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iamoyindamola:
E dan happen since early January I no know why he take this long
Saliba next with squad number 2

Maybe they just put the signings to paper ystdy.

I'm really hoping for Saka and Saliba contract. The way Madrid fit com chuuk eye for Saka matter now fit fear me

iamoyindamola:
So how will you rate his performance in the 2
Let me help you at Europa it was nonsense same in caraboa
Then he played in fa cup too immediately he went off we scored coincidentally

His many matches apart was the two matches?

Imagine playing DM for months, then you now switch to Cm, then you now switch to DM again.

No wonder his progressive passes was even hit ystdy plus he showed signs of rustiness

FirstbornWds:
You are a bad person.

Na true na.

Imagine what happened to Ronaldo at Man u where he even had good roots, then imagine how it would have been if it was at Juventus where he had no prior roots sef

Trevor012:
This one just jumped in to type gibberish. Ronaldo records and achievement at Juventus speaks for him. Whatever fall out he had with allegri who never wanted Juventus to sign Ronaldo in the first place doesn't change anything. All these your foolish epistles upon epistles na for your pocket.

Shalaye upon shalaye because your ewu dey ball with part time imams
I couldn't even bother reading it


I hear say Cr7 pickin don even score before him papa. Na true?

Meanwhile, Our boy have agreed to a new 4½ years contract.

More wins and more excellence for you!!

iamoyindamola:
Emirates na

oh... I just remembered now.

That's the same match Elneny started na.
I've even forgotten that Elneny even played a Europa match sef.

It's only 2 matches he and Elneny have played this season together and that's the matches he played as an 8

Ballzproblem2:
😒

Lol .. club pass club


The only way you guys will influence him like Mudryk is if you'll start scoping his girlfriend, mother, father and schoolteachers just so that he'll be forced to agree like Mudryk

iamoyindamola:
No he played as 8 in our win against Zurich that he was spraying rubbish passes

our first match?

So who played DM? Xhaka?

Same Xhaka that's mostly advanced?

mostob:
This is slavery o. Players wey no good reach am dey collect 200k per week. If Brighton block this move, they're enemy of success.

Well, he's their player bound under contract. Let's see how it goes

Jokerman:
Till today juventus still have reverence for the GOAT, for the 3 years he spent with them and his achievements.. you haters always come up with Narrative.

Haters ke?
Anybody who say the truth Is always branded hater.

The difference between his time at Man u and Juventus is that he left Juventus at the right time before he was being humiliated by Allegri(cos Allegri made it known that he wouldn't be in his plans like that just like Ten Haag)

The handwriting he saw at the wall In Juventus, he couldn't see it in Man u. If he had seen it quickly, He wouldn't have left like this

Shegzdave:
I don’t know why Arteta keep playing him in that DM position since that Man Utd first leg, they should be fast with the Caicedo deal cause Lokonga isnot the best alternative to Partey and Rasta man is injured..
He can get Xhaka kind of redemption if he’s sent on one or two loan spell to develop himself. I’ll be glad if he improves.
Have you been following Nuno Tavares in Marseille, that dude will be good as a winger cause he score goals in the team.

Well, he should go on loan first, let's see if he'll improve.

As for Tavarez, he's dipped and his positional awareness and positional indiscipline is now showing. He was good first few months of the season but recently his being not up to it

mostob:
Omo..Caicedo is earning 180k per year. As in 180k?
Not even up to a week salary of some players. Jesus Christ!

Lol...na now you dey know?
Person wey dey earn 5k pounds a week

iamoyindamola:
How
If you remember how we fell to 3 straight defeats last season you no go even break arteta head for even putting him on MD squad

I remember berating him last season thinking that he was a 6 and all. But after analysing his game and reading research on him, I found out he wasn't really a 6 or any type of DM for that matter but Arteta wanted to build him as one. It's the main reason towards the end of last season I told Spy that he'll excel as a Cm and not a DM not to talk more of a lone DM.

This season, Arteta doesn't plan to use him as a DM, so I understand he's being used there out of necessity. Even though I will critique his game but I wouldn't be harsh as I was last season were I was all over him.

iamoyindamola:
Are you saying elneny played only one Europa match

Nahhh... It wasn't even a Europa match sef.

It was our carabao cup match against Brighton. That was the only match this season Sambi played as an 8

iamoyindamola:
Yet you guys feel odegaard wa hard on him
The werey is just collecting free salary

Lol... Na two different things na

mostob:
Which is baffling because he has everything he needs to make it. Man is just so casual.

Na him dey do himself.
Him no go get this opportunity next season sha

iamoyindamola:
So elneny is playing what if they play together

Elneny was injured have you forgotten?

iamoyindamola:
I need to remind you guys we lost 3 straight matches in which awilo started last season and that caused us top4

Omorr, we just need sign DM ooo.

I can't just watch arsenal match this season if he starts due to Partey injury

iamoyindamola:
Na only one Europa match he play

It's only one Europa match he played as an 8(Xhaka position)

The rest he played as a DM

mostob:
I also hate bashing player. I was just so angry at him yesterday. You should have seen how i shouted at him to close down Ake just before that goal.

Omo...don't even remind me

From the buildup go that goal (the shot that Turner saved). If you see the gaping hole he left for City to exploit In the midfield ehh. Exact same thing that happened against Man u

iamoyindamola:
Preseason way everyone no wan get injury
You sef they do like spy sometimes

Lol... He showed glimpses. Not as a starter but as a good squad player coming from bench. If he'd build on that, we'll surely have rested Xhaka ystdy but obviously Elneny injury didn't allow that.

Tell me one player that shone in this our preseason but we're presently bashing him. None!!

....Except Sambi who isn't playing his preseason position

mostob:
He better buckle up. Even that CM spot ain't sure. ESR and Xhaka are his current competitors. Then If Patino comes back next season, e don red for am. Sambi's problem is not confidence, it is his rigidity. Same problem as Pepe.

Lol... I would be surprised if he makes it here sha. Maybe 2-3years ago, I would have believed in his redemption but not now.

Our team is fast outpacing his abilities unfortunately

mostob:
Nice point. But you failed to add the fact that those players you used as examples have given us maximum performances in the past.
I stand by Ode abeg even though he shouted in frustration.
We dey try win ball back, you didn't mark...you didn't stay in position and you call yourself a midfielder. Nonsense.

Lol... I get you bro. Hopefully, we'll just buy another DM and save Lokonga all these bashings

I hate bashing a player most especially when he's not playing his primary or secondary position

iamoyindamola:
But he's played xhaka position in Europa and we struggled

Just only 1 match na.
He excelled there in preseason but Elneny injury forced him not to build on that during the group stage

iamoyindamola:
That's what I am saying
Odegaard must have been correcting or encouraging him before now
It's not normal for human to react without prior reasons you sef think am
Like you said saliba and gabu committed errors which the fans and players backed them because it's not everytime
But as there ever been a match awilo look good, one of us said he's better in xhaka role he was played there and was also terrible
Nothing arteta haven't tried with him olule las las
Abegi the guy is not worth it

I don't blame Odegaard for reacting that way cos I feel it's out of emotions (I mean, Sambi just made our pressing game futile) . I just feel that what he did wasn't right by publicly berating him, just in case of next time.

But mehn, Lokonga Is 23yrs oo. Some of us still dey look am as small boy

Who even scout that guy for us say na potential DM sef. The guy even deceive Spy join

Shegzdave:
I’m pretty sure they’ll work it out and I hope it boosts the confidence in the dude, Ordegaard is a pretty good captain although his emotions got the best of him .
All I see in that Lokonga is a young dude void of confidence and I’ll be glad if he improves so that those calling for his head will celebrate him like they did Xhaka.

The best way for Lokonga to rediscover himself is by playing away from that DM position. Yesterday, even his progressive passes and movement was found wanting, something associated with lack of confidence and match rustiness.

I don't know if he might get the kind of Xhaka's redemption here cos of the amount/caliber of midfielders coming through but I'll be glad if he can pull it through like Xhaka, else I'll just wish him all the best away from here.

Ellexy:
Ten Hag on if Phil Jones will be released in the summer: "There hasn't been a decision made on that for this summer. All season he's been injured."


😐😐😐

How this guy haven't been released since 2016 should be among one of the world wonders

Jokerman:
The mistake of Ronaldo was coming back to Man utd.

Man utd destroyed his confidence. Imagine in the space of 2 months, form dropped drastically mentally and physically. From 24 goals at 37 years, to hitting goal posts etc... it went that bad.

Should have remained at Juventus, where he was more respected.

I'm sure, he will get back to himself, as he always does. That's how they thought he won't do well at Juve, till he got 101 goals and 30 assists in 131 games, winning all trophies and individual awards.

England media will always have beef with Ronaldo, Mourinho or Pogba...

Lol...Did you say this when he came to Man u at first? I guess you're one of those who supported his coming back to Man u, now you're seeing it as a mistake

And don't even call juventus here. Juventus that benched him during their most important match of the season in order to qualify for UCL. Allegri was ready to give him the Ten Haag treatment and it would have been worse than even man u. Man saw the hint at juventus and ran for his dear life

Shegzdave:
That act by Ordegaard might just kill the little confidence Lokonga had. Even though I don’t really believe in that boy filling Partey shoes, the pitch wasn’t the best place to correct him being the captain.

The dude didn’t wait to clap the fans, he went straight into the dressing room after the match even when the players were clapping the fans ...

I just hope that Odegaard talk to him and tell him that it was emotions that got the better of him. That wouldn't make him less of a captain or leader and it'll give Lokonga some reassurance that he isn't being treated differently.

Hopefully, they will work it out.

iamoyindamola:
We keep protecting this awilo yet he's regressing with games
I support odegaard open criticism and the boy is one stupid arrogant piece of shiit to work out on the fans

Lol .. it's not about protection but doing the right thing.

One of the big reasons why there's bond and unity amongst all our players instead of rife Is the ability for them to stand by each other publicly if any of them made a mistake. I remember Saliba did an own goal against Leicester and Odegaard walked up to him to reassure him. Gabriel did a grave mistake against Fulham two matches later and he even admitted that the reassurance and confidence his brothers (as he himself called them) gave him was what gave him strength to carry on enabling him to even go for that winner. Should we talk last season about same Gabriel mistake against wolves where he wanted to apologize for his mistake and Ramsdale told him to forget about it and move on.


Why then would it now feel right to criticize Sambi openly? Why then should his own be different?

patrickmuf:
See the players in question...Woods, Target, Burn...Lol

Guimaraes and Trippier are good players so is Isak however he is very inconsistent...I think they upped their mentality, they now approach games differently.

Lol...I taya when I see these players as upgraded players over what they have. Anything to win argument sha.

I didn't want to even go that route cos that would be another talk on its own and I didn't want to partake in that

iamoyindamola:
I still feel we can go for Douglas luiz again adding awilo to spice up the deal

Monaco bidded 7m for awilo we rejected cause we are limited in midfield

I wonder why arteta didn't start ESR ahead of viera yesterday

We can't go for Luiz since he signed a new long term deal. If we couldn't get him by August when his contract is expiring by June, how can we get him when it's now a 5-yr contract. We should just look for another player sha. Dem suppose full French league

It's not as if arsenal really "reject" the bid(Sambi). We just made it clear that we won't sell or loan him UNTIL we get a Midfielder in.

ESR didn't make the squad. He wasn't injured during training (but not long term). So in order to serve as precaution, it was decided not to use him. Hopefully, he'll be available against Everton