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@dayokannu

They messed up in 1996 and they still stuck with Aime jacques

Actually, they got to the semi-finals, this was seen as a good performance considering the fact that they didn't even qualify for the world cup in '94.

Also, Mikel IS NOT A BENCH WARMER AT CHELSEA, Wayne Bridge, shaun Wright phillips are benchwarmers. Its obvious that you only watch Chelsea only when they are on TV. The guy played regularly especially in the first half of the season before the nations cup, or whenever they had an injury crisis. By the time he came back from the African cup of nations, Chelsea had switched from a 4-3-3 formation that required 2 defensive midfielders to a 4-1-4-1 formation that required one, with either Essien or Makelele performing the holding duties with Essien playing right back whenever the full back got injured (that may change with Bosingwa coming in).
Chelsea wants the kid to replace an aging makelele when he decides to call it quits. Makelele is over 35 and he is not going to be able to play a full season like he used to, and this is where you need mikel to partner and essien. Either way, one of the holding midfielders would be out of the club, because Big Phil might still favor a 4-1-4-1 formation to accomodate Ballack and Deco (heck, he might drop one of them even if Lampard doesn't go to Inter Milan)
Now having said all this, a "benchwarming" mikel who plays in the EPL and Champions league is much better than an Isaac Promise who just got bought by some Turkish team, if he is supposed to be as good as Mikel why isn't he in the EPL, la liga, or heck, even the French league.

1) They are not paid well, hence they are not well motivated.

2) Its a high risk job, a journalist could get killed (like what happens in Russia) for uncovering a huge scandal.

3) They are not well trained, heck, some of this guys can barely use Microsoft word ( i takes them a while to find letter B after typing A). Also, they do plagiarize aaaaaaaaaaaa lot.

Geez, this is unbelievable.

@poster
Obviously you know ABSOLUTELY nothing about football if not the title of your topic would have been "Joseph Yobo's brother kidnapped" that would have been the hot topic of the forum, by the way its stale news.

On a more serious note, its sad to see Nigeria turning to Colombia.

@mr. nateevs

I just thought he could have Macaulay Christanus and the Rabiu Ibrahim in the squad.

Are you kidding me 
Seriously, this kids just played in the U17's last year and they are still in the youth reserves of there teams and you want them to come run with the big boys. Macauley christanus can't even crack the first team for Hamburg, talkless of playing and you put in place of Mikel who plays regularly for Chelsea especially when they have injury problems. Thank goodness that you  are not a coach, you definitely don't know how to groom players. I remember when you people were shouting back in '02 about Bartholomew Ogbeche being "the truth" unfortunately the boy turned out to be a lie, and there are several other instances like Opabunmi and co. now where are they now?
Morale of the story mr. nateevs is that;
1) You don't know how to scout talent.
2) You don't just throw players into the fire simply because they had one good junior tournament remember Nii Lamptey?, no i didn't think so because he faded out after having a brilliant U17 tournament that Pele himself had to annoint him as the chosen one. Remember that for every Fabregas there is a Berkant Goktan.

thanks mr. hleb for everything you've done for us i wish we could have won many more trophies but unfortunately we didn't, now i wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors and remember that once a gooner is always a gooner.

@poster
that's true, they did that in my family when i was a child.

SEAN PENN AND JACK NICHOLSON ARE THE GREATEST ACTORS OF OUR TIME. while the great legendary MERRYL STREEP IS THE GREATEST ACTRESS IN OUR OWN ERA.

@mr ofurufuru
whether you like it or not, all players are not created equal, you cannot compare Peter Crouch to Ronaldo, or Dirk Kuyt to Ruud van Nistlerooy, there is an exception to every rule, recognizing this is the art of management. The kid chose not to play in the qualifiers because Chelsea needed him afterall he plays regularly for Chelsea especially during injury crisis and when Essien is playing at right back, heck, the guy is supposed to be a younger replacement for Makelele. But what does Siasia do? he kicks him off the team because of his over inflated ego or jealousy (who knows, the guy never made as much money as mikel in his playing days) then you replace with some obscure kids who qualified by playing second rate teams in Africa. Well good for him, he better get it right at the olympics because, Holland is bringing Babel and Makaay who never played in there qualifiers and the Argentines and brazilians are bringing Messi, Arguero, Ronaldiho, Pato and Robinho NONE OF WHOM EVER PLAYED IN THE QUALIFIERS FOR THERE COUNTRY.

@poster
If you like yourself you better, i repeat BETTER get back to where you came from, where do you want to work? Nassarawa? Kebbi? or Benue? If you miss Nigeria so much then come home for vacation during the summer or spend a year after that, you better pack your things and get out of that hell hole and head back to where you came from?

"You look familiar, have i met you before"    

True Story: Guy meets twins at different places and different time and gets really confused, but either way since he wants to ask one of them out he asks the girl: "i see you there, i see you now are you twice"       ( the guy na akwa ibom guy so he no sabi english).  

@jkpretty

If u have a low IQ and your intending girlfriend also has a low IQ What do u expect, a miracle

I know many pretty girls that are all that, but don't have reasonable boyfriends, because they lack what it takes to keep one. . . gosh!

Who are you? and what's your problem, you got beef with me? i can't remember addressing you and you are insulting me, why don't keep your own low IQ opinion to yourself.

But shouldn't we have used this competition to try him out as an attacking midfielder and see if he can regain his touch?

Solomon David Abwo
Sanni Kaita
Olufemi Oladapo
Emmanuel Ekpo
Olufemi Ajilore
Bernard Okorowanta
Isaac Promise
Osadebemwen Okoro
Efe Ambrose
Chinedu Ogbuke

WHO ARE THIS GUYS

I can't believe that this are the guys that Siasia is dropping Mikel for, does he know that Holland is bring Roy Makaay and Ryan Babel. At best, if we qualify from the group and we face Argentina who included Messi despite the fact that he never played the qualifiers or Brazil who added Pato, Robinho and Ronaldinho who didn't play in the qualifiers at all.

@dayokannu
At least Luis Aragones had Fernando Torres, David Villa, Dani Guiza (top scorer in la liga) when he decided to drop Raul. Even when Aime Jacquet dropped Cantona and Ginola from the world Cup squad they had better replacements like Youri Djorkaeff, Emmanuel Petit, Thierry Henry, David Trezeguet, Robert Pires, Patrick Vieira, and oh yeah, some guy named Zidane. When Big Phil failed to include Romario in the squad, it was because the guy was not only old, but he was lazy, the guy never liked to train, and guess who is replacement was? one of the greatest strikers to ever  play the game; Ronaldo who went on to score 8 goals in the tournament and is the highest goal scorer till date in that competition.

Now who does Nigeria have to replace Mikel with?

Emmanuel Ekpo, Olufemi Ajilore, Bernard Okorowanta, Osadebemwen Okoro, Efe Ambrose ? just  because they got to a final which they LOST 3 years ago.

Keep dreaming my brother, after all, Nigeria is a country where second best is a huge success. Even if the guy makes it to the finals and loses again they would use the magic words "at least, they tried sha", its that mentality that is killing the country, instead of the guy using the failure of the U20 team in 2005 as a motivation to win this time around and prove himself a good coach and not a mere "alright" coach, he is going to throw that away  because of some rich millionaire kid who has more money than he ever had during his playing days.

are you serious
man, you really need more than counselling, you need God to set you free from those unnatural desires. Let's just hope you are joking son.

@poster
For real, there is this extremely cute akata chick i really like, i've tried speaking to her but there is nothing to talk to her about, we have absolutely nothing in common, the first time i met her she was a frosh, so i asked her the usual where she was from after that there was nothing to talk about, but i made a dumb mistake in not asking her if she wanted to hang out, i guess at the time i was only concerned that she didn't have double D's. Now everytime i meet her we just say hello and even though i try to think of something to say to her there is absolutely nothing to say, what a shame because i really liked her and she is the only cute akata kid in the school, i don't find the rest hot.

So we should rename New York City because it was named by the English or Harlem because it was named by the dutch or even New Orleans simply because it was named by the French, heck while you are at it, we should scrap off the name los angeles since it was named by spanish missionaries.

Abeg mr man, we love our city called Port Harcourt (i went to school there) and it has worked fine for us so far, so we want to keep the name, besides it would be too confusing to have change the name of the city, imagine renaming New York city.

My friend who was talking about Lagos here? didn't you read my comments?

after reading some of the coments made on this board, i can only thank my lucky stars that NONE of you are coaches especially of my favorite team arsenal.

woo hoo, my fellow gooners, it seems Christmas has arrived early this year.

Let's hope they pay him well as Monsieur Wenger (he happens to be a trained economist) loves to underpay his players that's why they leave us so abruptly. Either way, i can smell the sweet success of the premiership title next season ha ha ha.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=554666&sec=england&cc=5901

by the way, sulley muntari's full name is suleiman ali muntari.

@mathways

University of Texas(widely know as TAMU).

TAMU is not the same thing as UT (university of texas), TAMU is Texas A&M University-College Station and it is the best university for petroleum engineering, even better than the great MIT or even Stanford.
TAMU is also a cheap school compared to the university of texas at Austin plus there are a lot of Nigerians there.

duuuh! is it just now they are thinking of doing this? wonderful, just wonderful.

if you want an international airport, first of all issue bonds to upgrade your airports ( i am not even about to go through the topic of bond financing). Also, develop your region, when the standard of living of the average man gets better and then more people can travel abroad rather than some select rich few.

@finecat

Because so many black parents are involve with crack cocain. Bunch of idiots, then they turn around and accuse the white men for their problems.

Does this really happen in the UK I thought it was only in the US.

yep, this is what happens when you replace discipline with anger management classes or religion with ethics. You have an atheistic and unruly populace.

Let this be a warning to all Nigerians abroad who think that flogging (egba) is archaic, you will one day wake up to hear that your kids are doing drugs and have criminal records. The bible said it best "spoil the rod and spoil the child" and we all know that the bible doesn't lie because its the word of God.

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah riiiiiiight, at least Elliot Ness got rid of Al Capone while Ribadu was just a puppet.

omo, this blatter guy don tire person o, its as if him and platini never think before they talk, at least platini makes sense at times but this blatter sef i know understand o. Administrators are meant to be seen and not heard. The man truly needs to take some PR courses or probably the guy just loves the attention.

To make matters worse, the FFF chairman tried to fool us by extending the monsieur domenech's contract for 2 years without telling the public then after the game, he said he was going to re-assess the situation, what a dishonest thing to do.

I saw "The happening" the other day and i thought it was the worst movie i had ever seen, i know it was awareness movie (which tries to educate people) but it was just terrible. The acting was just absolutely awful that it seemed that the actors were making fun of the script, what a shame. We thought M. Night Shyamalan was going to reedeem himself for his last movie but now it seems that he was just a one hit wonder.