₦airaland Forum

TheGoodJoe:
Who is better than Babayaro? I will like to know who you think is a better left back than Babayaro.

No one doubts Yekini's prowess but in the modern game today, most of the strikers, from Aguero, Benzema, Firmino, Suarez, Lewandowski etc need to have the ability to play as a creative attack midfielder.

Forget about Bias, Yekini does not have that ability. Yekini is not also the kind of striker to drop into pockets of spaces in the wings to give passes. Sorry but Kanu trumps Yekini hands down when it concerns this.

if you be coach you'll start sluggish, unprolific Kanu ahead of pacy and sharp Yekini? You no go last 3 matches before them fire you

komekn:
I am a bit puzzled by your proposition.

Because all the U20 boys, l have mentioned are also the same England U17 of the same era

It's quite remarkable that a huge portion of them are Nigeria origin players. The 4/5 years time span you are talking about is with us NOW.

Tega Abrahams
Ovie Ejaria
Tega Onomah
Ademola Lookman
Fikayo Tomori
Seyi Ojo

I have not added all the other English players like Mason mount, Reece James, Calvert-Lewin, Lewis Cooke, Ainsley Maitland, Dominic Solanke, James Gomez, Kyle Walker-Peters, James Maddison, we could also add Adarabioyo and Iorfa who all fall into the same age grade.

All these players have come from the same age U17 / 20 grade teams and era you attempt to make comparison with.

So what is exactly is your point ❓ Because your comparison fails as these boys have Alll gone very far ahead in thier careers playing in the best clubs in the world.

Look at Yahaya, Eze and Nwakali and you are trying to make comparison, with these players mentioned above.

A huge chunk of these guys are actually struggling with their career, if they are from Africa they'll either be stuck in their country's league or playing in some obscure league

Rohr on channels TV earlier today

We won't beg anyone to play for Nigeria - @NGSuperEagles Coach Gernot Rohr pic.twitter.com/W85N8ODexR

— Channels Sports (@channels_sports) June 1, 2020

Danielnino00:
Your decision?

Lagerback second chance, ask Bora for refund sue Vogt for theft and fraudulent activity infact get MC Oluomo's boys to puncture his left leg

Eizzy003:
Another one
Manchester City Interested In Signing Chelsea-Linked Winger With N46B Release Clause

https://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=36298

The player in question is still Samu Chuks

Good move or bad move

For me bad move except man city are planning to sell some of their wingers

Let's hear from you

Won't happen, both the Chelsea and Man city rumours are just work of some jobless journo

TheGoodJoe:
Wow. Thanks for this post. As soon as I saw the headline, I knew it had to be Haruna Babangida. Did not know much about him until Nigeria 1999 where BBC announced him as the most gifted and natural blessed talent coming to the World Youth Championship. Boy did he have electric talent on the ball when some of his clips filtered.

He had this trick of a Thiago Alcantara like turn that was so electric and fast. He was as quick as his elder brother, Tijani Babangida.

At Nigeria 99, he came rated higher than the likes of Ronaldinho, Xavi, Takahara, Diego Forlan, Santa Cruz and a host of other youngsters.

Sad he never reached that height but Haruna was fun to watch while it lasted.

Even during Nigeria '99 Aghaowa and Ikedia did better

andrewbaba44:
Sorry

You should know that I wanted to say good wingers maybe apart from pulisic,Willian and Pedro are not good as before

Jorginho is not world class .

A 50mill pounds player?

komekn:
Without stating the agents name it becomes questionable and if you do what's the agents response.

Why? Does Rhor look like a football novice to you that any idiot can call and claim to be a player's agent? Why you trying very hard to defend this guy? You are really over doing it now

Joebie:
We will raise the bar for hosting, and the tournament will be more competitive.

So within 4yrs some countries will be limited to some meaningless friendly games again lowly teams, how will they improve? Seems like we want to be trying too hard to be like the Europeans, every two years is OK jare

benji93:
Sometimes let's be careful about our instinctual deductions on what's actually happening. We all want what's best for Seyi Olofinjana, but the other guy may have a point. The question is, how well is Olofinjana doing with the wolves youth team. I just checked Wikipedia, and it says that, as of February 2019, he was the loan manager of the team. Based on this although he may be working for Wolves, i do not think he's coaching any of their youth teams currently. I may be wrong, in which case you may provide information that says otherwise. Perhaps you can clarify this if you have access to different information.

Thank you very much, was about to point it out that he's in charge of the loan system and not a coach. He monitors all the players on loan I remember I saw it on the internet sometimes ago

Joebie:
Look at the performances of African nations at the WC over years compared to even Asian countries. The question is why? And why is our every two years owambe not bringing any thin positivity besides African countries fighting for bragging rights of who is the best in Africa? We need to focus on quality not quantity. Africans needs to start setting a high bar. Go to the world and start to make a good challenge.

So how will making the AFCON a 4-year tournament help resolve that? Not like the Asians are achieving anything at the world cup too

Danielnino00:
We can still enjoy other football tournament within that period..
CHAN and world cup...

CAF can even use the opportunity to start a Nations league for interested members country ..

Chan is for home-based so it's out of it, world cup that we won't last more than 3 games at most 4. If CAF want to make it four years they need to look for a viable alternative

komekn:
Unfortunately, opportunity for black coaches in Europe is very limited .

Seyi Olifinjana has been coaching youth football at Wolves for about 5 years but there has been no progression beyond that.

What is Seyi's achievement as a youth team coach? What has he done to show that he deserve the next level?

ChrisKels:
At your first paragraph, key word "convincingly"


At the second paragraph, you getting ahead of time.


If he fails to deliver AFCON gold and (not "or" convincingly qualify for the world cup, he should be sacked while another coach be appointed to take us to the world cup

Errrm, you know these things aren't always straight forward. Imagine we loose to Senegal/Algeria via PK do you still think he'll deserve to be sacked?

Danielnino00:
Can't they just move it to 2023 and use this opportunity to shift the AFCON to every 4 years ??

4 years ke? Abeg weytin we go dey do for those 4 years

safarigirl:
Apparently, Harry Redknapp was linked as a candidate for the job of Nigeria's coach (I don't even know who in Portsmouth or Middlesbrough came up with this story), and Harry Redknapp always buys him (Crouch) for whatever team he coaches, so, if he's coaching Nigeria, he will get Crouch for Nigeria too.

It's jokes

E remain Niko Kranjcar another Redknapp loyalist

elyte89:
TheGoodjoe ..hope dis man will SOAK UP KNOWLEDGE and b ready for Super eagles role in d nearest future

I'm so happy for him, if he perform well then bigger things await him. This is what I expect from our exinternationals and not just lazying around and hounding any current super eagles coach who isn't their friend

Bolowolowo:
Would you consider John Obi Mikel a world class footballer?

No

andrewbaba44:
Baba paul scholes sabi ball nah, why you dey yarn like this

Mind you me sabi yab english players oooo

Most people who are calling him average didn't even watch him play they've only seen statistics

komekn:
You omitted quite deceptively two things which are the DATE and CONTEXT. ln which the comments were made. In football absolutely everything is time limited. When a statement is taken out of context, it becomes a CON and you could not resist the temptation to show your nature CON MAN.

That's disinformation and intent to mislead and cheap low level pot scraping.

My comments remain the same in the context of that time. And will never be withdrawn.

At that time Solanke was far ahead and a golden boot winner at the U20 World cup and Osimhen was in the doldrums of Wolfsburg going nowhere. And at that time would have struggled to get into a top academy.

If we go back in time, AT THAT TIME or thereabouts l had said Eberechi Eze, Fikayo Tomori, Josh Maja, Adarabioyo, Oviemuno Ejaria, among many others were not good enough for the SE again AT THAT TIME . But look today. l also said Nwakali AT THAT TIME was simply not good enough, l had even stronger words for Isaac Success.

Where is Solanke, Nwakali and Success in the context of football in the HERE and NOW. I guess making a bit of money but going nowhere in football progression.

Footballers don't remain static they improve they change thier attitude and they strive if they want to succeed.

You also failed to add the constructive criticism comments and advice l gave regarding Osimhen. I said he should leave Wolfsburg go to a less competitive league and or Bundesliga 2 and reinvent his career or he will end up going nowhere. Well he took that advice and where is he now.

Sine you have the tenacity to find the negative use that same tenacity to find the Positive. Unless you are not balanced in your quest which would prove negative prejudiced bias.

So once again please find where I have unjustifiablely denigrated a Nigerian home grown player.

But you conveniently forgot that few months before then he was also a golden boot winner in an age grade tournament

Eizzy003:
Na him person for here talk say e da 19 ooo
Anyway

why can't he be 19? He looks young could very well be 19 or close to it

Edopesin:
Emmanuel Adebayor that refused to help Togo in this worst case scenario Covid19 nko? are they wrong to drag him or does that mean his countrymen are too entitled also

The friends approach is wrong but make nacho reach out

yes they are entitled, he doesn't owe them shit abi is he their president?

daveP:
Nacho might have reached out. Tbings like this happens. And unfortunately, despite what we opine, he can help this one.

Desperation might have caused this


But as usual, while many say Nigerians feel entitled, its also Nigerians that see it as a big deal helping a friend in need. Why?

No problem.


Factually speaking, are you inferring you would not help a close friend if youre in a better place after a long length of no contact?

so how do you know kelechi isn't helping any of his friend? I'm sure there are some Ronaldo's childhood friend he's not helping, do you even know how many mouth kelechi much be feeding? Both family and close friends. Na why these boys dey quick broke after football be that

andrewbaba44:
He his 19 ,I know when he wrote waec

mumu

Bolowolowo:
If Okoye manages to seal a deal at Rotterdam and gets game time, then the race for #1 keeper is wide open.

I think Ezenwa will be the biggest loser and that will be unfortunate

safarigirl:
E surprise us well well, wetin no surprise us na that Algeria match wey e concede that goal. It has officially become our own version of "Corner taken quickly..."

I swear na our own version be that o

andrewbaba44:
I have been having this feelings you are earthquake

I am now starting to believe

you still dey get feelings? I knew it from the start

komekn:
We invited him to the SE party when he absolutely did not deserve it.

Then when he did, we completely forgot him and then when he started to blow we remembered him.

Eze will play for Nigeria but we did not treat him well.

I don't see any problem here, if he truly wants to play he'll wait for his time abi should we chase those ahead of him?

andrewbaba44:
Gbolahan salami is not that bad when he played for the eagles nah ,even eneramo self

Abegiii, just carry big body for nothing.

komekn:
Imagine a situation where our National U17 team went for an international reputation in Europe.

And they were all offered juicy contracts in high paying football clubs. But the proviso was that the must change allegiance to different European nations.

My estimation is that 50% will change allegation there and then.

LOL

Yet we get angry with players who have zero affinity with Nigeria and are even mixed race with little input from thier Nigerian Fathers in thier lives.

50%? More like 100%

Subzero047:
Meanwhile Eneramo...

Alongside Makinwa and Gbolahan Salami, one of the worst players that I've seen play for the eagles

TheGoodJoe:
So because Manchester City counters teams, we are not knocking the ball around. In the second half, we played in full throttle. Most of the time we had the ball, we went on the offensive.

Note the bolded. That is what the true characteristics of attacking football is.

I think he's correct we played on the counter