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Oh yes I wanted to bring that to your attention earlier. But hey the Nigerians either side remained in bench. You would have regretted the trip...

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And Adeyemi was not listed I think

komekn:
That will be good.

I couldn't make the Burton Albion Vs Ipswich game in my eagerness I over booked myself.

we don too make fun of them.. magic EPL but nothing to show for it.. so yes dey don vex. should they come good eventually, they really do deserve it. dem don put blood, sweat, in fact everything to football development. make dem carry go. cherish the trophies.

PDPGuy:
They and Brazil are the only countries to win both trophies in the same year. Folks should watch out for the 3-Lions as from 2020. The combo of their present U-17 and U-20 will cause ripples in world football.

ahaha.. why u no tell us Awaziem don already dey the list -- OwnGoal style.

safarigirl:
you no know say I dey follow Awaziem talk?

He said "dreaming". So yes, not a bad idea to dream.
But first, just perform

terzurum5:
Nwobodo: I Can Make Super Eagles World Cup Squad

https://i2.wp.com/www.completesportsnigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171026_203758_567x400.jpg?fit=567%2C400&ssl=1

Ujpest of Hungary midfielder Obinna Nwobodo is not ruling himself out of a shock spot in the Super Eagles squad to the Russia 2018 World Cup, Comple tesportsnigeria.com reports.


Nigeria qualified for a third straight senior FIFA World Cup after claiming an impressing 13 points in five African qualifying Group B matches, leaving Zambia, Cameroon and Zambia behind.


Nwobodo won the Nigeria Professional Football League title with Enugu Rangers before leaving to join Hungarian top flight club Ujpest in 2017 where he has since become a regular.


“I want to be consistent as am dreaming World Cup 2018. Why not?” Nwobodo, who has not featured in any Super Eagles World Cup qualifier, tweeted.


Nwobodo, 20, represented Nigeria at the CAF U-20 Cup of Nations in 2015, where he helped the Flying Eagles win the trophy. He however missed the U-20 World Cup in the same year due to a serious injury.


He has played 12 Hungarian top flight games for Ujpest this season, bagging two assists.

www.completesportsnigeria.com/nwobodo-can-make-super-eagles-world-cup-squad/

No tell us inside sources informed you and we will so gladly believe.

safarigirl:
I hate to say "I told ya...." (No, I don't )...but, I did say the list for our upcoming games would be out latest next Tuesday and camp would be open Friday.

I always predict the release of the list rightly

Looks credible from the translation. Funny no news on his progress since then (April 2017). How about the link of a loan move to a fourth division side.

tbaba1234:
http://www.record.pt/futebol/futebol-nacional/liga-nos/boavista/detalhe/campeao-do-mundo-a-chegar.html

I already covered what you just now said. Read my previous comments again.

As regards Olanare's stats. He had scored on August 9th. And the Cameroon tie was September 1st. Also, prior to the Cameroon tie, he appeared in CSKA's matchday squad consistently since the start of the season. He was not pulled off the bench, 3 times out of 8 times. Meaning he played 5 times and scored once. Bad comparison with Ejide.

Real bad reporting

Kog45:
Yea very okay to make recommendations but not bad recommendation.

I can tell u anyone that recommend Aaron to Rohr did not wish Nigeria well,pls check d guy stats this season,pls forget physical, what is bad is bad and funny enough d guy did not measure up in camp.

If u check Aaron stats then u w agree Ejide too can make it,we can doubt d source but is possible.

So England holds the U17 and U20 crown eh?.. una doh o
una don too try for football from the early days. una deserve am
Let's see if you will take that momentum to Russia.

okay send a link my way please

tbaba1234:
A fourth division club

I agree. Please can you do a search for all the players for those three U17 classes, those that were involved in the qualifiers and later the Africa U17, and are also making progress in their careers?

Make your recommendations and I will add them. Thanks

joseph1013:
Once you turn pro, it doesn't matter what players passed the MRI. For instance, the 2013 set should not be all about the World Cup, it should include those who played the U17 qualifiers and those who went to the Africa U17. Thus, a player like Ndidi should be included, and many others.

They are all boys of Manu Garba and he will always be seen as the one who gave them as a gift to the nation.

Loan to where? Any official source on the signing? I couldn't pull it up when did the search. Only read of his trials with Rio Ave, and then Boavista.

tbaba1234:
Lazarus has been signed by Boavista.. He is currently out on loan

cc: Joebie..

Professional reporting don't call for questioning sir. These journalists need to be true to their profession. They need to step up.

terzurum5:
Do not call it quack news yet. Follow the source of the news item. The personality behind that news item is reachable. You can send him a mail.


It's too early to call every thing quack.

Cheers!!!

It's okay to make recommendations biased or not. The job of the coach is to look at the recommendations if he wants and ascertain if they are good ones or bad ones. Aaron Samuel would never have got near the SE camp if not that he was pulled off from the standby list to replace a player. Olanare was probably pushed for because he was physical (for Cameroon tie), yet Rohr never named him (bad recent stats) in the main list -- not yielding. It was said Olanare did not impress, and since then he never got a recall -- fair decision. Let's not cry foul over nothing. It's a big lie that Rohr was considering recalling Ejide. We had a goalkeeper crises, granted, but why fabricate crazy news from that situation? From my checks, Ejide last played professionally in the Israeli top-tier in May 2015. Come on now, what coach will consider a 33 year old netminder for serious business, a player who has hardly been between the sticks for 2 years running. Tell that story to the kids.

Kog45:
Don't u know some guys came into d team through agents when Rohr was new and it's still happening coz Aaron Samuel invitation still a puzzle to me.

If Aaron can make it why not Ejide,but funny enough Ejide lack d same confidence and composure that a lot believe is d problem of Akpeyi,I can tell anybody that Ezenwa and Ajiboye are better keeper than Ejide.

Recommending Ejide not Aiyenugba should tell u a lot are running d show behind Rohr.

If Enyeama w not make it,then we should concentrate on what we have,Akpeyi,Ezenwa, Ajiboye, Uzoho, Alampasu, instead of going back to Ejide.

I believe with more matches before WC things w take shape.

Well the Tammy story is their story. They could as well have said Tammy makes a U-turn or is considering Nigeria after Nigeria qualified.
That's why you have tabloid journalism, and you have serious news sources. Some Uk sites are as bad as ours. So it's not just a Nigerian thing. We just need to categorize these news outlets. Even in the US we also have many cases of tabloid journalism. And many intelligent people don't care about what those papers or sources say.

But here we run with everything in our media, and we argue about it to the high heavens. Remember I called OGN, Nigerian football version of Ikebe Super. I'm sure you know what I mean.

Mujtahida:
Don't expect this journey men bloggers posing as sports journalist to live up to the high standards of news collation and reportage like the link you posted. But the question remains who we gon believe now since skysports is not within our own sports new reporting domain

lol. Read this link below. Pay attention to the headline, and look at the quotes. Is the choice of words in the headline appropriate with Tammy's quote?
That's what I call professional reporting. Even in the body, there is no insinuating stuffs.. Just say it as it is.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/12016/11074452/tammy-abraham-calm-over-reported-nigeria-interest

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Then when it comes down to analyzing that's where expert analysts come together with their opposing opinions, or they posts their own opinions which dont always agree with each other. The public can choose to go with any opinion of the analysts. But here, what he have is when somebody is SEEN to be credible just because of their association, we take everything they say as final.

Mujtahida:
Omo so na which news we go believe now?

lol.. in life we choose to believe what we want to believe. Many people discard what does not support their beliefs, and hold strongly to what supports it. It's a choice.

forgiveness:
There's no smoke without fire.

You've made a very good point. The best leaders ask for inputs from their subordinates. Which is why companies ask workers to put in their suggestions for improvements. It does not in anyway mean the boss is not good enough. The fact is there is always at least one thing to learn from everybody.

Mujtahida:
That's just it. That's why I object to saying he is tactically deficient. I don't understand how we reason. A goalkeeper let's in a goal : we cry he's no good. An attacker misses a goal: we cry he's a disaster, a defender makes a mistake, we shoot him down, a coach loses a match we say he's technically deficient. And this baffles me because Buffon let's in goals, Messi misses sitters, Alaba was skinned by Mbappe and Onyekuru suffered Dani Alves. Conte, Gaurdiola Mourinho still lose matches, make tactical errors etc. The point is that until someone is a regular failure or low performer, just one or two errors should not warrant a tag to be pinned on them.

You see this are not the diamonds in the rough @your earlier statements. Villa Boas- I presume - didn't go saying that the Porto Coach was technically not savvy. I used to work with a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. I suppose that many of us in our professional and business lives have worked with people to whom we made suggestions and inputs regularly but that doesn't mean we'd say they aren't knowledgeable because the fact is the many of them are highly cerebral and knowledgeable.

So to say Rohr should have done like this or like that is acceptable but to say he's technically deficient(when he's done barely over one year) is unacceptable to me. And for the record I'm not saying either that Rohr is technically savvy. I'm saying the jury on him is not yet out. At least by this time next year we can sound him out on whether he's technically savvy or not.

lol u sef dey follow quack news

forgiveness:
This is one of the reasons I said man no man na em people dey take enter national team.

If this report is true then someone should please tell me how can a free agent and one who is without a club for two years like Ejide gets a call-up before Dele Aiyenugba who won the league for his club just two or three seasons ago and is still very much active, huh?

I believe those Nigerians with Rohr are the ones given him names of Nigerians playing abroad because I presume he knows nothing about Nigerians abroad.

I read the report of what Swansea coach said as regards the Tammy issue. Also recently too what the England U21 coach said. The assumptions made by these journalist can also be made even by a lay man from the sequence of events. If they can't quote the member of the NFF, then why say it? After all Pinnick himself have come out directly to say stuff about the issue. I see no reason why any of the NFF's officials will be scared to be quoted. When we wait and see and let's say the switch to Nigeria is done, what will you say then? Will you admit Okomi and Nkoro were just spreading fake news? Owngoal had quoted the spokesman of NFF and we know who that person is.

So yes let's wait and see. If I'm not vindicated, I will admit I was wrong.

tbaba1234:
Well, some Journalists are close to the action and are fairly reliable. I think Okomi and Nkoro are fairly reliable sources.

okay good that's a better approach.

People should stop coming with fake news. Journalists are very much like us with opinions, until they quote a credible source it's still an opinion.

tbaba1234:
Well, let's wait and see..

"but we can’t reveal it now just the same way I can’t tell you the name of the players we plan to hold talks with before the end of the year”
That was what the spokesman was quoted as saying..

What does the later part of the quote suggest to you?

tbaba1234:
Insinuation that 'we know where we stand with Tammy"... That could mean anything..

No I don't.. Is he more than a journalist?

safarigirl:
you don't know Kelechi Nkoro? Lol

"According to him" good! .. who is Kelechi Nkoro? lol

Just recently a member of NFF insinuated the Tammy switch is still on course. I don't believe any story if a credible source is not quoted. I want to hear from the horse's mouth.

Magink:
No it wasn't, the NFF president also informed kelechi Nkoro (well according to him) that Tammy agreed initially I think the FA made do a U-TURN, it was on Twitter as well

lol as if they will put the source in kirikiri. Everybody want's to be anonymous, and they want us to run away with the story. haha
FAKE NEWS

Mujtahida:
Our psuedo journo guys are still using this outmoded line 'an independent source, an anonymous source etc' in this age of fake news and media hype. You gave me that FFT link. Those guys will mention names even on highly sensitive and controversial matters like for eg when they wrote about Narco funding for football in Colombia during the time of Pablo Escobar. But our own will never mention names.

Sammy Ameobi scored today. In a couple days time, I will bring to you this week's report on Nigerians in the Championship

Yes and it was nothing more than just an opinion anyways.

Magink:
Temisan Okomi reported this news first, on his Twitter handle.

lol
They said he came to watch Tammy.

solonnachi:
England's coach Gareth Southgate is presently watching Arsenal and Swansea match at the Emirates stadium. He's trying to watch Tammy Abraham & Jack Wilshere before he releases his squad list for the friendlies against Germany & Brazil. Presently, Swansea are a goal up. I think he'll be impressed. Bye Bye Tammy.

mtcheew..
Let's go a few pages back for the most credible update on this Tammy issue.

Humility017:
that Paul Clement is a bad coach...hope he gets Shakespeare' treatment someday...


Threat From Swansea City Coach Paul Clement Made Tammy Abraham Deny Nigeria


Anglo-Nigerian striker Tammy Abraham would have started the process of his international switch to Nigeria from England where he is a youth international, if not for the intervention of Swansea City coach Paul Clement .
Abraham met with the president of the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) at Wembley after Swansea City’s game against Tottenham Hotspur last month and in truth agreed to switch allegiance to Nigeria.
The NFF went ahead to post pictures of the player and president Amaju Pinnick who was quoted as saying they have already applied to FIFA for his switch of allegiance to Nigeria from England .
That piece of information according to one of the aide of the president of the NFF caused panic in England, where Tammy is a youth international and was waiting to be called up to the U21s the next week.
” The moment the story went up on the NFF website, hell was let loose in England, his agent and parents were put under severe pressure by the English football authority, with the player not left out as well “, he told Owngoalnigeria.com.

source:owngoalnigeria.com

Akinjide Idowu plays in Moldovan first tier. He has not played since December 2016. Career not looking good at the moment. No injury report either.

John Lazarus: the last I heard of him was trials with Rio Ave and then Boavista back in 2016. There was no report about him joining either.

Icon4s:
Where is John Lazarus?

What of Akinjide Idowu?

Many people with many opinions. It's normal in life.

TheGoodJoe:
The judgment goes to the approach on the field. Even if Rohr had ten tech assistants, we can not deny the fact that in the game against South Africa, there was deficiency in the reading of the game. Also some of our team play and coaching shows gap in the depth of our technical play.

Unless proven otherwise from our games, I will opt for a sound tactician to join the crew. My pick remains Amunike.

lol

ChrisKels:
Isis threatens to disrupt Nigeria vs Argentina
friendly match in Russia on November 14 - See
more at: https:///DnC7FR

Well I understand your argument. I'm just telling you the context I had when I decided to put the list together from the onset. It does not in anyway hinder the progress of the likes of Ndidi. I'm just explaining to you what I had in mind because considering all the players that took part in one way or the other towards qualification would require an extensive research . I'm keeping it strictly to those who participated at the world cup, because most of the time our eyes are on them to make progress after their excellent showing at the World Cup. So the likes of Ejaria, Ndidi don't come in.

Jacob Njoku? YES. Thank you for the correction. I will modify accordingly.

ChrisKels:
As long as they partake in the qualifiers(the afcon u17),they are youth exponents of their respective sets. Hence, add Ndidi and also Jacob Njoku