The practice of established players returning home to play in their domestic league when they get to the twilight of their career is an established practice but not quite the case in Nigeria.

Sani Kaita and Ahmed Musa are two players who have returned back to the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) in recent times but they left upon the opening of the transfer window in other countries.

Dele Aiyenugba can easily pass as one who is winding down his career in the NPFL after years of playing abroad as he has been at Kwara United for two seasons. The former senior national team goalkepper of Nigeria might soon be joined by another shot stopper.

Former goalkepper and captain of the senior national team of Nigeria Vincent Enyeama has declared that he will be open to play for his home town team Akwa United for free. He made this known in an interview in Uyo anchored by George Iniabasi on Comfort 95.1 FM.

The AFCON 2013 winner who is a veteran of three World Cups last played in the NPFL 17 years ago. He has been unattached the past four years but he still isn’t close to quitting the game yet.

“It’s really interesting, yes it is, and I miss football. So, I would like to return to it, first with a team here in France, because I trained here in Lille and back when I was in Akwa Ibom”, he told George.

“And I will come back to Nigeria next year. So, if Akwa United needs a goalkeeper for 4 to 5 months, yes, I have the opportunity to play for free.”

The coach of Atletico Madrid Diego Simeone has aired his view on his team’s 1-1 draw against Real Sociedad which his team had a goal controversially ruled out for handball.

Simeone’s ward were pegged back by a goal from Real Sociedad deadline day signing Sadiq Umar, with the Nigerian nodding home to draw his side level on his debut.

The goal didn’t quite go down well with Atletico Madrid midfielder Koke, who was furious that they had a goal disallowed for an alleged hand ball, and the goal by Sadiq came off his head to his hand before entering into the net.

“I had to let go and then, on their goal, Sadiq touches it with his hand. They come to give us talks about the rules and then do something different,” Koke complained.

Simeone, however, tempered his speech when reviewing the possible refereeing errors. “It would not seem fair to me, after the tie, to confirm what they ask me. A pity that second goal that, possibly, hit João in the biceps and the VAR collaborates with the referee to annul it. For Real Sociedad, Sadiq was the great character. He can adapt very well to our style”, he concluded.

Napoli secured a hard fought 2-1 win over Lazio in the Italian Serie A to remain top of the log after five games although level on points with defending champions AC Milan.

Lazio took a 4th minute lead through Mattia Zaccagni but Napoli found a way back in the 38th minute through Kim Min-jae to go into the break level at 1-1. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia popped up with what ended as the winner one minute after the hour mark.

The goal was the fourth goal the 21 year old Georgian has scored this season slowly making him the star of the team ahead of Nigerian forward Victor Osimhen, who has three goals this season but haven’t found the back of the net in their last three games.

Reacting to the perfomance of the two players Italian journalist Raffaele Auriemma termed Kvaratskhelia as a champion who can be relied on in difficult moment and also said Osimhen is an animal who is difficult to stop as he fights for every ball.

Do we want to talk about Kvaratskhelia then?

This is a champion, he has a rage inside that makes you understand that with him on the pitch you lose the game only if the others have really been better and more bad than you. 

Osimhen?

An animal, if you throw the long ball forward, he always takes it. It is difficult for the opponent to be able to stop him. In the second half Napoli played many balls on Victor, who only missed the goal. 

The 2-5 defeat Leicester suffered in the hands of Brighton and Hove Albion in the English Premier League over the weekend has been largely blamed on the perfomance of two players during the course of the game.

Leicester City took an early lead but no sooner had they taken the lead Brighton and Hove Albion levelled and went ahead to impose themselves on their opponents, who despite drawing level to tie at 2-2 couldn’t stand the firepower of the Seagulls.

Reacting to the result, Match of the day pundits Ian Wright and Troy Deeney laid the blame on Nigerian midfielder Wilfred Nididi who was played in central defence and goalkeeper Danny Ward.

Deeney started by pointing out to a disagreement between the duo shortly after Leicester City went a goal up. The duo were involved in a heated exchange which according to Deeney doesn’t look good.

The Birmingham City striker said: “It doesn’t look great. We could highlight all of their (Leicester) players but we’re going to highlight two – the keeper (Ward) and Ndidi – just for the simple fact of what they kind of epitomised.”

“This is one minute after scoring, two minutes into the game – inviting pressure. You’re under pressure, your team is under pressure. They don’t learn from that… They are not even set up to play here – Ndidi goes back to start again. In think it’s a decent pass, poor touch, invites Danny (Welbeck) on, and unlucky for Welbs it just goes over.”

“They’re getting at each other – and apologies to anyone who can lip read!”

Ndidi conceded the second-half penalty, bringing down Trossard in the area, Deeney wasn’t impressed by his act “Ndidi is so much bigger, stronger and better than this. He can’t let him get around him there. He just has to keep his arm on him and he’s off the pitch.”

Fellow pundit Ian Wright, meanwhile, was critical of Ward’s positioning for the third and fifth goals. “I thought the goalkeeper had a poor game,” said the former Arsenal striker.

In Ward’s defence, Deeney said: “No goalie should be having to save 23 shots (in one match).”

With the transfer window still open in some countries notably Turkey and Greece, players can still move from even leagues that the window has closed.

For that reason most players who are out of the plans of the coaches at their present teams are expected to seal moves to teams in such countries and that is the case for Nigeria international midfielder Oghenekaro Etebo.

Etebo who has spent the last three seasons away from Stoke City with two different loan spells is on the verge of joining Greek side ARIS Thessaloniki. He wasn’t registered by Stoke City for the season.

Many were of the opinion that a change of coach will help give him a fresh start but recent reports suggest that he could be a player of ARIS in the next 48 hours. Talks are said to be really advanced with the 26 year old.

The move will offer him another chance of getting his club career back on track after struggling to get going at Stoke City despite emerging as their player of the season in his first season at the club.

The push to be a part of the senior national team of Nigeria under new coach Jose Peseiro is on for several players who have fallen out of favour before the appointment of the Portuguese coach.

The surest way to get into the plans of the coach is to use the ongoing season to make a statement and catch his attention with the team not playing any competitive game till next year, following the postponement of the AFCON qualifiers.

One player who hasn’t done his chances any bad at least in the last two games has to be Bordeaux of France forward Josh Maja, who was close to a move to Birmingham City before the recent closure of the summer transfer window.

Maja stayed behind at relegated France side Bordeaux and ensure they keep their position as leaders with a hattrick to power them to a 3-0 win over Paris FC. Last week he was on target in the 4-0 win over Quevilly Rouen. The forward who has one cap for Nigeria also has three assists.

Bordeaux are in line for promotion back to Ligue 1 as they presently lead with maximum points from all seven games played so far.

The summer transfer window for all top leagues in Europe and several other leagues around Europe came to an end two days ago with players able to secure deadline day moves to clubs who want them.

Some weren’t that lucky and that group has some Nigerian players. The players were in talks over leaving their present teams but the move didn’t happen due to several factors key of which is time.

In some cases, the selling clubs didn’t approve the move as their isn’t enough time to get a replacement. That was largely why Leicester City didn’t yield to the request of Leeds United to sign Kelechi Iheanacho.

Leicester City received a late offer from Leeds United after a failed approach for Baba Dieng of Marseille but it was knocked back as despite their willingness to let him leave at a fair price. They will be short of numbers in attack if the Nigerian leaves and they don’t bring in a replacement.

That same scenario played out in the case of Samuel Chukwueze, who was in talks with Everton over a loan move but Villareal wanted an obligation to buy inserted in the deal while the Merseysiders wanted a simple option. Both clubs couldn’t reach an agreement largely due to limited time for the talks.

West Ham United pushed to sign Ola Aina from Torino with a bid in excess of £7m which they see as a decent fee for a player in the last year of his contract, but the deal didn’t happen with Torino saying they don’t have time to shop for a replacement in the event of his departure.

Bordeaux who are in financial mess where keen on seeing one cap Super Eagles forward Josh Maja leave but Birmingham City who were linked with him didn’t meet the terms proposed by the French side. Who were demanding an outright sale. The English side wanted him on loan.

One that surprisingly went unde the radar and was missed by major news outlets was the case of Terem Moffi. Moffi has been in fine form for Lorient with back to back brace in his last two Ligue 1 games.

Wolverhampton Wanderers made a late bid for the 24 year old but it was dismissed by Lorient who wants the forward to remain at the club until at least the summer. The idea is they will get a better and probably bigger offer for the Nigeria international.

This weekend games in France top division called the Ligue 1 will begin today with all 20 teams expected to be in action starting from 4pm Nigerian time.

League leaders and champions PSG will take on Nantes, the French Cup winners later today by 8pm and ahead of the game fans of PSG have expressed their happiness over the absence of Nantes Winger Moses Simon.

Simon is out injured for the next two weeks with a muscular issue and won’t be able to add to his goal tally against the Parisiens, he has found the back of the net three times in six games against them.

With two goals and three assists to his name in the opening four games of the season, it’s safe to say he is in a rich vein of form which would have aided the chances of his team later tonight. His absence has led to celebration by fans of his opponent.

” He brings his A game against us. We will rest a bit”, a fan posted on Twitter. Another said the Nigerian gives Nantes an unusual edge with his fearless approach making his absence a plus to PSG ” Simon is the livewire of Nantes. They are not the same without him. That’s a plus to us”, he posted on same platform.

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