kennysville:


Average abi? Na im be say all africa na average na! If we at the beginning of the qualifiers were grouped in a group of death, with each team being former and current african champs in Africa and you still call our players average. Is it because we are Nigerians? Why is it that our things are never of value? No wonder white people came and gave our ancestors mirrors to cart away valuables and lay claims to our heritage. No wonder after over 50 years of independence, na oyinbo people still dey refine our oil. Like say we no go school.

Its amazing. All the integration, differentiation, calculus , trigonometry and algebra wey we learn for school, this is the end result? These things were there so as to help us think how problems are related and how we get to solve them. Shikena.

Back to football. We came through our group home and away without a single defeat with the same average players and not forgetting that we qualified with a game to spare. Has it not occured to us yet that we may not be average after all? We have seen star studded teams get trounced. Nothing beats team work. If team work got us this far, then to hell with the clamour for a star studded team. If we crash, we crash. Its even understandable if we had lost in the qualifiers like 2 times at least. But other than the loss to South Africa, we have faired quite well and commendably so. Ghana with all their top quality players playing week in week out could not qualify even to save their country.

Let us learn to appreciate one another. Appreciate the beauty in what we have. I take a bit of exception to that notion that we are average.or we have an average team. This team is going places but it can only go so far if we dont tear down what we built with our weird mindsets and mouths. The same mouth we use tos say exceptional is the same we use to say the opposite. Which one sef? This is a football thread yes but as much as we like to see it as such, it reflects also our state of mind. Our thinking pattern. Are we building or pulling down? Are we encouraging or tearing other people to pieces?

Lets just ask ourselves that. Pause and think......

groomed:
I didn't hear from you again about the importation business what did your sister say

TheGoodJoe:


It has been a while. Actually, she contacted someone from a neighboring country who had her branded products at cheap prices, so I removed my hands. I should have told you. My bad. Hola at you later on Whatsapp.

Mickael2:



if Pellegrini was giving him instructions to stop ball hogging the point is that he didnt translate it to his play on the pitch which means he didn't learn it and which ultimately means Pellegrini did not teach him

goldfish80:


Our attack is overrated. Remove Ighalo and the much maligned Nwakaeme, the rest of our attackers and midfielders combined cannot boast of 5 goals between them this season.
I hope the chicken don't come home to roast come June next year.

realpoacher:
CC goldfish80
Olorioko
Forgiveness

It is obvious what your intentions are for the SE. All your criticisms is not for the growth of the SE rather it is because you truly hate the team especially because your players are not always selected, so you truly pray for our downfall so that you can laugh at us.

If the 3 of you deny my accusations, prove me wrong by showing me anywhere on this thread where you wished the SE success in any of our matches in the past?

Everytime before any game during the qualifiers, you all will wish us badluck only for these same players you so hate and write off to enter into the pitch and win, not just winning but performing and winning excellently well. But none of you guys will ever comeback after the match to congratulate the team for performing far above your expectations or predictions, rather you all will disappear for awhile only to reappear after the dust have settled to continue to castigate the players and predict doom to the team as a whole.

I am referring to @forgiveness, @mickeal2, @komern and others listed earlier on especially.

But going into the crux of my post. I want you all to know this!


-WHETHER OR NOT ALL OUR PLAYERS WHO PLAYED OUR QUALIFIERS ARE BENCE WARMERS WITH SEAT BELTS IN THEIR CLUBS, THEY WILL STILL GO TO THE WORLD CUP. FACT!

- UNDER ROHR, WE QUALIFIED FOR THE WORLD CUP WITH THESE SET OF PLAYERS YOU ALL SO HATE DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE COULDN'T QUALIFY FOR TWO NATIONS CUP BACK UNDER THREE DIFFERENT COACHES, THEREFORE THESE SAME SET OF PLAYERS WHO MADE OUR WORLD CUP JAMBOREE POSSIBLE WILL BE THERE, ATLEAST 80% OF THEM WILL BE LIVE IN RUSSIA INCLUDING IHEANACHO. IF YOU LIKE CHOKE ON IT.

- THE ERA OF CHANGING THE TEAM UNDER THE DISGUISE OF "LOOKING FOR BETTER PLAYERS" IS GONE. IF YOU WANT TO Be PLAYED AT THE TOURNAMENT PROPER, FIGHT TO BE WITH THE TEAM DURING QUALIFIERS BECAUSE AFTER QUALIFICATION, YOUR CHANCES OF MAKING THE TEAM DROPS TO 20% EXCEPT OFCOURSE YOU ARE PLAYING IN THE MOON.

- THESE CURRENT BOYS KEPT FAITH WITH THE TEAM, PLAYED THEIR HEARTS OUT, DELIVERERD DURING THE QUALIFIERS, AND THEREFORE DESERVE TO BE ON THE PLANE TO RUSSIA. EVEN IF WE LOSE OUT IN THE GROUP STAGE(GOD FORBID), SO BE IT!

- NOT TOO LONG AGO, ALGERIA WAS NO1 IN AFRICA, CAMEROUN WON THE NATIONS CUP AND PLAYED IN THE CONFEREDATIONS CUP. THESE WERE THE TEAMS ROHR AND HIS BOYS WERE PAIRED AGAINST WITH. NO ONE GIVE THEM A CHANCE, YET THEY QUALIFIED WITH A RECORD. THAT IN ITSELF IS A HISTORY! AN HISTORY THEY ARE GOING WITH TO WORLD CUP. WE WILL NOT GO TO RUSSIA WITH PLAYERS WHO HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HOW WE GOT THERE! THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN

- ROHR HAS SAID ONLY 4 PLAYERS ARE WHAT HE NEEDS TO BEEF UP HIS TEAM, FIGHT FOR YOUR PLAYERS TO BE AMONG THE FOUR AND LEVEL IHEANACHO ALONE

Iheanacho this, Iheanacho that, the same Iheanacho that was not getting playing time but kept on scoring everytime he wore our shirt, to the point he scored a beautiful free kick against Argentina ranked 4th in the world.

I dare you all Iheanacho enemies and haters to name one player in the history of Nigeria football that has ever scored a free-kick against a top 10 ranking team whether in a competition, friendly, 5-aside, Sunday set or in training match!

I dare you all to name just that one player who has ever scored a direct free-kick like that. Either you name that player or you keep mute and forever hold your peace!

The five of you that I mentioned are not fans, you are agents seeking to do an "uchebo" on us. It will not work. No matter how fans criticise their team, they will celebrate whenever the same team wins a match. Never have there been any time any one of you guys celebrate the SE for winning any game here. All you do is to go "ghost mode" for a while only to jump back in castigating players. Or you think many here haven't noticed your pattern of comments?

SMH

So long as chicharito was on seat belt in both Man U & Real Madrid but still commanded first team shirt in Mexico, IHEANACHO WILL GO TO THE WORLD CUP!

Haters choke on it

TheGoodJoe:


When our players enter camp for the Friendlies, let us see if those who are playing regularly will outperform Nacho in camp. If they do not, then Nacho is heading to Russia. It is about quality at the end.

Lucque:
Cc: Goldfish80..
Dedebanky..
Let us all assume dat we have all. Come to our senses, and realised dat u are right.. These bench warmers dat u spoke of, are we taking them to the WC at d expense of any player dat is performing extremely wonderfully in Europe??.
So Wat do u advise we do, strip this team of its key players cos they are bench warmers and bring in a new 11 consisting of world class players dat have never kicked a ball for d SE b4 now, or wat exactly.... How about we start proferring solutions like maybe d players we should call up instead... Cos I dunno y u guys will still criticize d team players wen they are obviously delivering... It's not we can field Aguero or Gaby Jesus,abi na ogbeche, Martins ,Fred Friday , &Bonaventure Una wan carry??

komekn:


Saying something nobody wants to say, we are not carrying any outstanding goal threat to the WC.

The Golden boy that can do no wrong KC is now struggling to make the bench. It's also becoming apparent to those who want to be realistic he is far off from being world class.

Without Ighalo we are in big trouble, hence my desire for a tried and tested Obagoal.

komekn:


Saying something nobody wants to say, we are not carrying any outstanding goal threat to the WC.

The Golden boy that can do no wrong KC is now struggling to make the bench. It's also becoming apparent to those who want to be realistic he is far off from being world class.

Without Ighalo we are in big trouble, hence my desire for a tried and tested Obagoal.

komekn:


Drills and training routines tell you one side of the story. Playing competitive matches tells you another.

TheGoodJoe:


"He's (Pellegrini) been my footballing father and I know that he likes me and, for me, of course I would like to continue with him because he's given me all the confidence in the world,"... Isco.

As I said, this is not a debate.

Finito.

darkelf:


Spot on bro.

I want them to stat getting regular team football

Not just for the WC but also (and more importantly) for their improvements as players

forgiveness:


So, this epistle was for Iheanacho and not for the progress of the team. I see.

Free kick is now the yardstick for measuring a player. I see.

Mickael2:



your argument sef tire me. How do you know a player is being groomed? Is it not by monitoring positive changes in his style of play? What do you expect Isco to say? That was his coach who made him a regular for his team

goldfish80:


You're the real enemy of the team since youre happy and satisfied with the situation most of our reliable players find themselves.

You claim to be a fan of the team but it doesnt agitate your mind that our attacking players have managed to score just 6 goals collectively in the first half of a season preceding the world cup.

Sometimes I wonder what have happened to the African youth. Why is the African youth incapable of questioning the status quo? This is the reason the older older generation believe the youths are not ready to take over.

Is it so hard to look at international best practices and demand same for your your country?

This impoverished thought as exhibited by this writer is the reason why the world view Africans as people with relatively lower IQ than the rest of the world .

TheGoodJoe:


Making it look as if Ighalo scored hattrick in the Friendly game against Argentina.

forgiveness:


So, this epistle was for Iheanacho and not for the progress of the team. I see.

Free kick is now the yardstick for measuring a player. I see.

TheGoodJoe:


I say, it is not a debate. Pellegrini signed a boy and turned him into a superstar. Or do you want to argue with Isco again?

Finito.

AIG07:

look, club performance puts players in the spotlight and gives them the necessary recognition.

Have you ever wonder why some players keep getting call ups despite under performing in their clubs? Spain kept inviting Torres even while performing abysmally for Chelsea. Fabregas was always one of the first name on the list despite not having enough playing time with Chelsea. That's one country as an example. Do you know while their coach kept faith with them-it was because he knew that they'll deliver.
Marcos Alonso has been phenomenal for Chelsea since last year. Do you know what? He is still hoping for his First invitation.

If I'm too tow your line of proposition, every player that comes to the spot light(is in form) should be invited ba? You can't have a national team by inviting all players base on their club performances alone or else you'll only be having new sets of players to execute each match...

Even Rohr knows this. That's while he has been inviting Musa, Onazi before he moved to Turkey, Moses Simon etc.
Onyekuru has been having Stellar performances consistently for his clubs but still he has only been having epileptic call-ups.

To cut the story short, club performance is one thing and replicating it in the national team is another.

krattoss:
It will be hard for rohr to drop nacho cos his stats for the eagless speaks for him..

But truly that dude is drastically retrogressing I swear.. this is not what we clamored for..

Although am not rohr but if I should have my way, any player that isn't cutting it at his club side ain't making that list...

Mickael2:



I am pretty sure Madrid didnt break the bank for Isco. Isco as at then was a Ceballos-type of signing, he was signed for his future world class abilities, he was in no way a superstar when Madrid signed him

forgiveness:

I waswas the first person to blow alarm three seasons ago that Solanke is a far better player than Kelechi but people don't know why I said so.

I studied both players and I discovered Kelechi relied on tap in to score goals while Solanke will take on 2 or 3 players before he scores.

This study took me days, weeks and some months to make my conclusion.

Now, today Solanke is on the ascendary while Iheanacho is going down. Why?

Because Manchester City didn't believe Iheanacho talent lays behind a striker hence the need to convert him to a striker.

That was biggest mistake of his life.

Rohr self could see for himself Iheanacho is not a striker hence the need to play him on the RW and later as false 9.

People shouting upandon about are of no good to his career. They are his biggest enemy.

If his club wants him to stay, he had better stay than roam around clubs he is not sure of getting a start but if they want to sell him, France is better because he no go smell bench for German. I don't like the league for Nigerian young players.

goldfish80:


The solution is simple. Put me on to plane to Russia.
Na wetin you wan hear abi?

Bants aside, the team needs reinforcement through the spine.

The attack needs to be beefed up.

A solution must be found for Kelechi and Musa's predicament. They must be made to understand they dont have automatic shirt in the team.
If they understand this, they will certainly tast their agents to search for solutions for them this winter transfer Window.

TheGoodJoe:


See people that know more than Pellegrini. I honestly wish Solanke the best. Not ready to pitch tent against any.

Proud of Iheanacho so far. He has achieved a lot so far and I hope he stays injury free and has a nice World Cup. That is more important than comparing him with Solanke.

forgiveness:
I was the first person to blow alarm three seasons ago that Solanke is a far better player than Kelechi but people don't know why I said so.

I studied both players and I discovered Kelechi relied on tap in to score goals while Solanke will take on 2 or 3 players before he scores.

This study took me days, weeks and some months to make my conclusion.

Now, today Solanke is on the ascendary while Iheanacho is going down. Why?

Because Manchester City didn't believe Iheanacho talent lays behind a striker hence the need to convert him to a striker.

That was the biggest mistake of his life though not his fault.

Rohr self could see for himself Iheanacho is not a striker hence the need to play him on the RW and later as false 9.

People shouting upandon about him here are of no good to his career. They are his biggest enemies.

If his club wants him to stay, he had better stay than roam around clubs he is not sure of getting a start but if they want to sell him, France is better because he no go smell bench for German. I don't like the league for Nigerian young players.

safarigirl:
we don see yoi wey want the progress of the team with players like Ramon Azeez, Ajagun and Solanke

forgiveness:


So, you blind when someone here is trying to tell us Solanke is shit even when he is in a better situation than Iheanacho?

forgiveness:



If Ejide can smell camp, na Aiyenugba no fit smell.

Dis country can never go places with the mentality displayed on this thread.

Sentiments has swallowed people's sense of reasoning.

forgiveness:


If Kelechi was playing I don't think Musa will have it easy with some folks here.

However, it's only in Nigeria an U23 player and bench warmers are starters.


No wonder we don fail to qualify for AFCON 3 good times and we are still struggling to qualify next year.