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Roland17:
Not one of them raised a voice in discontent when Mari’s loan was made permanent, when we extended Luiz’s contract by a year, made Soares’s loan permanent, extended Holding, offered to extend Mustafi s contract but immediately it comes to Gab, they will remind you of how much he cost and that is where lies the hypocrisy and amala turning they are serving themselves.

They will forget we did other businesses other than Gab including the defense. They will tell you the money should have been added to get Aouar, the same player who agreed to join Arsenal until his brother scuppered the deal, but somehow, it is Gab’s fault that he was bought for 30M..We triggered Partey’s clause, baba agreed and turned down other offers like Gab because his mind was set at Arsenal..no hassle..Then turn around again and say they are not scapegoating the player... how hypocritical..

It’s January and we are no longer chasing Aouar because his form has dropped and some off the field issues. The same club chased Coutinho but baba refused to join because he wants to play in the UCL.. How about Szoboszlai? Did we make any offer? But they are choosing to slide all of that pretend like nothing is happening!

How about Buendia? Norwich have come out explicitly to say they have no plans to sell their prized asset this season. Arsenal have not made any formal approach for the guy who would cost around 40-50M to get.. but they will you Gab’s money could have been useful in getting him.. I detest pettiness especially when folks pretend like they don’t see what they are doing. I am not sure they even read what they post at this point to see how contradictory they are!!

If Gab is a luxury needed, can we ask Pep and City to come take him please, better still beg Lille to refund us our money.. I am tired of this pettiness. They will come here and tell you it’s not about Gabi specific but scroll through the pages of our recent victories and see the obvious scapegoating.

If this was a honest conversation devoid of scapegoating, I would have concurred and understood their perspective. Go back and read their comments: comments when this argument first started, to our 5 game unbeaten run and compare it to the amala turning they are dishing now.

I told them the last time that they won and I hope we sell Gab in the summer and move on from him.. We need to sell Gabriel Magalhaes and fast...

Honestly it’s irking seeing those comments every now and then. I begin to wonder if these were the same people we all camped here together complaining of how terrible our defense was and even called them clowns for their comical defence .

I think what happened with this their scapegoating is a clear testament to the fact that humans can never be pleased( especially football fans )

kokanepyramid:
No! My statement was buying a defender wasn’t more important than buying an AM, irrespective of who the defender is, that’s the difference. If I was propping another defender against Gabriel then your point would have been valid. Buying a defender wasn’t as important as solving the AM issue results have proven this, it’s not theory it’s practical. Happening before our very eyes.

Ur point would've been valid if the defender that was signed ( Gabriel is his name) hadn't been voted our player of the month three straight times ( September, October and November)

You see, from day one u have pushed the argument that we need not add a defender despite how woeful our defence had been in the past, but Arteta who knows what he sees when he looks at our available CB's decided to strengthen that position first.

I stand by Arteta's decision because when the defender he brought in ( Gabriel) played, the defender won 3 straight player of the month. That alone should tell u his decision was a sensible one.

Now he's give Smith Rowe a chance and it's paying off for the team because we are stronger defensively and we have more options. Like Roland17 said maybe if Lille comes back and take their guy and we have injury challenge that forces us to go back to Mustafi - Luiz defence we will understand what Arteta has done.

This argument is going cyclical and I'm tired already. I think I will hang my boot here please

kokanepyramid:
My assertion has always been that the midfield Emery paraded made our defence look terrible and defence was always scapegoated for the deficiencies of that midfield. Or why do u think I was hammering Guen instead of them Mustaffi and Luiz most peeps kept cursing game in game out. The defence looked better as soon as Arteta took over and made some changes in the midfield. We won Man-U in January and narrowly lost to Chelsea. If the video is during Emery era then it’s void based on my argument.

As u can see this season that without ESR in the squad and Partey getting injured the midfield was abysmal and there wasn’t much Gabriel could do in stopping goals from reaching back of the net. I’m sure if it was Mustafi and Luiz in same situation they would have been scapegoated, instead of pointing at the main culprit, MF.
Since ESR and the midfield being complemented by Partey we’ve kept 4 straight clean sheets without Gabriel. If this doesn’t point that defence wasn’t the main culprit I wonder what will.

Try and understand my point this is not about Gabriel.

U made it about Gabriel the moment u were moving the motion that Gabriel's buy wasn't necessary cos our defence was still manageable. This in fact is not true; we had so many nights we wished to forget beacuse our defence was poor.

I think it was against man city or so last season we were playing Conservative and all; Luiz comes in causes a goal and got a stupid red card.

Stupid Kolasinac also made us lose made us lose Tottenham playing LWB àbí na 4cking LCB sef.

If I was in Arteta's shoes at the slightest opportunity I will strengthen my defence first and then think of midfield ( This is exactly what Arteta did by buying Gabriel first and then signing Partey towards the end of the transfer Window and almost getting Auorar before the deal fell thru)

I will never fault Arteta's decision of strengthening defence first above other things.

I leave u with one of my all time specials Ẹ̀fọ́ ríro, make Una use this one hold body while the DJ is setting up

If Towel Mendy die ; let me guess it's not his towel drycleaner that killed him ......Na wetin kill am?







































Yes! na Goal kill am!

Towel Mendy saves the day

Havertz chop yellow after Barnes carry am do 100meteres senior boys.

Team Mount over to you

This Maddison no go kee person

kokanepyramid:
Ensure they are videos from Arteta era,

My videos will be pre-Gabriel Era cos it is Gabriel’s buy that has been subject to argument

Jodera:
Well one thing I do know is that I was advocating for strong midfield and attack. I believe in the proponent that if your midfield and attack is very good, with good structural and organizational play and positioning, it would cover 90-95% of your defence.

I also believe that the reason why we drifting away from top 4 season in season out is because of our below par midfielders and attackers compared to different eras of arsenal.

Then once those two are sorted, then we can now think of defence in order to win the league. Mind you, I don't believe that our cbs are below par(taking aside mari and Gabriel), maybe sokratis and mustafi. So I believe a good midfield and attack would have covered them.

I know we might have different views and that is not bad, but at least from my explanations you'll know what I would have done if I'm in Arteta's shoes.

Well, u ended up not answering my question but we move sha!

David Luiz was calamitious in some notable matches, Papasthapopulous was just not good enough, Mustafi na dirty and Chambers is always injured.

A coach who doesn't want to lose his job will surely do something about that. It's just funny how we all forget about those dark nights when our defence gives up a lead after the attack has worked tirelessly to get a goal ahead.

E be like say one of these days maybe when I’m on leave I will do throwback Thursday here posting videos of what terrible defending did to us to refresh our brains. Maybe then we will understand why Arteta had to first prioritize freezing deadwoods like Papasthapopulous and Mustafi out and getting a good defender like Gabriel in

Today mount and Havertz are both starting in the same midfield. Let's see who wins and let's whose Stan will collect L for this lungu

Jodera:
Ok, I get your point now perfectly, and I wholly agree with you.


So do you agree with kokane especially with your explanations that we didn't need Gabriel signing since the structure is already there it'll make any good defender thrive?

Who are the good defenders we had last season? We had Luiz that would either drop disaster class along with Mustafi, Holding and Papa who both seem to be all brawns and less brain.

I watched almost all our matches last season ( except for a few when I'm either stuck in traffic on my way home or when I'm out of town), I was also here making and reading comments about how useless our defenders were.

Towards the end of the season we bought an injured Pablo Mari whose YouTube video looks good but nobody knows how he's going to turn out especially when he played less than 3 games( I don't know if I'm correct but I know he played few games) before his 6 months initial loan expired.

Now tell me if u were Arteta with Ur defence looking exactly like what I described up there, will u neglect the defence and focus on attack?

I want to check something

Second goal made in Hale end

kokanepyramid:
You can say that again,

Partey just dey gimme joy! I go curse anybody wey mention Guendouzi for dis place again.

Partey is a blessing to this 4cking team!

Auba makes it 1-0!

kokanepyramid:
What do u think the Yakubu is for

I just weak for Auba. I can't even explain what happened to him.

The whole team is playing well but Auba is playing rubbish single-handedly

Aubameyang Don mad finish

It will be refreshing seeing Partey once again starting a match

Football stats can be crazy sha.

Bruno yesterday was arguably their best player on the pitch but taking a look at the stat below that talks about 6 games against top teams and almost 0 stat to show for it one would think he ghosted the game yesterday

sod09:
There's something wrong with this club, we sold Martinez and got runnarson then we loaned out macey.
Now we looking for another keeper, these fvckers don't know how to pick priority, if macey wasn't good sell him off instead of accumulating deadwoods

We didn't sell Martinez out of choice, he wasn't ready to continue being second choice and had to go. It's that simple. .....It is only normal to replace him ; whether Runnarson was a good choice or not is another story entirely.

I know u prefer Martinez in goal to Leno, but they are both great keepers and the club chose Leno.

Suya meets Pizza

Foooooood

Fkhalifa:
How dare you?

Better speak for yaself o.

Blueray and Spy (Even Arterta) will rather win Fa cup than top 4 or 6.

Even some Londoners will want to use it to taunt Tottenham's trophy drought and that's massive for them but mediocrity for some of us.

Yes, I say it with my full chest ; I want FA cup more than top 6 finish. Obviously we can't make top 4, but what is the essence of top 6 when u are still trophyless?

Those of us that lived during the Wenger Trophyless Era knows what it means to actually be Trophyless.

U don't sign a rookie manager with a very economical budget as a broke club and expect Ur manager to perform miracle

sod09:
Appreciation post

I'm glad u saw this. I've always told u Martinez and Leno are at par based on the few games Martinez played for us. We had to sell either of them and we opted for Martinez which is not a a bad decision. We had 2 very good keepers and none of them ready to deputise for the other one.

A natural leftback could've helped us with a decent cross when we needed it most in this match.....but then we meuvee!

Looks like Ian Wright is rocking some nice Senator material native like I love them

sod09:
But why can't he be played in his preferred position
Atleast let's give him benefit of doubt.
We need another lb just incase Tierney

He can't be played in his preferred position cos there are so a any people ahead of him in the pecking order; Ceballos, Partey, Xhaka, and even Willock will get a place ahead of him in CM. I doubt Mitland-Niles will ever get a chance to play CM in Arsenal o.

As for LB we sure need to get a back up plan for Tierney especially now that boda Kola has gone back to Germany. Also we need an understudy for Bellerin, he gives and off performances

sod09:
Dangerous is the game we are playing at back, holding the weak link.
AMN the useless fullback

Mitland-Niles is only useful for shutting down a very dangerous opposition attacker on the flank like Mane, Sallah and Co. After that the guy is useless ; he's not a good right or left back.

We are really playing well but the goals ain't forthcoming just yet

Mitland-Niles be useful abeg na. That should've been a sweet cross if Tierney played that