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Subzero047:
It seems Porto fans are not happy with the transfer

Why? Is it because they think he is not good enough

IDENNAA:
Nwakali is a deep lying playmaker with really great attributes: dribbling, free kicks , long pinpoint passes and of course breathtaking goals.

Exactly like Andre Pirlo. He is in a technical league like Spain that appreciates that kind of talent . The english league does not really suit his game.
He really needs to work hard this season

Is henry onyekuru playing well. Anybody watching monaco match should tell me

andrewbaba44:
If you take a look at komekn he doesn’t really watch games or take note of some players

Komekn is very good in English football. So he can scout English league players that are good for Nigeria.
After that his knowledge of Italian, Spanish, German etc football is very limited.
He makes the mistake of rating English league players (both home based foreign born etc) above other players and he is proud

Did hilary gong play today. The experts here should answer me

WHY A LATVIAN TEAM WILL WIN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

It may sound Absurd but a Latvian team may win the champions league one day.
They are sourcing talents from football Academies in Nigeria and Africa.
Africans are genetically talented for sports.
This is how France used diasporan Africans to win the world cup.
There are now many Nigerian players flocking there at an alarming rate.
These Nigerian players are good but raw. What will happen in Latvia is that they
will simply refine then and win Uefa or the Champions League with them.
Africa's inability to manage human resources is funny. Other countries see it and take advantage.
The difference between home grown Africans and diasporan Africans (who were born in Europe) is
just the training and exposure.
This is probably why Valmeria does not want to sell Tolu Arokodare. They want to fill their team with blacks, win things with them and peharps naturalize them to play for the national team.
I dont know but we Africans dont know how to harness, use or develop talent. Human resources is something we dont understand

komekn:
Ogenyi Onazi one time core player for the SE midfield has just signed a three year contract with Crotone.

Onazi is only 27 and has a lot of football left in him and a lot to offer the SE if he can capture his previous form.

However, there has been NEAR SILENCE almost embarrassing silence. But why ❓

No celebration or accolades and or the obligatory praise singing. Just near silence.

Onazi on form is an excellent player admittedly the last few years he has not been outstanding. Nonetheless, l think this is GREAT NEWS for the SE.

His experience counts a lot. He is still a good player. We still need him in the super eagles

Clementoke:
Vandrezzar FC has been rated the most followed Nigerian football team and 37th best in Africa.��

They are doing well

This club if they succeed will revolutionize Nigerian football. Vandrezzer Football Club, is the first Nigerian club to ever hit 200k followers mark on social media. A feat achieved in only nine months of their existence. Apart from the general professionalism displayed through all its activities, VFC’s media arm has been reputed to be the best club media in Nigeria and one of the best in Africa.
There are more talents in Nigeria than the foreign born ones. Problem is those talents are simply wasting away because of the way Nff is managing football.

Danielnino00:
Like seriously?

Do u have any idea of the names of the proposed clubs?

I'm starting to think that the idea will really work if the organisers are ready to put in a lot of money...
Even without NFF approval,it will still work..

This scheme will catalyze the development of our football. A lot of talents will be discovered and some will go to Europe

charlesemeka85:
Nigeria midfielder Wilfred Ndidi has emerged as a summer transfer target for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur.

According to Sport Witness, Spurs have taken information on Ndidi and believe that the Leicester City star is an affordable target.

The 23-year-old starred for the Foxes in recent campaigns and would likely prove a tricky target to attain for Jose Mourinho’s side.

Ndidi has also been linked with Manchester United and Arsenal.

The talented midfielder linked up with Leicester City from Belgian club KRC Genk in January 2017.

He has featured in 120 league games and scored six times.

Maurinho go like am.
Another Mikel/Makelele loading for him
That marking will win Maurinho's (the defensive master) heart

mostob:
Privilege?Are Ibe, solanke et al not products of English system? She dem too no enjoy any privilege ni .?
Come and shalaye

Players like solanke ojo arnaut danjuma bankole etc are just average and not really an improvement on what we have but BUKAYO SAKA IS OUTSTANDING IN EVERY WORD. I mean he is the real deal. In fact he will enter England first team as i dont see who is better than him. In future he might play for barcelona or real madrid. He is legit and not some overhyped foreign born player. He is in the class of halland and Jafon sancho so his case is different.

TheSuperNerd:
I watched this game and I need to add that Nwakali didn't finish the half as AM, he dropped a bit deeper into midfield as he wasn't really seeing more of the ball in the AM role for the first 15mins or so and when he dropped deep, he dictated play from there and began to exert his influence.

He won the corner that led to their goal also. Good run out. More of this from the lad.

So he is actually a deep lying play maker who constucts the attack from midfield. Reminds me of Pirlo but i dont want to hype him.
He has to prove himself this year in the la liga.
Anyway i hope he comes up against thomas partey again and does what he did in that friendly again

Update on Kelechi Nwakali

He played in a pre-season friendly a few days ago against Espanyol and he played as an attacking midfielder just behind the striker in a 4-2-3-1 formation. He played the first half before he was substituted.
There is another friendly against Alaves tommorrow and i hope he plays.
I hope he does well in the la liga. He seems to be gradually warming his way into the first team

Barryseal:
Jack Grealish is a better play maker than all the midfielders on that list.

Well, you have to consider the stockport iniesta (Phil Phoden).
The only thing Grealish has over him is age and experience.

Overthemoonman:
Drogba bully Kolscieny? When? How? Which match? Abi na Senderos you wan talk..

Canr really remember. But i know Drogba used to bully arsenal defenders

andrewbaba44:
You don’t get the point

I watched all this players oga

He was talking of Segun odegbami set

And sorry not all this players are world class

If you watch afcon 88 they got to the final and were denied by the refree who disallowed a goal and gave cameroon a penalty scored by Roger Milla.

Felix Owolabi was world class he played for shooting stars and they were one of the best teams in Africa
Haruna Illerika was world class
Henry Nwosu
Muda Lawal
Bright Omokaro
Christian Chukwu

charlesemeka85:
Odey linked with a loan move to French 2nd tier side guigamp

Didier drogba and kolscieny (who drogba used to bully) played for Guigamp before. A traditional team like leeds. Not too bad. If he does well there he can rise in French football

According to owngoalnigeria, Mikel Agu is going to nantes. He and Moses Simon will team up there.
Our players are really stepping up their game

andrewbaba44:
Almost all the young guys here watched jay jay okocha, so there is nothing that old man knew about jay jay that people on this thread didnt know

Are the foreign players we are using world class ?

Okocha dribbled everybody in the english league? are you kidding me ? no dey talk wetin you no no, not all this dem say dem say garage news

Kanu is an ajax player okay so he will play in the finals no matter the age he is

Who where the world class players we have during those old man time ?

Etim esin muda lawal yekinni henry nwosu segun odegbami were world class.
I told you they did not have the opportunity to go to Europe

andrewbaba44:
When that old man was watching football during his young age was the players he was watching world class ?

Yes they were. They just did not have the opportunity to go to Europe like modern African players. I mean Segun Odegbami used to dribble on the touch line and nobody could collect the ball from him. Okocha dribbled everybody in the English league when he got to Europe.
Today's generation is just average even though some are good.
Why do you think we are now using foreign born players. Part of the reason is that the standard of our football has fallen.
Im really honest with this. Those old generation were more gifted. The issue with them was the Nigerian league was good, the Nigerian economy was good and besides, African players did not have much opportunity in Europe. It was Roger Milla and italia 90 generation that created that awareness for African football.
I mean Kanu played the champions league final as a teenager.

oloriooko:
That's why he needs to improve and staying in Leicester will not help him.
Goritzka really impressed me

Ndidi CANNOT STAND UP TO SUNDAY OLISEH
Whenever i watch modern Nigerian players i am dismayed. The standards of their forefathers are higher. In the last ten years we have not produced a midfielder who can pass like Sunday Oliseh or a winger that can cross like George Finidi. I mean 10 YEARS. I watch modern Nigerian footballers and i wonder what is happening.
Im not criticizing but i am only being honest. I mean can we produce a play maker better than Okocha or at his level.
I have an old man as a friend who does not watch Nigeria's matches because compared to his era (Segun Odegbami, Muda Lawal etc), the modern Nigerian footballer is average and sometimes even horrible.
Its just my observations.

oloriooko:
That Goritzka in Bayern is a double engine player, a silent performer, smooth tackler box-to-box player
I wish Ndidi finds a better team to develop faster and become even better than Goritzka of Bayern

Ndidi CANNOT MAKE DEFENSE SPLITTING PASSES. He lacks ball progression and passes into the final third.
All he does is mark and this is part of the reason he is not in a big team.

edi287:
Terrible move. Who are this guy's advisors abeg??

Heerenven needs money that is all. They are a small club with little money. I bet he has no say in the matter. African players are not given their own rights. However European players can make their decisions as they have better agents, publicists etc.
Also afrlican origin players are not well advertised

Here is olanrewaju kayode's wife talking about how she freed her husband from slave contracts. Recorded in Vanguard newspapper

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/how-i-freed-my-husband-from-slave-contracts-mrs-kayode-fa-licensed-football-agent/

He is lucky his wife is a lawyer. Nigerian football federation should address this problem

TheLoneCitizen:
New season, same Onyekuru.

locally produced Nigerian players get satisfied with little success. Once they achieve a little something, they easily become complacent and start loosing form. The young man might think he has arrived when he has not even started.
This is why i like Victor Osimhen. In his first match in France, he immediately scored 2 goals to announce himself.
There is an enemy called average and Nigerian players need to transcend mediocrity.
I also like Moses Simon as he had a stellar season at Nantes. Moses Simon has also transcended mediocrity
If he keeps on like this, even galatasaray will reject him and he will find himself in Sweden or any nonsense league.
Anyway, there is still time for improvement but he only has between now and January or at most the whole of this season and that will be the end

Remembering Victor Osimhen's debut in the French league when he scored 2 goals in the first match

Edopesin:
lmao

Monaco 2-2 Reims

Onyekuru did not start the season well at all

How was his performance. Did he play well. Did you watch the match

Edopesin:
I no watch again

Onyekuru taken off

Dont worry onyekuru is our new prince of monaco.
He will prove himself this season.

Henry Onyekuru in Match day squad for Monaco's first game today


As Monaco is playing today at 12pm. Henry Onyekuru is in the squad

https://www.asmonaco.com/en/niko-kovacs-first-squad-in-ligue-1/

The Croatian manager of AS Monaco, Niko Kovac, has just revealed his first squad of the season for an official match. 20 players have been selected to participate in the first matchday of Ligue 1 Uber Eats against Stade de Reims, this Sunday 23 August at 1 p.m. at the Stade Louis-II.

Goalkeepers:
Benjamin Lecomte, Radoslaw Majecki

Defenders:
Ruben Aguilar, Benoît Badiashile, Fodé Ballo-Touré, Giulian Biancone, Axel Disasi, Chrislain Matsima, Strahinja Pavlovic

Midfielders:
Jean-Eudes Aholou, Sofiane Diop, Youssouf Fofana, Aleksandr Golovin, Gelson Martins, Eliot Matazo, Enzo Millot, Henry Onyekuru, Aurélien Tchouameni

Forwards:
Wissam Ben Yedder, Willem Geubbels

Reference:
Foresight is not one of the things the blackman is naturally blessed with. Few consider legacy an important ideal. We are sons of Esau, the here and now people. We only excel at regret and cry over spilled milk.

Yeah, Africans don't have a consistent strategy for success. In all these European and South American countries they already have their next ronaldo or messi that they are training right now. I mean, they have a 15 to 20 year plan to produce a generation of talented footballers. Our own success on the other hand is accidental.

However, we are changing with our honest efforts into youth development in recent times. We now have football academies and innovations like nff/zenith bank (which produced our last u-17). In fact, if we do not do age cheating with our u-17 teams, 40% of our problem is solved and with the introduction of VAR age cheating machine, this has reduced it.

This here and now mentality is the reason why our success is limited in many endeavours

IDENNAA:
He is also not like Eberechi. Their style is very very different,oga

What exactly is Nwakali's style of play.
Is he a play maker or dribbler like Okocha, Zidane or Eberechi Eze
Is he an attacking midfielder like Lampard
Is he a deep lying play maker like Pirlo
Is he a box to box midfielder.
I mean people who have analyzed him should say what exactly his style of play is