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Iwobi scores

Karlovich:
Iheanacho 0 goals in 8 games this season
Maja 2 goals in 17 games this season
Dessers 4 goals in 15 matches
Onuachu 19 goals in 19 matches
Osimhen 2 goals in 6 matches
Ugbo 10 goals in 17 matches

Ugbo is clearly doing better than Maja, Iheanacho and Dessers even Osimhen at the moment based on the above stats.
If for instance 4 strikers are called up to the eagles I don't see a reason why he shouldn't be in contention for a place in the team.

Do you consider league difficulty? What has Ugbo done that Onyekuru, Nwakaeme, Dessers, Umar has not done, did it get them SE callups?

There is a reason Rohr draws a line at certain leagues, you can't score ten goals at Afghanistan league at be expecting a callup

Karlovich:
Lol, okay based on your required level assessment suggest the strikers that should be called up? List their names because the 3 you mentioned have 10 league goals combined together this season.

Osimhen, Onuachu, Iheanacho, Dessers, Maja are the regulars, Ugbo would do more than score 10 goals in the Belgian league to displace any of those

Karlovich:
To the first question you asked, my answer is yes.
To your second question, well it depends on what Rohr wants. If I ask you to list the players we have at the required level you can't name them, the ones you listed haven't done exceptionally this season in their leagues.

Mind you there is no such thing as experimenting in football, at some point players will make their debut for teams and if they are good they are retained if not they stop getting call ups.

Nwakaeme and Simy all played for Nigeria at some point and we all followed the abuse they got due to their performances on the field of play.

The SE have a lot of work to do in the striking department, it's not enough for Rohr to list Chukwueze, Musa, Ejuke, Iwobi, Simon, Kalu as forwards on his call ups whereas they are not. So saying that a striker who is doing well in Belgium shouldn't be considered is not a good thing.

Well there is a required level and the bar is moving higher and higher, at a certain time 15+ goals in the Dutch league would have gotten you a first team Striker or performing credibly in France or Turkey but it hasn't even gotten Cyriel Dessers, Maja and Nwakaeme 2 caps each

So you would be deceiving yourself if you think there is a no bar for SE invitation or that Ugbo has gotten anywhere near it

Karlovich:
The players you mentioned, Ugbo has been better than them this season.

What do you mean by better, because he has scored more goals in a lesser league?

Besides he's not at the required level yet so his call up is out of the discussion

Karlovich:
the second strikers we had, how have they performed when they had the chance? We all witnessed our games last year when Osimhen wasn't around.
Any striker currently doing well in Europe should be considered including Awoniyi, Akpom or Ugbo. Onuachu is doing so well in Belgium which is a decent league by the way but hasn't done so in SE but Osimhen also was great in Belgium and translated such form so far in the eagles.
Saying that Ugbo shouldn't because of the league he plays in makes me wonder if we have a Haaland, Neymar or Benzema we kept somewhere in a higher league.
The Ejuke I expected to make a move from the Netherlands to a much more higher league chose to go to Russia which almost the same with the Dutch league and hasn't replicated his form in the Netherlands there.

Cyriel Dessers that was the top scorer in the Dutch league has not even gotten any chance in the SE, same with Nwakaeme even Simmy Nwankwo, the SE has gone past the experimental stage any striker looking for a chance should be doing more than 10 goals in a Belgian league

Karlovich:
The Belgian league is not a mediocre league and it's not like we have strikers firing on all angles in Italy, Spain, England, Germany or kept an Mbappe or Haaland somewhere. For striking options Ugbo has done better than Awoniyi and Akpom this season.

Are Awoniyi and Akpom our second choice strikers? They don't even make the team besides Awoniyi has been injured for a while and he has 5 goals in a higher rated league

My point is he has to do better than he's doing to even be considered for a call up

Karlovich:
He has done better than Awoniyi and Akpom.

Has he done enough? 10 goals in 17 matches in a mediocre league is not even enough standards for our second choice striker

solonnachi:
I really tire ooo. This is taking the whole of eternity to materialize. We must not lose Lookman and Ejaria oooooo

I will be very very happy the day I see Lookman in a SE jersey

With Celtic's draw today Rangers are now 21 points ahead

2 Super Eagles will be lifting the Scottish league this season

chrisooblog:
cool the more quality additions we have the merrier

We already have at least ten of his kind, we need next level strikers

Balogun with another impressive display today

No clean sheet tho but we'll take that

Felix Mmecha comes on for Man city

Aribo and Balogun start for Rangers

Philosopher1979:
I dont know myself.
Personally, i think our u17 and u20 have a problem with finishing.
They just dont convert their chances.
Their coaches should look for Hallands and Osimhens who can finish the chances they keep creating.
In consolation i think we can harvest some very good players from there

The NFF should start a program to nurture them through the youth teams, if we do that I don't think we lost much

The Ghana youth teams have a partnership with FC Norjslland why don't we have that?

Troost Ekong starts against Man U

Guess who just scored

solonnachi:
#bringbackourmikel#

It won't be a bad thing

Does anybody have Onuachu's goal?

Semi Ajayi's goal

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Ozornwafor made an appearance for Galatasaray in their 6-0 win today

Ebuehi starts for Twente

Ajayi scores for West Brom

do4luv14:
Kiaaaa!!!!!! And some here dey call. Am Osimhen deputy

Na deputy ballboy e go be at this rate

In the end Leicester were too dominant for Stoke, Mikel and Ndidi put in decent performances

Full time :Leicester 4-0 Stoke
Personal ratings Ndidi 7,Mikel 6

do4luv14:
With the way other foxes players are balling, Nacho is in for a long thing

Na im problem be that

Iheanacho decided to be unfortunate even in 5 minutes

Iheanacho comes on in the 80th minute

Mikel deleting two Leicester players like they weren't there

Some overzealous Belgian wants to injure my Mikel

Leicester attack heavily down the right hand side

Ndidi with a glorious long pass

So far Ndidi and Mikel have had 50-50 possession, Mikel with some sweet crisp passing, Ndidi likewise but a scary moment from an error