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Marcelini:
We need good squad depth to challenge Liverpool or City.
We were all angry with Iwobi being a starter, but we all know he is a good squad depth player.
Liverpool has Shaquiri, Chamberlain, Lallana for squad depth. Those are experienced EPL players and not untested academy Boys.

Selling Iwobi doesn't look that good. Especially when we didn't even buy an upgrade on the left wing position. Keep him for squad depth, Ozil and Mkhitharyarn are useless and can't contribute much. Iwobi created more chances for us last season than both and his salary is good value for what he provides.

We only weakened our team selling Iwobi and putting hope on Nelson who had a failed loan at inferior Bundesliga, and did not in anyway look impressive against weak opponents in the pre season. Nelson cant dribble past his first marker, something Iwobi provides you with, and his finish isn't better than those of Iwobi.
How much did Liverpool spend to buy Shaquiri to sit on their bench for squad depth? Why did they not promote an untested academy boy instead?
This Iwobi sale was more about finance than football reasons, and it doesn't bode well for the future. Just when we thought we were going to start seeing a brutal Arsenal going all out to dominate in football, they went and pull off this bullshit.
The only way this Iwobi sale will make sense is if we replaced him with Zaha. But that didn't happen. So again, it was all about balancing the account books.

And Emery said he will start Nelson on the left wing? Where?

Even when iwobi was here The coach deploys Auba to the left wing instead.

Cashing in on iwobi for good money is the right thing to do and the management has done that

Jodera:
I for one was initially angry over the sale of iwobi, cos I felt he'll be a good squad player, but seeing you people's review about d situation here and thinking it through, I finally felt we've made the right choice. Looking at it deeply, I remember how many times I've to stamp my foot on the floor angrily cos of iwobi's 'pass' to keeper instead of a shot.
Tbc

Baba most people lamenting about his sale joined us in the past two seasons complaining how iwobi cannot shoot to save his life o. They know fully well he is not a good winger and cannot be allowed to play in the middle as well due to the crowd we have justling for space in the middle of the park.

Suddenly iwobi turn Robert Pires after his sale.

Well maybe because he had an impressive outing at Afcon sha ó, but some of us are not swayed by that.

He's gone already and that's that. Let's move on to greater things

Scopa tu mana

kodded:
the reason most arsenal fans are angry is because the club had the opportunity to sign Coutinho, but they rejected the deal, now they have sold iwobi without any replacement


and you know that ozil, mhki and abua are practically useless in that LW position not to talk of the likes saka, nelson and Martinelli that have shown that they are not ready for the EPL

The angry fans need to understand iwobi has been stagnant for 4 years, despite playing with Sanchez he hasn't learn how to beat his man on the wings....he once claimed he learns from ozil yet he can't even shoot as well as ozil..... Breaking news: Arsenal is done waiting for potentials that won't turn out to match winners.

Arsenal is done selling players at scrap value after waiting for years to see them mature while rewarding inconsistency with new contracts.

Let him go and discover himself over there.

Roland17:
This is the same thing we endured and managed with Walcott. We accepted his inconsistencies and continued to project him as a prospect and before you knew what was happening he had turned 28 with no reasonable improvement.

Just imagine how they are talking as if iwobi is some mbappe that just left Monaco ó.

They keep Saying the left wing is dead without him, but funny thing iwobi cross accuracy is just 18%. He has won 256 duels and lost 331 duels, his shot accuracy is even below average 41%.

He has played 100 Epl matches how many man of the match performance has he dished out?

We got 40million out of this guy and people dey vex....It didn't even take Rashford one season to prove himself at man utd, but after 4 years iwobi still needs time to develop his potential....smh

How can you be angry at the sale of Ìwobi at a good price of 40m? A player that has had as much as 4 seasons to prove himself and hasn't been exceptional. He's had this consistent on and off form.

Shey na until he turn 27 and is still a potential na that time our eyes go clear? This is thw same place we had people lamenting how Ramsey walked for free when we could've cashed in on him a long while ago.

Abeg! I'm in support of Iwobi being sold Jàre.

See as Ìwobi suddenly turn world footballer of the year for everybody eyes o. Abegi!

Ìwobi has had his chance and to be fair he hasn't been exceptional to make himself indispensable.

I don't see why any fan should Lose sleep cos he was sold jare

Abeg shey Tierney and Luis never trek reach North London since yesterday ni?Shebi na that same united kingdom dey

Dreamswayne:
It isn't a loan...


We might even shift him next year to china...


His agent and Edu are close, and his agent got a lot of contacts in China...


A la Ramires and Oscar...

There's a reason he put the loan in quote

krattoss:
is Rosicky an arsenal legend?

Rosicky a legend?

He didn't stay on his feet long enough to become one

Dreamswayne:
[b]Liverpool play their full backs at very high line...


It's not a bad tactics when you have guys like Wijnaldum, Fabinho and Milner all waiting in the middle to stop counters...


But when you have liabilities like Xhaka or a not too good DM like Torreira shielding the defense when the Full backs are overlapping...


You are asking for trouble...



I hope we do something about this by next year...



Our goals conceding is mainly because of the full backs and Midfield... Not the center backs...




If you bring out Mustafi's stats, you would see that he outshines VVD...


does that makes him better?? NO!!


VVD doesn't need to do much because his midfielders are all workaholics in shielding the defense...


While our defenders here have to always be involved in defensive duties due to insane pressure from opposition attackers...



You'll now see something like

Tackles:


Mustafi: 72


VVD: 43



The main problem is from the midfield and full backs...


And no Pacy wingers to counter in case the opposition starts dominating through the wings...[/b]




Your views?

Van Djik does more than much. His positioning is always right. That alone makes him better than mustafi. I've watched clips of how he adjust his body and shadow marks the opposing player to ensure they don't get a clear shit at the keeper.

E get reason why nobody dribble that guy for a long time until Gabriel Jesus did this past Sunday.

Make we buy better CB and stop talking about RB and LB making a team having so much attacking threat Jàre. You don't need to have the best RB, LB in the world in your team before you win the league.

Leicester won the league, yet the best RB and LB were Arsenal and Tottenham players ( Bellerin and Rose)....but guess what? A CB in Wes Morgan was the best CB in the league.

iamoyindamola:
quick question
I have been thinking about this for a long time, can you rate these modern players as club legends from CR7,neymar,hazard,Kos,Ramsey et Al
I think these modern guys are just mecenary that jump from one club to another, they don't want to suffer and enjoy with the club

CR7 is a legend at Madrid no doubt.
Hazard is a legend at Chelsea.
I leave barca fans to decide what Neymar is to them...Barca have many legends but the most recent ones are Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Ronaldinho, Puyol...that I can remember ó



As for Ramsey, the dearth of good players/inspiring leaders at the emritaes is the only reason one can even consider him for consideration as a great player.

For me I beleive to be a legend it's not about spending Ur whole career at the club but winning trophies at the club, bringing a positive attitude to the club, having so much respect for the club and fans while there and after leaving and having great memories at the club.

Chai! Just look at Koscienly.

How disrespectful can one be? Imagine his unveiling video. You put on an arsenal jersey at Boudreau and at the countdown you pull it off to reveal Boudreau jersey worn underneath.

This guy didn't even join barca, Madrid, man utd, bayern or any other big club ó......Somebody now say thunder should leave him alone.

And to think he was our captain ó.

iamoyindamola:
Spurs are chokers no matter what and they might lose eriksen, moreover pochettino may not be able to keep them dybala use to start, coutinho want to start, son is fans favourite, Kane no matter is a sure banker, eriksen if he stays is sure, moura is becoming a favourite, lamela is improving too.
See bros I no wan talk about that stadium ISH again because wengay fed us lies we can't compete because we built stadium
Spurs stadium is more expensive than ours yet they are competing.
Look at the amount and number of dead woods we want out of arsenal yet people think I'm hating on that miserable old man

He's obviously selling Erikson and may likely let lamela go too. The others will rotate and play. His team will have depth.

I know Tottenham to be chokers but after watching them take out man city in the champions league last season I'm beginning to think they will win one or two trophies if pochettinho remains their coach for at least next two years. He's been making progress for a while now. They are not even finishing outside top 4 like they do before after all the initial gra gra. They are gradually moving up the ranks slow and steady like loserpool did till they got the champions league. Spurs is towing that path of buying between 2 to 3 players, keep as many old key players as possible and sell the deadwood.

Spy360:
If Spurs succeed to get Dybala, Coutinho and Bruno Fernandes. Name big wahala for us o.

The most desperate club is United. Running around the market like a stray dog.

Most confident club is Liverpool. They don't seem to need any one.

With Rodrigo and Cancelo coming in, Man City remains favorite for the title. Once again.

Man city will just kill anybody throway. Dem go discharge armory enter anybody body.

I thought I was the only one worried about the fire power Spurs are packing. While in the showers earlier this morning I was thinking if we can just shock them and still Son and make him a starter or something just to reduce their firepower but I jolted back into reality knowing spurs would rather file for bankruptcy than sell us any of their key players.

I come dey wonder if na same stadium wey we build spurs sef build or na a whole country we build while they built a stadium. I mean how do they build stadium and still have this much funds to dole out to buy players?

iamoyindamola:
Leipzig you mean
Yeah one french upcoming defender I haven't seen him in French color why spend much on unproven defender

Yes. Leipzig I mean. I've not seen him play too. Its obvious we will sign a CB on or before Thursday, but who that CB will be is the headache. When we ought to have sorted such vital position out we were going round and round circles trying to land Zaha who was deliberately overpriced. Chai!

This booby na real " Àjàgà Bábílónì wo"

iamoyindamola:
I'm still saying it you guys should brace yourselves up for at least one panic buy in defence...too little too late

I think are trying to buy one up and coming guy(I can't really spell his name sha) from Salzburg. Tho those ones have seen our predicament and are holding out insisting on 70 million I think.

Jenkinson on the verge of moving to Nottingham Forrest.....If it's possible for him to go as far as Akhisar Belediyespur sef I don't mind. Watching him defend at arsenal gives me kidney ache

I don't even understand wassup with this coutinho palava sef. One minute they say arsenal is trying to have him on loan and another minute we hear the coach saying they are not looking at having him transfer to arsenal. If dem wan sign am make dem sign and if dem no wan sign make dem gedifok!

We no beg them to sign him in first place why are they going on and off like traffic light. If they can get a CB, LB and just maybe a RB fine! If they now decide to add coutinho, nothing spoil.

But getting coutinho alone and locking up means shey are planning on always winning 6-4 or 5-3 in this new season o

Thunder escort kos go that bourdeaux

Spy360:
Your first error is to compare Guendouzi with De Bruyne and Bernardo Silva.

Your second error is to think Guendouzi is an all attacking player, in fact he is primarily defensive.

Third you forget that the likes of De Bruyne were once rejects. Your lots made that kind of mistake at Chelsea, they never saw anything good despite that the lad was YOUNG and DEVELOPING.

Cool down, the young shall grow.

Show me me where DE Bruyne was given starting place in Chelsea for a year and I will beloved anything you want to say about Guendouzi.

Guendouzi has got the playing time dem De Bruyne never had at Chelsea and he's been the way I described in my post.

Guendouzi should be reserve player at beat and shouldn't be a starter at arsenal. He hasn't done anything in the last one year to suggest he deserves a starting role.

Roland17:
Just stop it already!

The sheer brilliance of that pass positioned Auba to make that sort of turn. This is because the ball arrived with the right speed and velocity and if you consider the distance that pass traveled and the opponents it evaded you should not call that a normal pass.

U Sabi ball abeg

kokaneprodigy:
Guen is better than Ozil. In fact he taught Ozil how to make that kinda pass.

That one wey go dey load like Ps1 before passing

Dreamswayne:
Normal pass joor...


Auba did the main work with that turning...



The vision though, is where Ozil shines...

Lolz....I'm sure u are just trolling. That's a Grade A Fabregas pass. A pass that picked Auba out despite being shadow marked by two defenders and even the sliding legs of Umtiti couldn't stop.it from getting to its destination.

Only ozil can do that within the shortest distance.

How come nobody talked about ozil's pass to Auba before that goal yesterday? It's unfortunate the only person capable of going that pass in our team is ozil himself.

kokaneprodigy:
me no won talk before they say I am picking on him.

Guen has no business starting games. No matter how bad Xhaka is, Guen still isn’t better than him.

You dey mind dem? They all watch Bernardo Silva play and marvel at how he makes runs, tackles spiritedly,etc....they see how debruyne no dey waste time once he sights u about to make a run releases the ball with a powerful pass, etc....But No! They prefer the way Guendouzi shields the ball unnecessarily, gets fouled shielding the ball when he ought to have long passed, and ends up passing when the opponent has almost figured our attack out....Anyway I don't blame them sha, na the coach wey dey comfortable with his game play

Just look at sterling at Liverpool and sterling at city. See the difference. See how the coach has helped sterling developed from that diving player that holds to the ball unnecessarily to a great winger who deals with defenders and doesn't stop until he either scores or some of his teammates does.

Funny thing is Guendouzi isn't even as talented as some of our youngsters in the last we let go like dem Carlos vela and Co.

If I talk am now dem go say person no like the boy, but this is someone that sees what I've been saying in the past season

iamoyindamola:
Auba is a poacher sha

Later that bros go still come here tell us say Auba dey score tap-in's

And Jesus finally share grace

ucsquare:
clearance of the season..

Aswear.