African Football Discussion Thread {Male & Female} Current Topic: 👉 WAFCON

[igebotz]

I'm already tired of defending Osimhen and other super eagles that couldn't wish Ademola Lookman congratulations on his award. That very day Lookman bagged that award, Osimhen wasn't even online, man had game for Galatasaray and has to be there, now tell me how was he supposed to say congratulations when he is even playing. We see how close Osimhen is with Lookman but you know this wizkid and Davido fans don't have senses.

Osimhen is a public person, which distinguishes him from the rest of us, and this has put him in a position where no one cares about what he does offline; rather, they judge his attitude based on his actions online. I believe he should have congratulated him online, just as other members of the national team did. Those people are also in close communication with Lookman, and I am sure they congratulated him personally before going on to congratulate him online for public validation.

Saying he congratulated him a few months ago, even before the event, is not an excuse; composing and posting a congratulations message takes only a few minutes. Lookman tweeted about winning the honour last year. I know they don't have bad blood among themselves, but situations like this can elicit certain emotions in the squad.

[SatoPrincess]

What is all this narrative that Victor osimhen is not happy with Ademola Lookman on his victory as the CAF African player of the year. Victor is the recent past recipient of the award and although I believe he should have congratulated Ademola publicly like on any of his social media accounts because this is what we would expect from the outgoing winner and also that his country man is the current winner.

Although all this may be important but we are all humans and we function different, I would believe that Victor has already congratulated Ademola privately and is Ademola is ok with that I don't see the big deal.

Victor Osimhen is a professional player and possesses exceptional talent and a strong spirit of sportsmanship. The gossip about him allegedly refusing to congratulate his fellow countryman Ademola Lookman on winning the CAF African player of the year award seems to be blown out of proportion. AFAIK Osimhen has a good relationship with Lookman, both players have always displayed mutual respect and friendship and there's no evidence that suggests that there is animosity between the players.

[Zigabel]

You will never get a convincing answer for these questions so better just let it be because some of those nominations and awards are based on votes by different people of which you cannot know their criteria of voting. Onana have not been that exceptional to be nominated for such award so I keep wondering what they saw that made him get such recognition. On the other hand, we cannot doubt the performance of Williams and Stanley Nwabali who were competing neck-to-neck in the last CAF nations cup.

You are very correct, for every answer that comes for this question, you will get an answer that will never be satisfactory. People's have got several opinions about nomination and so they go by votes regardless of the taughts, talking about exceptionality with onana, he has not been at all in African games, except in the club side.

[Fiatless]

I'm already tired of defending Osimhen and other super eagles that couldn't wish Ademola Lookman congratulations on his award. That very day Lookman bagged that award, Osimhen wasn't even online, man had game for Galatasaray and has to be there, now tell me how was he supposed to say congratulations when he is even playing. We see how close Osimhen is with Lookman but you know this wizkid and Davido fans don't have senses.

What everybody post on their social media page is their business, there is more been discussed and talk offline than been snow online, only some jobless guys that don't have work and speculate things create online enemies between some players. I mean, why would Osimhen be jealous of something he has won and it's not like he even deserve the award this year? How? As I said, people don't have work and will do their baseless comparison.

You don't have to defend him just call a spade a spade. Victor Osimhen messed up and he has refused to acknowledge his fault. He claimed that he sent a private congratulatory message to Ademola Lookman, why private? The effort he put into writing the message will be enough to do a brief post on his social media platform. As simple as "congratulations" would have ended this drama.

But he chose to defend himself with some flimsy excuse. Victor is known for his character flaws and I thought he has started understanding the importance of patience, meekness and good communication skills. However, Nigerians shouldn't take it seriously because players are the most important assets for now.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Victor Osimhen is a professional player and possesses exceptional talent and a strong spirit of sportsmanship. The gossip about him allegedly refusing to congratulate his fellow countryman Ademola Lookman on winning the CAF African player of the year award seems to be blown out of proportion. AFAIK Osimhen has a good relationship with Lookman, both players have always displayed mutual respect and friendship and there's no evidence that suggests that there is animosity between the players.

We don't know their relationship offline which could be that he has congratulated him but he should know that the media will read meaning to every decisions he take and not congratulating his brother online is one of those times that the media will spread the news like he's jealous of him.

It doesn't sound nice that we have a player that's being hated by others for winning an award that he deserves, his brother shouldn't be suspected to be having issues with him this same time.

Something tells me Osimhen did this on purpose to get the media attention to himself. He knows what he just did will be making headlines and he still went on to do it to trend and take the shine from Lookman.

[Hewlet]

What is all this narrative that Victor osimhen is not happy with Ademola Lookman on his victory as the CAF African player of the year. Victor is the recent past recipient of the award and although I believe he should have congratulated Ademola publicly like on any of his social media accounts because this is what we would expect from the outgoing winner and also that his country man is the current winner.

Although all this may be important but we are all humans and we function different, I would believe that Victor has already congratulated Ademola privately and is Ademola is ok with that I don't see the big deal.

Victor Osimhen is a professional player and possesses exceptional talent and a strong spirit of sportsmanship. The gossip about him allegedly refusing to congratulate his fellow countryman Ademola Lookman on winning the CAF African player of the year award seems to be blown out of proportion. AFAIK Osimhen has a good relationship with Lookman, both players have always displayed mutual respect and friendship and there's no evidence that suggests that there is animosity between the players.

in terms of the relationship between osimehn and lookman. they have a very good relationship and even in camp, they have in several instances jokingly address lookman as the coming African best even before it became an official thing. as an African best who fortunate for him will be handling the award to his brother, it is normally expected of him that he congratulates lookman publicly regardless whether he did it privately or not. forget about the sentiment, there nothing like blowing things out of proportion, it it almost compulsory that osimehn congratulate lookman and even if his engagement did not allow him do so on, still posting him later will not do any harm. even if it is a Ghana person that won the award, he ought to still render a congratulatory message to the dude.

we are Nigerians and dragging people is our thing, he knows how they will give him and on things like this even if he says it is a skip of memory, but good thing is that lookman is a calm guy, nothing really come out of this case.

[Roseline492]

Victor Osimhen is a professional player and possesses exceptional talent and a strong spirit of sportsmanship. The gossip about him allegedly refusing to congratulate his fellow countryman Ademola Lookman on winning the CAF African player of the year award seems to be blown out of proportion.

You can see how funny people can be, were they expecting Victor Osimhen to go to the media and be shouting how happy he is that Ademola Lookman has won the award, one thing about people is that they always find a way to make a reason from anything, however if they normally watch some of the international awards given to players they would no that is not even relevance because already all the players are there to celebrate him, so what more would they expect from them and besides Ademola Lookman and Victor Osimhen are friends so definitely after that award they have were they usually meet to celebrate there victory, so actually not everything that should be publicized and besides was there any other players among the super eagles who share their congratulations?.

[SatoPrincess]

World Cup Qualifiers of 2026. The search of the new strikers of the Super Eagles to qualify in the World Cup and the coach said, he can't depends on Victor Osimhen and Boniface. According to the coach, those two strikers are not serious in the team again so he is looking for good attackers to replace them. Nigerian Super Eagles has failed all the previous matches in the World Cup Qualifiers group stage in the first half and now that they are about to start the second half of the Qualification, they have to win all the games to qualify in the 2026 World Cup.
And all we need first is to qualify in the World Cup. https://npflupdates.com/wcup-26-super-eagles-new-coach-begin-hunt-for-new-attackers/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1w2_CXk4Zvf7Itv68xr4RRFHAU02QiAFIAsPdGYO3V2XwiBIkoF6UZBBM_aem_kc0mcI-c0xMIWejahM8s4Q

I wonder why the NFF and the Super Eagles coach want to search for another striker when we have capable players like Victor Osimhen and Victor Boniface to lead the attack line for Nigeria. I don't think that the Nigeria national team has a problem in the striking department, they should focus on bringing in a creative midfield that will create chances and bring out the best in Osimhen and Boniface.

[Zigabel]

What is all this narrative that Victor osimhen is not happy with Ademola Lookman on his victory as the CAF African player of the year. Victor is the recent past recipient of the award and although I believe he should have congratulated Ademola publicly like on any of his social media accounts because this is what we would expect from the outgoing winner and also that his country man is the current winner.

Although all this may be important but we are all humans and we function different, I would believe that Victor has already congratulated Ademola privately and is Ademola is ok with that I don't see the big deal.

Victor Osimhen is a professional player and possesses exceptional talent and a strong spirit of sportsmanship. The gossip about him allegedly refusing to congratulate his fellow countryman Ademola Lookman on winning the CAF African player of the year award seems to be blown out of proportion. AFAIK Osimhen has a good relationship with Lookman, both players have always displayed mutual respect and friendship and there's no evidence that suggests that there is animosity between the players.

the thing about public figures is that everything about them makes the headlines and the fact that bloggers will make some money off sharing such information is more reasons we are going to see such going viral, its true there have been no official post for osimhen to lookman in form of a congratulatory message neither has there been any post from him too that suggest his dissatisfaction about looks mans victory its mainly speculations to drive traffic to various blogs, I'm pf the opinion we just don't make a mountain off a mole as both players before now has maintained a very good relationship and they may have even seen before or after and moreover the seasons are still on and this players are very occupied so we cannot judge them by this, not just immediately.

[Hatchy]

World Cup Qualifiers of 2026. The search of the new strikers of the Super Eagles to qualify in the World Cup and the coach said, he can't depends on Victor Osimhen and Boniface. According to the coach, those two strikers are not serious in the team again so he is looking for good attackers to replace them. 

I wonder why he wants to find new strikers for the supers eagles. Those are our top players currently even though we have been experiencing some draw back in recent competitions, I don't see the need to change still. Coach need to ups his games and probably more training for the supers eagles. The only thing I know is creating a whole problem for us right now is lack of communication. The super eagles needs to bond with each other so they play very well on the field not as a single star player but as a team. We have many star players on the super eagles and they all do well in the clubs oversea. So they should try and bring those energy back home to play a good game.

[Abbatty]

I'm already tired of defending Osimhen and other super eagles that couldn't wish Ademola Lookman congratulations on his award. That very day Lookman bagged that award, Osimhen wasn't even online, man had game for Galatasaray and has to be there, now tell me how was he supposed to say congratulations when he is even playing. We see how close Osimhen is with Lookman but you know this wizkid and Davido fans don't have senses.

Osimhen is a public person, which distinguishes him from the rest of us, and this has put him in a position where no one cares about what he does offline; rather, they judge his attitude based on his actions online. I believe he should have congratulated him online, just as other members of the national team did. Those people are also in close communication with Lookman, and I am sure they congratulated him personally before going on to congratulate him online for public validation.

Saying he congratulated him a few months ago, even before the event, is not an excuse; composing and posting a congratulations message takes only a few minutes. Lookman tweeted about winning the honour last year. I know they don't have bad blood among themselves, but situations like this can elicit certain emotions in the squad.

Of course well all know victor Osimehn would have congratulate Lookman personally, it would have dropped a message for him in his DM or even make a call to him. We all know how good of friends they are and how they really like each other, when osimehn was still in Italy, each time they play against Atalanta we all see how they closely talk to each other and how they hug each other after the game and sometimes in the tunnel. For sure no bad blood among the two players, they combine well each time they play for the super eagles, so I can say they have communicated since Lookman won the African player of the year.

Victor Osimehn have posted severally on his social media pages since that ceremony so I can say for sure it not time that he doesn’t have, but why he didn’t post it publicly is best known to him and I can only say we shouldn’t judge him for it might be best known to him. Victor have always been judge online for several thing but for this he had done wrong to me and should have atleast posted even if it on his instagram story to congratulate his Nigerian teammates. The question I keep asking myself is if it was Boniface that won the Award would he have congratulated him publicly or not?

[Spaceman1000$]

World Cup Qualifiers of 2026. The search of the new strikers of the Super Eagles to qualify in the World Cup and the coach said, he can't depends on Victor Osimhen and Boniface. According to the coach, those two strikers are not serious in the team again so he is looking for good attackers to replace them. Nigerian Super Eagles has failed all the previous matches in the World Cup Qualifiers group stage in the first half and now that they are about to start the second half of the Qualification, they have to win all the games to qualify in the 2026 World Cup.
And all we need first is to qualify in the World Cup. https://npflupdates.com/wcup-26-super-eagles-new-coach-begin-hunt-for-new-attackers/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1w2_CXk4Zvf7Itv68xr4RRFHAU02QiAFIAsPdGYO3V2XwiBIkoF6UZBBM_aem_kc0mcI-c0xMIWejahM8s4Q

I wonder why the NFF and the Super Eagles coach want to search for another striker when we have capable players like Victor Osimhen and Victor Boniface to lead the attack line for Nigeria. I don't think that the Nigeria national team has a problem in the striking department, they should focus on bringing in a creative midfield that will create chances and bring out the best in Osimhen and Boniface.

Funny enough I've seen this strikers play for the super Eagles in their last games for AFCON qualification, it's not something you should be too proud of, it's as if whenever victor Boniface plays for super Eagles, his best isn't always good enough, I can agree with you on Osimhen and but Boniface always fall short whenever he plays for the super Eagles.
The entire midfield of the Super Eagles needs creative players, Ademola Lookman is good at running from the side ways and driving in into the defence line of opponents, same creativity is what Simon Moses has and they are both attacking minded but the problem is more on the defensive midfield and central midfield, we haven't really gotten players that can stand solid on the defensive midfield and that's one major problem affecting the team. I don't have any problems with the central defence because it's still very much okay looking at it.

[Josefjix]

It doesn't sound nice that we have a player that's being hated by others for winning an award that he deserves, his brother shouldn't be suspected to be having issues with him this same time.

Something tells me Osimhen did this on purpose to get the media attention to himself. He knows what he just did will be making headlines and he still went on to do it to trend and take the shine from Lookman.

He wasn't shortlisted in the final 3 so I don't really see why he would be jealous, it could be that he thought those WhatsApp messages or call he made to Lookman was enough forgotten that his a public figure and his attitude online is what people judge not what he does with his teammates in PM.

Lookman is taking all the attention from Osimhen and there's reason to get jealous though.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

¹He wasn't shortlisted in the final 3 so I don't really see why he would be jealous.
²Lookman is taking all the attention from Osimhen and there's reason to get jealous though.

You have just listed two perfect reasons why people get jealous of one another. How would someone that was no where near you last season just take over your shine and you won't be jealous somehow but it shouldn't be so, instead you should use this as motivation to do better the next year and I think that's what Victor Osimhen will be doing as he's already pulling out numbers at Galatasaray. Victor is an arrogant guy, that's something I'm positive about him because he has shown that to us on different occasions with the way he disrespect his managers publicly and the two behaviours usually coexist.

Osimhen knows what he's doing, that's just my final opinion on the whole saga.

[Cookdata]

He wasn't shortlisted in the final 3 so I don't really see why he would be jealous, it could be that he thought those WhatsApp messages or call he made to Lookman was enough forgotten that his a public figure and his attitude online is what people judge not what he does with his teammates in PM.

Lookman is taking all the attention from Osimhen and there's reason to get jealous though.

I don't want people should see this like taking a side but it will be childish if Osimhen and other super eagles didn't post Lookman. They should learn from other teams and clubs, even their co stars wish post them and say good things about them, why not do the same with your own brother. I don't even see this as been jealous, it's just like you don't want others to attain the level you have reach but someone was there even before you made to that place.

Lookman is a not talking too much person, I don't know him personally but I will use the same energy to treat them if they also win any trophies and personal achievement award. Let it be like the way I do birthday, if I post on my status and you view it and you didn't say a word and you know about it, I will do the same when it's your day and I will make sure you know that I view your status, it's going to be a win win for everyone, only those who makes life hard will suffer, as for me it will be easy one.

[SatoPrincess]

World Cup Qualifiers of 2026. The search of the new strikers of the Super Eagles to qualify in the World Cup and the coach said, he can't depends on Victor Osimhen and Boniface. According to the coach, those two strikers are not serious in the team again so he is looking for good attackers to replace them. 

I wonder why he wants to find new strikers for the supers eagles. Those are our top players currently even though we have been experiencing some draw back in recent competitions, I don't see the need to change still. Coach need to ups his games and probably more training for the supers eagles. The only thing I know is creating a whole problem for us right now is lack of communication. The super eagles needs to bond with each other so they play very well on the field not as a single star player but as a team. We have many star players on the super eagles and they all do well in the clubs oversea. So they should try and bring those energy back home to play a good game.

I think what the Super Eagles should concentrate on right now is building the team chemistry, they should think of how to get the players to play lot of friendly games so they can bond, understand better how the next man likes to play and how to make the best of their teammates. I’m confident that Nigeria will be able to qualify for the 2026 World Cup.

[Odusko]

¹He wasn't shortlisted in the final 3 so I don't really see why he would be jealous.
²Lookman is taking all the attention from Osimhen and there's reason to get jealous though.

You have just listed two perfect reasons why people get jealous of one another. How would someone that was no where near you last season just take over your shine and you won't be jealous somehow but it shouldn't be so, instead you should use this as motivation to do better the next year and I think that's what Victor Osimhen will be doing as he's already pulling out numbers at Galatasaray. Victor is an arrogant guy, that's something I'm positive about him because he has shown that to us on different occasions with the way he disrespect his managers publicly and the two behaviours usually coexist.

Osimhen knows what he's doing, that's just my final opinion on the whole saga.

Osimhen and Luckman are but strikers and the two most energetic stickers in the Nigeria supper eagle squad and for jealousy to emanate between the two won't be something that they both should engaged in after all both Victor and Luckman have the best of luck in the football career so I don't see any reason for them to beef on each other rather they can work to collaborate to give the supper eagle squad the desired success in the 2025 African Nations cup competition.
Let's keep politics aside despite Luckman holding the African best male player of the year, Victor Osimhen still gets the Field vibes and most likely the maturity to relate with fellow players more, look at how he handled the Boniface Sega he earned my respect from that case though.

[Pokapoka124]

I'm already tired of defending Osimhen and other super eagles that couldn't wish Ademola Lookman congratulations on his award. That very day Lookman bagged that award, Osimhen wasn't even online, man had game for Galatasaray and has to be there, now tell me how was he supposed to say congratulations when he is even playing. We see how close Osimhen is with Lookman but you know this wizkid and Davido fans don't have senses.

Osimhen is a public person, which distinguishes him from the rest of us, and this has put him in a position where no one cares about what he does offline; rather, they judge his attitude based on his actions online. I believe he should have congratulated him online, just as other members of the national team did. Those people are also in close communication with Lookman, and I am sure they congratulated him personally before going on to congratulate him online for public validation.

Saying he congratulated him a few months ago, even before the event, is not an excuse; composing and posting a congratulations message takes only a few minutes. Lookman tweeted about winning the honour last year. I know they don't have bad blood among themselves, but situations like this can elicit certain emotions in the squad.

Not everyone enjoys public displays and I don't think that Victor Osimhen's private congratulatory message to Ademola Lookman was inappropriate. In fact it reflects a sense of genuine respect and humility. A private message can often feel more personal and heartfelt compared to public gestures which can sometimes been seen as performative.

[Odusko]

I'm already tired of defending Osimhen and other super eagles that couldn't wish Ademola Lookman congratulations on his award. That very day Lookman bagged that award, Osimhen wasn't even online, man had game for Galatasaray and has to be there, now tell me how was he supposed to say congratulations when he is even playing. We see how close Osimhen is with Lookman but you know this wizkid and Davido fans don't have senses.

Osimhen is a public person, which distinguishes him from the rest of us, and this has put him in a position where no one cares about what he does offline; rather, they judge his attitude based on his actions online. I believe he should have congratulated him online, just as other members of the national team did. Those people are also in close communication with Lookman, and I am sure they congratulated him personally before going on to congratulate him online for public validation.

Saying he congratulated him a few months ago, even before the event, is not an excuse; composing and posting a congratulations message takes only a few minutes. Lookman tweeted about winning the honour last year. I know they don't have bad blood among themselves, but situations like this can elicit certain emotions in the squad.

Not everyone enjoys public displays and I don't think that Victor Osimhen's private congratulatory message to Ademola Lookman was inappropriate. In fact it reflects a sense of genuine respect and humility. A private message can often feel more personal and heartfelt compared to public gestures which can sometimes been seen as performative.

Just like is said in my earlier comment, Victor Osimhen is one guy who knows his worth and he is carrying himself appropriately representing the real Naija Niga that he is both in the international football arena and his local league dealing, with his current goal scores he is very well informed and ready to deliver, that is why Manchester United is eyeing the guy to come and deliver for them because he has what it takes to do that, regardless of what the relationship between him and his other team mates is in the local league, he still makes sure that he goes off the media to have a personal relationship with them and that is why when Boniface got that award he was first to privately congratulates the guy and even when the social media came for him trying to paint the picture wrongly he discarded it immediately that shows how he values his teammates.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Just like is said in my earlier comment, Victor Osimhen is one guy who knows his worth and he is carrying himself appropriately representing the real Naija Niga that he is both in the international football arena and his local league dealing, with his current goal scores he is very well informed and ready to deliver,

Once a player is trying his best playing for his team, he is going to get attracted to other teams because they are there watching on every performance from each players and are keeping on the records for reference purpose, there are peak periods for players performance in some specific season, but when they perform less shouldn't now stand a ground for us to make a conclusion about what should be done over Oshihmen