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mostob:
You dey serious with this England campaign o.

I don tell you say I dey follow Dem the way I dey follow arsenal and Nigeria.

Nothing concern me concern any other team for this Euros if no be England

mostob:
That guy thrives on confidence and I really hope to see him get that golden boot. He even said it during his interview.

Lol... Make havertz win him golden boot make England win Euros.

Everyone goes home happy

Cc: Germaphobe

Spy360:
First of all Saka is not a proper winger. At bestbhebis inverted. An inverted winger is a forward. A proper winger is like a midfielder.

That said, I am not against balance. I am simply saying that whatever you do you must accommodate your best players. National team football is not club football where you get all you want. In national team it's what's available so you try to maximise it. That's what makes you a national team coach.

Let me use Scotland as an example. They have two class left backs. In Tierney and Robinson. They have to play both of them. That's why they play a bac three so Tierney plays as a half CB.

Another example is Croatia that just finished playing. They have to clash AM in Kovacic and Modric. They played both of them.

If your best players are two strikers, play a 4-4-2 or 3-5-2. When Mexico had Forlan and Suarez they played both. The only way you can avoid this is if both are GKs.

This is exactly my point when people are omitting Foden.

How will it be that an Epl best player can't break into England squad?
Like not only a Man City starter but current Epl best and league winner. Such player is considered a squad player because of balance? I've never heard of such sha and I doubt the Fa will take it lightly if Southgate does such.
It's not easy at all for a coach to bench him, no matter the reason he wants to give. Bellingham winning La liga best player even compounds matter.


Southgate should just play him and Bellingham in midfield. Forcing him out on the wings (not even his favorable wing sef) will not do both England and Foden any favor

mostob:
The audacity ehn. Like Dem no force you sign the agreement o. Now that they charged you for magomago, you turn around say the rules na rubbish. When you dey win treble, dey sign players up and down, the rules no be rubbish o.

Lol.
Dem no serious

Trevor012:
Erik ten hagg is cooking. We don't know what yet but something is definitely on the stove. Have faith

The faith wey I have be say make una no progress

germaphobe:
If Arsenal looses out this season again I will definitely jump ship, cus what is it?.... I hope we won't shaa.

TheLequte:
All that one na media fight. Abi you no see how everyone in the media is against him. He barely mentions his Carabao trophy until people started attacking him and his tactics in public.

Anyone in that hot seat would be defending themselves and trying to hit back at them. After all, Mourinho defended his 2nd place finish. LVG his fa trophy and even Ole his lack of trophies.

Like I said earlier, the name of the game is winning and if you don’t do that, you won’t have any mouth. To say Arteta don win one small silverware in his last two years of fantastic football, his cred would be higher and any censure would be immediately countered with those achievements.

Well, you have valid point here

Trevor012:
You are not looking at the bigger picture. He knows we are going to be in a title run next season.

Lmaooo...
With which frontline and Midfield?

Dey play

mostob:
Premier League people charged City with 115 cases. City carry PL enter court saying the rules no make sense. Now, Judge dey ask City why Dem agree to the rules in the first place.

When I read that it's even them that charge epl to Court, e shock me.

Na you people talk say dey guilty, na you still dey charge your accusers to court.

Kilode!!

MRTA7:
Chelsea and then Villa fixtures to end the season is less than ideal.

Season never start you don deh look for ending?

E be like say your type deh start film from ending to see wetin happen for last fight before you go start to watch film proper

TheLequte:
It’s a result-based game.

If ETH starts winning, most of the “crucify him” crooners here will keep quiet. A lot will change mouth immediately. Some will even say they supported him in the first place even when they were blaming him for pitch texture, VAR decisions, and wind density .

Failure has no friends.

True talk

But I believe his mouth will be more if he starts winning Epl, UCL together with cups.

All these humility wey Dem Klopp and Pep dey do even as winners, him no go do am at all

Just Fa and Carabao cup wey him win see bragging even with tepid display:

"Ineos knows I'm the right man for the Job after all their searches"

"They disrupted my holiday to beg me"

"I've not yet accepted the contract. It won't be an easy done deal"

Omorr, for person to deh make this kain mouth with wetin happen last season, imagine if he'll start winning Epl and UCL

oliverano:
Del Bosque is a top coach though and his achievements with Spain wasn't really a miracle. More like a great coach meeting great players.

Pep is better than Bosque and will win something serious with a serious footballing nation if he decides to look at international football.

Pep will not suddenly forget how to coach because it's "international football" lol 😂😂😂

Jod.era you remember this masterclass from Pep and co abi...no vex

Yeah, I know Del Bosque is a good coach (he won league with Madrid if I'm not mistaken) but I didn't know him Sabi tiki taka.
I used that example to explain that even though him no Sabi tiki taka, Spain was playing it. Hence the reason Spain is playing tiki is not because of coach but because of Barca contingent


As for that ojoro match wey you dey show me, na the reason why una dey suffer for UCL now and na 600yrs remain for una to complete the suffering

germaphobe:
At this point every trophy matters no be only EPL and UCL again.

Same here. I'm just hoping for at least a double

germaphobe:
Who snooze loose!!!! Fire to fire campaign. Let's see if Arteta will silence his haters this season or if he will recruit new ones.

Lol... The new ones dey on standby.
For his sake and for arsenal, I just hope this coming season, all haters are silenced cos it won't be funny this coming season if him no silence dem

daveP:
We still dey same side na. I just want a 100% from 1st half than 2nd half na of it comes to choosing 😎

As for that strong strong, na window go decide a large part of that one imo. Plus, Odegaard increasing his G/A whether or not Saka, Trossard, Kai or Whoever s in form. This should be his own season. Esp as no Euros.

Best of Luck and Strategy to our next campaign. Anybody go hearaaamm!!

Gbamm!
Na the Koko be this.

Really excited and hopeful for this coming season. I just hope all these our years of sowing is finally rewarded this season

Jamiuokolla:
This is why I said earlier that for me o, I wouldn't use NT tourney football to rate - it isn't entirely representative of the actual abilities of a coach and even players....

I checked again and saw that Trapatonni - a serial winner previously with Juve, Inter, Bayern etc was the manager in charge of Italy's embarrassment at the 2002 WC

There is a real reason most of these managers "dodge" NT assignment - that job is poisoned chalice!

Let me just put it this way for proper context - I wouldn't judge Pep for failing at

Lol... Differing opinions but it's fair enough

Jamiuokolla:
That's the point - such things are not possible with NT football...at least for now.

Like you have just confirmed, they would have to introduce player transfers for NT football, if Pep is to be guaranteed success

With National team, he'll access to multiple access of quality players (which is similar to check book). Someone like Wharton and Mainoo might be starting in this England's team alongside Rice if he was the one managing England

Jamiuokolla:
The French team that failed Miserably at the 2002 WC was coached by the same manager that led them to victory at the 2000 Euros - NT football na your mate?

Capello who also failed with England that had prime Lampard, Gerrard, Rooney, Scholes etc was an Average coach?

But all these ones are "one offs" Sha.

For every example you give, there are tons of average coaches with good teams who excelled. See scolari Brazil for example.

Del Bosque of Spain is another one. I doubt that one Sabi tiki taka but because he saw Barca contingent, him come Sabi am tiki taka for Spain by miracle

Jamiuokolla:
It doesn't sound ridiculous - it is ridiculous comparing Barcelona of 2006 -2009 to Totten-fucking-ham

Haba

All in a bid to hype pep o

Na these kind things dey make some people to reply with statements that would make it seem Pep is a nobody

Alot can happen within a year boss.
2006-2009 is 3 full years

Even Manchester City of 2021-2024 is different.

With this current crop of players with few additions, Pep will play his game and they won't be trophiless within his normal 3-yr span at least

Amigoss:
He didn't dare to do this in England,The competitiveness of the league and his average first season turned him into a checkbook manager....

While what you said is true but at least he earned the right to be a cheque book manager.

The only reason why I cant vouch that will win league is that he won't be a cheque book manager in Spurs. But that won't stop them from being competitive in league and winning one or two cups here and there.

With Pep, Spurs won't be trophiless

Jamiuokolla:
That is why I said Pep should handle a NT and we would know how far

Like I stressed earlier, NT job is a completely different kettle of fish and you yourself don agree....

In one breath, you say he doesn't need to implement a pattern. In another breath, you are talking about players assimilating tactics

Which is which?

No be here all of us dey when the Almighty French team (defending champions) with them Henry, Djibril Cisse Trezeguet etc, failed to score a goal at the 2002 WC and finished bottom of a group that had senegal and Denmark?

Who could have thought that the English team with prime scholes, Lampard, Gerard Rooney etc would fail so miserably?

Wetin almighty Italy achieve for France 98 and even Korea Japan 2002?

Are we saying all these teams didn't have players that could assimilate tactics?

In NT all you just need as a coach good is blend of quality players, and guts and you're good to go (at least you need to be averagely good). If you're a great coach, even better.

All those ones na mostly average coaches (Dem Roy Hodgson dem)

Jamiuokolla:
Is there any historical evidence to support this?

give one example...just one

Barca.

I know it'll sound ridiculous because of how good Barca was then but prior before he took over Barca, they were down. Almost didn't make the UCL while finishing 4th.

Disbanded most of the top tier players while bringing in Dem busquet, pique and co. Xavi and Iniesta were given prominent roles. With that kinda personnel he churned out those results for years(not just one season), then no how he won't do something at Spurs.

daveP:
my own is just avoid defeat to teams that have caused maximum pain in the 2 seasons we didn't win league. That's because those losses impacted overall psychology in camp.


Dem
Villa
Fulham
Southampton
Newcastle
Etc
The rest, imo, we will do just fine.
By now, he should have a cruel approach to those small frustrating teams and be ready to do what it take whether Var dey for or against. Besides, we need to increase our penalties. They are key. Not the kind Saka did vs Bayern and jeopardize everything but being calculative to make a difference too.

Between 1st half 19 vs 2nd half 19, i think I'll take 1st half this time.

Lol, lemme start with the bolded.

We don't need either first half or second half oo. For we to win the league we need to be strong on both the first and second halves of 19 games

The first time we took second, we were strong 1st half (dropping only 5 points) and weak 2nd half

Last season where we took second, we were strong 2nd half (dropping same 5 points) but weak first half. So you see. We need both halves to be strong. Like strong strong.

And like you said, we need to dey win against these small teams too. I think they just take turns on frustrating us. From Brighton when we finished 5th to West Ham when we finished 2nd to now Villa. So na all of them we need to catch, reason why I said we need win our first 20 matches.

One can only win league and be confident of but slipping when him don gap Pep with like 13points first

Amigoss:
I just tire,he said any like say pep fess use spurs win league....He dominated using the best league teams..

I can't vouch that he'll win league but if pep handles Spurs, they'll be league contenders

Jamiuokolla:
Leave them o

Like say NT job na anyhow job

E fit win with super eagles sha, if them implement transfer policy for NT football and hand him £200bn to overhaul the team

If pep coach Nigeria with our quality littered everywhere, we'll certainly win nations cup back to back.

And as for world cup, we'll certainly reach at least the quarterfinal berth ( Emphasis on at least)

oliverano:
Pep is a confam goat 🐐 when it comes to coaching, like he's the s.i unit of it so you have to expect every twist and turns...

"Pep won't do this in England, he won't play this way in England he'll be found out" etc...

Pep failed in his first season, Conte won the League and the comments on this section and other platforms were mostly "i told you so and so about Pep"

"Pep can't win UCL without Messi" also thrashed out.

Fact is, the day he leaves EPL, most fans will rejoice unless you're a city fan.

Today, we want him to coach a national team, he'll go there and dominate then we'll want him to coach our university team to the UCL final.

Na everyday I dey pray make him leave this coming season

Na real Goat of coaching

Jamiuokolla:
On the contrary, they somewhat "avoid" NT jobs till their later years because it isn't necessarily "representative" of their capabilities.... the "boring" nature also makes it less appealing

NT tournament football wey be say one loss and two draws and boom - you are out of the group stages of a major competition and would probably have to wait for another 2 or 4 years....during which the manager has already been tagged a failure

Most times, the managers wouldn't even have enough time to instill their desired style of play - shey na the once in 6 months training sessions person like pep go say e wan use implement tiki taka?

I believe we're almost saying the same thing cos we both agree it's less appealing and boring compared to club football.....

....but the mistake you're making is you think Pep would stress himself to instill pattern as if he's coaching a club side. I beg to differ cos most national coaches don't instill pattern. All they just need is for a country to have good players who can easily assimilate tactics (due to no time), then set the template and you're good to go. That's why most countries that have golden generation (especially if the set is concentrated on a particular country) will go far even with average coach. Eg Germany golden generation (with Bayern and Dortmund), Spain golden generation (with Barca and Madrid) and presently England Golden generation (reaching finals even with scrap Southgate).

E come be oga pata pata Pep wey Sabi template?
Make him just hold Spain, this German squad or England squad first, you go know how far

germaphobe:
Maximum points on August, same should apply to September too in fact we should try and win our first 20 games

Na the only way we fit win league be this. Try and win all 20games then repeat (or better) the 2nd half of last season.

No dulling suppose dey this time

mostob:
🚨 Arsenal’s first SEVEN fixtures of the Premier League 2024/25 season:

Wolves H
Aston Villa A
Brighton H
Tottenham A
Manchester City A
Leicester City H
Southampton H

#afc

So after int'l break na fire

Jamiuokolla:
Start what oga?

Isn't it open knowledge that Coaches are generally apprehensive of NT jobs?

This isn't a pep thing - no be everything be agenda bros

Only coaches who believe they still have something to offer for a club side will be apprehensive of a NT job.

The way MLS and Saudi is to Europe players is the way NT job is to coaches. Most average coaches (or past their prime coach) are the ones that will acknowledge NT jobs. Nothing special there to be honest

drisham:
No be agenda boss

City go too suffer without pep

I have same opinion too.

Except they have a high caliber coach, I'll see them as another contenders (and top 4) team without Pep

andrewbaba44:
Having no international trophy is not a crime when you are not named Messi ,na just agenda to claim say the other is better and nothing else

Kdb modric and co no get international trophy and no one cares ,let alone Harry Kane wey never win even carabao cup for club level

Like your fellow Comrade no wan even pity Harry Kane sef. That's wickedness na