Re: ADEPOJU: Give Oba Martins a Recall....
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:48 pm
A man my age should not get abusive on social media so I will bite my tongue. Just for the record, Bryan Robson only had a verbal agreement with the NFA. One kobo did not exchange hands between him and Ogunjobi. Bertie Voghts obviously signed a contract and was paid what was agreed.danfo driver wrote:Ayo Akinfe wrote:
Unless you can provide evidence that Adepoju took money from Martins, you have to withdraw that libellous allegation. Peter Rufai asked for Vincent Enyeama to be recalled, did he take money from him too?
If tomorrow Segun Odegbami or Adokie Amesiemeka ask for the recall of Nosa Igiebor or Sunday Mba, will you accuse them of collecting money too. It is childish, immature and unintelligent to start throwing aspersions at the characters of people for airing their views.
You can disagree with them and state why you oppose their choices without the needless scurrilous accusations. One day, someone might just sue for making such irresponsible allegations!
Please, name them all! We need their names. And also, dont forget to explain your role in the Emeka Ezeala, Berti Stash and Bryan RObson saga. Thanks
Voghts brought Ezeala along as his “technical assistant” and Ezeala sought to replicate what Churchill Oliseh did. Churchill had an academy that sent young players to Regiana. Martins, Obodo, Dosu, etc were all his protégés.
To be honest, there was nothing wrong with Ezeala running an academy. My beef with the whole matter was that Voghts brought Ezeala into the Super Eagles set-up, which was wrong. It bred bad blood with Amokachi resigning after Voghts sent him to the stands and asked Ezeala to sit on the bench.
Eventually the NFA asked Voghts to keep Ezeala away from the team. However, in the workings of your head, millions of dollars exchanged hands. Utter childishness and unintelligent hysteria.
Back to the issue at stake, in the run-up to the World Cup, calls for the coach to look at players will become defeating. There is nothing uniquely Nigerian about this. In England, Gareth Southgate is under pressure to try our new players.
Already there are calls for him to call up two new goalkeepers after Joe Hart list his starting place at West Ham. Did money change hands there too? Just tune in to Sky and hear Ian Wright, Henry Winter, Glen Hiddle and Danny Mills drop names of potential invitees. Were they paid money too?
It is only people who cannot argue their case that resort to such banal and childish mud slinging. We are a nation if 180m coaches so I have no problem with everyone picking their own players. I am confident of my views to defeat them with superior intellectual and tactical arguments so do not need to resort to libellous and calumnious allegations!