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CHAN 2016: 'Mosquito', Ifeanyi Matthew shine for Nigeria
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CHAN Eagles midfielder Ifeanyi Matthew

by Samm Audu
Established Nigeria league campaigner Ikechukwu ‘Mosquito’ Ibenegbu and emerging star Ifeanyi Matthew have thus far impressed in the Super Eagles training camp ahead of next weekend’s CHAN in Rwanda.


Officials disclosed that the other players who have shone in the Eagles training camp in Pretoria, South Africa, are Nigeria U23 midfielder Usman Mohammed and little known Shooting Stars midfielder Ibrahim Salawu.

‘Mosquito’ Ibenegbu scored the Eagles goal against Angola in a warm-up match in Pretoria and his leadership overall contribution in the midfield has won him the admiration of coach Sunday Oliseh.

Versatile Nigeria U20 midfield star Ifeanyi Matthew has already been tipped to go all the way and be capped by the full international team after what he has produced thus far in South Africa.

The El Kanemi Warriors star has a strong mentality, hard working and has established himself in the starting XI for the CHAN as other more established players have struggled for form.

In the meantime, Nigeria will play their final warm-up game against Cote d’Ivoire on Monday.

The Ivorians were forced to a 1-1 draw by Nigeria’s Group C rivals Guinea in another test game on Friday also in South Africa.
africanfootball.com/news/599677/CHAN-2016-Mosquito-Ifeanyi-Matthew-shine-for-Nigeria
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Damn Mosquito is still around I remember people wanted Amodu to invite him for AFCON 2010. He should be like 27-29 now.

forgiveness:
Your comparison was between players groomed in Europe and the players groomed in Nigeria.

You mean Nigerian players that were groomed in Europe and what they have contributed/contributing to d national teams in Europe

1, David_Alaba, Austria
2, Rose Barkley, England
3, Dele Alli, England
4, Dennis Aogo, Germany
5, Patrick Owomoyela, Germany

Barkley, Aogo and Alli all rejected Naija. Its not like we ignored them.

I agree we should have a better scouting system to unearth these gems, that doesn't mean we should forget the ones at home. We should spend more time developing our grassroots instead of waiting to call up players that got their education/spent their whole life abroad and have no personal attachment to naija. There has to be a balance.

God bless you OP.

It's very very painful that as of 2016, we can't point to one genuine igbo man suitable to be president of this country. Since 99, how many igbo governors have managed to do a decent job while in power?? I keep asking myself why these mugus never hold their Governors accountable instead they moan and say rubbish about "marginazation" like the governors we have are hausa or something.
Funny thing is if we get Biafra, it'll be the same mugus that did poorly as governors that'll come and claim leaders.

death2allYoruba:
And your mind is rotten and can be fixed forever..

I wanted to abuse you but I know who you are.... Just suckle on my moniker.

Did he lie about anything he said??

sod09:

Dat dude is a confuse fellow
Hes suppose to score a brace in dat match
He almost ruin d party sef...cos he was suppose to track yaya
Wen I said carzola was better....peeps were moaning

Seriously the guy struggles to keep possession. He has an average first touch; the new Stevie G.

Dhelake:
Best Forward
Best AM
Best CM
Best DM
Best LB
Best RB
Best CB
Best GK

But them no go win league still

Name a better LB in the league naaa...simple.

TheGoodJoe:
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Thanks bro. Have a blessed festive season.

kokaneprodigy:
Ramsey's kinda footie is Street style, confirm gidigbo with over energy. He's everywhere, I must touch the ball kinda player.
It's his marking style that still keeps him on that pitch I Trust wenger the guy for don dey bench.

Exactly. The guy needs to start thinking less like a striker and more like a mid. I still prefer Santi over him for that cm spot.

Ozil is better than Silva any day of the week.

forgiveness:
My dream team


...................... Daniel

Odubanjo........ Omerue....Tiago........Madu.................


..................Aneke......... Onazi....................


........Simon ...........Iheanacho........... Success


........................ Martins


Substitutes:
Keepers: Alampasu,

Defeners: Manuel Akanji, Elohor Ekpolo, Derek Osadebe and Musa Muhammad.

Midfielders: Abdul Ajagun, Azubike Okechuchwu, Oghenekaro Etebor.

Attackers: Dominic solanke, Femi Ajayi, Imoh Ezekiel and Michael Olaitan.

If we consider talent over sentiment, these players tower above the rest.

Akanji and Solanke are not interested in playing for us.

Spy360:
Avoiding Spain completely would be great, and I'd prefer Wolfsburg to Zenit - you don't want cold nights. In order...
Wolfsburg
Zenit
Ath Madrid
Real Madrid
Barcelona

Nevertheless, probability of facing a spanish side is 60%, very high.

Nope, not Wolfsburg. We'll take them for granted and they'll whoop our asses like Monaco did.
Better we draw a team like Atletico who will be SLIGHT favorites but we stand a chance aganist.

Well done Giroud! ! You're not as gay as I thought.

raumdeuter:
Remember my post to you when you were praising Paulinho?



Does that sound familiar? Can we now add Paulinho to the list of Brazilians who flopped in Europe joining Kleberson, Robinho, Pato, Denilson 1 and 2.

To be fair, injuries did mess pato up a bit. He was good in his first 2 seasons.

sod09:
u got my point...
On Tuesday i hope Wenger dnt try it oo
because olympiacos will counter us

Sadly this is the best we can do.
Only other option would be to play Ramsey and Ox infront of flamini and move Ozil, but the ox is in piss poor form.
All wenger can do is beg Ramsey to play with sense.

Wenger please sign Xhaka or Neves...don't care when, just sign them up.

Roland17:
I am very sorry but no one should be cutting Ramsey slacks irrespective of circumstances.

How come no one cuts Carzola slacks when he has off nights, some even predicted he was done with the first team and must be shipped away.

How come no one cuts Ozil slacks when we lose games, his mannerism and demeanor betrays his passion for the game he is blamed everytime we can't convert chances on this thread like he is not creating chances.

How come no one cuts Metersacker slacks when he has off nights, he is ridiculed and thrown to the gutters of mediocrity as soon as we conceded goals.

How come no one cut Arteta slacks when he was played out of position for several seasons as a DM and was bullied out of position by opponents.

How come no one cuts Giroud slacks when he does not score on the night.

How come no one cuts Jack wilshere slacks when he can't stay healthy enough to play games for us

but for some weird reason folks on this thread folks have golden players that can't be touched, we can't continuously chose which player to be critical about and who should be spared and given more time.

Ramsey is 24 I believe and has been with this team for over 8 years and Wenger has been faithful and patient with Ramsey in ensuring his talent is nurtured

head to head Ramsey is no where close to Carzola when it comes to playing that position, did you watch how often he lost possession in vital areas deep inside our own half? Or how he spurns his positional discipline in search of goals saturating the box and still missing chances worse still leaves his position open, Sunderland held their own in the middle of the park and if such mistakes were against teams like Southampton, Leceister or even Everton, we would have been punished.

I love Ramsey and his skill set, he is being played out of position at the moment like others and if we are to be critical about others, in the same vein we must hold him accountable.

For some strange reason, Ramsey reminds me of Steven Gerrard- lacks the tactical awareness to be a world class cm, needs to play alongside a DLP like Alonso to truly shine.

sod09:
really
D guy fucking expose us.....him nd flamini forgot there positions

Ramsey should never be played in the middle unless its alongside DLP.
Pairing him with Flamini is a diaster waiting to happen.

pickabeau1:
hahahaha.. you are making assumptions

Don't forget Wenger too is a factor

If he feels a player is overpriced, he will overrule D Law

Dein was a vice chairman and an executive in charge of transfers

Gazidis is just a commercial guy

Wenger is still in charge of transfers

True there is the Wenger factor and this is where Dein would've come in handy. In the case of the Higuain transfer, Wenger could say its expensive and Dein will tell him not to worry about that.
Its ridiculous for Wenger to determine how much we can spend on a player. That should have nothing to do with him.

pickabeau1:
Nope

Dein sold his shares to Usmanov and left the company because Fisman did not like Usmanov

Gazidis came much later about 2012 from the US to help the club with commercial deals.

Wenger was the defacto CEO with Fiszman for the four or five years


When Fisman died, Stan bought all the shares and brought Moneyball

I think Dein messed up by not supporting the building of Emirates.
He failed to see the bigger picture and advantage of having a bigger Stadium. We had already outgrown Highbury anyways and Dein would've helped in raising investment for a new stadium (something which usmanov did not give a toss about).

pickabeau1:
Is it D Law that has the money?

He can only recommend

The final decision is made by Kroenke who uses Money ball

He will not budge

Napoli stole into the deal with a larger offer.. Real needed the dough...

Kpomkwem!




Well... similar too with Mata

Law is incharge of Transfers. Even if he isn't, there's no way in the world that Kroenke will refuse to sanction a 25m transfer yet agree to a 40m one for Suarez and 42.5m for Ozil.
D Law is worse than Woodward. They're both slow.

Spy360:
Gazidis and Dein excelled in their own rights, but while Dein pushed for titles and player development, Gazidis wanted Arsenal to be among the financially stable clubs.

Dein gave us titles and world class players, Gazidis gave us stability and world class stadium.

What I am saying is ''thank you'' to Mr Gazidis but we need titles again just as Dein gave us.

We could have both- just sack Law.

pickabeau1:
Nope

Real said they would not sell and Napoli offered higher

Mata - Chelsea offered almost double what we were offering

Real wanted 25m, we offered 23m. Napoli fresh with Cavani money, offered 31m.
Same with Mata; he had a buy out clause which wasn't that much, yet we still tried to haggle that till it expired and Chelsea came with double.
The Higuain deal is most frustrating because we would've gotten him for 6m less than Napoli paid for him.

pickabeau1:
How many transfers has he messed up

Higuain and Juan Mata.

Spy360:
Wenger is a great manager no doubt but his selfish and arogant policies tend to hinder our chances of winning the title.

For me, keep Wenger throw away Gazidis then get back David Dein.

I actually think Gazidis has done well. Thanks to him, we've gotten some great sponsorship deals.
Its Dick Law that needs to bounce...that slowpoke sucks at negotiating Transfers.

Spy360:
You wicked o!

Gibbs wey just come back?

For me let Chambers go, even if he gets injured while trying to sit on the bench. Hehehe.

Looool true sha, Chambers na another guy way dey fall hand. Jack of all trades, master of none.
Have a feeling he'll do fine as a DM. I just don't want to ever see him @cb alongside per. Most pairing ever.

pickabeau1:
The injury team is now complete... 11 players

Now to the bench .... whos next

As long as its not Ozil or Monreal, I'm cool.
Gibbs can be next in line.

Anyone think Zoom is Barry's dad

Santi is out for 3 months...damn!!!

I stopped reading when you said he lacks pace. No one said he was world class like Aguero, Lewa and Suarez.
He's def not overrated.

Bollinger:
Are you serious?