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So there's no point rejecting Nigerian refs on the ground that "they are corrupt" when CAF is brazenly and flagrantly parading corrupt officials to do their corrupt biddings on an international scale.

Nwabali dey mad 😂

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— Nwabali Stanley bobo (M.O.N) (@NwabaliBobo) January 19, 2026

TheSuperNerd:
Backline is sorted.

Nigeria can comfortably line up 2 different back fours now.

In midfield, we need to get the backup profiles sorted. Iwobi's backup still not sorted. Onyeka's too. Even Ndidi's as Onyedika should not be the one and only fallback option in Ndidi's absence as he still matures.

More Midfield options to consider specifically for the diamond setup are Akinsanmiro for Iwobi's role, David Moses of Slavia Prague for Onyeka's role, Nnadi and Dennis for Ndidi's role, and much more options touching all the midfield roles in the diamond.

In attack... Lookman needs a solid backup. The 4312/442 diamond sees Lookman sit in the hole behind the strikers but also has the license to roam across the entire final third seeing him pop up dangerously across in gaps centrally, in the halfspaces or wingwards.
Who steps into this role when Lookman sits it out for even one game? Chukwueze is an option but we need more.

The 2 man attack.. Osimhen and Akor... We need 4 solid options aside Victor and Adams. Badass options. CF combos that sync nicely and can possibly sync with the main man Victor.

The Project Solid 22 is on.

may God remember Iheanacho and restore his form. Having an in-form Iheanacho and Lookman for that role behind the two strikers will be a very big boost to the team. Any shot on target from an in-form Iheanacho is goal, plus his defense-splitting and pinpoint passes.

BankyGee:
Nwabali dey mad 😂

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— Nwabali Stanley bobo (M.O.N) (@NwabaliBobo) January 19, 2026

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I love this kind of pettiness

According to reports, a violent altercation reportedly took place after the CAF executive committee last Friday between Fouzi Lekjaa, president of the Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF), and Ibrahim Gusau, president of the Nigerian Football Federation. 🇲🇦⚔️🇳🇬

The cause: Nigeria’s complaints about refereeing.

According to Romain_Molina, Lekjaa allegedly insulted Gusau harshly, calling him a “son of a bastard” and “ungrateful,” claiming he had “done a lot for him.” 😳

Mujtahida:
This was you agreeing with yinkeys that Morocco will win it. What kind of prevarication is this you engage in.

That one no concern me bro

Mujtahida:
This was you agreeing with yinkeys that Morocco will win it. What kind of prevarication is this you engage in.

That one no concern me bro

Blueelf and darkelf are different personas

Funny I was about to do something similar to this.

I will say Onyedika is a perfect replacement for Ndidi, if not better when not playing against high pressing teams. How about Uche to deputize Onyeka, considering strength and ball carrying abilities.

I think Chukwueze is the closest to Lookman in that role.

At CF, I will say we have solid 3. Onuachu should definitely be in.

I'm not sold on our wingers yet. Moses should be phased out soon.

TheSuperNerd:
Backline is sorted.

Nigeria can comfortably line up 2 different back fours now.

In midfield, we need to get the backup profiles sorted. Iwobi's backup still not sorted. Onyeka's too. Even Ndidi's as Onyedika should not be the one and only fallback option in Ndidi's absence as he still matures.

More Midfield options to consider specifically for the diamond setup are Akinsanmiro for Iwobi's role, David Moses of Slavia Prague for Onyeka's role, Nnadi and Dennis for Ndidi's role, and much more options touching all the midfield roles in the diamond.

In attack... Lookman needs a solid backup. The 4312/442 diamond sees Lookman sit in the hole behind the strikers but also has the license to roam across the entire final third seeing him pop up dangerously across in gaps centrally, in the halfspaces or wingwards.
Who steps into this role when Lookman sits it out for even one game? Chukwueze is an option but we need more.

The 2 man attack.. Osimhen and Akor... We need 4 solid options aside Victor and Adams. Badass options. CF combos that sync nicely and can possibly sync with the main man Victor.

The Project Solid 22 is on.

Iheanacho issue na either fitness or lack of hunger -- most likely both. A friend said he is old. We know that is not true esp in this thread

Moniter0:
may God remember Iheanacho and restore his form. Having an in-form Iheanacho and Lookman for that role behind the two strikers will be a very big boost to the team. Any shot on target from an in-form Iheanacho is goal, plus his defense-splitting and pinpoint passes.

33 sef. Because when one injure you still have solid depth

Mujtahida:
This should be the next phase of Chelle's plan. Now we have a football identity. We have our play. Next thing is to build a formidable squad. I don't want us to even have a first 11. We should have a first 22.

darkelf:
Is he Nigerian?

My brother in the Lord, his name is NGUMOHA

His middle name is Chima

Where do you think his father is from?

The problem with this monkey thing is that we also have white monkeys. Why can't blacks put those on their faces. Them go find another thing

BankyGee:
Moroccans have flooded Stanley Nwabali's Instagram comments section with monkey emojis and racist comments. Funny people.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3IVucUIKO0/?igsh=MWh2a2JzdjZwYjdxZg==

Unlimited22:
My brother in the Lord, his name is NGUMOHA

His middle name is Chima

Where do you think his father is from?

I no know oo

chai

That guy too good for naija jo

Joebie:
Funny I was about to do something similar to this.

I will say Onyedika is a perfect replacement for Ndidi, if not better when not playing against high pressing teams. How about Uche to deputize Onyeka, considering strength and ball carrying abilities.

I think Chukwueze is the closest to Lookman in that role.

At CF, I will say we have solid 3. Onuachu should definitely be in.

I'm not sold on our wingers yet. Moses should be phased out soon.

Uche is a Box to box midfielder. e can't do what Onyeka is doing

LEt us just see it that we don't ave slid bakup for Ndidi and Onyeka yet

All our other CMs apart from Nnadi (i'm talking about subs) are Box to Box CMs

no we cannot. I mean we can but let's just do it for formality.

Hardrive:
Can we reach out to the Liverpool guy Rio ngumoha to see if he would be interested in playing for us.

Sarsaparilla524:
Latest FIFA Ranking

Omo the gap between 2nd and 3rd sha

We have a lot of work to do on our football

Moniter0:
So there's no point rejecting Nigerian refs on the ground that "they are corrupt" when CAF is brazenly and flagrantly parading corrupt officials to do their corrupt biddings on an international scale.

Na we Dey project ourselves as corrupt na imagine that Ghana ref 😂

Asisat Oshoala Goal Contributions at Bay FC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnkJJ2aZX9Q

Sarsaparilla524:
According to reports, a violent altercation reportedly took place after the CAF executive committee last Friday between Fouzi Lekjaa, president of the Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF), and Ibrahim Gusau, president of the Nigerian Football Federation. 🇲🇦⚔️🇳🇬

The cause: Nigeria’s complaints about refereeing.

According to Romain_Molina, Lekjaa allegedly insulted Gusau harshly, calling him a “son of a bastard” and “ungrateful,” claiming he had “done a lot for him.” 😳

😂 aaah see nff life for outside

TheSuperNerd:
Technically, the fairplay award is awarded to the team with the least cautions in a tournament.
Maroc had the lowest number of yellows among teams that went all the way to the semis. Ofcos lesser yellows helped especially by the corrupt refs who refused to card them vs Nigeria (zero yellow), Tanzania (1 yellow only), vs Cameroon (1 yellow only).

We all know it is all nonsense. Nothing fair about the moroccans at all throughout the tournament.

😂 😂 😂 fair wayo award

Moniter0:
may God remember Iheanacho and restore his form. Having an in-form Iheanacho and Lookman for that role behind the two strikers will be a very big boost to the team. Any shot on target from an in-form Iheanacho is goal, plus his defense-splitting and pinpoint passes.

We're talking about the future this one dey drag us back to Iheanacho in 2026! see how serious teams like Senegal, CIV, Morocco, Cameroon, DRC etc are boosting their squad with younger exciting talents and we are seeing the top level football from them, na why we no dey make progress in Nigeria...always recycling deadweights who are already past it, smh.

𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: The Super Eagles climb up 12 spots to become the 26th ranked footballing nation in the world and the 3rd ranked in Africa after their impressive AFCON outing! They garnered the most points in the world for the entire FIFA window (+79.09)!

Top 10 African nations:
🇲🇦 Morocco (8th 📈) – 1736.57
🇸🇳 Senegal (12th 📈) – 1706.83
🇳🇬 Nigeria (26th 📈) – 1581.55
🇩🇿 Algeria (28th 📈) – 1560.91
🇪🇬 Egypt (31st 📈) – 1556.71
🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire (37th 📈) – 1522.48
🇨🇲 Cameroon (45th 📈) – 1482.39
🇹🇳 Tunisia (47th 📉) – 1479.04
🇨🇩 DR Congo (48th 📈) – 1468.22
🇲🇱 Mali (54th 📉) – 1458.48

Congratulations Super Eagles! We move up from here! 💪🏾 🇳🇬

Blueelf:
Omo the gap between 2nd and 3rd sha

We have a lot of work to do on our football

CHAN follow contribute

Unlimited22:
My brother in the Lord, his name is NGUMOHA

His middle name is Chima

Where do you think his father is from?

I no really dey put eye for such talents because it is always effort in futility. You see talents like Saka, Adeyemi, Nwaneri, Madueke, Ngumoha etc, I don't waste my time hoping they will turn out for Nigeria. I know our level and the kind of talents we can attract.

Ngumoha is the grand son of Nze Ngumoha, The Akaraugo 1 of Uruala. A member of People's Club, and CEO of Orlu Hotels and Celebration Hotels Uruala. If we bag him, that will be fine, but I don't think that is feasible.

I would rather we went for Femi, Njinmah etc.

Joebie:
Funny I was about to do something similar to this.

I will say Onyedika is a perfect replacement for Ndidi, if not better when not playing against high pressing teams. How about Uche to deputize Onyeka, considering strength and ball carrying abilities.

I think Chukwueze is the closest to Lookman in that role.

At CF, I will say we have solid 3. Onuachu should definitely be in.

I'm not sold on our wingers yet. Moses should be phased out soon.

Una no dey rate Nigeria for this subforum sha, Onuachu as how? Did you watch how ridiculously bad he was vs Egypt in our 3rd place match ...na so another person take mention Iheanacho making a comeback, in 2026? why not then bring back or unretire the likes of Ahmed Musa, Ighalo, Awoniyi and other players who are in the football twilight of their playing careers.. exciting football no dey sweet una otherwise we should be talking about building around Osimhen, Akor and then others like Gift Orban, Rafiu Durosinmi, Philip Otele, Sani Suleman, Njinmah, Femi Azeez, Shola Shoretire and if NFF are serious try court Ethan Nwaneri, Rio Ngumoha, George Ilenikhena, Emmanuel Emegha and other dual nationals who will elevate our attacking options to a 100... players like Onuachu and Moses Simon should be phased out respectfully in 2026, dem don try.

BankyGee:
𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: The Super Eagles climb up 12 spots to become the 26th ranked footballing nation in the world and the 3rd ranked in Africa after their impressive AFCON outing! They garnered the most points in the world for the entire FIFA window (+79.09)!

Top 10 African nations:
🇲🇦 Morocco (8th 📈) – 1736.57
🇸🇳 Senegal (12th 📈) – 1706.83
🇳🇬 Nigeria (26th 📈) – 1581.55
🇩🇿 Algeria (28th 📈) – 1560.91
🇪🇬 Egypt (31st 📈) – 1556.71
🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire (37th 📈) – 1522.48
🇨🇲 Cameroon (45th 📈) – 1482.39
🇹🇳 Tunisia (47th 📉) – 1479.04
🇨🇩 DR Congo (48th 📈) – 1468.22
🇲🇱 Mali (54th 📉) – 1458.48

Congratulations Super Eagles! We move up from here! 💪🏾 🇳🇬

If Morocco had beaten us and I guess DRC too they would have gone 5th in the world ranking.

Uche for Onyeka is also a very good call. Uche can also fill into the Iwobi role due to his strong ball carrying and creative instincts as well. He can be groomed to fill in either roles as he is naturally a deeplying and box to box midfield monster.
Funny thing about Uche is he can also cover the Lookman role as he is comfortable playing close to the box too.
Uche is a multifaceted weapon but covering for the Onyeka role seems like his best fit but keeping in mind he can be just as effective in the other roles.


As for the CF role, I am still not exactly sold on Onuachu hence why I say solid 4 options needed aside Osimhen and Akor.

Joebie:
Funny I was about to do something similar to this.

I will say Onyedika is a perfect replacement for Ndidi, if not better when not playing against high pressing teams. How about Uche to deputize Onyeka, considering strength and ball carrying abilities.

I think Chukwueze is the closest to Lookman in that role.

At CF, I will say we have solid 3. Onuachu should definitely be in.

I'm not sold on our wingers yet. Moses should be phased out soon.

Guys

The moment a Nigerian female reporter stood up to the Moroccan journalist for booing the Senegalese coach Pape Thiaw! pic.twitter.com/e79If9UPZS

— ÓMÒÉLÉRÍNJÁRÉ (@omoelerinjare) January 19, 2026

mujtahida thesupernerd joebie thegoodjoe kog45

The King of Strikers is back! Atlético Madrid, here we come! 🇳🇬

WE HAVE MISSED YOU IN YELLOW AND RED 💛❤️🦁

See what Senegal are building around, small Senegal o! see all the future stars all in their early 20's that will go on to dominate African football and compete against the best in the world soon.. meanwhile some enemies of Nigerian football here are still stuck around Onuachu, Iheanacho and other rubber legs in 2026? haba now, make una fear God o...

Senegal football is in safe hands for years to come

https://twitter.com/RisingStarXI/status/2013011909725876402

BankyGee:
Nwabali dey mad 😂

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— Nwabali Stanley bobo (M.O.N) (@NwabaliBobo) January 19, 2026

My guy don turn towel sales dealer 😂 😂 😂