Despite scoring 13 goals in his first season in the Premier League, the Nigerian forward believes the Citizens have only seen a fraction of his ability so far

 
Manchester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho has appraised his performances for the club so far and stressed that his best is yet to come.
The Nigerian international scored 13 times in 33 appearances for the Citizens this season and though many would be satisfied with that tally, the 19-year-old feels he still has much to prove.
But Iheanacho was quick to insist that he can still do better.
"My record isn't bad, this season has been great for me and for the team as well," Iheanacho told Sky Sports News. "I've been getting goals in the team and helping them.”
"It's not bad this season but I've got to keep working hard. This is not going to be the best season ever, I'm just starting and there will more good to come, I'll just keep working hard and working on everything in training and in games and I'll get there.
"I was hoping to play a first-team game and be among them one day; I had ideas about that so I was hoping I would join them some day.
“It was a surprise for me when they said I was part of the team so I was happy and I'm pleased to join them.
"Now I'm convinced I'm part of the squad but it will not get into my head, I will just keep working hard and keep believing in myself. I will help the team anyway I can this season."
He also savoured the chance to play at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium his team crashing out of the Uefa Champions League.
"What happened was just football. It's what can happen to any team - any team can lose and any team can win," he continued.
"We did very well in the first game at home and we played really well away but they won by just one goal. We defended really well, made it difficult for them but they deserved to win.
"Everybody knew that if we had one goal we would be through. We were just looking for that one goal but we couldn't get any space, it was difficult for us.
"If we would have got the one goal I wouldn't be saying this now. It's gone now, they're through and we have to focus on the next games.
"It was a great experience for me, I'm happy to have played there. It was a dream come true. We shouldn't have come away like [that] but that's football, we will put that behind us."

Los Blancos are the most valuable club in the world according to the finance giants, with Manchester United leading a strong English presence

Six Premier League clubs are among the 10 most valuable in the world, according to Forbes’ 2016 list, but Real Madrid continue to lead the way.
The Spanish capital club remain the globe’s wealthiest outfit in the list of big-hitters, with their valuation of £2.515 billion seeing them to top spot ahead of arch-rivals Barcelona (£2.449bn).
However, the rise of the English league in monetary terms has seen six Premier League sides make the top 10 of the chart, with a total of eight in the top 20.
Manchester United lead the way for their compatriots, with a total value of £2.289bn according to the calculations, which take into account net debt as well as assets and equity. That figure puts the Old Trafford giants in third place overall behind the Primera Liga pair.
Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool fill the spots between fifth and eighth, with Tottenham’s £702 million valuation seeing them sneak into 10th place.
Bayern Munich (fourth) and Juventus (ninth) are the other clubs making the top 10, while West Ham United (17th) and relegated Newcastle United (20th) also chart inside the top 20 from the Premier League.
The Forbes list is part of the business magazine’s ‘Business of Soccer’ feature, which looks at the wealth within the game, with the 2016 edition taking into account increased Champions League prize payouts.
However, the Premier League’s new £5.14bn TV deal, which begins this summer, could yet see even more English clubs included in future lists.

Buffon, Barzagli sign up until 2018

Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and defender Andrea Barzagli have extended their contracts with the Italian champions until 2018, they said on Wednesday.
Italy captain Buffon, 38, and international team mate Barzagli, 35, have helped Juve win five straight Serie A titles, having made 35 and 30 appearances respectively this season.
"I hope that my fantastic story with this club will go on and bring even further success," Buffon told a news conference. "I'm immensely proud in the faith Juventus have placed in me once more."
Barzagli added: "Even at this age, I still have room to improve and this is the best place for me to do so."
Buffon indicated earlier this year that he planned to retire after the 2018 World Cup, which would be his sixth. He and Barzagli helped Italy win the 2006 World Cup.
Buffon joined Juventus in 2001 and became captain in 2012 following Italy great Alessandro Del Piero's move to Sydney FC.
He has made 458 appearances for the club, known as 'The Old Lady' and won nine league titles, including two that were stripped from Juve over the Calciopoli corruption scandal.
Buffon set a Serie A record of 974 minutes without conceding a goal as Juve won 4-1 against local rivals Torino on March 20 .
The much-travelled Barzagli has made 150 appearances for the club after joining from Vfl Wolfsburg in 2011.
On Saturday, Juventus face 15th-placed Sampdoria in their last league game this season before being crowned champions.

Eagles friendlies in jeorpady

Nigeria’s international friendly matches against Mali and Luxembourg is hanging in the balance as the French embassy has denied some officials of the team entry visas.
Two coaches, administrative officials and goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa-the only home based player on the Eagles list are all affected.
NFF General Secretary Mohammed Sanusi appealed to the Embassy of France in Nigeria to reconsider its stance and provide visas for the officials and the player who will be on international assignment.
“We are appealing to the Embassy of France in Nigeria to reconsider its stance and issue visas to these officials” NFF General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi revealed on Wednesday.
They are going to Europe for very important assignments as the two matches are key to the preparation of the Super Eagles for future engagements."he added
Protocol officials also revealed that despite all arrangements been sorted out which includes payments for stadia use, training facilities and hotel accommodation, 60 percent of the passports sent to the French Embassy on April 29th came back without visas.
The Super Eagles are expected to take on Mali at the Stade de Richon in Rouen on May 27th before engaging the Luxembourg national side in Luxembourg on Wednesday, June 1st.

Newcastle and Norwich relegated

Newcastle United and Norwich City were relegated from the Premier League on Wednesday as Sunderland secured their survival with a one-sided 3-0 victory over Everton.
Sunderland centre-back Lamine Kone's first two goals for the club and a Patrick van Aanholt free-kick took Sam Allardyce's side four points clear of danger with one game remaining.
Norwich returned to the Championship a year after promotion despite a 4-2 win over Watford, while Newcastle, Sunderland's arch rivals, will play in the second tier for the first time since 2010.
"It's the attitude of the players who absorb the pressure and deliver a performance like that," Allardyce told Sky Sports in an on-pitch post-match interview.
"That's what's happened over the past 10 games -- only one defeat. It's pretty miraculous. To the lads and all the staff, thank you very much."
It is the fourth season in a row that Sunderland have pulled off a late escape to avoid relegation and it guarantees the northeast club top-flight football for a 10th consecutive season.
Allardyce was the architect of their surge to safety, succeeding the sacked Dick Advocaat in October and overseeing a late-season run that has seen them take 11 points from a possible 15.
Having seen his side come from 2-0 down to beat outgoing champions Chelsea 3-2 on their previous outing, Allardyce kept faith with the same starting XI for the seventh game running.
His side went ahead when Everton goalkeeper Joel Robles misjudged Van Aanholt's 38th-minute free-kick, moving to his left and allowing the ball to bounce straight past him.
Kone made it 2-0 four minutes later, volleying in emphatically after Sunderland failed to clear a corner, and smashed in his second in the 55th minute when Robles spilled Wahbi Khazri's corner.
The result at the Stadium of Light also served to increase the pressure on Everton manager Roberto Martinez, whose 12th-place side have won just one of their last 10 league matches.
NEWCASTLE 'DEVASTATED'
Alex Neil's Norwich got the better of Watford in a ding-dong contest at Carrow Road, but Sunderland's win meant that they would have been relegated regardless.
After Troy Deeney had tapped in Odion Ighalo's 11th-minute cross to put Watford head, Norwich hit back through Nathan Redmond, Dieumerci Mbokani and a Craig Cathcart own goal.
Deeney returned the favour for Ighalo as Watford reduced the arrears six minutes into the second half, but Redmond teed up Mbokani to restore Norwich's two-goal cushion six minutes later.
"Obviously it's a severe disappointment," said Neil, the Norwich manager.
"We've known it was going to be a really difficult task. We had it in our hands three, four, five games ago, but unfortunately we came up short."
Newcastle went down despite the best efforts of manager Rafael Benitez, who was recruited in March after Steve McClaren was sacked.
The former Liverpool and Real Madrid manager sparked an upturn in both results and performances, but hopes of a dramatic escape from the bottom three were fatally undermined by last Saturday's 0-0 draw at already-relegated Aston Villa.
Benitez had a clause inserted in his contract guaranteeing that he would be released if Newcastle went down, so the St James' Park club will begin life in the Championship with a new manager.
In a statement released by Newcastle, managing director Lee Charnley said: "Tonight we are devastated at our relegation from the Premier League, as I know every single person connected to this football club will be.
"The process of scrutinising what went wrong and planning for what is to come has already begun.
"Right now, of course, Rafa and the team must prepare for the final game of the season, but after that, please rest assured we will communicate more fully with supporters."
In the day's other game, Christian Benteke's stoppage-time header earned Europa League finalists Liverpool a 1-1 draw at home to Chelsea, who had taken a 32nd-minute lead through a dazzling solo goal from belatedly in-form winger Eden Hazard.

‘Europa exploits set Liverpool benchmark’

Liverpool's performances in this season's Europa League have illuminated a path for the team's future, manager Jurgen Klopp declared after his side sank Villarreal brilliantly to reach the final.
Liverpool will face holders Sevilla in Basle on May 18, after a Bruno Soriano own goal and efforts from Daniel Sturridge and Adam Lallana at Anfield on Thursday secured a resounding 3-0 win and a 3-1 aggregate success.
Liverpool had made an inauspicious start to their Europa League campaign when Klopp succeeded Brendan Rodgers last October, but having now eliminated Augsburg, Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund and Villarreal, they will play in their first European final since 2007.
"To go to a final you need a little a bit of luck in decisive moments, but most of the time you need outstanding performances," he told his post-match media conference.
"When I came here, the tournament didn't sound too nice for people. Three draws (actually two). It was a difficult group.
"We came through with a nice game in Russia (beating Rubin Kazan 1-0). That was good.
"We felt really comfortable in this tournament. We liked going to different countries and adapting to different circumstances, different temperatures. I like this in football.
"The problem we had was around these games (there were) so many other games, so we couldn't really be focused on this.
"In 2016 the team showed a lot of times what they're capable of and what they could be capable of in the future.
"That's a really good sign. That's more important for me as a manager, but then, when you perform in the right moments, like we did tonight or against Dortmund or against United or Augsburg, you want to have (it) all.
"That's what we try now (in the final). Now we are there and it's a great opportunity and we will take it."
Villarreal had procured a stoppage-time lead in last week's first leg through substitute Adrian Lopez's strike, but their advantage lasted less than seven minutes of the return fixture at a raucous Anfield as Bruno turned Roberto Firmino's cross into his own net.
KLOPP REBUKE
Sturridge, sliding in, had put the Villarreal captain under pressure and he would go on to put Liverpool ahead in the 63rd minute, finishing coolly from Firmino's scuffed volley, before setting up Lallana's third.
Klopp had left Sturridge on the bench for Liverpool's three previous games in the tournament and he praised the injury-prone England international for seizing his opportunity against Villarreal.
"Great game, great game," said the German, who has already seen his side go down on penalties to Manchester City in this season's League Cup final.
"You'll see now, when Daniel Sturridge is fit he's an unbelievable, unbelievable striker. Everybody knows this.
"But even he needs players to play with. I knew about his quality before I came here. Now I know it better. Great player. Good to have him here."
Villarreal coach Marcelino, whose side secured a Champions League play-off place at the weekend, admitted that Liverpool had been superior and lauded their "huge" intensity.
But he criticised Hungarian referee Viktor Kassai for his handling of a niggly game, in particular the decision to dismiss centre-back Victor Ruiz after two yellow cards in either half.
"We tried hard after the opening goal, but it was tough against an opponent who played with a huge amount of intensity," he said.
"It was on the margins of the rules at times, but it was allowed. By the sending off it was game over.
"You saw what happened. When the referee was letting so much go, to see a player sent off for those two incidents, you make your own opinions."
The disappointed Marcelino suggested that Klopp had celebrated Liverpool's goals with more zealousness than he would have, which drew a stinging rebuke from the Liverpool manager.
"I would not be like him one second in my life," Klopp said. "And he's a great manager."

Super Eagles & S.S. Lazio Player Onazi Ogenyi is Getting Married!

23 year old Super Eagles & Italian team S.S. Lazio player Onazi Ogenyi (he was born on Christmas Day, – December 25, 1992) is getting married next month on June 18, to Sandra Ogunsuyi. The bride just finished her NYSC program and will start her Masters in London after they tie the knot.

Their pre-wedding photos were taken by Allesandro Para in Rome, Italy, where the groom-to-be is based.

Congrats to the happy couple!