zuchyblink:
what happened to the likes of chima okoroji, torunarigha, lukas nmecha, felix udokhai, Kevin Akpoguma, bazee, eberechi eze and others?

He's focusing on those under 23

safarigirl:
just googled the Dillon guy

Man's name is Ifunanya Chukwu.....we can work with a Chukwu, but not a Hoogewerf

Hmm Ifunanya Chukwu wanted to be a Dillon Hoogewerf

This thread go sweet

Watch how Afonjas will start attacking Igbos

safarigirl:
how will we write Hoogewerf on a Nigerian jersey? What is his real name abeg? Even Gozzi, is it not Gozie?

That guy is not even Nigerian, just forget about him

It seems somebody is listening to us

Humility017 food don don

safarigirl:


There was a time Tomori was willing and ready?

When was this?

Maybe when he was in Chelsea academy

charlesemeka85:
when the invitation came he rejected it and told the english fa that his heart is with nigeria but the fa swooped in to persuade him through his club management before he accepted the call up.

he wasn't invited for the england u21 games this term. let' just wait and see how thing unfold but i am very sure that eze wants to play for nigeria

Let me go to his social media and verify your claims

Danielnino00:


Yea. and a town hall meeting should have been held in London to make it more official and formal..

Nonsense!

Two town hall meetings

One in London and another in his residence

Joebie:
My point is England did not get sentimental and say “Eze’s heart is not with us”

Don't think the English FA did not get Eze's permission before inviting him for the U20s

Danielnino00:



What do u mean by Tomori's invite wasn't official?
The NFF approached him and he said we should give him time...
Is it until we announce it to the whole world before u will agree that there was an official approach for him?

That was how u said Pinnick never meet with Tammy Abraham in London and that Tammy never turned us down..

No we should have gone with a whole local government on Osun state to make it official

komekn:


i know because i have talked to at least 4/5 of them myself

Yea I believe you

If you know Eze tell him to publicly pledge his allegiance to Nigeria so we can know where he stands

komekn:


Tomori was not invited officially just speculation , we waited for him to blow then we remembered him, that's why dem say "know me when i'm poor"


What prevents the NFF from inviting all these outstanding promising players 6/7 of them give them a sense of belonging , understand invitation is not selection, if they prove themselves then SELECTION.

Come the January window if Eze get taken up by Southampton or anybody else in the EPL then we will suddenly remember him.

WRONG APPROACH

Oh, call up is not on consistent performance when it comes to foreign players?

How do you know NFF has not been talking to them or you want them to hear about their invitation in the internet and reject us publicly?

Joebie:
I didn’t join this discussion from the beginning so I may be lost. But let’s not be too sentimental. Eze was called up to a get together by Rohr and he honored it. Why did England still invite him after then?

He even accepted U20 invitation, how do we know that Eze wants to play for us

We saw how Abraham used a Nigerian invite to hassle English FA, Adarabioyo is testing out Nigerian jerseys, Sheyi Ojo has pledged to Nigeria

What has Eze done to show we are not in a wild goose chase

Humility017:


in all fairness if you are in Eze shoes. ...at this point should the English FA give you a call up will you refuse?

considering you've lived in England all your life, you even play there....and Nigeria have refused to call you up.

He is not accepting because Nigeria refused to call him up, he's accepting because he wants to play for England

Jordan Ibe and Philip Billing refused a Nigerian call up to play for other countries

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komekn:


Why do you think there are delays in getting Nigerian origin players even those capped at youth level by England.

IMO first issue is administrative incompetence the delay to get Aina was not from FIFA but the NFF, why Then the other issue is conflicting interests players already established in Europe will not understand the Egunje mentality.

Finally, considering the huge pay out to Rohr do any of you truly believes that he gets all of his salary and does not have to give a % to the powers that be . So why would anybody think he has total control over player selection.

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Dude stop blasting conspiracy theories everywhere I'm very sure you would defend none of these theories if you are called up

You always talk about proof and evidence, how many of them do you have for the trash you wrote up there

komekn:


I have said this many times before, we seem to invite players from the pages of news papers, but dont actually make an official invitation.

This has happened so many times, i have talked to quite a few of our Nigeria origin players in the UK and i always find their version of events is very different from the one the NFF presents.

Consider Ebere Eze waiting for call up but NUTTIN when England call him some of you will now say LIAR. knowing the country we are from and the nature of the NFF who is most likely to be lying

Why didn't Abraham and Tomori honor our call up?

Nonsense, Ebere Eze knows which country he wants to play for, he's not a robot or a kid

kennysville:


Really? Wow! U mean to say the best that got away with so much support....

Can you ask yourself all things being equal, if our local coaches ever enjoued one-tenth of the support he has had?

Not like I support our local coaches per se cos they have their issues as well. But truth needs to be told. Lets not sell our homefront short.

You think he got support without working for it? Thomas Dennerby that resigned wasn't he a foreign coach?

The thing is Rohr has the players at the tips of his hands and the players respect him, the nonsense the NFF is doing he's ignoring it and going on with his job

Btw Imama and Aigbogun got full support

Bighead9:
Nawa oo, this moving Coffin for 25m? I rather use from the money to buy a Tokumbi Golf of 700k. Then give the change to Charity.

You are poor, you have no choice

Jordan Ibe crashed his car into a café and ran away

andrew444:


Dude has not been him self since his failed move to Tottenham ,it really affected him

E be like say the guy dey suffer village people problem

'An arrest warrant has been issued for Saido Berahino after he failed to appear in court for his drunk driving charges'

Dude keeps messing up

andrew444:


I hope so because he deserves to start, but dont be suprised if you see a michael keane, me i dont trust english coaches

I don't think Southgate has that bias

Eleniyan15:
Who will place a bet with me, only Tammy will be capped but fikayo go still wait endlessly in other-words fikayo will end up playing for Nigeria

Tomori will start alongside Maguire

Stop dreaming

TheSuperNerd:
But when we called up Kelechi Nwakali and Victor Osimhen after their U-17 exploits just as a way of fast-tracking them, you heard the nonsense cries didn't you? Why must the foreign borns be given this special treatment you suggest without anyone willing to cry out while we cry out when trying to encourage our special underage talents who shone at the age grades? Osimhen's call was bashed and condemned left, right and center when Rohr called him up just to begin integration of the lad because he saw he was special. Now we are reaping the benefits.

If Osimhen was foreign born, would his call have been bashed? And if as a foreign born, playing so well for Lille now, what would be the story today? That we should have capped him then, but now we have to contend with England or France for his allegiance. Thanks goodness that is not the case.




Look Sir Royalty. Nigeria have been approaching some of these lads and many of them are non-committal.
These lads should stop making it seem like it is the countries making the decisions for them. It is also their decisions and their lives. Let those that want to play for England or Nigeria or whatever country declare it from the onset and stick to it and not wait till their careers probably hit the heights of Pele where they now start singing the tune of England calling them up first.


Are you saying that Nigeria is not deserving of a player doing well in Manchester Utd or Manchester City or Arsenal or Chelsea? So na only QPR players we want abi? Only West Brom or Rotherham players are good enough for the Super Eagles and would choose the Super Eagles.

If that is the case, then we don't want such snake-like personalities near our GWG. Players who would only choose Nigeria if they are only at a not-so-high level career wise.
My question to them is this... Would they maintain same choice if they are getting the business done at a high level and making the headlines?


I think we should sort out where their allegiance lie from the onset first of all and stop giving ourselves more opportunities to get slapped in the face as seen in the case of Tomori and Abraham.
See Tosin Adarabioyo now... Famzing the GWG jersey and trying to get Nigeria's attention with his funny antics. Would he be doing so if he was still balling at Man City??

We need the really committed ones. Most of them are just considering us only because their careers aren't so great and they feel the Super Eagles is the place to be when you are at Ipswich town while England is the place to be when at Chelsea.

Is Nigeria not worthy of a Chelsea player? That is what we should address abeg and not inviting every dick and harry.

That one no dey use eye see foreign born

If foreign born dey play for Enyimba he go say make we invite am

TheSuperNerd:
You may be right. Time will tell for Bukayo Saka. Let's see if the Arsenal fame gets to his head and makes him forget he is "Nigerian."

The kid is getting the rave reviews and making the headlines even more than Nicolas Pepe himself. This is a test of where his allegiance truly will lie going forward.

The one decision all of the foreign born Naija kids should have sorted before they hit stardom is their international allegiance. Let them ask themselves, if I am an Arsenal or Chelsea or Man City starter at age 18, 21 or maybe 23, and I happen to be doing so well and attracting interest from my adopted nation, England (or whichever it may be) and my blood nation, Nigeria... Which should I choose?

Also, If I am not making the headlines at age 18, 21 or 23 in these big clubs, will my choice in the first question be the same?

They should sort it out from the very beginning and stick to it. That way, we know you are committed to your decision from the onset. And not waiting to play poker or cards with nations based on club career progress.

Hmm

TheSuperNerd:
That's my problem with some of them. They don't wanna take true responsibility for a decision that is entirely theirs.

It is true Nigeria messed up in some cases but on Abraham and Tomori, Nigeria did her best and is completely innocent.

He doesn't want to take the blame

These two guys messed us up, I'm foreseeing the same thing in Saka's case forget all these 'I'm Nigerian' nonsense

TheSuperNerd:
Lol... This is funny. So he expected a call-up from Nigeria when the issue of allegiance switch was in the picture. He was approached to begin a switch and he didn't wanna commit because he clunged to hopes of England. This kid is just talking and evading the truth. He knows what he's always wanted. He should just face his England career. Wished him the best already. Trying to sound like England were his first contact is only making him sound like an ass.

He wants to blame Nigeria for his switch to England

Laughable

comodo:

Ain't we better off with a promising young central defender

And Otabor is not a promising young winger?

comodo:

The Mancity dude. Even better dem invite am to this Utaba guy.

Why should we invite him?

andrew444:


He wanted gala stay but they refused to pay ordinary 15 million euros for him, someone that was one of their best player when they won the league, if not the best self, gala bought 2 wingers ahead of onyekuru

He will go there and sit on the bench for Babel

Instead of fighting for his place in France, even Simon Moses is doing it

Don't go to Brothels in the afternoon or in the midnight

Go in the evening around 7pm, you'll meet the student hustlers