darkelf:


Oga, I am talking about the WC. We crashed out in the group stages. We were not even the best performing African team

Humility017:

you're very funny. .. I am not sure you knew what happened during the world cup...
are you aware that Mikel's father was kidnapped prior the Argentina match?
please provide me with the Super Eagles players rating for the Iceland and Croatia game...and let's talk on Mikel relevance.

please do...I am waiting.

forgiveness:


Why use until when you know you are only talking about the world cup?

Because a player had a bad game in the world cup means, he is not good enough, ba?

Icon79:
Omo, Siasia was brought in to salvage a sinking ship. Each time they call on him, it's always after the qualification had already started and going back: either against Guinea or against Egypt. Let them give the job and leave him alone for about 2 years then we'll be in a better position to assess him. And by the way, they should also give him freehand to select his backroom staff just as they are doing with Rohr. When Siasia asked for Simon Kalika to assist him, the NFF denied his request but the same NFF has allowed Rohr to work his foreign assistants!

Talk about double standards!


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Olulong:



Not everyone is good at doing the job of patching things. Mind you the two times Siasia took over the eagles job coaches like eguavon and Oliseh have already put the team in a difficult position and u expect him to come perform some magic. Even great coaches like Ferguson needed four years to win his first trophy

chrisooblog:
well i see it as rohr giving KC time to adjust since that hasn't worked time for some tough love.

fair enough each coach has his reasons for favouring certain players over others. i like omeruo as well but i think unfortunately (for kenneth) the oyinbo wall has been solid hence him missing out

safarigirl:
let Siasia take over another team and lead them to sometjing first

We did not consider Keshi just like that, we are not talking about Amunike today because of age grade success. Keshi coached two teams, before he was given the Nigerian job, Amunike has successfully coached Tanzania to their first AFCON in 39 years. Siasia cannot be sitting down in his house, and we will be talking about him as if he is a proper coach. Let us talk about people with quality experience, not people with excuses

BascoVanVeli:


Nacho didn't deserve a place plain and simple. Rohr has nothing to do with what nacho must do to get back. He should have just left the boy be.

I think if we are being honest we all should be asking why Ekong is favoured over Omerou because it is definitely not about football.

darkelf:


But I think we still have a chance of winning it without him. I may be wrong though but i am banking on the guys to step up if it ever comes to that.

Olulong:



I'll agree on the fact that he should get another job but in my honest opinion he his better than Gernot Rohr both tactically and his style of play is a joy to behold not like Gernot Rohr super eagles team who always struggle to string 5 passes together

darkelf:


I didn't say Mikel isn't a good player. Heck, he was important to us in AFCON 2013. But when we had the best support from the NFF, when it mattered the most, we lost badly. We lost 2 games of 3. That is what matters.

Mikel is very good but may not be as indispensable as we think. Wouldn't he retire one day. When that day comes, what next?? Do we want another wahala just as we are facing in the goalkeeping dept since enyeama retired and ikeme fell I'll. That's what I'm talking.g about. We need to step up and on sure qw are up to the task

Olulong:



I'll agree on the fact that he should get another job but in my honest opinion he his better than Gernot Rohr both tactically and his style of play is a joy to behold not like Gernot Rohr super eagles team who always struggle to string 5 passes together

tbaba1234:


Omeruo started over Balogun in the Seychelles game because Balogun is not getting game time. Ekong has probably been our most consistent defender

Olulong:

I'll agree on the fact that he should get another job but in my honest opinion he his better than Gernot Rohr both tactically and his style of play is a joy to behold not like Gernot Rohr super eagles team who always struggle to string 5 passes together

Earthquake2:


You cannot even compare Siasia to Gernot Rohr because of youth grade team

Maybe John Obuh and Manu Garba are world class coaches because they won U-17 world cup

Siasia has zero qualification as a first team coach

tbaba1234:


Siasia is not better than Rohr tactically. His style of play is more adventurous and entertaining but his teams often demonstrate defensive naivety. Rohr sets us up to defend better.

BascoVanVeli:



I could have started against Seychelles. The true message was sent when Omeruo got dropped for the Egypt match.

On what grounds is Ekong the most consistent defender? That is a fictitious comment. I wonder if you would have forgiven Omerou for the penalty he gave away against Croatia.

Earthquake2:


You cannot even compare Siasia to Gernot Rohr because of youth grade team

Maybe John Obuh and Manu Garba are world class coaches because they won U-17 world cup ;

Siasia has zero qualification as a first team coach

Icon79:
I will agree that he's the best for the Super Eagles simply because of the support and the respect he receives from the NFF. Would the NFF accord similar treatment to an indigenous coach? Not a chance!

Yes, some ICs have been accused of egunje and the likes but did we bother to ask ourselves why they resort to such underhanded means? Isn't that simply because they are trying to survive?? The NFF is in habit of owing ICs 6 months or more salary. So how do you expect these men to feed their families I would like for the NFF to pay our ICs coaches their salaries on time (as they do with these foreign coaches) and give them freehand to select players, then let's see if our local coaches are not good enough.


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TheGoodJoe:


Zidane had little qualifications as a first team coach before breaking champions league records. Same with Pep Guardiola.

By the way, I am one of those who believes in the universality of football coaching methods.
That was why Amunike could impress with Tanzania. We just downplay our coaches and do not give them the support to succeed. More like sabotaging them and then say they are not good

Joebie:
It’s a Nigerian people problem.

Modified
However, if not for Oliseh’s attitude, he would still be the SE coach by now. And that’s if Pinnick does not bulge to pressures from Nigerians.

TheGoodJoe:


Not really. Oliseh could not cope with the sabotage. He did not understand how bad it was from the outside looking in. I remember when Oliseh made the rant video, Peterside Idah got asked why Oliseh complaining was being frowned upon by the NFF. Peterside replied that because the treatment was normal and all other Nigerians coaches deal with the poor treatment handed to them.

You can imagine Oliseh going for the CHAN camp and the players did not have food to eat. Oliseh was feeding the players from his pocket. If my memory serves me right, Oliseh spent thousands of dollars feeding the player. When Peterside arrived the camp, the first thing Oliseh did was to ask for money.

So I doubt attitude led Oliseh out but our mentality of sabotaging ourselves from doing well.

Joebie:
Why couldn’t he cope? Isn’t that related to attitude? I didn’t say bad attitude mind u. I’m not even trying to argue if he was wrong or right. But is he able to manage people/relationships well?

do4luv14:


is it only our player that played in that pitch,
the soonest our player get used to playing in such pitch the better for us

Icon79:
Yea, yea ... that's easier said than done. Until you find yourself in that situation. Somebody working for 6 full months without pay!

Come home from work and your wife tells you that she desperately needs money for infant formula. What would you do


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Joebie:
It’s a Nigerian people problem.

Modified
However, if not for Oliseh’s attitude, he would still be the SE coach till now. And that’s if Pinnick does not bulge to pressures from Nigerians.

TheGoodJoe:


Attitude Ke. Cope with feeding players with thousands of dollars from his pocket. Men that one is not bad attitude but lack of money or means to source for funds to maintain the team. Keep in mind he was not being paid during that period.

Joebie:
If Rohr can take us to the final of the AFCON I will have not complaints. He doesn’t even have to match Keshi’s achievements. But I doubt he will. Make una come for my head. It happened during the WC. I no run.

tbaba1234:


Egypt game was a friendly. Seychelles was the competitive match.

Ekong played all through the qualifiers for both WC and AFCON and hardly had a poor game. He has also been pretty good for Udinese. Yes he made costly errors in the Croatian game but i am talking overall consistency.

BascoVanVeli:



So you think Seychelles is more attractive than Egypt. Omerou has been better than Ekong for club and country and that's a fact.