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iamoyindamola:
That's what I am saying, odegaard is doing well but as he achieved anything?
Absolutely No!!!
Lol una wan tag saliba to arteta success again
Person that was doing well in France, ebening owns saliba success

Can a single player win a trophy all by himself? Why didn't Van Djik win trophies with Southampton like he did with loserpool?

All these talks about a player not achieving anything and using it to downplay how good a player is ; that should be something young football fans do not an OG like u.

As regards Saliba playing well in France; we all know that any player can look like a superstar in France only for them to flop in the EPL. At least we still remember how Pepe flopped under Good ebening despite looking like Messi in the French Ligue 1.

Even if u don't agree Arteta has anything to do with Saliba's outstanding performance under him; at least u agree that the other 4 players who made the EPL team of the year were all Arteta's signing.

iamoyindamola:
Still my point he couldn't get a work permit till he left for Aston Villa and miraculously got one
Wait all you listed for odegaard are achievements abi😂, you are creating avenue for me to drag odegaard

When u say "drag Odegaard", what does that even mean? That he is not a good player that performs excellently well and has become one of the best midfielder in the league or what?

Baba drop all these agenda and appreciate our players when they do well irrespective of what happens to the team as a whole. Odegaard was so good last year that he was in the EPL team of the year. In fact, not just him but 4 players signed by Arteta: Rice, Raya,Gabriel and Odegaard. Let's not forget Saliba though not signed by Arteta has grown into one of the best defenders in the league under his tutelage; he was also in the EPL team of the year.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ABE8JdPtZ14?si=JC_S5h9x-s1y881n

I find it hard to believe the claim made by Adebayor in this video . He claims Wenger called him after coming back from an Holiday and told him he’s no longer needed at Arsenal .

That was not how I remember his departure from Arsenal at all .

germaphobe:
We needed that lb addition bro, I don't know how you guys analyse it, but we really needed that addition. There's nothing wrong in buying a lb, a winger and a midfielder at the same time. The fact that they couldn't get a winger or cf doesn't make the purchase of Calafiori a waste or not necessary.

GBAM!

That was how they were saying Gabriel's signing wasn't necessary back then. They said he should've signed attackers and midfielders; that was what led to the defence vs attack argument instead of advocating for a balanced team.

johnjunior39:
Chief be honest , in order of priority after last season was defence really the issue ?

Not taking anything away from Calafori because I am a fan too but the fact remain that there were order of priority man.
Is a norm. It was clear to all and sundry that there were games attack was found wanting.
We knew that Saka needed a deputy but we took that money to buy a defender when we had more clean sheet.

For Merino, course there was need for additional Midfielder but not Merino.

Now we have two aging DM, we don't want to start addressing it now

Sterling was supposed to be Saka's deputy but apparently that was an unwise move going by how poor Sterling's form was at Chelsea last season. That's why I said Arteta and the management deserve to be criticized for that signing.

There's nothing wrong in signing Calafiori at a time he was available considering how quality he is. Don't forget he was one of the best players at the last Euro. This criticism of Calafiori is sounding like the criticism of Gabriel's signing back then led by Kokane and the others. Look at how well Gabriel has now turned out. There's actually nothing wrong in signing a quality player who is available at a decent price and signing him should not in any way stop us from adding a striker the same transfer window.

Arteta and the club should've also signed a striker particularly after selling off Nketiah. But I guess they were looking at how we didn't lack goals last season despite playing without a regular top 9. Remember we scored 91 goals in the EPL last season; just 5 short of Man city that had Halland. I think that is the highest number of goals we've scored in a premier league season.

Now that it is clear we are having goal droughts unlike last season, it is only reasonable that we sign a striker.

Ekweremadu's wife returns to Nigeria allegedly.

https://www.nairaland.com/8323717/breaking-ekweremadus-wife-returns-nigeria

iamoyindamola:
Maybe if arteta reach the level of wengay we can overlook his purchase of flops

The point is no matter how good or poor a coach is , he will always have players that turned out good and players that never lived up to expectation under his tutelage. It is not peculiar to just one coach.

FG is chastising Julius Berger for trying to negotiate an upward review of contract cost.

Yet it is the same government that floated the naira and dollar is almost close to N2,000 from around N600 when the contract was awarded. The same FG has been unable to tame the ever-rising inflation rate . They are also aware the minimum wage has been increased and as such the personnel cost of the contractor will increase.

Is it that FG wants the contractor(Julius Berger) to execute the contract at a loss or what?

I hope the minister will mention the preveious jobs this new contractor has executed in the past so people can check and see whether they are indeed competent and not just a front to divert government's funds after delivering a shoddy job.

One needs to start asking questions, so we won't have a case of Hadi Sirika that scammed the entire country with the Nigeria Air project

germaphobe:
Wenger wey sign Lucas perez

Omo! the long list of flops signed by Wenger is inexhaustible . We once had Yaya "Sir-No-Goal"

iamoyindamola:
Funny enough I will still take maddison currently
Because he's a dead ball specialist and an active shooter

Maddison can't do half of what Odegaard does for us as a team. The way he pushes our attack and drives it , I've never seen Maddison do half of that. You are right that Maddison is a dead ball specialist and seem to be better shooter , but that's where it ends. The creativity of Odegaard will always shine through.

Just look at that second goal socred by Trossard vs Tottenham; immediately Partey dispossessed Bissouma and the ball fell onto Odegaard's path, he quickly released the ball setting Trossard up for the goal. That and more is what has endeared Odegaard to the fans. He has also scored some nice placing shots in the past vs Man utd and even Chelsea.

The fact that Maddison keeps battling with injuries while Odegaard seem to be quite healthy is another plus

TemporaryHansel:
Speed Darlington is the only person I've seen spend time in prison and come out looking fresher. Oh I think Bob too.

Perks of being a celebrity. Police don't dare rough them and starve them like they always do to regular inmates.

Anybody that can pay for VIP accommodation and feeding will surely get VIP treatment while in Sanko. The only reason why u noticed it is only celebrity that enjoys such rare privilege is because they are the only ones whose pictures post release always make it to the internet.

Other people who pay for such treatment will just hide their head and avoid media when they come out.

germaphobe:
We questioned Ben white signing too, Ramsdale too, Gabriel too and when he was still raw some of us were quick to say "we said so".

Exactly. I don't know why fans are quick to start lashing out and listing the signings that turned out bad immediately we hit a rough patch. We always forget about the ones that turned out good under the tutelage of the same coach. They even make it seem like it is only this current coach that signed flops meanwhile almost all our previous coaches have their own share of flops signed by them.

iamoyindamola:
You get am🤣🤣
If them give baba money today na to shop for 4 in 1 defenders because his oga apari just got 2 new defenders

But the 4 in 1 defenders are a plus to us. Timber has been playing across RB and LB since the start of the season and it is an advantage for us; especially when the other players who can play the roles are out injured.

There's actually nothing wrong in doing that provided the players are really good at what they do. Shebi we used to have Callum Chambers that was touted as being able to play RB,CB,DM and CM well; but we all saw how he was useless in almost all the positions. These ones Arteta is recruiting have shown themselves to be better.

iamoyindamola:
Because he's the main driver
You just don't want to see it that way
Board will drop money, arteta will go and look for 10 in 1 players to sign
It as happened before and will still happen, we the fans will be thinking the player is for this position whereas arteta knows why he's getting the guy
Normally cunha is a winger but I won't be surprised if he comes and play 9
Are we still blaming arteta 🤣

Well, I can't speak for him as regards signing a player that can play across different positions; I believe he will have his reasons for doing that(chief of which I believe will be that that it enables players to step into other positions when the original player in those roles get injured).

However, we shouldn't just discountenance his signings just like that. I remember how almost all the fans wanted Maddison as our AM only for him to sign Odegaard. Some of us even thought it was because of the 50 million fee being requested for him that was why we signed a cheaper Odegaard. Alas, today Odegaard is one of the best midfielders in the league while Maddison struggles to get a starting shirt at Tottenham.

Arteta has his bad sides and faults, but so also does he have the good sides too. We shouldn't just paint all his efforts and decisions as terrible. Haba!

It won't be bad if he signs Cunha or any other winger and still signs a striker too. Let's hope the board sees things the way we do.

johnjunior39:
I understand you completely and not putting the whole blame on Arteta but he has a role to play.

For example remember Lacazette was brought in August and when Wenger was still not satisfied, we signed Auba in January.

We had no business honestly getting a new defender yet Calafori was seen as an upgrade.

Ramsdale was doing a bit just fine yet Raya came into play.

Like I said, If Arteta needed a second for Saka he would have done that. When I saw the news that Nwaneri is back , I just knew that winger issue is buried, Saka will be back by let February which is about 4 weeks or more.

Again, my prayer is a pure 9 because me don't see this our board and Arteta buying two players this January so , give us a striker and save us the misery of Havertz before the will start trying Trossard abeg.

Why do u people keep repeating this line "We had no business honestly getting a new defender yet Calafori was seen as an upgrade" ; as if repeating it countless times will make it true?

Just last year we were all here complaining about how Zinchencko our LB gets roasted defensively anytime he starts for us. We complained so much that some of us kept wondering why Arteta keeps starting him knowing how weak he is defensively. Then there was Tear-knee who was obviously not in the coach's plan and would not be at the club today if not for his constant injuries that has scared most suitors away. Tomiyasu who could've played the LB is almost always injured every eke market day.

So how exactly were we doing well and not needing a LB before we signed Calafiori? For the life of me, I will never imagine anybody will call Arsenal signing Calafiori a luxury signing seeing how thin we are in the LB position.

I will Merino is a luxury signing but certainly not Calafiori.

As regards Ramsdale & Raya, it was obvious Ramsdale will lose his starting role going by the errors he made in the 2022/2023 season. Ramsdale was a good shot stopper that made really great saves to earn us points in his days at the Emirates but he also made so many errors that cost us points. If I don't remember anyone, I remember the one he made vs Southampton which led to those ones scoring within 27 seconds from kickoff while we were busy pursuing the EPL title. It was so bad that he had to apologize to the fans after the match .

As much as I liked Ramsdale while he was with us, I don't really fault the coach and the management of the club for relegating to the bench after replacing him with Raya. He has himself to blame for that and nobody else.

Arteta and the club management should take the blame for believing a washed Raheem Sterling would be a worthy deputy for Saka. Since it is clear that Saka's shoes are too big for Sterling to step into, it is only reasonable for them to make arrangement to sign another right winger on permanent basis since Sterling's loan is just for a year and will end in the summer.

I also want them to sign a natural goal scorer who will help us convert all those chances Havertz has been spilling. It is nit too much for us to have the best of both worlds, I believe the club is in a good financial position and we should also make some money selling some of our players that are just occupying space in the team doing nothing.

johnjunior39:
You and I know that Arteta don't think you need any winger first of all.

You and I know that Arteta will rather recall little man from Porto.

And you and I know that if Cunha come is a case of he can play 9.

Like I said, my prayer is let them get a proper 9

We've all seen that Viera cannot play on the wings, even Arteta himself knows this; that's why he was sent on loan since there's no space for him in the middle where we have Odegaard holding it on lockdown.

Cunha is at best a decent winger who will contribute goals from the wings.Even if we don't sign Cunha, we will need to sign another winger to play the righ wing because we are quite light on that side of the pitch.

The fact that Gabriel Jesus is injured makes it imperative for us to also sign a decent striker and Osimhen is not a bad choice.

This is not about having a pre-conceived notion about Arteta; honestly I wonder why u guys find it so easy to blame Arteta for everything while absolving the club's management of any fault. Even before Arteta joined this club as a coach, we've been having issues of not signing players we the club feel we need. Don't u think it may be the club management's issue and not necessarily the coaches?

johnjunior39:
You really believe in Arteta that he will sign Cunha for 80m or so to come and play as a winger ?


See let him just give us a striker biko.

A proper one oh not they one that can play 7 positions

It is not about what I believe or what u believe.

It is not Arteta's money but the club's money. If we need a striker and a winger, it is only expected of him to suggest his preferred targets for the roles to the management and let them push to get them signed.

We need both winger and striker, so let them sign both.

iamoyindamola:
Unless that's what we want to do
Cunha is not a CF but a winger, knowing how our coach is obsessed with 3 in 1 kind of players
We might not get a real 9 but those jack of all trades type

The only thing that will make sense is for us to sign a winger and a CF .That way we will have enough squad depth and we won't be lamenting anytime Saka is injured ; also we will have our goal scoring challenges sorted once and for all

daveP:
The Vlahovic negotiations fell through. Too difficult to reach compromise is the verdict. Who's next?


Oops!! All these thing fit be to raise fans expectations and dash it with 0 signings.

I've never really liked this Vlahovic and wasn't looking forward to us signing him.

I'd rather we sign Osimhen as our CF now that he's currently available.

johnjunior39:
This Cunha guy just dey do me like another Havertz signing.

Walai, I pray it does not pull through. We need a proper 9 with numbers. Buy once and do all Lil what we did with Auba.

All this he can play across all front, he can do this and that don tire me

How is Cunha signing going to be similar to Havertz's ? Cunha has scored 10 goals in 21 EPL games this season already.

I believe signing him to use him as a winger and then signing another CF will not be a bad business at all.

GloriousGbola:
i dont know if it still works - but if you get gmat and gre test prep books that is what they used to base their tests on. sometimes they copied and pasted. quite literally i must have gotten 100/100 in the test of my old place when i applied because they def dubbed one of those books . keep in mind this is 2003/4

Yes u are right , most of those aptitude tests are GMAT, SHL , Dragnet and the likes . I used to have some of those practice questions and answers in my mail too but since I had long passed that stage of writing aptitude tests and most of the people I encouraged too passed that stage , I don’t have them any longer .

I’m sure if he ransack the jobs/vacancy section on Nairaland he will be able to get some of those materials .

Shegzdave:
The reason for redeploying is so as to finish My ICAN exams

Good ! While writing ur exams , do well to watch out for graduate trainee programs of EY, KPMG, Deloitte , PWC , Accessbank , UBA , Coronation Merchant bank , Heirs Holdings , etc .

Apply to as many of those companies , make sure u write as many aptitude tests as u can and attend as many interviews as u can .

While ur mates are stuck in some village teaching some primary/secondary school subject that adds little or no value to them , u are actively navigating ur way in the labour market . And u might be fortunate to land a good paying job before or by the end of ur service year.

Due to the the serious issues in the Nigerian labor market , it is advisable u start early .

iamoyindamola:
Akpi is free
Burna boy is a bully🤬🤬🤬

https://www.nairaland.com/8323197/speed-darlington-regains-freedom-after

I don’t support what Burna did to him o, but Akpi too supposed rest . He has said a whole lot of crazy stuff in the past sha . He’s a tribalist who says all sorts of shiiii about Yoruba and has even talked down on several of his fellow musicians at different point in time .

He can keep making his music without trying to be controversial and denigrating others .

Shegzdave:
Amen boss, thanks
Nah, this is Ijora badia and only one bus has moved since and it’s from luxury silver buses

If u can, please redeploy back to Lagos after ur 3 weeks in camp . In fact , while in camp start processing ur redeployment .

The only advice I can give any graduate posted outside Lagos, Rivers , FCT , etc where things Dey happen and headquarters of companies are located is to relocate back to Lagos and start the job search journey earlier .

I consider spending one full year teaching or working in an LGA council in a place like Plateau or any other part of the north , east , southwest , etc a complete waste of one year.

If u are Lagos within that service year , u will have an advantage over ur peers in the sense that u can apply for graduate trainee roles , internship and other entry level roles while ur mates are busy focusing on teaching in one obscure village .

If u are lucky , u may even get job while still observing ur service year. If I had known this during my own time , I wouldn’t had wasted that full service year teaching , eating and sleeping .

LordAdam16:
Blue, the Global South and the Golden Billion (North America + Europe + AU/NZ) are on a collision course.
It's set in stone.

Nigeria is hanging out with the BRICS crowd because it is and will remain the premier geopolitical forum of the Global South.
We have no choice. Even Chile, an OECD country and firmly keyed into the Western economic system is seeking entry.

These are the fundamentals.
So when we made the decision to get in, Aso Rock had done the calculus on risk and what not.
The potential of a future hawkish POTUS has been factored in. It'll be bewildering if we didn't take that into account.

Now, with Trump as #47, and this applies to any other confrontational POTUSes, it's all about deft skill in geopolitics.
India, Brazil, and UAE are not going to be treated as harshly as China or Iran. All are BRICS members.
Brazil needs the West for Embraer. Ambani, India's richest man, was at Trump's inauguration.
We want carve outs and if we play our cards right, we'll get them.
Essentially, it's not as much about BRICS as a group, but what we narrowly do via our bilateral ties with the West.
Else, we'll sleepwalk into a b100% tariff while even China is getting exemptions. We'll be the example dangled about as a cautionary tale while the ringleaders with more cachet get a slap on the wrist.
That's how Biden enacted global chip export restrictions and an ally like Poland (third largest military in NATO after US and Turkey) got shafted.

That's the danger.

I'm not that concerned about it because Tinubu is a failure but not an id**t.
It'll take a monumental screwup for that worse case scenario to come to fruition.

A 100% tariff will hurt us.
Trump wants all of the Global South to perform a pilgrimage like less powerful nation states did when a new Shahanshah, Caesar, or Qing Emperor came on the scene. Essentially, tell me why you shouldn't have a target on your back.

In Trumpian fashion, the delivery is bombastic; but it will happen with most POTUSes going forward because BRICS has the potential to be a check on the US's socioeconomic influence. The folks at Washington simply cannot have that.

The chip export restriction I mentioned earlier shows that this is the bipartisan way the US plans to relate with an increasingly economically vibrant Global South. Biden dropped the hammer and I don't think Trump will rescind the executive action.
I've been looking into a hobbyist rig to natively run open source AI models. It could become a serious challenge to future-proof the setup because the richer second-world countries will set up shell companies in third world countries to buy and redirect our quotas.
If the rest of the world can't get the GPUs, we can't create service exports in an emerging industry that'll define human civilization. Probably worse than a tariff even.

So, it's not like this is not something we have to think about. Or it's exclusive to Trump, ergo it's peculiar and a more run-off-the-mill POTUS wouldn't put us on notice.
Frankly, things are headed in a direction where we'll ultimately either be a target or collateral damage. No in-between.
Might as well be a target; there's safety in numbers. We play the game and deal with the fallout.

-Lord

So basically America still wants to be the one calling the shots . And they will use divide and rule to keep BRICS members in check .

Shegzdave:
Decided to take the evening bus because when I checked every transport, almost all of them are scheduled to move in the afternoon/evening cause of less patronage. Most people are moving tomorrow

Bonny way transport ways

Safe Journey .

This is Iddo/Oyingbo abi? Most of their luxurious buses going to the north in that side always move in the evening . That’s the same place I boarded while going back after the first 3 weeks camp and the break we were given after resuming at PPA .

The good thing about traveling at night is that u will get to ur destination during the day and u will be able to find ur way around .

Instead make Amuru win matches and move up the table, he's busy flipping over tables in the dressing room

germaphobe:
who bought Jesus, Zinchenko, Rice, Gabriel, Trossard, Timber, Calafiori, Odegaard, Ben white and Partey, who all helped the club become what it is now. Will you blame him for buying such quality players?. Since every transfer is 100% his

GloriousGbola:
I wanted to Google Nigeria oil revenue before posting but I figured why bother.

I don't understand as I have been reading for years that our crude is not in demand any more.

And I cannot reconcile those numbers with our current fortunes

But most importantly - what are we exporting to the US outside of oil and virtual labor?

I think China , USA and India are the top export destination for our crude oil. I learnt Nigeria's crude is one of the finest there is out there and that's why the US buys from us in addition to the various grades they have.

GloriousGbola:
meaning he expects to be bribed one way or an other

think of trump like your govt official who comes around making noise about infarctions

JJCs are intimidated - experienced hands know the game.

he is the one who banned tiktok - he is now the one unbanning it after some lobbying inauguration donations

if nigeria is fked it is because we are broke niggers of no consequence . we have not been doing any business with the US in any event. they arent the ones buying our oil and we are looking else where for weapons

Are u sure about the bolded?

The United States

The United States claims the fifth position with a total of N1.31 trillion worth of exported goods.

Crude oil remains a major driver of this trade relationship, with exports valued at N1.21 trillion, accounting for 92 per cent of the total

Non-crude oil exports stood at N102.96 billion, representing eight per cent of the total.

https://businessday.ng/news/article/chart-shows-nigerias-top-10-export-destination-in-q1-2024/

GloriousGbola:
trump is just a shakedown artiste

you suppose know his game by now

Meaning he's just barking and won't bite?

I saw a video of Trump taking questions from state house correspondents while signing the executive orders yesterday. He was talking about the US imposing 100% tarriff on businesses BRICS nations do with the US.

I hope the idea of Nigeria joining BRICS/Intending to join BRICS will not against us as a nation considering how Trump seem to be moving in this his second term sha?

Ibime, Raumdeuter, LordAdam16, and other members of the house, what do u think?