maidaboi:
I have watched Bordeaux and I will personally prefer Moffi to stay at lorient

I swear, both teams are on same level

elyte89:


I predict d tournament will b d last for rohr

will be a very risky thing to do, he should have been fired since the beginning of this year

Any team playing possessive style of football and discipline can beat super eagles with ease. Eagles style of play is very predictable. My opinion

Finidi George rumoured for the Enyimba coaching job.

Samueltemi337:
when we have Osimhen

Lol. Will Osimhen be picking the ball up from our 18 yard box, dribbling through all opposing players and scoring all our goals?. No matter how good a striker is, he is next to useless without good service from the midfield.

Samueltemi337:
when we have Osimhen

Ndidi, Ejuke, Ahassan Yusuf, Onyekuru.

It is very difficult to cage players like Ejuke and Onyekuru because of the speed and intelligence involved in their movements.

One of the two Nigerian footballers left at the Istanbul giants may be on his way out of the club in the coming days to make room for a new signing

Galatasaray desperately want to send out Nigerian defender Valentine Ozornwafor on loan within the next few days.

The Turkish Super Lig side signed Danish defender Victor Nelsson from Copenhagen for a reported €7 million but could not register the 22-year-old. This is because the Yellow-Reds have filled up their available quota for foreign players and need to quickly sell at least one before the authorities slap them with a ban.



And according to the Milliyet, former Enyimba centre-back Ozornwafor is the foreigner Galatasaray have decided to move on, with Denizlispor looking like the possible destination for the 22-year-old.

Ozornwafor has been on the books of Galatasaray since 2019 but has struggled to break into the first-team picture, making just one league appearance in that time.

The defender spent the 2019/20 season on loan at Almeria, but he didn’t enjoy much game time, spending just 214 minutes on the pitch, spread across four league matches.



Ozornwafor represented Nigeria at the under-20 level in the 2019 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations and the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

The Super Eagles hopeful made his unofficial debut for the Nigerian national team in a 1-0 friendly defeat to Cameroon on 4 June 2021.

Reading have just one win from their first four games of the new season after losing 3-2 to Bristol City at the Select Car Leasing Stadium on Tuesday night.

On a personal level, Femi, elder brother of Arsenal wonderkid Miguel Azeez, repaid the faith shown in him by manager Veljko Paunovic with an impressive display against Bristol City.

Femi Azeez was rewarded for his fine performances for Reading U23s last season that saw him muster ten goals in seventeen Premier League 2 games with a call-up to the first team in pre-season.

Paunovic decided to retain him in the first team squad after he caught the eye in preparatory games and it is paying dividends.


The 2001-born winger netted his first senior goal for the Royals in their 2-1 home win against Preston North End last weekend and made it two goals in two games when he hammered the ball into the net from six yards out in the 19th minute against Bristol City.

Watford loanee Tom Dele-Bashiru got his first minutes as a Reading player last night, hopping off the bench at half-time to replace replacing Ethan Bristow and the Nigeria U23 international looked lively after his introduction.

Andreas Weimann (2) and Chris Martin got on the scoresheet for Bristol City, while Liam Moore netted Reading's second goal nine minutes from time.

Truidstar:
confiirmed 3 points. Deploy Frank Onyeka as Salah's temporary girlfriend in that match..e no go see ball play. 3 points.

Last time we played them, Salah did us strong thing in Kaduna. Generally speaking we have never had an upper hand against Egypt , except maybe the Super Falcons, so what's feeding your confidence?

To be fair both teams have come a fair way since then.

The SE were relatively not as stacked as we are now even at that we almost beat them that day if not for poor finishing and loss on concentration when it mattered most. Nowadays we have a better strength in depth in our attack, midfield not perfect but ok, defense decent and more experienced, goalkeeper relatively stable.

Egypt is still rebuilding to the strength of their 2010s squad and they are quite heavily reliant on Salah. The advantage they will have is that most of them play domestically in their league so they should be able to blend better.

Don't get me wrong I'm not implying that facing them will be easy but I'm reasonably confident that based on the current quality of players in the SE we should be able to defeat the Egyptians if we play to our full potential.

Barryseal:


Last time we played them, Salah did us strong thing in Kaduna. Generally speaking we have never had an upper hand against Egypt , except maybe the Super Falcons, so what's feeding your confidence?

Danjuma to Villarreal. Done deal. Is Chukwueze up to something

Nice to be here once again. e don tey

chrisooblog:
To be fair both teams have come a fair way since then.

The SE were relatively not as stacked as we are now even at that we almost beat them that day if not for poor finishing and loss on concentration when it mattered most. Nowadays we have a better strength in depth in our attack, midfield not perfect but ok, defense decent and more experienced, goalkeeper relatively stable.

Egypt is still rebuilding to the strength of their 2010s squad and they are quite heavily reliant on Salah. The advantage they will have is that most of them play domestically in their league so they should be able to blend better.

Don't get me wrong I'm not implying that facing them will be easy but I'm reasonably confident that based on the current quality of players in the SE we should be able to defeat the Egyptians if we play to our full potential.

So Afcon have not thought you not to rate a teams chance based on the strength of their European contingent? Its not even like our European players are playing for champions league clubs, mostly mid table clubs an in most cases not the overall best players in said teams.

If it was all about European base players, Nigeria would have 7 Afons while Egypt 3, but its the other way round. Respect those Ahly boys, a team that can beat an opponent 3-0 in the finals in addition to Salah, Al Mohamedi will be a 50-50 match, not sure 3 points like you put it.

Villarael signs arnaut danjuma for 20m pounds from bournemouth

Barryseal:


Last time we played them, Salah did us strong thing in Kaduna. Generally speaking we have never had an upper hand against Egypt, except maybe the Super Falcons, so what's feeding your confidence?

The bolded is fallacy.

TheSuperNerd:


The bolded is fallacy.

1 win in last 6, very poor. I think we can get a result against them sha

I have even extensively explained times upon times here how good Ndidi is and how improved he has become in the last 3 seasons. Even in the Partey vs Ndidi debate, I did enough justice.

Dude is no more just an elite tackling machine. He is much more now... a much improved well rounded Midfield player.

It's a pity some still don't rate him. Especially my good man, Idennaa. The thing tire me no be small. You rate Nwakali but you don't rate Ndidi. E get as e be. I rate both players but it is also a fact that Ndidi is levels above Nwakali. Nwakali is just making his way back strongly after 3-4 generally average/mediocre seasons (+ an inactive year) whereas Ndidi has been doing this super consistently and madly improving in the last 5 years!!!

Even Elyte89 wey you quote no too rate Ndidi like that. Ask am. I believe he won't deny it.


I am Pro-Nwakali and also Pro-Ndidi but slandering Ndidi while hyping Nwakali is a big no for me. Both are ballers but one has been a baller for a much longer and super consistent period and deserves respect in here.

JohnBullMySon:
Those still not satisfied with Ndidi's NT team performance are those who don't pay attention to football detail. Especially in midfield. Either They're waiting for him to score a goal/assist or TheSuperNerd to give them stats on how many tackles he made and English football analysts to start taking about his NT performance. As long as all this things are not available, they'll never be satisfied.

Last friendly, I was complaining about Marcus awareness, only to come here and see people praising him for handling and dribbling around with the ball.

Last time we played, we won. And like the saying some of you here love to bring up, "you are as good as your last game" abi. So yeah

Besides the focus was on our general record against them and we edge them.

jihday:
1 win in last 6, very poor. I think we can get a result against them sha

Heiiiii.... woah. What a signing this would be. Wanna see Finidi's coaching style in the league abeg. Would be highly interesting.

BascoVanVeli:
Finidi George rumoured for the Enyimba coaching job.

Clint02:
We would have easily won Algeria

What's so special about the Algerian team? They only won through an own goal and a last minute freekick.
Kalu and Mikel unavailability really affected us.
Also Ighalo was our only experience striker in that team.
Now we have all the needed arsenal in every department! No excuse will be tolerated from Rohr this time!

TheSuperNerd:


The bolded is fallacy.

intersting

Barryseal:


Last time we played them, Salah did us strong thing in Kaduna. Generally speaking we have never had an upper hand against Egypt , except maybe the Super Falcons, so what's feeding your confidence?

Egypt is weak presently...salah is all they got.

Some of our players are beginning to come into their own too. Last season Ndidi and Iheanacho's contributions helped Leicester win the English FA Cup, Chukwueze contributed to Villarreal winning the Europa league, Onuachu helped his club win the Belgium cup, Aribo and Balogun helped Rangers win the Scottish premier league so it's not as if our players are complete bums. They know what it is to win a trophy too.

Agreed reputations do not play on the field but when you have better talent more often than not you will prevail. Respect to the Egyptians but they are not the team that dominated Africa in the mid to late 2000s. They will give us a game no doubt but I'm optimistic we can handle them. If they do defeat us when we meet which is a possibility it won't be because they have superior talent to us now speaking generally.

Barryseal:


So Afcon have not thought you not to rate a teams chance based on the strength of their European contingent? Its not even like our European players are playing for champions league clubs, mostly mid table clubs an in most cases not the overall best players in said teams.

If it was all about European base players, Nigeria would have 7 Afons while Egypt 3, but its the other way round. Respect those Ahly boys, a team that can beat an opponent 3-0 in the finals in addition to Salah, Al Mohamedi will be a 50-50 match, not sure 3 points like you put it.

TheSuperNerd:


The bolded is fallacy.

That 2016 1-1 draw at Kaduna is still painful. Victor Moses goal bound effort that was cleared on the line and the Egyptian blatantly going against the fair play rule to score the equaliser in the last minute when they should have pass the ball to us. I was shocked and disappointed when the referee gave the goal.
For me, it's 2 wins and a loss to the SE in the last 3 matches played.

I share your sentiment. An in-form fit Mikel would really have propelled us.

Also agree about the bold Rohr has no excuse not to really try and deliver the trophy.

fabyom:
What's so special about the Algerian team? They only won through an own goal and a last minute freekick.
Kalu and Mikel unavailability really affected us.
Also Ighalo was our only experience striker in that team.
Now we have all the needed arsenal in every department! No excuse will be tolerated from Rohr this time!

Barryseal:


Last time we played them, Salah did us strong thing in Kaduna. Generally speaking we have never had an upper hand against Egypt , except maybe the Super Falcons, so what's feeding your confidence?

You know the last time we played them our team was very poor .

Amoo's got huge potentials but I still see some inexperience in his game at Hammarby. With a little more time he will step up.

Eze is unavailable due to injury and the fact that he still prefers England for now. He actually was meant to make the English Provisional squad for the Euros but injury stopped him.

Onomah... we saw him in the EPL and he was unimpressive. Poor even in most games. He is back to his level in the Championship and doing okay again and I don't think he has been cleared to play for us even. Still watching his side.


Focus should rather shift to the "actually available" ball playing Midfield lieutenants we have like Alhassan Yusuf and Kelechi Nwakali. These two guys would naturally dictate the tempo of a game. It is in them. They don't struggle to show that on the field. Watched more than enough of them last season and have began again this season and I tell you, they will uplift our Midfield quality if used right.




A bit about both:

-Nwakali: Ball carrier, Midfield dictator, excellent vision for long and short range passing, Deep lying playmaker, offensive contributions, ability to break defensive lines with a pass, improved defensive contributions, decent workrate (Compared to Alhassan, Nwakali is on level 3... lol), Excellent dribbler.

-Alhassan: Ball carrier, Midfield dictator, excellent vision for long and short range passing and crosses, ability to break defensive lines with a pass, Insane workrate (we talking level 10), mad defensive contributions, excellent offensive contributions, the perfect CM for me, covers every blade of grass. Little wonder he is called "Kante with a high cerebral touch", Good dribbler.



Other mentions: Abbas Ibrahim of Pacos de Ferreira (A CM with top workrate and very decent passing)?, Lesley Ugochukwu of Rennes (strong ball playing CDM)


In the end, truly our Midfield quality in terms of players who can actually dictate plays and control a game with exquisite passing/ball distribution-transition ability, needs to be improved.

You are so right.

Curtisaxel10:
What our team needs are creative CM's and AM's. Those two positions are virtually vacant in the present SE. This is our Achilles' heel. Our boys just can't pass. If it is possible to invite Eze, Onomah, Alhassan, Nwakali or even Amoo (kid's got potential) and others ALL AT ONCE to pre-tournament camp to audition for those creative roles, let us do it. This team needs creators. We can sacrifice some slots for wingers and defenders for now.

If we end up going to the tourney with Iwobi and Etebo again as creative midfielders, we can brace ourselves for another eye-biting kick-and-follow, long pass and Inshallah display.

charlesemeka85:
Villarael signs arnaut danjuma for 20m pounds from bournemouth

Chineke

andrew444:


Chineke

Chineke as per you no think say Villarreal go spend that kain money for Danjuma or that you are thinking he will displace Chukwueze in the team? Which one?

TheSuperNerd:




Chineke as per you no think say Villarreal go spend that kain money for Danjuma or that you are thinking he will displace Chukwueze in the team? Which one?

Villareal can afford such money

I didn’t see the move comming in anyway ,was only expecting an epl move for Danjuma then suddenly they shock me with Villareal

He will have to fight for his place there ,they have so many wingers now .

TheSuperNerd:
Amoo's got huge potentials but I still see some inexperience in his game at Hammarby. With a little more time he will step up.

Eze is unavailable due to injury and the fact that he still prefers England for now. He actually was meant to make the English Provisional squad for the Euros but injury stopped him.

Onomah... we saw him in the EPL and he was unimpressive. Poor even in most games. He is back to his level in the Championship and doing okay again and I don't think he has been cleared to play for us even. Still watching his side.


Focus should rather shift to the "actually available" ball playing Midfield lieutenants we have like Alhassan Yusuf and Kelechi Nwakali. These two guys would naturally dictate the tempo of a game. It is in them. They don't struggle to show that on the field. Watched more than enough of them last season and have began again this season and I tell you, they will uplift our Midfield quality if used right.




A bit about both:

-Nwakali: Ball carrier, Midfield dictator, excellent vision for long and short range passing, Deep lying playmaker, offensive contributions, ability to break defensive lines with a pass, improved defensive contributions, decent workrate (Compared to Alhassan, Nwakali is on level 3... lol), Excellent dribbler.

-Alhassan: Ball carrier, Midfield dictator, excellent vision for long and short range passing and crosses, ability to break defensive lines with a pass, Insane workrate (we talking level 10), mad defensive contributions, excellent offensive contributions, the perfect CM for me, covers every blade of grass. Little wonder he is called "Kante with a high cerebral touch", Good dribbler.



Other mentions: Abbas Ibrahim of Pacos de Ferreira (A CM with top workrate and very decent passing)?, Lesley Ugochukwu of Rennes (strong ball playing CDM)


In the end, truly our Midfield quality in terms of players who can actually dictate plays and control a game with exquisite passing/ball distribution-transition ability, needs to be improved.

You are so right.

Nwakali get all this qualities and em never dey paly for Madrid?

Nawaooooo

chrisooblog:
Some of our players are beginning to come into their own too. Last season Ndidi and Iheanacho's contributions helped Leicester win the English FA Cup, Chukwueze contributed to Villarreal winning the Europa league, Onuachu helped his club win the Belgium cup, Aribo and Balogun helped Rangers win the Scottish premier league so it's not as if our players are complete bums. They know what it is to win a trophy too.

Agreed reputations do not play on the field but when you have better talent more often than not you will prevail. Respect to the Egyptians but they are not the team that dominated Africa in the mid to late 2000s. They will give us a game no doubt but I'm optimistic we can handle them. If they do defeat us when we meet which is a possibility it won't be because they have superior talent to us now speaking generally.

I dont think they went into any of those Afcon championships they dominated as clear favourites because they mostly came to town with unsexy Zamalek and AHly players. The last time they got to the finals of the competition, nobody gave them a chance. They probably could have won if they had another coach apart from the cursed Hector Cuper.
Algeria went into the last afcon as the underdogs. Senegal were the favourites but atlast what happened? Afcon is strange tournament. Even when Keshi won, his team was not the most talented. Zambia before that weren't the favorites, same can be said of Cameroon. Only Ivory coast have gone in as favourites and this was after several heartbreaks an the retirement of their biggest player.
Teams like Egypt will be dangerous next year. They have a local coach, their local coaches know how to maneuver the competition. Remember this monicker next year when the competition starts.

Villarreal has signed Danjuma