Mujtahida:

Stiff coach who found his way to a working method. All our coaches have been stiff. Rohr was stiff, Peseiro stiff. Finidi in his short stint was stiff. The new coach once he finds a working method will be stiff. It's even a mantra in football: never change a winning team.

Incorporation of new ideas could mean playing the same method with different players in one or two positions.

Goke7:


shebi it's the reason Finidi was given the job having witnessed all that happened in Afcon but he started talking about the captain band and formations. You see if you coach eagles, you just have to listen less to all these social media analysts, just like Eguavoen, Finidi allowed himself to be carried away. Keshi succeded because he listened less to armchair critics and he wasn't playing fancy football either.

Mujtahida:

Finidi is a quiet man but after his appointment he did media rounds. When I watched his interview on Arisetv, I got a deflated feeling and I lost motivation to watch his other interviews. He did not present the image of a confident man. There's something about the way a man talks that can be telling.

It's easy to say this things now but I wish he had succeeded. I really wished he did.

Goke7:


this our arrogance will never get us anywhere, we keep denying the fact that the coach had to make do with the materials he had then, I know the major grouse some of you have is the selection of players he took to the tournament but the truth remains we have tried several players and this free-flowing football we all want to see still has not happened. I wonder when it will. Thank God Paseiro is gone, I will continue to wait for the magic the next coach will do, one is down already, let's see what's next

Amedino99:
finidi's highest achievement is a league title, amunike's highest achievement is an age grade competition even though he has been coaching for around 16 years. Finidi is not good but amunike is not that better as an alternative either.

akwesenana:
Ibime said he isn't fluent in English .

charlesemeka85:
nwakali in our midfield will make it happen 😎

Odunayaw:
I feel for you senior man

God's time is the best. What is yours will come to you.

Joebie:
Problem is Finidi was a nobody under Peseiro. How the players go take look am? I wonder why he stayed at the “job”. There will always be a temptation to stamp some authority coupled with the missing players due to injury.

There is no guarantee that Peseiro would have done well in the absence of those players.

TheGoodJoe:


Because it is the template for growth.

It forms a platform for selecting the right players.

Attention for us to build as a team.

Even when it comes to selecting coaches, it will give us a template to select those that will help us grow. This should cut across all age grades.

We have tried the other way for too long that it has gotten to a point people believe our players can't even play the possession game.

Embracing heavy possession play will help us grow faster in the long run that staying stuck as we have done for years.

Finito.

charlesemeka85:
nwakali in our midfield will make it happen 😎

Goke7:


in project management we call it Assumption! you dey whine?

Goke7:


There was a reason Musa was in that team despite the complaints many of us have, Yes osihmen and Ekong were injured but what stopped Finidi from inviting them to camp even if it's to sit out at training to continue the team bonding we saw at Afcon.

Let's not forget we had injuries going to Afcon too which disrupted Paseiro's plans, Boniface, Nididi, Sadiq(true or not). I'll keep insisting we have lost something huge from Afcon.

Joebie:
Finidi was very flexible versus Benin. I had to correct yiu there regardless of the outcome of that game.

Mod
And Peseiro did not find his way. He wasn’t intentional but stumbled on it

charlesemeka85:
nwakali in our midfield will make it happen 😎

Napoleon55:

Osimhen is 100% right about what?
he was right in cursing Finidi and everybody who complained about him?
swearing that "all of una no go die better"
by saying that,he insulted others join,
just because it was alleged that Finidi blamed him?

Nobody is happy in hearing that anybody questioned his commitment,he probably the most committed player,especially on the field of play.
But his outburst and his choice of words is wrong oga.
He might be richer but Finidi is not his mate and he even yet to attain his accomplishments.

He better come out and apologize without delay.
M no dey beg anybody to play,is because he has succeeded.
It was Nigeria that provided him the platform to succeed and a Nigerian coach ,he should remember that.

We all love him,he should not let his emotions destroy that

TheGoodJoe:


Finidi even lacked the right paper qualification. Lacked the coaching experience. Has little history in selecting and raising talents. But hey, you guys preferred him. 😂

Mujtahida:

You do not know that he stumbled. I have said so too but we do not know. Neither you nor I are in his mind and we were not privy to how he came to using the method.

And the facts are more in favor of his being intentional about it than saying he stumbled. It was not like mid game he now tried out the method. No. He set his team that way from the beginning of a game. So it was deliberate. It's just that when he got good result with it, he stuck with it.

Joebie:
I for vem believe had he changed strategies mid game.

So somehow, after the first game and before taking on the hosts in Ivory Coast, he just decided a new formula? You want me to believe this? That formula was meant for Ivory Coast. After that game he could not trust anything else.
Why did he play the FINAL with some injured players?

lovewins:


Totally agree with you on this. I however think the bolded absolves the administrators of responsibility. Yes the media can be funny but they don't make these decisions. Their options on NFF leadership doesn't move a needle, their opinion on policy chances doesn't move a needle we can't then credit them with coaches appointment and player invitation.

They are free to have an opinion on who should be the coach or who should be invited, it is however the responsibility of the NFF to take the best decision on the interest of Nigeria and historically the NFF hasn't been known to do that.

mank1234:


Top on th list is Segun Odegbami and 94 set of SE.

Mujtahida:

His point flew over you. Them no better or worse than the other but of course since it wasn't Amunike that has been exposed, you have covering to stand and shoot. But I know if he were the one exposed, you'd have found a way to excuse him. Those who supported Finidi's appointment are not excusing him but knowing you, I am certain that you'd have excused Amunike if he were the one exposed.

But since he's not the one exposed, go on. Go on with your song.

Joebie:
I for vem believe had he changed strategies mid game.

So somehow, after the first game and before taking on the hosts in Ivory Coast, he just decided a new formula? You want me to believe this? That formula was meant for Ivory Coast. After that game he could not trust anything else.
Why did he play the FINAL with some injured players?

dijon:
He has decided to keep mute but let a foreign coach be employed and see him lead the gangsters again with crude and rudimentary epistle that is not far from racism.

Mujtahida:
See Ronaldinho lamenting. So much whining going on in football today. I blame tiki taka. It has taken something out of the game, out of the players. It has turned the players into robots, the game into a passionless affair.

Ronaldo hits on it when he mentions average players for the majority. That's what tiki taka does. It's all system. No exceptional players. No breathtaking talents. Once you can operate in the system, you are good to go. Imagine Maradona playing tiki taka. My God!

daveP:
Nwakali our beloved Toni Kroos Regen. He will make us qualify.

Mujtahida:
See Ronaldinho lamenting. So much whining going on in football today. I blame tiki taka. It has taken something out of the game, out of the players. It has turned the players into robots, the game into a passionless affair. See even Brazil of all nations. The spiritual home of football. I tell you guys that tiki taka will destroy football. I am telling you guys oo.

Ronaldo hits on it when he mentions average players for the majority. That's what tiki taka does. It's all system. No exceptional players. No breathtaking talents. Once you can operate in the system, you are good to go. Imagine Maradona, Pele, Zidane, Figo playing tiki taka. My God! I am filled with revulsion from the imagination.

Goke7:


this our arrogance will never get us anywhere, we keep denying the fact that the coach had to make do with the materials he had then, I know the major grouse some of you have is the selection of players he took to the tournament but the truth remains we have tried several players and this free-flowing football we all want to see still has not happened. I wonder when it will. Thank God Paseiro is gone, I will continue to wait for the magic the next coach will do, one is down already, let's see what's next