Against African opponents haha
Anyways at least u are honest enough to call them grade C coaches

jihday:
true, at least most of these grade C European coaches have proved they can get us playing decently against African opponents, at least I’ll take that over what we got with Eguavoen Siasia and Oliseh

Upgrade to Peseiro?

Mod
Portuguese div 2

jihday:
won Spanish division 2 twice won Romanian league Afcon bronze, not a huge profile but if you can appoint Finidi and also have Amunike name whispered around the job then this is several steps an upgrade

Let him come and we will see.

mekabuachi:

Give the man his flowers Biko... the fact he lost only twice out of 24 games, winning 14 and drawing 8 is a decent CV to me

The problem is that we are a defeated people. Healthy pride is when you know your worth and make decisions with a healthy sense of self worth. Foolish pride is dragging with South Africans and Ghanaians that you are better than them, but your decision making shows inferiority complex

You will get what u pay for.

elyte89:


A proven one will cost us more …I doubt if nff can go for any coach dt will demand above $50k monthly


Conceicao is a $50k monthly coach

Come back and tell me when Cameron has struggled to qualify for WC besides Russia 2018. WC is like their birth right. I will attribute it to their spirit during those qualifiers. Granted they are shitty at the WC proper.

mekabuachi:


loosing only 2 games out of 24
And winning 5 out of 6 wcq for Cameroon
That's massive!!!

See it above. Certainly not good enough.

I’m not against a foreign coach. But if u gonna get one get a proven one.

elyte89:



His cv is not dt fantastic but I guess d only thing going for him is d record here in Africa with Cameroon 🇨🇲.

I see a lot short gigs. Several backwater league titles. And an AFCON bronze several of our indigenous coaches have matched or even bettered.
Just a journey man experienced but lacking the profile good enough for a country like Nigeria. We can do far better.

I will like to check his profile as a coach. Has anyone? Or no one cares to be cause he is white?

humility33:


They should be fast about it to give him time to get used to the players

💯

TheGoodJoe:


Captain or no Captain, Musa was clubless and had no reason being invited. That is far worse than inviting Taminu. At least Taminu was not clubless and why should a player without a club remain captain?

The call ups is not the only factor for some of their failures. If it was, Keshi won’t have been successful.

How about Shehu?
Wasn’t Sadiq’s invite questionable? White coaches have their preferences too.

Napoleon55:

Rohr,Peseiro or any other foreign coaches wouldn't have called up all those jokers that Finidi invited in place of better defenders in Europe,at least.
Not that is a garantee that foreign coaches will give us success but local coaches are less trust worthy especially when it comes to corruption.

Siasia is my most preferred local coach,with five years contract,Siasia will give us at least one AFCON.

Like I’m defending Finidi. It’s the belief that any white coach will just take over and succeed that stinks for me.

elyte89:


But it’s obvious dis job is bigger Dan finidi ,I tot he could handle d pressure dt comes with d job,but I was wrong.his aura sef doesn’t ooze confidence like someone who is ready to take charge

Let’s follow the money o. Tanimu next?

ChrisKels:
🚨🚨| BREAKING NEWS: Super Eagles and Enyimba FC's goalkeeper, Ojo Olorunleke has completed a move to Sudanese club, Al Merrikh Omdurman 🇸🇸 on a 2-year deal .

What is your thought 💭 🤔?


This one dun use super eagles cash out.

Nothing special. Our mediocrity making Rohr look special. This is same Rohr that looked clueless for the later part of his 5 year reign with us

Katcall:
How do you see that benoise side coached by rohr

It’s pathetic when majority think by just employing a white TA, we will qualify. Na colonial mentality be that. Most times you will get what you pay for.

lol ehen na if he is not looking at the big picture but busy settling scores, he be problem #1 na

daveP:
Then that one no be tackling again ma, Joe. 😹😹😹

It means he's the problem that needs to give way😹

Not with WC qualifiers in view. The first step to tackling a problem is to get yourself out of the way.

daveP:
I see the talk of captaincy as him trying to push out senior guys. Cos of all things to start a fresh journey, that's what you wana talk about? His moves on this chessboard are all amateurish in sincerity. Na him sabi sha.

That’s the issue we are tackling na.

It’s a combination of factors.

mostob:


On serious note, those players didn't play as if they want to go to world cup sha.

I think we were experimenting with our defense. Was Ekong not really fit? We talking of the AFCON mvp.

daveP:



That's what i kept insisting on. He's been there all the while, why did things now take a dive when he took over? Shows man himself na chilled Oliseh of sorts. Aside his lack of philosophy.

The Sports ministry wanted Amuneke. The NFF stuck with Finidi.

Now that conversation may be replayed if the presidency doesn’t intervene. Or the NFF may just have their way for a foreign coach this time.

Goke7:


The Sports ministry had good intentions by picking Finidi cos I watched the video where the minister was charging the boys before the SA game to go all out that they intentionally didn’t appoint a coach they don’t know to take over perhaps the idea was to retain some good learning from Afcon since Finidi was assistant coach to Paseiro, remember we heard reports that the sports minister wanted to retain Peseiro. Honestly Finidi has more blame than nff or the sports ministry

The sports ministry will have their way if they insist on Amuneke

Napoleon55:

It's not going to happen,
from one local coach to another? NFF won't do that.

E get wetin make am no shit for body for school. Go find out. The players don’t learn to be professionals at their clubs. They have to be professionals or there would be consequences.

The problem is here at home and how we run things. These players also see an irresponsible NFF. Nobody sets good examples in the home front. It’s a free fall. Everybody do anyhow

Mod
So when your 14 year old see u dey shit for body, he go shit too kpruaaaa

mostob:
If your 14 year-old boy come back from boarding house begin shit for body, who people go blame?

Your children go boarding house dem behave themselves. When Dey come house, they misbehave. Who you go come blame?

mostob:
As we're here debating about sacking Finidi or not, let's not forget the player factor too. This set of players lack the drive, zeal and passion we expected them to have. Imagine arriving camp two days to the first match. Time for training, Dem go carry phone and MP3 dey form.

Imagine the rubbish the so called pros were serving us. Something they dare not do at their respective clubs. Like I said earlier, the players must show they need the world cup ticket more than anything else.

You said “mainly”. But u for apply same logic for ur write up na if e for make sense.

codemaniacs:


There are many companies that consists mainly of 1 tribe or at worse 2 tribes.

Many state governments consists mainly of 1 tribe.

Someone listed many factors and u are basking on tribalism. Show me one company, ministry etc that doesn’t have other tribes besides the big 3. Yes there is not tribalism in the land.

codemaniacs:




If there was corruption, godfatherism, tribalism, favouritism, nepotism then Finidi would have never gotten the S.E job it will be Ndubuisi Egbo that would have gotten the job..

if there was tribalism then the N.F.F will be filled with mainly Igbos, Yorubas and Hausas

if there was tribalism then the S.E would have topped the group because the Igbos, Yorubas would have done everything to ensure their foreign born players are capped.. how would Eze, Tella be invited and not capped that is madness..

if there was tribalism then the S.E would have a playing pattern because most of the players will come from one ethnic nation and would understand each other better the same way the Catalans helped Spain win the Euros and World Cup and created a playing pattern that the whole of Spain has adopted and integrated if it was Nigeria another ethnic nation would have rubbished and talked down on the pattern..

if there was tribalism then the S.E would play as a unit because most of them will come from the same academy..

the only way S.E can do well is for both government and private sector to invest in training facilities... that's the way France gets people from different cultures to blend and play well and they also maintain the Coach Deschamps that took them to finals...

You cannot get people from different cultures who don't train together often and don't have a playing and coaching pattern to dominate games they will have to play Mourinho or Simeone pattern of football..

If I pick a team based on corruption, godfatherism, tribalism, favouritism, nepotism and with foreign born players then my starting 11 will be:

Karim Adeyemi as LSS
Elijah Adebayo or Osimhen as CF
Lookman as CAM/SS
Saka as RW/RSS ( if he wasn't capped by england ) or Amoo regardless of his issues.
Onyedika as CM
Tijani or Onyeka as DM
Osho or Udogie as LB
Alaba as CB
Akanji or Ekong as CB
Ola Aina as RB
Okoye as GK

Who be the old guards o?

jieta:
We just need to win all our matches, because i don't see South Africa going six matches unbeaten, even Rwanda and Benin don't have the mental strength to do that it's never over until is over.

Finidi should invite the old guards our back line lack experience.

Efe Ambrose dey gbadu ur post.

MallamSpicey:
Omo if someone woke me up and told me the Super Eagles of Nigeria are dragging second to last position with Zimbabwe in an expanded world cup group that has teams like Lesotho, Rwanda, and Benin republic...I would have slapped the person for such insult and gone back to sleep thinking it was all a dream. But here we are, this is our reality in 2024.

Honestly this calls for an emergency situation in our football, Tinubu has to get involved and implement some tough decisions right now before it gets worse. Left for me, i no send person papa so I'm a firm advocate of overhauling 80% of this team, call up any fringe player(s) out there who will give his word and bond to fight till the last to salvage our world cup hopes, then such players should be made national heroes. I'm all for calling back or even begging veteran players like Victor Moses, Balogun, Ighalo and any other active player to come back and save us in our remaining games. These current set of guys apart from Osimhen and Ekong just don't have that rugged Naija never-say-never in them, these ones are IG models and banger boys on Twitter.

All hands must be on deck to make sure we win our remaining games and at least make the playoffs where we can decide our fate. NFF must send their best delegates to beg our veteran players who have retired to come back and make history for themselves! We are in a football crisis right now.

Very true. Think Senegal.

Our stupidity will always come back to bite us. Make we continue the Owambe and tribalism

komekn:


Unfortunately while we were in deep sleep corruption, mediocrity, godfatherism, tribalism, favouritism, nepotism, ineptitude, incompetence took over our NFA now NFF.

We must realise that while we were in a deep comotose sleep other nations , were wide awake building up their football ⚽ development. Andbsime have left us behind or are now able to compete.

Top level entertainment football is still being played at the highest levels.of football ⚽ just not by us sadly and UNFORTUNATELY.

Oh 7 my bad. It still looks bad.

minfelix:

they are on 7points now..thats 4points ahead of us

Let’s just accept our fate. After the Olympics go for a proven Herve Renard and plan for the next AFCON and WC

I no get hope again I was thinking SA would slip today. Those boys will never look back.

Goke7:
;

You be get hope before? Una Dey try o, I no get that kind mind

South Africa will lead Nigeria 5 points at the end of this round. We are in trouble