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komekn:
You are misrepresentating the FACTS as usual.

He did not leave Huesca his contract was Terminated and he was let go because they simply don't think he is good enough.

In reality they wanted to get rid of him much sooner, but nobody in the Segundo wanted him ,so Huesca were stuck with him.

Consider how desperate Huesca was, season has not even ended and he has been kicked out of the club unceremoniously.

He was the second to the last lowest in paid player in the club.

As a matter of fact, a lot of teams in the second division want him.
He saved Alcorcon from relegation to the 3rd division last season and a second division
team like alcorcon has high regards for him.
In fact, burgos another second division team wanted him on loan this January but he refused.
Huesca is a foolish club driving him away.
Other teams know his worth and will come for him

Subzero47:
This thing doesn't excite me anymore

Untill we start using midfielders our strikers will struggle to score and we won't go far in international football.
It doesn't matter if our central midfielders are from obscure leagues as we don't have too many talented players in the middle.
Most African teams have noticed our midfield is a problem and will capitalize on it.
The new set of new players must be midfieldets. From ovie ejaria to rabiu Ibrahim to alhassan Yusuf or whoever.
The next coach should get us 10 natural midfielders who can create chances and protect the defence.
Midfield is the engine room of a team and the sooner our coaches realize this the better.
They should stop calling 10 strikers and 3 midfielders.
Who will pass to the ten strikers.
Journalists in our local league should talk more about midfielders than strikers. In fact create an award for most creative player or midfielder and recommend him to the national team.
I'm surprised we don't appreciate creative players and we need them badly in our midfield

Hilary gong scored today for hageusssnd in Denmark.
The winger has finally been given a chance and will prove himself.
Vitesse Arnhem never gave him a chance

BascoVanVeli:
Goal and assist for Anayo Iwuala. Back to back goals now in the CAF Champions League

I think anayo iwuala may be a natural winger that actually creates chances for his strikers and so is actually more tactically sound than some of our wing forwards.
But people in this forum will say he is not playing in Europe but football is about tactics

Our not qualifying for the world cup is a blessing in disguise. Now we will attack the problem from the roots.
We must develop our league and stop corruption in nff. A lot of changes must take place in our football.
We also need to improve in coaching from the grassroots.
The way we run football needs to change

If Sadiq Umar plays he will win a penalty for Nigeria and the ghsnisns will have a red card.
We should just tell him to keep dribbling.
We must exploit his creativity as a forward.
He can be a joker as the Ghsnisns don't rate him or have a plan for him. All they think is osimhen.
Sadiq style of play is different and will destroy the Ghsnisns defence.
Imagine if as early as the 5th minute the Ghsnisns get a red card and we win a penalty for their rough play towards Sadiq Umar. That will leave them confused

Aribo works best in a 3 midfield where 2 defensive or box to box players are behind him and he plays as an attacking midfielder with licence to roam and attack.

Iheanacho is best as a supporting striker.
Put aribo in a 3 man midfield and iheanacho behind osimhen and then use only one winger and we have a dangerous attack.
Eguavon is wasting aribo and iheanacho talent.
Rodgers who we criticize so much knows how to get the best out of iheanacho

fabyom:
Austin's stubbornness to stick with Nacho in that role might cost us the world cup.
This is not club football, it is international football for Christ's sake.

Your midfielders must be able to fight for every damn ball.

Etebo, Bonke/Onyeka, and Aribo should be the ones starting in that midfield triangle.

Two DMs will allow your wing backs to overlap to support your wingers without affecting the shape of the team. Football 101.

Trying to play like Pep was what cost Lampard the Chelsea job. One DM is a risky venture unless you have a great ball carrier like Kevin De Bruyne.

I bet you Austin will repeat his mistakes on Tuesday. We have a coaching problem.
He should try and invite natural midfieldets to the team but after this qualifiers he won't. Maybe it is a spiritual problem. Our coaches love ignoring out midfield

forgiveness:
Let us see how we play without Iheancho.

Iheanacho I'd not a midfielder. He is been played out of position. Eguavon is a terrible coach.
We have a serious coaching problem. Okay can you play lukaku as a midfielder.
Nwakali should be in this team or amoo
Our coaches are clueless and confused

Subzero47:
Ghana have so much space in midfield its crazy

Frank onyeks should be in midfield while atibo will play 10 in front of onyeks and bonke. Dennis can replace chukwueze.

Eguavon is getting his tactics wrong.
Nigeria has a serious coaching problem since westerhoof left.
Maybe the present coach of Ajax yrn hag can help.
There is no difference between Eguavon and rohr. Good players but bad coaches. I am tired. Our football administrators should work on our coaches.

mostob:
based on what criteria? If we're going with 442, Sadiq and Osimehn will be a good pairing...Sadiq playmaking ability, dropping deep, his height and even his goal threat will complement Osimehn. Ighalo is just like Osimehn,they both can't play together... Nacho doesn't really roam

Yeah this is why I love Sadiq. His creativity makes him a good support striker or wing forward. I prefer him to iheanacho in that role

Chidera ejuke is better than Samuel chukwueze.
He is a better dribbler and he is unpredictable. Chukwueze is too predictable and easy to mark.
On the other hand defenders do not know what ejuke will do next.
I wonder at the tactical soundness of our coaches.

BascoVanVeli:
Yes

Sadiq Umar underlying stats are wonderful. He will win penalties create 5 chances and complete 7 dribbles in a match.
He has 9 assists and has won 4 penalties this season. He has ball carrying which is fundamental.
No wonder Eguavon likes him. He is a very creative and effective forward.
His all round play is the real reason teams are after him

jasena:
The midfield was already weak with the absence of a creative midfielder which Ndidi doubled as both a defensive midfielder and a creative midfielder in the last afcon,. Now Ndidi is out. Check out any cup wining team they need a creative midfielder, they need someone like Luka modric, the reason Spain won the world cup and euro back then was the midfield. They didn't have outstanding strikers but with xavi and iniesta in the centre it was hard for the opponents to gain meaningful possession. Eguavon should look for a creative midfielder, when we won the afcon in 2013 Mikel made more decisive passes than any other player in that afcon edition. He was the livewire spearheading the attackers with incisive passes. We need a player like that, The absence of a creative midfielder was why we couldn't equalise against Tunisia, and eguavon tried to bring in Iwobi to fill that gap but he should have had planned his team around a playmaker from the onset and now we still lack one

Let us believe in Akinkunmi amoo. If pedri can do it for Barcelona and Spain as a teenager then amoo can be the creative force we need. Remember a 17 year old pele dazzled at the 1958 world cup.
Our /Nigerian messsi can do it

TheGoodJoe:

I believe Etebo took Nwakali's place and with Shehu returning to the team. Remember hemissed due to injury.

Men the team still needs nwakali.
He is like a constant decimal that does not disappear

drDoom3:
He has good shooting but his finishing from a CF perspective is poor though. Also needs to bulk up a bit the way Olayinka did too.

He is actually a winger who can play as a striker. He is like Emmanuel Dennis

andrewbaba44:
Samson Tijani comes in for Salzburg

So happy

Another Sunday oliseh, jorginho type player on the way.
I can remember how European clubs were chasing him when he was still in Nigeria.
He is in a club that will develop him.
Red bull Salzburg main aim is to develop young players and sell them to the top leagues of Europe.
I wish more of our young players were in Red bull. That team deserves an award for helping young players

komekn:
Look at Dessers goals this season , he had been a sub all season and scored 4 goals it's not good enough.

Akpoguma is not better than Calvin and Alhasssan has a long way to go to prove his quality.

Alhassan Yusuf does not have a long way to go. He is doing very well for Royal Antwerp and has 2 man of the match awards. The Belgian league is rated higher than the Scottish league and yet you rate players in rangers such as Calvin basset above him.
I repeat Alhassan Yusuf deserves to be in our midfield. In 2020 he was rated as one of the best ball distributors under the age of 21.
It's ridiculous he is not in the team

13large:
The first step is making it a priority. Our coaches hasn’t made the midfield a priority and they believe that having 10 inform forwards win you games. Nigeria as a whole do not improve aspire to become midfielders

Our coaches keep making the same mistake. They don't care about midfield and it is important. We should get more midfielders not forwards.
Other teams have noticed and capitalize on our weaknesses in midfield.
Ibinna nwobodo, alhassan Yusuf etc are needed than all these talented strikers we have

13large:
Eguavoen should better not select an imbalanced squad vs Ghana and he must ensure that his midfield selections are intact and valid

Alhassan yusuf of Royal Antwerp must be invited to beef up our midfield.
Also Anthony nwakaeme should be invited to help us in the wings.
Ahmed Musa needs to be dropped as he is wasting space other players should occupy

TheGoodJoe:
More pics from Dusan Vlahovic.

The last pic was the first goal, which shows him attacking space in the box and creating room for a pass. This is what Osimhen needs to make a part of him. Attacking spaces and being part of the build-up play.

They should have thought osimhen this kind of movement in his football academy in Nigeria.
We cheat our kids out if many things by training them badly. We don't know that a poor boy can go anywhere onlife and so we don't take coaching serious

We need to take coaching seriously in this country. It is the bane of our football.
Coaching is very fundamental and important to football.
Ronaldo da Lima was coached by Jarzinho who played in the 1970 world cup.
I'm tired maybe I will start my football academy one day with emphast on coaching for kids under 19
Osimhen is the product of poor coaching and a failed or limited football system

drDoom3:
Like I said earlier, he is our second best striker on the ball besides Iheanacho. Look at the way he was spraying the crosses and passes like prime De Bruyne.

A Sadiq with confidence and teammates on the same wavelength is deadly.

Sadiq will do well as a supporting striker or winger.
Eguavons should try and utilize his creativity so that osimhen and the other forwards can score goals. He is actually a creative or play making forward and this is rare.
This is probably why some top teams are after him. He is a very creative and technically astute forward.
He will reach double digits on assists again this season as he is already on 8 assists.
I hope he does it at the higher level as this is the only thing against him but strikers this good on the ball are not many. He is unique and brings something different

komekn:
The top five goal scorers in the best and most competitive league in the world the EPL are not strikers by definition.

Salah
Diogo
Sterling
Mane
Bruno

So what's your point exactly.

Your judgement on players is too momentarily. I mean 2 years ago you will not rate Emmanuel dennis but now you rate him. Stop been hasty to judge players. Time changes things and life is full of surprises.

TheLoneCitizen:
Yira Sor been immense for new club Slavia since his January signing.

Assist in first leg, now scores off the post in second leg.

I've been monitoring him. The boy is really good. He was even playing well in his former club and that is why slavia brought him. Will be in a better league soon

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.

With the I agree but our football has actually regressed. The players we had in the 80s and 90s were actually better. Felix owolabi, Friday elaho etc.
The level of coaching has actually depreciated. I think coaching has to be taken seriously. Ronaldo da Lima was coached by Jarzinho (who played in the 1970 world cup for brazil)) when he was very young.
Maybe we should attach specialists in youth football to the kids in our academies. Now is the time to start it.
Its a serious issue. You see if Ibrahimovic was born in Nigeria, he could have been limited by the poor coaching he will get.
A 12 year old boy in a football academy in Europe has more knowledge of football tactics than a 17 year old boy in Nigeria and this is where the problem starts from

drDoom3:
His offside awareness was the worst I have seen in a game since I started watching football, including amateurs. Guy was 5 meters ahead of the last man in some cases and calling for the ball.

You see most homegrown Nigerian footballers are poorly coached. Our football system does not care about coaching and it is very important.
When they get to Europe it becomes obvious. You can't just survive on your raw talent alone. We need to declare a coaching emergency in Nigeria. Most Nigerian coaches probably don't teach their payers even the simple and basic things.

13large:
Honestly, I have no idea why a country can be producing quality strikers on a weekly basis but cannot produce enough Attacking or center Midfielders. The midfield position is the engine of a team and without a solid midfield, your team will remain imbalanced. For now, we only have Ndidi, aribo, etebo, frank, Nwakali and iwobi at our disposal

Alhassan Yusuf of Royal Antwerp is there. He should be integrated into the squad. Maybe made to play a friendly for 90 minutes.
Also our foreign botns can help in this department.

Watching chukwueze now. He is playing well. What happened to him at afcon I don't know.

ChrisKels:
What happened to our one time NPFL midfield generalissimo, Kingsley Sokari?

Omo this boy was so overhyped by the local media

He is doing well in North African football. Must all our players come from Europe? The Egyptian keeper in afcon is better than maduka okoye. North African league is good and a lot of players in afcon were from North African league.
We are too Euro scentric with our players.
Look Mohammed aboutrika was better than a lot of Europe based players.
I believe he should be given a chance as his career is not a failure.
In fact it is better to play for all shly or zamalek than to be in Latvia or Slovakian league

jihday:
Oliseh only played well for Ajax and maybe dortmund but was largely warming the bench for Juve. Taribo was a star at Inter but was already declining when he joined AC. The less said about Amunike the better. Fernanbache no be am

If not for injury amunike could have been the greatest winger or player to come from Nigeria. Unfortunately immediately he entered Barcelona he got injured

drDoom3:
Not true.

Kalu and Dennis have very similar talents. Dennis is slightly better because is like a Jota, can even play CF. He has like 3 headed goals this season.

Kalu can play as a wing back and is more of a midfielder than Dennis. They both have their strengths.
Anyway I doubt if kalu can play as a pure striker