Head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro is at loggerheads with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) over the number of players that will be in Super Eagles final squad for the Africa Cup of Nations, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.

CAF allows team to name 27 players for the tournament but only 23 will be registered on matchdays. Teams are however permitted to name less than 27 players.

That option is what Peseiro wants and he has decided to drop two players from the 27 players he wanted to take to the training camp in Dubai in preparation for the tournament.

NFF on their part are insisting that the coach takes 27 players but he is adamant that 25 players will give him enough time to work on the team, because it will be easy to manage considering that the tournament is for a month.

It isn’t the first time that the Portuguese coach has gone against the wishes of his employers as he also did the same thing with the provisional list of players, where he named 40 players instead of the 50 permitted by CAF.

That decision meant outfield players from teams in the Nigeria Professional Football League were asee from the list, as well as players like Chuba Akpom, Jerome Akor and Ifeanyi Matthew.

Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman

27-year-old Super Eagles midfielder Wilfred Ndidi is starting to shine in a very different role within Leicester City’s midfield. City’s new boss, Enzo Maresca, has opted to promote Ndidi from a holding defensive midfielder to a forward-thinking number ten. Ndidi’s new position in the team has played an important part in the Foxes’ domination in the English second tier this season.

Leicester have led the way at the top of the EFL Championship for many weeks now, with Maresca’s side enjoying a record-breaking start to the 2023/24 campaign. The Foxes are the media darlings of the division, attracting broadcast coverage of almost every Championship game they play right now. This makes it easier for Nigerians to not only watch the likes of Ndidi play but to also place wagers on them in the live betting markets, which are dynamic and react to what’s happening in play.

Kudos to Maresca for unleashing Ndidi’s forward-thinking potential

Maresca recently admitted he had seen more creative flair in Ndidi during training sessions. It’s paid off, with the Lagos-born midfielder racking up five assists and four goals so far this term. Harry Winks is the midfielder who’s dropped into the holding midfield anchor role. Ndidi now operates on the right side of the three-man midfield. Although Ndidi is critical to the dynamism of Leicester’s midfield, the opening of the January transfer window poses a threat to City’s title hopes.

Ndidi’s Leicester contract expires at the end of the 2023/24 campaign. Furthermore, Ndidi is highly likely to be included in the Super Eagles’ 2024 AFCON squad in the New Year. This would result in him missing at least three or four league games. Leicester and Maresca have a genuine puzzle to solve. Do they keep Ndidi, accept he’ll miss games for the AFCON, and use him from February onwards? Or do they sell in January to get some transfer value?

Ndidi is highly unlikely to sign a new contract at the King Power Stadium as he seeks a fresh challenge next summer. Spanish giants Barcelona are still reportedly readying an approach in January. Barcelona is in the market for a versatile midfielder, and the tight financial restrictions imposed on the Catalan side mean Ndidi looks a value pick. The likes of Bayern midfielder Joshua Kimmich and Real Sociedad ace Martin Zubimendi are expected to be too expensive for Barca to buy in January. Fellow La Liga outfit Sevilla and Italian powerhouse Juventus are also said to be monitoring Ndidi.

Who could the Foxes replace Ndidi with?

Ndidi’s absence from the Leicester team was felt in November. When missing through injury, the Foxes lost back-to-back games against Leeds and Middlesbrough with him on the sidelines. It’s no secret that they’ve had an uptick in form since his return. However, if the Foxes can sell for £10m+ and reinvest that sum in a younger prospect on a long-term contract, it could make commercial sense. City may even lose both of their Nigerian talents, with Kelechi Iheanacho alsosaid to be a target of Premier League outfits.

In recent weeks, Leicester have been linked with Burnley midfielder Josh Brownhill, who has struggled for game time since the Clarets’ promotion to the Premier League. Meanwhile, Huddersfield Town’s midfield powerhouse, Brahima Diarra, is likely to be sold in January, with Leicester a credible destination for the 20-year-old Mali U23 international. Diarra would tick a lot of boxes as he has similar attributes to Ndidi, including exceptional work rate, goalscoring ability and immense ball carrying.

Ndidi himself spoke of how “pleased” he is in his new role at Leicester. Whether it will be enough to convince him to stay with the East Midlands club remains to be seen. A switch to Barcelona – or even Sevilla or Juventus – would be a career-defining move.

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The current top scorer for high flying German Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen has revealed that he can be an option in the midfield if needed as he has played in the role before, OwnGoalNigeria.comreports.

Victor Boniface has 16 goals and eight assists in the first 25 games of the season in what is his debut season in Germany following his arrival from Belgium side Union Saint-Gilloise in the summer.

Speaking on his game, the 22 year old explained that he isn’t about scoring goals only as he also love to get involved in team play and lay the ball for better placed players to finish.

He said he used to play in the number ten role during his formative years making him very comfortable when he plays in the midfield. The playmaker role is one which Nigeria is trying to address before the start of the AFCON.

Regular defensive midfielder Wilfred Ndidi has caught the eyes in an advanced role for Leicester City with four assists already, putting the chances of Alex Iwobi who has played in that role holding on to it next year.

The revelation by Boniface will no doubt spark a thought in the head of head coach of the Nigerian team Jose Peseiro ahead of the tournament in Cote d’Ivoire.

“There are lots of classic strikers. They wait for their moment in the penalty area. But then it can happen that they don’t touch the ball for ten minutes”, he explained.

“I don’t like that. I want to play differently, create chances and not just finish them. I like dropping back to take part in the build-up and I like pulling opposition defenders towards me and thereby creating space for my teammates.

“A bit of this style is in my nature. I used to play in midfield and increasingly took part in build-up play. I often watch videos of tricky and intelligent players to develop my game in that way to be able to the help the team even more.

Ade Emmanuel

The players in the provisional list for the senior national team of Nigeria for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations was made public by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

One department that head coach Jose Peseiro will face a dilemma when it comes to picking his final 27 man list is in the striker’s department. He has a pool of over seven players to pick just three with Victor Osimhen guaranteed to be the first choice striker.

One of the players in the department is Rangers of Scotland forward Cyriel Dessers, who has returned back to scoring ways with six goals in 14 league games this season, three of the goals came in his last four games for the club.

Despite his rich vein of form, the 29 year old who has four senior caps for Nigeria says the competition for the remaining three spots in attack is very fierce terming it as absurd.

“The last few times I was in the Nigeria pre-selection squad, but not in the final selection. If you look at the other strikers and the form that are in, I can understand that”, he told the record on the 8th of November.

“We have a few players competing to be the third or fourth striker and then it depends on form. The competition in Nigeria is absurd.

“I could have chosen to play for Belgium, but I am very happy with my choice. I have already experienced fantastic moments.

“My first international goal, in front of a hundred thousand spectators against Mexico in Dallas, is a moment I will never forget.”

Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman

The decision of head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro to leave out Rangers of Scotland defender Leon Balogun from the provisional list of players for the Africa Cup of Nations has been revealed to OwnGoalNigeria.com.

Balogun wasn’t included in the list made public yesterday by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) despite Peseiro picking ten defenders. The 35 year old who is back in favour at Rangers has only player once since the appointment of the Portuguese coach.

His only appearance came in the 10-0 win away to Sao Tome and Principe, where he played the final nineteen minutes of the game. Peseiro appears to have moved on from the defender who has 46 caps for the senior national team of Nigeria.

” The idea of leaving him out is part of the plans of Peseiro to bring in more young players. William Troost-Ekong, Kenneth Omeruo and Balogun are all in their 30s. He was the odd one out due to several factors.

” Don’t forget Balogun was without a club for a while and wasn’t playing at some point for Wigan where he went on loan and subsequently had a one year stint at QPR. Within that period other defenders moved ahead of him in the pecking order, he only recently got back to playing for Rangers”, he concluded.

The future of Nigeria international left back Zaidu Sanusi lies away from FC Porto according to sources close to the camp of the 26 year old, who is gearing up to represent Nigeria at the Africa Cup of Nations next year.

Zaidu has been at the Portuguese side since 2020 making a total of 122 appearances with seven goals and one assist. He only recently returned from an injury that has kept him out for a while.

In the January transfer window he is likely going to be taking a leap to the English Premier League with talks said to be advanced between his camp and that of all involved in the proposed transfer.

We gathered a fee in the region of €6m potentially rising to €10 with add ons is what has been agreed between both teams, with West Ham desperate for another options at left back with 33 yeae old Aaron Cresswell the main option at the moment.

Cresswell is likely to leave in the summer making the option of signing Zaidu more of a priority to the team in the January transfer window, not minding the fact that he won’t be readily available as he will be with the senior national team of Nigeria at the AFCON till around February if they go all the way to the final.

Daniel Martins

Head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro has hinted at who will likely pair Victor Osimhen in the attack of the senior national team of Nigeria at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Osimhen is sure to lead the line for the Super Eagles at the tournament in Cote d’Ivoire next year but in the favourite 4-4-2 system of the coach , he is required to play alongside another striker in attack.

Since taking over as coach, Peseiro has paired Osimhen with four players in Terem Moffi, Kelechi Iheanacho, Taiwo Awoniyi and Victor Boniface lately.

Ahead of the tournament, he said playing a player in the position to liberate the main scorer in his set up is what he thinks Boniface has an edge to pair with the Napoli man in attack.

” Iheanacho, Moffi can play there unfortunately Awoniyi isn’t fit for this tournament. Boniface we can see can bring others to play with the number of assists in Germany and it is key to how we would like to give our main striker the chances to score. He also can score as well”, he said while reacting to a question on who will likely pair Osimhen.

Osas Mahawi