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Mujtahida:
Wahala
Floodgates will be opened for baroof players

drDoom3:
The reason Ighalo started against CPV was Rohr's bias. Eguavoen and Amuneke are not stupid (sorry Rohr), they will not start an Ighalo over an Awoniyi.

Mujtahida:
I don't fancy Ighalo returning but as TFLASHOGEE says the body language of the NFF is that they want Ighalo back in the team and barring any injury, he will make the WC list if we qualify

andrewbaba44:
When i say beer parlour analyst,I no mean say because you Dey go drink beer for beer parlour on

andrewbaba44:
Na there I take confirm some beer parlour analyst for here

mostob:
WTF did I just read?

mostob:
No.... remember when he indirectly threw a jab at Carlo then about getting to play in his favorite position. Iwobi is better playing through the middle...

mostob:
and let me add that throwing him around is not good for his development. It is either in AM or LW..

Danielnino00:
If only Iwobi can work on his consistency.... Normally,he is a good player, but just can't keep up with his consistency...

AndSunGorilla:
Mr. Voltron, Officer Andrew go sidon joor. Always looking for who to accuse

So what do you think is going on with Ekong? Lamps not caring shouldn't be taken literally sir. I just think his days on the bench are not yet numbered. You know some coaches come and benched players get to start playing, gerrit? So it doesn't look like anything is changing for Alex under Lamps.

andrewbaba44:

andrewbaba44:
Ghana is not a game to gamble with

Osimhen will be the starter for sure ,but if you think other strikers will be ahead of ighalo then you are joking

drDoom3:
Ighalo that has over 30 caps, you still don’t know what he can do? Hell, with one cap as a substitute against Tunisia, Sadiq showed us what he can do. With one first half against Egypt, Awo showed us what he can do.

Ighalo is not one new player from nowhere we are calling to see something new he can bring to the team. He is not Amoo, we all know what he can and can’t do, the same way we know he is not better than what we have.

This World Cup is set to be one of our most promising in decades. Let us not waste it by going for name over merit.

codemaniacs:
If Ighalo is going to make the team then Eguavoen should sacked immediately..

we have Osimhen , Dessers , Dennis, Awoniyi , Umar Sadiq , David Okereke , Kelechi Ihenacho , Samuel Adegbenro , Simy Nwachukwu , Onuachu, Terem Moffi, Paul Mukairu e.t.c. as strikers... so anybody mentioning Ighalo's name is very ignorant of Nigerian strikers...

drDoom3:
To your Iheanacho question, I have one answer: Nigeria 1-0 Egypt.

Coaches try to accommodate Nacho because he can do that. Now what can Ighalo do? I am still waiting for your response.

drDoom3:
I don’t want to attack your personal character, but you speak like one of the people holding Nigeria bondage by choosing favoritism and name over merit.

drDoom3:
You do see the problem with your argument right? “Odion’s best days”, so we want to have a team structured to make a particular player score more goals at the expense of the team? We want to turn to Man U and their Ronaldo saga? At least Ronaldo will offer you a goal almost every game + excellent shooting + more fluid link up play.

TheGoodJoe:

This is not about telling but ability-wise. Never felt Ighalo as a support striker/creative midfielder kind of player. So, I do not find him suitable for that role.

drDoom3:
So the lackluster display from Ighalo compared to the energetic play from Osimhen in the same game is now attributed to the coach? SMH.

Even a blind man could see that Ighalo was not on the same wavelength as Osimhen was by miles. Awo is not far behind from Osimhen. Sadiq too. Onuachu is even more prolific, albeit in a lower tier league. Do we drop them all just to make sure Ighalo gets an assured spot in the team? If that is not favoritism then what is?

By the way, if you can mention one on-pitch quality Ighalo brings that is better than what we have (excluding Osimhen) I will concede to your argument. Just one, no more.

do4luv14:
so the systems he had been playing in, and still playing are 4-4-2 right,


ee be like say, you don see over feel that your feeling abi

TheGoodJoe:

If you play Ighalo and Osimhen upfront, who plays the creative role among the two? Remember, one strike will help prevent outnumbering in the middle.

So, one striker will have the quality to play as a ten. So who will play it, Ighalo or Osimhen?

I have never seen any of them playing such roles.

drDoom3:
So I take it you did not watch Nigeria vs Cabo Verde?

mostob:
bro...is there any bar around you? Enter the place and collect two chilled bottles of beer.
Joke aside, your response here is impressive.

do4luv14:
Na today ah sabi say, you sabi ball, hands up comrade

andrewbaba44:
Osimhen should be first striker then gidigbo ighalo looks like he still have something to offer more than Sadiq and awoniyi for now ,I just have to say this despite the likeness I have for awo bobo ,onuachu is another man in the picture but should be used as a super sub when things doesn’t go well

charlesemeka85:
because he sidelined amokachi and was chopping egunje alone. Amokachi had no say in the team

charlesemeka85:
no right thinking coach who has the luxury of players scattered in top leagues all over Europe will ignore them for local based players in the name of quota system as witnessed during keshi’s time with the super eagles. All was to make way for desperate home based players as a marketing tool to ship them off to obscure leagues in Europe and Asia

Keshi knew it will be difficult to coerced exposed pros in top European leagues to dump their agents and sign with his management team inorder to have a chance in the national team so he gave almost 50% slot to local based players who will do whatever he says just to make the team

All those 2 months training with local based players when you have seasoned pros in europe was just waste of tax payers money

Imagine dropping an Imoh Ezekiel who had over 15 goals in that season in the colors of one of Belgians top clubs standard liege for a Uchebo from the same league who didn’t score up to 6 goals with relegation strugglers cercle
brugge

Until then taiye Taiwo was our best left back and was doing well in the colors of dynamo kiev with ideye and lukman but they all got ignored just to make room for oshaniwa and co

Abdul ajagun was in his 1st season with Greek giants panathiniakos and performed well but was not deemed good enough for a chance in the team

Uche and martins were banging in goals for their clubs but got ignored

Aluko was doing well with hull city and arguable their best player in the championship then but he never got a chance. Even prior to the afcon triumph a year before the World Cup he was the shining light in Glasgow rangers but to keshi he wasn’t good enough and uzoenyi was better than him

Do you know eve to the submission of the World Cup list keshi and the nff had a big fight because Osaze wasn’t listed for the tournament? It took last minute intervention of top officials in the nff to add his name

Mk una leave tori for another day

andrewbaba44:
Some players didn’t made it to the afcon under eguavoen and some people where accusing eguavoen,some where even crying that bassey that didn’t play under rohr didn’t make the squad but I defended the squad ,my opinion was that akpoguma should have made the squad ahead of ndah and Ebuehi ahead of shehu and nothing much ,I didn’t even take it too serious self

A whole boss like amunike go work under eguavoen,someone that’s even interested in the job ,water don pass garri

Majority of our local coaches are shady but I am still glad eguavoen is in charge even though amunike might have some little influence

do4luv14:
no chance here to go on brila FM , so pls ensure to post his talks here,

thanks in advance comrade

andrewbaba44:
Where is the conspiracy theory I brought here ?

Same me that was supporting eguavoen appointment before the afcon and still after the afcon

So what’s wrong in my saying our local coaches are shady if I may ask ?

I trust eguavoen and I like his afcon squad ,but I don’t trust amunike .

Joezinho:
Where in my post did i call Amuneke or Eguaveon shady? I respect Eguavoen a lot cox he has never been accused as a shady person. Stop getting worked up dude.

Some naija coaches are shady. Is salisu not a corrupt mofo? Wasn't he caught? Isn't he still part of the coaching crew?