₦airaland Forum

mkrest:
Some preacher predicts two Nigerians at R.madrid and Man united

awon ologogoro

Joezinho:
Ekong the carpenter? that's one of the most useless CB to ever dorn the GWG jersey. Egwuekwe comes to mind..

Ekong isn’t bad, he may not be superb but definitely not bad

andrewbaba44:
We go see weda jose peseiro go invite players with form or Wetin people talk

Watford might be relegated but they aren’t almost relegated ,Na your anger make you Dey talk this one ,even if the watford relegate Na people like ekong una captain go suffer am pass

unless the NFF don’t want to punish Denis but if they choose to, there’s nothing Mr pajero can do

andrewbaba44:
Ejuke to crystal palace

Aribo to Aston Villa

Olise ndah to Genoa

Nwakali to Nice

Ighalo to Newcastle

Will keep you guys updated

lol, you joking right?

Danielnino00:
The boys in training...

Nwakali that they helped his life sef never show , he dey der dey do Instagram live. No wahala

ChrisKels:
When you ain't treated like everyone else, there is always a need to ask for assurances especially when you appreciate your value.

If Rohr had invited him when he invited others, Dennis wouldn't ask for assurances, if actually he did ask for one.

I mean Rohr invites 23 players and will end up using less than 15 across two games. Players like Ebuehi and Aina actually deserve praise for never failing to turn up when invited despite knowing they won’t get game time

Astrid4:
See this legend of mkupuru mmiri, he has only played 2 games this season racking a total of 36 minutes.

so you and the one person who liked this tweet don’t know he just got back from a long term injury?

Kog45:
Sir,something is cleared here,Dennis don't want to come for Afcon...I just put a call to his then principal in academy who is my senior brother and said if Dennis is ready,nobody can stop him,not about receiving call up late.....if we remember a news came up that he was not coming for Afcon but later denied it but Ranieri after Watford West ham said the call up came late.

Sir,Dennis already made up his mind on Afcon,the zeal wasn't there and is good cos such attitude can cause disharmony in camp....Osimehn body language was cleared on Afcon,so nobody should twit the story to favor Dennis.

true, Watford and Ranieri wouldn’t want to stop him because they wouldn’t want any form of backlash but Dennis unwillingness to come made it easy for them. I hope he’ll be dropped in future games

CODMOK:
I know Dennis has an attitude problem but he has voiced it over and over again that he will be happy to go to the AFCON. If Salah, Mane and Mahrez are happy to be there (and Liverpool couldn't stop them), which other African wouldn't?

he wanted assurances that he’ll start

nelszx:
Here's a reason why

"I knew they were speaking the board and Nigerian board and I accept every decision they find, for me it’s finished," he said.

"They have a lot of players and they changed the manager and they changed everything. We were ready to give them the players, but they didn't do this. The two boards spoke and for me it’s okay, I’m only the coach and I accept everything.

"Now I spoke with him, of course he wanted to go to play, but also he wanted to help Watford."

https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/sport/19817878.ranieri-says-dennis-wanted-help-watford/

going by this, truly NFF sent his invitation late but it was Dennis unwillingness that actually made it possible

Danielnino00:
We aren't ready at all..

very obvious, 9 days to the start of the tournament and we’ve not started training

maidaboi:
that circle always happens in this thread when a player will be picked and trashed

herd mentality

Sanusi Vs Benfica, joint second highest rated player

Mujtahida:
But in all truth Eguavoen did not so much talk about his philosophy as he did that of Westerhof.

I’m convinced many people didn’t watch that video or didn’t watch to understand

BascoVanVeli:
I did a bit of research on the new coach and came up with 10 facts.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq1rFCroxgw

that set-piece part is true. In 2009 Saudi Arabia lost out of World Cup qualification after conceding a 93rd minute corner kick to Bahrain, a must win match ended at 2-2. The defending from the corner was very poor

zuchyblink:
Talent factory

smh

TheGoodJoe:

Was Mba one of the Super Eagles best player before AFCON?
Was Aghahowa one of the best players in the Super Eagles before 2000 AFCON?

Aghaowa was one of the best players in an otherwise poor U-20 team he was also doing well in Tunisia

TheGoodJoe:


Joe Hart was expected to go on loan. Despite doing well for Birmingham, Shay Given was still number one and equally had a good season. 34 years is equally not old for a goalkeeper.

By the way, just checked the stats, Cech had 17 clean sheets, while Hart had 10. So Cech was clearly the better keeper. Although that was also down to the club.

Either way, the guy in Birmingham was preferred over the guy in Manchester City.

So using clubs is not the only criterion.

We need more than saying because he plays in Hoffenheim, and this guy plays in Pirates means Hoffenheim must start ahead. It does not work like that.

Thanks for the PFA Keeper of the year info. did not remember that.

the Koko is they both played in the same competition and Mancini decided to use the best between them, it doesn’t apply to Ndah

Karlovych:
Hart was the best gk in the championship that season, Is Nwakali the best in Segunda 2 or is Ndah the best in South Africa?

Basquests never benched Keita or Toure

Birmingham was in the EPL, he was the best keeper in the EPL was also nominated for the best young player award

andrewbaba44:
That is club football and not national team

This narrative is very poor and e no enter at all

Stop using club football to justify nonsense

Shey given was even old and won’t keep forever so will surely need a replacement at some point

exactly, he was 34 while Hart who was the best keeper in England was 23, there’s no sense in putting him on the bench

TheGoodJoe:
Whether National team or club is not the point.


The point is that Shay Given was amongst the best keepers in the Premier League but Mancini preferred the skills set of a Goalkeeper who was sent on loan for Shay Given to Birmingham.

no boss. Given was 34, Hart was 23 and was named the goal keeper of the season while at Birmingham plus he was England NT GK, big clubs were beginning to inquire about him plus Hart wanted to either be the starting GK or move to a big club. Almost the same as the Courtois/Cech issue

TheGoodJoe:
Ronaldinho has far more quality on the ball than Roman Riquelme. Pellegrini said he prefers Riquelme over Ronaldinho. Why?

Riquelme suits his tactical plan.

Tactics rules today. If your quality does not meet the tactics, it is no use to the coach.

yeah, Graham Porter prefers Bissouma over Kante, like he can afford him

Danielnino00:
I haven't seen a press statement detailing the terms of the contract between the NFF and Jose Peseiro... Does anybody have it?
We don't know how many years contract he signed, what are his targets and how much he would be paid..

2 years contract , qualify for World Cup , don’t know about his salary

TheGoodJoe:

I actually mixed him with Morais. Actually, Peseiro is an attacking coach from what I read earlier of him.

You can always read up to know a coach's pattern of play and philosophy.

I already read about him my opinion is that he’s good but a bottler, his teams always fail at the crucial stage

ChrisKels:
Can we all rest now?


"Ademola's switch has not been completed. I just spoke with him now.

"Ademola loves to play for Nigeria but his switch is taking time". - Amaju Pinnick

but in 1972 Ademola called me to inform me of the switch, the NFF are just corrupt that’s why it’s taking time

humility33:
I am so sure if you were to analyse the team then
With your prejudices and sentiments towards anything English you will criticize those guys as not good enough and will prefer League 1 players over them except few that are privileged to be in the EPL

leave am make he dey disguise

TheGoodJoe:
Negative and conservative tactics rules Amaju Pinnick.

how do you know? Have you seen his team play before?

Kog45:
It was that match that made me not to rate Ndidi for sometimes o.

he played in an unfamiliar position of RB

elyte89:
Y is Peter rufai not even looked at all dis wyle..I don't get

I think he’s not interested

BascoVanVeli:
Umar Danlami

his team play attractively, could be one to watch out for

BascoVanVeli:
Ok last one..... Dakkada FC vs MFM good football and good grass


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCYKHVKRho

who is Dakkada coach?

BascoVanVeli:
Enyimba getting lucky against Enugu jokes aside the result was unfair to the Rangers but that's football. Good game but very poor pitch.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDOTd1HX8Ys

I thought the Ibadan pitch is bad but this one is on another level, how did it pass the NPFL integrity test?