Cybereagles

So our talent pool is so poor that players like Reuben, Ameobi, Nwofor, Ejike can make our National team? If you don't think Keshi is partly to blame (by choosing a mediocre bench), then just keep lying to yourself. Yes dude, name the players that are world beaters that we didn't take to the world ...

Outstanding analysis. I doff my hat! You were right in your observation of Keshi switching his pattern for offence and defence. I suppose there are still folk out there who find the tactics impossible from an LC. :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: Nigeria's problem at the world cup wa...

The NBA with its cap spends more than any other Basketball league on player salaries because the NBA has little competition from other nations. Spain, Italy, maybe France, Russia and China pose the most competition to the NBA for players but in all those countries Basketball is not the main sport a...

I'm still going with ifs and buts. As Yemster and Lagos777 noted, the NFL is amongst the most popular leagues in the USA and IS the most popular league and most profitable league in the USA. Yet if you look at the highest paid athletes in the USA, the highest paid athlete in the #1 sport in the USA...

The cap is not unique to the mls and is determined to a large extent by income. NFL cap today is more than ten times what it used to be. And it goes up every year. TV money and cooperate sponsorship is a very big deal. If soccer was the main sport in the USA, it won't even be close. Economics says t...

I gotta say "huh" again? The lack of top class talent in the MLS has zero to do with the NBA, NFL, MLB or NHL. It's economics and corporate sponsorship. Their is a finite amount of money spent on sports. The NFL, NBA, and MLB share a vast amount of resource, without them in the pie every ...

Interesting view point. Your 'best' players guarantee you NOTHING. Spain's 'best' players were on display. Same with Italy and Portugal. Football is about the 'TEAM' Many things affect a 'TEAM'. At the ast WC, bonus was the undoing of the African teams (bar Algeria). You dont go to tournaments skip...

Didn't you people swear he was never going to smell the insides of Man city's locker rooms and that they were going to destroy his career by sending him to Siberia.. ???? kai.. Nigerians sha :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Anyway, I hope this works out in the end for Kelechi and Nwakali and all the other aspir...

This bobo na baller.

Your Medical student analogy does not jive at all... This guy is already 21 and is considered an adult/senior level player in World football terms.. if he were 17 then a development deal would be appropriate. Besides A doctor earns doctor money for life,,, a footballer is only good for 10 years... ...

Lagos 777, it's unfair to compere the opportunities for Europeans in Germany, England or Spain with those in Africa. Why should a Shehu contemporary in Europe go to Qatar when the technology and professional management are available in their home contries. They live in the upper middle class. The o...

What do you think is the shelf Life of these footballers ? They play at the top level for like 10 years if they are lucky. This kid could be in Portugal for 4 of those 10 years, making $50k a year. That's $200k in 4 years. He gets to earn $330,000 in 1 year in Kuwait ( According to http://www.niger...

One can also argue that Italy against Nigeria will not help Italy because the Opposition strength does not favor them should they win (but it favors Naija should we win). It is a very simple math, bro. Nigeria was #9 in 2006 -that's very recent , bro. What part of the formula has been changed is co...

Shehu made the right decision. Why does he need to go Portugal to make peanuts when the Kuwaitis are rolling out the red carpet for him. How much do you guys seriously think they are going to pay this kid in Portugal... ?? At best he makes $50K.. The Kuwaitis probably threw $300K a year at him. How...

Yes lots of factors come into play. That is precisely why we should examine the full gamut of factors which prevented the SE from growing beyond its ANC triumph. 2. The QF was not an expectation. It was a set target. Was it realistic going in. IMPO it wasn't. But given the nature of this WC, and ag...

THE FUTURE Personally, I think we are on our way to greatness. I like what Nigerian football is today. We are at least 10 years ahead of our African counterparts and at the precipice's of breaking into the Elite club. The opportunities that these new generation of players are getting is very encour...

Three things Nigeria has to learn in every aspect of national life in order to succeed is patience, organization and trusting and investing in expertise. No country builds a world beating national team in 2 years and Keshi has done well to put together a team that plays functionally as a unit (even...

I don't need game tape to tell me what I saw live. Their is no amount of tape you're going to show me that will prove that Musa is close to Finidi or Amuneke and the list goes on. I saw these guys live. It's not even close. You can say this team is better coached than 94, that's debatable. This team...

1. He improved the Brazilian team from the mess at the Copa America 2. He led them to success at the Confed Cup 3. He failed to build on that to a WC win, as was the target of the CBF and the expectation of Brazilians 4. He got them to the S/Final, an improvement on their last outing, but of little...

akamoke wrote:That's because his analysis goes back 10yrs only

I tire for the guy. he wan't us to go back 40yrs. A decade of football shows us the trend. it's like Uruguay going into the world cup thinking they should win because they won in the 50s.

Wow, you have a pretty gloomy outlook on the future. 20 years ago even European football isn't what it is today. globalization and Mass communication has changed everything and our prospects. We have youth programs , national U-14 -U-16 teams, academies more and more qualified coaches, access to in...

Lloris = Enyeama
Debuchy > Ambrose
Koscielny > Yobo
Varane = Omeruo
Evra > Juwon
Pogba > Mikel
Cabaye = Osaze
Matuidi < Onazi
Valbuena > Moses
Giroud > Musa
Benzema > Emenike

They have better players in my opinion. I'm sure 90% of independents will agree with that POV.

Which analysts were you reading ? The European ones ? Didn't they predict they were going to beat us like the swiss. Of course they think France would win. But our analysts thought we would win. I thought we would win. Who should I believe ? You are forgetting this same French team qualified by the...