forgiveness:






Hehehehe! I understand.

But na the truth be that na.

How do we explain inviting a keeper who has not seen active football for 2 months to get invitation ahead a player abroad winning the league?

TheGoodJoe:


We should try and look from Enyeama's point of view and not ours. Enyeama is a symbol of sacrifice as soon as he arrived in camp two days after burying his mum. There is now way he can negatively out do that.

Those who caused the problems in the NFF are still in the glass house. So returning proved tough. With time, when he knows we appreciate his heroic efforts, he can return to the team.

forgiveness:


You are right!

Femi Thomas was obviously the best goalkeeper last season and em still dey perform wella.

But Ezenwa get connection for NFF hence the undeserved invitation.


If we fail for this match na Alloysu Agu cause am.


He is the......

I go talk ooooooo before something spoil.

Abeg help me put mouth join.

Jefersoun:
You have spoken my mind. You can't fault him just because of one incident we all know is not his fault. It baffles me to see people say some unpleasant thing about eyeama. Come on guys, who can do what he did, 2 days after burying his mother, he arrived camp just to be humiliated. Come on guys he deserve our respect for trying to represent us even during his darkest day. Try to put yourself in his shoe. Ighalo comes to mind. So please show some respect to our legends so that the upcoming ones can sacrifice more. Thank you.

chrisooblog:
yeah oliseh didn't handle the matter wisely. not that enyeama is a saint himself but he didn't deserve to be treated that way especially after his meritorious service to the super eagles. oliseh could have held a meeting with him explaining why he would hand over the captaincy to somebody else. i remember sam allardyce did something similar at bolton. he called okocha, explained his reasons for giving nolan the captaincy every settled maturely with respect still being maintained.

chrisooblog:
not holding brief for ezenwa but if he is so rubbish why did atletico sign him then? anyways seems we are in a conundrum about this goalkeeping matter. femi thomas is decent but i've also watched him and he has his flaws. aiyenugba too we forget that it was his soft hands that allowed guinea to score which stopped us from qualifying for the 2012 AFCON.

fingers crossed the algerians will probably be too much under pressure to mount any serious attack.

chrisooblog:
yeah oliseh didn't handle the matter wisely. not that enyeama is a saint himself but he didn't deserve to be treated that way especially after his meritorious service to the super eagles. oliseh could have held a meeting with him explaining why he would hand over the captaincy to somebody else. i remember sam allardyce did something similar at bolton. he called okocha, explained his reasons for giving nolan the captaincy every settled maturely with respect still being maintained.

goldfish80:
The call for Enyeama is far fetched and totally unrealistic. We must make due of the 3 keepers in camp. And based on my analysis and knowledge about the keepers, Daniel Akpeyi us best suited to start.

Alampasu is too young to start in such a crucial game. People comparing him with the AC Milan goalie are doing him no favours.
In a high pressure game like this, I wouldn't even consider starting Alampasu because that would be setting him up for failure and probably ruining his development.
Imagine if the young man makes an error which leads to a decisive goal, the abuse he would get from 150m Nigerians may just be too much for him to ever come back from.
Nigerians can be unforgiven. Aiyegbeni and Keita have yet to be forgiven for their gafe since 2010. Alampasu has a whole career in front of him, I wouldn't want to ruin his confidence for life by suggesting he starts against Algeria.


Ikechukwu Ezenwa it's a guy I have watched live for a good number of years. I don't think he is the kind of character I would trust for a high pressure game like this. Funny enough Emmanuel Daniel kept him out for an entire season when he signed with Rangers.
Due to lack of game time, he left Rangers for Sunshine, I think. Ezenwa is too erratic to be trusted.. He can be brilliant in a minute, the next he would be totally shocking.

Akpeyi is the most suitable for the job. He has not done badly in the games he played. The game against Egypt, he made no gafe. The goal came as a result of a deflection off the foot of Efe Ambrose.
In a friendly against South Africa, he made stunning views saves that people nominated him as Enyeama's replacement.

Akpeyi is the most trusted of the three in my opinion.

goldfish80:
The call for Enyeama is far fetched and totally unrealistic. We must make due of the 3 keepers in camp. And based on my analysis and knowledge about the keepers, Daniel Akpeyi us best suited to start.

Alampasu is too young to start in such a crucial game. People comparing him with the AC Milan goalie are doing him no favours.
In a high pressure game like this, I wouldn't even consider starting Alampasu because that would be setting him up for failure and probably ruining his development.
Imagine if the young man makes an error which leads to a decisive goal, the abuse he would get from 150m Nigerians may just be too much for him to ever come back from.
Nigerians can be unforgiven. Aiyegbeni and Keita have yet to be forgiven for their gafe since 2010. Alampasu has a whole career in front of him, I wouldn't want to ruin his confidence for life by suggesting he starts against Algeria.


Ikechukwu Ezenwa it's a guy I have watched live for a good number of years. I don't think he is the kind of character I would trust for a high pressure game like this. Funny enough Emmanuel Daniel kept him out for an entire season when he signed with Rangers.
Due to lack of game time, he left Rangers for Sunshine, I think. Ezenwa is too erratic to be trusted.. He can be brilliant in a minute, the next he would be totally shocking.

Akpeyi is the most suitable for the job. He has not done badly in the games he played. The game against Egypt, he made no gafe. The goal came as a result of a deflection off the foot of Efe Ambrose.
In a friendly against South Africa, he made stunning views saves that people nominated him as Enyeama's replacement.

Akpeyi is the most trusted of the three in my opinion.

TheGoodJoe:


Why Change captain band? Why? The simple truth is that Enyeama was bold enough to talk for the team and got humiliation for his devotion to the country.

opes:


i think there is FA cup final this week, that may help ezenwa fitness..how old and how experienced was Eyeama when he got his chance against england in 2002 WC finals?

chrisooblog:
for me the bottom line is respect. i have no issues with oliseh wanting to change his captain. he might have felt that since vincent would soon retire he needed a younger and experience player to guide his transitioning team. don't forget this same oliseh came to enyeamas defence during the kaduna venue criticism brouhaha.

oliseh's temperate and lack of experience handling players caused him really to mishandle the whole situation with vincent

chrisooblog:
for me the bottom line is respect. i have no issues with oliseh wanting to change his captain. he might have felt that since vincent would soon retire he needed a younger and experience player to guide his transitioning team. don't forget this same oliseh came to enyeamas defence during the kaduna venue criticism brouhaha.

oliseh's temperate and lack of experience handling players caused him really to mishandle the whole situation with vincent

TheGoodJoe:


Oliseh has no excuse. If nothing else, Enyeama was a mourning hero. The heart of the team should be with their suffering brother. Oliseh tore the team apart with that option. Not only that, skipping Mikel. It was a wrong decision and we can not hold Enyeama for it. I believe Enyeama will come back. I doubt he is enjoying the show. It was a tough memory but we can not exonerate Oliseh in any way.

Oasis007:


Seriously I really don't understand the Reason the Guy is being overlooked.

Instead of recalling Enyeama back to the Team, it's far better to try out Aiyenugba. He has the experience we need, and he's ain't a bad Keeper!

TheGoodJoe:


It could also result in Setting Alampasu for Success.

chrisooblog:
not holding brief for ezenwa but if he is so rubbish why did atletico sign him then? anyways seems we are in a conundrum about this goalkeeping matter. femi thomas is decent but i've also watched him and he has his flaws. aiyenugba too we forget that it was his soft hands that allowed guinea to score which stopped us from qualifying for the 2012 AFCON.

fingers crossed the algerians will probably be too much under pressure to mount any serious attack.

TheGoodJoe:


Oliseh has no excuse. If nothing else, Enyeama was a mourning hero. The heart of the team should be with their suffering brother. Oliseh tore the team apart with that option. Not only that, skipping Mikel. It was a wrong decision and we can not hold Enyeama for it. I believe Enyeama will come back. I doubt he is enjoying the show. It was a tough memory but we can not exonerate Oliseh in any way.

forgiveness:


Dem don sign am?

Until den, I dey observe.

Aiyenugba did nothing wrong in that match because it was a counter and you don't expect him to turn to super man.

NFF was to be blamed for not doing there home work.

OdenigboAroli:



We might as well recall Dosu Joseph....Ana akogheli. Omo Alaja wey don expire.

forgiveness:


Who told you Aiyenugba don expire?

forgiveness:


It is very obvious that somebody will not benefit from calling Aiyenugba to the National team.

They will never consider him or make mention of him to Rohr.

As you have rightly said he deserves to be called but I think it is too late. Maybe next time.

OdenigboAroli:


Has it been over ten years since he was a goalkeeper for Nigeria? Why hasn't he been invited if he is still doing well?

TheGoodJoe:
It could also result in Setting Alampasu for Success.

safarigirl:
Botttomline is, Enyeama is not returning to the team at least not in this 2016....so please, can we move on to talking about making a Carl Ikeme-free team a fortress?

That is the matter at hand, how do we use lemons to make lemonades?

All this talk of Enyeama is unnecessary and unrealistic currently

forgiveness:


Which over 10 years?

He was last called 6 or 4 years ago and it is not because he's not good enough but because of Nigerian factor.

He helped his team to win the Israeli league just 2 years ago.

So, tell me, why was he not called to the National team then?

goldfish80:

You want to play Russian roulette with Alampasu in Uyo?