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They are lowering the standard of education and promoting mediocrity. Ot is a horrible decision and a serious tragedy.
We have horrible leaders in our country

komekn:
Watched him I think last year playing for the U18 in a final against Liverpool. He was outstanding, felt Liverpool should have got him then.

Dude is real quality, he is wanted across Europe and not just speculatively.

Players lke this will not play for us.
He is tge kind of player that will play for big teams like juventus, real madrid, liverpool etc. England or all these top European nations is more prestigious tha us. We can only get the good ones not world class like this.
I knew jamal musiala will not play for us.
I don't blame them. We are a third world country riddled with corruption that even tge citizens are running away from.
I suspect that even our ho.e grown talents tgat are world class may change their nationality if they had the chance

Stormtrooper11:
What do yall think about this?! We all regard tiki-taka as a form of great football

I don't understand
Man city is playing an improved form of tiki taka. Tecqnique flair and dribbling is needed in football

charlesemeka85:
Union Berlin working on snatching Nigerian midfielder ishaq abdulrazak from anderlecht

What is your source
Well I know he is tolu arokodare set

COOL10:
1) Dessers plays for Feyenoord Rotterdam and not PSV. Do your research next time.

2) To know the quality of a Number 9 (Centre Forward), many things are required but let's just focus on these two for the purpose of clarity and to gives us a more detailed analysis :
1) Goal per minute ratio across all competitions
2) European Club Competition performance

Now let's look at and judge their performances over the recently concluded season:

1) Origi played just 598 minutes across all competitions all season. This isn't enough to judge his quality.

2) Batshuayi played 3065 minutes across all competitions all season and ended up scoring 13 goals. This means he scored 13 goals in approximately 34 matches.

3) Benteke played 1225 minutes across all competitions all season and ended up scoring 4 goals. This means he scored 4 goals in approximately 14 matches.

4) Mertens is not a natural Centre Forward. I said Number 9. He's very smart when he plays as a CF but he's more of a winger and he already has his spot on the wings whenever he's fit. 13 goals in 1736 minutes is very impressive. This gives him about 13 goals in 19 games.

5) De Ketelaere is also not a natural Centre Forward. He played 4138 minutes and scored 18 goals. This gives him 18 goals in 46 matches.

6) Openda played 3996 minutes and scored 23 goals. This gives him 23 goals in 44 matches.

7) Dessers played 2152 minutes all season and scored 21 goals. This means he scored 21 goals in 24 games. He also had six assists. This means he had 27 goal contributions in 21 games!!! Read that again.


In the Europa Conference League, Dessers scored 10 goals in just 762 minutes. This means he scored 10 goals in 8 games!! I'll leave you to check the European Club Competition performances of the other players and try comparing them to Dessers' performance.

I'm a big fan of goals per minute ratio because the minutes make the matches and not the other way around.

Note that I based my analysis on the recently concluded season. There's no saying what's going to happen next season but judging from the stats above, if Dessers had decided to play for Belgium, he deserves to be the heir apparent to that CF role, especially when Lukaku is out of form or injured. He's the most in form Belgian striker at the moment. Glad he's also Nigerian.

Let me stop here. My fingers are paining me.

Only lukaku and origi can bench dessers in the Belgian team. He can play if they play with 2 or more strikers even if lukaku is fit.
He might even bench origi or play alongside him.

TheSuperNerd:
Good start for "tactically flexible" Jose Peseiro. 2-1 win over a side Rohr couldn't beat.

Moses Simon, statistically my MOTM. But via eye test and more, I pick Iwobi as My MOTM. Moses Simon definitely was a top 2 performer today

Moses Simon: Dropped a MOTM-contender performance that is completely parallel to his most recent showing vs Ecuador.

Moses Simon created the most chances in the game (4) including one big chance. Bagged 2 clean assists. Won 5/7 ground duels.

Delivered 1/4 accurate crosses. Much better ratio than against Ecuador. Covered grounds in offensive and defensive phases. Kept it simple... and didn't throw himself into unnecessary cross attempts today. He picked out his mates simply and precisely and didn't go on unnecessary dribble charades

That's just a part of the Afcon-Simon we crave. Coz the Afcon Simon indeed dribbled but with insane purpose and created chances at will.

What a game from Moses Simon and I expect more of this going forward. Yes! Simon is back! I bet he loves Competitive games.



Alex Iwobi (My Main MOTM): The CM and deeplying Midfield role is his for keeps. No questions asked. He has stepped up and answered my cry for deeplying creativity through the middle. A Baller reborn under the touch of Lampard-esque tutorship.

Iwobi bossed Midfield proceedings effortlessly today. He made the second most touches in the game (75). Only Semi Ajayi made more (90). Completed 55 of his 64 passes (86% passing accuracy).

Created 1 chance, involved in initiating and recirculating passing sequences of our plays. Simply was the conductor in the middle of the park.

Made 2 interceptions. Made 7 recoveries and bagged a splendid goal.

I need to speak a bit more about his goal. Moses Simon got the assist but the goal as all about the Vision and Spatial awareness of Iwobi.

He was the one who fed Moses Simon the pass before he quickly upped his pace to attack a gap which saw Simon return the pass simply and Iwobi did the rest. It was an Iwobi Masterclass. That first goal was all Iwobi.

His 10th goal in the GWG. Deserved MOTM for me.


Peseiro switched from 4-4-2 in first half to 3-5-2 (sometimes looked like a 343) in the second half. His tactical flexibility is appreciated and it saw us get more chances to bury the game for good but for profligacy from Chukwueze and also much later on from Lookman.
It's an encouraging start. He did what Rohr couldn't do. BEAT A HARD FIGHTING SIERRA LEONE.

NEXT UP IS SAO TOME WHO GOT HAMMERED 5-1 by Guinea Bissau today. Let's go for the kill.

The most intelligent thing that peseiro did was to bring in Etebo in the second half to shore up the midfield
If not, Sierra Leone will have equalized or scored.
Immediately he brought in Etebo the pressure on our defence decreased.
I remember in the second half when Etebo had to foul a sieraleonan player in midfield on the way to goal.
It shows we need more midfielders who can shore up the team

yinkeys:
He can’t take Aribo’s role except he wants to start from the bench

IWOBI IS BETTER THAN ARIBO AS A MIDFIELDER
OUR COACHES ARE DUMB
OUR COACHES ARE DUMB
OUR COACHES ARE DUMB
OUR COACHES ARE DUMB
OUR COACHES ARE DUMB
COACHING IS OUR PROBLEM SINCE WESTERHOOF
THIS TEAM IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE

BOOOMNAIJA:
What's ur take.....

It's d inclusion of d Israeli based Adebayo adeleye goalkeeper for me.

We only need three things to turn around d Super Eagles.....let adeleye take over d goalkeeping department and do away with troost ekong in that defence, then get rid of that Salisu Yusuf man from d coaching crew...shikena.

THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN
WE REFUSE TO WORK ON OUR MIDFIELD
THIS TEAM IS BOUND FOR MEDIOCRITY
WHAT ABOUT NATURAL MIDFIELDERS LIKE OVIE EJARIA, ALHASSAN YUSUF ETC
I TELL YOU EXCEpT WE WORK ON OUR MIDFIELD WE WILL NOT ACHIEVE MUCH
AHMED MUSA HAS NOTHING TO OFFER
I AM NOT WATCHING NIGERIAS MATCHES AGAIN
OUR COACHES ARE DUMB
SINCE THE TIME OF WESTERHOOF WE HAVE NOT HAD ONE GOOD OR INTELLIGENT COACH
WE ARE CURSED WITH BAD COACHES
ETEBO IS HALF FIT AND INJURY pRONE
BONKE IS NOT INTELLIGENT AND IS ALL BRAWN WITH LITTLE BRAIN
IF WE CONTINUE LIKE THIS WE ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE
WE CANNOT SpEND THE NEXT 4 YEARS HAVING A MEDIOCRE MIDFIELD
WE WILL NOT GO pASS THE QUATER FINAL OF THE NEXT NATIONS CUp
WITH THIS NONSENSE AND STUpIDITY

byrron:
Liverpool wanted and early goal and Madrid has really been very lucky not to have conceeded more than a goal.

Luiz seems to have been neutralized to a large degree and Madrid is playing so nonchalantly with zero energy as if this is not a finals.

Liverpool might burn out and get frustrated if the goals don't start coming in an Madrid may just settle in the game.

If Liverpool don't score on time then, Real Madrid will score and win this match.
Real Madrid know how to take advantage of every Opportunity.
Liverpool is the better team but they need to seize their opportunities when it comes.
The problem is that Real Madrid can play well for only ten minutes and score 3 goals in ten minutes
while Liverpool can play well for eighty minutes and score only one goal or none at all.
Champions league mentality is different

charlesemeka85:
https://www.owngoalnigeria.com/2022/05/25/fc-porto-confirms-signing-of-fringe-nigeria-international-marcus-abraham/

Is he going to succeed in fc porto like Zaidu Sanusi.
Only time will tell as porto has destroyed the career of many Nigerian players
If he breaks into fc porto first team, i will respect him for that

elyte89:
He won't play for us again.. D world cup appearance could av been a serious bait to lure him ,unfortunately we didn't make it.he would rada wait for england opportunity for Years hoping he would rep dem in d nearest future Dan to play for us..at d moment,we don't av anything interesting to lure top foreign born players to our ranks

Why not try ovie ejaria or tosin kehinde.
They are available and we wont have to beg and wait so much.
The bible says
A bird in hand is worth more than two in the bush and a live dog is
better than a dead lion.
Another friendly is comming up and ovie ejaria and tosin kehinde have not been invited.
How long will we wait for eberechi eze. I dont understand

TheSuperNerd:
Naija lads in Russian Premier League's Final League matchday 21/22

Ejuke starts for CSKA.

Olakunle Olusegun starts for FC Krasnodar. His 9th senior start.

Bryan Idowu and 21 y/o MF/CDM, Anwan Lawrence start for FK Khimki.
It is Anwan's first Senior start for Khimki in the RPL and his 4th appearance after joining them in January/February from FNL side, Olimp-Dolgoprudnyi.

A Hard tackling Midfield player (CDM), he bagged a red in his first appearance for Khimki off the bench. Since then, he has been settling in okay dropping fine showings against Rostov and Russian League leaders, Zenit St. Petersburg.


All games kick off in 20 mins.


Pics below:

1. Chidera Ejuke getting set for today's battle.

2. Anwan Nicholas Lawrence bracing up for his first Senior start in khimki colors.

Anwan case is exciting. I saw his profile on transfermarkt and it was stated he can play as an attacking midfielder or central midfielder. He should be in the Nigerian team in no time.

By the way supernerd. It seems our grassroots football is tied to foreign leagues and not our local leagues like enyimba, Kano pillars etc. Our best players move from football academies to Europe and other foreign leagues.
Our local clubs have to believe in grassroot football bad that is where the talents are.
The nff u15 is changing this but our local clubs need to patronise football academies for players.
Chidera ejuke and this anwan and most of our homegrown talents are products of football academies but our local clubs don't appreciate this enough

joelsteron:
Eagles coach must do away with wingers for now and start working on 3-5-2 formation like A 3 man defense of: Awaziem Simi Ajayi & Bassey. Then a 5 man midfield of: Aina, Ndidi Aribo Iwobi Zaidu. And two man of attack of I Iheanacho and Osimehn. Our wingers should hold on.
I'm personally tired of those wing football where they usually get caged.

Is ovie ejaria cleared to play for us
Also is he willing to play for us

Secondly alhassan Yusuf of Royal Antwerp should be in midfield ahead of aribo as he is a natural midfielder while aribo is better when close to the box 18

jihday:
he doesn’t live in Nigeria, doesn’t watch our league, he can’t play our style .
We are a bunch of delusional people we aren’t ready for that

You see, we are a footballing nation with a rich
football history and anyone that coaches us has to appreciate that fact.
Westerhoof succeeded because he appreiciated us as a footballing nation.
You cannot come and impose your ideas 100%on us.
For example if Nigeria were to face France, a coach that understands us
will tell Chidera Ejuke that he should dribble and score 2 fantastic goals against France
but these foreign coaches will say that we might loose and must defend for ninety minutes
It is not pride. Nigeria did not start playing football 1 year ago.

fabyom:
Oshimen is United top priority! 94 million Euros!

I think the game against Leicester City where he scored those 2 fantastic goals is making United consider him a better option than Nunez!

The problem is Manchester United do not look ambitious.
They look confused and leaderless like sheep without shepherd.
Ten hag has to instill team work, confidence, good attitude, a new pattern etc into the team
Osimhen will like an allready made team not Manu that is full of stars but lack team work
like the Nigerian France 98 team

TheGoodJoe:
I posted this on March 30, 2016. I think with the discussion on ground, we can understand the depth of the Spanish Football development and a model many countries in Europe adopted. It is long but an in depth article.

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The Success Of Spain: A Lesson For Every Football Nation

The seniors showed how to do it! And now the juniors showed that even they can do it. Next what? Even the Spanish U5 might win their respective football tournament in the very same way. It’s that time to say that Brazil is no more the most feared football country in the world. It’s time for Spain to take the throne. The victory of Spain U-21 in the European championships recently has further substantiated the claim of the kings of world football. But how has Spain managed this unprecedented success, this unbelievable consistency that every country wants to emulate the Spanish success model?

Full article: https://www.nairaland.com/3019225/success-spain-lesson-every-football#44246494

Well, i hope you know we are allready copying it.
We have the npfl laliga u15 league which started in 2017 and even now the 2022 version is going on.
Each club comes with u15 players in a league and so enyimba, kano pillars etc have their youth teams

TheGoodJoe:
Please, at the moment is now. I do not know how to say it. Please where in Nigeria can you give a child the kind of education obtained in Barcelona academy.

Barcelona has a football academy in Lagos. Started around 2016

komekn:
Dude I spend a lot of time in coaching.

And from what I have seen if you haven't developed technical ability, sublime skill with outstanding first touch before you are 16/17 it's very infact almost impossible to develop after that.

I have seen this in academies across Europe.

Three weeks ago I was in Gran Canaria looking at the Santander La Liga Promises tournament. And even at U13 level you can see a lot of promise.

That's why Liverpool could pay £1.8 million for a 14 year old Raheem from QPR.

He can definitely improve on positional play , anticipation and timing as well as control his temper.

The irony is that most of the technically gifted players we Nigerians send to Europe are told they
are not good enough.
From Muazum, Rabiu Ibrahim, chrisantus macaulay etc.
YOU EUROpEANS ARE CONFUSING.
You tell us technically gifted players like nwakali cant play for porto but yet
OsimEhn who is not that technically astute can play.
Tell me what does it take an African born player to make it in Europe
ITS DAMN CONFUSING

komekn:
Dude I spend a lot of time in coaching.

And from what I have seen if you haven't developed technical ability, sublime skill with outstanding first touch before you are 16/17 it's very infact almost impossible to develop after that.

I have seen this in academies across Europe.

Three weeks ago I was in Gran Canaria looking at the Santander La Liga Promises tournament. And even at U13 level you can see a lot of promise.

That's why Liverpool could pay £1.8 million for a 14 year old Raheem from QPR.

He can definitely improve on positional play , anticipation and timing as well as control his temper.

The irony is that most of the technically gifted players we Nigerians send to Europe are told they
are not good enough.
From Muazum, Rabiu Ibrahim, chrisantus macaulay etc.
YOU EUROpEANS ARE CONFUSING.
You tell us technically gifted players like nwakali cant play for porto but yet
OsimEhn who is not that technically astute can play.
Tell me what does it take an African born player to make it in Europe
ITS DAMN CONFUSING

How Europe is destroying Nigerian or African footballers

We need to stop sending our players to Europe indiscriminately.
The process must be monitored.
Europe loves deceiving us our players are not good enough by making them
sign slave contracts and dumping them on the bench even in horrible leagues like latvia, slovenia etc
The way we destroyed our league is making it easy for Europeans to short change us.
You cant take a young player from Enyimba and send him into obscurity in Europe.
We need to negotiate a safe landing for our boys with these whites.
The trend needs to be nipped in the bud.
I think the problem is our players are too desperate to go to Europe and at the end
they are exploited and dumped.
Of course, there is poverty but African players deserve dignity
The Yorubas say
Nitori mo fe jeran mi le pe Malu in Broda
Because i want to eat meat i cannot call the Cow my brother.
Why run to the Latvian league in the name of playing in Europe
It is better to be in the North African league or in South Africa
than these nonsense European leagues.
Besides the npfl has to be marketed to the world and
shown on television as a good product.
Aba what is it. Omojesu of Sunshine stars has gone to the Latvian league
(is he that hungry
This madness and killing of talent needs to stop
We must develop our league and the best players from our league must end up
in at least Turkey, greece, belgium etc and the respectable leagues of Europe
where they can develop and get playing time.

abobote:
Just Napoli player of the month, not even Serie A player of the month.
And its news

Yes, he won Serie A player of the month for March.
https://www.goal.com/en-us/news/osimhen-wins-march-serie-a-player-of-the-month-award-after/bltaab03da181067e05#:~:text=Nigeria%20international%20Victor%20Osimhen%20has,March%20Player%20of%20the%20Month.

This is the link

TheLoneCitizen:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10561893/amp/Manchester-United-pick-84m-Victor-Osimhen-man-replace-Cristiano-Ronaldo.html

The surprising thing about Osimhen is that the Oyibo people rate him higher than we do.
I just thought he was a good young player before all the noise and move to napoli.
In fact, the Europeans rate him more than we do

isan:
U20 ladies and gentlemen
Ladan Bosso has already started his madness
We are going backwards in our football

I don't understand you.
Vandrezzar fc is one of the few privately owned clubs in the country with innovative ideas. They are like leventis United of old.
It's good the way nff is cooperating with them as they are set to change the face of Nigerian football.
One of their coaches is even in one of our youth teams.
This is a good development. You embrace progress when you see it

Slavia prague vs Feyenoord starts soon.
I cannot wait for the collins yira sor show.
He is the new kid on the block
3 Nigerians on parade
Dessers
Collins Yira Sor
peter Olayinka

Joezinho:
So we should invite a clubless nwakali that hasn't had up to 180 minutes of first team football, a 31 year old Rabiu Ibrahim, relatively unknown Ipabilo, iyayi and whatever to the Super Eagles as what?

To waste another 4 years trying to build a team? Una really deserve Eguavoen. Smh

Well, it is better to manage a second hand car than to be walking around.
They are the best we have now.
At least Rabiu Ibrahim plays regularly for his clu andis a natural AM.
Also, Iyayi was part of the dinamo zagreb team that reached the europa later stages and had an assist against totenham.
my friend we lack real talent in that area and we just have to make lemonade out of our lemon

some of them will do well if invited in our friendlies

Kog45:
What of Obinna Nwobodo.

Yeah u reminded me i said as many as i can remember.
I actually forgot form.
We should not let the big league syndrome affect us as we need a good midfield

Kog45:
Andrew baba,Yes coach and No coach.

Question to ask do we really have the synergies possessed by the teams our players features week in week out,check out our quality in the midfield and compare it to that of Villarreal or Leicester team.

Andrew,until we address the real issue which is our midfield,no coach will succeed with Ndidi,Etebo,Aribo formation .When Jay jay left Mikel was able to fit in though not as Okocha does it.Time to have real midfielder to dictate the pace....am not really sold on Aribo again cos he was damn too poor against Ghana and his performance in Afcon was average and Iwobi is on and off player cos on a good day by now Iwobi should be our real man in the midfield with Ndidi.

Check out,Calvin Bassey performance against Lyon,Iheanacho against man utd,Osimehn recent scoring spree,Awoniyi performance this season,Onuachu always on headlines,Sanusi doing it with Porto,Maduka good with Rotterdam,Iwobi recent form,Sadiq scintillating performance this season,Chuckwueze net a winning goal against Bayern but these guys and the rest performances in GWG always poor.

Imagine a team with Victor Osimehn,Paul Onuachu,Taiwo Awoniyi underperforming just due to bad midfield,no clear cut chances from our midfield,damn disjointed on the field,always playing like strange fellows.

In coming coach must sat down and find lasting solution to the sorry state of our midfield.How I wish Iwobi can come alive and shoulder the responsibility just like he is doing in Everton of late.

To rePair our midfield, we have to tolerate Players from obscure leageues and see what they can do.
Below are a list of midfielders that we should try in our friendlies. The next friendlies should be used to exPeriment with our midfield


1. Ovie Ejaria
2. Kelechi nwakali
3. Rabiu Ibrahim
4. Alhassan yusuf
5. Iyayi Believe Atiemwen
6. Jack IPalibo
7. James Igbekeme

etc and others i dont know or remember
We dont have many good midfielders in the toP leagues of euroPe but
that does not neccesarily mean they are not good.
in Particular Alhassan Yusuf must be considers as he is doing wll for royal antwerP in Belgium

jihday:
simple, coaching. Africa have a very big coaching problem.

Yeah we need another coach like Westerhoof.
I wonder if philip cocu can be one
Our football seems adaptable to dutch football as westerhoof was dutch.
We need an intelligent coach that can take us to the next level

Samuel chukwueze with an assist