Chelsea defender Tosin Adarabioyo has said decision on his international future is imminent.
Adarabioyo, who plays for Premier League club, Chelsea was born in England to Nigerian parents.
The 27-year-old has represented England at youth level 14 times.
The centre-back is however still eligible to represent Nigeria at full international level.
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He turned down an approach from the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF in the past.
The former Manchester City player claimed he will soon take a decision on his future.
“That is a question I have answered quite a bit recently, yeah, it is something that we are looking into in the future,” he told NAN.
“It is a conversation I want to have; we will see how that goes.”
By Adeboye Amosu
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When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable.
If England call-up is not forthcoming please note that Nigeria is not a dumping ground Tosin.
Better make up your mind fast!
I believe this guy is using Nigeria as a bait for Three Lions ambition, hopefully his ambition dashed because SE is not inferior to Three Lions.
If he is keen in doning green and white jersey of Nigeria , there’s no reason for the delay tactics being exhibited. Nigeria is blessed beyond his level.
That’s what they all do and owngoal is their agent in playing these hide and seek thing to get foreign countries attention. We just lost Favor Ofili to Turkey that is biggest lost for Nigeria in the world of Athletics. I hope I get over this heart break of losing Ofili who happens to be my State Girl.
Sharaap dere! Nonsense triblastic mumu- it are not surprising at all at all that ees paining yuh more dan normal because she ees Igbo girl like yuh. Goat!
But stii ees a big lost for de Nigreains. Robbish!
Hypocrites everywhere. Praising ofili but hating on tosin for not picking nigeria. He would pick it if he wanted to. He is just waiting for an england call up. You dont use nigeria, nigeria uses you. I swear people here have either short term memory or want people to suffer to play for nigeria. Did people forget what leon balogun had to say about the federation?
I think it’s either you’re sick or have short memory on what Nigeria did to Favor Shuma. Your comment before mine but you’re sick of you compare tosin and Ofili’s situation. One has represented and almost destroyed by Nigeria, and the other is using us to get England attention even though he knows Nigeria is a Giant in Football.
Honestly we don’t need this guy
Shut up for saying we don’t need him. You don’t need a player that can cap Chelsea in world club game. Unserious fellow . How many of your players have ever captained in any European club. Before a white man can choose ou to be a captain then you must be discipline.
Oh I get it you need Ekong as a captain right. Yeye man.
Do Nigeria deserves anything good at all with the way we treat ourselves
@ Obaiy, God bless you my Bro,
I’ve always have this notion that Tosin Adarabioyo is not needed in the Super Eagles,
Tosin lack pace, he’s not better than Semi Ajayi, I prefer Ajayi anyday, anytime, Ajayi has got pace, his technically better,
It’s unfortunate that we don’t have a reliable centre back at the moment, the likes of Gabriel osho and Igor ogbu couldn’t convince us that their better than what we have in Ajayi and ekong,
Dessers is there at the moment but that right central back position seems to be the issue,
Akpoguma and tounerigha were also average, it’s tosin, tomori and vicent osuji that are yet to be thrown in. We have to keep pushing for them, Nigeria should be well loaded with stars going to the wcup and afcon.
obviously tosin is playing a mind game, for crying out loud,is he still a child, how many years did he think he still has in active football now?he is second fiddle in the pecking order in Chelsea so I don’t know why we should be waiting for him,he can’t just walk straight into super eagle’s first he should be ready to compete with others who eager to make the team
A new Sheriff is in town, am not sure all these antics will work with present three loins coach, it works well with Southgate.
You better decide and probably have a cut in afcon or forget about international carrier.
“It is a conversation I want to have; we will see how that goes.”
I am happy we are now reading between the lines. This is typical Orwellian doublespeak. We’re so gullible that many players who have sworn never to represent Nigeria have pulled this dirty trick on us. These shameless lot have their eyes fixed on Oyinbo money–English pension–but are not man enough to declare their stand.
My take is that these deceptive players should stay clear of the SE until they have celebrated their 40th birthday. We don’t reject our own. They will be assessed then by the coaches..
Alternatively, they can chat with Odemwige, Dessers, Balogun, Troost-Ekong etc etc. These brave warriors are not getting pensions. What they get is the goodwill of Nigerians–something greater than money.
I think Tosin is wasting his own time. I can understand his preference for the 3 lions, but he is not even going to make their squad.
His presence in Chelsea is because the new owners after Abramovich did not want to spend money, and Tosin was out of contract at Fulham. For Chelsea, he was a cheap buy.
It would take a serious bout of injuries to place him in the England squad because being a defender, unlike a forward you’re judged on mistakes.
Secondly, there is the unstated racial quota. While France may be happy fielding a team with black players (14 in their Euro 24 squad), England with a longer history of black presence in their football and country, had only 6 in their squad. This suggests they attach more importance to having their national team reflect their national character – to borrow a Nigerian phrase.
So Tosin has two hurdles, the first meritocratic and competitive, the second an unstated quota. Meanwhile, his position as a defender does not help for meritocratic discovery. A forward is easily judged by the number of goals and assists. Midfielders and wingers are also easily judged.
So the quota of black players for the England squad would be taken up firstly by forwards, then wingers, midfielders, fullbacks and then centre backs. This means – outside injuries, he would have to be one of the best centre backs in Europe to break into the England squad.
His commitment hesitation is just foolishness, he is not Saka or Eze, who can display skills to convince selectors.
Well said, but only let down by the assumption that the quota considerations combined with the skill factor requirements automatically leads to fewer defenders of black origin – this is far from true. It’s not now and never has been- look back into the history of the 3 Lions and you’ll see that there’s no correlation between the position a player plays and their ethnicity or the propensity for them to be called up. With the 3 Lions it is and has always been based on merit, just looking at the current team there are about 6 or 7 black defenders or black origin players in the team, which is roughly about half the total number of black players in the team – so that basically proves the point but nevertheless, you make some good points.
Going by the revelations from the recently concluded friendly window, do we still need Tosin?
I ask you.
Yes, we do, if he agrees to play for us.
We do need big players plying their trade in elite European clubs. We currently lack this kind of personalities in our team.
Our top players the likes of Osimhen and Lookman who should be at these top clubs unfortunately aren’t.
I would be glad Tosin chose Nigeria over England..Should that happens,Troost Ekong ‘ll definitely be the casualty because it will be former Fulham pairs Adarabioyo/Bassey pairing in the central defence.