I think Danny was right, Liverpool would have to completely change their attacking system to accommodate a striker like Osimhen. Yes, Firmino isn't that prolific, but he best suits the system.
Sounds Crazy, but Sadiq Umar would be quite successful playing for Liverpool in this current system
Sadiq Umar is another deadly weapon yet to be unleashed in the top 5 league read Rudiger gave his positive assessment and feedback on the lad from the little time they spend together in Roma but here our esteemed prof and theorist still thinks he is flop all because he didn't do well under Gerard Rangers
sometimes some peeps go just put up words like say those guys na messi/CR7
last time i checked we have gotten Ejaria in the bag and for Eze he can kiss the dust for all i care the super eagles will never be short of players thans to Niegrians in diaspora that gave birth to bunch of talents all littered all over European academics. i even prefer Olise the reading kid to Eze who look lazy sometimes when not with the ball
for the named two retirees......those guys should be allowed to enjoy their club football
ohhh my goodness this guy is a raw talent and he plays better than Nwakali who kicks football like a pregnant lady, sometimes we waste time dwelling on unserious players. nobody should please come for my head ooo i don't have strength.
the anti spam bot have been banned me lately had to try sign in with a laptop some one should please help me talk to the MOD i am a good guy and he should please lift the ban
And you have so many other quality youth players in thier academy.
He nay find his career going nowhere because he will end being a bench warmer. Chelsea have destroyed so many promising careers, Gael Kakuta, Charles Musonda, etc.
In my opinion BAD MOVE, bigger and far better players have tried and failed.
Without stating the agents name it becomes questionable and if you do what's the agents response.
oga why are you contradicting yourself... you said after that you know close to 6/7 players agent Rohr has been in talk with, what makes you think the agent of this so called Billing Is not among?
you expect him to give the agent name
do you even understand football in context at all or you're simply ridden with sentiments just to downplay what he said
TheSuperNerd: Something better than a Screenshot, Southie.
Look at the bolded italicised of your own words.
A direct quote of yours from October 20, 2017. The day you denigrated Osimhen without mercy lying on top that he had only played just 1 hr of football in Germany. Rings a bell?
You went on to say there is no certainty he would even make the youth teams of an English championship club while totally ruling out his chances at the youth sides of any EPL team.
That same Osimhen today is one of the most reverred young strikers on the planet.
I guess this will do and should forever serve as a lesson. And I got couple more. Wasn't hard to search out. Took me barely three mins on my return to dig it out. And yes of course since this period between 2017 and 2018, you have tried so hard to choose your words when downplaying them these days. You take your shots subtly but then occasionally you drop some pearls of wisdom like a few posts back on Osimhen possible move to Napoli. Sometimes you do try to confuse the thunder that wants to fire you but it's okay.
I only wanted to address that challenge so that it won't be said you didn't simply b'cos no one bothered to show you that you actually did.
Happy new year Southie and keep those hands clean to reduce the chances of contracting a certain virus aiit. Good to see you too.
Thanks nerdy.
Welcome back. I wonder how some peeps think probably he was thinking we all here can't remember some words he spilled out years back.
You are one of the oldest member of this thread and you are still getting to know Safarigirl.
You highlighted her colourful imagination, but that is not all that she has in her locker. Safarigirl has in her composition, most, if not all the attributions of a lawyer.
Her appreciations of the human psyche, her analysis and presentation of case scenarios and the intervening logical conclusions are top-drawer and very commendable.
She has also in her command, a very good memory.
Dear Komekn, Safarigirl is a good lawyer and she is doing what she has been crafted to do.
She hasn't chosen the wrong profession.
Thanks bro don't mind komekn, I see his words as character assassination. all because you both don't agree on particular issue shouldn't make him put up such statement.
Safarigirl is the lady I respect most on nairaland - her wisdom, well articulated points, grammar and others are top notch.
her intelligence and doggedness is just uncommon amongst ladies
Daninya111: I overhead My Teammate Saying I am not Supposed to Be Invited to the World Cup ~ Super Eagle Goalie
Daniel Akpeyi married his very long time girl friend Ebert-Kalu Emmanuella in December 2016. In July 2018 they welcomed their first child Prince Jason Akpeyi, was born in Port Elizabeth. he's credited for locating the Daniel Akpeyi Children Empowerment Foundation (Dacef) the non profitable organization was founder in 2020. the inspiration aim is to assist develop Africa by helping the less privileged children get quality Education. rather like Drogba, Kanu Nwankwo and plenty of Football stars has been a blessing to the continent over the years.
The super eagle Goalkeeper Daniel Akpeyi speaking to BBC make known his experience after the international Friendly between Nigeria and Argentina.
Akpeyi Said, "When we got to the hotel [after the Argentina friendly], I overheard one of my teammates in the other room telling somebody on the phone 'I don't think he should be invited to the national team again; how can he concede that kind of goal’.
"My own teammate! He was just outside the room next to mine and talking. This is a professional footballer who plays in Europe. But I thank God because it is by His grace that I am here." He added.
I don't blame that team mate at all If he was the coach I am sure he won't invite a goal keeper like himself again
F*ck off loser. U insult people including myself everyday so what makes you a judge?
LOLLLL You're so funny. I understand your age is telling on your use of words
But please oga you're a patron here and try keep up with that... some persons here respect you alot.
So sorry then when I mistakenly insult you, I guess I apologised already but I am doing that again oga Please drop this your insults and let's enjoy football
Curtisaxel7: I look forward to when Aigbogun's own bribe story will come to light. That dude is the most shameless thief I've ever seen. Some people on that team of his have absolutely no business playing football e.g Tijani his top striker. I can swear that Aigbogun auctioned off ALL the spots on that team of his.
And notwithstanding the fact that some of his "U-20" players could easily pass for 35-40 year olds, he still got walloped by the likes of U.S.A with genuine young blood. Na that one dey pain me pass. At least other Nigerian overage teams used to bully their way to victory. Aigbogun's team was the lowest of the low!. No genuine young talent on display, and the shameless old men with shaven beards were still disgraced by people young enough to be their children!
I swear if I meet Aigbogun in real life in a dark street corner eh....
I am so sure basco will still come out to defend him....
somehow: I have not for once said what they are saying don't happen. what I am saying is that, without names, nothing can be done except you want the law enforcement agencies to go on a goose chase. This is why you need evidence.
Another way is for our lazy journalists to go into investigative journalism, a collabo with some spies, and set some people up randomly just like some foreign journalists did to Salisu. How come we don't do such here?
You wrote true.... I so much which our journalist can do all this you said above
Yes I believe Taiwo doctored his age but as an already established international with good accomplishments I don't believe he needed to grease any palms to continue playing in the SE. So you are right he probably had issues with Keshi.
Yeah...sure but him talking as if he is a righteous fellow irritates me.
unlike others who never seen to justify themselves or claim the "holy" status
Village champion. Only thing he can stake his name to is AFCON glory. His mated were playing in top European teams yet he was like a one-eyed king in the land of the blind.
Even Wikipedia no get him stats. Very overrated player
I tell you... it Is annoying to see him bleating like a goat all over
ask him the way forward for our football na you'll hear him spill trash...
some of this old folks are really annoying and they don't know how to earn respect
sheyishemba: Odegbami: I Choose To Be Foolish – Let Gernot Rohr Go!
138 May 8, 2020 3:18 pm This week I was in the clinic for an ‘emergency’ check-up. My Blood Pressure rapidly headed northwards! Professor Akinyanju told me as soon as he checked me that it should never be reported that the Enough Ambassador for Africa, NCD, Champion of ‘Exercise is Medicine’ in Nigeria, and a consultant to the Nigerian Heart Foundation, fell to Stroke. I understood immediately what he meant. It was a wake-up call
For three days in this past one week ‘sleep’ and I were enemies. The anxiety created by the endless news of the Covid-19 pandemic around the world was taking a toll.
I was frustrated and depressed by the absence of clarity about the ‘killing’ virus as I surfed from one news channel to another. In Nigeria, the situation is even worse and more frustrating. The only thing that is clear is that we are sitting ducks considering our situation and our reactions to what even the most advanced countries are struggling to understand and stop as they continue to lose lives in tens of thousands. So, to survive this, we must find and take our future and actions in our own hands.
There is an inevitability about certain things now. The pandemic has arrived on our shores and we are unprepared for it. So, we are on our own in the world to solve our problem or perish. The numbers have started to mount in deaths.
So, I left the clinic knowing I had to reduce my ‘relationship’ with the new media that was raising my blood pressure. I decided it was time to put on my thinking cap, to recalibrate my mind and to begin to draw inspiration from outside the conventional box. I shall now put my trust in the simple and practical things that take their source from the rich reservoir of local knowledge, history, traditions and values of my people, that gave rise to my vision some two years ago when I campaigned to become governor of Ogun State. So, what is that?
I start to look for the brighter side of this pandemic, if there is one. I start to look beneath the darkness for the treasures that lie in the unfathomed caves of vast natural resources lying just beneath our feet all over Africa, at the still-virgin environments and luxuriant vegetation, at the deep throve of African human capacity outside the continent building advanced cultures, at local knowledge and research products appearing in Madagascar, Senegal, Ghana and other African communities being disregarded deliberately by the West for their own purpose but which can serve us. I start looking forward to the ‘tomorrow’ after Covid-19 (it will remain with the world for some time to come, we are told). That ‘tomorrow’ will usher in a new order of things in the world. Nothing will be the way it was till now. I can start now to live in my political vision of the emergence of a new Black consciousness and civilization in a new world led by Nigeria, with its epicenter in Ogun State. Post-covid-19?
The emerging picture recalibrates my mind and body, and takes me away from the negativity of the present to a new place in the nearest future, removing my anxiety and beginning to feed my creative spirit and heal me physically, mentally and spiritually. I now choose to look at Nigeria’s ‘loss’ of its economic mainstay and its bane, oil, as a blessing in disguise. I turn my mind towards the vast untapped (or stolen) reserves of the world’s most important other minerals lying buried in the ground underneath our feet all over the African continent.
I turn my mind to the now-inevitable return to Africa of its well-trained sons and daughters, the largest pool of the most educated persons on earth, human capacity across all disciplines now scattered in major Western capitals. I start to see the possibility of a rich Black diaspora population eager to return home as a consequence of what they went through in foreign countries that refuse to shed their cloak of racism during this pandemic. I see a return of Blacks to their roots and motherland, to settle and to invest, to strategically and smartly deploy their acquired expertise in new science and technology to redesign and sensibly rebuild a new Africa that will not chase the West but create and nurture a new environment. Nature will smile ‘happily’ on Africa as the last un-spoilt frontier and hasten the continent’s recovery even from the current coronavirus pandemic.
Now, I chose to be foolish. I shall explore the Coronavirus local remedies found in Madagascar, in Ghana, in Sierra Leone, and other places, but deliberately underrated and disregarded by the West and Eastern scientists, to provide new possibilities of succor for Africans. There is nothing to lose by looking internally and researching local options. I even chose to be ‘foolish’ on the matter of Nigerian football. I shall address the issue of NFF chieftains about to renew the contract of German coach Gernot Rohr. I shall disregard what the promoters of Gernot Rohr are saying that no Nigerian coach is qualified enough to handle the national football team of the country even after the German had failed in his years as manager to deliver on the soft mandates given to him. To think this way is disrespectful and denigrating to all Black people.
To imagine that the German is now willing to accept new conditions deliberately designed for him to reject, means there is more to the whole matter than meets the eye, or he knows the value of the Super Eagles’ job more than his Nigerian bosses do. Is it because he loves the country more than Nigerians? Who really loves the Nigerian? Covid-19 pandemic has become an eye-opener. So, I choose to be foolish on the matter of Gernot Rohr. Let him go ‘jeje’ with his ‘superior’ knowledge of football and serve elsewhere.
We forget our history and the capacity of Nigerians to succeed. In 1968, for example, at the Mexico Olympic Games , a Nigerian, according to some people the best Nigerian player of all time, Teslim Thunder Balogun, coached the Green Eagles that played against the greatest football nation on earth at the time, Brazil, to a pulsating, well-earned 3-3 draw. That’s over half a Century ago!
The surviving members of the 1973 All-Africa Games Green Eagles that won the Gold medal can testify that brain behind that victory was another great former ex-international player, Captain and then assistant coach of the team, Mr. Dan Anyiam, a very intelligent, eloquent, well-trained and educated coach. The exploits of Stephen Keshi of recent years as a coach are unmatched by any coach local or foreign in our entire history. Are these not Nigerians? If we had continued in the trajectory of using the best trained Nigerians as our national coaches, inviting foreign coaches without pedigree to handle their national team in concession to their ‘superiority’ would not arise in 2020.
Gernot Rohr has done his bit and collected his wages. Every month he was paid $50,000 Dollars? Who earns that kind of money for the amount of work he did in the years of his stay in Nigeria? It is ludicrous. What did he really do? Did he win any international trophies for Nigeria? Did he impact the Nigerian league and domestic players in any way? Did he train any Nigerian coaches to be able to take over from him? The longest time he stayed with the national team for any stretch was a maximum of four weeks, twice in the 4 years of his expiring contract – before and during the World Cup in 2018, and before AFCON in 2019. Every other time all he did was assemble players from Europe two days to a match, selected his lineup for the match and returned to his paid ‘vacation’. Which Nigerian coach worth any salt cannot do what he did for Nigeria? Is that what anyone should earn $50,000 Dollars a month for?
Even the scouting for Nigerian-born players in Europe that constitute a large percentage of Gernot Rohr ‘s team presently is done by a hardworking Nigerian man, Tunde Adelakun, we are told.
Now with Covid-19 and its economic consequences, no one should even be thinking of expending unavailable foreign exchange for a job Nigerians can handle and that does not require rocket science, period. To suggest a wage-cut is even annoying. Was the size of his wage the reason for his failure?
We are entering a new phase in the ongoing War of global Civilizations. No African should promote color or racial superiority in African football. No Nigerian dares do so at this point.
So, I choose to be foolish. I shall thank Gernot Rohr for what the good services he has rendered and release him. I shall get one of our own qualified sons, and sink or swim with him into that emerging new world order beyond Covid-19.
please stop quoting this old man
he is pained. he couldn't have done any better....
chucs: When Stephen Keshi was appointed, I packed my bag and left the Super Eagles - Taiye Taiwo opera.com May 10, 2020 10:00 PM
The widespread of allegations against Late Stephen Keshi's era as the chief of the Super Eagles of Nigeria has taken a new direction after former AC Milan and QPR left back revealed that he had to leave the National team settings because of some shady deals within the camp.
''I am someone who don't want dirty glory and in my life, I have never been involved in what is not clean and that was why I packed my bags and left the Super Eagles. ''I cannot work or stay where I see that is dirty because I am serving a clean God, and if I am in an area that is not clean, I will have to leave the place. ''When they appointed Stephen Keshi as coach, he was acting someone in which I told my self that it was time for me to leave the Super Eagles. ''I packed my bags and I told my wife and family that I cannot be involved in dirty deals,'' Taiye Taiwo explained. (www.Legit.ng)
This will make it the fourth player to come out and attack the people handling the super Eagles team under Stephen Keshi's era.
Chinedu Obasi was the first to raise a finger of accusation after he said he was asked to bring money before he would make the 2014 world cup squad, the fire had not gone down when former Youth International Emmanuel Sarki alleged that he was asked to bring the sum of $10,000 in other to be invited.
Imoh Ezekiel was the last of the trio to come out as he said he was also asked to pay his way into the main National team despite scoring 22 goals in Belgium in 2013/2014 season.
What's your take on this whole issue?
Are they all being made up or there is an element of truth in these allegations?
From Opera News Hub
so says a player who dotted his age just say you were not in good terms with him and your bloated ego never allowed you to apologize.
If it was just money...I am so sure you would have been willing to grease palms to get call ups
Joebie: In Nigeria it’s a matter of whether one has conscience or fear of God, regardless of whether one is in high places or not. Egunje is a way of life in Nigeria.
I tell you bro... Corruption is normal Hope we get a responsible leadership someday
Sports / Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Humility017(m): 3:39pm On Jun 30, 2020 
Good to see you too.