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There is leadership failure in Nigeria and EVERTHING IS COLLApSING
Our leaders are serious failures. The fact that they have money is what we fail to understand.
Incidentally, they stole this money from us through corruption.
The issue is we are not been ruled by intellectuals.
We are been ruled by political thugs who are shallow minded and cannot see beyond their selfish interests.
Education, security, economy is collapsing everyday but our leaders have no clue because
they have lost the capacity to think and be intellectual.
When you alienate intellectualism from leadership, society will disintegrate into war, poverty and anything.
We have to realize we have failures as leaders.
Okay those in charge of education in the country are simply FAILURES. They are so confused and myopic

TheSuperNerd:
I am aware of footballtalentscout (by Jacek Kulig). I know the site. We have also interacted twice.

Yes apart from that i was going through rashid yekinis profile and i saw that he has over 500 career goals. I think he is the only African ti achieve this feat.
Try and notify the nff (Nigerian football authorities) about this. Eto, drogba etc did not score up to 500 career goals.
We need to make it more public. The white people celebrate their heroes and keep records more than us

TheSuperNerd:
Anglo-Nigerian and Arsenal lad on loan, Folarin Balogun scored for Stade De Reims to earn them a point in a 1-1 draw away at Strasbourg.

This makes it 3goals in 3 league games (2 starts). All scored consecutively across 3 matchdays. #InForm.

I became alerted to his potential when the footballtalentscout website likened him to Victor Osimen. I will shiw you the site later. The boy is going places

Alhassan muazum ibrahim scored for beershift today in the Belgian second division.
The guys career is now rather mediocre. I hope thigs improve from here.
He was struggling for game time in the portuguese second division last season before he came to beershoft

mostob:
At a time during the match, i was asking myself if it is this same football the girls dey play, na him man utd dey play.

Rofiat Imuran was so impressive. WOTM for me.

Manchester United should use players from their academy and forget about the stars they have.
They should concentrate on team work and tactics. The kind of formation they want to use and how the players fit into the formation
players like iqbal, elanga will improve with time. The set of paul scholes and the like were academy players.
If they should buy players they should target players under 25 who want to work and are proud to be manu players.
All these stars will lead them to disaster with their lack of commitment.
Academy players is the way forward and they should instill discipline and team work on them

charlesemeka85:
villareal president said that sadiq is beyond their reach because of his price tag. it seem they have pulled out from the deal. the only interested team as of now is getafe

Almeria are selfish. They need him to help them escape relegation. They are not desperate for money as they have a rich arab who brought the club a few years ago.
A few years from now sadiq umar will start fighting with them as he will be desperate to leave. I suggest he should refuse to sign a contract extension.
Next summer willbbe war between sadiq and almeria. They are too selfish and greedy

BannedLarge:
Nwakali ahead of Aribo. This man you must either be a Criminal or an Agent because what sane person will drop Aribo for nwakali (passing attributes or not)

Tactics matter in football. Okay play Cristiano Ronaldo as a central defender and see what will happen.
What a player can do is important. Aribo is simply not a central midfielder wven if he plays for real Madrid.
Nwakali, iwobi etc is better in passing from midfield.
We gave heard about club form.

TheSuperNerd:
Kelechi Nwakali just bagged a sumptuous long pass assist from deep in midfield to put Ponferradina ahead away at Cartegena.

Wow! What a way to start at your new club.

Nwakali will prove a lot of people wrong. He will be one of the best players in segunda division and move on to something better. Some clubs are monitoring him but he mist perform.
He should take a cue from sadiq umar and play himself out of obscurity

jihday:
Onyekuru pass was splendid. Is the Akintola guy 100% Nigerian?

Forget this Monaco thing.
His effectiveness in the last third of the pitch is needed in the national team
These Europeans are funny with our players.
Who will see this kind of player and drop him?
His coaches at Monaco must be ridiculous
Im sure he is the kind of player that can only play in a kind of formation.
Monaco made a serious mistake not using him.
He is too devastating to be ignored
This kind of player can win the Nations cup for us.
Europeans again are not GOD
and their judgement is not always infallible

Subzero047:
Man U is now disgusting me and I'm not even a supporter, Man U supporters how do you cope

Manchester United have a psychological problem. Maguire should be driven away from the club. As the captain he is infecting the players with his lackadaisical attitude. They should hire a psychologist to psychoanalyze the players. They appear unmotivated and simlly dont care.
The team needs discipline, hardwork and leadership.
Anyway this wasvhow the golden generation of Super eagles werewas jn france 98 and they were dropped for the 2002 world cup.
Manu needs to do something drastic.
They should use their academy players. These big names are doing nothing. They badly need leadership. It is not about quality players anymore.

According tobwikipedia rashid yekini scored over 520 career goals. This is astonishing for an African let alone Nigerian. Not many africans have done that.he deserves commendation for this.
Let us see if Osimhen has 500 career goals.
Very impressive

TheSuperNerd:
Transfer News: Uba Charles, 19yrs, joins Lillestrøm SK

Uba Charles, 19 y/o Midfielder signs for Norwegian Eliteserien side, Lillestrøm SK on a 4 yrs contract.

He will join them from January 1, 2023.

Will finish the season at present side, Ljungskile SK before joining Lillestrøm fully.

Ljungskile SK plays in the Swedish Third Tier (Ettan, Sodra).

Recall Lillestrøm SK has 3 Naija Lads in Igoh Ogbu, Ifeanyi Matthew and Akor Adams.

He is from idol football academy in Nigeria.
i checked. He went to sweden last year.
WHAT pROpONENTS OF HOME BASED pLAYERS DONT REALIZE
is that our grassroots football is tied directly to foreing and European leagues.
They have bypassed the npfl and go straight to the football academies attached to the grassroots.
Any npfl player that you call to the national team is probably from a football academy and
will get out of the country in less than a year

charlesemeka85:
Latest rumor is that ac Milan hv open talks with onyedika’s agent. Midtyjlland rumored to want 8-10m euros

Give us the source of your information

Subzero047:
I don’t think this is the right time for Onyedika to move to a club like AC Milan where he will not get sufficient gametime

I agree with you. A club in the Belgian league will be good for him. From there he can go further to ac milan.
All these big clubs dont develop players. Except he matures fast both emotionally and football wise.
He needs development and game time not bench.
The time to move to a big league or club will come.

JohnBullMySon:
Please never again should you keep Nwakali and Aribo in the same sentence. Nwakali's only talent is in creative passing. Other than that, he cannot play at a high level beacause he does not keep up with the pace. He is not just hadworking enough, gets lost on the pitch, loses his man, makes poor tackles.

If you think talent only is what is needed in the premier league then you're mistaken.

Creative passing is an essential skill in football. Without creative passing football becomes athletic, unintelligent and it will be difficult ti score.
Playwrs like nwakali will allways be needed.
Stop worshipping these Europeans tget are not God your maker.
Nwakali is simply needed in tge sup5 eagles. Is the English league the only leagur in Europe.
As per tackles thud is what guardiola said about tackling.
'"I dont play for tackkesvwhat is tackling?"

Nwakali will do well this season. Dont worry.
I know you hate him but he is needed.

Mujtahida:
That's a pile of rubbish. He's got no quality. That talk about skill set is nothing but poor comfort for those who cannot deal with the disappointment that a player they had such high hopes on has failed to reach the commanding heights of football. We can wax lyrical about his skill set but the reality is what it is.

I am tired but the absolute truth is that NWAKALI HAS QUALITY.
Time will prove us his supporters right
If he played against ghana he would have dominated partey and we will be in the world cup now.
Europeans are not GOD and we cannot continue to rely on their perception of our players.
This aribo you rate is not as important as Nwakali in our team.
Even his new coaches at ponferadina know that he is good as he is the one that requested for him.
Succeeding in Europe does not allways mean you are better than one that doesnt succeed.
no one in our midfield apart from iwobi and maybe alhassan yusuf can control the midfield the way he does.
Look, we won the nations cup before our players started going to Europe in the time of Stephen Keshi in the 1980's.
he will do well this season and move to a better club.

isan:
Lol this one no go fit play for Nigeria

We dont need gim. We have too many forwards. Is he even better than Godwin saviour or david okereke

Victory beniangba to celta vigo from Egyptian club.
Of course he is a striker.
We are blessed with many talented wingers and strikers.
I hope our midfielders can take a cue from our strikers and excel

TheSuperNerd:
Winger/Wing-forward preferably RW.

It is as if we are genetically wired to be good strikers and wingers. We are good in those posutions in every league in the world. Iys amazing.
Any way ehy is collins yora sor not in the math day squad. Is it injury or transfer to a bigger club

Cecco90:
Do what exactly?

Cote D'Ivoire is hosting next AFCON.
Kindly suggest a favourable period (that will suit the Europeans) of the year when the tournament should be hosted considering the weather conditions in the country

As long as we africans srnc our players to Europe wr have to reach a compromise with them. MOST OF The best players from Africa will end uo in Europe.
We all want our best players to play in Europe but then we cant compromise with them

TheSuperNerd:
DLPs also operate as CDMs with just a slightly different interpretation of the role. That's common knowledge.

And trust me, I am just being factual on Ndidi's potentials. He remains Nigeria's most rated and most valuable midfielder in world football today but let us not overrate his abilities abeg. Dude's ballplaying deficiencies is one of the major reasons we have suffered in Major tournaments recently when the going gets tough.

20/21 season remains his peak season so far at club level and he hasn't even replicated that in the GWG or even lately for Leicester before his injuries kicked in.

Look alhassan yusif will soon overtake him as pur best midfielder in a few years time. Im baffled he has not yet been invited. He is a natural midfielder and not a converted one. If he keeps improving a top 5 league team will snap him up

Our national team needs natural midfielders and you are righr
Joe Aribo is not a natural central midfield conductor Kelechi Nwakali is simply better in that aspect of the game
people may underrate him but supernerd to be honest
if Kelechi Nwakali or Alhassan Yusuf played against Ghana we would have won.
Both or one of them could have taken the midfield from Thomas partey but Eguavon got confused.
Time will prove me right.
The issue is it takes time to get into these big leagues of Europe but club form is not everthing.
Also, ovie ejaria should be drafted into our midfield to see what he can do
WE LACK OpTIONS IN MIDFIELD!!!!!

Danielnino00:
The Croatian league is a 10 team league... What kind of move is that? SMH...
For somebody that played in La liga and Ligue 1, it's either he doesn't have good agents or is more after the money....

There is no money in the Croatian league. It is only in saudi and china that there is money.

If he wanted a new experience brazillian and argentine league would have been good.
He lacks ambition and the move is not even financially rewarding.
Rohr made our players not to go to obscure leagues as he threayened to drop them if they did and i now understand why.
Some of our home grown players have a poor mentality and are just not ambitious

TheSuperNerd:
Some Naija Lads who shone across Europe Yesterday - July 31 Final day Edition

*Happy New Month People


✅️Preseason Friendly:

SSC Napoli 1-1 Real Mallorca

Victor Osimhen Goal via Penalty. He is officially Napoli's Pen taker for the 22/23 season. Confirmed.

2 goals, 1 assist, 1 penalty won in 4 preseason games.

Getting set for the new season and still has 2 more friendlies with Napoli vs Girona and Espanyol on August 3rd and 6th respectively.

Stats note: Napoli had 17 penalties across all competitions last season (21/22). Osimhen won 6 of them and didn't take any yet finished with 18 goals in all competitions (Napoli's top scorer).
Insigne took 14 of the 17 pens won by Napoli last season and scored 10 of them missing 4. The other 3 taken by Mertens (2) and Zielinski (1) and they were all scored.
Now, Osimhen is Napoli's newly officially appointed Penalty taker for the 22/23 season. I expect more goals rush for him. One huge enough to put him in the Capocannoniere discussion.





✅️Danish Super Liga:

Viborg FF 4-2 FC København

Ibrahim Sa'id Assist

60mins played.
1 assist.
77% passing accuracy.
2 chances created.
1 big chance created.
100% tackles won (4/4).
1/2 accurate crosses.
5/11 ground duels won.
100% aerial duels won (1/1).
2 recoveries.
Was fouled once.
Committed 4 fouls.




✅️Norwegian Eliteserien:

Sarpsborg 08 0-2 Lillestrøm SK

1. Ifeanyi Matthew Solid Midfield Performance

89% passing accuracy
59/66 accurate passes.
3 key passes.
6/8 accurate long balls.
100% tackles won (2/2).
6 recoveries.
2/5 ground duels won.
2 clearances.
1 block.
1 interception.
1 foul committed.
1 shot blocked.
1 shot on target.

Has 3 goals across 20 games in all comps for Lillestrøm SK



2. Igoh Ogbu Solid Defensive Performance + Cleansheet

88% passing accuracy.
60/68 accurate passes.
1 key pass.
1 big chance created.
7 recoveries.
2 clearances.
4/8 accurate long balls.
100% aerial duels won (4/4).
100% successful dribbles (1/1).
2/3 ground duels won.
Was fouled once.
1 shot off target.

Has 3 goals, 2 assists and 9 cleansheets across 20games in all comps for Lillestrøm SK

Samuel nnoshiri is about to break into the reak oviedo first team. He is constantly training withthem and he was among the six players picked to play for the first team.
I will keep my update on him

TheSuperNerd:
Igoh Ogbu is a Central defender and already on 3 goals and 2 assists across all competitions this season for Lillestrøm SK of Norway from 17games (all starts).

15 league games: 3 goals, 1 assist and 6 cleansheets.

2 UECL Qualifiers games: 1 assist, 1 cleansheet


Still only 22 yrs. A CB who is comfortable with ball carries as much as he is with passing.

'Finish the Norwegian 2022 season strong and he could attract stronger offers from Belgium, France Holland or Portugal etc... Keep going Ogbu.

Tolu arokodare u17 set. Also ishaq abdulrazaq of anderletch is part of it. And also adeleye the goalkeeper in Israel. I learnt that team was truly young and some players were even 15 or 16. Youth development allways work in the long run. They lost because they were very toung vut now it paying off at last

Victor of eletu of ac milan youth team should be capped by Nigeria immediarely. I mean he should be our midfield general from now on. He shoul be seen as the next mikel.
Uf he plays well for us ac milan or any other club will have to put him in their first team. Gabj is allready in the first team of barcelona and spain and why not Victor Eletu

charlesemeka85:
https://www.owngoalnigeria.com/2022/07/27/lagos-boy-victor-eletu-named-as-new-captain-of-ac-milan-u19-team/

By the grace of God this boy will be the next Mikel obi of our generation

Yeah, i have been monitoring him since he was in division 2 with the same team.
These Nordish leagues are like mother leagues. They nurse African players till they are ready for the big leagues
He is moving to a big league in a year or two time.
Ignoring the Nordish league may seem nice but it is unwise and counter productive because they
offer developmental football which is what most Africans need.
Look at Kamaldeen Sulemena and our own paul onuachu, frank Onyeka even Mikel played in Norway for sometime

TheSuperNerd:
24 y/o Abdulsalam Magashy bagged an assist for IFK Varnamo in their 2-3 loss vs A.I.K in the Swedish Allsvenskan.

Has 2 goals + 2 assists in 15 games (14 starts) in the current 2022 swedish league season.

He's a CAM/CM.

femianski:
Lol kelechi a bench warmer and unambitious footballer

Kels needs to go beyond average. Kels is like a student that has the ability to get 90% but he settles for 50% because of his attitude. He is a 2nd class lower student when he can be a first class student. There us a book called the enemy called average.
He may rrmain average if he does not work in himself.
He needs 3 seasons of scoring 20 goals each season and an ahmed musa like perfomance in the world cup to win afcon pkayer of the year. If not he will remain average.

TheSuperNerd:
Transfer News: Randers FC of Denmark sign 18y/o Naija kid

18-year-old Mustapha Isah from HB Academy, Abuja has signed a contract with Randers FC until the summer of 2025.

He's a Winger.

Will start off from the U19 side while training with the main team simultaneously. Plans to integrate him properly into the main superliga side will happen with time.

Fantastic. The nordish league is a talent developer for Nigerians and africans.
They are honest and sincere about developing black players andbselling them to the major leagues of Europe.
They fill a hole npfl is not filling

elyte89:
So d làst time we made d last top 3 in d afpoty award was 2013...hmmm,dis is worrisome

Relax its not. We have young players under 25 all over Europe and in our academies and youth in nigeria.
With time they will mature and get there. Our talent development is working so calm down it rakes time.
We have solved the problem ffom the root with tome the tree woll grow.
Okey there is victor eletu in ac milan youth team and danuel francis in bayern youth team.
The most important thing is to find talent from the grassroots and at least our academies and youth teams are doing that. The next thing we have to do is develop our local league.
Besides our foreign borns are still there. Calvin bassey can win it one day and among our home grown talents Victor Osimhen is commming close to it

Justinbright:
Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2022/07/the-life-and-glamour-of-bbnaija-winners-of-different-seasons/amp/

There are many brilliant writers, mathematicians and inventors in Nigeria. Whu not have a reality show about an inventor. We are too shalow minded in this part of the world

Anthony nwakaeme to hull city loading.
He is a late bloomer and is underrated on this thread.
He has the problem mist home griwn talent have: Spending too much time in obscure leagues. He got to tge turkish leafue in gis late 20's.
Also he is a late developer as i said before