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lordfalcao:
not just conceding in 9 out of 10 games.

The conceding majorly comes in 2 goals or more

Don't mind them .

They always troll guardiola for spending the budget of Comoros and Central African Republic on buying defenders ; they thought he didn't know what he was doing before he added a goal machine like Halaand .

popizaino:
You cannot be conceding a goal per game and be furious about your defence while patting your attackers at the back after missing about 7 glorious chances in this same game.

And who told its one goal per game u concede ?

U don't even watch Chelsea matches sef

popizaino:
Neither is coming into a game and thinking of not conceding not an outdated false belief that need to be erased from the mind of a modern day footballer.

I'm sure Pochettino did not set up his Tottenham side to concede to Liverpool in the 2019 UCL finals but they did and did it early which changed the outcome of his plans.

That is what happens when you don't plan to concede.

When we suggested that we needed to improve our attack as a team was at a period were we usually concede the unlikiest of goal after missing several chances upfront.

How will a genuine fan ask his team to balance the defence for conceding just a goal among the many chances his attacking his missing upfront?

So it's okay if u play 10 games and I conceded in 9 out of those 10 games Abi ? Yet u managed to score 1 or more in those 10 games o.

Do u know what 9 out of 10 is ? It Means there's 90% chance u will concede in each game u play .🤦‍♂️

Wo make una do wetin pay una . Una for buy 10 strikers sef join the ones una get them keep managing dem Disaster and co as defenders .

popizaino:
The irony of this your post is that your team with stingy defence went to Munich and conceded a goal but your fans didn't blame the defence for conceding but angry at the attackers for not turning up.

The sit -deep crooner who you just quoted was all over the place mentioning me about Saka for firing blank and not your useless defence that allowed an unlikely header from an unlikely player.


But continue to mislead those who think they must be on the side of those who are against airmark.

Nonsense post without substance .

Arsenal once had clowns like David Luiz , Mustafi , Kolasinac , Lietchsteiner, Papastapopulous etc in defence . Arteta came and cleared all of them and replaced them with Gabriel, Saliba , Ben white , Tomiyasu , Kiwior , etc.

Today arsenal has conceded the least goal in the EPL ( 26). That's what sorting ur defensive issues does to a team.

Make una keep trying to outscore una opponents in modern football. U will learn the hard way.

Sportsweb:
I will leave you to wallow in your delusion.

Go and find one satchet ogogoro to drink jare

Na u jump into conversation wey no concern u, na u still dey hyperventilate after failing to prove ur point .

Enigma that was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for using his company slok nig ltd to defraud his state to the tune of 7.1 billion naira smh.

He's only walking free today because of technicality , not because he didn't steal (simply because the judge that sentenced him to jail had been elevated to appeal court before he gave the ruling on his case at the high court ).

Nigeria is a 4cked up country !

swiz123:
Simply not conceeding in the last 10 minutes against 10 man Burnley could have kept us above scummies and in Europa league position.

There's a lot of foolishness going on here.

A defense that can't keep 10-man Burnley at bay does not need to be overhauled. Just buy strikers and outscore ur opponents

Griffon:
Not even a rocket science.

I’ve told them to check the numbers, stats don’t lie. I’m not so much of a back and forth niggi, I check well before taking a position in any discourse.

We aren’t clinical in front of goal no doubt but that’s a minimal issue compared to the disaster-class we’re currently facing at that backline.

How my gees go leave house wey dey burn, begin chase rats is what I can’t really comprehend.

It's just agenda and nothing more .

Lmao

Nothing to see here

An APC party chieftain who headed Tinubu's media support group goes on Tinubu owned TV to condemn EFCC under Tinubu's administration for attempting to arrest an APC chieftain under Tinubu's administration .

AdisaOwala:
If the fees in UK is to be used as the standard (as they have claimed) it's looking like that 42m dey very okay.

Obviously .

Person no fit build $150m facility make we expect an to dey charge like person whose facility no cost pass $2m

swiz123:
Having an injury prone defenders is the same as having a very bad defense. We need to clear out James, Fofana, Chillwell and obviously Silva.

Just this alone makes defense a major issue to address.

airmark just dey do agidi dey post number of big misses per game up and down

Everybody knows if Chelsea fix their defensive issues they will be in a better position on the league table than where they presently are.

Like Griffon rightly puts it, outscoring ur oppnent is a fantasy in modern football that is not practicable.

I checked Chlesea's last 10 games on Sky sports and I discovered Chelsea has conceded in 9 out of those 10(Bar the 6-0 Everton Trashing). Guess what? Chelsea only failed to score in 2 out of those 10 matches i.e vs Loserpool & Man city.

How will anybody see this and claim the attack is the culprit for Chelsea's woes when the defence can't keep opponents from scoring?

We are not just any school, Charterhouse defends N42m fee

Justifying the fee, the director of Communications, Admissions and Marketing of the school, Damilola Olatunbosun told the Nigerian Tribune that Charterhouse is a value-driven world-class educational institution.


Olatunbosun, “Charterhouse is not just like every other school anywhere globally but a prestigious and value-driven world-class educational institution that parents, who love quality and second to none education will always want their children to be.”

Despite the criticism, he stated that many parents have expressed interest in enrolling their children, adding that they are not surprised about our fees as it is within what they can afford.

“Some parents are here in Nigeria and some are based abroad. And they know the quality of education we will give to their children. It is about value and not whether the fees are high or not.

“They know it will cost them more if they are to send their children abroad and get the same quality and value we will give them here in Nigeria. The foreign exchange and the associated costs as well as nearness. ”

He added that there is no educational institution in the country with the facilities of Charterhouse, adding that the school would be of the same value as other high-profile UK-based schools.

“Even though we are yet to commence academic activities and we have not also done with our construction works, no school in Nigeria has the facilities we have already put in place.

“And it is not all about physical structures in Charterhouse, but also about quality, both academic and extra-curriculum, and value for our learners.

“Schooling in Charterhouse Lagos will be the same as in Charterhouse UK or any other high-profile UK-based school. The only difference is that the Chaterhouse here will be immersed in the Nigerian culture thereby giving our students the best of British education in a multicultural environment.

“So, we are not just any other school, and many prominent Nigerians, who are either products of Charterhouse or have any of their children or relations attended the school in the UK are very glad that Charterhouse is now here in Lagos Nigeria.

“Even here in Lagos, there are some schools, for example, that charge in millions of Naira per annum while some in hundreds of thousands and yet some others charge something lesser. So, it is now left for parents to decide which one to enrol their children based on the value they want and their purse.

“We are building on 70 hectares of land in Lekki and it will cost us over $150 million at completion and that is why we are very sure that by the time we are done, people will appreciate us better. So, those who want quality and are familiar with Charterhouse know why their children must come to our school.

Taking on the possibility of the school reducing its fees in response to the public criticism, “education is like somebody who is hungry and wants to take lunch and go to a restaurant where a plate of food is N5,000 and another go elsewhere to take the same size of food at just N2,000 and yet another go elsewhere where he or she will get it for N15,000 or more.

“Though the food may look alike, their value will never be the same. So, it is about providing value for money and that is what we do at Charterhouse.”

https://punchng.com/we-are-not-just-any-other-school-charterhouse-defends-n42m-fee/

Follow-up on the Charterhouse school 42m per annum school fees.

Dem say make we rest make we no dey use panadol for another person headache o. They have their target audience and they are already indicating interest in having their wards enrolled in the school.

AdisaOwala:
Lol

Reminds me of one lecturer - "shola simple" that year.

On a steady, he dey give impromptu/random/unplanned quiz wey him dey call "brain trust".

1.Na dictate he dey dictate the questions give us verbally one after the other

2. The golden rule is that you must not "cancel" on your answer sheet i.e, once you answer question(s), you cannot change your mind.

The baga's attendence was also very strict: you must not miss more than 2 classes for the semester and na him dey take the attendance by himself : after each class, he would call names and we answer one by one. He dey also check ID card at random so God help you if you try impersonate and he catch you - na automatic carry over

I think their mindset was that: the more difficult life was for the student, the better he would turn out to be in life.

Those lecturers are crazy Wallahi !

We had one too that comes to class with his attendance . He already had our names and matric number on his attendance sheet. If his lecture is 8am, he will enter the class exactly 8am and start calling attendance immediately we finish greeting him. ( sometimes he doesn't even respond to greeting sef ).

U will just hear " 1, 2, 3, 4.... " that's people's matric number he's calling o. If u be number 1 and u no answer maybe u were distracted and u later shout present when he don reach matric number 2 or 3 , na OYO be ur case because he has already marked u absent for that day . Before u leave house , u must be mentally alert not to miss answering ur matric number when he calls it. If u come late into his class just forget about that day's lecture , it's as good as u didn't show up. The crazy thing is that the attendance constitute part of his C.A .

That man if u would score A in his course , u must be brilliant , attend lectures, write ur C.A test well and predict correctly his possible exam questions .

Funny enough , he later adopted me as his menteee. I helped him mark tests for students in levels lower than my set, I helped him record exam scores and assisted him in academic research work . Because of how mean he was , the few guys close to me amongst our juniors I helped them with their C.A o. I will ask them to come to the hostel , remove the rubbish they wrote in the test, give them a new sheet to write better test , mark it and record for them cos I know they won't score well in his exams and maybe didn't get much attendance scores . Some of those guys still appreciate me till date cos I was that out of compassion and at zero financial motivation.

Na that man no make me like Nigerian academic space. He's one of the reasons I don't go into academics cos I felt there's something in the Nigerian academic space that turn them all to Sadists

liveLongNprospa:
So we are starting this December 2024.
From December 2023😁

I hate the fact that these people will set a timeline unforced then when the set time elapses , they don't even apologize but go ahead to announce another date .

Like they don't regard us the citizens one bit!

Then when u talk about these things , u have some fooolish citizens who will now make it seem like u are the problem . Like u are the one the one who made them unable to deliver on their promise . I believe the government knows such fooolish people who would throw up anything just to make dem sound more patriotic abound in large numbers , that's why they do things like that with disregard for the people .

Theflint1:
This na line we dey use console ourselves sha, cause going through an abnormal system riddled with needless inefficiencies does not in anyway prepare you for a normal system, if anything it leaves you with bad habits.

How standing inside one dark, poorly ventilated and overcrowded class take prepare person for a well ventilated and lit of say 20 students?

U missed the point .

My point is if u can study under unfavorable conditions and earn a degree, u will surely do well studying in a conducive environment .

It's not about consolation or anything of such. A friend whom we we graduated from the same course , we equally did our M.Sc together as well. He relocated about 2 years ago and recently completed another masters in a university in the UK. We discuss about the learning conditions over there and there's stark difference with what we had to go through over here.

U are obviously reading my post wrongly. I never said our inefficient system prepares us for an efficient system abroad , rather that our ability to excel in this inefficient system shows we can actually do much better in an efficient system .

For example some Nigerian lecturers set exams as if they want u to fail. There's one particular lecturer back then who will come to exam hall during his exam and will start jesting and asking us if we enjoyed the questions he set. He does this with joy knowing he has twisted some of the questions that even some brilliant students can give the wrong answer because they don't understand the question. Whereas abroad u have lecturers setting exams with the aim of testing ur knowledge of a particular concept or it's practical application in a case study/real life scenario

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mostob:
Santi Cazorla on Arteta: “Injured, watching games together, he would get the remote & pause it. ‘What are you doing?’. He would say, ‘Go back, go back’, rewind 30 seconds & ask, ‘What do you see?’. ‘I see a paused screen! What do you want me to see?!’”

“He would say, ‘Look at this guy here, how badly he’s positioned. If he goes here & he goes there, this space opens’. Every game, pausing every 20 seconds. The match has finished & we’re still in the 20th minute. I’m thinking, ‘What’s with this guy?’”

“He sees it. I love football but I don’t. I think it’s a gift. He’s pausing. ‘Can’t you see we’re doing this badly? Don’t you think the left-back should be deeper? That he should draw out his marker? Don’t you think we can create a space there?’. I said yes to everything, ‘Yes, you’re completely right Mikel. Now, press play’.”

“I’d say, ‘Mate, you’re a coach already’. He said, ‘Yeah, I see things that make me think I should be’. We talked a lot. He still loved playing, but working with Pep Guardiola at [Man] City was an opportunity, the best apprenticeship. I said, ‘Mikel, if that’s what moves you, go for it.’ It’s worked out well.”

#arsenalfanaticsnews

This explains why he really had a good time with Guardiola .

Sportsweb:
You can keep switching goalpost.

Bottom line remains no serious club will allow Mikel spend a day more after that first season.. only Arsenal tolerates mediocrity.

So Chelsea keeping a coach that has done nothing but keep them alternating between 11th and 10th posituon all season is not mediocrity Abi ?

U see u can't even provide a reasonable answer to why Pochettihnho still has a job despite claiming Bohely would've sacked Arteta .

Yeye Dey smell

raumdeuter:
I feel lecturers in Lagos even dey nice at least dem get big city and things to distract them, for Ife na we be our lecturers means of catching cruise and relaxation

We get one lecture 4-6pm lecturer came gave test from 4 to 4:30 and left. Obviously the students left too

This lecturer came back to the venue at 5:30 and set another test. He claimed his lecture time is 4 to 6 and he expects us to be in class 4 to 6 even if he's not there. Na few students that were just chilling and hanging around take the test. And those days there were no cellphones to call each other

Most people who did Chemistry in Ife will know Angel of Chemistry, his own lectures start at 5:30am in the morning. So most people just sleep overnight in the lecture hall

One of my lecturers in final year just saw our course rep and told him go and get your mates we have a lecture this evening, the guy come complain say it's not on timetable where he wan begin find 40 students all over.

You know the lecturer at the appointed time went to the class and taught an empty class.

The next lecture when he started saying "From our last lecture...." everybody just burst into laughter.

From last lecture bawo ?

The annoying thing is that most of the lecturers who do this are gods in their own right . There's nobody u can report them to. They are professors most likely on the same cadre with the VC . Some of them even first VC start to dey lecture . Who do u want to report them to ?

They just make schooling so difficult for students . Omo, Nigerian students go through a lot in naija and that's why they excel when they travel out and school in a more conducive environment

larride:
The one I hate the most is

"Answer question 1 and any other 3 questions"

That number 1 question go wan comot blood for your body.

Passing exams in Nigerian higher institution requires special skills on its own. For example passing exams that require u to answer number 1 as compulsory , u must be able to predict correctly possible questuons that will be in that number 1 spot from the topics taught by the lecturer .

If u can't do it on ur own , u need to engage friends who have mastered that skill . That way, u can study those possible questions and be able to answe them correctly in the exam hall. If not, ur chances of passing is very very low .

Sportsweb:
Todd Boehly will also sack Mikel Arteta dor same offence. If he can sack Tuchel and Potter the project anointed candidate then who is Mikel.

You think every club is patient like Arsenal.

Mikel will be sacked 100% in Chelsea, Man United, Bayern, Barca, Real Madrid, PSG and so many clubs on his first season. That's the gospel truth

Why does pochettihnho still has a job ?

obainojazz:
Naija schools and their exams

When I was in 100level we took some crazy exams that were multiple choice questions. The options A -D will have values/options that can be possible answer to the question . Then in option E what u have there is simply - "The answer is not in option A-D".

Even if u read , if u are not sure of what u read and probably not in class when the lecturer took the particular lecture , u go fail like mad.

Sometimes I feel like Nigerian Lecturers purposely set questions for u to fail and not to test ur knowledge

Spy360:
If there was another Arteta say in Spain or Holland or France or even Germany, he would have been their perfect choice to replace this Arteta.

Iamoyindamola has recommended De Zerbi and Girona coach .

Spy360:
I just dey imagine the excitement of playing CL knockout which we missed for many years now, plus the drama of chasing the title for two straight years. That's massive progress and we have not even reached our peak.

Arteta has had to learn by fighting which the masters and now can match them face to face.

If we lose him, that will take us another three years back and that is assuming he better manager replaces him.

This is the point they are failing to see . To sack no be problem , but the new manager having to go through the whole team building process will set us back a couple of years again.

Except they want to assure us that whomever we appoint is guaranteed to win the league within a year of joining

mostob:
Jamie Carragher:

"If Arsenal and Liverpool are ‘bottling it’ in April and May, what does that tell us about Manchester United and Chelsea for the rest of the season?

Arteta and Klopp are being judged to the ultimate standard in taking on Guardiola."


Jamie didn't say this...

Shebi this is the same thing we said here all through yesterday and they said we are accepting mediocrity & turning Arteta to Wenger gradually .

I have asked them to name just one coach they think we will sign and will snatch the league off the hands of Pep or Klopp and I'm yet to really hear any name mentioned . But make we sack Arteta first cos he can't win the league against Klopp and Pep.

germaphobe:
During Emery's time the transfer market wasn't this high. In all this back and forth argument, what I know is that Arteta is not leaving Arsenal at the end of season, yes he fxcks up but sometimes the players have to share the blame and not the coach. Would we be here with all these write ups if Arsenal made use of the chances vs Villa at first half?, Would we have crashed out if white had scored that 2nd goal instead of blast at Neur?, What if Gabriel, Saliba and Raya maintained composure at the back, would we have conceded those kind of goals. Some days you guys are compliment Teta for his in-game management and how he has improved greatly on that, and other days we slaughter him here for same. Mistakes are part of the game losses happen from time to time cus you can't always win, but getting pessimistic and emotional after each loss isn't really my thing.

It's always easy to blame the coach and say "Oh Arteta bottled the league " .... Last seasaon against Southampton when Partey and Ramsadale buried us with their yeye mistakes; na still the coach get the blame for bottling the league .

I understand sha, it is part of the job of a manager to take the fall for his teams' actions and inactions and the resultant consequences as well

raumdeuter:
Before Arteta, we're you making top 4 regularly? Prior to Arteta you made top 2 once in 14 seasons prior

Arsenal is guaranteed to make top 4. Before Arteta how many seasons can you say confidently you will make top 4

Arteta made 84points last season that last time you made 84points in the league was 20yrs ago.
You are asking what Arteta has done. Make we no lie make we no sin oh


He bottled the league? Against Pep. You know how many legendary coaches have bottled the league against Pep? Klopp in one season had like an 8points lead on Pep and he bottled it

17 competition won 1. That tends to happen when you are playing against big name coaches with deep pockets too. How many trophies has a more experienced and better Klopp won in how many tries

Any coach no matter how good will look bad when the competition is that stiff

Any manager can be accused of lacking game management and tactics. Of the league top 3, Arteta has taken 4 points off Pep and Klopp. Do you think someone who lacks game management will beat Pep 2 times and draw 1 in 9months or beat Klopp 1 time and draw the other?

What progress has he made post Wenger? We'll you are back to CL quarters for the first time in 14yrs which includes the tenure of Wenger and other coaches after. You are now a firm top 3 side in the league for the first time in almost 20yrs possibly tip 2 if Klopp leaves. Tell me that's not improvement

He crashed out in Europe like many top teams. You are complaining about crashing to one of European legacy and heritage teams what should Liverpool fans do to Klopp who crashed out of Europa quarters that they were favorite to win vs Atalanta

He signed Harvetz made him top earner but your result is showing that you are neck to neck for the title. What more should he do to convince you that he got it right

Signings and waste of funds? Welcome to the real world of a football manager. Pep has a list including Grealish Kalvin Phillips, who knows with Nunes and Kovacic possibly Doku

Abi shey na Klopp no go explain wetin he see for Nunez, Naby Keita, Oxlade, Thiago Sanwo-Olu abi na Karius

Abi make we yabara branch and stop by at Chelsea and Man utd to see wasted transfers?


I dey on mobile I for format the response better

Post Pep and Klopp, Its possible that Arsenal become the top team and league favorites

You are competing currently against coaches that are said to be all timers

The bold is why I want the club management to foolishly grant our fans wishes of sacking the only manager that has managed to make the team a title contender again after almost 2 decades.

Let them sack him when there's no Klopp and Pep again and then the new coach flops while Man utd & Chelsea have strengthened their teams & gotten things right . I will gladly take it upon my sef to do "I told u so " post here frequently .

Make we sack coach wey make watching the team desirable once again then hand over the team to another coach who will require one or two years to build his own team and establish his own playing pattern which may not even guarantee anything .

I never supported the hiring of Arteta from the onset and was one of those who complained bitterly about him in the first two seasons. Seeing what he has done with the team thus far earning the admiration and commendation of rival fans and pundits I know he's on the right track

Sportsweb:
Roman will sack Mikel Arteta in his second season afrer going trophyless and bottling top four.

Man United will also sack him in the second season too.

I wonder how and why the two clubs will be licking their lips.. Chelsea way don sack Dons like Jose Mourinho, Carlo Anceloti, Conte.

So is Roman now the one in charge of Chelsea today ? Una go just jump inside talk without understanding the context

Chelsea has spent the whole season practically shifting from 10th to 11th to 10th to 9th back to 10th and Pochettinho is still ur manager .

Man utd has been moving from 0 goal difference to 2 goal difference to negative goal difference and back to 0 all season and Ten Hag is still the manager .

Why are they still their clubs respective managers ?

We was talking of how miserable the clubs are presently and how the management are sticking with them . Now Arteta is a title contender presnstku and somebody is saying we should sack him because he can't win the league vs Pep.

How many elite manager will win the league vs this current Man city ? That is the context of the discussion and not some historical chest beating jargon's in ur mind or ur normal trolling of "they bottled the league "

Ibime:
Is TemporaryHansel the same as Elder?

He's a PDP guy, He's an Atiku supporter and he's a south-south guy.

Na him

TemporaryHansel:
Atiku would've lost before 9am assuming he chose the useless Wike as vice. Why would Wike even want to be Atiku's vice after all the noise he made after losing the primaries? Talk about shamelessness.

Elder001 calm down na .

I know say Atiku loss pain u but Atiku + Wike would've given Tinubu + Shettima a run for their money make we no lie, make we no steal.

All those kind rigging Wike did in Rivers would've been in Atiku's favor .

Theflint1:
Not to mention that its a time sensitive news and there's third-party right issues they have to deal with picking these professional shots. They go don pick fine pic finish, Nigerian photographer go begin trend #BBCpicthieves.

Nigerians no dey reason all those kind things ; our own na to run agenda na western media want to see paint us poor

One would think the picture they used is not even the guy sef .

I just tire for my countrymen .