BascoVanVeli:


How does coming to the south south during raining season help us?

TheGoodJoe:



Maybe you missed the maths. GEJ wasted Hundreds of Billions of Dollars. Buhari's flight with the smallest entourage in the history of Nigeria can not be compared to GEJ's over two hundred people in his entourage.

Those flights Buhari makes is to secure financial aid to help through the current crises. We are dependent on crude and the sales is low due to American Crude Production increasing. Iran is now exporting, so our Sales have reduced drastically.

So to you, the President has done nothing. The fact is that he is performing Miracles. Low sales, due to increase in Production of other countries. Then we are suffering sabotage internally. Then the Price is also very low. A return of almost $15 a Barrel, compared to GEJ who had $80 per barrel.

So you can have your distaste of the government but abusing him despite his hard work is not cool.

goldfish80:
It's been a torrid show these past few days for Nigerian football. We have never had it so bad. Its like our various national teams are trying to outdo each other in who will put up the shitiest show.

Personally am holding everybody accountable from the NFF to the coaches and the players themselves. Amaju pink obviously has little idea in managing Nigerian football but Nigerians deserve what they get. I remember after the 2014 world cup when Maigari was booted out, most people where licking their lips and clicking glasses because Maigari who couldn't defeat "ordinary France "was booted out by stakeholders. Suddenly, the same Maigari has turned to the beautiful bride. Imagine the fockery!
I hope the rebelling players now get their allowee and go chill at home. That is what they wanted after all.... Amunike, for the next few years will be redundant, maybe he would take a vacation or something, because their would be little to do within the forceable for him,till an npfl club gives him a call...

By the turn of the year we could well and truly be out of the FIFA top 100. Congratulations everyone.

safarigirl:
lol... . Hard work indeed. The work he went to do in London for his ear abi? Only God knows how much that one cost us

You can like this government, but not so much you ate blind to their fault as well.

My room mates were calling me Buhari's child last year, I just wanted something different and my calculations told me Buhari would win

So, as much as I disliked GEJ, I won't pet Buhari mindlessly. If things are going fine for you, don't aggravate those that are seeing hell these days by refusing to admit where Buhari went wrong. I don't need 4 years before I know a useless government

How much have you seen from his trips? Last I checked, people are still stealing food from the fire. We should also blame GEJ.. .. maybe we should have given him 4 more years to clean up his mess so that Buhari will have a clean slate

safarigirl:
and the money oga Buhari was using to travel to irrelevant places couldn't have been used?

Accusing GEJ of wasting funds and thinking Buhari didn't do same at a worse period is paying lip-service. Is it only the football that is failing? When did you ever hear that our Olympics representatives are sourcing for funds by themselves? Is that also GEJ's fault? The fact that people have not been paid salaries in 6 months, is that also GEJ's fault? That NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING has been working in Nigeria since that animal took over, is that also GEJ's fault?


Nobody is even asking for much, but if you can't make other sectors work, for the love of God! Make the sports sector work instead of running around aimlessly to countries that are better prepared in case of a recession.

All this talk of fallen oil prices means nothing to the average man. Fallen oil prices that have not reflected in the prices of fuel and scarce kerosene, the sooner we all drop the "it's GEJ's fault" mantra, the faster we can insist on accountability from this administration.

For now, most of you are giving them this false idea that they're still in honeymoon period. Buhari has done absolutely NOTHING to show that he's better than GEJ and the rot in every sector of this country is proof of that. So, why don't we all stop shouting GEJ that only ruled for 6 years of at least 40 rotten years and demand that somebody does his job while he's in power.

Cuz if you're not tired of this strain of bad luck, I am tired. If I have to buy kerosene for #230 per litre at least be nice and give me something to smile about. Somebody's one month salary could have paid those boys, but no, this country is filled with selfish bast@rds.

I can't wait to graduate snd move to Cape Verde

TheGoodJoe:


The pitches in the better Stadia have better drainages. The climate is friendlier for our Foreign pros.

At the end, better facilities, means better conditions.

BascoVanVeli:


Forget facilites my bros, rain trumped all our hard work and facilities. We should base where we play on the best weather. When it rainy season we go north and when it's dry we go south simple. A primary school in Kano would have been better than that field in Lagos and thanks to the FIFA president we couldn't postpone the match. Now what is he here for when we have no football.

lakesidepapa:
I concur with ur write up.! All sectors have turned down in this present administration of Buhari, sport inclusive. NFF have been complaining about No much fund to cater for the national teams, theathletes that are representing us in Rio that are supposed to be cater for are asking to source fund and get themselves to Rio,Imagine!!! the monetary state of the olympic football team is nothing to write home about.,, the sport minister was saying jargons, telling us he's not aware about the trip of the dream team to Atlanta by the NFF, using that to back off the fund that's supposed to us to cater for that team.. The U20 failed due to commitment, the team complained they were not financial encouraged, All under this Buhari Govt.

These have never happen before..!

lakesidepapa:
I concur with ur write up.! All sectors have turned down in this present administration of Buhari, sport inclusive. NFF have been complaining about No much fund to cater for the national teams, the athletes that are representing us in Rio that are supposed to be cater for are asking to source fund and get themselves to Rio,Imagine!!! the monetary state of the olympic football team is nothing to write home about.,, the sport minister was saying jargons, telling us he's not aware about the trip of the dream team to Atlanta by the NFF, using that to back off the fund that's supposed to us to cater for that team.. The U20 failed due to commitment, the team complained they were not financial encouraged, All under this Buhari Govt.

These have never happen before..!

tbaba1234:


We have always had financial issues. This is certainly not the first time that a Nigerian team has complained of a lack of funds.Keshi, Siasia and Manu Garba were owed salaries for multiple months. We also had issues with players bonuses. Financial issues in Nigeria sports has always been there.

The sports ministry has denied reports of athletes sponsoring themselves..

And yes, we have serious economic issues but this is certainly not the first time that we have faced owed wages and allowances..

lakesidepapa:


It's worst under this Govt.

TheGoodJoe:

This happened before under OBJ when he first came into power. Every thing was bad and the price of Crude was very low. Then the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers and George Bush jnr declaring war against Iraq made the Price of Crude shoot up and things normalized to a time GEJ could fill our reserves with Billions of dollars. It was during this time the ECA was created during an Oil Boom.

Then we hit a crisis under Yaradua. However, the Billions saved by OBJ during the windfall, shielded Nigerians from the effect.

GEJ met another boom. Unlike OBJ, GEJ failed to save and depleted our reserves.

So now were are in a crisis due to the fall in prices of Crude Oil, we are feeling the effect drastically. No money saved, our reserves depleted. In an undiversified economy that is dependent on only crude, all Sectors must feel it.

We should hope and pray for guidance to sail us out of these recession, instead of putting the blame on the wrong person. What the government is facing is tough and so far they are keeping us a float.

When Okonjo Iweala said we should prepare for hard times, what did you guys think she was talking about. Things would have been harder under GEJ because by now our remaining reserves would have depleted and the massive wastage would have continued.

TheGoodJoe:


Best facilities. The good Stadia will not waterlog. Going to a hotter climate will not help the matter if the pitch is in a poor condition. In this case, the poor facility affected the performance.

lakesidepapa:



We are just complaining about Oil prices crisis, Oil prices that.. We have heard enough abeg.. There are large number of countries in world without Oil and they are doing better than us. Our Government should diversify the economic and get alternatives for Oil. Enough is enough..!

tbaba1234:


How?? With what evidence?

Eguaveon is still been owed salary till date..Same with Amodu and Keshi.

They were owed when we had an oil windfall and when people were wasting billions..

As long as we continue to depend on FG for funds, we will have the same problems..

BascoVanVeli:


I don't agree with that, i remember watching the club world cup in Morroco and the field was even worse and that is a world class stadium. When the rain gets to a certain amount the stadium becomes useless. Enyimba lost to Zamalek in port owing to rain.

tbaba1234:


How?? With what evidence?

Eguaveon is still been owed salary till date..Same with Amodu and Keshi.

They were owed when we had an oil windfall and when people were wasting billions..

As long as we continue to depend on FG for funds, we will have the same problems..

TheGoodJoe:



Any stadium you see waterlogged to the point, it is difficult to string passes, then the drainage is poor. Adequate draining and good soil makes the conditions better.

It rains a lot in London. However, how many times do you see Emirates of Arsenal Waterlogged despite regular rains.

The Stadia in Egypt you are talking about has poor draining.

The one in Port-Harcourt and Uyo will provide better conditions for our teams than others because of the pitch conditions .

BascoVanVeli:

btw it's Morroco not Egypt.
What i don't get is that u are a fan of a team(Man City) who might not play today because bad weather has damaged the pitch. Or do u think Uyo's pitch is better than the one in China also?

TheGoodJoe:



As I said, these guys are doing wonders. The problem is that people do not understand the depth of the challenge this country is facing.

If you think it is easy bailing out States and sending allocations some months during a recession. Then you have not understood the problem.

No Money. We should be in Surplus after a windfall but we have our reserves depleted and the ECA reduced. During a windfall of Foreign revenue, there was no sign of diversification and GEJ's government dipped their hands into the reserves and ECA to pay Subsidy.

This month, this government increased the ECA by almost a Billion Dollars. This was done while facing a Recession. It is not easy and they deserve more than abuse.

We can criticise. We can demand more but we should not abuse. It is a tough task and I pray we escape from this.

TheGoodJoe:



The drainage is poor. Simple. When I talk of pitch conditions, I am not only talking of water logging but the grass level and smoothness of the pitch.

As for the Chinese Stadium for tomorrow's game, you can not ascertain if the pitch is better than Uyo. Uyo has a very good soil texture. Second, the stadium is top quality.

A better drainage of this Chinese stadium will help the conditions for tomorrow's game. As long as the drainage is poor, the effect of the water logging will be much.

Which stadium do you recommend apart from Port-Harcourt and Uyo?

Icon4s:
U pple are just arguing away from the main issue.

That team to me is nt competitive enough.

I raised eye brows when i saw the team being composed of 90% of the last U17. Some of those boys are nt U20 materials.

I got concerned when d team struggled against Burundi. They needed 2 late goals against Sudan away.

The U20 is nt for academy players bt young professionals.Players that are already playing professional football. Bringing in more experience into dat team would have made d difference. Taiwo Awoniyi, Ifeanyi Mathew, Chidozie Awaziem, Musa Yahaya, Chidera Ezeh, Nura Abdulahi among others should have been in that team.

We keep treating d U20 with kids gloves.
Nigeria will never get it right at the U20 until we stop underrating d competition at this stage.

BascoVanVeli:


I would agree but this team beat our u-23 home and away.

Icon4s:


Forget that U23 team that played those games. Were dey nt d same crop that Denmark trashed?

They are a no competition.

Icon4s:
U pple are just arguing away from the main issue.

That team to me is nt competitive enough.

I raised eye brows when i saw the team being composed of 90% of the last U17. Some of those boys are nt U20 materials.

I got concerned when d team struggled against Burundi. They needed 2 late goals against Sudan away.

The U20 is nt for academy players bt young professionals.Players that are already playing professional football. Bringing in more experience into dat team would have made d difference. Taiwo Awoniyi, Ifeanyi Mathew, Chidozie Awaziem, Musa Yahaya, Chidera Ezeh, Nura Abdulahi among others should have been in that team.

We keep treating d U20 with kids gloves.
Nigeria will never get it right at the U20 until we stop underrating d competition at this stage.

cc: TheGoodJoe, safarigirl, Bascovanveli, tbaba1234, adrainuche, Napoleon55, lakesidepapa, joseph1034.

BascoVanVeli:


I have given u world class stadiums that still have these problems, there is no level of grass that u can't find in China. Plus one thing i know is that in southern nigeria when it really rains there is no football.

I would rather Kano, Kaduna or Jos.

BascoVanVeli:


No competition but they are champions of africa.