₦airaland Forum

M7even:
When I say our football has declined since the 90s. Look the way Morocco is whipping Lesotho right now.

Goke7:
Must our local coach be an ex eagles player?

Oganigwe:
I can swear that Our U20 boys can do a better job than the overhyped media-pampered players we paraded today

Except for sure starters like Osimhen, Ademola, Aina, Bruno, Chukwueze and impact sub players like Simon Moses and Iwobi..why don't we just take a leap of faith and rebuild with our academy youth players from beyond limit and Sporting Lagos? some of our best young talents have come from these academies and have produced players like K
Kparobo Ariehi, Ebenezer Akinsanmiro etc.

The Iwobi/Ekong/Ndidi era have outlasted most previous generation of players yet have largely flattered to deceive under different coaches...I doubt even Pep Guardiola can make any difference with these guys. Let's keep only 40% of this squad and fill up the deficits with new players from our U20 team and Beyond limits academy.

Keep only:

Osimhen
Ademola
Chukwueze
Moses Simon (impact sub)
Aina
Iwobi
Onyedika
Bruno Onyemaechi
Nwabali
And maybe Bassey (who needs serious competition cause his place isn't safe right now).

Ekong has served us well but he has probably just one more tournament left in him before he honorably retires, then the likes of Ndidi, Iheanacho,.Osayi etc need to be phased out as they are just deadweights and squad fillers than quality options.

We need a complete rebuild in defence, midfield and attack and we have quality young talents brewing in our successful academies in Beyond limits and Sporting Lagos right now, a quality scouting program should integrate and easily transition this new players into the Super Eagles having passed the eye test of our youth football before making those transitions. It's ok if we miss out on future tournaments. But we need to have capable replacements for Osimhen and Lookman etc ready before the next world cup in 8 years time (cause we won't qualify for this one next year, no point wasting our time). Osimhen, Iwobi, Lookman, Aina and the core of our current best players will soon hit 30 soon and will probably retire sooner than we think in a few years time.

We have new generations of players emerging in Arierhi, Clinton Japhta of Enyimba, Akinsanmiro, Ojediran, Obasi Onyebuchi, Izunna, Daniel Daga etc...time to start preparing these boys for the future.

Meliforme:
Sometimes you need severe criticism to become better.
We have every reason to demand and expect more from our players.
We have players with better skills and exposure, we retain good reasons to bring our team to censure when they fail to yield proper results worthy of their estate.

Look at Ivory Coast and tell what would have happened, if much was not demanded from the team at the just concluded AFCON.

Danielnino00:
Why is it that it's whenever the super Eagles loss or draw a game that we see all sort of new monikers coming here with ridiculous suggestions?
Somebody was saying we should recall Musa and Moses ..
Now, another is saying we should discard half the team and fill their place with Academy players?
Na wa o 🤣

minfelix:
you are suppose to totally rule them off and tag them as the “whackest” football team in Africa…i follow bafana bafana page and also lesotho.
When bafana lost 2-0 to rwanda, struggled against South sudan and draw 2-2 with uganda…large percentage of their fan base stood with the team still okayed hugo broos as their savior.
currently lesotho chop 7-0 their admin only said “another bad day in office, and i read most of their responses…there were only sightings some players that should have played.
Our own na dont ever invite this one again…this is the worst super eagles team.
everyday we lose is always the worst super eagles game…our final against CIV was once the worst super eagles game…even 1-1 against equitorial guinea people like your don dey clamour for Nff to sack jpes….Nairaland here has one of the most petty cinderella fans of all 9ja fans page….why should today’s loss determine wether the team is good or not….we won benin 3-0 Iwobi was the best midfielder in this world, we won libya 1-0 iwobi should never smell our midfield again bashiru is better than him….oga confusion dey smell like shit for this page…salute to those that knows this sam super eagles can still defeat morocco and egypt in our next match if there is any fixtures of such….but like this like this
Libya would have beaten us in Libya…..what im i even saying, after our 1-1 against e/guinea all of una don conclude say round 16 na last bustop

TOPCRUISE:
Morocco is in another level of African football right from how they performed in the Olympics. Beating Lesotho at him by 7-0. While we drew against them and still saying we should give our coach time.

Amedino99:
don't you see other national teams playing with purpose? Do you feel any sort of pride in sitting down and watching the super eagles drag out results match in match out? I follow bafana pages on Facebook, I follow south Africans on X, those people are not nice when it comes to rating thier team's performance after a loss. It is the nature of fans to complain, especially us since it's been ages we actually accomplished anything as a football nation. We missed the last world cup and also lost the afcon after scoring first. Even the 3 lions still get heavily criticized despite them getting to the final in the last 2 euros and making the quarter and semi final in the last two world cups.

Amedino99:
don't you see other national teams playing with purpose? Do you feel any sort of pride in sitting down and watching the super eagles drag out results match in match out? I follow bafana pages on Facebook, I follow south Africans on X, those people are not nice when it comes to rating thier team's performance after a loss. It is the nature of fans to complain, especially us since it's been ages we actually accomplished anything as a football nation. We missed the last world cup and also lost the afcon after scoring first. Even the 3 lions still get heavily criticized despite them getting to the final in the last 2 euros and making the quarter and semi final in the last two world cups.

Danielnino00:
LOL

Build a team with Academy players because they won some youth cups and are producing some non extraordinary talents.. LOL..

One word for your suggestion: dey play

minfelix:
oga our first 11 will always be
Nwabali
Aina
Ekong
Iwobi
Ndidi
Lookman
Osimhen
Bassey
Ajayi
Simon
all this try this try that yen yen yen nonsense…if these guys no start match super eagles is just another washed Ghana

GMBOFASIA:
Firstly i think the super eagle is overrated and also poor coaching couple of times they can’t string 5 good passes together

That aside maduka Okoye just had a bad day and I believe he will come good we have seen what he has been doing with udinese

Also boniface watched him severally in leverkusen team last season and this season also in champions league against Milan he is a very good player 💯 maybe just one of those player who break through with national team

This team needs some overhaul

princeabdul:
LOL. I don't know ball for not being sentimental oya now, " return to debating with your fellow kids" thank you antiquity it shouldn't be a problem if the kids have a better rational thinking.

Kog45:
Oga comot Bassey

minfelix:
Nigerian Fans base: a base that doesn’t wanna see super eagles lose any match😂🤣.
You lose to Argentina “change coach change coach!!”
You lose to C.A.R them go scream “change coach change coach”!
One player put a decent shift in Europe they will clamour “bring him bring him”!
The player fails to show up them go shout “rubbish player rubbish player”
This coach is defensive and conservative bla bla
This coach doesn’t strike confidence in me.
This keeper is doing well in italy, he should be our number 1, with strong clamour boom!! we lose “he is not ready”.
Nwabali errooor!! Nwabali is gooooood!!
Sanusi is a carpenter!! booom! I miss sanusi
Oh no i miss days of Mikel/Enyeama/victor moses
boom!! mikel weakling midfielder(plays back pass alot)
Victor moses is too proud and doesn’t like to relate with his team mate…boom!! boniface is a comedy-footballer

Make Nigeria get 10straight wins…1 small loss will have fans defining the team’s future and present….
Defensive/attackminded bla bla bla
UNA NO DEY TIRE!!!
like this we should not even play WCqualifiers we cannot win any match again.
Eguavoen is whack!
bring back jpes no sack him bring back rohr..are you mad? when we have Amunike.( Amunike lose 2 matches with heartland, he becomes the highest carpenter coach).
most confused fans base in the world

Danielnino00:
Why is it that it's whenever the super Eagles loss or draw a game that we see all sort of new monikers coming here with ridiculous suggestions?
Somebody was saying we should recall Musa and Moses ..
Now, another is saying we should discard half the team and fill their place with Academy players?
Na wa o 🤣

Oganigwe:
That's why I said he needs serious competition, he plays decently at Fulham but he just lacks the fundamentals that can make him a world class player, way too erratic and brawny than brainy- only good thing working for him is that he's still young and has lots of time to get better.

ChrisKels:
Yesterday Eguavoen committed a big blunder. Bashiru was not in that game, yet he opted to sub out the more active Alhassan

TheSuperNerd:
Factual observation Chris. I pointed this out at the time of the substitutions. With Alhassan balling so good alongside Onyedika in the middle, it really baffled me, that sub.

It didn't matter that Onyeka eventually got an assist. The problem of FDB's disconnect all game was still on show till 77mins.

COOL10:
Just for emphasis, The Super Eagles are ranked 36th in the FIFA Rankings while Rwanda is ranked 126th. Eguavoen lost at home to a team ranked 126th in the world

Kog45:
Oga comot Bassey

Pidginwhisper:
What was CAR rank when Rohr lost to them at home?

minfelix:
shebi u don comot am yesterday and them flog you🤣…when he played wetin b the score…una dey find cannavaro from no where

lbrichman2:
From what I've seen, I think Boniface will play better against technical teams like Morocco, south Africa,, and maybe European teams..
But against jam body opposition, he will struggle
That's what's going on now
Boniface plays like an ajebutter guy

Kog45:
Yes Bassey is not good enough and that's my opinion

Amedino99:
don't you see other national teams playing with purpose? Do you feel any sort of pride in sitting down and watching the super eagles drag out results match in match out? I follow bafana pages on Facebook, I follow south Africans on X, those people are not nice when it comes to rating thier team's performance after a loss. It is the nature of fans to complain, especially us since it's been ages we actually accomplished anything as a football nation. We missed the last world cup and also lost the afcon after scoring first. Even the 3 lions still get heavily criticized despite them getting to the final in the last 2 euros and making the quarter and semi final in the last two world cups.