When will Nigerian league clubs attract high-profile European clubs for pre-season games?

When will Nigerian league side attract high-profile European clubs for pre-season games?

I saw Amazulu a South African premier league club battle it out against Manchester city in a pre-season game recently and i stopped to ponder where our football is headed, How is football managed in Nigeria? Why do we leave club management and running in the hands of mediocre?  Men who cannot bring a thing to football, Men who cannot   add value to anything. I admire what keshi is trying to do with the way he has been handing games to the home based players , That’s wonderful owing to the fact that it is understandable that one must start from somewhere and according to reports I understood that keshi started his career as a player from Nigeria and got his chance to play for Super Eagles but he must understand that a lot has changed, Really a lot has changed and the level of the professionalism in  our professional league is questionable. Only recently I went to see a league game between two premier league sides in Nigeria and all of a sudden a players jersey got thorn by another player and to my greatest amazement there was no other jersey to re-place the already thorn jersey and the player wanted to borrow another jersey from his team mate that was on the bench which the center referee did not oblige to and it resulted to immediate substitution of the player who stood in that match like a play maker to the host team because they could not readily replace the thorn jersey and that was completely unbelievable. Here in Nigeria premier league players ride on Okada (motorbike-transport) their sign-on fees are not paid on time and their welfare is nothing to write home about and yet they have men who called themselves managers, what are they managing ?

People who manage clubs in Nigeria should not only depend on government funds and am not insinuating that government should not finance football teams in Nigeria but then I long to see a football manager in Nigeria that will bring deals that will change the standard of play in our league, a manager that will market our league to the world, sign endorsements, attract multinationals and have an exchange with European clubs and not the regular Government give me give me cut and join managers.

we must go back to the drawing board, our league is becoming more and more less attractive and boring and if it remains like this then we will continue to produce half baked players that may find it difficult to hold their own against top African/European counterparts. We must revisit the issue of how football clubs in Nigeria are managed, why is it difficult for some club to pay player transfer fees?  We all saw how the only contenders from Nigeria in the confederation cup (Rangers Fc) where ousted from the competition because they did not do the right thing at the right time.

We Can Still Get It Back:

We can still get it back if we retrace out steps and go back to the drawing board.  The only thing that will improve the quality of players we have as home based Super Eagles is if the league they play in here improves. How can the league improve? Only when men who knows how to bring flair to the game comes in, Men who knows how to turn nothing to something, Men who will explore and source for wonderful packages and endorsement that will better our football. Imagine what will happen to our football if our league improves like that of South Africa owing to the kind of raw talents we have here.

I hope to see that Nigerian premier league club that will attract the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea,Tottenham and maybe Barcelona for a pre-season game. Imagine what that could do for our football, our players, our country’s profile, our tourism and the country at large. Knowing that such team would bring in an entourage of English media, and we all know what English media are all about. Once they invade a place, they do take over and the whole world will know that they are in Nigeria. Why do we keep saying that our league has improved and we still have empty seats in the stadia’s during league matches? We need to leave football in the hands of people who know the business in football .