Ogbuke and Bala signs new contracts!

[tomyoung]

Both Ogbuke and Ezekiel have signed new contracts with Lyn Oslo today. The contracts are adding an extra year to their existing contracts. They are now Lyn-players til December 2008.

Ogbuke is now probably one of the best paid players in the Norwegian league (so, no need to mention slavery again...)
All parties are said to be very happy with the new signings.

http://www.lyn.no/index.aspx?cat=1138&mid=1120&id=98406

[oglex30]

Thats good let him stay there for now till 08.And then teams probably wont be able to afford him

[FrostyZ]

My guess it's to stay in Lyn until he has enough matches for Nigeria to get a work permit in UK

[Player]

Good for him.

[Dodo]

good on him, one of the top paid players in norway

[Ghost]

May be better for him to continue to develop in Norway than to get locked down in Russia. I bet he will get additional looks during the August transfer period.

[green4life]

My guess it's to stay in Lyn until he has enough matches for Nigeria to get a work permit in UK

I see this as a good move. as i've said in the past, sometimes your best option is to 'stay put'. kudos to ogbuke and wish him continued success.

[Ziontrain]

My guess it's to stay in Lyn until he has enough matches for Nigeria to get a work permit in UK

Prescisely.

Basicially Lyn probably gave him a raise to reflect his increased production and recieved one more year as bargaining leverage, but you dont sign a kid that young for one year unless he is purely for sale.

[FrostyZ]

http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?HLI ... rss&clid=0

[Mudi E]

My guess it's to stay in Lyn until he has enough matches for Nigeria to get a work permit in UK

Why must he play in the U.K.?
Their league is messing up a lot of players....even Forlan and Sebastian Veron couldn't cut it in that wham bam league called the Premiership.
Spain or the Netherland could suit Ogbuke better.

[Ayo Akinfe]

My guess it's to stay in Lyn until he has enough matches for Nigeria to get a work permit in UK

Why must he play in the U.K.?
Their league is messing up a lot of players....even Forlan and Sebastian Veron couldn't cut it in that wham bam league called the Premiership.
Spain or the Netherland could suit Ogbuke better.

Na only for England dem dey see beta pounded yam chop. Nothing beats living in an English-speaking country.

[Ziontrain]

My guess it's to stay in Lyn until he has enough matches for Nigeria to get a work permit in UK

Why must he play in the U.K.?
Their league is messing up a lot of players....even Forlan and Sebastian Veron couldn't cut it in that wham bam league called the Premiership. Spain or the Netherland could suit Ogbuke better.

Veron was all mental. That dude at his best (Parma and Lazio) could play anyone of four midfield positions including DM - and he did this Argentina too. I have no idea why he then went to England to pretend that he was strictly an offensive player.

As for Spain, never mind the monkey chants, just spend some time there as a black man. Its not really all that attractive a place becuase of the people and their prejudice, even if you are rich.

As for money the kid can make far more in the UK than in Spain or Netherlands. So its a no brainer really. Hell he would have make more in Moscow that Netherlands.

[mke1010]

My guess it's to stay in Lyn until he has enough matches for Nigeria to get a work permit in UK

Why must he play in the U.K.?
Their league is messing up a lot of players....even Forlan and Sebastian Veron couldn't cut it in that wham bam league called the Premiership. Spain or the Netherland could suit Ogbuke better.

Veron was all mental. That dude at his best (Parma and Lazio) could play anyone of four midfield positions including DM - and he did this Argentina too. I have no idea why he then went to England to pretend that he was strictly an offensive player.

As for Spain, never mind the monkey chants, just spend some time there as a black man. Its not really all that attractive a place becuase of the people and their prejudice, even if you are rich.

As for money the kid can make far more in the UK than in Spain or Netherlands. So its a no brainer really. Hell he would have make more in Moscow that Netherlands.

Is societal racism in Spain really that bad? I am aware of the racists taunts/chants etc at the stadiums but I did not realize that life for a black person in Spanish society is almost unbearable.

[Ziontrain]

I remember going to Spain for the first time (Barcelona specifically) in 95 and I might have well have been a Martian the way people were staring at me. Even more so when they realise I wasnt broke, an illegal immigrant, looking for work etc.

They are more used to black people these days, but since then I have been to Barcelona again, Madrid, Sevilla, Vigo, La Coruna and its really the same. I just never felt comfortable and I could not imagine settling down there to feel at home.

Its not the money - depending on your profession, you can potentially do well over there, have a nice house in a nice area etc, cost of living is relatively decent outside of a few places. But it aint a place I ever felt welcome, so I cant say it surprised me at all to see whole stadium of them doing monkey chants - that was not an aberration at all.

[LynOslo]

http://nettv.aftenposten.no/player/play ... th=1348382

Interview with Ogbuke.

[mastermind]

He should go to either france or Holland, he doesn't have to play in England for now. All the african players in france love money too, but they know they have to prove themselves first before thinking of making big money.

Players like Yobo, Okocha, Drogba and Essien proved themselves in france before making a move to the EPL. The boy need to put in work first before eyeing big paycheck.

[Catalyst]

My guess it's to stay in Lyn until he has enough matches for Nigeria to get a work permit in UK

Why must he play in the U.K.?
Their league is messing up a lot of players....even Forlan and Sebastian Veron couldn't cut it in that wham bam league called the Premiership.
Spain or the Netherland could suit Ogbuke better.

Thank you Mudi.

Why is Ogbuke so confident he will get national team callups enough to satisfy UK's demands?

FrostyZ, I disagree that that is the reasoning in Ogbuke's camp. They are not going to bribe Berti Vogts. I am sure UK's work permit requirement does not include U23 matches. I really see him not getting thenecessary invitations to qualify for the work permit.

From my elementary calculations of things, he will need to be invited to 90-95% of the remaining matches we will play the rest of the year to even come close.

What could help is injuries or suspensions. Yakubu is out (suspension) for the next match against Uganda. But Utaka, Nsofor, Martins, Kanu, Osaze and Makinwa are all healthy and available. And before people start shouting about Ayodele, forget about it - he will get at least an ivitation letter for the next match - new coaches do not like to make wholesale changes. Will Berti consider him for a midfield role? Who knows.

Now after the Uganda match, we will have only about 4-7 grade A matches tops (realisticly). Go figure.

FOr me, it is better for him to find a way to get an EU passport or move to a league with less stringent work permit laws.

[Dog Bruno]

Na only for England dem dey see beta pounded yam chop.

If pounded yam no kill our players, indiscipline would.

No be because of pounded yam dem lose badly to Ghana?