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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

ojaysam25:
Barca need to cash out on messi rather than letting him go for nothing..

Thats it. Next year he will be on free transfer. Besides depending on messi is a problem on its own.
They should use la masia players and forget about their obsetion with mesdi

Subzero047:
Things I got from watching compilations of Alhassan Yusuf

1) He is a tireless DM/CM that can run the field 2 times without breaking a sweat
2) He is an aggressive tackler like Ndidi
3) He is an above average passer
4) His first touch is not good enough making his second touch almost a tackle
5)He can't operate the ball in tight spaces
6)He is a decent dribbler

Comparable player - Blaise Matuidi
Good enough for the SE now? - No

He needs to work on no 4
Despite that we can put him on the bench or use him in our junior teams. This is why i regret we missed the Olympics but anyway he can still come from the bench and play for 10 to 15 minutes in a friendly or even a competitive match against a weak country

About HENRY ONYEKURU

This is his chance. If he does well in Monaco then he is on his way to being a world class player. If he can have a good deason then the sky is the limit. I seriously hope he does well as he has been higly rated since he was 19 and he finally has his chance in a top 5 league. Now is his chance. The new coach likes him and will give him a chance and i beleive he will excell

jihday:
Works hard, Rhor likes a hard worker

At boardex he is sometimes played as a wing back and this limits his offensive stats. Besides he has entered team of the week before in France.
I think some people on this forum dont like him. Check out his brilliant goal against benin

Olulong:
He's probably our poorest winger stat wise but somehow Rohr prefers him

He is the most skillfull winger we have and he can take free kicks.
His performances for the national team are good so rohr cannot do away with him anyhow.
Remember his goal last year in an afcon qualifier and his assist against Ukraine.

jihday:
Which quality? Just another pacy footballer

Kalu is skillfull has accurate crosses can mark can create chances and is technically sound.

He can play wing back play as a winger a support striker and maybe an attacking midfielder.

He is not too cknsistent as lonecitizen said. I have watched him in some matches and seen how good he can be. Rohr likes him for the qualities i just stated.
He is a low budget bukayo saka even though he is not as good as him
He is a good player in his own right

TheLoneCitizen:
More like potential, he's too inconsistent. But man is still younger than Onyekuru so he can grow.

One of his best performances was against south africa away when we drew 1 1. It was an afcon qualifier and kalu was a beast in that match. He played as a wing back abd he caused the only goal we scored

TheLoneCitizen:
Josh Maja substituted at halftime, if Kalu doesn't feature in a game of 5 subs, he's done with Bordeaux.

Kalu subbed in with 15 minutes to go. Kalu is too much of a quality player to be consigndd to the bench. Anyway he may go to turkey as Galatasatay are serioudly interested in him

humility33:
Thanks Bro.
Still don't understand what will make someone of us here think there exist a 20 years old playing in the NPFL

Mere looking at the dude will tell you his true age...oshh so much wish Andrew was here to tell us his true age

In fact i checked and he was playing in the nigerian league at 14 and this is highly suspicious

tbaba1234:
Aremu is not 20...

What makes yoy think so. Looking at his antecedents i suspected as much

Danielnino00:
Yes na

The guy should get out of saudi arabia. He can try spain or belgium. That league is too low for him

Danielnino00:
Musa with 2 assists at half time...

Which musa is that ahmed musa

forgiveness:
What about if Ighalo hit the ground running with Manchester United? What do you think?

In my opinion, i prefer Victor Osimhen. Osimhen is more mobile and agile and his off
the ball work is better. He is also more involved in build up.
Ighalo cannot function without a midfield while Osimhen can still function without a midfield
Osimhen's pressing is also better (Check out his goal against Valencia. It was not even a pass from his player but a wrong pass from the opposing team).
Most coaches will prefer Osimhen because of his hard working all action style.
Ighalo is still a good player though

forgiveness:
Musa and Moses were ineffective!? Really!?

Musa was our besy player in 2018 world cup. He was the only thing we had in attack against Argentina

TheLoneCitizen:
You don't have to be a target man to be a striker. There are different roles a striker can fulfill and target man is just one of them.

And Aguero is no isolated incident, of the 7 highest scoring strikers last decade in the EPL. 3 are the same height range as Onykeru and one is just 0.8m taller.

Onyekuru does not have the creativity of wingers, but has the finishing of strikers.
Finishing ability is what makes you a good striker.

In my opinion i think onyekuru is like salah or mane of liverpool. A wing forward. In modern foitball the difference between winger and striker is not much. Thats how liverpool play

IDENNAA:
Personally , I prefer tall strikers

He may be a wing forward like thiery henry able to play as winger or striker

TheSuperNerd:
The club itself. TSV Hartberg. Lol

I mean give me the link to it

TheSuperNerd:
Samson Tijani begins with a debut goal

Samson Tijani(18) has already began his journey in Austria with a bang.

He scored the third goal for his side, TSV Hartberg as they defeated Banik Ostrava 4-1 in a preseason friendly.

He played the second 45 mins after TSV Hartberg had changed their entire first XI from the first 45 except one who stayed on till 84 mins.

Tijani is on loan for the 2020/21 season to Austrian Bundesliga side, Hartberg from RB Salzburg.

Ah i have allways beleived in this boy. Big teams were chasing him. I know he is destined for greatness.
But please tell me your source

Olulong:
With the salary(that's if it's true o), I think he'll play. No club will pay that much only to bench the player.

If he plays, it will be a record. Porto loves benching Nigerian players a lot.
He will be one of the few Nigerians that breaks into their first team.

By the way there is a Nigerian called ebuka alphonsus in their youth team.
He is a midfielder and i hope he also breaks into their first team next season

TheLoneCitizen:
Some of the clubs interested in Tolu Arokodare.

Anderlecht, Toulouse, Amiens, Angers, Slavia Prague.

Valmeria play Lech Poznan in 9 days time in the first qualifying round of the Europa League, a one-legged tie.

How about his quarrel with his club. Has it been resolved or he is still on strike?

According to Punch newspappers
Afeez Aremu is going to St Pauli a second division team in Germany.
Good progress i say.
Lad is only 20

Danielnino00:
But he signed Mahrez,Bony,Seydou Keita,Benatia and even our own Kayode

While u think he is racist, I think he has a preference to certain players...

Come to think of it, how many tactically gifted players has Africa even produced?

I'm not talking about prolific goalscorers or rugged defenders o.. I'm talking about tactically gifted players like De Bryune, Xavi,Iniesta,Messi,Silva,etc... The kinds Guardiola likes...

The only kanu nwankwo. He was so tactically and technically gifted. That makes him unique for an African

mrflex999:
Samu good as backup

Awaziem is not good enough to play for Barcelona

Yeah you are right. I think Samuel Chukwueze will be good in Barcelona.
Check out this article on opera that says something similar

https://www.operanewsapp.com/ng/en/share/detail?news_id=22af45b46358814124db02525075e9b7&news_entry_id=s6d080ed200817en_ng&open_type=tanscoded&request_id=60b6dcafa5bb1a527f5cf61a7738daa86d187c3f&from=publisher

Edopesin:
100%
Lindelof and Pogba are just farmers, Honestly Fernandes deserves a better team than this Manchester United, he was all over the place

Ighalo should just relocate back to China

The coach should have used ighalo earlier in the match. An extra body in attack will help. He made a mistake