{"id":14115,"date":"2019-08-13T15:44:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T15:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=14115"},"modified":"2019-08-13T15:44:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T15:44:02","slug":"former-england-star-blasts-super-eagles-alex-iwobi-for-lacking-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-england-star-blasts-super-eagles-alex-iwobi-for-lacking-quality","title":{"rendered":"Former England star blasts Super Eagles\u2019 Alex Iwobi for lacking quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-England international Darren Bent has questioned the quality of the Nigeria playmaker following his switch to Everton from Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old moved to Goodison Park last week from Arsenal on a five-year deal for an initial fee of \u00a328 million, rising to \u00a334 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nothing but love, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexiwobi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@alexiwobi<\/a> \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jz0m4PJr71\">pic.twitter.com\/Jz0m4PJr71<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arsenal (@Arsenal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal\/status\/1159925310042886144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bent, a former Aston Villa striker and a self professed Arsenal fan, believes the attacking options the Toffees have are better than the new addition.<\/p>\n<p>The one-time Tottenham striker who managed only 13 appearances for the England national football team, scoring 4 goals in a six-year career admitted that Everton already had a better player than the Nigerian in Richarlison.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m an Arsenal fan and I\u2019ve never been Iwobi\u2019s biggest fan,\u201d Bent told Football Insider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy thing with people has always been quality on the ball. Whether it was his final cross or his shot on goal, it was always under-hit or there was never really any quality there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019d do the hard stuff, go past someone, and you\u2019d want him to make the right decision, but he never seemed to get it right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say he\u2019s better than Richarlison because he gives you goals, he\u2019s got a bit more quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal\/status\/1159925310042886144\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"2\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal\/status\/1159925310042886144\" data-tweet-id=\"1159925310042886144\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-England international Darren Bent has questioned the quality of the Nigeria playmaker following his switch to Everton from Arsenal. The 22-year-old moved to Goodison Park last week from Arsenal on a five-year deal for an initial fee of \u00a328 million, rising to \u00a334 million. Nothing but love, @alexiwobi \u2764\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/Jz0m4PJr71 &mdash; Arsenal (@Arsenal) August 9, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[116,392,426,122],"class_list":["post-14115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football","tag-league","tag-players","tag-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former England star blasts Super Eagles\u2019 Alex Iwobi for lacking quality - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-england-star-blasts-super-eagles-alex-iwobi-for-lacking-quality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former England star blasts Super Eagles\u2019 Alex Iwobi for lacking quality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ex-England international Darren Bent has questioned the quality of the Nigeria playmaker following his switch to Everton from Arsenal. 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