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Roland17:
This graph tells the entire story.

What do you see?

I mean!!!!!!

Isolated our 9 instead of targeting him and giving him chance for 1v1. I was pissed when some fans were happy he was dropping deep to COLET PASS, as if that's sweet goals. Mtchew

Guy was in position for many 1v1, sticking to the CBs when in possession. It is not his duty to be falling to the AM zone to be doing connecting play when he's such a finisher. Make they no waste this guy abeg.


Why is it had to play to his strengths early on, get a goal and then play the ball the way e dey sweet mikel belle?

iamoyindamola:
I saw one post on x
People are already photoshopping martinelli linked to Al nassr for 73 plus 10m add on
Omo I shout thank God before I know it's fake e pain me 😭😭

The guy stayed in the 50-55 zone, making many sit on the fence on how useful or useless he is to us right now 😫😂😂😂

It's annoying now that in midfield, Merino is our slowest midfielder. Guendozi was faster in decision making. Guy will look and give a forward pass into the box, air or ground. Be like e don enter Kai Kategory. Never useful in midfield but upfront. Lol.

Make Saudi carry this Nelli now or in January abeg. Mtchew. Trossard is not that stupid.

sreamsense:
Is like telling a secondary school teachers not to be available for marking WAEC or Neco? There are even more demand for INEC, they even fight for that opportunity because it is not free. It is not for all professors, if you are lucky; you even thank your star.

Solidarity is only active in melody in Nigeria anyway. The song is so stale and fantasy driven than one for calls for change.

What makes it bizarre than it should be is the senators paycheck is still vague up till now. fG dey tok one lie. Senators dey tok another thing. What is the range for these bunch of waec holders that decide the administration and economy of this country? What is the range or even the figure? Why is it shrouded in mystery?

I wish these profs can stand up and say they would not be available for any inec duties but the fear is they go go hire profs the way they hired fake bishops that year. Smh

Arteta messed up with this passive Approach. Rice should be threatening that Liverpool backline enough but he was deepest midfielder today, playing from CB and LB.


I'm done with Martinelli. That guy has forgotten he now has a 9. He also doesn't know what to do with the ball again. His defending is not going to absolve him from the rubbish he dropped today and why he was on that long 😑😑😑😑😑😑

Szobo is the RB for heaven's sake mehn. 😫😫
Yet he got the winner.

It reminded me that we don't even get such freekicks in the EPL again. I pitied Gyokores. The guys behind him forgot their primary duty was to feed him but na pressing dem sabi. How can we have that midfield and can't even utilize it? 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

Can we just snatch this Lookman deal abi is it over or what? What a stale loss. All down to Arteta's approach. Calafiori did well.

Guess the player that will be fit enough to feature in all 3?


Starts with M

With this Hicapie buy and Kiwior sell, we still have 130m to spend before we reach FFP limit

Abeg make we grab Lookman that his club didn't list in their squad list lately.

A Nigerian is more likely to get justice faster in an American court than a Nigerian court?!! They ho use adjournment kill the desire for justice while kola dey exchange hand. Smh.

RIP to him. Sad sad

iamoyindamola:
He won't unless he make 5 appearances which is not possible

Okay then. That's sad.

MSGAMBLE9:
@daveP See I like him and won't mind him staying buh selling a 25 year old Polish international with Hundreds of game_time experience in UCL, EPL and Serie A for scrap is mindbogglingly.... It's doesn't help our competiviness in the long term...

Loan options? You think he's coming back at that give away price

You're right. Arsenal being Arsenal. So annoying. We need to revive the spark of huge evaluation.

MSGAMBLE9:
Arsenal paid €23.5m for Kiwior and now letting him go out on loan with a mandatory option to buy for €26m is a disgrace and willing to pay premium for a replacement ( Hincapie at €60m) is nothing sort of bad business.....

Kiwior is 25 with 3 years left on his contract and his market value should be atleast €45m. Quansah with limited match experience went for €35m... Arsenal are prime for serious financial issues in near future...


This is a disgraceful if proven true....

The fee is terrible no doubt but i love the loan option. If we win double or treble, he will get a medal in his room.

iamoyindamola:
Instead make you ignore the bot

me no know say na bot

Katcall:
see your big mouth

Who is this?

Janet needs a personal trainer. Finishing still aa problem till now.

The defenders need some shouting down at. They're too lazy. Haba. I hope the Midfield is standard sha. Cos na long balls dey mostly. Didn't expect I'll see Emem Essien here. What happened to Edo Queens? All the best to them. I hope they gel fast and beat the odds that limited Edo Queens in last campaign (passing, teamplay, finishing)

Mujtahida:
That's why the game is boring. It's communism and communism always kills individuality, creativity and beauty.

I like this POV I won't lie. That's the cost of the PEP system. Kills individuality. And when the player leaves, it is absolutely hard to play football the normal way ever again. If Grealish recovers, English boys go dey dodge Pep going forward.

Gentrification you mean? Once a new top project comes to a dry or low area, things skyrocket there. Lagos should fix up abeg.

If you watch Serie A and Barclays era of EPL, there are many tackles that were absolutely normal then. Career ending tackles. Intact if they do such for 9/10 of attackers in the modern era, they will just retire.


What do you think when many were on the "fifa and uefa refs are favouring messi" of yesteryears? I recall a match vs Man U. Ronaldo was tackled hard and they didn't even blow. Messi was tackled hard and na yellow. To me that's evidence that Fifa knew that that era was get tough or die trying era.


Then we moved into the era where there were many adjustments and changes to rules and regulations. Then they didn't enjoy such privileges. I recall a game Ferdinand and Vidic tried to pull down Yak but he still bullied both. If na modern era, na pk instantly for that very pull and stamping.

The 30yard screamers have died. The ball was heavier then compared to now. If many shoot that ball currently, their leg go bend😂😂
Lampard and Gerard goals?
Xabi Alonso?
Hasselbaink?
Wright?
Muntari?

TheGoodJoe:
The injuries in modern football is disheartening. I also believe players should keep improving on their fitness and rest routines.

Also the academy players should be more utilized.

Some clubs have rigorous routines normally. Like way too normal that legs won't but give way. Post covid, many clubs adjusted their entire routine to reduce the visits to Luth. It was too much. Some stick to their stick dietary standards and use the hammer on all these partying and etc compared to others.

Many of my colleagues in science are in banks today. They also highlight the increase of employment of Economists in the halls lately.

These generation of leaders are dumber than one puts them to be.


What's their beef with social media that they want to work so bad to stifle it in this particular manner? 🤣🤣🤣


They want to demand accountability from people calling them out when they can't even solve the banditry, kidnapping and terrorism issues despite the banks and phone numbers they use daily for their wicked activities??


😂


Social media will continue to elope their reach. They wished they could go all North Korea on this just to avoid being held accountable. Smh.

We suppose cook unbeaten in this UCL that's coming.

TheGoodJoe:
There is no way the players of the past can be more fit than the current generation. It is not even logical.

Did you read the Arsene Wenger quote I made?

Better to stand on the subjective stance than outright conclude they are unfit. There were many players of that era that played 30 consecutive games. Today it is a problem. Does that now mean i have to conclude they were more fit absolutely? No.

I saw the quote, but you are also aware that there's a study that also highlighted the increase in hamstring and co in modern football. Despite that study, we didn't conclude about modern football.

You saying they're unfit is wrong. Wrong wrong!!

TheGoodJoe:
The players of the past as a whole can't compare in fitness to the current players. I have watched some of them acknowledge it openly.

that's you handling the truth carelessly to conclude that way about them like that.


It's subjective at best. The current ones wey dey go Luth regularly? Wow.

Odunayaw:
Yeah. More private clubs staying up in the topflight may give the momentum for professionally run clubs.

The govt themselves running clubs are not ready to work to hand over. Lol. I'll be on the watch for these two clubs though.

TheGoodJoe:
Explain how it is absolutely wrong. I am waiting

Unfit? What does that even mean? Ahaaann. Small small now.

Commendable from Faith Morey. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
The Ikwerre Lady

TheGoodJoe:
You guys keep repeating the same thing but avoid the basic point.

The reason why the players of the past looked more technical is because there was a huge gap in quality. They were playing against unfit players.

Today players are faster, fitter, more technical, and more tactical. Even goalkeepers are now skillful, technical and tactical.

Your prime Ronaldo, Kaka, Ronaldinho will not skip past players today as they did in the past. The quality of the game has changed.

Naaah. This is too easy and absolutely wrong. Habaaaaaaaa.

Odunayaw:
Kun Khalifat and Barau have their fair share of noise on Twitter o. They had 15k attendance yesterday.

I mean pre matchday. I saw the crowd. They really are loaded in that aspect. But for buzz to their arrival to the league-nothing. Just like another normal day in the office. Let's hope they drag attention to themselves like IK City and Remo did sha.

Amedino99:
fabrizio did not understand it that's why he carried that instagram page. He has deleted it sha. He thought boniface was shading ac milan and leverkusen.

Yeah. He posted the exchange between them.


Nigerians no try. Milan fans like him and are bashing their club currently as we discuss. Does he need to limit those SM stuff? Absolutely. Do the Nigerian media need to do better? Absolutely. He's a pro. He needs to understand the environment he's in. I think this is becoming a problem with some of our players lately. They need to nip it.

TheLoneCitizen:
Boniface on IG

People wrongly concluded it was cos of his SM tantrums that's why Milan rejected or why he failed medical, forgetting it was relating to his injury record. That knee don suffer mehn. I hope he comes back from this meltdown cos Fabrizio don carry am. That's the first if I'm not mistaken. More attention on his posts going forward.

Odunayaw:
I became a follower of the league in 2016 so I know this is not a new thing.

I don't know how it will happen o but there has to be a paradigm shift to the perception of not just football but sports. Majority of our problems will go away once there is a shift to seeing football through economical lenses.

Thank you for this! Plus instant noodles syndrome is affecting everyone.


Wikki Tourists are back and there's no buzz about that. No buzz around even the newly promoted Kun Khalifat and Barau FC. 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️
Nothing to peak the interest of anybody. Shooting may relegate if they don't fix up. Bayelsa?? Naaah.
No be dis binary goals we need o. Caf CL is brutal. Score 01 for home league, go CL and chop 4 and 5 and barely score 5 overall across a campaign. Naaah