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Semid4lyfe please look into my last post oo. Because I don't understand why people who use ChatGPT to write don't get banned for spamming, and me who points it out gets banned for doing so. 😂

TheCongo2:
There it is — full wicked village people mode activated. The moment you start celebrating strangers just to spite your own, you’ve officially graduated with honours from the School of Village Witchcraft. Because you didn’t make it out, now you’re ready to sprinkle ancestral pepper on anyone else who tries. Don’t worry, we truly don’t care; your ‘payback’ has the same power as a village curse thrown at someone already living in the city — absolutely none.

If you didn't care, you won't be here trying to convince people that you don't care with jokes written by ChatGPT.

QueenJazz:
Oga go and build a forum for you and your useless brothers to ramble about your sports. Nobody here cares about you think and we certainly didn't ask for your input.

And please try coming up with jokes on your own. Relying on ChatGPT and other LLMs for banter only lets us know that you simply lack the wits to match your bravado.

you know, at some point i thought i was arguing with someone's ai profile. His own is just to give ai prompt and paste directly here.

AndSunGorilla:
Welcome again our own resident Complainer-in-Chief.

I come in piss!!

lolll

you should've come in pieces

Odunayaw:
Exactly

Put Ebenezer Hercourt in the mix, the department is good to go

Jezebelle:
Semid4lyfe please look into my last post oo. Because I don't understand why people who use ChatGPT to write don't get banned for spamming, and me who points it out gets banned for doing so. 😂

Jezebelle hmmmm 🏃🚶🚶🚶

JohnBullMySon:
Crap. None of these players would’ve been selected by the country of birth at the time they switched to Morocco. Absolutely none.

You’re even mentioning Brahim Diaz that Spain literally frustrated. Shey you no Dey follow ball ni?

The only thing you’ll say and I’ll agree is that they don’t waste much time after Morocco approaches unlike ours that can dribble us for years. Morocco has a good system already so they’re attractive.

But coming here to say that players are choosing Morocco over their countries of birth is a big fat ROBISH LIE.

There’s no player that Netherland or Spain or France will invite and they will decline it to choose Morocco instead. Eh no fit happen.

A lot of Moroccoan players played age grade football for their countries of birth and switched to Morocco after they couldn’t get into the senior squad.

So what stopped Bukayo Saka, Eberechi Eze,Olise,Madueke,Akanji and Alaba from switching to Nigeria before they were call up by their respective countries?
Our national team is not attractive and we cannot attract best foreign born players. The best is to build at home,look inward and use foreign born as jara. At a time, foreign born was the main thing. We have moved from Aina,Osayi and now Alebiosu;non of them can lace Benjamin Frederick's boots.

do4luv14:
Put Ebenezer Hercourt in the mix, the department is good to go

Which put

zuchyblink:
So what stopped Bukayo Saka, Eberechi Eze,Olise,Madueke,Akanji and Alaba from switching to Nigeria before they were call up by their respective countries?
Our national team is not attractive and we cannot attract best foreign born players. The best is to build at home,look inward and use foreign born as jara. At a time, foreign born was the main thing. We have moved from Aina,Osayi and now Alebiosu;non of them can lace Benjamin Frederick's boots.

You have not made a single point with this foreign-born thing, And you seem not to even understand what you are saying. Are these guys not actively playing for their countries of birth?

You said players choose Morocco over their country of birth which is a lie. Most teams that have beat us recently have foreign born players that couldn't make their birth NT yet they are good players. Abeg just drop this point you're trying to push by all means cause its not making any sense.

Stop using foreign born players as cheap scape goat. Go face NFF.

do4luv14:
Jezebelle hmmmm 🏃🚶🚶🚶

Wetin do Jezebelle? Where u dey run go? 😒

zuchyblink:
So what stopped Bukayo Saka, Eberechi Eze,Olise,Madueke,Akanji and Alaba from switching to Nigeria before they were call up by their respective countries?
Our national team is not attractive and we cannot attract best foreign born players. The best is to build at home,look inward and use foreign born as jara. At a time, foreign born was the main thing. We have moved from Aina,Osayi and now Alebiosu;non of them can lace Benjamin Frederick's boots.

Tell me home based or home grown foreign based player to replace Benjamin Frederick...hmmm Aina cannot lace Benjamin Frederick's boot? well Benji na my boy and many didn't gave him the chance when I said the boy was better than our center backs,glad that he is now a reference point talking home grown players... whether home or foreign all we need is quality,no need for division if Morocco can have a well balanced team with their foreign born why not Nigeria....the issue here is our system which center on NFF approach to our football development and administration.

zuchyblink:
So what stopped Bukayo Saka, Eberechi Eze,Olise,Madueke,Akanji and Alaba from switching to Nigeria before they were call up by their respective countries?
Our national team is not attractive and we cannot attract best foreign born players. The best is to build at home,look inward and use foreign born as jara. At a time, foreign born was the main thing. We have moved from Aina,Osayi and now Alebiosu; non of them can lace Benjamin Frederick's boots.

Don't rush to exhaust your monthly allowance of gba takes

Confirmed: Akinsanmiro makes the final Afcon list

jihday:
Confirmed: Akinsanmiro makes the final Afcon list

where una dey see this list

Amedino99:
where una dey see this list

His coach at Pisa confirmed he has been called up and will miss several matches. If one has contacts of all the clubs on the original 54 man list, it's pretty simple to defice who is in or not. Nice addition in our midfield.

jihday:
Confirmed: Akinsanmiro makes the final Afcon list

Abeg, Sodiq, Alimi and Nduka Junior nko? Did they make it?

AndSunGorilla:
Abeg, Sodiq, Alimi and Nduka Junior nko? Did they make it?

No. But they'll be part of the squad going to the FIFA World Cup next year.

Amedino99:
you had to inject lots of foreign born/based players in your squad for you to have a chance at qualifying to the world cup in decades. Even your coach is a foreigner. You have not even qualified yet so please stop the preaching, you are not any better.

That still doesn’t change the simple point: Nigeria has lost its football identity. The moment you enter a Nigerian forum like Nairaland, almost every discussion is about the British league. It’s as if the country doesn’t even have a league of its own. Whether you admit it or not, sport-wise, Nigeria still operates like a British subject.

And let me be clear: I’ve never supported African countries depending on foreign-born players to build a national team. Show me what any of these countries — including Nigeria — have achieved on the world stage with this strategy, apart from the occasional AFCON run. Nothing.

Now, comparing Nigeria’s local football identity to Congo’s is like comparing day and night. Nigeria has no football culture to stand on. The dependence runs deep.

Meanwhile, Congo has built its own football backbone with local work, local clubs, and local talent:

In the last 20 years, Congolese clubs have won four African club competitions.
Congo has won two CHAN titles, a tournament specifically for local-based players.

Nigeria? Zero CHAN titles. Zero African club trophies in the last 20 years.

TP Mazembe went all the way to the FIFA Club World Cup final, beating the Brazilian champion Internacional in the semifinal.

When I once met a Brazilian guy and said I was from Congo, his first reaction was, “TP Mazembe!” He even mentioned Kidiaba’s dance — it became famous in Brazil.

That is what football identity looks like. A country that earns global recognition without depending on foreign aid.

QueenJazz:
No. But they'll be part of the squad going to the FIFA World Cup next year.

If I catch you ehn,


I go spray u money so tey u go tire but unfortunately u r too fast for me.

Truidstarr:
My fear for Nwabali is...if Okoye does very well and we manage to go all the way at this AFCON... E go hard for Nwabali to collect that No 1 spot back.

Does Okoye appears to you like a goalkeeper that can lead you to AFCON final?

Let's just hope Nwabali recovers on time to play in later stages

Napoleon55:
Does Okoye appears to you like a goalkeeper that an lead you to AFCON final?

Let's just hope Nwabali recovers on time to play in later stages

Why do you feel he cannot lead us to the AFCON final? If Okoye Starts well he will continue till the Final

TheCongo2:
That still doesn’t change the simple point: Nigeria has lost its football identity………

Nothing Dey vex me for this group pass this kyn behavior.

People that derail arguments with unrelated long stories.

You said Nigeria is over dependent on foreign born players, he point you your own too, Oya address am back, you’re now telling us about TP Mazembe. Anybody argue TP mazembe with you?

Oya make una carry TP mazembe squad go World Cup na since they’re so good.

Truidstarr:
My fear for Nwabali is...if Okoye does very well and we manage to go all the way at this AFCON... E go hard for Nwabali to collect that No 1 spot back.

Why is it a fear?

You and Nwabali Dey share appearance fee?

D

JohnBullMySon:
Why is it a fear?

You and Nwabali Dey share appearance fee?

Read well again...let it sink in....then understand.

Truidstarr:
D Read well again...let it sink in....then understand.

I understand you na. Why are you afraid for him?

If he loses his spot it means that Okoye performed well which is still positive for the team.

JohnBullMySon:
I understand you na. Why are you afraid for him?

If he loses his spot it means that Okoye performed well which is still positive for the team.

My fear is more of sympathy for him. Like you rightly said if Okoye performs it is positive. You know how this game goes, the coach will find it difficult to give him back the No. 1 spot after Okoye's heroics.(Hypothetical).

Truidstarr:
My fear is more of sympathy for him. Like you rightly said if Okoye performs it is positive. You know how this game goes, the coach will find it difficult to give him back the No. 1 spot after Okoye's heroics.(Hypothetical).

I understand sha. That’s how I felt when Oga Chelle begin bench Ekong. But it was clear to me that Frederick deserve am.

TheCongo2:
That still doesn’t change the simple point: Nigeria has lost its football identity. The moment you enter a Nigerian forum like Nairaland, almost every discussion is about the British league. It’s as if the country doesn’t even have a league of its own. Whether you admit it or not, sport-wise, Nigeria still operates like a British subject.

And let me be clear: I’ve never supported African countries depending on foreign-born players to build a national team. Show me what any of these countries — including Nigeria — have achieved on the world stage with this strategy, apart from the occasional AFCON run. Nothing.

Now, comparing Nigeria’s local football identity to Congo’s is like comparing day and night. Nigeria has no football culture to stand on. The dependence runs deep.

Meanwhile, Congo has built its own football backbone with local work, local clubs, and local talent:

In the last 20 years, Congolese clubs have won four African club competitions.
Congo has won two CHAN titles, a tournament specifically for local-based players.

Nigeria? Zero CHAN titles. Zero African club trophies in the last 20 years.

TP Mazembe went all the way to the FIFA Club World Cup final, beating the Brazilian champion Internacional in the semifinal.

When I once met a Brazilian guy and said I was from Congo, his first reaction was, “TP Mazembe!” He even mentioned Kidiaba’s dance — it became famous in Brazil.

That is what football identity looks like. A country that earns global recognition without depending on foreign aid.

Local Chef dey use Akpu take dey boast...while em mates have graduated to preparing intercontinental dishes from Asia, Europe and South America.

JohnBullMySon:
Nothing Dey vex me for this group pass this kyn behavior.

People that derail arguments with unrelated long stories.

You said Nigeria is over dependent on foreign born players, he point you your own too, Oya address am back, you’re now telling us about TP Mazembe. Anybody argue TP mazembe with you?

Oya make una carry TP mazembe squad go World Cup na since they’re so good.

Ah yes, classic move — when the point enters the chat, you quietly leave and start shouting “TP Mazembe World Cup!” as if that somehow helps you.

My guy, stay with the topic.
We were talking football identity, not who is boarding a flight to the World Cup.

I mentioned Mazembe because they’re part of Congo’s local football success — something Nigeria hasn’t touched in decades. But instead of addressing that, you jumped into a completely different lane and started honking.

Nobody dragged Mazembe into a World Cup debate except you.
Try to follow the conversation — it’s not a relay race where you can drop the baton and start running in another direction.

Truidstarr:
Local Chef dey use Akpu take dey boast...while em mates have graduated to preparing intercontinental dishes from Asia, Europe and South America.

Ah yes, the “intercontinental dishes” argument — very impressive.
Except the problem is this: your so-called chef can’t even cook water without calling a foreign chef on WhatsApp for instructions.

You’re bragging about intercontinental cuisine, but the whole kitchen is imported — ingredients, recipe, and even the chef. Nothing local, nothing original, just reheated leftovers from Europe and claiming it as fine dining.

Meanwhile, the “local chef” you’re mocking actually built his own kitchen, cooks his own meals, and still gets recognition abroad.

Better a proud local chef with real identity than a Michelin-star customer pretending to be a cook.

Truidstarr:
Why do you feel he cannot lead us to the AFCON final? If Okoye Starts well he will continue till the Final

If the coaches feel he can do it,no problem.
But I feel more confident having someone like Nwabali or Enyeama in post than Okoye or Uzoho.

Just got back from X, and according to Osasu, he said he spoke with some people and that there'll be little to no changes at all from the squad that went to the playoffs in Morocco, because according to them, "they need people they already know" or something like that.

Are y'all still hopeful Nigeria will perform? 😂