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Kbs468:
Osimhen shouldn't try joining Chelsea ooo.

Left for me, I would even rate Batshuayi higher than Tammy Abraham if given the opportunity to do so.

What he has been lacking is playing time as what has been working for Tammy is the championship experience with Lampard in the dough out

Why do you rate Batshuayi higher than Tega Abrahams.

Curious.

TheGoodJoe:
Osimhen will also get good education from Klopp. Over the years, Klopp has been brilliant in nurturing bright talents. From Gotze, Gundogan, Sahin, Lewandowski and Hummels. We are seeing some fantastic work with Firmino, Salah and Mane.

So you want him to go Liverpool and sit in the U23's learning.

Osimhen is not the same type of player as Firmino, Salah and Mane. He has a different skill set.

jihday:
Unpopular opinion: Osimhen can easily bench Firmino, as a top striker Firmino isn't prolific enough

Would it not be better to explain how you came to that conclusion.

Instead if just creating a continuous question ❓ and running away.

Humility017:
He should go to Liverpool please...
The 2 English kids in Chelsea and Spurs are untouchable for now.

Tammy & Kane

Don't think he will fit into the Liverpool system.

His technical attributes do not lend him to the Liverpool system.

Subzero047:
You see my problem with you,What is negative about stating the obvious fact?

Iwobi plays better as an AM, Even his best game for Everton against West ham came as an AM

Why should I check the coach's comments when I watched the match?

I commend independent thought.

And even if I don't agree l can appreciate your position.

In my opinion l am not able to say which position Iwobi clearly excells in. I find him to be drifting between the two positions as AM or as a RW.

But without clearly staking a claim as being totally outstanding in one. I find him to have very good days as a winger and then good days as AM. But without mastering either position with total excellence as his own.

You could say he is versatile.

Kbs468:
Arteta Identifies Key Staff He Wants at Arsenal and there’s a Nigerian on Board
By Adebanjo - December 18, 2019


With Mikel Arteta’s return to Arsenal almost certain, there are reports the Spaniard will raid Manchester City’s backroom and Support team as he looks to hit the ground running at Emirates.



Arteta who is now the front runner for the Managerial position at Arsenal is looking to bring in one of Pep Guardiola’s assistant at City’s Rodolfo Borrell.



The Spaniard is also keen to have Man City talent-spotter Sam Fagbemi join him.



As per Sami Mokbel [Daily Mail] Fagbemi, 25, currently leads City’s youth scouting strategy in the south, working closely with head of academy recruitment and talent.



The City scout has been responsible for a number of southern-based youngsters joining the Etihad academy in recent months, something that has not gone unnoticed by the Gunners.



Fagbemi played a key role in City’s successful moves for Millwall teenagers Sam Edozie, 16, and Darko Gyabi, 15, in the summer.


Josh Wilson-Eshbrand, 16, joined from West Ham and Ben Knight, 17, signed from Ipswich in the summer – two moves that were fronted by Fagbemi.



City’s ability to lure players north from clubs that are closer in proximity to Arsenal came as a frustration to the Gunners, and convinced academy director Per Mertesacker to hasten a significant shake-up of the the club’s youth recruitment personnel.

I don't think he Borrell has much to offer at Arsenal.

He needs to get a better assistant.

Also Borrell has very sticky hands.

Kbs468:
How I wish Arsenal would just go for him this January because he is that which is lacking at Arsenal right now

Arsenal need defenders.

Ndidi will end up playing as a CB for them.

tbaba1234:
Monaco's coach is getting sacked.. Maybe Onyekuru will get more opportunities

Monaco as club us now toxic and in free fall, how many Managers have they had in the last two years.

It's not about Onyekuru.

The club is in disarray a mere shadow of thier former selves.

Subzero047:
You expected me to bring out instances of you giving flying kicks to them?

The thing is that you always say unsavory things about our (Nigerian born especially) players

Whether you hide them in sarcasm or give subtle jabs so that you would not be caught red handed is up to you

Do you make allegations by assumption or by conjecture and or by self birthed opinion.

No, the onus lies on you to prove your allegation and not on me to substantiate it for you.

If you have been to a university then you would have understood the requirements to substantiate by reference. But it seems you do not appreciate that basic of requirements.

You have clearly been unable to do substantiate by a simple screen shot and now you want to cover you lack of capacity with evasive waffle and suggestive innuendo in the negative..

You like many others before you have made these spurious allegations. But not one of you to date has been able to substantiate your opinionated self birthed notions.

If l make an allegation here it will be substantive, proven and clearly factual and if not it will be objective and rationally circumstantial.

I don't do assumption from my own delusion.

I do appreciate that there are Eurocentric and Afrocentic conflicts with diction and how it can easily be misconstrued and perceived wrongly depending on a personal appreciation .

Nonetheless it's no excuse for blatant lies.

Icon4s:
Meanwhile, you a committee member did not take part in the voting exercise, you also refused to name your SE best XI.

I have given you a mention severally at the other thread, yet no response. So if you prefer me bringing it here so be it. You are the one solely holding us back from releasing the results of the voting!

If you knew you were not going to Participate in the whole process you ought to have opted out a long time ago.

We have been patient with you enough!

Apologies because l haven't returned to the committee page having presented my nominations and concluded the matter has ended.

It seems l erroneously took the view that after submitting my nominations it would be a double vote to then vote on the same nominations. Which is the general practice when on a committe that presents nominations at least in my experience.

That it seems is not the practice here.

So it is not particularly cumbersome to do but I guess my experience of participation on committees as a member and chair and the inherent general conventions are different from yours. Thus my experiential assumptions.

Nonetheless, l concede a wrong doing that emanates from a different appreciation and as such I am sorry.

Subzero047:
You asked for one I have given you three

First of all you haven't defined what you mean by " Our players "

Secondly, no disrespect, but it seems your capacity to deduce and comprehend are very limited.

You used the word ATTACK OUR PLAYERS.

Giving an opinion and or constructive criticism of a players capacity and attributes constitutes an attack in your Oxford English Dictionary. It's bewildering the levels of your understanding of common basic English language.

Can you please having hopefully re-educated yourself on the true meaning of the diction you have used " Attack our players "

Please Answer my question ❓ Tell me the players you have defined as " Our players " that l have attacked according to you.

charlesemeka85:
everton rushing to get ancelotti may come back to burn them. the clubs ambition right now should be fighting to remain in the epl and i think that is achievable with ferguson. they don't need to play pretty anymore but stick to old british style of play which the interim gaffer deployed against chelsea and man united and got 4 points.

Ancelotti taking over the club now is a huge gamble

Agreed 100%. Without question ❓


I will add to that VERY EXPENSIVE GAMBLE.

Ancelotti will come in with his own demands and strategy. There is not enough time to try and fixe things it's SURVIVAL.

Maybe try to buy new expensive players in the January transfer window which means a lot of money. Even upsetting the very delicate balance in the team.

Everton Could get relegated.

Subzero047:
Komekn regularly attacks our players, it should be no surprise if he gets it back

You have clearly jumped on to a bandwagon without making up your own mind.

That's what Fela called " Follow Follow "

Now I challenge you to give one example of me attacking our players not two just one. With a screen to substantiate you claim of attacking our players.

But before we proceed what constitutes our players to you❓

I do not wish to presume like many do here.

isan:
I think iwobi will shine under ancelotti a attacking minded beast under him Chelsea destroyed premier league scoring 103 goals ancelloti can help Everton closed the gap between them and the top six like pochetino did with spurs

Different players different approach and strategy.

Everton cannot play that kind of attacking football with the level of quality they have.

Humility017:
Komekn sorry for my earlier response...
Never meant it as an attack....since Charles see it as one...like one it will look like same to you....

But if you wanna visit benin for the match please do...unlike when you plan shuttle north Africa all from Europe which no one later heard off

Forget this Oyibo ting.

I know Benin Well Wella possibly pass you.

And na flight oh.

Driving was going to be easy if AFCON had been held in Morocco. But it wasn't unfortunately for me.

reccy:
Thank you mr President....

May God protect you as you take on the task to provide good atmosphere for free and fair election...

I wish you the very best sir!

Pot calling the kettle black.

After desperately seeking power for a decade plus ➕. He then decided to dine with the devil and form alliance with the Jagaban.

To ensure his hold on power unconstitutionally removed the CJN and placed his lacky Tanko.

Has showed complete contempt for the Rule of law ⚖ and has attacked the free press and any voice of dissent smashed with the official state thugs DSS.

We had a very questionable election confirmed by a very questionable constituted supreme Court.

We have a rubber stamp NATIONAL ASSEMBLY that has become effectively an appendage of the Executive.

So who therefore is the desperate Dan that haa been holding on to power by any and all means possible.

charlesemeka85:
igeria Football Federation President Amaju Pinnick has disclosed that Benin City will host Nigeria's first 2022 World Cup qualifying match in March 2020.

The draw for the second round of the World Cup qualifiers will hold at the Nile Ritz-Carlton in Cairo, Egypt on 21 January 2020.

"This is a historic city and you cannot talk about Nigerian football without talking about Edo state," Pinnick said in an interview with Brila FM after the NFF Congress held at the ancient city.

"At a time we had five (Nigeria) Premier League clubs from Benin City - Flash Flamingoes, Bendel United, Bendel Insurance all these clubs were in Benin and they paraded most of the Super Eagles players so football is coming home and that's why we are bringing the first World Cup qualifying match to Benin City," Pinnick stated.

The 14 winners of the first round qualifiers joins the 26 top seeded teams to form ten groups of four contestants each based on the December 2019 FIFA rankings with the ten group winners then advancing to the final round where the five qualified teams for Qatar 2022 will emerge.

The last time Benin City hosted a major qualifying match for Nigeria's men's team was between 2011 and 2012 during qualifiers for the football event of the London 2012 Olympics which Nigeria like the 2020 edition failed to qualify for.

Nigeria have participated at six editions of the World Cup between 1994 and 2018 with the only absence at the tournament being the 2006 World Cup in Germany

That's a commendable act.

I wonder if l should come to watch that match with my guys.

TheGoodJoe:
His treatment of Moise Keane was beyond harsh but sent the right message. If a player is not ready to run his socks off for the team, then he has no place in the team.

I feel Duncan Ferguson is conservative in his approach but I admire his desire for every player to put in a large share in work rate for the team.

He is a quintessential typical old school type of manager.

A few years ago l met him at an Everton event to honour him of I'm right. I got some invitations did some small talk, chop bland oyibo food and network.

He isn't what l would call very intelligent and strategic in his approach. Plain speaking everybody's know where you stand and if you don't he will tell you in very colourful language.

100% effort you must put in and do or die attitude. In my opinion right now Everton can't win anything they just need to stay in the EPL. He is the best man for the job short term.

LaMujer:
Its a weekly assessment you say, yet, his ranking is showing red, indicating he dropped as regards to the previous week.



But at the bolded, it's the first time he has made top 50 in a long time


I guess last week is a long time after all

To really buttress your point why not be substantive as opposed to being assumptive.

I showed screenshots.

TheGoodJoe:
The current Iwobi is a workrate monster compared to the former Iwobi who used to gas at 60mins.

He has no choice.

Duncan Ferguson is a Scotsman that is very blunt and has no hesitation in benching you if you don't perform.

Look how he took off Keane unprecedented, how can you remove the substitute after 18 minutes. This Ferguson is ruthless, make no mistake.

Good news with thanksgiving to God.

simiife:
i don't know how true this news is,but this should settle the argument about kelechi being IN FORM or otherwise.

You jumped into quickly without established the assessment methodology and structure as well as rational behind the weekly match day stats.

It's players who performed in a particular match in the week.

Ndidi is placed at no.38 and KC 48.

That's the first time he has made that top 50 in a very long time.

The argument centred on what you define IN-FORM to be. Or you could say what is it in general accepted to be in the context of football in Europe.

My definition was reflective of the generally accepted definition predominantly used on football. Which is essentially over a series of games of consistent outstanding performances to conclude that a player is IN- FORM.

I guess everyone can create thier own

CASTAGNE:
Wilfred ndidi and kelechi iheanacho have been included in the sky sports top 50 in form players in the premier league

Yes that's quite correct the IN- FORM players of the week essentially for each game of the EPL in the week.

The methodology is that each week stats are collected over a myriad of items. It's quite an elaborate system but it's at the end of the season that all the stats are collated to give an over all picture on FORM.

Ndidi is a regular in this weekly widely fluctuating assessments.

See screen shots below.

charlesemeka85:
digne is better than chilwell. him and richadlison are everton's best so far this season

I would add Sidibe to that number he has been outstanding for Everton.

Abusule007:
Why was osimhen substituted just after 23mins of game time?

I hope he's not injured

Very very strange situation he was not injured in play. It looked like has was having a minor asthma attack or some difficulty with his breathing. Not sure but it was serious enough for him to stop and be substituted.

Pray he is OK.

rabzy:
I hope it is just fatigue or something, hope its not something serious, that angle was tight definitely, needed the post to go in. The mantle is on loic Remy to steer the ship.

Loic is essentially in retirement.

He has lost pace and has no longer the same goal threat he once had. Lille have one striker and no other back up. Without Osimhen they are literally toothless.

Another Lille players goes off injured first thirty minutes and two players injured that's not good.

rabzy:
Yes o osihmen with a goal, I hope he is alright

Brilliant goal got the angle absolutely right

Doesn't look good hope he is OK, very concerned he may have to go to hospital.

Blueelf:
Maybe but the overall message isn't lost

You deh try do comedy.

Well done.

Blueelf:
Chukwueze is a bit better than William. If chuks can add finishing to his game, he would be dreaded

LOL

If every player could add finishing to thier game they would all be world class.

It's not that easy otherwise every football player would go out and get it.

Dont you think this your analysis is a bit elementary. Lol

rabzy:
Chief which large section was justifying his action, a lot of people here never justified it.....except if I have been skipping past too many posts

Go back and look, the discourse got protracted because.

It was said here Rogers should not have taken him off, that the referee was wrong, the Norwich players were wrong.

That KC was just being determined to score. That he just made a mistake that is to say that his actions were more or less reasonable considering the circumstances. By implication justifiable.

My position is not centred on KC as a person but the actions therein to be totally dishonourable and entirely reprehensible.

That's the core issue here my position is the principal of fair play is non-negotiable. And l will not compromise is to suit a player.

That means HATRED BIAS and PREJUDICE towards the darling of many here KC.

24kmagic:
But this portfolio no too much for this woman?

Minister of Finance, Budget and National planning.

What is she bringing to the table the previous Minister of Finance did not.

Is she more experienced or knowledgeable or is it a question of preference. That the previous Minister of Finance was forced out under very spurious circumstances.

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Mujtahida:
Komekn shey you see how tempered Rogers was in his assessment of the situation unlike the gusto and relish which has characterized your own assessment.

You have no idea Whatsoever.

What is said in the press is DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT from what is said in the dressing room.

Of course you can never know that.