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iamoyindamola:
Renew they watch bbn

I kuku dey watch am o.....

Me wey be say normally na football I dey like analyze/ discuss for office after each weekend,....nowadays na BBN party I dey like discuss cos of Arsenal playing rubbish. Cos if I dare discuss football dem go surely remember arsenal woes drag me o

Spy360:
The best thing for we fans is to conclude that this team is for next season. As par this one? The likes of City, United, Chelsea, and Liverpool have gone way beyond reach in terms of quality.

Only Chukwu Okike can help us.

But make we just dey jolly dey go.

So laidis make I no bother renew Dstv subscription again when e finsh

ObaIgwe1:
Chai... imagine us having a generous owner that will just dash the club 1 billion pounds he is not using.... we wouldn't have employed a trainee coach or be buying big clubs' bench-warmer players. Even Odegaard we are celebrating is still a bench warmer at Madrid.

Our mates are buying players for 100M-200M...I don't know when Arsenal will be able to buy a player for 100M.

It is well jare!

That is the annoying part....Na bench warmer wey dey surplus to requirement we dey Happy say we carry when other clubs dey break bank to get their preferred player in any department they are lacking.

Spy360:
[b]Arsenal went for the cheaper and less risky option[/b]But whatever be the case, getting an AM is at all is a right step.

That has always been the problem with Arsenal post Invincibles Era ; Penny wise, pound foolish.

When we ought to be strengthening our first team, buying players that will come and hit the ground running ; we will be buying players lesser than or equal to the ones we have. We buy cheap players both in quality in price and price which costs us greatly in the great scheme of things. I can't forget nor forgive arsenal bringing in players like Kim Kallstrom

That is why u see teams like Leicester having 3 senior strikers in Daka, Iheancho and Vardy being taken more serious than Arsenal these days.... We have just two senior strikers that will rather focus on taking pictures in training and joking around. See how Balogun struggled against average Brentford defenders ; imagine how worse it will get if we play more experienced teams in the league with Balogun upfront.

This club needs to buy quality players and stop going for cheap options that will cost us later.

Jodera:
Lol... As if you know wetin dey my mind.
I remember pre-bruno how man u were having 1-0 or 0-0 scorelines, but immediately Bruno came 5-0s, 4-0s became a norm. We need that kind lift in this team.

Exactly! We need someone who will drive the team, inspire them to give their best and not join the rest of the pack to keep trying and trying with little or no drive. We had that guy in Sanchez, but he's not been replaced since he left.

Airmark I bring u content u would love to see

iamoyindamola:
ESR is actually a good AM he just need to add scoring to his game, same issue saka is having and iwobi

I never said Smith-Rowe is a bad AM.....I'm only pointing it out to u that Maddison is a good AM, can shoot really well at goal, can dribble and is really good at setpieces ( especially freekicks).

I will appreciate if he's brought into the fold and have Smith-Rowe learn some of the aforementioned stuff from him as against Bernardo Silva u suggested earlier.

iamoyindamola:
That should be bernado Silva then cos even with Madison ESR can outshine him and won't learn much

lol....Smith-Rowe outshine Maddison? How?

That guy is a good set piece taker, good dribbler and can shoot really well; especially those R2-whining-shots.

If Smith-Rowe learning is the focus of getting AM/ 10, then Maddison should be the one to be signed. The only metric Bernardo Silva is at par with Maddison is dribbling.

Jodera:
Me too, I like the guy but wen factoring what we really need in an Am, I feel we need more than what he actually provides...

Exactly!

I feel we need a guy Smith-Rowe can learn from and not some who is his contemporary that he can compete with and most likely outshine sef.


I mean someone like what Bruno is to man utd; he came, made everyone else look out of place and made sure they step up their game to match up with his high performance. Even dem pogba bought for record fee are stepping up cos Bruno is doing marvelously well.......

That's the kind of AM I want to see us sign not Odegaard that was here on loan last season and not really the main man we craved to see ahead of the home grown Smith-Rowe

Roland17:
So it looks like we are going in for M. Odegaard.

I've never been one big fan of this Odegaard. To me he's not that explosive AM I'm looking forward to seeing us sign. I mean he's just there and nothing more.

Yam x ẹja kika and it's sauce

Happy birthday to the greatest foreign striker in EPL history

The man who made most of us love this club ; the Igwe of sublime goals.

Thierry "Hall of famer" Henry

Make Una no turn this thing too fight na.

Spy360 Ur blood too dey hot. Abeg for the sake of peace please apologize and let us all move on from this topic

Jodera:
Errrm... But if you were happy for his signing, it means you approved of it, which is exactly what blueray was saying. Whether he played much minutes or not is irrelevant in this case. What really mattered is that when he was bought, we were happy.

Simple!

iamoyindamola:
You know you never answer me
I asked how many EPL games did Gabriel played last season

Why do u need to give u an answer to a question u already have answer to?

But u know what? No matter the answer I give u, it doesn't negate the fact that we needed a decent CB as at the time we signed Gabriel.

Below is one of Ur post suggesting u wanted any other CB not named Mustafi or Papasthapopulous as at that time

iamoyindamola:
If this guy move elsewhere, arsenal fans fit die oo
Everywhere I go is Gabriel, until I see him on arsenal official handles sha

Napoli want mustafi or papa, on behalf of arsenal if they buy those 2 we will give them kola for free

Even Akinbaham that has joined the "defence wins you league" troll team actually supported this

Akinbahm:
I support the deal you proposed...

Then here u are praising the same Gabriel, I don't think I recall u ever calling Mustafi or Papasthapopulous a beast ;

iamoyindamola:
This Gabriel is a beast

I think the problem here is u change Ur mind too often on decisions taken in the past, if not u will acknowledge that at that point we were all tired of our "senior clowns" and we deservedly got Gabriel at least as a stop gap.

kokaneprodigy:
was there ever a time Willock worked as AM?

None...but then that was what the club tried to do and it didn't work out.

I didn't support Arteta's hire in the first place but I supported him seeing how he managed to maneuver and get us FA cup when it seems everything was Goin bad for us.

He's however mismanaged the goodwill he got from that FA cup triumph and his decisions as a manager have been questionable ever since.

But no be all of us fit dey wake for middle of night dey curse him or pray he loses more and more games just to get him the sack letter he's been flirting around.

patrickmuf:
I don't think any Arsenal here supports the purchase of Ben White from the post I have read here unless I have missed something but for Gabriel, I totally understand his purchase last season that's why I was forced to reply your comment after noticing your were still having a go at a section of the fan base that doesn't exist...

That Ben White fee would've gotten you guys a good CAM but right now, you guys still need one and a winger too...

I Don tire to explain already; I feel they just want to vent their anger based on our poor results in recent times and that has impacted on their sense of judgement making them fail to put things into perspective.

At the beginning of last season we all felt Mustafi was shiiit, Xhaka can't play DM without unnecessary fouls/ errors, Papasthapopulous was pants and we need AM to fill Ozil's role.

The club got us Thomas Partey which we all coveted at the time to ease the defense job in the heart of midfield. We got Gabriel for as little as 27m to serve as an upgrade to our CB'S we've always complained about.....We tried to get Auoar to fill the AM role but that deal fell through.

The club then tried to play Willock as AM but never worked out and then the club brought in Odegaard in January to at least fill the AM role.

How somebody will know all these and still keep talking about the club neglecting midfield last year to focus on defence alone still beats my imagination.

I just no understand how they do it.

This season almost all Arsenal fans I know have condemned the signing of white being unnecessary and wasteful.

kokaneprodigy:
The difference was the kind of midfield and attack we had then not about Kos and Per’s doings. Even Cech got golden glove while playing behind Ozil Sanchez Ramsey etc but turned basket when Emery took over and scattered midfield and attack.

All these goalies getting golden gloves usually face less shots the season they win it. You wonder why only GKs of top 4 teams with solid attack get golden gloves?

I Don already wash my hand commot this revisionism....

Make everybody believe whatever they choose to believe

Jodera:
I'm just imagining Kos and Mertsacker in this our present team. Na insult we go dey insult mertesacker esp 24/7.

See as Mari dey receive insult now, I bet he wouldn't be bad like this when arsenal had coq, Caz and ozil in midfield, while attack of Sanchez Walcott and giroud.

This present arsenal na shirime

NB... Sczeneny won golden glove with koscienly and Mertesacker as our 2 major cb.
But we know the main departments that ensured that to happen

This is why Mustafi should not be mentioned along with Koscienly or BFG. Dem no be mate

iamoyindamola:
[No one is saying mustafi was better
We said those 2 ain't the best but they got the job done cos of good midfield pair(carzola and coquelin)
We also said if you put prime maldini and baresi in this present arsenal team they will drink goals like kunu.
So where is the defence win you league

This is all I want to hear

iamoyindamola:
This was my point when i used kos and mertersacker
Then barca defense too

koscienly and Matersacker were never as poor as Mustafi....... Except u are willing to show us instances where both made terrible decisions week-in week-out like Mustafi did.

The point about defence vs Attack has been well made, but trying to smuggle mustafi's name in between Koscienly and the Big 4cking German will not be tolerated

iamoyindamola:
As I read it won't affect odeegaard deal since it's a loan as we and Madrid can't agree on a price yet,we knew what we were getting in auba when we signed him
I was surprised wengay went for him sef, after what he did to Dortmund
It's actually good to have 3 AM, we should use willock money to get aurora.
I still insist we do business with spuds and sell laca to them
Kane is likely to leave

I'm not a fan of selling players to local rivals......If we can sell Laca to anybody but spurs I will take that.

Adebayo at spurs and city do us shege that year

patrickmuf:
Upon all the explanations from BlueRayDick you still dey throw jabs...You go be very vindictive person.

As I dey like this, I no get any strength again...I leave them to believe whatever they want to believe even if it's just mere delusion and gnawing at straws that never existed.

iamoyindamola:
Barcelona want auba for coutinho
Na Thor go strike down these idiots if they reject the offer
They want to use lacazette instead

https://www-mirror-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/barcelona-coutinho-arsenal-aubameyang-lacazette-24764368.amp?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a6&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16290851841157&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mirror.co.uk%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Ftransfer-news%2Fbarcelona-coutinho-arsenal-aubameyang-lacazette-24764368

I hope they take the deal and ship one of those two out.....then hopefully we get to sign another senior striker.

With Coutinho coming in we don't necessarily need to sign another AM, then again we have freekick duties covered by the brizilan.


Like I said earlier I don't like indisciplined players ; any player that will hold the club to ransom is bad business. I am a big fan of Auba but if he's acting like he's bigger than the club then maybe it's time he leaves

[quote author=nateevs post=104826145][/quote]There's nothing exciting about this second team ; they might even lose against arsenal under Arteta.... Even the first team lost against against arsenal bar one or two players that weren't included .

Like someone said earlier this league journey is a marathon and not a sprint. Last season I was part of those who wrote city off at the beginning of the season; I know better now

Amoto94:
Hehehe. Postdigger you have a text message

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airmark:
If he doesn't get Kane or a prolific striker, he may not even qualify for UCL next season.

uote author=nateevs post=104825608]

Last season is not this season bros. City is not 'walking away' with anything this season. Chelsea have Tuchel and Lukaku.[/quote]When I mean walk away with the league, I Mena almost every team challenging city for the league will have injury concerna; then the issue of squad depth comes into play.


I've seen Chelsea fans post gaurdiola's second team and I can bet his second team will bury the likes of Brighton, Brentford, Norwich, Crystal palace, Everton, etc....and that's how leagues are won with 15+ point advantage.

Well let's see how it goes sha....

nateevs:
Pep on a losing streak.

These things don't matter, he will still walk away with the EPL trophy at the end of the season.

He looked like he was losing it at the beginning of last season till he caught up with everybody and never looked back

Graelish just dey draw unnecessary foul instead of passing the ball....shakushaku and nonsense!

olabode89:
He has always been a shakushaku player, a poor man Hazard.

Ń fellow of the chartered institute of Shakushaku footballers....I know say na hazard be their president

Roland17:
Hahaha.. Baba, I know say una go kill me as I Dey type that post.. I no dey relegate our Okocha oh!

No allow @raumdeuter see this conversation oh! If not!!!

Okocha is overhyped; he's showboat and insha Allah

This far Graelish is a 100m shakushaku player

Jodera:
it's crazy, yeah but that's what I'm saying.
If only he'd given balogun the chance nketiah had last season, I wouldn't have bothered.
But now, relying solely on balogun and/or nketiah is recipe for disaster

He should just look for a compromise with them, tell them they're playing for arsenal and the fans, and they should put their ego aside first(like persuade and talk to them). We don't have the talent to takeover those two if they're sidelined, and it's not as if our midfielders are popping in goals sef

Well, I read they are both being put up for sale. I honestly hope they are sold in time and their replacements bought on time before the window closes.

I honestly don't fancy undisciplined players irrespective of how incompetent the coach might be judged to be.