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MKPUOGALIGA:
Brother, he is not "stylish" but weak, lazy and uncreative. He is a below average player unsuitable for African football.

elyte89:
As in …d second half shld be replayed to those players …Dey were so heavy,lethargic,slow to even try second balls and I was like ,ah an…wetin Dey go on.abi na Brazil 🇧🇷 we Dey play with

We couldn’t play any shot ,off or on target …I mean none,we lost every second ball,it was dt bad …am I starting to believe chelle ,Abi dis ppu use juju truly cos even this team wout osimhen during unity cup and Russia games was not dis bad …from d blast of whistle going into second half has been a hell of torture to my eyes 👀. It was as if d entire team forgot aw to play football.we were piss poor

lbrichman2:
Chelle should have stepped in
He panicked and scattered the game plan

Why he remove iwobi for tolu, then remove tolu for Awaziem
Which kain move be that?

Mujtahida:
You don't get my point.

SymphonyRad:
Me I've stopped investing my emotions on this set of players, the world cup hurt unsurprisingly took me less than 24 hours to recover from. Right now, while much needed changes starting from compulsory resignations must be enforced on the NFF starting from that waste of space Eguavoen, the Super Eagles team itself now has to be drastically changed, only players like Osimhen, Benjamin Fredrick (who should be made the poster boy of the new generation), Nwabali (still a good GK despite his unbearable antics but needs massive competition now), Maduka, Aina, Felix Agu (need to see more of him at the AFCON), Bassey (he and Benjamin have a perfect partnership), and then for other full-backs: players like Bruno and Sanusi can be kept around till we find better replacements hopefully soonest; which makes me hope we still get a chance to make Michael Kayode consider Nigeria, along with Ahanor.

Players that MUST BE RETIRED OUTRIGHTLY

William Troost Ekong (bye, you've served well but football has left you),
Simon Moses ( same with Ekong, should have been phased out 5-6 years ago),
Semilore Ajayi ( a player who has always blown hot and cold, decent on his best days but very uneventful on his normal days),
Wilfred Ndidi (done and dusted, he's just not it anymore...that moment when he kicked air when a simple tap in was all but needed from that Lookman's pass to make it 2-0 against DRC was the highlight of it all, any other player would have scored that easily and the dynamics of that game would have been different today).

Players who should be phased out

Osayi-Samuel- just a boring and uneventful player, decent sometimes but a largely forgettable player.

Tolu Arokodare- just a very average player who flattered to deceive in Belgium, haven't seen a more unbalanced player who can't hold up play and lacks aerial intelligence and abilities despite his height advantage, Congolese midgets pretty much bullied and out-jumped him all game, thought he was the perfect backup to Osimhen but he just isn't it.

Alhassan Yusuf: This dude is so forgettable that I reckon calling him up is just to fulfill some necessary quota slot for Northerners to be in the team for sake of national belonging, cause his inclusion makes no sense in every footballing logic.


Players who should be on probation depending on how their AFCON performances go:

Alex Iwobi: The less said the better, but this brother was never the second coming of his uncle Jay Jay, it just wasn't to be and it's fine, we might never see another like JJ Okocha ever again. He has one last chance to make a redemption arc for himself this AFCON, play your heart out and win gold for Nigeria, and write youe name in gold Alex.

Chukwueze: A very frustrating player whose international career story can only be summed up in the conjecture of "what ifs?"...maybe he's just better suited as a CAM but we will never know with Chukwueze, AFCON is his last chance.

Ademola Lookman: Something isn't quite right with this brother, granted his stint at Atalanta hasn't quite been favorable lately but he isn't just at his best right now, Ademola on his best days is a world class player, but he needs to get it all together and perhaps use this AFCON to prove he is still THAT GUY...with age no longer on his side in football terms, he has to step up big time and win this AFCON...Nigerians have been patient enough.

Players who still need time to settle

Akor Adams
Uche Christiantus
Chidera

Time to build around:

Benjamin Fredrick (face of the new generation)
Ebenezer Akinsanmiro
Frank Onyeka
Raphael Onyedika
Rafiu Durosimi
Sani Suleiman
Philip Otele
Franklin Uchenna Tebo
Micheal Kayode (if he decides to switch)
Ahanor (if he decides to switch)
David Moses
Odinaka Emmanuel Okoro
Chibuike Nwaiwu
Gibson Yah
Fisayo Dele-Bashiru
Arthur Okonkwo (if he decides for Nigeria)
Ryan Alebiosu
And any other young and exciting Nigerian player out there whether foreign or local born and based.

Osimhen must be made captain and will lead this large core of new generation players from the AFCON where most of them will be integrated as we build towards the next world cup by playing top quality friendly games next year, NFF must schedule those games and make sure our 2026 football calendar is busy, no excuses anymore and we are done with the player bonus rows and drama, all that nonsense should end now.

Lastly Chelle must be retained and supported to win the AFCON...he's still a good coach and the fact that the team even got this far after the rubbish he inherited from Finidi and Peseiro is a testament to that. Depending on the AFCON, he should be given a contract extension and given a freehand to invite his own players and build his team, enough of this disgusting madness of NFF using player agents to force rubbish deadweights on the coach, let all the end going into 2026.

Mujtahida:
Immediately after our match against Gabon, I watched one YouTuber saying that Lookman doesn't have good on-field rapport with Osimhen.

I dismissed it.

But see that pass Lookman cut back and Chukwueze and Ndidi bungled it? That pass ought to have been made for Osimhen. Osimhen was clear. It would have been an easy tap in. Only God knows what made Lookman decide to give a cut back.


If we had scored that goal we would have picked them apart or at best we could have held on to our lead given that for all their attacking onslaught, our defence held the line.

Was Lookman motivated by malicious thoughts? "As in this guy takes all the glory. Let me pass to another person jare".

If that is what motivated him then it's a big let down because we can all see the results of that kind of petty thinking. The team is greater than all of them. USA dream is gone. Osimhen will still get glory. Nobody can stop his shine.

MKPUOGALIGA:
You guys can cry and moan all you want but nothing will change if your President is corrupt, nepotistic, incompetent and lazy.

If you like become the king of ethnic bigotry and tribalism nothing will ever change. A three start general was kidnapped and murdered yesterday.

Hate has a destructive and devastating price!!

GMBOFASIA:
Most are just emotional outbursts but if you look at it from an unbiased point clutch moment is were the extreme world class players always stand up example Messi against France at last world cup final 60-70% of our crucial matches osimehn isn’t always available I think he should work more on his fitness still our best super eagle player at the moment 💯

ThunderFireAgba:
I'm glad you understand the dynamics. But shallow minded people won't see it that way. You claim to be a leader, but it's in the time of uncertainty a warrior proves himself!

MKPUOGALIGA:
What more needs to be said. We need a 10 year plan towards development of our football.

Mujtahida:
Immediately after our match against Gabon, I watched one YouTuber saying that Lookman doesn't have good on-field rapport with Osimhen.

I dismissed it.

But see that pass Lookman cut back and Chukwueze and Ndidi bungled it? That pass ought to have been made for Osimhen. Osimhen was clear. It would have been an easy tap in. Only God knows what made Lookman decide to give a cut back.


If we had scored that goal we would have picked them apart or at best we could have held on to our lead given that for all their attacking onslaught, our defence held the line.

Was Lookman motivated by malicious thoughts? "As in this guy takes all the glory. Let me pass to another person jare".

If that is what motivated him then it's a big let down because we can all see the results of that kind of petty thinking. The team is greater than all of them. USA dream is gone. Osimhen will still get glory. Nobody can stop his shine.

Sarsaparilla524:
🇳🇬
Nigeria still has two possible pathways to qualify for the 2026 World Cup:

DR Congo could be disqualified if a player fails a doping test, which would allow Nigeria to advance

If DR Congo lose in the international playoff, Nigeria’s higher FIFA ranking could see them replace DR Congo.

#SuperEagles

yemyke001:
Tunisia has improved

Sarsaparilla524:
🇳🇬
Nigeria still has two possible pathways to qualify for the 2026 World Cup:

DR Congo could be disqualified if a player fails a doping test, which would allow Nigeria to advance.

If DR Congo lose in the international playoff, Nigeria’s higher FIFA ranking could see them replace DR Congo.

#SuperEagles

mekabuachi:
The way people are saying there's no difference between finidi George and Eric Chelle, in their words Chelle was only fortunate to have victor osihmen and there has not been any improvement in the team
Chai, Nigerians never learn
Takeaway halland from mancity for 10 straight games, let's see mancity
Part of Barcelona problems recently is because raphina is injured
Let mbappe get injured today sef and be out for months, real Madrid will struggle

What am I saying? Of course the players over rely on osihmen and don't have the drive, well expect few

But people coming out to say Eric Chelle is clueless and osihmen is only covering him, that I won't take
Five times this man has made substitution and then these substitutes have scored in those games and won it (excluding the Russia draw) the game for us
Tolu against Rwanda
Tolu against Russia
Akor Adams against Lesotho
Onyeka against Benin republic
Ejuke against gabon
When we won the unity cup and even played against our rival Ghana was osihmen there?... He no win am?
When we drew a very inform Russia, if not that our player scored and own goal we for no win am? Was osihmen there ?
It's one thing to praise osihmen, we deservedly so, but it is another thing to discredit everything this coach has been doing, I just feel very bad for that man honestly, he doesn't deserve all this
With 3 points in 12 games we are not even supposed to make the playoffs, make una no swallow your PRIDE

PDPGuy:
I still want Chelle to lead the team at the AFCON and for the foreseeable future. Yes, he bungled the substitutions, but his overall record with the team suggests that he is competent enough to handle the team….

Besides, let’s be completely honest with ourselves: if the SE can’t beat the likes of Gabon, DR Congo, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho, within 90 minutes, and somehow qualified for the WC, do you REASONABLY believe that this current team would advance to the knockout rounds from a hypothetical group also containing England, Norway, and Japan?

SymphonyRad:
Na which brand of shekpe dey give you this kind hope abeg