NewStats: 3,265,061 , 8,185,504 topics. Date: Friday, 13 June 2025 at 10:29 AM 1g2p2c

zicky:
Bro the your response is off, where do you expect them to get their players from, they pick most of their players from their local league which is what the the Brazilian fa is pushing for.

That’s true sef..I no even reason go dt side ,where would Dey have picked deir players from if not deir local leagues and oda good leagues around..besides We re just unnecessarily proud like say we be Brazil 🇧🇷 or 🇩🇪..I will keep saying it ,till we find a better option,I c no reason y Kelechi nwakali can’t play in dt our midfield ,what’s special about our current midfielders 😏.

elyte89:



That’s true sef..I no even reason go dt side ,where would Dey have picked deir players from if not deir local leagues and oda good leagues around..besides We re just unnecessarily proud like say we be Brazil 🇧🇷 or 🇩🇪..I will keep saying it ,till we find a better option,I c no reason y Kelechi nwakali can’t play in dt our midfield ,what’s special about our current midfielders 😏.

Well said. I can't fathom why we even exiled Ogenyi Onazi from the team too. We need midfielders like no man's business. I don't know why no one is talking about Azu, Nwobodo, Igbekeme. Who else again abeg? So e no go be like say na only one player una dey mention.

BankyGee:

That's exactly what's killing our squad, Morocco don't have a world-class "squad" but have players that suits whatever playing profile they need and that's what makes them a solid "team"...

We're... No, most people here are all about "top 5 leagues" and not all the top 5 leagues players are performing for us in the national team, make una dey play. National team is not club side, you need the best in any position from whatever club he plays for to form your good national team side, as far as he go deliver.

Morocco strikers;
Soufiane Rahimi - Al Ain (Dubai)
El Kaabi - Olympiacos (Greece)
Youseff En-Neysri - Fenerbahçe (Turkey)

Midfielders;
Amrabat (Fenerbahçe).
They have players from Panathinaikos, Al-Ahly, Al-Sadd, Al-Hilal and they're all balling for Morocco.

We... No, most people here dey dey deceive themselves. Or the South Africans that are the second highest scoring team in the AFCON qualifiers are all top 5 leagues players.

Top 5 league players are needed too but trying to make players playing in lower leagues seem like toys na just anyhow reasoning. Too many cooks spoil the broth 🙃

the countries are using their best players, do you think if Morocco have a player in AC Milan they’ll throw him away for a player in Spanish division 3?

Truidstarr:
The England, Spain, , and Italy of this planet, where do they get their players from. Make we no too argue…. It’s not a players problem. It’s a coaching problem.

many people don’t believe a team can have consecutive poor coaches

elyte89:



D last World Cup has proven this ur statement to be a false one

If the Croatian 🇭🇷 keeper playing in the Croatian league was not given d chance,aw re we going to knw that he was a fantastic player if Dey av also glued to the top five leagues alone.that keeper was massive during d tournament

maybe because that’s the best they can boast of, our keeper plays in South Africa because that’s the best we can boast of

kingphilip:

Can you please suggest someone the super eagles need in the midfield or is the midfield okay by you as it presently is?

Onyeka Onyedika Ndidi Iwobi Fisayo, this midfield is more than decent we just need a good coach to get the best out of them

elyte89:



That’s true sef..I no even reason go dt side ,where would Dey have picked deir players from if not deir local leagues and oda good leagues around..besides We re just unnecessarily proud like say we be Brazil 🇧🇷 or 🇩🇪..I will keep saying it ,till we find a better option,I c no reason y Kelechi nwakali can’t play in dt our midfield ,what’s special about our current midfielders 😏.

any coach who’s thinks it’s the skill set of a player warming bench in England division 3 is the answer I’m sure he can find same in our local league. This guy have been walking about from holland to Spain to Portugal now to England all these coaches don’t think he’s the answer to their midfield but you think he can be the answer to one of Africa’s biggest team okay o

jihday:
the countries are using their best players, do you think if Morocco have a player in AC Milan they’ll throw him away for a player in Spanish division 3?

How does playing for AC Milan make you the best all of a sudden? Okoye plays for Udinese but somehow we all prefer Stanley Nwabali to him, you think club side and national teams are the same thing?

Thank God you said they're using their "best" players. I don't think we're using our best players in EVERY position, we have the best in some positions already, not all. We don't even have a solid bench. Our bench players couldn't beat Rwanda lol...

jihday:
maybe because that’s the best they can boast of, our keeper plays in South Africa because that’s the best we can boast of

so you can't boast of the one in the top5 league again, Udinese

jihday:
Onyeka Onyedika Ndidi Iwobi Fisayo, this midfield is more than decent we just need a good coach to get the best out of them

A midfield that can not dictate or control a game even against smaller countries?
Imagine have Mikel or JayJay in our midfield, do you think Ekong will be lobbing the ball like he usually does, because the midfielders we have can't do it, they only know how to tackle and maybe chase the ball.

jihday:
any coach who’s thinks it’s the skill set of a player warming bench in England division 3 is the answer I’m sure he can find same in our local league. This guy have been walking about from holland to Spain to Portugal now to England all these coaches don’t think he’s the answer to their midfield but you think he can be the answer to one of Africa’s biggest team okay o

Bro that coach should find that answer in the local league it will be better. When we had goalkeeper crisis, we all clamour for our coaches to search inward, but the problem we have is that even when they come local they don't go for the best, like going for Ojo who was a 3rd choice goalkeeper at that time and leaving more outstanding goalkeepers. You realise that they are not even sincere.

BankyGee:

How does playing for AC Milan make you the best all of a sudden? Okoye plays for Udinese but somehow we all prefer Stanley Nwabali to him, you think club side and national teams are the same thing?

Thank God you said they're using their "best" players. I don't think we're using our best players in EVERY position, we have the best in some positions already, not all. We don't even have a solid bench. Our bench players couldn't beat Rwanda lol...

By his take our best goalkeeper should be Okoye, imagine training so hard to become Udinese, a club in a top5 league 1st choice. Rather we are using a south africa based goalkeeper who wasn't even the best while in the Nigerian league

zicky:
so you can't boast of the one in the top5 league again, Udinese

yes, we’ve tried both the one in SA is calmer 🤷🏿‍♂️

zicky:
A midfield that can not dictate or control a game even against smaller countries?
Imagine have Mikel or JayJay in our midfield, do you think Ekong will be lobbing the ball like he usually does, because the midfielders we have can't do it, they only know how to tackle and maybe chase the ball.

or maybe we don’t have a good coach

BankyGee:

How does playing for AC Milan make you the best all of a sudden? Okoye plays for Udinese but somehow we all prefer Stanley Nwabali to him, you think club side and national teams are the same thing?

Thank God you said they're using their "best" players. I don't think we're using our best players in EVERY position, we have the best in some positions already, not all. We don't even have a solid bench. Our bench players couldn't beat Rwanda lol...

our starting 11 couldn’t beat Rwanda either neither could they beat Lesotho. Genuine question, which better player do you think we haven’t invited yet?

zicky:
A midfield that can not dictate or control a game even against smaller countries?
Imagine have Mikel or JayJay in our midfield, do you think Ekong will be lobbing the ball like he usually does, because the midfielders we have can't do it, they only know how to tackle and maybe chase the ball.

if you need Mikel and Okocha to beat Rwanda then we need to take a second look at the coach, can’t imagine Guardiola blaming their current run of form on Rodri’s injury

jihday:
Onyeka Onyedika Ndidi Iwobi Fisayo, this midfield is more than decent we just need a good coach to get the best out of them

Post like is what gets me so freaking agitated

jihday:
yes, we’ve tried both the one in SA is calmer 🤷🏿‍♂️

So you agree we can get a midfielder outside the top5 league who's better than what we have now.

jihday:
or maybe we don’t have a good coach

Ever since Mikel retires we stop having good coaches.

jihday:
if you need Mikel and Okocha to beat Rwanda then we need to take a second look at the coach, can’t imagine Guardiola blaming their current run of form on Rodri’s injury

Oga I'm not even talking about beating this team, I'm talking about dictating play.
For the second part, Guardiola can't say it but that's what fans and football commentators are saying.

zicky:
Oga I'm not even talking about beating this team, I'm talking about dictating play.
For the second part, Guardiola can't say it but that's what fans and football commentators are saying.

What jihday refuse to realise is that we don’t even dominate d midfield aspect anymore against this so called minnows …dt thing Dey vex me ,aw can we be lobbing the ball against country like Rwanda 🇷🇼 and Benin 🇧🇯.

BankyGee:

How does playing for AC Milan make you the best all of a sudden? Okoye plays for Udinese but somehow we all prefer Stanley Nwabali to him, you think club side and national teams are the same thing?

Thank God you said they're using their "best" players. I don't think we're using our best players in EVERY position, we have the best in some positions already, not all. We don't even have a solid bench. Our bench players couldn't beat Rwanda lol...

All those players wey Dey count their legs any time they play for us should leave the national team if not both Zimbabwe and Rwanda will beat us again. If we like let’s not tell ourselves the truth. If your club is more important to you why don’t you quit the national team

elyte89:



What jihday refuse to realise is that we don’t even dominate d midfield aspect anymore against this so called minnows …dt thing Dey vex me ,aw can we be lobbing the ball against country like Rwanda 🇷🇼 and Benin 🇧🇯.

Those midfielders are not willing to put in their bodies for us they can’t just take risks, it’s better we allow them focus on their club duties jare

Goke7:


Those midfielders are not willing to put in their bodies for us they can’t just take risks, it’s better we allow them focus on their club duties jare

earlier this year we saw players put their careers on the line for the SE, let’s hire a competent coach then we can come back to this discussion.

zicky:
So you agree we can get a midfielder outside the top5 league who's better than what we have now.

yes if he’ll make us better, so which midfielder doing well in a league outside the top 5 do you know?

Another formation that can accommodate Moses Simon and Ademola Lookman
And Iwobi given a free role playing from the wings and drifting to the midfield
Nwabali in goal as usual

elyte89:



What jihday refuse to realise is that we don’t even dominate d midfield aspect anymore against this so called minnows …dt thing Dey vex me ,aw can we be lobbing the ball against country like Rwanda 🇷🇼 and Benin 🇧🇯.

You get the point, let's play well first especially against this smaller team, when we play rubbish we defend it by saying no more minnows in Africa

jihday:
yes if he’ll make us better, so which midfielder doing well in a league outside the top 5 do you know?

Bro na the job of the coach to search for better players to boast his team. Even if I mentionba player in the local league it still won't change anything.

jihday:
earlier this year we saw players put their careers on the line for the SE, let’s hire a competent coach then we can come back to this discussion.

I hope you know some players performance earlier that year you’re talking about were also poor in their performance on the pitch and it’s becoming a recurring problem lest we make the mistake of assuming that it was all the players that put their careers on the line.

zicky:
You get the point, let's play well first especially against this smaller team, when we play rubbish we defend it by saying no more minnows in Africa

It’s even more sad when you look at the quality of opposition we have in our group for both Afcon and wcq. I feel so ashamed when I look at other groups perhaps we should getting tougher opponents may be that can wake up the team.

jihday:
if you need Mikel and Okocha to beat Rwanda then we need to take a second look at the coach, can’t imagine Guardiola blaming their current run of form on Rodri’s injury

But guess what? Deep inside Guardiola he knows Rodri's injury is the reason for his losses

Goke7:


All those players wey Dey count their legs any time they play for us should leave the national team if not both Zimbabwe and Rwanda will beat us again. If we like let’s not tell ourselves the truth. If your club is more important to you why don’t you quit the national team

God bless you bruh