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iamoyindamola:
He's always been like this na

Omooorrr... He's not been like this oo.

The Firmino wey I dey defend no be this present one kan kan.

So many things absent in this Firmino game now. Core Liverpool fans will even testify

iamoyindamola:
I read lfc will soon sign Nunez what will happen to Bobby na
ABI make arteta sign him

Lol.. the Bobby now is not the bobby that we're seeing now oo

Fkhalifa:
Liverpool show interest in a player and 2 days later they officially sign him meanwhile Arsenal football club Monitor, show Interest, Plan, Follow, Search, Discuss, Consider,close in, advanced talks, growing increasingly confident, Study, Push on a single player for 7 years before signing him.

To worse it off, some fans would come and justify that process.
Only for season to start and start seeing some low-key talents around.

Lol .. trust the process bro.

We trusting in the process

Minemrys:
This Liverpool team in all honesty have underachieved.

underachieved maybe in terms of winning UCL else I don't see how you guys underachieved.

Man city winning EPL have very good players, squad depth and coaches In all their winning seasons. Bar last season, their squad depth always better yours.

I just see you guys as the real Madrid of la Liga when guardiola was in Barca.

Take away guardiola and you'll be winning the league every year with those points you guys always have come end of season.

So I don't see that as underachievement, I just see it as being this strong at the wrong era

Haywhy1002:
Kanye West and the Gaffer..

Next season go hot o..

With the signing of Tonic Turner and Board of Trusssttttyyyy...
Then Picture Scam man as our 9

EPL ain't ready bruv.... EPL ain't ready

Omorrr... Na better Kanye West sha

Haywhy1002:
Ehn...I feel since season don end, we fans sef suppose go for vacation but here we're worrying ourselves concerning transfers.

Lol... Na only work people suppose dey rest for not fun.

Fkhalifa:
� 100% my long time view.

When the season starts, you'll see this low-key talented hard working playing players around. Only to start wondering how Arsenal can't see this.
The scouting team are also failing at their duties.

failing Big time.
Good players full everywhere, all the scouts just needs is to get to work early before transfer window opens and work on getting a very good player.

Arsenal needs striker and good DM. Scouts by at least December suppose don get someone ready that they feel have all the attributes of what Arteta needs and can easily blend in with all the analytical tools and data they have on the said player.
See how Liverpool swiftly got Diaz and minanino without no aproko eyes from different clubs. Their scouts and those involved don already work on those boys before even the Jan transfer window. But us it seems na when transfer window dey open na that time we wan start work

Roland17:
Can you imagine Fiorentina are now reneging on the agreed 15M for Torreira and now offering 7M! Which kain rubbish we dey suffer these days on top player transfer! They know Torreira's contract with Arsenal expires next summer, so if we don't sell, we will lose him for free. Torreira has made it clear he doesn't want to return to Arsenal.

We have really messed up a lot of contract/ transfer situations. Guen will go for 11M to Marseille, a very big steal for them because of course Guen's heart is made up on playing for only Marseille.

2 players that could have provided competitive depth for us in the middle, especially now that we can not attract players.

Man, I am tired.

Lol... It's very pitiful sha. Guen own I can understand, but you see Torreira own, naim dey pain me pass

Haywhy1002:
Partey don convert to Muslim and even got a new name because his girlfriend is a Muslim...

White just proposed to his girlfriend...

Arteta and his family dey vacation...

Martinelli is on a fishing spree with his Papa...

And...and Gabriel successfully converted to Kanye West 2.0...

And here we dey worry ourselves ontop transfer window...

Arsenal ehn...

Nice analyses by the way.... I read everything

Lol.. these players are on vacation na. Shey dem no deserve break ni?
Wetin dem dey do with their personal lives no suppose concern us as dem dey get the deserved rest/flexings

Na make arsenal board and top dem (Edu dem) get to work naim we dey worry about .

Meanwhile congrats to Partey and White

ObaIgwe1:
I agree with you here 100%. If I have just 1min to speak with Edu and Arteta, it's exactly the advice I will give them. Chasing these established stars can be frustrating.

During Wenger era, we rarely go for established stars, rather we make them and showcase them.

I'm hoping this unknown Marquinhos might just be another Tomi.

The risk factor here is the impatient of fans towards non established players. Especially in the CF department... Many times we want quick results and unable to wait for them to adjust and fit in, especially when we are losing matches. We were lucky with Tomi who just came and fits in immediately. Many managers look for experienced and established CF first with a new talent as backup in other to reduce the backlash when things are not going well, else the fans will accuse the manager and the club of being stingy.

Exactly, especially the bolded. We were a top 4 club then and we were doing that seamlessly, the big issue then was that we weren't able to hold them when big clubs start cycling.

Now I believe we can hold them longer, only that we're losing touch to get those nasri, rosicky and hleb of these world.

We need top and established Striker no doubt (esp this transfer window) but I think the club should come to reality that the scouts and edu needs to work in getting established players from other top leagues who doesn't have that much exposure esp in other positions. That'll make us have an edge when competing with all these top teams

ObaIgwe1:
I don't think the problem is due to lack of fund or unwillingness to buy quality players. I read somewhere that Edu and Arteta have a budget of 160M to play with.

I think our main problem is due to the fact that we missed playing CL. The teams who qualified are also in the market, and these quality known players will pick them ahead of us if they have a choice.

The dust will soon settle for us when the big boys leave market, then EL teams will become the prefer bidder. Just hoping by then there will still be enough qualities in the market.

For example, If Madrid and Chelsea sort out their CF problems without Jesus, I'm sure he will have no choice but to consider us.

Thing is even if the dust settles, will there be quality enough for us? I'm not sure and I don't think Jesus will be available if he prefers UCL clubs to us

For we to excel in this transfer window, we should cast our nets on the Tomi of this world. Players who are hungry to go to top clubs from other leagues, relatively unknown and are very very good. Such players also should be able to enter into the first team or fight to enter the first team.
They abound everywhere, Liverpool are very good at that.

If we can work on that, we won't be thinking much about this player rejecting us and that player rejecting us

Jencejyde:
So let's talk a bit on tactics.

Watching this Arsenal side for most of the season and majorly throughout Arteta's reign so far, it's hard to see where the ideology lies.

Are we a pressing team or do we want to contain.

A proper press ensures that the motion of all attacking and midfield players are channeled in a synchronized manner towards the opponents ball retention or distribution area. This motion automatically ensures that at the time the opponent makes that pass to the receiving player, all our players aforementioned have already closed down every option that the receiving player has to distribute the ball to.

I have watched enough of this current side to conclude that the pressing is poor. Is it a case of personell or a case of the coach ? I'll let us answer those questions

As per containing, in my own analogy and how I have played the game, you can contain in three areas of the pitch . The attacking the mid and the defensive third of the pitch where you have all your players in a defensive formation spread across and then shuffling from one end to the other whilst maintaining the defensive shape.

One thing no team wants when containing is to be doing it in their own defensive third. This is a recipe for loss as it becomes more difficult as the game goes on to escape without conceeding.

Unfortunately this side tends to find themselves trying to contain teams in the defensive third more than often which is no surprise in the reflection is some of our results even against lowly teams .

Again I'll leave it to us to debate on if this assessment is true or not and what could be the cause and probable solution .

Nice analysis and input. Such debate and discussion like this is really needed here once in a while.

Lemme chip in my own opinion on Arteta's Arsenal's tactics this season.

Arsenal this season off the ball relies on front pressing with the front three attackers starting the press. Tho I call it zonal press cos from my observations, the front 4(Odegaard inclusive) tightly press only when opponents transition and progress towards their zone. This is the reason why arsenal mostly recovers ball through 2nd balls in midfield. Arsenal off the ball pressing is intense in midfield area with presence of Partey's ingenuity which helps in interception as well as tackles.

In terms of attack, we rely on Partey acting as a link between Midfield and attack. His half turn, effortless dribble and quick transitioning of Midfield ball to attack is top notch, not forgetting the ability to evade intense pressure easily. Odegaard who's the most advanced of the midfield 3 is also important cos of his creativity and understanding with Saka(who's another creative lynchpin). The former understanding of half space and picking pocket of space is mostly underrated in this team. Xhaka tho advanced acts mostly as a recycler in the team. He seems more of a DLP in advanced position as well as stopping attack high up before it becomes serious.

CF under Arteta role is more of a false 9 role than an actual CF. Drops deep, helps Midfield to create numerical advantage while drifting more to the left hand side of the attack as against right due to linking up play more with his left sided attacker who is lacking a linkup partner as against the Saka who has one in Odegaard.

Fullbacks overlap and/or underlap depending on where the ball is at the part of the pitch. Tierney underlaps when Tomi overlaps if ball is at the RHS of the pitch and vice versa.

Since all defenders and Midfielders are good passers on the ball and can easily evade pressure (with the least being Xhaka), it aids in us having possession and dominance with Partey pulling the strings from deep while Odegaard and Saka pulling the strings up front. Intense dominance sees the defence push higher up as we tend to choke opposition. This is the main reason why we have one of the best first eleven but poor supporting cast

Thing is for this tactics to be sustainable In the long run, we need someone of Partey's quality who can screen the defence as well as push attack as he does(cos he acts like 2 in 1) or Partey himself staying fit throughout the season. Bissouma is my obvious choice. Elneny tried but his limitations was still visible and we weren't so good in maintaining dominance except If we intend to play deep.

The 2nd solution for long term sustainability is another Midfielder that's creative as well as being a goalscorer who is positionally good. This will make goals come from Midfield and opponents not feeling secure that if our attackers are caged then there's no hope of we equalising. It also helps to stop the panic of Arteta always removing defenders for attackers and CF around 50-60 something minutes in hope of finding an equaliser.


It might be a long read but I hope it's worthwhile

Whenever I dey see people underrate "defensive error goals" or "tap in goals", I laugh.

I know during a Liverpool match this season (Carabao cup) when a Liverpool defender(I've forgotten who it was) gave a short pass to his keeper. Because none of our attacker pressed him, no one was able to capitalise on that loose ball which made the defender run back to correct his error. We ended up not scoring in that match and worst part is that the score was even goalless then.

His Defensive error goals made us won against Chelsea when the hope was slim and Leeds when we still needed a win and if not for Arteta's arrogance against Tottenham, that defensive error goals would have secured us top 4.
If only Lacazette was forcing and was pouncing on those defensive errors from one of those games we lost, I'm sure we would have seen top4 by now.

Nobody is saying Nketiah is the next thing after slice bread, but at least he gave his all. He shouldn't be called clueless if we dey look for person from the squad to point finger at

kodded:
Because I support a coach does not mean that I will support his ridiculous decisions.

This season is his make or break season, if he does not qualify for top 4 or win the europa title after spending over £300million in 4 years, I believe that he should be sack immediately.


By the way I'm not hating on Nketiah, I just dont see the hype around that boy, how can you tell me that nkeitah deserve a £100k salary because of his late season form.
I mean look at the stat of a striker that you want to give £100k

10 goals in 6 season with the club, haba.

100k for a second striker no be big money in this present market na. I don't know how much you're expecting him to be collecting but I think it's fair.

Moreover, that bolded is too much unfair on Nketiah. How many matches did he start and how many run of games did he have.
You saying 10 goals in 6 seasons is half-truth.

Why not 10goals in 19 starts??
12g/a in 19 starts nko??

If only Lacazette can give us 10 goals in 19 starts this season, we for dey top4

Ellexy:

Lol... Na the "seduced" burst my head pass.

I just dey imagine how the transfer headline go be like

donstan18:
Tinubu is actually sick oo!!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cejtv4Cr3WR/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Omo, na even buhari dey help am. Like weak buhari of all people dey help am.

Mehn, we're truly fvcked in this country

afrodoc2:


The guy said brainstorm. Storm Records.

Na the audacity of that "we" before the brainstorm dey make me laugh

Him dey use "we" when him dey South Africa.

BlueRayDick:
That one wey go smoke Igbo finish begin make different conjecture ; dey postulate nonsense up and down.

Lol... As if you know wetin dey my mind

Leyqute:
We both know say na joke

Lol... I know boss.

Hopefully, post.digger doesn't know

Leyqute:
Na Man U go win league next season.

cc: Postdigger

Leyqute:
To argue with you hard

postdigger:
Until arsenal finish 7th

Lol...

Leyqute:
LooL.

Digging plenty.

We go see for future.

Me, I don wash hands for Man Utd matter.

Players are rotten shiet.

Don’t know if ETH can turn this around.

E be like say him learn work for Pep hand for Bayern or so.

We just don’t know if e collect freedom before leaving

Next season go interesting sha

Leyqute:
Copa and Euros are the same thing?

Even Messi will slap you if he hears this rubbish from your mouth.

Lol... With the way Messi celebrated that cup??, Even him uefa Cl celebration no even reach am half sef

Leyqute:
Na you talk am o.

Make Postdigger no come dey remind you later. Dem say Arteta no collect freedom before he leave Pep. I know it’s a lie.

Why you no want talk Man u own?

I know how many posters/monikers wey no dey update their talks for here again since after Rangnick fall Una hands

Rangnick don humble Una shey??


As for Post.digger, forget am. E be like say our boss don retire for that digging stuff

Leyqute:
I compared Americana with Nations League first before you started comparing apples and oranges. Go back and check.

Nation's league to Copa America na apples and oranges.

Compare Copa to Euros
Nation's league to finallissima

Any other comparison na apple to oranges

KingTom:
Apples and Oranges Jodera you too dey argue

Lol ..

Leyqute:
We bless God o.

How’s things with you?

Arsenal played the best league footy in the last decade. Too bad it was only good enough for a Yuropa ligg spot

My brother we thank God too o. God is faithful.


Arsenal na step by step. Last season we wan get European competition spot. We did and got it playing excellent footie as you acknowledged

This coming season we're going for the Europa trophy and top4. We hope to achieve it with beautiful football too.

Then from next season, we'll aim for league

Hope say this coming season, man u and Eth no go put Una to shame like Ole and Rangnick combo

KingTom:
Make I quote my brothers for here when e no favour them "black and white football reasoning"

Lol... You don see am na.

Club wey win UCL, super cup and club world cup no better pass club wey win league title since League matches plenty pass the 3 competitions join together

Leyqute:
Apples and organges.

World Cup is the biggest competition when it comes to national football.

UCL is the biggest competition when it comes to club football.

They’re both massive competitions and nobody is begged or coerced to participate in them.

Apples and oranges.

No be everything you go dey compare like Bodija housewife.

I’m sure nobody apart from Messi and Jodera looks forward to the Americana cup and Goalissimo cup.

The rest of the world on the other hand look forward to UCL and World Cup.

Heaven knows I didn't bring the apple and oranges comparisons. You did here

Leyqute:
At least UCL has more games than Copa Americana

So I'm just following the template

Leyqute:
At least UCL has more games than Copa Americana

Same way Ucl have more games than world cup.

So according to you and that poster

UCL >>>> world cup

Abi??

Leyqute:
Jodera how have you been?

Lol... I'm very good Sir.

How your ends??