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A lot overshadowed this match for me today. Almost glad i didn't watch it.

SodO9:
Add sterling
Those mofos can't buy ordinary odeegaard na sterling they wan buy

Oh he's actually added already.

I bet you, the numbers will be over 50 before weekend ends.


Merchants of the Cheap!!
Arsenal.

Onana
Maddison


Numbers now 38


Already halfway through "links" and one haven't held jersey?!!



Conte
Tuchel
Kloop
Guardiola


All in the EPL next season...

March onwards.

Roland17:
Everywhere you look, you must read one deserved insult or the other about this club! Supporting this club no easy oh!

Mediocrity is King at Emirates!!

That's why!!

Onana
Maddison


Numbers now 38


Already halfway through "links" and one haven't held jersey?!!



Conte
Tuchel
Kloop
Guardiola


All in the EPL next season...

March onwards.

This place don dey gather dust sha



We dey wait for the next person to hold jersey at Colney/Emirates abi?


Update: Players "linked" with Arsenal as "usual" don enter 36. The previous record is 73.


Happy New Month G-unners!!

Spy360:
The fact is that we cannot change the entire squad in one TW. But we can offload up to 10 deadwoods between now and Jan.

I'll like to keep the younger generation as squad depth while we get top performers to make the core team.

I saw this on AFTV


That Auba own shock me. Very Hilarious to even think to loan a club Captain.

BascoVanVeli:
Poor selection by the Enyimba coach plus stage fright from the attackers. The same player made the crucial mistake in both matches.

Poor selection ke? Its not like they have top guys with superb technical abilities on the pitch to make a difference. The gulf in quality is deep. Very!

I'll call it what it is. A good coach will need to finetune those guys, but the naija bragado ho still ruin the game. They should all wake up and start to leave tantrums asides. Its outdated now.

andrewbaba44:
Hakimi ,Frank kessie before simmy I think

Not taking anything away from his 20 goals

I'll still take Simmy. Like that consistency for serie A is no fluke na.

safarigirl:
At this point, except your name is Ngolo Kante, it's quite difficult for a DM to receive recognition in the midst of attacking players, hence Ndidi's exclusion.

Onuachu would probably get an outsider shout before Ndidi, just that dem no too rate Belgian league for CAF

Quite True for CAF levels!!

Time for him to move!! Asap

Spy360:
Stay

Goal Keepers
Leno**, Okonkwo?

Defenders
Holding?, Gabriel*, Mari*, Tierney**, Cedric*, Chambers*, AMN*, Saliba*

Midfielders
Partey**, Xhaka**, ESR***

Forwards
Aubameyang*, Saka***, Pepe***, Martinelli****, Nketiah*,

Promote
Azeez
Balogun

Sign
One Goal keeper: Take a player on loan
One defender (LB) : ?
Two midfielders : Bissouma, Buendia
Two forwards including one winger : ?,?

* Is the degree of how important they are to future campaigns, and how they shoul stay or remain

? Is why should they stay...


That UCL win, which was well deserved by Chelsea, has put a hundred times pressure on whatever Arsenal represents in English football.

9years, 2UCL

15years

One UCL final
One Europa Final
One Europa Semi

Nothing on Domestic Title either.

Martinelli and Saka were still playing with Toys when we last played a UCL final.


This should further trigger Ek to get the fans out of this cesspit.

andrewbaba44:
Wetin do arteta ?

Can’t wait for have aguero at Barca

mentor footsteps fear!!

TheSuperNerd:
Honestly, your most likely 3 picks are also my three picks.

- Edouard Mendy: 9 Cleansheets in 12 UCL games. 16 EPL Cleansheets. UCL Winner. He is good for the Top 3 and will make the CAF Best XI easily.

- Riyad Mahrez: EPL Champion, Carabao Cup winner, 9 goals + 6 Assists in the EPL contributing to Man City's title win, 4 goals + 2 assists in the UCL leading them to the UCL Final. Mahrez is gonna make this top 3.


- Mohammed Salah: Finishing with 22 goals in the EPL behind Golden Boot winner (Harry Kane) is something. No titles won but his goals in the EPL and UCL plus the fact he has always made the top 3 in the past three APOTY Editions gives him a huge shout. Plus no real challengers for this last spot.



For Outsiders: I would add Sevilla's and Morocco's Youssef En-Nesyri who finished with 18 la liga goals and also bagged 6 goals in the 20/21 UCL (Joint highest scoring African in this season's UCL alongside Salah).

Also, another strong outsider we must remember is Achraf Hakimi who won the Serie A with Inter Milan as a major player. He bagged 7 goals + 8 assists as Right wing back. Wicked numbers that contributed to Inter's league triumph and he could bag a 60million euros move to Paris.

Your other outsider mentions are spot on.
Onuachu, Chukwueze, Iheanacho should get mentions. But I would have Ndidi over Mane in this outsiders list for 20/21.

I felt if we discussing Africans in Serie A, Simy should easily be in any top 2 mention, right?

safarigirl:
Hi guys

Now that the season has finally come to an end, realistically, who do you guys think will be nominated for African Player of the Year?

My picks are:

Edouard Mendy
Mohammed Salah
Riyad Mahrez

As the clear favorites,

And:

Kelechi Iheanacho
Sadio Mane/Paul Onuachu/ Samuel Chukwueze

As outsiders

Who do y'all have?

Cc: thesupernerd, anfrewbaba444, terzurum, icon4s, elyte89

Ndidi didn't even qualify for the Outsiders?

BascoVanVeli:
Let's goooo!!

Akwa United vs Kwara United

Big big match 2 v 3 on the log

I've been following Kwara for a while now. Nothing should stop them from finishing in top 4 for me. They do quite well away too.


Kano Pillars having some kind of change in team marketing since Musa came back. Though Vandrezzer remains unrivaled in anything Nigerian club football for now.





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Something must be done with the technical aspect of teams repping on the continent. That Enyimba match weak me.


I hope they don't think its some magic or feemtrick that made them ousted. See yhe nig difference in play?!

Tamunotonye22:
There's nothing like sentiment bro. He's French and the award is also french. Y'all put racism in everything, please stop!

Alright Sir!!

The Two Ex Managers of PSG are going to place the UCL super Cup.

Both Manchester Teams lost

Who e go pain pass?

Definitely PSG!!

Pep mess up. No Aguero or Ferna.
Overthinking Kills.

Now i dey fear for Arteta!!

andrewbaba44:
If he wins it I will be okay

I prefer lewandowski

Not taking any thing away from Kanté

Dude Issa beast

Make Lewa swerve go one side abeg. Bayern no reach anywhere na.

Arsenal fan but this is Kante's own
(Sentiment for a black dey too sha)

Yaya Toure right now

TheSuperNerd:
Lol... Look around the thread from the last couple of pages and you will have your answer to the bolded. Hahahaha

Make that person fear God na.

kennysville:
Haba! Fear God small na

See i no go lie. Its a simple thing. Iwobi will see chance pass Sterling, especially vs Chelsea. Haba too. Lol

Ppogbae:
Osimhen>>>Werner any day of the frigging week

Iwobi over this Sterling I'm seeing!!

See why i no like talk about Arsenal Transfers??



May never finish, links to Arsenal don reach 17.

Let's wait on till it becomes 57 and buy one 37yr to replace Luiz or Xhaka cos of experience in Serie A or French Ligue.

Jodera:
I didn't doubt he didn't win 4 Europa. But please Europa cup is not a cup top clubs aim for. If not for the added incentive of champions league, Europa was another championship. Let him slug it out with the big boys in champions league let's know, not Europa that you'll only meet tough opposed in mostly sf or final and on rare occasions qf. It's like someone claiming serial winning coach for winning this conference league.
No top club aim to play Europa even arsenal as a team. Him finding himself there almost every year speaks volume of who he is if we're being truthful

Also, name me any PSG coach since the inception of Arab money that coached PSG that hasn't won title before departing? I'll be waiting.

Ya doing something o.

Tryna underrate the Europa!! Dont abeg!!

Any club doing that should be top club coaches not fans like this current Arsenal.

Emery is Class!! Simple
Like he did this versus Man Utd that destroyed Roma?
Yes nobody care about Europa then. But now, lets call this spade its name. Its a top competition!!

If it isnt, we won't be vilifying Emery for losing that final, and Bruno Fernandes wont be in Tears, Cavani won't be writing Motivational Quoted on twitter, Or Rashford saying he got over a hundred racial abuse on Twitter alone.


Same way the fa cup we won was called small by city and Chelsea fans.


Na who reach there know the Value!!

Emery does and he's got 4. Make we respect am. Na Arsenal no get sense abeg!!

JayromWrites:
It's actually a joke...


Smuggling all these guys like we won't notice


Whatever happened to Rohr

Thought it was evident weeks back that he's not the one choosing the players invited!!

Saint Etienne should look elsewhere abeg.

TheSuperNerd:
“I think there are some rumours that come out of nowhere. When I saw it, I thought it might be good just to make a Danish article. I saw the last time people started to speculate that I didn’t mind playing for Denmark and blah, blah, blah,” Billing told Danish publication bt.dk.

“It would be strange to stand up for Nigeria when I feel one hundred per cent Danish. Of course, I have Nigerian roots and am half Nigerian, but I was raised and born in Denmark.

“I have a Danish mother, Danish little brother and Danish little sister and a Nigerian father. But this is Denmark I want to stand for. That’s my big dream.”


“I’ve talked to the coach [Rohr], but I know where I want to play. I want to play for Denmark, so it is no longer than that.

“He [Rohr] just said he really wanted me to play for Nigeria because the upcoming World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations will be played soon. I made it pretty clear to him that I wanted to play for Denmark. That’s my big dream.

“Hopefully this is the last time I have to answer whether I choose Nigeria. I can say that I am one hundred per cent in Denmark. I only think these are rumours and that’s to get people talking. But there is nothing at all.”


“I’ve talked to Kasper Hjulmand over the phone. Not about anything specific, but we just had a great conversation to get to know each other a little,” he continued.

“From what I hear, it’s something I look forward to very much playing with the national team and hopefully in the future a few minutes and make my debut.

“I have nothing but positive things to say. The conversation I had with Hjulmand was very positive. I think big things are going to happen under him. That’s my feeling.”



Source: https://www.busybuddiesng.com/philip-billing-bournemouth-star-rejects-nigeria-for-denmark/
(Many sources on this but this will suffice)

Now, Knock yourself out.

He literally emphasized that Denmark is his Big Dream, Twice!!

We too, we have big dreams without him. He can stick to his as well.

100% Danish he is!!

Who dey even hype the guy here sef, ehn?

Chai.

If only

Iniesta et Xavi Reloaded

Fkhalifa:
I want to see how Pep and Klopp will dominate England with Litchtener, Luiz, Sokratis,Mustafi,Kolasinac, Mhicky etc.

I'm still on my stance, the so called big mangers are not finding the Arsenal job attractive ...only youth corpers like Arterta can.

Time will tell.


I have no hope for any Arsenal Transfers for like a decade now. But i dunno, the takeover bid seems so strong. EkOver about to happen.

No top outlet have really spoken about it though. Just Vierra for now.

Fkhalifa:
I'm glad you understood me
I mean Emery can never be so daft to prefer Litchtener, Luiz and Sokratis to the Maguire, V.dijk and Laporte of this world... In fact he said he wanted Maguire..

Also no matter how Guendozi impressed me, I knew deep down he was supposed to be understudying the likes of Parteys in midfield from the bench, I'm sure Emery can't have Partey and play Guen...in fact he wanted Partey that year...

There was a Pepe and Zaha saga too.
Unai Emery:

� “We signed Pepe. I favoured someone who knew the league. Zaha won games on his own: Tottenham, Man City, us. Incredible performances. I told them: ‘This is the player I want.’ I met Zaha and he wanted to come, but the club decided Pepe was one for the future."

See how Utd fans are all on Ole, he had the backing of the board yet failed to win against an average side in Spain. To me, the blame is justified.

Like you said, They took the greed to Emery, for me they are doing that with Arterta...Arterta got his issue too, but he isn't backed the way he should of the target is top4 and UCL..

The board knows fans will be excited with a 6/7 games fa cup win.

Watch out how they will cash in on Willock,Guen and Torreira just to balance Party's fees.

Yeah the Zaha thing. Wasn't it 50m they said was his tag and they were doing minimini manimo with 35-40m that year?




Being backed by the board is something any coach considers as a big blessing. Imagine the Lampard situation happening at Emirates??


Arteta for win A double!!

But like Emery, his knack for silly tactics(both of them), and XI Permutations and Combinations (only Arteta, with 37 different pairing of XI this season alone, the highest in the EPL) ruined things.

Either of them will do considerably well with 200m for any Transfer window. Infact with the meticulous way they spend, they might get 6 spectacular players with such amount.


But wishes are snails for Arsenal right now!!


They should keep Willock to me. Never liked his style. But boy's been outstanding vs big 6 teams consecutively.

Roland17:
Gattusso? Biko kwa! Besides he is now with Fiorentina.

Osimhen no go dey hear 1000 Victor calls from the touchline no more every match!!

Victor
Victor
Vic
Viiiixxxxcc

Spy360:
Nagelsmann has gone to Bayern.

Zidane, Conte, Alegri, and Low will not join Arsenal without significant investment. These are no Wengers.

Gatusso, Martinez, Poch and Nuno are no better than Arteta.

No Better you say? Abeg na!! Ahhh. Call the color what it really is abeg!!


The rest are sha available.

So Wenger na the SI unit of SapaSoccer now ba?