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Jose Peseiro did something good for us.

He made us realize that a 5-man defence (3 centre backs and 2 wing backs) and 3-5-2 / 3-4-3 is the best formations suited to our players and the team.

This formation puts more bodies in defense giving the team defensive solidity. Also, it gives us width on the flanks with the wingbacks allowing them to bomb forward and tuck into the midfield when necessary.

I doubt Eguavoen would have played this formation if not for the last AFCON where Peseiro deployed it so effectively cos in his previous stints as coach of the Super Eagles, he never played that way. In addition, his "tactical analysis" before AFCON 2022 and the Nigeria-Ghana WCQ match formations showed he was stuck on 4-4-2/4-3-3

This time around, Eguavoen has shown adaptability and a fast learning curve with his tactical decisions. I also like that he's eloquent, and instills confidence and belief in the team. In addition, his player invitations are fair and unlike his predecessor, he doesn't do the silly home-based quota thing.

My only gripe with AE is his susceptibility to influence fron football journalists and analysts, and sometimes poor in-match management but so far, so good.

With the benefit of hindsight, appointing Finidi George was an error. ...one that may ultimately cost us the World cup ticket. I still cannot fathom why he ditched the system that got the team to the AFCON final.

Perhaps, if Eguavoen had been appointed to tinker the team after the AFCON, we wouldn't be in this precarious situation in the WCQ.

Eguavoen should be allowed to take charge of the AFCON and WC qualifiers, and if he does well, he should be appointed as the substantive coach with a long term contract.

AlbertoIancu:
I am reporting you to you. No be you say e no go better for Napoli and Chelsea? That one no be abuse?

Oya, magistrate, try yourself 😎

My defence

Rule 2 - Don't abuse, bully, deliberately insult/provoke, fight, or wish harm to Nairaland members OR THEIR TRIBES.

Your Lordship Sir, I plead not guilty.

With reference to Rule 2 of the Nairaland rules which i have quoted above, I humbly submit that I have not broken the forum rules as Chelsea & Napoli are neither persons, registered members of the forum or tribal entities.

AlbertoIancu:
Rule 2 violation alert.

Cc: Semid4lyfe 😎

Why and which post are you tagging me to?

opes:
Ha!!! Easy ooo..we should obey Nairaland rules...lol

No vex.

But.......

I just heard Osimhen's account of what transpired via a Sports Journalist on Arise News and my blood still dey hot.

Meanwhile, I did not violate the NL rules. I know cos I'm a custodian of the rules.

With the revelations that have come out about the whole Osimhen transfer saga, I say

E no go better for Napoli.

E no go better for Chelsea.

Kog45:
He did well for his coach.The man started youth team with nothing by gathering boys in a secondary school pitch and survived with boys contributing money for ball and jerseys,real street footballing

That's the story of a lot of grassroot football academies except the few who are bankrolled by wealthy individuals.

I'm hopeful Augustine Eguavoen will succeed this time around. By this I mean, win all the games he'll be in charge and contribute significantly to our AFCON qualification.

I'm impressed by his player invitations, squad selections and choice of Assistants.

Also, I believe he must have learnt some lessons from the last AFCON & WCQ he coached the team.

Anyway, If I had to choose a Nigerian coach for the Super Eagles, only two names come to mind - Austin Eguavoen and Michael Nsien, the US U-20 coach. The rest like Samson Siasia, Salisu Yusuf and Ndubuisi Egbo no follow for me.

I'll be rooting for Eguavoen and the team

In future. I hope whoever becomes the substantive coach can bring more players into the fold. Igor Ogbu, Tolu Arokodare, Uche Christantus, Elijah Adebayo, Akor Adams, Ebenezer Akinsanmiro, Victor Eletu and Gift Orban (if he's cleared by FIFA) readily comes to mind.

Napoli is a 419 club.

They're still trying to screw Osimhen at this 11th hour by presenting a written agreement different from what was verbally agreed with Osimhen.

Off topic - Nigerian Journalists are really cooking in this Osimhen transfer saga. First, POOJA and now Buchi Laba bringing exclusives, and breaking the stories ahead of Fabrizio and other European journalists

charlesemeka85:
18-year-old Adeshina Ayodele has made a move to Lille LOSC 🇫🇷 from Beyond Limits Academy 🇳🇬. The talented striker inked a 5-year deal with the French side.

#copied

Football academies are the new goldmines.

Once an academy has young and talented ballers, with serious connects abroad, partner with an European football club and align with some good agents, cash out is guaranteed.

humility33:
I don't want him in Saudi please

So he should take the disrespectful and humiliating terms being offered by Chelsea?

lovewins:
That isn't the decision before him though and it's a more nuanced conversation. Yes, there are a few persons blatantly asking Victor to go for the money, but should he go to Saudi, money won't be the primary reason as important as that is, it will be because that's his best way out of Italy on his own terms.

So the story I hear is that Victor's deal with PSG (his most preferred destination btw) was 80% done but Napoli frustrated it. There were also very genuine potential offers from the EPL who were ready to give Victor his current salary at Napoli but spread his transfer payment over a period of time but ADL frustrated that move to. There's an internal battle apparently going on behind the scene in Napoli frustrating this move for Victor.

His options? A loan move to Chelsea without a guaranteed contract and a slash in pay by 40% or a move to Saudi Arabia. Chelsea didn't want to commit to a long term contract and if you understand football business you'll know that's a trap for Victor. It's like gambling with his future with a team still experimenting at this stage of his career. If it doesn't work, he won't get an offer from Chelsea neither will any top club be incentivized to sign him.

It wasn't until recently Chelsea came around to loan with obligation to buy and even with that they still expect him to take a 40% cut to his current salary. For context, it means he'll earn about €6.7M a year under Chelsea's current offer.

Saudi Arabia is offering him 7 times that amount with a buyout clause in the range many clubs in England can afford in a years time. Outside what we all think, something is fundamentally wrong with Chelsea's offer. Outside the money, it screams they don't really value him which for me is the bugger issue here. This same Chelsea went on a needless bidding war to sign Caicedo and Lavia. Why are they finding it difficult for sign a player with the pedigree of Victor and pricing like they are buying groundnut except there's a fundamental issue with their perception of his value? He's not asking for a lay increase, her asking that he be paid what he currently earns this is also considering he'll be paying significantly more taxes in England.

Long and short, Victor will make a decision he considers best for himself. Whether it is to wait it out to see if Chelsea meets him half way or go to Saudi Arabia and hopefully returns to Europe in a few years. Whatever the case is, I hope we as Nigerians support him.

The best post I have read on this Osimhen transfer saga.

Shocking

I'm moved to tears and at a loss for words.

He helped me fix up my car when I first got it. Years later, when I had AC issues and had bought compressors twice from Mgbuka Obosi that didn't last, I got a compressor through him and that compressor has been working ever since and put paid to my car AC issue.

He also advised, diagnosed and proferred solution to other car issues I was experiencing numerous times.

Gazzuzz was a great guy and Nairaland has lost a good one.

May God grant the family the fortitude to bear the loss, amen.

Truidstarr:
I have this gut feeling that it’s Pitso Mosimane .

It cannot be Pitso Mosimane!

Pitso has categorically stated in multiple interviews that he'll love to manage the Super Eagles but he wouldn't take the job in this WCQ period cos we're in the same group with South Africa.

If una derail thread with all these political talk, I go ban una.

Discuss football

Cc: lovewins, Majoribanks

mostob:
All these strange monikers sha... make una do fast with the nomination make Dem no hijack this thread o.

True. Lelion has a history of doing giveway in the forum so people wey don sabi am before man-mark am reach here.

Meanwhile, I was thinking the giveaway is not immediate but at the end of the year so nominations should be made in November and the reward presented to the winners in December.

Between now and November, when the nominations will be made all the new monikers who invaded this thread because of the reward would have lost momentum and fizzled out.

Just my thoughts.

lelion:
Thank you my brother. Whatever the house agree on, l am ok with it. Some people do not realize that over 80% of our problems in Nigeria are caused by tribalism, nepotism, religious Intolerance and lack of love.
We have great people in every sector of life who can make our country great, but the above mentioned points always make us go for the wrong guys which has render our Nigerian space comatose.

Again, people should realize that l am not doing any giveaway here because almost all the guys here are very succesful in their various fields. Rather, l noticed that once in awhile, some few people try to bring tribalism here which Can destroy this our beautiful football space. So, it is my own little way to control tribalism here. I believe, if all of us here should be preaching " NO TO TRIBALISM" in our various communities and space, we will make Nigeria a better place in our own little ways.
For those who followed or read about the Rwanda génocide of the Hutus and tutsis, you we understand at what scale tribalism is bad and no country develops with such.

Hmm, I believe we are all subjectively biased and no one is truly detribalized (in real life) but I commend and support your initiative to stem it in this thread by incentivizing people to post without recourse to tribal sentiments and innuendos.

Marjoribanks:
Lol! Just saw this few minutes ago. You have never posted on this forum.

Your first post is to do giveaway?
You have bad internet in your location and you want to do 150k give away?

How could people fall for this?

Like you, my antenna was raised when I saw his giveaway post but I took the time to go through his profile and read all his post in the forum.

Dude has been consistent with this detribalization thing and even did a 20k monthly giveaway for the most detribalized poster in politics section a while back and he delivered. Long story short, as far as I can tell from his post history, he's legit.

The bigger issue is how to set up acceptable guidelines/rules for this 100k year-end giveaway for the most detribalized poster in this thread.

Final word - Be slow to post and be quick to dig. This own goal you scored would have been avoided if you had gone through the OP's profile and investigated his activities on Nairaland.

Kog45:
Larry came in the 90s through his powerful morning sports Radio program but we have good commentators like Yinka Craig,Fabio Olanipekun,Hameed Adio,Modele Sharafa Yusuf,Mitchele Obi who did well giving these guys names in the 90s but no one near Ernest Okonkwo who even gave some players nicknames watching NPFL,just check those nicknames you see real intellect in Ernest Okonkwo

Elder, you are obsessed with the past and have exaggerated nostalgic ratings of the 80's and 90's commentators/sports anchors.

I do not think the nicknames given to Nigerian players by Ernest Okonkwo reflected his intelligence.

I'll opine that it was due to patriotism and nationalistic fervour, and were an exaggeration and overhype of the players talent and football abilities.

komekn:
He has had an abysmal season in the Championship and been very poor in the EPL apart from one season.

He couldn't get a single club in the Championship and not a single club in the EPL.

Please quote me correctly, l said he would struggle to get a club in the Championship 🏆. He has found level 🎚️ in a lower level la liga team.

Sevilla is a lower level spanish club? Are you f^¢king kidding me?

Chai! Its true what they say about you being a bitter and hateful person.

I also do not rate senior man that highly but I was happy when he signed for Sevilla and would not post untruths just to disparage the club and belittle KC's transfer to the club.

Pls head to MFM Prayer City Kilometre 12, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway cos you need deliverance.

Ha ha, kilode!

BascoVanVeli:
Yea I want to make the highlights but it will be taken off cos of copyright. Maybe I'll do the Japan match and put it on the website

Pls do the previous matches too. It'll be appreciated.

Keep the discussion on football please.

Perhaps this section needs a general chat/discussion thread like the EPL chat thread in the Euro football subsection where all other issues can be discussed by the regular posters in this section.

YES, NO?

BascoVanVeli:
What a disappointing loss. We deserved so much more.

Was hoping to catch highlights of the Super Falcons vs Brazil and Spain matches on your youtube channel but seems you have not uploaded them?

Score808 has gone off. No video, only audio. Help with streaming link

daveP:
Echegini on wing is a terrible idea. Experimenting with a team you ought to go brutal on is a terrible idea. These passes are annoying. You can't be seeing a whole space created by ihezuo and still be passing to her(a wack pass at that). The idea is to occupy that space and make those two defenders choose to stop and follow you while ihezuo picks an onside spot while your teammates provide even more passing options. Kilode

That attacking setup and decision making is killing the game. Them dey vex me for simple decisions. Ya passing 1-5 times to same outmarked 9 in same manner. Are you okay. You can't give a lobbed pass ni? Mtchew

Makes me feel like there's a clique of paddy paddy players

Damn! Her teeth are so white. I hope she's as good a footballer as her teeth are bright.

Wasn't impressed the few minutes I saw of her in the AWCON.

Mujtahida:
I don dey shake oo. Make Spain no win this Euro ooo. Tiki taka doesn't want to perish ni? TheGoodJoe come outside

This current spanish side does not play tiki-taka. I prefer spain to win it rather than England although I know England will win.

ChrisKels:
He is not better than what we already have, so don't expect him to come add something extra.

I agree. He's error prone, easily dribbled and get's beaten for pace often. However, he's 25 and experience has taught me not to write off any active footballer.

Case in point, is William Troost Ekong who I never rated and considered an Isaac Okoronkwo v2.0 but has now developed into a very solid defender.

Gabriel Osho could still come good with regular game time and more exposure.

Deltamani:
She’s valued at €250,000


From the reports PSG gave Juventus Defender Viola Calligaris valued at €70,000 and Striker Vangsgaard valued at €130,000 plus additional fee of €50,000 just to get Echegini…!

Irresistible offer. I would sell her if I was the Juve owner too.

Deltamani:
Ashleigh is originally a CB, why do you think she won’t do well there playing it for Nigeria? By the way she has played there for Nigeria on several occasions and didn’t do bad…!

You are talking about having a solid replacement for Ohale when one 41yrs old woman doesn’t want to give chance to the younger ones to work their way in… She’s still hoping on a call up…

Anyway there are few that can come in for Ohale gradually.. Maureen Umeh, Shukurat Oladepo and Akudo Ogbonna etc!

That Maureen Umeh gal is my pick of the lot. Tall, imposing, excellent ball reading, carrying and playing ability, and interceptions. I like her immensely. She should be in the team already if you ask me.

Deltamani:
Ashleigh Plumptre is such an intelligent defender weda playing from CB or the Left Back Position, the way she Carries the ball forward from those positions is just so in another level with the likes of Barcelona defender Mapi Leon ..

She will surely be missed, but again Michelle Alozie, Osinachi Ohale, Blessing Demehin, Chidinma Okeke and Nicole Payne will get the job done!


I’m trusting Chidinma Okeke to be the come back defender of Year..!

Ashleigh gets too easily beaten in 1vs1 situations by skillful forwards but her ball playing and carrying ability is second to none. She's a big loss to the team.

naptu2:
In the 1980s I developed some personal rules for reading Nigerian newspapers. This story has reminded me of a few of them and so now I have to ask:

1) Who is the person that made the claim that the NFF is forcing players on Randy Waldrum? What is the name/identity of the person?

2) Where is the evidence that the person's claim is true?

3) Why should we immediately believe the person without hearing from the other sides?

I feel no pity for her whether the story is false or not.

She left the door wide open for this dragging by not announcing her retirement from the national team after the word cup.

Her interviews and instagram stories after the mundial indicated she was pinning for a spot in the olympics team.

In all these, I blame her Godfather, Mr Bilateral Relationship and I hope Randy Waldrum has the balls to not pick her.

Lastly, the fact that she has not outrightly denied the news is indicative that it's true.. Rather, she's alluding to being worth included in the olympic squad as a retirement gift and a way to honour her.

Yeye dey smell.