Former Nigerian goalkeeper, Andrew Aikhoumogbe has urged the Super Eagles coach, Jose Peseiro to endeavour to monitor the progress of his players in Europe.
With the season in Europe just entering its early stages in terms of games played, some of the Super Eagles players have been in the thick of the action.
However, in a chat with Completesports.com from his Cairo base in Egypt, Aikhoumogbe advised Peseiro to have a close checks on some of the Super Eagles in Europe.
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“The season in Europe has just commenced and I am delighted that some of the Super Eagles players are really having a time with their respective clubs.
“However, it will be important for the Super Eagles manager, Jose Peseiro to monitor the progress of the players and also have constant interaction with them.
“This will also help their psyche and well motivate the players in giving their best for the senior national team.”
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Rhor’s initial success with SE was due to the uncertainty and competition in the team at that period he came in……. He brought in a lot of young players into the team and that created competition among the team because nobody wanted to lose his place….. Immediately he started sticking to a particular set of players and closing the door to new players the team started coming downhill……. National team Selection should never be static,rather it should dynamic and dependent on each football season……Each season always have breakout young players at club level……Each season always has revelation at club level…….so also each season also goes with lose of form for certain players at club level…..each season also goes with lose of starting shirts for certain players at club level……All this factors must be factored into national team selection inorder to always make the national team competitive and strong……..But when you have trusted soldiers in a national team that can not be touched,benched or dropped then disaster is about to happen…… Counties like France German Italy Portugal always revamp their national team regularly thereby keeping their senior player on their toes because they want to remain relevant……Their senior players keep playing top level football in Top European clubs inorder to remain relevant in The National team but SE’s senior players are languishing In lower leagues and division two and blocking young players from stepping up…….A team without competition can never be competitive and that was where Rhor’s problem started…… Encouraging senior players to go to mushroom leagues inorder to remain in the national team…… openly praising senior players who where obviously underperforming…… openly closing the door to new players…… openly downgrading Young talented players that they can not displace the senior players…… inviting young players and leaving them on the bench or giving them 10 minutes on the pitch to prove themselves……All this is what pesiero should avoid if he wants to go places with Nigeria…… Nigeria is a big footballing nation that has never lacked talented players…… Talented players leave the shores of this country every day to Europe so talent has never been our problem…… Our problem has always been dishonesty, corruption, greediness,pride, wickedness,and ignorance……I hope Pesiero reads this.
The downfall of Rohr??I don’t know about that,what i know about his time in the helms was he did well and was a success.
Rather it was Nigeria who are obviously the biggest loser for being malevolent to a good man,it took long to get over the sacking of Rohr,there was no need for that.
Today we have had series of unfortunate results which cost us dearly for that wickedness and racism against a good man who was only doing his job,a good man who took Nigeria as his own and worked his socks off yet got shit back from his employers and majority of the Nigerian people who wants him out obviously for their ulterior motives.
I pray that God forgive Nigeria for their wickedness to a good man Gernot Rohr.
@Akp, again, you hit all the right notes.
One of the problems with Mr. Rohr, aside not being a good tactically sound coach was that he didn’t seem to believe in young players and was unwilling to take any kind of risk, even measured risk. He [Mr. Rohr] benefitted from the bold decisions of Mr. Sampson Siasia, the late Mr. Stephen Keshi and Mr. Sunday Oliseh all of whom brought in a lot of young players during their time as coach of our national team.
Good a thing Mr. Peseiro is from Portugal because I’m liking what I’m seeing so far in this young player Bruno Onyemaechi a left-footed defender/midfielder. Without much of a pre season, he practically walked into Boavista’s starting eleven straight from 2nd division Feirense. Says a lot about his talent-level.
Some of these young players need to be given a chance and in so doing, create competition in the national team.
The same young people who was given a chance against Ghana and Nigerian’s blamed the influx of new players for the lose against Ghana.
We like to whinge and moan a lot.
In international football you introduce players with caution one or two will always come in from time and they must bring something different to the team.
During Rohr time as super eagles coach players did come but took his time because he has to build a core to have better understanding,in international games you have little time to train so building a core helps a team to play better even at short notices.
He didn’t believe in young players???? Are u kidding me!!!! So, iheanacho, chukwueze and co were old players abi??? My guy, pls get your facts right before u write. Don’t follow the evil bandwagon that got rid of a good man that meant well for Nigeria.
Rohr never failed, but Nigeria was the biggest loser in that saga.
I have nothing against anyone here. I understand opinions are bound to be different. I presume we all want the best for our national team.
What I have a problem with is this mindset of Nigerians who don’t seem to see anything good in their own people but are ready to take the bullet for foreigners.
I don’t dislike Mr. Rohr. I only have a problem with his coaching style.
For those kissing his butt just because he qualified us for The World Cup, have other Nigerian coaches not qualified us for The World Cup in the past?
In fact, the late Mr. Shuaibu Amodu qualified us for The World Cup but was sacked before he could take us to that World Cup. And that is on top of being owed huge amounts in salaries and bonuses. Talk of injustice. I didn’t see any of you angels go to bat for him.
Someone here said Nigeria should apologize to Mr. Rohr because it wronged a ”a good man.” My question to you is, was the late Stephen Keshi who served this country for decades starting from the days of The Junior Eagles to Green Eagles to Super Eagles, winning us The Nations Cup as both a player and a coach, qualifying us for The World Cup and actually getting us out of the group stage while being treated horribly by Th NFF and constantly being accused of flooding the national team with Igbo players, not a good man? Why aren’t you calling on Nigeria to apologize to them, even posthumously?
Some people are here constantly putting Ghana and their team down because according to them, ”The Ghanaians hate us.” Even if that is true, must we hate them, our fellow Africans back? Do you think, they love you in Germany or Europe? You’re nothing but serfs of the service-economy. They just tolerate your presence.
There is no foreign coach whom many of you seem to have a preference for, hired by Nigeria that has ever achieved what a local coach the late Mr. Stephen Keshi accomplished.
He qualified two different countries for The World Cup!
May the souls of Mr. Stephen Keshi and Mr. Shuaibu Amodu continue to rest in peace.
For your information, and many on this forum who were there since the days of KON can witness to that, I was of the few who kicked against tampering with any of Amodu and Keshi.
Even when Keshi was playing kak football all through the group stages of 2013 AFCON, I was one of those who berated the NFF for purchasing return tickets for the team before we faced CIV in the finals. Because truth be told, having watched keshi rack up just one clear win in 9 AFCON group games with 3 different countries, there was nothing but a glimmer of hope that we would defeat that star-studded CIV team in the knockout stages. But I am a firm believer in allowing a man die before he is buried. Even if a thing has a 1% chance of happening, then there will always be a possibility of it happening eventually.
So shove that racist and fake-nationalist pose of yours down the sewers.
If we were shouting our voices hoarse that Rohr should be left alone, its not because of his skin colour, its because we have seen that movie before, again and again and we are sensible enough to know that you dont do the same thing the same way and expect a different result.
You’ll keep shouting your owns, your owns and referring back to Keshi, as if there is any of “your current” owns who are as qualified as Keshi and Amodu when they were appointed as SE coaches. Its the lack of competence owns that drove us to hiring foreigners in the first place. We have experimented with your owns who have zero competence to manage senior level football (club or country) and the result has been same…colossal failure, worst ranking ever on the CAF/FIFA ladder, worst AFCON performance in 40 years and so on.
About a year ago, there was noise that Finidi be given the SE to handle, the sensible ones amongst us asked that he come home and test himself on the home front first. The worst season in 2 decades with the best and richest Nigerian club in 2 decades is his current scorecard. One will have to look back at when Eric Ejiofor and Emeka Anyanele where playing at Enyimba to find the last time that club finished 7th on the Nigerian league table. Both players have completely retired from football eons ago by the way.
Thank God we dodged that bullet.
Till we will find another Nigerian coach who has proven himself on the continent again and again, let none of these your incompetent owns come near our national team. If they are not contented with being assistants….they should go to blazes and still to being coaches on the pages of the internet while their contemporaries and burning energy and resources on making names for themselves even at the most elementary of levels. The SE is not a place for experiential learning.
The fact remains Rohr was WRONGED in everyway….and it doesnt matter if he was black or white. He was owed at least 6 months of his salaries annually, His players were owed 2 straight years of bonuses (never heard of in the history of Nigerian football), His team was made to travel by boat for international games (as if we are in the 1940s), He was denied the best available pitches in the country to play on, He was intentional sabotaged in different ways to FORCE his team to fail many many times. YET he always managed to stay afloat and even in his worst of spells, Nigerians still had that belief that his team were capable of AT LEAST reaching the final of AFCON.
If Keshi and Amodu were wronged, then Rohr too was wronged….PERIOD. And I am glad that posterity has vindicated him.
The worst of Rohr would not struggle to score 1 goal from open play in 270 minutes of football, not least in a very tranquil work environment where all emoluments and salaries and bonuses had been paid, on pitches that didn’t pass as jollof weed pitches, against a covid ravaged Tunisian B team or the worst Ghanaian team in 40 years that finished bottom of an AFCON group containing Gabon, Comoros and Morrocco.
We dont have Keshi anymore, neither do we have Amodu anymore. But we will never again sacrifice competence on the alter of skin colour. Morrocco just hired an exinternational, a contemporary of our own Kanu or Joseph Yobo who already has almost 10 years of Coaching experience and has won 10 MAJOR trophies including the CAF champions league……..can you show me any of Your Owns with such a CV….??
If you are a MD/CEO and that kind of person has applied for same job with these your owns with blank CVs, who would you hand the future of your company to…??
Show me a Nigerian coach whose competence has been proven beyond doubt, and I’ll show you the next SE coach.
Competence does not know skill colour or nationality. If it is Florent Ibengue of DRC or Pitso Mosimane that is the most competent coaches we can afford, I am 100% in support of engaging them as SE coaches. And if its some Younnes Zimamouche, Nikola Nishenko or Dobrev Mikaroslav or William McCallister that has proven competence and we can afford too, then so be it, but not some lousy self-entitled people who cannot lace the coaching boots of any of the above named.
…5 major trophies in 10 years, rather…..
Thank you very much @TONY you are a true Nigerian
The issue is not about Nigerians giving their own people jobs. The issue is looking for round pegs to fill round holes. Looking for the most competent and qualified people to fill positions.
When we had local coaches that showed competence, Nigerians supported them. The problem was the selfish, greedy NFF leadership who refused to allow coaches like Amodu Shuaibu to reap the fruits of his labor by taking his team to the world cup he qualified them for.
Incompetence and ineptitude from our own or a foreigner is unwelcome.
Rohr’s goodness or badness depends on who is observing. But the point blank truth is that the man had a contract, AND HE DELIVERED ON THE TERMS. He consistently qualified us for major tournaments, and represented us well in competitive and friendly games, even against global juggernauts like Argentina and Brazil. If he had being allowed to handle the team against Ghana, Nigeria would likely be prepping for Qatar right now. AND HE DID ALL THESE DESPITE BEING OWED MONTHS OF WAGES!!!
If that is not a good man, no problem. Everyone is allowed to have their own definition of “goodness”.
I’m not speaking to Rohr’s moral character, as I do not know the man like that. But for me, he was good value. He brought progress and prosperity to the SE in his tenure.
Nice one Pompeii as always. Well, NFF, the sports minister, segun odegbami n co and numerous gullible fans who fell for the veiled selfishness of footballers agents, were and still are the problem of Nigeria football .Though, we Rohr supporters, must be honest to admit too, that Rohr himself let his guard down in some of his decision making, as it concerned certain aspects of players invitation as well as getting the best out of players available to him, which made it difficult to continue to defend him. Such as not identifying Eze’s quality early to cap him, even when he, Eze made himself available before our friendly against Senegal in Barnet, also failing to give Bassey some minutes just to cap him, also going against his golden rule, to invite a clubless Ahmed Musa, though we all know he could have been bullied into accepting to allow that.All those evidently somehow stagnated the teams performances in the latter stages and helped gave those true enemies of Nigeria football mentioned above the upper hand and shamefully I hope everyone is enjoying the GROOVE. WE SHOULD NOT HATE ON GHANA, BECAUSE WE ARE OUR OWN NEMESIS.
Finally, someone who has the courage to call it as it is. Rohr’s supporters would not admit it but he caused us to lose out on Eze. This was reported on ESPN website by Collins Udoh who reported at the time that the NFF president was not happy with him. Rohr at the time was busy calling up Etebo and Onazi (Where are these players now?) in our midfield. Even his chief scout admitted that Rohr can be rigid.
However, it would be cruel not to give him his dues, he did meet the terms & demands of his contract and his time with us can not be classified as a failure. Most of us actually believed in him when he took the helms of the SE job but he tailed off towards the end of his contract; that might be as a result of the stressful environment he was subjected to by NFF but one can’t tell.
Peseiro should learn from this and select players based on merit and not just because of their seniority in the team. I am looking forward to the list for the upcoming friendlies. I expect to see Onyedika in the team list because Onyeka has been inactive whilst etebo just got recruited by an unknown club in Greece.
Hahahaha….Rohr cause you to loose Eze indeed. He should have gone to wash Eze’s mum’s undies to cause the boy to feel Nigerian enough to want to play for Nigeria.
Some of you think we are dumb fools who have no memory at all.
Eze, Ola Aina, Josh Maja were all present at the london camp of the SE in 2016/2017 or thereabout. Josh and Ola have gone on to become Nigerian Internationals as at 2017/2018 or thereabout after they had both done their FIFA switches, Eze was still “focusing on his club career” and contented with sitting on the bench of ENGLAND U21s.
Once again, Rohr should have gone to wash Eze’s mum’s undies, the way he went to wash Maja and Aina’s, to cause the boy to feel Nigerian enough to want to play for Nigeria.
Rohr even had to delay the release of his list of players invited for the Benin and Lesotho AFCON qualifiers for an EZE to make up his mind, pronto, the boy who wanted to “focus on his club career when it comes to deciding to represent Nigeria” rather went to go sit on the bench for England U21s for a UEFA U21 qualifier only few days later, and even at the UEFA U21 tournament proper.
Even a whole NFF president got bullshitted by the boy in his attempt to help him feel Nigerian….LMAOOoo.
Hearing something negative about the man, even if it is unjustified simple drives some people into ecstacy. But posterity will still remember that we had our foreign borns represent us the most under him, unlike “your own” who came in and his first mission was to freeze foreign borns out of the AFCON team for sickly, injured and/or subpar “homegrowns”
@ Drey, Eze was willing as at the time of that Barnet friendly. But after then started playing games with invitation, probably in some vindictive sense. The player that wasn’t showing interest then, was Chuba Akpom.
MiWe have to admit that Rohr was a bit too hesitant in bringing in new players in to wrestle jersey positions with his old brigades. We are just lucky not to have lost calvin Bassey. Accepting this Rohr weakest point doesn’t take anything away from the fact that those evil people I mentioned above are the major problem of Nigeria football.
Neither of Josh nor Ola played any official games for the SE in that London camp. They displayed their wares in that same camp, just like Eze, and were encourage to go continue to work hard.
Ola Aina who had captained Chelsea U21s, won the UEFA Youth Champions league, Youth FA cup, PL2 and everything there is to win at youth level didnt need anyone to preach to him before starting a long FIFA switch process. Nobody chased him all over the place, visited him or took photos with him before he chose to go start all that and honour SE callups. Nobody pleaded with Maja too before he showed up after his 19 goals earned him a SE callup then.
It was Eze who was still playing in QPR U21s, League 2 and then the championship that felt the need for the Oba of Benin to send emissaries to him before making a decision.
By the eve of 2018 WC, Ola had made his debut, by 2019 Maja made his, Rohr should have dropped Mikel and Iwobi from the SE to accommodate Eze or what….??
By 2019 when there was space for Eze, just about the same time Aribo was given his opportunity which he grabbed with both feet, just walk into the SE and get a shirt, Rohr was waiting on this boy before releasing his list for AFCON qualifiers, now championship player was already feeling like the English Ronaldinho and “concentrating on his club career” while jumping at the offer to go sit the bench of England U20s in UEFA U20 qualifiers and tournament proper.
Rohr should have gone to fall prostrate before him the way he fell prostrate before Aina and Maja under the same circumstances…? Did Ebere Eze ever signified interest in playing for Nigeria by the time he had become a 1st team player for QPR and never got invited…?
No.
He rather preferred to concentrate on his club career when it comes to playing for Nigeria, but jump at the offer to sit on England’s U21 bench.
Lets be factual, Eze just never wanted to play for Nigeria, QED otherwise, he would like Maja and Aina have made his debut for the SE long before he was an unused substitute for England U21s vs Turkey U21s in European Under21 Championship qualifiers. He should go to blazes playing for the 3 lions. Good luck to him if he ever reaches 10 competitive caps.
And to say we would have lost Bassey is laughable. The same Bassey that was already in Rohr’s preliminary squad before Eguavoen came and deleted his and other foreign borns from it…?? And even refused to call him up when Collins was nowhere to be found and was not communicating with even the NFF officials as at the time we landed in Cameroon, only to turn up 10 days late to camp injured/sick…?
Let’s be factual once again, Bassey would have made his SE debut long before Eguavoen gave him his 1st cap if Rohr had remained, and he would have eased the boy slowly into the team rather than give the boy a lifetime trauma of being thrust into the deep end and failing like Eguavoen did.
@ Dr Drey, we were referring to a period when England had not called him to the u21s . It took a good number of months, if not up to a year before England called him up. During those months, the boy was churning out incredible performances after another whilst Rohr ignored him but insisted on Onazi & Etebo.
By the time Rohr invited him for the qualifiers, he had already committed to the 3 lions. The truth is if Rohr had shown seriousness at that time, i strongly feel he would have committed to Nigeria because at that time he was yet to be scouted by England.
Anyway, I hope and pray we can still get him because that is the missing link for the SE, we do not have a creative playmaker like him.
Hahahaha…….So if he was churning out “incredible performances” why did he not attract England senior selectors right under their noses there in League one and the championship up until close to the Euros in 2021.
Please go get your facts right, Eze was on England’s U21 bench on the 6th and 9th of September 2019 for their U21 qualifiers against Turkey and Kosovo….full 180 minutes on the bench of U21s with his so-called “incredible performances”. The same weekend when Josh Maja and Joe Aribo became full Nigerian internationals whereas Eze wasnt responding to calls in the lead up to the invitations for the Ukraine Friendly.
He was totally ignored with his so-called “incredible performances” for the England U21 games against Slovenia U21s and Austria U21s on the 11th and 15th of October 2019.
Despite causing Rohr to delay the release of his squad of invited players for the Benin and Lesotho AFCON Qualifiers on the 13th and 17 November 2019, he quickly ran back again to England U21 bench for the 15th November 2019 game against Albania U21s and was given a paltry 9 minutes game time with his so-called “incredible performances”, where he became cap tied and would need 18 months FIFA switch process to ever dream of playing for Nigeria again.
For the remaining 6 games of the qualifiers he got a paltry 134 minutes averaging 22 minutes per match…all with his so-called “incredible performances”.
At the tournament proper, he only started the last group game after England had been eliminated…..with his so-called “incredible performances”.
As at around November 2019 when Pinnick went to humiliate himself in the boy’s house in London, he told pinnick “…he was undecided on who to represent….”
Fast forward to April and November 2020 (a year later), Eze (with his so-called incredible performances) still not considered for invitation even for a friendly for England’s 3 lions said “….he had yet to decide on whether to play for Nigeria or his birth country, England, at senior international level…”
As at January 2021, according to news sources, Rohr disclosed that he had contacts with Eze almost on a weekly basis, with the boy telling him he would rather focus on his club career. To the point when NFF Vice President Seyi Akinwunmi told ESPN that the NFF had done what it needed to do by approaching Eze, but it was now up to the winger to make up his own mind. Only for the boy to hop on the wagon at the first call to England 3 lions months after, throwing focus on club career to the dustbins.
So I dont know where you got your “By the time Rohr invited him for the qualifiers, he had already committed to the 3 lions” conspiracy theory. A player who wasnt even rated yet at U21 level.
And I dont know what else you wanted Rohr to have done or what sort of “Seriousness” you wanted him to have shown to a player who was constantly rejecting offers for a free ticket into the SE in place of a bench role for England U21s.
Rohr should have kicked out Mikel Obi and Alex Iwobi from the Super Eagles as far back as 2018 for League one Eberechi Eze and his “incredible QPR U21 performances”. He should have gone to wash Eze’s mum’s undies to show how serious he was to have him play for us, the same way he went to wash for Aina, Maja and Aribos mummies.
The best time Eze would have made the SE was after 2019 AFCON in August/September 2019 when Mikel had finally left, but he was busy feeling like Cinderella. It was his place Joe Aribo gracefully took and has not looked back till date with 20 international caps.
Please the ship about Eze has long sailed. Look for another story to tell us.
@Drey why didn’t Rohr do enough to get Olise? Under his watch we lost Saka, Billing and Ehizibue. Rohr was good but we lost far too many great players. We were just lucky to get Idowu and Viv Solomon Otabor who are world class players. We were close to losing these two players Under Rohr.
Hahahaha…..you forgot to add that Rohr caused us to lose Tammy Abraham and Tomori too. And I guess Rohr is also the reason we havnt gotten Adarabioyo too.
Saka NEVER wanted to play for Nigeria, he stated it clearly. Billing also stated point blank that he NEVER wants to represent Nigeria. His agents only used Nigeria as bait. Ehizibue holds a Dutch refugee permit, he shunned 2 invitations claiming he is not willing to give it up for a Nigerian passport, just like Tobias Lawal who also not willing to give up his Austrian passport for Nigeria’s.
So what was Rohr supposed to do…? Write to the United Nations to issue them universal passports….?
He probably should have just abandoned his job as SE coach and go working as a full time gateman or gardener for these boys to get them to feel Nigerian.
You dont lose what isnt yours. None of those players were ever ours.
For every Saka that Rohr couldn’t get, he got a Lookman and an Aribo.
For every Billing he couldnt get, he got an Akpoguma.
For every Ehizube he couldnt get, he got an Ebuehi…..and many others. We could make a “Rohr convinced Nigerian XI” if we wanted to.
And what did your owns do with the ones we had…? FREEZE AS MANY OF THEM AS POSSIBLE OUT OF AFCON, before desperately recalling them in his other failed bid to qualify for the WC.
Nobody forces water down the throat of an unwilling horse. You only invite players who are willing to play for you, not those who do not even what to be associated with their fatherland.
If you work for billion dollar companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, and you lost $20 million in a business deal yesterday, would you still have a job today?
To these huge companies, $20 million is just a drop in a bucket. Yet, they will still sack the living daylights out of you for losing that kind of money. Imagine our impoverished, languishing NFF who are always going to the government cap-in-hand to dobale for money losing $20 million dollars in world cup appearance fees? The sacking of the coach is pure business. That is what happens when you fail woefully in any money-making venture anywhere in the world. It’s not about “we don’t like our own people”. It’s about delivering on deliverables.
Well said Brodaman Pompei. We worship incompetence in this country. I and I will always believe in a brighter tomorrow for our football. All these rotten teeth administrators and pot bellies agents are working for the devil. Their day of judgement will come. Heaven bless Pompei and all deserving Super Eagles pundits.
Won’t get down in the weeds with some of these people from broken homes.
Coming from an unbroken home, yet having no common sense and being deficient of wisdom has already placed some people in the sewers
No need relocating themselves into the weeds.
I agree and praise AKp for his scientific comment and agree and disagree with Pompy;Rhor had advangtages and disadvangtages for coaching Super Eagles all his tenure; his advangtages were he ascended SE to the World Cup in Russia 2018 versus a group of death Agleria, Cameroon, Zambia; he (Rhor) worked so hardly for subtending SE double-nationality players just like Eze, Touranerigha, Solanke but he persuded Kevin Akpoguma, Tyronne Ebuehi, Ola Aina , Ademola Lookman, Emmanuel Dennis, Maduka Okoye, Semyi Ajayi, Cyriel Dessers and so on ; but his disadvangtages were that he hadn’t pattern of play converges of SE mentality of playing just like wing playing, depth playing , strong defensive midfield and strong center defence with choosing frigle defensive midfielders like Etebo, Onyeka; and shaky center defence like Troost Ekong, Semyi Ajayi than to recall strong and genius players like Anderson Esiti , Alhassn Ibrahim , Usman Mohammed, Nwankwo Obiora on defensive midfield; Kalvin Bassey , Valentine Ozurnwafor , Egoh Ugboh player of Sweden club Lillestorm , or Caleb Akpan of Italy nationality.Peseiro is working now to return SE back to their pattern of play also add to that pattern vertical football playing , he also would like to recall new players who have strong psyche and soul, that means he would like ferocious and aggressive players especillay on defensive midfield and center defence just like players I mentioned above, he would like to recall new faces in attacking just like Godwin Savior , Victor Boniface, Moses Usor; Super Eagles want a coach who can harness their mentality and talented playing to orgnized modern football like Peseiro promised to do all these philosophies( vertical playing, depth playing , orgnized football, wing playing, strong defensive playing) ; all these philosophies Rhor had lacked them.
I have no long comments here but to thank Dr Drey for all his factual, and realistic presentations above. It clearly demonstrates that Facts trumps lies and distortions. Thank you again, Dr Grey. l am totally with you. You gave your readers like me nothing but FACTS. Facts matters.
Shocking!!!! You all are blaming Rhor for not capping a boy who was playing in a reserve team for a team in championship as at the time we had the friendly match with Senegal in London in 2017????
What is Nigeria fans turning into???
Dumb my brother. Sentimen,racism and nepotism have beclouded their sense of reasoning.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xtt_iDpOfg
For those claiming that the boy was in a reserve team, the link above shoukd clear your doubts. The link shows eze’s dazzling display for qpr in 2018. Look at the boy’s ability , controlling the midfield , at a time we desperately needed a 10. Rohr instead opted for Joel obi and onazi. Now , the eagles has not had anything close to a 10 since Mikel left the eagles .
It was also said he did very well during the kick about with the SE. Let us admit it, Rohr missed a trick on this one.
Eze trained with the SE in 2017 and he was called up by England u21 in 2019. What happened in 2018 when the boy started to emerge as a football player? Rohr opted for an onazi who was clearly past his prime and Joel obi. Why was eze not called up to the wc in 2018 especially when it was clear, we needed a playmaker? The boy does not need to play at the world cup but could have been taken as an understudy.
Most people do not know this but Ronaldo was on the bench at the fifa wc in usa 94 and did not kick a ball through out the tourney . He was taken as an understudy to Romario.fast forward 2 years later at atlanta 96, the phenomenon had emerged. That is what a forward thinking coach does. In our own case , fast forward to 2022, onazi is playing in division 2 in Italy, Etebo just got snapped up by a mid table team in Greece after being released by stoke city and I don’t even know where Joel obi is playing his football this days. On the other hand, eze is strutting his stuff in the best league in the world and could very well be on the cusp of an England call up.
If eze was called up to the world cup, no one can tell me that he would turn it down. We have seen tariq lamptey & Inaki Williams on the verge of making the Ghana team tonthe world cup. There were reported news by some media outlets that eze and olise had promised to play for Nigeria had we succeeded in qualifying form the wc.
Baba na wa for you o.. person wey play half of 2017/18 season in league 2, you want Rhor to take to WC when player like iwobi sef never even break into the first 11.
@ Mercy calling such players even while in lower division is indicative of an eagle eye talent spotter/Hunter. You see them from far distance. Giving Eze some minutes then would have helped cap him and swing his loyalty to the SE/NIGERIA, because Nigeria stands no chance against England, France etc in the fight to win these players loyalty when they finally become established. It’s all about being smart like the tortoise that starts a race with a dog many days ahead while the dog,so confident of its speed sleeps away. Dele Alli of MK DONS SHOULD READILY COME TO MIND.
You mean we should go that low just to outsmart European countries of their talents?
It’s hard to guarantee the future of a potential star.I will use our youth teams as example,the likes of Musa Yahaha,Sani Emmanuel,the late Isaac promise,Jide Oguntuwase and a host of others were budding talents,we were seeing future stars in them that never was.
So should we now make lists of potential super eagles who are foreign born I’m sure there are many of them as we speak and induct them into the super eagles?It will be catastrophic to toe that line.
Anyone who really wants to play for the super eagles should do so because they have the passion to be a Nigerian international and should indicate willingness not pressured.
# Greenturf, common man, this so simple to understand. Maybe all the top clubs around the world today are foolish to go low to pay huge money in buying players from lower leagues/division. Etebo in division 2 and clubless Musa should never have been considered. THE WHOLE IDEA IS FUTURISTIC/GREAT POOL OF QUALITY TO PICK FROM. THIS ISNT ROCKET SCIENCE.
Well I wish it’s so easy to understand because I find it so hard bro
Aaron Ramsey was playing in division before being snapped up by Arsenal, Dele Ali was in division 2 with mk dons before spurs came calling, Jack Grealish was in division 2, M.Olise was in division 2, Etebo after playing at the world cup in 2018 was snapped up by stoke city in division 2, Mahrez was in division 2, Kolasinac was in division 2 in france before strolling into the arsenal defense, Gendouzi was in divsion 2 in france, I could go on and on . The level of competition in those leagues can not be underestimated. Besides, the objective of taking him to the wc is not for him to play but to secure him for the future. Now we risk losing him to england.
Did England call up Aaron Ramsey when he was playing in div 2..? Did England Call up Delle Alli in Div 2…? Did England displace experienced players in the national team for Jack grealish while he was till in div 2…?
Did any of the players you are mentioning become a national team player in reserves and U21 teams of their clubs…?
Do you know the place of growth trajectory in a players club and international career at all, or why do clubs send some of their youngsters out on loan rather than just retiring experienced senior players in the first team for them…?
Maybe Josh Maja too should have made the 2018 world cup ahead of Iheanacho or Ahmed Musa too since he was scoring for fun in league one at that period too.
Eze should go to blazes with England for all we care.
We offered him a chance in our SE before he ever got to play for England U21s.
He has said he isnt Nigerian so let to remain that way.
its people like you who would still have complained if a player who was on loan at Wycombe wanderers was invited to the national team by rohr ahead of an Arsenal player or a Seria A player.
The eze ship has long sailed. We never lost him…he was never ours. PERIOD.
Mr Peseiro, Please start calling up every budding 17-18 year old playing in 3rd divisions on loan or Reserve teams in Europe to the SE now instead of the Osimhens, Ndidis, Iwobis and Iheanachos so that we dont miss them in 5 years time.
So that Nigerians will not blame you for letting us lose them. I really dont know how Rohr would have invited Eze who was still cutting his teeth with his peers in 2018, at the peak of preparations for the world cup ahead of the likes of Joel Obi, Iwobi, Mikel and Onazi……LMAooo.
We talking about a player who wasnt even still good enough to be a guaranteed England U21 starter as at 2019. LMAoooo.
So because he is at the peak of his powers now in 2022, he should have been ahead of those who were at the peaks of their own powers in 2018
England too must have been blind to his so-called talents to have waited up till 2021 to callup Eze. Southgate too should have dropped henderson, or dele Alli for Ebere Eze in 2018 because by 2022 they wouldnt be at their peaks anymore….if he was so much wonderful a player playing in league one that time
Uncle Pese….please start filling the SE camp with every youngster that shows potentials in European Academies o.
@ Drey. But same Rohr called one Onovo, one Viv otabor. Please Drey I respect you alot. We should always try to be balance. Same way we attack the failure of the NFF, the sports minister n co, Same way we should be honest to mention those areas Rohr goofed. No human is perfect. We all must accept we are all learners pointing out each others weak points to become better.
Again, the position England is with him is what we are saying; cap him to secure him. THIS HONESTLY DOESN’T REQUIRE ARGUMENT OR DISCREDITING ROHR. JUST FOR THE SAKE OF DOING IT RIGHT NEXT TIME.
Onovo and Otabors cases are miles different to Eze’s case. Comparing both is purely illogical.
Both cases where last minute replacement cases due to either to proximity to the SE match venue of ease of entry to the country.
Eze as a QPR youth player on loan at Wycombe trained for days in the SE camp, along with Ola and Josh…all budding young talents then….Josh and Ola have become SE players, Eze has since refused to honour invitations. How is that Rohr’s fault…?
Rohr should have dropped Mikel or Iwobi or Joel Obi for Eze or what…??
At Eze’s age was Iwobi playing in league 1 or was Mikel playing in league 1…?
This is a guy who was belted to England U21 bench as at 2019.
At that age Mikel was already a Chelsea first teamer. Iwobi had already played in UCL, Joel was already an Intermilan player.
So because one Watford or Norwich player is talented and doing well in league one now we should do away with the Osimhens, Iheanachos, Awoniyis and Aribos now….??? Because in 5 years time they would be past their peaks…?
If we have to cap tie every 18yr old in 2nd and 3rd divisions in Europe would we ever have a national team….?
EZE HAS SAID HE DOESNT FEEL NIGERIAN. THOSE WHO FELT NIGERIAN RESPONDED TO ROHR’S CALLUP IMMEDIATELY THERE WAS SPACE FOR THEM IN THE NATIONAL TEAM.
Eze preferred to go sit on U21 bench rather than walk straight into our national team vs Ukraine. like Aribo did.
He turned us down a further 2 years afterwards. He is English. He should go play for England.
We were never going to drop any of Mikel or Iwobi for him. Even till today none of them are his mates. Same way we wouldn’t drop Osimhen, Sadiq, Awoniyi, Dessers or Iheanacho now for an 18yr old scoring 10+ goals in league 1. NEVER. If such player cannot wait for his turn to get a call up, he should go and play for whoever he wishes.
When there was space, for 2 good years, we called him up and he turned it down for a guaranteed bench role at U21 level for England. I hope he his now an England superstar like Bobby Chalrton.
What an insult.
I thank Rohr for not disgracing and humiliating the honor of this country like Pinnick did. We won’t beg or prostrate for anybody to play for us.
Eze was very displeased about being ignored when he offered to be part of the team during that friendly at Barnet . No one is saying he should have come take any of Mikel, Iwobi or whatever position. He had always identified himself as a Nigerian and only started becoming heady after being ignored by Getnot Rohr. And Pinnick visiting him was more of trying to make him feel wanted again. I myself was quite disappointed with him when started playing games after not being considered by Rohr. But my point is not just about Eze but a lack of ability to spot true talent to Cap them quickly by Rohr during his tenure.That was one area, I honestly feel disappointed most about Rohr. Truth is, Eze actually came to be a part of that team reason he showed up at the training camp but was let down when Rohr didn’t show any interest. These guys are majorly from Camberwell south East London,where you have loads of Nigerian kids growing up and doing their football thing and some of us here know some of these guys albeit indirectly and hear lots of their conversation as it concerns Nigeria.
@ Brodaman Dr Drey irrespective of opinion you always remain my man. But it seems with you, Rohr never do no wrong. Hahaha… If in your view he has his failings,like every “human” please kindly help me to know. You have never ever mentioned areas Rohr didn’t do well. If he is so so perfect, by now Rohr would have ascended the throne of special adviser to every other managers out there doing their thing. Abegoooo… Rohr listened to too many bad,selfish n unpatriotic advisers,only out there to protect their players place in the team hence he couldn’t do the right thing of bringing other players in with quality to challenge for position. That was the business going in the team then. Many more, we have come to find out but no need banging on these things. Rohr wasn’t a saint . Take or leave it Hahaha….One love brodaman.
@Dr Drey is not having it ooo…lol. He is solidly behind Rohr. Some of us just feel things should have been done differently especially since it is a position we have not been able to replace since the great Okocha. Perhaps we should jettison the idea of a traditional no.10 and go with a playmaking winger like Ebiowei Malcom (All na the same thing). I hope the handlers will extend an invitation to him for the friendlies with Algeria.
Well said Doctorman Drey. You have convinced me with superior argument. I have nothing else to add.
Heaven bless Dr Drey and all deserving logical Super Eagles pundits.
I have read all your comments on this thread, all packed with facts and dates, not sentimental opinions. A tour de force in rebuttals; you won the argument hands down. But there is also the seed of ideas in some of these comments. What we should be planning for is the next set of foreign-born players.
We need not blood every Tom, Dick, and Harry player into the SE, we can look for potential and where future needs would arise. If for instance, we have a defensive midfielder in his mid-20s, we can look to finding a young understudy that has shown potential and giving him game-time minutes in friendlies.
Like you, I’ve forgotten Eze, and I even think that Nigerians are too set in their ways with looking for a No10 replacement for Okocha.
Football tactics are variable, and many, must we always look to play in the same fashion as if it’s the only winning tactic?
As for Eze, the way he plays is Nigerian not English, the English like physical exertion i.e. running around the pitch, which they interpret as work rate. Judging from Crystal Palace, Eze on these terms has a very poor work rate, which would count against him in the eyes of England fans and management.