charlesemeka85:
mk we Dey form pride wey we no even get as a nation

Better footballing countries like Italy,England,Germany,Spain just to mention a few they poach players that has links with them but once nff try una go Dey form pride wey una no get

Algeria tried to lure olise earlier at the same time with when we first approached him which he turned both down but they didn’t stop

Even till date they are still working hard to convince him to play for them whereas folks like u call the nff names as they re making a second approach

Dis is 2022 not 1980 or 94 so to compete with the best in word football u need to stretch your hands over board to grab the best you can

mostob:
guess I misquoted you ...so sorry chief

TheGoodJoe:


I want us to have the best players in every role willing and passionate to play for the team. I do not have preferred names but better players. I always like competition and the team improving. I already pointed out I want us focused on youth development. Meaning, I want every role challenged continuously.

So leave that Nwakali talk.

The most important team is the team should have players passionate to play for us and we should stop this red carpet treatment.

JohnBullMySon:
I feel you. But sincerely, you're being too utopian and very unrealistic. We simply can't adopt this method you're talking about. Not now at least. Other African countries are doing the same and we have to be proactive to ensure our place at the very top. In fact that's what will make others eager to play for us the more. If we get left behind, we fall so badly no one would respect the SE again. The days of having to beg single nationality players to honor call ups and behave well in camp will simply return. Corps in the US scout and steal extraordinary employees from competitors with promises of higher pay. As a Stanford or MIT undergrad, you get scouted right in the university. Shouldn't those companies respect themselves and wait for them to apply? No they won't because if they sit back, their competitors will grab them and create advantage.

Its like starting up a business and then expect people to start patronizing you because they love you. You have to do well at first to organically attract people bro. Very few persons will just want to play for a poorer team, unless they have no choice. These players don't prefer England just because they were born there. Its because of the talents and higher chances of international success with their national team.

Don't pretend like we have a good system right now that trains and brings out talents on regular basis. Osimhen and Chukwueze are just rarities that have more to do with sheer talent than training. Look at the league for instance, it keeps on dwindling. Now we cannot get or sustain any TV broadcast, sponsorships since the Southies left. Before we can get to a decent level in football development, 8 to 9 figures USD must be spent, I tell you. Where will the NFF get that amount, before we begin talking about how long it takes?
[b]
Finally, as a country, we need to fully engage our diaspora community to grow beyond the average African country. [/b]We have a large one currently, and we must take advantage of it. Both to grow our football, and to secure talents with foreign exposure. Beyond football, our large community gives us unfair advantages in several other areas too. Someone like Doherty has been campaigning for talents born abroad to play for us, yet has attracted a lot of investment into football development in Nigeria, notably with Southampton.

The two can go together.

Meliforme:
The problem with Nigeria is that we favour quick fixes and quick successes over gradual growth and development. We love big names, we love it big, we don't have the mentality to slowly build from the scratch.

Esau is a guy that loves it already made, he loves to hunt down animals he never was a part of their development. He goes to the bush to catch them already grown up and big and then consumes them. Jacob is a guy that favours raising young animals, that at the moment has little to offer him. He patiently nurtures them to full potential. The Esau kind of people will always sell their dignity, honour and birthright to Jacob kind of men, they will always end up begging Jacob.

It is so sad to recall that we once had Eberechi Eze within our grasp, but failed to tie him with a cap because he is not yet a big name.

Ejuke and Nwakali only played matches that are without much consequence in the just concluded AFCON tourney, maybe because of the coach's ego. Ejuke looked demoralised against Guinea Bissau. But our darling coach won't mind begging people that obviously look down on the team.

What will Olise and Eberechi Eze bring to the S.E that we don't already have in Nwakali and Ejuke , is it technique or creativity? Ejuke plays in the Russian league that is not even among the top five leagues in Europe, Nwakali is languishing in Segunda division in Spain, they are not yet big names and therefore should be despised, when it is very clear what these guys can offer. We wait untill they become big names and then we beg them.

Untill we value what we have, untill we develop our youth system and grassroot football, we will continue to beg, we will continue to restlessly venture outside with our FA president and the entire coaching crew to beg a player or two to consider playing for us, we try to appeal to their emotions, we try to evoke sympathy.

Meliforme:


Nobody is against the inclusion of FB's. They are not less Nigerian, what we are against is our
inability to groom talents through grassroot football, and begging players. The door is always open to anybody that wants to play for the team.

charlesemeka85:
I have seen him play loads of time for the saints and must confess without mincing words that he is the poorest talent wise from the bunch we re eyeing currently

Make em shine wella from now till the end of season with truck loads of goals and assist and England calls him up mk I see am decline the call up

komekn:


You are completely blinded by prejudice.

You are attempting to compare darkness with daylight.

Ejuke has a lot to learn and Nwakali after 7 years in Europe has learned nothing.

Eze is being priced at £45 million and I can't even begin to imagine the value of Olise. Both are consistent outstanding performers at the highest level.

And you are making a comparison with Nwakali, Dude you are lost.

komekn:


You are completely blinded by prejudice.

You are attempting to compare darkness with daylight.

Ejuke has a lot to learn and Nwakali after 7 years in Europe has learned nothing.

Eze is being priced at £45 million and I can't even begin to imagine the value of Olise. Both are consistent outstanding performers at the highest level.

And you are making a comparison with Nwakali, Dude you are lost.

komekn:
Appealing and promoting your National football team to players with multiple national choices, is not begging.

Please stop talking like a village Chief.

Subzero47:


You are now putting words into Pinnick's mouth

Danielnino00:

You guys are being unnecessarily petty...
Going after foreign borns isn't an issue.... I don't know what angle thegoodjoe is getting at, but for me, the NFF shouldn't be spending so much resource just to convince one or two foreign born players to represent us when such resources could be channelled into developing our grassroot football back home . It appears that the NFF don't have much interest in developing our grassroot football, which is unfortunate, seeing as it has always been a source of pride for us.
See, I'm also a big basketball fan and I support our national team passionately.. The men and female team is filled 95% with foreign born players and i totally support it.. Why? because we aren't a basketball playing nation! We don't have the talent and resource for it.. But you see America, we have plenty of people there who develop the passion for the sport back there . But the same can't be said of football... The NFF shouldn't, in the in their relentless pursuit of FB players forget their primary responsibility of developing our football back home..

kingphilip:

Okay town prefect, since the appealing and promoting hasn't worked for us on the more than three occasions we've gone, should we give them the captain band too and leave the selection of the team for them in order to make it more appealing.

Your suggestion is highly needed here

komekn:


Appealing and promoting your National football team to players with multiple national choices, is not begging.

Please stop talking like a village Chief.

M7even:


I'm Edo from my father and Yoruba from my mother. My surname might give me out. But I was born and bred in as a Yoruba boy. we only speak yoruba. I mean I could go on and on to tell you what makes me feel more Yoruba than a benin boy. Living in lagos , I've been to benin just once. It must be the same for these boys.
If You must convince them do it!
What's the pride about it? That you are asking a person to give up a fraction of what makes them and their very existence due to their parental lineage.

drDoom3:


COVID-19 Auba had that he became available for Gabon's last group game? COVID-19 Khazri had that he recovered in time to play against us? Imagine Sarr that doctors declared totally incapacitated before the tournament, did he not stilll play knockouts? Abeg leave that talk. If Osimhen persisted, he would have made it. The pressure from a club, its fans and city is not something you trifle with. If you want to blame Dennis, blame Osimhen too.

komekn:


You are completely blinded by prejudice.

You are attempting to compare darkness with daylight.

Ejuke has a lot to learn and Nwakali after 7 years in Europe has learned nothing.

Eze is being priced at £45 million and I can't even begin to imagine the value of Olise. Both are consistent outstanding performers at the highest level.

And you are making a comparison with Nwakali, Dude you are lost.

TheGoodJoe:
komekn, you that likes calling everybody prejudice, your false narratives on why Nwakali was not playing Huesca was based on what?

Let me explain it to you in one word.

PREJUDICE.

Joebie:
I agree that Pinnick should not be in London or anywhere as a matter of fact holding such talks.
We should have influential people in the UK who can do those lobbying as well as Eguavoen should be in the picture.
If people resource is what you meant, then you are so much on point.

What am I saying here? Same applies in the homefront. You should people in the right place to develop the game. A lot can be done in the home front at the same time. It is never one or the other.

TheGoodJoe:
komekn, you that likes calling everybody prejudice, your false narratives on why Nwakali was not playing Huesca was based on what?

Let me explain it to you in one word.

PREJUDICE.

TheGoodJoe:
komekn, you that likes calling everybody prejudice, your false narratives on why Nwakali was not playing Huesca was based on what?

Let me explain it to you in one word.

PREJUDICE.

komekn:


Let's dissect, can you say specifically what I said that constituted PREJUDICE.

You have used the term LIES.

Please quote me verbatim.

charlesemeka85:
keep on making excuses for a a flop who is yet to do anything since leaving the shores of Africa for Europe over 5 seasons ago

A player who is about been released by a mid table laliga 2 team with no tangible contribution with regards to goals and assist this season so far

A play who just hv a single goal to his name in Europe’s top flight leagues for God knows how many years now with no single assist must still dubbed the most creative nigerian player alive

No matter as poor as huesca is this season of nwakali was an important component of the team they will not think twice offering him a better deal even if it means to triple his current wages just to make him stay or atleast sell him offer to suitors who re ready to offer more money

I laff una

charlesemeka85:
because he didn’t return on time to be loaned out to Burgos fc

TheGoodJoe:


Dissect your opinion of why Huesca was not playing Kelechi Nwakali. It was purely based on prejudice, not facts.

TheGoodJoe:


Please read the last line of the excerpt. Contract talks broke down. Huesca offered Nwakali a new deal and he turned it down. That was my earlier assumption. Because of that, the club wanted to loan him out to make some money from Nwakali but Nwakali did not turn up early to the team and did not sign the loan deal. So the club is angry with him. They want to extort him and he said no.

That is why the Spanish Players Union is behind Nwakali because it is clear the club wants to use him and is treating him poorly.

Finito.

codemaniacs:
I hope you are watching Villarreal vs Juventus..

Chuks wing is quite weak and it's the other wing that's leading the attack..

Anytime the ball goes to the other wing at least 3 Villarreal players went to support unlike the way S.E players left Simon alone against at least 2 defenders..