I hope the NFF is drawing up a list of midfielders for the World Cup

[Ayo Akinfe]

Thuis area remains the Archiles Heel of the team. We simply lack the creativity that is required to break stubborn teams down.

Some of you may be getting carried away with yesterday's win but come the World Cup, we will be facing sterner tests than the tame Elephants. Can we beat a team that plays with a Catenaccio-style defence for instance?

In the run-up to North America 2026, the NFF needs to do two things:

Employ one out of:
Jose Mourinho
Herve Rene
Zinadine Zidane

Look for two or three midfielders to add to this team. Here are the midfielders I would suggest they look at for now:

Anchormen
Wilfred Ndidi
Frank Onyeka
Raphael Onyedika

Box-to-box midfielders
Alhassan Yusuf
Innocent Bonke
Joe Aribo
Kelechi Nwakali

Playmakers
Alex Iwobi
Michael Olise
Fisayo Dele-Bashiru
Akinwunmi Amoo

We want to take six of these to the World Cup.

[Undertaker]

This must be AI-generated!


Wow. Joe Aribo, a box-to-box midfielder?


Employ one out of:
Jose Mourinho
Herve Rene
Zinedine Zidane.............

[olu]

Wow. Innocent Bonke, a box-to-box midfielder?

[Dammy]

This must e AI generated!

It is AA generated!

[Lolly]

This must e AI generated!

It is AA generated!

[COOKING SPOON]

This must be AI-generated!


Wow. Joe Aribo, a box-to-box midfielder?


Employ one out of:
Jose Mourinho
Herve Rene
Zinedine Zidane.............

rotf: :rotf

[Agbako]

The only thing that make sense in all ya list above is the list below. Even not proper..





Jose Mourinho?
My broda at this level we need a Local Coach Like Siasia. Abeg. Anything less its a failure.



Playmakers
Alex Iwobi -------- This Dude don Try. To me if we still rely on this for Midfield na wah.
Michael Olise--- Playing For France
Fisayo Dele-Bashiru ----- na who be dis?
Akinwunmi Amoo----------- dis one I know got some incredible talent. Is he still relevant? Where is he playing his trade now?

[onovo]

Thuis area remains the Archiles Heel of the team. We simply lack the creativity that is required to break stubborn teams down.

Some of you may be getting carried away with yesterday's win but come the World Cup, we will be facing sterner tests than the tame Elephants. Can we beat a team that plays with a Catenaccio-style defence for instance?

In the run-up to North America 2026, the NFF needs to do two things:

Employ one out of:
Jose Mourinho
Herve Rene
Zinadine Zidane

Look for two or three midfielders to add to this team. Here are the midfielders I would suggest they look at for now:

Anchormen
Wilfred Ndidi
Frank Onyeka
Raphael Onyedika

Box-to-box midfielders
Alhassan Yusuf
Innocent Bonke
Joe Aribo
Kelechi Nwakali

Playmakers
Alex Iwobi
Michael Olise
Fisayo Dele-Bashiru
Akinwunmi Amoo

We want to take six of these to the World Cup.

Nwakali is more like an Oliseh kind of midfielder. I would say he is deep lying playmaker whom can spread the ball from the front of the defence line to the attack.

[danfo driver]

The only thing that make sense in all ya list above is the list below. Even not proper..





Jose Mourinho?
My broda at this level we need a Local Coach Like Siasia. Abeg. Anything less its a failure.



Playmakers
Alex Iwobi -------- This Dude don Try. To me if we still rely on this for Midfield na wah.
Michael Olise--- Playing For France
Fisayo Dele-Bashiru ----- na who be dis?
Akinwunmi Amoo----------- dis one I know got some incredible talent. Is he still relevant? Where is he playing his trade now?

You have gotta love Nigerians. Never seen a citizenry who loves to reward corruption more than Nigerians. Tomorrow, they will complain about corruption.

[olu]

Would like to see more of Fisayo Dele-Bashiru. Ibrahim Olawoyin is another AM that deserves a call-up. Then we have an emerging AM/CM in Ebenezer Akinsanrimo, and up and coming CMs/DMs like Victor Eletu and Daniel Daga.

Olise seems like he won't play for us. Amoo not sure what will come of him post allegations. He's more of a winger tho.

[wanaj0]

CE Contributing Editor at it again.

Out to do what they are good at doing. Saboteurs pretending as fans.

[ohenhen1]

Alex Iwobi is been played out of position. He plays as a wide forward at club level and he scores goals and provides assists. '

Yusuf
Daga
Eletu
Akinsamiro
Nwakili

need to find defensive midfielders.

[mystic]

Wow. Innocent Bonke, a box-to-box midfielder?

Omo the tin weak me sef.

If Innocent Bonke is a box to box midfielder, then Victor Osimhen is a goalkeeper.

[packerland]

Ayo is out of touch. He just listed 2 coaches that won’t even pick up our call and a 3rd that we can’t afford. Then a player that is committed to another country and another that was facing some serious rape charge. Bonke as a box-to-box midfielder is the cherry on top.

I promise you some people on this site sleeps upside down like a bat

[Ayo Akinfe]

Some of you are just on planet earth to exasperate your fellow human beings. I refuse to take your bait:

Bonke Innocent (NGA) is a a ball winning midfielder and currently plays for Lorient. Bonke Innocent is 28 years old (1996/01/20) and he is 178cm tall. His preferred foot is Right. His jersey number is 8. Bonke Innocent has also been used as a holding midfielder, a deep lying playmaker and as a box to box midfielder.

Bonke Innocent's current transfer value is between €1.6M and €2.7M. His last transfer was from Malmo to Lorient in 2022. Lorient got Bonke Innocent for free.

Bonke Innocent latest transfers and transfer rumours, season statistics and career statistics are available on FootballTransfers.

https://www.footballtransfers.com/en/pl ... e-innocent

[Enugu II]

Some of you are just on planet earth to exasperate your fellow human beings. I refuse to take your bait:

Bonke Innocent (NGA) is a a ball winning midfielder and currently plays for Lorient. Bonke Innocent is 28 years old (1996/01/20) and he is 178cm tall. His preferred foot is Right. His jersey number is 8. Bonke Innocent has also been used as a holding midfielder, a deep lying playmaker and as a box to box midfielder.

Bonke Innocent's current transfer value is between €1.6M and €2.7M. His last transfer was from Malmo to Lorient in 2022. Lorient got Bonke Innocent for free.

Bonke Innocent latest transfers and transfer rumours, season statistics and career statistics are available on FootballTransfers.

https://www.footballtransfers.com/en/pl ... e-innocent

Ayo

Do not be exasperated. Simply shoot your shot, bro.

[Next]

Thuis area remains the Archiles Heel of the team. We simply lack the creativity that is required to break stubborn teams down.

Some of you may be getting carried away with yesterday's win but come the World Cup, we will be facing sterner tests than the tame Elephants. Can we beat a team that plays with a Catenaccio-style defence for instance?

In the run-up to North America 2026, the NFF needs to do two things:

Employ one out of:
Jose Mourinho
Herve Rene
Zinadine Zidane

How do you pay for these coaches, Ayo?

Look for two or three midfielders to add to this team. Here are the midfielders I would suggest they look at for now:


Playmakers
Michael Olise

Has he agreed to play for Naija? So let it rest!!!


We want to take six of these to the World Cup.

[danfo driver]

Some of you are just on planet earth to exasperate your fellow human beings. I refuse to take your bait:

Bonke Innocent (NGA) is a a ball winning midfielder and currently plays for Lorient. Bonke Innocent is 28 years old (1996/01/20) and he is 178cm tall. His preferred foot is Right. His jersey number is 8. Bonke Innocent has also been used as a holding midfielder, a deep lying playmaker and as a box to box midfielder.

Bonke Innocent's current transfer value is between €1.6M and €2.7M. His last transfer was from Malmo to Lorient in 2022. Lorient got Bonke Innocent for free.

Bonke Innocent latest transfers and transfer rumours, season statistics and career statistics are available on FootballTransfers.

https://www.footballtransfers.com/en/pl ... e-innocent

Ayo

Do not be exasperated. Simply shoot your shot, bro.

What if we put the bait on a platter, will he take it?

[mystic]

Some of you are just on planet earth to exasperate your fellow human beings. I refuse to take your bait:

Bonke Innocent (NGA) is a a ball winning midfielder and currently plays for Lorient. Bonke Innocent is 28 years old (1996/01/20) and he is 178cm tall. His preferred foot is Right. His jersey number is 8. Bonke Innocent has also been used as a holding midfielder, a deep lying playmaker and as a box to box midfielder.

Bonke Innocent's current transfer value is between €1.6M and €2.7M. His last transfer was from Malmo to Lorient in 2022. Lorient got Bonke Innocent for free.

Bonke Innocent latest transfers and transfer rumours, season statistics and career statistics are available on FootballTransfers.

https://www.footballtransfers.com/en/pl ... e-innocent

Sheer comedy.


Bonke is a destroyer. Pure and simple.

[olu]

Whoever wrote that probably hasn't seen Bonke play

Some of you are just on planet earth to exasperate your fellow human beings. I refuse to take your bait:

Bonke Innocent (NGA) is a a ball winning midfielder and currently plays for Lorient. Bonke Innocent is 28 years old (1996/01/20) and he is 178cm tall. His preferred foot is Right. His jersey number is 8. Bonke Innocent has also been used as a holding midfielder, a deep lying playmaker and as a box to box midfielder.

Bonke Innocent's current transfer value is between €1.6M and €2.7M. His last transfer was from Malmo to Lorient in 2022. Lorient got Bonke Innocent for free.

Bonke Innocent latest transfers and transfer rumours, season statistics and career statistics are available on FootballTransfers.

https://www.footballtransfers.com/en/pl ... e-innocent

Sheer comedy.


Bonke is a destroyer. Pure and simple.

[Ayo Akinfe]

All any averagely intelligent person needs to do is to Google Innocent Bonke. They will find Youtube videos of him playing the box-to-box role like this:

[mystic]

All any averagely intelligent person needs to do is to Google Innocent Bonke. They will find Youtube videos of him playing the box-to-box role like this:

So your conclusions are drawn from YouTube videos. Oya carry go.








PS - Anybody can play any position. The question is how effective are they in the position that they are playing. I have followed Innocent Bonke's career with keen interest from Sweden to France and have watched him play in more than a dozen games. He's very good at sitting in front of the defense and breaking up play. He's a physical specimen and is a very disciplined player from a tactical perspective. This is why Gernot Rohr liked him so much. Asking him to play as a box to box midfielder, you will not get the best out of him. And even more ludicrous is your notion of him as a deep lying playmaker.

Sorry old friend, but that is laughable and simply suggests that you have no clue what you're talking about.