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Newlifee:
I wish I have such opportunity bro, nobody to send me an invitation or help me process visa, at least uae sounds easier to get , or do u have Australia contact?

Just go to Google and you get necessary info on Australia migration.

tbaba1234:
Hahaha, busy with other things... Work is tomorrow..

OK Sir,expecting your review on him

mazimee:
Today, I saw a teenager in my hood rocking our 2018 Home jersey, E be like say the Aba made don enter market.

Oh in safarigirl voice,if you don't get original better go for good replica.

The made in China replica is in the market and look solid.

BascoVanVeli:
Awoniyi with a goal.

tbaba1234,my son is not getting review here,why....

tbaba1234:
I did not label Ekpo and Oliha as 'mediocre' . They were more of the hardworking type of midfielders not creators per se. We still got goals in spite of that. That does not make them mediocre.

Thankfully, you acknowledged his ability to convert half chances to goals. It is something we lack in our team.

A prime and on form Yekini will still score in this team because his movement was good, created spaces for himself and could run with the ball if he needed to.

Yes, we need creative players or we need to learn to play to the strengths of our current attackers. We do not cross the ball enough from the wings.

I love your last paragraph,why not Kalu Samuel or Peter Olayinka cos they are good crosser

tbaba1234:
Joel Obi stats vs Inter

95% pass accuracy
5 tackles won
3 clearances
2 interceptions


Solid performance, we need him to transfer this kind of performance to the super eagles because his friendly performances was not good enough.

Yes your last paragraph said it all.

bengine:
Forgiveness would love you for your last paragraph sir....please don't check Umars record sir, watch his games, I know professionally he hasn't played too many games but there is something unique about his style...we are just saying the coach should try him not necessarily carry him to the world cup...at least the coach can map in his head of another way to go about games..

I doubt Ideye has anything to offer this team someone else on the team is not already doing..

Oh forgiveness,everyone here na my paddy o,we dey jolly am together and come Russia we gonna smiles.

tbaba1234:
This is not true..

Did you see the kinds of runs Yekini made? You do not need a great midfield wizard to find him.. Yekini did not always have a great midfield. Friday Ekpo and Oliha were more of the hardworking types. Our forward line right now is fairly static and does not offer those options. How many times do you see runs behind the defence? Look at cristiano's first goal against Juve, did you see his run to the near post.. The movement is lacking. It is those little things that create opportunities. Put better movement and the midfield does not have to be great as the striker is giving them a plethora of options.

Sir i disagree,I watched Yekini from 1983 till he left eagles in 1998 and using Ekpo and Oliha to butress your point on Yekini not acceptable to me.

Rashidi Yekini at 1984 Afcon had Muda Lawal,Ademola Adeshina and Henry Nwosu with Humphrey Edobor doing it for him.

In the mid 80s Samson Siasia came into the scene and contributed a lot to Yekini goal prowess with Ademola Adeshina and Henry Nwosu in the midfield with assistance from Folorunsho Okenla,Wole Odegbami,Sam Okwaraji,Bunmi Adigun,Augustine Igbinabaro especially during qualifier for Seoul 88 and Maroc 88 and proper tournament.

In the 90s when Yekini had glorious career,players like Daniel Amokachie, Finidi George,Emma Amuneke,Austin Okocha and Sunday Oliseh contributed immensely to Yekini rise.

Rashidi Yekini had the best of midfielders in the 80s and 90s even Ekpo and Oliha are not mediocre as you portrayed it,pls try and watch Ekpo against Senegal at Senegal 92.


Truly Yekini was a very prolific goalscorer who has the witt and power to outpace any defenders and very good in converting half chances and Ighalo goal against Cameroon remind me of great Yekini.

Sir the solutions is given Ebere Eze,Ajagun,Kelechi Nwakili, Alhassan Muzzam chance to slug it out and complement Mikel in the team instead of all theses DMs we are carrying about,except this is done our strikers we continue to struggle.

Truidstar:
Sir, CYRIL DESSERS IS 23 not 25. It is his real age. We both know Ajagun is not 25 Years. ....CYRIL DESSERS!!!!

OK Sir.

Mujtahida:
You hate reading about link up play but you want goals. Okay oo

Thank you,I don't know why we keep on deceiving ourselves cos i don't see any striker out there better than Nacho and Ighalo for now but instead for us to address the main issue which is our midfield we keep on hammering our strikers,forgetting that what happened against Poland and Serbia happened against South Africa and someone was missing which is Mikel and instead of addressing the issue we are suggesting strikers and where are the strikers?

Joebie:
While the argument can be made that Umar has improved, Ajagun has been quite consistent and I would support his inclusion in the 35 man list as well. The question should be who are his competition, and can he give them a good fight? It will definitely raise the standard in camp irrespective of whether he makes the final cut or not.
Umar will bring good competition as well.
Onyekuru will. Dessers might.

Modified
And we need to focus on recent form in our discussion, unless of course a player can borrow his form of 5 years ago.

Agree

Martz101:
Oliseh was not that wonderful in passing

Pls go and watch Oliseh vs Ethiopia.

Oliseh performance in that match threw Friday Ekpo another great passer out of eagles.

I'm seeing Ndidi in class of Oliseh but still need to work on his passes to equate Oliseh even legendary Muda Lawal.

andrew444:
What defender did he take ? Are you suggesting or you watch him play or you even saw his stats ? Someone that was not given chance to play so when did he take on defenders ?

He managed 7 match in bologna for a full season and no goals,in Torino only 3 match in a half season? That chance is not enough to take on defenders or even get a goal

And times I m surprised by this thread by the caliber of players you will call to be invited,son because at nac Breda 3 goals in 5 matches he should be included?

There is one thing that keep on baffling me here,double standard, just checked Umar Sadiq professional record so far,really surprised that some believe he has something to offer than Ideye and funny enough better than Ighalo?fallacies

Cyril Dessers started his professional career in Belgium with a lowly club where he had good youth football before moving to Lokeren with 25 appearance with no goal for two season and moved to Nec breda in dutch division two with awesome performance and snapped up by Utrecht, but so far couldn't tie a regular shirt though 7 goals in 17 appearance but some believe he is the answer,no issue he can be a good option.

But telling me Ajagun at 25 has passed his prime but Dessers at 25 still has a lot to offer,why double standard in passing comments on our bona fide players who are doing well.

isan:
How true is this??

Yes,pls try and watch Finidi debutant match against Burkina Faso and Oliseh first match against Ethiopia then you will agree that they are great passer,very unfortunately we don't have such player with such attributes,may be Mikel,Ndidi just need to work on his passes both short and long to equate Oliseh.

Joebie:
na cuz of Adeleye I take that snapshot..

I know but really surprised that the guy is still playing,possibly we still have some of this guys doing it at higher level.Kudos Joebie.

8kingz:
Let it be know to Saraki that he is only after his self intrest, even though the president has wronged them(Legislators) by not consulting them, have they put them self in an actual position to be consulted. Let it be know that majority of us in ilorin are nt a supporter of Mr Saraki, if nt because of electoral malpractice nd weak institutions....

Pls try and read the post again cos what you put up here lacks direction and very meaningless to the post.

Joebie:
Russian Premier League:

Can you spot the Nigerians?

Kai Dele Adeleye still dey and good to see Fengor Ogude,also Aaron Samuel trying to shake thing up and ever present Bryan Oladapo Idowu.Good one from you Joebie.

Certitude:
Sir. My comment said the last he did was against Kenya . And I was also referring to his post bout 90 or 2000 kids that even if I was born last night..... My point is that I really don't care about what happened 8 years ago. What has Martins done post kenya match till date in the GWG?

OK getting your point but how many calls did he get post 2010.

I remember he got one during Kesh' s erai and was not convincing enough and Oliseh as a manager.

But i think Martins and Yakubu did fairly enough in their eagles career.

andrew444:
Even if Paulinho did not join Barcelona he was a gurantee starter for Brazil and assured of the World Cup,even witsel and Carrasco of Belgium nothing will stop them from going to the World Cup

Wa gbayi my man and God bless.

I tire o Sadiq better than Ighalo?not really rating Ighalo but sometimes here we are too sentimental on issues and football is beyond sentimentalism.

Thanks for pointing this fact out.

andrew444:
So many Chinese based players in Brazil team during the qualification....Paulinho...Gil...Renato augusto there are still more I have forgotten

Thank you my brother.

Certitude:
Martins ain't gon add no sh!t we ain't got before... Even if I was born last night, Nigga has failed to impress in GWG. The last he did was against kenya before 2010 WC. Mikel was a boss in that game but then, of course, it's Mikel the bad guy. He wasn't Okocha... Bla bla bla... Remember Yakubu had a goal in that game but they both turned out lame duck at the WC.

Nigga has failed to impress in GWG?pls check his stats with eagles.

Yea Mikel is the boss for those who understand the game.I remember how he was all over the field against Kenya.

tbaba1234:
My 35 man team

Gks
Uzoho
Ezenwa
Aiyenugba
Akpeyi
Alampasu/Okoye/Enyeama ...Why not Ajiboye cos Alampasu is not getting playing time, Enyeama too the same thing and Maduka lack the require experience so better to have one rookie which is Uzoho in the team.

Defenders
Balogun
Ekong
Shehu
Idowu
Ebuehi
Aina
Awaziem
Omeruo
Elderson.....Spot on


Midfielders
Mikel
Onazi
Ndidi
Joel Obi
Ogu
Etebo

Agbo...Rohr ?Ajagun should come in

Agu....Rohr ?Alhassan or Kelechi should come in

Ebere Eze

...I think Ajagun,Alhassan Muzzam and Kelechi Nwakili deserves a look in if you are considering Ebere Eze since we are having issue with AM,let them slug it out in camp and see who to deputise for Mikel.

Strikers
Iheanacho
Iwobi
Ighalo
Musa
V.Moses
S.Moses
Ideye
Kayode
Onyekuru
Bazee...on what criteria,why not Samuel Kalu

Dessers....is he better than Sadiq in Dutch league
.
Osimhen ...on what criteria,why not Awoniyi who is having playing time.

Pls why did you left out Awoniyi Taiwo,Sadiq Umar and Samuel Kalu if you are considering Osimhen,Dessers and Bazee.

tbaba1234:
For the kind of team, Kayode played for, he should have had more games. He had a lot of opportunities but for a striker, if you are not scoring, you will be benched.

I think, Dessers and Umar could have at least gotten one goal if given the number of games Kayode had.

Sir i disagree,Stuani is having a good run in la liga and no coach would bench such player.

Kayode case was similar to Nacho at Leicester not getting playing time cos of Vardy and till today Nacho is finding it hard despite his quality,are we going to say Nacho lacks the pedigree.

Kayode had two start for Girona with two assists and MOTM.I remember watching him against Deportivo with Uzoho in goal and am very happy as a Nigerian seeing two of them doing it,Kayode was awesome in that match.

On Umar and Dessers i don't want to use 'IF' so nothing to say cos i know the quality of Dutch league.

Humility017:
I think you should say that to yourself...
if you think that Ighalo and Martins who could barely pass the mark of 20 goals a season despite the game time in a Chinese league with mediocre Chinese players....could do same in netherland then you have to think again....


I still remember how Wolfsburg under 23 team whipped mikel's team....during preseason...you can Google the Chinese teams preseason result with small European clubs to see how they were grossly beaten...and you think so old legs can replicate same performance of old in the dutch league....
you are currently living in the past....

the dutch league defenders might be very poor...but not as bad as those Chinese players......

Sir you are getting it wrong on Martins and Ighalo, pls give them little respect they deserves.

These guys did not start from Chinese league,better for you to look back before they moved to Chinese league.

Try and ask yourself why we couldn't get a good AM to slug it out with Mikel who also play in China.

Did you know Brazil qualification to WC involved China based players.

Sir you mixed things up that are not justifiable in analysing Martins and Ighalo and try to always balance things up.

Humility017:
I don't think there is need for this...
you can just go bring Martins out of injury...
and take him to the world cup....
keep whipping a dead horse..what's the need.


some of you talk here...as if the rest of us don't watch football....

Sir Humility017 why are you personalized things,very unusual of you.

Mujtahida:
The earlier (and it's becoming later) we face this reality the better. I used to cry for Uzoho to be given the chance. Do you know the day I lost faith totally in Uzoho? The day Tbaba1234 posted his clips. What I saw pierced my heart and killed every belief I had in Uzoho. During the friendlies I didn't even watch the match like we had gk. It was better for me psychologically that way.

Remember i always saying it'hope Rohr get it right with our keepers'

Martz101:
The Egyptian keeper is over 40 and he will start in goal for them

Sir,sometimes our invitations bring questions,is Rohr not aware that we have two experience Keeper in Isreali league,was iit not the same league that Rohr saw Ogu and Nwakaeme.

I know that Uzoho,Ezenwa and Akpeyi are not better than Dele and Ejide unless we want to be sentimental.

Dele and Ejide should be given chance to compete and let's see competition.

Mujtahida:
We don't have gk. Uzoho no be am abeg. Against Argentina he was so smooth. The Uzoho I saw in the last two friendlies is the real Uzoho. We no get keeper.

Oh Mujtahida!i think i quite agree with you but let's see what Rohr is up to in coming friendlies may be we see new faces in our goalkeeping department but just too glaring going to WC with Uzoho,Ezenwa and Akpeyi look risky.

Mujtahida:
Truly based on your say so I went to watch Umar clips. I swear I didn't see him any better than he was at the Olympics ooo. Not writing him off just expressing my opinion.

Really surprised at his rating here and some even rate him than Ighalo.

Truidstar:
Aiyenugba

Aina Ilori Balogun Idowu


Aluko Aluko

Aluko



Ajagun Kayode faleye


This is some folks on here starting 11, of given the Chance.

Wahala dey o,pls what is the meaning of this,i mean your line up.

Premiumwriter:
Just feel like pushing Banky away

Don't push Banky away,open your eye and mind there are better girls waiting for you.

SerVik:
Yesterday, Brazil's first choice goalie conceded 4goals while their second choice conceded 3.

I'm just imagining the kind of panic we'd have been witnessing here if they were in the SE setup.

Nigerians don't just panic or criticise and Brazilian keepers,depend on the goals they conceded,if it warrant criticism why not,so we panic or criticise based on performance.