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daveP:
Everything is on Gabriel abeg. See that KungFu flying he did? Oh boiii. Many attempt it and end up injured. How he clicked the connection while Solanke was still on him and strongly on the ball too.....


Switch the red shirt and chance of goal turns to zero

Everything is not on Gabriel , it takes special skill to locate him in that pack of bodies in the box . Both of them really did well to combine for that goal .

Why is Havertz still coming out of the dug out for 2nd half ?

I hope he doesn’t get a red card with the way he’s always conceding fouls anyhow

I don’t know if it’s Rice one should commend for delivering a perfect corner kick for that goal or it is Gabriel who connected with the ball that should be praised for attacking the ball at the right time and placing the ball right inside the net .

These are the kind of shots we expect from Martinelli , but that one will just want to run and run till he enter corner flag

Trossard! 😂

Havertz is just useless . To trap ball turn to war 🤦‍♂️

Shey this Sterling no sabi mark at all ni? That should not have been a foul at all .

Come On Ye Gunners!

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Game on !

Why is Sterling playing like a foool like this ?

How can this club still not sign a striker despite seeing what we are going through ?

What is always wrong with our defenders and not clearing off the ball completely ?

That goal Tottenham scored was not worth it at all.

Trossard don use dribble kill this one

mostob:
Sterling's time to shine. Trossard has been using his left comfortably lately, so i expect him to start at the RW.

Havertz needs to find his confidence ASAP and stop being Mama's boy.

As in…they all need to combine well and give us desired result tonight ni o

Sterling and Trosaard start …. Hmmmm

mostob:


Asec Mimosa ke ....

Coquellin was not an intelligent DM at all.

Spy360:
Is Havertz a striker?

Whether you are looking at it from his skill set to even his role in the team he is not a striker. He is an AM that plays as a false 9.

I agree his finishing appeals for more, but he definitely cannot be the most stupid signing. Definitely never. By all means never.

I’m not here to talk semantics with u, Havertz is Arsenal’s player that plays farthest inside the opponent’s half . Whatever name u choose to call his role is immaterial ; he’s saddled with goal scoring in the team and somehow wingers are outscoring him .

His signing is the most stupid signing because we needed a player who is known more for scoring goals at the time he was signed . He was supposed to be that guy who would score load of goals but always find ways to keep the ball out of the net than putting it inside the set .

Olowunl01:
Baba, do you have a problem with Seyi contesting? I personally believe without rigging, Seyi vs GRV is a shoe-in, democracy is a popularity contest, Seyi is more people and more amenable comparison to GRV, whether him or GRV or anyone would be a good governor or manager is to be seen, no guarantee anywhere.

Because his dad is Mr President doesn't or shouldn't count against him..

Problem keh ?

Not at all. I doubt I would even still be in Nigeria by then, so I no too Dey interested in who becomes what .

I was only laughing at the performative nonsense the guy was saying in the screenshot ni, like he had any power whatsoever to stop Seyi if his father decides to hand him the ticket just like he did his wife for 3 consecutive terms.

mostob:
All in their prime, start one, bench one and sell one.

Alex Song
Francis Coquelin
Thomas Partey

Start Partey

Bench Alex Song

Sell Coquelin go Asec Mimosa.

Amigoss:


Seyi getting the ticket is where they want to draw the line

Make dem dey whine themselves. Like say dem no dey alive when the wife got Senate ticket 3 consecutive terms in the same Lagos .

The funny thing was that even 2019 when they benched the other two senators representing Lagos in the senate, nobody dared to bench her.

Make dem go buy ruler to draw the line well well

Ballzproblemm:
Lagos people are under the illusion they have a choice dey make me laugh, anything wey make seyi run tomorrow for governorship ,na easy bag.

He say " That's full state Capture"....

Shey na half state capture before when person be former governor, his wife former senator and his daughter current Iyaloja ? Like say if he gives Seyi the ticket the same person will still not campaign for him.

All those talks abought fighting it with everything na just word of mouth wey no come from the heart.

Sportsweb:
remove my name there. Check my history, am anti-jackson. My only problem with you is that you don't give him his flowers whenever he drops masterclass. You still criticize him in matches he scored and assisted.

Flower boy

Airmark no get time, he don quickly add u to the long list of people he will bombing with mention anytime Chelsea does not win or Jackson doesn't score

Spy360:
Don't fall for that trap.

Havertz is like Giroud. He may not give that kind of Lewandoski vibe but he does his job the way the manager instructs. Havertz was our second top scorer last season and is currently our top scorer. So how does it make him the most stupid signing? Emphasis on the bolded

Havertz wasted a whole lot of chances before he scored the paltry amount of goals that made him our second top scorer.

Imagine a player who primarily played as striker for most of the league scoring just 13 goals while Saka who played as a winger scoring 16 league goals.

You are right that Havertz is like Giroud, they are both terrible strikers in Arsenal colors. I'm sure the manager did not instruct him to miss chances like he does because I can see u claiming he does his job the way the manager instructs.

I repeat Havertz is most stupid signing we made , Eddie Nketiah would've scored the same goals he scored and even more without us wasting over 60 million on Havertz.

iamoyindamola:
Tavares can easily do the job calafiori is doing
Check him in Lazio
But arsenal is different we can't afford unfortunate signings
They are much if you add zinchenko, viera, Kai , sambi together
That's almost 160m wasted

Tavares is not suited for EPL , the football in England is too fast paced for him that’s why he seem like he’s an excellent player at Lazio. We’ve tried him in the past and we all see how poor he was; he’s not even as good as Zinchencko that we want to replace .

Some of those players u listed up there , nobody ever thought they will end up being useless when we were signing them. There’s no way any coach can predict if a player will click or not when he reaches ur club . It is only when u start using them that u can then confirm they are not what u were expecting them to be .

Viera for example seem like a decent young player with flair when he was signed . He played well at the under 19 and under 21 European championship where he was named in the team of the tournament . As at the time we were signing him I believe we thought we were adding a gem to our list of talented players like Odegaard . Nobody envisaged that he will be an injury liability who will rarely play .

Point is sometimes the management of the club don’t even know if a player will blow or flop

Roland17:
Baba, if Arteta had used the 91M he spent last summer on Merino and a luxury Calafiori in addressing one of the concerns you raised up there, I would be more accommodating. He completed the madness with Sterling and Neto. Ownership have supported Arteta, we need to be honest about that.

Raya has been playing every game for us this season, it is only a matter of time he goes down, it is the truth. Who do we fall back on? Neto?

He has had how many transfer windows to address these obvious problems? I mean, we have all been talking about a Saka replacement for nearly 4 seasons since he became a superstar for club and country and what has Arteta done?

I agree Merino is a luxury buy but not Calafiori. We needed a decent LB to replace the inconsistent Zinchencko and the want away Tear-knee.

Calafiori is the right player we needed for that role . Maybe if we had let one of Partey or Jorginho leave , the signing of Merino would’ve made sense .

Arteta and the management deserve tongue lashing for not fixing that Saka side of the pitch at least with a worthy deputy .

Aside that , I think the club has been unfortunate signing some players who end up not living up to expectations . On that I believe every club in EPL have had their fair share of such players ; it’s not peculiar to Arsenal alone .

Roland17:
We are not suffering "a" loss, we are suffering losses at critical stages of the season, exiting competitions, dropping important points during the 10 game unbeaten streak you are speaking about. Dropped points that have been consequential in our total point difference against Liverpool. These incidents have occurred around the same time every season under Arteta. We suffer injuries, exit competitions and lose a chance to win the league, right at the same time. So yes, it is always predictable like Deja Vu.

My question to you is simple..

Now in his 6th year and our realities, justify why he should continue as manager of Arsenal. I legitimately want to read and understand that position. What should I expect Arteta will do differently going into next season. I am not saying what everybody else has to do, I mean, what he will do differently.

I expect him and the management to work on signing Saka’s replacement, sign strikers , sign another midfielder . Also the deadwood’s should be cleared off the team .

I was equally disappointed some key signings were not made last transfer window .

iamoyindamola:
Bros unbeaten run with nothing to show in the end is nothing
It's pretty obvious players are the one carrying him na, [/b]saka is injured and the whole team forget how to score
Honestly I haven't seen anything special in this man to earn praises
He's not flexible, his man management is poor, he's arrogant and stubborn, very predictable

Here lies the problem . So when the team is playing really well and they are on unbeaten run it is the players that are carrying him.

But when the team runs into a rough patch it is the coach that is fumbling ?

Maybe he’s a predictable , stubborn and arrogant coach who is incapable of being flexible ; but then it’s the same set of players we said he didn’t sign that he has used to challenge for the league twice o.

Another thing I’ve observed is that almost all the players speak well about Arteta and they talk about how he’s helped improved their games . So maybe he’s not special to we fans , but he seem to be special to the players

Roland17:
Every employer of labor or supervisor goes in everyday planning for the worst. I was clear when I said on the surface of finishing 2nd it looks appealing but when other critical factors are evaluated, you will see the rot beneath. A replacement irrespective of industry doesn't have to be immediate. United fired ETH, they had RVN temporarily support the team while they completed their recruitment. I understand they spoke to a few coaches before Amorim. Ljungberg was hired as interim following the in season firing of Ebening and Arteta was subsequently hired.

You are presenting it like disengaging a coach or a staff during an active season is novel or will be the first time it has ever happened. Edu moved on from Arsenal while the season is ongoing, the club found a temporary replacement and I don't expect them to make a permanent decision about the position until after the season. That is how recruitment works, depending on the dynamics of the situation. Nobody holds on to a coach who has now entered his 6th year coaching a Big club like Arsenal with only 2nd finishes to show for it.

We have exhausted every excuse in the books and keep coming up with more. He is competing against Pep, here comes Slot in his first season. He has an injured roster, well, history during his time supports the argument that his training regime and use of players have always led to players getting grounded during the stage of the season. Who are we going to hire? Liverpool, Chelsea, United, Barcelona, Milan, Inter did not ask those questions before moving on. He is still young, well, he has now entered his 6th year. He has raised us from the dead, that is why we should continue holding on to Arteta, nothing else.

Some are so hesitant to call out his failures in managing transfers, the health and conditioning of our squad every year, our troubling exits from competitions, his bad tactics and substitutions, his inability to adapt, predictable formation/ tactics, getting outcoached constantly, inability to raise our game when it matter or him being a difference when it matters most...and when you hear it from someone who thinks differently, you guys believe it is negative energy or trolling but these are facts some of us are unwilling to admit to.

Arteta was great at specific aspects of the game when he was under Pep. I did not think that translated into being the head coach at the time. If he was going to be a head coach, it should have been with a mid-table team across Europe not a traditional Big club in the EPL. N. Jover is a set-piece specialist for Arsenal, that shouldn't translate into me supporting him to become a head coach, worse still at a Big Club..just because he is great at specific things.

The decision not to fire for the management may be more than just results. If the club is financially stable and getting max capacity during home games, there may be no need to make any changes. Their priority and motivation may not be field result driven and that is what it looks like for us.

I will respond to the bolded . The truth is as much as we may want to claim otherwise , there are actually fans who go above and beyond to troll the club for reasons best known to them .

I know about the inadequacies of Arteta’s game and I actually do not have any problem with fellow fans pointing those issues out when they are evident . However , I find it disturbing that we may go on a 10 game unbeaten run with everybody giving kudos to the players and the coach ; then we suffer a loss and u see our fans start calling for the sack of the same coach that just did an unbeaten run.

Yes Arteta has his faults for not being flexible in some games and we end up losing and easily winnable game . I understand it’s normal for one to be frustrated by such results as a fan , but what I don’t agree with is suddenly calling the coach a mofo, calling him useless and all sorts of derogatory names .

As per ur last paragraph , the koko is the decision to hire and fire lies with the senior management of the club. At the end of the day , they are the ones who decides if Arteta stays or a replacement takes over from him

mostob:
At this stage, little is better than nothing.
It is a short term fix so i wouldn't mind IFF we can't land any of the main targets.

I want us to be intentional and get real long term target . All these short term fix na just waste of time and resources .

Just look at Sterling we loaned as short term fix , we should have signed a reliable deputy Saka and not sterling who is a Chelsea reject

iamoyindamola:
Blueraydick any evidence arteta is in charge of transfer

If u read between the lines , u will see that this post actually suggests that Arteta gave green light for this deal just like he did Rice ; but not all other transfers

So more like u brought an evidence that shows that Arteta is actively involved in some transfers and not involved in others .

I don’t I said he doesnt get involved in transfers , what I said was that at the end of the day the club has the final say . At least if the price is not fair , Arteta cannot use his personal money to sign players .

raumdeuter:
If Tinubu wants Seyi to be governor, No one can stop him. The question is does Tinubu desires to make his son the governor

That’s the question only Tinubu can answer .

Roland17:
I have given you 4 instances (can add more) where that question was irrelevant to the decision of clubs firing or moving on from a manager. Look across Europe and show me one manager that is in his 6th year in a top club with nothing tangible to show apart from coming 2nd? Nobody does that except Arsenal.

In our current job situations, I can assure you that a decision to fire or move on from us won’t be hinged on “who will replace Roland or Blueray”? That is what your HR and recruitment teams are paid for. They are paid to find talent and not accept performances that do not match resources spent or value derived. You have incredible experience and knowledge of the corporate world and should understand better than many.

Football has evolved beyond how you are looking at it. There are only very few traditional house hold coaches like Ancelotti, Conte left. Teams are working through resources to find talent in coaching. A serious club is already working and preparing for worst case scenarios.

I stand by my position that we shouldn’t have offered him an extension last season. He should have played out this season and then we go from there..

Perhaps u are the one making a mistake of looking at football coaching job like a regular white collar /blue collar job in the corporate world .

If a football manager’s performance is clearly abysmal by all standards , nobody will sack such manager without a ready made replacement within their reach in the shortest possible time .

You already agreed that most clubs would not sack a coach who came second consecutively in a competitive league like EPL . Irrespective of whatever amount the coach has spent in the transfer market , once there’s no clause that says he must win the league or get sacked ; he would most likely not get kicked out .

I am not saying Arteta should not be booted out , but I’m very sure the management is having serious headache trying to find that one man that will continue from where he stopped . If not , why haven’t they sacked him?

That’s why I think all the negative energy towards Arteta are not worth it at all. If the management feels he’s failed why are they not sacking him?