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semid4lyfe:
If its true, Galatasaray had better not be unfortunate and allow Osimhen go.

Them suppose get sense o

elyte89:
I no know who lie pass btw this sport blog and owngoal 😃

😭😭

Just hope Osi no go sign rubbish contract out of frustration from Napoli else he go suffer a 2nd leg frustration

lbrichman2:
Them suppose get sense o

On Nwabali...
Omo ehn

oloriooko:
Just hope Osi no go sign rubbish contract out of frustration from Napoli else he go suffer a 2nd leg frustration

He suppose don wise up
I think there's such a clause in his contract..

TheSuperNerd:
Eric Chelle back in Nigeria to scout/watch some NPFL games before drawing up his Unity Cup list.

@Basco, over to you sir. Honestly I wish the NPFL and NFF could give Basco support and enable him do highlights on YouTube for their games. He is one passionate man about 9ja content.

Ademola Lookman Starts vs Arsenal in the 2nd UCL Semis 1st leg.

He is back!

Holy Moses! Bia Elyte89, u don get CAF A nau... u dey on Fifa A Licence level...

https://x.com/i/status/2049418499546636448i

What a disgrace. I think we may need to start looking for coaches in Morocco, Mali, and Senegal to coach our youth teams soon. We can't keep hiring failures like Bosso, Zubaru and Salisu Yusuf every year. They are part of the reason why our U17, U20 and U23 has been rubbish for 10 years plus.

TheSuperNerd:
Holy Moses! Bia Elyte89, u don get CAF A nau... u dey on Fifa A Licence level...

https://x.com/i/status/2049418499546636448i

do4luv14 will come and defend Pinnochio

lbrichman2:
On Nwabali...
Omo ehn

Chai our number 1 don’t deserve this na! Even North African teams can’t get him?

Goke7:
Chai our number 1 don’t deserve this na! Even North African teams can’t get him?

My brother...

semid4lyfe:
If its true, Galatasaray had better not be unfortunate and allow Osimhen go.

Gala deserve every penny they can get from an osihmen sale as they took a gamble to buy the player when no one wanted to! They will sell but not at any giveaway price

Goke7:
Gala deserve every penny they can get from an osihmen sale as they took a gamble to buy the player when no one wanted to! They will sell but not at any giveaway price

Even Osimhen will want to make money for them

Weak nonsensical penalty. Referees have been beaten for less in the NPFL

Ademola lookman has really improved defensively.

Lookman should be scoring that, damn!

If Lookman goes down that's a clean penalty 😭

Osimhen would eat in this athletico team

If Alvarez leaves next season, they should go for osimhen if they can. Unpopular opinion but osimhen would be better off in athletico.

There would be too much clash of egos in bayern and barcelona. In Athletico, he would be a very effective target man that presses real well from the front, just like simeone likes them

Goke7:
Gala deserve every penny they can get from an osihmen sale as they took a gamble to buy the player when no one wanted to! They will sell but not at any giveaway price

They deserve every penny but they should not be too greedy if a serious club like Barcelona really shows interest with good offer of €100m,
Over €20m gain is enough,plus what he has delivered for them already,they should not behave like Napoli, Age is no longer on his side.

Blueelf:
Osimhen would eat in this athletico team

If Alvarez leaves next season, they should go for osimhen if they can. Unpopular opinion but osimhen would be better off in athletico.

There would be too much clash of stars in bayern. In Athletico, he would be a very effective target man that presses real well from the front, just like simeone likes them

So that some of you should start dragging Lookman that he is not passing ball to him.
Every top teams always have many stars,nothing like clash of stars, beside,Osimhen's zeal will always set him apart wherever he goes, even at Real Madrid or Barcelona.

Napoleon55:
They deserve every penny but they should not be too greedy if a serious club like Barcelona really shows interest with good offer of €100m,
Over €20m gain is enough,plus what he has delivered for them already,they should not behave like Napoli, Age is no longer on his side.

There is nothing like being too greedy here it’s the big clubs who didn’t cash in before now when the player costs much less that are greedy. Gala deserves huge compensation for taking huge risk buying an injury prone player for over 80m then including paying an humongous salary, let these clubs take their own risk now if they are truly serious!

19 y/o CF, Uchenna Ogundu in training with Augsburg ahead of their bundesliga game on saturday. He clocks 20 on May 12.

Frame 1: Ogundu piling pressure on a teammate in white bib.

John Otomewo had a solid midfield performance again for Hapoel Jerusalem in the Israeli Ligat Haal. His side won 1-0 away.
He played all 90mins, hit the post and won 7 of his 9 duels.

Just recently turned 19 on April 25

Yes, you are right only in your targetman analysis. But NO THANK YOU.

As a big name international himself, the dressing rooms of Barca and Bayern wont make Osimhen feel inferior or bring about Ego clashes. It would be a room of World Class Names and players united for one Job. Osimhen is world class too so no issues, besides he is a player who delights in sharing the glory.

Blueelf:
Osimhen would eat in this athletico team

If Alvarez leaves next season, they should go for osimhen if they can. Unpopular opinion but osimhen would be better off in athletico.

There would be too much clash of egos in bayern and barcelona. In Athletico, he would be a very effective target man that presses real well from the front, just like simeone likes them

The Highest Graded Passers in the EPL 2025/26 season.

Alex Iwobi in Top 20 @13th.

The Only Nigerian player. The Only African player.

Bruno Fernandes is number 1 ofcos.

TheSuperNerd:
The Highest Graded Passers in the EPL 2025/26 season.

Alex Iwobi in Top 20 @13th.

The Only Nigerian player. The Only African player.

Bruno Fernandes is number 1 ofcos.

not even 1 arsenal player in the mix omo

Napoleon55:
Not all of us,
e be like say Goke joined nairaland only when Osimhen moved to Napoli.
It was you and Safari girl made me notice Osimhen's talent during his U17 days,and I said, "this is our Usain Bolt,the guy who is going to break all our records"

Bosco have already named him the best young striker in the world before he even signed for Lille.
Even When the man K was always waging war against him,I wonder if BankyGee was even part of the team that defended Osimhen against Komekn and his gangs.

Banky was not arround then

was kinda fun when you think about it hahahaha

TheSuperNerd:
The Highest Graded Passers in the EPL 2025/26 season.

Alex Iwobi in Top 20 @13th.

The Only Nigerian player. The Only African player.

Bruno Fernandes is number 1 ofcos.

What percentage of the total revenue he generates is for the benefit of Nigeria, compared to Britain

anonimi:
David Hundeyin
May 4, 2022


I want to sell a script to a Hollywood studio. The story is about a guy who owns a farm that constantly runs at a loss but never quite shuts down.

The farm is massive and underutilised, and the protagonist has all the opportunities in the world to improve its output and get a bumper harvest.

He has access to credit, machinery, free irrigation and gifts from neighbouring farmers, but all he ever does with these things is drink and smoke them away while his family suffers.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world

Apart from drinking, smoking and generally being utterly useless, his other pastime is to pump out children at an industrial rate. Needless to say, he takes no care of his children whatsoever, and many of them fail to survive childhood.

Those who do survive have to leave the farm and hire themselves out as hired labour to the neighbouring farmers, having picked up some survival skills from home.

With time, a number of them rise through the ranks and become senior managers, directors and even shareholders in these other farms while their father continues mismanaging his farm.

When good news about some of these successful children gets home, their father is filled with pride and joy, but when they end up on the wrong side of life, he acts as if he never knew them.

The successful ones make efforts to revamp their childhood home by sending back money and volunteering their skills and time, but all this guy ever wants to do is be a 62-year-old underachieving idiot carried through life by charity and luck.

Famzing” diaspora success is dishonest
I’m sure before the end of the second paragraph, you figured out whose story I was telling. The 62-year story of post-independence Nigeria — which the Hollywood studio would surely reject for being too sad with no redemption — is that of our fictional antihero.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world.

Remember how everyone from corporate brands to Abike Dabiri made a big song and dance about supporting Anthony Joshua the “Nigerian,” whose only chance to become someone in life came when his parents emigrated from Nigeria?

Remember how things turned when he somehow lost against that chubby Mexican dude whose name I can’t remember? Remember when the Super Falcons won the female AFCON title and received a congratulatory tweet from the president, only for them to have to stage a protest before being paid their camp allowances?

That’s what we do in Nigeria. We try to live vicariously through the achievements of people who have achieved great things under their own steam, simply because said people happen to be called ‘Ifeoma,’ ‘Efe’ and ‘Ayotunde.’

Even when Nigeria had absolutely nothing to do with said success, or in fact happened in spite of Nigeria, as with Divine Oduduru, we bask in the reflected glory of their personal achievements.

Sometimes when those people wear a Nigerian flag or post something about Wizkid or Jollof Rice on Instagram, we go crazy with the Nigerian flag emojis because oh my god, they identify with us!

This is not about being a Killjoy
Somehow, the complete failure of Nigeria and our complicity in its failure is more bearable when we point at Nigerian immigrants doing great things in life and say “I knew Femi before he started calling himself Anthony.

His father and I were classmates in Aiyetoro.” It is unclear how exactly this helps our situation but hey, it’s also unclear how chugging the amount of alcohol we do helps either.

Escapism is a key part of our culture, and anyone who dissents must be a non-Jollof-eating, vegetarian heretic, and possibly also an atheist.

Now while all this is painfully cringey to my eyes, some will also point out that Nigeria is not the only country that has a weird obsession with its diaspora population.

Even ‘first-world’ countries like Ireland continue to have deep emotional and economic connections to their diaspora, and in any case Nigerians proudly supporting Anthony Joshua or the NBA’s Giannis Ante…African-sounding-name is basically harmless fun. They’re not hurting anyone. Why be such a killjoy, David?

The reason this matters can be found in a quote that has been dubiously attributed to Russian President Vladmir Putin, where he describes Africa as the place where its diaspora does not invest in, but returns to only to die and be buried with their ancestors.

While there is no concrete evidence that Mr. Putin ever actually made that comment, the truth in it is painfully poignant.

For diaspora success to be meaningful to Nigeria, it must correlate to on-ground results in Nigeria. The example of Somalia shows that having a well-educated, globally successful diaspora while being an absolute basket case are both possible at the same time.

I’d imagine we do not aspire to be Somalia.

anonimi:
What percentage of the total revenue he generates is for the benefit of Nigeria, compared to Britain

Omo ehn
This article was in 2022
Almost 3 years later, we are singing the same song..
Nigeria is a special case

lbrichman2:
Omo ehn
This article was in 2022
Almost 3 years later, we are singing the same song..

Nigeria is a special case

Sorry sir but it is not the landmass of Nigeria that is a sorry case.
Na we gangan be the sorry case, 200 million of us who make the country what it is with our tribalistic zoning and rotation arrangement for filling positions in local, state and federal governments, which endorses corruption of turn by turn chopping of the commonwealth instead of employing well paid workers to make services and utilities available.


https://www.nairaland.com/post/129895546





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMWUS1W_ITc

Blueelf:
Osimhen would eat in this athletico team

If Alvarez leaves next season, they should go for osimhen if they can. Unpopular opinion but osimhen would be better off in athletico.

There would be too much clash of egos in bayern and barcelona. In Athletico, he would be a very effective target man that presses real well from the front, just like simeone likes them

. Osimhen to atheletico, hmmm. I disagree