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Chrismario:
Aaron is an outsider. Maybe he was invited by Rohr to take a closer look which he failed from all indication.

Ideye has not being performing steady( to be corrected though). His SE Stat is not too good either. Currently, we have better players who are yet to be called. I think Isaac success and Osimhen has better chance of making Russia.

Chrismario:
Aaron is an outsider. Maybe he was invited by Rohr to take a closer look which he failed from all indication.

Ideye has not being performing steady( to be corrected though). His SE Stat is not too good either. Currently, we have better players who are yet to be called. I think Isaac success and Osimhen has better chance of making Russia.

Mickael2:
why do we always like making assumptions? Kayode in the Chinese league will score more than Martins, Kelechi in the Austrian league will score more than Kayode, Ideye in the Isreali league will score more than Nwakaeme etc etc. The simple truth is that we do not know these things, we can only judge based on the present conditions and right now, Nwakaeme is scoring more than Ighalo and is in form more than he is

Chrismario:
Because we have plenty better in-form players for his department

Yomiwayne80:
Good Day house.... Please why is nobody saying anything about BROWN IDEYE? Is he that bad? Dude has been playing his heart out for the eagles anytime he's been invited. He helped us won the 2013 nations cup. He was omitted in the conferedration and world Cup and we saw what he could had provided.

Back to this world Cup qualifiers he was called upon in the game against the Zambians in Luanda and he did very well as always and it was his assist that provided the goal for KC. So my question is.... Why Is nobody saying anything about him?

Certitude:
Bad day for me as I lost my dear father this morning.

TheGoodJoe:
Mangala sat on the bench long. Last season, he was sent on loan. It is the injuries of Stones and Kompany that gave him the chance. What I am saying that it takes hardwork and patience to get it right. If Iheanacho could track back as fast as Gabriel Jesus or even faster, Guardiola would play him.

I would have preferred Nacho bracing for the challenge. If Mangala leaves City now, he leaves a far better player because he increased his attributes.

Nacho has to keep working hard and he can still become great. I just would have preferred him training and learning under Guardiola's system.

Icon4s:
Ordinary qualifiers for CHAN that we lost to Benin it negated the 4-0 win and 1-1 draw we had with Cameroon. Look at the other teams in our group, any attempt to draw one we drop be that. It means we must secure the 9points from that group to start with .

isan:
Maybe rorh like handsome face also that's why he is running helter skelter after uduokhai

Mujtahida:
The bolded is precisely well put. There's a kind of cheap tactics some are using on this thread: we take any category like youthfulness, team spirit, experience, clubside, performance, old legs, homebased, foreign born to set up totalitarian criteria. When you call for Martins team youth will attack you, when you call for young players, team experience will attack you sometimes with valid reasons but most times with emotion and sentiments cos they simply just love their category.

Do you know I once argued strenuously against the invitation of Martins but I had to re-evaluate my stance for four reasons: 1)we need at least one more attacker(2) Martins was performing at par with Ighalo in the same league (3) it's just an invitation for God sakes (4) the overall goal of glory for the team should override my personal preference and sentiments.

You see those categories I mentioned above? There are our equivalents on this thread of the tribes and tribalism issue that has bedevilled us as a nation. Tribe of youth doesn't agree with tribe of experience etc. Meanwhile we forget that what should guide our discussions is performance. Will youth help us post quality performance? Will experience help us? Will the home based help us? Will the foreign born help us? A team is not youth, home based, foreign based, team spirit solely as criterias in themselves but all of these criterias in good measure but performance trumps them all because football is a performance sports and that's what will be recorded not all the other criteria. If we like we take all the youths, if they fail to perform we will feel the pain like we did after the SA defeat. If we like let's take all the experienced players, if they fail to perform experience will not give us any satisfaction like it has never done in tourneys we took experienced players to and failed to perform. If we like let us swoon over team spirit, about chemistry if we don't perform that team chemistry will turn sour in our belle.

A team is a pot of soup being cooked for public consumption not personal consumption. It needs many ingredient to make it sweet. Let's those who love salt not say oil is not good and let those who don't like pepper say onion is all we need to make the soup sweet.

All categories must be carefully filtered through the sieve of what will give us optimal performance.

terzurum5:
Who is he going to bench please?

Mujtahida:
I think Keshi is good tactically because if he could qualify for the second round with that kind of team then I salute his tactical sagacity.

Icon4s:
Egwuekwe was already an integral part of the team and even featured at the 2013 confederations cup due to injury to Omeruo.

Coaches don't just hastily drop their players like that.

Odunayaw:
I now get your point
but in my honest opinion all the wafu & chan was/would be like a learning curve.

Icon4s:
The thing is we are always too quick to push away an old player when you see a new player even if the new player is untested. How can someone prefer Agbo to Omeruo?
A new player that has no pedigree would always appeal to them more than a proven player.

Some say I am resistant to changes and stuffs like that. If left to some even Mikel Agu would have replaced Mikel Obi.

tbaba1234:
I watched him in CHAN and he was decent. I did not mean to single him out but he was not WC level.

Odunayaw:
At the WAFU final 2 out of his conceded goals were penalties. The defence that day was a goddamn banana

Icon4s:
Kunle Odunlami, and Shehu Abdullahi were two major revelations from the 2014 CHAN.

Going into that WC Keshi already had his backline settled. Odunlami was a CB. But we already had Omeruo, Obaobona, Egwekwe and Yobo in the team, all CBs, carried over from the 2013 AFCON winning squad.
Odunlami's exceptional abilities could not be put aside an so a space was created for him at RB instead where we already had Efe Ambrose. He couldnt have displaced Ambrose and so was a back up RB.

Omeruo and Obaobona were in a form of their lives and they had built a very solid partnership right from the AFCON and no way Odunlami could have broken that partnership. Coaches rarely break a CB pairing especially if it is a partnership that has achieved results.

Just like it is not likely for any player to break the current Ekong-Balogun partnership baring any injuries.

tbaba1234:
Nigeria's Bench against Bosnia in 2014

Moses was the only decent outfield player. Odunlami, WC team o!!

Ejide,
Uzoenyi,
Gabriel,
Egwuekwe,
Moses,
Odunlami,
Azeez,
Nwofor,
Uchebo,
Ameobi,
Agbim.

TheGoodJoe:
Your plan to kill me with laugh will not work. Please, my darling mum is an Igbo woman. From Abia State. I have aunties, uncles and cousins who are Igbo. I go to my mother's side and I am welcomed as a son.

How the heck will I be tribalistic against the Igbos? Chill and sip some cold beer. Cheers.

Icon4s:
I hammered on those 4 goals he conceded and his attorneys claimed they were not his fault. Because then the focus was on kicking Akpeyi out. Nothing else mattered.

ChrisKels:
Fringe super Eagles forward and Leicester U23 star, Ahmed Musa put in a full shift today as his youth side came from behind to beat their Everton counterparts 2-1 in the premier League two which is equivalent of Spanish/German regional leagues as it is a developmental league unlike the championship, league 1&2.

Icon4s:
Hahaha Keshi felt he was looking for the best only to get the worst. That was what Kog45 was trying to say.

Odunayaw:
What now? CHAN qualifiers, who saved the penalty at Sani Abacha Stadium? Jim Iyke?

elunico:
I have a question to ask. Is this the time to go about "looking for the best?" or is this the time for us to "bring out the best in what we already have?"

Kratoss, Kog45, Safarigirl, Mujtahida, TheGoodJoe, Komekn, Jihady, Icon4s, Icon79, Soetanoreoluwa, elyte89, Goke7, Jobie, Forgiveness, Somehow, goldfish80, Tbaba1234 + others who's got a thing to say.

forgiveness:
Barca, bye bye!!!!

isan:
Nigeria players and their chances of making 23 man list for the world cup

Francis uzoho - 50%
Dele alampasu - 30%
Enyeama - 50%
Mikel obi 100%
John ogu 70%
Ndidi 100%
Balogun 100%
Akpeyi 40%
Ezenwa 50%
Martins 30%
Agu 40%
Ekong 100%
Awaziem 100%
Ebuehi 60%
Shehu 100%
Kayode 30%
Onyekuru 60%
Onazi 100%
Etebo 80%
Iwobi 100%
Iheanacho 100%
Ahmed musa 100%
Victor Moses 100%
Ighalo 95%
Ola aina 50%
Idowu 70%
Nwakali 10%
Simon Moses 100%
Osaze 5%
Uduokhai 50%
Uche agbo 50%
Elcheljile 70%
Anderson esiti 20%
Efe Ambrose 20%
Maduka okoye 10%
Nwakeme 50%
Ryan sanusi 1%
Abdul ajagun 1%
Tiago ilori 1%
Sone aluko 20%
Osimhen 5%
Dessers 5%
Success 30%
Raheem lawal 10%
Aiyenugba 20%
Brown ideye 5%
Ik uche 2%
Bonaventure 20%
Bazee 30%
Tammy Abraham If he change his mind 0.00000%

Humility017:
how good is is Uche ball control skills and passing....?
I don't mind have him in place of omeruo..

Icon4s:
Godwin Odiye's own goal was during the 1982 WC qualifiers and it was against Algeria

For the last game of the 1978 WC qualifiers we were beaten clearly 3-1 by Tunisia and no own goal.

Danielnino00:
NPFL invitational tournament...


Akwa Utd-1 vs MFM-1
Plateau utd-1 vs Enyimba-1



Both Akwa and Plateau scored via PK after going down..


I didn't watch the game,so I can't judge...but I hope this consistent last minute penalties being awarded in the league will stop soon...its embarrassing...

DedeNkem:
And then he and his wife enriched themselves with tithe money! And some people here on nairaland congratulated him.

Nigerians are st*upid.

DedeNkem:
And then he and his wife enriched themselves with tithe money! And some people here on nairaland congratulated him.

Nigerians are st*upid.