Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr is reportedly desperate for the Nigeria Football Federation to prioritise a move for Reading’s Ovie Ejiara over Eberechi Eze.
The Reading’s on-loan
midfielder who is valued at £1m has shown versatility under Mark Bowen at the
Madejski Stadium and Rohr is keen to add the Liverpool player to his squad.
“He’s (Ovie Ejiara) a good player no doubt and I will prefer him in the team
now than the player (Eberechi Eze) the Federation are in talks with,” Rohr revealed.
“We will contact him and know
what must be done to make him play for us. He is a better player than Eze.
“My fears are if we start
chasing him in the media, England may join the race and it could be difficult.”
Neither Ejiara nor Eze are
seemingly not prepared to pledge their allegiance to Nigeria at the moment with
the pair already members of the England U21 squad.
Eze has all but declined from
playing for Nigeria after informing NFF President, Amaju Pinnick that he wants
to focus solely on club football.
Pinnick met with Eze in London
last month in a bid to lure the 21-year-old to switch allegiance to Nigeria but
he requested for the chance to continue to focus on his club career which is
going well so far, and that further progress will be made in due course.
Eze once trained with the
Super Eagles before a planned international friendly with Burkina Faso was
cancelled in March 2017.
He has been impressive for QPR in the English Championship this season scoring
six goals and providing four assists in 18 games.