₦airaland Forum

jimmyiovine:
The captain and midfielder, Samson Tijani has apparently signed a pre agreement with RB Salzburg. Will move when he turns 18 later this year. Aside from him, I don’t think any other players got any moves

Read it earlier but surprisingly no statement of confirmation from Salzburg

Almost 3 months after the U-17 WC, no club is talking about any of our players, that's a damning indictment on Garba and says alot about the quality of players we paraded

tbaba1234:
Dropped by Aigbogun and Imama.

Wow, maybe he didn't MEASURE up

safarigirl:
his excitement is refreshing and he has a great smile

When he said "I'm originally from London" in my mind was like Osapa London, abi where? Ain't nobody from London bearing Osaze Urhog......

Lol, his English has Nigeria written all over it

ChrisKels:
That was said by a novice. The boy na armature in analyzing football, na one of doz kids that get carried away by just the present

LMAO

Sheffield Wednesday's 19-year-old defender Osaze Urhoghide with one of the best interviews ever 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/3hMktgadNR

— SPORTbible (@sportbible) January 5, 2020

One of the realest interview you'll see in football. The Nigerian accent couldn't hide completely

TheSuperNerd:
Excellent win for Chukwueze's Villarreal against a very strong Sociedad side parading some of La Liga's finest youngsters in Oyarzabal and Odegaard.

Chukwueze played 82mins and had a 7.00 Whoscored rating. Passing accuracy was 73.3%, created two chances, had two key passes, had one shot, won one aerial duel.

Decent shift from our Naija Robben away from home.

Villarreal climbs to 9th on the La Liga table.

Someone here said these guys will relegate just because they hit bad form some weeks ago.

Danielnino00:
He looks happy to be back!

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I hope he kicks off from where he left....

But he still needs to move to a bigger league than Turkey ..

The deal doesn't have buy option and it's only for 6 months

andrewbaba44:
Agreed

When you are playing you just need to keep delivering, nobody cares if you reduced your age or not

Ighalo is also more than 30, but emenike own too much, na 12 years e reduce

Emenike is not even effective as ighalo at 30, i can bet you ighalo wont lack offers around europe small teams like genoa,sassuolo,aston villa, watford, levante getafe and co, but my guy will go no where because 200k weekly dey sweet

I agree, Iggy is still very sharp

charlesemeka85:
ireland we dash una



The Football Association of Ireland are planning to cap-tie Norwich City's Nigeria-eligible striker Adam Idah during the first international break of 2020, manager Mick McCarthy has hinted.

McCarthy stated that Idah has earned himself a senior call-up on the back of his impressive performance against Preston North End in the Emirates FA Cup on Saturday in which he netted his first hat-trick as a professional.

Born in Cork, the former College Corinthians super kid qualifies to represent Nigeria through his father.


The 18-year-old is already provisionally cap-tied to the Irish after appearing for the country in the U17 EURO qualifiers back in October 2016 and also has caps for the U16, U18, U19 and U21 national teams.

Ireland's first game this decade is a European Championship qualifier against Slovakia in March and Idah won't be eligible to play for Nigeria again if he gets game time.

Speaking to BT Sport on Saturday, McCarthy said : "He might have just got himself one, never mind you getting him one.

"He's scored a hat-trick today, and he's playing in a real competitive game. It's not a U21s, U23s, it's an FA Cup tie against a good Preston team."

The Nigeria Football Federation have lost Michael Obafemi to the Irish and it is all but confirmed that Idah will follow in the footsteps of the Southampton striker by committing his international future to the boys in Green as he has closer ties to his country of birth than Nigeria.

Irish have flooded twitter, they are angry we are trying to claim him

Seun360:
If you know Emma well enough, you will know he's well over his official age.

That counts too.

Who cares? We tell am to forge age? Or them tell you say na Ighalo age be that

andrewbaba44:
He scored against bosnia

Osaze

Icon4s:
Emenike played 37 matches for Nigeria and scored only 9 goals, 5 of which came in the 5 matches he played at the 2013 AFCON. So it means he only scored 4 in the other 32 matches. This can easily pass for the stats of a defender

2 of those against Ethiopia during WCQ another one against Argentina when we won them 4-1 can't remember the last

andrewbaba44:
Emenike won the afcon doesn’t mean he is better than ighalo ,most know this but they won’t admit

winning afcon is a team achievement, if Moses didn't rise up to the occasion against Ethiopia Emenike would have been just another otu player that played for us

ChrisKels:
Emenike: 9 goals in 37 matches = 1 AFCON Gold(trophy), 1 AFCON golden boot, 1 world cup ticket, 1 world cup R16.

Ighalo: 16 goals in 35 matches = 0 AFCON gold, 1 AFCON golden boot, 1 world cup ticket, 0 world cup R16.


Who really delivered?

I think individual achievement should be the yardstick not team, so they both flopped at the world cup and they both won the golden boot plus Ighalo was afcon qualifier top scorer

Icon4s:
My SE best XI for the last decade (2010 to 2019)

....................Enyeama

Ambrose.....Yobo....Ekong.....Echiejile

...................Ndidi
............................Mikel

Musa............Iwobi..............V. Moses
....................Ighalo

Ighalo because in the last 10yrs we have not had a consistently performing CF since after Yakubu (2010 WC): Ike Uche, Martins, Emenike, Ighalo. Ighalo just edged them. Osimhen has not had enough games yet to be rated in that league of CFs.

Make una share una own

Spot on but I'll swap Ndidi for Onazi

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2lola:
CLUB SACK ONAZI
Turkish side, Trabzonspor have reportedly informed Nigeria international Ogenyi Onazi to find another club, as his services are no longer needed, Soccernet.ng understands.

Former Lazio midfield enforcer Ogenyi Eddy Onazi may be in search of a new club after his present side Trabzonspor informed him of their decision to move him on, according to reports from the Turkish media.


The 2013 AFCON winning star only returned from a long-term injury layoff a few weeks ago but has not been able to reclaim a starting shirt in the side.
Trabzonspor have been enjoying a solid campaign so far with the Black Sea Storm currently in third place on the Super Lig table.


The side have 32 points from 17 games played, just one point behind second-placed Instabul Basaksehir, and five behind league leaders Sivasspor.


Only two days ago, Trabzonspor parted ways with manager Unal Karaman despite the Turk leading the side to wins in their last three matches of the year 2019. The former head coach only lasted 18 months in charge.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/turkish-club-sacks-onazi/

According to what you posted he have not been sacked they only declared him surplus to requirements

charlesemeka85:
Coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr has gotten a boost of endorsement from present players of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot who have all given their support to the coach as his contract extension row continues with the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) .

Rohr has not been handed a contract extension by the NFF although the football body claim that talks will take place in January over an extension, same months the coach is free to enter into discussion with other countries.

Some of the Super Eagles players ‎who were home for the Christmas break told Owngoalnigeria.com that the coach should be left in the job, urging the NFF to pull all the stop to ensure that he is retained as coach of the team.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity they all accepted that even though results could have been better under the coach the team has also made significant progress the last few years under the Franco-German tactician.

His willingness to call up only players who are regulars at their clubs means every player now have to be very careful when switching clubs as playing time is now the main criteria to be in the team unlike in the past.

On the other hand Owngoalnigeria.com exclusively gathered that the NFF has placed Salisu Yusuf on standby to step in as interim coach if contract talks breaks down with Rohr. Yusuf who is only backed from a suspension handed over to him over the cash for spot bribery video is presently the only coach having a contract with the NFF.

That have always been the plan

Kbs468:
It seems there's an international FIFA window for Nigeria and the rest of the world between February 3rd & February 14th oooooo because of the below.

Else, How come there would be no matches of any kind for Arsenal between Sunday February 2nd and February 16th

In case you wanna know.

The next round of FA cup games is January 24-27 after the game against Leeds United at the Emirate stadium on Monday January 6th

While the Europa league match against Olympiacos is on February 20th

I think the EPL have started mid-season break

Danielnino00:
U people are misinterpreting the guy... He didn't say we should shut out players with links to Europe completely. He wants us put more attention into the development of our cadets teams back home..more attention to grassroot football.. The main reason we are chasing foreign born players around is because we don't have enough home grown players that are better..

Can u in all honesty say u are pleased with the performance of our cadet teams in 2019? the u-17, u-20 and u-23? .. Even the NPFL can't boost of a well structured youth system to unearth talents.
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We need to make improvement in that aspect
.pay more attention to development of football at the grassroot level!! It would benefit us in the long run and won't affect the inclusion of foreign born players in the national team at all...


PS: I'm not in any way against the inclusion of foreign born players in the national team..I just don't like the way we droll over every Chinedu,Danladi and Adigun that emerges from another country as if the ones we have back home are useless!

One year of failure doesn't mean our grassroots football is bad, the NFF and other stakeholders are really putting in the work for underage football teams. The only thing that needs attention is our league

Danielnino00:
And it isn't even Europe we should worry about. it is Asia .
Especially those Arab countries..

Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait,UAE. ...

Correct, if FIFA try that one of those Middle East countries will win the World cup before Africa

andrewbaba44:
USA self no be anybody country so it’s normal there

Really? No native Americans?

kennysville:
That we have to beg?

We did not beg sir, we approached

Joebie:

I no just wan answer that guy.

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so just because we go abroad go school we should be shut out completely from coming back home to contribute to the economy.
Some of those players were actually born in Nigeria. Many others are children of immigrants who left because of the sorry state of the country. And there are also those who are biracial. Who are you to say they should not be given a chance like every other Nigerian? Anybody hold gun for your head say make u no develop your country?

Lol

Bolowolowo:
Those dudes aren’t foreign born though and no one’s asserting that they shouldn’t play for European clubs. Read OP’s comment again.

So you guys problem is because they have two passport and not who developed them abi? Una go dey OK

Off topic: Chelsea set to sign Gabigol

Philosopher1979:
We Africans need to develop our football and STOP relying on foreign born players. I see it as reaping where we did not sow. The idea that we need them is irritating as it smacks of poverty, colonialism, mental slavery and a very slavish attitude. We Africans need to focus on developing our young players. The problem is we do not know how to refine our young u-17 players into competent players. That can be handled if they sign for developmental clubs. Begging every tom, dick and harry to play for us is humiliating and condescending.
Black man, when will you rely on yourself?
Let us develop our Akinkunmi Amoo and Samson Tijani and be proud of them. Foreing born should be an after thought and not the main thing. There are people on this nairaland who think that Foreing born players are the best thing in the world and it is irritating. Africa has to go beyond this

Happy New Year Kwame Nkrumah. Those Amoo and Tijani you mentioned they'll still need to join European clubs to complete their football education, abi is it MFM and Enyimba that will do that?

Danielnino00:
How about FIFA making the change of allegiance rule similar to the IAAF's where players can represent any country of their choice even if they have already represented another country in an official event ?

That will be bad. Countries will start using mercenaries,all our good players will be taken from us

charlesemeka85:
Sitter wey lacazette and aubameyang dey chop steady for Arsenal? Even a great like papilo chop one wey I go ever forget when he was with westbrom, even my late grannie go score that goal

Still get chosen as one of the worst miss in EPL history

tbaba1234:
Otasowie, young kid on the radar for the next US under 20.

Oh, it's USA and not England

A certain Otasowie on Wolves bench while Success takes his place as chief bench officer of Watford. Iheanacho spearhead Leicester attack while Ndidi reclaims his midfield spot