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Ray07:
But city really wicked una o.
They just targeted Arsenal players that season.

Lol... I swear. Na why I dey vex.

Just two players wey we sign from them and dem come deh para

mostob:
If only we get sugar daddy, na to go there next summer go carry Foden and Rodri

I swear down

We go just buy Rodri put am for bench till Partey needs rest or he's unavailable. Then bench Foden till Saka needs rest. Afterall na so dem do us with nasri, sagna and Clichy.

raumdeuter:
Bayern did not sack Naggelsman after losing to Villarreal. Makes Villarreal a favorite

Lol, it's just funny. As if Tuchel would have been sacked that season if he lost the round of 16 as a favourite

popizaino:
Will Chelsea have sacked Tuchel if he had failed to win Atletico Madrid then?

Why are you saying it as if Athletico or the round of 16 had anything to do with it?

Even if Tuchel had played club brugge in that round of 16 and he lost, Tuchel still won't be sacked so I don't know why you're emphasizing on athletico.

popizaino:
No bookmaker will look at Chelsea in 2020/2021 season and think we can make UCL semifinals talk more of going all the way in the UCL. We were underdogs that season. No amount of sugar coating we change otherwise.

Nobody is sugarcoating anything. You people weren't favourites but obviously you people aren't underdog.

What you're doing is simply just giving Tuchel a bad name so that you can hang him

A001:
Football isn't black and white oga. If it's not white, then it must be black. Football isn't like that.

There are many, many grey areas. It's not all teams that belong to your favorite-underdog classification.

Many teams are in between; for instance, Netherlands, Belgium, England, etc. You can't call any of these teams favorites or underdogs.

Like he's just seeing it as words and opposite. If you're not a favourite, then certainly you're an underdog. If you're not a great player then certainly you're a flop.

No in-betweens!!

mostob:


Jesus and Zinchenko were even surplus to requirement. Why Dem dey wail

They sold Sterling to Chelsea, e no pinch dem say dem sell to rivals, na us wey dem sell Jesus and Zinchenko give naim dey pinch dem. Like say before season started, Chelsea wasn't more of a rival to them than us.


All of them dey mad walahi!

popizaino:
Spain,England,Germany has players that can go head to head with Brazil and Argentina and also their coefficient is more or less the same. We had nothing in 2021 to compete with the big boys in the UCL. We were miles below the most big teams.

Lol... I just saw this.

So Chelsea's coefficient was very low in 2021?

You guys weren't at least top 8 in 2021?(and that's me putting it mildly sef)

Fyi: This is you guys present club ranking according to Uefa and coefficients. If tomorrow Chelsea and Graham Potter wins UCL, Popi will now say Chelsea were underdogs because of how they were struggling in the league

popizaino:
Spain,England,Germany has players that can go head to head with Brazil and Argentina and also their coefficient is more or less the same. We had nothing in 2021 to compete with the big boys in the UCL. We were miles below the most big teams.

Yet you finished 4th in the league, beat Pep twice in the league (both league and cup) and you still claim you were miles below most big teams?

Even this season, with the inconsistent form you guys are showing in the league, nobody will still tag you guys as "underdogs".

Those tag is for the club brugge and Porto of the world

popizaino:
The state of your club,form at a particular time and period determines whether you be termed underdog or favourites. It changes with time,form and anything and never constant. Nobody will tip AC milan as UCL favourite in this year's competition because they have 7 UCL

In this world cup, everyone is tipping either Brazil, Argentina and France as favourites. Now if someone like England or Spain goes on to win it, would you say an underdog team like England or Spain won it ?

popizaino:
That means Chelsea/Benefica/FC Porto can all be considered favourites to win the UCL this season and nobody should praise Mourinho for winning the UCL with FC porto cause they were never underdog.

That you're not a favourite doesn't automatically means you're an underdog and that's the mistake you're making.
Benfica and Porto,
1..what has been the performances in Europe (UCL) for the past 20years?.
2... Who's their coach, their players
3... how's their league ratings/strength?

So yes, if any of benfica and Porto wins it, they'll be rightly termed as underdogs but not you guys.

Tuchel reached finals with PSG the previous season before coming to Chelsea. Also Chelsea is one of the biggest teams in the world in arguably one of the best league in the world. How then would you say both Chelsea and Tuchel are underdogs in a UCL final? Even people wey deh bet know say the odds wey dey give Chelsea to win that game no be underdog's odd

I want to ask you a question. Last season between madrid and Liverpool... Who was the underdog?

raumdeuter:
The world cup in Qatar is starting in a few days

There have been many issues with many people attacking the choice of Qatar ranging from

1. They used slave labor to construct the stadium and slavery is prevalent in Qatar
2. They banned alcohol and are not accepting of Gay People
3. They bribed to get the hosting rights
4. They are interrupting the football calendar by having the tournament in December

For me personally, these issues if I will rank them from Most important to least import, I will list as above with 1 being the most important and 4 the least important

While some have merits some of the issues are just stretching things

If you are so pissed about Qatar hosting, just boycott the world cup like Cantona. Don't watch don't fly there, dont even comment about it just ignore and let those who dont mind enjoy the games
It will be harder for me to be very connected when Nigeria is not playing though but I wish everyone the best and for Germany to win

Favorite will be France Brazil Portugal

This has always been my stand. The only one that I had big issue with is the first one.

Argie all the way!!

mostob:
Man City will not sell any more first-team stars to Arsenal. Questions are being asked at Man City about why they allowed two first-teamers (Gabriel Jesus & Zinchenko) to join a rival who are now their biggest competition to win the title.” [@footyinsider247]

It is now believed that Guardiola’s side will reject any potential further offers from Arsenal for players who would go straight into their team.” #afc


headache after medicine.. we're still coming for more. When we dey give you Sag a, Clichy, Adebayor, Nasri....una nor know.

Both Guardiola, the board, the owners, their sporting director and everybody involved in transfers:

ALL OF THEM ARE MAD

SirKay3:
SUPER SAKA Kind England and Arsenal star Bukayo Saka pays for 120 Nigerian kids to undergo life-changing surgery ahead of World Cup

ARSENAL star Bukayo Saka has paid for 120 children in Nigeria to undergo life-changing surgery.

The England winger, 21, teamed up with the charity BigShoe to help children in Kano, Nigeria's second largest city, who were suffering from hernias and brain tumours.

Saka's parents are Nigerian, and the Arsenal star said he feels "very connected" to the country.

Saka's parents were both raised in Nigeria before moving to London, where the Gunners forward was born in 2001.

He said: "I feel blessed to be in a position where I can contribute to making the children's lives easier and better through these surgeries.

"I still feel very connected to Nigeria.

"For me, it is very important to use my abilities to have a positive impact where I can and I have to say a big thank you to the whole BigShoe team for making this possible.

"For me it is important that every child has the same opportunity to achieve their dreams.

"If I can do anything to help then I really want to do this, it was very important to me.

"It makes me happy when I can see the kids happy and their parents happy.

"I want to do more and more and help as many children as I can.

"This isn't about me, it is about the 120 children."

All 120 operations were successfully completed last month while Saka is now away preparing for his first World Cup as part of Gareth Southgate's England squad.

BigShoe are a charity who help impoverished children get the medical treatment they need but cannot afford.

Former Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger recently teamed up with the organisation, donating his Germany World Cup bonus to cover surgeries in Sierra Leone, his mother's home country.

Saka paid to help children suffering from hernias and brain tumours.
Saka paid to help children suffering from hernias and brain tumours.Credit: BigShoe

Boy is an epitome of humility and determination.

He is truly an inspiration for success and humility to youths and rising stars. Big ups to him

yinkeys:
Thanks for reminding me to live in the moment.
Enjoy the moment rather than thinking of future or past was what I got out of this post.
I usually forget to because of history

You're welcome

A001:
Out of all teams in the world, they've played the most finals without winning the World Cup. I think the definition of underdog better fits a team that has never reached semi-final in their history, let alone final.

Cc: Popizaino

Lush100:
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Oga Bruno G. We were going for him.
They priced it at 50M.(made us run away)
35M rising to 50M.
Isak 60M rising to 70M.
Botman 35M.
Dan Burn 13M.
L. Cash priced at 12M.
Nick pope 10M ( I am sure there is add on coz he's an english international).
Tripper 12M rising to 20M.
Wood 25M
All these in January transfer window plus first summer window.
That's around 225M.
Abeg they spent money.
We were also going for martinez which we priced at 35M
Man U priced to 57 M.
I hope u know Man U got Casimero at 70M.
@germ.aphobe
@Jode.ra
@spy.360
I hope u know we were trying bid for this Donesk shartak player during the summer which we quoted approx 30M.
I hope u know with Newcastle and Man U in the mix, they are quoting 60M.
Na why arteta go Pep carry arsenal.cart carry G. Jesus 45 plus Zinny 32M.

All these ones you're saying "it's rising to" is just add-ons. We don't know the details of the deal and whether it'll be met this season or not or whether it'll ever be met or not. The only guaranteed fee there is 35m for Bruno, 35m for botman and 12m for Trippier. All these money are fees average wolves and Aston Villa are spending in 1-2 transfer windows especially if you're rebuilding but nobody dey send. Isak 70m even have nothing to do with their present position sef

The core and majority of the starters are still players who were there before Arab money and Howe came on board. Give this same team to their previous coach and all of us will become oblivious to how much they spent

germaphobe:
BROTHER lets forget about guimares and focus on isak, cus he is my focal point here. would you as a coach, technical director or ceo buy isak for 70m?.

Then maybe you didn't understand the context of the matter. Most.ob asked what is giving Newcastle the impetus to be in this position they're are and Spy responded saying "heavy" spending. Context on the word "heavy".

So how is Isak who played only one match this season (match in which they lost sef) be the reason why they're in 3rd position? The only heavy spending there was Isak and he wasn't instrumental in anyway on the pitch in what they're doing?

As for the rest(guimares, botman etc), their fees in which they're bought is something that normal average midtable teams in EPL spends and I gave example using wolves, Westham and Aston Villa.

It's like us buying G.Jesus and Zinchenko and unfortunately both are out injured without playing any match and we're still in first position, then someone will now say "it's Gabriel Jesus and Zinchenko spending" that made us be in first position because we spent over 70m on the two of them. Like how??

germaphobe:
i was just reading through y'all debate and asking myself wetin be dis. spy3.60 was, is and will be right anywhere una carry dis newcastle matter go. mentions of astonvilla, everton and others doesn't hold water cus it's an entirely different scenery. newcastle went out for two young talents, they even battle arsenal and won in the case of bruno G. arsenal clearly wasn't into buying him for that high price cus they thought he wasn't up to that amount, yet newcastle did and you claim it's no big spending?, someone that your darling club left cus of this same price tag. now about isak trust me edu would never spend such on him, yea g. jesus was our main target but at some point we also went for him before withdrawing and you think us withdrawing wasn't because of his high price which the club probably doesn't see as good and him not so fitting in arteta's plan wasn't part of it. see the clear truth is that newcastle is yet to go on big spending mood, but they did spent heavily on the two players.

Lol, the way you guys are talking about the guimares, someone will think they bought him for 100m. Someone that was bought for just 35m that's whom we can't buy? How much did we buy F. Viera again?
The main reason we didn't buy Bruno G was because we didn't table an offer. Simple. We were never priced out of any deal

As for Isak, we were never in for him. Just speculations but we were never in for him. All these talk about Newcastle spending "heavily" is because they're overperforming. If they aren't, we for no hear "pim" just as we didn't/don't hear pim wen other EPL midtable teams spend theirs too. Nobody is even talking about Westham too and how much they spent this summer. Obviously because they're underperforming too

But you guys can carry on with the belief that they spent heavily sha.

Peace!

yinkeys:
I’m still not convinced because of squad depth
If Arsenal get at least 12 points from the 5 games I’d actually believe we’d win the league

Top 2 is certain though
Newcastle, Brighton & Man City ain’t no joke
I’m a realist, it’s not today they’ve been breaking hearts
Let’s not count the chicks before they hatch.
Arsenal over the years never had a solid backbone & usually lost points in January
Seems you’re a new fan, you won’t be asking me all this if you’ve followed them since Kanu Nwanko’s era

The teams you mentioned are struggling with form
We played Tottenham & Liverpool at home, both matches were tight
Arsenal got lucky with a penalty against Liverpool during the closing stages of that game. Gabriel M. also would have cost us a penalty

Last season, we were supposed to have ended up in the top 4 but what happened?
I’m sincerely hoping that I don’t refer you back to this post in May 2023

I’ve deleted the sentences

While I agree we might not have strong squad depth (which is even arguable), but why are you using squad depth to justify your point presently. I mean, is any of our core players injured? I don't think so. So why are you thinking of the worst when the best is already staring at you?
It's not about being a realist or being pessimistic, it's about enjoying the moment and believing that the best is yet to come. Arsenal this season is playing the best ball in the England, have conceded the least goals alongside Newcastle, the highest scoring team after Man city and our goal is spread. Even the mentality, resilience and togetherness is something that haven't been seen for a long time. Instead of you to look at all these positives and how far we've come, you're comparing this arsenal of previous years and talking about heartbreaks and all that.

In our wins, see how you said we won Tottenham when they're in poor form but that's false. When we played Tottenham, we were only topping them with 2points and anybody who wins that match will automatically top the league but I guess you've forgotten because you want to be a realist while looking at the negatives. We've won Liverpool once in almost 6yrs only beating them in 2020(even last 2 seasons they were in poor form we didn't beat them). In fact, last season, we didn't score them a goal in 4 meetings. You forgot all these facts on how Liverpool is a bogey team to us and how we've finally overcome that instead you focused on the negatives again on how we won them at the dying minutes. You didn't even acknowledge how we played them for the first time since years. Always thinking about the negatives and taking your eyes off how far we've grown and how far we've come. Now I'm hearing west ham, Everton and Brighton From you again

Mind you, nobody is saying we would win the league (leave that to rivals to worry themselves about that). We just need to enjoy the moment, enjoy the team and take one game at the time and let's see where it'll lead us to. That's why you're a fan.

If you're not enjoying the moment and the team now, when are you going to be finally happy enjoying arsenal?

Expert17:
Jo.dera, Blueraydi.ck, s.od09 and Rola.nd17 what's your pick?

I've always loved nasri and to be sincere, na him own pain me pass till now cos it was so sudden and unexpected

Actually, it would have been Sanchez but the way he went about it(flirting with Man city and beefing his teammates) made me more prepared for his exit and it wasn't much of a heartbreak. Nasri didn't give me such warning

izzou:
[color=royalblue]So the yellow card is no longer enough?

Qatari government need to give their own sanctions abi?[/color]

Come on boss, I didn't say nor mean such na.

I only just answered the question plainly and asked me

yinkeys:
Arsenal fans need to chill
There’s still 24 games left
Arsenal FC hasn’t played 5 clubs in the EPL yet
West Ham
Everton
Man City
Brighton
Newcastle

It would be great if they get 12 points out of a maximum 15 points.
But I feel they will lose 2 & draw 1 out of the 5
That’s 7 out of 15 points

You're claiming to be an arsenal fan but anytime you post, it feels you're more than a rival fan than an arsenal fan.

Omo, no dey disguise and come out with your full chest, nobody go beat you. Which arsenal fan go talk say "I feel we'll lose 2 and draw one" or "I see us getting 7pts out of 15"?

If we didn't lose 2 and draw one against the schedule that has Tottenham, Liverpool and Chelsea in it(Oct/Nov), why should we be pessimistic about Everton, Westham, Brighton and Newcastle?

Oga, just do us a favour, no dey disguise. Nobody go beat you!!

lusid:
i see nothing in taking off your shirt. Fifa is being petty and autocratic

Lol.... Omoh!!

MorataFC:
Has Neymar and Mbappe left PSG?

Popi talk most times dey funny person.

When I read that his quote I just smh

akwesenana:
Jodera will players be prohibited from taking of their shirts in celebration?

I don't know about the rules in Qatar but even in football rules, it's not advisable to take your shirts off in celebration that's why a yellow card is always given when a player does that

popizaino:
Bring fact that Chelsea were the favourites to win the UCL in under Tuchel and i will engage you. Tuchel rode on the back of being an underdog and won us the UCL and that's not even up for discussion. Tell us our results when teams started approaching us like the UCL winner that we are? .....praying and hoping for UCL qualifications......I guess.

I didn't claim Tuchel was favourites to win the UCL. What I said is that Tuchel nor Chelsea wasn't an underdog. Are we talking about same Tuchel that outplayed guardiola twice in the league and/or cup and won him is whom you're calling underdog?? Na wa ooo

As for the bolded, Last season, as a UCL winner, I guess you finished 3rd or last in the group? I also guess you lost scandalously to Madrid, the eventual winner. Oh I forgot, it wasn't even an extra time knockout sef.

Praying and hoping for UCL qualification indeed!!

Spy360:
No body has said Wolves did not spend heavily if that's your comparison. What we are saying is that Newcastle has improved the quality of their team. That is not taking away the efforts of their manager- something I pointed out from the onset. The fact is they improved their squad just as we did too.

Even in these times, 70m is heavy spending for a top club not to talk of a middle level club.

Alright Sir

mostob:
he fit sell some of the shares na.

Lol... Sell share where him no go be majority owner again?

popizaino:
I stopped reading when you thought Tuchel didn't win UCL as an underdog.

Lol...
When is Pep never a favourite against any coach or team?

Calling Tuchel(with Chelsea) an underdog is really undermining Tuchel(and Chelsea) as if they're are a rookie. Pep and Man city was the favourites admittedly but you guys were never ever an underdog team.

Give the "UCL underdog status" to dem Basel and Porto not Chelsea or Tuchel who even reached the UCL final the previous year sef.

But then, I expect you not to agree sha so that your Tuchel agenda go shele

mostob:
Arsenal should look for their own sugar daddy too wey go dey carry us trabaye during transfer window

Kroenkes go gree sell?
Even Newcastle previous owner(Ashley something) use up to 3years do strong head before him finally sell last year. How much more Kroenke wey over rich well well

mostob:
Another Man city may be on the way especially with their Arab money. And to think they now have a good coach. Make Arsenal sha win this cup first before everything messes up next year....

Lol.. Everyone knows another Man city is on the way. Make dem qualify for UCL first, na that time Una go know wetin be spending. The only difference between them and Everton/Aston Villa is that they bought right or their coaches knows how to use the players very very well at his disposal making them much more formidable than their peers