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Meliforme:
Omeruo is currently the best performing Super Eagles center back as things stands.

How you came about this conclusion beats me.

I know most of you guys are tired of seeing old faces, but that does not take away what they can do.

Imagine saying Omeruo has nothing to offer the SE, when he is the top performing CB

No he absolutely is not .

I've watched him several times he gets wasted for pace , gets bullied like a school boy by strikers with physicality.

How he has remained in the SE is a wonder.

Kog45:
A rookie like Igoh Ogbu to be better than Veteran Omeruo,Ekong,Ajayi,Adarabioyo and ,Bassey to me he is extremely good.

Omeruo has stagnated and has nothing to offer the SE.

He has never gone beyond being average or below his club career says it all.

TheGoodJoe:
What is the contradiction? Have I ever said that Chaves players are high grade? I have always maintained that Kelechi Nwakali is the best player in the team. So can you explain contradiction in my statement?

You are blinded to the point of absurdity in your fanatical fantasy support for a mediocre player.

You said he was the best in the Segunda division but he left the lowly relegated Ponferradina to an even lower club Chavez FC

This club has the lowest performance in the entire Portuguese league they have lost all 5 matches but somehow you think Nwakali is the best .

Best of what Very Poor level 😞 players.

Statistics are not necessarily conclusive then taken in context they are only indicative. He is so good his coach doesn't start him but leaves him on the bench.

A player may get a 8.9 rating in a Chavez Portuguese first tier league game, will that make him better than a player getting 5.5 in the premier League ❓

Certainly not , why because there is a huge gulf and disparity in the quality context. So best player (highly debatable) in that context is still very poor by comparison to other quality better Leagues.

You are a hypocrite with double standard, because you say the team is very poor but with the exception of Nwakali who is excellent and the best player in the team. That's simply ludicrous.

TheGoodJoe:
Chaves gave a very good account of themselves in the second half. They really went at it but the quality of players is tok poor to make head way.

If Gomes stays, he needs to plug some positions in the team.

Till the next game.

To contradict yourself

The quality of players in Chavez is very poor NO EXCEPTION.

ChrisKels:
I also remember you said Solanke will never think of playing for Nigeria because he has no connection with Nigeria. What do you have to say about the news of him now begging for attention from Nigeria?

I haven't heard that .

And if by any chance it's actually true, he is doing a Jordan Jordan Torunarigha, it's obvious he will never get into England barring a miracle.

Kog45:
The two belonged to different era,so nobody is going to beat you on football matters or discourse….Nigeria want to see Osimehn influence in Afcon and world qualification,nothing more.

Pls mirror Yekini against São Tomé and tell me how many goals he would have scored.

Thank you

I remember Yekini had this thunderbolt of a shot, he could shoot with extreme power and accuracy.

caprikon:
No disrespect to Iheanacho but the quality of the opposition was a big factor in his performance...Nacho has always had an eye for through passes in the final third.

Against higher level opponents, playing him as an AM will expose his weaknesses in that role which this Sao Tome team couldn't.

Thank you

successmatters:
That's a direct consequence of a toothless judiciary, your court papers are now worth less than toilet tissue papers just because you're trying to stop Peter Obi from becoming president

More houses will go down, more lawlessness will be unleashed left and right, and in the end, the judiciary will support the richer people.

Don't bother to quote me, I have headache on my fingers.

We are now in the rule ⚖️ of LAWLESSNESS

We should get used to it , it's just the beginning well done Jagaban 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽🍾

Cecco90:
Jordan Torunarigha on Victor Osimhen;

"Osimhen is the best striker in the world right now. One of the best strikers in the world. And to be honest, I’ve never had something like this. I don’t know how to defend him. It’s weird.

"I played against Lewandowski and Haaland, and I figured out how to defend them . But for him, I don’t know. He’s strong, but he can keep the ball. It’s difficult, but I will find out."

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😂 Then if he was so good at stopping Haaland and Lewondoski why didn't Dortmund, Bayern, RB Liepzig buy him🤔

Why did he leave the prominence of the Bundisliga to the obscurity of the Belgium league. ❓

Dude rejected Nigeria publicly , not sure if he is better than

etebefia:
Nothing like love here, he just didn't get German call-up.

Say it as it is .

But also his career is on a downward Spiral, no top player leaves the Bundisliga to Belgium league.

He is certainly not better than Tosin Adarabioyo

Marjoribanks:
Comprehension is your issue! Whenever he played, he was undoubtedly the standout Watford player, which is distinct from him being their overall best player. As I mentioned earlier, injuries restricted his performance. There are tweets from Watford fans supporting my argument. Stick to the facts.!

It seems you don't understand what the term, comprehension means. The language of communication is English if l am right ❓😕

Let me quote you verbatim, The few times he played he was the best player for Watford

You have just in open forum on the same page denied 😔 your own written words. And now you are attempting to turn Black 🖤 to White 🤍. It's quite shameful🙈🙈

I am now convinced 🤔you are employed in the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) ⚖️ , where Black 🖤 is turned to White 🤍 in broad daylight .

Well done

FireUpNow:
In the bible the only reasons to divorce is adultery and when one's life is Iin fanger. Consult your parents and your pastor

Sorry 😟 you are wrong.

First read the word, consult your Bible.

Then follow the word 😉.

If you know the word of God 🙏🏾 you cannot be decieved.

If you don't know the word of God you are ALREADY DECIEVED you just don't know it

Prettycute90:
Since we got married, everything about the upkeep, rents, bills, feeding, general upkeep. I mean everything is on me and he has refused to provide for us as he always claimed he doesn't have. I have always be an understanding person who believe, I should be doing while I can, pending when things gets better for him.
I never knew he was getting little little, but was gambling away with it.

We really do not date for a long time before we got married. Because I knew him back then in school from a far distance. And we liked each other but didn't date. So, meeting again after graduation and in a different environment, made me believe I already knew and the fact that we already liked each other.

He was struggling with a little job when we got married. My foresight then was to grow with him. I supported him in all ways. Infact, during our wedding, most support came from friends and relatives.
Because I'm not the type of a wife that pressurized, It took me a very long time to know the nature of habit he had that has kept him low even before I married him.

He is a chronic gambler.
No money stays with him. He wouldn't even care about himself so long as he can afford little money to gamble.
Now, I don't have a job and too much burden has crippled my business.

To be honest, I'm losing myself. Sometimes I feel I need a therapy myself.
My husband has refused to change or make effort to make this marriage work.
Before I had my second child, he was pretending as if he has changed. But immediately I took in, he continues this lifestyle. I almost died due to emotional breakdown and responsibilities shouldered by myself.

I have done everything, (both family members have adviced him severally, I have prayed, fasted, cried, shouted, talked with a calm voice, all my efforts. but non is working.


Presently, since two weeks ago now, I don't cook for him. I source for food for just myself and my children. We barely have decent conversation in this house. I can't even remember the last time we had intimacy.
I always avoid him, each time he tries to get close. Because of the situation of things in this house.
We had two children and I don't intend having any other.
The cost of taking care of myself and the children all by myself is emotional hurting me so much.
School has resume and I can't even afford all the expenses of taking my first son to start a new school and I know, he would watch our son stay back at home. He wouldn't care.

We're in the house, but he's only concern is how to get little money to gambles.

Are these not enough reasons to divorce him?
During one qurrel we had recently, I told him I want us to separate for now, so we can work on ourselves, and he said he will be with our children not me.
I see that as way to make my children suffers.

What can you advise please?

I just want peace of mind.

I don't want to waste my youthful life in a loveless marriage. Where myself and my husband can not support each other to grow in Love. Rather, stressing me.

The Operative word that you introduced is "AS A CHRISTIAN"

That means all our deductions must be strictly anchored ⚓ on scripture ( The Bible) A few provisos , we are called to obey first, not to necessarily understand and or question.

No matter how irrational it may seem to our modern day sense of humanity and social norms and values.

It means we can't be ASSUMPTIVE or use conjecture and or vice versa.

First of all there is no Biblical provision for a woman to divorce her husband. You may take Colin of 1 Corinthians 7:15 , you are not bound . It's not a ground for divorce, but if you leave you must remaine as you are.

Any man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery No exception. Luke 16:18, Matt 5:32, Mark 10:11 and Romans 7:2 ( marriage convenat ends with only with death.

When reading scripture it's important to read in context both in spirit and in context. Marriage in Biblical context is not a partnership it's leadership by men. Yes the environment is intrinsically patriarchal.

As you know men married more than one wife as was allowed by scripture. And the issues was the man putting away his wife,( divorce) not marrying another.

In summary the motivation for divorce is overwhelming to remarry. And that is not an option for Christian woman to be divorced and have a remarriage. That is sin , living on continuous adultery.

However, you can remain separate but not divorced staying as you are without remarrying.

charlesemeka85:
it was due to loss of form. Even before he transferred to watford he wasn’t playing at Bordeaux then

Small time now you go Dey argue say championship tough pass ligue 1

Dude was not making any waves in the French league.

Goes to Watford and to the EPL just first game against Arsenal he was not impressive. After that he hardly played any other game all season in the EPL actually he played 3 games.

It was essentially a mistake by Watford.

Marjoribanks:
This guy and fake news. He was injured! The few times he played he was the best player for Watford. Kalu is extremely talented so don't come here to trash talk him!

You have a narrative that is based not on objectivite measurements but sentimental preference.

And anything that doesn't align itself with your self birthed delusional narrative become HATE.

Listen to yourself, " he was the best player anytime he played" he played 9 games in the Championship and 4 in the premier League, and he was the best.

In addition he was mainly injured throughout his time in Watford.

When was the last time he started a game and or played for Watford ⁉️ So this Swiss team, is by your definition buying an injured player 😦

So effectively Kalu should have 13 MOTM awards, should be in the team of the week and or month whrm he was in the Championship and EPL.

He was better than Sarr, Sema, Pedro, 👏

charlesemeka85:
Swiss top league side FC Lausanne Sport signs Samuel kalu on loan from watford

Dude got completely lost in Watford as well as in the Championship after doing so seemingly well in the French league one.

He is lucky he could get a top team in the Swiss League.

Kog45:
Yes born in UK but it seemed there was a time he came to Nigeria for education.

Hmmm my story too and a familiar one as well.

Children sent back for secondary school not university though.

DMerciful:
We actually want to waste our time and resources.

We also want the judgement to be set as precedence and there's no better place for precedence to be set good or bad.

We want the Supreme Court to say INEC can change the mode of transmission during election.

We want them to say Thuvb drug case was targeting his accounts and not him

We want them to say Guinean citizenship was not included initially

We want them to say IREV and electronic transmission is optional

We want them to say you can forge your certificate

We want them to say a political party cannot sue another whether pre or post election

We want them to say even if you supply INEC certify true copies, you still need polling unit witness and EC8s tendered

We want them to say you must prove polling unit by polling unit upto 100 thousand even if you have 2 months.

Once the Supreme Court upholds these dangerous precedence, then we can rest but we will not rest before then!

Thank you

AndSunGorilla:
Yes he was born in the UK but i read somewhere a while back that he also went to Auchi Poly (someone on Cyber eagles claims he played against him at the NIPOGA games way back) abi ma im be Komekn ( no way).

Efan Ekoku was born in Liverpool he use to live in Toxteth and he went back to Nigeria briefly but I don't know for how long and if he went to school there.

I've never asked him

Kog45:
Sir,can you name players who took after their Father starting from Nigeria national team right from immemorial.

Sir,no matter how you are closer to your footballing father if you don’t have the basic talent,no way.

Kevin Campbell sons - Manchester city
Wayne Rooney - Son Manchester United
Steven Gerard Son - Liverpool FC
Duncan' Ferguson son - Everton
Chris Samba son - Manchester city
Peter Ceck - Chelsea

The list is literally endless with regards to UK 🇬🇧 footballers.

However, with regards to Nigeria I don't know any

Most of these players are not talented but years of training will give them ability, intelligence, skill, and a decent professional career in football ⚽ without any EXCEPTIONAL TALENT.

charlesemeka85:
I thought efan was born n breed in Uk?

Efan Ekoku was born and bred in Liverpool , really nice guy.

charlesemeka85:
u talk well for this one. Another is CR7’s son who hv been so far nurtured and groomed by his dad

With the way the boy is developing he may turn out to be a beast in the nearest future

Actually I knew him when he was at Manchester United, he was good but not excellent.

But which coach knowing the influence his father has is going to drop his son. It's better you have CR7 as a friend as opposed to an enemy, if you want your small coaching career to progress.

The numbers of academy coaches who moved into the big clubs because a big player appreciated the way the coach treated and coached their son.

The top player of today is going to be the top manager for tomorrow , IF HE IS WHITE, that's a certainty.

Okoroawusa:
Mr lawyer are you not ashamed of yourself? Common to prove that Peter Obi won you could not.

You know the TRUTH and in country of know integrity and rule of law, TRUTH is always murdered.

In 2009 convicted criminal James Ibori was acquitted by Justice Awokulehin dismissed all the 170 charges in the Federal Appeal Court Asaba.

However this same Ibori pleaded guilty in 2012 to 10 counts of fraud and money-laundering and received a 13-year jail. In a British Court, to dame charges he was acquitted from in Nigeria.

He returned to red carpet and a hero welcome.

What does that tell you about the Nigerian political structure and so called honourable JUDICIARY.

Kog45:
Yes you right and footballing should be for talented ones not forcing a kid who lacks the natural basic skills.

I remember telling my friend Emma Olisadebe basic truth that what are you doing in the university with this talent cuz it was obvious the guy was damn too good and within two years Emma took Poland to World Cup,nominated for Ballon d’or.

If Emma took to the game very early he would have been one of the best in the world like going to academy but already a university student before realizing he can do it and it was even persuasion from Fanny Amu and Amusa Adisa who handled Nigeria football team to World universities games.

Fanny Amu was like what! a university student without club benched NPFL leading goal scorer Edith Agoye then university of Ibadan student but playing for 3sc in WUGA camp,both were later paired in the games.

I think talent does it.

I would disagree with you or maybe we have different way of looking at it.

There is natural talent yes, like blistering speed.

But all talent needs to be developed and continuously to reach excellence.

However, the main topic was footballers children and inheritance of skill, talent and ability by ASSOCIATION.

Children learn by association and association with parents is great influence. So if you are Father and you don't spend a lot of time with your children they will receive little or nothing from you.

A former Nigerian international came to the UK with his children. Came to see me. I took his kids out to play football it was suggested they could get into a EPL academy but after the session they were FAR OFF THE MARK. Meanwhile multiple EPL clubs were prepared to give them a trial on the just the name of their Father.

It was obvious the Father had not spent much time with his boy and it showed.

I know several children who are in top Academies but are not good but are left their to please the parents.

And some footballers parents spend a huge amount of time with their kids. Last year I met Marcelo his son plays for Real Madrid his Dad was with him even at age 14 to advise and encourage.

Kog45:
Amo Taxi boys are not talented but love football and despite their Dad support they failed to make it even to first team in Turkey…..football is about talent and no matter how one packages poor playing kids even in academies there will be no way out.

They were released from Everton academy.

They attended a boarding school in the Wirral, Merseyside and played for the school team.

I did volunteer coaching for the school team that beat them I'm talking about 10 years ago or more.

To put it simply they were not exceptional.

For your children to inherit from the Father, those children must spend a lot of time with the Father and in some regards be inseperable. Abedi Pele did it with his sons.

You can't leave your children in a school somewhere and think somehow they will become footballers without your every day input, No way, sorry 😒 to say .

chrisooblog:
Sterling wasn't a 9 at Liverpool especially as the Reds had Suarez and Sturridge running things. It was at City you could try and argue he played in that false 9 role but I think the genius of Pep Guardiola boosted his goal scoring numbers.

Yes Rashford does well on the left. I haven't seen many games in which he has flourished playing as a 9 hence the reason why I say he struggles.

Boniface also operates as a second striker with a bit of a creative spark. You can see he has already dropped two assists in three league. Of our three top forwards he looks most comfortable on the ball. So that's where the versatility could come in but the bottom line is the current SE wingers need to do more.

The reason why England have looked more dynamic in attack lately is down to the quality that players like Raheem, Foden and Saka. England has always had great to good strikers like Shearer, Sherringham, A. Cole, Crouch, Fowler, Rooney to mention a few but the current crop of wide men has given them a serious tactical edge.

Liverpool in that 2013/15/16 did not play a Diamond 💎 formation under Rogers, it was Sturridge & Suarez playing as two man front pair.

Several times in fact quite a lot , Raheem played right up front. I know because I watched him several times live upfront and personal.

chrisooblog:
Collins was an already established SE squad member before he got injured last season. Like you I don't fancy him but it's not unheard of for countries to hand call ups to squad players once they start playing club games.

Look at Maguire for instance. He hasn't done anything remarkable in club football but he keeps getting call up ahead of other deserving defenders. Are England and Southgate saying they couldn't find a younger and better defender instead of recycling Maguire?

My answer is very simple, we are not England.

And because Southgate shows emotional preference for a player we should also do the same.

charlesemeka85:
He was called up because zaidu is currently nursing an injury

Why are u so pained that Collins got recalled to the national team for a dead rubber game?

Playing for 4 games in the championship this season implies that he is back to full fitness so stop whining

Selection by Merit not emotive preference.

He has not played for a full season and has not even played four full games in addition he has not been oustanding.

When he played overteo year's ago for the SE he was far from oustanding.

Time to look at better alternatives.

Amedino99:
he was probably called up because osayi is injured and emeruo is suspended. And besides it's not as if he is going to play a minute Sha.

It doesn't matter it's laziness and very poor forward planning by the NFF.

There are literally hundreds of Nigerian origin players across Europe and we couldn't find one to play LB.

Our football ⚽ selection replicates quite often our national politics, always recycling.

Kog45:
Sometimes better to watch the game than relying on statistics.I watched Chelsea vs Nottingham and not really impressed with Aina but surprisingly saw Aina getting good rate 7.

Chavez as a team lacked the edge and if not for Nwakili nobody will get time watching or analyzing Chavez games.The team is too poor.

That's the problem, a player had done NOTHING since U17, and many are still fixated with him it's incomprehensible.

Look at Chavez FC, I once did a comparison of their finances with a English league two team. And Bradford had much more money.

Once you have no money, you will not get a quality manager/ coach and you will not be able to attract any good quality players that's the REALITY.

This team has lost all four games have conceded the highest number of goals scored the least number of goals in the league. Average weekly salary is £1.5k, that means some players will.be on £500 a week, the team is a joke. It's like a non league part time team.

And somebody is giving accolades about a player and acting like he is doing something incredible.

charlesemeka85:
Collins hv played few games this season

That's the point did not play last season and has just played 4 games and had not completed one game of football this season.

He was not outstanding in the Championship since he arrived and now 4 game's and he is in the SE, that doesn't add up for me.

Call up must be on merit not sentiment.

chrisooblog:
Rashford and Sterling only do well in the wings. Rashford particularly struggles in the top 9 role which every English pundit and ex-player has acknowledged. Callum Wilson I don't know how prolific he is especially in England colours for you to suggest he brings versatility in the forward line.

Osimhen, Awo and Boniface have other elements they bring to their teams like Harry Kane who doesn't necessarily operate from the wing.

Our wingers are no where as effective as Foden, Saka and sometimes Rashford who complement Kane.

Nigerian wingers need to start giving Victor Moses like output to bring more of that dynamism and unpredictability into our attack.

At one stage Raheem was the pivotal number 9 for Liverpool as well as England. Rashford is very good on both wings still.avgrest number 9 ( he doesn't struggle) however I think he is more effective on the left wing.

Callum is still very good, but England have almost too many top quality forward players. And yes KANE is world class and in a different level as a quintessential number 9.

The key issue is VERSATILITY and ADAPTABILITY this is where our forward line may be a bit lacking. Three players who can only play strictly as number 9s.