matter. Plus i dunno about the cool pk legs in this team since that Man U game

Roland17:
This fixture can not be over for us after the first leg at home. We absolutely have to give ourselves a chance going into the 2nd leg in Spain.

We know how to play haram football. So we need to go all out at the Emirates. Let them never ever feel like that Stadium is where they can show their game.

Get a win at the Emirates and either play for the draw at Bernabeu or use the "i did it at your backyard" like Yamal and Barca did months ago.

The truth is they are beatable at Santiago. They're also terrible at setpieces from Cornerkicks, so Jover needs to find how to revive that advantage before that fixture.


As for the nonsense errors that leads to goals that Raya and co at the back have done in last 3 ucl games, we need that removed. It will be terrible playing this guys on both legs and an error gives them the advantage to next stage.

Somewhere along the line, i know Arteta might reason taking this to PK sha knowing Raya is good there. But I don't feel that way. Plus Courtois is even better at PK.


Studying the Madrid encounter, simeone actually attacked them. He also controlled the middle for longer periods. Then Real woke up unexpectedly in extra time.

If Partey plays, i won't expect much run and recovery duels from him. But he will control a lot.

We need to also score from that region that Zinchenko score vs PSV. We need goals from there. Madrid are super comfy when teams play from L-R, holding possession. Cos counter too sweet for them.


We can. But we must upgrade the mentality and reduce any nonsense indiscipline(like useless yellow cards that can make one miss next game or clumsy red cards) cos those two are protected gaaan(Vini and Mbappe)

Make Sterling no try that miss again o. Imagine that was the UCL final and he missed that.

Samueltemi337:
Liverpool and Manchester City are keeping a close eye on Nottingham Forest right-back Ola Aina.

Liverpool FC would only make the move if Trent Alexander Arnold moved on.

Source: TBR Football

I prefer Liverpool for our guy. Red to red abeg. But he should move after Forest sees how far their campaign in the UCL will be. He deserves that one last dance with Forest.


Now i pray we have a LB of such calibre. U20s can't even produce something, ehn. 🥴

Samueltemi337:
Wetin you one use 5 strikers do
Even the 4 is too much

Lol. Many of you are asking this after injury did its thing. Wow.

Ibunkun1:
Una get the squad to do the job, it’s the mentality I’m not sure about

We the fans can and must doubt. But as Igwe said in the studio, if we don't believe we can beat them over 2 legs, then we might as well not show up for the encounter.

So it won't be about calibre. But mentality.

The right manager speech can change a lot

semid4lyfe:
I think we all agree the initial list had k-leg and was externally influenced.

If it takes injuries to some selected players for the team to be balanced and get the right shape, so be it.

So I view this change as Chelle making his choice & exerting himself with this change.

Furthermore, I'm.of the opinion it's foolish to select only 6 defenders in a squad of 23.

If a coach deploys a 3-5-2 and plays five defenders. three as central defenders and two as wing-backs like Peseiro did at AFCON, (Ekong, Bassey, Ajayi, Zaidu, Aina), the team will be left with only one defender on the bench, and we all know defenders easily get injured and carded.

Conclusively. I believe a squad of 23 should have 3 goalkeepers, 7 defenders, 7 midfielders and 6 forward players.

Players Versatility to play multiple positions also helps in this regard and that's the reason Uche Chrisantus should have been a shoe-in in this squad cos he can slot seamlessly into the midfield as a CAM and in the forward line as a SS.

That's the issue. You've said it. There was no consideration for players that can play multiple positions.

Chai who is this wack selector sef?

semid4lyfe:
Actually, the defence department in the squad was too thin and the forwards were in excess.

I think Tella's replacement with Jordan Torunigha is the right call.

If this is the conclusion that justifies his actions, then it means the selection process is flawed in the first place. It took an injury to correct that. How many more injuries do we need to finally balance everything?

Airplane never land tarmac finish, fire don start??
El Midgeto small small na.

We know all these chess moves abeg.

There's no move you'll take that will make us thing you're not still working for balaBluee. Abegi abegi 😂😂😂😂😂

elyte89:
For chelle to have replaced a winger for a defender shows dere was a fault in d original list.i hope he knows what he’s doing cos we can’t afford to drop points

Chelle never land finish and those dragons in glass house wan wear apron to cook broth for us? Reminds me of the Lars Lagerback era. That man was so mumu he didn't even know who to invite. I don't wonder how he got that job. They needed a mumu and he was available. They still never change till now.


Irony is if anything sele now, they'll all exonerate themselves and be quiet and allow media to roast Chelle.


Anyways more faith in g

Someone is injured and instead of bringing in Dessers, na Jordan? 😂


Dessers don deserve all this disrespect. Naaah.

Senderos at the back and no goal over two legs.

The thing is we also need a one man show, one player that will be a pain to the madrid backline the way psg was to Liverpool.

Do we have our Henry for this encounter? For Pace it should be Martinelli. For flair it ought to be Odegaard, for threat none stop it should be Saka. It's unbelievable that all these qualities were in Thierry for the two legs in 2006. He came and dropped himself with no thoughts of the next game. He wanted to die there.

If Arteta doesn't bring his Sporting Lisbon form, he's wasting his time. We don't need experimenting. We need to take this as the final. Sane Fans know we are the underdog in this encounter.
That was how it was in 06 but we shocked the world.


Who knows if 2006 will repeat itself with us being champs this time.

We can only hope. But if we are going out, go out so honourably that the performance will be hard to forget in next 6years.

elyte89:
With deir unattractive stadiums

Broadcast quality and ethics alone is the issue.

We fit dey watch South East derby make they redirect broadcast to one political rally or one farmer from Gombe. Shows they don't understand how to attract money aside politics

Saka back for Madrid encounter.

Partey and Rice and Zinchenko

White vs Vini is scarier than Timber vs Vini imo.

Make we sha be wise with chances. This team can use 5 passes in counter attack and cause wahala. I pray no red card that day for us sha. We need a fully fit xi. I doubt we have the lungs if it was Atletico sha

Trossard is the useless player tonight. Sterling has done his bit this 2nd half. His misses though.

2-2

Atletico are playing with more psg passion than Real. Omo

There's a way Calafiori moves upfront that makes one prefer him as CF instead of Merino. But that will never happen. Imagining sha

Lol.

I understand all the talk of sacred and all but but


This will make fictional storylines and characters hard to be mainstream in Nollywood


It is well sha.

Baba finally beats his marker. What a cross. E remain goal

Haynnie:
I still can't believe he sold and loaned some of our potential players.

That act dazed me. I was here thinking it is because some incoming was on. Only to see.....
Window close. Rain fall. Thunder strike. Dark Arts took over, sun shine, window open again. Yet no crow land with news till window close again. Asif na spell.

For someone that can't even beat his marker, there's too much mention of him in the press all over in the last 3 weeks in UK

Chai🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

Haynnie:
Arteta’s weakness is squad rotation and his pride affects mental evaluation on his players. He always believe a player needs to reach a certain level before he can take them into his starting XI.
It was recently I found out havertz is not a striker but a CAM converted to striker. It irks me to see havetz as a CF. Just until recently he started using Merino as CF after a well-plotted tactics on that game that ended with Merino having a brace. But one thing I've understood is Arteta is either not smart to realise the same squad or tactics won't work for different teams.

His pride is not letting take outside advice unless it is forced down his throat just like they did with EN and MLS. He would give them bit minutes to start with. Meanwhile we have yamal and desire balling in their respective club at such young age.

That merino cf experiment, i was unfazed about it. I said it here. Someone told me to just enjoy the moment and that and this.

We get too carried away alot and it is a whole problem in itself.

His new role will not mask the issue on ground. Especially as he had 4 seasons to do what is right.

Haynnie:
I think he has a problem he can't see himself

He has trust issues and yet to get solid trusted and experienced legs dey hard am. This same trust issue is why he let 4 good players depart without sane replacement. The irony is the one he trusts, he wan kpai them with consistent games. No rest for them.


I can't grasp the thought process.

Good start. Now double up on the support and lets see the crash in prices of food stuff in Ekiti state, independent of the major supply chain prices.


Plus this should double up to 1bn next. 200m is small for 1k farmers. The numbers of farmers will increase and the profits alone should be 10×


2bn for 2k farmers is more the target.


We can. Land dey

Reno is the unrivaled delulu of the political terrain. H3 dey use grammar and he wrote all that to delude himself when we all know that 95% of Nigerian politicians cross carpet since 1950s till date?


He thinks we don't know our history so he wants to rewrite it? So na fly all the APC guys fly come. They didn't jump from one ship to another?


😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

This shameless house of assembly will do down to the mud until it is a mud bath.

NFF influence on team lists since days of Eguavoen go be like 50-70%

It was Rohr's era that made me conclude on this. Till date, they haven't bend


It's something like this


NFF influence
Merit influence
Coach's own personal slot(not based on merit but mainly connections; mostly done by local managers)