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Improve Aguero?

TheGoodJoe:
The truth is that you know little about Pep, that is why you can utter fraud. People who understand the depth of work it took to Transform City to one of the best passing teams in Europe, will not utter fraud.

Also those who understand the kind of work to improve a World Class striker like Aguero will not call Pep a fraud.

Pot dey call kettle black eh.. see your monicker.

wayodude:
To me Pep is a Fraud. A false prophet. Who exactly has he trained? Please someone say Messi so I can finish you. Lol

We are talking player development now.

komekn:
Be aware that even if you are doing wonders in the Belgium league it may not translate to top quality. The Belgium league us ranked number 8 in Europe even lower by other assessments.

Make una leave TheGoodJoe oh. @ bigblangston I can't wait for this drills talk to die down. Iheanacho was class in his own right when he joined City. And we will give the boy all the credits should he excel in Leicester.

But nothing wrong with saying Pep played a part in his development. In life even bad experiences make you stronger. If Iheanacho later comes back to say Pep helped him, let's accept it. If he says Pep almost killed his career, let's also accept it. So let's wait to hear from the horse' mouth.

kennysville:
Of what use is endless learning and no opportunity to showcase what one has learnt? Who wants to keep studying without putting the knowledge acquired to use?
Once again, the ultimate in every game is to score more goals than your opponent. However u achieve that is immaterial. If you like, use tongue to push the ball in the net. So long as it satnds as a goal and helps the cause of your team. End of story

Training methods in an age where football is now business is the least one should worry about. If i as a coach I am sure to get a goal or two every match from a player, why try to change or genetically modify him into something he is not? Suddenly, goals arent enough abi? The season is just a couple of days away. Man City had beta be beating every team they meet by as much as 6 nil. Otherwise, na dat time my own quarell go start! Because I go so yab whoever comes in here to speak guardiolanese here. They had beta win champions league join. At least. And to buttress their point for selling iheanacho, he had beta not score more that 10 goals in this comin season. Only then can Guardiola be vindicated. Bald buffoon!

you are right! I don't even follow French league anymore, for obvious reasons. Well well with Awaziem, and the recent BIG move, I will be watching. I expect Neymar to leave up to expectation. He is an experienced player, already one of the best in the world, and still getting better.

ChrisKels:
Do a proper research, Lorient was relegated with Moukandjo and Waris to ligue2 last season.

Why Super Lig over Ligue 1?

AC Milan Oduamadi Keen On Joining Turkish Side Goztepe, Shuns Lorient
August 3, 2017018

AC Milan Nigerian forward Nnamdi Oduamadi is hoping on a switch to newly promoted Turkish Super Lig side Goztepe despite interest in his services from Ligue 1 side Lorient.

The Turkish side have also stepped up their pursuit of the forward after hearing of his desires to join them ahead of Lorient, who have not backed up their interest with a formal approach.

Oduamadi is also courting interest from teams in Italy as he has been told by AC Milan that he is not in the first team plans of coach Vincenzo Montella who has strengthened the club with top players this summer.

A loan move is what is presently on the card for the 26 year old, although AC Milan are willing to cash in on his services if a bid that meets their valuation of the player is met by interested teams.

Known for his pace, tricks and dribbles he has spent time on loan with the likes of Crotone, Torino, Latina, Brescia and his last loan spell was with Finnish side HJK Helsinki.

http://owngoalnigeria.com/2017/08/03/ac-milan-oduamadi-keen-on-joining-turkish-side-goztepe-shuns-lorient/

All the moves to Turkey are not bad. Some can be in the right direction development-wise, depending on where they are coming from.

The worst Turkish move so far is Lazio to Trabzonspor. -- ask Onazi.

Humility017:
we really need to start praying for our players.....they've begun to see the Turkish league...as their new haven...
so painful...same Turkish club have begin to eye mikel agu.....so sad
the Turkish league unlike the Belgian league is not that good for our players development

Europa League Qualification update

Chinedu Obasi's opener for AIK Stockholm has forced their battle against Braga to extra time with scores currently 1-1. The first leg in Stockholm also ended 1-1.

Obasi was subbed out in the 67th minute

QUICK FACTS:

Evkur Yeni Malatyaspor will compete in the Turkish Super Lig this season with THREE Nigerians:
1. Sincere Seth (19) -> Right Back
2. Okechukwu Azubuike (20) ->Central Midfield
3. Sunday Mba (28) -> Attacking Midfield

A look at LBA NPFL award winners and nominees for the year 2017
**Winners bolded**

LBA JULY NOMINEES
PLAYERS
Anthony Okpotu (Lobi Stars)
Sani Abbani (Gombe United)
Godwin Obaje (FC Ifeanyiubah)
Musa Newman (Akwa United)

MANAGERS
Duke Udi (Sunshine Stars)
Fidelis Ilechukwu (MFM FC)
Fatai Amoo (3SC)
Abdu Maikaba (Akwa United)

LBA JUNE NOMINEES
PLAYERS
Nyima Nwagua (Kano Pillars)
Anthony Okpotu (Lobi Stars)
Adesina Gata (ABS FC)
Musa Newman (Akwa United)

MANAGERS
Ibrahim Musa (Kano Pillars)
Gbenga Ogunbote (Enyimba)
Bala Nikyu (Wikki Tourists)
Chukwuma Agbo (Enugu Rangers)

LBA MAY NOMINEES
PLAYERS
Kingsley Eduwo (Lobi Stars)
Osas Okoro (Rangers)
Daniel Itodo (Plateau United)
Godwin Obaje (FC Ifeanyiubah)

MANAGERS
Yaw Preko (FC Ifeanyiubah)
Solomon Ogbeide (Lobi Stars)
Abdu Maikaba (Akwa United)
Chukwuma Agbo (Rangers)

LBA APRIL NOMINEES
PLAYERS
Alhassan Ibrahim (Akwa United)
Chinedu Udechukwu (Katsina United)
Yinka Onaolapo (Nasarawa United)
Anthony Okpotu (Lobi Stars)

MANAGERS
Abdu Maikaba (Akwa United)
Kenedy Boboye (Plateau United)
Yaw Preko (FC Ifeanyiubah)
Kabiru Dogo (Nasarawa)

LBA MARCH NOMINEES
PLAYERS
Stephen Odey (MFM)
Mfon Udoh (Enyimba)
Samuel Matthias (El-Kanemi)
Suraj Ayeleso (Nasarawa)

MANAGERS
Fidelis Ilechukwu (MFM)
Kabiru Dogo (Nasarawa)
Abdullahi Biffo (Abia Warriors)
Kadiri Ihana (Kano Pillars)

LBA FEBRUARY NOMINEES
PLAYERS
Sunday Adetunji (Abia Warriors)
Samuel Mathias (El-Kanemi)
Ernest Governor (ABS)
Moses Ebiye (Akwa United)

MANAGERS
Ladan Bosso (El-Kanemi Warriors)
Fidelis Ilechukwu (MFM)
Abdu Maikaba (Akwa United)
Abubakar Bala (Niger Tornadoes)

LBA JANUARY NOMINEES
PLAYERS
Stephen Odey (MFM)
Olatunbosun Sikiru (MFM)
Kabiru Umar (Plateau United)
Olufemi Thomas (Rivers United)

MANAGERS
Kennedy Boboye (Plateau United)
Fidelis Ilechukwu (MFM)
Gbenga Ogbunbote (Enyimba)
Henry Makinwa (ABS)

Warming up for SE

junnyjake:
Deportivo La Coruna Officially Unveil Ex Nigeria U-17 Goalkeeper Francis Uzoho
August 2, 2017


Former Nigeria U17 goalkeeper Francis Odinaka Uzoho was among the players unveiled by Spanish La-Liga side Deportivo La Coruna in a ceremony watched by Owngoalnigeria.com correspondent.
His unveiling means he is now officially a player of the first team, thanks to his sterling performances for the team during their pre season training, where he kept a clean sheet in the two games he played.
Tall, commanding and blessed with a fine grip, the 18 year old only joined the club last summer from Qatar based Aspire Academy, but his performances have now earned him a first team spot in just a year at the club.
Uzoho who represented Nigeria U17 in 2013 is now the third choice goalkeeper of the La-Liga side and it also means he will be the first choice shot stopper of the Reserve team who are campaigning in the second division in Spain.
Michael James

Hopefully the boy gets wiser going forward.

junnyjake:
Iheanacho's Father Is Not Different From That Of Neymar, But Not As Smart.

Much has been made about the father of Brazilian footballer Neymar who is on the verge of sealing a world record move to PSG for a fee in the region of £198m.
Various report has pointed fingers at his father as the one behind the player’s seemingly lack of loyalty to Barcelona, which has played a role in stalling his move to PSG.
However his father isn’t much different from that of Nigerian star Kelechi Iheanacho who is on the verge of sealing a £25m move to Leicester City from Manchester City , but a dispute over his image right between two agents has stalled his move.
Owngoalnigeria.com bring to you a piece from Wale Ajayi who is privy to information gathered from sources close to the player, and he revealed how Pa Iheanacho played a role in the impasse.
The Beginning: From 2013 to 2017, Kelechi Promise Iheancho has had five different agents. Starting from (a) Graham Daniel Heydon and his partner Chinedu, in which the father cashed in €5,000 (Five Thousand Euro), to (b) Femi Kingston Olaniran and World In Motion who assisted in paying the cost of laying to rest the late mother of the player – Mercy Iheanacho, who died of a mysterious sickness.
To (c) the American Henry Galeano and First Eleven Management whose financial commitment might be upped compared to others, (d) Raymond Hassey of the same sport company and now (e) David Manasseh and Stellar Group, the biggest sport agency in the UK.
Note: The two agencies in (d) and (e) are locked in litigation with Kelechi Iheanacho for over one and a half year.
James Iheanacho reminds me about the father of Lonzo Ball, La Var Ball (readers might do well to google him), so notorious and clever was James he maneuvered Graham refusing the FC Porto deal, refused to sign for Femi citing he was bereaved but allowed Kelechi and his uncle to sign, while Henry got his paper works tightly knitted and right.
When the player turned 18, the Raymond Hassey contract came in force, so also the conspiracies, intrigues, lies and greed that has since unsettled the player because he made himself somewhat an object only to be used.
Litigation Drama: For those who have inside knowledge of the transfer of Kelechi Iheanacho to Manchester City, there is a familiar figure a certain Robert Calvin Zanicky aka Bob, a Director at First Eleven Management who was invited to meet James Iheanacho by Dan Uni KaKwi (a diploma holder from the National Institute of Sport, Lagos and had his internship in the Technical Department of the Nigeria Football Federation, though on his facebook page (his dearest platform) referred to himself as former coach of National Under 15).

Source : owngoal Nigeria.

More Champions League updates

Cameroon's Onana and Ajax are about to be knocked out of Champs League qualification. At additional time, scores is 2-2. The first leg ended goalless. Nice of France, and Balotelli has the away goal rule advantage. Onana was in goal for the entire duration.

Game over

More Champions League updates:

Partizan Belgrade really mean business. They refuse to succumb away to Emenike's Olympiacos, despite losing their home tie.
Emenike still in bench, but Partizan has just leveled. It's 2-2. Olympiacos lead 5-3 on aggregate.

Mine must try out in EVERY sport.

Kelechi looks like a done deal. The last I read he is to pick a shirt number (72, 4 or 8 )

Nigerdeltaboi:
£500,000 per week for Neymar
who says my children won't play football ?
How far with kelechi's move ?

More Champions League updates

Aaron Samuel progress with CSKA Moscow after getting the better of AEK Athens 1-0 (3-0 aggregate).
CSKA coach did not introduce Olanare until the 69th minute.

Club Brugge and Dennis Bonaventure have been bungled out of the Champions League by Musa Muhammed's parent club, Basiksehir. Many thanks to "OLD" Emmanuel Adebayor, who scored and had an assist to his credit. Final Aggregate Score: 5-3.

Oh yes great we can go on with SA. They got everything right on that day!

junnyjake:
We're saying same thing here, but i'd go forward to say they had discipline in executing their tactics.

More Champions League Qualification News:

Ludogorets currently lead Ogu and Nwakaeme's Beer Sheva 3-0 in the second leg. Aggregate 3-2
60 minutes gone.

Update
Beer Sheva scores. 3-3 aggregate. Sheva has the upperhand on away goal rule. 63 mins gone

John Ogu miss penalty in the 86th minute. Still 3-3 aggregate. 5 minutes of added time.

Game Over: Beer Sheva progress by virtue of away goal rule.

Champions League Qualification

"OLD" Emmanuel Adebayor scores one and has an assist as Basaksehir runs riot at home to Dennis Bonaventures, Club Brugge. The Turkish League 16/17 runner-up, currently lead 5-3 aggregate, after a 3-3 draw away to Brugge in the first leg. 72 minutes played.

Bonaventure started and picked up a yellow in the 23rd minute. He was subbed out in the 56th.

okay good. Firstly, what we do is say what happened in the match -- match report -- We were outplayed (FACT). Secondly, we ask why did Nigeria do badly? was it because we did not have quality in the team? Was it because of our tactics? or a combination of both? Thirdly, What did SA do right? In other words why did they win? Was it because of quality in the team, or match tactics or a combination of both?

if we do it this way, we will have a balanced analysis.

So if your argument is that we had a team that was capable of beating SA. Then you will agree with me that it was our tactics. My earliest position on why we failed, which I still hold is that we lost the match at the midfield. The roles were not spelt out despite having midfielder who were all good in their own right.

Modified.
Why did SA win. They had a match strategy coming to the came. The executed it perfectly -- tactics

junnyjake:
Why were we outplayed??



The team we assembled against SA was good enough to beat them.

Even with Mikel, Moses and CO in the team, we played what we played against SA - playing without purpose then the Cameroonians would have it easy dealing with us.

Did you resolve the issue? Similar problem here. Unlock services in naija claim it is locked, but it really isn't. In my case, I had already activated it with a US SIM.
From my research the particular model of this iphone has restrictions to carriers with certain bands. Still, it should work in Etisalat(9 mobile) which has a 4G band of 3 -- but it didn't.

My last take on the calls for the oldies. Consider this scenario.

You are a new manager of the Super Eagles with no one to tell you which player is good or bad, or who have performed wonderfully well or badly in the past. With no knowledge of ANY Nigerian player. All you have is internet connection, and a wonderful database website, and of course youtube. And your most concern is recent statistics with videos. Who would you pick? Which players will make your first squad announcement?

With this scenario, I have cut out the possibility of sentiments. Let's see if our opinions will change.

I'm praying for you. You will be one of the biggest things ever in football!!! You and all the Golden Eaglets class of 2013 I pray the same.

jimmyiovine:
Medical passed. Announcement in next 24 hours

If you follow my comments very well you will see that i'm not calling for anything close to a 20% overhaul of the team. If those missing stars you mentioned led to our fall to a quickly put together SA team, that shows that we are deficient. Going forward we would need a solid bench that can keep the regulars on their toes. So in all, as Sir Komekn put it, lets pick the best. But my variant of his opinion is that it should be done gradually by selection, comparison, and substitution (where necessary).

Icon4s:
Yes. You are right.

They are just talks and also wishes.

But let me state one fact. That team is not lacking in quality to compete at this level.

Is it not the same team that beat Zambia in Ndola and the highly talented Algerian team in Uyo?

What was the difference against SA? Key senior players were not present. The team lacked a leader.

With the return of Mikel, Moses and Balogun you'll see the real strength of that team.

All these panic calls here and there are not necessary IMHO.

We just hope our key senior players will be back for the next game. The team is in transition and this transition should not be truncated because of just one loss.

Warri go say, players when fit worry like tse-tse fly. I feel you my brother.

It will depend on strategy oh. because sometimes Musa wayward oh. na just to run run. Even Success can worry, but at the end we will need someone to deliver. Moses Simon hmmmm. there are few suspects there. But truth is they will still make the team. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

TheGoodJoe:
This is not about better as in, better striker but the strategy we should adopt against Cameroun. The term I used is run riot. I do not see Emenike fitting that picture. In that term, I can think the players I want in camp.

Iheanacho, Victor Moses, Etebo, Onyekuru, Aluko, Simon Moses, Isaac Success, Ahmed Musa

Mikel and Ndidi is in midfield due to discipline and positioning but Onazi has a big case because he perfectly fits the run riot picture. Hope he stays discipline from now.

Emenike does not fit.

IF this IF that. They outplayed us. They could have scored 4 on that day (they hit the bar twice). We should have scored one, but they missed several. They had way more chances. Let's call a spade a spade.

junnyjake:
I thought we've moved on from our loss against SA?

We had every right to brag about our ability before that game, that's no arrogance,

We had the quality in our squad, we had confidence in their individual abilities and that is in no way, we trying to overestimate our strengths or over hype our players as many would have it.

What we lacked was a cohesive force in the team. Even without Ikeme, Mikel, Moses, Balogun, we could have won them easily, it's not as if they were too threatening with their attacking.

With the reports we had from the training camp, John Ogu regularly played at Centre back. This was just one out of the many experiments Rohr pulled off with the limited time he had with the players at camp and the friendly games we played.

Everyone of the players fielded that day was quality and if each of them played with the discipline required of them at the roles assigned to them then we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Well i was saying if we picked our "best" and it meant at least 50% change to the team list.

TheGoodJoe:
I can Stake heavy that we will top Cameroun in possession. Talk less of stringing three passes.

Anybody who knows me very well knows that i'm far from being sentimental in any giving topic. That said, I've never been a fan of Emenike, especially when he was donning the green white green. But the problem is, even at this moment we do not have a stand out forward besides Iheanacho and Moses. And I mean based on what they have shown on the pitch for SE. You make it seem like the youngsters are clearly ahead. If they really were, I would not even mention Emenike.

Modified
Overtime I would love to see the likes of Nura, Musa Yahaya, and even Sadiq Umar. Joel Obi as well. But the changes should be gradual

TheGoodJoe:
I am just being analogical to explain my point. Apart from some few changes, especially Aluko, I feel Rohr's list is spot on of our best players in every role. I hope Nura beats his injuries and I see him giving the left back role a good fight.

That is why I am using best because the call for the oldies sometimes is sentimental, devoid of the logic of selecting our best players in every role.

oga na.. Cameroon when don play together tire.. I fear you oh..

I fear we won't even be able to string 3 passes before losing the ball. You know individuality have been killing our football. Let's build slowly by selection and substitution. Getting your best players should not happen overnight or it will defeat the purpose. We must go Russia oh.

TheGoodJoe:
Means playing with our best players. We can not talk of a cohesive unit when we have had disjointed run of coaches in recent years. We just started building and it should be done with our best players regardless of Cameroun knocking.

If we have several friendlies lined up and about 3 months before our next game I will agree with you completely. Truth is even Rohr will not make much changes to the team. Barring those who were absent due to injuries we may have just one new face or none at all. It's not realistic to assemble the so called best and expect them to gel in time before Cameroon, especially as they would have just about a week to train together.
That's a riskier alternative.

TheGoodJoe:
We outplayed South Africa in the first half. Had the chance to tear them apart but our final balls failed us. So the talk of their experience did not count in that aspect. We just wasted our opportunity.

If Ghana wants to bring Abedi Pele, it is their business. What matters to me is the best Nigerian players in every role starting with us having a killer bench of the next best players. The experience history does not stand in this case.

It is not about if they have something to offer. It is about if they are better than what we have. If Rohr runs a stamina drill, will they stand out from the players we already have? Can they play at the intensity Rohr wants to play etc. If they can, let them in but I highly doubt it.

Well we have Cameroon knocking at our door. That's the context here.

TheGoodJoe:
I think cohesive unit still falls into sentimental selection. Coherency will come with time from selecting the best. At this stage we are still building and coherency will deter that effort. As soon as we find the best in each role, we will have the cohesive unit we need.

Apart from that point I agree wholeheartedly with your point.