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chrisooblog:
Men that 2000 squad tight o!

Kanu with Arsenal, Okocha and Godwin Okpara with PSG, Okunowo with Barca, Taribo AC Milan, Babayaro Chelsea, Oliseh Juventus, Ikpeba Dortmund just to mention a few.

I'll say this was one of our best squad, but administrative issues(caf suspension) and ego issue was few reasons achieved much.

Goke7:
😂 but the truth is despite all the high profile players in big clubs we have had we have not been winning Afcon like we should so what are we even saying!

But we have always made it to the semis, always among the top 4.

EElopa:
Maduka Okoye currently is a better goalkeeper than Yassine Borno. Borno is a legend for morrocco but currently Maduka Okoye is younger with higher ceilings. Alot of you guys are completely ignorant on how highly rated Okoye is in Italy. Inter Milan and Roma negotiated with Udinese for his services. Prime Borno is better than Maduka Okoye currently but he is old now and I will take Maduka Okoye currently over him.

But Nwabali is better than Okoye, so by your take Nwabali is better than Bouno. So currently will you pick Nwabali over Bouno? 🙄

ScholarProf11:
Can you name the better players Senegal and Morocco have?
I say it again, no team in Africa has Nigeria's players quality.
We have won the APOTY 2 times in 3 years. AFCON Silver and Bronze medallists in the last 2 editions.
Qualifiers is never a measure of a good team. Tunisia, Algeria, DRC, Ghana were at the World Cup but were no where to be found at AFCON.
Someone that uses qualifiers as a measure of a good team does not deserve my valuable time!

pls how do you know a good team, friendly games?
Because before going for any major tournament, you have to go through qualifiers, and the best will in most occasions always make the top 2.

ScholarProf11:
You have players in Milan, Lazio, ATM, Ajax, Marseille, Leverkusen, etc but Diamonde playing in Madrid is making you cry.
Even one said he is jealous of Senegalese playing for Villa. Villa that is not playing Champions League but Osihmen at Gala is your problem.
Such a pity. How many country in Africa have the type of players we have?

Pls we should try to fact check so we don't mislead readers. Aston Villa are currently in the champions league, current holders of the europa league and finished 4th in the league.

elyte89:
This is d problem I have with u guys ….always quoting past achievements …its not even an achievement; for someone still playing like an amateur ,if not for his recent performances ,chukwueze and inconsistency is 5 and 6

I don't think someone that plays like an amateur will ever feature in the first team of Villareal, Fulham and currently AC Milan, all top 5 league clubs no seriki or farmers league.

TheSuperNerd:
Senegal has 3 Goals/Assist contributors in one game in the EPL.

Iliman Ndiaye assisted Haaland.

Ibrahim Mbaye assists Nicolas Jackson

Jackson - Brace
Mbaye - Assist
Ndiaye - Assist

Running the show in this game.

i actually saw this and I was so jealous.

Napoleon55:
Pep as a Spanish national team,would probably be the first coach to win world cup 3 times.

Enrique is very good,but overall,Pep is better.

You know you are capping right? 🙄

TheSuperNerd:
To be frank, Enrique was given the best national team in the world in Spain, and he could not get past my Maroc Boys in a round of 16 fixture.

De la fuente took over same Spain and won the Nations league, the Euros and the World Cup.

I think it will be fair we stick to club football, cos Pep never coached any national team that we can have a fair comparison.

mostob:
You no balance am o... Na Monaco Enrique dey coach?

Na como united Pep coach? 😂

TheSuperNerd:
Osimhen scoring vs Lille OSC was always inevitable.

I love that he did not celebrate. Lille was his first big 5 leagues club. And that was were he became visible as a really big striker prospect.

This match for no sweet if Osimhen no score.

TheSuperNerd:
Pep is levels above Enrique nonetheless. Pep is the reference for even the style Luis Enrique uses today.
Like Pep too did not outclass world class teams in the UCL? Forgotten how he handled Madrid?

Pep outclassed Legendary Fergie in a UCL final.

Pls, and Pls... Enrique is below Pep tactically and otherwise.

if you ask me who's better, I'll easily had mentioned Pep, but when I weigh the points why some rate Pep above Enrique, you begin to see loopholes. Give Enrique Pep man city and bayern, I'm very sure he'll win champions league with both teams.

mostob:
I disagree please.

Pep is better. Enrique should come coach Manchester United in EPL. If dem born am well, make he rest his forwards against Brighton for early kick off match against Brighton.

And Pep should come coach Monaco in Lique 1, make ena dy balance this argument.

AndSunGorilla:
That is true, however Pep also won Bundesliga, making it 3 leagues. BTW, have you voted for my candidate, Mayomikun Ladipo in the inspire-awardsdotcom. Jah bless.

Done

TheSuperNerd:
We have seen Pep in the toughest and most intense league in the world - The EPL. That should be more than enough. Succeeded in Germany, Spain and England. Turned all 3 to farmers league.

we have also seen Enrique in the biggest club competition, destroyed all teams. His team just outclassed Barca and man city in back 2 back champions league games.

TheSuperNerd:
We have seen Pep in the toughest and most intense league in the world - The EPL. That should be more than enough. Succeeded in Germany, Spain and England. Turned all 3 to farmers league.

i don't think many will count his time in Germany as a success looking at the pedigree of Bayern. Same way no one will count Enrique time in France as a success if he only wins the league and fa cup.

Goke7:
He should come into the EPL and challenge Pep's record, then we can compare notes

what about Pep going to France to challenge his record ☺️

AndSunGorilla:
But same Enrique has succeeded at PSG where many have failed even with Messi, Neymar, Mobut and Ramos.

That said, I wouldn't put Enrique above Pep yet. Enrique has to win champions league multiple times with different clubs and win different leagues before we can have the conversation. So in a nutshell, I agree with you. Have you voted for the beg I asked you? Jah bless and one luv.

But Pep won champions league with two clubs and Enrique has done same, so what multiple clubs are you referring to

darkelf:
We are even saying the same thing bro

Analysts would say the same thing. Salah is past his prime and is.ltopping their scorers charts

While a supposedly "prime" osimhen has not scored in his last 2 games. Dropped a stinker versus Barca.

Omo, it's not looking good for him at all

it should worry any Osimhen fan. The thought of an Osimhen in Turkey at his prime, surrounded but players close to retirement will definitely have an effect on his game.

TheSuperNerd:
You sounding like Osimhen has not topped the Goals chart and won the Golden Boot in Turkey already. And no, dont tell me that is not how you sound because what else could you mean by this @Emboldened?

Also, he was literally topping the charts until injury struck. He only just returned.

yes he was top scorer in his first season, but he needs to be consistent in that Turkish league and that's what makes him a world class player and differentiate him from the Onuachus who also was top scorer last season

Kog45:
Turkish league no be am forget say Salah is leading goal scorer,our own Onuachu turned it to his league last season... Napoli transfer wahala make Osimehn dey Gala nau

Other strikers come in and top the goal scoring chart but not our world class Osimhen.
Look at Senegal Jackson who I don't rate at all. Played for villareal, Chelsea, Bayern and not doing so well in Aston villa.
But we just have this believe our players are superior, all except Lookman and Chukwueze plays in a club we can regard as top club in Europe.

darkelf:
A more Salah that is past his prime currently leads the Turkish lig in top scorers award

Shows you that the lig is below par and is washed

And this would hurt Victor Osimhens legacy the more. He needs to leave that leage when he gets the opportunity

If Osimhen is too big for the league as we all think he's, he should be dominating as top scorer just as iheanacho is doing.

Danielnino00:
Raja Casablanca fans just made the Remo Stars stadium look more appealing..

We really kid ourselves in this country with the die hard football fans mentality o...we are only passionate about European football..

that's why I just laugh when I see the way we rate ourselves when it comes to football followership. Algeria fans flew from far north to dominate us in our own stadium. All we know how to do is to make noise online.
Football administration Zero
Followership zero
Football politics Zero

AndSunGorilla:
In the 70s and 80s, we used to fill the stadium up till the early 90s. I can't really say what went wrong.

Even in the early 20s, I was at the liberation station ph for the nig vs Liberia game. I watched several enyimba, Heartland and even the default Sharks games, you need to see how passionate the fans are and banter each other. I saw a clip of the nig vs Tunisia game that ended 2-2 in Abuja, the stadium was filled up. But as at today I don't think we can fill up that stadium.

TheSuperNerd:
Ofcourse Iheanacho scored again. At this point, the news will be him not scoring. 😂

nawao, next you will hear is that he has scored on every day of the week.

This is The Home Ground of MC algiers : The club that Rangers Faces in The return Leg next weekend in algeria 🟢🔥pic.twitter.com/UdXrAhI3Ln

— mrnigerianfootball (@CFCNigerian) October 19, 2026

See country that still gat passion for football.

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Goke7:

Chaos in Abeokuta as USM Algiers fans vandalised MKO Stadium , Kuto Abeokuta after defeat to Rangers.

Their officials also assaulted journalists pic.twitter.com/PyTtjIZlmo

— Alao 'Barrack Boy' Oluwaseyi (OON) (@alao_seyi) October 18, 2026

/video/1?s=46

So North Africans will still come into our country, vandalise our stadium facilities we still Dey manage and assault people on top?

Na which kind see finish be this with all the mouth we sabi make? 😂 omo

MC Algers fans stormed the dressing room after the game to beat up their coach, he was rescued by Civil Defence, Nigeria Police and other security agencies at the stadium. pic.twitter.com/5C8FJHXH4z

— SMD SPORTS (@SMDSPORTS_1) October 18, 2026

Goke7:

Chaos in Abeokuta as USM Algiers fans vandalised MKO Stadium , Kuto Abeokuta after defeat to Rangers.

Their officials also assaulted journalists pic.twitter.com/PyTtjIZlmo

— Alao 'Barrack Boy' Oluwaseyi (OON) (@alao_seyi) October 18, 2026

/video/1?s=46

So North Africans will still come into our country, vandalise our stadium facilities we still Dey manage and assault people on top?

Na which kind see finish be this with all the mouth we sabi make? 😂 omo

Base on current results and happenings as regard our football, I don't see Nigeria as a top 10 football loving nation in Africa. I feel our passion for football has dropped drastically. See the elkanemi game, the Moroccans had more travelling fans in the stadium than elkanemi.

dymusty86:
It is so disheartening to see post like this. It is unfortunate that most of us don’t know what we want as citizens, most of us are shouting APC APC as if this is our problem. Until we remove tribalism and religion sentiments from our thinking, if not, we won’t collectively understand our problems. APC , pdp, ndc, adc… all this are just vehicles that bring all the incompetence leaders into power. Be it Tinubu, obi, Atiku, even sowore can’t do anything positive even if they have good intentions because they will be surrounded with so many incompetent individuals because of quota system also Nigeria is too complex and too diverse.
All what we need as young people is to demand for our freedom, one of the ways is to decentralize the system so we know who to hold responsible against religious and tribal sentiments

In conclusion all parties are same, all the so call leaders are same and the same. Peace!!!

i strongly disagree, all leaders are not same. This is the height of gaslighting. As citizens we can't question our leaders, be it nff president, governor, or president because people like you are selling the wrong narrative that all leaders are same. When you choose voting in currupt and incompetent individuals because of tribe and religion, you then come to tell us all leaders are the same.

"He is one of the most underrated players in the Premier League" 🗣️ Tim Sherwood praises Fulham midfielder Alex Iwobi.

Kog45:
Oga Nwaiwu I watched recently is better than Fernandez,my opinion

Nwaiwu for me is better, though still have rough edges, not as refined as Fernandez.

Joebie:
Osimhen this Osimhen that. if they SHOCKED Barca, it would be a different narrative. Make una chill. He will move when he wants.

Big 'IF'. Let's wait for the IF. No be only shock na electrify