As some players of the senior national team of Nigeria continue to trade places, it appears some people are not comfortable with the clubs they choose to join, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

Among them Franjo Vranjkovic, the owner of popular football players agency First Eleven ISM. He currently has Nigeria international midfielder Wilfred Nididi as one of his top clients.

Despite his ties with a top player of the senior national team of Nigeria, Vranjkovic didn’t mince words when he reacted to the announcement by Croatian side Hadjuk Split on signing Nigeria international defender Chidozie Awaziem.

Awaziem will spend the entirety of this season on loan to the Croatian side from Portuguese side Boavista. A move which is coming after his return from another loan spell in Turkey with Alanyaspor. Vranjkovic doesn’t think he is better than other defenders from Croatia.

” We have much better centre back Croatians. We don’t need nobody from the bench from another country. But ok Hadjuk need”,he said on Facebook when the signing of Awaziem was made public.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has officially applied for the tenure of present president of the football body Amaju Pinnick to be granted a tenure extension, OwnGoalNigeria.com understands.

According to the print edition of Leadership Newspaper, the NFF sent a letter to world football governing body FIFA on Wednesday August 9 signed by General Secretary, Muhhamed Sanusi, the outgoing board appealed to the world body to allow it to hold the forthcoming election next year’s January instead next month September.

Pinnick’s tenure is due to run out soon and election has been fixed for September with a congress set to hold next week in Bayelsa state . But all plans for the election has now been put on hold with the response from FIFA set to be made known to the congress when they meet.

Already Pinnick has made it known that he is interested in going for a third term in office after initially saying he isn’t going to contest again. His decision hasn’t gone down well with other candidates interested in contesting for the position.

For now, it is expected that he will stay in office till January unless he is impeached or have a vote of no confidence passed on him by the congress, which looks highly unlikely.

It hasn’t been the best of years for Nigerian football, with the Super Eagles having their worst Africa Cup of Nations performance in over 40 years by crashing out in the first knock out round of the tournament. They also failed to qualify for the World Cup.

All hopes were on the Super Falcons winning the tenth Women Africa Cup of Nations title that do ended in disappointment piling more pressure on Pinnick to not go for another term in office.

Fresh from signing Taiwo Awoniyi on a record transfer from German Bundesliga side Union Berlin, newly promoted English Premier League side Nottingham Forest have submitted a bid for another Nigerian.

They paid a club record fee of €20.5m to sign Awoniyi and they have lodged another bid in that region for Emmanuel Dennis, who is expected to leave Watford before the end of the transfer window.

Dennis is rated in the region of £20m by Watford after scoring ten goals in his debut season in the English Premier League but following the relegation of Watford he is keen on a move away but wants to remain in England.

The structure of the bid isn’t known yet but it is believed that talks will accelerate in the coming days for the move to be made official, but for now he will continue to represent Watford in the English Championship. He has so far played in their two games so far.

The dream of Nigeria international forward Sadiq Umar to join German giants Borussia Dortmund has been dashed following a breakdown in talks over the payment of his transfer fee.

OwnGoalNigeria.com exclusively gathered that Dortmund reached an agreement with Almeria for his signing for a fee in the region of €25m with add-ons expected to take it to around €30m.

All parties involved were said to have given the green light for the move to happen but it went all up in smoke when terms of the payment was tabled by the German side. Almeria outrightly rejected the structure of the payment.

Per what we gathered, Dortmund want to make an initial payment of €10m while the rest €15m will be paid in the next two transfer windows. Almeria pushed for it to be around €20m as they also have financial burdens to meet per the La Liga strict financial measures.

Dortmund insisted on what they proposed making Almeria to end talks much to the disappointment of Sadiq who has already started house hunting in Germany. The breakdown in talks worked nicely for other teams in Spain who want to sign the lanky forward.

Getafe failed with a bid two days ago, but Villareal who have a long standing interest are now favourite for his signing and we exclusively gathered that they have accepted to match the bid of Dortmund but with a better structure.

A fee in the region of €30m has been discussed and an agreement in principle reached. If the move goes ahead it will make him the most expensive signing in the history of the team. It will beat the €23.5m they paid Bournemouth for Arnold Danjuma last summer.

As Jose Peseiro get set to name his first squad for the senior national team of Nigeria, the coach has been taking a look at several players who can be a part of the team.

Super Eagles will likely play two friendly games in September with talks already advanced with Cameroon and Portugal. Both games will accord Peseiro the chance to try out new players.

The coach has Crystal Palace winger Malcolm Ebiowei as one of the players he is keen on giving a chance with the senior national team of Nigeria owing to what he has seen so far of the 18 year old.

A close source to the coach told OwnGoalNigeria.com that his uncle Finidi George, who doubles as the assistant coach of Peseiro has already sounded out the player who is eager to play for Nigeria, despite the disappointment he suffered in the U17 camp of Nigeria in 2019.

We gathered he told Finidi that his favourite position is playing behind the main striker, more like the number ten role and he played that role and excelled for the Crystal Palace U23 against Brighton and Hove Albion in a recent Premier League 2 game.

He scored a sublime goal to follow up his exciting perfomance as a substitute for the main team in their opening English Premier League game which they lost 2-0 to Arsenal.

The transfer window has reached the point where more moves are expected to be made following the conclusion of pre-season games by most teams ahead of the start of the new season.

Nigerian players are not left out with as many as nine players of the senior national team making moves to reposition their career to keep or force their way back into the national team setup.

Among the players who will be hoping for a chance under new coach Jose Peseiro is Bologna midfielder Kingsley Michael. He missed the majority of last season due to a ligament injury.

The search for game time to enable him regain match fitness has made him to accept a loan move to Austrian side SV Ried. He will spend the entire season there as he works his way back to full fitness.

Michael has already arrived Austria and will join the rest of his teammates in training ahead of a possible debut. He has one cap for the senior national team of Nigeria under erstwhile coach Gernot Rohr.

Coach of English Premier League side Leicester City Brendan Rodgers watch his side lost a two goal lead to draw 2-2 against Brentford in their opening game of the English Premier League.

Rodgers had to play a different formation from the one he used all through pre season due to the absence of Harvey Barnes who was out injured. The coach didn’t have an alternative to call up.

Last season in the absence of Barnes, the coach was able to call on Nigeria international winger Ademola Lookman who was on loan from RB Leipzig. They failed to make the deal permanent with Lookman now a player to Serie A side Atalanta.

The coach expressed his regret over their inability to sign the Nigerian saying with what he did last season he could have been the like for like replacement for Barnes.

“At this moment in time, I would say no. That was the frustration for us, that with Barnesy out, we didn’t have a direct replacement. “I would have loved to have signed Ademola who was great here last season and got over 10 goals and assists but we weren’t able to do that. Unfortunately that means we then have to look at the squad and the team and try to adapt, and then put them out to be as best organised as they can be”, he said.

As new coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro settles down to work,he will be required to do a check on several players who have fallen out of favour with previous coaches.

Peseiro was appointed as coach on the back of Austine Eguavoen failure to qualify for the 2022 World Cup following his interim appointment as replacement for sacked coach Gernot Rohr.

One player who was brought into the team by Rohr but fell out of favour with Eguavoen is Kevin Akpoguma. The ex German youth international made the last of his four caps for Nigeria away to Sierra Leone two years ago in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.

At club level where he was the most active Nigerian defender, he now faces another uphill task with new coach André Breitenreiter moving him to a new role as right full back with Ozan Kabak preferred ahead of him in central defence.

Despite the injury to first choice central defender Benjamin Hübner, who is the captain of the team, Breitenreiter said he sees Akpoguma more as a right back who will play the role of deputy to Pavel Kaderabek like he did severally last season.

“Akpoguma is more of an alternative on the right for Pavel [Kadeřábek, d. Red.] seen,” said Breitenreiter at the press conference on Friday. Akpoguma played partly on the right rail last season when Kadeřábek was unable to play. The same role could also come to Akpoguma this season. At least that’s what it looks like at the moment”, he concluded.

Former coach of the Nigeria U20 team Paul Aigbogun has been appointed as the new coach of Danish side Jammerbugt FC, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.

The club reached an agreement with the present assistant technical director of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) few days ago and he has already resumed at his new place of work.

Jammerbugt FC finished 12th last season and were relegated to the third division. Aigbogun’s task is to help the team gain promotion back to the second division. He will work with as many as eight Nigerian players at the club.

Ahmad Gero, Promise Damala, Shola Collins, Victor Ochay, Solomon Ogberahwe, Abdullahi Garba, Muhammad Ibrahim and Nasiru Jibril popularly called Baggio are the Nigerian with the Danish second division side.

It is the third time, UEFA licensed Aigbogun will be handling a team abroad as he has previously coached in South Africa and in England with non league side Chester. He was also part of the interim technical crew of the senior national team of Nigeria to the Africa Cup of Nations.

The future of several Nigerian players is still undecided despite the start of some leagues and also a week to the start of the rest top level leagues in Europe, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

While some players of the Super Eagles have already secured their future, a couple of others will likely leave or sort their future at their present team before the close of the ongoing summer transfer window.

One player who was widely tipped to leave his relegated side was Emmanuel Dennis of Watford. He scored ten goals but it was insufficient to keep his newly promoted side in the English Premier League as they were relegated.

Dennis was expected to be chased after by several teams but with around three weeks to the end of the transfer window, he is still at Watford and has even resumed playing games for them following the resumption of the English Championship.

West Ham were initially said to be ahead of the trio of Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United and Everton but they have since signed Maxwell Cornet from Burnley and Antonio Scammaca from Italian side Sassuolo.

Their decision is said to be partially down to the player’s questionable character rather than the price tag of £25m slammed on him by Watford. TalkSPORT’s Alex Crook suggested that Dennis’ ‘character’ may be a deterrent for Hammers boss David Moyes.

Crook told Give Me Sport:

“Now they’ve got Scamacca, I wonder if they’ve done some background checks on him because, from what I’m told, maybe he’s not necessarily the type of character that David Moyes wants to bring into the dressing room.”