Mujtahida:

Yes, I want the pictures embedded in the article. I think the browser too matters. On my browser I can't bolden words even though I know how to do it.

Eyah sorry about that..
I have not try to load nairaland on any other browser aside chrome... Though I have like 2 other browsers...

daveP:
So d ginger of us snatching their boys would be used to flog us ba? respect Harry Kane o. but i know Alli would dobale if he meets Mikel

hahaha

It will be a good match but I know Nigeria will win

soetanoreoluwa:



Can anybody force player on Rohr?...
And the person will walk into first 23 list players?

At this moment he has the potential not as good as nacho and ighalo and moreover alot of water will still pass under the bridge 8 months too..

so many things goes on behind the scene and don't forget this is the biggest stage of football.
I think you know that Tammy is the son to Amaju's friend-so much for football politics.

So many players will start performing for their clubs and national team lobbying will begin.

Mujtahida:

Did we even shoot at all from outside the box in Saturday's match? I can't recall we did

Mikel, Ndidi, S. Moses all took shots outside the box. S. Moses own lacks enough power. One thing lacking was composure. I don't know if that can be taught. I would have ask Iwobi and Iheanacho to teach other team members.
We also misplaced so much passes.

Mickael2:
Everybody was tensed but I wasn't. I always knew the game would be close and immediately we scored a goal it was over.


Where Goldfish dey, 3-0 right? The Zambians played well and they should have been a goal up, exactly what I expected them to do but God was totally on our side, they became less clinical unlike when they met us and we managed to hold out

I never said we will win 3:0

My quote was that I expect a 2-3 goals wining margin and a generous officiating.

My guess on the score line wasn't pin point but you can see the generous officiating I mentioned earlier

It is very clear that we will be getting the benevolent rub of the green with 50-50 calls in the forceable. Lol

Mujtahida:

Omo at this rate in the next three to four years we might have as much as 8 foreign born players ooo. We already have four. Dessers is there knocking too

i like the way he looks at the net b4 shooting to score. Unlike yesteryears, our hand don full repete. Youve seen the list of 15 on goal.com? Some forgotten players there.

soetanoreoluwa:


Ebuehi is kind lonely I dunno maybe he gat no parent following him up and down... Most times I might be wrong he didn't participate in their play.. Or dance stuff... Might be wrong though..

Atleast I have quite number of this current SE am following on social media.. And most times they do live video... Ebuchi is just there...

Maybe he need pepper soup and Nigeria jollof

Yes ooo to jump start his brain. I am always anxious for him. An introvert though but once he clicks he will stick to us like super glue. Hoping to see him make his debut in the match against Algeria.

AIG07:
those ones are just after their pockets.
I have loose hope in the present administration or let me say in this group of leaders.

Glad Pinnick worked to achieve independence cos that tsa acct nonsense can frustrate. They were even given 50milla. I pray its used for the vladimir project.

I don't think you understand the process of switch of allegiance. Besides as regards the steps that were taken by Pinnick, and the developments, his reaction etc, when I get the time I will analyze everything and break it down for you. In fact i'm going to write something like an article here, taking all the statements made by the parties involved into context. Remember even then I was saying it here that he didn't turn Nigeria down, and that Pinnick never said he chose Nigeria. some of you felt differently.. Right now the media is saying Tammy has now made a U-turn. We need to learn to read the quotes and read between the lines. The headlines are just a spin. There is no such thing as a U-turn, as he never turned NIgeria down in the first place.

Let me ask you a few questions, maybe you can read between the lines.
Why didn't Tammy tell the English press that there was a meeting with NFF/Pinnick as regards switching to Nigeria, and that his agent and dad were present? Why wasn't he specific about the meeting?
Why did he only say that his dad and Pinnick were friends and didn't say more? Think

safarigirl:
which switch?

So, you think Tammy will be under less pressure from the press in two months? You think he will jist go and switch and the English press will not hear about it after this debacle?

And later you will accuse someone else of dreaming....

When Mikel Agu was to come in for Ogenyi Onazi, I saw Michael Ogu approaching Rohr. Guy be like oga I still de hope.
Who else witnessed the scenario?

But sincerely speaking Rohr no try for Ogu mata at all

IMO ViMO has locked down the African player of the year award hands down. All that is left is for his to practice his acceptance speech.

daveP:
i like the way he looks at the net b4 shooting to score. Unlike yesteryears, our hand don full repete. Youve seen the list of 15 on goal.com? Some forgotten players there.

Yes I have upon your reference. Ibe don finish na.

Very realistic list, as regards how Rohr has been doing things.
After our Algeria match, we will have to revisit this list
Only Dessers looks out of place here, just because I don't think Rohr has said anything about him.
But all the same, I think he deserves a look in.

Modified
As regards Solanke, I don't think we will succeed in getting him. But it's worth the try.

safarigirl:
Following elyte39's suggestion, and for the sake of a little fun....my 30-35 man WC list barring injuries:

GK (5)

1. Ikechukwu Ezenwa
2. Vincent Enyeama
3. Dele Alampasu
4. Daniel Akpeyi
5. Carl Ikeme ( not likely to make it)

DF (9)

6. Leon Balogun
7. William Troost-Ekong
8. Shehu Abdullahi
9. Ola Aina
10. Elderson Echiejile
11. Chidozie Awaziem
12. Tyrone Ebuehi
13. Kenneth Omeruo
14. Felix Uduokhai/Torunarigha (whichever we can get)

MF (8]

15. John Mikel Obi
16. Ogenyi Onazi
17. Wilfred Ndidi
18. John Ogu
19. Oghenekaro Etebo
20. Joel Obi
21. Mikel Agu
22. Kelechi Nwakali/ Obinna Nwobodo


FW (8]

23. Victor Moses
24. Odion Ighalo
25. Kelechi Iheanacho
26. Alex Iwobi
27. Moses Simon
28. Ahmed Musa
29. Cyril Dessers
30. Henry Onyekuru/ Olarenwaju Kayode

Standby (5)

31. Tammy Abraham
32. Ademola Look man
33. Dominic Solanke
34. Josh Onomah
35. Uche Agbo

Cc Joebie, Icon4s, Kog45, Terzurum5, forgiveness, joseph1013, daveP, napoleon55, icon79, Mujtahida

We've seen much of Agu. Ogu should start versus Algeria. He can prove what he's got then.

Modified.
Lots of developing news today since i've been off the internet.
I will see if any of you guys have posted here. If not I will, shortly

terzurum5:
When Mikel Agu was to come in for Ogenyi Onazi, I saw Michael Ogu approaching Rohr. Guy be like oga I still de hope.
Who else witnessed the scenario?

But sincerely speaking Rohr no try for Ogu mata at all

BascoVanVeli:
IMO ViMO has locked down the African player of the year award hands down. All that is left is for his to practice his acceptance speech.

nope, either Mane or Auba

Let's see what he got in him.
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BELGIAN-NIGERIAN STRIKER DESSERS TO AUDITION FOR ROHR BEFORE EAGLES GAME AGAINST ALGERIA

Belgium born Nigerian forward Cyril Dessers is among a set of players under consideration for a call up to the Super Eagles camp in Morocco ahead of their clash against Algeria.
Nigeria will hold a training camp in Morocco before their dead rubber final World Cup 2018 Qualifiers tie against Algeria, and a friendly game has been planned before the game.
Dessers has been placed under close watch by coach Gernot Rohr of the Super Eagles with the performance of the FC Utrecht forward closely been watched by scouts of the Franco-German coach.
The forward who is eligible for Nigeria and Belgium has already declared his intention to represent Nigeria despite having one call up to the Belgium U20 although he didn’t get to play.
22 year old Dessers has four goals in the first seven games of the Dutch top flight league for Utrecht, the team he joined in the summer from NAC Breda where his 22 goals haul helped the team to promotion to the Dutch first division.

Ade Emmanuel
Source: http://owngoalnigeria.com/2017/10/10/belgian-nigerian-striker-dessers-to-audition-for-rohr-before-eagles-game-against-algeria/

thank you sir!

adegwurulez:

Oh Joebie, God bless you for this. I couldn't have said it better.

yes I just saw that one but was not sure if it was posted here earlier.. Thank you.. but make i read the story well well.. these news guys sometimes can be misleading.

Mujtahida:

Let's see what he got in him.
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BELGIAN-NIGERIAN STRIKER DESSERS TO AUDITION FOR ROHR BEFORE EAGLES GAME AGAINST ALGERIA

Belgium born Nigerian forward Cyril Dessers is among a set of players under consideration for a call up to the Super Eagles camp in Morocco ahead of their clash against Algeria.
Nigeria will hold a training camp in Morocco before their dead rubber final World Cup 2018 Qualifiers tie against Algeria, and a friendly game has been planned before the game.
Dessers has been placed under close watch by coach Gernot Rohr of the Super Eagles with the performance of the FC Utrecht forward closely been watched by scouts of the Franco-German coach.
The forward who is eligible for Nigeria and Belgium has already declared his intention to represent Nigeria despite having one call up to the Belgium U20 although he didn’t get to play.
22 year old Dessers has four goals in the first seven games of the Dutch top flight league for Utrecht, the team he joined in the summer from NAC Breda where his 22 goals haul helped the team to promotion to the Dutch first division.

Ade Emmanuel
Source: http://owngoalnigeria.com/2017/10/10/belgian-nigerian-striker-dessers-to-audition-for-rohr-before-eagles-game-against-algeria/

Joebie:
Very realistic list, as regards how Rohr has been doing things.
After our Algeria match, we will have to revisit this list
Only Dessers looks out of place here, just because I don't think Rohr has said anything about him.
But all the same, I think he deserves a look in.

Modified
As regards Solanke, I don't think we will succeed in getting him. But it's worth the try.

Dessers has been known to Rohr. I earlier I posted a news dated 20th August where an official of the NFF was reported as saying that Dessers has been brought to the attention of Rohr and that he doesn't have switch issues but it's all up to Rohr. I just saw news now on Dessers.

Read that article about Iwobi I posted earlier.

TheGoodJoe:


Either Tammy wants us or he is waiting for Tunde. It is as simple as that. For now, he has made it clear that the U21 of England is his focus. Finito. Blaming Pinnick's ill-timed announcement is like complaining about the cheap ring a man used to propose.

If the young man wants the Queen, give him the Queen.

soetanoreoluwa:


Ebuehi is kind lonely I dunno maybe he gat no parent following him up and down... Most times I might be wrong he didn't participate in their play.. Or dance stuff... Might be wrong though..

Atleast I have quite number of this current SE am following on social media.. And most times they do live video... Ebuchi is just there...

Maybe he need pepper soup and Nigeria jollof

Ebuehi is just shy. Aina has been in the Eagles set up for all of 60seconds and he's already dancing with the team. Although one can argue the presence of his childhood friend played a part.

Meanwhile, This Palestinian team will surely win the world cup

Did you ask me to define pressing earlier in my terms? I'm coming. I want to believe we have a different outlook as regards the term. I'm reading the pages I have missed.

TheGoodJoe:


How can you disagree with Iheanacho pressing better than Ighalo? It was so obvious in the last game. Mikel had to do it. Ighalo could not. If Nacho was there, we would have pressed with more intensity. Nacho trumps in that.

Moses actually did well. Based on what we've known him for, he was below par against Zambia. That was my assessment of him after the game. That's how I think highly of him. You are spot on, on that.

Mujtahida:

That guy was rampant on Saturday though not as effective in his runs like at other times. Truly he is the one that drives our attack. He defends too and he never tires out. I wonder where his reserve of strength and power comes from. If he has a good left back who combines with him on the left it would really be prime football. Aina showed some attacking flair, combining beautifully with Moses but I still prefer Aina playing on the right.

jihday:
nope, either Mane or Auba

No be naija dem dey come give the award? As dem rob Mikel that year wey we leave them, if them try am this time I'll personally pull a Kanye.

Did anyone notice how bad the pitch in Uyo has deteriorated? Seem lack of maintenance is telling bad on the pitch

TheGoodJoe:


Check your email.

I have done that but could not find anything. I had to even go through "Spam" still found none.
Cc: Fringes

If I were Tammy's agent, I would tell him to say exactly what he said to the media. I'm sure the boy got professional advice on that.
There was no better way to have said it after being put in that position.

Loogan:
I think we should take it easy on Tammy sure it looks like he embarrassed a very proud Nigeria, but we have to admit pinnick kind of put him in that position, he needs to take it easy with this media talk, he dosent need to expose our plans everytime, he put Tammy in that position. Although I am not cutting him any slack there are ways things can be said where no harm is done on both sides, he hurt Nigerians with what he said, but I think it was inexperience and he will learn...we also need to think about things from him own side, he sure will be under pressure from England especially when he's a good young player and thev lost iwobi and Moses it definitely will piss them off and you know politics. But I don't think we will miss him in Russia he's not a significant upgrade on iheanacho. Dessers is only a matter of time when he proves himself this season he can be in Russia.
if it is talent for the future we have guys like umar sadiq, bonaventure, onyekuru, awoniyi, Osinmeh, nazifi yahaya, Ike ugbo who can be world beaters in a few years. It's only coz Tammy his in form now.
We Nigerians should try to be less emotional on these topics because 90% of the time the real truth dosent make the media, we should try see it for a sec from their point of view, most of these dual nationality guys don't feel Nigerian atall but we expect them to want to play for Nigeria just coz their parents are from there?
But it's not "they should stop embarrassing us, we should stop embarrassing ourselfs because we accept mediocrity dosent mean they should.
We have all the talent in the world and players who are ready to sacrifice all for Nigeria in Nigeria let's work on that, thank God we already are.

Aina is a temporary fix for LB. we've seen someone better than fry pan (Echiejile).
As regards scouting, we already know our options. All we need to do is make the move, get them, and let's see if they can even beat Aina at LB. if not they are not good enough o.. Aina for now is our wing back -- both left and right. With the little i've seen of him, I rate him higher than "you know who"

Mujtahida:

Not alterations but back ups if not competitors. What if(God forbid) Balogun or Troost get injured?
Cos we just have Awaziem for now. Omeruo, I no dey. Echiejile has Aina for now although it's better for Aina to jostle for the right back notwithstanding the good performances of Shehu. That means we must still scout for a left back.

Yea i noticed it was different from when we took on Cameroon.

oloriooko:
Did anyone notice how bad the pitch in Uyo has deteriorated? Seem lack of maintenance is telling bad on the pitch

Joebie:
Aina is a temporary fix for LB. we've seen someone better than fry pan (Echiejile).
As regards scouting, we already know our options. All we need to do is make the move, get them, and let's see if they can even beat Aina at LB. if not they are not good enough o.. Aina for now is our wing back -- both left and right. With the little i've seen of him, I rate him higher than "you know who"

You mean Felix Uduokhai and Jordan Torunarigha as permanent fixes for the LB?

I think that's the one safarigirl was referring to when she said friendly

Mujtahida:

He scored from outside the box in the dead rubber match we played against Tanzania September last year for Afcon qualifiers which was Rohr 's first match and the goal won CNN match of the week.