₦airaland Forum

komekn:
Nobody is a master of this game everyone can make mistakes and the knowledge of football is not the preserve of one individual.

komekn:
Actually he has not Solanke has scored two goals in cup games.

KC has scored one goal this season in the cup.

Tega Abrahams who has been much aligned has scored 4 goals in the EPL and 1 in the cup.

goldfish80:
The taste of the pudding is in the eating. He may be a fine manager, but he made the wrong call on Kelechi.

TheGoodJoe:
Who decides if Pellegrini made a wrong call, you?

You guys make it look as if Kelechi Iheanacho never played pro football, let alone become one of the stars and key players of the Super Eagles.

TheGoodJoe:
"And the current manager Pep Guardiola, a massive thank you to you for helping me grow and learn so much. I will remain grateful to you because you are a top coach and I'm happy working with you."... Kelechi Iheanacho

As long as Kelechi Iheanacho keeps working hard, the knowledge he learnt from Guardiola will help mold him into a top quality player. Glad to hear the young man is still working hard.

goldfish80:
The court of public opinion is a very powerful one. Kelechi is not playing in a mushroom where nobody observes him.
People actually pay money in form of season tickets and cable tv subscriptions to watch him play.
Kelechi didn't invent football , he will be judged like other footballers

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......

TheGoodJoe:
You mean the same court that declared Mikel Obi guilty on all charges. I will listen to masters like Pellegrini and Hiddink before listening to their crap judgment.

krattoss:
Why won't some people agree the fact that kc has lost it this season??
Why always blaming manager for the dude downfall when it is crystal clear he has played more than 12 league games with no goal not assist to his name..

He may be going through his own tough patch ,he may improve as time goes on..

But why cant some people agree to the fact that as it stands now,as at this time , the dude is retrogressing instead of improving

goldfish80:
So far, Kelechi is doing nothing positive to prove them wrong .

TheGoodJoe:
Same way people said Mikel Obi was doing nothing to prove them wrong.

forgiveness:
If Ronaldo was still on the pitch we for chop 7 goals.

enigmaticmotik:
Indeed the bolded part says a lot about you not being tribalistic.
Chief, it's really bad to use one person's behavior/attitude to gudge a tribe. And let's try to face individuals and hold them responsible for their words/actions and also avoid generalization

Dedebanky85:
Which kind yans be this? If the coach knew, then why did he pull him off? The pressure Naija was putting on them was increasing by the minute. They had to alter their formation to take out an attacker. At that time Bebeto was more rated than Ronaldo and they still had Bebeto on the pitch. So why we no chop 7. I could also say if we had Oliseh them for score only 1.

Icon4s:
So why are you now calling for replacements when Rohr himself has not said anything about it?

Dedebanky85:
Which kind yans be this? If the coach knew, then why did he pull him off? The pressure Naija was putting on them was increasing by the minute. They had to alter their formation to take out an attacker. At that time Bebeto was more rated than Ronaldo and they still had Bebeto on the pitch. So why we no chop 7. I could also say if we had Oliseh them for score only 1.

MetalJigsaw:
He needs to, doesn't he?

Trudy12:
mobi oparaku eventually made it to france 98 and started the first game against spain

forgiveness:
Go and watch both closely then come back and tell us what you see.

safarigirl:
so, people are still peddling this Rohr is a 'conservative' coach theory?

forgiveness:
Agu is not a waste. Is invitation to the team was purely based on merit and well deserved.

Maybe he was a little bit jittery been his first two matches in very difficult and important matches.

Let us see him again in one of those friendlies before we conclude.

Take it or leave it, Agu could be our future DMF because I know a better player when I see one. The problem is he has to contend with 3 informed DM. That's all.


Somebody wey no use National team climb ladder. Abeg, He deserves a little respect.

BascoVanVeli:
He has still scored more than Solanke this season.

Danielnino00:
I'm a Liverpool fan and I've watch solanke enough to know how good he is... And I won't deny that he is presently a better player than Iheanacho albeit having scored zero goals for Liverpool so far..


But what concern us with him? I don't get this ur chronic obsession with the foreign born players oo.. That was how u kept ranting about Tiago Ilori the other day??

Abeg,the only thing that makes these guys feel Nigerian is their parents.. All of them have their eyes on the three lions,we shouldn't bother about them at all until they put on the GWG...

If u are really passionate about the national team like u claim, u won't stop so low to be comparing somebody like Iheanacho that has scored 8 gaols in 14 games for d super eagles with Solanke that's still riding on his U-20 world cup glory....

forgiveness:
Did you qualify in 2012?
Did you qualify in 2015?
Did you qualify in 2017?
Now, how amused are you?

groomed:
you people should leave me out of your argument

darkelf:
And as a passionate Liverpool fan, I'll say one thing

Solanke is overrated and may not be better than KC after all