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Danielnino00:
They haven't done anything to merit an invite at the moment,that's the fact...

And I say again,if they want to change their mind and represent England,they are free to.. Call it arrogance if you want..

Which of our wingers merit an invitation at the moment apart from Moses, Chuks and Ejuke?

Don't forget, Bazee is being considered for invitation. What did he do?

MetalJigsaw:
All we need now is some reasonable creativity in the middle.

Exactly. Onomah is a fine player.

andrewbaba44:
Jamie mata of Getafe also

Don't mind him.

Danielnino00:
If they are going to blow late in their career like Vardy,we are happy to wait.. if they want to represnt England,they are free to go.
But saying we should call them so we can cap them even when it's evident they haven't done anything as at the moment to earn a call up is unacceptable!

Very arrogant statement. If those developed countries have this type of your mentally, they wouldn't have progressed this much.



If they have done nothing so far in their career, I don't think they will be were they are today.

TheSuperNerd:
It is not confirmed if he has began but I assure you he is in the plans of Rohr once his switch is done. He alongside a few others from England.

So, own goal just lied there. Na wa ooooo

TheSuperNerd:
Onomah will join but he has to begin the switch process first. Time will tell for him.

So, he is yet to begin switch?

Danielnino00:
Lookman is 22,Ojo is 23..
If they are going to blow,they would have blown since..

At the moment,they have done nothing to merit a call up ahead of other players..
If they want to change their mind, they are totally free to..
They won't be missed one bit!

So, the time frame for a player to blow is limited to 23?

Why don't you learn from Vardy?

Danielnino00:
Only Ejaria is worthy of a call up as it stands.

So, we should call them when dem begin blow?

No wonder Eze changed his mind playing for us. He sensed gold diggers.

Subzero047:
Owngoalnigeria is a fraud by the way

Na wa ooooo. I will investigate.

Bolowolowo:
Do not get your hopes up. Chief Nwakali will be warming bench for Huesca this season. As a matter of fact, he’ll most likely be sent on loan to Belgium 2nd division

Any news?

jihday:
I think Ejaria,ojo and Lookman is already done

Are you seriously? Chaiiiii? Make we invite them cap them sharp sharp.

jihday:
I'm not comparing their careers, tho I don't agree that it's better by miles as Ojo haven't done anything with his career

Done nothing in his career? What are the criteria for not doing anything?

It's like saying Onyekuru has done nothing in his career because of his predicament with Monaco.

joelsteron:
Owngoal says that Torunarigha and Udokhai have both agreed to join the team

Really!?

We suppose win Afcon back to back with these players. Hopefully, Onomah joins.

So, Tosin Adarabioyo, Ovie Ejaria, Dominic Iorfa, Sheyi Ojo, Josh Onomah and Lookman Ademola documents to switch allegiance are already with FIFA waiting for approval?

Can somebody confirm if this is true?

jihday:
Nwakali at 22: career dead and buried
Seyi Ojo at 23: this is last chance to prove he can make it as a winger. Policy somersault

How can you compare Ojo's career with Nwakali?

Ojo's career is still better by miles. Though I don't agree Nwakali's career is dead and buried because I am not God.

sheyishemba:
You must have probably forget agu is better than aribo
Werey gidi niii bobo yen

Agu has proven himself in the Turkish and Portuguese league though Rangers is a bigger club than the clubs Agu once played.

TheSuperNerd:





[b]Victor Osimhen was the Golden Boot winner at the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile with ten goals. What transfer offers came on board after his goal-scoring heroics at that level of world football?

Lots of offers all across Europe came for Victor Osimhen. Henry Makinwa who played for Inter Milan called me to ask about him, some people even came to see me in Ikorodu all the way from the United Kingdom.

They wanted me to convince my brother to sign for a club in England, they also wanted him to sign up with their agencies so as to manage his football career.

However, told them all that I couldn’t do anything without Victor’s consent, but I saw that these agents and scouts were offering a lot of inducements to people just to get my brother. I also made them to understand that I would never do anything at the back of Shira whom God sent to us to help Victor find a breakthrough in his football career.
Shira is just like the herbalists or prophets who see things way ahead of their occurences. He just saw the potential in Victor and made sure that my brother blew. It was just like a dream come true because nobody gave Victor an opportunity even in the Lagos State Junior League, they did not treat him well as they never saw it coming.
Victor Osimhen is the kind of person that if you are not extremely patient, you cannot manage him, those are the things Shira has, he was the only one who saw it coming.

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So, which clubs came for Victor Osimhen then from Italy and England?

Back then in the year 2015, it was very challenging and like I said, there was a whole lot of inducements from these clubs but I made sure I never fell prey for them. You can’t just come and start giving me material things just like that, I need to ask you a few questions such as ‘why are you trying to give me this thing?’

Life in England is filled with luxury and flamboyance and Victor is someone I know very well as he is my younger brother, I needed him to be in a very cool atmosphere.
I wanted him to be in a city where it would be from training to his house and vice-versa as I felt the luxurious and flamboyant lifestyle
in England could make him lose focus.

There were offers from Wolfsburg in Germany, Arsenal in England and Anderlecht in Belgium, and after making spiritual/religious consultations as Africans, we were told to go to Germany.

And after which we visited Wolfsburg in Germany where I was totally in love with the environment. I must tell you that you would love your children to grow up in that city.
I also agreed to Victor joining Wolfsburg as I felt that he would not be carried away. We went there with the thought of negotiatin for a 1.5 million euro deal but we finally agreed on 3.5m euros.

When we were in Germany, some of the agents even came up with false stories in the newspaper, about my dad being beaten up by someone who was helping us to negotiate
just to win Victor over as they already had a transfer mandate on him.

But the next time Victor went to Germany, I made sure that my dad followed him when he wanted to put pen to paper on a deal with Wolfsburg, to avoid any such story again.

After his achievement at the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, Victor Osimhen joined Wolfsburg where he spent two seasons. But from 2017 until 2019, Osimhen played 244 matches in all competitions for the German side. However, he failed to score a single goal. What do you think could have been responsible for his dip in form? Did he lose focus or was it just that he lost form totally?

A lot of people did not even know what happened to him, he suffered a very serious injury and had surgery which was hugely unsuccessful and had to undergo another one. We even had to travel down to Augsburg, another city in Germany for him to have the second surgery. I was opportuned to know about this because I was with him for two months.

I was with him from the theatre where he was operated upon until when the medics brought him to the hospital bed. And for about three to four days, he was just shedding tears. That was when I knew that players do pass through a lot of things when it comes to them having to go through a spell on the injury sidelines, I must admit that it was not easy.

He came back home on crutches after spending two weeks in the hospital, but after he got completely healed of the injury, Wolfsburg manager then was not fielding him on the pitch.

I was in Nigeria then, but all through the season, the coach was not giving him playing time, but when it came to Wolfsburg’s friendly matches, he was playing and scoring goals.

During the winter transfer window in January of the year 2018, Wolfsburg wanted to force him to join SC Rheindorf Altach in Austria on loan but my brother rejected, saying he preferred to remain in Germany.

To cut a long story short, when the 2018 summer transfer window opened, his former agent, Jean Gerard Benoit Czajka said he had a club for Victor in the Bundesliga 2, but he also turned it down.

Victor then brought up a talk of going to Switzerland to play two weeks before the transter window closed, but an offer came from Zulte Waregem in Belgium but he was down with malaria-typhoid.

But Shira convinced him to travel down to Belgium for talks with Zulte as it was very glaring that Wolfsburg didn’t need him, but he wasn’t feeling too fine and that is health-wise.

We heard a rumour back then that his rejection by the then Belgian Pro League Champions, Zulte was because he failed a medical test and he also failed to pass the trials.

Zulte actually offered to pay Victor Osimhen a much lesser wage than Wolfsburg were even paying him which he rejected and he planned to stay in Gérmany until his contract finished.

Three days left for the transfer window to close, another Belgian Pro League side, Club Brugge came for him, but they also offered to pay him a much lesser wage than Wolfsburg.

l advised him to forget about the low salary and join any of these Belgian clubs, Zulte Waregem or Club Brugge, so as for him to be playing on a regular basis, but he refused.

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What did Victor Osimhen’s manager and agent say?

They all wanted him to join any of these clubs for constant game time but he said no. It was a day to the end of the 2018 summer window that he told me he was joining Sporting Charleroi.

Coach Mehdi Bayat was the one who directly demanded for Victor Osimhen and after Charleroi’s top striker had an injury, my brother was used in a match and he scored within the opening 15 minutes.

That was how he started scoring goals on a regular basis and he was helping Charleroi to beat the smaller teams while the club was also playing out draws with the top sides in the league. That was when he told me that AC Milan of Italy was trying to sign him from Charleroi for 15 million euros in the 2019 summer transfer window before Lille came to sign him.

Inter Milan also made an offer then, but he said that he was not interested in playing in the Italian Serie A due to the high level of racism in the European country. That was when the deal from Lille came in for him after the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations which took place in Egypt, but he was in Nigeria when the move was struck, he never wanted to go that very day.

How did the Victor Osimhen’s Lille deal come through?

When the Lille deal came, Victor never wanted to join the French side, he told Shira and a few others who were pressurizing him to move to France that he wanted to stay at Sporting Charleroi.

Everything that happened to him at Wolfsburg was still in his memory and he told me that it paid him to remain in the Belgian First Division A with Charleroi where he was really loved by fans. He even said that if he decided to join Lille and anything negative happened to his career, everybody who was giving him pressure to join the French Ligue 1 side would be held responsible.

Victor osimhen played only a cameo role with the Super Eagles at the 2019 AFCON in Egypt which could have dampened his spirit after had performed well at club level. How did you feel and how did you help to lift his spirit up?

We all were surprised too that Gernot Rohr did not use him except during the third/fourth-placed match against Tunisia but much respect to Odion Ighalo who was our top striker at the tournament. I feel that he should at least have been given about 40 per cent chance to prove what he was capable of and I sincerely think that he and Samuel Chukwueze’s combination would have been very good at the AFCON.

We are in the era of the young ones making things happen but I must tell you that Nigeria is a place where we don’t really give the youth a chance, I remember Ronaldo De Lima was on Brazil’s bench at USA 94.
But after watching those senior players do it for Brazil in the United States, Ronaldo shone four years later at France 98 despite the fact that the host team won the World Cup.
Brazil, however, won the competition which took place in Korea/Japan in the year 2002 with Ronaldo finding the back of the net on a regular basis, that’s the promotion of how the Brazilian team is.

I was also expecting such from our national team at the 2019 African Nations Cup in Egypt, we are in the era in Nigeria, though, when a player leaves the under-aged group, they say he is too young to play for the Super Eagles.

Whereas in Europe, the top clubs will use these young players who also go ahead to make a whole lot of impact on their respective teams but I was not really too angry with Gernot Rohr’s decision.

I just felt that with Ighalo being a much senior player and after his goal heroics for Nigeria during the AFCON qualifiers, the coach needed to respect him so much and field him a lot.

But most importantly, I just feel that Victor should have been given at least 40 per cent opportunity and I am very certain that he would have made a whole lot of changes in the team.

Also, with Ighalo being a fantastic striker, I believe Rohr should have experimented a little bit by using him and Victor together. With my brother’s energy and zeal, the two strikers would have made the team stronger.

Victor Osimhen joined Lille and he shone greatly, scoring 13 goals in 27 Ligue 1 matches while he netted 18 times and made six assists in 38 appearances in all competitions. Then, everybody knew that transfer offers were going to come his way which arrived but we heard Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and Arsenal wanted him. Which offers came in for Victor?

My brother himself called me to tell me about the deal from Napoli but like I said before, he never wanted to move to the Serie A due to the very high level of racism in Italy.

He said he wasn’t too happy with the way they treat black players, he and I were in Wolfsburg, Germany when Kalidou Koulibaly who is now his team-mate at Napoli was insulted.

Down the line, that very incident started ringing bell on Victor’s mind once again and he told me: ‘Is it not the same Koulibaly that these people insulted for being black and now, they want me?’.He said he can never forget how they abused Koulibaly racially and that even if Napoli brought an offer of 300 million euros, he would never agree to move to the club or play in Italy.

My brother simply decided that he would remain with Lille in France, however, other offers from different clubs in some other leagues started coming but after the covid-19 pandemic, things started changing.

The economic meltdown started affecting those clubs and they did not want to spend huge money on signing players but truly, Victor told me that Tottenham came but his representatives gave Jose Mourinho a tough option.

He said they told Mourinho that he might need to sell Harry Kane before Spurs can buy him (Victor Osimhen), but I laughed that away as I felt it was never going to happen. Kane is Tottenham’s image and they can’t sell him.

I concluded that Tottenham would never agree to sell Kane because of a player who is not even a citizen of England. Mourinho also replied by saying that he really wanted Victor Osimhen but he couldn’t sell Kane.

And that was when Napoli was still knocking very hard on the door, but it wasn’t about the club only, it was also about the coach, and that is talking about Gennaro Gattuso who passionately loves Victor’s style of play.

Gattuso kept on repeating these words: ‘Give me Victor Osimhen, I am okay with him as my top striker for next season and beyond’. He even told TransferMarkt that he only wanted to sign one of the best strikers in the world.
The Napoli manager said he didn’t want to start spending money unnecessarily on strikers but that the club’s management should give him Victor and he would be ready for the 2020/21 season.
Gattuso also didn’t want to extend his contract at Napoli but when he got the assurance that the club president, Aurelio De Laurentiis was going to sign Victor for him, he had a change of mind. Even when he lost his sister earlier this year, Gattuso was still calling Victor’s agent and representatives to help make sure that my brother eventually moved to Napoli.

I tried to convince him to sign for Napoli but my brother rejected but when he himself saw that Lille actually wanted him to leave for them to make a lot of money, that was when he decided to talk to Napoli.

Lille as a selling club wanted the money more and to me, they were like if Victor Osimhen likes, he should score 100 goals for them, he just has to join Napoli for that money (80 million euros). I spoke with some top officials in Lille and from what we discussed, it showed that they had made up their mind on selling Victor. They told me ‘your brother has made his mark in Lille, so he needs to go.’

At that time, Napoli were still knocking and it actually got to a stage that the Serie A club wanted to shut the door but they were finding it very difficult not to close up Victor Osimhen’s deal. Victor finally demanded for the contract papers after which the turmoil of him sacking his agent, Jean-Gerard Benoit Czajka and finding another person to replace the sacked one actually came up.

But all those times, I was in Nigeria while Victor was over there, but because of his stubborness which I told you about earlier, so many shady things were revealed in the deal.


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Can you tell us more about the shady things that were revealed in the Victor Osimhen’s deal?

The money offered as yearly wages was different and when another agent, William D’Avila came on board, the new salary increased a lot and I mean very much higher than the initial offer.
Their bid was much higher as the first wage offer was extremely low. When the new agent came into the picture, he raised the bar but it appeared that the first agent wasn’t giving a right account.
The former agent did not show too much accountability about the whole deal and because of Victor’s stubbornness, so many things were revealed and when he started seeing all these things, he acted.
I then decided to call his former agent to make sure that he went to see Victor and see that he completes his move to Napoli but despite being in France with my brother, he only called him. I also told the former agent to put his contract papers in English language and not in Italian which my brother could not read. Victor also said it must be written in English.
That was also when issues concerning his image rights started coming up after which we now saw that we were dealing with people who were not in anyway honest with us all along.
If Victor had signed the contract papers written in Italian language, he would have signed himself to slavery as the agent and his crew will be making serious money while my brother will earn peanuts.
When he went to Naples for the first time, they told him it was for sightseeing but when he got there, they had already arranged his transfer documents and all he needed to do was sign. He went on a boat-cruise and from there, he visited Napoli president, De Laurentiis in his house where he also met Gattuso but the people surrounding that deal were not telling him the truth. It was actually during this process that he met someone who told him to make sure that his contract papers were written in English, the person also called Pavel Nedved, a director at Juventus.
The person put the phone on speaker and Nedved said everything in that deal was not in anyway favorable to the player and that Victor Osimhen will just play for five years and earn small money. Victor told Lille president that he wasn’t going to sign that deal after which his new agent, D’Avila came on board and they started the deal from the scratch again.

The sacked agent threatened to take Victor Osimhen to court. Why did he say that?

Victor too was ready for the sacked agent to go to court as he had documents which would incriminate him, most especially after all his shady dealings had been known to my brother. It is, however, very painful that when my brother was having difficulties during his injury spell at Wolfsburg, it was the same agent, Jean-Gerard, that was with him all through.
But when Victor started explaining to me that he had enough evidence to nail the agent, then I also gave up and he thereafter changed agents with D’Avila coming in to represent him.

Victor Osimhen finally joined Napoli after everything. How did the Osimhen family celebrate the move?

It was a fantastic news for the family as a whole. You know that Napoli is a big club and with the help of his teammates, I think he is going to play fantastically.

But he cannot do it alone, he needs the help of his colleagues and you can see that he scored a hat-trick in his first pre-season match on August 29 when Napoli won 11-0.


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Has Victor Osimhen got a target for the new season?

You know that Victor doesn’t set target, he will just be scoring goals even in friendly and competitive matches. He told me in pidgin: ‘Brother Andrew, shebi na goal dem want, I go dey give them goals’.

Nigerian last produced the African footballer of the year over two decades ago when Nwankwo Kanu won it in 1999. Do you see Osimhen Osimhen breaking that jinx for the country by winning the award in the nearest future?

Yes, it is very possible if he maintains that momentum and goal-scoring form, if he remains consistent as football is all about having that consistency and it also takes the grace of God.

Finally, on a lighter note, what is the connection between Victor Osimhen and Samuel Chukwueze?

They were together all through the summer when they came to Nigeria. They are like brothers and it has been that way since their days together at the Under-17 level in 2015.

I was opportuned to be with the two of them few weeks back and I was even telling Chukwueze to try and see that the 2015 Golden Eaglets team should come together and have a party.

Source: Complete Sports.

Bundesliga teams not advisable for Nigerian players.

Hehehe! The second bolded is hilarious.
Na God save him from the hands of that greedy agent. How can one sign a document without reading it?
My father already taught me this since I was a kid. You don't sign what you can't read or didn't read.
No wonder there is nothing to show for some players abroad for many years.

charlesemeka85:
Nope miles better than huesca

Hmm. Okay

Subzero047:
Fulham have signed 3 players already and with Mitrovich I don't see them going down

Ok

Edopesin:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_La_Liga_winning_managers

Thanks

Edopesin:
5 league titles in 20 years is the Hallmark of a big club

1 league title in 30 years, not really

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Cheers

Kkkkkkkkk.

Subzero047:
Olaoluwa Aina is back to the Premier league

Fulham no go be relegation bound team?

Edopesin:
I don't know about that one but I do know that only Dutch and Argentine managers have won more Spanish league titles than English managers for foreign coaches and more than 10 other nationalities are on the list

Wow! I would like to see the list.

[quote author=barackodam post=93646216][/quote] very funny

Danielnino00:
Maybe..

But what will cure your own ignorance.??

You still haven't told me what Bobby Adekanye did with Liverpool youth team...
You srill haven't told me which interview Klopp gave and shivered at Chelsea signings..

If u tell me,perhaps I would find an antidote for your own ignorance

For Klopp interview, Google. For Adekanye time in Liverpool, sorry I don't want to waste my time on this since you claimed to be following Liverpool youth team.

Perhaps, Komken can help you.

barackodam:
I didn't mention teams.

The league as a whole.
Tactic wise, EPL is not the best among top 5
Technique wise, they're not.
They don't play the best defensive football either.

They only play the best money football. That's why they have God knows how many local competitions, whereas other leagues have 1.

It's all about money, more money, and much more money

Your opinion.

Danielnino00:
When did Nigeria enter the discussion??

Be humble. British has produced better managers and players than us. It didn't stop there. They have produced world class coaches and players too.

Danielnino00:
Took you a while to browse the names

I count 5 names.
Where are the rest??
You can add Eddie Newton who just won the Turkish cup

At least, it's enough to cure your ignorance.

Danielnino00:
You are the one deceiving yourself..

U didn't count Liverpool's first division titles in the argument yesterday,but today you changed lane...
Smh...


The facts on ground is that English coaches just like English players are mostly average and overrated

But Nigeria is yet to produce one players or manager better than this same English overrated players. Stop deceiving yourself. Perhaps, you are ignorant.

Edopesin:
you dey mind am
He said English managers are crap but ordinary screenshot has debunked it

Na those English managers made made Barcelona what it is today.

Danielnino00:
Foreign managers have come to the premier league and dominate it..
Abeg,how many English managers have gone abroad and dominate?

Ignorant somebody. How can you not know Bobby Robson who won the Portuguese league twice with Porto and won Eredivisie twice with PSV?

Even Terry Venables and John Toshack won Laliga for Barcelona and Real Madrid respectively.

Vic Buckingham won Eredivisie. Took Barcelona to the second position in Laliga. He lost by head to head record though won Copa del Rey. He discovered Cruff

Roy Hodgson dominated the Swedish league for 6 seasons.

How many did you count? Do you want more?

Obviously, they have dominated the Laliga, Eredivisie, Portuguese league and Swedish league.

Danielnino00:
Look at you ..
Yesterday when I mentioned that Liverpool dominated English football during the days of the English first division,you laughed and said only EPL matters..

Now,look at you...

English managers are crap please...

Why do you like to deceive yourself, huh?

It can't change the facts on ground.