Kelechi Iheanacho

I was actually going to post that on here the other day, basically that the non selection of the 3 Premier League players was a joke & I was wondering if the manager was being bribed to 'push' players who weren't already signed.

Nawakali looked so much better than the rest when he came on, & last time I saw the 3 together for the U17s, both Yahaya & Kelechi looked better than him.

Some of the players he did play look Championship standard to me, & nowher near as clever as footballers.

The u17s team would have beaten that U20s team.
 
Pre-tournament camp rumours were that there was such a game between the former U17 and the newcomers. It apparently ended 6:0 with Kelechi scoring 3, Success 2 and Awoniyi 1. Don't know the exact lineups, but well...

No guarantee as to the outcome, but the U17 squad would have given Germany a much sterner test, possibly even decisively winning.

BTW: Apparently you want to buy Chidiebere's younger brother, Kelechi Nwakali, but the youth club has an asking price of 4 mln... He'll be the captain of the U17 side coached by Emmanuel Amunike at the U17 World Cup. Other rumour has it that Amunike, the previous assistant coach to Manu Garba was the true mastermind behind the U17 team.
 
jon stakes said:
Pre-tournament camp rumours were that there was such a game between the former U17 and the newcomers. It apparently ended 6:0 with Kelechi scoring 3, Success 2 and Awoniyi 1. Don't know the exact lineups, but well...

No guarantee as to the outcome, but the U17 squad would have given Germany a much sterner test, possibly even decisively winning.

BTW: Apparently you want to buy Chidiebere's younger brother, Kelechi Nwakali, but the youth club has an asking price of 4 mln... He'll be the captain of the U17 side coached by Emmanuel Amunike at the U17 World Cup. Other rumour has it that Amunike, the previous assistant coach to Manu Garba was the true mastermind behind the U17 team.
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That's interesting, as I thought that the style of football they played was fantastic & didn't see any similarity whatsoever with the U20s team.

It would be very sad if it was the same coach though & he'd been pressed into playing another group, either by financial inducements or threats. There were some scarey rumours going round about Kelechi's former team manager for example.
 
No, no pressure. Amunike was promoted from assistant coach to head coach. Who wouldn't take the job? We'll see how he does tactically when Amuniike coaches the U17 later this year.
 
Unsurprising article on African Football:

EPL side Manchester City are so shocked about the limited playing appearances of both Kelechi Iheanacho and Chidiebere Nwakali at the FIFA U20 World Cup that they have demanded a technical appraisal of the players from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). AfricanFootball.com can exclusively reveal City scouting and recruitment operations manager Fergal Harkin has demanded a technical report from the NFF after Iheanacho saw only a total of 83 minutes of action and Nwakali was played for 10 minutes against Germany as the Flying Eagles crashed out of the World Cup in New Zealand.

“City have requested for a technical report of both Iheanacho and Nwakali at the U20 World Cup,” a source informed AfricanFootball.com “It is now left to be seen if NFF will grant this request.”
 
I doubt City are too upset about the game time issue although if I was a Nigeria fan I’d be bothered. From City’s perspective Kelechi has proven himself at youth level already and it’s all about the next step for him. He has a busy year ahead and is on his way back from injury.
City must have good links in to the murky world of African youth football so maybe some questions were asked but I don’t see why anyone would ask for a written report.
 
Maybe not very upset. But I think Man City wanted him to play.
1. Provides a learning curve for the player, much like U21 club football does.
2. Guarantees exposure to the player, thus increasing his net worth as well as marketing value. In the long run a Golden Ball could be a important PR factor for the club, comparing him to the likes of Aguero and Messi.
3. Gives the club another chance to assess the player and how he performs in competitive games, thus limiting risk if they want to promote him
4. If he does well, for example the Golden Ball, he heigtens the profile of the club youth team, which is beneficial.
 
jon stakes said:
Maybe not very upset. But I think Man City wanted him to play.
1. Provides a learning curve for the player, much like U21 club football does.
2. Guarantees exposure to the player, thus increasing his net worth as well as marketing value. In the long run a Golden Ball could be a important PR factor for the club, comparing him to the likes of Aguero and Messi.
3. Gives the club another chance to assess the player and how he performs in competitive games, thus limiting risk if they want to promote him
4. If he does well, for example the Golden Ball, he heigtens the profile of the club youth team, which is beneficial.
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It's also the case that he's not long back from inury & we have handed him over to the Nigerian team rather than him continuing here, presumably because they said he was very important to them.
 
Samson Siasia, probably Nigeria's most respected coach, calls up Kelechi Iheanacho to the Olympic squad according to AllNigeriaFootball, together with several other misfits from the U20 World Cup squad (Musa Mohammed, Taiwo Awoniyi, Kingsley Sokari, Saviour Godwin, Dele Alampasu, Musa Yahaya, Kelechi Iheanacho and Moses Simon):
http://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=15283

Also writes that Iheanacho's goal vs Manchester United was chosen MCity's EDS goal of the season.
http://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=15275
 
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