It's a big shame that an ex-player of Gary Lineker will mention what he admitted he can't even confirm
“I do hear on the grapevine that a reason one or two of the clubs are a little bit nervous is that he sometimes can go missing for a few days. Apparently. there’s some kind of slight question mark as to his character in that sense…”
Danielnino00: You people should stop this thing... its starting to look lame... Osimhen is not the first nor the last footballer in the world to have a fallout with his coach or club,, why are you making it look like he is the type of guy that has had an attitude problem all his career?? It look like you are just looking for anything to justify your argument...
He has nothing to say about Ademola who has refused to show up for training o, imagine it was VO they would have been everywhere shouting!
Even one moniker here that call Ademola his star boy is no where to be found now! Abeg make we ignore these kasongo people
QueenJazz: As someone who isn't entirely satisfied with Osimhen's move to Gala, I've always considered that attitude excuse to be the weakest justification for ignoring Osimhen. Doesn't really make sense to me why people bring that up. And it's odd that Gary Lineker would cite that as the reason.
Unless it's a new policy in the EPL to be ignoring players who are vocal and aggressive. Doesn't make sense, but who knows?
Honestly, It's far more likely to me that they're ignoring him because of his wage demands (in light of the new wage structures in some EPL clubs), AFCON absence when the season starts, or his injury history, or his age, or whether he will fit into their strategy/tactics for this season etc. Any other reason is suspect.
So I don't know but that attitude thing is not really convincing to me.
Looks like you’re new to this thread, in the heat of the osihmen transfer controversy you need to see how so many here including those I can see are changing mouth now were using the attitude excuse to spread the narratives of why clubs are not going for osihmen and these nonsense was all over the social media by Nigerians too which am suspecting is from where Gary lineker must have picked that narrative too.
When I say we Nigerians should be careful how we bash our country and ourselves online many will claim that, is not the truth they are saying. Ok let’s continue by the time the lies we are spreading out there as truth will continue be used against our interests in sports and other fields maybe we will start to get sense. Phew
Danielnino00: You people should stop this thing... its starting to look lame... Osimhen is not the first nor the last footballer in the world to have a fallout with his coach or club,, why are you making it look like he is the type of guy that has had an attitude problem all his career?? It look like you are just looking for anything to justify your argument...
Dude is a confirmed hater, I even admire his bravery for his continuous bile unlike his jolly fellow haters who have gone completely cowardly quiet!
Titian22: You think only Nigerians know of his insults on Finidi. You guys think this guys will just recruit you without doing background checks and relating with past coaches that managed him before
Gala didn’t do background checks abi, cos it’s only in England they play football, trash!
You have been left behind o cos you’re talking as if VO is clubless!
TheGoodJoe: As much as I can say you are right, it does not call for an attack. It was an honest post made by someone. However, I feel the Osimhen's viral arrival at Turkey shook some English stakeholders. They are just trying to cover face. After splashing cash up and down for players actually below Osimhen's profile, they have no excuse for not going above the bar for him.
Titian22: 🗣: Former England striker, Gary Lineker, has said that top European clubs, which he heard on the grapevine, didn't show interest in Victor Osimhen due to his character concerns.
" I do hear on the Grapevine that a reason one or two of the clubs are a bit nervous is that he sometimes can go missing for a few days; apparently, there is a slight question mark as to his character."
Someone that played for a club the entire last season, won two titles suddenly had character concerns and can go missing for few days 😂
Papi85: Ademola Lookman has refused to attend a second consecutive Atalanta training session, as he seeks to force through a move to rivals Inter Milan. After deciding to skip Monday morning’s training session, the 27-year-old failed to turn up for the second consecutive day.
According to Gazzetta, Lookman is currently down with a calf injury and was scheduled for an individual training session today.
Lookman handed in a transfer request after Atalanta rejected two Inter bids worth €40 million and €45m.
The Nigerian wrote in a recent social media post: "Despite now receiving an offer in alignment to what I believe had been discussed, sadly the club are blocking the opportunity for reasons I do not understand.
“As a result and after many months of broken promises and what I feel has been poor treatment towards me as both a human being and as a professional footballer, sadly I feel I have no choice but to speak out for what I believe is right and I feel that enough is enough."
Atalanta CEO Luca Percassi has since responded, saying they reached an agreement last year when they rejected an offer from Paris Saint-Germain and stated that he can only move to a top side outside of Italy.
komekn: Which quality English player will go to Turkish league unless for retirement.
Arrogant view as usual, if an English player gets the kind of coverage or attention in Turkey VO is getting or anywhere else it will be huge news, ok? VO going to Turkey was never a function of quality in the first place.
Taal17: She actually went to 3 sec schools in Nigeria. ISL , FGGC and possibly Vivian Fowler
I won't be surprised that she moved around so much cos she was a ramble rouser.or her parents were. Psschew At least one of her parents was Unilag staff so they had staff quarters. Even the story of her brother being arrested by police bla bla was misconstrued...it didn't happen like that. Her brother clarified
Oh, one school down, two to go then! their portion of slander is coming!
Kog45: Initially I wasn't happy with Osimhen decision to join Gala but watching the way Obafemi Martins is enjoying his retirement made me to rethink.Obagol is enjoy his life to the fullest even better than famous Kanu and Okocha, meaning he made money.....after all money be Koko without it no life.... Osimhen go on and make money.
You’re welcome to the ‘Yes men’ club 😂 we’ll send your application form you’ll complete and how much dues you’ll pay!
Mujtahida: Yes prerogative of mercy is a constitutional right which giving of largesse is not. Point is that he's flouted no law in exercising his power as a president in this direction. It is not a matter of law but entirely up to his discretion. Certain positions command certain perquisites. This is known all over the world. This is unlike appointments and that too is limited to ministerial appointments.
Your point is that if he doesn't do the same thing for the D'Tigress, it is discrimination. I disagree. He's not acting from a place of legal obligation. He's entirely free to exercise his choice of gifting the players and honoring them.
If not has he discriminated against you by not awarding you OON or any of the other national honors when perhaps you have achieved more than many people who have been awarded?
De law e don do, anybody wey work go collect im pay 💰 all these court arguments e no matter. Oya let the court rise! case dismissed
diggz: I agree with most of what you’ve mentioned in your post. However, I’d like to highlight that there’s a reason why the words of someone in power, or anyone who holds a high-ranking position or authority, carry more weight than those of the average person.
Take, for example, a family of five: the father, mother, and children. Naturally, people tend to take the children’s words at face value while giving more consideration to what the parents say, especially the father, or more generally, whoever is perceived as the head of the family. This deference comes from their position of authority within the family structure.
In the same way, people are more critical of Kemi because she is a public figure whose words have far greater reach and influence than those of the average British citizen, British Nigerian, or Nigerian, particularly when it comes to how the world perceives Nigerians. It is only to be expected that people would be highly critical of her, especially in recent times when she has made statements that many feel have thrown the entire nation under the bus.
I could be wrong, but I have yet to see anyone with a similar level of influence take the same stance on their heritage as she has. If you know of anyone, feel free to point them out.
While you’ve referenced PM Cameron’s statements, the “Nigerian Prince” scam, the BBC, and other examples as contributing to the image Nigeria has built over time, the key issue remains this: when someone like Kemi, a Nigerian or British Nigerian in a position of power, repeatedly throws the country under the bus at every opportunity, it does nothing to help the image of Nigeria or Nigerians in the diaspora. It reinforces negative stereotypes and cements the damaging narratives that already exist about Nigeria and Nigerians in general. That is the core grievance many people have with her.
Whatever she is trying to achieve by continually criticising the country (Nigeria), it is definitely going to backfire. In the long run, it will destroy her political career, because no one beyond the people she has persistently targeted will be able to trust her. And that trust is not something she will regain from them, nor from the British public.
You cannot cut off your nose to spite your face, and that is exactly what she has been doing.
In addition some Nigerians too both in the diaspora and at home are also part of the bigger problem always insisting that whatever she says is the truth because of how bad they also feel about the country and for as long as she has that audience and attention she will continue to say whatever no matter how hurtful it may be. Both she and that audience don’t really care about what damage it does to us as a people. And it’s good so we can easily identify, ignore or avoid them too.
jedisco: Kemi has her issues. People like her manytimes start out being ambitious but tend to overcompensate to please the baying crowd. This is not helped by the fact that they think themselves to be special especially when there are not many like them around. An Indian would find it harder to constantly spew such given they'd just be one of many who have done well.
She reminds me of someone I encountered recently in a romantic setting. Her parents also migrated when she was young and she'd only been back to 9ja once. She was seething with a narrative of how bad Nigeria is. I told her she reminds me of Kemi- gave her the peice of my mind and shut it. Some people are not worth the stress
Agree with the bolded. I'd contest that the education Kemi received in FGC Sagamu was not dissimilar in quality to what many similar-aged Brits received in the UK at that time. Yes, our educational system has it's challenges but there are many Nigerian professionals performing well in the west partly thanks to the education they received back home
Run o! 🏃 any hole wey dem dig for you 😂 jump n pass!
As for our dear aunty I don Dey see many FGC shagamu alumni posting on social media their prison uniform for school and where they are today! The same prison made them but couldn’t make Aunty get to understand who she be gan gan, abeg second base jare!
mank1234: Dem no go do am. No political point to score in basketball. Most Nigerians don't even know about the competition. Football it is here.
This is for you bro
Nigeria's D'Tigress singing their way to the villa after becoming the first team in Africa to win five consecutive Afrobasket titles. pic.twitter.com/klOFmvwBY9
Ppogbae: Go speak to the US or Canadian Women's national soccer team. Perceived value trumps accolades. Honestly speaking, how big is D'Tigress as a brand in Nigeria? How many of our media houses are even covering them? How many Nigerians even know that we have a women's basketball program?
The president has mentioned them and that’s enough coverage
Mujtahida: The value we place on basketball is not the same as football. Even in football, the value varies. Basketball is a niche sport in Nigeria. It does not command the mass appeal of football.
And this Falcons own was based on the iconic significance of the win.
Whatever the case, it is entirely within the prerogative of the President to gift them money and national honors.
Maybe we will learn a thing or two about what such motivation means to our sport men and women who often get nothing better than presidential handshake.
M.O.N. without the EY ain’t complete o no let anyone gaslight you 😂
Mujtahida: Female football dey sweet ooo. Brazil and Colombia played CONMEBOL final yesterday. It was full of drama. 4-4 apiece at the end of regulation time. Match went to PKs and Brazil clinched it. Charlesemeka85 you dey miss oo.
Elyte89 I'm thinking since men's football is giving you a hard time, why don't you look into female football coaching. Nasarawa has a team I can link you up with oo. Anyway as your Solicitor, I will just go ahead and submit your CV.
Odunayaw: We're not talking of prize money but honor.
This is why some of us objected to the gifts, not because it's bad to do but because it is prone to obligations when such feats are matched or surpassed. And when not given, the spiral to screams of maginalization.
Again, D'Tigress conquering Africa 5 times in a row, beating Senegal coached by Otis Hughley who gave us 3 titles? And anyone says they are not deserving of the same accolades with the Falcons? The rationale must be better than what you guys are saying
Odunayaw: We're not talking of prize money but honor.
This is why some of us objected to the gifts, not because it's bad to do but because it is prone to obligations when such feats are matched or surpassed. And when not given, the spiral to screams of maginalization.
Again, D'Tigress conquering Africa 5 times in a row, beating Senegal coached by Otis Hughley who gave us 3 titles? And anyone says they are not deserving of the same accolades with the Falcons? The rationale must be better than what you guys are saying
President wey don send delegation to the finals, bros no waste time argue o! Who work go earn im 💰 pay
Goodenoch: See! I was thinking about it on a drive today and trying to see if maybe my memory had somehow become warped. I won't pretend I enjoyed the grass cutting at the time but for heaven's sake, equating it to prison work is just off the rails. At the time, if you had a health issue or whatever, you'd be exempted. Not saying Nigerian schools were or are perfect but isn't it that same school she was able to leave at 16 and resume her education in the UK and then begin to do well? If it was completely usesless would she have been able to use that education as the foundation for her career as she did?
That's the point many people are not getting (or pretending not to get) - she's not telling her 'truth'. She's weaponizing her experiences by using exaggerated and sometimes outrightly false depictions of Nigeria, to reinforce that she's 'not like the rest of them'. Abi can someone explain how someone can live in Nigeria for 16 years and say she never felt at home there but the day she arrived the UK she "felt at home."
This is the same person that would have you believe people can't truly integrate until they've spent 15 years or so but she felt at home on the very day she arrived, despite her only prior connection being that her mother had delivered her here as one of the last anchor babies under the birthright citizenship loophole*.
*Because Badenites have told us here that every immigration route that was subsequently removed was a loophole.
Lies upon lies, few months ago she identified as Yoruba and not part of the boko haram north according to her in response to vice president Shettima, next am Nigerian by virtue of my parents and can’t pass it to my children, today she no longer identifies as Nigerian, too many inconsistencies which is actually depicting and reinforcing that stereotype of misrepresentation and fraud that has tainted Nigeria reputation worldwide. That’s how this girl has rubbished what perhaps is left about how we are currently being perceived.
She’s truly not done as every school and perhaps parties she attended in Nigeria will begin to collect their own portion now. Thank God she didn’t do NYSC especially where those army officials make graduates do those frog jumps 😂Aunty for tell us how she collect koboko! Phew
Fred2020: omo ale lo n fowo osi juwe Ile baba re {it is the bastard child to points to her home using her left hand.
Her parents have failed her honestly.
We cannot change where we come from and must never despise it. We must only strive to become the best.
Her parents may have taught her the later but they failed to teach her the former.
She is on cause to be a very inconsequential leader of the party. No matter how much she digs dip into culture wars and disparaging her ancestry, it would not win her votes with the voting base she is chasing.
My shame is that Nigeria is blessed with some of the best and most talented population in Africa, thanks to its large & young population size.
It is a shame that in the one that rose to the pinnacle of british politics is not the brightest one in the pack.
Very regrettable and so shameful! Just a waste of time and space.
Cutting grass has become a problem whereas we cut grass here in the uk just with different types of tools and equipment. I’ve discussed with lots of elderly folks here and they will tell you all the struggles they had as children growing up which is not quite different from a developing 3rd world like Nigeria. Most of the advancements in this country started from the 60s downward when Nigeria was still coming out of colonial rule. Every nation has its timeline of evolution and development. Aunty truly need to be checked emotionally, is she even thinking of her own children at all? What’s the use of all these achievements if you’re so lost in yourself alone and everything from your childhood seems to offend you. Na wa o!
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