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TheGoodJoe:

I watched the video and I must say, I think the man was right.

Some might say he should not have taken it out on the ladies who just want to fly the flag and represent their country but the man made few salient points.

Football is now a global Force. If we paint that all is well in Nigeria, we do a great disservice to the hundreds dying everyday under the mayhem of the mismanagement of the current administration.

He is an old time footballer, he is letting us know that it is wrong for Nigerian youths to play for the country.

Flying the flag under and evil Government is the same thing as supporting them.

I never knew that but the man made his point clear. Protested in the way he knows how and maybe he might have started a change from another angle.

They are not playing for Buhari and his cohorts - they are playing for you and I.
I agree with 95 percent of what the guy said but come on - Buhari and APC DO NOT OWN NIGERIA.

mank1234:
Lolz at the wailings. Hailers are now wailers.
In the early days of this regime, the slogans were:
Sai baba.
He's appointing only people with integrity.
Body language.
You can't sacrifice seniority or ethnicity on the alter of competence.
Corruption is fighting back.

Nothing will change in 2023. APC will rig for whoever they present. Even if the person has a good heart, the person won't be able to do much. Buhari has polluted all the military/paramilitary.

Meanwhile, are we in football thread or politics?

Body language was hilarious sha

humility33:
I tell u so annoying in the 21st century we're still running quota system little wonder why our public service is in shambles and the private sector making more progress because they ensue themselves of this mediocrity and lopsided mode of picking and sourcing talents unlike in the public sector

Exactly bro. People keep pushing this quota thing because they don't want to do the hard work of fixing our football from bottom up.
They'll tell you getting foreign born is the easy way out and act like reserving slots for home based players will improve how our clubs are ran, our coaches, poor facilities, etc.

LOL I remember these rumors were floating around when he got sold to Arsenal.
Now I know Perez leaked it to the media smh. What a brutal guy

codemaniacs:
Picking competent foreign based players is not mediocrity.

Nigeria currently has competent Nigerians in Nigeria and outside Nigeria in a lot of professional fields.

So you're saying we should let the ones in Nigeria become jobless and hire only Nigerians born outside Nigeria.

Would your parents have been able to send you to school if only Nigerians with foreign degrees were getting all the jobs

My parents would have to prove they're smarter than Nigerians with foreign degrees to get a job. Isn't it how things should be in a sane society?

DrLikita12:
The simple solution is to invest in the league. I don't believe in reserving spots for home based players, European based players or foreign born players except at the U17 level. If we want to compete at the highest level, we need the best players whether they play in the NPFL or Europe. If we are not seeing enough NPFL players, we need to take a look at our league and its shortcomings. If the league was better, we wouldn't be having this discussion because players from the league will be able to compete at a higher level (either due to improvement in the league or the ability to move to better teams).

Yes, our football growth will be limited by the state of our nation- bad roads can make transport unsafe for club players, but there are things we can do in the short term to help. Improving facilities and televising the league are two things that can be done within the next 2 years if the LMC is serious. Televising the league will bring in money, force people to be on their best behavior and give people the freedom to play at their best. More money= more investment in players, coaches, facilities, training, youth programs, etc. Unless we address the the root of the problem we will keep coming back to this issue.

It's not rocket science. Some people just want to jump before they crawl.
Develop the league and our football structure in general. No reasonable person should support this "quota" nonsense! All it does is breed mediocrity.

charlesemeka85:
David Okereke too

Yeah good shout.

Eawwal:
I saw this on skysport, I'm curious about the minors they signed from Nigeria

Sadiq Umar and Nura Abdullahi are amongst them

PrideofLincoln2:
Where do you always get this your facts from. You said DeSantis is very popular in Florida. He's not and his relection in Florida is not a done deal.

You think he'll lose next year?

AmazonTopaz:
Which day?

Edi,stop falling for those right wing delusional crap

As for his popularity let the midterms prove that because he is popular among delusional Qanon MAGAts doesn't mean he is among the sane ones.He struggled to even win in 2018 and Deathsantis has little or no charisma as much as I may dislike agent orange he had a negative persona that drew people to him no matter how bad he was Deathsantis doesn't, stop falling for those nonsense right wing BS they are trying to push.

I still think he beats Kamala if they face off in 2024.

jihday:
Nearly doesn't kill a bird, though I understand your point but the fact that he has spent almost half of his career playing lower league football kinda validates Andrew

Nah. Dude has been amongst the top creators in the last 2 seasons at the epl.
Berardi was playing in the Serie B till 2016 and only hit double digits in his last 2 seasons so that point is moot.
Championship > Serie B.

andrew444:
Let me address this, you said berardi beats grealish in only goals ? is scoring goals easy if i may ask ? berardi beats grealish on goals with a good margin, but same cant be said of grealish assists

Abi is it same grealish that has spent about more time championship/league one than the premier league if i am not mistaken

epl is a better league than seria A but if you think to score and create assist in seria A is easy then you must be joking


Berardi 291 senior career games 105 goals 67 assists

Grealiish 252 senior career games 37 goals 50 assists, which is more better

Mind you more than half of grealish career was spent on the championship and league one ,and berardi has only played 37 seria B games ,I brought this leg because of one of your opinion, grealish didnt even have better stats despite playing more in the championship and league 1

Grealish is better than Berardi. Grealish is more of a wide playmaker while Berardi is more of a outlet/winger/wide forward.
It's like saying Coutinho is a better AM than Ozil because he scores more goals which is wild.
You talk about Grealish playing in championship - yeah what about that? He was very close to joining Spurs for a 30m move till it stalled at the last minute.
Fact is in the last 2 seasons he has been at least in the top 3 in chances created, key passes, etc in the epl.
So I don't understand the point you think you're making in talking about him playing in the championship and league 1.
Like I said, we will come back to this discussion.

andrew444:
But edi i am yet to use the word overrated in our argument, why do you keep going there?

So if someone says player A is better than player B means player B is overrated ?

Grealish created more big chances, so does that mean he is better than the players he created chances more than ?

He created big chances than mohammed salah , does that mean he is better than mohammed salah?

No matter how you try to change this topic, i will win you as far as these 2 players are concerned for now

Why are you so angry about people saying English players are over hyped? let them pour their opinion and you self pour our yours abeg

I guess you are still angry that england didnt win the euros

I am yet to even diss grealish here self so please take that overhyped talk out of this argument ,me wey dey follow person argue say why grealish no dey start for england but ekuke mount dey start

Now please ask your self is grealish even worth 100 million euros as transfer fees ?

examples of overrated players below who are not english

Ousmane dembele
Kai Harvetz
Asensio
Joao Felix
Luka Jovic

We go always dey talk truth if we see, be it english player or anyone

Abeg ooo, I'm not "angry" lol. You didn't insult me so no need to be.
I didn't say you said that, I said the reason why most English players get overlooked is because of that.
I mean, I once felt that way before.
I guess you could say English players/Epl has gotten overrated so much that it's underrated now.

Tdotbluejays:
Deathsantis. Lots of Darwin's Award recipient in Florida.

Dude is incredibly popular in Florida. He's there for the long haul and there's a chance he'll be president one of these days.

Subzero047:
If you rate players based on eye test then Grealish is easily better than all Italian attackers

See the problem is people want to keep using this "England/epl are overrated" talk when looking at English players. It's difficult for some to admit that they simply have a golden generation at the moment.
Andrewbaba44 is talking about how he used stats to debunk my talk yet he forgets that goals is only where Berardi beats Grealish.
Grealish created more big chances, has more assists and completed more dribbles despite being out injured for 3 months last season.
Like I said, we will revist this topic soon. Sooner or later, this "all English players are overhyped" talk will die off soon.

andrew444:
I did not say Grealish is not talented but I said he is Not better then berardi ,you went to the stats aspect and you where humbled by me

I am yet to speak about English players being overhyped or not

Grealish is is better than all Italy wingers including Chiesa ,I am not wrong about your epl mentality

Person wey never better pass berardi Na all Italy wingers

No wahala. We'll revisit this topic soon.

andrew444:
Normally English players sabi cost with average talent

No seria A team can afford 100 million means what if I may ask ?

Seria A teams and German teams aren’t stupid like Barcelona and co bro ,even Barca self don get sense now

Only Manchester club s will pay such money for Grealish ,Chelsea self no go pay

Means there are talents they'll miss out on. Grealish is talented. Anyone who thinks otherwise must have not watched him or are going by the "English players are overhyped" talk.
Grealish is better than all Italy's wingers. I will die on this hill.

andrew444:
I never said epl is overrated ,so don’t get to that angle

Juventus Inter Milan And ac millan has been linked with berardi ,so how come they didn’t see Grealish since you wanted mancity to see berardi from England

Grealish is going for nothing less than 100m. No Serie A side can afford that in this market. That is a fact or you wan argue that one?

andrew444:
Let me skip the Grealish and berardi side

Your say about celert lewin and immobile side should be a direct answer ,but you choose to leave it for another day because you are looking for a way to say he is better than immobile

Calvert lewin is not even better than ekuke belotti Na agba immobile wey outscore the great CR7 e wan better pass ?

Grealish is not better then berardi and Calvert lewin should not be on the same sentence with immobile

Like I said, I won't get into that debate. I no get energy for am.

P.S Liverpool are after Berardi so I was wrong in saying no big club are after him.
Grealish is still better than him sha.

andrew444:
Grealish is not better than berardi

I am sure you will tell me one brentford player is better than Chiesa in the next 2 seasons

Same man city signed ferran Torres from another league

What point are you making ? I can easily say same reason juventus and Italian teams are not looking Grealish and they are looking berardi

Tougher league is not good excuse Oga ,seria A is
Also a tougher league and its hard to score there than the epl

I am yet to call Grealish overhyped ,I said he isn’t better than berardi and that’s fact



Una no Dey change

Grealish is better than Berardi. Time will prove that to be the fact.
Epl being overrated in your eyes is not a reason to just throw anyone as better than Grealish.
Juve will not look at Grealish because they can't afford Grealish. City and Man United will look at any player because they can afford them.
Name any other big team interested in Berardi? Leicester?

andrew444:
You used stats as judgment but you failed on that aspect already

So how is Grealish better than berardi ?

It’s 2 things here , I Dey watch epl and you no Dey watch seria A

Na so one person here Dey compare Calvert lewin to immobile

I watch both just more epl than serie A. Again, Berardi is not better than Grealish.

We will revist this topic in the future. They're both roughly the same age.
As for Calvert Lewin vs Immobile? Let's leave that one for another day.

chucs:
Rating players based on stats have made football less interesting these days. Sometimes, players are no longer rated based on their natural abilities these days.

Exactly! A combination of stats plus the eye test is the way to go.
No way in the world is Berardi a better player than Grealish. I don't care if England have the most overhyped players on the planet. Grealish is better than that guy by far.

andrew444:
How is he better than berardi ?

By playing for a big team like Aaron villa and have better stats than him

If you saw berardi stats last season you won’t tell me to go and look at Grealish own ,that’s why I said most of you don’t know beyond epl

Grealish 26 games 6 goals and 12 assists

Berardi 30 games 17 goals and 8 assists

Which is better if I may ask ?

Should we also check their previous season before last season ?

When I meant stats, I meant chances created and assists.
Grealish was out for 3 months yet only DeBruyne, Mount and Fernandes created more big chances than him.
Grealish plays in a tougher league. Fact. Don't bring numbers here without context. I repeat, anyone who has watched both players will not pick Berardi over Grealish.
You keep talking about people not watching anything more than the epl yet you're quick to label Grealish as "overhyped" because he's English?
There's a reason why the likes of Man City and Man United have tried to sign Grealish and not Berardi.

andrew444:
What has Grealish done in football ?

You think Grealish will make the French team bench while playing for ekuke Aston Villa ?

Grealish hasn’t even done half of what berardi has done for sassuolo yet you epl fan boys won’t let us hear word

The earlier you think epl is not the best thing after bread and akara the better for you guys

Grealish is levels better than Berardi what are you on about??
Go and look at Grealish numbers last season and come back to me.
I stand by what I said

charlesemeka85:
I will pick an injury free Kingsley coman, dembele or chiesa ahead of grealish any day any time

Maybe in the past, but not in July 12 2021.

12large1:
In the end, the experience of chellini and bonucci 35 and 36 led Italy to another European cups. Tomorrow, Nigerians will reject the idea of our own experienced ighalo and victor moses. Rohr whatever you're doing, victor moses and ighalo needs a recall ASAP

Chellini and Bonucci are not only the best Italian CBs around but they are also playing at the highest level.
Ighalo and arguably Moses are not the best in their respective positions.
Besides, no one forced them to retire. They did so voluntarily.

Philosopher1979:
It's high time Nigeria won a world cup or get to the semi-final. We are a footballing Nation and we deserve it. We are the first African country to win a FIFA organized tornament in 1985. We have won everything at youth level. We are the highest ranking African team in history (1994 eagles were 5th best in the world). Apart from eto we are the only African country with a 20 goal striker in the Italian league (Simmmy nwankwo). The most expensive African player is a Nigerian (Victor Osimhen).
The first African to play for Chelsea is a Nigerian (Celestine Babayaro). The highest scoring African in the fa cup is a Nigerian (Kelechi iheanacho).
There is a Nigerian kid called Francis dada in Bayern youth team. We have our wonder kids like Akinkunmi Amoo waiting to explode.
We have the histi, pedigree and culture to do it. We only need to believe in ourselves.
WE CAN DO IT

After all Ahmed Musa once went toe to toe with Messi and proved himself. It's high time we fullfiled our potential and won the world cup

Na like so e easy?? We haven't won the World Cup because we are not good enough to. Simple.
We don't deserve anything. We haven't earned the right to win it.
Make we stop with all these talks. Reminds me of when our useless politicians say stupid ish like "Nigeria is too big to fail" while the country is descending to chaos right in front of their eyes.

JayromWrites:
Who are the "Tested and Trusted?"

Sterling will disappoint you.

Harry Kane shouldn't have gone first.. that was the mistake

Agreed. Saka should not have gone last. Southgate messed up there.

Poor Saka. I feel for him. He'll bounce back stronger and better.

Italy will do the lord's work on Sunday. Congratulations to England though. Southgate has done well to get them to the final.

feedthenation:

---Donald J. Trump is a very pained loser---

They can't do without the "big tech" they claim to hate so much.
Parler and Gab clearly don't come anywhere close to the big boys so they're back to gnashing and grinding their teeth.
We all know the lawsuit won't come to anything. A federal court already blocked Florida GOP's lame law.
If you can't follow the terms and conditions of any private entity - LEAVE!.

humility33:
You're right
Wetin we go come do
The truth bro rarely will u find an indigenous coach that dont or wont take bribe...
Just that the one caught we call the thief

We should be giving more opportunities to the likes of Amunike and Finidi.
I don't like the precedent this move is setting.