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Congrats to us guys
Number 14, we move
They should give auba any amount he wants
COYG

Akinbahm:
That houssem Aouar is a little bit convincing or Grealish well, it seems Arteta has another plan.

We should consider nabil fekir of real betis
He would suit our budget
And we should also try coutinho
Barca might be looking for club to loan him to since he is out of favor there

airmark:
Hudson Odoi is recovering.
Ruben Loftus-Cheek is recovering.
Rudiger is recovering.
Reece James is recovering.
Kante is recovering.

If these guys recover on time, Man utd will need to win Europa to qualify for UCL, if Chelsea don't fall to play there this season though.

How time has changed
So this is how Chelsea recover only to discover europa awaits them

We have shown interest in signing partey, I hope we get it done.
Which attacking midfielder should we sign

Spy360:
Our attack is complete in my opinion, we already have Martinelli to rotate with Saka.

I agree on this position
Except we are selling one of our attackers,
there is no need of adding to it
Pepe, Martinelli, saka, nelson can operate from the flanks
If both auba and laca stay, we are good in the center forward position. We also have nketiah who can also play there.

TalabiAudu:
Man they stand NO chance. I'm freaking serious.

Go and watch Barca this season against top teams. Go and watch them against Madrid (2 legs), Atletico, Napoli 1st leg. Teams are not focussing on Messi like before, he's getting dispossessed more often these days

Messi can't do much, overall team play would be highly effective in which Barca don't have. Bayern will run Barca ragged that's if they even get past Napoli

You are right to certain extent
Barca midfield are parading tired legs
Busquets and rakitic are not at the top level they were before,
they don't drive with the ball forward,
they don't press,
all they do is to give side way passes
Vidal is good at pressing but he is limited technically in controlling the midfield
messi has to drop deeper to collect the ball
So before he reaches final third of the pitch, he might have been dispossessed of the ball
messi is not a player you can underestimate even though age is catching up with him

TalabiAudu:
Even though Messi is given enough space, they still don't stand a chance.

They stand a little chance
Messi is not the kind of player you give freedom to operate especially in the middle area of the pitch
He can exchange passes with other players and score goals or he can create chances leading to goal

kokaneprodigy:
Left to me emphasis should be on midfield [a 10 and one potent DM) we can still work with what we have in attack and defence if funds is not a luxury.

Shipping out Ozil and Guen can sort this, I still consider keeping Xhaka as a squad player.

I agree with you on this point
Our midfield used to be our strongest point before, now it is our weakest point
Post invincible era we have been blessed with midfielders like fabregas, hleb, song, diaby, flamini and the likes
We were known as a possession based team then
Those guys could control the midfield effectively and create chances for our attackers
Right now we have midfielders who are not technical enough to control the midfield and create chances
This should be arteta's main priority

kendrick9:
Suarez Messi Griezzman up against a not too good Bayern defense?
It's silly to say they don't stand a chance

If you look at the tough opponents barca played in la liga of recent, sevilla and atletico
They know messi is most dangerous when operating in the middle area
they crowded the middle to stiffle messi from being effective and they succeeded
Barcelona play through the flanks is not as effective like bayern
Griezman is not effective on the flanks
Suarez is declining gradually you can't count on him to take on players and his goal output has dropped
All barca does is pass to messi

A40:
CL and Quarter finals ti set. Unless we perform the mother of all chokejobs we would be facing the winner between Napoli and Barca

And then in the semis if we advance the winner between Madrid/City and Lyon/Juve

Bayern is the favorite to reach champions league final and even to win it
Should barca qualify for the quarter final I don't see barca stopping bayern
Bayern team is more balanced than barca
If messi is not given enough space to operate in the middle, they don't stand a chance at all

Spy360:
Why do I think this will be the line up for today's game?

Saka............. Aubameyang..... ....... Pepe
Tierney ... Ceballos ... Xhaka ........ Bellerin
Holding................ Luiz ................. Mustafi
......................... Martinez ............................

I don't think holding is ready yet
He is still not back to form after the lengthy injury he had
I think arteta will still go with kolasinac
The coach might start also start nketiah ahead of saka

Spy360:

I enjoy getting behind his skin.

Meanwhile, Guendouzi has been training alone for two weeks after refusing to apologize for the Brighton incident. The lad most likely will be offloaded basically for indiscipline.

Good one by Arteta for me. There should be zero tolerance for indiscipline. We must destroy this bad atmosphere.

Arteta does not rate guendouzi highly
This indiscipline stuff just provided Arteta the opportunity to get rid of him
He won't be missed at all
He should drag his sluggish ass to another club
where he will be given ample time to form activity on the field with no end product
and doing escort services while they are attacking his team

daveP:
Pick your front 3 from this....

I will pick
Sanchez auba nasri

I am glad we won.
Another clean sheet to boost the morale of the team.
Arteta is doing a good job for now considering the players available at his disposal.
Both teams were too conservative with the ball.
No one wanted to push foward in numbers,
they were just trying to nullify each other threats.
The only difference is we were clinical with the few chances created.
I hope next season with the recruitments coming in we would be able to give better performance
But for now I will take the scrappy victory with the average performance.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has requested a minimum three-year contract worth up to £250k-a-week to stay at Arsenal, sources have told @JamesOlley.
(ESPN)
Guys what is your take
Should we sell auba or agree to extend his contract
I prefer he stays, I believe he can still perform at top level for two to three years

Lana1:
Dj play me any better song. To dance dey hungry me:
https://images2.imgbox.com/29/d3/oNxHSsv2_o.gif

You dey give me joy with that dance move

CapitalCee:
Please this is the Menu for today.

1. Abacha with either Kpomo or Fried Fish
2. Semo, Akpu, Wheat, Amala and pounded yam.
( Soups available: Eforiro, Oha, Egusi, Gbegiri, draw, edikaikong, Bitter leaf.)
3 . IKEA with stock fish.
4. Fried rice
5. Jollof rice
6. Coconut rice.
7. Beans and agege bread.


Please guy should I also take care of drinks?

I am in charge of soft drinks

Our boys are regaining their confidence back with the recent victories.
I hope we get a surprise win against wolves on saturday.
Bellerin has been terrible so far.
After that injury he has not been the same
The speed he relies on to cover his limited technique is gone.
I will take AMN or Cedric over him at the moment.

Shekpe lives matter
Please hold them tightly make them no commit suicide this night

Fkhalifa:
Norwich and Southampton are the only remaining winnable games, the rest are D and L IMO.

This is the reality we find ourselves.
Even the so called winnable games, we might still not win
Make we sha dey hopeful for the best

Roland17:
See as dem dey celebrate like say dem win trophy

I am not impressed jare!

Rubbish!!!!

I don't think our present crop of players
challenge themselves to achieve success like the henry generation
We the fans feel the pain if we lose games than the players
All they know how to do best is to drop motivational speech if we lose
and post pics on Instagram if we win.
They are too comfortable.

Thank God for finally winning.
We needed this win to boost the confidence of the players.
I hope we maintain this momentum into the fa cup against sheffield.

Roland17:
We need to totally revamp our midfield and that is where I agree with @Kokaneprodigy. You can get the best wingers but if you lack the right midfielders to help coordinate/ transition offense and push the ball, irrespective of how skilled your wingers are, they would be ineffective and wingers have the tendency to become selfish if they are not involved. Also, if your style of attack is primarily through the wings it becomes predictable and easy for opponents to plan against your team. More so , without a good midfield, your counter attacks become blunt, thus making your wingers irrelevant. Do you know how many counter attack opportunities we blew yesterday?

Yesterday’s loss was on Arteta, he should have raised his hand during the press conference. Take a look at the formation and how it was broken down! You are playing a back 4 with Kola yet you brought Tierney whom you should have started in the first place. (Abeg I don’t want to hear injury scare excuse)

A midfield base of Ceballos and Guen, threw Saka into the AM which was part of our undoing because the kid has made it clear during the break that while he is versatile he was to build his confidence from the LW position, not LB, LWB or AM position. Well, whenever we had possession, the kid was drifting to his preferred position, thus saturating that wing, causing more offsides for Auba and himself. If the idea was to be fluid then it was a horrible decision because we lack any identity, I mean outside of losing and drawing games.

Furthermore, you would notice whenever we had possession we were spending incredible amounts of time in our own half, back passing. The midfield pairing lacked the dynamism/ grit to coordinate the attack. Auba, Laca, Saka and Pepe were all dropping deep to collect the ball. It was a horrible tactic, it was flat.
Pepe is dangerous when he is inside the box, not outside of it, not when he has to make long runs because he would be doubled and of course it is easy for him to become distracted by some fruitless dribbling.

You are right on the midfield aspect
Also, auba and pepe were isolated on the wings, especially pepe
because our fullbacks are not making many overlapping runs
That's why Pepe was doing his meaningless dribbles
I believe if the team is balanced from defense to midfield, our attack is good enough to compete

Me right now reading through the heart breaking banters after the heart breaking loss

Pepe is back
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Bellerin has not been the same player after the injury
He is leaving Pepe isolated
He has not made any overlapping run so far.
Our dangerous attacks have come from auba/saka side

I dont know the kind of training we did during lockdown
I expected some of the players to have improved but they are stagnant
I don't know what arteta sees in training to be selecting the likes of guendouzi, willock to start a game of such magnitude.
Selecting a right formation for an unbalanced side like us is difficult.
Most of our players have deficiencies in certain aspects of the game.
I just hope the team he will select today will pick 3 points against Brighton

e be things for this line up oo
God into your hands we commit ourselves
Let your will be done

raumdeuter:
The era we won the 3 CL titles

I don't think champions league then is as competitive as this era
Only first placed team in each league qualifies for the champions league.
Winning 1 champions league with multiple semi final appearance in this era is not easy.
From 1970 - 1980, 4 leagues, 3 champions league, 1 dfb pokal
From 2010 - 2020, 8 leagues, 1 champions league, 4 dfb pokal (which could probably be 5)

Raumdeuter, A40 and all bayern fans
Which era is the best between franz beckenbauer era and this present era

My boys are back in action
Nobody is ready for the return of the rejuvenated Nicolas pepe
COYG

BlueRayDick:
Sell Ur club's current highest goal scorer who was last year's league highest goal scorer ( because u believe he is aging) only to replace him with a 19 year old that plays in a farmer's league and expect him to to lead the frontline?

I no dey into this kind arrangement at all. Halland has only played for a short while in the Bendes-Ligor and he hasn't proven himself elsewhere. Signing him to replace Auba is a huge risk that shouldn't be taken at all. If Auba must be sold, then an experienced striker should be brought in to replace him

Spot on
Dembele and pulisic are yet to make major impact in their respective clubs
Signing haaland will be a gamble at the moment.