₦airaland Forum

tbaba1234:
It is not match rustiness.

Most of these players have been involved with the under 23 and in continental competitions.

Then it's either they are shitty or the coach is shitty. Either ways, our home based football is bleeped up. Damn
Local coaches are clueless and corruption madden, Local league players are now shitty too. Na Academy players get small hope now cos it now seems they are the ones getting signed by reasonable clubs abroad.

It seems Pinnick and his goons has destroyed our local football

larride:
Very funny.

Nothing funny about it. Any coach that will guarantee success,( and what is the success?, Trophies ) is welcomed by me. That is one thing. I like about Chelsea, their board don't work on emotions but fact and results. That is why they could hire Mourinho for a second time because they wanted results,not minding how they split in the first place.

That is one of the reason I'm 100% sure that Lampard's honey moon will be over after the transfer ban, except he does something extraordinary like winning the league or Champions league. They will sack him irrespective of if he's a club legend.

Man utd is clearly still being run on Emotions and sentiments, that is why they've been taking a lot of stupid decisions since the sack of Mourinho.

An example is the sale of Lukaku and Sanchez. Do you think a proper/Actual/Serious coach will make such stupid decisions? Even if such decisions want to happen, he would have gotten a proper replacement without hoping on a 17 yr old teenager to blow in his first professional season. Like WtF!!

tbaba1234:
I don't know whether to blame Imama or the players.

Something is definitely wrong with that team.

Most if the players too are also match rusty. The league has been off for how many months now

CrystalTiger:
If they truly love the club, then their silence isn't needed right now..We're becoming worse than Assnal..Do we even watch any match now with any hope of scoring goal not to talk of winning..?

They're all waiting for the DOF slot I think, which is a huge scam by Ed..

Ed is crazy though. He might have used the DOF position to make them keep silence, because they were like a pest on the club's neck last season with their constant criticism. Even Berbatov that usually talk last season don't even comment on our matches any longer. Evra that also talks last season is now a motivational speaker just because he was employed to finish his coaching badge at Man utd Academy. Something is definitely not right.

footiemaniac:
How is Mauricio Pochettino even better than David Moyes?, with what David Moyes did at Preston North End & Everton with tightest of all budget . They are both on par and have the same common denominator which is being Trophyless. And we all saw how David Moyes fared when he was appointed as the Manager of Manchester United.

Manchester united needs to start winning trophies and we need a manager with winning mentality and not just settling for top 4 finish every season. This club is bigger than Poch.

@The bolded has been the genesis of my rant since.

If we don't get back quickly to winning trophies, we will just become another Arsenal that has lost its winning mentality. And we begin to settle for we played well or We make top four. lol

eph12:
So your ambition for the club is to develop youth players and win the transfer window? LMAO

They probably still think we are in 1992

All those teams developing youth players sef are doing it because of their low financial strength. You think if they can compete financially in the Transfer window, they won't break bank to buy players?

eph12:
So we should bring back LVG? And if they can't maybe Moyes. It wasn't this bad under him na

If we had this kind of patience that we are having with Ole for Moyes, may be the man would have gotten it right in his subsequent seasons. Afterall Moyes is a better manager.

How peeps here keep giving Ole some benefits of the doubt despite his bad history in the EPL and his obvious cluelessness is what I don't understand. Even better managers that has managed the club in the past were not this bad, yet they were sacked without asking question.

I guess Ole's juju man strong gan

eph12:
We should as well go back to LVG. Martial and Rashford did very good under him.

LVG sef better. and IMHO, he was unfairly sacked though.

footiemaniac:
Mauricio Pochettino is a bang average manager with NO SINGLE trophy to show for his 10 years Managerial career. The weight of managing Manchester united will be to heavy on his shoulders, we don't need bottlers. If we are to move away from Ole, we should be doing better than employing another over-hyped Argentine Moyes.

We should swallow our pride and go back to Mourinho.

He's the only person that can get things done trophy wise, if you give am money. If we are saying academy players, some will still push through no matter the coach. As bad is Mourinho is in discovering young players, no be him give us Mctominay that has now turned out to be one of our best players currently?

Swissh:
Why chairmo dey use hash tag

I'm tired ni.

It seems Man utd is suffering from Sir Alex Ferguson success syndrome, thinking that his methods will still work but it's outdated already. We have to move on from his era to acheive anything reasonable.

Even Ferguson towards the end of his era knows that his methods are outdated, that is why he bought some established players like Berbatov, Van Persie, etc during the end of his reign. He didn't buy Young British talents

Mujtahida:
This right here is where the problem of our football stems from. Street football cannot fly in this era. Football is now an intellectual exercise. That's why academies have taken over. It is not for nothing that this era is tagged the era of the coaches.

Many European greats like Puskas, Eusebio, Cruyff, etc honed their skills on the streets but as usual oyibo man will not rest and will keep refining the system. Thus from the mid 80s academies began popping up in this countries and now they are everywhere.

Even Brazil does not rely on street anymore.

Imagine going for a competition involving the intellect and just because in the past everybody brought street to the competition, you continue to do so even now while your competitors bring in people trained in academies. Omo dem go win una tire.

I like street football oo, very much. I even prefer it but the reality is that that era is gone.

You are right.

Especially now that football now has textbook like rules that you can't learn on the streets. You have to be in a proper academy to learn some of those rules.

For instance, you won't learn on the streets that there is no Offside during throw in, but a proper academy will teach you. So as a street footballer defender, you might want to be keeping offside trap during a long throw scenario, but your opponent went into a position, and you think he's offside till he scores. This is just one of those numerous scenarios

eph12:
So was Mourinho and OGS backed financially?
What's Tottenham style of play under Poch? So how many years of setting the foundation do we give Poch before l another manager can now come in and win trophies?

If the Man utd board knOws what's good for them, they better look for a coach that will guarantee trophies and back such coach financially, so that we can get back to the top quickly, so that we no go turn to Arsenal in England.

Gone are the Alex Ferguson era where you can build from scratch without pressure. That era is gone. Even Barca that has the culture of promoting from their Academy and spending less on transfers are now competiting with Real Madrid in terms of money spent in the transfer window, just to remain at the top.
And if you ask me, our best bet is still Mourinho, provided that he's given what he wants. In his 3yrs he got is 2 trophies. That shows that he will always gettl u trophies whether by hook or by crook.

Make the board just swallow their pride and rehire him , or hire another coach that really knows what he's doing and can guarantee you trophies, provided he's backed financially in the Transfer window.

If we follow Ole rebuilding nonsense, we go just turn to Arsenal without knowing.

#TimesHaveChanged
#Fact

TheSuperNerd:
Well, that explains his absence altogether for today but he has not been featuring. The bench has become his home recently in France and it is not nice for his NT career.

No nice at all.

If things doesn't improve, he better seek for a loan move by January. Afterall, Monaco is a king of Loaning players, so he won't have problems getting approval

TheSuperNerd:
Samuel Kalu not in match day squad for Bordeaux in their Ligue 1 away tie at Toulouse.

Josh Maja on the bench.

Something must be wrong . Either he picked up a knock or he has illness.

TheSuperNerd:
Henry Onyekuru is not having it good in France.

From being on the bench to being left out of the matchday squad.
He is not in the matchday squad for today as Monaco take on Montpellier in Ligue 1.

He's injured sir

weedtaker:
will you term someone who has finished in the top 4 for the past 4seasons straight average? considering the team he manages and their pull in the transfer market, money spent?

He's also had some fantastic results in Europe, of course his career highlight is the CL final last season, but his team did put up some good performances en-route to the Final.


Abeg make I stop, make e no be like say I de praise am.

In as much as you are correct about the points, I hope you know that managing a small team like Tottenham with low level expectations as per winning of tittles is different from managing big clubs like Man Utd, Barca, Madrid Chelsea, etc of this world that invest heavily in their teams to win tittles.

David Moyes did as much as Pochettino at Everton with lesser budgets sef . He came to a big club and things went south.
Even though Pochettino is clearly better than Ole, Tottenham present bad runs is not enough to disprove that, but how sure he will be different from Ole presently?

It's a one in a million question

edi287:
Sorry wrong screenshots. These are the ones that show where he played at Crewe before he moved to Spuds.
He carried on playing there till Poch eventually moved him to an AM.

You are bringing his stats from Crewe when he was bought from MK dons to Spurs. that shows that he used to play there at the early stage of his career which is irrelevant. Someone like Ndidi used to be a defender , Mctominay of Man U used to be a striker, most players have probably played some different positions in the early start of their careers as teenagers. you said he has scored 50 goals at Spurs. the question is , at what position?

Stop bringing screenshot of half truth. thank you.

gustav25:
Odera , it shall not be well with you !!!
You don't even have a brain anuohia

Jeez . I refuse to comment further.
You don't deserve further reply from me

gustav25:
How many goals of Iheanacho pigmouth scored ? Later una go carry una tear year mouth dey say He was banging in goals in Mancity ... Yeye

How does what I said even relate to Iheanacho and his goal drought challenge. Like WTF!!!

Tbf, you have a pea sized brains.

As if there are no other British forward on goal drought too.

ọ̀dẹ̀

tbaba1234:
It is not easy.

You try to make your child feel more Nigerian but you are not the only influence in their life. Society also plays its role.

That said, i do not think, it is just about heart. Money talks too. Players earn more playing for England.

Money? Hmmm

When players of other nationality even donate their bonuses from national team Engagement to charity sef. if money is their motivation for choosing a national team, then I'll rather pass on them. Cos NFF no dey stable

chucs:
You are talking about politics and i'm talking about football( two different things).

Yea I get

chucs:
From the writeup I read, some people made such insinuations.

What i'm implying is that upbringing helps in making those kids raised abroad have stronger connection with their roots. Some of these kids don't feel like Nigerians and doesn't want to be associated with the country eg Dele Ali, Barkley etc. So they dont even have that option. How are u sure they have Nigerian passport to start with?

That someone represents a foreign country doesn't make him less Nigerian. It has to do with the mindset. I used Antony Joshua as an example.
I ones watched a tv documentary of Serge Gnabry discuss about his Ivorian root and how he supports local kids in his little way.

@the bolded is debatable. Shebi u know that technically , those People are now less Nigerian.

In the sense that in the Nigerian constitution, one of your rights as a citizen is the right to vote and be voted for. As a dual nationality person, you might still vote but you can't be voted for because of your dual citizenship, meaning you can't contest an election for a political position in the country, except you renounce your other citizenship. So this makes you less Nigerian because you don't enjoy the full right as a Nigerian. And I'm sure this clause is not peculiar to the Nigerian constitution, because a lot of countries in the world also has that clause.

Although the decision of the boys to represent England should be respected, but saying that they are also more Nigerian is debatable and cannot be 100% correct as some of them don't own or have never even applied for the Nigerian passport before.

Earthquake1:
Nobody said once you're born abroad you are not Nigerian but if you have two passports you have to choose where your loyalty lies

Abraham has made his choice and is fully English, Iwobi has made his choice and is fully Nigerian, you can be fully citizens of both countries as Komekn was insinuating

You can't be a full citizen of two countries. You will always be loyal to one than the other, no matter what. Why do you think a lot of countries have constitution against people with dual citizenship holding some certain key and sensitive position.

Although, the context here is football. But on technical grounds, you can't be a full citizen of two countries at the same time because of loyalty and division of interest.

edi287:
Hyped Dele Alli has scored 53 league goals for Spuds as a CM at 23 years of age. Hyped or not - that is a big deal.

This is not true. Dele was never and I don't think has ever played CM. He started out as a Winger for Spurs before being converted to an AM as time went on. At those two positions, you will get to goal scoring position and score. So it's not a big deal considering his playing position

charlesemeka85:
And so many who won't understand their decision will tag them unpatriotic.

Technically bro, it is unpatriotism, we don't have to sugar coat it and in some serious countries like China and a former communist Russia, it is a big offense.
However, from the moral point of view, we can say that they are just hustlers trying to make ends meet, at least they didn't kill anybody

tenmariner:
This guy go dribble dalot tire today

No wonder Ole bought Wan bissaka. This dalot plays like a teenager with no strength at all. The just dey bully am everywhere. And I see the reason why Matic or Fred can't bench Mctominay

realpoacher:
This Lille team is shitty


So much inexperience everywhere

Spits.

This is the highest stage that most of them are playing. They are good individual players but experience was what they lack. They are no way shitty. Ajax used to be like this in 2017 when the major crop of their players then we're still very young. But now they are matured and whipping anybody

Kingjite:
Osimhen is miles ahead of Abraham dats the Truth,England can take Abraham we don't need him cos if he come to SE he go sit down for bench taya

It's a lose lose situation for Tammy. cos he will be a bench warmer for England, and also for Nigeria.

As strong as Osimhen is, Rohr still dey call am light weight and demands more strength from him. How will a lighter Tammy that falls at every touch please Rohr to be his first choice

MetalJigsaw:
use your hand to cover your mouth.

It's a fact bro. It's like like Hazard was an elite goal scorer in the EPL , like Sallah, Aguero, Aubameyang, Vardy, Kane and Lukaku of this world, in the EPL.
so using Hazard as a reference point in terms of goal scoring in the EPL is dead on arrival.
His best season that he had his highest goals was this season. And the numbers were 16 goals I think. If someone like Kane had 16 goals in the EPL, it will be considered a poor season from him.

So yes, If Madrid bought Hazard to be an elite goal scorer that will average 30 goals a season, they just bought the wrong dude

jieta:
You are insulting Chukwueze, pepe is the chief carpeter himself arsenal should ask for a refund because there have been scam. Even saka is more influential in this game than him.

Pepe's lacklustre performance at AFCON was a warning sign to Arsenal but Arsenal refused to listen.

.

andrew444:
After dem go say to score goal for EPL hard

This dude Aubameyang has always find it very easy to score in this league

Me i am waiting for hazard to get 15 laliga goals at worst since its easier to score in spain

Our of point sir.

even in EPL, hazard is not even a goal scorer. If Madrid bought him to give them goals like Ronaldo, they bought the wrong dude

Now Aubameyang is always a goal scorer no matter the league. He's one of those strikers that will always give you goals , no matter the league or the style of play. He's not a knowledge soaker that needs to play in a particular type of set up or style to score