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ChrisKels:
There is nothing special about Aribo, he is just a Scottish league level player, who happens to get some patches of a little above average games here and there. It is our wanton knack for an AM that makes people overhype him in here thinking that would make him come good

Aribo is a good player, no doubt, but we have players who are ahead of him in the role he plays.
Believe me when i say this.

Based on his performances in G.W.G, i would have tipped him for the DM role, deputising Ndidi, but his reading of the opponent, ball interception and making vital blocks made me think twice.

daveP:
I like what Chuks said Emery told him when he was about to come on


Just run.....


Simple and direct but shows the absolute faith a manager has in his midfielders to make the big difference and against opponents they are not even an underdog in.


Right now, only Iwobi and Ndidi are such midfielders.

It remains this dragging opponents out of position to make things click.


Chuks also said he watched two hours as instructed by the coach.



We definitely have a man management problem in this SE setup. A coach sees a pacy forward and has no such plans to use that to advantage?


All Chuks has yesternight were just two touches of the ball. Naaaaaahhhhhh!!!


We should not give any inept fellow this SE job again and expect Miracles.


A great manager can even replicate what Mou did with porto in 2004. Doesn't need much stars in his team.


Of course having the right personnel matters.

Staying with almost full concentration against Bayern is not an easy feat.


Finally!! An SE player is in the Semis of the UCL after many years of absence.

There is this Super Eagles winger notable for dragging players out of position with trickery.
He sat mostly on the bench alongside Iwobl during the last AFCON tournament.

God help our football,

Barryseal:
Enrique is Catalonian, why didn't he take a paycut when coaching Barca? The fact remains club football is more rewarding then national team football, for both players and coaches.
Top 5 paid coaches at the last world cup where on €2.5-3.5M wages. Half of that gets us a "big name" .

For me, Philip Cocu interests me. Barca schooled, worked with PSV's U19s and graduated a host of the youngester with whom he won the Dutch league with +17 points and still they remain the backbone of the present Dutch national team speaking of Winjaldlum, Depay, De Jong.
His PSV team edged out the current rave of the moment Erik Ten Hag's Ajax for his 3rd Dutch championship in 5 season with PSV.

The most important thing is getting in the right person with the passion, drive and hunger to succeed here. Blanc was accused of being racist based on comments he made, Velverde looks like he's retired. I see no fire in his belly anymore since his Barca debacle. I feel Cocu will do well here, we have almost the same profile just like Psv has in Dutch football.

It is not every time we get to see an intelligent and well researched writ like this on this thread. Mr Barryseal, you have the seal of good thinking.

Barryseal:
It's not a must he gets paid those crazy wages he was paid to manage Barcelona. The job description for national team and club aren't the same. Clubs play every week, while sometimes in 3 months you get to play once with the national team. Here, he's hired to play games against Mozambique and Lesotho, every now and then he could play 2nd tier friendlies against the likes of Peru and Romania.

Speaking of wages, Luis Enrique used to earn €18M as Barcelona manager. The highest paid in the world but as Spanish national team manager, he earns €1.5M annually. Out of the €1.5,he still got a reduction of 25% because of covid. It's all about negotiation and managers know national team management don't pay as much as club football. So their expectations are whipped accordingly.

Nigeria can hire a world class manager with a budget of $100k a month. If north African clubs can pay their managers $100k monthly, why not Nigeria?

Good research.

mostob:
Please...don't twist it abeg..

Victor Osimhen is a good player but is not yet a finished article, forget he’s playing for Napoli.

@ the bolded, Ikpeba was implying that the fact that Osimehn is playing for Napoli doesn't mean he is a finished article.
In other words, he needs to work more harder.
Tha statement was simple and precise...

The denotation from the words "forget he is playing for Napoli" means he is not that good enough to play for Napoli.

I don't think i will argue this further.

We may not always have the same perspective on issues, that is the reason why dissention and criticism is allowed, but criticisms can go overboard, Ikpeba was very wrong when he insinuated that Victor is not yet the player that can play for Napoli. He said "forget he is playing for Napoli". He took a dig at Osimhen.

I wish he had only said Osimhen is not yet a finished article, and ended it there.

TheSuperNerd:
*Erste Divisie NOT Eredivisie.

Oliseh didn't finish the season with them but he did more than enough to get them promoted. Season was 2017/18 after he left the Super Eagles job in 2016. Remember he left under a cloud of chaos "abandoning" the team just a month to our Egypt ties.

Oliseh led them to be crowned half season Champions after Match day 20. It was widely celebrated throughout club and was their first title since 1995 (Check tweet link below & attached pic at the end)

https://twitter.com/FortunaSittard/status/951935846676140033?t=j_8Uyp9o45R43ocTikZmTA&s=19


He was also named Best Manager in Erste Divisie for the first half of the season. He left the job during the early part of the season's second half and a new coach only just rode on the already established efforts of Oliseh to finish second in the Erste divisie.

Check link below:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.goal.com/en-ug/amp/news/sunday-oliseh-leads-fortuna-sittard-to-win-first-title-in-23/1pxh441t190k81bnjhzu3qyrm0


In conclusion, like I have said before, Oliseh has a sound tactical mind. He's probably the only Nigerian tactician I will bring close to Amunike in my books. Ndubuisi Egbo is there too but these former 2 cut it more tactically for me speaking "Nigerian coaches/Coaches of Nigerian blood" alone.

He knows how to drill a team into a decent force given time and support (judging with his time at Fortuna) but I still have my reservations over his man management skills. That is my only doubt about him.

Tactically he is definitely better than Rohr and Eguavoen combined. No caps.

But I repeat... Man is a walking epitome of management chaos UNLESS he has repented. And one of the reasons why Amunike remains my first choice ONLY among Nigerian coaches/Coaches of Nigerian blood.

If we go foreign, I just want a quality tactician and manager. Period!!!


This is me just further setting the records straight in addition to pointing out a small correction that was needed.

Thank you TheSuperNerd for the correction. You are indeed super.

How many sound tacticians are good man managers. Humans are very difficult to control, this is the reason why high achievers are usually very strict and tough.

The coaches that are excellent man managers, what have they given us.

andrewbaba44:
I will gladly say he got them promoted to the eredivisie,but Baba wahala too
Much

Alright.

jihday:
which result did he give last time he was coach?

Have you not heard of his exploits with Fortuna Sittard in Eredisivise.
Give me the name of any Nigerian coach that has achieved such level of feat.

TheSuperNerd:
OGN has their moments when they are wrong, right, half wrong, half right.

I hope this is one of those totally wrong moments. Oliseh ke?? Same man who ended Enyeama's career with us? Same man who disrespected Mikel obi's place in the team??

Heeeiii... Abeg nau. Some never still recover from the WC Ticket loss and Oliseh's previous reign of chaos as our coach.

I know he is kinda tactically sound as he showed that with Fortuna Sittard contributing to their promotion to the Dutch Eredivisie but abeg... Man is a temperamental nuclear bomb. Man management is not his thing and I don't know how much he's improved in that aspect.

I don't trust this Oliseh fellow. Tactically maybe I can a little but as a man manager?? Even Rohr is a better man manager than this man.

Nna why are the people at the helm of affairs bent on extending our chaos like this? Na only we waka come into nadir boulevard? Haba

Oliseh is the kind of coach that will give you results, unfortunately such coaches are not loved, because people find them too strict. No player is bigger than the team, you either play to instructions or court the bench. A big player player like Emmanuel Dennis, might not play under Oliseh, and people are gonna hate Oliseh for that.

NFF might not handle a tactically sound coach, be it a native or foreigner because they will find the personnel difficulty to control.

NFF will also find it difficult to hire a foreign coach that is tactically savvy as Oliseh.

BascoVanVeli:
Can you explain why Iheanacho's goal per shot ratio is better than Harry Kane Harry has 12 goals with 99 shots and KC has scored 3 goals with 23 shots.

Komekn, it is time for your morning lessons.
I believe you will make it to school today.

Karlovych:
No I don't think he will do well in that position, he has a week right foot. He's at best a supporting striker

There are qualities required of a supporting striker that Iheanacho won't give you.
Pellagrini, Guardiola, deployed him rightly.

His records reveals that he impacts well as a CF.

zicky:
Sadiq is more technical and sleek, so play ahead of him

I don't think so.

BascoVanVeli:
Iheanacho delivers again

Fine header

Iheanacho should be played as a CF in G.W.G.

Meliforme:
Take it or leave it we might lose, i saw that in this game, but this is not what i want. Football is a game of tactics. It is understanding your weaknesses and the opponent's weakness.

I have been talking so much about our poor decision making and poor composition of play. Eguavoen's system made it worse The Ghanaian coach probably knew this and used high pressing to force us into errors. For instance, how can Ekong deliver his long balls when he is under pressure. But i tell you this, this Ghanaian squad are poor tools for high pressing.
A sound coach will deal with them.

I said this before the second tie in Abuja.

Life is in many ways predictable.

Ppogbae:
I will be supporting my new home Canada. I'm currently purchasing Canadian soccer gear from the Men's team website!

O Canada!

I love Canada so much.
I will be supporting them as well.

RaymondJohnson1:
Give me a Nwakali anyday.

We just need to boost his confidence.

Thank you.

andrewbaba44:
I agree we miss iwobi and ndidi

You missed awaziem that’s not a starter ,maybe awaziem would have prevented uzoho nonsense

You also missed Nwakali that hasn’t done anything yet

Is God not wonderful ?

Nwakali's Stats at AFCON shows he is more creative than all your midfielders.
I will not reply you again, because it is baseless arguing with you.

Ejuke dribbles unnecessarily, they will always say.
Now look at your wingers.

Mujtahida:
Komekn 2.0

How am i similar to Komekn, we are disparate in our views.
Komekn doesn't even support Nwakali.

All i need is your respect.
You found a way to counter everything that i have said of Eguavoen.
Events after events kept proving me right, yet you are not humbled.

Before Eguavoen's first match in charge, i said he is showing signs of a failure.
I said that life is predictable, we spot patterns and we tell.

Mujtahida, i have engaged you more than twice on this thread.
I will advice you to go back to my discussions with you and learn wisdom.

charlesemeka85:
which nwakali? I swear em say em play this game em leg no for touch ball

You are just joking.
Admit it, This team needs Nwakali.

We missed Ndidi.
We missed Iwobi.
We missed Ejuke.
We missed Awaziem.

codemaniacs:
the midfielders are already there but they are not been called up....

Bonke
Samson tijani
Alhassan Yusuf
Onyeka
Onyedika
Nwakwali
Iwobi

Nwakwali would have at least kept the ball on the ground , made through passes and taken better corners.

You guys are now seeing the importance of Nwakali.

Samueltemi337:
Iwobi far better than aribo

You are just realising this now.

Meliforme:
I don't want to call Eguavoen a poor tactician.
He was not just outclassed, he was in want of ideas.

Have you forgotten that I said Eguavoen showed the mentality of a loser when he talked about his sleepless nights spent in the effort to draft the 28 man list. I said that it shouldn't be so. Life is predictable, we spot patterns, and we tell.
Eguavoen was clearly in want of ideas.

Coming to tell us the boys tried, is akin to saying i spent sleepless nights drafting the 28 man list. Efforts without intelligence will make excuses and failure. Eguavoen was outclassed.

Dude also knows subconsciously that he will fail and you can tell from his speeches, his excuses etc.

You guys should for once listen.

Meliforme:
I have seen Eguavoen through and through.
I kept talking about the wrong things with him, before the AFCON and after.
The explanation he gave regarding Onazi's invitation is one of his methods of making excuses for a possible failure. He is always blaming things, he is always counting on luck.

I pray the coach that will take over from him won't be worse.

When i talk, you guys should listen.

safarigirl:
Anyway, team news


Good line up, yes?

Looks like 4-3-3

If this is true, we will carry the day.

The midfield has the personnel to support the forwards.

Cocking:
But are u a pastor if I may ask?

I am a believer.

Cocking:
I'm sorry if I indirectly mentioned that company's name but I no beg any body make E play bet now, abi I promote gambling wey me self no know

Alright.

Cocking:
I first think say u don travel in time into the future, I don rush go login my bet9ja account make I come ask u for the correct scores I no know say na u20 female world cup

It is so sordid the way you guys promote gambling, it is so gross, so dirty.
I can recall Okocha getting lambasted in a video for promoting gambling. So much for a public figure.

Now eyes are opening. My criticism of Eguavoen began even before the AFCON.

During AFCON i criticised his system of play and choice of players for a 4-4-2. Many celebrated his wins, i inferred the wins to the new coach syndrome and individual brilliance. Many said we played beautiful football, and i asked where and when was the beautiful football.

Eguavoen said he spent sleepless nights selecting his squad for the AFCON. I judged the scenario and said it is not good that he should spend sleepless nights over a task like that given that he is not new to the team, he should have known the players that will suit his system, and players that will struggle. After the sleepless nights, i saw his starting eleven, player positions, instructions and tactics, and somehow gave up.

This day, everything that i said of Eguavoen is begining to make sense to some people who were then still celebrating their new coach and making excuses for him.

Criticisms are good when the people being critisized are open to learning. I hope Eguavoen learns. Learning on the job is something that can happen to everybody.

TheGoodJoe:


So 4-4-2 is not the problem but it being implemented the wrong way by the manager. There is no guarantee they will get the right tactical balance if they switch to a 4-3-3 or 4-5-1 or 3-5-2.

As from my perspective, we are getting the basics of the modern game wrong.

You are right, but as long as the coach has already made up his mind on his preferred starting lineup, I think 4-3-3 will suit those players better.

A nice 4-4-2 lineup should look like this.
A central defense pair of Awaziem, Balogun will cover well. There are strong reasons why i support this particular CD pairing.

A central midfield pair of any of the following combinations: Ndidi, Etebo, Onyeka Nwakali.
Aribo will not anchor well in a 2-man midfield especially when paired with a destroyer who is not creative.

Iwobi and Aribo should ply the left and right wings respectively, Ejuke, Onayinka are players who can also do well in such positions. Whoever starts between these players will depend on the player's form.

Iheanacho, Sadiq and Dennis, can either fit into the SS or ST role. Osimhen, Ighalo will have ST role.

Some of us will ask where is Samuel Chukwueze, Moses Simon and Ademola Lookman in this formation. It is very clear that these guys are very good with inverted wing play, and likes to play closer to the box. They can still play, but not ahead of the players that I have mentioned, especially if we are interested in building up play and having a strong presence in midfield

benji93:
Great, unfortunately, they are average. So their passing would still suck. Philosophies are nice and indicate you know what you are doing, but they are useless anyway. Your philosophy is only as good as your players.

Whose passing will suck, they are not poor in passing, they are not even close to it.