The new Eagles gaffer flung open the gate of the national team camp on Monday, haven’t invited 23 domestic league players whole the 18 foreign based will join them later this month for the African Cup of Nations qualifiers on September 5.
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According to Mkwassa, he is not under pressure to face a Nigerian team with a new handler, Sunday Oliseh, who holds a good certificate in football coaching.
Also overlooked is Watford player, Odion Ighalo, who made a scoring debut against Chad in June.
So that’s all rather interesting as far as the Chelsea futures of the two men may be, depending on how much they value their international careers.
“It is useless bringing in three strikers and paying their flight tickets and everything without being able to use one or two of them, so in that way, we have to take time“.
“I know the full-back positions have always been an issue which I intend to address quickly”, Oliseh said.
For Oliseh, while Emenike has played in a Nations Cup, Ujah scored 10 goals in the Bundesliga last season.
“So, how do we now want them to learn and catch up with the ones that are in front of them”.
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“We have to get everybody on ground first but we are also realistic because we have to get the train on track first; so, we are starting gradually”, Oliseh explained. You can see that it affected our training today, we have to change our training from the beginning.
