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Oasis007:


Emotions again. Where are the facts?

Okpotu was the top scorer where is he? Junior Lokosa? The other winger from Enyimba that Rohr used a lot (can’t remember his name). This thing you are saying Keshi did it now let’s look at them, Uzoenyi was so bad in South Africa that sundowns wondered how he played for super eagles, Oboabona went to Saudi division 2 then faded out, Mba? Barely a year after he didn’t make the World Cup squad and nobody batted an eye lid that’s how bad he was. I remember we were shouting Afelokhai that brother was awful against Togo in Chan qualifier. See plenty names dey, some went to Turkey division 2 and couldn’t cut it some Finland but ran back home. For every 1 Ahmed Musa there’s 50 Junior Lokosa, at the end of the day I’m not sure this your experiment is worth the stress

mostob:
All this scouting talk will result to nothing if the coaching department is not refurbished. I'll be sad if we don't win any of the next two upcoming AFCON.

it’s shocking how people are missing this, you just need the right coach and all these won’t be necessary

Oasis007:
.... let them be snapped bro. It will help to improve our league. It will make the league more competitive and gaining more money to finance the clubs.

false

Oasis007:
Lets list out our so called foreign players, their clubs and achievements so far. If we are ready for this discourse, then we should be ready to scrutinize our so called world class players.

these local players you are advocating for will struggle to get a bench role in their clubs. We’ve seen NPFL best of the best go to some other African countries to play and struggle badly but you want us to fill our NT with them, you clearly don’t rate the super eagles

codemaniacs:
Ejuke has only played 3 matches for SE while Moses Simon has played 53 matches.. so you should take your own advice of don't compare with Ejuke.

For club, Moses Simon probably has a better agent than Ejuke because Moses Simon has played in more top leagues than Ejuke and has been playing in Europe longer than Ejuke..

Obviously Simon has more experience than Ejuke but changes have to be made in the wings of the S.E or you won't any changes in the team even if they bring in new midfielders and they will fail to qualify for the next world cup if the wingers aren't been substituted for others..

you should take your own advice of don't compare with Ejuke.

this is a very weak line of excuse

komekn:
Nwokem BEECO let's not pretend ,say the truth and shame the devil.

For years past and present we have been carrying Uncles to go and play with small children from Europe. And you are saying we have done better.

Where did it get us to 90% end up in obscure low quality league with linited shelf life as football age starts to show.

downplaying our U-17 success to age cheating is very very dishonest, you talk about the players not making it at the top level as if it’s not the same for every U17 winning team

elyte89:
U shld knw Charles by now,once u re not playing in d top 6 elite European leagues...if u like score 1000goals,u no sabi be dt

And dt has been nerdie and philosophy preaching here dt we shld start looking beyond where dis guys play alone but also look at what u will bring differently to d team irrespective of where u play

But baba charles no go gree, I heard Croatia keeper sef ,plays in deir local league and look at aw good he’s in dis tournament

not only keeper, the guy who scored the second goal against Morocco and a handful of other guys play in their league

Dele-Bashiru start and assist first goal for watford while Ekong is only good enough for the bench

Training ground stuff

andrewbaba44:
Let me drop this here before the final day

Golden ball winner : Lionel Messi
Silver ball winner :Kylian mbappe
Bronze ball winner :Griezman

Best young player of the tournament: Julian Alvarez

Mbappe is still eligible

chrisooblog:
Fall hand how? Football we all know is a team sport but some individuals were so essential to their teams winning that it is almost universally agreed that if those players weren't their it's most likely their team won't have won.

Now will all fairness look at Mbappe's performance at the last world cup and in this one are you saying France would have gone all the way without him considering how the French national team had performed in recent world cups before he came on the scene?

if he was that important he’d have finished in the top 3 best player, IMO Pogba was more influential that Mbappe

AndSunGorilla:
Exactly and I remember he took a modest Monaco to the UCL knocking out some favorites along the way before losing to a specially organized Porto coached by the Special One at his prime (lol). The thing with him is that he seems cautious and doesn't go gung-ho which anyone can expect with the talents France has.

he also got a relegated Juventus back to Serie A after just a season. They don’t like him because his team don’t play 5 billion passes

daveP:
Hearing the origin of Dribbling has changed my mind about it. Blacks must do to make sure it never ever gets extinct in the world of football. Mtchewww.

you don’t have to believe everything you see on the internet

AndSunGorilla:
Sir Jihday, do you think if those guys Fatai Osho and Fidelis get a job outside Nigeria, that they won't take it? They won't employ themselves now. Amodu spent a couple of seasons in SA with Sundowns on the back of his national team job and perhaps African continental wins. I believe Finidi, Amuneke and Eguavoen all have badges right.

maybe the likes of Osho and fidelis can be excused but these former internationals with wide contact across Europe and Africa have no excuse sha

komekn:
They are black and will get little or no opportunity in the UK thats the reality.

if they are serious about their careers they could move outside the UK besides we’ve recently seen black coaches given opportunities. It’s always easy to use the race excuse than putting in actual work

ChrisKels:
Bono and Amrabat are good shouts for the APOTY.

will be hard to argue against Bono considering he also won Laliga best keeper

Odunayaw:
I regard Deschamps as a fraud. I can't bear seeing him lift back to back world cups.

God of bants, OBANTALA, I call on you

Deschamps is a very fine coach, don’t know why many people don’t like him

komekn:
I know several who have coached and have their complete badges but they are not part of the preferred NFF network and may not compromise Thier standards.

3 names?

charlesemeka85:
na advert for bet companies dem Dey hustle

e dey piss me off, don’t you want to do something meaningful with your post-football career?

COOL10:
Lol, funds have never been the issue.

All it took for Morocco to obtain such a standard was for one of theirs i.e a local coach, to win the CAF champions league. That's all it took.

The questions we should be asking ourselves are What are our local coaches doing? How many of
them have taken it upon themselves to educate themselves about the modern game? Why aren't they making giant strides when it comes to continental football? When last did a Nigerian team smell the final of CAF champions league?


I'm sure people will talk about club administration issues but if you cannot handle adversity at club level, is it at National level you'll be able to handle it, especially when you're dealing with a country like Nigeria?


Like I said earlier, we're not ready to improve. When we're ready to do so, we'll know what to do.

just like our players our coaches have zero ambition, nothing stopping a fatai osho or Fidelis from joining a club in Africa to make their cv more beautiful but they’ll rather stay in their comfort zone. Our recently retired players? Those ones are worst, Joseph Yobo was forced to take up a spot in our technical crew he still refused to go for his coaching badges, aside Utaka I don’t know any former player trying to make his name as a coach while other Africans are trying to start a career, Kolo Toure is now Wigan’s coach while his brother Yaya is with Conte at Tottenham , Benny McCarty is Manchester United’s striker coach, Elneny have already started his UEFA coaching course but our players are no where to be found. You see why we’ll either continue to employ 3rd grade foreign coaches or we’ll manage our Amunike like that

Oasis007:
There is one way to fix Super Eagles, stop relying much on players playing outside the Country. They've been so arrogantly poor and unreliable.

Last time we won AFCON, local players played huge roles immensely. I have nothing against foreign Coach but shouldn't be spending much of his time away from the country.

There should be a project for new Super Eagles. Select best local players and make sure they are attending training together at least twice in a Month.

Screen out the mediocre ones until solid squad is built, then add few players from abroad to them.

Enough of over reliance on players abroad.... they're taking us to nowhere.

hilarious at best

TheGoodJoe:
He definitely learnt but in this game, Arteta accepted a tactical defeat and went for a strategic win. He also lacks the players to imprint his ideas. However, i feel Arteta is adulterated due to him playing too long in the EPL.

I am actually glad he left. I felt he was a poor influence on Guardiola. We became more fluid after his departure.

‘when I first saw him at PSG I knew he’ll be great’. Goodjoe piss for one spot make e foam well

andrewbaba44:
Na me oo

yimu, na you be Pooja?

COOL10:
Big levels.

What most of our local coaches do is to wait for competent coaches like this to start making waves so they can ride on it and start the 'local coaches are better' conversation, just like they're doing right now. They'll also look for ways to try to cunningly sneak themselves into the job but I can smell their antics from a mile away.

This man won the CAF champions league before getting appointed. We need to start setting standards in this country.

we can’t set standard, we don’t have the funds for it

Mujtahida:
Spain is poor. One semi final is 10 years by any standard is poor and even awful by Spanish standards. That point was about them being judged by their own standards does not negate the point about them being poor regardless.

What is the evidence that Spain is a top performer in over 10 years? One semi final in euro and 3 wins spread across 3 world cups!

After this you will say they are not poor, you will mention semi at the Euros, you will mention nations league. You have a reputation to keep as per you know how to argue. Well then but My point is made and I believe that the evidence tilts heavily towards the points I have made.

one semifinal in euro, a tournament where they won only 1 game in normal time, drew 2 games in their group, won second round 5-3 AET, won the quarters by Pk and lost semi by pk

TheGoodJoe:

That is why I laugh when people try to mock tiki-taka and the Spanish football philosophers. They are changing the game of football.

Guardiola, Enrique, thanks for this lovely post, now Arteta are spreading their ideas.

They have helped coaches catch up with their tactics and leveled the playing ground a bit.

Guardiola released a full dvd of his coaching methods.

Tomorrow people will start laughing if they lose few games.

I remember after this particular game you complained that Arteta parked the bus and you are happy that he left City’s technical team but see you now twerking for him

charlesemeka85:
ziyech was literally begged to rep Holland in international football from the FA and his then club ajax but he turned the offer down maintaining that he wants to play for Morocco

Even one of Dutch ex players called him stupid for choosing Morocco instead of Holland

Hakimi turned the Spanish youth team advances down to rep Morocco too

Moroccans in diaspora has strong link to their heritage and home land and this is carried on to their kids. Also the Moroccan FA employs scouts to monitor the progress of kids with Moroccan ancestry in europe where the bright ones are approached to be integrated to their national teams (u17,20,23 and the snr national team

Also I heard sometime ago that the fa also lure this players with massive incentives which I don’t know how true the claim is

no need to pass fake info, nobody from holland or Ajax begged Ziyech, he wasn’t even an Ajax player when he made his debut for Morocco. He also played a handful of games for the Netherlands youth teams.

elyte89:
Sincerely I don’t know

Like say na modric,ronaldinho kind of players we get for midfield

it’s just herd mentality, I’m sure none of them have seen the boy play this season

Ogochuks101:
Hakimi rejected Spain though

never called him to the senior team even if they did he already played for Morocco youth teams

Joezinho:
Words on a marble.

I wonder how any right thinking football analyst would want a player like nwakali to be in the super Eagles team. It’s either they are hungry mofos paid to hype him or they don’t mean well for Nigeria football.

genuine question, why don’t you want him?

Blueelf:
Unpopular opinion

Peter Rufai is an overrated Legend

I can hardly see the hype he gets as a GK.

because you never saw him play, seems you throw the word ‘overrated’ a lot

TheSuperNerd:
Interesting opinion from the man who was born offside, one of the finest Strikers of his generation, Filippo Inzaghi
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Osimhen is the best right now beyond Ballon d'Or winner Benzema and Giroud - Inzaghi

https://assets.goal.com/v3/assets/bltcc7a7ffd2fbf71f5/blt1bdda1919f383e7b/6396d7e8dcd5b649520eaa37/Victor_Osimhen_Oliver_Giroud_and_Karim_Benzema.jpeg
Filippo Inzaghi believes Napoli striker Victor Osimhen is the best, beyond Karim Benzema and Olivier Giroud following his great displays.


WHAT HAPPENED? The 23-year-old Nigeria international is having a great season with the Partenopei, who are currently topping the Serie A table. His superb display has caught the attention of the 49-year-old, Inzaghi, who played for Juventus and AC Milan in the same league and is currently the head coach of Serie B club Reggina.

Inzaghi has opined Osimhen's qualities as second to none and that he is better than Ballon d'Or winner Benzema, who turns out for Real Madrid.


WHAT HE SAID? “If we think of Napoli, Osimhen is a true centre-forward,” Inzaghi said as quoted by TuttoNapoli.

"He attacks deep, and keeps the ball, Osimhen is probably the best right now, beyond Benzema, who, however, is less of an area centre forward, and perhaps than Giroud."


THE BIGGER PICTURE: The Super Eagle has currently scored nine Serie A goals from 11 matches and chipped in with two assists. His first goal of the campaign came in the 5-2 victory against Hellas Verona on August 15.

Last season, Osimhen managed 27 top-flight appearances, scored 14 goals and provided two assists. On Sunday, he was on target as Napoli defeated Crystal Palace 3-1 in a friendly fixture at Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort.

WHAT NEXT FOR OSIMHEN? The former Lille forward will hope to add to his tally of goals in Serie A when Napoli resume their hunt for the title with a clash against Inter Milan at the San Siro on January 4.

Napoli are currently leading the 20-team log with 41 points from 15 matches and remain the only unbeaten side in the top-tier.


Source: Goal.

why is Inzaghi hyping him unnecessarily? Pippo must have been bribed