Humility017:

pray it works...then the naughty rohr will see reason to play him being that he adores German based players especially bayern munich.

we just have to give it to Henry...He is an example of a player that rose to stardom, pave way for himself without national team caps...

had it been rohr never invited him or possible overlook him...dude would have still come this far.

I so much love this boy....pray he keeps working hard.

Clementoke:


I agree with you absolutely. If the transfer works and Chukwueze continue his rapid progress, I fear for Ahmed Musa and Samuel Kalu. Musa might be back to his super sub days

ChrisKels:


Aint nothing stopping Chukwueze's growth, but, remember Chuks does not play in France or Germany, neither does he play for Bordeaux nor bayern.

Do u know the only reason Rohr gave for chasing Ademola lookman? Lol that he saw him play for RB Leipzig

BascoVanVeli:


The problem is that football is politicized in Nigeria. How many clubs can say they have a philosophy and have stuck with it? By the time a new governor comes in the whole philosophy of the club changes. The NFF is not helping because till today there is no product to buy. The Aiteo Cup was not broadcasted until the finals but the NFF could not even come out of pocket to buy commercial slots for the events ? This is very childish, how can they put an event on TV and not advertise it? Were people going to see about the game in their dreams?

The ideal situation would be the clubs being privatized but the problem then becomes where to find that private entity that will want to invest in a local club. I do know that as long as clubs stay in the hands of the government there will be little progress.

The Nigerian transfer window is open right now but with elections on the horizon all u will see are mass release of players.

Clementoke:
As regards the SA vs Eagles match, Papa Gassama of Gambia has been chosen to officiate the clash. I remember he was the umpire when we trounced Algeria 3-1 in Uyo and also the one all draw with the Indomitable lions in Yaounde.

edi287:

Damn Nwakali was in the same set as that guy?? Na wa ooo. Dude is now levels above him. Life is funny

tbaba1234:
Bayern Munich interested in Onyekuru..

daveP:
I reject it. lol. They want to Renato his career for us ni?

Icon4s:


Thank you everyone that has responded.

With 20likes and 0 shares it means we have a unanimous decision here, so no time to waste.

Next we go ahead and make nominations of Players Selection Committee members.

Please I crave the involvement of everyone in the house, including those on ghost mode.

Remember the three rules for nomination of Players Selection Committee members
1. You are to nominate one person
2. Do not nominate yourself
3. Do not nominate twice.

Ladies and Gentlemen the floor is open.

komekn:


Going to a big club is not always going to mean progression in football terms.

Progression most definitely with your bank balance yes but football hmm not a definite.

komekn:


Going to a big club is not always going to mean progression in football terms.

Progression most definitely with your bank balance yes but football hmm not a definite.

Clementoke:
As regards the SA vs Eagles match, Papa Gassama of Gambia has been chosen to officiate the clash. I remember he was the umpire when we trounced Algeria 3-1 in Uyo and also the one all draw with the Indomitable lions in Yaounde.

Icon4s:
Voting still in progress.

43 peeps have done nominations thus far.

Joseph1033 , Terzurum5, TheGoodJoe, Forgiveness, BascoVanveli, Krattoss,Tbaba1234, Andrew444, Kog45, enomakos, and others, you are yet to nominate. We nova see una hand o.

joseph1013:

It's Joseph1013

daveP:
Overall It's just a reflection of our political Babylon.

ChrisKels:


Aint nothing stopping Chukwueze's growth, but, remember Chuks does not play in France or Germany, neither does he play for Bordeaux nor bayern.

Do u know the only reason Rohr gave for chasing Ademola lookman? Lol that he saw him play for RB Leipzig

Icon4s:
NAIRALAND NIGERIAN FOOTBALL AWARDS!



A good and blessed Morning House.

We have all analyzed football here for a couple of years now. We have tasted the joys of victory and agonies of defeat from different competitions we have participated in. And each one we have come out better as we have always learnt one, two or more lessons.

Believe it or not we have here in the house some of the best followers and analysts of Nigerian football. Forget that we argue all the time, but these arguments generally have yielded fruits in certain areas and our national teams have gotten better for it.

DON'T WE THINK IT IS TIME WE STARTED ROLLING OUT AWARDS, IN VARIOUS CATEGORIES, TO WELL DESERVING NIGERIAN NATIONAL TEAM FOOTBALLERS?

Now this is just a suggestion.

If a larger part of the house agree, we go ahead and set up a players selection committee which will be saddled with the responsibly of:
1. Coming up with various award categories eg: Most improved player in 2018, best Nigerian goal in 2018, Most impressive new inclusion, Best young player (U20 and U17), Best SE Goal keeper 2018, Nigerian Player of the year, best Super Falcons player etc.
2. Nominating players for the various award categories selected above (Maximum of 3 for each category). Note that criteria for the selection of these players must be spelt out.
3. Collating and announcing of results after the votings.

How do we come up with who and who will make up the Players' Selection committee?
I would suggest a 3 Man (or woman ) Committee. The house will have to suggest monikers. Every member of this thread or even visitors would have to nominate one person he or she feels should be a member of this committee. Note that you cannot nominate your self and you cannot nominate more than 1 person. 3 monikers with the highest number of nominations will form the players selection committee.

If we agree, we can set 1 week period for which we can suggest names for the selection committee and the selection committee will have to start work immediately after the Nigeria vs Uganda friendly. So that the voting process will commence first week in December.

At the end of the exercise a thread will be created to publish the names of awardees and mods called upon to take to front page or we may even take it to the sports sections of major News Papers in Nigeria.

Note again that it is just a suggestion and open to more ideas and suggestions.

The simple thing to do for a start is if you agree you click "like" and if you do not agree you click ''share''.


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Icon4s:


Good day house. Thanks to those who have nominated thus far.
A total of 60 People have nominated 16 different people thus far.

As nominations continue to trickle in, we want as many people as possible to be part of this process.
So we extend nominations till Saturday 6pm 3rd November, 2018. Committee members to be announced same day.

But please house we have seen the need to increase the number of committee members from the earlier suggested 3. This increment is so as to accommodate different schools of thought and opinions (just as represented here in the house) in the committee. This is to ensure that at the end of it all the committee will come up with a robust, balanced and well accepted list of nominees to be voted for awards in the various categories.

There are two options of number of Committee members : 5 or 7.

It is left to the generality of the house to decide.

So we simply click "like'' for 5 or ''share'' for 7.
. This particular process will also end at 6pm Saturday, 3rd November, 2018.

BascoVanVeli:


Where else did he get solid playing time? Certainly not Everton. You wouldn't expect Rohr to call him off the back of the crumbs he was getting in England

Icon79:
Egbon! Kabiyesi o!! Here's my 10 cents worth.

I think you have a very good idea but we may probably need to tweak it a little bit to make it work effectively. In my humble opinion, the purpose of this committee would be defeated if the wrong people were "nominated". I haven't followed this thread or the nomination process closely but, like everything Nigerian, I am quite sure that merit is being sacrificed in place of mediocrity and nepotism. Yes, by the nomination process we can ensure that it is the power of numbers at work, but then that becomes the democratic formula for mediocrity.

Hence, to make sure that the excellent few are not sacrificed for the many mediocre my recommendation is that we select the following 6 members and charge them to get the job done. To me, this proposed committee is too important for us to reduce it to a popularity contest. Anyway, here's my 6 member committee:

1. Icon4s
2. Joebie
3. TBaba1234
4. Safarigirl
5. Supernerd
6. My humble self (Icon79)


O pari

Icon79:
Egbon! Kabiyesi o!! Here's my 10 cents worth.

I think you have a very good idea but we may probably need to tweak it a little bit to make it work effectively. In my humble opinion, the purpose of this committee would be defeated if the wrong people were "nominated". I haven't followed this thread or the nomination process closely but, like everything Nigerian, I am quite sure that merit is being sacrificed in place of mediocrity and nepotism. Yes, by the nomination process we can ensure that it is the power of numbers at work, but then that becomes the democratic formula for mediocrity.

Hence, to make sure that the excellent few are not sacrificed for the many mediocre my recommendation is that we select the following 6 members and charge them to get the job done. To me, this proposed committee is too important for us to reduce it to a popularity contest. Anyway, here's my 6 member committee:

1. Icon4s
2. Joebie
3. TBaba1234
4. Safarigirl
5. Supernerd
6. My humble self (Icon79)


O pari

BascoVanVeli:
Samu Chukwueze MUST learn to use his right foot. Could have had an hattrick last night.

ChrisKels:


There is no guarantee, be it modest or a giant club. Just believe in urself, work harder, be resolute, grounded and enthusiastic of ur job(and whichever club u play for), then be lucky. Dare to dream!!

There are so many players who avoided the big teams, but never proved anything at the end.


Bayern is rebuilding and they have prioritised quality young players who aint already established in any of the Europe's best teams hence, they have their eyes on Henry, Piatek and other sensational youngsters out there. I enjoin Henry to make the move, he's got what it takes.

Robbery are washed up and need to be replaced. BTW, was Coman as good as Onyekuru when he joined Bayern? Even the present day Gnabry has nothing on him(Henry).

andrew444:


Good point.

Maybe because Coman is french and gnabry is german they will rate him more than onyekuru

But as far as i am concerned They are not better than onyekuru as you just said.

Gbam.

Icon79:
Egbon! Kabiyesi o!! Here's my 10 cents worth.

I think you have a very good idea but we may probably need to tweak it a little bit to make it work effectively. In my humble opinion, the purpose of this committee would be defeated if the wrong people were "nominated". I haven't followed this thread or the nomination process closely but, like everything Nigerian, I am quite sure that merit is being sacrificed in place of mediocrity and nepotism. Yes, by the nomination process we can ensure that it is the power of numbers at work, but then that becomes the democratic formula for mediocrity.

Hence, to make sure that the excellent few are not sacrificed for the many mediocre my recommendation is that we select the following 6 members and charge them to get the job done. To me, this proposed committee is too important for us to reduce it to a popularity contest. Anyway, here's my 6 member committee:

1. Icon4s
2. Joebie
3. TBaba1234
4. Safarigirl
5. Supernerd
6. My humble self (Icon79)


O pari

Icon79:
Egbon! Kabiyesi o!! Here's my 10 cents worth.

I think you have a very good idea but we may probably need to tweak it a little bit to make it work effectively. In my humble opinion, the purpose of this committee would be defeated if the wrong people were "nominated". I haven't followed this thread or the nomination process closely but, like everything Nigerian, I am quite sure that merit is being sacrificed in place of mediocrity and nepotism. Yes, by the nomination process we can ensure that it is the power of numbers at work, but then that becomes the democratic formula for mediocrity.

Hence, to make sure that the excellent few are not sacrificed for the many mediocre my recommendation is that we select the following 6 members and charge them to get the job done. To me, this proposed committee is too important for us to reduce it to a popularity contest. Anyway, here's my 6 member committee:

1. Icon4s
2. Joebie
3. TBaba1234
4. Safarigirl
5. Supernerd
6. My humble self (Icon79)


O pari

Icon79:
Egbon! Kabiyesi o!! Here's my 10 cents worth.

I think you have a very good idea but we may probably need to tweak it a little bit to make it work effectively. In my humble opinion, the purpose of this committee would be defeated if the wrong people were "nominated". I haven't followed this thread or the nomination process closely but, like everything Nigerian, I am quite sure that merit is being sacrificed in place of mediocrity and nepotism. Yes, by the nomination process we can ensure that it is the power of numbers at work, but then that becomes the democratic formula for mediocrity.

Hence, to make sure that the excellent few are not sacrificed for the many mediocre my recommendation is that we select the following 6 members and charge them to get the job done. To me, this proposed committee is too important for us to reduce it to a popularity contest. Anyway, here's my 6 member committee:

1. Icon4s
2. Joebie
3. TBaba1234
4. Safarigirl
5. Supernerd
6. My humble self (Icon79)


O pari