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Earthquake2:
Ivory Coast has 6 midfielders that will walk into our first team

Follow my conversation from the beginning

And this one that has not kicked a ball this season too abi?

Shey you don agree you are talking nonsense or I should open your yansh more?

Earthquake2:
Ivory Coast has 6 midfielders that will walk into our first team

Follow my conversation from the beginning

This is one of them abi?

edi287:
Gbamin starts at CB or RB.
Sangare/Boga benches Etebo/Onazi or whomever that pairs Ndidi.

Has Gbamin been better than Omeruo or Ekong this season?
Is he more experienced than Omeruo and Ekong?
How many Caps does he have?

If Boga were eligible for Nigeria he will be in competition with Iwobi. I know who i will pick.

Sangare is of course no match of Ndidi, happy you know that. But he is also not as good as Etebo. He is on the same level as Mikel Agu and Esiti. Prove me wrong if I am.

andrew444:
French league starter ,German league starter and Seria A starter will make eagles midfield with ease ,only ndidi iwobi and mikel are better than those players

Not john ogu etebo and co

If you have a player starting for sassuolo and Mainz he will make our team.

This guy will walk into our team? You're making jest of yourself dude. 580 mins of league football for lowly Sassuolo...strange guy

andrew444:
Chriskels is coming to type for you no worry

Even the maxwell cornet make you confuse .

I will get back to you once Chriskels arrives

You are a joker. I agree with your advise that you maintain silence until your boss arrives.

edi287:
Sangare, Gbamin, Boga, etc.

Who will they bench in Nigeria's best 11. Go on enlighten us?

andrew444:
Maxwell cornet of Lyon is better than all your super eagles wingers .

is that the list of active and capped Ivorian players that have not been called up for their next match? Or you didn't do comprehension in school?

andrew444:
You self know but you dey deceive your self

but naija have better player than them 2006

We did not. Their team qualified for the 2006 World Cup from a group including Cameroun and Egypt. We had the likes of Zimbabwe and Angola and we didnt. Thats some evidence we did not have a better team.

The points you try to make are baffling. It winds me up arguing with people that comment like this.

edi287:
Ivory Coast had a stronger squad than naija in AFCON 2006. They were the favorites to win that game

Agreed. Remember the Powerful Kader Keita of Lyon then. wow

andrew444:
This one that has played in turkey division 2 in all his career

Israel league is an upgrade to him and looks like Epl to him

Until you provide names of the CIV players I wont comment on this topic again. Next.....

edi287:
Ivory Coast have bench/youth players that would walk into our first 11

ah ah name dem nau?? haba

andrew444:
Okay 2002 right ? Na me make the mistake ,you know what I am talking about

But you go use the mistake of year attack me

I don't care what you say but you know what I am saying

na so

andrew444:
Israel league ?

Boasting of a player from Israel league

Lol

List the Ivorian players not called up or be quiet.

andrew444:
Thank you for telling him that naija could only take bronze with our biggest stars them just dey put am for only Ivory Coast head ,when we get star players who be Ivory Coast? Na after 2006 Ivory Coast begin get better players ,naija don get star players since 2000

I remember Ghana naija 2000 ,where star studded naija team failed to beat Senegal to make the final

No African team came close to that 2006 naija team even the Egypt of this world but wetin dem achieve nothing ,(bronze medal )

Point of correction sir ,a less talented squad didn't win it 2015 ,but a drogba less squad

How can you call a squad that include ,tiene,Kalou,doumbia,yaya toure,Kolo toure,bailly,aurier,serie die ,na that one you call less talented squad because no drogba ?

Bros abeg fear God

now I am convinced you dont know what you are talking about.

in 2000 we beat Senegal in the Quater finals and South Africa in the Semi.

in 2002 we lost to Senegal in the Semi Final. That Senegalese team was stronger than out team and they beat us with 10 men! They went on to beat France in the World cup a few months later and reach the Quarter Final of the World Cup.

When did you start watching the Super Eagles if i may ask? My first AFCON was 1988.

andrew444:
Lol

With the ofoedu and azubuike you mentioned I stopped taking you serious

If I begin list Ivory Coast player this thread go boil I won't do that because people are not taking it likely with me already ,the truth is better

Dem dey call depth see the players you dey mentioned ,apart from mikel and ebuehi and some others better players I see there don't have time to type their name ,see the bandwagon you dey type for there even the one wey never agree to play for naija

lol you funny

How are Ofoedu's status laughable? What were Ogu's status when he got called up and did well? What are Issac Success stats like?

How are Azubuike's stats laughable when he's been in brilliant form since he returned to Turkey following his Egyptian misadventure?

Only thing laughable here are your comments with nothing to back yourself up.

andrew444:
Lol

With the ofoedu and azubuike you mentioned I stopped taking you serious

If I begin list Ivory Coast player this thread go boil I won't do that because people are not taking it likely with me already ,the truth is better

Dem dey call depth see the players you dey mentioned ,apart from mikel and ebuehi and some others better players I see there don't have time to type their name ,see the bandwagon you dey type for there even the one wey never agree to play for naija

lol you funny

Start mentioning the active capped players they have that have not been called up for their next match. You must do this or be quiet on this topic.

icon4ss:
That tells us that big names alone don't play football.
Going into the 2006 AFCON Nigeria had the best assemblage of quality players: Okocha, Kanu, Yakubu, Martins, Osaze, Utaka, Nsofor, Yobo, Odiah, Young Mikel and Taiwo. Yet we only came back with bronze medal.

Drogba's generation of Elephants couldn't win the AFCON but a less talented squad won it in 2015 for them. The Nigerian squad that won the AFCON in 2013 was not the best on paper going into that AFCON. Zambia and Cameroon were never tipped as favorites when they won the AFCON in 2012 and 2017 respectively.

If you have a rich assemblage of players fantastic but the team still needs to work very hard to achieve results.

Agreed.

andrew444:
They won the 2015 afcon

Where you expecting them to win the World Cup ?

Oga sir Ivory Coast get depth pass naija

You say rip and you include Gervinho there ?person wey still dey play for Seria A at the age of 31 ,did you watch this old Gervinho against juventus this season ? He has scored 9 Seria A goals from the flank

How many of your players can still play at the top at 31 apart from obi mikel ?

I am even angry he joined boro,obi mikel will easily join a top 10 Epl club ,thou I know he will not last at boro

Emenike is there with no club ,he is enjoying his money ,brown ideye is just flexing the whole Dubai collecting 80k weekly from Tianjin teda without playing ,after the Malaga loan dude was not that serious .

Who dey una bench seems we get depth ?

andrew444:
You say rip and you include Gervinho there ? ?

Are you sure you can read properly? Did I say RIP to Gervinho or Tiote?

andrew444:
Who dey una bench seems we get depth ?

Was this not the point I was trying to make when I said we may not be able to harness this advantage?

CIV had the playing personnel to win the AFCON between 2006 and 2013 and they didn’t. Granted they had a tough draw in World Cup 2006 and 2010 BUT they had the playing personnel to progress from a group with Japan, Greece and Colombia in the 2014 world cup and again they failed. The 2015 AFCON which they won was the only silverware they managed. They were good enough to win much more. Everyone know this but you.

Today we have players in the like Ebuehi, Samu, Onyekuru, Onazi, Agu, Awaziem, Agbo, Ajayi, Iyayi, Larry Kayode, Ofoedu, Azubuike, Mikel Obi, Joel Obi, Success, Kelechi, Bazee, Aluko, Eleke, Odey, Simy, Babatunde, Imoh etc etc I can name maybe 100 players that are capped and still active at a good enough level to compete for a shirt for Nigeria. They are not world beaters but decent level players on their day, none of which are in the team and yet the team is still strong.

Then there are the 100s of foreign born eligible and willing players which for whatever reason we don’t seem keen to tap into. Guys like Saka, Iyoha, Torunigha, Tomori, Eze, etc etc

I have looked at the other teams such as Ghana, CIV and Cameroun and I maintain we have greater strength in depth than any team on the continent. That’s my view anyway. You can disagree.

As far as playing personnel is concerned no team in Africa has greater strength in depth than Nigeria. The ability to harness this advantage to devastating effect is perhaps where a problem may arise. Especially if Rohr's last squad announcement is used a basis of predicting what's to come in the near future.

The Ivorian golden generation of the late 2000s had the same problem. How a team comprising Drogba, Yaya, Kalou, Kolo, Zokora, Tiote (RIP), Gervino, Eboue, Doumbia, Bony, Romaric, Tiene, etc etc big big names kept under achieving still remains a mystery.

ReneeNuttall:
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What r u saying? The land belongs to her dad the super market belongs to her.the land opposite kada belongs to them just as d land on which kada was built belongs to them....At first Ugbor alone his dad has nothing less than 6 houses excluding his private lodge right after the late iyayi efionayi's house and the one esama gave to Becky madojemu who was formerly working at his TV station and now works with NTA abuja.Immediately after she gave birth to a baby boy for him there are speculations that they have 45% properties in Benin.... Ask qstns

Sure about this? hmm

I wont talk sha.

hotplate:
it is obvious that all of you here talking thrash has never been to Edo state let alone her constituency, this lady was the best house of rep candidate in the whole of Edo state, she did in four years what buhari will not be able to do in 8yrs, her constituency is the only constituency in the whole of Edo state with constant light courtesy of her representation among several constituency project.. it's just so disheartening that the APC was just so desperate that they went as far as paying #5000 each for vote

So house of rep also have powers to provide electricity for their constituents?

Nuttin we no go see on top Nairaland.

Here we go again...

Chizoz!

Curtisaxel7:
We don't fight where?. For this thread wey be royal rumble arena?. .

Lol

Ehn nau football opinion fights not political or tribal etc

MajesticIgbo:
Polygamy is a Yoruba thing. Again there's no such thing as tribal card. Africans are tribal folks and, we must remain tribal.

Anyway, It was not tribal when Yakubu Gowon initiated the Nigerianisation policy immediately after the civil war to favor the Yoruba folks who had not lost all their money to the war.

It was also not a tribal card when, Gowon promised to reconstruct and rehabilitate the East, only to start building the national theatre in Lagos.




Jump off the cliff if my comments hurts you so much.



You're a stark illiterate.

You should learn how to spell correctly and write intelligently before, you say a thing about sane minds.

Go away, we don't fight here. Please

Na wa that under 20 team though

I normally say innocent until proven guilty but NFF why nau ;

Just woke up and remembered I'm going to the Chelsea v Huddersfield game this afternoon. After what happened on Wednesday this would be a rather tense afternoon at the bridge.

komekn:
Who among our current striker is actually better than him, currently one of the hottest young prospects in English football.

Rejected multiple offers to EPL clubs and chose Bordeaux.

So exactly what ROUGH EDGES are you SMOOTHENING ❓ ❓

Of course there are no rough edges, Maja the league 1 James Bond is the finished product.

TheGoodJoe:
“Guardiola wants to make football better, to take his team to another level. [ . . . ] He played in the third team back then (when he was given his first-team debut at Barcelona in 1990), and physically he was nothing, but he knew how to help himself with the right movement. And this experience in turning disadvantages into advantages distinguishes him as a coach. To me, he’s one of the best in the world. What is really outstanding about Guardiola is that he doesn’t force his style of football onto his team. He analyses what is best for the team, utilises the special details and through that leads them to the greatest possible success. It’s no coincidence that Spain won the 2010 World Cup with seven of Guardiola’s players, and now Germany with six or seven of his players.”

– Johan Cruyff

The Euro 2008 winning squad had more players from Valencia and Villarreal than from Barcelona. Does that also count for something, as in the Valencia manager was a magician? you are right, i thought not too.

Guardiola had been Bayern manager for 11 months (1 season) by the time Germany won the world cup. So you want us to believe that he transformed the Bayern players into World Champions in 11 months right? Never mind that they had made the semis in Euro 2012 and went through the World Cup qualifiers with 9 wins and a draw. wonderful stuff this Guardiola guy na modern day Jesus o. lol

TheGoodJoe:
“We had a great time when Pep was here (Barcelona). We won a lot of titles and I grew a lot – that was the time when I grew most as a footballer. We had a fantastic relationship when he was here.”

– Lionel Messi


“He is an incredible coach on a completely different level in terms of tactics,” he said. “He’s a brilliant coach and I’m sure he’ll do a great job [at City]. “He really helps players develop and he even helped me improve at the age of 30. With Pep it’s more than just about winning trophies. You’re always measured by the number of trophies but he developed a lot of players with the way he thinks about tactics, the way he analyses games and prepares teams for particular opponents.”

– Phillip Lahm

“I had to learn a few things in the first couple of months but Pep was able to see he could get the best out of me to help the team. I’m in my second year with him, I’ve learned a lot and working with him has been just what I needed. Pep looks at everything we need to do. I watched what I ate and I trained at home. I know the little things are important too. Pep thinks about football 24 hours a day. He covers every angle to the smallest detail and he always demands 100 per cent in training and in games.”

– Robert Lewandowski

“I have learned a lot from Pep. He’s a genius. I can learn more from him in an hour than from others in one year. He not only lifts you to the next level on the pitch, but also in your mind. He has revealed totally new options to me. I did not know that was possible when I got to Munich. He found a new position for me.”

– Douglas Costa

“Since he came I think I’ve improved my game — especially technically. I think we’re all really thankful that he was here for three years and he made everybody better in the game and us as a team.

– Jerome Boateng

“The coach is very demanding but it’s really amazing to train with him. It’s like he reinvented football. He thinks about football 24 hours a day, he’s always explaining to us on the screen what’s the best way to attack, best way to defend, the best way to play with the ball.

– David Alaba


You are still free to argue Guardiola is not special.

There are similar quotes made by similar level players about most of the managers they have worked under. This from the players perspective is simply a demonstration of professionalism, courtesy and i guess being media saavy!

The majority of players making those comments won titles before he arrived and after he departed.

Man City IS more Division 2 than Division 1.

On this day 20 years ago, when united were on course to winning the treble, Manchester City where in Division 3.

TheGoodJoe:

They cost so much due to the inflation in the market. Not because we were buying World Class players that will hand us the titles. A lot of work was done on these players especially, Stones, Otamendi, Walker and keep in mind we have barely had a run with Mendy. We have to use the likes of Delph, Zinchenko, Danilo and Laporte to cover the left.

Trying to make it look as if money is the root of the success is definitely not true.

If inflation was the only reason they assembled a defence line of a quarter of a billion pounds sterling, then how come other teams have not done the same. Does inflation only affect one team?

Guardiola's predecessor won the league with Demichelis in his defence. He managed a crap player and turn him to a title winner.

ALL managers appointed by Sheikh Mansour have ALL won the League. ALL!!!

ALL managers Guardiola took over from in his previous clubs had won their respective leagues prior to his arrival. ALL!!!

ALL managers that took over from Guardiola after his leaving a club ALL won their domestic leagues. ALL!!!

Guardiola is not special...

Man City are a second division club by DNA. They have spent about as much time in division 2 as they have in the top division since the inception of the premier league...