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And our resident hater here said both Pele and Maradona were better than Messi. Same Messi that's still doing it at the highest stage at 39 years

yinkeys:
Algéria red card Messi ?

No, the Messi from ojuelegba

MESSIIIII ⚽⚽

Tenses:
Good

So allow Nigerians live where ever they chose.

As if even in Igbo land, they don't discriminate against themselves

Samueltemi337:
Yeah like they did in 2018

There will always be excerpts. 2014, 2022 (where they lost their first match against Saudi) and now 2026 (they are playing better today than they did against Algeria)

Tenses:
Let him answer for himself.

I have seen this play out several times and the victims are 97% Igbos.

Then they should go back to their region. For those that are from Anambra, I'm so sure Soludo will still end up demolishing their buildings in Anambra State

Gagame:
Good evening everyone,so i can came back from work this evening and i saw this..though not to lie,the people that collected money from me didn’t give me any document to back up the money they collected till date even the soil test people did not give me documents after collecting money from me,they only told me to start work after they closed the place two years ago,now i hear there are new people there..what’s the best step to take pls becuase I don’t have lots of money to throw around.Thank you will be in the comment section

You get money to build this kind of house but you nor get money to pay through the right channels. You were bribing workers in their office without collecting receipt, thinking these people would save you when problem like this comes.
Go to their office, maybe you will have to pay x3 of what you would have paid if you had followed the right channel and a proper receipt, legally approved and signed by the agency will be given to you.

Rodrigo De Paul is so underrated 🫡

GMBOFASIA:
they play somuch like a family

Yeah, most of them have been together for a long time playing for the NT. According to the commentator, about 10 of their starting 11 today won the WC in 2022. And one good thing about them, since 2014 WC, they tend to grow and play better as tournaments progresses

Argentina, so compact, organised and wicked team.
They will win you, still break your bones 🩻 🦴

The idi@t was seemingly happy when Messi missed the penalty and he was already hoping Mbappe would later outscore Iraq and leapfrog Messi. But that's why he is Messi, he does wonders whenever haters wishes him bad 💪

charlesemeka85:
Epl side Sunderland among clubs interested in super eagles and Sevilla CF Akor Adams

He is built for the EPL and I'm sure he won't spend more than 2 seasons in a club like Sunderland before a bigger than Sunderland EPL team buy him

[quote author=charlesemeka85 post=139798269]

Akor Adams went to visit his friend where it all started. He even signed a jersey for him….you can see the joy on his face! 😀🤣 pic.twitter.com/Wws1oNbj0z

— Cleverly 💐 (@Cleverlydey4u) June 21, 2026

I pray for this Akor Adam guy to succeed even more. I don't know him before and I have never met him, I just have this natural likeness for him. Maybe because his coming into the SE saved us from unserious player, Boniface and unreliable player Chukwueze.

TheSuperNerd:
Pls, kindly dont force intelligence in your replies. The inanity/obtuseness of your thinking betrays your IQ. Loll

Don't be pained that I have exposed you, finally

TheSuperNerd:
In 2026, I still read takes like this at @emboldened...

This is just plain asininity and inanity. Nothing more. 😂

Not surprised by the subjects of folly who still think this way...

Even when the immediate past aviation minister was found guilty and sentenced to prison, he was still denying that he embezzled money when he was a minister. So I never expected you to admit to something that seems glaring to every right thinking thread member

darkelf:
Thesupernerd wants us to believe that he is better than he truly is

Lasagna true true 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

He good, he good but na only Pisa dey interested

The guy na another Mikel Agu and Anderson Esiti in the making

In fact, the guy na Amderson Esiti wey dey stay Lekki

OND Anderson Esiti 🤣🤣🤣

charlesemeka85:
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Baba is joining Pisa abi Lasagna permanently for Serie B

No Serie A club dey interested

And he is so talented oh 😂
Na when he go play against Lesotho and they boss him in the midfield those hyping Him eyes go clear.
Well, I know what majority of modern footballers do... Nowadays they spend a large chunk of their earnings on PR and also post their best on YouTube to make the gullible think they are the Zidane Regem. Maybe some of the PR payments from Akinsanmiro and his likes usually gets to Thesupernerd, that's why he is always hyping them to high heaven

TheSuperNerd:
Oga, take this Messi fanboyism to the Barca thread. I have said what I said and without Bias... No Messi or Ronaldo fanboy will come tell me what is wrong or right on a Super Eagles thread.

Because the thread belongs to you Abi? Or you were the one that created the thread? So what right do you have to tell me to leave this thread to any other? Take your time Mr Man!
Either you like it or not, as always, Ronaldo will still fail in this WC and you can triple your anger to the high heaven, that's your problem. Overrated Ronaldo fanboy

Napoleon55:

You are right,
for me Osaze Odemwingie is better than Ronaldo.

Your choice my brother 😁🤝

GMBOFASIA:
lol they will come for you u just read my mind lol I was telling someone weeks ago Ronaldo is just an advanced halaand with enough pr cause aside goal scoring nothing spectacular
I have watch Messi drop deep right to the defense create chances him self and still when ahead and score the chance he created from nothing
There are level to this football mhen if you watch Argentina first game Messi has lost his speed but you see his intelligence play and swift maneuvering 😂 can still make him play till 40+

Messi to me is the greatest dribbler( not skills oh), the greatest 10, the greatest conductor and if we are to go by goal per match, he is also the greatest goalscorer.
Ronaldo is or was only a brutal goalscorer and nothing else.
Who like make the person come for me, Na the person know

TheSuperNerd:
What happened to me how? Oga, biko rest.... I know you are itching so much to tag me a Ronaldo fanboy but that would be hilarious because I dont regard C.Ronaldo as the True GOAT of Football. Neither do I ascribe that to Messi as well. I believe he and Messi are Two GOATs in the GOATs Club and should be respected but there are the Super Complete gods in Pele and Maradona as well.

For Messi, I would not have even liked a red card for that bad tackle on Mandi but a yellow at least to hide the favoritism.

So that Ronaldo fanboy angle is dead on arrival. I just spoke the truth on why Henry subtly still talks like a Ronaldo hater. I cant take his views seriously on Ronaldo. Same with Zlatan. Coz I know where both come from.

But also, no way is Thierry Henry is being taken over Cristiano Ronaldo by serious coaches. They are not on same level abeg. C.Ronaldo is not overrated. Kill that talk. You think say C.Ronaldo na same level with Akinsanmiro abi... for you to throw the "overrated" word again. Very funny of you.

As you reply without anger so, anybody die?
Continue to follow this pathway 😁

That said, maybe that's because in not a coach because if I were, as earlier stated, I would pick Henry to be part of my team over Ronaldo.

Secondly, ascribing Ronaldo to be another goat, on the same pedestrian with Messi is totally wrong...

Lastly, what makes Pele and Maradona better than Messi? Messi defined his era and he is still defining this Gen Z era, which I don't believe Pele and Maradona would have had same stats they had in their era if they play in this Gen Z era.

Napoleon55:
Na the the Ronaldo being overrated be problem here.
Don't judge Ronaldo after he went out of Europe

But some of you were judging Messi even when he was in Europe, saying he wasn't complete because he didn't played in the EPL.
My brother, I said what I said, Ronaldo was a brutal goalscorer and he was intelligent enough to add enough PR to his career. Aside goalscoring, to me he wasn't better than halaand or Nistelrooy

Amovingman:
Usa and Morocco straight winning won 55k on Switzerland games yesterday

Add Brazil Handicap -1 to still win Haiti

TheSuperNerd:
And let me specially address this emboldened fallacy.

Akinsanmiro was having a great season at Pisa prior to Afcon 2025. If not Eric Chelle would not have called up a recently turned 21y/o for the Afcon.
He won official MOTM award vs Fiorentina... and MOTM awards across renowned stats sites in the 1st half of the Season before he left to honor Chelle's Super Eagles' invite for the Afcon.

Pisa played 13 league games, Akin started 9, came off the bench in 3. Official MOTM in one. Stats sites MOTM in two more. And had an average performance rating of 7.05 (Fotmob) from 12 games.

That form and performance index earned Akin an Afcon call. If he was not doing great, he would not get that Afcon call in the first place.

Even WC winner and ex-pisa coach Gilardino said this after his showing vs Fiorentina...

“The team made the fans proud after a performance like that. Caracciolo, Touré, and Akinsanmiro—who was a driving force—were superb in every way. Along with the one against Bergamo, it was one of our best games.”

He even referenced Bergamo which refers to Atalanta. Akin came off the bench in that game on 61mins and dropped a solid 28mins (100% duels won, 100% passing, 100% tackles won, 2 def contributions, 2 recoveries). Game was 1-1.



Things only slowed as feared after the Afcon because Chelle never even used him at the Afcon and Akin naturally lost his place at Pisa due to coaching changes and the fact they were in relegation waters. He only really got back to reckoning towards the last 10 games of the season.

So biko, take your time to make proper assessments of our lads here and not lazily dropping comments like he did not show his level when you hardly watched him or even properly analysed his situation.

Nerd, what has happened to you? Ever since Messi outshined Ronaldo in the first matches played at this WC, you have been angry and not even hiding your anger in most of your post on this thread. Small small brother, it's talent and nature over an overated Ronaldo and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
And, to a post you made criticising Henry because he criticised Ronaldo and Portugal after the Congo match, personally I would pick an Henry over Ronaldo in my team (yeah, even though Ronaldo achieved far above Henry and had a better career), same way I would pick Okocha over 95% of 10s that has graced the pitch, and again even though most of them had better careers and achieved more than Okocha

Tunmise223:
Popular opinions was Frederick Benjamin not good enough and not better than what we have but now?so you want 21 year old playing for Pisa to dominate Italian league.To you Nwakali and Azeez were better because you saw them playing for our youth system which players likes Akinsanmiro and Zadok Yohanna did not but came through academy.A player from local academy made it to Italian league but to you he is over hype.

Where and when was the popular opinion made criticising Fredrick? Show an evidence of any member of this thread openly criticising Fredrick before he was invited by Chelle

darkelf:
Solid?

Only 3 goal contributions in 34 matches in Pusa as a CM, winger or CAM?

Vros, you sef know say that na mediocre contributions. Except you're not holding him to a high standard

This isn't a ragebait post but I'm just disappointed

It's why I will say - let's calm down with how we praise U-17 and U-20 players, many of them usually don't live up to expectations.

Akinsanmiro is good but for now, he is not better than the least of the current SE midfielders, Onyedika. Maybe he will improve but I just don't see him being super talented like he is portrayed here.
Before him there was Nwakali brothers and even Ramon Azeez but what came off them? And by eye test they are even far more better than Akinsanmiro

TheSuperNerd:
He played CM, CDM mostly if you saw any of their games which I can bet you did not. So you are giving shallow opinions based on peripheral access to data you did not even witness or understand.

He is 21. Won POTM twice prior to the Afcon and still did not get a minute under Chelle at thar tournament. How is that his fault? He has not failed and he is not being overhyped.
You dont want us talking about our U17 and U20 talents in this thread?? How does talking about them and their progress translate to Overhype??

Next thing you will say is dont talk about Zadok too.

Look, tone down your false narratives and say something else. It is clear you are just ragebaiting out of boredom.

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Nerd, it's good to praise our players because I know how difficult it's to get to where God has taken them to, I have also reported mostly Akinsanmiro appearance and performance here during Pisa matches, but stop over hyping them because that's what usually leads to expecting too much from them, much more than they can offer. That's how most of you were also hyping Daga to high heaven till the last U20 WC when he showed that he wasn't really talented enough to deserve the hype. Akinsanmiro is good but he is not better than what we have now in the SE and his performance for Pisa last season isn't something that showed he is a super talent like most of you are making him feel like

do4luv14:
So the other players are costing FIFA money right,

And who made him the face of football,

Take heart, there is nothing you and other Ronaldo fan boys can do, Messi ship has since sailed.
And to your question, genuine lovers of football made him the face of football because without him, football would have been boring 😎

TheSuperNerd:
Yep, the whole of football celebrates so much that the same Szymon Marciniak who officiated the 2022 Final was the same one who handled Messi's hattrick game vs Algeria and did not even deem it fit to caution messi with a card at least for that dangerous tackle. A tackle that was 100% red card worthy. Mandi's career may have ended right there.

I like Messi but I hate clear favoritism. His 16 WC goals is good for football shaa but the favoritism is not.

Nothing will happen to Mandi or his career trust me. He might still end's up officiating the final of this WC.
Don't forget there is var, why didn't the var guys called him to check the foul?

minfelix:
It doesn’t have to be a “messi” kinda player…an old player still playing top level outstanding old player should not be discarded anyhow..
Ochoa 40 is not in the league of Messi
Manuel Neuer is not Messi.

If Iwobi by 2030 is still actively playing for a big or a decent team and playing well he should guide the younger generation by then

Sometimes it's also because despite their ages, they are still better than the younger ones.
If Iwobi is still playing at the top and no better younger MF comes up by 2030, I'm very sure Iwobi will still play. Ndidi is still playing because there is no younger player who can do better than him in his SE position.

M7even:
For the argeis , I think quarter finals is gonna be their best

That's what most of you thought at the last WC mostly after they lost their first match.
This is an Argentine team that can play and win defensively and also win if they choose to play attack