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JohnBullMySon:
Ability to read the game and know the right tactics to apply is very important at the highest level.

PurpleHouse:
And so what?

None of you here can run a Multimillion dollar, sorry, naira company. You don't have the mental toughness and agility. Sentimentally attached fools.

Broke oshi like you all will do worse that the pinick you abuse here.

You think it is sentiment that builds greatness and errect structures.

No brah.

It is sacrifice.

Hard solid painful sacrifice.

Nacho should be sacrificed for the growth of our team.

Who nor like make him go fu,ck stone.

komekn:
People call it HATE.

But when Victor was at Wolfsburg I could see why he was not getting game time. He was technically and tactically naïve.

He did not have the knowledge base to jump straight in and compete. It's in that context I said he would struggle at most academies in England.

I felt a move to a lesser league where his main attributes of speed and agility and as a true 9 he will have more success. That has happened but those handicaps are getting a bit more exposed now.

He has to learn, but for a £75 million player it may be strange to some.

TheLoneCitizen:
The fact you're interchanging both skill and technique tells the story, brother.
You're doing well.

TheLoneCitizen:
Football skills are different from football technique.

Dribbling skill is different from dribbling technique.

Skill is something you do with the ball, technique is how you do it.

All pro footballers have the ability to shoot accurately, but not all have the technique to curl/swerve.

TheLoneCitizen:
Dribbling is more of skill than technique.

Odegaard and De Bryune are two of the best technicians in England but aren't proficient dribblers.

How you dribble determines your technique, not if you can dribble.

joelsteron:
Thank you. flesh and blood did not reveal this you. You no book na Ndidi dey cover their yansh

drDoom3:
Do you know what technique is? It is not pace or dribbling. it is not strength or work rate. Technique is how neat and precise you are in carrying out functions in your position. Imagine saying Etebo has better technique than Iwobi, that is blasphemy. Etebo that struggles to trap ball sometimes, all work rate with no product.

Unsurprisingly, the guys you said Iwobi is ahead of are actually the guys who are ahead of Iwobi (except Simon and Onyeka, maybe Chuks). Ndidi has the best technique in the team, the way he cleans up in defense with tidy tackles is definitely top 5 in the world alongside Kante, Verratti etc. Aribo also has better technique, his ball carrying, neat tackles and progressive carries are also unrivalled in the team. Nacho has the best shooting and passing technique in the team, but his work rate, control, and awareness leave so much to be desired. Osimhen's athleticism covers much of his deficiency in technique, but he still has excellent control and long passing techniques. Surprisingly, I think Osimhen's technique was much better in Lille than in Napoli, it was as if he made a tradeoff for physicality when he joined Napoli.

komekn:
For the past Donkey years of where has Omeruo played in the backwaters of Europe essentially.

If he was as my good multiple clubs would have been trying to sign him. Why are multiple EPL clubs after Calvin because he outstanding.

Omeruo was in the Championship with Middlesbrough but couldn't gather any interest, why

Osimhen in played in French League and has gone to Napoli why because he is outstanding.

Omeruo essentially has experience of playing low level backwaters of Europe league football since he started.

Longevity is not quality.

yinkeys:
Awaziem

drDoom3:
Aribo and Ndidi are.

komekn:
You lack knowledge and you have no understanding.

In most EPL clubs they have different phases off development. I know a EPL club that contracted the former assistant manager at Sao Paulo FC Brazil to head up the u9-13 development phase.

To teach them skills, technical ability, touch, etc Because after that age it becomes difficult to teach those particular skill sets.

Now look at England youth footballers do you see any of the old kick and rush , footballers anymore. Look at Eze, Tega Abraham, Iwobi, Mount, Reece, etc

But we in Nigeria have remained stagnant we have not developed our football and movef ahead. Just like many of our academic lecturers still using notes of decades ago to teach today.

Years ago I looked at Victor O, when he was at Wolfsburg and l made it clear that he would not make it into a good academy. He was technically poor.

Physically outstanding and Fast a big YES and he has used his physical attributes to overcome inadequacies in his technical ability, to get ahead. I said he needed to drop league go to a lower league learn, develop and them move up.

Well he has done that and has left Lille and gone to Napoli. However, some of those handicaps are still there and they will prevent him from getting to the top if not addressed.

This is a problem with home grown players from local academies and leagues. This is why we quite a few cannot even cross the ball properly.

komekn:
No they will wait for two years and when he has blown up and other nations show interest we will sau he turned down our offers.

The reality is that in the HERE and NOW he is better than Omeruo. But we will hold on to the past and not progress.

TheGoodJoe:
Terrible message from such a legend like Okocha. We need to keep working hard to improve as a team
That is how we can become a success in the long run.

Is Okocha asking us to park bus against Ghana
That is a defeatist mentality. We should go there with the mentality of dominating and winning.

andrewbaba44:
Aribo didn’t have a poor afcon ,by saying that you are only lying to yourself and deceiving yourself

Your mission has always been to talk down on Aribo just because you want to hype Nwakali and tell us things he didn’t do

Aribo having a poor afcon ,you can only hear this from clueless Nwakali fan boys like you oga meli and some of your alternate monikers

13large:
To bench your best all round midfilder Aribo? My guy, calm your nerves. Aribo and ndidi are undroppable in that midfield

TheSuperNerd:
Excellent post. All I have been saying on the Playmaker role from deep (CM-Playmaker/DLP) is right here.

I hope some learn this and WATCH our lads enough to tell the difference and not depend on write-ups from people who only uses Goals and Assists to rate a Playmaker. Lol

A Playmaker conducts, directs and orchestrates. Goals and Assists are bonuses to his game.

But because some feel it is always about Agenda, they keep going blind to the obvious which is easily observed through simple eye test from a standpoint of genuine neutrality.

Honestly, it's funny that they had to wait for you to bring the definition from an outside source before they finally understand when all that is here is what I have explained and even over-explained overtime. Funny lots.

TheLoneCitizen:
Joe Aribo a goal-scoring and assist-giving midfielder, but not a playmaker. Similar to Dele Alli.

Nwakali Nigeria's truest Deep Lying playmaker. Etebo another one capable there.

How can man go contrary? When TheGoodJoe proposes, very few can contest.

Kog45:
Then we exonerate all underperforming SE Afcon players cos the system did not play to their strengths.

andrewbaba44:
Chukwueze failed at the afcon

Who is he that they should play to his strength ?

Even Egypt is not playing Liverpool type of football to suit salah

TheLoneCitizen:
Accurate, bro. Did someone dispute this?

TheLoneCitizen:
Accurate, bro. Did someone dispute this?

TheGoodJoe:
Waiting for it. Thanks in advance.

Kog45:
I just wish Osimehn injury free...Chuckwueze was highly rated by Eguavoen thinking that he will come good as we progress but failed....Ghana two legs match must be for starters who will get it right from the start to finish.

TheGoodJoe:


I think I will like to come in here. When we talk about deep-lying playmaker, to the best of my knowledge, it has to do with the role than the position.

I will list some players in this era who I consider ideal deep-lying playmakers.

Granit Xhaka
Thiago Alcantara
Jorginho

The thing about these players has to do with their natural style. Even when they venture forward, they still play in a particular manner. They like the short passing game.

One thing about them is that they like to operate from deep. They are comfortable playing for a long time close to the defenders and like to build attacks from the back with their passes.

So when these guys write Aribo as a deep-lying playmaker, I wonder if they are referring to him operating in that manner. That is sitting deep and using passes to dictate play.

I might be wrong because I have not watched much of Aribo but in the few I saw, he is not the player that likes to sit and play deep for a long time. Offensive play is a big part of his game.

I will like others to add. Do you see Aribo as a player that plays like Xhaka or Jorginho?

Odunayaw:
442 isn't the issue o, it's style and discipline that makes its not to suit us now.

Uruguay has done more than we can dream of at the WC with that formation

Danielnino00:
You're being petty again as usual...The same attitude you displayed when people were voicing concern over Okoye before the AFCON... After his famous blunder, you lost your voice...
It's only in your head that people hate foreign borns...

Based on current form, Lookman isn't better than Chukwueze... Chuks has scored in the laliga,champions league and Copa de Rey this season.. 6 goals and one assist in total compared to Lookman's 5 goals and 1 assists despite playing fewer games...

Let's see Lookman in action in the GWG first before we conclude that he is better than our current wingers..... Okoye is playing in a top league but is delivering a disasterclass every matchday for the super eagles

TheGoodJoe:

How many goals has Simy scored this season that you want Sadiq dropped for him?

You are yet to tell us the deep lying playmaker you wanted Eguavoen to take over Nwakali.

HERE AND NOW

charlesemeka85:
ekong is also good in long balls