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COOL10:
Iheanacho [b] keeps scoring goals as a Centre Forward for Leicester b[/b]ut some Nigerians are hell bent on making him play another position.

Issorite

Your definition of keeps scoring is warped.

KC has played 20 games and scored three goals in the EPL.

wayodude:
Disagree. This Ghanaian team is not better than our current Super Eagles. Man for man in terms of player abilities, profile and potential they are not on our level. Of course that doesn't mean they cannot win a game against us. Football being a low scoring game by nature means outcomes like the one we have just seen will continue to happen especially when head to head games are played in such short time periods.

With all due respect Amartey is rubbish, ask Leicester city fans, their midfield is totally wack, similar to our own without Ndidi and upfront there is little on offer. Kamaldeen and Kudus can play a bit but they will get roasted at the world cup. No malice. Save this post.

I don't agree with you.

Over two legs we struggled to score with our superior strike force and Midfield.

I watched Mohammed Kudus of Ajax turn is inside out.

On the day the Ghanaian Midfield was more inventive than ours , Mohammed Kudus in particular stood out.

It's no use crying over spilled milk, we defeated ourselves we did not prepare strategically and lacked cohesion.

One thing that is baffling Awoniyi didn't get invited but Sadiq did Bundesliga Vs Segunda Division.

Amedino99:
For a bid to have been submitted, they must have evaluated him and deemed him good enough for their standard. Try to be positive, you no go die if you talk say him go make am for England.

No bid has been submitted.

Clubs look at hundreds of players but will only put in an official bid for just a handful sometimes it's just 2 or 3.

Using emotive sentiment based preference is not intelligence.

andrewbaba44:
As usual always wishing naija born players bad

Even if the news is not true ,there is nothing bad in hoping

You may find this hard to believe but I actually know Awoniyi.

Clubs having interest or looking at a player is not a bid , clubs will look at hundreds of players. But will actually only put in a bid for very few.

It's in that context ,l have said I have my doubts.

That's an informed objective deduction not HATE as you put it.

thesicilian:
A well trained soldier shouldn't be terrified of being alone in the bush to the point of making this kind of video.

Bravery is not stupidity.

Look at this soldier, NO BODY ARMOUR, NO HELMET, NO COMMUNICATION, ANTIQUATED AK-47 NO OPTIC SIGHTS.

He better use the gps on his phone to plot a route out of that area of contention with stealth.

The NA is inept and highly Incompetent.

Kastonkastroll:
If Africa still have strong leaders like Thomas sankara, gaddafi, Mandela, Nkruma, Edi-Ami, etc. We will be giving America and her EU puppets a big F*CK OFF sign.

And we will say bless you Putin you are the modern day saviour of Africa.

We want to adopt autocratic dictatorships in our political systems please can we be Russian slaves and have Presidents for life like you please.

Oh we love Russian fascism and blood thirsty repression we don't want western style freedom and democracy.

We want to be oppressed this freedom is killing us it's too much.

andrewbaba44:
I love this and I hope it works out

Have my doubts until a proper bid is made.

Awoniyi could become a bench warmer in West ham and Newcastle.

andrewbaba44:
He won’t get into the French team or bench self

But he will surely get into the Belgian team as a backup to lukaku

Maybe but don't forget you have Origi there too among other forward players.

Kog45:
Sir you need to go into archive and read about Nigeria football administrators from the 70s to date and you will appreciate individual efforts.We are here talking about Super eagles cos some started the brand and from Green to Super should tell you something.

I agree there was one I met Group Captain former NFF Chairman his son went to university in the UK close to me and also did reserve officer training.

He seemed a man of UNQUESTIONABLE INTEGRITY.

Kog45:
Oga DO4LUV,seriously you love Pinnick Amaju....are you trying to exonerate him from our inability to perform better in afcon and our failure to qualify for WC.

He is our NFF boss for God sake and everything stop on his desk.The same system that you are trying to nail but brought Amaju in and he is fully part of the system.Pls just tell me what you know Amaju for before he became NFF president?

Oga just see Eto real commitment in few months as Cameroon FA boss but our NFF member were running up and down to have FIFA seats leaving Nigeria football to suffer.We all forget that success of any national team is football administration but we are always looking for short cut to success....yes super eagles branding and spinsors but the real national team branding started in 1994 with real private and foreign sponsors coming in check.out that 1994 eagles all time best jersey.

Amaju should go back to the drawing board and give us real football development not this face lift development. He can do better cos he has the exposure.

I know the politician Amaju but I wouldn't call him exposed and knowledgeable as well as committed to the cause.

AndSunGorilla:
Our underaged team have seriously regressed. The NFF needs to pay attention to the underage teams again, let the NFF work together with the NPFL too to improve the league and harness all the numerous talents we have home and abroad.

There is no EPL club with at least 25 Nigerian origin players in their academy teams. If you look at the top London teams it is double digit % figure.

There are too many.

Skie:
Right now, the black stars are a little above terrible. But they have all of 7 months to improve.

And they will.

They have quite a few players to get from the EPL.

I think Salisu will now probably agree to play for then he is a very good CB.

Curtisaxel10:
I never doubted his hunger and determination. I only pointed out his lack of technicality, striker's instincts and his poor decision making.

I recently said, the Victor O , I see now plays with a murderous rage, relentless determination, blind anger and drive ive not seen in any player.

However, is that all that's needed to succeed ❓

He is not technically astute, he doesn't have outstanding football intelligence with skill and trickery.

But with his attributes he will go far but world class he has a lot to learn.

typicalgamer:
Oga it’s pure hype. Moses Simon and co and have professional to rely on, but who does the national team have.
Except ndidi, aribo,osimehn and Moses.
I don’t think the rest players are undroppable in their clubs. All of them are what we call role players in basketball terms

Ndidi us no longer the first choice and can be dropped and has been.

Sometimes he plays as a CB other times as a DM.

drDoom3:
Coaches always say “we take it game after game”, e get why.

One thing Otto Addo did well was to study our team and play the best tactics that would maximize Ghana’s chances of qualifying, even with a relatively poor squad. I’m sorry, but Eguavoen didn’t do that.

I said ages ago they a very astute and knowledgeable and highly regarded Director of football in Chris Houghton.

I said then that irrespective of the players they are going to be very well prepared.

Well we can see the results of good preparation.

Come Quatar and there will be several quality additions to the squad not least Hudson -Odio

5inchdick:
Komekn should be able to explain.

Experential competencies from playing with top quality coaches in Europe for two decades.

And inventive Network ( who you know)

Windscribe:
Where is TheSuperNerd ? The chief hype man.




Monster machine, the menace, destroyer, Tank, Bazooka, armour tank, Putin, Missile, hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Sniper, Atomic bomb

They have all gone AWOL

andrewbaba44:
Older players

Balogun 34 ,I can manage him for next afcon before he goes finally
Ighalo 33 needs to go
Musa 30 ,not too old but needs to go
Shehu not too old but needs to go as he offers nothing
Akpeyi 36 needs to go even though he is better than those 2 frauds we parade

Maduka is still young and can improve with good GK coaches ,uzoho can also still be in the team but he needs to be playing regularly for his club to be invited ,they should scout GK from the npfl about 3 from there will give Maduka uzoho and any other European a run for their money

If Ekong cannot win back his shirt back at watford he should leave to where he will be playing because he is looking like he will be the new captain already

All the bench should be dismissed ,I don’t want to see amunike there also ,yobo should also leave that place abeg

NPFL is not only the only place where Nigerian goalkeepers are birthed. For your information Arsenal has two reserve keepers of Nigerian origin Okonkwo and Ejehiri. There are others across Europe.

Luckily I missed watching the match Live I wasn't in England but somewhere else, didn't get access.

Mousup40:
what stupiid promise is okoye showing? nigeria does not have a good and reliable gk,all our goalkeepers including maduka okoye and uzoho are frauds and should never be called up to the national team again

When the desirable is not AVAILABLE the AVAILABLE becomes desirable.

Okoye is the best we have in the HERE and NOW.

semid4lyfe:
I am surprised Eguavoen has not resigned as coach of the team and Technical Director of the NFF.

What is he still waiting for?

Djamel Belmadi of Algeria and Carlos Quieroz of Egypt resigned immediately and didn't wait to be sacked.

Eguavoen's sit tight attitude is disgusting.

Want to chop last salary and allowances.

No matter the circumstances Nigerian official never ever resign, even when CAUGHT red handed in outright corruption and even stealing.

The only one who did was the British born Former minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun. She was hounded out without any justification whatsoever. Possibly she refused to do the bidding of the ruling cabal.

She since has won her case in court over the false allegations.

Philosopher1979:
Our not qualifying for the world cup is a blessing in disguise. Now we will attack the problem from the roots.
We must develop our league and stop corruption in nff. A lot of changes must take place in our football.
We also need to improve in coaching from the grassroots.
The way we run football needs to change

Unfortunately corruption pervaded every facet of life in Nigeria, it's a question of degree. It is a way of life that's been in existence before the nation was even birthed as state in 1960.

Being corrupt is almost synonymous with being Nigerian.

To change the NFF you almost have to change Nigeria.

That my friend only God can do and make possible.

Tessyy1701:
It's not a must you reply every messages.. Batsuayi is always present on that same bench and Osiemen won't make the bench? You cap too much.

Must you comment in every comment.

Two national teams were mentioned France and Belgium. He be will not get on the bench of the French team.

And if the term used was "might not get on the bench" let me explain what it means, you clearly don't know.

That there is a possibility he may or may not make the bench.

mirinder:
Imagine if osimhen was playing for a country like belgium, france that value black players. He would have achieved a lot

He might not even get on the bench.

mirinder:
i pity those ghanian players except the ayew brothers. Their case will be like monkey dey work, baboon dey chop when odoi, salisu and schlup makes the worldcup squad

If you have players that are better than the players you have and will add quality and increase your comptetive advantage.

You should reject them because they were not part of the qualification process.

That's what you are saying effectively.

5inchdick:
I agree with the referee's part. I think if he had his way, he'll find a way to give us a win.
But Monster Machine was definitely our best player yesterday. I no know which big chance he miss o.

He missed at least two good chances that a world class or top class player should put away.

dijon:
Mention any tactical play or knowledge infused or you saw in the third phase of the field that would have resulted into goal.

We played into the hand of the Ghanian coach tactic book. He was so confident in his tactics against our archaic coach that he never doubted his team would come out better even though he possessed lesser quality player.
I doff my hat for coach Otto Ado....

Our own Ex- Internationals want to coach Super Eagles without a coaching badge or internship from a reputable club side in Europe.

I said months ago that we should not be in a fools paradise , but no we felt we are the giant if Africa and Ghana are too small.

When my good Friend Chris Houghton became director of Sport plus Otto the Coach, l knew Ghana would be highly organised and the opportunity for dubious selection mitigated considerably.

Of course many of us with this view were castigated and dismissed with the normal debased rhetoric.

There is no joy in this situation, I too expected initially better things from Eguavon but by when he began to anchor ⚓ his strategy and vision. From an era of near 30 years ago.

I began to have doubts, his selection of Nwakali a key pointer of a deviation from measured objectivity to emotive preference.

But being a biased Nigerian I hoped for the best.

We sacked Rohr arbitrarily in my opinion but then again being biased l thought we had a saviour in Eguavon.

Icon79:
Which chances did Osihmen missed?

Listen, we didn’t create even one clear cut chance over the two legs. Victor buried the only chance he had but unfortunately he was offside.

We played without a system, hence we couldn’t create chances. Pumping high balls into the box isn’t creating chances. Our problem in these two games was 100% tactical.


O pari

He had two clear chances that a top quality striker should be hit the target with at least. But many call me him world class here. So he failed in this crucial game to show true quality.

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You are just attacking. You are not really making a point.

Today, I became bitter because I have seen we will not play the way I want and also we have influences that will not allow it happen.

For instance, we needed Iheanacho towards the end. But, he must play Ighalo. No one should tell me anything, it is influenced. Iheanacho is the only striker we have that can drop deep and hit a decent pass. He is good at crossing. He has a good shooting range.

Should Musa come in ahead of someone like Amoo?[/quote].

On form KC should not be in the team, 2 goals in the EPL all season is not inspiring.

Musa should go ahead of Amoo who has no basis to be in the SE.

COOL10:
I'm just trying to remember all the funny things I've read on this thread since the AFCON exit. I'll be naming them one by one as I remember

1) 'Nwakaeme is too old for this team. We have a plethora of wingers who are better than him'. Well I guess Ahmed Musa and underperforming Chukwueze are the 'better wingers'.

2) 'Uzoho cannot make that kind of mistake that Maduka made. Uzoho is more confident.' Maybe nah his agbero face dey deceive una. They are both the same.

The naked hypocrisy and bigoted double displayed by so many here is off the scale. It blatant and SHAMELESS.

I was waiting to see people slate and condemn Uzoho for making us loose the world cup spot.

But NO not a word, his error is significantly worse than the error of Okoye the ball went under his body Thar's a Huge gafg and school boy error.

Okoye error was that he was not able to get enough force on a ball that bobbled just before his hand got it to it.

The hypocrisy here is just without measure.

I disagree they are not both the same, Uzoho is worse.

jihday:
tactics aside Eguavoen shouldn’t have started both bassey and Lookman, that’s very very risky

Why❓

codemaniacs:
3 man midfield for the whole match.. in the 2nd half it turned to a 1 man midfield and that midfielder was a minus the only good thing he did was bringing down a Ghanaian player which was due to his poor positioning and he got carded.

For now Sanusi is better than Bassey for the S.E.

Promotion of mediocrity is what's affecting Nigeria not tribalism, nepotism and corruption.

Europeans, Whyte Americans and Asians e.t.c are tribal, nepotistic and corrupt but the high quality their corporate, academic and sports institutions produces is what hides their tribalism, nepotism and corruption.

Mention 7 high quality football academies in each region in Nigeria which means mention 1 in each region in Nigeria and their players playing in Europe top 10 leagues and compare it to only Chelsea FC academy and the players Chelsea have produced not to talk of the clubs ..

How many Nigerian billionaires own fully equipped football or sports academies in Nigeria not to talk about clubs.

I really don't know to be honest, but with regards to club football I would say Bassey is way ahead.

A good barometer is to see how many clubs will put in a bid to buy him and how many put in a bid for Bassey.

I very much doubt if Bassey will be in Rangers next season most likely the EPL but I don't see Sanusi moving to La Liga , EPL ,or a higher league.

JohnBullMySon:
You're very funny. Keep on dodging the reason we lost.

Which player should be invited that wasn't invited?

Or was Eguavoen being remote controlled by politicians to make substitutions

You and Komekn are just the same kind of people. You'll look for everything to support your point no matter how unreasonable it is. The only difference is that Komekn is for foreign based while you rep Naija based.

Now you're blaming politicians. Very soon you'll blame Putin. Keep it up. You're doing well.

TheGoodJoe is fixated with particular players who he believes meet and exceed the standards.

I have a bias for Nigerian origin players in the UK , but it's both emotive and objective. But that bias is knowledge ,it is participative and it's involvement based. That means l know a lot more about European and particularly English football.

Bias in this context means specialist and specific knowledge not prejudicial preference.