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mekabuachi:
https://www.pulsesports.ng/football/story/you-said-that-before-gabon-coach-responds-to-osimhen-comments-ahead-of-showdown-2025110720022320954

Osimhen said he would do everything to take Nigeria to the World Cup," Mouyouma said at Thursday's press conference.

"I think Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has already answered this question and demonstrated by scoring four goals against The Gambia.

"Against Burundi, he did not return to his club to prepare for the next fixtures. He stayed with his teammates to show that he really wants to lead the national team to the World Cup. So, I have almost nothing to say about Osimhen's words."
It's motivation, a call to unite his team behind him. But he also said in the last Afcon that he would do everything to bring the cup to Nigeria.

"Unfortunately, Ivory Coast won. Well, these are motivational words that everyone uses without conviction. It’s his opinion alone."

QueenJazz:
They might have as well kept the list hidden till matchday sef. Nothing new or interesting to see here.

chrisooblog:
Reports say Chelle is in Morocco and will most probably speak to the list today.

Odunayaw:
It is two games only o

Bossoflife25:
No password anywhere. Liverpool are playing kids while Palace put up its main team. Smh!

lovewins:
My Suggestion on how the Government can Solve the NFF Conundrum without eliciting FIFA's ban

Posted this in the Super Falcons thread and felt it should also put this here.

The corruption and incompetence problem that pervades the Nigerian football federation isn't new, and it can sometimes appear like an unsolvable problem. This however isn't the case, should you have the person with the needed political will, it is one that can be easily solved without the appearance of interference that could elicit a ban from FIFA.

How then can the Federal Government solve this problem?

1. The President has to be on board for this to work? Without the President this may be extremely difficult as you need the leverage of his office to pull several strings for this to be possible.

2. The composition of the NFF board is largely political. 37 of the 44 voting members of the NFF delegate are state chairmen. These chairmen from the states 100% of the time determine who the NFF chairman is and they almost always pick amongst themselves the next NFF President.

3. How do State chairmen emerge? The state government almost always picks them. So the governor of each state of the federation indirectly determines who the NFF President is. They of course of a semblance of an election but the governor's choice is always the end result.

4. These positions usually are given as reward for party loyalty just like they do the ministry of sports at the federal level. I said this to say it isn't exactly consequential to the governors as they can easily cede the position with the right incentive.

5. With the political will, the President only needs to request for each governor to fire their state FA chairman and put someone of competence of his choosing. He doesn't even need all 37 to get the desired outcome, 23 governors are enough to get this done. With the right incentives this isn't a difficult ask from the president to any governor in the federation.

6. After, replacing them with the right people, you can either easily impeach Gusau following the NFF constitution, or just wait till next year and elect the person of his choosing as next NFF President as he now has the votes to do so. I'll go with option 2 as it prevents the need for court cases and the likes.

7. Upon electing the new board of competent people, the first goal will then be to change the NFF constitution. Item one will be to overhaul the voting process of the NFF, wrestling power from state FA chairmen as delegates and instead gives voting power to technocrats, player association, and career administrators. Include laws in the new constitution that incentivizes competence and makes changing bad leadership easier should it be necessary.

8. With a change in constitution, you remove forever the sway politicians have over Nigerian football.

There are other methods than one can use, but all boils down to political will.

lbrichman2:
I see your point, but can you in all honesty say we played exceptionally well?
We had good moments, yes
But we didn't control the game
Benin always looked like they would score anytime
We still need to fix our midfield
We should be controlling games and smashing opponents

lbrichman2:
Getting the results and playing exceptionally well are two different things
We got the results but Benin was poor today

Mujtahida:
God will punish all the people mocking Osimhen and calling him jagunlabi or jagunjagun.

Toylove:
Dear Rwanda, if you know you’ll loose, kindly do so early, preferably in the first half, don’t raise our hope and concede in dying minutes o make dead body no go surplus.

elyte89:
lol …Abi o

mekabuachi:
The sooner everybody realize social media (Twitter) isn't a real place, the better
Watched a clip of the team alighting from their bus... See the way fans were hailing osihmen... Most of the time, the fans hail him and not his teammates sef, then you begin to wonder who are now the haters online 😂
I can't even remember a scenario where Nigerian fans has physically ever booed osihmen
For example today now, watch how the stadium would be full to it's brink, then you wonder where are all the people against the team and has has said they won't support super eagles

My dear, forget ooh social media is not a real place, anybody can be anything 💯
Las las everything na cruise

BankyGee:
He has more haters than fans in Nigeria and I'm not capping. The Finidi thing don pass but Nigerians love to overdo, plus since Twitter start dey pay, people can't think again. Always looking for banger tweets.

It's now like a 65% haters - 35% fans thing now. It's only in Nigeria I'm seeing fans hating on their player because he scores against their clubs or because he didn't sign for their clubs. Lol.

123jamessmith:
Abeg who na know why Nff wan close roof of stadium for tomorrow match.

mekabuachi:
This one most Nigerian journalist alongside Sunday oliseh are trying to to push propaganda and agenda.. that Nigeria was caused by Erico in 2002 before the world cup after his sack... Hence the reason Nigeria football is declining
Omo we mo really need all those talks now ooh
After world cup qualifiers we talk that one... Do these people know the psychological effect it can have on both fans and players at this crucial moment?

Omo nawa ooh

9JAMac10:
Remember the 2010 World Cup qualifiers Mozambican team did Nigeria a favor by beating Tunisia while Nigeria beat Kenya in Nairobi. Mikel obi best game for Nigeria alongside the Afcon 2013 victory. I get faith Nigeria will qualify this time around. Let’s just hope for the best. Wish the boys a resounding win while Rwanda does not lose to South Africa

Spainever:
The coach is confused 🤔. Lookman and Simon one of them supposed dey bench

Joebie:
if you are serious about qualification you gotta win the last games by some good margins. we are busy struggling as usual. I just dey wait for South Africa to draw first blood.

Toylove:
The way I’m paying more attention to Zimbabwe vs South Africa ehh🤦🏽‍♂️