Former Barcelona youth team player Bobby Adekanye is set for a prolong spell on the sidelines, after successful undergoing surgery to cure another injury picked up for the Under-18s.

Last season, he missed the majority of the season owing to an injury and just when he thought his worries are behind him. He is set to be out for an unspecified period of time.

The left foot dazzler, posted pictures of himself on snapchat after surgery, backed up with a post of gratification to God for the success of the surgery, which he underwent seven days ago.

Eligible for Nigeria and the Netherlands, he has not had the best of times since moving to Liverpool in a three way transfer from PSV, that includes his release from Barcelona.

Adekanye was among the players Barcelona signed illegally few seasons ago which lead to FIFA slamming a ban on the Catalan club. The Nigerian moved to Liverpool after six months at Dutch side PSV.

Top officials of Mutunchi Academy of Kaduna are currently at loggerheads over monies paid to the team by English giants Tottenham Hotspurs for the transfer of Musa Yahaya.

Tottenham Hotspur reportedly completed payment for the 18 year old while on loan at Portuguese second division side Portimonense before he was sold to FC Porto by the second division side. But the monies paid to the team by Spurs has already reaped officials of the team apart.

Auwal Mohammed the proprietor of the Academy reportedly gave peanut to other officials of the team which has caused an uproar among the officials who felt cheated.

Owngoalnigeria.com gathered he was given over 30 million naira as second installment for the payment of the transfer by Tottenham Hotspur but gave officials of the 15,000 Naira each much to their dismay.

It’s not the first time the controversial academy proprietor has been involved in issues of financial greed as he was beaten up last month by some aggrieved parties whom he reportedly short changed in a financial transaction.

Former captain of the Nigeria Under-17 and 20 national team Musa Mohammed is in danger of losing out on a place in the Nigeria senior national team, according to reports gathered by Owngoalnigeria.com.

Mohammed made his competitive debut for Nigeria in the 2017 AFCON qualifiers dead rubber tie which Nigeria won 1-0 against Tanzania, in the first game of new manager Gernot Rohr as coach of the Super Eagles.

The full back lasted the entire duration of the game and was applauded by the new coach for his performance in the tie. But reports indicates he could be axed from the team unless his club form improves.

Rohr wants all his players to be regulars at their club side but that is presently not the case with Mohammed who has struggled to break into the first team of his turkish side. A situation that could cost him his national team spot.

Since moving to Turkey last summer, he is yet to make a league appearance for modest side Istanbul Basaksehir. He has as a matter of fact made just 5 appearances for the team, all in cup games.

The 19 year old didn’t play a single minute of the club pre season games and after three round of games in Turkey he is yet to be named in the match day squad.

The coach of the Cranes of Uganda Milutin Sredojevic popularly refereed to as Micho who made history by qualifying Uganda for their first ever Africa Cup of Nations since 1978, would have been the coach of Nigeria were it not for power play, politics and intrigues of the Nigeria football system.

Before the appointment of Sunday Oliseh as coach of the Super Eagles, Micho was the front runner for the job after he was proposed to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) by match agent Jairo Pachon.

President of the NFF Amaju Pinnick took his board members by surprise when he held talks with former Nigeria national team captain Sunday Oliseh and offered him the job as opposed to Micho.

After Nigeria’s failure to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations, Micho was once again approached few months before the Paul Le Guen fiasco but this time around interest in the office of the NFF president put a stop to it.

Pinnick waxed lyrical about his preference for a Serbian coach but settled for French man Le Guen who later turned down the job. But prior to that time, Micho’s appointment would have been rubber stamped were it not for greed among close allies of the NFF supremo.

An unnamed ally of the president of the NFF wanted the coach to dump the man who proposed him for the job in Jairo Pachon for him, but the Serbian refused and insisted on the Colombian match agent of the NFF.

It didn’t go down well with the said individual, who in turn turned the head of the NFF president against appointing the Serb. His loss happened to be Uganda’s gain as while Nigeria missed out on a second consecutive AFCON, Uganda under Micho are going to be there for the first time in 38 years.

* James Mwanga ( Ugandan Journalist)

Less than 24 hours to the Manchester Derby, head coach of the Nigeria Under-20 team Emmanuel Amuneke has been sighted in a picture, with fierce rival managers Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho dancing during their time at Barcelona.

Amuneke had a torrid time at Barcelona, no thanks to injuries and fitness issues. As coach he presently handles the Nigeria Under-20 team after lifting the World Youth Championship with the Under-17 in 2015.

The picture stumbled upon by Owngoalnigeria.com was taken when the Nigerian was at Barcelona, while Mourinho was acting as an assistant coach to then manager of Barcelona Bobby Robson.

Back then Pep Guardiola was a player and was reportedly very close to the Portuguese. But their relationship has gone sour right from when their path cross in Spain as managers of rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Two players from Nigeria team to the last World Cup In Brazil have secured transfer to Slovak side AS Trencin, to bring to five the number of Nigerian players at the Slovakia Champions.

The duo of Rueben Gabriel and Uche Nwofor who were part of the World Cup team of late coach Stephen Keshi, have both been announced as players of the club through official channels.

They were both signed on a free transfer, following their release by Portuguese side Boavista. Their joining of the club bring to five the number of Nigerian players at the team despite the departure of Kingsley Madu and Rabiu Ibrahim.

Already the trio of Samuel Kalu, Aliko Bala and Maduka Eze are with the Europa League campaigners, who have a rich connection with Nigerian players of late.

English Championship side QPR are no longer the sole option for Nigeria Under-17 star Abdulrazak Ishaq, with reports of Southampton joining the chase for the highly rated teen.

Ishaq was a part of the Nigeria Under-17 team that failed to qualify for next year Africa Youth Championship, after losing 2-3 on aggregate to Niger Republic.

The Unity Academy prospect, who was among the shining stars of the ill fated squad, dazzled a scout of QPR in Abuja who kept on asking about the kid in jersey number 11.

Fortunately, Ishaq nicknamed “Golden Boy” was the kid in shirt number 11. But any thought of them snapping up the teen wonder has been made tough following Southampton interest in the midfield maestro.

A decision on where he will end up will most likely be taken before the end of this month, as he is reportedly set to travel to England to meet with his prospective employers in November.

Nigerian teen sensation Kelechi Iheanacho has won the CNN Goal of the week award for his wonder strike, that helped Nigeria beat Tanzania 1-0 in a dead rubber AFCON 2017 qualifiers tie.

The organisers took into consideration, all the goals scored during the recently concluded international break and, the 19 year old well hit effort from the edge of Tanzania box was selected as the winner.

He was annouced as the winner on the twitter handle of the prestigious news network, ahead of every other goal scored during the break which lasted for two weeks.

Iheanacho’s goal went viral on the internet with most people praising the technique behind the volley which separated Nigeria from Tanzania and, help new manager Gernot Rohr start his tenure on a winning note.

On Saturday when Manchester City take on Manchester United in the Manchester derby, he could be in for a start following the suspension of star forward Sergio Kun Aguero.

Kelechi Nwakali had his first training session with the main team of Arsenal yesterday, despite being loaned out to Dutch side MVV Maastricht.

Pictures of how the training session went has been picked up by Owngoalnigeria.com editorial staff, courtesy Getty Images and it shows how well he adapted to training alongside some stars he could only see on television few months ago.

In one of the pictures, the talented teen who was handed kit number 95 for the session was seen holding of his marker Nacho Monreal, and it appears like he was expecting a pass or had just laid one for England international Theo Walcott.

Also a picture of the teen having a chat with Nigeria international Alex Iwobi who just returned from a thigh injury was also sighted by our staff, with Nigeria target Chuba Akpom not standing far off from the duo.

The 18 year old voted the Most Valuable Player (MVP) at the last Under-17 World Cup in Chile won’t arrive in Holland until next week, according to a post on his twitter handle.