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Ajagun has more professional league games under his belt though. Granted he is older.

charlesemeka85:
Ebere Eze, ovie ejaria, Onomah and even aribo will do better as a number 10 than ajagun. Kortrij can even afford the above mentioned players hahahahahaha

Rabiu Ibrahim couldnt cut it in Belgium.

charlesemeka85:
Rabiu Ibrahim plays as an attacking midfielder in the Slovenian league. Amoeba!

Why the comparison with Etebo. Will we play Etebo as an AM?

charlesemeka85:
If a player like Etebo can make the leap from lowly rated feirense to the laliga and now in the championship in England after just moving to Europe barely 4 years ago I see no reason why ajagun who left the shores of Africa for Europe since 2013 is still langushing in a lowly rated kortrij in belgium

I think we need to stop calling each other names. If you have recommendations for the AM position say it, and we can debate.

charlesemeka85:
I have severally talked down on players from my tribe who have been under performing in Europe and the super eagles. I hv severally attacked pple here u mentions the inclusion of Nwakali jnr, agu, ogu etc severally here.

My interest is having the best for our darling super eagles rather being sentimental.

Forgiveness u be tribalist

8th position is no top league. and where do you place the second tier leagues of top 5 leagues in that ranking?

forgiveness:
No bi me get coefficient ooo.

What position is the Jupiler League in your UEFA coefficient?

forgiveness:
I am saying hardly will a top league buy and use an African in that position.

Off course, it's not a top club.

who is forcing him on our throats?
Everyone has their opinion here.. when I give mine, i'm not forcing it down anyone's throats.

If Ajagun is performing then he deserves a call up especially as we are not spoiled for choices in the AM position. But the truth is, it is too early to say for any SE hopeful. The leagues have just started.

Just because Rohr has the final say does not mean fans have not been calling for players right and left. Rohr can also err. If Ajagun keeps churning good performances, he will definitely be on my lips.

charlesemeka85:
Bros no one said the guy is not worth celebrating but forcing him down our throat when we have better players currently is unacceptable.

I wanted him and lukman haruna in the super eagles when we lacked decent players in the midfield positions during keshi's reign but they were ignored with reasons best known to the late coach.

Ajagun was doing pretty well in Panathinaikos then while haruna was balling hard in dynamo Kiev but werent given a chance. Now that Era is gone and we have to focus on young emerging talents. If Rohr wanted ajagun he would have given him a chance but he won't add anything different from what we have in the team now.

I wouldn't consider Kortrijk a top club. But we only have a few AM playing consistently for their clubs. If Ajagun keeps it up, he will have my mention along with others I have listed in the past.

forgiveness:
How many AMF from African play that role for a top club? Use your brain.

Ajagun is a Nigerian. If he scores or gets an assist, I will celebrate him like any other Nigerian. Is he good enough for SE? If stays consistent as an AM in Belgium, he has a case, especially considering we are still looking for an AM to deputize Iwobi.

nice long range goal and assist.

forgiveness:
Ajagun scores. Somebody said he's finished but God never said so.

lovely header from Okereke.

Eartquake1:
The guy is disgracing Belgium league

Kano lead now 3-2
Enyimba trailing by 1 goal away

hoodedjaystrim:
update please

Right

forgiveness:
All these three players don't need change of nationality to play for Nigeria.

3-2 Kano Pillars

Koboko99:
It's 2-2 now

good job

DrLikita12:
Tornadoes trail by 1.
I don't have much hope for them because I read somewhere that they were planning to overhaul their squad after the Aieto Cup final. I hope it's not true.
Hopefully Pillars increase their lead but it's hard to see them (or Kotoko for that matter) potentially winning Etoile of Tunisia.

The Enyimba game just started.
Goodluck to them.

Modified*
Tornadoes are now trailing by 2.
Kotoko equalize in Kano

Kotoko don equalize

He scored 6 mins after his introduction. impressive -- Aneke.

charlesemeka85:
Aneke debuted and scored in Charlton's win while Eze and ajayi started for Qpr and westbrom

CHAMPIONSHIP

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QPR 1-1 Huddersfield
Ebere Eze(LMR)
WhoScored Rating: 7.24 (joint second highest rating)
3 shots (2 on target)
62 touches
40 total passes
90% pass success rate
2 successful dribbles (3 attempted)
1 successful tackle (1 attempted)
4 corners taken (50% accuracy)

Bright Osayi-Samuel (AMR)
WhoScored Rating: 6.13
4 shots (1 on target)
33 touches
15 total passes
87% pass success rate
1 successful tackle (1 attempted)

Luke Amos (DM)
WhoScored Rating: 6.33
57 touches
43 total passes
77% pass success rate
1 Key pass
1 Aerial won
2 successful tackle (3 attempted)
Was dribbled Once

Kano Pillars lead Asante Kotoko 1-0 at HT

Slovenian second division side NK Drava Dakinda have appointed former Super Eagles coach, Austin Eguavoen, as their new Technical Director.

The 53-year-old until his appointment was coach of fourth division club, Zakynthos FC, in Greece.

NK Drava Dakinda have in their ranksthree Nigerian players:Temitope Nelson, Mathias Fanimo and Simon Oduh.

--Punch

Everton's Probable XI according to WhoScored

Analysis

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How Arsenal’s culture of change left Alex Iwobi underappreciated – and unnecessary
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by Mark White
Published 15 hours ago

Alex Iwobi's last goal for Arsenal was a consolation, but it's a shame there weren't more fans in Baku to appreciate its brilliance. A torpedo that swerved inside Kepa Arrizabalaga's near post, it typified his time in red and white: graceful, laden with technique, but ultimately undervalued in the mire of Arsenal's problems.

To many fans, Iwobi has become a statue of the stagnation at Arsenal: a mildly unpopular pillar of the club, and frankly, the only real left winger in the wake of Alexis Sanchez's epic downfall. To some he's awful, others he's average. If Aubameyang and Lacazette are the lead guitarist and vocalist of the Arsenal band, Iwobi is stage-left on bass. A deputy, a stop-gap, Henrikh Mkhitaryan's other half. Like a second-hand car: an asset to surely replace in a windfall.

It seems a little harsh though that Iwobi's presence is often met with such disinterest. He registered the third-most assists of any under-23 in the Premier League last season, behind Leroy Sane and James Maddison. He contributes as many passes around the box as most of Europe's elite. At his best, Iwobi is a needle, sewing play together: an architect in tight spaces and an athlete when he has pitch to run into.

On paper at least, the 23-year-old is the petri-dish designer footballer that Arsenal fans expect from their academy. He joined the club aged 8 when they were unbeaten champions and grew up in the shadows of Arsenal legends. He was schooled in the geometric precision of Wengerball and endowed with some of his uncle Jay-Jay Okocha's flair. He's raw, his decision making often evaporates in the fire of away matches, but when Arsenal click into gear, Iwobi dazzles. He's a shy Jack Wilshere; a kid brought up in suburban London that dribbles like he's still got his school rucksack on, has radar vision and can beat full backs like a magician throwing a handkerchief over the ball.

There's an argument, too, that he's still not found his feet or locked in his favoured position. Arsene Wenger always favoured laser-passers out wide; Pireses, Rosickys and Nasris to dictate and drift like Red Arrows. It seemed Iwobi's destiny to carve his name into that particular rock, but the game has moved on. He's barely been tested in central positions – Arsenal also underrated Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's promise as a midfielder – and the club have always valued Iwobi as a luxury-number-10-turned-wide-man.

Only Alex Iwobi is a luxury that Arsenal could barely afford. A cultured attacking midfielder, he was learning on the job from the likes of Mesut Ozil, sharing creative responsibility and stretching play for the German to operate. Iwobi blossomed at Arsenal as a secondary playmaker, but he's become more of a regular fixture than any of the primary ones. His career's been forged in flux; Ozil faded from the spotlight, Mkhitaryan has shone intermittently and Cazorla's light went out a long time ago. In the absence of excellence elsewhere, Iwobi has been an Emery ever-present: the face of away day disappointment and a mainstay in Arsenal's meekest team in memory.

The Nigerian has carried Arsenal's creativity on his back during the Mustafi mistakes, the Ozil injuries and the back three experiments of two managers unfamiliar with playing the system. He's carried a flame in a rainstorm and failed to keep the embers glowing. For all his promise, he's disappointed many. Stepping to Everton represents a mission failed.

But Iwobi is still worthy of far more respect than he ever picked up at the Emirates Stadium. A gifted individual who was always there, through the defeats to Bournemouth, the crumbling season finales and the winds of change. He rarely made the big difference but he never shirked from challenges. During a summer where fans have demanded loyalty from Laurent Koscielny, Iwobi was always the quiet kid at the back of the class, who never showed a deep desire to leave London Colney.

Alex Iwobi never got to celebrate his final goal at Arsenal. He half-volleyed the ball into the net with all the frustration you'd expect from a substitute fighting a 3-0 deficit, before turning on his heels and racing to the centre circle. Fifteen years as a boy, teenager and man at Arsenal, all culminating in one sublime, but ultimately pointless, bolt from nowhere. A squint of genius that no one appreciated. Iwobi was never the man to carry Arsenal, but he gave it a damn good hit.

--FourFourTwo

And he no fit help them. He should move to the PSL

komekn:
Sorry league 2, his team was relegated from league one to league two.

Infact his career has been blighted by relegation clubs one after the other.

Trying to get a work permit in France. Else...

maidaboi:
Onyekuru?

Akpan dey league one.. why na?

komekn:
You missed out Hope Akpan and you could add Ross Barkley ( Nigerian origin) � lol

SE to play Ukraine in September

no worry Rohr go soon invite you lol

Clementoke:
Clementoke to Barca in a swap deal with Messi

all join na..

jihday:
To understudy Eddie Howe?

komekn wan get heart attack lol

komekn:
Where When How ❓ ❓ ❓

Is it the same Echiejile that should have retired.

lol

chrisooblog:
heard emenike is on his way to southampton. his friend is doing naming ceremony for his new born baby there

Echiejile to Bournemouth