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I keep wondering, how the fucck did Henry get 20 open play assists while playing as a striker and still got over 20 goals?. And still didn't win the player of the year.

iamoyindamola:
That olodhi adekunle TV blocked me
I insulted the werey when he attacked arsenal last season and his club wasn't doing well o

With the league already bagged, there's no need to play our main players. Teta can start the minors and those that haven't gotten enough chance this season. The focus now is on ucl final.

One thing I observed from all the talks since we confirmed the title is that Arteta is not really hard on the players and a dictator like we think. From Eze being free and bold enough to meet him after the Man city game and suggest he gives them freedom and space with less training schedules to him admitting we were shit in the wolves game when other staffs provided stats after he first said it was a great performance. Many times he has taken the blame and fall for our results even when players blame themselves, that is a true leader and manager.

City losing Bernado and stones plus potentially Rodri will weaken their team for sure, because they are the core part of city's winning players.

mostob:
No time

my guy for Aba tell me say dem dey go on a parade this coming Monday. And if we win the ucl, they go on another parade.

Humble pie

This club na secret cult ah swear.

germaphobe:
"For me Arsenal is the greatest club in the world, because it is the one i am with, the one I love and the one I want to help continue growing. The important thing is that this season we make Arsenal the greatest of all". Arteta
No be to talk am, na to win trophies be the kuku now. A double won't be bad.

one done, double next.

It's true that the league is ours to lose or win depending on the outcome of our remaining two games, but there's nothing I would love to see than us winning Burnley today and City dropping points on Tuesday. Can Bournemouth just do it for themselves and get a grip on 6th position or even challenge for 5th?, it won't be bad to get a guard of honour against Crystal Palace and also rest our best players ahead of the crucial final.

With the way injuries are flying up and down, it will be better to rest our best legs on the final day while being crowned as champions.

Omor.............

andrewbaba44:
Rice doesn’t deserve player of the season

It should be Gabriel

i dey with you on this one.

iamoyindamola:
We should have finish the league long time ago and he almost ruin it finally last match, until we get over the line anything is possible

we know he phucked up, but he also rectified it. If he didn't correct his initial stupidity, then that would have been a problem. If we win the league no one deserves the award more than him.

iamoyindamola:
How did he deserve it?
As he won the league?

you no believe he go win the league?

IZUKWU:
we have three players sublisted for POTY award

having 3 players from our team is definitely gonna divide the votes. Personally I am voting for Gabriel, my friend said it's Raya for him and some already had Rice in mind especially the english fans. I just hope one of them wins it in the end.

you know he deserves it regardless of the heart skipping moments he has given us.

iamoyindamola:
I can't vote arteta lailai
This guy have stress my life

Fkforyou:
I been think say na just bants but men, when MOTM curse hold Arteta last month, I turn believer sharp sharp.

I pray the curse touch Guardiola well well.

Aside from the manager of the month stuff, Arteta has never won an epl game in April since 2022 I can remember. This April is the best April cus we even won an epl game. Motm plus his own village curse affect am well for April.
City to draw again before the last day biko.

BlueRayDick:
Gabriel has been the best of the duo this season arguably our best player this season. Only Raya comes close to how important Gabriel has been for the team this season.

Gabriel for me is our best player this season, from his early goals and assist in the season, to his mad blocking and clearance, to his defensive awareness. Though Rice has been great but I feel like Gabriel deserves to be in epl best player talks ahead of Rice. That's my personal opinion. Him, Saka and Martinelli(even though he get craze for head) deserves this league more cus they have been there from the beginning with Arteta with all the criticism and laughs at them. The three of them started this movement and jesus with Zinchenko made it even better with the mentality they brought from city.

BlueRayDick:
You get!

A lot of our players have had their ups and down this season. We've criticized them at verious times for how they've been faltering and we praised them when they live up to expectation.

There's no need pulling Havertz down or trying to undermine his contribution because Gyokeres is now doing well. Gyokeres had his trying times too with heavy touches, wrong positioning and terrible shots that didn't find back of the net when they should.

Me I just want the team as a whole to do well. Let Gyokeres bang in goals, let our Midfielders rack up assists and our defenders help our goalkeeper keep as many clean sheets as possible. Let everybody play their part and let's have the trophies in the bag.

there's a reason why watching a match is different from watching stats. Against ATM, Gyokeres was one of the best players but had the lowest rating. This season he had bad moments so much more than good moments but he has the best goal ration of any of our forwards in recent times, and some always pull up that stat when you try to talk about his general play. Now that he started getting involved in games our wingers are coming alive with more chances at goal, that's the Arsenal way. I've always said next season is when we would experience the real striker in Gyokeres and that's already showing if he can maintain the form till season ends.

BlueRayDick:
You need to drop this agenda about not playing to his strength abeg. We watched matches Gyokeres got the right weight of passes and he missed them on different occasions.

I'm sure if he had scored those chances nobody will be pushing this agenda say "they are not playing to his strength ". I know you in particular will be waxing lyrical about how recommended Arsenal getting a striker and how it has made the difference.

It's like you didn't know how poor Gyokeres was at some point with his first touch, his ball movement and even some lame shots he was attempting on goal. Maybe if you watch of the clips below, they will refresh your memory and you will understand that what you are doing is that you are only using his latest performance to whitewash his past average performance


https://youtube.com/shorts/12KmNvcLVms?si=2hEWJVBXT7C_ZhXH

https://youtube.com/shorts/MkN1ZJABGZQ?si=qv5royu10tquemAP


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWCxH85GGz8?si=hU8C4_85RmX8GqxD

https://youtube.com/shorts/88mD986dq8E?si=hrMF4QIzh4qFRsVB

It's okay for us to appreciate his performance in the Athletico match and recent matches but e no mean say others no try. Even the recent goals he scored na the players work am out for am, he didn't carry ball from defence to opposition goal post by himself.

dave feels like there are a certain fan base that hates Gyokeres when in reality we just want him to shine. He feels attacked whenever a criticism comes Gyokeres way and it is understandable cus of how he really advocated for a striker last season.

Not having a preseason and being pushed to starr every game because of kai and jesus injury made his adaptation difficult. Kai's equaliser against leverkusen gave us an edge in the return leg, his goal against sporting put us in the semi final, even the two times he assisted Gyokeres he really did the most work and Gyokeres scored, so I don't know why we have to slander a player just to praise the other. With Gyokeres staying in form as he is currently, no one would love to see him on the bench. In the end we all just want to see our team win.
No be Saka wey be king of Emirates collect woto goto criticism from fans this season too?.

daveP:
While we can both agree to the struggling part, also notice that almost all the Barclays era legends seem to be saying one same thing in the last 2 months

And some of us have been saying it too


They all seem to align on the fact that the team is not playing to his strength

Name it

From the CBS trio to the Man U hothead to the Beckam, to mention a few.

Its funny how this last game, he showed his beast side immediately his strengths were ticked on.


All the advantage to our beloved club las las.

Yeah. That GF matter was even recently. I think the Trossard situation might have made them to include him. The two put up a show in last 2 games as though someone switched something on.


This guy is a beast if we continue to play to his strengths. That's just the truth!! We need a box beast and not a kai regen that many fans have been clamouring for all along.

For me, i happy he stayed fit. Cos all our attackers in LUTH wouldn't have helped anyway

playing to his strength is one thing, holding his own against epl defenders is another. We can argue that the team wasn't playing to his strength but we can't deny that his hold up and link up play which has nothing to do with playing to his strength has Improved. The Gyokeres of past months, would get to the ball and then lose it to defenders, or his touch would be too much, his heading of the ball used to be very bad, but now all of that has changed from what we see in recent outings. I just want him to continue being involved in general play and really create chances for others even when he doesn't score. He picked up at the right time, and with his clinicality level above Havertz, I wouldn't mind seeing kai on the bench all through the rest of the games.

They said Gyokeres only scores against small teams and teams below 15th, guess who our next three matches are against?.
18th placed westham
20th placed burnley
15th placed crystal palace.
We're winning this epl and we never stopped believing.

iamoyindamola:
They just hate us for nothing, our club is on the headline saying our celebration was way overboard since we haven't won it yet.
When city celebrated after beating us it wasn't overboard

these guys just purely hate Arsenal. They hate that they are gradually losing every edge in the banter with us. 3 seasons in ucl and we have only been on upward trajectory, same with the league, never finishing below the previous season. They're scared of how strong we are and can still become. The epl is in our hands now, I would happily take three 1:0 wins at this point and get the epl over with.

daveP:
It definitely will.


Igwe suggesting the tag The Unforgettables if they win the UCL fire


Fans like this guy below no get better eye. Lucky this guy stayed fit till now.

Tbh Gyokeres really struggled earlier in the season but that can be attributed to him not being part of the preseason and aslo jesus and kai's injury that forced him to play every match from the beginning without much understanding of our game play. I am really happy that he picked up at the right time. I read that Arteta and some staff talked him into getting back with his ex, na loneliness follow de affect our striker. Even without his goals, he's been a major threat in our last 3 games.