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Olulong:
I think they are trying to cap tie as many players as possible because according to what pinnick said

“We have secured a Grade A international friendly match for the Super Eagles against ukraine in Kyiv, on the 10th of September,” Pinnick said on Twitter.
“It is part of our on-going drive to expose as many players as we can to global football, so this should be another springboard for our young stars.”

so maybe we should expect a lot of new faces

yeah...that's fine.
let them try get Aribo,Tomori,Eze,Aneke and go to Switzerland and Germany and do likewise... we need captie this players especially the midfield and defense.
need serious competition....

Saka is the only truth for now. He is in the main team.. The others, we can get for our youth teams. There is no guarantee they will be great in future. I remember when Akpom was firing all cylinders. Today, he is still not there yet.. youth football is only indicative, but not conclusive.

charlesemeka85:
U know whether the Saka Wan play for us? I think getting xavier Amaechi seem easier now. Him and Saka are immersely talented. Their is also a young 9ja arsenal youth teamer banging goals for fun and another who is a very talented cm midfielder

@ bolded.. but the guy came in as a refugee. Are you comparing this situation to countries that have a sound birth record system?

andrew444:
A gambia player might be deported and work permit will be cancelled for using fake identity, he came into Germany as a refugee 2015, dude is claiming 21 years already playing for hamburg first team successfully .

Shebi most of una think say person no fit dey all those countries come falsify age, there are so many bakery jatta out there that will have a successful career with their fake age till they retire from football.

Even hamburg his club stated that the player have valid and genuine documents to proove his age and everything



Hamburg midfielder Bakery Jatta has reportedly obtained falsified documents to be able to remain in Germany, where he emigrated back in 2015.

The Gambian lied both about his name and his age in order to benefit from a German law that aids young immigrants.

According to Sport Bild, Jatta is actually called Bakary Daffeh and was not born on June 6, 1998 - date mentioned on Hamburg's official website - but instead on November 6, 1995.

When he joined the German side, Jatta also claimed that he didn't play for any elite team in his country, but as the same publication revealed, he donned the colours of Brikama United.

Moreover, he also spent some time on loan at various teams in Nigeria and Senegal and in 2014, at the age of 16, he was called up by Gambia's Under-20s.

https://www.marca.com/en/football/international-football/2019/08/07/5d4ae5d1ca4741e9368b45fe.html

oya basco

tbaba1234:
7 minutes with China: Once again Nigerian clubs show their true colours

If there was really any Nigerian who thought the results of games in the CAF Champions’ League and Confederation Cup would have been any different from last weekend, then that must have been a really optimistic person.

As we already know in the Champions League, Kano Pillars managed a 3-2 win at home against Asante Kotoko while Enyimba lost on the road to Rahimo FC, the champions of Burkina Faso.

The most disappointing result for those who were optimistic had to be that of Niger Tornadoes who fell at home in Kaduna to Santoba FC.

What is wrong with Nigerian clubs?

The answer to this is as easy as knowing that I am using my fingers to type this piece and not the fingers of anyone else.


There are hardly any football clubs in Nigeria, most of them just groups of human beings, some footballers, some coaches, other officials who live their lives to fight for three points every Sunday.

The structure is poor, the coaching is horrible, the vision is non-existent and most of all, there are hardly any clear cut policies and philosophies. Then there is the little matter of Nigeria’s yearly pre-season ritual where whole teams are changed for completely new ones which has proved over the years to be our Achilles heel.

What do we do now?

Clubs have to re-think their collective existence. What is the point of these football clubs? Why do they sign players? What do they hope to achieve? Is it to donate three points to their state governors every week so he can be happy or is it to build lasting legacies for themselves, the fans and all? Is it to build structures, both physical edifices and a team that can stand with the rest of Africa, or is it just to continue the norm? Gather players and fight for three points every Sunday?

Our clubs need to retool. Can Club A, for example, begin to own its players rather than depend on academies for their existence? Can they decide on the kind of the club they want to be? Can they build training pitches and begin to create the kind of players they want after deciding what kind of club they want to be? Can Club A, for example, go for the kind of coach that fits their philosophy and support him achieve their lofty or modest target? Why does every Nigerian club, even one that just came in from the lower division set a target to win the league and play on the continent? Isn’t that why we end up with the likes of Niger Tornadoes and Wikki Tourists on the continent?

The last time I saw a Nigerian club that had a distinct playing style was Rangers International with Imama Amapakabo 2016), MFM FC with Fidelis Illechukwu (pre- 2018), Lobi Stars with Solomon Ogbeide (2017-18), Akwa United with Abdu Maikaba 2017 and 2018) and Plateau United with Kennedy Boboye (2017) and this is because playing style has never been important as long as we can get three points every weekend through any means possible.

Why do Nigerian clubs have budgets for “tactical” and please do not ask me what that means when players have not been paid?

Nigerian clubs need to reboot. They must start afresh and be honest to themselves, like a kid in Nursery school and tell themselves whatever they are doing so far is not working.

Let Nigerian clubs start from telling themselves, “A is for Apple, B is for Ball, C is for Cat…”

They need to go back to the very basics of running the football.

The most frustrating times of my life in the last ten years has been when I have to go to the Stadium to watch a Nigerian League game at the same time a European League game is airing… The football is ugly, boring, uninspiring and most of all not worthy of a 6th tier game. I’m at the stadium fighting sleep and tears, knowing that if not that I had to do a job I would be at my comfortable home or bar enjoying a game in Europe.

The Nigerian champion should not lose to the champion of Burkina Faso, no matter what. The Nigerian Cup finalist should not lose at home to a team 9th in the Gambian League. This is how bad Nigerian football has fallen. Not that it did not happen in the glorious 70s and 80s, once in a long while it did. But these days it has almost become the norm.

Nigerian club owners and managers need to ask themselves tough questions. Why are we in this thing? When I leave, how many people will remember me ten years later? How many people know the names of the last ten chairmen of the club? So why would they remember you? What am I doing wrong? What can I do better? Tough questions that will give tough answers.

There is something fundamentally wrong with Nigerian football. The structure is poor the coaching is mostly non-existent and there is too much government interference. Most of us know what it is wrong but either do not want to start that change, lack the will power to do it or are simply there trying to convince ourselves that all is well.

Maybe, at the end of the 2nd leg games, Enyimba will be the only one left out of three clubs in the next stage where they will be joined by Rangers. This is not where Nigerian football should be.

Nigerian clubs showed their true colours over the weekend. The excuse that the league had not kicked off before the CAF competitions is no longer tenable. When you have a structure, then these things may not really matter. Just like Al Ahly winning the CAF Champions League when the Egyptian League was on hold for more than one year or even Asante Kotoko coming to get two goals in Kano without League football for over one year.

Remember that Kano Pillars and Niger Tornadoes just played a Cup final a fortnight before their games.

Nigerian football at club side level is almost non-existent. Let the change start now. But are we confident it will?

http://nigerianfootballer.com/2019/08/7374.html

Humility017:
just read somewhere that Chuba Akpom will likely make the super eagles roaster
and that NFF have started his paper work..

I am not happy with that at all.... if we really wanna steal from England we should go for a quality forward and not a player that is on same par with many of ours.

we just wasted this process...

Oga! There is no crime in securing him by capping. Is it when he joins a decent club that you will start chasing him upandan?

Na joke lol

andrew444:
Stop acting like a kid bro

You gain nothing in mocking a player okay

Its good to have more Nigerians in the champions league, some are out and i am glad some are still there to join odey, osimhen, idowu

Zuby,akpom,esiti are out

Hoping for the remaining 2 guys at rosenborg and olayinka, okereke, denis to make it to the group stage

Have nigerians in the champions league group stage is good for our football

Change your ways and stop bringing hate to Nigeria football

Joebie:
@ bolded.. but the guy came in as a refugee. Are you comparing this situation to countries that have a sound birth record system?

Okay he came as a refugee and maybe forge document successfully ,already playing for the Hamburg first team

do4luv14:
hahahahaha sir Andrew oooo,
shebi him invite you go cubana?
No wonder you know say nah oshogbo weed

Lol

forgiveness:
There were offers but the club didn't want him to leave.

Okay I see

Eartquake1:
Monaco sign Ben Yedder from Sevilla

Onyekuru now has a good strike partner

Ben yedder is supposed to be playing for man united or others team bigger than sevilla

Monaco don use better salary tempt am

Now they are going to rugani and matuidi, if they can get those 2 they might make it to the champions league next season

safarigirl:
how many bottles have you taken this morning?

I need to be sure, because drunk people usually have amnesia when they get sober, and I wouldn't want to have to give you an answer twice

Lol

Thats metallic man for you

Humility017:
just read somewhere that Chuba Akpom will likely make the super eagles roaster
and that NFF have started his paper work..

I am not happy with that at all.... if we really wanna steal from England we should go for a quality forward and not a player that is on same par with many of ours.

we just wasted this process...

Lol

andrew444:
Ben yedder is supposed to be playing for man united or others team bigger than sevilla

Monaco don use better salary tempt am

Small clubs are making big moves

Fekir to Real Betis, Ben Yedder to Sevilla

Humility017:
yeah...that's fine.
let them try get Aribo,Tomori,Eze,Aneke and go to Switzerland and Germany and do likewise... we need captie this players especially the midfield and defense.
need serious competition....

Gettings this ones are not cap tie o , as na just friendly games sha

We have many strikers better than aneke jare

Aribo tomori eze and those german boys are okay

Eartquake1:
Small clubs are making big moves

Fekir to Real Betis, Ben Yedder to Sevilla

Was surprised fekir joined betis self

Monaco is a big club

forgiveness:
Oga! There is no crime in securing him by capping. Is it when he joins a decent club that you will start chasing him upandan?

Oil dey ya head

Olulong:
I think they are trying to cap tie as many players as possible because according to what pinnick said

“We have secured a Grade A international friendly match for the Super Eagles against ukraine in Kyiv, on the 10th of September,” Pinnick said on Twitter.
“It is part of our on-going drive to expose as many players as we can to global football, so this should be another springboard for our young stars.”

so maybe we should expect a lot of new faces

That's fine.. But seriously, Chuba Akpom? The guy had d chance to play for us long ago but was forming bobo. He is doing well in Greece no doubt, but we have better players in his position...

Danielnino00:
That's fine.. But seriously, Chuba Akpom? The guy had d chance to play for us long ago but was forming bobo. He is doing well in Greece no doubt, but we have better players in his position...

Akpom is a good choice.

forgiveness:
Oga! There is no crime in securing him by capping. Is it when he joins a decent club that you will start chasing him upandan?

When he was at a decent club we were the ones chasing him . now the tables have turned. it's okay.

Danielnino00:
That's fine.. But seriously, Chuba Akpom? The guy had d chance to play for us long ago but was forming bobo. He is doing well in Greece no doubt, but we have better players in his position...

Agreed

We have players better than him in his position

Some people want him to be invited just because he is english, if na our normal naija player some people go say na back water league e dey play

He scored 6 goals in 20 league games last season, we have players that have done better than that

Danielnino00:
That's fine.. But seriously, Chuba Akpom? The guy had d chance to play for us long ago but was forming bobo. He is doing well in Greece no doubt, but we have better players in his position...

pls post the news he was forming bobo here

Danielnino00:
When he was at a decent club we were the ones chasing him . now the tables have turned. it's okay.

Bros no mind them, if na our pure naija player dem no go say make dem invite am, 6 goals in 20 league games is nothing special to me

If i see chuba akpom and i dont see awoniyi and co in eagles list i will be very angry

Danielnino00:
When he was at a decent club we were the ones chasing him . now the tables have turned. it's okay.

Bros no mind them, if na our pure naija player dem no go say make dem invite am, 6 goals in 20 league games is nothing special to me

If i see chuba akpom and i dont see awoniyi/okereke in eagles list i will be very angry

Danielnino00:
That's fine.. But seriously, Chuba Akpom? The guy had d chance to play for us long ago but was forming bobo. He is doing well in Greece no doubt, but we have better players in his position...

nothing wrong in trying him out like they have done some others

maidaboi:
pls post the news he was forming bobo here

"forming bobo" is an expression I just used.

But we approached him in 2015 and he turned us down...

safarigirl:
nothing wrong in trying him out like they have done some others

Of course.. but I hope we also give Stephen Odey his chance...he deserve it too . Nwaekwme too deserves another chance ..

andrew444:
Bros no mind them, if na our pure naija player dem no go say make dem invite am, 6 goals in 20 league games is nothing special to me

If i see chuba akpom and i dont see awoniyi/okereke in eagles list i will be very angry

Add Stephen Odey too.

Danielnino00:
Add Stephen Odey too.

Thanks for reminding me of odey, i just want him to settle at his new club because he is yet to play 90 minutes, but i beleive soon as he is a new signing and we will get to also watch him in the champions league.

Akpom has not done nothing much, 6 goals in 20 league games last season, lets see what he will do this season

We want akpom but when emem eduok dey turkey we no see am oo and turkey is far better than greece if i am to compare

Even nwakaeme is doing so well at turkey with goals and assist and he is playing as a winger

We have better players than akpom abeg

andrew444:
Thanks for reminding me of odey, i just want him to settle at his new club because he is yet to play 90 minutes, but i beleive soon as he is a new signing and we will get to also watch him in the champions league.

Akpom has not done nothing much, 6 goals in 20 league games last season, lets see what he will do this season

We want akpom but when emem eduok dey turkey we no see am oo and turkey is far better than greece if i am to compare

Even nwakaeme is doing so well at turkey with goals and assist and he is playing as a winger

We have better players than akpom abeg

Nwawkeme was completely written off by some people here after one game...as for Eduok,some didn't care . Now they want Akpom...lol.
well like I said d other day,I want Rohr to try out a lot of new players with that Ukraine game.. Akpom being called up isn't bad .but those who performed better than him last season and currently shouldn't be ignored because they aren't foreign born..

However,I think this week is too early to release the list..club football has just started.. Unless Rohr is planning to use last season performance as a yardstick for the call ups...

andrew444:
Gettings this ones are not cap tie o , as na just friendly games sha

We have many strikers better than aneke jare

Aribo tomori eze and those german boys are okay

Aneke is a utility player. Onomah is very good.

Joebie:
Saka is the only truth for now. He is in the main team.. The others, we can get for our youth teams. There is no guarantee they will be great in future. I remember when Akpom was firing all cylinders. Today, he is still not there yet.. youth football is only indicative, but not conclusive.

Agreed without reservation.

But this is the problem and BIG DISADVANTAGE of English football.

After playing youth football you need to be playing with men and or first team football. This will enable you to develop and progress upwardly. However, when they have played youth football for so long they stagnate.

Meanwhile Belguim, Holland, Germany and even France give a lot of opportunities to young players that's why they develop quicker for first team football.

The EPL is very unforgiving and very impatient they want the finished product NOW not later. Time is very scarce in the EPL.

Brazil is another example young players given a lot of opportunities. It mat seem surprising that Gabriel before he came to city at 19 had already played two seasons in the Brazilian league.

Danielnino00:
Of course.. but I hope we also give Stephen Odey his chance...he deserve it too . Nwaekwme too deserves another chance ..

Hasn't Stephen Odey been invited before?