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Lipscomb:
Soon we will write about rise and fall of saraki dynasty in Nigeria.

continue dreaming

Icon4s:
Dear terzurum5,
Now that Russia 2018 is over can we modify the title of this thread?


What do we think house?

Yes since WC is over

ABIOLAXYZ:
How well did u know Saraki

Okay you that know Saraki inside out,pls tell us something about Saraki.

slimfit1:
Sowore is coming for all of them.

Sowore ko Sowore ni

Icon79:
Bros, I think you just mis-read. I did not modify nothing. I have always been a big Siasia fan - both as a player and as a coach - and I have never liked Brown Ideye's game. He misses too many chances to be considered a good player.


O pari

Ok baba am damn sorry that post was for WAYODULE

Wrongly quoted you.

edi287:
Nacho's movement/mobility is surprisingly poor these days.

He need to raise his game this season.

BascoVanVeli:
Yes Nigeria has won world cups with strikers delivering when it mattered most. I must say that now I agree with Khan when he said that Nigerians overrate the super eagles. This leads us into trouble when things don't well.

You talk about Oliseh's goal but why are u not whining about Ndidi missing a closer effort WHEN IT MATTERED MOST? I tell you why because you already picked your scapegoat.

Yes i remember Oliseh goal against Spain at France 98 but the same Oliseh messed up against Italy at US 94 and till today watching the match still brings pain

As I said Rohr is to be blamed for our loss not the players. We have five minutes to finished the game but tactical mistake cost us.

All we need against Argentina was to bring in fresh midfielders to just run around the field and frustrate the Argentines.

Time to move on and learn from our mistakes cos Afcon is around the corner and remember we lost our first match at home against South Africa.

bengine:
Bro why are you making excuses for him...what about Musa that scored his first goal against iceland..wasn't that more difficult, controlling in mid-air then finishing..

The reality is that ighalos's miss was not a difficult one for a dangerous striker...the question you should ask is why didn't he use the inside of his legs to shoot for accuracy instead of just slamming the bAll...it just tells me he has zero composure..

If he thinks he can't score in mid air why not take one extra control then shoot..

I play this game bro and I understand the anxiety level at the world cup is high but part of being a seasoned professional is having that last second composure to finish not rushing it...well I guess he is just an average striker then..

Ighalo just an average striker not debatable and really pointed out the weakness of our entire team.

Thank God Musa raised his game,not happy with Iheanacho overall performance too.

Rohr need to put more searchlight on Nigeria players especially strikers.

Hope to see improved Iheanacho this season cos am seeing Awoniyi, Sadiq,and Osimhen coming for the role though depends on their performance this season..

Icon79:
Bro, I think we're saying the SAME thing. Read my comments again


O pari

My bad.

O''pari master i didn't know you already did auto modification on the post.

No wahala my man.

How is states.

Icon79:
Oh please! I think it's an insult to compare Brown Ideye (aka mister-miss-it) with the legendary Samson Siasia. And please don't even try to make that mistake again

That's all I gotta say ... for now


O pari

Sir you are not getting my point and on Siasia lost out to Amokachie not a news to me how it happened.

If Siasia is not different from Ideye then i surrender with due respect.

The Siasia i watched from 1985 to 1993 was far better than Ideye and very insulting to say Siasia is not different from Ideye.

Did you know as at 1993 Siasia was the third all time Nigeria highest goal scorer behind Yekini and Segun Odegbami.

Pls go and watch Siasia intelligent goal against Argentina at US 94 or asked Westerhoff why he find it difficult to drop Siasia from his squad especially starting XI at US 94.

My man,my submission on Siasia does not warrant stories on how he failed to pass to Yekini but telling how good he was playing behind top 9.

I will not deceive you personally i rate Siasia i watched between 1983-1993 than Amokachie i watched from 1990-1998 as attacking player behind top striker.

My opinion and submission.

edi287:
Ideye is a better target man than Ighalo. Infact both can play together.

Ideye behind any striker always remind me of Samson Siasia.

Siasia always brought the best in any top 9 ahead of him.Siasia gave Monday Odiaka the name and was instrumental to early rise of Yekini.

Ideye should have been a perfect replacement but really surprised he was left out by keshi after solid performance with Emenike and with his performance with Iheanacho, Rohr still don't rate him.

We just need to move on with the young ones coming up and hope Rohr get good rhythm for the team

wayodude:
Something similar also happened a few years ago with Nigeria. When we played Ideye and Emenike together they were unstoppable! But people complained about Ideye's lack of goals. The resulting pressure from the fans and media I believe led to Keshi dropping Ideye, and subsequently Emenike's goals dried up. AND NO ONE SAW THE LINK between Ideye's absence and Emenike's goal drought so we the knowledgeable fans proceeded to hound Emenike until he quit the team. We single handedly destroyed our AFCON winning strike force.

Clever aren't we?

God bless you Sir.Pls go and watch Zambia/Nigeria in Ndola and see Ideye and Iheanacho combinations but really surprised to see Ideye shut out of national team.

elyte89:
Dt 1st chance is well missed by proven strikers,most strikers miss such

I av only seen two strikers scoring such ,messi he scores dt very well


And surprisingly iheanacho too, I av seen him score in such a tight angle once b4,I don't knw if he can replicate such again sha

Yes Iheanacho would have scored it but the issue is that Iheanacho would not have got those chances cos Ighalo worked for it.

AIG07:
sometimes I FEEL Osimhen would have performed better than both Ighalo and Iheanacho at the World Cup. How these two became passengers, I'm still finding hard to understand.

I disagreed cos i watched him wella last season with Wolfsburg in few minutes appearances he made still a learner.

Hope to see Osimehn making the team regularly this season.

Let see how Awoniyi, Sadiq Umar,Olarewaju and him fare this coming season.

AIG07:
I don't know what would have happened had Rohr started Musa and Iwobi together against Argentina?

Yes you are right but Iwobi inconsistency is just the issue

Solid Iwobi would wreck any team but inconsistent Iwobi is an eye sore to watch.

elyte89:
Boss 4get,in as much as u and I dizzed iheanacho for a poor outing, even though ighalo was slightly better

I would still say dt ighalo shld av converted one of s two chances dt came to him, most especially d 2nd one,having said dt,let's look for another top 9 dt will slug it out with ighalo

Thank you.I will never blame Ighalo for first miss cos it's 50/50 but the second miss he messed up and should have done better.

edi287:
Giroud's hold up play was better than Ighalo. There's a reason Deschamps scrapped the Dembele - Griezmann - Mbappe front 3. Griezmann plays well when Giroud starts

edi baba Giroud play tire me for WC o.

tbaba1234:
Ighalo gets most criticism because he is the one that missed crucial chances. Yakubu had a great Nigeria career but many people can not forget his miss against south korea.

What is clear to me is that Nigeria needs new strikers. I hope Awoniyi, Sadiq, Dessers etc are given a chance. Ighalo should be gradually eased into international retirement.

Sir hope you remember Yekini miss against Italy, worst after Yakubu

Yekini and Yakubu miss were cleared cut chances that required a pregnant woman to score.

Do you see people criticising Yekini?NO and that miss was the saddest in Nigeria football history.

As you said good to see Awoniyi and Sadiq coming up.

deebsman1:
I just wanna ask one question on how much you know Kwara, do you live in Kwara or are you in Kwara, if you answers no to any of the 2 questions, then you know nothing about the state. Very soon, the truth will come out clearly and you people will understand better

Oh where are you now are you in Ilorin or where cos am presently in Ilorin and i know what am talking about.

I'm a kwara to the core, had my primary,secondary and university education in Kwara, worked in Kwara state for one of the federal parastatals for good 14 years and left the state for oversea for three years but at home spending my vacation.

Chairman i sabi kwara politics though not a politician and i know how it is run cos it is not done on the pages of newspaper or on social media.

Did you know that Ilorin(Iliorin west/east)constituted 45% of electoral value of kwara state while the remaining 55% belonged to kwara south and north.

Mind you Ilorin west and east which constituted 45% of Kwara electoral value will never leave Saraki no matter the pressures cos they always see him as a symbol and never doubt his loyalty.

My Oga i can tell you Kwara politics from time immemorial of Adamu Attah to this present era orally and when Buhari came down to Ilorin after the coup in 1985 i was one the children picked to receive him at Ilorin airport.

Sir,am not doubting you about your know how about Kwara politics but am not a push over though we may have different views.

tbaba1234:
See, let us not mince words. Ighalo has not produced as a striker. There is no way to get past this reality. Even before the WC, these concerns were raised. As a person, I like Ighalo because of his charitable deeds but as Nigeria's striker, he simply has not produced. And yes, if a striker misses two glaring chances in an important game, he will be a scapegoat. We played Ighalo friendly after friendly after friendly.. He simply did not cut it. Players make mistakes but Ighalo's barren spell for Nigeria has lasted too long. Agali and Yakubu also held up the ball but they scored goals so i do not understand this hold up play argument. Giroud has scored plenty goals for France.

Iheanacho's performance is no excuse for Ighalo. The reason why Musa and Iheanacho started the last two games was because the Ighalo option was not working. If Iheanacho missed two clear chances, he will be getting heat too.

After the first game, Ekong made mistakes but he played well in subsequent games. I pointed out Ekong's mistakes on this page. So saying, guys did not point out Ekong's mistakes is false. Omeruo was at fault for Argentina's first goal by the way. He got beaten on his blind side. If it is about blame, there is plenty to go around.

The penalty caused by Ebuehi. Ofcourse, Omeruo shares the blame.. Did you not see the replay? That does not exonerate Ebuehi by the way. It is not one way or the other. Both players made mistakes. if you are objective in this case, you will see that. That does not take away the fact that Omeruo had a MOTM performance in that game. That is a balanced view.

I think Rohr tried to reward the players that took him to the WC and was reluctant to change. He needed to select the best possible team. It took a loss to Croatia for him to change things around. Everyone knew our best system was 3:5:2 and that Elderson was finished. Anyway, i hope he learns his lessons as we move forward.

My point is why selective criticism.

Yes you are right,a good Ighalo would not have brought Iheanacho in but a solid Iheanacho against Argentina would not have brought Ighalo in.

I drew out my fear before WC about Ighalo and Iheanacho goal drought but some see it as comparison.

On Ebuehi penalty, have watched the replay and i know your point.Omeruo wanted to go for the ball but suddenly relaxed his movement and this brought a little bit confusion to Ebuehi but despite that Ebuehi should have done better.

On Ekong i knew he improved on his performance after Croatia but i know if it was Omeruo against Croatia with such performance some would have cursed him to high heaven.

isan:
Should the title of this thread not be changed now? Russia 2018 is over

Yes you are right

goldfish80:
It is called selective criticism. As much as Nigerians want to kill Ighalo for the infamous miss, the gospel truth is that the miss against Argentina will not rank inside the top 10 miss of the tournament.
off the top of my head, Lukaku, Thomas Muller, Keane, those Peruvian strikers had more guilt edge misses much more worse than Ighalos.

At WC i don't blame players much but coaches,too glaring Rohr was bereaved of ideas when it matter most and against Argentina all he needed was bring in fresh Onazi,Ogu or Joel to replace tired Mikel and Etebo and round up the game.

Westerhoff did this against Italy with Oliha and Adepoju to absorb the pressure and if not for Oliseh childish clearance we would have beat Italy.

Rohr need to update himself tactically by getting a quality assistants cos in the next 6 months enough talents for Nigeria national teams and only coach with tactical awareness w be able to handle those boys.

Rohr and Aigbogun have a lot of work to do tactically.

deebsman1:
Smart boy, he knows that leaving APC spells doom for him......he can't win a free and fair election in Kwara, forget all the online and newspapers rantings

Kai bros,Saraki na kwara and kwara na saraki.

Pls ask yourself this simple question, why is it there is no single PDP member as mere councillor(stand to be corrected) in Kwara state not to talk of state assembly.

Pls give it to SARAKI.

BascoVanVeli:
I don't think a lot of them can even play football let alone know what they are talking about. They can say what they want but the template has been set in gold, Giroud is a world champion with 0 shots on target in 6 matches. Even Gabriel Jesus did not receive half of the flack Ighalo got and he had miss after miss no goals in 5 matches.
I just don't feel real fans should act like that because the players are human like us they can also make mistakes. I am just happy that the guy didn't allow all that rubbish to destroy his confidence. Who would want to play on a team that mistakes are not allowed? Nigeria is not Brazil or Germany!! We have no right to even think about asking for perfection.

To be candid Ighalo failed and Nigerians always look for scapegoat and he fit the bill for missing the two chances.No matter the explanation you put in nobody is ready to listen,remember Ighalo is not popular and he failed woefully to correct that impression when it matter most.I remember seeing him being compared with Lokosa, just to tell you he wasn't rated.

Sir did you see anyone castigating Iheanacho poor playing at WC as Ighalo,that's it.Hope you are hearing Rohr didn't give Iwobi enough playing time whereas the same Iwobi was originally in Nigeria WC XI but a flop against Croatia but guess what he was played out of position as if not the same Iwobi of arsenal.

I remember a lot don't want to see Omeruo in Nigeria team preferring very average Awaziem and overrated Ekong but just too glaring Omeruo is better than the duo and thank God he made the team.

Ekong cost us Croatia match but did yiu see guys pointing this out.First goal he left his man and second goal he wrestled his man and caused the penalty.Good not Omeruo cos a lot would have criticised him with different names calling

I remember many flanks Aina received especially against Congo for the foul he commited which was even outside the box but when my talented Ebuehi gave out two glaring penalties against Iceland with one awarded,excuses arised to the point that some put the blame on Omeruo for the foul which should be Ebuehi responsibility.

I'm saying this to let you know that sometimes emotions override our football reasonings

Sir I think Rohr just need to change his style of managing the team if he want to succeed as eagle's coach.

Brian Idowu had a very average WC and it brought a question why did Echiejile made the team when Ebuehi came in for Idowu against Iceland when we have a natural LB in Echiejile on the bench then why was Aina dropped.

It would have been better to have young Aina on the bench just like we have Awaziem on the bench,meaning the dropping of Aina and Agu was wrong since Rohr lack confidence in Echiejile and Joel Obi.

I remember saying i hope Simy would not be another Nwofor at WC not doubting his talent but a striker that made WC just cos he had late run in Seria A and 7goals in a season and suddenly turned to a gold that we are looking for meaning something was wrong.

I'm one of Shehu advocates here but pre WC friendlies told us that Ebuehi should be a starter but surprisedly we saw Shehu against Croatia.The same Shehu that failed to exact himself against Argentina, England, Poland,Czech and even Congo.

I thought Rohr would rearranged his team with superlative performance of Ebuehi against Argentina with Aina as back up as RB/RWB cos they are better than makeshift Shehu and put Idowu and Echiejile who Rohr still believe in as LB and pushed Shehu to the midfield since he was even ahead of Agu in the same position in Buraspor and drop Joel but really surprised that Rohr failed to see this simple adaptive changes.

Sir do we need to blame any player?NO but Rohr who failed to identify his XI for WC and this started after our victory against Argentina in a friendly.I told icon4s that Argentina Victory would be our greatest undue and it manifested in series of our friendlies prior to WC.

I thought Rohr would continue with Argentina match XI and do highly tactical changes by replacing player who failed to meet up in subsequent friendlies but against Poland reverse was the case.

ChrisKels:
Our Academies are improving and gradually we are getting it right age wise. The previous ones found it so hard because most had passed their formative(learning) stages and even their primes when we paraded them as U17s.

Guy if u come to Diamond Football Academy umuahia, u will agree with me that we have some good Academies. At Diamond, ur original first school leaving cert is ur primary credential to get admitted, in fact they dont normally take students who aint in secondary schools unless u are extremely good, so no how u gonna doctor ur age and it has grades, hence u are placed where ur age falls. They already have a club in the Portuguese third division where they give their top talents that first European exposure to prepare them well.

shebi i dey talk am say only first school leaving certificate is the way forward to control age falsification.

MICHEALADEX:
I hope he won’t break his neck like Fayose Dino and olisa metu

Saraki is not a thug.He is too civilised for that nonsense.He always doing his things with sense and underrate him at your own perils.

thesicilian:
Which one is IARA again? Are they related to Iara Oshiomole?

Why you come steal my suppose comment "which one is IARA again"

Wiseandtrue:
Her 2 legs no equal?

Na dat k legs be issue o.

Kongi123:
The fact is that my visa was issued by Germany card which make me to fear,I first thought of it and i later realise I don't need to rush out of Dubai for now since am making money, with my little experience about traveling,Australia is not the type of country i can go with business visa which i know am going to hustle and for does who dat want to hustle am sure you will hardly survive it if you are not deported so fast,you can use that visa to fly your agent will provide you supporting documents which you will provide at the point of entry they hardly caught them but after you enter bro you are on your own please calm down and if you really want to travel for hustling try south Korea,Japan,Dubai etc,not everybody dat will travel to Australia bro we have alots of countries in the world that can help us archive our dream.

Why did you used fraudulent Germany card for Australia visa when you have UAE resident card as employee in UAE.

amanze54:
@ kogi thanks man, though am still working in Nigeria, I just want to travel and come back to my work and use that to Exterbished a travel history and connection , due to the nature of the uncertainty of my work, I just want to have a place out of Nigeria I can move to incase If I have problems for work and if my hussle no gree move for Naija, so do you know if I can come back and renew anytime the Visa expired and I want to leave naija

Bros don't be deceived you cannot enter Australia with such visa.

Really surprised to hear that you have the fear that you can be sacked in your working place.

Look traveling is a decision whether you are working or not.Mind you some went and successful and some are regretting.

My advice do not be desperate cos a desperado will always fall victim of scammers and right now as a victim you still want to be victim again,hope you can decode it and if not i fear.

Check responses to your post and read them again cos majority said it is not possible but a post it want to ginger you that it is possible.

My man is not done anywhere to enter any country with different passport from country you claimed on your e visa.

Kongi123:
Bro to be frank with you I get this visa type which I refuse to collect from my agents because that's not what he promise to do for me,we both agreed on 408 visa class the reason why I refuse that 651visa class is because right here in Dubai I have my residents permit which mean am not illegal and I can't go to Australia to be hidden around the street God forbid,and for your information if you are going to Australia with dat visa type to hustle u can't survive over there because Aussie immigration law is not like European countries or America that you can work with that type of visa of which he did that visa for some set of guys and they all travel through Fiji flight and they land and enter safely but God knows they waste money for nothing because no company will employ them.

Sir try and read Amanzie54 post again.

He said the visa stated he is from Norway whereas he is from Nigeria.

The issue is not about entry through Fiji flight cos irrespective of flights not possible to enter Australia with Nigeria passport and claiming Norway on the visa.

Amazie should just back out and if money is involved he then police should come in and nail the fraudster calling himself agent.

Right now i have a guy in similar situation who submitted his passport to the Abuja agent with agreement of paying the agent a million naira but suspecting foul play the guy refused to pay and till today the agent has refused to release his passport.

Sir i thought you have a sister in Australia who went through VET visa,pls try and ask her about the possibility of going through such arrangement.

andrew444:
Ndidi is just in 1 and half season in the Epl,I know you are trying to diss him because anybody that's is not Yoruba player you are always negative

As good as mahrez he spend 3 seasons at mancity before making a big move

So calm down okay.

And for your information Wilfred Ndidi is worth 60 million euros i hope you are not having slepless night over that.

A defensive midfielder doesn't need assist Mr man,I wonder how you watch your football,in 3 seasons at England ngolo Kante got only 6 assists and 3 goals while Wilfred Ndidi in 1 and half seasons got only 5 assist and 2 goals.

Over and out

Andrew did you really read forgiveness post very well cos there is nothing like dissing or tribal sentiment.