₦airaland Forum

SmartPolician:
Those who seek to sleep with people of the same gender have a psychological problem. Same sex should never be considered as a sexual orientation.

Unfortunately, the US leads the world in research and development and has been shoving that NONSENSE down our throats. They are trying to imply they have discovered a new sexual orientation.

Actually it was classed as a mental abnormality and illness by the American psychiatric association , up until ,1973 . Then it was declassified not by empirical research but socio political lobbying.

The scientific pathological deduction remains ,The presence of atypical gender behavior or feelings are symptoms of the disease or disorder to which mental health professionals need to attend

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4695779/

ChrisKels:
Ogogoro drinker at it.

Everything is TIME limited at that TIME.

Bitter leaf Soup merchant, when was this quote made and who substantiated it the national team coach at that TIME .

Players improve some don't some do this is football it's always been time related

chrisooblog:
Honestly I dey vex afresh when I remember how 'dem' analysts said he's only good enough for youth team in the English Championship

Who said that , l wonder

Papi85:
salisu is the best indigenous coach we hv currently so you all should deal with he's decisions in picking players

person wey few here dey ass lick and make excuses for

una go hear wii

A confirmed signed, sealed and delivered bribe taking thief

BOOOMNAIJA:
Salisu Yusuf is destroying Nigeria football at all levels...thanks to federal character nonsense!

He decides what players to be invited to d Super Eagles to foreign coaches who may not av a vast knowledge of Nigerian players and now he is doing everything to keep all non-hausa foreign players from playing for d Olympic eagles today against Tanzania.

The arsenal guy, akinola and some other foreign players of southern Nigeria origin invited to d team av all returned back to their clubs because of salisu's attitude towards them...he has since replaced them with northern players.

Salisu Yusuf is d one killing our football in Nigeria. I've said it before and I will keep saying this everywhere until drastic measures are activated.

Almost a decade ago Oviemuno Ejaria and Ademola Lookman attended a U17 Nigeria selecteion event in London.

Ejaria was in Arsenal then and none of them were selected. Why because they were according to the NFF officials not good enough.

It's how we do our things

elyte89:
I don’t want to agree with dis phrase again of loaded with talents,7years of no football identity is a big no for me

Talent is potential yet to be realised.

Which really is nothing to boast about until it's proven and established.

There are more talented footballers who didn't make it than those who did.

Meliforme:
You are right, Nerdie.

in my assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of our players, Eze may not have a starting berth especially in midfield, however the left wing is open. He has what it takes to start there depending on the how the coach intends to approach the game.

I don't think it's so simplistic.

Iwobi goal scoring record over his entire career is very far from prolific. He does a lot of good work coming forward and since at Everton also backtracking and defending.

However, he sometimes flatters to decieve that he should score a lot more as a AM/ CM . Bu he just doesn't.

On the other hand Eze coming forward look a lot more likely to score.

A comparison of their statistics confirms the observation. Iwobi in over 8 seasons of EPL football has never scored more than 3 goals in a season. It's predominantly 1 or 2 goals as a season.

Eze first season in the EPL he scored 4 after scoring 14 goals in the Championship. Eze didn't do too much in 2021/22 he was largely injured but still scored 1 goal after 13 games coming on largely as a substitute from injury. But it's 11 games and he has scored 2 and Iwobi after 12 has scored 1.

I really have no preference but as a goal threat and I think Eze has a bit more invention and unpredictability.

I think the SE could play with both and a hard working DM like Onyeka and or Ndidi behind them.

Danielnino00:
He isn't only ignoring the minutes, but also the competition.. the stats he listed are for the premier league alone... No FA cup, league cup, UEL and UECL goals..
According to him, goals scored against small things in domestic cup games aren't important...Yet players from those small teams are the like he clamors for to be called up to the national team

Name one player from a backwater league in Europe l have CLAMOURED for to be in the SE. ❓

There is no mathematical equation that says the more minutes you play the more goals you will DEFINITELY score. However , the more you perform the more minutes you will be given and vice versa.

Scoring goals in the EPL is not the same as scoring against low level teams in Cup games.

In most cases when you come on as a substitute you have an advantage. The opposing team is tired and prone to making mistakes due to fatigue. Statisticallu speaking near %60 of goals are scored in the second half of games.

Substitutions will largely be in the second half, players coming on in the second half are fresh and full of energy it's an advantage.

You will find in the EPL opportunities are given to youth players to participate in cup in games because they don't consider them that important.

yinkeys:
Please don’t say this
Iheanacho was scoring regularly when he was at City
But Since he got to Leicester he struggles to get tap ins etc. He sometimes has to drop deep to get things going
Man City is a machine already automated for strikers to get loads of chances.

So effectively what you are saying is that Manchester City FC can make a bang average striker look very good and make an excellent striker , "SUPER MAN"

I said years ago the true test of KC is when he leaves Man city and isn't surrounded by world players making him look wonderful.

Look at his trajectory with Liecester City his first season 2017–18 after 21 games just 3 goals scored, followed by 2018–19 season 30 games and just shockingly 1goal all season. The 2019–20 season was 20 games and 5 goals still very poor.

He then astounded everybody with a very good season 2020/21 it's like he got some Viagra and found his potency he scored 12 goals from 25 games.

But the last two seasons he has returned back to his level he's played 9 games and 1 goal this season he had 4 goals from 26 games last season.

But many here call him clinical finisher top striker etc and when you put the be facts on ground ,they say it's HATE.

Ppogbae:
So far Osimhen has exposed:

Blind
Smalling

Who's next?

Smalling for 90 minutes had him more or less caged till he stumbled and VO got him wrong sided and scored a top class goal from a near impossible angle.

Karlovych:
He can always move to any newly promoted EPL team at a similar decent wage, letting his contract run down with Leicester as a bench warmer isn't the right approach

A newly promoted team will not pay such high wages for a striker who has been impotent for the vastly larger part of his career.

Truth must be said .

Also he is not really a traditional type striker he cannot hold the line and has no hold up play

Karlovych:
He needs to leave that club and challenge himself to do better, I understand the temptation of sticking to his high wages but he'll be almost 28 by the time his current contract expires and he needs to be playing regularly to improve.

KC has very little to get a big move.

KC has had one good season and 5 abysmally poor seasons out of six seasons in the EPL with Leicester.

Who will want him in the EPL ❓He will have to look at a less competitive league and much lower wages.

Outstanding goal by VO .

Didn't see it coming the game had become a negative stalemate with very little in terms of inventive creativity coming from Roma. Mourinho was negative and playing on the break more defence than attack.

Napoli wanted to win and VO was patient and a mistake by Smalling who got wrong sided. Nonetheless, it was a near impossible angle and IMO a world class strike, FABULOUS goal.

He is got 4 goals from 7 games it's exceptionally good but to be a top striker, End of season should not have less than 18. But there is plenty of time and must stay injury free.

charlesemeka85:
have you for once put into consideration that injuries contributed in him not scoring over 15 goals a season since he moved to Italy?

Easy on the lad abeg!

Football is harsh and in many regards unsympathetic, injury is part of the equation in player assesment.

If you are not careful you can be labelled injury prone. That's why top players institute all kinds of pre training programs to remain injury free.

forgiveness:
Osimhen coming to Chelsea will be a very good idea but he must not miss chances.

Compare him to all the forward players Chelsea have bought , he is far off the mark.

They are players at the top of their Leagues , as top goal scorers in league and club.

VO is an excellent player with great potential but he has not attained top goal scorer or similar in a top league YET.

After this season if he doesn't become a top five goal scorer in Seria A, then his potential to be world class will be questioned and indeed his value.

jihday:
not every time you argue, they talking about someone who had to sell pure water to make a living you talking about someone being released from his club because he wasn’t good enough.

You have a micro view, ( selling pure water) my comments are much more in-depth and encompassing.

Before you comment it is wisdom to actually read then understand and appreciate the context of comments and read the entirety of the write up not just a small segment.

Poverty is a state of mind as well as a socio-economic paradigm.

Do you know what its like to sit in a freezing cold house because you cannot afford to heat your home. Having a permanent cold and the flue.

Poverty has the same psychological and socio-economic impact irrespective of location. The degree may be different relatively but the loss of well being and self esteem remain the same.

TheLoneCitizen:
The amount of players who have made it to the big time backed by motivation from their impoverished past is overwhelming.

I cannot think of a great African player who didn't come from a poor background.

Yaya Toure ate one meal a day. Was an apprentice to a shoe-shiner.

Didier Drogba parents lost their jobs and relied on a brother for food. Couldn't pay his school fees. Drogba forced to leave for France, twice.

Eto'o lived in France as an illegal migrant for large majorities.

Ask Haaland why he plays football with so much passion, brother will give one trivial reason like beating his father's record.
Ask Osimhen why he plays football with so much passion, he will tell you how he sold pure water with his mom in Lagos traffic.

You assume like many here that it's only players that come from deprivation in Africa. That have the resilience and determination to succeed and over come all the odds.

For starters go and check Lukaku story , it's incredible his rise to becoming one of the best strikers in the World. Essentially he has been top of his game since age 16 when he started playing for Anderlecht first team.

There is poverty in Europe as well , so consider things in context.

In my opinion physical damage and struggle are not as significant as psychological damage that impacts on your sense of identity, self esteem, aspiration and convictions. The damage that institutional racism, discrimination, exclusion, unconscious bias, race motivated abuse, negative race based denigration, etc, etc .

These present and continuous , behaviours are ingrained but are strongly held by the decision makers and owners of football clubs in Europe.

Eberechi was released and rejected by over 10 clubs, before my friend Chris Ramsey ( he is black) brought him to QPR after being released by Millwall. Shockingly within 6 month's he was in the first team

There are many more similar stories were black players are disproportionately affected by negative decision that are anchored on racial discrimination.

TheLoneCitizen:
Not seen a team outplay Palace like Everton today since Patrick Vieira took over. Even when Chelsea put three past them.

EPL at its most competitive state in years. Time for Chukwueze and Osimhen to come over.

Osimhen yes

But Chukwueze hmmm get as he be.

IDENNAA:
Shut up, you silly African zombie!

Why do you find it so hard to be civil.

Is it that you have a continuous meal of bitter leaf Soup night and day.

Anywhere you go, you create rancour and contention and your diction is filled with vitriolic rhetoric and non stop abuse.

Why are you at war with the world, you desperately need deliverance.

Philosopher1979:
Joe aribi was already in rangers FC when he first played for Nigeria.
In fact he had already played a competitive game for rangers a month before his debut for Nigeria.
Check your facts before you talk.
You talk too much

You are talking about his first game.

Check your facts before you make errant assumptions.

Joe Aribo selection to the SE was made well before he played for the SE and or Rangers. The date you actually play a game is not necessarily the date you be were given selection. His selection in its entirety was anchored on his performance for Charlton athletic and in league one.

He already had a premier League offer but chose Rangers.

Not too long ago , l presented my substantive view that the Segundo division is not a high quality and competitive league iis largely on the level of the English league one or even less for some teams.

I used Villa Real B, a Segundo division team sitting at 13th position as a loose benchmark to appreciate the low quality.

Villa Real B beat Wolves U21 in a tightly contested match 2-1. I substantiated my view that no PL2 side can compete in the English Championship. And most of not all will struggle in league one.

Recently Wolves U21 played Liverpool FC U21, and got promptly flogged 5-0 .

Quite a few were arguing with me vociferously that most of the PL2 teams will thrive in the Championship. I said a very big NO.

During that debate,I said Liverpool FC are going to play Accrington Stanley from league one, I projected they would beat Liverpool FC U21. Well they did 3-2.

Considering that we seem to be gassing players in the Segundo division and all the backwater leagues of Europe.

Should we also be looking at players in league one in England. After all Aribo came from Charlton athletic in league one, straight to the SE and has been outstanding.

Steven Gerrard sacked, not surprised and l could see it coming from a mile away.

When Steven Gerrard got the Rangers job he took with him Michael Beale. He actually is the brains behind all the success.

He was actually the head of U12 development at Liverpool FC, when Steve was coaching the U18's. Beale was once the asst. Manager at Sao Paulo in .
Brazil. He really knows his stuff.

Beale has gone to Manage QPR and with few resources he is sitting top of the Championship and still playing good quality football.

He has given a new lease of life to Balogun as well as once very promising Tottenham midfielder Luke Amos who has suffered two cruciate ligament injuries.

jieta:
Apart from david Cameron who spent six years being the prime minister, the last three(Theresa may, boris johnson and now Liz truss) has barely spent close to three years of there reign.

How difficult it is to rule the uk: there already have everything working for them, a system that cub corruption, world class road and unique health care system.

Cc Komekn

This is the beauty of democracy.

Truss was shambolic in her ineptitude, caused the pound � £ to drop by over 15% to a level not seen in 30+ years. Cut taxes for the highest earners,etc and was essentially clueless. Add to that did a complete renegade on her election promises.

As a consequence she lasted 44 days.

Now compare that to our system PMB to describe him as shambolic,inept, incompetent, lawless ( no regard for the rule law ) is a gross understatement.

But he has been in power albeit through a very dubious election process, for going to 8 years.

How many Nigerian politicians and public officials if subjected to a British judiciary system would be in jail for corruption ❓in my estimation more than 55%.

This is a democratic system that works we have democrazy with impunity not democracy.

Papi85:
Chelsea are reportedly running the rule over Nigeria international Victor Osimhen ahead of a potential transfer at the end of the 2022-2023 season.



90min.com claims that Chelsea are exploring signing a new striker next summer, with Napoli's Osimhen emerging as a favourite among scouts.



The Blues are in the market for a long-term center forward as a possible replacement for the aging Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.



Romelu Lukaku is reportedly not in the plans of manager Graham Potter and Chelsea would look to offload the Belgium on a permanent basis after the expiry of his loan deal at Inter Milan.



Roberto Calenda, who represents Osimhen, recently revealed that the Super Eagle is attracting interest from many clubs but he wants to stay at Napoli and help them in their chase for Serie A and Champions League glory.



Napoli are not keen on selling their star striker unless they receive a monster bid in the region of 100 million euros that will force them to do business with an interested club.



The 23-year-old was heavily linked with Manchester United and Arsenal in the summer transfer window but a deal did not happen.



Osimhen has approximately three years left on his contract with Napoli, whom he joined from Lille in 2020 for a club record fee of 70 million euros.

It will all depend on his stats at the end of the season.

The more he doesn't perform at the top end of the league and I mean being in the top 5 of goal scorers in his league the less likely his claimed move to Chelsea will come into being.

Chelsea will be looking at several forward players and they will all be top performers in their Leagues.

Joebie:
Na this kind battle komekn suppose pick

There is NOTHING to say.

We all know that age falsification is endemic in every area of life in Nigeria.

If a person realises that by shaving off 3/4/5 ,etc years of his age, will be the difference between staying in Nigeria in abject poverty with zero prospects in life. Or going to Europe playing football with a crazy money and great prospects.

What will 99.9% of people do , particularly as there is no means of proving that he is telling lies.

So why are we all pretending that nobody age cheats in Nigeria.

andrewbaba44:
What has Nunez achieved please

Go and find out and compare it to VO.

AndSunGorilla:
Happy my man, Sadio Mane came second and was also awarded with the inaugural Socrates award for his generosity. Such a fantastic fella.

Sadio is not given the recognition and respect he deserves.

jihday:
at least Osimhen has proven himself in a top league, let Darwin do same then we can have this conversation

Nunez was the top goal scorer in Portuguese league , 26 goals from 28 games in one season is astounding, he was also just 21 in the 2020/21 season.

VO has never been the top goal scorer in any league he has played. No doubt he is a very good player.

But in terms of actual achievements he has not done better than Nunez.

He has been in Seria A for what is his third season, has he done better than everyone else, has he been the top goal scorer.

He has absolutely HUGE POTENTIAL but we are still waiting to see it. Comparison to Haaland , Mbappe, Lukuku, etc doesn't help.

Let's celebrate his achievements but don't over GAS it.

Samueltemi337:
I really don't know why Leipzig didn't give this guy a chance

It's baffling until tomorrow.

charlesemeka85:
Osihmen and lookman battling for serie A title this season

The best 2 teams in Italy currently

Lookman is a traditional winger and he's getting by those statistics.

But nobody calls him monster or dangerous clinical finisher.

TheGoodJoe:


Pease, the people at FIFA who decided to opt for the MRI scan due to its high accuracy, read far more peered review articles on this matter than you can even imagine. One of your biggest challenges is that you run with the little you know on a topic and think you know it all.

Can you even phantom the number of medical professionals that work with FIFA? The number of medical consultants etc.

Just chill please, you can not disprove the accuracy of the MRI scan.

Don't presume knowledge ascertain it.

How many peopl do you know at FIFA not from Nigeria, l know a few and wouldn't call it them subject specific specialists.

Talk for yourself and not others