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Chrismario:

My brain no dae correct again

Na mistake oga Kog

No wahala na weekend booze

charlesemeka85:
yea, have seen him play couple of times. man untd wont offer him the platform to lunch his senior career so he has to move now!

Yes good player but guess what Maurinho as a coach not for young lads.

Oasis007:
The following Sites are a bit credible and reliable to source for Updates on the Nigeria National Teams;

1 - Brila fm
2 - Complete Sports
3 - Goal NG
4 - Soccernet NG
5 - Kwese/ESPN
6 - All Africa

I advise we stop pulling Junks from OGN and ANS henceforth. It's not a must to drop Updates every time. Let's take time to vet Reports before sharing it.

Pls modify and add AOIfootball.com very credible site.

charlesemeka85:
Nigerian-born midfielder Tosin Kehinde is leaning towards an exit from Manchester United in the summer, six years after he joined the Premier League powerhouse.

The 19-year-old has been offered a fresh two-year contract to extend his stay at Old Trafford but the stumbling block is that he is unhappy over the length of the deal they gave him and there are no guarantees that he'll be integrated into the first team next season.

''Tosin's priority is to remain at Manchester United, but there are two things. He needs assurances that he is going to play and will be part of the first team, he doesn't want to sign the contract and sit on the bench,'' a top source told allnigeriasoccer.com.

''The longevity of the contract is also part of the reason he hasn't signed, he was offered a two-year deal.

''Most Premier League clubs in England are not ready to sign you if you have not made your debut for the first team, if he remains in England we are talking of training compensation of close to 0.5 million pounds while if he moves abroad the figure will be around £0.2 million.''

He added : ''Tosin has the talent but he has to be in the right environment, he is as talented as Alex Iwobi and Kelechi Iheanacho. Talks are still ongoing.

''Close to thirty clubs have contacted us. Manchester United are one of the biggest clubs in the world but he is leaning towards Spain.''

Barcelona, Villarreal, Atlético de Madrid, Swedish club AIK Fotboll plus teams in the Netherlands and Belgium have made enquiries over the possibility of signing Tosin Kehinde before the close of the summer transfer window.

Ifeanyi Emmanuel


i think it will be better for this kid to leave old trafford and seek for senior football experience else where. a move to the bundesliga,belgian or dutch league will help him alot

This guy is a baller

charlesemeka85:
do mbappe have links with nigeria?

Yes very strong link Kylian ADESANMI Mbappe and his siblings with Nigeria name as middle name.

charlesemeka85:
allnigeriasoccer.com is not credible and i lost regard on them when they wrote all sort of nonsense about simon moses for almost 3 weeks

OGN and ANZ are very ridiculous sports sites.I don't think they have any reporter on ground or going to Russia but always rely on hearsay.

Oasis007:
Alaba was classed as a special Talent. At 16, he was already playing for the Austria U21 Team. Benedict watched/scouted him closely for the NFF freely, called the Board to invite and cap him before we lose a Gem, but his Advice was snubbed and dumped.

Okay.

charlesemeka85:
i dont believe that story because its fake.

Yes not a true story cos Aina and Agu took Rohr decision with good faith and even wish the team well.

Oasis007:
NFF ain't interested in him Sir. Benedict contacted NFF to cap him but his Advice was snubbed.

The young Lad has no other Choice but to represent Austria since Nigeria ain't interested in him.

I thought he didn't contact NFF directly but a third party who told him pointblank that U 17 is for homegrown.

Chrismario:
We may not enough chance to cap ighalo but as for Akanji, NFF goofed big time upon say he dae give us green light tey tey

Chris wetin Ighalo do you na Alaba we dey talk

comodo:
How did this guy slip thru our fingers

He was early capped by Austria just like Manuel Akanji of Switzerland.

I think there is need for NFF to broaden their knowledge about FB from age of 15 cos Tosin Kehinde is another talent that Nigeria must not missed.

OMANBALA1:
How can you have an Etebor who is left footed, a midfielder with great attacking instincts and you are playing Idowu in LWB ?? Its beats my imagination

Pls is Etebor a left footed player

isan:
Alaba in camp

Nice one from David Alaba just like Manuel Akanji and Anthony Joshua who are always showing the love despite not representing Nigeria not Dele Ali who is trying to erase his root.

TheGoodJoe:
Long story. The simple point is that against a top class France, Keshi's team matched the French side until they resorted to injuring his players to win. That is a clear description of the strength of Stephen Keshi. Remember our two-two game against Italy or our 1-0 defeat of Catalonia. Calling Keshi a scam is nothing but a joke. Heck in the AFCON, we put 4 goals pass a strong Malian side and in the CHAN, Keshi led the team to a Dramatic come back from being down by three goals to win the game in extra time.

Please you should acknowledge him,
Because Keshi deserves some accolades,
He does deserve some accolades.

God bless you thegoodjoe.

Keshi was a scam to them but they want Rohr to continue as a coach even if he failed to get a point at WC.

Martz101:
i may understand the fact thay you love keshi but truth be told, our squad in 2014 was not by merit.we won the afcon in 2013 and he executed most friendly before the worldcup with different players, players like uchebo, uche nwafor,Reuben,odulami, Ramon and babatunde displacing talented players like Uche brothers, Martins, Joel obi, Ogu and even key players that qualified him for the worldcup and won the afcon like ideye, Mba(for obvious reasons) and igiebor.

you can't compare this with 1998 team, we didnt go for the afcon 1996 and 1998 and were having less chance to test other new players, the players were basically the 1994 team + the Olympic team. Amokachi was not injured before the worldcup, he got injured before the Spain match, he came back against bulgaria and started, he got injured again before the Paraguay match.

our 2010 worldcup team was very very fair, it was the best we had, the like of ogbuke, yakubu, Martins,osaze and even an inform rabiu afolabi, who were you expecting in that team that you didn't see??

And on your odunlami, that guy had no business in that Keshi team, we already had enough with egweke and obuabona, even if keshi wanted a home base player, why cant he get a right back or left back to back Efe or oshaniwa, or even bring in an ogu or martins with that slot.that team was bias base,

they how many of them is still playing active football till now??after just 4years

Yes I love Keshi cos i know his contribution to Nigeria football as a player and coach.He deserves little respect even in death.

MetalJigsaw:
I swear some of us here better pass Rohr.

Ha jigsaw,coaching job na hell o.

andrew444:
Ejike uzoenyi replaced echiejile on the last minute due to injury

Thanks for the correction

chrisooblog:
actually it was ejike uzeonyi who replaced elderson.

yes 1998 team also carried too many unprepared players. akpoborie being dropped for an obviously injured amokachi was a travesty but to be fair the others you mentioned who were there replacements? eguavoen would have been dropped for jero shakpore but unfortunately the latter got injured. rufai yes but shorunmu and joseph dosu were also knocked of by injury. ben iroha apart from him which other decent backup to babayaro did we have. celestine sef was just getting back from months of serious injury.defence was really weak that year apart from taribo and uche ikechukwu can't remember any other decent defender who could have served as cover.

for me the lessons which we should learn is that as much as possible always have a large pool of players to choose from for every position so that in case of accidents or emergencies we won't be left threadbare

Good analysis,respect my man for saying it without sentiment.

ChrisKels:
I didn't even see this before my post where I talked about an attacking line that comprises an overlaping Moses, Iwobi, Achor and may Ebuehi.


Nice one there man, add this ur post to mine up there and we have a devastating fantasy team that could turn out to be real if Rohr adheres

Nigeria team without Iheanacho is a minus not cos of anything but goals,his goal ratio in eagles is phenomenal.

I admire Ighalo a lot but talking of delivery it's Iheanacho.On Simy,well from his stats so far he is not a prolific scorer so i don't see him as a guarantor unless he brings his late season goals scoring to eagles.

Martz101:
40% of keshi 2014 team was form like this...if you know you know

keshi took 5 CB and Efe makes it 6 to world cup, a certain odunlami was in that team

that tean was a big disgrace to football

Sir if Keshi's team was a disgrace to football then Onigbinde's team of 2002 is what?Nigeria 2010 WC team is what?

Even France 98 team is what cos this was a team that took 5 pensioners to WC,namely Peter Rufai,Rashidi Yekini, Augustine Eguavoen,Ben Iroha,Uche Okafor and took already injured Amokachie to WC and dropped in form Jonathan Akpoborie.

And on 5 CB he took to WC,pls try and sit down and analyse why he took such decision or do you think Keshi was a dummy.

On Kunle Odunlami, he replaced injured Echiejile and was to deputise for Ambrose and Oshaniwa cos he was a versatile defender.

If i may ask is Ambrose a CB under Keshi but RB.Keshi took four CB to WC namely Joseph Yobo, Kenneth Omeruo,Godfrey Oboboana and Egwueke.

Modified... according to Chrsooblog and andrew444 Uzoenyi replaced injured Echiejile, sorry for the mix up.

charlesemeka85:
hmmmmmm every finger points to babatunde's direction. if keshi was alive and still the head coach of the team, he would have made dude the skipper of the team

My oga why always Keshi.Pls respect the dead.He is gone to rest and his laudable achievement cannot be erased.Hope to see Rohr surpass it.

Icon4s:
Nigerian teams of all ages have been poor with defending of set pieces and also poor in converting them.

Oga icon4s i was on ghost mode reading different views and it was like whao Nigerians really love eagles..

Oh really surprised seeing a whole Chriskel losing hope and lamenting like a lost soldier in the wilderness.Initially i thought he wasn't him until he responded to a salvo from safarigirl and his friend Mujtahida nailed him.

He came out and said he doesn't know what came over him.Initially i thought he must have jammed metaljigsaw the broken bottle man cos Chriskel i know is a passionate super eagles fan.

My good friends Michael2 and goldfish80 never dissapoint.They remain real critics of Rohr even when he was winning believing tactically the man is not getting it right and to be candid Rohr is not getting it right now going by the friendlies.

Safarigirl,TheSuperNerd,icon79 O pari master and Joebie remain unshaken still showing total support for eagles.

Really surprised to see some monikers who are always on ghost mode came out in full force to share their views and different opinions ranges from team leadership of Mikel,Moses an obstacle to the team formation, Ighalo not good enough, Uzoho not that solid,Balogun/Ekong look vulnerable, Shehu finding it difficult,Iwobi should be used as AM,Mikel and Onazi supremacy rumours etc.

I sighted tbaba1234 doing his thing with hope,BasconVanVelli looking hopeful,Elyte89 showing his comical approach to douse the tensions in the house.Metaljigsaw looking at the team critically before he play his bet.Marzt still showing his undying love for some players in the team.Omanbala raising up his mind for better outing. Mujtahida believe there is no tension. Goke and Oasis believe there is hope if Rohr get it right.Andrew444,Realpoacher,Soetanoluwa,junnyake showing their moods with critical analysis of the team.Humility 017 and Martz never disappoint.

But forgiveness and Komkne really surprised me with their great analytical views of the team.They are indeed a lover of super eagles.

Icon4s reading your full comprehensive post showed patriotism of a real super eagles fan who is ready to swim with the team in any circumstances.

I think we need to continue showing that love even in unwarranted situations cos is our team and we have been long here talking about this team,so the recent performance should not weakened us like my good friend Chriskel who wasn't happy and i will not blame him cos if Australia could walloped Czech republic 4 nil why Nigeria losing to the same Czech.

Pls we should stop saying Rohr is hiding his check cards for WC,no the team is not getting it right and truth must be told.Let's hope for better performance at WC.

MetalJigsaw:
Moses collect ur wife? so if u be coach u will bench player like Moses. I swear u will get sacked.

If Moses can be ridiculed like this then i give up cos i keep on asking myself why sudden harsh criticism.

Icon4s:
So many here rate players based ONLY on his last match. Let Moses put in a wonderful performance today now they will remember he deserved the APOTY and not Mohammed Sallah.

Thank you Chief.

I needed to ask that question cos it seem the guy was talking about another Victor but really surprised the same Victor Moses.

Good to criticise but not in a ridiculous manner.

ChrisKels:
Who else noticed that the one touch football we saw against Argentina have not been seen again since the return of Moses, Ighalo, Onazi, Joel and Shehu to the team?


Isn't a cause for concern?

Sir you are right.I had the same thought but coaches always have different views.

I hope you remember how we defeated Brazil at Atlanta. with the introduction of Teslim Fatusi,Wilson Oruma, Victor Ikpeba in the second half and Garba Lawal who started in the absence of Sunday Oliseh.

But in the final only Victor Ikpeba started ahead of unfit Emma Amuneke,meaning you don't change a team cos of 45 minutes performance.

I think you remember that Nigeria beat star studded France at their backyard with second team.Despite that victory the main team still remain with few introduction.

Goke7:
no need for argument, the croatia match is just days away and God willing, we will all be witnesses but talking about moses failure for Nigeria, he failed us in the 2014 world cup for your info

Sir am talking football not arguing.

He failed in 2014 but a gladiator in 2017/2018 WC qualifier.

Sir nothing will happen against Croatia than Nigeria winning with good performance from our players inclusive Victor Moses.

Goke7:
and how many has victor moses scored, by the time that guy will finally fall our hand eh, you guys supporting him will be the one to finally tear him to shreds like the way onazi and joel obi has been dymystified

Pls has Moses failed Nigeria?

It seems it's only on this thread am seeing us bashing Moses

Pls can you explain deeply why all of a sudden Moses is now a stumbling block to eagle's progress.

Abi not the same Moses of WC qualifier and Moses of Chelsea of just concluded season.

Icon4s:
Rohr has the final say.

I think when he starts with a 4 backline he prefers Shehu but when he switches to 3 backline he prefers Ebuehi.

Seems Rohr has decided to stick to the 4 back and keeps switching to 3 back when the need arises.

Idowu copes well with both set up and that is a plus for both him and the team as no substitution of him is needed to switch tactics.

But Rohr would have to substitute Shehu for Ebuehi to switch tactics.

It is obvious Rohr is not comfortable starting games with 3-5-2.

Let's just watch and see how today's game will play out.

Chief icon4s let's be realistic at this point. Against Congo Ebuehi fit in perfectly into 4 at the back and Shehu was below par when he came in for Ebuehi,pls go and watch the match again.

My submission is Rohr doesn't rate Ebuehi cos he deserves the starting lineup in any formation based on his performance so far,hope you know i rate Shehu highly but with Congo and England match,Ebuehi should start.

Martz101:
shehu again??

It seem you guys find it difficult to understand Rohr philosophy.

Do you think Simy would have make it with the presence of Simon Moses.

Do you think Rohr rate Ebuehi as we do?No.Hope you remember Ebuehi was dropped from the team against Cameroon,recalled for Algeria match but was on on the bench for a match that we don't need and suspended Shehu was used and it cost us three points.

Ebuehi should thank his star that Argentina 45 mins was his saving grace till today.

So don't be surprised seeing Ebuehi on the bench despite his performance.


Ogu waited till Algeria match to make the team and later had a good performance against Argentina but invitation to Joel Obi put Ogu back to the bench.

Akpeyi really meassed up but Rohr still stick to him.Don't be deceived Rohr rate Akpeyi than Ezenwa,Uzoho was just the face saving,likely Akpeyi would have been number one despite his flaws.

Idowu should count himself lucky that Echiejile had abysmal season he would have been on the bench for Echiejile.

If we want to base it on performance Shehu should be on the bench today.

EEGA:
Drop deep? What is a player like Joel Obi who starts for Torino doing there? If we are to excuse Onazi that he plays for Trabzonspor.

Experience is really overrated.

We need Ndidi back to starting line-up with Etebo(where pace is necessary) or Ogu make those two wey dey look for who go cover them go rest.

Thank you.I think there is need for us to always watch our matches again to truly assess the team.

After watching the match again, honestly if i have my way Onazi and Joel would have been in Nigeria by now.

I'm a truly fan of Onazi but sometimes we just need to hit the nail on the head,too poor performance from Joel and Onazi..

It's a pity Simon is out i would have go for Ndidi-Mikel-Iwobi in the middle but still good having him drifting occasionally to the middle.

I think Etebo should be able to step in or untrusted Musa on the right side so that Iwobi can come to the middle.

EEGA:
How can someone who calls himself a leader try to cause division in camp.

Any player trying to cause disaffection in camp should be sent home and replaced ASAP.

What a hell with Onazi saying such rubbish to the press,meaning he has beef with some guys in the team.

I watched the match again yesterday Onazi was damn too poor,running all over and doing nothing.

safarigirl:
Players That Have Been Played Out Of Position In SE and STILL Gave A Good Account Of Themselves:

Alex Iwobi
John Ogu
Shehu Abdullahi
Mikel Obi

I love Aina just as much as anybody else, and honestly, I still feel bad that he's out of the team, but let us stop peddling tales of being played out of position....that means little to nothing. He was brought to unseat Echiejile, he couldn't do that. He had not one bright game and that was what necessitated Idowu's call up. It was Idowu that kicked out Aina.

Now, I would have preferred dropping a Joel Obi, because as far as I concerned, that one is useless to the team, but I'm not Rohr.

And for those saying other foreign born players will not want to play for Nigeria because of an 'Aina' treatment, they need to get their heads out their asses. We are taking Ekong, Balogun, Ebuehi, Idowu, Iwobi to World Cup.....Aina was the only FB who missed out, so, how that translates to a 'poor return' for FBs is beyond me.

There was no poor treatment of Aina, Aina simply failed to step up when he needed to. If you want to go to the World Cup so much, there is no reason why you can't acclimatize yourself to another position. It's not like they turned him into a striker from a defender, so all this talk about out of position blah blah blah is bollocks.

Good analytical football talk!Respect my sister.

Highly impressed cos despite your view you did not rule the young man out for post WC.