tbaba1234:


Adepoju, Amokachi, Okechukwu, Iroha were introduced in 1990.

We also had key players like Elaho that didn't make the team.

TheGoodJoe:


Best players, not stability. A stable team of wack players will produce wack results. A team made of the best players, even though they are not long together will perform wonders.

TheGoodJoe:


We are not far from each other.

What I am saying is, as long as we keep searching for the best in each position, we will have a steady pool of the best.

Inviting Adi to camp for instance does not make him a starter or make the team unsteady. If Adi fails in camp, the team is still steady. The pool is still steady and we know this pool is the best.

If he does better, someone has to drop for Adi and we know we have the best.

That was what happened and we maintained a steady pool of the best players. We were one of the best team in the world.

It went bad when Aiyegbeni missed four clean chances in a match and he was sure of his next starting place. While Martins was on bench. Until the famous Aiyegbeni miss before it dawned on Nigerians that he was passed it.

chrisooblog:
it was yekini go look it up

Icon4s:


I thought you were against using the word "steady".

My point remains clear. We have a pool of 14-15 regulars and 2-3 new additions (if need be)

Icon4s:


I thought you were against using the word "steady".

My point remains clear. We have a pool of 14-15 regulars and 2-3 new additions (if need be)

Icon4s:


Are the current pool of Super Eagles whack players?

chrisooblog:
you forget that the 96 team also improved on the 94 set. kanu, babayaro, oruma, taribo west , garba lawal, dosu joseph, mobi oparaku, karibe ojigwe, teslim fatusi etc these were young guys added to the likes of oliseh, amokachi, okocha, akpoborie, amunike, finidi, t. babangida
so where is the lack of competition?

siasia could be dropped because he was nowhere near the team during qualifiers for france 98. i can understand yekini because he's our all time leading scorer and we could give him the benefit of the doubt. besides i remember in the build up to france 98 we played a friendly against jamaica in which yekini scored.

i'm happy you used the spanish example. the core of the team between 2007-2012 cassilas, puyol, xavi, alonso, ineista, fabregas, busquets, ramos etc no suprises they won 1 world cup and 2 euros in that period

the key word you should note is POOL OF TALENTED PLAYERS. any other unknown player who merits being called should be added to the pool but we don't have time to do open camp and be saying ''oya come show yourself'' we have passed that stage

forgiveness:
Do we have a pool of regular 14 - 15 regulars?

This is were the confusion started from obviously.

Is there is, please kindly list them.

Icon4s:


Yes, I highlighted that in one of my earlier posts.

TheGoodJoe:


I doubt we really know our strongest eleven. We just know our regular eleven. I think the multiple changing of coaches caused this.

chrisooblog:
my argument and that of icon is that at present we have a group of players (of which i even included fanendo adi o!) bar one or two good enough to qualify nigeria for the world cup in russia but the goodjoe's argument and others is to invite everyone wether romania based, iraq based, afghanistan based, benin based etc to come to camp so we can then determine who's the best even though we have no time and qualifiers are upon us.

BascoVanVeli:


No my idea is simple, if a player makes waves we need to investigate. If a Nigerian is voted player of the yr or wins the league in Iraq then that player deserves a look. We had some guys scoring hattricks in champions league and we didn't give them a shout. Adi won the mls and we gave him lip service. Isaac Success was the best young player in Spain and i still dn't knw who the boy has offended. These players are showing themselves but it seems we are looking in the other direction.

tbaba1234:


Iraq Lol.. The quality of football in some leagues is not worth the trouble.

Napoleon55:
How Super Eagles first team should look like at the moment.

I- Ikeme

2 Shehu(the olympic guy)

3 Echejile/Amuzie

4 Mikel/Onazi/Ndidi

5 L. Balogun

6 Ekon

7 Simon/Musa

8 Etebo

9 Iheanacho/Ighalo

10 Iwobi/Mikel

11 Moses/Simon

If Iheanacho can lead Man City's attack as a lone striker, I don't see reason why he can't do the same for us.
That derby game was really a statement especially for nigerian coaches.
Ighalo is good but Iheanacho is better.

I also believe Etebo can do well for us as a supporting striker since we have better options in midfield -Iwobi,Mikel.
If I'm SE coach,I will play Nacho upfront n Etebo behind him n see what happens.

Mickael2:


I can't stop laughing at this.

Which formation is this? When did Iwobi start playing as a number 10?! There is a big difference between an Amf and a Cmf, a 10 is always a Cmf, an Amf is not called a 10, rather you can even call him a number 8, so Iwobi CANNOT play as a 10 but as a number 8.

If Enyeama comes back, Ikeme should go straight to the stands, sorry I mean bench. Although both will be thesame because Enyeama won't be rested.

So you honestly watched that Man City game and you believe Iheanacho can play as a lone striker? The only two Nigerians now who can play as a lone striker are Ighalo and Ideye, Adi might be able to do it. Iheanacho was literally playing up front with De Bruyne, he never had to play without the ball, there are many types of lone strikers, the lone striker in a 4-3-3 formation is different from that of a 4-5-1 and being able to play one does not equate to being able to play the other. If Nigeria plays a 4-5-1 then Ighalo/Ideye/Adi has to start, Iheanacho can't play that at all, Iheanacho always pulls out to bring his teammates into the game but if he is the only person forward, who is he pulling out for?

Anyways u adopted a 4-4-2 formation which does not require a lone striker or maybe you meant Iheanacho can lead the line, then ofcourse, the only headache is who we are going to play behind him, Iwobi or Etebo. If only Mikel could still play as our Dmf, then we can play both at thesame time with a modified 4-1-3-2, infact we can't play both, so it's a question of who amongs them will play. Iheanacho is a sure goalscoring machine, so if he plays then scoring shouldn't be the problem so what you need is to maintain balance, Iwobi maintains balance more than Etebo but if we want to hammer Zambia for example, then Etebo is the right man.

Besides these, I kinda agree with everything else you said EXCEPT shehu, granted that Musa Mohammed wasn't the best but Shehu? While you are at it why not just bring back Efe Ambrose? For me o, I would shift Leon to that spot and play either Omeruo/Ndidi/Awaziem there. Not to mention that for me, Azubuike already has that Dmf spot reserved for him, so Onazi and Ndidi should look for other positions. Ndidi can play as our backup CB,Onazi can go to RB and be the back-up I don't care

Mickael2:


I can't stop laughing at this.

Which formation is this? When did Iwobi start playing as a number 10?! There is a big difference between an Amf and a Cmf, a 10 is always a Cmf, an Amf is not called a 10, rather you can even call him a number 8, so Iwobi CANNOT play as a 10 but as a number 8.

If Enyeama comes back, Ikeme should go straight to the stands, sorry I mean bench. Although both will be thesame because Enyeama won't be rested.

So you honestly watched that Man City game and you believe Iheanacho can play as a lone striker? The only two Nigerians now who can play as a lone striker are Ighalo and Ideye, Adi might be able to do it. Iheanacho was literally playing up front with De Bruyne, he never had to play without the ball, there are many types of lone strikers, the lone striker in a 4-3-3 formation is different from that of a 4-5-1 and being able to play one does not equate to being able to play the other. If Nigeria plays a 4-5-1 then Ighalo/Ideye/Adi has to start, Iheanacho can't play that at all, Iheanacho always pulls out to bring his teammates into the game but if he is the only person forward, who is he pulling out for?

Anyways u adopted a 4-4-2 formation which does not require a lone striker or maybe you meant Iheanacho can lead the line, then ofcourse, the only headache is who we are going to play behind him, Iwobi or Etebo. If only Mikel could still play as our Dmf, then we can play both at thesame time with a modified 4-1-3-2, infact we can't play both, so it's a question of who amongs them will play. Iheanacho is a sure goalscoring machine, so if he plays then scoring shouldn't be the problem so what you need is to maintain balance, Iwobi maintains balance more than Etebo but if we want to hammer Zambia for example, then Etebo is the right man.

Besides these, I kinda agree with everything else you said EXCEPT shehu, granted that Musa Mohammed wasn't the best but Shehu? While you are at it why not just bring back Efe Ambrose? For me o, I would shift Leon to that spot and play either Omeruo/Ndidi/Awaziem there. Not to mention that for me, Azubuike already has that Dmf spot reserved for him, so Onazi and Ndidi should look for other positions. Ndidi can play as our backup CB,Onazi can go to RB and be the back-up I don't care

Mickael2:


I can't stop laughing at this.

Which formation is this? When did Iwobi start playing as a number 10?! There is a big difference between an Amf and a Cmf, a 10 is always a Cmf, an Amf is not called a 10, rather you can even call him a number 8, so Iwobi CANNOT play as a 10 but as a number 8.

If Enyeama comes back, Ikeme should go straight to the stands, sorry I mean bench. Although both will be thesame because Enyeama won't be rested.

So you honestly watched that Man City game and you believe Iheanacho can play as a lone striker? The only two Nigerians now who can play as a lone striker are Ighalo and Ideye, Adi might be able to do it. Iheanacho was literally playing up front with De Bruyne, he never had to play without the ball, there are many types of lone strikers, the lone striker in a 4-3-3 formation is different from that of a 4-5-1 and being able to play one does not equate to being able to play the other. If Nigeria plays a 4-5-1 then Ighalo/Ideye/Adi has to start, Iheanacho can't play that at all, Iheanacho always pulls out to bring his teammates into the game but if he is the only person forward, who is he pulling out for?

Anyways u adopted a 4-4-2 formation which does not require a lone striker or maybe you meant Iheanacho can lead the line, then ofcourse, the only headache is who we are going to play behind him, Iwobi or Etebo. If only Mikel could still play as our Dmf, then we can play both at thesame time with a modified 4-1-3-2, infact we can't play both, so it's a question of who amongs them will play. Iheanacho is a sure goalscoring machine, so if he plays then scoring shouldn't be the problem so what you need is to maintain balance, Iwobi maintains balance more than Etebo but if we want to hammer Zambia for example, then Etebo is the right man.

Besides these, I kinda agree with everything else you said EXCEPT shehu, granted that Musa Mohammed wasn't the best but Shehu? While you are at it why not just bring back Efe Ambrose? For me o, I would shift Leon to that spot and play either Omeruo/Ndidi/Awaziem there. Not to mention that for me, Azubuike already has that Dmf spot reserved for him, so Onazi and Ndidi should look for other positions. Ndidi can play as our backup CB,Onazi can go to RB and be the back-up I don't care

Mickael2:


I can't stop laughing at this.

Which formation is this? When did Iwobi start playing as a number 10?! There is a big difference between an Amf and a Cmf, a 10 is always a Cmf, an Amf is not called a 10, rather you can even call him a number 8, so Iwobi CANNOT play as a 10 but as a number 8.

If Enyeama comes back, Ikeme should go straight to the stands, sorry I mean bench. Although both will be thesame because Enyeama won't be rested.

So you honestly watched that Man City game and you believe Iheanacho can play as a lone striker? The only two Nigerians now who can play as a lone striker are Ighalo and Ideye, Adi might be able to do it. Iheanacho was literally playing up front with De Bruyne, he never had to play without the ball, there are many types of lone strikers, the lone striker in a 4-3-3 formation is different from that of a 4-5-1 and being able to play one does not equate to being able to play the other. If Nigeria plays a 4-5-1 then Ighalo/Ideye/Adi has to start, Iheanacho can't play that at all, Iheanacho always pulls out to bring his teammates into the game but if he is the only person forward, who is he pulling out for?

Anyways u adopted a 4-4-2 formation which does not require a lone striker or maybe you meant Iheanacho can lead the line, then ofcourse, the only headache is who we are going to play behind him, Iwobi or Etebo. If only Mikel could still play as our Dmf, then we can play both at thesame time with a modified 4-1-3-2, infact we can't play both, so it's a question of who amongs them will play. Iheanacho is a sure goalscoring machine, so if he plays then scoring shouldn't be the problem so what you need is to maintain balance, Iwobi maintains balance more than Etebo but if we want to hammer Zambia for example, then Etebo is the right man.

Besides these, I kinda agree with everything else you said EXCEPT shehu, granted that Musa Mohammed wasn't the best but Shehu? While you are at it why not just bring back Efe Ambrose? For me o, I would shift Leon to that spot and play either Omeruo/Ndidi/Awaziem there. Not to mention that for me, Azubuike already has that Dmf spot reserved for him, so Onazi and Ndidi should look for other positions. Ndidi can play as our backup CB,Onazi can go to RB and be the back-up I don't care