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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by 12large1: 10:54pm On Apr 03, 2021
TheSuperNerd:
One of my favorites is Iheanacho. And you also walked in here attacking any post talking down on Iheanacho. Infact, you also ignorantly attacked my post where I named Onuachu alongside Nacho as a possible replacement for Osimhen in any case Vic doesn't make it for the Qualifiers.

So this shows you have a thing for Iheanacho as a fav of yours, yet that doesn't stop me from coming for you.


And yes, the quality of our national team will keep improving as long as our players play consistently in the Best leagues of the topmost quality but that in itself does not mean we cannot have fine quality outside the Big 5 leagues of Europe. Take for instance, Onuachu.
Even Simy bagged 20 goals in Serie B last season and some didn't consider it a thing because it is "second division" but here he is proving it even more that his goals are no fluke having 15 in the current Serie A.
So while the bulk of our NT quality is centered around lads balling good in the Top 5 leagues, we can also have sprinkles of quality talents from outside the Top 5. Players like Zaidu for instance in a league ranked #6 in Europe. Would you not rate him because he is not in the Big 5 yet?

So you really need to find a balanced take on this "farmers league" song you always sing the time when trying to analyse our players. Finito.
This is the criteria to rank our players

1) Name of the club
2) Name of the league.

I used name of the club because there are Historical big clubs that are in farmers league or even the beat team in farmers league. I.e Ajax, Porto, benfica, Bayern, Dortmund etc those teams are even bigger than migrated teams in Farmers league. For example, I will rather a Nigerian play for Fc Porto than WBA, Fulham even though the latter is at a Farmers league
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Nobody: 11:06pm On Apr 03, 2021
elunico:
He made a leap too high to land on his tender feet.
are you for real this is a very baseless analysis...... moffi moved from a Lithuania club to lorient and ranked ligue official top 10 striker.... so what the bollock about leaping too high Issit a crime to be ambitious....despite Dennis feat in champions league and the legacy at brugge he is still finding it hard to break into koln team same goes with ehzibue that was even rated than ebuehi in the Dutch league ...please stop this bollock analysis it really annoying.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Subzero047: 11:08pm On Apr 03, 2021
smartsmith0907:
are you for real this is a very baseless analysis...... moffi moved from a Lithuania club to lorient and ranked ligue official top 10 striker.... so what the bollock about leaping too high Issit a crime to be ambitious....despite Dennis feat in champions league and the legacy at brugge he is still finding it hard to break into koln team same goes with ehzibue that was even rated than ebuehi in the Dutch league ...please stop this bollock analysis it really annoying.
No be everybody has the capacity to adapt to a big leap so he may be right
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Nobody: 11:09pm On Apr 03, 2021
Ppogbae:
I’m afraid that Rohr may not invite Sadiq Umar for WC qualifiers. It seems like that the four strikers will be Osimhen, Nacho, Onuachu and most likely Simy.
as far as SE is concerned no more new players or new faces for now .. it gonna take something extra ordinary for us to see a new player or probably injury and on your take on 4 striker nah nah nah that won't be happening 3 strikers for now.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Nobody: 11:18pm On Apr 03, 2021
Subzero047:
No be everybody has the capacity to adapt to a big leap so he may be right
bollocks
even highly rated players like Werner,harvetz, silva ( world class player), pulisic ( two seasons now) hazard all have issue setting into their team I mean can this be attributed to the fact they leaped high....i mean in tolu 9 games being substituted 9 mean he hardly raked up 90 mins after scoring 22 goals in his previous season....he is a good striker with killer instinct of a good striker....he is just having tough times which is normal not because he leaped too high that utter rubbish to me.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by kellycute(m): 11:34pm On Apr 03, 2021
12large1:
Look, every team should play to its strengths and right now, SE strengths is center forward. Our coach must find a way to include all inform players in his Squad. It doesn't make Sense when a player has 15 Goals in Seria A and is being omitted in the same league that a player has 4 goals and this isn't a farmers league but The Big 3.
15 Goals in Seria A (big 3) and you aren't good enough for your Country? Common
if you are the coach of super eagles and you have osimehn, onuachu and simy in the squad for our world cup qualifier and you need to play one striker. Tell me which striker will you play? Taking into consideration their impact for the national team.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by elunico: 11:36pm On Apr 03, 2021
smartsmith0907:
are you for real this is a very baseless analysis...... moffi moved from a Lithuania club to lorient and ranked ligue official top 10 striker.... so what the bollock about leaping too high Issit a crime to be ambitious....despite Dennis feat in champions league and the legacy at brugge he is still finding it hard to break into koln team same goes with ehzibue that was even rated than ebuehi in the Dutch league ...please stop this bollock analysis it really annoying.
Not everyone has that mental sagacity to hit it as anyone else does. He's an attacker who found himself in a struggling team. His position is a little difficult, he's to shoulder the responsibility of keeping them afloat with his goals. He was given few chances, he appeared to be overwhelmed, so, he got dropped.

Remember, his first choice was Anderlecht.

And to be clear, Moffi moved to Kortrijk in Belgium before heading to France.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Tolulopefinest(m): 12:02am On Apr 04, 2021
TheSuperNerd:
Osimhen bagged 5 goals + 5 assists in the AfconQ trumping elite players on the continent at International level. Have you read calls here for him being in the running for African Best??

So why this cheap mention of something so unintelligent?

Please don't tag my moniker with preposterous nonsense.
If you don't like Osimhen being called Monster Machine, then why not give him your own name.
He is the monster machine and for very fantastic reasons and THE NUMBER 1 STRIKER OF THE SUPER EAGLES. Simy scoring 15 goals in Serie A doesn't even come close to changing that fact. Inugo??

So please going forward, don't tag my moniker to sour jokes like these just because you think tagging me is one way of gathering attention on here. Don't drop cheap takes. Thrive to actually contribute here okay.
Lol...see this man. In a faceless forum grin, tagging your moniker to get attention.What will your attention add to me? Lol. #Radarada.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Ppogbae: 12:04am On Apr 04, 2021
smartsmith0907:
as far as SE is concerned no more new players or new faces for now .. it gonna take something extra ordinary for us to see a new player or probably injury and on your take on 4 striker nah nah nah that won't be happening 3 strikers for now.
I read an article that mentioned Rohr will take 4 strikers for our WC qualifiers. Will share shortly...
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by elyte89: 12:06am On Apr 04, 2021
TheSuperNerd:
Courtesy: @OptaPaolo

8 - Best goalscorers in the top-5 European Leagues since the start of March 2021:

8- Simy

7- Lewandowski

5- Iheanacho

5- Benzema

5- Gerard Moreno

Unbelievable.
I can tell u dt if dis guy moves to a decent side like Atalanta,Roma or Lazio or any decent team in Europe..and he continues in dis form,he will he more respected.. Heard he has score 20brace in his career so far...#highly underated cool
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Neobulletzz(m): 12:08am On Apr 04, 2021
andrewbaba44:
Chelsea watch your back before Liverpool snatch top 4 from you guys grin
Baba face your Barcelona na, Shey you no wan top your own league ni grin
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Tolulopefinest(m): 12:10am On Apr 04, 2021
Arabiandude:
Did anyone here stopped you from worshipping Simy on this thread?
You can call Simy weird name like your Lord and Savior for scoring 15 goals, nobody cares
You actually cares, that's why you responded. This place is not for anybody, anyone can give his or her opinion. You caring or not doesn't matter. #Oyingbo Market doesn't care if you come or not. My point is simple: why are some people here trying to bring down someone with 14 goals in Seria A, if Osimhen is the one with this number of Goals, they won't even compare him with Haaland again, but with Lewandoski and Ronaldo. They will start writing essay on how he has the same attributes with Ronaldo and a Monster in the Box like Lewandoski. #Total Prejudice.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Tolulopefinest(m): 12:18am On Apr 04, 2021
12large1:
Look, every team should play to its strengths and right now, SE strengths is center forward. Our coach must find a way to include all inform players in his Squad. It doesn't make Sense when a player has 15 Goals in Seria A and is being omitted in the same league that a player has 4 goals and this isn't a farmers league but The Big 3.
15 Goals in Seria A (big 3) and you aren't good enough for your Country? Common
You're spot on bro. You're thinking in the right way. If Simy has Dual citizenship, NFF would have been begging him to consider Playing for Super Eagles. I watched Napoli and Crotone match today and I was like, why are they Snubbing this Guy?

A striker in Crotone with that number of Goals?
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by forgiveness: 12:26am On Apr 04, 2021
TheGoodJoe:
I don't know if this picture was shared here but I like it.
The boy is a very talented player. I hope Rohr can keep him in the team as long as he keeps doing well in his club.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by jihday(m): 12:38am On Apr 04, 2021
andrewbaba44:
Am not sure we will have 4 strikers sha

But I still wonder why rohr invited sadiq the last time and didn’t invite simmy

Don’t expect anything from rohr jare
Because Simi used to be part of the setup unlike Sadiq who has never trained with the team
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by jihday(m): 12:44am On Apr 04, 2021
Tolulopefinest:
You're spot on bro. You're thinking in the right way. If Simy has Dual citizenship, NFF would have been begging him to consider Playing for Super Eagles. I watched Napoli and Crotone match today and I was like, why are they Snubbing this Guy?

A striker in Crotone with that number of Goals?
Do you know this guy have played games for us? You are commenting like he has never been invited to the eagles camp
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Alfryd: 12:45am On Apr 04, 2021
smartsmith0907:
as far as SE is concerned no more new players or new faces for now .. it gonna take something extra ordinary for us to see a new player or probably injury and on your take on 4 striker nah nah nah that won't be happening 3 strikers for now.
wow so unah no go cap OLISE, EJARIA, MOFFI, and MUKAIRU or NATHA TELLA again
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by 12large1: 12:58am On Apr 04, 2021
jihday:
Do you know this guy have played games for us? You are commenting like he has never been invited to the eagles camp
He played for us in 2018 that's 3 years ago. Alot can change in 3 years. Also, we're not saying that he should be a guaranteed starter all we're saying is that In form players should take precedence over out of form players. You can omit simy and include Musa makes no sense.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by andrewbaba44: 1:06am On Apr 04, 2021
Neobulletzz:
Baba face your Barcelona na, Shey you no wan top your own league ni grin
I Dey fight for Laliga

You Dey fight for top 4
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Tolulopefinest(m): 1:07am On Apr 04, 2021
Imagine undermining Simy effort saying all the goals he scores are just Tap-ins and nothing really special, but whenever it's Osimhen turn, they will say he's finding it difficult to score because Seria A defense is always tight grin. No space to run into. Let him also Score tap-ins if it's easy. The Koko of the matter is that as far as we can call Osimhen in Serie A with 4 goals, then Simy Nwankwo with 15 goals also deserve a call up. Calling Osimhen without giving Simy a call up is Totally Wrong.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Tolulopefinest(m): 1:08am On Apr 04, 2021
12large1:
He played for us in 2018 that's 3 years ago. Alot can change in 3 years. Also, we're not saying that he should be a guaranteed call ups all we're saying is that In form players should take precedent over out of form players. You can omit simy and include Musa makes no sense
Spot on
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Ppogbae: 1:17am On Apr 04, 2021
This dude is shaking the table! Rohr better pay attention!

Simy is not joking!

Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by JohnBullMySon: 3:51am On Apr 04, 2021
smartsmith0907:
as far as SE is concerned no more new players or new faces for now .. it gonna take something extra ordinary for us to see a new player or probably injury and on your take on 4 striker nah nah nah that won't be happening 3 strikers for now.
Now I believe you're close to the team, maybe media or something else. But, you're quite unstable with your takes here. First of all, you said six new players will be added to the team months back, we saw none. You said Olise's passport was cleared, but he never got invited even with the multiple drops from the main list. You then said he will be with the team in June. Now you're saying that no new player will be invited. How can we possibly believe all these?
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by JohnBullMySon: 3:55am On Apr 04, 2021
Tolulopefinest:
You're spot on bro. You're thinking in the right way. If Simy has Dual citizenship, NFF would have been begging him to consider Playing for Super Eagles. I watched Napoli and Crotone match today and I was like, why are they Snubbing this Guy?

A striker in Crotone with that number of Goals?
Exactly.

I'm sure Rohr will find a way to invite Simi. If he calls up 10 defenders, then he can call up four strikers.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by elyte89: 4:54am On Apr 04, 2021
JohnBullMySon:
Exactly.

I'm sure Rohr will find a way to invite Simi. If he calls up 10 defenders, then he can call up four strikers.
Its only rohr I would c dt would call up 10defenders(2/3 options in each defensive position and end up using just a player in each positn for all matches)... Waste of slot(,7 or max 8defenders is okay)...e go just dey pack defence put for list,like something else.. smiley
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Danielnino00(m): 6:06am On Apr 04, 2021
Some of these people castigating Osimhen will still pick him ahead of both Simy and Onuachu to start in their team if they were coaches,unless their team plays like Giuardiola or Klopp's grin
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Danielnino00(m): 6:09am On Apr 04, 2021
elyte89:
Its only rohr I would c dt would call up 10defenders(2/3 options in each defensive position and end up using just a player in each positn for all matches)... Waste of slot(,7 or max 8defenders is okay)...e go just dey pack defence put for list,like something else.. smiley
The way I see it,the man doesn't have the balls to drop some regular defenders in the team.. He is stylishly listing them as midfielders.
That our defence has a lot of versatile players as it is.
Aina - RB,LB,WB

Ebuehi- RB,LB,WB

Awaziem- CB, RB

Ajayi- CB,DM

Akpogunma- CB,RB

Shehu- DM,RB

The latest additions are
Balogun- CB,RB and

Ndidi- DM,CB
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Subzero047: 6:20am On Apr 04, 2021
smartsmith0907:
bollocks
even highly rated players like Werner,harvetz, silva ( world class player), pulisic ( two seasons now) hazard all have issue setting into their team I mean can this be attributed to the fact they leaped high....i mean in tolu 9 games being substituted 9 mean he hardly raked up 90 mins after scoring 22 goals in his previous season....he is a good striker with killer instinct of a good striker....he is just having tough times which is normal not because he leaped too high that utter rubbish to me.
It seems you have a very hard time accepting a divergent point of view, some players have made a high leap and have not made it like Mykitariyan, Kagawa, Samatta, Wesley and others, there is a reason he played only 9 games in a struggling Koln side if you can't see the point that is your problem
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Tinneh: 7:25am On Apr 04, 2021
TheSuperNerd:
Why won't we learn? Simy and Onuachu are two of the same striker kind. Would it actually be wise tactically to have two forwards of very similar styles in the Super Eagles in the presence of the abundance of varying Striker species we have in Europe?

SADIQ is Different from both Onuachu and Simy. Simy and Onuachu are practically similar strikers. And Osimhen is obviously cut from a different cloth in the Strikers' realm.

Iheanacho also is Different in that he is a number 8. A Deeplying forward. A hybrid striker.

From my tactical viewpoint, it is far more profitable to go with strikers that offer you Different styles to expand our attacking depth's dynamism rather than having two of the same.

So sometimes, top scoring in a league may not be enough. We have to also look at the tactical side of things. Remember the case of Giroud and Lacazette. Laca had the goals more than Giroud but the latter was the best fit in France's tactical set-up.
I swear Oga rohr no know this one o
Him own na to just select and jam pack players full for team
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by andrewbaba44: 7:43am On Apr 04, 2021
Alfryd:
wow so unah no go cap OLISE, EJARIA, MOFFI, and MUKAIRU or NATHA TELLA again
Olise was never called
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 7:49am On Apr 04, 2021
More Simy Nwankwo Stats

3 - Simy is only the third African player able to score for 5 Serie A appearances in a row in the "3-points-for-a-win" era after George Weah in September 1996 and Keita Balde in May 2017. Importance.


Courtesy: @OptaPaolo

Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by andrewbaba44: 7:52am On Apr 04, 2021
Arabiandude:
Did anyone here stopped you from worshipping Simy on this thread?
You can call Simy weird name like your Lord and Savior for scoring 15 goals, nobody cares
The day wey you go get sense I go Kill cow
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