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tbaba1234:
Exactly, He plays an already crowded role.

But of the lot, he is the only one that i can call a discovery. The rest are fairly average.

You get the point.

soetanoreoluwa:
Sir Icon4s this your new style gidigan o

We only need players who can better the ones we have already.
No sentiments.

tbaba1234:
Only one, Eneji and that is just to make up the numbers...

Please put Eneji in the same pool as V. Moses, Alex Iwobi, Moses Simon, Ahmed Musa, Henry Onyekuru, Peter Olayinka, Karo Etebo, Isaac Success and be the judge.

BascoVanVeli:
I use to watch the matches on this Ghanaian channel but their president is speaking at the UN so we are getting NTA'd.

Can you imagine?

TheSuperNerd:
On 14 mins... Benin win a freekick which was floated in but Ariwachukwu did well by heading away and out of danger....

Ariwachukwu is back in the starting line up? I thought he was replaced by Adeleye?

Midified:

Eze is the one not playing.

nelszx:
Nigeria leads Benin 1-0 Rabiu Ali the scorer

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

Mujtahida:
What if Zambia learns a thing or two from our SA defeat and from the rashness of Cameroun who came out smoking and went home crying. What if they choose to play safe in the first half, frustrate us and look for that one prime counter sting? What if they press through Echiejile to keep Moses busy helping defensively?

Inspite of all this What ifs we must win oooo

Hahaha they need the win more. If they refuse to come out and play we will just be passing the ball around and let the clock keeping thicking and lets see if they will not come all out to attack.

TheSuperNerd:
Nigeria vs Benin has kicked off.... I am not watching plsss... but following updates okay.


Cc BascoVanVeli, Icon4s, Tbaba1234, Joebie, TheGoodJoe...
et al


Wishing The Lads the best...

Fly you Eagles....

So who is givining us the updates?

iamdynamite:
i think abwo was with the 2005 set not in the winning side, but the ghanian import and micheal ochie.were also immense, i cant forget dolphin run to the final of confed cup in....thet had quality players too, kelechi osunwa, endurance idahor , efosa eguakun.etc

Abuo was part of the 2004 set although as fringe player. He became a regular after his exploits at the 2005 U20 WC.

And eah those Dolphine players you mentioned.

TheSuperNerd:
I still believe in that lad.... I named him The Beast and he must live up to it whether anyone like am or not.... He is far more technically gifted, far more skillful and offers more danger going forward than Aaron Samuel... I would rather have him than Aaron in a heartbeat.

Isaac Success, my favorite player from his Class of U17.

His fitness level is his major challenge.

iamdynamite:
i remember that golden team of 2003 and 2004 enyimba team, those guys were simply the best.

enyema, yusuf mohammed, ajibade omolade,ogbonnaye okemiri,obinna nwaneri,seun ogunkoya, romanus orjinta of blessed memory,musa abubakar captain,oyekachi okonkwo,muri ogunbiyi, ndidi anumunu, victor ezeji, ekene ezenwa,dele ayenuga and rest of the team, those guys are the bomb..they made me fell in love with the team

Yeah men.... not to also forget Joetex Frimpong, David Solomon Abuo and Michael Ochei.

Those boy been tap ball. That same period Julius Berger was also doing well. Dolphines too came up to emulate Enyimba.

TheSuperNerd:
I think in a couple of mins from now....

Ok thanks. I'll be watching out for updates.

Plese when are we playing Benin?

TheSuperNerd:
Chaaaiiiiii Ole!!!! Laughing like me eh....

https://i0.wp.com/picsmine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Very-funny-Mr-Bean-Meme.jpg

So someone cannot laugh in peace again.

Eligreat247:
Eagles List For Zambia – Iwobi Returns, Isacc Success Replaces Aaron Samuel In Standby List
September 21, 2017


Arsenal forward Alex Iwobi has been invited by coach of the senior Nigeria national team Gernot Rohr ahead of their crucial World Cup 2018 Qualifiers clash against Zambia in Uyo on the 7th of October.

Iwobi who scored one of the goals in the reverse tie in Ndola where Nigeria triumphed 2-1 missed out in their last games, which was the back to back clash against Cameroon.

Injury was cited as the reason why he didn’t make the squad for the games against Cameroon, and after returning to full fitness ‎he has been invited by coach Rohr for the Zambia Clash where Nigeria need a win to seal a ticket to the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Still on the list which will be made official next week, CSKA Moscow forward Aaron Samuel has been axed completely from the list, with Watford ace Isacc Success taking his spot in the list of players placed on standby.

Rohr is a big admirer of the abilities of Success, but left the forward out of the squad for their last set of games as he wasn’t getting games at Watford, but off late he has played in some games.

Success has also not impressed the coach with his body mass, which usually forces the coach to place him on special drills whenever he is in the camp of the Nigeria national team.

Ade Emmanuel

Isaac the beast Success hmmmm...

iamdynamite:
i'm a big fan of the league, but truth be told the quality is not just there anymore...mediocres everywhere.

I am a big Enyimba Fan. I once used to chose to watch Enyimba games instead of EPL matches but i don't do that any more.

I used to know the starting 11 of the Enyimba team but now i cant even name up to 3 players.

Ask the most Die hard NPFL fan here to name 5 players from his favorite club and see if he can.

TheSuperNerd:
[color=#999000]Since it is now officially covered by the NFF Site itself.... then I think it is only a matter of time.... Welcome Tammy Abraham... now that attack is looking so good.... So England... try to keep up[/color]


NFF closes up on Tammy Abraham

https://www.thenff.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PRESIDENT-AND-ABRAHAM.jpg

The Nigeria Football Federation is much closer to securing the services of Chelsea FC of England forward Tammy Abraham, according to NFF President Amaju Pinnick.

Pinnick told the Federation’s website, thenff.com on Wednesday of his meeting with the tall striker, who has represented England at junior level but is eligible to wear the green-white-green for the Super Eagles having never played for the Three Lions.

“Most recently, there was a meeting with Tammy, which Tammy’s agent, Neil Fewills also attended. It was a useful meeting, and I can say the talks are at an appreciable level now and all is looking good.

“Tammy is like a son to me, because his father was my childhood friend. I believe he is a good prospect for the Super Eagles and the effort is well worth it.”

Full name Kevin Oghenetega Tamaraebi Bakumo-Abraham, Tammy scored 23 goals for Bristol City last season on loan from Chelsea FC, and is presently playing for Swansea City in the English Premiership, again on loan from Chelsea. He has scored a goal for Swansea City this season.

Born 2nd October 1997, Tammy is 1.90m tall, and is said to have immense respect for fellow Chelsea FC man Victor Moses, who also played for England at junior level before committing his senior international career to Nigeria.

Another source at the said meeting confirmed to thenff.com that Moses actually called in during the meeting to lend a voice to the call for Tammy to opt to fly with the Eagles rather than hunt with the Lions.

Moses himself has proved a worthwhile ‘catch’ for Nigeria, emerging the Super Eagles’ most valuable player in his first tournament – the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations that Nigeria won in South Africa – and playing at the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals in Brazil where the Eagles made the Round of 16.

He has also been an impact player for the Eagles in the ongoing 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying race, scoring two in the 3-1 triumph over Algeria in Uyo last year and emerging Man-Of-The-Match in both encounters against African champions Cameroon earlier this month. The four points from those two games have taken the Super Eagles within a kissing distance of Russia 2018.


Source: http://www.thenff.com/2017/09/nff-closes-up-on-tammy-abraham/

His addition will no doubt boost our attacking options.

I am not sold out on Nwakaeme and Aaron Samuel seems not be ready to come back to his 2014 form.

Any news about Noah Obazee?

iamdynamite:
so where are the special gems in the league, am sure you are not refering to eze and adeleye...

the year enyimba won the champions league they had the best players in the league from the goal keeping to the striking department, no matter thow bad a team prepare or disorganised they are, if you have quality players it will definitely show in the way you play.
i insist that presently our league is quite poor, we dont have qualities anymore in the league...

TheSuperNerd shift make me too laugh

comodo:
I seem not to understand this Sunday Mba thing. Dude was not quality even during the Afcon. O yea he score 2 goals. But his general contributions to the team was poor. Remove the goals and watch the games he played again. Dude was poor technically and otherwise. At d confer everything opened up. Please Etebo, Iwobi and Aluko are miles and miles ahead of the dude.

TAKE A HUG BRO!

TheSuperNerd:
It is disrespectful to want to raise my hands against A High Chief like you.

But what I can do is just tell you that I don't agree with one or two things. U na still Arch Guardian nonetheless.... But biko We never made Nacho look like the next best thing after Pele or Maradona or Messi or CR7... or even Eusebio sef... abeg.

We only said our minds on how huge his potentials are.... we were always bound to be misunderstood but we know what we said. Nacho is still growing ... he is not a great yet or even close to such. But he got the potentials to be.

But Chief... where your house sef? No be me go come... na Yara Yara go come obtain signed statement by you admitting that Nacho destroyed the Experience card talks...and yes oooo.... you must sign am.

The bolded made me laugh.

Ok I don hear. Let's furge on.

TheGoodJoe:
It is hard because I foresee us parking the bus against Zambia. It disturbs my heart because I know we have the right blend of talents to blow Zambia. However, we will tuck our legs and maybe win with a narrow margin or draw.

With a more offensive set-up, that is how we can go far in the game. I know Rohr does not want to risk losing the points he gathered but Yaounde was the best place to light the dynamite.

This is truly a special set we have now but we can not wait for the foreign clubs to build them for us. We need our junior teams playing Friendlies. We need to have a team B of the Super Eagles playing. We need to monitor them and get the best blend.

We also need an offensive strategy and get the best players in the Super Eagles. That is how we can make a monumental impact.

The Nigeria vs Zambia game. One of the major reasons why i believe we will trash zambia is because just like Cameroon they need nothing less than a win hence they will come up offensive and that will really expose them.

Rohr knew Cameroon would come all out to attack which was why he adopted the counter attacking approach.

The Zambians may be good going forward but their fragility at the back will be their major problem.
In the AFCON qualifiers SA sat back and absurbed the pressure from our attack within the first 40mins. I dont see Zambia doing this. They would want to attack because they need an early goal and i trust Rohr to exploit their defensive fragilities. They could be as much as 2 or 3 goals down at half time

TheSuperNerd:
Chief Icon4s.... I can see that you still carry wrong views of some discussions about Nacho in the past.

The way you keep coming up with that misleading statement about we calling Iheanacho the next big thing after Messi and C.Rinaldo does not speak well of you oooooo.... haba!

Why always exaggerating the contents of what the matter then was? why? why Chief?

Remember it all traces back to when you first said Nacho is not ready and is not there yet to be called up for the Super Eagles.... you made it sound like Nacho is not ready and will flop for the Super Eagles if invited then.

But Same Iheanacho came into the team and rubbished all talks of "The experience card".... Till date you fail to admit that you were wrong about Nacho not being ready. Now you say things we never said.


We showed belief in the huge quality and boundless potentials of Nacho but never called him the next best thing after Messi and Ronaldo.. Na wa... you keep doing this and it is not funny anymore.


Remember how you also brought in Eguavoen into the matter and I told you to go interview Pele and Maradona even for Views on Nacho... you were doing all you could then to make Nacho look like an average talent. All these before he became the EPL's deadliest striker in goals per mins ratio...

Ofcos with time, you became a fan... and even supported the idea of Nacho being the leading 9 for us in the absence of any really good option upfront since he is our most lethal forward. So you see... you did come to acknowledge Nacho's quality but you did it without admitting that you were wrong back then. And now from time to time when in discussions with someone else about your reservations on young talents you make that untrue statement about we here hyping Nacho to high heavens as the next best thing after Pele sef.... na wa!

Chief Icon4s... this is not good.

I dey my house come beat me.


Bros I expected a lot from Iheanacho and still do but mennn... the hype here was something else.

do4luv14:
I beg to disagree with you,

look at the formations, and position, he had been playing for us before the cameroun game, and the position he played in the cameroun game, even in the second leg with the slight injury,


they are different

How do you mean?

BascoVanVeli:
21 or something like that.
Before Luxemburg it was against Cameroon under Sunday Oliseh.

Ighalo joined Udinese in 2008 and then moved to Watford in 2014. So I wasn't wrong when I said he struggled for 5-7 years.

komekn:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/4511682/tammy-abraham-nigeria-england-chelsea-swansea/

Seems it's no longer under G news it's mainstream, let's see what bottle necks will be put in his way. I mean it'll just be sower grapes � that's all.

What are our chances like in getting this lad?

BascoVanVeli:
Oga u always distort facts when it comes to Ighalo. He is a legend in Granada but u are saying he struggled for all these years. How old is Ighalo that he could struggle for up to 7 years in Europe? The question should be when last did he play for Nigeria? Fact is that he was only on a 1 match scoreless streak if we can call it that, last goal was against Luxemburg and he didn't score against Tanzania.

Do you know how old ighalo was when he played at Udinese before moving to Granada?

Prio to the Luxemburg game which you know was just a walk in the pack he last scored against Chad under Keshi if I am not mistaking.

Kog45:
That's football for u,not all d good player make it to d top

Yeah in fact most fizzle out.

That is why when Iheanacho's name was flying hear as the next big player after Ronaldo and Messi I had to state this fact clear that I have seen several exceptionally talented youngsters fade out before they actually started.

Kog45:
Flash in pan or not,d Mba name cannot be erased in afcon history,truly d guy cannot replicate afcon form till now,no thanks to Keshi for frustrating d guy out of d team.

Oh Uzoenyi,pls where is Michael Uchebo?

I was one of those that criticized Keshi for the inclusion of Michael Okechukwu Uchebo in that team. I knew Uchebo right from when he played at the 2009 AYC. He never had a flourishing career up till when Keshi called him up for the 2014 WC. So I wasn't expecting anything from him post 2014 WC.

The player I even had some glitter of hope on was Ejike Uzoenyi considering his obvious abilities. But how Ejike's career hit the rocks in the PSL is still shocking.

I personally had issues with so many of Keshi's players selections. Rohr is a lot different and I think I have agreed with him to a 98% extent.

BascoVanVeli:
Same thing u called Ighalo.

What do you call a player that struggled in Europe over his first 5-7 seasons and then started scoring goals all of a sudden? And then went on a goals draught also all of a sudden? Odion Ighalo was a flash in the pan there bro.

Same goes for Emmanuel Emenike.

When last did Ighalo score for Nigeria before the Cameroon game? I will not be shocked if Ighalo resumes on his Super Eagles goals draught (God forbid though).

Kog45:
pls i based my assertion on Mba of 2013 afcon not Mba of now.Abi not Mba that sent star studded cote d voire packing and gave us only goal in d final,Mba of 2013 in this present squad,then Mikel w need to go back to CM,meaning Onazi w sit out talk less of Etebo

2013 team won Afcon and went to world cup and reach 2nd round,u know i respect this present team a lot but not yet time to compare player like Iwobi or Etebo with Mba of 2013 Afcon, just too early.

Flash in the pan. That is what I call it. We know he overachieved in that tournament. I didn't expect much from him going forwards anyways.

Where is also Ejike Uzoenyi?

Kog45:
pls i based my assertion on Mba of 2013 afcon not Mba of now.

I am fully aware of that.

Kog45:
The same Mikel played behind Sunday Mba as at Afcon.Mba as at 2013 afcon, pls Etebo,Iwobi,Aluko are no match

So if Mba was in this current team Rohr would pick him to play AM ahead of Mikel.

AT the bolded. you mean this thing?