komekn:


We deh talk football ⚽ whaaaten bring basketball 🏀 inside 🤷🏿‍♀️

Basketball na sport nah.

zicky:
Those strickers are not fit and scientific enough, he will be cooked by scientifically strict strickers of today 😉

🤣🤣🤣🤣

AndSunGorilla:

Hope you know say na Saka-seize-him o.

I know now.

I actually read it many times because the excuses sounds somehow. Then I checked the moniker.

TheGoodJoe:


Simple tactical understanding. Carlos was repeatedly cooked and then left Ronald de Boer to go and block header. He can't take such decision without coaching instruction.

From he was told, to tactical understanding,

Sir, why had you not applied for a Job in NPFL for a start first?

comodo:

To go Russia no be issue. Na to comot go another club. The dude better remain in mainstream Europe.

no be lie, he should remain in Belgium for another season abeg

Kog45:
James Obiorah rattled Canavaro led defense in champions league both home and away.As you said wetin be big deal…..As old as Okocha and Obiorah are now,just give them 25 minutes play in any competitive match and see them cook any defenders

Even Vicmo, Kanu and Osaze, will cook tire,

Add Pious Ikedia, that one that can dribble like say tomorrow no dey

Napoleon55:

Cannavaro won ballon d'or as a defender,
I don't even know if a any defender can make top 10 today talkless of top 5.
Maybe Rudiger can make top 15

did van dijk not make top 10

I have scouted talent to know who a genuine talent is from their first to second touch and movement. At 16/17 you could see Nwakali/Arder/Kanu/Osimhen's talent. I just do not see that boy succeeding as a striker! I have never gone wrong with my prediction. Calafiori and Zirkzee are prime examples!

Nevertheless, I understand your point. The team you played in can also help even when you're average. There are many examples of such players too. Maybe Endrick might be one of them. lol!

TheSuperNerd:
He is 17. Relax. Boy is genuinely talented. First time impressions can be misleading sometimes in football. I know from Talent ID-ing experience.

The biggest young talent from Brazil at the moment is Estevao Willian from same Palmerias Endrick came from. Boy is a dazzling creative winger they call Messinho. Bad-ass talent.

But Endrick is a 9 and he will prove you wrong. I have watched enough of the young talents from Brazil from Endrick, to Victor Roque (before he joined Barca), to Estevao to Gabri Moscardo to wesley to Savio and others to know Endrick and Estevao are truly genuine articles.

And this is talking Brazilian talents alone. Argentina has Claudio Esheverri and Ecuador has Kendry Paez.

Give it time. Vinicius was also termed average and I am sure you would have tagged him overhyped when you saw him first in Europe. Look at Vinicius now proving everyone who doubted his talents wrong.

Ofofo reports I'm hearing is that Dominic Solanke wants to play for SE because he was snubbed by England at EURO 2024 and has even contacted NFF.

oloriooko:
Olise to Bayern done deal

Now he can live his French dream

solonnachi:
Ofofo reports I'm hearing is that Dominic Solanke wants to play for SE because he was snubbed by England at EURO 2024 and has even contacted NFF.

He should stick to England

TheSuperNerd:
Is Vinicius a joke to you? Brazil missed Vinicius against Uruguay. No caps. I thought it was over with Neymar fading until Vinicius arrived on the scene. Vinicius is taking over the Neymar mantle as Brazil's new main jogo bonito super star.

Vinicius suits the modern game than Neyma because he is more direct and a better team player

charlesemeka85:
He should stick to England

No we need him …infact ,i or d new coach is planning to talk to him …forget all dese names we parade ,na only osimhen be d reliable striker

Odas have failed,most especially d strikers we paraded against Benin 🇧🇯 and South Africa 🇿🇦

So oda strikers want to tell me dt dey can’t be reliable wout osimhen to defeat low teams like Benin 🇧🇯 Rwanda 🇷🇼 and co 😏

Joebie:
Of what good is it if we argue tiki taka till tomorrow when e no get connection with SE? SE no go ever play tiki taka

No be that tiki take carry us go where we Dey now?

charlesemeka85:
I saw a YouTube clip few months ago of a kid not up to 15 years old saying that he enjoys watching old football games that were played when he wasn’t born than the one of this era

That the football of the era is way too boring

Shebi na Oga joe like documentaries, you see these football being played today? Their clips or documentaries will be so boring to watch in the future

I also think insane wages and salaries is killing the game, many football greats in the past have complained about this too

mostob:
Boss, you have said it all. Immediately Mbappe scored his second goal, I switched off my phone, poured water on my head and casually strolled out. I could not watch the remaining minutes. It was too tensive. I thank God Messi won that trophy. It was special!

It was beautiful Bro.

Odunayaw:
“In the years to come the number of footballers worth watching will be less and less and football will become less enjoyable” — Marcelo Bielsa

https://x.com/JFfutbol/status/1809607926501503145?t=d32iHqBWWUp3igNvhI4vUg&s=19

Yet one will be here painting the thread blue

Chief theorist who knows more than people who are practitioners.

He pen go rest if nobody dey start this kind argument

do4luv14:


Oshare direct that question to Oga blue font

happy Sunday Sir

BascoVanVeli:
Neymar is the last real Brazilian player on the planet Earth. The rest might as well be playing for England

Neymar is the purest breed of any Brazilian player.

I like Rodrigo a little too.

Marjoribanks:
I have scouted talent to know who a genuine talent is from their first to second touch and movement. At 16/17 you could see Nwakali/Arder/Kanu/Osimhen's talent. I just do not see that boy succeeding as a striker! I have never gone wrong with my prediction. Calafiori and Zirkzee are prime examples!

Nevertheless, I understand your point. The team you played in can also help even when you're average. There are many examples of such players too. Maybe Endrick might be one of them. lol!

You're a scout? wow. But the other day, you said Calafiori is a midfielder. BTW, I'm a good analyst too. Which club do you scout for? Link me up abeg.

solonnachi:
Ofofo reports I'm hearing is that Dominic Solanke wants to play for SE because he was snubbed by England at EURO 2024 and has even contacted NFF.

Make he gerrout. He should wait for his turn.

solonnachi:
Ofofo reports I'm hearing is that Dominic Solanke wants to play for SE because he was snubbed by England at EURO 2024 and has even contacted NFF.

He must play for England. No be our head he go use.

Odunayaw:
Football has fallen so much so that National Team football has become the only hope to see spirit, culture and beauty.

Even NT football is fast getting corrupted

When I say the game is now corrupt, TheGoodJoe was asking me to explain.

Philosopher1979:


As time goes on football will even loose its popularity. No one will watch football again. Modern football is too defensive.
It ronaldinho, messi, Pele etc that made people's like football and once the game looses its beauty people will turn thir back on it

It is too much of everything but flair and creativity

charlesemeka85:
Vinicius suits the modern game than Neyma because he is more direct and a better team player

the only thing Vinicius can do better than Neymar is "sprint" Nothing else.

If Vinicius and Bellingham are the front runners for Ballon D'or, tells you all you need about the current state of the game.

Odunayaw:
I hope so. Change is inevitable

What if it changes for the worst? They must restore the number 10. They made football special. Only that ten was like the sun around which the entire solar system of football revolved. They removed the ten, now darkness has fallen upon the game.

In the past the ten was the embodiment of skill, excitement. He was the conductor, that's why football borrowed the word maestro from music and applied it to the ten. Defenders, attackers, wingers were never described as maestros, only the ten.

Joebie:
He pen go rest if nobody dey start this kind argument

The thing tire me, no be lie

TheGoodJoe:


Roberto Carlos can hit a fantastic screamer but I have seen him cooked many times like of he can't even mark. Go watch Ronald de Boer cook him in France 98 so badly that his coach told him to stop trying.

maybe you don’t know what ‘got cooked means’

TheGoodJoe:


Don't miss my point. I am not saying Ronaldinho won't be good. He will be a bright talent. But, won't operate on that stellar level as he did in the past. The space will limit that.

This is precisely the problem. We don't want a brand of football that inhibits players from operating at a stellar level. If Ronaldinho with all his natural endowments will - according to you - won't be able to operate at a stellar level in this space-tight football, that means you players of lesser endowments are just winging it. No wonder the game is drab and soulless.

Starboytwo:
the only thing Vinicius can do better than Neymar is "sprint" Nothing else.

If Vinicius and Bellingham are the front runners for Ballon D'or, tells you all you need about the current state of the game.

nothing wrong with Vinny or Jude winning it, I mean Figo Owen and Nedved won it in the past, they aren’t so much better

TheGoodJoe:


Roberto Carlos can hit a fantastic screamer but I have seen him cooked many times like of he can't even mark. Go watch Ronald de Boer cook him in France 98 so badly that his coach told him to stop trying.

We like it when they are cooked. It's part of what makes football organic. We don't want the plastic perfection of your modern day pass merchants.

TheGoodJoe:


Ronald de Boer. Netherlands vs Brazil. Cook Carlos, stew him on top. If you watched the goal Kluivert scored, Ronald de Boer crossed that ball without being marked because Carlos was asked to leave him and go and defend the goal. Because he was almost invisible. If I remember right, Kluivert's header went through Carlos leg.

No be nonsense be this? And this means what that Carlos was beaten in a game? Isn't it part of the game for such things to happen? Isn't this why we don't want your corrupt perfection that is all ornery and gaudy but useless sweetness.

Didn't Adingra cook Ola Aina who up to the point of the final had a stellar performance?

Didn't you watch Zidane cook the entire Brazilian team of Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Cafu in Germany 06?

No wonder charlesemeka85 often says that you talk as if you started watching football during Pep era.