Eric Chelle calls up 35 NPFL players for CHAN preparation - Papa Daniel +4 others ineligible (moves abroad)

[Sunset]

Hmmm. I am speechless.

Is it surprising that our best home based players get signed by club’s abroad?

Sunset,

I mean no disrespect, but are you blind to what’s going on?

Be specific.

[EMIR KONGI JAFFI JOFFA]

Hmmm. I am speechless.

Is it surprising that our best home based players get signed by club’s abroad?

Sunset,

I mean no disrespect, but are you blind to what’s going on?

Be specific.

Really? Wow….we have been infiltrated. Are u kidding us here? OMG.

[danfo driver]

Hmmm. I am speechless.

Is it surprising that our best home based players get signed by club’s abroad?

Sunset,

I mean no disrespect, but are you blind to what’s going on?

Be specific.

[Sunset]

[Lolly]

Hmmm. I am speechless.

Is it surprising that our best home based players get signed by club’s abroad?

Really? Are you playing on our intelligence or just joking?

[danfo driver]

[Sunset]

Hmmm. I am speechless.

Is it surprising that our best home based players get signed by club’s abroad?

Really? Are you playing on our intelligence or just joking?

It might seem that way if you're unaware about the trend of our best players leaving the local scene during and in the off season. I've followed the league long enough to know how common it is, so please elaborate why you think i'm joking.

[Lolly]

Hmmm. I am speechless.

Is it surprising that our best home based players get signed by club’s abroad?

Really? Are you playing on our intelligence or just joking?

It might seem that way if you're unaware about the trend of our best players leaving the local scene during and in the off season. I've followed the league long enough to know how common it is, so please elaborate why you think i'm joking.

So the players don’t really care about CHAN? All they want to do is get seen by foreign agents, so they can be signed? Three of them travelled to the UK to prepare for CHAN and then left a few weeks before the tournament starts. So what was the preparation for? Or should we say what was the exhibition for? Probably just to be positioned to attract the interest of foreigns club.

I wonder how many of the other teams in the tournament are losing up to 5 players to foreign clubs? The way we normalise criminality in Nigeria needs to be studied.

[Sunset]

Hmmm. I am speechless.

Is it surprising that our best home based players get signed by club’s abroad?

Really? Are you playing on our intelligence or just joking?

It might seem that way if you're unaware about the trend of our best players leaving the local scene during and in the off season. I've followed the league long enough to know how common it is, so please elaborate why you think i'm joking.

So the players don’t really care about CHAN? All they want to do is get seen by foreign agents, so they can be signed? Three of them travelled to the UK to prepare for CHAN and then left a few weeks before the tournament starts. So what was the preparation for? Or should we say what was the exhibition for? Probably just to be positioned to attract the interest of foreigns club.

I wonder how many of the other teams in the tournament are losing up to 5 players to foreign clubs? The way we normalise criminality in Nigeria needs to be studied.

Is that a rhetorical question?
The same CHAN that was supposed to take place in 2024 and has been postponed twice now? Interesting take, but i've seen a young Etebo leave camp on the eve of 2014 CHAN to go on trials in Spain and not get offered a contract.

We can all assume what the games in the UK were for, but given Adejoh & Abubakar didn't fly to the UK (this was Adejoh's 1st ever call up ever) is it safe to assume their performance in the league played a part in this?

[danfo driver]

Imagine trying to have a reasonable conversation with someone who is compromised.

Like I said, congratulations to all involved! Kaching!

[Enugu II]

This is always expected and it does not only pertain to Nigeria but all countries involved in the CHAN because of CHAN rules of eligibility. What matters is that Nigeria has invited more than an adequate number to participate in the tournament given these issues.

As for the link that these players are solely marketed for foreign clubs, that is neither here nor there. In fact, one should expect that foreign clubs' focus on recruiting from this group because it validates the choices made for CHAN by the NFF coaches. What would be a surprise is if the foreign clubs are preferring the non-invited NPFL players ahead of those in the CHAN squad. If that was to be the case, then there is room to question the choices made by the HB managers.

The concern now for Nigeria should be whether the coaches have adequate replacements for these players if they are to depart before the CHAN.

On a related topic, if these types of major movement occurs elsewhere with CHAN squads in the continent, then CAF ought to rethink its scheduling of CHAN during a period when many European leagues are on break and player recruitment exercise is heightened. Clearly, it does have a major impact on such a major continental tournament.

[EMIR KONGI JAFFI JOFFA]

This is always expected and it does not only pertain to Nigeria but all countries involved in the CHAN because of CHAN rules of eligibility. What matters is that Nigeria has invited more than an adequate number to participate in the tournament given these issues.

As for the link that these players are solely marketed for foreign clubs, that is neither here nor there. In fact, one should expect that foreign clubs' focus on recruiting from this group because it validates the choices made for CHAN by the NFF coaches. What would be a surprise is if the foreign clubs are preferring the non-invited NPFL players ahead of those in the CHAN squad. If that was to be the case, then there is room to question the choices made by the HB managers.

The concern now for Nigeria should be whether the coaches have adequate replacements for these players if they are to depart before the CHAN.

On a related topic, if these types of major movement occurs elsewhere with CHAN squads in the continent, then CAF ought to rethink its scheduling of CHAN during a period when many European leagues are on break and player recruitment exercise is heightened. Clearly, it does have a major impact on such a major continental tournament.

With this kind of reasoning we'll never get rid of corruption in our football. Danfo is right. Some fans are more harmful than corrupt officials.