TheGoodJoe:
Monaco signs Onyekuru, Rohr calls Onyekuru. They bench Onyekuru, he drops Onyekuru.

safarigirl:
you think Aribo would be in the team or even Uzoho if not for Rohr?

The local scene is not his problem, tell Salisu to unearth gems there, abi what is Salisu doing aside collecting bribe?

TheGoodJoe:


How many did he discover or play a part in discovering? Three in that list were Super Eagles players before Rohr's arrival. So what was so impactful in that?

tbaba1234:


The job of senior national team is not developing talents. It is making the best use of available talents.

Rohr is not the under 17 or under 20 coach.

TheGoodJoe:


They will not be in the scene if the clubs did not do bulk of the work. Rohr just picks who clubs do the work to expose. Yes, Aribo and Uzoho would make the Super Eagles without Rohr. Ndidi and Iheanacho did so without Rohr. Simon Moses did so without Rohr.

tbaba1234:


The job of senior national team is not developing talents. It is making the best use of available talents.

Rohr is not the under 17 or under 20 coach.

safarigirl:


Iheanacho that Keshi refused to call because be was too young? Lol.

You think you would have been seeing boys like Osimhen and Chukwueze wey their beard never reach ground normally?

Why say Ndidi and Iheanacho? Why not mention Ekong that Oliseh famously discarded?

Like I said, half truths is what you are posting here. It is normal for people to become greedy when you give them a taste of success.

Go submit your CV and invite all the ekukes in that sinking NPFL, let us see if you will not use industrial calculator to gauge our chances of qualifying for any tournament in a group with Togo, Namibia and Kenya.

safarigirl:


Iheanacho that Keshi refused to call because be was too young? Lol.

You think you would have been seeing boys like Osimhen and Chukwueze wey their beard never reach ground normally?

Why say Ndidi and Iheanacho? Why not mention Ekong that Oliseh famously discarded?

Like I said, half truths is what you are posting here. It is normal for people to become greedy when you give them a taste of success.

Go submit your CV and invite all the ekukes in that sinking NPFL, let us see if you will not use industrial calculator to gauge our chances of qualifying for any tournament in a group with Togo, Namibia and Kenya.

TheGoodJoe:


This is not Oliseh Keshi but Rohr sitting down and doing more of his job.

slimthugchimee2:


Why isn't this guy getting any attention is it because of his league?

I just saw he scored 6 goals in europa

forgiveness:


PUZZLING SELECTION SINKS NIGERIA'S AFCON QUEST


The stakes could not be higher, but Siasia's odd selection choices robbed the Super Eagles of any flow and rhythm in attack in Alexandria

By Solace Chukwu
Where once it seemed an aberration to have an Africa Cup of Nations without Nigeria, there is now a sense of resigned inevitability to it. The Fifa ranking cops quite a bit of flak (are Cape Verde really the best team in Africa?) but in the case of the Super Eagles, it may well be overgenerous.

One miss might be considered unfortunate, but a repeat serves only to buttress the most uncomfortable of truths: Nigeria are no longer one of Africa’s best 16 teams. The 2013 triumph in South Africa seems now a distant memory, the cruel shadow of a haunting memory tugging away at the back of the mind, fluttering just out of reach and leaving in its wake baleful emptiness.

Charged with the task of exorcising that ghost was an eleven that appeared to defy logic and reason; so much so, it became convenient to see method in the madness: perhaps Siasia sought to spring a surprise on the Pharaohs, luring them into the sort of false sense of security that proved their undoing in the epic Biblical tale of Hebrew redemption at the Red Sea.

As it turns out, it was Nigeria’s wheels that came unstuck in the end. Far more worrying though than the underwhelming choices and performances of the likes of Aminu Umar and Stanley Amuzie, it was clear that, as a team, there was little conviction to how it sought to create the goal(s) required to remain in contention. Surely, if the idea was to take the game to the hosts from the off, a bit more invention in central areas than either Umar or Ahmed Musa are capable of would have seemed apposite.



Did Siasia's selection decisions undermine Nigeria?

The effect of both Victor Moses and the CSKA Moscow man taking up narrow positions meant oodles of space on the flank, but yet again – as it was against South Africa in Uyo in 2014 – neither full-back provided width on the overlap. The hosts therefore only had to defend the width of their penalty box, and were largely untroubled against an attack that appeared to feature four (five if you count a neither-fish-nor-fowl Oghenekaro Etebo) strangers uncertain of their collective moments.


Shehu Abdullahi at right-back – there’s an experiment that has spontaneously combusted in all our faces – looked totally overawed by the occasion, and was full of errors all game long. His haplessness evinced sympathy, and though it was Amuzie at left-back who was withdrawn at half-time, one gets the impression it was for lack of a proper deputy at right-back.

The Borg El Arab Stadium may have lacked the sheer weight of numbers that crammed itself into the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna on Friday, but it made up for it with an atmosphere of hissing malevolence and zipping green lasers. It worked; aside captain John Obi Mikel and Daniel Akpeyi, who pulled off two splendid stops in the first period, no one else in green came out of this smelling of roses. If eleven subs were possible, Siasia may well have made them all.

There was perhaps no greater indication that he had got his starting line-up wrong than the nature of his substitutions: all broadly like-for-like, each introducing a player who should have started the tie—Elderson Echiejile’s experience at the highest level was surely not something to sniff at; Etebo’s impersonation of a central midfielder, untidy and imprecise as it was, gave way to the smooth Azubuike Okechukwu; while Alex Iwobi, in his 20 minutes, showed more guile and ability to knit the play together than the limited Umar managed in 70.

Quite why Siasia thought it wise to keep his powder dry so long, with his team needing a win, is anyone’s guess.


He may have saved the fine wine for last, but by the time the changes were made, the Super Eagles were addled, swaying on their feet and pretty much out for the count. It seemed almost mercifully fortunate that Moses’s fizzing shot came off the post and spun out: renewed hope, in this case, would have been little more than prolonging the agony.

What this team needs; nay, what Nigerian football needs now, is surgery.

http://m.goal.com/s/en-ng/news/4079/features/2016/03/30/21824882/puzzling-selection-sinks-nigerias-afcon-quest

TheGoodJoe:


Tell the coach to sit down and do his work. Did I name Amokachi and Oliseh for Westerhof?

safarigirl:


It is not Rohr's job to scout for local players.

You have still not answered what Salisu is supposed to do if Rohr is scouting local players.

You have still not answered which local players Rohr should scout for, because thee only reason you should be speaking so confidently about scouting local players is if you have a few in mind

You are purposely evading the important points because they don't suit your narrative that Rohr must work like a jacky.

If you cannot recommend these gems in the local league, or tell us what Salisu is doing with his own free time (at least we know Rohr visits players abroad), then everything you are saying here is okoto meow skrrrr

Kbs468:

You keep mentioning Amokachie and Oliseh during westerhorf. How many of the players plays oversea back then.

Is only westerhorf the foreign Coach Nigeria ever had?

What about Bonfre Jo, Bora Milutinovic, Manfred Hoener, Philippe Troussier, Thijs Libregts, Berti Vogts,
Las Lagerback?

Although Manfred Hoener preceded Clemens Westerhorf anyway.

simiife:
the good Joe is disappointing me,gaskia

I am more disappointed in you.

TheGoodJoe:


How many did he discover or play a part in discovering? Three in that list were Super Eagles players before Rohr's arrival. So what was so impactful in that?

TheGoodJoe:


Where is Van Dyke and Allison in your list.

Joebie:
he gets attention here.. just that some of us are trying to quiet him because of where plays.

safarigirl:
tbaba, e don do.

Leave am to dey talk him own.

tbaba1234:


Please where are Oboabana and Ogude today?? BY 2015, Oboabana was finished. Is that what you can a gem.

safarigirl:
you think Aribo would be in the team or even Uzoho if not for Rohr?

The local scene is not his problem, tell Salisu to unearth gems there, abi what is Salisu doing aside collecting bribe?

Kbs468:

I believe that slimthugchimee2 meant the Super Eagles call up attention though and not necessarily the attention from us in here

ChrisKels:
Komekn, Bournemouth are considering sending Solanke out on loan or ship him out, outrightly to count their loss, please do u think any ambitous championship team would come for his signature?

TheGoodJoe:


We had foreign based players. Off the top, I can give you Efan Ekoku, Keshi, Jonathan Akpoborie, Emenalo, Owubokiri, Alloy Agu, Peter Rufai.

AIG07:
In the beginning, it was Rashford, Martial for Reds and Iheanacho for the citizens. All three made cover pages of newspapers week in week out. Then the unexpected and unexplainable happened! all three sank down the drain.

They were quickly overshadowed by upcoming stars. They became objects of ridicule, written off and tagged fraud.

But as time will have it, They are gradually getting back to their very best. Churning out performances that mirrors that which brought them to limelight. Most surprising all three at the same time in the same league but different city.

Hope they can sustain the tempo for a while.