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sod09:
What ever money Emery get on sales or given to him by January should be used on wingers. He should forget bout the defenders if we can score more goals we manage our defence like that.
Yesterday was an example why we badly need natural wingers

This is what I feel also, our defense isn't great nor bad just okay and manageable,
We are lacking wingers or playmakers with ability on the ball, we need that man who will take on a defender and beat his man like an hazard or sterling, we were just passing sideways and backwards..
Also For the umpteenth time Auba at the wings have been extremely poor,it can't and won't work, I even doubt Auba/laca in a front 2, our middle will be dominated and they will both disappear and may not shoot on or off Target the entire game.

Iwobi also has been poor on the the right wing he's either an AM or LW..

We missed welbeck's airel presence later on in the game, he's our only striker that scores with the head,all our crosses were wasted.

Kola if doesn't impress by end of season should be sold and get a new lb

We were again bullied, our oppositions always seem to be stronger and fitter than us.

Emery should take note.

sod09:
what do you guys think of zaha or lozano for wing

zaha will surely keep our opposition full back busy all day, he can't be bullied off the ball like most of our boyz.

Personally, i will welcome him, he's around 40m, and he has English league football.

Emery's approach to games is so different and better than that of Wenger, The players were fighting,contesting duels and played with much urgency.

Holding since the fa cup semi and final game against a tough Chelsea and city team has my respect, I personally rate him above Chambers.

Xhaka I'm a big critic of him, surprised me a lot, Toreira had his best game so far for us and bellerin's improved going forward.

Iwobi showed us what a wing specialist can do to us, he was a constant threat to them with passes, movement, pace and take ons.

Imagine we had a Zaha against city, Chelsea and Liverpool

Auba is being wasted on that wing, he's a ball to feet and space striker, he scores better in the cf position.he isn't the type that creates chances,take on defenders.

I was envious of van dijk's height and power,he bullied us a lot, only if our CBs are that big, they will exude confidence and fans won't complain much about them.

Hopefully, after few more transfer windows, Emery and his crew would have assembled a much better squad for top laurels.

Van dijk is a powerful bully, nothing too special but height and strength, We need powerful players

Auba is so useless on that wing, I keep saying it, its either he or laca at the CF position..

We really need wingers.

KevinDein:
My preference is Welbeck starts ahead of Auba, who should come in at 2nd half and run at the tired Liverpool defence. Welbeck is such a hard worker and should help out in the defense. Very important Arsenal stays in the game long enough as, like you said, Liverpool are more of a first half team while Emery's Arsenal are awesome in second halves.

Regardless of the result though I wanna see a good performance and a fight.

COYG

Welbeck truly has the energy for this kind of game, no wonder Fergie was reported to have said" welbeck is among his first names on team sheet for big games because he does a 2 man job. I remembered he started the Madrid and Bayern games against utd under fergie,Though he doesn't guarantee goals but will surely help the course of our attack and defence..

I suggest iwobi starts on the left while welbeck comes in for him later on.

IZUKWU:
TALENTED,energetic,spirited .words i would have used to qualify ramsey.

Due respect to Ramsey and his fans, I like him though,but he like many others In the team do not seem to have special talent like carzola,rosckiy, he plays a times for personal glory, not so serious on the pitch. players of kante or william's kind of spirit are badly needed.

Odabo o Aaronu Ramusy,

hopefully, mustafi,kola,licth,chambers,socratis,xhaka,neny,ozil,welbeck and many more will follow suit in the next transfer windows, so we can get talented, spirited, energetic and players with good ability on the ball.

This present set of lads doesn't fill me with confidence, I hope Emery recruits gems who will dazzle and make us compete at the highest level both in England and Europe.

It is against teams like this I wish we have physical energetic players, palace bullied and roughed us up left and right..
We were clearly tired, Zaha alone was a job for our entire defence, while our soft front men were easily marked out.

Emery was right to bring off ozil,this isn't his kind of game.

Laca costs us like against Chelsea again..

I reiterate Auba and laca shouldn't start together, both on the pitch was the reason we weren't creating chances,they are no9s and are only good at scoring goals, no creativity

Mhicky would have been a better option.

KevinDein:
Guendouzi is still very raw though.

I know, I'm just very hopeful he will hit the top level before he ends his career.

Hardetayour:
That Guendouzi ehn. Even with him small body, guy dey play ball.

he's the only guy that makes me feel like I'm watching the old lovely Arsenal.
Anyone watching Arsenal for the first time will conclude he's the best or even captain.

He's a joy to watch, my wish is Arsenal win big things with him or he goes to a bigger club in future to win bigger trophies in club and country football.

I would love to have chilwell and carsasco or their kind..

Welbeck is arguably the 2nd/3rd choice squad player striker around..

I love Matteo geuondozi, he's seducing me like rosciky did.

Mhicky isn't in form, but I trust him to hit it soon.

I'm impressed with xhaka as a left back..

My wish is for the board to give Emery and our transfer team much needed money to recruit their type of ballers over the next 2/3 transfer windows, then I can see us fully challenging for big things.

I'll like to know more about the Jinn Qarin, how true is it that jinns see what's in laul mafhuz? and how do the witches fly?

The front line that started against Fulham is okay by me, with Either laca or Auba..
Welbeck,iwobi and mhicky are never passengers on the pitch, they guarantee good work ethics.

mostyg:
I am an accidentally raqi. I once took a friend for ruqyah and I decided to stay around. Few days later, I told the raqis I want to learn and they accepted me. One of my first assignment was to interview and sermonize some possessing spirit. It later became not much of a big deal with the help of Allah.
People are not much into it probably because of fear of reprisal attack especially in cases of witchcraft. Men fear jinns whom they aren't suppose to fear.
With Allah's help, a lot have been revealed through ruqyah. You can only understand by experiencing it.
May Allah continue to be our helper.
Some raqi believe one can't perform ruqyah on a non Muslim but I believe otherwise ( with evidence ). Ruqyah is a powerful tool to affirm our faith in Allah and bring people into the fold of Islam.
Allah is our guide.

This is deep and lovely, it will be nice to read more experience from you,as I feel will strengthen lots Emaan.
Also are there visible signs of knowing who is possessed or into witchcraft? Also the TB Joshua and co' in the Christendom, how true is theirs?

Spy360:
Don't worry we are getting R Nelson back from Bliga...

Nelson seems soft. I want hard and ruthless players.

I'm a silent crusher on depay to, that guy has what it takes to shine on the world stage, he seems to be more energetic, hardworking and purposeful this days.

Forget his utd woes,utd and English media wanted to see a cr7 in him,he wasn't utilized well and hosts of many other problems

He was v.good at PSV,poor at utd, now back to form at Lyon and the dutch team.

He's gon be a good winger.

Spy360:
Your point is well understood and accepted. I too will choose intelligence over power any day, and most coaches will do same.
I wasn't for the initial argument about African players. My argument was that in a league like EPL, strength and power are major requirements above intelligence to finish top.

I don't like the way it sounds because it doesn't really make technical sense. But the evidences are there.

I pointed to the Wenger teams after 2005 as example. The reason for their failure to win the league was Wenger's insistence on overlooking strength and focusing only on intelligence.
Like you mentioned, the best teams have a correct blend of the two. But, while Pep's team last season tilted more towards intelligence, Jose's title winning Chelsea side was more about power.

It is an interesting discuss because, both set ups can be successful.

Question: In your opinion why was Wenger unable to win the league after 2005?

Failure to get big name and world class players over the summers..(this could have made fan,hleb,persie,Sanchez,nasri etc stayed).
Lack of investment on physically and mentally strong players( our crop of sexy boys over the years can't play a calebder year,our seasons ended in February).
He isn't a ruthless manager, he stuck with lots of average players and his football philosophy is too honest and nice( we need to get dirty a times( be a Costa,bite, dive,shoot instead of walking the ball in the net.).

Roland17:
@ Spy360 and Fkhalifa

Brothers, you have lost the focus of this argument and my position regarding this topic. The initial argument was that most black (African) defenders rely on strength and power and I said I would not prefer any black defender on my team because of this tendency. This implies that I will prefer a defender with a combination of intelligence, technique and power over a defender who only relies on his power and strength. That was where the example of Bailly surfaced as one who relies on power but lacks the intelligence and technique on the ball.

You guys have digressed into different leagues, different positions, different coaches and gradually the argument is losing taste to me. On a scale of preference I prioritize intelligence and ball technique over brute strength, that does not mean I don't like strength, it means I want us too focus on a defender who may have the combination but if one skill is excellent and the others good, then it should be intelligence and ball technique and sadly, most of our black (African mostly) struggle with that requirement.

Suddenly @Spy is mentioning Ferdinand, Vidic, Keane and that buttresses my opinion that you guys have lost my train of argument. I don't mean to pick on Kolasinac, but there is a reason why he can't displace Monreal in the first team and that is because of positional intelligence. He has the strength and power but his positioning is awful and that is why we are still in search of a successor for that LB position. If we get defenders with a good balance I will definitely appreciate even if he is black. But from my experience, African defenders are mostly brute strength and power.

I get the picture now, I think we concluded on the same thing, only that you preferred techniques and intelligence firstly then brute while I'm for be physical, strong and ruthless( as first selling point in a defender's credential) then techniques and brains, either from Africa or Asia I don't care just be a tireless invisible wall.

We wanted both qualities, just that we prefer one to the other.
Yes, kolasinac has been a worry, maybe Wenger softened him, his aggressive side is gone,positioning and all, he was in the Germans league team of the year, most assist from a defender in Europa that year,but seems to have dropped form a lot.

Hopefully Emery brings him back to his best.

Spy360:
Please get my point.
Intelligence plays good football. The Wenger teams stands out. But intelligence alone won't see you through the season; especially in England.

Remember what Watford's captain Feeney said about Arsenal last season? He said they lacked grits, toughness. Kindly take a second look at the Watford and Wolves squad, tell me you don't see physical and brute boys. Watford's front line alone are a bunch of bullies.

If VVD is all intelligence, I promise you Klopp won't pay what he did for him for he will be no better than Koscielny.

With a little dose of physicality, Wenger would have won like two titles within his last ten seasons, the usual slump by February, after a near excellent start would have been avoided.

The secret of Fergie is his ability to blend intelligent play with physicality. Just assess his typical players- Ferdinand, Vidic, Keane, these guys can play intelligently, but what keeps them at the top is their physicality.

In as much as I agree with him about his techniques and intelligence aspect of the game, I'll never come to terms that physicality and toughness isn't much important in today's football, the Watford and wolves team I see is composed of hard men who can run,fight for any duels on the field of play.
wolves held city not because the were on par with city on intelligence level but the fight I saw that day ehn, I don't want us to play them soon.
Being physical doesn't mean lacking totally in intelligence and techniques, Kante,maltuidi,pogba,naigolan, de Rossi,perisic,vetroghen,Alderweid,Davison Sanchez et all are examples of hard men on the ball and they aren't poor in their ball playing.

80% of our present squad doesn't convince me of they have cojones, I've seen average defenders harass and bully off Auba,laca,ozil,bellerin off the ball and it hurts.

Personally, over the years, I see only barca, bayern,city and maybe Liverpool as the teams beating us by outclassing us on the pitch, others including Chelsea, spurs,utd, stoke,Southampton, Watford etc bully us to victory.
They know how to set up against Wenger's sexy girls, you see hard men defending in numbers against us,and rugged men in Costa bullying our soft defenders.

I remembered kolasinac's first game against Chelsea, he was bullying them everywhere, he scored in that game and fans/pundits were saying its high time we started recruiting his kinds.
Ozil wasn't criticized for his intelligence, but for his physical strength.
Rosciky,carzola,Walcott, Gibbs, Eduardo v.persie amongst many orthers were severely bruised under Wenger by the hard men in the league, injuries crippled lots of them and despite the talents they couldn't match the physical strength of the then our rivals.

Not everyone is fan of Peps ball playing bullshit,not every club is blessed with owners to assembly such a fantasy team, we sold our hard boys in coq and Gabriel for ball playing mustafi and xhaka and they have been the most criticized among lots.

“Today it’s more difficult for the more talented players to succeed,” he told Chelsea TV.

“I don’t think my physical abilities are the best – I’m not the quickest, I’m not the strongest, I’m not the sharpest, so you have to be ahead of the game if a player like me wants to succeed in football.

“To be a football player today... if you are very strong or you run a lot or stuff like that it’s easier. That’s why I try to get even better because football is growing in a way that before I don’t think it was.

“Everyday you see less talent and more power and players running around.”

Fabregas on modern day football. Even the midfielders are feeling the effect.

Roland17:
The fact that you are mentioning Campbell and Toure proves you are still stuck in previous decades. My brother football has evolved, you can not sit down there and cast aspersions at Wenger for being rigid and resisting change while you still hold on to Campbell and Toure era. Football has changed significantly and that includes the requirements for that position.

Let me burst your bubble about Luis at Chelsea. Luis is not starting for Sarri because of his physicality, if anything that idea is wrong. He is starting because of his technique on the ball. Sarri built his team around Jorginho, consequently, he needs a defender with good ball technique to move the ball quickly to the middle and to Jorginho. This allows Hazard to be more effective because he is not dropping deep to create, unlike under Conte, rather he is around the final third as Jorginho orchestrates the offense from the middle. These situations are possible because Luis has the ball technique to start the offense from the back. Luiz is not physically imposing, he lacks the power you are speaking about. You seriously crack me up when you use Luiz as an example of a strong defender. It is called "Sarri ball" for a reason bro. Ask your self, where is Zouma and Cahil?

Why is Pep and Manchester City going to continue their domination of the league? Prior to his arrival, they had Mangala, Demichellis, Kompany and Otamendi while Stones was in the fringes, all brute, power and strength but after Pep took over he did away with Mangala, Demichellis, Kompany had to revamp his game if he was to get in and Otamendi is longer a starter. Now you have Laporte and Stones, please tell me they are Pep's starters because they are physically strong! Pep has built his team around passing from the back and that requires technique, abeg tell me how the big strong and tall defenders at City have fared with that requirement? How about Liverpool?

How about VVD of Liverpool? Why is he heralded as the one of the best defenders in the EPL? Do you think it is because of his strength or physicality? Faaaaaar from it, infact when he tried to use his strength last week, it cost Liverpool points because it resulted in a penalty. Prior to him, they had Skrtel, Sahko, Toure, Caulker, Lovren, Matip (tall and strong) and Klopp only got disaster after disaster from your prototypical brute, strong and tall defenders. VVD's intelligence, positional awareness and technique on the ball has brought some balance and calmness to Liverpool's back-line.

Again, while strength and power is important in that role, it is not prioritized over intelligence and technique in the modern game.

Why do you think fans and pundits say we haven't replaced viera? Why do you think fans and pundits say we lack leaders like Adams etc? Are they all stuck in previous decades? There are some last decades football ideas that's still in vogue.

To you, luiz can look like Guendozi, but for me I see an aggressive, strong and a no nonsense in his style of play and that has been the traits common to most defenders I've watched at Chelsea, yes, luiz is good on the ball and that may have helped to orchestrate their good attack, but his defensive play doesn't lack energy and brute same with rudiger.

I so much wanted Cahill from his Bolton days, we were close to signing him, I still haven't forgive Wenger for getting per instead, why? Because Cahill was a strong,tall no nonsense defender and he led chelsea to all trophies in his prime, ATM, Cahill is old and done, zouma was a young boy who had a long season injury and was loaned out to stoke and he was fans favorite then at the bridge.

The city defenders if kompany et all you mentioned won virtually everything and even got to the UEFA semsis.
Pep came in 2017 and changed to what he wants, Pep's style from on set aren't set up for defenders, he himself said he doesn't train tacklers, all his 11 players are attackers with the goal keeper, but defensively they are weak in realty, ability to possess the ball and good attackers scoring loads of goals would cover the cracks.

And except you are backed up with big money spenders, how many teams can set up like that of his?

Lastly, Intelligence and techniques is surely an important quality in today's footy, but lacking in strength, physicality and aggression for me is a no no, except a team is set up like that of Pep's
Atlectico who are European kings are wired to be strong and brute and yet they aren't lacking in quality.
Only if kosc was physical enough, lukaku and Costa won't bully him anyhow.

In today's football, especially in England, physicality and strength rules..
Why dou you think Chelsea and Leicester won the league?
Fabregas himself said football used to be techniques and brains, but now power and pace..

I've watched Chelsea's luiz and rudiger well this season, and one thing I get jealous and wish we have is their strength, physicality and aggression, there's nothing much special about them technically.

Koscienly despite his brilliant play,his lack of physicality costs us a lot, I remembered how lukaku,pogba and griezmen fell him off the ball.

Our center pairings of Campbell and Toure was succesful largely because of physicality.

Mustafi,bellerrin,chambers,holding and monreal are sexy girls,and that's why Diego Costa and other ruthless players bully us a lot.

I insist we go sign black, tall, energetic no nonsense defender.

The team rotation has made everyone buckled up, Emery is wise not to reason like Wenger and some fans by sticking to a certain starting 11 week in week out, thereby making the likes of iwobi,welbeck,Matteo mhicky,Ramsey laca turn to dead wood.

I reckon ozil will come back fired up as he won't want to be considered not good enough for starting.

I feel we still need that sharp fast dribbling winger and maybe big strong black tireless defender.

We wanted top4 the least, but seems Emery wants to be in the tittle race in his first year and that will be awesome.

Wishing the lads injury free international break.

Person say him wan pack bus, they say attack attack attack, na the result of attack be this..

Now the scumies are in pains

BTW,

Useless failure team

Meanwhile,

I'm glad Matteo bagged his first goal for the club, he was superb alongside Torreiera, in a matter of 1/2 years, I see him displacing xhaka and retaining the starting spot back again..

Torreira' so good, he makes everyone good around him..

Litchteiner and Kolasinac were so below par.

3points,clean sheet and on to the next one on Sunday

kokaneprodigy:
They all dropped points and since just 4 points separate us from the leaders we are getting back into the mix. I’m happy with the clean sheet too.

We should just win all winnable games henceforth and maybe we can have a good shot at being in the title race or top 4.

BTW, I'm jealous of Liverpool's play, those guys are fire and that's my definition of a team of quality players and football..

I fancy them to challenge for even UCL and BPL glory this year.

daveP:
Two CF that performed in their previous clubs is a headache for a coach like Emery. Auba needs his shine in the epl and much as Laca, but I dunno why it's this way. the one on one that Laca wasted today, Auba would have buried it cos he has more flair and technique than LACA, but Laca is a solid finisher. Only the presence of a badass AM can make these two flourish together up front.


Ramsey will go.


At least we can see the physical side of the gunners unlike during wengers time.

Nice one bro, Auba and laca at the same time on the pitch haven't impressed me a bit in all games they started..
Auba became a goal machine and won Arican footballer of the year from the CF position same with laca.

When iwobi and welbeck came on we started to look like scoring..

Holding was also fantastic, a good back up defender and much preferred to chambers..

To me I feel Emery is trying to accede to fans demand of what only looks good on paper.

I'm happy for the 3point since manure and Chelsea/Liverpool may drop points today..

Lana1:
Because its cowries Arsenal ve been spending since.

Someone reading this would think Xhaka, Mustafi, Aubameyang and Lacazette all came to ur club for free in the last few years that has seen ur club transform to Europa Specialists and Thursday Night Experts!!

in a matter on months bro, you gon join us on Thursday nights.

How you spend such huge money in transfer and still be useless...
Anyways CR7 is coming to add your pains soon

you would have to be a real misery guts not to warm to Danny as a human being. Modest, grounded, hard working and a real team player, I have to say that as a man he is one of the most likeable Arsenal players ever. But, sadly, he is just short of top class and we all know that. I do not say he is remotely a bad player, as he clearly isn’t. But we should be realistic and admit he is not worth a Prem place , in front of our two top strikers. But he can play wide and always works hard, so personally I would play him,He was bad under Wenger but different under Fergie and Emery, with Auba and Laca(both more centrally) against Watford and leave both Ramsey AND Ozil out of the side. My team when all are fit for Prem games would be: Cech, Licht, Sokratis, Mavropanos(Holding), Monreal, Torreira, Maitland- Niles, Myki, Welbeck, Auba, Laca. You will see I leave out Bellerin, Mustafi and Xhaka, who I consider all weak links. Ramsey and Ozil are just not worth a shirt this season and Guendouzi would be first midfield change for sub. I might consider using Bellerin but ONLY as out and out winger. As a defender, along with Mustafi, he is a bad joke. There would be far more hard work and dynamism in this team than when the “weak links” play # Copied

The above was culled from Mr Jon on an Arsenal blog,
He wrote exactly how I feel about welbeck.