Peter Osaze Odemwingie who is clubless following his release from Stoke City still rank himself as one of the best strikers available for club to sign.

He recently turned down a pay as you play contract offer from premiership newcomers Hull City, a sign of how much he believes in his abilities even though he is in his mid 30’s.

35 year old Odemwingie missed out on a moving before the close of the summer transfer window despite his free status, but the former Lille man who has played for West Bromwich Albion, Cardiff City and Stoke City in England isn’t lacking in confidence.

A fan of West Brom, the club where he has his most successful spell since moving to England with 26 goals to his name from two seasons, suggested he re-sign for the team, this time around as an impact substitute.

Reacting to the offer made to him on twitter, the forward told the fan he is still the boss with a tweet that reads.

” No impact sub my friend I am still the boss” He posted on his official twitter account.

Germany youth International Emmanuel Iyoha says the political instability in the running of football in Nigeria made him snub the West Africa Nation for Germany, the land of his birth despite his father hailing from Nigeria.

18 year old Iyoha who plays for German second division side Fortuna Dusseldorf featured for Germany at the recently concluded European Under-19 tournament, making one appearance in the six goal thriller against Netherlands, which they later won 5-4 on penalties.

Speaking to Bild in an interview on why he opt to play for Germany instead of Nigeria, the striker who made five appearances for Fortuna Dusseldorf in the German second division last season revealed, instability in Nigeria football played a big part in his decision making.

“I’m a real native of Dusseldorf, as I was born here, although my father is from Nigeria, my mother is a German but I feel German in every way, I presently play for the U19 and am happy because Germany is just right for me, Nigeria is a political unstable country”.

True to the words of the talented teen, the instability in the leadership of Nigeria Football is well documented, especially in the last two years, with two different factions claiming to be in charge of the running of football in the country.

Although FIFA President, Gianni Infantino confirmed the Amaju Pinnick lead board as the recognised body in charge of football, Chris Giwa is still insisting he has the right to occupy the office of the president of Nigeria Football Federation.

Kelvin Akpoguma who was at a point in time called up to the Nigeria U-23 team has once again reveal his desire is to play for the German national team.

Born in Germany to a Nigerian father, the former captain of the U-20 team of Germany was among 47 foreign based players called up by coach of the Nigeria Olympic team when training started in 2014 but the 20 year old didn’t honour the invitation.

Prior to Siasia calling up the Hoffeinheim defender who spent last season on loan at second division side Fortuna Dusseldorf has told various news sources in Nigeria about his preference for the German national team even though he has twice visited Nigeria.

Akpoguma reiterated his hope of playing for the senior national team of Germany after playing for all most all cadre of their youth teams during an interview with German newspaper Bild picked up by Owngoalnigeria.com.

He wants to follow in the footsteps of Jonathan Tah who rose from Fortuna Dusseldorf to the national team of Germany as oppose to chasing a national team career with the senior team of Nigeria.

“The national team of Germany is my big dream, as a matter of fact no just a dream but my goal”.

*Story was first published on the 11th of July 2016

Gernot Rohr has drawn a list of five players, he hopes to add to his team when the race to reach Russia 2018 World cup begins in October.

The German wasn’t pleased with the finishing of his side in the 1-0 win over Tanzania, and well informed sources have revealed to Owngoalnigeria.com, that he has drawn up a list of forwards he intends to add to the team before their first World Cup qualifiers game against Tanzania.

We gathered Emmanuel Emenike of Fenerbahce who recently quit the national team is high on the manager’s priority, as exclusively reported by Owngoalnigeria.com.

Rohr watched the 29 year old in a recent UEFA Champions League qualifiers in France, when he scored in both legs against Monaco and believes a chat with the former West Ham forward could tempt him into returning back to the team.

The German manager has also asked his team of scouts to put a close eye on new Angers signing Dickson Nwakaeme who recently moved to the Ligue 1 side this summer.

Standing at an impressive height of 1.87m, the 30 year old has until his move to France played in Finland, Denmark, Vietnam and Malaysia. He presently stands a wide chance.

The dearth of quality forward to solve the goal scoring problem of the Super Eagles has made the new manager to consult his assistants and our source revealed that names like Olarenwaju Kayode, Gbolahan Salami and Anthony Ujah.

The Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles Gernot Rohr is presently not keen on luring German born Nigerian players to play for Nigeria,according to sources close to the German coach.

Nigeria have been doing their best possible to lure players born abroad to the senior national team, with contacts already made with lots of players based in England over the possibility of following in the footstep of Alex Iwobi.

Iwobi switched allegiance to Nigeria despite representing England at youth level, and his case is what the Nigeria Football Federation is banking on in their bid to lure players with dual nationality.

However, Rohr who has knowledge of talented Nigerian teen prospect in Germany with Kelvin Akpoguma, one among the several names on the lips of Nigerians, isn’t keen on luring them to play for the Eagles at least for now.

” Not for now. He believes we have enough talent at our disposal, maybe in the future but for now, he is focused on the players we have, but no one knows what could happen in the future” a source close to the player told Owngoalnigeria.com.

Leicester City big money signing Ahmed Musa, who played for Nigeria over the weekend in an AFCON 2017 qualifiers tie against Tanzania, has been spotted in the jersey of one of the rivals of the Premier League champions.

Musa signed from CSKA Moscow for a fee in the region of £21m, played the entire duration of Nigeria’s game against Tanzania which the Eagles won 1-0 courtesy of a strike from Manchester City Kelechi Iheanacho.

The forward who captained Nigeria in the second half of the encouter after the substitution of Mikel Obi, was in Kano, a day after the game and while performing a task of charity, the 23 year old was spotted in a Manchester United jersey.

A big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo, the former Kano Pillars star love for the jersey number 7 comes from his likeness for the Real Madrid star, right from his days at Manchester United.

He is reportedly a fan of Manchester United according to his close friends and associates, His recent picture as captured by our correspondent gives more insight into their claims.

The Nigerian trio of Uche Iheruome, Odah Marshal and Ganiyu Oseni are currently the toast of fans of their various clubs due to their goal scoring exploits.

Already they have reached double digit goals for the season with former Nigeria U-17 World Cup winner, Oseni the latest to hit the mark after his goal in Can Tho 3-3 draw with Long An.

Odah Onoriode Marshall who plays for 10th placed SLNA has 10 goals as well, even though he has only scored twice in his last 8 games.

However, Uche Iheruome tops them all with 12 goals for Sanna for 9th placed Sanna, in what is his 5th season in Vietnam, same league he has twice scored 14 goals in a season.

The top scorer race is ironically a close battle between Nigerian born Vietnam citizen Hoang Vu Samson, who was formerly known as Samson Olaleye Kayode who stars for table toppers Ha Noi T & T.

27 year old Samson has 15 goals, five goals behind top scorer Sebastian Gaston Merlo.

Former Nigeria Under-17 World Cup winner Sheriff Isa has been officially unveiled as a player of Ukrainian Premier League side Chornomorets.

The club announced his capture on a two year deal following his release by fellow Ukrainian side Olimpik Donetsk, where he has been since 2012.

Since leaving Kano Pillars, the left footed ace has turned out for Olimpik Donetsk, where he has scored a total of 14 goals from a combined league appearance of 82, both in the premier division and the second division.

25 year old Isa was a member of the late coach Yemi Tella all conquering Under-17 team of 2007. The forward was a revelation at the tournament even though he wasn’t a starter.

He scored three vital goal at the Championship in Korea, a brace in the last group game against Haiti and the opener against Colombia in the knock out stage.

Despite having a satisfactory 1-0 win over Tanzania in his first game as coach of the Nigeria senior national team, Gernot Rohr says there is still work to be done on some areas in the team before the start of qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup.

Rohr upon taking over the team pointed out the defence of the team as one area, that needs urgent attention and already from the performance of Leon Balogun and William Troost Ekong, the German appears to have started work in earnest on the back line.

However from the game against Tanzania, he has found out another aspect of the team that requires urgent attention before the start of the qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup in October.

” If there’s anything I wasn’t happy about, it was the numerous chances we failed to convert, it shows we still have work to do in terms of scoring goals, not much work since we are creating the chances” He said to Owngoalnigeria.com.

” Our conversion rate wasn’t the best considering the amount of chances we created against Tanzania, why you will want to credit their goalkepper for been at his best, our forwards should have done better with the chances they had.

” In qualifiers, you need to take advantage of your chances when you have them, as every single point counts. We have to focus on that aspect before the game against Zambia”.

The international future of Liverpool teen midfielder Ovie Ejaria and Arsenal forward Chuba Akpom, was one of the numerous questions Owngoalnigeria.com asked the new manager of the Super Eagles Gernot Rohr after the AFCON 2017 qualifiers game against Tanzania.

Ejaria was one of the stars for Liverpool in their pre season tour before picking up an injury in one of their games, which reduced his chances of forcing his way into the plans of manager Jurgen Klopp.

The former Nigeria U-17s trainee has however recovered from the knock and has played in friendly games for the main team, with appearances for the U-23s in the Premier League 2 under his belt as well.

Akpom back at Arsenal after a loan spell at Hull City last season, is yet to make an appearance for Arsenal but he has featured and even scored for the U-23s in their campaign in the Premier League 2.

The duo are reportedly on the radar of Nigeria even though they are eligible for England, with Akpom even playing for the English U-21s during this international break but Rohr insist he would love to have the duo in his team.

” If they (Akpom & Ejaria) are doing well, why not? We want our best legs for the World Cup qualifiers and if they happen to be among our best legs, we will do our best to cap them in our quest to reach the World Cup” He said.