Peter Odemwingie axed by Nigeria
Friday 20th May 2011, 11:00AM BST.
Peter Odemwingie’s agent today insisted the Albion striker remains committed to Nigeria despite being axed from the international squad in a row with the manager.
Agent David Omigie today attempted to end the dispute that exploded last night, when coach Samson Siasia dropped Odemwingie and accused him of walking out of the last get-together without permission.
Omigie said: “The Nigerian Football Federation is the governing body and their decision must be respected.
“What happened in the past is not an issue we want to go back to because of the respect Peter has for the federation and the coach and the loyalty he has to Nigeria.
“He will be ready to play when he is called on again.”
Odemwingie has been left out by Samson Siasia for a friendly against Argentina and an African Nations Cup qualifier against Ethiopia next month, after the coach claimed other internationals had threatened to strike if action was not taken.
Siasia claims the forward left the previous Nigeria squad without permission, with the pair also clashing over comments by Odemwingie on Twitter.
Odemwingie left the training camp in Abuja in March citing an injury ahead of a friendly against Kenya, flying back to England and playing for Albion against Liverpool four days after the international.
And Siasia said: “The other players in the team had threatened to stage a mass protest and back out of other matches if I failed to sanction Osaze (Odemwingie’s Nigerian name) leaving the camp in Abuja without permission.
“I had no option but to do this to instil discipline in the team. I didn’t want a situation where I or Nigeria would be totally disgraced by the players.
“Let discipline be maintained. Osaze is not bigger than the team or the whole Nigeria squad.”
Reports from Africa overnight claim Odemwingie’s omission was also a response to comments he made on Twitter about his withdrawal from the recent squad.
Odemwingie reportedly spoke on the issue through his Twitter account, although the comment was removed soon afterwards and the player has since apologised to Siasia.
He is said to have ‘tweeted’: “Unlike me, my finishing in training today was good. Hearing something that Siasia is angry I left. He needs to think a bit or he has got issues.”
However, the move is unlikely to concern Odemwingie unduly and privately the Baggies could be pleased with the development.
In an interview with the Express & Star earlier this week, Odemwingie admitted to feeling fatigued and in need of a summer break after Albion complete their Premier League campaign at Newcastle on Sunday.
His absence from the friendly squad would leave him with only Nwankwo Kanu’s testimonial match on June 11 to disrupt his close season.
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Great news! At least he will get a rest now and be fresh for next season.
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Their loss our gain.
Boing! Boing!
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This is good news actually. He needs a rest, he admitted it himself.
I must admit that I remember the time around his returning from international duty and was under the impression it had been sanctioned.
Oh well, Nigeria’s loss is our gain.
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Well he said he needed a break, thanks Samson Siasia.
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Talking of strikers – I see the mighty wolves are after Billy Sharp – the “Doncaster hitman” !!
I may be wrong but isn’t he the striker they didn’t buy two years ago cos Freedie Eastwood was better ??
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Should hang his head in shame disgraceful
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I love peter as a player but he needs to grow up and stop insulting Nigerian coaches. He has done this with the previous coaches and he was not punished. i am so glad Siasia took a stand today. NO PLAYER IS BIGEER THAN THE NIGERIAN JERSEY. we’ve had greater players than him but they always respected the coach.
Everyone in nigeria loves him, i mean we now watch west brom games because of him. But almost everyone agrees he needs to be disciplined for his actions
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5. 5 posts in before we are mentioned, and you call us besotted….
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6 – Wolves fan by any chance?
Odemwingie left as a result of injury – hardly a hanging offence! The coach seems a little to intent on banning Peter; perhaps he fears he will be the focus rather than himself?
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Wrong happy baggie he (Billy Sharpe)Chose Sheffield United over us simply because they are his boyhood club
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Hmmm I think the coach may have fallen out with him considering the Nigerian FA stated he had a torn thigh muscle at the time. He came back for treatment and it turned out it was just a strain which is why he played against Liverpool! Funny how the fact that Victor Moses also pulled out of those games with injury yet played the week after for Wigan hasn’t been mentioned….
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Happy Baggie are you obsessed with Wolves. You cant make one comment without mentioning us.
Regarding your silly comment, i beleive you saw the Billy Sharp comment under the tranfer RUMOURS. Do you want me to explain what a rumour is??
If you do believe what they say, i believe your 3 best players will be leaving in the summer.
As for me I dont, so i believe you’ll be keeping them.
Regarding your season, you have done very well and played some very good football. So very well done and i hope you do just as well next season. Hopefully we’ll be doing just as good in the Premier too.
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7. Collie, yeah sure we believe you, don’t we? Mmm!
Boing Boing!!
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Anyone seen LW’s latest offering? Apparently the Wolves are after Neil Warnock as a new leftback!
Gotta love him haven’t you!
Boing Boing!!
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6) Why? is that what Fletcher did with Scotland, at least Odem was injured, whats dummy spiter Fletchers excuse, now that, I think you will find, is disgraceful!
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lol happy baggie, then you lot say fletcher was a waste ov money then wot happened,be careful
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don’t care… he’s soon to be crowned the best african player in the premiership. let’s face it the guy’s a legend already. you lot on here from the orange bowl should be at church or something, praying. i hope st peter’s banned for good, as we’ll then have him for the entire season, no african nations cup trip. still, bodie and doyle would need him to be away for most the season to get anywhere near him in the goal charts. a fit osaze for an entire season… 25 goals anybody. once again a big thanks to lokomotiv for giving us our talisman. link him with our sensational new signing next season and they’ll be hard to stop. the new signing??? graham dorrans of course. toodle pip.
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16) fletcher scored against our second string that day because you’d parked an ice cream van on the touchline. our players were just enjoying their summer break early that’s all. get over the fact that west broms superb scouting network keep unearthing hidden gems. a bit like van damme really, but having chipped the mud away we must’ve just threw him back. did bayern take a look in wolverhampton for mulumbu? surely he must be playing for the black country giants, too good for their poor little neighbours. oh the joy of being a baggie.
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16. diaper 1. Yes look what happened, we gifted him 2 goals.
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16) Im waiting with anticipation for the punch line? what did happen?
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It dosnt surprise me. He’s always looked a bit surly to me.
Last time i saw him play he was scowling, stamping his feet, throwing his arms down to his side and kicking water bottles all over the place. Mind you, him and his team had just been tonked 3-1 (pen)
His temperarment is perfectly suited to serie A.
Bet he cant wait.
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14 SB-
yeah,Warnock’s bringing his best mate,Keith Curle,to play next to him at centre-half.
I seem to remember he scored a great goal once in the BCD……
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21 lonely-
you wouldn’t be talking about the premiership player of the month (twice),would you?
For a minute,I thought you might be just a little bit jealous…….
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fairplay to him if he can do wot flech as done and score goals in 2 years in prem with us and burley,but we will see, flech as score is goals not startin half then matchs,wot would he have if he did? you will fin 10th wow 5 mangers in 6 years players jumpin ship mills spent fill the ground kids for quid lol,we won the play off did u,and champs ov it did u,so next 5 years for us looks very good,o and stoped up 3 years in a row same again did u lol,3rd best club in brum
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Sir Terry.
I suggested the other day that you call off your Newcastle trip and make your fortune with your new business venture on Sunday. I now send you proof with this post from the Dark Side in answer to Mick’s rallying call.
‘Give everything then, and we’ll be right behind you, be assured of that.
If you don’t, you’re all in big trouble, it’s as simple as that!!
Good luck though, we’ll be there for you. UTW’
Just get them printed up with ‘WE’LL SUPPORT YOU EVER MORE’ on one side and ‘YOU’VE LET US DOWN AGAIN’ on the other.
You should make a killing.
PS Do I get an agent’s fee?
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I don’t care where Billy Sharp comes from – he chose Sheff Utd over wolves ??? Haaaaaaaa !! – Did he then choose Doncaster over wolves ????
Still he has had a good season at Donny so he will fit right in at the wolves – you could interchange heads with Doyle and no one would notice !!!
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who won the first prem derby end of
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25 dappa1
It wasn’t the first BCD in the Premier League actually it was the second
Also the word ‘WON’ should be used in the loosest way possible in this case as a winner usually ‘earns’ their victory and not just accepts gifts from a team that was on holiday after officially securing premier league safety 24 hours before the game; amongst other factors for our no show
The table doesn’t lie and your team has been in the bottom 3 of it for the majority of the past two seasons
BOING BOING!!
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26 even
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Why o Why do the Dingles have to constantly stick their pig farming noses in on our page ALL THE TIME ? stick to your dark sided page,
Or Is It that you wished your parent’s had bought you up to be a Baggie
There is still time for you to walk away from satan.
Boing! Boing!
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Cantello, I remember that one. Ironically shortly before he scored the own goal the Wolves fans were singing ‘There’s only one Keith Curle’ then afterwards we started singing it back to them! Priceless!!
Anyone know where Dappa1′s come from, is he one of LW’s alter egos or is he a wannabe Lone Wolf. Whatever school he went to I don’t think he learnt English there!! Bless him and his cotton socks!
Boing Boing!!
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Hey Lone whats this new scoring system you’ve invented (pen)? not seen anyone else use it, but not a bad idea, you could have,
Wolves 2 v 1 Man City (without Tevez)
Wolves 4 v 0 Blackpool (without Adams)
etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc,?
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28. Need to check your facts pal, I think we were in the bottom three for about two weeks of the entire season last year, but don’t let that get in the way of an anti wolves rant… (the black country is ours by the way)
What is it with you lot? I mean seriously? You do realise don’t you? I mean you do know that we can do things right? Just because we are rivals it doesn’t mean that everything we do is wrong and there is an underlying reason behind it.. You do know that don’t you?
We won the championship, we did not win through the back door of the play offs, we did not come second, we won it, by 8 points. You finish the season where you deserve simples..
We then stayed up last season, we did not finish 4th from bottom, we finished 15th… We also did not stay up on the last day of the season thanks to another club rolling over for us to ensure Southamptons demise (unlike some)
We have struggled this season granted, but we have taken 4 points off the mighty west bromwich brazil…
but oh no it;s not right is it? We only won the championship because it was a weak championship, we only stayed up because it was a weak prem, we only beat the might of west brom because they were on the beach.
Odemwotsiface is gonna be the next shearer cos he’s played well this season, never mind the fact that he’s 29 and hardly ripped up any trees elsewhere… Fletcher? no he’s rubbish cos he plays for us, don’t bother about the fact that he’s scored goals in two seasons playing in relegation threatened teams No, don’t let that blind you from the fact that he happens to play for us..
Some of you lot (and by no means all, Kev in mallorca, shropshire baggie, Cantello and a few others seem to be quite fair minded) are an embarrassment to be honest.
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There could be twists and turns on Sunday, but the funniest thing I can think of happening…is a Jason Roberts’ winner deep into added on time!
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Dappa – thought of applying to Mensa? “LOL”. You’re club have always been perennial strugglers and you have stayed up TWO seasons – this and last.
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7 dopey dingle-
don’t you think a genuine ‘Osaze fan’,who ‘loves him’,would have been posting here throughout the season to praise his achievements?
Come back when you’ve acquired some intelligence.
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36
there are lots of football sites and because i dont comment on this one i need to acquire some intelligence?
I think you SHOULD acquire some intelligence. i have been an osaze fan since his days in Nigeria, beligium, france and russia. when did you becaome his fan? 8 months ago?
you need to research before you make statments.
Osaze was excluded from the team from walking out of the team and later tweeting that the coach had “Issues”. he has questioned and insulted former nigerian coaches. you can google the topic and READ up.
If he did the same thing here in WBA do you think he will go unsanctioned?
I would love to hear your answer.
He is a good player and i love watching him play but he should grow up and learn to be disciplined.
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33 Chris.
Your post is almost serious and grown up except that you let yourself down by saying ‘(the black country is ours by the way)’ As a long time poster I’ll let you into a trade secret. For it to be true you have to put FACT after it. Brummierobwolves invented this, apparently it’s like crossing your fingers behind your back when you tell a lie and say ‘honest.’
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24 Dappa.
William Shakespeare hailed from these parts, how wonderful to see that you are keeping his legacy alive.
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33) “We only won the championship because it was a weak championship, we only stayed up because it was a weak prem, we only beat the might of west brom because they were on the beach.”
By jove, I think hes got it!
You would think reading some of these Wulfie posts it was us our ass that was staring at relegation this weekend, not the other way round!
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Pressure’s starting to tell my Wulfie chums!
Boing Boing!!
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37 ‘Osaze fan’-
So you say you are a fan of Peter(Osaze),you love him,and you follow his career?
If that’s the case,you must know that he is now a hero at Albion,yet the only time you come on our site is to criticise him?
Surely that would be seen as a pretty stupid thing to do?
Apart from all else,there happens to be a very strange person called ‘laughingwolf’,who-
1)will have read most of these facts in recent stories on here.
2)would easily find the other info.,as you say,on google search,
and 3)Has replied to me in the same,familiar way when I’ve challenged him about using a false name in the past.
So what do you say,shadrag?
(By the way,most other people call us ‘West Brom’,but you’ve now said WBA,which shadrag has often called us on the wolves site-oops!).
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37 OF.
I don’t want to get involved in a slanging match as I’m sure you know more about PO’s past than most of us.
It seems to me though that he seems to turn up regularly for his country’s games. He was going to turn up and play for the summer games as well as a testimonial for an international team mate. This despite the fact that he’s hardly had a break for two seasons and has been nursing an ankle injury.
I’m not doubting what you say but pointing out that it’s not easy being a top class footballer these days and keeping everybody happy. The Jack Wilshire debate is a good example. If PO comes back for the new season unable to train because he has a stress injury we could be missing him for the first couple of months of next season.
I think the answer is that there is too much sport these days, even cricket and rugby players are suffering from injury and mental burnout. The reason is that sport was invented as an enjoyable pastime but has been hi-jacked as a cash cow for unscrupulous businessmen who care nothing for the players or the fans beyond squeezing every last penny out of them.
Sad but true.
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33 Chris
I checked my facts and I found some more along the way.
They were that in recent years you haven’t finished above us in the table when we are in the same league as each other, we beat you 4 out of a possible 5 games in the 2006/2007 season, we overcame an 11 point gap between the two of us to achieve promotion in the 2001/2002 season even though you apparently had the ‘superior’ team, oh and we also gave you four points this season and you are STILL below us…..I do have plenty more but these are just a few of my favourites
The reason I’m stating these is because your fans are so deluded it’s unreal I mean you say I have an anti wolves rant then in your next statement you say “We also did not stay up on the last day of the season thanks to another club rolling over for us to ensure Southampton’s demise (unlike some)” You just can’t help yourself, the only reason I posted in the first place is because one of ‘your lot’ came on our page talking rubbish again.
I think you will find that it is you and supporters of your club like you that are the embarrassment.
The nerves are kicking in now
BOING BOING
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Chrisdingle,
Yes, get it off your chest, it might calm your frayed nerves. Just remember how lucky you are to have spent two seasons in the Premiership by scraping in. Just like this time, maybe. Remember we’ve already had five seasons in this league, one more than your lot. So you took four points off us this season LoL. You were again lucky that the Premiership were very poor which enabled wolves to stay up.If Fletcher is that good , why has he been bench warming ALL season?. We are not so embarrassing as you lot, throwing at coaches filled with old women, true?. We would be embarrassed if we had your fans reputation throughout the league. How’s that for being honest, but it can’t be can it, as I’m a BAGGY. Are well, time gets shorter, the gutwrenching will play up more today. Then it’s Sunday “Showdown”. Don’t you go on worrying about us, as us BAGGIES will have our feet up, thinking about next season. Ha,Ha,Ha, HAA.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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42 CR78.
Oh dear!
I’ve taken ‘Osaze Fan’ at face value and now you’ve put the idea forward that he’s Shadrag. As Shadrag claims to be a Financial Advisor I now have visions of him sending us all Emails saying he needs to get a large sum of money out of the country and we will profit greatly if we give him our Bank account details. Not to mention offering to increase penis size, or is that Lonely’s territory.
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PS.
Thinking back, there is a Wolves fan that comes on here that hasn’t mastered the use of capital letters, can’t remember if it’s Shadrag but Osaze Fan seems to have the same impediment.
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40. Thanks for proving my point. err FACT!
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47 TRBH-
I also noticed the poor spelling,but maybe that was deliberate,to try convincing us he was really a Nigerian fan still learning English.
If it is shadrag,maybe next week he will be Russian or Chinese,anything goes when you live in a make-believe world.
At least Lonely is more predictable,he only needs to sort out the male/female issue.
Could someone book these guys a few sessions on the couch this summer?
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