MetalJigsaw:
We should beg him to come back from retirement. Just listen to yourself. He retired by himself!.

The team chemistry is at stake!

And who will be the captain of the team??

Kog45:
Escobar treatment?N o even Aiyegbeni that missed a goal that great grand mother will scored did not get Escober treatment.

Hope you know or read about how Godwin Odiye scored an own goal that denied us our first possible WC appearance in 1978 against Tunisia. We needed just a draw at home,nothing happened to him,fans left national stadium crying.Hope you know how painful it was to scored against your team and that goal denied your team qualification in front of volatile Lagos fans,nobody did Escobar on him.

Pls let analyse football the way it should be so that we can enjoy our discussion in a fruitful way.I can't force Akpeyi on Rohr and if Rohr said no more Akpeyi,honestly cool but as at today Akpeyi still remain member of super eagles, so i will continue to take him into consideration until Rohr say otherwise.

Pls can you tell me which one is worst between Ejide howler against Scotland prior to 2013 WC and Akpeyi's mistake against Argentina.Ejide in that match looked like he intentionally parried ball into his own net,despite that he made the team..

I'm not holding brief for Akpeyi cos if i have my way i will pick Uzoho, Ajiboye and Alampasu but am not Rohr and i cannot ruled him out.

My comment was a balance one may be you should read it again to understand my message.It was pure unbiased comment by analysing individuals chances of making it.

Akpeyi has a slim chance of making it and i said Ezenwa performance at CHAN will determine his chances and round it up by saying i hope he get another chance,this should tell you he get limited chance due to Argentina error.

No matter our players performance i don't think they deserves Escobar treatment, pls let take things cool when trying to make some point, Escobar treatment meaning what,ready to kill.

Icon4s:


Thank God Enyeama is back to action.

Next is for Rohr , his crew the NFF to convince him to come out of retirement.

We need to see him in action against Poland in March.

After Russia, we can now finally focus on the young goalies as we build up for the 2022WC.

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Team chemistry?
Shehu, Balogun, Ekong, Omeruo, Echiejile, Onazi, Musa, Moses, Mikel all played with Enyeama.

When clamoring for Uzoho, Alampasu and Okoye you didn't think of Chemistry.

The goalkeeping department for the World cup is for EXPERIENCED Goalies. Even Akpeyi and Ezenwa don't have that kind of Experience.

This is not like the case of Peter Rufai that was on vacation and was callrd up less than 3weeks to the WC. We just need Enyeama to be back to active goal keeping. We still have a couple of friendlies to assess and reintegrate him into the team.

So your problem is now about who becomes team captain?

elyte89:





In as much as we re craving for enyeamas return to d team,we should avoid begging "anyone" to wear D GWG,it would b disastrous. Let him show interest, and if he doesn't,let's manage d ones we av.TEAM CHEMISTRY/BONDING IS KEY


BTW,his inclusion or not won't determine aw far we would go in d tournament... MY opinion #

MetalJigsaw:
Answer my question of who will be the team captain since you can seen the future. Don't you know that that issue issue is a potential jeopardizer of the team togetherness?

You're surely the type of dude that easily gets emotionally attached to a woman and keep begging and licking her ass even if she clearly doesn't want you.

MetalJigsaw:
Answer my question of who will be the team captain since you can seen the future. Don't you know that that issue issue is a potential jeopardizer of the team togetherness?

You're surely the type of dude that easily gets emotionally attached to a woman and keep begging and licking her ass even if she clearly doesn't want you.

safarigirl:
uncle, please address with respect and make your point without resorting to personal attacks on the elders of this thread.

Your second paragraph was unnecessary

safarigirl:
Enyeama did not perform magic the last three World Cups he went for and he will not perform magic now.


He is just as error prone as any other goalie we have, but his own error is that he is too short to see a corner kick and it is not hard for opponents to score from that angle


If he must come back, let us not make the error of fielding him against the Argentines because dem don see am finish for that team and they will play him the suwe they always play him

Before he will dash his bestie two goals

Icon4s:


There is a lot of difference between begging and convincing. Nobody is gonna beg anybody.

Which Team chemistry are we talking about here?
Which stands a higher risk of distorting team chemistry? Return of a veteran goalie that played with all 4 of the current regular defenders or introduction of a Rookie goalie?

Forget about issue of bonding. Enyeama is a father figure in that team. Just like what Ike Shoronmu was to the 2002 WC team. We need an experienced goalie in that fold abeg.

On your last paragraph, then in that case why worry about Akpeyi? Since, from that statement, it doesn't matter who is in goal.

Do you know how many life saving saves Enyeama made for us in our last 2 World cups? I can never forget the last effort save he made against Bosnia in the 2014 WC. That singular save ensured we won that game and at the end of the day counted for us to qualify from that group.

Think of the kind of pressures we usually find ourselves in world cups and the kind of saves Enyeama makes .Do you think all those Rookie goalies can make such?

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On your first paragraph, if you have time look for videos of our last two World cups and watch Enyeama's saves.

I will like know that goalie that you think can perform that "Magic" you are talking about.

safarigirl:
abeg o, Enyeama is nobody's father figure.... A father that abandoned his children when they needed him the most because he had disagreement with officials? That is a deadbeat dad, irresponsible father. Currently, Mikel is the father who stepped in when the deadbeat dad jumped ship, so let us not give Enyeama an unmerited position

Enyeama's position now is like that father that abandons his kids during rough times and then another nan steps in (Mikel) to take care of them and once the kids have reached a respectable status in society, the deadbeat dad wants to leech off of them just because he provided sp3rm.


Let us not give anyone unmerited position because we want them back. Enyeama is a betrayer of trust, because of his ego he betrayed the trust of players who looked up to him and now we want to forget that because we have refused to trust the current guys there?


Icon abeg, that one I no go gree. Enyeama is not an important entity anymore in the Super Eagles, nobody dey look am as anything again. He is not the superhuman goalie many are making him out to be, he is not even the spiritual father I used to think he was. He's just an outsider looking to use a privileged position to get in

realpoacher:


From the bolded its obvious that you still didn't get my point. Ejide's howler was an error(even though it was contested as match fixing but he was cleared). A very rare error from Ejide who we all know was a good keeper bested by Enyeama only as at that time. Comparing Ejide to Akpeyi is like comparing USA to Nigeria in terms of development, they are miles apart. It is an insult to Ejide by even attempting to compare him with Akpeyi.

Listen and listen good, Akpeyi is a horrible keeper, he is not good , he is a calamity waiting to happen. On his good days he is still error prone, then on his bad days,... Well I refuse to make comments

You are an elder here, you have been following the Eagles right from the 70s and 80s yet you still hold brief for Akpeyi. Can you honestly picture Akpeyi as our keeper in goal at USA 94, at France 98, at Korea/Japan 02, at S/A 2010?.....

At those tournaments, we went with our best and they kept the scoreline low against the world best teams. I don't want to remind you how well Peter Rufai kept both Bulgaria and Greece at bay before we won. I don't want to remind you how ike shorumu kept Argentina at bay before they managed a 1-0 respectable victory over us. I don't want to remind you how Enyeama kept messi at bay while he kept tormenting our defence at will at 2010 world cup.

Now picture Akpeyi in goal on those occasions.

If you still seriously believe that Akpeyi deserve to be in Russia next year then I will believe too that you are either lying to yourself or you have a hidden agenda pushing for him.

Newsflash, assuming Akpeyi resumed second half in the Argentina game friendly, we wouldn't have won because he probably would have committed one of his school boy errors again. That I am sure of.

Many times we see Akpeyi in the line up at the viewing center where I watch my matches, we all become jittery , murmuring, and we start praying. Tension everywhere... I believe his colleagues on the field feels the same too.

He doesn't inspire confidence at all, a team's psychic is very important and a keeper leaking needless goals is definitely a source of big worry.

Haven't you noticed, whenever Akpeyi keeps we concedes and lose the match 90% of time. This is not me being bias or hating him.

Let him go sort out whatever is hunting him and leave our SE for us in peace... Someone should not come and have HBP on top an Agbaya that has refused to grow

safarigirl:
magic that did not lead to us winning?

Ikeme could have performed that magic...he is at least tall enough to see the ball coming from a corner.

Uzoho has same attributes, but we haven't seen enough of him and that is why Enyeama is your issue.....apart from the fact that you like older players of course

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Hahaha.

Enyeama is a veteran of the Super Eagles of Nigeria.
The best goalie to ever stand between the sticks for us. He is a great icon of that goal keeping position.

Which ever way you look at it he is a father figure.And definitely will be well respected.

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"Ikeme could have...." you said? Ikeme is no where near Enyeama at his prime.

Nigerians, we forget too soon.

And Uzoho is now the likely Magician that will perform the magic that Enyeama could not perform over 3 WC and 5 AFCONS and lots of WC and AFCON qualifiers in between.

Abeg fear God small abeg.

safarigirl:
he will not even be given the level of respect Yobo has even as Yobo scored OG at his own last World Cup.

We can all slate Oliseh in his handling of their spat, but we must not give Enyeama any pass for his own controbution as well. A veteran goalie behaving in that manner was shameful...even his behaviour prior to that was shameful and divisive but his performance between the sticks always made us forget that Enyeama is a proper BRAT.

safarigirl:
abeg o, Enyeama is nobody's father figure.... A father that abandoned his children when they needed him the most because he had disagreement with officials? That is a deadbeat dad, irresponsible father. Currently, Mikel is the father who stepped in when the deadbeat dad jumped ship, so let us not give Enyeama an unmerited position

Enyeama's position now is like that father that abandons his kids during rough times and then another nan steps in (Mikel) to take care of them and once the kids have reached a respectable status in society, the deadbeat dad wants to leech off of them just because he provided sp3rm.


Let us not give anyone unmerited position because we want them back. Enyeama is a betrayer of trust, because of his ego he betrayed the trust of players who looked up to him and now we want to forget that because we have refused to trust the current guys there?


Icon abeg, that one I no go gree. Enyeama is not an important entity anymore in the Super Eagles, nobody dey look am as anything again. He is not the superhuman goalie many are making him out to be, he is not even the spiritual father I used to think he was. He's just an outsider looking to use a privileged position to get in

safarigirl:
if Your great magician Enyeama could not perform magic in 3 World Cups and 5 AFCONs, maybe he's not as good a magician as you thought

Icon4s:


Hahaha. So you are sticking out your neck that Uzoho will perform the Magic. Right?

Icon4s:


Hahaha. So you are sticking out your neck that Uzoho will perform the Magic. Right?

Icon4s:


Team chemistry?
Shehu, Balogun, Ekong, Omeruo, Echiejile, Onazi, Musa, Moses, Mikel all played with Enyeama.

When clamoring for Uzoho, Alampasu and Okoye you didn't think of Chemistry.

The goalkeeping department for the World cup is for EXPERIENCED Goalies. Even Akpeyi and Ezenwa don't have that kind of Experience.

This is not like the case of Peter Rufai that was on vacation and was callrd up less than 3weeks to the WC. We just need Enyeama to be back to active goal keeping. We still have a couple of friendlies to assess and reintegrate him into the team.

So your problem is now about who becomes team captain?

soetanoreoluwa:


Last time we check he told peterside he's tired of playing for Super eagles... What else do we want again?

safarigirl:
he will not do any worse than Enyeama....at least if he is conceding goals, he will not also be causing unnecessary trouble in the dressing room because Rohr scolded him during Half-Time

kennysville:
Same way we stuck our neck for Enyeama @ 2002 world cup.... yes na!

Icon4s:


He will not do any worse than Enyeama? So Enyeama was terrible in his 3 Word cup outings?

A keeper that will usually win MOTM even when we lost?

soetanoreoluwa:


Last time we check he told peterside he's tired of playing for Super eagles... What else do we want again?

realpoacher:


From the bolded its obvious that you still didn't get my point. Ejide's howler was an error(even though it was contested as match fixing but he was cleared). A very rare error from Ejide who we all know was a good keeper bested by Enyeama only as at that time. Comparing Ejide to Akpeyi is like comparing USA to Nigeria in terms of development, they are miles apart. It is an insult to Ejide by even attempting to compare him with Akpeyi.

Listen and listen good, Akpeyi is a horrible keeper, he is not good , he is a calamity waiting to happen. On his good days he is still error prone, then on his bad days,... Well I refuse to make comments

You are an elder here, you have been following the Eagles right from the 70s and 80s yet you still hold brief for Akpeyi. Can you honestly picture Akpeyi as our keeper in goal at USA 94, at France 98, at Korea/Japan 02, at S/A 2010?.....

At those tournaments, we went with our best and they kept the scoreline low against the world best teams. I don't want to remind you how well Peter Rufai kept both Bulgaria and Greece at bay before we won. I don't want to remind you how ike shorumu kept Argentina at bay before they managed a 1-0 respectable victory over us. I don't want to remind you how Enyeama kept messi at bay while he kept tormenting our defence at will at 2010 world cup.

Now picture Akpeyi in goal on those occasions.

If you still seriously believe that Akpeyi deserve to be in Russia next year then I will believe too that you are either lying to yourself or you have a hidden agenda pushing for him.

Newsflash, assuming Akpeyi resumed second half in the Argentina game friendly, we wouldn't have won because he probably would have committed one of his school boy errors again. That I am sure of.

Many times we see Akpeyi in the line up at the viewing center where I watch my matches, we all become jittery , murmuring, and we start praying. Tension everywhere... I believe his colleagues on the field feels the same too.

He doesn't inspire confidence at all, a team's psychic is very important and a keeper leaking needless goals is definitely a source of big worry.

Haven't you noticed, whenever Akpeyi keeps we concedes and lose the match 90% of time. This is not me being bias or hating him.

Let him go sort out whatever is hunting him and leave our SE for us in peace... Someone should not come and have HBP on top an Agbaya that has refused to grow