EmmGee:
How was iwobi's performance yesterday?

Will he regain his "touch"

komekn:


That Guardiola is a great coach is not in dispute.

But that Manchester city is a great academy I have serious doubts. They can buy the most promising teenagers even 8, 9 and even younger from other clubs. But the quality of coaches at academy level is done by network not competence.

I remember taking a young 14 year old of Nigerian origin to Platt lane. And the first ball he collected with roll and flip they asked him, heh mate how do you do that ?

I was quite shocked, in my opinion Nigerian coaches can teach individual technique and skill far more than most British coaches.

TheGoodJoe:


Not true in any way.

goldfish80:

Can you enlighten me further? This is not my field and I have done no research on this.

bishop88:
how true is this....Inter Milan are on the brink of announcing the signing of Nigeria international John Obi Mikel, according to several reports in the Italian media.
Tuttomercatoweb.com has claimed that the Chelsea midfielder will join the Nerazzurri on a free loan, including a non-mandatory buy-back clause, after which he might have become a free agent.
It has also been suggested that Mikel has given Inter Milan chiefs his word that he will join the club next month.
That said, the Serie A side face competition for the signature of the 29-year-old, with Marseille, Valencia and teams in China monitoring his situation.
The defensive midfielder has played nonstop at Chelsea for more than ten years.

TheGoodJoe:


The scan is to detect a bone formation in the arm. It is either there or not. If it is there, the player is under 17. If it is not there, the player is not under the age.

Citrus drink can not make the bone formation appear in the scan.

goldfish80:

Ordinary xray should be able to get the same result if it's all about bone formation.
What am I missing?

TheGoodJoe:


X-ray can not because it views the surface of the bone. In this case, the MRI scan views the cross section of the bone. Just as if you cut the bone with a sharp object and look at it.

Orkpekyandega:
TheGoodJoe here is a revealation about what you have been preaching all these while

Guardiola wants me to play like Messi, says Manchester City's Iheanacho
[img]http://images.performgroup.com/di/library/Goal_Nigeria/70/d2/iheanacho-and-guardiola_eztwthu6s0xpz6wgevg8v6pp.jpg?t=-1237988923&w=620&h=430[/img]
The Super Eagles forward has revealed that the Citizen's boss makes the duo's video clips available for him to aide his development.


Kelechi Iheanachois on the verge of becoming one of the world's best forwards with Manchester City's manager Pep Guardiola preparing him with video clips of Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski.


Guardiola has kept faith in the 20-year-old Nigerian since joining the Citizens in August and has tipped him to become a prolific player if he can learn from the five-time Ballon D'Or winner and the 2015-2016 Bundesliga topscorer.


Iheanacho who is currently filling Aguero's absence has netted five times in 15 appearances this season and has admitted that he needs to watch keep watching their video clips and improve on the skills he is not working on.


"Of course he [Guardiola] tells me about them, that I should really watch them and see what they are doing and make sure I am improving on what I am not doing," Iheanacho told Sunday Express.


"They are great strikers, big stars so you need to see how you can improve your game, to work in training.


“They both have great qualities and they have a lot of different abilities.


“It’s important of course that you be yourself, you are your own player, you have your own style but of course you need to see what they are doing too.


"I watch all of their games. They are great players and I need to watch them to improve. They have great qualities and you need to see what they are doing.


Everyone's quality is different but you have to take some things they are doing and put it in your game and work on it."

m.goal.com/x/en-ng/news/4110/nigerians-abroad/2016/12/19/30620112/guardiola-wants-me-to-play-like-messi-says-manchester-citys

TheGoodJoe:


The Nigerian coaches have the technique and ability to train. They lack facilities to help these players grow. Something that is Abundant in the Etihad Campus of Manchester City.

The English boys do not have the natural ability to make the best of what they have.

komekn:


I have spent a lot of time at Platt lane.

Nigeria is corrupt but what goes on there will compete with what we do. Nepotism, favoritism and the under the table sweeteners are rife.

The Arab multi billionaire owners are not concerned or even bother auditing what is spent for youth player acquisition. There is a mentality of we need to spend this money quick or loose it, and we need to get it in our pockets.

The average coach in city is probably not on more than £35k and the part time coaches much less. You then want them to make decisions on million pound youth players without undue influence. Consider that a lot of players have TPI meaning some one can pay a very nice sweetener to make it happen.


At youth football, OPPORTUNITY is all, the question is who will be given the opportunity to shine, the best player or the vested interest player. Players are people's meal tickets inside and outside of the club. Official or unofficial everything will boil down to arrangement 90% of the time.

Doesn't matter about facilities, if you can't dance you can't dance no matter how good the dance floor is. Secondly you can't teach what you don't know, if you can't do skill how can you teach it. In most English football academies they will teach positional awareness, basic technique, fitness, strength and match discipline. But not the skill, technique and swag we Naija are accustomed too.

I will say there is one coach that has impressed me the most there and that was Mark Reese.