₦airaland Forum

TheGoodJoe:

It was not big. I think Sporting and Pedro Mendes wanted four million pounds and Wenger wanted to pay three million pounds. Sabotage as far as I am concerned.

All those Wenger not being a fan of spending big was a rouse to keep Arsenal from getting stronger.

charlesemeka85:
which year did anelka join arsenal and when did wenger invite zlatan for trials?

charlesemeka85:
well I don’t know the figures arsenal offered but all I know is that United signed cr7 for over 12m pounds then

TheGoodJoe:

That is not the context. I am taking of Wenger's ability to spot a young boy who can become a phenom. Then later he changed and was stopping young future stars from coming in.

charlesemeka85:
do you know the reason mikel didn’t sign for United after trialing with the team was he was to be sent on loan to royal Antwerp in the Belgian league?

Even Roy keane already had young mikel on his wings as a mentor and fergie already gave him a nick name ‘Obie 1’ after impressing the Scottish tactician?

TheGoodJoe:

Mikel was not sent on loan. Ferguson did not sign him and wanted to pull a fast one with Mikel. I feel it was a shady deal gone wrong because Ferguson really loved Mikel.

The plan was for Anderson to act as Mikel's agent and sell him to Manchester United from Lynn Oslo. It backfired.

Ppogbae:
At least Igahlo is more useful than Musa

nairalandankrah:
console yourself.

12large1:
Salah has 15 goals so far Osimehn has 9 and awoniyi 12. As a coach, you shouldn’t be downplaying your team

12large1:
Salah has 15 goals so far Osimehn has 9 and awoniyi 12. As a coach, you shouldn’t be downplaying your team

Mujtahida:
He does that all the time. No coach in Nigeria's footballing history has such a defeatist mindset as Rohr. If there was one thing Westerhof had, it was courage and that is why his team played with so much swagger. From the beginning they start attacking vigorously - no fear, no hesitation.

But Rohr team be moving like a patched up vehicle on a bad road.

TheGoodJoe:

You think it was normal eyes he used to reject Zlatan, CR7, Suarez, and Modric from joining Arsenal?

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Answer the question.

charlesemeka85:
he never rejected zlatan, he invited the big Swede for a trial in arsenal then when he was still a starlet at malmo which zlatan turned down

Cr7 was on trials at arsenal which wenger in his memo stated that the Portuguese showed promise but he never knew he had great goal scoring instincts in him then. Mind you cr7 goal scoring prowess surfaced after 2 to 3 seasons at United and that was a part of his game fergie harnessed

As for the story of modric I know nothing it while Suarez didn’t join because the French coach deemed him too expensive for the price Liverpool wanted then

andrewbaba44:
Remove awaziem from the midfield 5 and put among the back 3 then you will replace him with Ebuehi as a RWB

Remove Moses Simon there and put OLA aina as a LWB

3-5-2 is ready

nelszx:
If Moses Simon can make your starting XI, then there's a problem

12large1:
Honestly, it depends on our opponent. For example, if we’re playing an inferior team (FIFA ranking wise) it’s unacceptable to play a defensive 352 and bench attacking superstars like ejuke, chukwueze…… but, if we’re playing a superior team (fifa ranking wise) 352 can be adopted. Also, remove awaziem for zaidu

12large1:
He has normalized this defeatist statement towards the players that fans don’t even reevaluate the jargons that he just voiced. First of all, I am not saying that SE present squad is comparable to any team on the world stage. But, in Africa our squad is good enough to challenge any team and our coach should stop downplaying his team publicly in form of motivation. The only luck that Rohr has, is that he has met all his contractual target thus far

ChrisKels:
We had this argument 7years ago, back in December 2014. Sir Icon4s do you think we have closed that gap or is this team still lagging behind, quality wise?

Subzero047:
Don't worry, when I said the Serie A was poor some mumu said I was insulting Osimhen

Joebie:
One thing I like about Oliseh.

Only if we can have a consortium of coaches (each handling a special role) consisting of players from that "94 set.
Think Emanalo, Adepoju, Amuneke, Oliseh (if he can work with a team), Siasia (not thinking of his current predicament). in these coaches and a few others, there is scout, tactician, analyst etc.

And why do I say this? Simply, BELIEF. These coaches can translate their "you can beat the best" mentality to our current players who already look up to them. They have done this before in the past when we were one of the best in the world, and today they still don't have an iota of doubt that we can do better things beyond Africa. For them it will be unfinished business.

https://www.hub-soccer.com/2021/06/21/sunday-oliseh-nigeria-has-the-potential-to-be-a-world-champion/

MetalJigsaw:
FIFA clear Ademola Lookman, Ovie Ejaria for Super Eagles…finally
Scorenigeria


RB Leipzig agree £22.5 million for Ademola Lookman
Ademola Lookman can now play for Super Eagles
After several anxious months, world football governing body FIFA have finally cleared Ademola Lookman and Ovie Ejaria to play for the Super Eagles, according to media reports.

Forward Lookman and midfielder Ejaria have previously featured for England at various age-grade levels but have now opted to play for Nigeria, where their parents were born.

Lookman plays for Red Bull Leipzig but was on loan at Fulham in the Premier League in England this past season.

He is a direct-playing forward and weighs in with his own fair share of goals and assists.

Ejaria, on the other hand, is a creative central midfielder with Reading FC in the English Championship.

The 23-year-old player was previously on the books of Premier League outfit Liverpool.

His creativity will be most welcomed in the Eagles midfield with his great vision and wide range of passing skills.

Icon4s:
Closed which gap??
The team is still lagging

Arabiandude:
You remember Siasia coaching the SE because most of the SE players then were his startug from U21 days? And how did it ender up? Not qualifying for ordinary Afcon. I fear same thing will happen with Amuneke and there is no way Amuneke won't have preference in selecting his SE team because 99.9 of indigenous coaches are either agents or have links to agents and would want to sell their players to the world, this is the same reason late Keshi took players like Uchebor and Nwafor to the WC.
I know what I am saying bro, I have once played for Bendel United before knee injury ended my career. I was playing for Bendel United when Siasia took Bendel insurance players like Daddy Bazuaye, Ambrose Vansenki and Monday James to the 2005 Fifa U20 world cup and when they retured they joined Ogbona Okemiri and Joseph Akpala in Bendel Insurance. Nigeria indigenous coaches, including Amuneke are damn so corrupt and his greed as time goes on will make him lose track of the team. Do you know that till this very moment most of Nigeria indigenous coaches are cultist and if you do not belong to a particular cult at the time the coach is there you won't make the coaches teams? A case study is Bendel Insurance.
That's why I mentioned Wenger and I think to a larger extent Wenger will be so conversant with African players, mostly Nigerian players because Wenger has always had interest in African players. And Amuneke can still learn a lot from Wenger, coupled with the fact that Wenger is an attacking minded coach just as Amuneke and do you know the pedigree it would bring to the SE and Nigeria having Wenger as the SE coach? So having Wenger will bring lot of positives to Nigeria both in sporting and business aspect. Also, Wenger can also uses his time as SE coaches to train and lecture interested indigenous coaches and when he is leaving maybe after 4 years, Amuneke can then takeover the reign of the SE

Beloved3:
Osimhen vs Patson daka. Who's better?

MetalJigsaw:
FIFA clear Ademola Lookman, Ovie Ejaria for Super Eagles…finally
Scorenigeria


RB Leipzig agree £22.5 million for Ademola Lookman
Ademola Lookman can now play for Super Eagles
After several anxious months, world football governing body FIFA have finally cleared Ademola Lookman and Ovie Ejaria to play for the Super Eagles, according to media reports.

Forward Lookman and midfielder Ejaria have previously featured for England at various age-grade levels but have now opted to play for Nigeria, where their parents were born.

Lookman plays for Red Bull Leipzig but was on loan at Fulham in the Premier League in England this past season.

He is a direct-playing forward and weighs in with his own fair share of goals and assists.

Ejaria, on the other hand, is a creative central midfielder with Reading FC in the English Championship.

The 23-year-old player was previously on the books of Premier League outfit Liverpool.

His creativity will be most welcomed in the Eagles midfield with his great vision and wide range of passing skills.

nairalandankrah:
So, Playing in England automatically makes you a better player than others who are in other leagues??..
Wallahi this Napoli match don dey vex me!
So if O'semen wins 20 penalties today only insiglet will score it??