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MetalJigsaw:
Iwobi?? Really??

yeah....

Icon4s:
Alex Iwobi is the best immediate successor.

Alex...good...
but I have an eye for nwakali kelechi....

or possibly we get the English groomed onomah....
pinnick already said...alot of work is going on underground as regard capping some of this queens boys....

MetalJigsaw:
What if he gets injured at the WC

one of the reasons why we have iwobi in the team....

safarigirl:
we will get a replacement after the World Cup....the time is too short between now and World Cup to start doing trial and error with possible replacwments

even during the world cup...God forbid any injury or suspension...iwobi can play that role for the time being.....

after the world cup...
hopefully we get onomah or possibly kelechi nwakali step up to take that role....

MetalJigsaw:
So sad.. Human zoo??

I tell you....Belgians have a nasty racist history.... ..
forget all those players you see in their national team......racism is still there just like it is still in France though not too pronounced.

EEGA:
I would love to see your 30-man provisional squad.

that will be after the march friendlies

MetalJigsaw:
All I'm saying is we need a backup for Mikel in case of injury. Don't put words in my mouth.

that will be after the world cup...ryt now we can only make do wit makeshift players....
like alhassan,etebo, iwobi, Joel obi,sokari, etc.....

after the world cup....we hope the likes of kelechi nwakali, onomah (if he agrees to play for us) foot the bill.....those are the players I see for now...who fit into that shoes

safarigirl:
wow, racist Belgians, that's a bit awkward considering the make-up of their National football team

it's like you never know the Belgians...
they have a resound racist history...I think...
below is a pic of a young Congolese girl who was kept in human zoo in Brussels in 1956

nelszx:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAD_j8a8qh0
Part 1 of the interview

thanks....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai_LtcthnWM

good interview wit pinnick..

Mujtahida:
Claude Puel on Musa not playing

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He’s a good player with quality. For me he’s not a striker, he’s a winger who can play on the left or right,” Puel explained.
“He can attack space, has good penetration but there’s imbalance in competition with (Marc) Albrighton, (Demarai) Gray and (Riyad) Mahrez.
“Sometimes it’s tough, it’s difficult for the staff to make a choice and give him more game time but in training sessions he always has a positive attitude and this is very important for him and the squad.”
Source : Completesportsnigeria.com

he should keep his empty words in his pocket.....
what's the essence of showering praises on him...and still not name him in his 18 man squad....?

musa really need a loan move in January if possible back to Russia......that will help him.

tbaba1234:
Davor Suker is the head of the Croatian Football Federation.

yeah former arsenal player and one of the greatest revelation of the France 1998 world cup.....

he was unstoppable during that mudial remember leading his team to slay Holland in the 3rd place match.....

I think....it speaks well for a country who always recognize their ex-internationals in their football management....especially when the ex-players are learned....it makes for the best administration.

same wit Ukraine shevchenko I think is their national team coach.

What The NFF Is Doing To Cap The Likes Of Olosunde, Uwakwe, Amaechi? Pinnick Replies


Nigeria Football Federation boss Amaju Pinnick has revealed that key officials are working behind the scenes in their bid to invite foreign-born Nigerian talents to Nigeria's national teams.

The likes of Matthew Olosunde (Manchester United), Xavier Amaechi (Arsenal), Tariq Uwakwe (Chelsea), Dennis Adeniran (Everton) and Tayo Edun (Fulham) are eligible to represent Nigeria's youth teams but presently turn out for their countries of births.

Pinnick has stated that NFF Vice President Seyi Akinwumi has set the ball rolling but diplomatically refused to mention the foreign-born talents they have approached over a potential call-up in the near future.
Recently, American-born Arsenal-linked striker Lateef Omidiji Jnr was bound to play for the United States U17 team until he was convinced by Akinwumi to wait for his chance with the Golden Eaglets.


''I have the first Vice President Seyi Akinwumi, he is also a member of the CAF Youth Committee, he's doing a lot in that regard,''
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''Only last week there were some messages he sent to me for approval and I gave him the go ahead.

''You can imagine the caliber of youth players coming in, we will be able to select them, we will be able to put them in our database but we can't come and start saying because this same Nigerians will call them and discourage them from coming.''
As many as six players of Nigerian descent eligible to represent the Flying Eagles - Fikayo Tomori, Joshua Onomah, Dominic Solanke, Ademola Lookman, Sheyi Ojo and Ovie Ejaria - assisted the Young Lions win the FIFA U20 World Cup in the summer.

Ifeanyi Emmanuel
source: ANS

chimzyblack:
EVERTON DOCTORS REVEALS ONYEKURU INJURY NOT SERIOUS

Everton doctors have determined that Henry Onyekuru’s knee injury is not grievous as was widely reported. The young striker will be out for only six weeks and not six months.
Onyekuru
The player was reportedly examined by Everton doctors and the MRI scans of the injury have revealed that he may not be needing surgery but minor treatment. Onyekuru has been allowed to return to Belgium to recuperate.
Onyekuru hurt his knee at the weekend during a league game with Anderlecht at former club KAS Eupen.
Initial media reports suggested his season was effectively over and that could also mean his hopes of playing at the World Cup in Russia.

good news...he should please stay back in England until after he recuperate.
that coach is bad influence on his health...

imagine a coach opening his mouth to say the injury gonna last for 6 months in a bid to keep him in the dark not because Doctors told him so...

2innocent:
in the absence of onyekuru, orji okonkwo should be given a chance to show what he can bring to the table

we already have some players too...
bazee, oshimen, kayode...success isaac if he starts playing
though one of orji, yinka and kalu inclusion won't be bad

Mujtahida:
Abeg relax because you don't understand my post at all. Martins is your trigger point. Once you see his name you seem to lose your mind. If you cannot recognise a tongue in cheek comment in the context of my discussion with goldfish80 then na you sabi because his reply to my tongue in cheek comment about Martins is one I am yet to figure out cos it seems he got my drift and gave it back intelligently to me.

And beyond the tongue in cheek comment on Martins in context, I support wholeheartedly his invitation to the SE. If that makes me erratic then it's my erraticness not yours. Quit telling me to drop it. You can as well ignore my post. Happy holidays

good to you come out boldly to say it...
you're one of the crew that want martins in the team....using the filmsy excuse of him being a super striker that will come change things around....

you see sir forgiveness and komekn theure sure straightforward in this talk....
but good you made know your stance...

you talking as if sir goldfish reply change anything..tomoro you will still make same suggestion....
only God knows what you guys are Martins...if we really wanna invite someone of his age...ogbeche should have the nod.

but damn no....we are through wit old strikers......

Mujtahida:
I am not turning a blind eye. I am saying in spite of that what matters for the SE is that the goal return in the SE is healthy and I will hold that as a positive. Perhaps Martins will be brought in and everything will be just fine, I hope.

you're one person on this thread that is quite erratic....
what is Martins doing in the super eagles...
you talking to contradict yourself...how many many goals did he score for his Chinese team...this past season...?

you talking as if the player in question is one messi or Ronaldo....

please spare us.....even without him we have fared relatively well....
with over 12 goals scored during the qualifiers.....
so please drop that Martins talk

tbaba1234:
Players that are likely to play for Nigeria if approached

i. Iorfa
ii. Ejaria
iii. Tosin Kehinde
iv. Tomori
V. Ebere Eze
vi. Dessers

Players that are uncertain/unlikely
i. Adarabioyo
ii.Solanke
iii. Onomah
iv.Tammy
v. Uduokhai

please add that Sunderland kid....Josh maja
in the first category.

how about akpoguma, ojokoro, lookman, sheyi, ndukwe the Leicester prodigy, Dele Bashiru, etc they're more though ...they all belong to the second category.....

Mickael2:
I would have to disagree with you here. Solanke would definetly not have the same number of goals with Iheanacho. Solanke plays for Liverpool, a team that has scored more than 3 goals so many times this season and yet he has ZERO goals, atleast when Iheanacho was playing for City he had the goals to show for it. The hype on Solanke has to be reduced, the boy and Iheanacho are either equal or Iheanacho edges him

I had to look severally at this moniker to be sure...on who wrote this....

you deserve a chilled bottle of wine.....wit well sauced chicken...

many a time I admire your intellectual prowess and knowledge of the round leather game....

Kog45:
My man that boy Onomah is good but as you said we don't want another Abraham treatment.

yeah sure...I know.
he has a bright future too....not forget he is spurs player....

I will want rohr to try his luck codedly after the world cup......and let's see if he will desire play for us....

Danielnino00:
@Bolded,that's just it..
Are the likes of Onomah,Solanke, Lookmam,Ejaria,etc willing to play for the super eagles??
As in are they ready to commit their international future to Nigeria like Moses,Aina and Iwobi and not seeking to do a Tammy Abraham on us??

I take sir komekn serious more than sir forgiveness who know nothing about this players and where their allegiance lies....

the latter delights in seeing Nigeria being embarrassed by these British lads.....

he don't mind draw up a list of players who don't even know that have Nigeria roots...for us to take to the world cup....

even when nff visits this players..
and try lure them.....he does not beleive in the reports....he rarely takes no for an answer and will still blame the football authorities should this players turned us down and belittle the super eagles.....

I asked him...sir komekn because I know...he is in direct contact wit some of this players....and probably mighy have had...a conversation wit them....regarding the possibility of playing for Nigeria....

Napoleon55:
that guy(Tammy) flushed his international career into toilet with just one sentence.
''they did tried to roll the red carpet''
what was he thinking,what pains me is the word ''they'',
he referred to the biggest black nation on earth as 'they''
OMG.
I really pity him ,in his youthful exuberance.
was he trying to tell us that he can speak grammar or what?
no respect just because he is an ordinary footballer,
can he invent?

you're right....he is very inexperienced.
merely keeping mute would have save him alot of troubles......

pinnick still don't mind try still work things out should he change his mind...but with that statement...not even the sport minister can help him.....

he better fist his eyes on England...because thats the country he has now...

komekn:
I can say this to you categorically Bournemouth and Brighton will not buy him and will not play him.

It would be even worse than Leicester.

West Ham possibly but I doubt it.

I remember some years back after his exploits in the under 17....

a friend of mine who was a Barcelona fan so addicted to Spanish football.....
told me...that if nancho is properly and well groomed he gonna challenge for world best in the future....

I beleived him abit reason because of nancho talent I saw during the cadet mundial....
he really made the wrong move....illetracy and ill counsellors are the worst things happening to our crop of talented players....

leaving england....from man city possibly to Germany or French... (monaco) would have been better for his career and can as well return to England....after some years then...he would have become a better player.....


I am so pained seeing him going through this...he is a promising young lad.....
his talents is never in doubt...you could see his performance for the super eagles....
against Luxemburg, Tanzania, Cameroon etc.......

komekn:
Tega is an exceptional player he is a modern midfielder that has done away with unnecessary show boating and playing to the gallery.

Excellent vision as well.

the thing is...is he willing to play for the super eagles....?
we don't want another player that will give us Tammy treatment and use us draw up Southgate attention.....

I really do admire the lad...same with ejaria...
but I fear if those kids think and wanna play for Nigeria....

if you're convinced they don't mind play for us....let us know...we can start drum support for their call up....you never can tell where that gonna leads to

Napoleon55:
the thing is,they usually run far away from the thread so that no one would force them to eat their words in shame,whenever SE wins a major game or tourney,only to resurface after we must have forgotten them.
i still remember a certain dude here that all his problem was Mikel,
whenever Mikel is mentioned,he must come to talk against him.
to him,Mikel is our worst player then,
before the Olympics,he was all over shouting how Mikel is going flop at Olympics,those of us tried to counter him that Mikel is our engine room.
But after the Olympics he was no where to be seen,up till now,that we cannot do well without Mikel.
i just want to see that guy since Mikel started proving him wrong beyond any reasonable doubt.
all these myopic people shouting down Iheanacho,now that he is having bit difficulty in his career,just like the case of Mikel,they will crawl back into their holes,and hide ,or change their moniker,
when Iheanacho bounces back

I will be so happy should nancho start to get playing time....

moreover I won't mind should him and musa keep playing for the reserves....
I trust rohr to suggest that....
I just want both of them to stay fit for the world cup....

comradespade:
Why insulting her?

She's my spec classy and arrogant

then go apply....bro.

when ladies complain they're still been single....not really because they have not been any man who approaches them...or wanna start something serious wit them...
but because of none of the man meet their expectations....

many will be single for a long time..because they want someone who is so perfect...even when they're not.

Alariiwo:
They are ballerz.

There's a reason God placed seal (hymen) on the girls and nothing on guys.

Once it's broken, you no longer have anything to pride yourself with. It's how God made it.

a man can lose his virginity same way a woman can loose hers.....

moreover being a virgin does not automatically make one a saint...
though it is good to keep oneself...because God says so...but no one should be judged by the past.........

OMANBALA1:
And did you notice Iheanacho has gotten a little bigger or should I say muscular as oppose to how he looked when he was with Pep. Dude is probably eating 2 plates of nkwobi and isiewu everyday...smh

Lol....abeg leave my boi....joor

sometimes I wish he never left city....
but still God knows best...I know for sure..he will come up stronger...I trust in his abilities...

safarigirl:
no be money dem dey pay personal trainer? Especially better one.

I for say make una go him page go tell am for IG or Twitter, but Kelechi no dey get contact with outside world, so he no wvwn know wetin dey happen for internet.

to be honest...this are things many of their agents never tell them....

many agents are vulture like creatures....
it may not even cost much....agents supposed to be their right hand man...helping them evaluate their performance and what need to be done...to improve their game....

some agents are only concerned wit signing papers...

OMANBALA1:
Frankly speaking I dont think Iheanacho will thrive in a fast pace setting with intense football like Premiership but is it not beginning to look like we are making excuses for him. However, Iheanacho's biggest challenge is not pace but simple and elementary ball control! Iheanacho need to stop running and face the music...How many years is it gonna take him to fix his miserable first touch. People are here blaming the coach but just the other day Iheanacho gave away a pass that resulted to a goal against his team. I swear , if I was his coach I will turn him to a ball boy...which kind thing be this ?

He need to buy a personal trainer to work on his first touch.

Lol...you raised a good point though...
dude needs a personal trainer....even Christano Ronaldo make do wit personal trainer sometimes....

but few Nigeria footballers think that way....

safarigirl:
back then when we were charged up by a burst of emotion, the same one that ensured Britain rushed to cap him

We should really be thanking the English FA o...they collected a bullet for us


Meanwhile, I got to watch his bestie and fellow 3Lions player, Solanke today, and while that one probably had a better game than Tammy, his impact wasn't all that either. He had a shot at goal and missed, same as Tammy though

Lol...solanke stand a better chance of making it into the 3 lions squad...his affinity wit Nigeria is less pronounced moreover he is light skinned......

Tammy has to be super good to maintain a place in the 3 lions squad....

pinnick said...that England never need him...they just had to quickly cap him...

it would have been easy to ignore that mere friendly cap....but his words....the young man opened his mouth like tap and began to pour out empty words....

words that many will never forget....

He should forget about him playing for Nigeria.....it is very impossible....I am sure many fans will skin the nff alive if they make a move.....

safarigirl:
Meanwhile, our dearest beloved Tammy has finally exhausted his chances and the coach has dropped him to the bench for failing to score a goal in 10 games

to think that this was a player we wanted spread a red carpet for.....to walk through leaves me baffled.