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MorataFC:
Oga leave dat one, I raised 2 points and u decided to attend to one and blind eye to other this is football and everything will be judged not considering time, period or season.
Real Madrid has 13 ucl trophies time and seasons doesn't change dat even when we know dat the European Cup of then played by 16 teams can't be compared of ucl of now played by 32 teams but RM still claim 13 UCL trophies
If Ronaldo breaks 1904 goal records, will the time be factored in? Can we compare the football of 1940 with football 2000?
Even from year 2000 till now many things have changed in the game of football but stats don't change.
Pls can u name a coach dead or alive that spend over a billion dollars on a team in the space of 5 years?
It can only be FRAUDdiola

U’ve missed the point already .

I chose to point out the faulty stand of thinking one million spent in 1999 by Ferguson is same as one million spent in 2019 by Guardiola . Nothing concern me in any of those other things u mentioned that has nothing to do with money .

NinjaXmetahuman:
there is also netspend.

But we don't consider those here.

Whedonesir!

MorataFC:
How?

Even in the Era of Ferguson epl was not considered to be in d list of farmers' league.
Has Pep done half of what Sir Alex has done?
Sir Alex Ferguson won Epl 3 times in a roll yet no one regarded epl as farmers league.

Meanwhile Ferguson spent £850m in 26 years while your Boss has spent over $1b in 4 years by the time he retires we will be counting trillions on pounds be spent by him alone.

There’s actually something called Time value of money in finance

iamoyindamola:
Shatta wale they give burna some diss
I like burna but that mofo is too arrogant, make them fight sef

Theirs is a case of two very good friends now turned enemy . With a whole lot of stuff they both know about each other , they will just spice it up with some lies and keep getting a go at each other till the social media grows weary of their diatribe and some other trending issues erase them from memory .

I like how most of our players on their social media accounts have responded to the outcome of the match . From Ramsdale to Saka , Ben White , Gabriel and even Tomiyasu ..... one can see they are not taking it down.... the performance has got them pumped and they aren’t going to stay down .

lordfalcao:
last time I googled guardiola’s honors. I didn’t see where they specified who and who he should win champions league with

This is exactly why everything airmark says about pep is just banter and nothing else . When Guardiola retires as a coach he will demented for winning leagues in all the countries he’s coached , won as much champions league as he could , several league cups and regarded as one of the greatest coach in the round leather game. Nobody will talk about him relying on Messi’s brilliance or not . They are just going to say yo! This bald man here won 6 major trophies in one single year among other great feats !

Airmark just dey enjoy himself with all these banters , no need to break any stress trying to argue Pep’s feats with him.

Jodera:
This inconsistencies in the league refereeing is annoying. I wonder how they'll have technology yet can't use it effectively

I’m beginning to think those hearing devices attached by the side of the ref’s ear are meant to pass match fixing instructions to the ref. Imagine almost 3 of the fixtures today had officiating issues .

The god of goalkeepers this season has spoken !

Spy360:
Me alone na majority

As per say U are with God and one with God is majority abi ?

Spy360:
Which every body?

There’s “almost” in front of “everybody”

Spy360:
It's absolutely unfortunate that you give no credit to Arteta who has been working on this team all these while. That starting eleven has been his for some time now. Their performance today is a product of all they have been doing together.

God bless u for this . The lineup has been doing pretty well before this match , in fact it was the way they’ve been playing so well that made both our fans and rivals believe maybe we will have a good showing today ( which we did if not for the unfortunate ref ) ...... Now all this is the work of Arteta and his coaching crew .

How they are making it seem as if the assistant coaches programmed the brain of the players within few days as to how to execute the game with Arteta having minimal input is what baffles me.

Jodera:
This is no agenda, at least I try as much not to be agenda-driven when making my point or observation.

Watching Liverpool match, in a certain situation I saw Arteta barking and bellowing on players to go back when Liverpool wanted to attack. Even when arsenal players went back, he still gesticulated for them to even go further back which made our defence line so deep. We played like cowards which made transitioning in our attack harder. There was a player (I think lokonga, not sure sha) who made a sullen face wen Arteta made that but he just have to do the needful. Same thing happened against man city (first leg).

Now look at this game and this high position martinelli and saka kept when we are attacking and compare with Liverpool's game or Man u game. Our players felt free, they knew their work since they've practiced it all week and they executed it without the constant gesticulation and barking. This constant barking will limit them cos they'll feel remote controlled instead of actually playing their game.

Before the game myself, most.ob, dave.P and Sod(I think) postulated that we'll see more free game since Arteta isn't their and arsenal shocked us by even exceeding our expectations. Now let's wait and see if we'll see such freedom when playing Liverpool (2nd leg) with Arteta at the touchline.

Hopefully God keeps us alive by then.

This is all whataboutism and nothing else . Diego Simeone , Conte , Klopp and other top coaches have their own ways of jumping on the touch line , barking instructions to their players telling them whether to defend , attack or simply recycle possession as the game may require .

What most of u usually do deliberately ( because it’s Arteta who is a rookie coach and hasn’t proven himself anywhere before he got Arsenal job ) is that u single him out for serious criticism when he makes take some tactical errors at critical points in the game . That Loserpool game almost everybody knows we Arsenal will not go to Anfield all guns blazing attacking Loserpool on their home ground . So how is passing instructions to his players to form a defensive a problem here ?

Agreed the defensive approach to that very game didn’t work , but we have seen the same Arteta beat city and Loserpool with this same approach catching them on counter after playing what people like to call haram football. Arteta is rookie coach who would definitely get some calls right and get others wrong .....he’s not some damn pep guardiola yet , he’s still learning the ropes. Those constant barking , getisculation( and any other words u use to refer to him constantly dishing out instructions to players during matches ) are the same he used when we were winning 5-0 , thrashing spurs and other good games we’ve seen this year . Now linking those actions of his to the good showing the boys had today just dey somehow .

But it seems everybody has made up their mind on this discussion so I will just not continue repeating the same thing over and over again jare.

OJURONGBE1:
Dem don bash Lukaku sotey him don deactivate account.
That guy said he should give his heart to Aguero & legs to Fred

So many crazy people on the internet . This is funny as 4ck!

daveP:
Blueray, unless you want to refute my evident claim, there's no need for this.

Even if its not Arteta,even if na VAR room Arteta dey coach from or VIP room, there is always going to be a big difference, evidently. That is exactly what happened today. If you misconstrue this to mean i hate the Manager, OYO o.


This team felt absolutely Different from the time he was on the touchline no doubt.

There’s nothing to refute in ur claim Na..... ur claim is just an assumption that is not based on any fact.

U alluding the fact that Arteta was not on the touchline to bark instructions to the players(which is part of what he’s paid to do ) to the reason we played well today , but I pointed it out to u that Arteta actually was working remotely by passing those same instructions to his assistants . I recall somebody already pointed it out that the assistant guy also barked those same instructions on the touchline; at least I saw him do that a few times today .

And no I’m not misconstruing this to mean u hate the manager , I just feel trying so much to malign the manager even when he’s done no wrong is just an agenda and nothing else .

germaphobe:
I hate when we base our arguement off someone else opinion and idealogy. the pundit abi comentator on bein sports saying they MIGHT be on to arteta doesn't mean they really were on call with him. i've seen that guy all season with the other guy on earpod all season long, abi na wenger dem de recieve info from come give arteta. i so much love the arsenal medias that i follow to get first hand info or else men like you would kill me with fake news

The problem with people like is that with the little information u have , u just block out any other means of acquiring knowledge and go ahead claiming to know practically everything .

Arteta stated it in an interview that he will be watching from home but also communicating with the coaching crew in the course of the game.(See below screenshot as proof)

The bein sports commentator mentioned how Stuivenberg had to leave the job of monitoring play to take Arteta’s place , while Custer was in communication with the manager on the other end.

What Arteta mentioned in the interview about allowing the coaching crew to do their thing and monitor the momentum of the game to implement decisions ( being that they are live in the stadium and can see things for themselves real time) was exactly what happened in the game.

Assuming Arteta wasn’t passing instruction to them and the coaching crew were doing their thing strictly their way is actually laughable . Even when coaches are sent off or on suspension they still pass across their instructions from the dressing room.

I will just ignore ur diatribe about fake news peddling blah blah .

iamoyindamola:
I actually need to see Arteta on the dugout with the boys playing like this against the top guns(abeg not manure or spuds) then maybe just maybe I might have a change of heart about him.

Don’t worry , u will get ur wish in due time.

germaphobe:
guy even when arteta stands at the touchline, three assistants are usually on earpods, two beside arteta on the bench and one on the stand. arteta made it clear that they are always on call all through the game. so seeing a guy on earpod doesn't mean he was with arteta on call, it might be the normal analysis routine call. and moreover the gaffer already said he trusted his assistants to carry out the job po well. so think wel before you spit out your opinion and present them as facts

Please I beg u in the name of whatever u believe in, if u will not be civil in ur post kindly avoid giving me a mention.

You can see the person I was engaging didn’t have to be unreasonable in the course of our disagreement .

Today’s match and Arsenal vs Man utd last season first leg were the two best performances I’ve seen from Partey. In fact I don’t know which of the two aforementioned matches were his best in an Arsenal Jersey .

Partey’s performance felt like a parting gift to us before leaving for AFCON. I hope he comes back from AFCON injury free and fully fit to continue this great performance where he stopped .

iamoyindamola:
What I am saying is 2 assistants took the game to city, that's what I haven't seen Arteta do against Chelsea,lfc or city
What ever or who ever they are communicating with you don't know what was discussed.
The players played to their instructions not Arteta, btw they also trained the boys not Arteta this week.

Lolz .... I actually know who they are talking to because the commentator on bein sports mentioned it specifically . It is u who is trying so hard to assume the assistant coaches took 100% charge of the match and didtched the instructions he’s passing to them remotely .

It is well sha. Hoping we win as many matches as possible in the second half of the season irrespective of the coach being present live or working remotely .

Cheers to the new year

iamoyindamola:
Hmmm
The Arteta we know will play haram football by letting city play, you don't have a proof today's match was Arteta doing
Until then let's give our airpod coach kudos

I really do not understand u . The match I watched the camera showed two assistants , one was on earbuds penning down instructions from Arteta ( the commentator actually pointed this out ) , while the one on the touchline was carrying out this instructions .

Are u really saying this did not play out today ? Wetin we use korokoro eyes see....

By the way Arsenal has been playing more attacking football in recent times , so u talk about haram football do not apply here .

daveP:
They probably felt overwhelmed. I sometimes wish to see Partey given a Free role more than he is seeing. That man acted like two players after the red card. Maybe that's why we aren't seeing his Atletico Form at Emirates.


Arsenal also felt Different with no Arteta at the touchline. No need to fire down their necks with go here. No be puppet footie. Lol


As for City, we may have unlocked a simple way for a more intentional side to defeat them this year.

U people and this ant-Arteta agenda no go ever rest ? Even when we dey do well ?

Arteta was obviously coaching remotely today by passing instructions to the one of his assistants on earbuds ( the Custer guy). That guy u see standing on the touchline only passed the instructions of Arteta to the players , not like he was using his own playbook or something . Arsenal playing well today had nothing to do with Arteta not being live on the touchline .

When we were pushing attack scoring 5-0’s , trashing Spurs in the derby , etc was it not the same Arteta that was Arsenal’s coach ?

There’s nothing wrong in blaming a coach when he makes tactical errors or loses matches he ought to win, but still trying to find a way to malign him when he’s getting it right just doesn’t sit well with me at all.

Raumdeuter knowing u keep records of these things , please how many open play goal has Jorginho scored in his career ?

The Man of the match

So this one is not a penalty but diving with a little shirt tug abi ?

daveP:
You guys didn't see the Odegaard complaint and read his lips



"For three times now, coach"


He's not happy about the subbing.

When there’s a red card like that , a player needs to sacrificed Na

This ref and VAR are both mad. VAR called for the ref to do on-pitch review for Bernado’s penalty situation , but the same was not done for Odegaard’s..... It’s just appalling seeing the referee making so many questionable decisions

God will punish this ref and whoever the bastard is that is behind the VAR.

So VAR can recommend on the pitch review of Man city penalty incident but he didn’t deem it fit to do same for Odegaard’s? Chai ! Na wa o

We don lose focus

Gabriel red card .

Martinelli why

Bernado dived, but Xhaka foolishly tugged at his short in the process

Havertz10:
very good player

Aswear !