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‼️🇬🇭UPDATE: Joachim Low will take the Black Stars job on a short-term deal focused solely on the 2026 World Cup.

Personal terms are close to being finalized following extensive negotiations between top Ghanaian officials and the German tactician late last night in Germany 🇩🇪.

The 2014 World Cup winning coach is expected to earn around 150,000 Euros a month if everything is agreed.

Via- Nuhu Adams

Damioduso1:
‼️🇬🇭UPDATE: Joachim Low will take the Black Stars job on a short-term deal focused solely on the 2026 World Cup.

Personal terms are close to being finalized following extensive negotiations between top Ghanaian officials and the German tactician late last night in Germany 🇩🇪.

The 2014 World Cup winning coach is expected to earn around 150,000 Euros a month if everything is agreed.

Via- Nuhu Adams

Short term deal? As if Ghana will do anything at the world cup. They should have hired the former Morocan coach. Low is going to chop their $$$

All these Onyedika slanders will not age well. I leave it to time to prove me right.

Now same Alhassan Yusuf that was constantly castigated here yet rated by me is being mentioned in fine light just to talk down on Nwadike. Lol... Time is a beautiful thing.

150k Euros?? He better get them to the Semis.

Damioduso1:
‼️🇬🇭UPDATE: Joachim Low will take the Black Stars job on a short-term deal focused solely on the 2026 World Cup.

Personal terms are close to being finalized following extensive negotiations between top Ghanaian officials and the German tactician late last night in Germany 🇩🇪.

The 2014 World Cup winning coach is expected to earn around 150,000 Euros a month if everything is agreed.

Via- Nuhu Adams

Damioduso1:
‼️🇬🇭UPDATE: Joachim Low will take the Black Stars job on a short-term deal focused solely on the 2026 World Cup.

Personal terms are close to being finalized following extensive negotiations between top Ghanaian officials and the German tactician late last night in Germany 🇩🇪.

The 2014 World Cup winning coach is expected to earn around 150,000 Euros a month if everything is agreed.

Via- Nuhu Adams

Must be €150k/mo to win WC or it must be voodoo

This bobo no too much?
Which kain lie be this nau?

semid4lyfe:
Nice. Just coming back from your X post. May your dreams come through.

Amen. Thanks a lot sir.

lbrichman2:
This bobo no too much?
Which kain lie be this nau?

Better lie 😂

do4luv14:
Bros I no see these post for X oo,

Buh weytin ororo do you na 😁

I be Messi fan na 😂

Article 6.2 of FIFA's World Cup regulations state that if a team withdraws from the World Cup, they would be replaced 'with a nominated alternate, often the direct runner-up from the relevant qualifying playoff or highest-ranked non-qualified team from that confederation'….

But FIFA can adjudicate the matter at its 'sole discretion'. This, FIFA may choose to pick a team from a different confederation to replace the withdrawn team.

TheSuperNerd:
All these Onyedika slanders will not age well. I leave it to time to prove me right.

Now same Alhassan Yusuf that was constantly castigated here yet rated by me is being mentioned in fine light just to talk down on Nwadike. Lol... Time is a beautiful thing.

I thought Raphael Onyedika won MVP and scored two goals in the last Afcon,so what really happened during friendlies cuz comments on him not good cuz I rated him highly and tipped him to replace Ndidi

TheSuperNerd:
All these Onyedika slanders will not age well. I leave it to time to prove me right.

Now same Alhassan Yusuf that was constantly castigated here yet rated by me is being mentioned in fine light just to talk down on Nwadike. Lol... Time is a beautiful thing.

Maybe Chelle hasn't figured out how to use him and has played him out of position? Maybe Onyedika should be tried in a more advanced midfield role?

TheSuperNerd:
All these Onyedika slanders will not age well. I leave it to time to prove me right.

Now same Alhassan Yusuf that was constantly castigated here yet rated by me is being mentioned in fine light just to talk down on Nwadike. Lol... Time is a beautiful thing.

It might not age well because footballers are human and are capable of improving, being stagnant or declining. Ultimately. they prove you either right or wrong. Such is life.

I once did not rate Ekong. Thought he was a very poor defender but he went to the 2023 AFCON and put in a 2006 world cup Cannavaro-esque stellar performance and emerged tournament MVP.

Also, I thought Calvin Bassey was poor circa 2021-2022 when he made his Super Eagles debut and played for Rangers & Ajax but he's turned out to be our best defender at the 2025 AFCON and made team of the tournament.

I wish Onyedika well but I just don't think he's the right type of profile for the Super Eagles DM position in any formation.

BTW, I have always rated Alhassan Yusuf. This thread is replete with my posts praising him and defending his invitation/inclusion to/in the Super Eagles team when others labelled him a quota system pick.

I hope Chelle recalls him back to the team. A good player is a good player irrespective of the league he plays.

semid4lyfe:
It might not age well because footballers are human and are capable of improving, being stagnant or declining. Ultimately. they prove you either right or wrong. Such is life.

I once did not rate Ekong. Thought he was a very poor defender but he went to the 2023 AFCON and put in a 2006 world cup Cannavaro-esque stellar performance and emerged tournament MVP.

Also, I thought Calvin Bassey was poor circa 2021-2022 when he made his Super Eagles debut and played for Rangers & Ajax but he's turned out to be our best defender at the 2025 AFCON and made team of the tournament.

I wish Onyedika well but I just don't think he's the right type of profile for the Super Eagles DM position in any formation.

BTW, I have always rated Alhassan Yusuf. This thread is replete with my posts praising him and defending his invitation/inclusion to/in the Super Eagles team when others labelled him a quota system pick.

I hope Chelle recalls him back to the team. A good player is a good player irrespective of the league he plays.

alhassan has lungs that can fill onyeka's role. Oneydika will come good. The guy thrives in a pure 3 man midfield where is not the guy to mark. Most times we forget how good this guy was against Russia. I feel an ndidi, iwobi and onyedika with onyedika in more advanced role will make us appreciate the guy. Time will tell.
One player I miss so much is chrisantus Uche. He is that guy I feel can compliment osimhen the way AKOR does

Finally, I feel benjamin Fredricks, will be massive in midfield esp that Ndidi role ( just thinking )the boy's movement that resulted to the goal against Gabon keep playing in my head.

BankyGee:
Better lie 😂

🤣🤣

Let's remove sentiments. they got a high profile coach. And they are paying him top dollars. I'm sure they wont owe him salaries. while I think our brothers are just going for exhibition, we still need to admit that they are better in football administratively.

TheSuperNerd:
150k Euros?? He better get them to the Semis.

Your judgement of this matter is twisted
Nobody is SLANDERING Onyedika so it's you that will not age well cuz nobody slandered him.
For your info, what many are saying is that in that match against Jordan he was ghosting as an attacking MF, no one said the boy is not good but in that role he was palying cameo but all you see was the goal he scored and disallowed
We all know he's a talented player and we are glad to have him in the SE, but whenever he's criticised you should stop insulting people, it's barbaric and uncultured
You can make your comments without insulting people

TheSuperNerd:
All these Onyedika slanders will not age well. I leave it to time to prove me right.

Now same Alhassan Yusuf that was constantly castigated here yet rated by me is being mentioned in fine light just to talk down on Nwadike. Lol... Time is a beautiful thing.

SymphonyRad:
You beat me to it lol, was just about to post this...see how the FA from serious nations take responsibility by doing the needful, but in Nigeria our administrators and leaders will rather die there with all their heaps of garbage and mediocrity.

clear difference between glory hunters and money hunters

Joebie:
Let's remove sentiments. they got a high profile coach. And they are paying him top dollars. I'm sure they wont owe him salaries. while I think our brothers are just going for exhibition, we still need to admit that they are better in football administratively.

Your brothers @Emboldened

Lol, where is the insult? I can see it bites you already. All this epistle is unnecessary. LET TIME DECIDE.

oloriooko:
Your judgement of this matter is twisted
Nobody is SLANDERING Onyedika so it's you that will not age well cuz nobody slandered him.
For your info, what many are saying is that in that match against Jordan he was ghosting as an attacking MF, no one said the boy is not good but in that role he was palying cameo but all you see was the goal he scored and disallowed
We all know he's a talented player and we are glad to have him in the SE, but whenever he's criticised you should stop insulting people, it's barbaric and uncultured
You can make your comments without insulting people

Times without number I have stated Onyedika has different role paths which his profile will lead him towards depending on how his continued development goes....... Double pivot CDM ▶️ Lone Pivot CDM, CM, or even CAM. But one thing is certain, this lad is on a right path yet is being written off early by most of you because of one game - The Morocco game.

If one game decided it all, we would not see the reinvention of Ndidi under Chelle even after his initial struggles when Chelle came in. Many wish to bury the fact that Ndidi also partly cost us the WC ticket due to his slip up leading to the DRC goal. Did we bury him permanently because of that? At the Afcon, Ndidi finally clicked and came to life, finally able to make the Chelle 4312 Diamond work.

If there is anything Football teaches me, it is that one game never truly defines you.

On Alhassan... True truths co-exist here. When I said Onyedika slander will not age well, that refers to all the talkdowns. But when I said, Alhassan was even castigated heavily here, that refers to some folks who know themselves, who are repeating same thing now on Onyedika and agreeing an Alhassan who they always talked down is now better than Onyedika.

I remember times without number on this thread pointing out how combative yet cerebral Yusuf is but not many saw it. All they saw was an aboki or a player filling up a quota system in the team according to them.

One of the best midfield combos I observed us feature was Onyedika and Alhassan starting together vs Rwanda in Uyo alongside FDB. We had already qualified but I saw a midfield deliver classy football in the first half. It lasted for 45mins as Alhassan made way for Onyeka who later on assisted Chukwueze who scored that marvellous goal... all before we went on to capitulate losing 2-1.


Even now, Alhassan is not football-dead. He is just in the MLS. But several folks use that to register him useless. Ngwanu, no problem. Now they agree he is better than a lad who has done it vs Barca and ATM in the UCL this season. This is where I laugh seriously and leave it up to time because it is not everyone who sees through to the core of what makes a player thick and able to rise above the doubts.

semid4lyfe:
It might not age well because footballers are human and are capable of improving, being stagnant or declining. Ultimately. they prove you either right or wrong. Such is life.

I once did not rate Ekong. Thought he was a very poor defender but he went to the 2023 AFCON and put in a 2006 world cup Cannavaro-esque stellar performance and emerged tournament MVP.

Also, I thought Calvin Bassey was poor circa 2021-2022 when he made his Super Eagles debut and played for Rangers & Ajax but he's turned out to be our best defender at the 2025 AFCON and made team of the tournament.

I wish Onyedika well but I just don't think he's the right type of profile for the Super Eagles DM position in any formation.

BTW, I have always rated Alhassan Yusuf. This thread is replete with my posts praising him and defending his invitation/inclusion to/in the Super Eagles team when others labelled him a quota system pick.

I hope Chelle recalls him back to the team. A good player is a good player irrespective of the league he plays.

My dear Elder, I guess it is the idea of them wanting to see Onyedika running all over the pitch like a mad man doing eye service and forming busy/active to convince them that he did well vs Jordan. Onyedika did not even put a foot wrong vs Jordan and even scored a good goal that was scrapped off.

If you watched the Chelle Reaction immediately after Onyedika scored, you will see him gesticulating with his hands, uttering "You see? You see?" emphasizing why the quick passing-moving sequence from side to side, switching the play constantly, is key to breaking down a stubborn deepblock. This was before his reactive coaching show was stopped by the nonsense ref decision to cancel it. Lol

Chelle was like, "you see why you need to keep ball moving from end to end and finding the gaps... it is so that we get chances like that". He was impressed with the sequences leading to that goal. Onyedika was involved in the sequences.

Abeg na people for this thread sabi. Time will tell it all.

Kog45:
I thought Raphael Onyedika won MVP and scored two goals in the last Afcon,so what really happened during friendlies cuz comments on him not good cuz I rated him highly and tipped him to replace Ndidi

TheSuperNerd:
My dear Elder, I guess it is the idea of them wanting to see Onyedika running all over the pitch like a mad man doing eye service and forming busy/active to convince them that he did well vs Jordan. Onyedika did not even put a foot wrong vs Jordan and even scored a good goal that was scrapped off.

If you watched the Chelle Reaction immediately after Onyedika scored, you will see him gesticulating with his hands, uttering "You see? You see?" emphasizing why the quick passing-moving sequence from side to side, switching the play constantly, is key to breaking down a stubborn deepblock. This was before his reactive coaching show was stopped by the nonsense ref decision to cancel it. Lol

Chelle was like, "you see why you need to keep ball moving from end to end and finding the gaps... it is so that we get chances like that". He was impressed with the sequences leading to that goal. Onyedika was involved in the sequences.

Abeg na people for this thread sabi. Time will tell it all.

E get one match wey I watch Onyedika for Club brugge, he just sit for the midfield, all the loose balls he dey collect am dey distribute am immediately, the players around home dey fast and mobile. He was very impressive. Which role he dey play?

Did you know? 🤔

⏰⚡ 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 the record for the fastest goal in the history of the Belgian Pro League is held by Victor Osimhen? 🤔

He set this record in May 2019 while playing for Sporting Charleroi against Antwerp. Osimhen found the back of the net just 8.15 seconds… pic.twitter.com/z00njFRAZy

— Banky G 🎤⚽ (@BankyGee_) April 3, 2026

Bia Osimhen still get this record after all this time? It is enough! Ehm Banky, time to follow each other on the other side. I dey come.

BankyGee:
Did you know? 🤔

⏰⚡ 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 the record for the fastest goal in the history of the Belgian Pro League is held by Victor Osimhen? 🤔

He set this record in May 2019 while playing for Sporting Charleroi against Antwerp. Osimhen found the back of the net just 8.15 seconds… pic.twitter.com/z00njFRAZy

— Banky G 🎤⚽ (@BankyGee_) April 3, 2026

He played sitting CDM in that game I believe. Normally at Club Brugge he is paired in a double pivot with Stankovic, Onyedika does the recovery and distribution, Stankovic does the tracking, pressing mop-up and vice versa. Their roles compliment each other so much that sometimes Onyedika arrives in the box and hit belters.

Truidstarr:
E get one match wey I watch Onyedika for Club brugge, he just sit for the midfield, all the loose balls he dey collect am dey distribute am immediately, the players around home dey fast and mobile. He was very impressive. Which role he dey play?

TheSuperNerd:
Times without number I have stated Onyedika has different role paths which his profile will lead him towards depending on how his continued development goes....... Double pivot CDM ▶️ Lone Pivot CDM, CM, or even CAM. But one thing is certain, this lad is on a right path yet is being written off early by most of you because of one game - The Morocco game.

If one game decided it all, we would not see the reinvention of Ndidi under Chelle even after his initial struggles when Chelle came in. Many wish to bury the fact that Ndidi also partly cost us the WC ticket due to his slip up leading to the DRC goal. Did we bury him permanently because of that? At the Afcon, Ndidi finally clicked and came to life, finally able to make the Chelle 4312 Diamond work.

If there is anything Football teaches me, it is that one game never truly defines you.

On Alhassan... True truths co-exist here. When I said Onyedika slander will not age well, that refers to all the talkdowns. But when I said, Alhassan was even castigated heavily here, that refers to some folks who know themselves, who are repeating same thing now on Onyedika and agreeing an Alhassan who they always talked down is now better than Onyedika.

I remember times without number on this thread pointing out how combative yet cerebral Yusuf is but not many saw it. All they saw was an aboki or a player filling up a quota system in the team according to them.

One of the best midfield combos I observed us feature was Onyedika and Alhassan starting together vs Rwanda in Uyo alongside FDB. We had already qualified but I saw a midfield deliver classy football in the first half. It lasted for 45mins as Alhassan made way for Onyeka who later on assisted Chukwueze who scored that marvellous goal... all before we went on to capitulate losing 2-1.


Even now, Alhassan is not football-dead. He is just in the MLS. But several folks use that to register him useless. Ngwanu, no problem. Now they agree he is better than a lad who has done it vs Barca and ATM in the UCL this season. This is where I laugh seriously and leave it up to time because it is not everyone who sees through to the core of what makes a player thick and able to rise above the doubts.

No lele bro. We be Super Eagles supporters, not fans.

Fans are those who remember the Super Eagles only during matches and post in the match day threads.

We the supporters post about the Super Eagles, every day of the week, throughout the year in this thread.

We scout and unearth players.

We profile players.

We discuss formation, player combinations and tactics.

We decry the ineptitude in our football administration.

When results don't go our way, we vent our frustrations, crash out and cry.

Some disappear for days to lick their wounds.

But eventually, we return and start again looking forward to the future with hope.

It takes an enormous amount of love, commitment and resources to do these things.

Ultimately, what we all want is for our players to come good, do well in their clubsides and the National team, and prove their doubters wrong cos its to the benefit of the team.

We don't post to gloat and bag bragging rights of I told you so.

So, I will be so glad for time to prove me wrong on Onyedika, as I have been proven wrong a few times on other players.

Peace.

Predator87:
Short term deal? As if Ghana will do anything at the world cup. They should have hired the former Morocan coach. Low is going to chop their $$$

Spot on
I agree
They’d be better off playing like the last Moroccan team at 2022 édition than whatever Joachim would suggest

I don't understand nff with Arthur okonkonwo switch to Nigeria . Arthur okonkonwo agent recently deny that the nff made contact with Arthur okonkonwo to switch to play for Nigeria. He further state that the nff has not yet make any contact to Arthur okonkonwo regarding switching allegiances to Nigeria .





Last 2 months news break out that Arthur okonkonwo has switch allegiance to the super eagles of Nigeria



The story is Lambo not true

I think Onyedika is suffering from a confidence and lack of maturity to his game issue.

He has the tools to be a really good midfield general but he has to do a deep dive analysis of his game and how to raise it to the next level.

The glimpses I've seen against Uganda and Mozambique some years back gives me hope he will come good but he needs to do more.

TheSuperNerd:
All these Onyedika slanders will not age well. I leave it to time to prove me right.

Now same Alhassan Yusuf that was constantly castigated here yet rated by me is being mentioned in fine light just to talk down on Nwadike. Lol... Time is a beautiful thing.

Reminds of Lars Lagerbeck that year.

Throwing money at a problem.

All the best to them.

yinkeys:
Spot on
I agree
They’d be better off playing like the last Moroccan team at 2022 édition than whatever Joachim would suggest

SymphonyRad:
Well it's your opinion, but your first mistake (perhaps due to your entitlement as a Nigerian who thinks we're too good for Iran and Jordan) is to feel those two teams are bad teams by any stretch, they're among the better/ improved teams in their continent...and they are world cup bound while you're not; so maybe they deserve some respect? We beat Iran and largely outplayed them (Iran are no pushovers these days, they demolished Costa Rica 5-0), we played out a fair draw against Jordan who are Asian champions and if you follow their football rise, they've been very competitive.

Secondly the whole goal of the friendly just like every international friendly was to try out new players and see which of them are good enough to transition to the main team, and I think that mission was somewhat achieved with the emergence of Fernandez and Otele...we experimented with a new defence lacking our key players and goal keeper cause Uzoho and Adeleye are just not it- and we at least know our indispensable defence will always consist of Bassey, Benjamin Fredrick, Ajayi, Fernandez and Nwaiwu.

So I genuinely don't know what makes you think a complete Nigerian team under a manager that has yet to lose a game in regular time, whose team knows how to score goals, and has played very good football for majority of his stint will suddenly lose badly to Portugal because of some low profile friendly where we didn't even have a single Nigerian fan to cheer the team. Portugal will most likely beat us, but it won't be an embarrassing outing by us and I'm willing to bet any amount on that (put your money on the bet).u

Who won the last Ar.ab cup with team B ?
There’s your answer