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Mickael2:
my brother eh, I read that comment and I was like 'wow' so people like this still dey? One freekick in a friendly game, one freaking Fkick in a friendly game is now the yardstick, so because Kanu never scored a freekick he isn't a good player any more? Poor Yekini I guess

Hahahaha! Honestly, I tire for the guy.

People no just like make you talk true for ones.

komekn:
All managers will have a bias for something Rohr being German can't but hel himself to see things from a German perspective.

A player that hasn't played a season of first team football is being considered furthermore has done nothing outstanding in recent times. Is being considered for the SE that is clear cut bias.

Rohr should not focus only on Germany else we lose players like Josh, Ojo, Lookman, Solanke etc

TheGoodJoe:
People would have preferred Iheanacho on the bench for Silva, Nasri and Yaya Toure in the name of developing him over what Pellegrini did, leading the young man to produce stats as the greats.

I will take Pellegrini's opinion when I look at the catalogue of those who respect his input to the game.

Toure don finish.

junnyjake:
You really need me to start reeling out names. Sorry, I ain't got time for that.

Form your players who singlehandedly won leagues for their teams, another who kept against one of the best teams in the world 2 years ago, scoring fastest goals in leagues.

These are good players, I like them don't get me wrong.

Your dislike for the other players who are favored at the moment is what gets me off.

Which dislike?

These are facts.

junnyjake:
It might have something to do with the kind of Midfielders he likes.

Can you notice anything similar about the MFs he keeps inviting??

Why is Rohr still searching for a player in the mold of Mikel Obi?

goldfish80:
I don't think anyone will get Kelechi and reconvert him to a Wing forward or ATM.
The world now see him as a striker. His body morphology have changed so much to suit his new role.
He has not other option than to improve as a striker. Judging from what we have witnessed so far, it is very easy to see his celine.
Man city and Pelegrini really disfigured a promising career.

Very painful. I feel like crying.

junnyjake:
Is he qualified for a Work Permit yet?

Playing time in top European league and others factors.

Liverpool tried this season but failed and I think they were advised on what to do to get it.

goldfish80:
why are they scared of Martins? I dont get it anymore.

Maybe na fear fear dey worri.

goldfish80:
If you've been monitoring my comments, you will know I stand up for players in less fancied leagues.
Jobie once said I liked mediocrity probably because I argue in favour of the less fancied league players. I have had strong arguments with tbaba1234 about my stance on the so called backwater leagues.

I prefer a guy in China or Turkey than a regional league or U23 league player.

Musa and Kelechi need serious kick on their backside. They must be made to understand they have to earn their place in the team.
They are too diplomatic with Leicester city for my liking. Kelechi and Musa should be leaking to the press their desire for more playing time.
Their agents should be leaking stories to the press to force Leicester city's hand.

Taking match rusty players to a fierce group of death like we find ourselves is a cause for serious worry.

It's like 100 metres in the Olympics, you cant expect a guy clocking 15 seconds,6 months to the games to medal.
Tbes guys need to start playing .

Match rusty players, playing as a team will never do well in a global event.

Gbam!

komekn:
Have you seen the boys in the U23's waiting for a chance Then add to who they might bring in during the January transfer window and I very much doubt it.

Then finally who will he displaced Coutinho

Not in Liverpool.

Liverpool wants him to play in England next season and that was why they sent him on loan to getting playing time. Peradventure, he gets a work permit due to the playing time.

goldfish80:
THe boy is not a striker. Manu Garba screamed his head off , pointing this out. The man who discovered him in Owerri said the same thing.
These guys molded Kelechi, they know more about him than anyone else.

That is just the simple truth hard for people to swallow here.

Iheanacho needs to be revertedreverted back to his natural position and starts playing regularly but I don't think he can achieve that at his current club except a miracle happens.

Hence, he needs to go to where he can play regularly in that role and become our Griezman but na passport dey worri am pass.

freeme5:
E be like say Iheanacho knows that he won't be listed in yesterday's match because he has been enjoying himself in Iwobi's house since yesterday.Check out Alex 's snapcaht) The guy looks like a happy follow despite what is happening to him at his club

That is what you see when you are invited to the national team on a platter of gold without club performance.

goldfish80:
Kelechi actually lost his starting position in the team to Ighalo after the loss to to South Africa. Odion would have started that friendly if he was fit . By the way, Kelechi started that game in Algiers, why haven't anyone mentioned how poor he was on the night?


I have been screaming my head off about Mancity's under development of Kelechi, even when his numbers were good. I saw through his performance. Not everyone understood what I was pointing at till last season and this current season.
Converting him to a striker was the worst thing to happen to his career. Even if he was to make the conversion, it shouldn't have been this early in his career.

The @bolded is what people can't understand.

TheGoodJoe:
See people that know more than Pellegrini. I honestly wish Solanke the best. Not ready to pitch tent against any.

Proud of Iheanacho so far. He has achieved a lot so far and I hope he stays injury free and has a nice World Cup. That is more important than comparing him with Solanke.

So, you blind when someone here is trying to tell us Solanke is shit even when he is in a better situation than Iheanacho?

I was the first person to blow alarm three seasons ago that Solanke is a far better player than Kelechi but people don't know why I said so.

I studied both players and I discovered Kelechi relied on tap in to score goals while Solanke will take on 2 or 3 players before he scores.

This study took me days, weeks and some months to make my conclusion.

Now, today Solanke is on the ascendary while Iheanacho is going down. Why?

Because Manchester City didn't believe Iheanacho talent lays behind a striker hence the need to convert him to a striker.

That was the biggest mistake of his life though not his fault.

Rohr self could see for himself Iheanacho is not a striker hence the need to play him on the RW and later as false 9.

People shouting upandon about him here are of no good to his career. They are his biggest enemies.

If his club wants him to stay, he had better stay than roam around clubs he is not sure of getting a start but if they want to sell him, France is better because he no go smell bench for German. I don't like the league for Nigerian young players.

goldfish80:
You're the real enemy of the team since youre happy and satisfied with the situation most of our reliable players find themselves.

You claim to be a fan of the team but it doesnt agitate your mind that our attacking players have managed to score just 6 goals collectively in the first half of a season preceding the world cup.

Sometimes I wonder what have happened to the African youth. Why is the African youth incapable of questioning the status quo? This is the reason the older older generation believe the youths are not ready to take over.

Is it so hard to look at international best practices and demand same for your your country?

This impoverished thought as exhibited by this writer is the reason why the world view Africans as people with relatively lower IQ than the rest of the world .

Gbam!

darkelf:
Spot on bro.

I want them to stat getting regular team football

Not just for the WC but also (and more importantly) for their improvements as players

That should be the case in a sane society.

Lucque:
Cc: Goldfish80..
Dedebanky..
Let us all assume dat we have all. Come to our senses, and realised dat u are right.. These bench warmers dat u spoke of, are we taking them to the WC at d expense of any player dat is performing extremely wonderfully in Europe??.
So Wat do u advise we do, strip this team of its key players cos they are bench warmers and bring in a new 11 consisting of world class players dat have never kicked a ball for d SE b4 now, or wat exactly.... How about we start proferring solutions like maybe d players we should call up instead... Cos I dunno y u guys will still criticize d team players wen they are obviously delivering... It's not we can field Aguero or Gaby Jesus,abi na ogbeche, Martins ,Fred Friday , &Bonaventure Una wan carry??

None of the three strikers in the team can lace Martin's shoe. No offense.

realpoacher:
CC goldfish80
Olorioko
Forgiveness

It is obvious what your intentions are for the SE. All your criticisms is not for the growth of the SE rather it is because you truly hate the team especially because your players are not always selected, so you truly pray for our downfall so that you can laugh at us.

If the 3 of you deny my accusations, prove me wrong by showing me anywhere on this thread where you wished the SE success in any of our matches in the past?

Everytime before any game during the qualifiers, you all will wish us badluck only for these same players you so hate and write off to enter into the pitch and win, not just winning but performing and winning excellently well. But none of you guys will ever comeback after the match to congratulate the team for performing far above your expectations or predictions, rather you all will disappear for awhile only to reappear after the dust have settled to continue to castigate the players and predict doom to the team as a whole.

I am referring to @forgiveness, @mickeal2, @komern and others listed earlier on especially.

But going into the crux of my post. I want you all to know this!


-WHETHER OR NOT ALL OUR PLAYERS WHO PLAYED OUR QUALIFIERS ARE BENCE WARMERS WITH SEAT BELTS IN THEIR CLUBS, THEY WILL STILL GO TO THE WORLD CUP. FACT!

- UNDER ROHR, WE QUALIFIED FOR THE WORLD CUP WITH THESE SET OF PLAYERS YOU ALL SO HATE DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE COULDN'T QUALIFY FOR TWO NATIONS CUP BACK UNDER THREE DIFFERENT COACHES, THEREFORE THESE SAME SET OF PLAYERS WHO MADE OUR WORLD CUP JAMBOREE POSSIBLE WILL BE THERE, ATLEAST 80% OF THEM WILL BE LIVE IN RUSSIA INCLUDING IHEANACHO. IF YOU LIKE CHOKE ON IT.

- THE ERA OF CHANGING THE TEAM UNDER THE DISGUISE OF "LOOKING FOR BETTER PLAYERS" IS GONE. IF YOU WANT TO Be PLAYED AT THE TOURNAMENT PROPER, FIGHT TO BE WITH THE TEAM DURING QUALIFIERS BECAUSE AFTER QUALIFICATION, YOUR CHANCES OF MAKING THE TEAM DROPS TO 20% EXCEPT OFCOURSE YOU ARE PLAYING IN THE MOON.

- THESE CURRENT BOYS KEPT FAITH WITH THE TEAM, PLAYED THEIR HEARTS OUT, DELIVERERD DURING THE QUALIFIERS, AND THEREFORE DESERVE TO BE ON THE PLANE TO RUSSIA. EVEN IF WE LOSE OUT IN THE GROUP STAGE(GOD FORBID), SO BE IT!

- NOT TOO LONG AGO, ALGERIA WAS NO1 IN AFRICA, CAMEROUN WON THE NATIONS CUP AND PLAYED IN THE CONFEREDATIONS CUP. THESE WERE THE TEAMS ROHR AND HIS BOYS WERE PAIRED AGAINST WITH. NO ONE GIVE THEM A CHANCE, YET THEY QUALIFIED WITH A RECORD. THAT IN ITSELF IS A HISTORY! AN HISTORY THEY ARE GOING WITH TO WORLD CUP. WE WILL NOT GO TO RUSSIA WITH PLAYERS WHO HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HOW WE GOT THERE! THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN

- ROHR HAS SAID ONLY 4 PLAYERS ARE WHAT HE NEEDS TO BEEF UP HIS TEAM, FIGHT FOR YOUR PLAYERS TO BE AMONG THE FOUR AND LEVEL IHEANACHO ALONE

Iheanacho this, Iheanacho that, the same Iheanacho that was not getting playing time but kept on scoring everytime he wore our shirt, to the point he scored a beautiful free kick against Argentina ranked 4th in the world.

I dare you all Iheanacho enemies and haters to name one player in the history of Nigeria football that has ever scored a free-kick against a top 10 ranking team whether in a competition, friendly, 5-aside, Sunday set or in training match!

I dare you all to name just that one player who has ever scored a direct free-kick like that. Either you name that player or you keep mute and forever hold your peace!

The five of you that I mentioned are not fans, you are agents seeking to do an "uchebo" on us. It will not work. No matter how fans criticise their team, they will celebrate whenever the same team wins a match. Never have there been any time any one of you guys celebrate the SE for winning any game here. All you do is to go "ghost mode" for a while only to jump back in castigating players. Or you think many here haven't noticed your pattern of comments?

SMH

So long as chicharito was on seat belt in both Man U & Real Madrid but still commanded first team shirt in Mexico, IHEANACHO WILL GO TO THE WORLD CUP!

Haters choke on it

So, this epistle was for Iheanacho and not for the progress of the team. I see.

Free kick is now the yardstick for measuring a player. I see.

TheGoodJoe:
We can do it with hardwork and determination. Forget the Atlanta hype, that team was no where in quality to the Brazilians. Two players from the Brazilian team became the best two players in the World by 1998, Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos. Rivaldo later became the best player in the World. Conceicao joined Real Madrid. I think Ze Carlos later joined Madrid. Amaral was respected in Italy. Bebeto was Bebeto. Juninho became one of the best players in the EPL. Dida became a regular for AC Milan. They were far more talented players. Same with Argentina with the likes of Claudio Lopez, Hernan Crespo, Zanetti and a host of other stars.


That did not stop us from beating them and winning the gold medal. Due to belief and hardwork. That is what has carried us for a long while. Our last Olympics preparation was shabby. Yet even after arriving late, we put four past Japan and later picked the Bronze medal.

Hardwork, determination and belief.

If Ronaldo was still on the pitch we for chop 7 goals.

daveP:
If he flops 1match, you'l agree his se time was up ba? cos if he gets back, then you consider him understudy for the younger goalies. He cant smell camp cos only 2slots are left for 4 gks to battle. so where do he fit in

If Ejide can smell camp, na Aiyenugba no fit smell.

Dis country can never go places with the mentality displayed on this thread.

Sentiments has swallowed people's sense of reasoning.

TheGoodJoe:
That is how you were screaming upandan with Solanke and Kayode holding regular shirts as if they will be regulars in big clubs. Now you have started again.

Bia, take your time.

You are deceiving yourself.

Solanke and Kayode are on the ascendary while Iheanacho is on the discendary.

Are you blind?

junnyjake:
3 Afcons?? Amuse me more.

Did you qualify in 2012?

Did you qualify in 2015?

Did you qualify in 2017?

Now, how amused are you?

TheGoodJoe:
Belgium can offer to drop Batshuayi. We are talking of a team that boasts of Lukaku who is one of the most expensive football property in the game and Dres Mertens who is one of the hottest forwards in the game. We do not have that luxury. The Belgian league is developed that they can harness quality players to fill different roles.

Nigeria is not like that. If we drop our players who are not regulars in their clubs for those who are regulars, we diminish the strength of the team. We have to use what we have, get the best from them through hardwork and sound tactics.

We have players littered allover. Selection of mediocre players ahead of those who performance regularly is day light robbery.

daveP:
Simon Moses isnt either. even his conversion rate youre comfy with going to the mundial?

How many free kicks Iheanacho don't convert for him club career?

If we go by that Iheanacho is neither.

goldfish80:

Did they have reserve league players in that team who turned them into an emerging force in Africa? ?
Analyze their players individually and tell me if you can find players in footballing purgatory, like Kelechi and Musa.

Simple thing.

daveP:
And if Enyeama gets unavailable after selection, who keeps goal. No one ba? Lets make do with what we have m ground.

Aiyenugba dey dere.

goldfish80:
You still dont get it.You think I'm talking about world class class player.
For goodness sake, I'm talking about performing players.
That Teranga lions team had lots of performing players who bossed the French league 1.

Diouf, Coly were bossing it at Rc Lens, Tony Sylva at Lille, Fadiga at Bordeaux name them.... these guys were important players for their clubs prior to the world cup

Is it difficult for them to understand this simple thing?

goldfish80:
Poor Musa, bless him. He would have been flushed down the toilet here if Kelechi wasn't having it rough.

All animals aren't treated equally on this thread apparently.

You're guilty of this as well. You're not any different from them when your FBs are mentioned.

Hahahaha! But those FBs are doing better nau.

daveP:
emphasis: new plus

Are you aware Nacho scored with a freekick against Argentina?

no difference ba? well there is!!

Iheanacho is not the only free kick taker in the team. EOD

FabioPeter:
Between now and WC SE will play about 5 matches. We don’t have the luxury of testing local goal keepers.
A WC first choice keeper should be proven and tested, not experimental.

I said that to show how Ezenwa was not qualified to be chosen ahead of local goalkeeper better than him.

However, Enyeama and Aiyenugba are my prefffered goalkeepers for the WC.

FabioPeter:
Romero of Argentina, Batshuayi of Belgium, Okazaki of Leicester etc

Batshuayi situation is far better than Iheanacho. Nevertheless, he could lose his spot if his situation doesn't change before June.

No be Okazaki dey keep Iheanacho away from the match day squad?