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Mujtahida:
[b]Komekn is anti Nigerian born players [/b]and in Nwakali he has found his prime target.

Even if komekn speaks the truth about Nwakali, I will still take it with a huge dose of salt.

Truth is good but some people use it to destroy just as light which is good can be used to blind.

You are so correct
Boniface
Ighalo Odion
Etebo
Ndidi
VO
Awoniyi
Bright
Moses S
Moffi
Onyeka

All these players were born in (little Lagos)Peckham London that's why I LIKE them so much. Some of them I know personally.

Or we could go in the recent past players like;

Yobo
Mikel
Yakubu
Anichebe
Shittu

Etc

These players were all born in the UK .

You need to develop your mind and update your perceptions from a parochial retrogressive one. And see things much more holistically without prejudice.

Because I don't rate your favourite players doesn't amount to HATE.

chrisooblog:
a player featuring consistently for a major European team not getting into a mid EPL club just because honestly

I like specifically established facts that are used to make substantive comparison deductions. I don't like emotive led assumptions anchored ⚓ on personal preferences and perceptions.

The EPL is the best league in the world, the most physically taxing, fast and competitive as well as the most expensive overall.

The Portuguese league is rated number 7 in Europe.

Just because honestly means what exactly ❓

I will give you a proviso , proposition, players core objective is to maximise income, in the shortest possible time. In addition the best players get the best money 🤑.

What are you implying that Fulham a mid table team in the EPL is not better than Porto or vice versa. ❓

Let's start from the back Pepe highest paid player in Porto will struggle to get into a Championship team, that's a fact.

Zaidu will not get into Fulham fact. Marko Liverpool and Cardiff city reject in the here and now will not smell Fulham midfield. Galano who scored a winger goal attributed more to poor goal keeping is not better than Wilson ,Willian and or B. De Cordova-Reid.

These are the specifics . Finally ,none of these Fulham players will go to this so called major historical European club because Porto cannot afford them.

Below a catalogue salary comparison, it's currently €1.20 to £1 . When you want to make comparison. Pepe the highest paid Porto player is on €48k a week which is approx £40k .

MetalJigsaw:
I agree he was wasteful but do you know that his pace and off ball movements got him in most of these positions?

How many pin- point passes did he even get?Look at that Zambo Anguissa pass in the UCL nah.. So sweet.

I must admit Anguissa is a boss. Iwobi needs to learn from that dude.

Your admission is based on what.

Fulham got rid of Anguissa but decided to go for Iwobi,what did they see that you cannot.

Danielnino00:
There's no criteria you will use in any shape or form that will place Fulham ahead of Porto . Its only your bias and prejudice that would place Fulham ahead of Porto..
Outside of the big 5 European teams, Porto are one of the best in Europe alongside Ajax...
Porto is the club where the big boys go to sign players... Fulham aren't a big team... Many players have left Porto and signed for clubs bigger than Fulham

You are being emotional and sentimental not rational and or objective.

At the time when I made my proposition when Fulham were in the Championship. I challenged some of you to make a player to player positional comparison. But none of you did .

Mitrovic was the striker for Fulham and Marega was the striker for Porto miles apart in quality. Pepe is still the CB for Porto is he better than Tosin & Diop in any way shape or form currently big NO.

Apart from Diaz could not see any of them walking into the Fulham team.

But you don't get into the specifics you rant and make noise.

Philosopher1979:
OK explain how porto are more successful in Europe. Porto has won the champions league twice, the europa and other trophies in Europe while arsenal has only won two despite this their superiority.
Porto is a major team in europe

Do you want to grasp on to past history of two decades ago in game that is based on the here and now and recent times.

You are not being reasonable 😔.

Nottingham forest have won the champions league twice as well , explain why they are more successful than Arsenal.

There seems to be for quite a few euphoria and celebrations that Porto beat Arsenal 1-0.

And therefore Porto is now better than Arsenal is a highly quality team ,and so are all of there players on the level of Arsenal or even better.

It's not so simplistic. During the 2022 FA Cup Championship club at the time, Nottingham forest beat Arsenal 1-0 and whipped Leicester City 4-1 and finally succumbed to Liverpool in hard fought contest, loosing 1-0.

Did that immediately put Nottingham forest on par with Arsenal and Leicester City.

Or we could talk about Leicester city that got beat by Newport county (League 2) 2-1 in the FA Cup.

Did that automatically elevate the lower teams players to top quality, no at all. Newport county still remains in the 4th tier of English League football.

What makes top level quality quality is CONSISTENCY ,the ability to perform at high level continuously.

Back to Porto , there is a lot of talk about my past opinion. Which was that Zaidu would not get into Championship Fulham at the time. That opinion remains the same when I said and now currently.

Zaudi will not smell Fulham, incidentally the same left backs they had them in the Championship are still with them now Antony Robinson.

I went on further to say that very few of the Porto players will get into Championship Fulham at that time. I compared the players at that time Mitrovic striker, Tosin CB ,etc and concluded Fulham were better.

That opinion expressed over three years ago remains the largely same today.

mrwilliams9:
But we haven’t done so yet?!?!

Why will you want one of your most experienced midfielders to leave the set-up without an adequate replacement.

It’s one thing if we had a glut of MFs, but we don’t. It’s the same thing with Nwakwali. People will say don’t invite him but are not providing an alternative.

I’m not so enamored by Nwakwali but I know he sabi spray pass which none of our current midfielders really can do.

Like for crying out loud we went to AFCON with 5 midfielders. You could see the fatigue by the time we got to the final.

Iwobi is one of our most capped players and is still playing consistently in a competitive league for his club. Why would we want him to quit the team when we have NOT identified an adequate replacement.

This line of reasoning isn’t sound in my humble opinion.

Who told you none of our current midfielders cannot spray pass ❓

And if he so good at spraying passes, why is he in Chavez at the bottinof the Portuguese league.❓❓

Looking forward to Liverpool Vs Luton and seeing Adebayo and Osho.

I can't see Luton winning more like damage limitation, hopefully Adebayo is fit . Can he get goal 🥅 hope he does.

AndSunGorilla:
Abeg is Osimhen in Napoli match day squad for today?

Can't see how they can leave him out unless they want to get whipped by Barca

MetalJigsaw:
Nigeria's Osimhen & Boniface Makes 2024 Top 10 World Best Strikers;

1. Erling Halaand
2. Harry Kane
3. Kylian Mbappe
4. Victor Osimhen(NIGERIAN)
5. Lauaro Martinez(ARGENTINE)
6. Heung Ming Song
7. Victor Boniface(NIGERIAN)
8. Julian Alvarez(ARGENTINE)
9. Cristiano Ronaldo
10. Robert Lewandoski.
(SPORT Bible)

Nigeria missed Boniface in AFCON2023. We hope he'll be ready along Osimhen, for CAF WC Qualifiers and next year's afcon as well. Only Nigeria and Argentina have 2 players on the list. Congrats to them all.

Can you place the link

Because it's either a game football forum because these claims don't add up for 2023/24..

Alvarez is not in the EPL top 10 with only 8 goals , Song not in the top 5 and VO is way behind the top 10.

Kog45:
Sir,we are talking about 1978 team when Africa had two slots.This team qualified for Montreal 1976 but returned home without participating due to protest against IOC for refusing to sanction New Zealand for touring apartheid South Africa which go against the United Nations rule.

My point the team had solid build up from 1975 to 1980,winning Afcon and lost WC ticket on home soil in a painful way,scored own goal.Yes the team would have been a team to remember if they had participated in Olympics,qualified for 1978 WC but good the team won 1980 Afcon to tell you the team was good.

Well,comparing them to present generation team,I will not do that but Christian Chuckwu,Muda Lawal,Segun Odegbami and Adokiye Aimesemeaka will shake any generational eagles team.

Agreed

MetalJigsaw:
You're just sounding as if if he gets invited for a friendly someone will die or the earth will fall, or the money in your bank account will reduce.

Is he clubless or is he playing for free?

Is he playing in Taiwan or india?

Even though its Chavez weakest in the league is Nsue that wrote his name in the history book of his country playing?

Even in the AFCON provisional list he was in there which means Peseiro who is even Portuguese at least has him in consideration and is being recognized so why the hell would you who is just a fan wage an outright war on his invitation?

Your assertions are just emotions and bias daz all.

Let's examine your assertions and propositions and see what they are anchored on ⚓ substantive facts and rational ❓

What's the basis for national team selection ❓ Outstanding consistent top level performances in club and league. Taking into cognisance the quality of the league.

Having this quasi balance score card appraisal framework. What then is the rational for Nwakali selection ❓

Since arriving at Arsenal as a youth player he has been in consistent regression from loans in the Eredivisie demoted very quickly to Dutch 2nd tier , then the indignity of Porto B, ( youth team) .

Finally Arsenal dashed him to Huesca Segunda Division (no transfer fee) On arrival at Huesca he was immediately loaned out to an event lower Segunda Division team. Huesca then tried to sell him for €300k
But nobody wanted him fact. Then Huesca tried to terminate Nwakali contract illegally before it's expiry, they were desperate to throw him away. Why 😧 too good ❓

He then goes to a Bankruptcy team that's at the bottom of the Segunda Division, Ponferridina. This his third year in the doldrums of Portuguese football. He gets relegated and once again nobody in la liga and or the Segunda Division wants him.

Hundreds of coaches, analysts and managers have seen him in Segunda Division but NOBODY wanted him, but why ❓

He ends up taking a pay cut to play in a other poor level relegation club in the Portuguese league, Chavez.

It's only people here that talk about Nwakali.

He simply has done NOTHING to justify a call up to SE.

So who is the sentimental and emotive one here ❓

And you have the audacity to call me emotively biased.

Joebie:
To answer your question, one of Nwakali’s key stats — ball recoveries — he averages 5.2 per game this season (compare to Onyeka 3.0, Ndidi 3.0, Aribo 2.5, Dele-Bashiru 3.3, Iwobi 4.6, Onyedika 6.3, Yusuf 5.8 ).

You want to consider many factors like the strength of the opposition/league, the team’s style of play, as well as the specific role given to the midfielder amongst others. This is just stating that he brings more to the table than just being a dead ball specialist, top notch long balls delivery and passes (which is why he always has high numbers relatively in key passes)


Recoveries are crucial for several reasons:

1. **Regaining Possession**: Recovering the ball allows a team to regain possession and control of the game. This is essential for maintaining pressure on the opponent and creating scoring opportunities.

2. **Transition**: moving quickly from defense to attack and vice versa. Recoveries help teams transition from defense to attack by quickly regaining the ball and launching counterattacks.

3. **Disrupting Opponent's Rhythm**: By disrupting the opponent's possession and passing rhythm, recoveries can disrupt their game plan and force errors or turnovers.

4. **Defensive Stability**: Recoveries contribute to defensive stability by preventing the opponent from advancing into dangerous scoring positions and reducing the number of shots on goal.

5. **Energy and Momentum**: Recoveries can energize a team and swing momentum in their favor, especially if they lead to scoring chances or successful counterattacks.

Overall, recoveries play a vital role in both defensive and offensive aspects of the game. However, just like in some other key stats it is still a matter of how this translates to the team’s success

You need to see it in context.

Put any of Onyeka, Ndidi , Aribo, Dele-Bashiru, Iwobi those players in the Portuguese league and they will look like Ronaldinho and Yaya Toure joined together.

This is ludicrous you are comparing stats of different level of football ⚽ leagues and assuming they are on par.

Even your proposition lacks merit, he is getting all these supposedly outstanding statistics but his team remains at the bottom of the Portuguese league.

His team has conceded the highest numbers of goals in the league 48 and have scored the second lowest number of goals. Your statistics are academic they are not articulated into high level performances.

In addition the last three games Chavez has played Nwakali as a left winger. So what does that mean he is not good enough ❓

mrwilliams9:
Ok, can you recommend a different player with the long passing abilities he possesses?

This is the part that grates me.

People here will say, no, he’s not good enough but do not/cannot suggest another replacement.

Dude I go around a lot of European football club academies, I have found it to be a BASIC SKILL that all the top performaning players can do pin point accurate.

I will tell you that at least 20% of the boys from U15 level and above can ping the ball pin point accurate at 40 yards.

It's a basic requirement not an exceptional skill.

However, when that's all you can do it seems like a skill
when it's really basic requirement.

comodo:
Uzoho Patricio on the beat. Has his spirit moved to Seria A?

I talked about one shot that's all.

Everybody will have a moment of brilliance, however to replicate that week in and week out CONSISTENTLY that's the issue.

He is so good why is he not playing for Napoli his parent club as opposed to being on loan at Herona.

MetalJigsaw:
Nwakali's case has been in the picture for a very long time not even on this forum alone even on social media. All what we need is confirmation so that all these debate can be concluded and buried once and for all.

It's long overdue.

You have people that don't understand there is huge gulf between youthful expectations and senior professional football ⚽.

Nwakali is a very poor quality football player this is the fact. He has been mediocre in every team he has played in. That's why he has remained in the backwaters of football.

Chávez will get destroyed by majority of NPFL teams I would place serious money on Enyimba flogging Chavez blue and black.

ChrisKels:
We can't keep parading some pants like Aribo who can hardly get minutes in the championship while neglecting a player of this quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zz7v0y_7l0?si=zLItHTXaKPSKP4yZ

Some people are just bare faced shameless LIARS.

Double post

mrwilliams9:
I think we are missing the point with the likes of Nwakwali.

SE are missing a midfielder with his profile of making progressive passes. He may not be the best, but he has a profile that we need. Why not invite him as an option for the midfield if we have no alternative for that profile of player.

Ok, if we think Nwakwali is not the answer, then people should suggest an alternative player for the SE that has that profile. People still are not suggesting that.

We complain but aren’t providing alternatives. Doesn’t solve anything.

At least Nwakwali is getting regular game time in a top Euro league. Sure, his team may not be the best but he has a profile we can work with.

Pickford was still no. 1 even with floundering Everton.

It's not a top team anf or league his team has remained in the relegation bottom end of the league since it started.

His team is poor in everything.

mrwilliams9:
I think we are missing the point with the likes of Nwakwali.

SE are missing a midfielder with his profile of making progressive passes. He may not be the best, but he has a profile that we need. Why not invite him as an option for the midfield if we have no alternative for that profile of player.

Ok, if we think Nwakwali is not the answer, then people should suggest an alternative player for the SE that has that profile. People still are not suggesting that.

We complain but aren’t providing alternatives. Doesn’t solve anything.

At least Nwakwali is getting regular game time in a top Euro league. Sure, his team may not be the best but he has a profile we can work with.

Pickford was still no. 1 even with floundering Everton.

Dude he has no profile.

charlesemeka85:
that’s the issue and when you analyze the whole thing it seem they are been paid to do this all these years

Bro in football of this era talent no dey hide and once you are good and hv a sound management team you will be fished out

Nwakali’s total transfer fee since he moved to Europe isn’t up to 3m euros when calculated so literally he is one of the chepeast players out there to snap up but decent clubs still haven’t made moves for him over the years

Like you said making it as a midfielder in this era goes far beyond tailor made long balls and defense splitting passes. You need to be strong, a runner with massive work rate as well as been a bit comfortable on the ball

They keep on hyping nwakali while the ones they deem less talented are been monitored and signed by better clubs every transfer window 🤣🤣🤣

Just imagine Onyedika of yesterday is been monitored by Barca and few epl teams for a possible transfer in the summer.

Alhassan had interest from sporting Lisbon and Hellas Verona last summer but Antwerp refused selling

Onyeka who many here tag a bench warmer and carpenter attracted laliga club Girona in the just concluded winter window but brentford refused letting him go. Even Everton came with a loan proposal which was turned down too

And they claim nwakali is better than the trio I mentioned above? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I don't actually recall any transfer fee paid for him once he left Arsenal.

Arsenal sent him on loan to seversl different clubs the last loan move was Porto B 😕 Imagine from Arsenal to Porto B 😯😯.

Once his contract expired Arsenal dashed him for nothing in fact begged Huesca in the Segunda Division to take him. Huesca promptly loaned him to a lower club in the Segunda Division.

Huesca tried to offload him for €300k but nobody was interested. So the illegally tried to terminate his contract.

So you see Nwakali transfer fee costs are £00 NUTTIN

MetalJigsaw:
I have this feeling that there's some sort of personal hatred you people have with this Nwakali dude, and I can't be made to believe otherwise.

I seriously need to know what his offense is.

Do you even remember that players of his "caliber" against South Africa and Angola effortlessly dominated our midfield that had "much superior" Iwobi and Onyeka?

Have you forgotten AFCON top scorer Nsue? Gelson dala, Nwabali, Seko fofana I can go on and on these guys came all the way from unknown clubs and leagues and shone in the AFCON.

Who even thought onyeka is such a pivotal player in our midfield?

What about Alhassan if not for Ndidi's exclusion.

Nwakali may not be the real deal to improve our midfield..

But do you know what ? That is still on paper until it is confirmed!

Our midfield deficiencies are too serious for us to just wave off even the slig htest of potential personnel that offers remedy. We really need to tell ourselves the truth

That means we should invite every Nigerian origin midfielder in EPL and Championship plus League one in England and Europe 🌍.

Because that's essentially what you are saying.

charlesemeka85:
I need this boy in the super eagles ASAP, those who hv jpes contact should inform him of this boy

Even I learnt he is interested in switching to us



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odf6YfcxTGU

Wow that's an ICBM just wiped out a whole City.

Omanambala:
You should be locked up in crazy people rehabilitation center. Your utterances are sickening

So you finally have admitted you are sick .

Can I recommend a reputable Psychiatrist for you and if you cannot afford it many will contribute here to save you from continuous sickness.

Omanambala:
Any honest observer could see the quality the inclusion of Nwakali will bring to the team. I dont understand why they keep excluding him.....its insane!

There are many that are sincerely wrong 😭 have eyes 👀 but sadly cannot see😞

akwesenana:
Abeg make them no buy am, make we no come hear suicide news for here.


"Immobile brick wall" yen yen yen...

Please let Barcelona buy him so he can prove that he is the next Pogba and or Yaya Toure.

I will celebrate him.

mostob:
Stats are always substantive if the said player is a Nigerian but inconclusive if the player is one of your innit boys. Change!!!

In making an claim 🛄 please back it up with facts and examples not create things from your twisted imagination

mostob:
I won't deny that you know him. Unfortunately, you're irrelevant in Nigerian football. Even on this thread, nobody rates you so make you and Tammy dey roll on the red carpet.

It's impossible unless your delusional to be relevant on an anonymous online platform .

Oh my goodness you are highly rated here that will make your so rich 🤑💲💰💸

Wise Man

mrwilliams9:
Some of my general observations on our Naija players around the world.

1. Chukwueze has been poor at Milan so far, facts. He hasn't been able to displace Pulisic from the RW even when Pulisic’s preferred position is on the left. Even in yesterday’s game where Chuks started, he was pulled at HT and his replacement, Pulisic, came on to score one goal and assist another. That is not a good look.

2. We need all our players to feel their spots are always in contention. No one should feel they have a guaranteed spot on the team. You may be first choice but if you don’t perform after a while, there should be new blood coming in.

Talent without hard work will amount to nothing.

Joebie:
That’s stats speaking.
Guaranteed Nwakali will create big chances game after game.

They say charity begins at home in your club and league.

So why is Chavez at the bottom of the League and scored the second lowest number of goals 🥅 in the league . Why didn't he create big chances for his team to score more.

charlesemeka85:
🇳🇬 England born and Luton Town centre-back, Gabriel Jeremiah Adedayo Osho has expressed his readiness to play for Nigeria Super Eagles.

According reports, Osho said, I'm just waiting for the call. I wants to play for Nigeria, I will not think twice to honour the call.

Who is he better than ❓

yinkeys:
What happened to Chukwueze
This is not the Villareal guy that exposed Real Madrid’s defense last season
He needs to go watch a lot of Arjen Robben, Mo Salah & Bukayo Saka’s clips
Chukwueze is the only Nigerian player in an elite European football club
Or maybe we expect a little too much
Was expecting him to be on Pulisic’s level tbh!
My opinion though

Where is Tella ❓