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Spy360:
Arteta has discovered his best 11/formation. Now others can work hard to get into that team.

Yeah.
Good he discovered it wen the season is still salvageable

sod09:
Kane was too chubby that time

Lol... Na wa oo.

See as we miss better striker because he was chubby

It's good to see both Willian and Pepe given strong seatbelts.

Maybe we'll see the last season Auba now that we have a no 10

BlueRayDick:
Arteta has gone back to this rubbish pattern of playing Auba on the wings while Martinelli is languishing on the bench

Well, I think he might want to protect martinelli. You know he just came from a long injury layoff and playing him back to back to back might have a strain on the injury.

I won't fault Arteta much for this

timay:
You can't blame them na, some of these players were pretty shitty when they were younger. No team will just let a good player go.

Kane for instance, Berbatov talked about him when Kane first joined Tottenham as a young player. He said he was pretty shitty and could not even hold himself together and might not make it at the club. So he was happy that ho got to improve.

Wow... It means Kane improved tremendously then.
Abi na jazz the guy chop to just explode once? Come to think of it, nobody knew about kane till that his breakout season at spurs. Even the loan he went to wasn't even explosive as it was be for a promising star

Spy360:
Lol

This life?

The same way you are condemning the likes of Nketiah and Willock, if you had seen Kane and Eze then, you would have said they have no business playing football talk less of playing for Arsenal.

Hmmm

mostob:
Save your talk bro. Balogun ,Nelson and Saliba will be released soon.
Arsenal board and management no get sense ahswear

Lol, I just dey use eye look all these ones to know how their contract ish at arsenal will unfold.

But I think Saliba and Nelson will stay for few more seasons

But then, how is arsenal getting to release great players. Is it that they don't have good foresight or what?

First kane was released, then Eze released too. How did we get to release all these gems?

kodded:
favouring some and leaving others?


can you list the players arteta favours and also the ones he does not fancy from the team list. thnak you

What's wrong if Amn plays in the cdm position when xhaka was floundering, or our midfield was in shambles? At least to try him out.

Why did it take Willian unavailability to start smith Rowe into the 10 role?. A role he knows he needs much.

At least, that's the 2 I can lay claim of

sod09:
Na we watch 8-2, 10-2, 6-0 etc
We still they we no die

you remember the worst week in 2014?

Losing 6-0 to Chelsea on a Saturday then losing 5-1 to Liverpool the very next week Saturday.

Omo, I wan faint for sch dat week

If I can survive arsenal heartbreak that weak, nothing wey I fit no survive for ball again

Expert17:
Just for OLE to challenge the worst Liverpool and Man city team we have seen in 3 years, you guys wrote epistle....but you want Pochetino to win UCL with PSG

sod09:
Yes bro
Where is he

lol.. I believe he's good anywhere he is

Roland17:
Who no get mind no fit support Arsenal fanatically. It’s not for the faint hearted.. The thing weak me..

I swear... Right from Wenger days. Heartbreaks back to back

Happy new year everyone.

Hope this year brings us success, favor and grace in all our life endeavors and dreams.

kodded:
the losing streak tire my guy

omo, e tire everybody. Worst thing was that we had players at our disposal to help us, but Arteta just dey f' up

sod09:
Abz something that use to give us update that time
Hope you okay bro....

kbs468.

mostob:
Really? I hope so.

Yeah... Hopefully.

mostob:
Just saying though. Half of city's first eleven are positive and Tottenham postponed their match.

I heard (read) EPL aren't looking to pause league anytime soon

kodded:
what about £15million for buendia

that's what I was even looking out for sef. I am surprised spy missed him.

Buendia, bissouma would be a successful window.

mostob:
This is an headache o.

Pablo Mari or Gabriel Maghalles..

Who do you think is better?

Both.
I don't see the reason why we can't play two left footed players

BlueRayDick:
While it may sound cool having a youthful team full of live and energy, I will advise Arteta applies caution and not parade a totally young and less experienced team going forward.

I mean it's cool seeing what dem Azeez, Balogun, Smith-Rowe, Martineli et al cam do with the ball on a good day, but playing all of them at the same time in a match other than Europa or F.A cup may not end well. I will not like to imagine a match where Yeri Mina will be clamping down on Balogun upfront, Decoure and Allan bullying Smith-Rowe and Azeez in midfield.....while Domino Claivert-Lewin is somewhere is our half waiting to wreak havoc along with Richalison. We may have a repeat of Wenger days in our hands when we do lose to physically superior teams.


I will advise the youngies are mixed with the oldies to give the team a balance. For example Azeez and Balogun should be given more playing time in the Europa league for them to gain much match confidence while Smith-Rowe should be given more playing time in the league. From there the duo of Azeez and Balogun based on their performance and confidence level should then be considered for early subs in EPL matches when we have a goal or two advantage.

That way we can then think of doing away with some oldies in the long run.

I think what you said here is what most people had in mind. Nobody is clamouring for outright youths, but a blend of youth and experience.

Example is the lineup Arteta gave out today. Perfect blend of youth and experience and which is what everyone wants. If partey comes, it'll be more formidable

BlueRayDick:
Seems Smith-Rowe has earned himself a starting place in Arteta's team

What??
Arteta don dey catch head.

Nice formation

Spy360:
Lol.

Nor be only cosigned na tangented.

Anyway... BOOKMARKED.

Fkforyou:
On the contrary no. @Spy360.

Nketiah is not showing any signs of improvement or the desire to improve. Same as willock.

It shows in his game. Let me tell you something, I was doubtful of Martenelli, I thought he was a flash in the pan, but then I saw his movements of the ball, his passion, his concentration and spirit, I became a little bit convinced, then, he went on injury and I was like that’s it, he is done. We are going to be making excuses for him that it’s because of the injury bla bla bla and that’s all we will ever hear about Martinelli, but guess what, I was absolutely wrong about him and right for giving him a 50:50 chance.

As for Bukayo, I’ve always wondered what Roland saw in him, like I didn’t really get the hype about him. I remember Roland17 bragging about seeing his prospects since when he was in our youth team, guess what, Saka has been my best player since our deep in form, I currently rate his importance to the team more than Aubameyang, I started being impressed with him from our Man City game, and so far, hasn’t disappointed me. same with Tierney, those guys dey give me joy. They put in a 100, week in, week out.

Now compare them to the likes of Willock and Nketiah. When last were you impressed by them. Forget about the goals they score in our Europa match’s with small teams. I mean an important match where they put in an impressive performance. Just name it.

100% and co-signed.
Nothing to add, nothing to subtract

Spy360:
You are on point. I'll rather have young guys running around for us than old men doing hide and seek on the pitch.

Martinelli...... Nketiah......... Saka
Azeez....... Smith-Rowe .... AMN
Tierney.. Gabriel.... Saliba... Bellerin
....................... Leno........................

I swear put balogun as top 9 and this squad might beat the first team squad

timay:
He won't sign any contract though. It's not rocket science , it's common sense. He doesn't see any path to the senior team anytime soon, so he'll just have to start afresh somewhere in Germany or leagues like France or Portugal.
It's the same reason Angel Gomes didn't sign at Man utd. because there's no pathway to senior team for him anytime soon

All is just needed is for Arteta to convince him that he'll start seeing mins from next season with opportunity to get first team if he performs well. I mean it's just nketiah that's a 2nd striker, so he can keep the competition open between both of them

If he allows balogun leaves, he's allowing potential £50-80m to leave, cos that's what we'll need to potentially fill that cf position in a year or two. So the earlier Arteta sees what we're seeing, the better.

RTSC:
As an aside, who else thimks marina gravnoskaia deserves a stature at stamford bridege.

She is better than any male negotiator in football today.

She is really using her female charms to overpower clubs.

£67 million as guaranteed payment for havertz minus add-ons after all the gra gra.

Awon "better than all male negotiator"

Female charms... Is she using jaruma kayamatta .

When scammer think say e scam scammer, she no no say dem don scam her

mostob:
Lolz. .KT was pointing but Pepe was just looking like mumu. I heard Balogun will be leaving and it is for FREE.

If this guy goes for free then na Arteta fvck up.

How will you see that talent and see nketiah and still give more playing time to the latter over the former?

ndidibabe:
Calm down. I just saw the match this morning and honestly, Chelsea was poor. Same old Arsenal, I feel. Every bad team have their lucky day. Arsenal was lucky with an undeserved PK and a one off Xhaka FK. No Biggie...

come on... So admittedly Chelsea was poor but you believe arsenal wasn't good ystdy.
Did you watch our previous matches this season, or you're judging yesterday's play with the play of arsenal under Wenger featuring ozil, Sanchez and cazorla?

If it's the latter, I'll agree with you that it's the same old arsenal, but if it's the former, then I would say you've not been watching arsenal matches this season.

Arsenal wasn't lucky ystdy, we deserved to win cos we created more chances, threatened more and player well. I don't know weda you wanna see us as Bayern for you to place us to such high standard, but then I'll take that as a compliment

mostob:
That moment Pepe was being told to run eh. .KT sef tire for him. Immediately Martinelli was subbed off,KT's wing became an express way. I will like to see Azeez in this team.Willock can be used for Europa.

for me to hear what Tierney was even saying (me watching o), means the guy must have shouted with high pitch for pepe to make that run out of frustration. And guess what, pepe still didn't make the run .

After we go dey blame Tierney say him done dey drop form. Why won't he drop form wen the person in front of him is killing his vibe

I really wish Arteta should include more of martinelli, ESR and azeez into the team while promoting balogun. I really don't know what Arteta is afraid of.

HitlerGaddafi:
See as body dey sweet this one lol. Don't be swayed by yesterday's win, arsenal were same old arsenal they just happened to be lucky. It was destined to be Arsenal's day.

luck in scoring free kick and scoring a penalty? Luck in forcing multiple saves from Mendy? Oga, you no get talk

TrebleChamp:
Some peeps even dey hail am as Nairaland detective, guy no no say na Nairaland jail dem dey lead am go