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JohnBullMySon:
Don't mind those guys. Chest beating without knowledge. A good team with a poor coach is way better than a poor team with a good coach. In fact, the better a team is the easier they are to coach cause one they will play to instructions and two you won't need to micromanage the game. Just give the overall strategy and they'll follow it.

I have said it here before that until our teams reclaim their spots back on the continental club stage. They are not worth being in the national team. it's that simple.

I didn't watch the chan games but estimating from Chelle's games with the SE, I can guess what happened. I'm sure he tried to get those guys playing upfront which resulted in high possession without result, missed chances, poor ball recovery.

We simply don’t have the materials for it even the super eagles is not too different

diggz:

It’s well

This psg don Dey be like scam!

Whether home based or foreign based if you’re good you’re good!

If as a country we had enough materials and talent the current folks manning our midfield in the main super eagles squad with either be on the bench or not be invited at all. So let’s be clear it’s not an home based thing alone!

Papi85:
tiki taka and sexy football that we lack the natural components to make it work

Talk now Thegoodjoe go write 10 page thesis of how we suppose play from goal keeper to the midfield then defence splitting pass to Osimhen who will round the opponents goal keeper then lay it to Boniface to just tap in 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

We are not soaking knowledge enough including garri join am 😂

Papi85:
okay but Ideye wey make the post on X played amongst this group of players in the NPFL last season which implies he knows what he is saying

Both locally and internationally we too overrate ourselves

The fact that we couldn’t even beat Zimbabwe at home in the WCQ says a lot.

Truth is we don’t have enough players to lift our game to the highest standards, this is why paseiro had the approach he used in the last Afcon but we keep insisting we want tiki taka now we have the coach to give us that sexy football still we can’t fly properly!

solonnachi:
Ngenge should never come near our national team again

That name no too sound Nigerian, Una sure say no be foreigner play for us so? 😂 e resemble SA or Congo name, make dem investigate o 😂

Goodenoch:
Badenough was in Epping on Monday saying how asylum seekers should be kept in camps and not town.

Whatever you think of that opinion, when thinking about what she means and how she would implement it if she had power, what you need to remember is that while she raced to Epping to speak in support of those attacking a hotel housing asylum seekers, she did not and has still not said one word about the widespread riots of last year when minorities (not necessarily immigrants because the rioters were attacking people based on how they looked not checking their immigration status) were being hunted and attacked in the streets.

Do you realize how incredible it is that someone whose political platform is founded in being an immigrant and who is now atop one of the countries leading parties, did not say anything at all in those circumstances? Not even a lukewarm statement just calling for calm. Nothing. In the time of greatest danger by people just like her, she chose silence. She would not have stayed silent had it been any other group in fear for their lives like that.

When her defenders want to lie and make you think it's only because she insults Nigeria that people dislike her, remember that.

Aunty does not identify as a minority, immigrant or person of colour 😂 point of correction please!

I can bet that if immigrants die she won’t even blink. She’s that weird at heart, forget it, if those defending her here didn’t give a damn then you’re expecting their gang leader to say wetin? You’ll wait forever, even those here defending her you think they see themselves as immigrants?

Nigerians want to live tax-free and still expect development from the government

AndSunGorilla:
We are sha not going to the WC. If Chelle fails to make AFCON semis then he better start moving.

Semis? He’s either he wins or in the finals! We were in the finals the last edition, we said we want sexy football and not haram so that sexy football must win Afcon or appearance in the finals. Anything less is a failure!

Thanks to the players for saving our 100k 😂 at least dem do that one

4-0 ke! hope no be AI?

CoolAmbience:
My brother, I no dey understand Nigerians o.
We just like people who encloth themselves with pretence.

We are too gullible, na real wa

junnyjake:
Normally, we've seen players in the Italian league play for Inter, Ac, Juve, Roma, Fiorentina and had no issues, I wonder when this madness of not transferring a player to a team in same league started.

It’s terrible o even years ago Nigerian players could move within the Italian league now it has become a taboo hoping Ademola will break the jinx finally but if not then surely it’s an agenda

omo Lookman stubborn o! 😂

This is from Brila Sports!

Serie A side Atalanta have tried to find buyers for Super Eagles forward, Ademola Lookman in the Premier League but the player has rejected the opportunity.

The African Footballer Year only wants to join Inter Milan and is training secretly away from his teammates, having asked for a transfer.

Atalanta, in their attempt to find buyers, offered the forward to clubs in England. But Lookman has maintained an extremist position and he hasn’t budged an inch from his intentions regarding a move to Inter.

Is Ademola Lookman not putting all his eggs in one basket?

- Brila sports

BankyGee:
Calvin Bassey receives his Fulham Player of the Season award for 2024/25 🎖️

Great, well done to Bassey!

This one they have left behind!

Crystal Palace no serious o 😂 dem Dey forbid to win trophy?

At last it’s theirs!

Eze wan ruin chances for Crystal Palace o how do you miss that

lbrichman2:
😂😂😂
Na here all of us go dey
Maybe na Al-hilal he go finally end up

But seriously what’s all this when a player is aspiring to do greater things in his career he suddenly becomes an ungrateful person of bad character, which kind winch things be this na! Who the hell is Newcastle sef, (dem Dey see Liverpool as rival Abi) people keep saying it’s not but looks like it’s becoming a thing of colour or race, especially when I remember Ivan toney who ended up in Al-hilal despite all what he was playing! Terrible

Freedom of speech is different from freedom after speech 😂

lbrichman2:

E go reach everybody 😂😂

Which person papa e don abuse? Abi im pick village people international call? Which one

adexpa:
Yes, humans are self plus Nigerias are emotionally driven. They closed their eyes to any good deed that’s not coming from their loved ones.

The best way to drive Nigerians is not to care about their cries and keep doing what they need and not want. The hallmark of a great leader is to focus on the need and not want of people.
Singaporeans were not jubilating or happy when Lee kua yuan took the deep transformation that brought Singapore to where they are today, but he took the step anyways in spite of hardship and tough moments( he would have chose to beg Malaya or start begging other countries for alliance, but he focus on reviving their inner potential which doesn’t come easy but they are better for it now). If a ladder does not have what he really wants to do before office, he will keep listening to people and he will never do what is right. Buhari said he wanted to remove subsidies but every time he seek for advice around it the response is always ….don’t do it.

Nigeria needs tough and patriotic leaders

I agree, but most Nigerians don't think this way, and it's hard. You see, that emotionally driven thing you mention is a huge problem. God help us! It's now that I understand why most state Governors don't do much; they know their people don't want what they need.

jedisco:
I could have alot of issues with our Unis but many standard secondary schools do thrive to put the best into kids with the little they have. I went to a military school where corporal punishment was then the norm. Though I don't subscribe to corporal punishment, I have no regrets going there and my life pathway might have been very different if I didn't. There are folks who still send their kids back to school in 9ja

Regarding that stint, it was an interesting period of time. The lady appeared to be doing well for herself, holding a good role in an oil and gas firm. However, despite being the one to reach out she also appeared unduly paranoid from the start. I kept wondering- if you're so scared of Nigerians, why seek to date one? Ultimately communicated to her that the kind of man she seeks would not tolerate her baggage.

Nigerian men are hot cake now globally 😂 perhaps all the attacks from Aunty could be attributed to being served breakfast from one of us back then! You can never know o! cos even a whole trade deal could not help our matter!

Cyberknight:
I'm no fan of Badenoch, but I've no issues with her saying she doesn't identify as Nigerian. I've a few family members and friends who left Nigeria years and years ago and who never go back or have any connection thereto apart from family and who would probably express the same sentiment as she did if not necessarily in those words. It's not uncommon and I can fully understand why they and she might feel that way.

Badenoch's comments about what she experienced at FGC Shagamu are likely factual (I went to a federal boarding school in the 80s as well, leaving mine around the time Badenoch would have been entering one (1991?)), and I have some fond and not-so-fond memories of the time (life as a Form 1 student was hell, as a Form 2 student a little less so, it became bearable from Form 3 onwards and admittedly enjoyable (with the limited horizons of the time) when one started wearing trousers and had junior students to order around and beat up just like one had been ordered around and beaten up by senior students previously), so I recognise her descriptions.

It would have been helpful (but not expected) had she contextualised this by accepting that Nigerian boarding schools were based on the British concept and a large number of attendees of British boarding schools also found their experience hellish and rudimentary according to the country's stage of development at the time they attended. The (since rubbished) aim of the British boarding school experience was to "build character through adversity" and it was believed that sending children away from home to live independently and endure deprivation was the way to make them tough. There are any number of people in this country (and in other former British-ruled places) who call themselves boarding school survivors and the media is full of talk about how the experience scarred them and so forth.

She'd have been better served if she'd left it at that. Her latest comments about what she allegedly did in school by fingering cheats and ostensibly demonstrating her pureness of heart as another reason why she couldn't fit into Nigeria are childish in the extreme and diminish her. Weirdly, while I've no interest in her party and its struggles, I actually want her to do a better job of being an opposition leader so that black people in the UK in general - and we who bear the label of Nigerians in particular - do not have to deal with yet another situation being used to support the trope of messing things up when they are in such positions.

In summary both Nigeria and the Uk has no sin then with its boarding system, it was just in tandem with the times and supposed best practice. Thanks for the clarity sir.

And as for Aunty doing a better job as opposition leader, you’ll wait forever o 😂 and expect more labels o yes we ain’t done baby (pardon my American language)

jedisco:
Hehe. You took that personal. The issue with you is that at every turn you exude inferiority - that together with similar proclitive narratives lead no where. You wouldn't get anyone with a working brain following you down that path

Let me ask, how do you intend to build Nigeria?

I came to the UK in 2019. I remember asking on this page then if I could use some credit available to me then (and could easily repay) to get some business venture I had in 9ja going. Oddly, I got alot of shout down. When I was supported with £20k for my training, I invested most of that money in Nigeria at the expense of arguably better reasoning to buy a house in the UK (pre-covid boom). In my first 18m of being in the UK, I had invested over 40m in Nigeria. I get about 500k pcm from that today. A colleague of mine who modernised his diagnostic centre nets 1-2m in profits pcm which he continues to plough back into the Nigerian economy.

I have, still am and should continue to invest back home in 9ja as I have in the UK. The bottomline is that thinking home and building in the UK (or ones place of abode) are not mutually exclusive and if you think seeing yourself as inferior is going to get anyone worth their salt to follow you, then you have to think again.

He said (from one of his posts earlier) he will stay in the uk till he’s 60 years old and return to Nigeria 😂 that’s how long Nigeria should wait for him to build the country!

adexpa:
Infrastructure is the heart of a nation, Nigeria is years backward in the are of infrastructural development. past administrations were not able to do much because they keep the subsidies regime that’s solely benefitted by few elites. The purpose of ending subsidies is to channel all the waste to infrastructural development that will later bring a turnaround to national development. The gains from subsidies are not to directly feed you, but to build a system that will later feed you

Best comment here but unfortunately most Nigerians don’t understand how infrastructure actually connect to their personal livelihoods. They always think they must be given handouts directly to their mouths or pockets.

And I think it’s like that all over the world humans are naturally selfish always thinking things must be given to them directly rather that collective good for all. Maybe it’s time govt in Nigeria try the European approach of socialism give the citizens all they want in terms of welfare but tax them heavily to collect back whatever you gave them perhaps Nigerians may prefer that 😂

lovewins:
Curious as to what the "typical Nigerian mindset" being referenced is. One thing that keeps me puzzled when this conversation rears his head is the "career dream" and "football legacy" narratives you guys push at the players expense. I hope you realise you can dream on Osimhen's behalf, neither can you determine what legacy is to him. It's okay to have imaginations as a fan but a player at the end of the day is in charge of his own destiny. Assuming your own desire as a fan equates as a player's dream is losing the plot in my opinion.

Paradoxically, the "typical Nigerian mindset" is what you're subtly displaying here. You know when parents force career choices on their children, and discourage pursuing paths they are unfamiliar with? That's similar to what's happening here.

He's just a kid. I'm sure he won't even understand all that you have said here! just spamming the thread with childish talk of having lots of money bla bla bla.

Amedino99:
yes. Playing in the premier league is far better than the turkish league. I can accept his move to turkey, it’s his decision i cant decide for him. What we should'nt do is behave as if clamouring for his move to epl is out of place. Its unfortunate the move couldn’t work due to to the unwillingness of these clubs to meet his demands but a 26 years old player who won APOTY 2 years ago has no business in the turkish league at this stage in his career.

It’s time to move on from this osihmen matter and let fate has its way!

Samueltemi337:
He should have waited for Everton too

😂

Apology accepted can we move on please!

BankyGee:
Hope you know how to read properly?

Compare his salary at Sporting CP and his current salary at Arsenal now. No dey talk before you make proper research.

Any fan or admirer wey I get Dey wish make my previous income big pass wetin I Dey collect now Holy Ghost……….. 🔥