I think these players should be able to play and win games without these promises because if you must make promises to them before they win important games how then will they play with their hearts for the nation. I expect to see players bekng passionate and playing with pride and dignity for their country not playing because of what they have been promised besides a number have times to fail to win these games even with the promises.
Actually those days of promises on players was not like this and they were not promising because they saw the team was not playing well but because of happiness promises was attached, so it wasn't as if the promises was there source of performance but it was just a form of appraisal, because we all no that Kanu Nwankwo time was the best and those promises was nothing to them in the basis of performance. So actually even if those promises are made to this current ones they cannot do more they should have done, for example this draw with Zimbabwe even if $100 million was promised to them this mistake might still occur.