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Is there set of new rules?

Teams that played today did upto 5 sub.

Is that new rule or safe treatment based on the fact that they are match rusty?

safarigirl:
Ok

Provoker:
if you like analyse it from today till tomorrow even bring out solid points, billing can Never bench Ndidi.
Infact no midfielder in our team not even etebo can bench Ndidi
Even when aribo came, it was etebo position on the line, if the team needs to be more attacking then etebo would be sacrificed. That's just the reality.
Ndidi plays in a 2 man pivot and gives his best yet you aren't satisfied. Ndidi doesn't give average performances for super eagles.
When pinnick was asked which he doesn't joke with, he said ndidi because ndidi is very loyad plays with the same passion he plays with for leceister.
How y'all started criticizing ndidi was very surprising to me.
Ndidi till he retires is untouchable!

Apparently....you no dae watch our ball.
Bye

chucs:
I don't support this. He is first a human before not being good enough. We should try to always treat people fairly regardless. If what he said is true, then we should condemn the act and not the person trying to speak up.

His case is different. He is not good enough so there's no way he could get called.

barackodam:
How many games has Haiti played?

Did you factor that?

Even Nigeria plays mostly one games during breaks, except qualifiers.

And Haiti don't have the financial power to be organising and taking part in friendlies

But I can see Haitian players with 16-20 caps who debut in 2014,,, same year as sarki. He's not just good enough for us.

andrewbaba44:
Ndidi is untouchable

Billing playing for eagles wont scare ndidi abeg

What ndidi is to nigeria is what ramos/busquets is to the spanish national team, busquets is no longer the busquets we used to know but his place in the spanish team is still untouchable

Do Spanish team have better player in that position?

benji93:
I was referring to the under 17 world cup. Going by his current age, he was 17 then. That guy doesn't look like a typical Nigerian 17-year-old. He looked easily over 21. Perhaps your reason for such a stand is cos he looked lean. Perhaps if you can get a full-body picture, I may be able to give a better opinion. The background of these our players may make it hard to judge their age when they are teenagers(according to their football age). However, if you have an association with people from such backgrounds or you are from such a background yourself, you can see through it. If you know, you know. . I hope this exchange is not the beginning of a long one that could span days.

You are talking in nonsense

safarigirl:
To Go or to Fight?

The dream was to play for United, he even scored in the process.

He should cash the 400k

safarigirl:
Tests came out negative

Good news

safarigirl:
Na test dem test am, the result will be out toorrow

Ohk... Tankx

Mbappe with Corona virus. So bad.


Modi:

How true? Someone just said it now

Danielnino00:
Abeg. Who is England's first choice left back ?I hope I isn't Luke Shaw?
Saka better pass this guy o...

Ben Chiwel

The overrated team won underrated team in their backyard. Yeye

Subzero047:
Unpopular opinion

Bayern is overrated

What do you mean?

I don't know how una Dae take argument for this thread. Oga Subzero and supernerd, e no be fight.

Haba!

mostob:
Why do I think this racism of a thing is overblown.
One life principle is that once people find a perfect weapon against you and you externally shows them it pains,they will continually use it against you anytime they want. The best thing is to find a perfect antidote which to me is to use the weapon(racism) to your best advantage. Take for instance, Dani Alves , he was racially abused.A banana was thrown at him when he was about to take a corner, he neither whined nor walked out of the field, he picked it up , ate it and went ahead to bag an assist from the corner kick. You were racially abused and u angrily left the field, that to me feels like u are not proud of your root,skin colour and who you are. Racism doesn't have an antidote..the best weapon is to render it useless . Black players should stop being childish, show some resilience and toughness.
They got broken down easily.
This is my own opinion... no insult pls.

cc oga pidgib

I got your angle but it largely depends on victim in question. Marega is who he is so is Dani. It is individual something. Left for me, I will wear it like amour just as the dwarf suggested to Jon Snow in GoT.

For example, Years ago when I was living with a 'perfectionist priest', he made me fool before parishioners citing some 'pretentious alter servers' as people I should follow. The funny part of it is that these same guys I ought to look up to, see me as role model. �

To cut the story short..... Since I can't convince him that I'm not as bad as he paints me, and my respect loosing its taste every passing day before my peers. I changed my nickname to 'Iddiott'. Funny some people still call me Iddiott till today.... The rest they say become history.

This is me.
Marega might choose another way.
So it is question of.... What works well for you?

Triniti:
You just dey talk rubbish all the time. What’s wrong with you??

You

Triniti:
Nigerians deserves whatever they get in terms of leadership. Imagine some folks here defending the appointment of Yobo, just because man played 100 matches for Nigeria, he should now mount leadership of the nations apex team with no credible qualification. This is how we support mediocrity then cry foul when illiterates gets appointed into other spheres of our national life. Pinnick is just giving out jobs based on paddy paddy levels. No single credibility, what is Yobo bringing to the table when we already have a tactical deficient Rohr In charge? it all amounts to square peg in a round hole

There's no mediocrity.... Paint it whatever you wish.

tbaba1234:
Do your research.

Arteta had a UEFA A license when he was still an Arsenal player.

Same qualifications, Oliseh had..

What of Gary Monk when he took Epl by storm with average swan team?

tbaba1234:
Arteta, Zidane and other young Coaches in europe did not just get appointments because they were good players.

They got the qualifications, first before a club took a chance with them.

Yobo might become a fantastic coach but this appointment was not about merit.

Arteta has no qualification before he was made assistant.

There are some players that are made coach without worthy qualifications, Monk and kompany comes to mind.

Earthquake2:
Yobo has no experience of coaching and was pushed straight to the role of assistant coach

This is an insult to ex SE players who have been in the coaching job

Oga there's no insult, everyone must not be lucky. Maybe you should go tell Chelsea for appointing lampard instead of Zola....


And they will likely turn down the offer as assistant manager

Danielnino00:
I really don't get it.
He performed well at Leipzig when he was on loan there.. they liked him so much that they begged Everton to sell him ...
Now that they have gotten him, he isn't getting game time..
What went wrong ??
I know Leipzig have quality players up front, but it's unlike them to spend 25m on a player and leave him on the bench too many times..

Dip in form

etebefia:
After 20+mins in the Nigerian league only 1 team has scored. This is not a good record.

So what's wrong with it?

realpoacher:
You are wrong Safari

Loyalty is still very much displayed by professional players coming to play for their respective countries.

How much do you think countries worldwide pay players compared to club salaries and wages?

Most Countries pays peanuts compared to clubs yet these players wanna still bleed for their countries. They lobby, fight to get into the team. If they get it, they cherish the experience. But if they don't they wail sorrowfully all over the media. I am talking about all countries of the world.

Some players who miss out selections will diss the coach, the FA, media and everyone on their path. Case study: Samir Nasri, Ter stegan vs Emmanuel Nuer clash of Germany. For how much really?.. Peanuts.


How much was iwobi bought? $40M

How much did Algeria collect for winning AFCON 2019? $8.2M... How much did each Algerian players collect as wages from preliminary group stage to final and winning the cup?

I don't think it was upto the $25M Kelechi iheanacho Leicester City bought. Or up what they pay him weekly which averages £75,000 per week.

How much did France get for winning the World Cup 2018 and how much was Paul Pogba bought by Man U or Joax felix by ATM?

Ordinarily, these players shouldn't bother themselves about country football anymore since they earn far far more from club football but nothing can be compared to the passion, acceptance of your own people/country, playing for them for honor and bragging rights.


You can be a super star for your club but that one concern only you and your family, it is also for your own personal glory. Nobody argues that with you.

But country football has always been and will forever be for National glory. That is why it is called "National Assignment"...Lol

Your Nation sent you on a National errand/assignment same as they send the Military, Police, Doctors (during crisis), even Athletes etc

As for them fighting for their wages, it is purely legal and rightful because people sent on National assignment like that are usually given a reasonable stipends, salary, or allowance. Even if it were a volunteer service, you will still be entitled to those peanuts.

You can't expect our Nigerian players not to complain when administrators decide to embezle these peanuts while urging the players to play for pride.

As an administrator, you are paid a salary. You are also given money to share to players and coaches as allowances. Rather you eat your salary and still want to eat the players wages. For what?

Babe no reason am o!

Ighalo earn $300k per week in China but still want to play for Nigeria just for $10k per match bonus. You people won't still pay him rather will insult his family for missing goals.

Abeg allow the players to demand for their wages o!

Taking a huge pay cut from their club salaries to get peanuts match allowances their respective countries is enough Loyalty.

I think you are missing the premise.

The context here is for players with dual nationalities é.g A. Lookman who has Nigeria as second option. Players of this category in most cases, choose countries with better remuneration package in expense of countries like ours.

Honestly, 'loyalty' is always secondary, that is why France has more dark players than Nigeria, that's the reason Ozil and Ilkay Gundogan chose Germany. If loyalty is the first priority, Belgium will be begging Dessers because lukaku and Benteke will be playing for DRC with Kenya parading Origi.......


The writer suggesting that we should no accept these players because they are damaging our 'football brand' is laughable because we 've got no option. Even developing our own won't be easy, it is long term plan. Let's just manage what we have unless we are ready to have Egwuekwe, Lakosa, Sokari et al in our line-up

Earthquake2:
Club football is business, country football is about loyalty

People will only give you the respect you allocate to yourself

Loyalty gị na onye??

I no no wetin to talk again sef, all thanks to Safari

MetalJigsaw:
Being the second choice demeans the Super Eagles brand
opera.com

Nigeria’s biggest and most positive brand is the senior national football team – most commonly known as the Super Eagles. Therefore, the players, the coaching team, the administrators, the federation, government and indeed all Nigerians, have the stellar duty of protecting this brand.

This is even more so since one of the best news about Nigeria abroad is how good our footballers are in their respective European teams and how good the Eagles have been in international competitions.

We all then have a duty to stop the Eagles from becoming the second choice or the last alternative for players, whose brands have waned at countries where they were born. This is not knocking the concept of mining the diaspora. What I am saying is that we should mine for the best products in terms of the quality of human resources we pool to the team.

Recently in the news, Ademola Lookman and Chuba Akpom confirmed their intentions to switch national allegiance from England to Nigeria. National allegiance switches have been a desired performance metric for the Amaju Pinnick-led Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). However, how altruistic were these decisions from the players?

In 2018, England’s U-21 manager, Aidy Boothroyd told the Daily Mail , “Every time I see him [Lookman] I have a little joke with him about it. I say: “Why would you want to leave us? But he’s very focused on England – that’s what he tells me. He says he wants to play international football for England.”
In December 2019, Lookman told the Guardian , “I’ve not changed my mind on wanting to represent England but I’m open and it’s good to have different opportunities.”

What changed?

The likely answer is Lookman’s expected stature ascent after winning the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2017 has not materialised. He found it hard to consistently feature at Everton and his sojourn to RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga has not been a roaring success.
By the time the 2022 World Cup comes kicks off, Lookman will be about 25 years of age with his window of opportunity to show off on football’s biggest stage diminishing. For his managers, it is a wise decision to switch allegiance. But, will it be a wise decision for the Eagles to have him knowing they are just a second choice?
Chuba Akpom, the 24-year-old now plying his trade for PAOK in Greece former Arsenal starlet who burst into the limelight in the 2014/15 EPL season, has seen that the light might be dulling. He is not anywhere near his wunderkind status nearly six years ago when Arsene Wenger introduced him to the world.

There are other examples who have Nigeria in their consciousness as a second choice. The case of Adama Traore, Wolverhampton forward, who declared for Mali and was then called up by Spain is another example. His assessment of his situation according to BBC is, “When the time comes, you will see which team I decide.” Traore then added, “But if Spain come again, I will be in a position to go and train with Spain.” No more mention of Mali!

Protecting the Super Eagles Brand
While the overriding notion to make the Eagles the finest collection of talents that Nigeria boasts of – home and abroad, is in the best interest of everybody, it is unfair that the team becomes the last resort for players, who had earlier been courted by the Eagles but distanced themselves from representing Nigeria and chose to go with national teams of other countries of allegiance.

Harvard Business Review talks about balancing “brand exposure with brand protection”, a notion that the Eagles are missing at the moment because there is no visible mission statement and only a sketchy vision of ensuring as many Nigerians in the diaspora as possible play for the country. In achieving this vision, the team’s managers and the NFF must not be distracted from what makes the brand what it is – absolutely Nigerian.

NFF president, Amaju Pinnick told Punch, “If the truth be told, most players from the western climes are better exposed and are highly trained than what we can get here. The equipment they are exposed to is another factor too.” I agree with this notion but insist we can develop our infrastructure and league system so we can improve our own locally bred players or at least accept players based in the diaspora who a willing to make Nigeria their first choice.

Selfish interest over patriotism?

It is hard to find examples of the players that have naturalised, for whom the Eagles have been the first choice. Victor Moses and Alex Iwobi are the most high-profile names that come to mind, and we know that if England had called them up before Nigeria, they will most likely have represented the Three Lions. No player of note has rejected England, Germany, or Belgium to represent Nigeria.

That is why a 27-year-old Victor Moses will retire from the Super Eagles when he is still at his peak, after just six years of service to the country. No one retires from a love interest or what they are passionate about when they are still needed. The truth is that he achieved his mission of joining the team. He got a bigger profile by going to the World Cup and that ultimately increased his market value.

There are questions we can ask. Will Cyriel Dessers ever be called up by the Belgium? Will Leon Balogun ever have played for Germany? Why has the England set-up overlooked both Ademola Lookman and Ovie Ejaria, even though they are known very well to the selectors?

The answers to these questions paint the real picture. Administrators of the Super Eagles will do well to pay more close attention to the dynamics of choosing players as a strategy to make the team stronger by being more selective.
The Super Eagles should be nobody’s second choice!

Beautiful piece from the writer's point of view maybe but I just don't buy his idea. Football is just not a passion, it is a business. It is delusional to compare yourself against your superiors.

Former Nigerian U-17 wizboy, Macaulay Chrisantus moved to Hetten Fc (Saudi Arabia) from Iran.

Subzero047:
You don't have to explain anything to anybody

E fit Dae possible ooo


Sh*t can happen

isan:
U just wait they will soon rush he is English afterall

Akụkụ igba

isan:
U don't buy a 100M player and bench him

Na you go buy am 100m?

isan:
Yes they will Brandt is a German international and Sancho is being priced for 100M

Because he's German international, he will now walk into any team. Lmao

And Sancho will walk into any team because he's priced 100m.

See reasoning

isan:
Haaland is not better than osihmen ...haaland has reus , Brandt , and Sancho behind him three world class playmakers that will easily walk into any team in the world

They will not 'walk' into any team