₦airaland Forum

Subzero047:
He has instincts to go for the ball, playing him at CB will limit his abilities

He was a CB before he was converted to DMF in Genk.

IDENNAA:
He has been having a great pre season but let's wait and see

Hmm! I see. If he gets to play in the Laliga, he will be added to the team.

MetalJigsaw:
@ #2 What about Musa?

That's true.

benji93:
İheanacho in.

For where una dey watch am?

IDENNAA:
We will soon find out...new season loading

Okay. I was tempted to add Nwakali but I don't know...

Philosopher1979:
Thats the issue. We dont have players in that position and so we have to lower our standards or beg eberechi eze till kingdom come. Make we manage rabiu like that. Half a bread is better than none. At least if he can play well and create chances then its something

I think Onomah wants to play for us. Anyway, I don't problem calling these aforementioned into the team because we don't have more than these.

maidaboi:
Indidi currently playing central defense for Leicester

Link please.

Olulong:
Sorry to burst your bubble sir. But non of Ademola Lookman or Bobby Adekanye is an upgrade to Bazee based on last season stats. As for Bright Osayi,he had his chance to play UCL and top flight football with Club Brugge buh he chose to stay in his comfort zone, Hence none deserves to be invited. The only excuse you can make for bazee's invitation is that no switch of allegiance is needed unlike the others.

I think Bobby had a better season than Bazee.

Starboytwo:
im surprised people are still calling both rabiu and ajagun inside discussion for a place in the national team, Abeg make he stop...

They are natural amfs. Understandably.

Philosopher1979:
Give him chance. Not everbody will get into top 10 league. After all he is now playing regularly

Ajagun is currently playing in Belgium pro League as an AMF, we should give him a chance before we think of Rabiu.

komekn:
On what basis ❓ ❓

Poor performance, injury prone, lack of impact, mediocrity or the one over riding consideration he is German.

Is he better or has he ever been better than Ademola Lookman, Bright Osayi and even Sammy Ameobi ❓ Or even the rank outsider Bobby Adekanye.

Well, Ademola and Bazee still need to play this season to deserve a call.

I don't know if Bobby still wants to play for us after we rejected him several times.

Sammy will never be considered again because he lost the chance to play for us.

Osayi, I don't know what Rohr is thinking about him and I don't know if he wants to play for us.

Philosopher1979:
Rabiu Ibrahim of slovan Bratislava

Hehehe!

andrewbaba44:
He better ends there so mbappe will he open to join us as Madrid and Barca are the only 2 clubs he will leave psg for

How do you know?

maidaboi:
on number 2
Denis and bazee

Hmm! That's true. I just remembered Lookman and Adekanye. Hope they get to play this season.

IDENNAA:
This team lacks creativity!

Who will bring the creativity?

kellycute:
BAZEE na injury prone. I don't rate him yet

Hmm. Let us watch and see.

RedboneSmith:
Uh... No.

It was the Ijaw.

Benin were the first to come into contact with any European and it was in 1470s with the Portuguese.

Can you tell us the year Ijaw came in contact with European?

kellycute:
those German boys go give rohr big headache. Balogun and omeruo nor go ever start match again. Na Awaziem go suffer am pass lol

True talk. It will also affect one of our wingers ooo. Remember, Bazee is also a German and he is likely to get a call.

TheSuperNerd:
Like Andrewbaba44 rightly replied. Monaco is a selling club. They have been so for a while. Same with Ajax, Dortmund, Lille, Benfica. It is a strong part of these Clubs' business models to buy and recruit "potentially explosive" genuine top talents small and later sell them BIG.

Their fans are trying oooo.

andrewbaba44:
I agree with the second formation apart from Mikel agu

I still need to watch Zaidu at Porto thou

Same here

Unserious:
@forgiveness

With all your argument here, if na like this you be for real life, people around you dey try o!

Which argument?

andrewbaba44:
Benfica so recruit good players ,they even have a German international as their striker

Because it's a big club though and there is possibility of winning laurels.

TheSuperNerd:
Very interesting lineups Forgiveness.

Two questions.

1. Iheanacho in the AM role/Behind the striker role behind Osimhen instead of Iwobi. Hmmm.... Why so? Can you give reasons?


2. Mikel Agu instead of Joe Aribo. Agu is a DM like Ndidi so why drop a CM and Box-to-box machine in Aribo for a Destroyer DM like Agu? Really interested in your take.



Observations:

1. Zaidu for Collins. Yes. But I won't be too fast. Zaidu looks very likely to indeed displace Collins but Collins did drop some good numbers from LB last season. All the same, Zaidu will be an upgrade overall.

2. Moses Simon for LW. Honestly, at the moment, he starts. Kalu is a fav of Rohr but so also is Simon. Both have their standout qualities but Simon is the more in-form of the two. A player who played just one season for Nantes and earned a place in their Team of the Decade says a lot about his one season performance. He was even Nantes player of the year and a Marc Vivien foe award (Best African player in Ligue 1) nominee.
However, the emergence of Chidera Ejuke (who is also very likely to get his first Call-up ahead of October) will add even more fight to the LW role as the battle intensifies for who locks down the role permanently as first choice L-Winger but Simon leads for now.

3. Okoye for Uzoho if both feature regularly in their respective leagues. Well, it is a probability but it would be a batte. Uzoho is still first choice and if he is doing just as well in Cyprus as Okoye does in Holland, he may still keep the #1 shirt for a while at the beginning but it won't be for long if Okoye keeps it up in the Eredivisie.

4. Semi Ajayi for Balogun. Yes. But again... The defence is being reinforced which brings me to #5.

5. I assure you this Forgiveness. The "Germans" are coming.

6. @bolded names... I had to spell Iheanacho rightly TWICE for you. And Zaidu too. You too dey misspell their names sometimes. Iffa catch you again ehn!!!

1. Since Iwobi is not measuring up to expectation. I will try Iheanacho in that role as a SS. Iheanacho will add more pressure to the opposition defence and can switch position with Osimhen whenever Osimhen drift defenders away from their position to create space and chance for Iheanacho to score.


2. I want us to utilize our full backs upfront hence need for a defensive minded mildfielder to cover for them whenever they overlap. We know our full backs are more attack minded.

Ndidi can play box to box too. Anyway, I think we need to cover for the full backs. If they are not going upfront I think Aribo can come in. Azeez is not bad though.


Observations

1. Zaidu for Collins if he gets to play regularly for Porto.

2. Well, competition is necessary. We need all in the team but as it stands, Moses is ahead. Apart from Kalu and Ejuke, are there any Nigerians able to play in that wing?

3. I don't not have confidence in Uzoho for now. We need to look for a better goalkeeper in the mold of Enyeama.

4. Well, I think Balogun is okay but I don't know if Rohr is interested in him.


5. How many?

6. Na mind phone. I didn't check before posting.

andrewbaba44:
Monaco is a selling club and so do bvb benfica and some few others

If the right offers come bvb will sell haaland immediately and they will replace him immediately also

You can see that they almost sold sancho to Man U

Na wa for those clubs ooooo but Benfica is still doing well.

Starboytwo:
Osihmen will score above 25 goals this new season... I almost said 30....

I have no single doubts about the guy, he would score and keep on scoring..:. Again he would be Africa’s representatives when they are calling STRIKERS....

Just see the quality of his goals, see the way he whoops that shot at the near post, d keeper can’t keep up in the first hat trick match.. his accuracy is Unbelievable, I mean he looks up,saw the small space and whooosh...Goal...

Yesterday,one of my friend’s got tired of me singing BEST YOUNG STRIKER IN THE WORLD...

At the end of the season osihmen would be in the Top 5 highest goal scorer in seria A... he is that good... No hype, just facts....

Lastly, I never watched yekini live for the eagles, maybe I did, probably with my dad as he is a yekini fan boy, same state, same physique but in osihmen we have our own Updated yekini...

He would break and set a new goal record for the NT, He would win multiple Afcon(my mind day tell me 3)and even captain D team and lift one...

The post is long, so is my love for the No 9.... oh victor is not lucky to be in Napoli, the city of Naples are lucky to have him.....

Take it easy. Seria A defence is not moimoi. If he eventually scores 25 goals I don't see him in Napoli next season.

......................... Uzoho..............


Aina............Ekong...... Balogun..... Collins...


................Ndidi.........Aribo......

...... Chuks........ Iheancho..........Moses

........................... Osimhen.......

This is how the team should look like for now pending we see what becomes of those who got transfer to good clubs.

............................ Okoye..............

Aina....... Ekong........Semi........... Zaibu

................. Ndidi.........Agu........

....... Chuks......... Iheancho.........Moses

..........................Osimhen...........

This is how it should look like if they get to play this season especially if Agu moves to Ligue 1.



If those Germans eventually agrees to play for us...... story go change.

I am loving this.

TheSuperNerd:
Onyekuru bags winner

Henry Onyekuru scored the winner for his side, AS Monaco as they defeated OGC Nice 3-2 in a friendly game played behind closed doors. He played the second 45.



The match sheet

Friendly match: OGC Nice 2-3 AS Monaco (Half-time 2-0)

Goals: Lopes (12th) and Guessand (14th) for OGC Nice; Daniliuc (csc, 58th), Martins (76th) and Onyekuru (88th) for AS Monaco



OGC Nice: Cardinale - Burner, Daniliuc (Pelmard, 73rd), Nsoki, Pioneer (Crétier, 90th) - Kari (Schneiderlin, 73rd), Trouillet (Lees-Melou, 73rd), Sylvestre - Ben Seghir (Sellouki, 42nd), Lopes (Parsemain, 67th), Guessand
Coach: Patrick Vieira

AS Monaco: Pereira - Aguilar (Onyekuru, 46th), Sidibé (Biancone, 67th), Disasi (Marcelin, 67th), Maripan, Caio (Ballo-Touré, 40th) - Tchouameni (Fofana, 46th), Aholou (Fabregas, 67th) , Diop (Matazo, 67th) - Millot, Volland (Martins, 46th)
Coach: Niko Kovac

Monaco is a big club but the way they sell their best players shows they are no longer ambitious.

I wish them the best this season

Clementoke:
Gattuso on Osimhen:

"He's a quiet guy who has to work a lot. He's got a lot of physicality, but doesn't have to be satisfied.

"The goals he scores right now don't count for anything, but he fits in very well with the group.

"He jokes with everyone and makes himself loved."

Very good. Nothing can be taken away from the way he scored those goals though.

ChrisKels:
Your argument was about qaulity goalkeepers, can you name one both in the national leagues and otherwise, since Enyeama left?

There are/were goalkeepers better than Ezenwa. That is all I wanna say.

ChrisKels:
As the creator who endows people with talents or as a recruiter of goalkeepers for our local academies, club sides and youth teams abi?

So, Ezenwa is the best in the national League?

Subzero047:
Should be blamed for not enough good goalkeepers around?

For lack of quality goalkeepers.

benji93:
But honestly if to say Nigeria no dey lack for the goalkeeping department, i no know how we go dey argue about players wey dey play for Cyprus, Latvia. The Latvian league na one kind highly rated league like that ooo. . 38th place no be small thing. . İ hope our luck changes in that department.

Hopefully, these turn out to be good. The goalkeeper coach should be blamed for this.