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Spy360:
This your argument nor hold water o. Pepe was bought for 72m so you cannot class him together with Sanogo and Bakayoko as L1 exports to EPL when you have the likes of Hazard, Drogba, Nasri, Silva and many others. I am talking of Ayers that actually conquered L1 before making the switch.

I never considered the cost of any of the players because transfer fees really don’t matter nowadays. What I’m more concerned about is players perceived to be top talents ending up to be flop in the EPL .

Like I said earlier , if those two ever come back to the EPL and prove their worth , then I will be happy to have them back.

Roland17:
Naaaa. I disagree. Over the years, since the EPL starter, Ligue 1 has exported some of the best talents to the EPL and other competitive leagues. I resist the temptation to start listing players who have moved from Ligue 1 to the EPL and have succeeded.
Pepe situation is an individual situation that is a product of a combination of numerous issues at Arsenal.

Well of a truth the French league exported some good talents in the past, but it also produced some weaklings/flops in the recent past like Bakayoko, Yaya " Sir-No-Goal", Gervinho etc that just couldn't find their feet in the EPL. So I really do not think Pepe's case is an individual situation.

I think their league is not what it used to be in the past and any player signed from any team in that league other than Psg may likely not turn out to what u are hoping for in the EPL.

I may be wrong, but that's how I see it.

iamoyindamola:
Pepe is just naturally useless it has nothing to do with French league
We have seen nasri, Ben arfa, payet, hazard from the league
Even cornet I hardly rate is doing well

These guys didn't last in the top level too Jàre. It can also be argued they are just the few lucky ones who played at the top level coming from the French league.

As if today, I no trust any player coming directly from the French league except he's proved himself in any of the top European leagues.

Akinbahm:
What I saw in him to rate him ahead of Salah then is still a mystery to me, I even hate Emery on top his case not knowing the dude is as silent as p in psychology.

Just imagine say we use the money buy Ziyech or Carrasco that front go dey juicy gaan ni.

Fry pan to fire. Chelsea that bought ziyech keep lementing everyday say na waste of money. To put it like those verbal reasoning textbook used to write it back then : "Ziyech is to Chelsea as Pepe is to Arsenal "

Even Carrasco is not the player he used to be before he went to China. These two players are not really ahead of pepe if u look at their stats/returns since pepe was signed

Pepe is the reason why I will never take those Saliba and Guendouzi hype I've been reading seriously ; until both of them.come back to England to prove themselves.

I no just trust that yeye French league at all, see almost everybody in the pitch Don already know wetin Pepe wan do before he even think am . England na Ur mate?

iamoyindamola:
Ever since Lukaku turned that Mari to mopping stick
I haven't seen his brake light

Lukaku did our guy bad that day no be lie.

iamoyindamola:
holding and chambers can do that atleast

Those two are just one second away from committing errors. Even me wey no be coach no trust them. See the yeye ball wey Elneny dey play, imagine having holding and Chambers start with their own unpredictable errors lying in waiting....those people for Don press us till we commit for that first half o

Nketiah deserves that goal. We might say he's lucky, but He's put in much work this evening.

Arteta should save Pepe from further embarrassing himself and yank him off abeg

iamoyindamola:
I need to understand
Was white suppose to play this match at all
You know your squad is limited yet you will exhaust players
Smith should not even play sef

He played because Arteta thinks the other CB options are trash and we won't be able to push attack from the back like White helps us do

Sir Chambers of the house "errors" comes on




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And scores!

I just hope our players are aware this match is tarigjtbto penalties, we better do something before something do us ó.

iamoyindamola:
Leno and white have been superb really impressed with them
Pepe is still uselessly useless, see the elneny Una they clamour for.
As for nketiah and amn we better cash out on them
Eventually partey, lacazette and maybe saka will enter
I would have loved sallah to feature, martinelli need to start opening up to receive ball.
Surprisingly, kola is playing well

Kola just dey push any leeds player attacking his side of defence far away from him.....more like " ẹma koba mi"

Leno has always been a good keeper, just his occasional errors that has always been his undoing. As for Martinelli I think he showed his hand too early and they Leeds players have succeeded in restricting him to play far too wide from the box 18. He needs to find a way to get himself involved in the box or risks being taken off early in the second half.

If James was not a useless player this Leeds for don score us two

Everyone on the pitch knows what Pepe wants to do with the ball; except pepe himself.

Elneny still never get sense

Nketiah is actually a good dribbler and has good link-up play....but he suppose know where to pass and where to dribble too.

Pepe game na comic relief abeg

kokanepyramid:
E shock you?

Typical pepe stuff

I honestly wish he he can get such simple stuff right and get better.

You can't but love White's adventurous spirit from the back.
I just hope Holding covers for him and not just sleep on his side of the defence.

Pepe

He managed to come up with a nice dribble only to trip himself after beating his man. Na ment!

Nketiah has been getting more of the ball, abeg he should make use it of it very well o

Na this kind match dey remind person say kola-mechanic is still an Arsenal player

Spy360:
Arteta should just allow these guys to play their best positions. I thought he instructed them to play 442, but now I know it's the players.

I don't know what Arteta was trying to say in that press conference but I don't think any Coach worth his salt will allow players to adopt a different formation other than the one he approves of.

I mean a competent coach should be in full control of the team and not be telling pressmen how his players took it upon themselves to play a certain way other than what he planned. The thing just dey somehow

Jodera:
Below was one of my response to you concerning the players after the crystal palace game( a cut version tho).



You can see the from the bolded I acknowledged the players wanted the win but were undone by Arteta's tactics. If you even noticed that day, I blamed Arteta solely for the loss and didn't put blame on any of the players(except my usual "Pepe can't beat a player" talk) ; even tho Partey and Lokonga were responsible for the goal, I exonerated them cos I know Arteta is fully at fault.

I can't fully praise players when we played that badly against crystal palace (a mid table team) and eke out a draw at the last minute. And yes we played that badly even tho stats might say otherwise. Even Chelsea and Man u fans who watched the match acknowledged we played badly that day(going by the comments during the game). You don't expect me(or any of us) to start talking more and more on any positives that might have occurred that day when the negatives outweighs the positives and the play and result was underwhelming. It doesn't work that way na

Well, I guess everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I choose to recognize that fighting spirit even though we didn’t win the match . I’m glad they built on that momentum in the next match .

Spy360:
The fighting spirit against Crystal Palace came after we were already two goals to one down.

The case with Villa was fighting from the onset until we were 3-0 up.

I think iamoyindamola is saying that we didn't push more after scoring the first goal against Palace and that's what led to us almost losing that game.

I wasn’t concerned about when the fighting spirit was birthed , I was more concerned about the game at the end of 90mins .

I already said arsenal of early this season would’ve capitulated after losing a goal advantage against palace, but we didn’t against palace this time around. That’s my point .

I look at things hoslitically and don’t just choose a part of the game to hammer on just to score a point .

iamoyindamola:
What jodera was saying is despite going goal down, they threw everything at palace which was part of the ramsdale taking throw in, you hardly see that in the league also laca and martinelli were very hand full
This is way different from what you claimed

The problem I always have with u is this ; u always think u know what I’m saying even when in actual fact I never said anything to suggest what u have already programmed in ur mind..... And then it is that one point u will keep harping on. It’s quite exhausting tho.

My post has not been edited , it’s still there for ur reference . I said that fighting spirit Jodera is referring to now is the same spirit I noticed vs Palace over at our lowest point in the game, but most people didn’t see nor appreciate it cos we drew the match from a winning position earlier on.

Why u’ve chosen to misunderstand me I will never know sha .

iamoyindamola:
Even when Arteta our manager and aubameyang club captain came out to say we didn't play well after the goal you still insist we played well
This one pass me o

You missed the point already. I won’t bother explaining my point further ..... I hope Jodera will get the point tho.

Jodera:
[b]One thing I like and noticed about our players is that this new breed of players have this winning mentality and desire(esp the defence and keeper). [/b]I just hope we have a coach who won't quench their fire and take us to the very top or hopefully Arteta turns to a kind of klopp and takes us to the very top

This was what I observed and pointed out in that Crystal palace match , but y’all so emotional busy criticizing Arteta to see and appreciate that spirit. Arsenal of the past would’ve lost that palace match 3-1 having conceded two goals erroneously ....: Yet they stood and fought till the end to get a share of the spoil.

I’m sure it’s cos we won that’s why u are suddenly seeing that spirit now, like most people praising the spurs performance , but can’t see that or stats against palace is even better than the efforts we put in against Spurs. Facts/stats will always trump emotion/personal bias

kokanepyramid:
You didn't hear the chant during the match?

But Martinez asked for it sha.

I no dey watch arsenal match without drinking.... the drink no allow me hear am wella ..
If the chant was a psychological warfare, it worked .

This didn’t seem right , but then I will take arsenal victory over anything else

Silentgroper:
Laca is literally d life of arsenal. Him comot nd d team is in disarray. But 4 some reason jodera nd some other assnal fans thinks he's useless to d team

Lacazette is a striker that doesn’t score . Arsenal is not Liverpool that can afford to have a number 9 who scores occasionally ..... maybe if Arteta wants to use this 4-4-2 Lacazette will be favored to partner Auba .