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Tbh if FIFA rules in favor of DRC i won't even be bothered, my excitement about this world cup drama was smothered long time ago, it even helps that the hype around the world cup isn't that exciting because of the anti-immigration politics going on in Trump's USA at the moment. Imagine getting rounded up by ICE agents and deported after attending a game to watch your national team, stadiums will be easy targets for those devils.

The news about Emmanuel Fernandez switching to Nigeria is even more exciting for me sef than this Naija vs DRC matter, let DRC go to the world cup, they haven't been to one since thr 70's and they were quite easy to warm up to during the AFCON with their iconic Patrick Lumumba moments. NFF should hide their head in shame for potentially ruining yet another world cup moment for us and use that shame to schedule top level friendly games for us. Let the boys and Chelle be busy at least.

opes:
Punch newspaper today reported that Iran football federation and NFF are already negotiating for a friendly match in March..hmmm

Maybe it's a plan B move for NFF just incase

lbrichman2:
Sometimes we even forget that Umar Sadiq is in La Liga
This life ehn..

Anyway, dude just scored a belter!!

sweet goal..
https://x.com/i/status/2023116169872290074

Umar Sadiq has mastered the art of disappearing into only God knows where and then popping up with wonder goals, a truly enigmatic player.

Barca and their kamikaze high line football, not sure if it's stupidity or sheer arrogance.

mostob:
Na wa for you o. The depth we have no do you bro? Bassey, Ogbu, Ben, Vince, Nnaiwu, Semi... And many more.

Quality wise, is Tosin better than what we have currently?

You're right sha

Karlovych:
Massive swoop for them, I believe it's due to the upcoming WC

Omo see as other African countries dey stack up with quality, meanwhile we're struggling to get jusr Ahanor or Tosin...world cup na you do this one o.

do4luv14:
Sharp Otele assist Hamburger goal

Straight to business like Lookman

Nice

ManUtd are cooking under Carrick sha, this one isn't some brief spell of managerial bounce anymore, this one feels like UTD have found gold with M.Carrick.

TheSuperNerd:
Tochukwu Joseph Ogboji (#21 for Lillestrom set to compete in the 2026 Norwegian Eliteserien season) is a left footed CB who was part of the 2022-2023 Golden Eaglets generation, some of whom have found their way to Europe.

🟢Ozor Okeke, CM - IF Elfsborg, Sweden.
🟢Abubakar Idris Abdullahi, FW - KAA Gent U23 (Challenger Pro)
🟢Umar Abubakar, FW - Famalicao (Liga Portugal), moved from Gent U23
🟢Light Chijioke Eke - Riga FC (Latvia topflight) mainly with Riga II (Latvia 2nd tier, Natkones Liga)
🟢Charles Agada, FW - NK Istra (Croatia)
🟢Emmanuel Michael, LB - LASK (Austria Bundesliga)
Precious Williams, CF - Vendsyssel FF (Denmark 2nd tier)
🟢Yahaya Lawali, RB/RM - MFK Karvina but features for Karvina B in Czech 3rd tier (MSFL)
🟢Tochukwu Ogbabido, CM - Banik Ostrava (Czech Liga) but with Banik Ostrava U19s mainly in the Czech U19 First league.
🟢Jeremiah Olaleke, CB - NK Sesvete (Croatian 2nd tier - Prva Liga).



Below is a highlights clip of Ogboji, LCB at U17 level. A lad now making his marks at Lillestrom SK, Norway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO6dy1ukI2w?feature=shared



Frame below: Tochukwu Ogboji in action for Lillestrom in 2026 friendlies.

Very impressed with this lad and I do remember he was one of the bright spots from that Nduka Ugbade U17 set, he could turn out to be another Benjamin Frederick type of discovery for us soon.

lbrichman2:
My brother
Some players are good but grossly underrated
I guess that Southampton move contributed
But under our previous coaches, he just wasn't it
Given our current system under Chelle, I don't think Onuachu will go 3-4 games without scoring, if he starts
We create chances like water now

We have a good core of young forwards like Uchenna (Augsburg), Durosinmi (Pisa fc), Otele (Hamburg), Prosper Obah (Shaktar), Akor Adams etc all in their best prime...all these players will not only score goals under a Chelle team but also provide more...there has to be a time when we end this Onuachu experiment cause it just isn't working for the national team, his level is Turkey and that's fine- he has earned himself a very decent career in Turkiye. Strikers aren't our problem, so players like Onuachu, Simon Moses etc are at best surplus to requirement.

BascoVanVeli:
Nigeria vs Senegal 2017 friendly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJydVfG7Ask?si=mMnktivx-vtvYnf2

I remember this game but not this highlight which showed we played a very good game against an ever strong Senegalese team, who was our coach here?

elyte89:
Scored on debut
Assist on debut
Against a well know team Real Betis and not against just random teams like Olomoyelespor 😅😂

Culled from twitter


Dem just Dey cook king of Seriki in turkey 😊😊😀😀

I hate to cook Osimhen cause he's still one of our best, but the fact that he went to Turkey and seems content there compared to Lookman who went for a bigger/better challenge in the La Liga with a top club like Atletico shows the difference in ambition, I don't want to say difference in mentality cause that will do a disservice to Osimhen who has an elite mentality regardless of his club trajectory.

TheSuperNerd:
I am telling you. Lookman has got 1 or 2 more APOTY seasons in him.

Today alone, he bagged a pre-assist, an assist and a Goal. All in his debut for ATM. Naaah, he is cooking. We have not seen his best yet.

Adefire 🔥🔥🔥 La Liga go collect from sunday. Ade is coming.

Omo seems I'll get me an Atletico jersey, the design and color is so clutch 🔥🔥🔥

lbrichman2:
Exactly!!
That deepens our options pool for that position

Not forgetting Prosper Obah as well.
It's time to respectfully phase out Simon Moses at this point and give these other players a chance on the wings.

Papi85:
Sani to Leipzig
Moffi to Porto
Nnadi to Marseille
Mola to Atletico Madrid
Ogundu to Augsburg
Obah to Shakthar Doneskt
Salim to Viktoria Plzen
Otele to Hamburg

Good window so far for our players 😊😊😊😊😊

The new generation (with the exception of Ademola) is looking exciting, NFF should get their acts together and dare not make the mistake of allowing this new boys miss another world cup if FIFA don't favor us on this DRC case...it will be a travesty if we Bleep this up.

semid4lyfe:
I gave up on Ejuke after that Tunisia game in AFCON. Guy came in and was just losing the ball trying to dribble. Too worsen matters, the only time he was played through, and had a better placed Osimhen to pass to, he went for personal glory and missed the chance.

Sinon too is not better. The way he rolls the ball with the side of his boots when with the ball is annoying. He wastes too much time on the ball, allows opponents to recover to double-mark him and kills promising attacks.

Nathan Tella in Leverkusen isn't better too, so I'm glad other wingers/wing forwards are emerging.

Time to phase out the likes of Simon Moses and give younger prospects like Prosper Obah, Philip Otele and Suleiman Sani a chance to give us refreshing ideas on those wings. Osimhen etc get starved of quality service from the wings because the ones we have there are glorified atilogwu dancers at best.

TheSuperNerd:
Bruno and assists🅰️

🔥

Papi85:
Simon is not even my problem but Ejike. That guy still plays secondary school football. I don’t mind having Simon around instead of Ejike

Both Simon and Ejuke have no business in the SE, I watched Simon in our 3rd place match against Egypt and was shocked at how badly he has regressed, the guy just does the same headless chicken touchline runs and then does his legendary crosses down a blind alley to nobody, rinse and repeat.

Good transfer for our boys, now FIFA should hurry up with their verdict on this DRC eligibility kwanta!

mrwilliams9:
To be honest, Senegal got off very lightly. $600K can easily be played by the players themselves.

5 game ban for Thiaw? That’s just 5 of 6 games in the next AFCONQ, he’ll still be at the next WC and AFCON.

I even thought CAF would ban them from the next AFCON

Both teams got off to easy, literally a slap on the wrist...

Samueltemi337:
When we have playoff march?

We as in Nigeria?

TheSuperNerd:
At this point, it's obvious CAF isn't gonna take this towel business seriously coz it involves Morocco. All the talk of law and fairness is a facade when things like this keep getting ignored.

Lol it's obvious CAF won't do shit to Moroccan FA, didn't you see how Motsepe was sucking up to the whole Moroccan monarchy during the AFCON.

So NFF can't find a top European or South American world cup bound team willing to play us in this international friendly window? at least we are 3rd in CAF ranking and 26 in world rankings coming off an impressive AFCON with an exciting coach...surely a decent Euro team should find us worthy opponents to use to size up the African teams in their world cup groups?

Na wa o...

charlesemeka85:
if the NFF lose Chelle we re back to square one 🤦‍♀️

Tunisia already appointed Sabri Lamouchi since 3 weeks ago, he's on a contract till 2028 with them, his appointment has even been updated on Wikipedia already. Make una dey do basic fact-finding before posting unverified junk journalism here from X of all places.

ChrisKels:
I have no confidence in either of the two leading the lines, same as Tolu, but Onuachu trumps both as a sub-striker(playing behind the main striker) because he has a better footwork and his linkup play is good. That said, my choice is a fit Terem Moffi.

Osimhen
Akor
Moffi

✅

Let Moffi find a club first and get back to form, he has done absolutely nothing of note to make any serious persons top 3 choice.

FIFA need to hurry up and kick out DR Congo abeg, our boys are too hot in form not to make this world cup especially under Chelle, even if we qualify by backdoor runs I don't care anymore, you can't shame the shameless

Meanwhile Chibuike Nwaiwu had a very good game for Trabzonspor and is fast becoming a fan's favorite there, another quality addition to our strong CB depth, Bassey will have solid partners for years to come.

TheSuperNerd:
This lad is a proper baller. A good winger. Was really good at LNZ Cherkasy so Shakhtar had to snap him up not just because he is a strong talent but also to weaken their rivals for the title. Lol

If he's this rated to be snapped by a decent club like Shaktar then that's a positive news, we need players like Simon Moses replaced fast if this kid plays the same position.

Our best formation and starting XI going with Chelle's preferred 4-4-2 diamond

chrisooblog:
Garba Lawal, Tijani Babangida?

None of them are Fulani...

elyte89:
I doubt ….that would be too “harsh”

I hope so, but the body language of infantino and Motsepe suggests they were not happy about Senegal winning the AFCON during the trophy presentation, won't put it past FIFA to play bad politics here and screw Senegal here.

https://x.com/TouchlineX/status/2013497929244303496?s=20