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andrewbaba44:
Let me even agree that it’s 3 assist

So having 3 assist as a wing back is bad ba ?

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Are you genuinly slow or you just trying to act slow? Where did I mention his numbers are bad?

andrewbaba44:
How many minutes did ighalo played in the premier league ?

Ighalo was playing cup games and Europa league and he did well there ,but you choose to be daft and ask how many league goals did he score as if you didn’t see the poor minutes

Ighalo is not needed in the national team anymore ,but I won’t allow you say trash about him by using your back of tv knowledge

Moses was on loan at inter for just 6 months ,he wasn’t needed at Chelsea and conte collected him on Loan because he believed in him ,same Moses was part of conte starting 11 that won the epl

You don’t like a player doesn’t mean you should be capping trash

For the last time stop saying nonsense

Stop being deluded by saying ighalo should force ole to give him time as Rodgers gave to nacho ,do you think ighalo is under a long contract at Man U ? You forgot so soon on how iheanacho has suffered for about 3 seasons till this season that just ended

Someone is on a short term loan deal yet you want him to make ole to change his mind and wait for years as nacho did

Below is victor Moses stats at inter Milan and it’s 5 assists

PS: I don't have anything against either player, never insulted them here and I wasn't referencing Moses time with Chelsea but with Inter.

andrewbaba44:
How many minutes did ighalo played in the premier league ?

Ighalo was playing cup games and Europa league and he did well there ,but you choose to be daft and ask how many league goals did he score as if you didn’t see the poor minutes

Ighalo is not needed in the national team anymore ,but I won’t allow you say trash about him by using your back of tv knowledge

Moses was on loan at inter for just 6 months ,he wasn’t needed at Chelsea and conte collected him on Loan because he believed in him ,same Moses was part of conte starting 11 that won the epl

You don’t like a player doesn’t mean you should be capping trash

For the last time stop saying nonsense

Stop being deluded by saying ighalo should force ole to give him time as Rodgers gave to nacho ,do you think ighalo is under a long contract at Man U ? You forgot so soon on how iheanacho has suffered for about 3 seasons till this season that just ended

Someone is on a short term loan deal yet you want him to make ole to change his mind and wait for years as nacho did

Below is victor Moses stats at inter Milan and it’s 5 assists

No need replying your long gibberish as you didn't make any sense which is why it's heavily laced with insult. Victor Moses as seen on sofa score

komekn:
Your proposition is nonsensical and lacks any iota of substance.

Manchester United is not Leicester and the dynamics of team selection completely different.

KC has been at Leicester city for 4 seasons and his first three seasons were abysmal it's taken him three years to come alive from essentially a football coma.

Considering the quality competition in Manchester United, will KC be starter or be playing U23 at United.

But l can say if Ighalo was at Leicester he would most likely be a starter and probably not wait three years to come alive.

lol

komekn:
Your proposition is nonsensical and lacks any iota of substance.

Manchester United is not Leicester and the dynamics of team selection completely different.

KC has been at Leicester city for 4 seasons and his first three seasons were abysmal it's taken him three years to come alive from essentially a football coma.

Considering the quality competition in Manchester United, will KC be starter or be playing U23 at United.

But l can say if Ighalo was at Leicester he would most likely be a starter and probably not wait three years to come alive.

Which competition is at Man Utd? Martial be like better player? United only have Cavani and Rashford (this one sef is slightly debatable)

andrewbaba44:
I disagree with the guy you quoted ,but what you just said is pure trash and nonsense

Ighalo didn’t do badly at united when he arrived ,but you had to use the latter stages of his United career to talk down on him just because you want to make a point ,maybe you where expecting him to be scoring while on the bench or playing ahead of cavani when cavani arrived

As if any super eagles striker can play ahead of cavani in any team

Moses didn’t cut it with conte after winning the league with Chelsea as a starter at the wing back then still going on a short them loan with inter Milan and managing 12 games as a wing back with 5 assists still under same conte with just 416 minutes ?

Stop exposing your poor knowledge of the game all in the name of making a point

Excuse you?? Did you even read the rubbish you typed? How many league goal did Ighalo score? So cavani is so good that he stopped Ighalo from getting 15-20min game time? If Ighalo was so good he could have forced ole give him game time just like Iheanacho did to Rodgers. Moses had 3 assist not 5, whether you like it or not Conte didn't retain him, if he really wanted him Chelsea were willing to sell/loan as he was already surplus to requirement. So the truth still stand, Conte discarded him at Inter.

andrewbaba44:
At least they announced their retirement

Apart from Moses and ighalo that’s how Nigerians will also dismiss other players when they are in their 30s ,as if playing football at such age is a crime

Balogun is just there because they know 33 is his real age

I will be waiting for our youngstars to hit 30 let me see what they will say

As for me ,I don’t care about your age as far as you are doing well you can be called

I want to learn today, which player still playing at the highest level and in good form was discarded from the SE because of age?

lakesidepapa:
No, that was his fourth game and first loss in charge .

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Really? Thanks for the update

12large1:
Everyday I will be posting guys in their mid 30's playing in this euros

And we'll keep bursting your bubble

12large1:
Bonucci 34
Chellini 36
Yilmaz 35

But Nigeria wants to dismiss its legend like victor moses and ighalo at 30 and 31 respectively. Our obsession with dismissing in form experienced players nor be small

I no dey like dishonest takes like this, the first 2 guys play for Juventus while the last guy just led his club to a league title in France. Ighalo couldn't even get to sit on the bench in Man Utd while Moses couldn't cut it with Conte who knows how to bring out the best in players who are past their prime.

JohnBullMySon:
Maybe she did insult some of them in the NFF so they put her off. She may not return soon.

Ayinde and Okobi were absent so no midfield depth.

I think her problem started from her role in leading that protest against the NFF

BascoVanVeli:
Super falcons vs Jamaica for those interested


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ULfpUZ1HPo

Coach first game in charge, a hand full of regulars missing, this isn't a bad game and I hope it will get better. Nice job Bro

Neobulletzz:
Is the white girl half Nigerian? Is any of her father or her mother Nigerian? Or she just choose say she wan play for Naija cos Omo she white oooo

Her father is Nigerian. Read her interview below.

Former England youth defender Ashleigh Plumptre says she would play for Nigeria at senior international level - if the West African country came calling.

The 23-years-old, who plays for newly-promoted Women's Super League (WSL) side Leicester City, is eligible to play for the Super Falcons because of her father's Nigerian heritage.

Having helped guide the Foxes to the FA Women's Championship title in 2020/21, Plumptre was voted player of the season and rewarded with a new two-year deal.

And, despite 30 England caps at youth level, Plumptre says she would like to play for Nigeria.

"The idea of me being able to play for Nigeria, with that being an option, I would happily grab that with both hands," she told BBC Sport Africa.

"What representing something that really means to somebody is very important. Obviously, there's a lot of things I can openly say that I don't know about Nigerian culture but I want to learn because I know that it's in me, and it's in my sister and in my dad.

"We can only get it from my granddad, he's the only thing that we know in terms of Nigeria. I've obviously visited Nigerian relatives in America and in England.

"Seeing this little journey my sister and I have been on, and the understanding of our family heritage, not just that but watching Nigerian documentaries and learning about the past is incredible."

Understanding her heritage

Life-long Foxes fan Plumptre played 25 games this season for the club she first joined as an eight-year-old and previously played in the WSL with Notts County in 2014, before moving to the United States.

Stints stateside with US college side USC Trojans and LA Galaxy followed, before she returned from studying in January 2020 to play a key role in a memorable season for the Foxes.

After establishing herself at club level, Plumptre who has a British mother, believes a potential international career with Nigeria could pave the way for other biracial footballers to follow.

"What it will mean for me as somebody who is British born but with Nigerian heritage is huge. People look at me and they think I'm tanned and that I've been on holiday, they don't think that I'm Nigerian," she added.

"I don't think that should be significant in saying whether somebody is Nigerian or not because it's in your blood, it's not about what you look like.

"My sister, she looks African because she has an Afro and her skin tone is darker than mine, with that obviously, she's had different experiences in school than I have had.

"I think with football being my platform, I am using that as something that's bigger than me. As much as I can resonate with my Nigerian heritage.

"I feel like I can hopefully inspire someone like my sister or other kids like her maybe in this country or other countries to look at me and be like you know what? It doesn't matter what your skin tone looks like.

"If you can resonate with your heritage and it means something to you, it means you can represent something bigger than you, then that's what it comes down to.

"I think people too often look at the surface of this rather than actually try to find out inside what our drives and passions are, and what means a lot to us."

Following the Super Falcons

Leicester City's Ashleigh Plumptre has played for England at youth level

The continent's most successful national side with nine African titles, Nigeria are the only African team to have played in all eight Women's World Cups since 1991.

Despite possessing the talent to potentially make the step up to Englands senior side, Plumptre has been growing professionally and fully aware of the Super Falcons' rise in the global game.

"When you look around there are several Nigerian players playing at the top level of the women's game," she pointed out.

"With the Super Falcons I have been following them and the continued progress the team is making. But one player that I remember is Asisat Oshoala.

"She was at Liverpool when I played for Notts County, then I was about 16 and the big thing was having Oshoala over at Liverpool.

"That was the big name and then she obviously went to Arsenal. And everybody knew of her and how talented she was. For me an an English person, she was Nigerian football to me."

She's hoping to meet the club's Nigerian international duo Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Iheanacho soon, insisting that the pandemic has made it difficult to link up with them.

"With Leicester Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Ihenacho have been a good roles model for me. It's funny we haven't met but that's all because of Covid but at some point hopefully we'll be able to meet each other," she explained.

Plumptre has been immersed in the culture, food and music of her father's ancestral home, but admits she has never visited the country.

"I listen to a lot of music but my favourite genre is classic 90s R&Bs, the stuff my dad grew up listening to are what I listen to now," she explained.

"But with regards Nigerian songs I like, I will go with veteran and legendary musician King Sunny Ade because I've heard some of his records.

"I really enjoy the Nigerian Jollof rice, fish stew but my favourite meal is moi-moi [steamed and flavoured cakes of ground beans]."

chrisooblog:
Senegal had a better squad than ours. Guys like Diouf, Camara, Fadiga, Cisse and the late Bopa Diop were hitting fine form. Nigeria was already in decline guys like Oliseh, Finidi and Tijani Babangida who made up the core of the squad weren't in the greatest form that year. Other than the injustice of them being dropped from the World Cup squad there is no guarantee we would have done any better with them in Japan/Korea

Well said bro, I think Oliseh even retired from football about two years later after that headbutting incident. Oliseh must be a troublesome human being and a terrible leader

chrisooblog:
See Komekn this is where I always have issues with you. Your first instinct when you hear stories like this is to almost always take the most pessimistic or negative standpoint. You usually try to disguise it under the banner of being "objective" not knowing you are as transparent as glass. How do you know for certain he will be a bench warmer? Are you an oracle or is soothsaying your side hustle?

You can judge a player's present circumstance without making a definitive judgment about how they will fair in the future you absolutely have no control over.

One would have thought the Iheanacho, Osimhen and Josh Ononam experiences would have made you more humble in your judgments but mba!

But I kinda agree with him, if Chelsea indeed sign him his chances of playing will be very slim, he'll have to really impress to stand any chance. If na my brother I'll advise him not to go unless for financial reward sha

Eizzy003:
This 1?
Its just for the NFF to reach out to her, she has already declared she wants to play for the Super Falcons rather than Lioness of England, she will be a good addition I just checked up her stats now, I just hope say her skin color no go be issue, cos she is completely white

I think her father is biracial but she said her sister is darker

marvin906:
What are chances of the white chick playing for the falcons

From the interview she's very very willing all she needs is a call up

andrewbaba44:
I remember when iheanacho was dropped due to bad form ,I wonder why rohr can’t drop musa

Even some of my brothers here they claim to know football will say it’s because musa is the captain and he can’t be dropped ,like seriously ?

Somebody wants Musa to be our highest cap player, don't know if that sonebody is in the NFF or it's the coach himself

Philosopher1979:
Our full squad was better than that giant killing Senegalese team. I mean we had the experience, talent everything to go far in that competition if we had kept our best players. Yes we stood a chance of going far

We weren't better than Senegal, they beat us in 2002 Afcon plus some of our key players were already in decline. For example, Oliseh and Finidi faded into obscurity

do4luv14:
Our ladies are playing the raggae girls of Jamaica, yet no show for the female thread, and here quiet like dis

When?

Philosopher1979:
That was the mistake. If we had gone with our full team we might have gotten to the quarter final or maybe semi final. The reforms should have started after the world cup. We missed a big opportunity

Don't believe we would pass the second round but at least we would have given Argentina a proper game

Kog45:
Yes Olishe nearly beat Ishaya Mark Aku the late sport minister and this led to afcon 2002 team disbandment but Kanu,Okocha,Taribo,Mutiu and Shorunmu later joined Onigbinde new team and players like Olishe,Finidi,Tijani felt somehow even young Victor Agali refused to join Onigbinde team and it could have been his maiden WC outing.

The disbandment of the team gave us Vincent Enyeama,Austin Ejide and Osaze who was taking along but not registered as a player in the team.

I think Stephen Keshi remained the best eagles captain cos he was influential and know how to get allowances for his mate.Keshi has listening ear of late vice president Augustus Aikhomu...I remembered how Stephen Keshi singlehandedly sacked Alex Akinyele the then late sport minister who went on air to criticise the team especially Keshi. This happened after our qualification to US 94 by held Algeria to goalless draw in a very tense match but a minister just came up on national TV talking nonsense.

To be candid there is no point delaying players allowances and even not paying coach at the right time.This affect the performance of the team.

I remember the 2002 incidence very well

Lol, the Oliseh incidence during 2002 Afcon

AndSunGorilla:
Two of the outstanding? And two being processed, I just dey wonder like Femi, how many are outstanding? Na wa for 9ja o.

All afcon qualifying games plus friendlies starting from the Ukraine game

Hopefully they'll be motivated to play against Mexico next month

zoboizee:
In our last seven matches how many games has Ebuehi & Sanusi played that made you to mention them as regular member of the first 11

post-afcon, the LB position have become Sanusi's own

Damioduso1:
The super eagles of Nigeria have played 19 games as friendly match under Gerhnort Rohr only won 5 out of the 19 matches under Gerhnort Rohr very poor . Since Five years in charge of Gehnort Rohr I don't know our starting eleven under Rohr

If you don't know our starting 11 that means you've not been paying attention

BascoVanVeli:
Nigeria vs Cameroon highlights


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VVFcycU48M

From the highlight it doesn't look as bad as you guys have painted it. Thanks Basco

Icon4s:
All these Foreign borns switching to Nigeria, well it is good we have a larger pool. But, we at this point, really need to evaluate their impacts in the national team. Cos the way it is now , the top players in that team are Nigerian grown: Osimhen, Ndidi and Chukwueze.

See that Moffi guy now today, after all hype about him.

Moffi is totally Nigerian

Subzero047:
You know why

Quota system abi? Never knew Ekong is from Kano state

Danielnino00:
Funny how Osimhen has now become our main man..
The same Osimhen Rohr was scared of giving a chance just a few years back...

But Rohr gave Osimhen game time even before he started playing professionally

Danielnino00:
It is just Rohr's sentimental preference for German players in play...

Okoye came from the German 4th division to displace Uzoho who has world cup, AFCON and laliga experience just like that...
SMH

Hope you now know this is false sha