<span style="">Haugesund have regretted their decision not to sign Nigerian offensive player Sunday Mba some years back. The Warri Wolves star tested with the Norwegian club in November 2007.<br /><br />Mba, then a teenager, trained with FKH, and despite scoring a hat-trick in the 8-2 win over </span><span style="">Kopervik, he was not offered a contract.&nbsp; </span><span style=""><br /><br />Nils Halvor Berge, who was the sporting administrative manager of </span><span style=""><span style="">Haugesund</span>, labelled Mba and the other Nigerian trialists bad players.<br /><br />''</span><span style=""><span style="">We want something extraordinary, but the only thing that has been extraordinary with sample players, is how bad they've been,'' Berge told <i>h-avis.no</i> in 2007.<br /><br /></span></span><span style=""><span style=""><span style="">In a recent interview with Norwegian newspaper <i>VG Nett</i>, Nils Halvor Berge has regretted those statements credited to him.<br /><br />''I see that the Haugesund Avis writes it and I can not remember having said so. If I've said it, was the flippant comment I never should have come with. If true then it is a stupid statement.&nbsp; <br /><br />''</span></span></span><span style="">The assessments were made then was that no one could excel except Mba.</span> <span style=""> It is obvious that we failed to see the potential that lay in the boy at the time,'' says Berge to <i>vg.no</i>. <br /><br />Obinma Allen, Obinna Okafor, </span>Timothy Anjembe and Kabiru Alausa had traveled with Mba to Norway but they all went home empty-handed without signing contracts. Norwegian - Nigerian agent Atta Aneke facilitated the trials for the five players. <br /><span style=""><br /></span><i>Photo Credit: National Mirror</i><br />