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Danielnino00:
Here's my ranking of the favorites to win the AFCON. Based on the pedigree of each teams in the competition, their squad strengthen and advantage...

1. Egypt

2. Senegal

3. Morocco

4. Ivory Coast

5. Nigeria

6. Cameroon

7. Tunisia

8. Ghana

9. Algeria

10. DR Congo

11. Uganda

12. Mali

13. South Africa

14. Guinea

15. Zimbabwe

16. Guinea Bissau

17.Angola

18. Kenya

19. Tanzania

20.Benin

21. Burundi

22.Madagascar

23.Mauritania

24. Namibia


You are welcome to modify the list

Humility017:
little wonder you never wanted mikel in the super eagles team...because you don't want us to win the afcon or see it as an impossible task.
but I have good news for you.....
we are winning the afcon....

gamaliel9:
There is a certain Felix Agu..a defender who players for VFL OSNERBRUCK that just got promoted to Bundesliga 2 from Bundesliga 3

He is eligible for us...

charlesemeka85:
and what made the thunder team loan him to a 2nd tier team?

charlesemeka85:
yea have heard alot about him but the Portuguese 2nd tier is very poor so i will rate him when he performs in top flight

soetanoreoluwa:
Liverpool or Barcelona? Which one will guarantee Samu playing time, development and trophy? Which one is the best deal?

Earthquake3:
I think someone who has won most tackles and recoveries two seasons in a row has the right to be referred to as world class

Another angle is anyone at Leicester city world class?

gustav25:
Ndidi is bang average

AIG07:
Hello house,

I think it is high time we all agree to a particular unit/system of measurement when it comes to certain issues like player rankings.

The words below average, average, above average, top player, excellent player, world class, legend etc should be well defined and where possible mathematically proofed/backed up.

Reason for this is simple.
I believe anyone who has grouped our players into classes has done so using his/her personal metrics which is based on their understanding and perception which might not be generally acceptable.

The rating done in football is often on scale of {0-10} or {0%-100%} which afford the no 5 and 50 to be average mark.

A pundit who uses 0-10scale can easily group players in to 5 classes {POOR(0-2.49), BELOW AVERAGE (2.50-4.99), AVERAGE(5), ABOVE AVERAGE(5.10-7.49) AND WORLD Class (7.5-10) while any one who uses just 1-3 or will likely have (BELOW AVERAGE, AVERAGE And WORLD Class) which is limited when the pool of players is much and wide.

If I were to use the 0-10 scale,

None of our players will make it to the World Class group. I repeat none. I'll place Ndidi in the 'top' of THE ABOVE AVERAGE group alongside Mikel, Iwobi slightly below them in the same group,
The rest bunch of average and below average players.

The World Class tag should only be left for the very few players that are consistently churning out great stats season in season out. The likes of Aguero, KDB, Modric, Chielini, VVD, Ramos, Kante Neymar, Cavani Suarez, Ibrahimovich, De Gea, Lloris, Mbappe, Salah, etc led by Messi and Ronaldo who occupy the very Top.) won't class the likes of Pogba, Vardy, Auba, as World Class,they might be close but they ain't.

On the other hand. The word LEGENDARY IS RELATIVE! A player does not necessarily have to be world class to be a Legend. Even Green Forest FC(smiles) have their own Legends. Legendary status can be achieved via Loyalty, No of years of service, contribution etc. It can be attained either at club level or international level. Some players are lucky to have both. Bobby Charlton, Pirlo, Maradona, Pele etc

Morgan, Vardy, are Leicester Legends but not world class, Keshi, Mikel are Nigeria legends but not world class!

I hope this proposition and examples will help resolve various misconception and also save us from series of back and forth arguments.

Afobear:
Why call me to this Sunken place where all you old men do is drink beer and talk about your averageeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee frauds you calm players ? Is Iheanacho Nacho pigmouth still better than mbappe and a hybrid of Messi ,Cavani and Ronaldo ? Drunks

andrew444:
those are the only 2 players in your team who are not average ,they are more than average ,I can even call both of them world class

The rest of your players are average and some of them are even below average

EOD

edi287:
Osimhen had a better season overall. Awoniyi ended the season in a strong note sha.

tbaba1234:
Osimhen is on the main list.

edi287:
Oya show us where he said "Kayodeinzaghi" and "Abdulzidane Ajagun" should've made this AFCON squad.
You guys will just be looking for unnecessary trouble. All he has been arguing about is the exclusion of Awoniyi and whether you like it or not - it IS a valid argument.

R2bees:
So Rohr has not received salary since December 2018. Ahh!!

forgiveness:
What is Junior Ajayi doing on the list?

Is he better than Awoniyi this season?

Oasis007:
The List!

gamaliel9:
Looking at that French team eeee...most of them play first team football in France....checkout '' transfermarket.com'

Again most are Africans...West and North Africans to be precise

This under 20 is really for young professionals not even for academy players oooo

realpoacher:
So nobody is even discussing about the U-20 list tbaba posted. ...?

Na wa o


My own is want to know how many foreign based players made the list?

Icon79:
I concur 100%, especially with him playing in the championship. Is he getting game time? How has he performed with Boro?


O pari

Icon79:
Has anybody been monitoring Mikel's games in the Championship? Is he still good enough or is he gonna get an invite because he's John Obi Mikel


O pari

Danielnino00:
"Black as charcoal"
Smh!

they are Africans!

tbaba1234:
Chinonso Emeka of Brookehouse Academy in England.. Pacy Striker.. One of those who made the final 21.

Some of the truly young boys to look out for.

Kog45:
Hmmm,not a Nacho fan but i remember we almost dropped Musa from SE before WC on this thread.

If Rohr can turn him around then why not.

forgiveness:
Why don't you just correct and let us see how the English was wrong?

do4luv14:
sir Andrew don get costumer

andrew444:
Whose African lb was better than taiwo then ?

AngryNigerian22:
Let get this straight, pant stealing /Ritualist saga that rock Nigeria recently start from Edo.

talking about yahoo Yahoo Edo state is the capital of yahoo yahoo in Nigeria 99% of Benin boys are G-boys that's is a fact.

but I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about how your sisters bring disgrace to Nigeria.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erq8b0T_QZo

forgiveness:
If a player wins African player of the year, is he not the best African player in the world?

If you can answer this question then I will answer you.