Owngoalnigeria.com understands that coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria Gernot Rohr has penciled down a possible list of five players he intends to call up for the friendly against Cameroon.

However contrary to public speculations, Chelsea teen forward Dominic Solanke is not included as he is yet to agree to a potential switch of international career from England, where he is a youth international to Nigeria.

Rohr is wary of a repeat of the drama that happened when Tyroone Ebuehi turned down the chance to team up with the Super Eagles during the last World Cup 2018 qualifiers against Algeria.

” We want to avoid a repeat of what happened last time out with Ebuehi, so Solanke won’t be called up, at least for now until talks and grey areas are ironed out properly”, a source close to the coach told Owngoalnigeria.com.

” For now Olarenwaju Kayode, Anthony Nwakaeme, Victor Anichebe, David Nwokolor and Isacc Success if he is fit, are the players most likely to be in the squad for the friendly game against Senegal”.

The coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria Gernot Rohr has started planning in earnest for Nigeria’s next World Cup 2018 qualifiers game against Cameroon, Owngoalnigeria.com understands.

Group leaders Nigeria will take on second place Cameroon in back to back games, when the CAF qualifying series resumes next year, first in Yaounde before they clash in Uyo.

We gathered after reviewing videos of how Cameroon love to play with his video analyst, the Franco-German coach has tipped three players to play prominent role in the clash, if they maintain their club form.

” The Cameroonians are very physical and when you look at their impressive height, we can’t approach them without having a plan on how to nullify the threat they could pose”, a source said.

” Rohr has looked around and strongly believes that the trio of Anderson Esiti, John Ogu and Victor Anichebe will be useful in the game for obvious reasons, but it all depends on their form when the qualifiers resume”.

FC Porto on loan Nigerian forward Chidera Ezeh is making an impression with his loan side Portimonense, who are currently leading the second division table in Portugal.

Talented Eze moved to FC Porto after the U-17 World Youth Championship in 2013 which Nigeria won, and after few years with their youth sides he signed a five year professional deal early this year.

Ezeh joined Portimonense on loan after helping the U-18s of Porto lift the junior league last season, and so far after a slow start he has featured in their last two games.

He is on loan to Portimonense for the rest of the season, after which he could return back to FC Porto to team up with the other Nigerians on the books of the club.

At the moment, the Portuguese side have seven Nigerians on their payroll namely Mikel Agu, Chidozie Awaziem, Musa Yahaya, Moses John, Samuel Chukwueze and Fidelis Irhene.

Coach of Norwegian side Molde Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wants Nigerian midfielder Ekpe Thompson back at the club after helping his loan side Kristiansund FK emerge as champions of the second division.

The 19 year old Kaduna born midfielder who stands at an impressive height of over six feet tall, played six times for Kristiansund after joining them midway through the season.

His form was very pivotal to the team gaining promotion, a form he carried into a friendly game against his parent owners shortly after the end of the season.

” I have spoken with the coach (Ole Gunnar Solksjaer) and he wants me back at Molde instead of going out on loan, it’s nice to have the trust of the manager but there’s still a long way to go”, Ekpe told Owngoalnigeria.com.

” Am just a year old in Norway, and it hasn’t been funny playing in the cold. I managed to cope and now am looking up to a strong season if I return back to Molde”.

Coach of the Cameroonian team Hugo Broos has stepped up preparations for next year World Cup 2018 Qualifiers against Nigeria by sounding out Liverpool defender Joel Matip to come out of international retirement.

Matip left the national team set up of Cameroon in 2015 after a disagreement but coach Broos hopes the defender can change his mind and play for the Lions once again.

The experience of the 25 year old will be vital to Cameroon’s hope of rescuing their bad start to the World Cup qualifiers campaign after two draws from their opening two games.

Cameroon are second in group B, four points behind leaders Nigeria and both team will clash in back to back game next year, a game that could potentially end Cameroon’s hope of qualifying for the World Cup in Russia base on the result of the games.

A veteran of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, he is expected to help sniff out the threat of the deadly attack line of the Super Eagles, which has helped the Eagles win their first two games of the qualifiers.

Cameroonian legend Samuel Eto’o says he will give the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon tips on how to beat Nigeria, when both team clash in the World Cup 2018 qualifiers next year.

Nigeria will travel to Yaounde before playing host to Cameroon, in a game that could have a strong bearing of the leadership of group B, where Nigeria are currently holding a two point lead over Cameroon as group leaders.

Eto’o who has set aside any plans to quit international retirement and play for Cameroon in the cracker, however said he will be willing to give tips to his country men against Nigeria.

He reckoned he has never lost to the Super Eagles, hence he knows a thing or two about how to make the Eagles lose their super touch.

” Nigeria are playing real well at the moment but that doesn’t mean they are unbeatable. I surely know a thing or two about how to beat them. Afterall have never lost a game to Nigeria” Eto’o said.

” If they (Cameroon) ask me for tips, I will definitely furnish them with useful information on how to make Nigeria lose their new found super form next year”.

On September 13 2015 after Kelechi Iheanacho scored a last minute winning goal for Manchester City against Crystal Palace in an English Premier League game, Social media went overboard when Sterling called the 19 year old “Uncle” in a tweet congratulating him for his goal that gifted them all three points on twitter.

The tweets lead to a whole lot of insinuations which some even saying the tweet brings to question the real age of the Nigerian for Sterling who is older than him to refer to him as uncle.

Same debate was reignited when Anglo Nigerian Tosin Adarabioyo referred to the 20 year old as “Uncle”once again, after smashing his record as Manchester City youngest debutant in the UEFA Champions League.

However in our traditional way of unraveling the mystery behind most stories owngoalnigeria.com can authoritatively reveal that the tweet had nothing to do with his age rather it’s the nickname most of the senior players call the Nigerian who refers to most of them as “uncle” in training.

The word uncle is mostly used in Nigeria to refer to someone who is older during conversation and not necessarily what it means in the real sense and Iheanacho use the word very well in most of his chats with the senior players who in turn jokingly refer to him as uncle once in a while.

Sterling’s tweet was more of the same joke from the training pitch whenever the Nigerian is talked about by senior players of the team and nothing close to all that have been speculated.

The closeness of Nigerian national team duo of Arsenal Alex Iwobi and Manchester City Kelechi Iheanacho has earned them a nickname from their national team colleagues.

Even coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria Gernot Rohr has advised other players in the team to emulate the friendship of the duo on and off the pitch, as qualification for World Cup 2018 in Russia hots up.

Iwobi and Iheanacho are usually roommates in the Nigerian national team, with Iwobi citing the jovial and funny nature of the Manchester City star as one of the reason why he is his favourite roommate.

Shortly after the duo found the back of the net for their respective teams in the UEFA Champions League, the media officer of the Nigeria national team Toyin Ibitoye took to twitter to reveal the nickname the duo are called by their teammates.

” Roommates in @NGSuperEagles camp, called “Tom and Jerry’ for their ‘playful’ nature but @67Kelechi (Iheanacho) and @Alexiwobi do score goals,” Ibitoye posted on his twitter handle.