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Timbros, I want to ask you a question, please oblige me.

If you're given 200m and say you should buy either attackers(CF, Lw or RW) or defenders (either CB, RB or Lb).

Now you can buy a combination of attackers (like CF and Lw for example) or combination of defenders (like CB and Lb) but You must not use the money to buy combination of both (example you can't buy like CF/Rw and CB/Lb).

You must strictly buy either Defenders or Attackers using the 200m

With respect to your team, which department will you go for?

USAfall2024:
Then I guess Hazard's years in EPL was also overrated going by comparison of their individual awards/performance? The joke is on anyone who can't accept Ronaldo's dominance at United @20-24 years. Show us any of your non-overrated attacker's back2back EPL POTY then we can have a conversation .

P.S: Same Ronaldo still left EPL @24 for Madrid and conquered Europe/the World, then came back close to retirement age. But silly fans like you will still compare him to players like Hazard/Salah/Saka who had their prime years and peak career only in England. Abeg make una dead all these Ronaldo vs current EPL superstars cos them no be mates .

Lmaooo...

All these your thesis won't prevent him from telling you Palmer and Enzo is better than Cr7

Spy360:
I am not talking about missing chances but being a 20goal per season player
Did you accept that he was not a striker then? Because I said the reason why GJ doesn't score much goals is because he is not playing as a traditional striker.

I no deh argue in favour of any 20goal a season striker. In fact, it's the other way round.

I've always been vocal here that I prefer Lacazette over Auba even though I respect what Auba did for us here. I've always been vocal that I love Firmino. And I always say I love Gabriel Jesus because he makes this system tick

Why? Because I believe they make modern football system to tick, they make attack unpredictable and fluid mostly because of their dropping deep and interplay with their wingers and Midfielders. I'm always a sucker for goals to be shared/spread evenly among our players instead of just one player (striker) having the bunch of goals while others are single digit. I've always maintained I don't care who scores(striker or not) as long as the team is winning and the team isn't lacking goals.


And as for the bolded, the main reason we argued is that GJ doesn't score goals much because he doesn't stay in the box which I even argued otherwise by bringing heat maps and stats showing you how he has the highest intensity of heat map in the box among all our attackers and that he misses the most chances amongst all players in the league thereby voiding your claim that he doesn't stay in the box(even if he drops deep). Then your argument changed to that he was fatigued whenever he enters the box and that's why he's missing chances.

Anyone who followed our argument last season knows you didn't argue in favour of false 9 and certainly not with me who's a lover of one.

daveP:
seeing what he's done vs proven teams with supposedly better midfielders throughout and other tasking roles like the goal he denied vs man u is enough for me. But he may also go the joe willock way.

You've a valid point sha.
But even if we want to sell him, it suppose be above 40m oo

mostob:
Breeze don blow and Fowl yansh don open

But Tbh, I was expecting something big from the guy. Hopefully, he picks up form sha

mostob:
Arteta doesn't like a big squad. Partey and Jorginho are likely to leave with two midfielders replacing them. And if Arteta get plans for you, I don't think he will loan you out. See the way all our U23s were leaving but Ethan and co stayed back.

I think Sambi own is different. Firstly he's not u-23 player and secondly I once read he was the one who asked for loan since he won't be guaranteed much playing time.

We'll get to see how it unfolds sha but I like his skillset.

mostob:
Trossard na JT, na him Arteta dey use flog stubborn team.

Gabu na Tibia, the opomulero wey dey carry the team.

Shegzdave:
Cedric na the ligament, Rice na the Intestine😂

Tbh, I like some of his post and some serve as comic relief to Me

Abeg Una no go kill me with laughter

popizaino:
You get time.

Shegzdave:
I don’t like to interfere in these discussions but that statement he made up there made me doubt if he watch our match

That guy na truly Livescores merchant that uses their stats to make hypothesis and conclusion

How will someone call Harvertz the brain of the team and Saka the hand???

Arsenal don turn body with different parts

Saliba na bone, Partey na belle, Havertz na brain while Odegaard na mouth

Spy no go kill person for here

But what's Wrong with F.Balogun?

Yeah, I know he's not our player anymore but I was thinking he'll excel in Monaco as their main man the way he did at Reims last season esp with the kind of talent he has.

What really went wrong?

mostob:
We might just cash out on him. I don't see him at Arsenal next season.

Except he is the one that pushes for the move else I doubt he'll be sold. I think Arteta rates him highly and Tbh I do too as long as it's not in that DM position

mostob:
On the positive side, he is the one keeping this thread going.

Lol... If you say so oo

Shegzdave:
Are you sure you watch this team?

mostob:
You need to start watching this team first before you start debating about who is cerebral and who is not.

Make Una no mind Spy, him don carry this "no gree for anybody" seriously and e don dey make am misyarn frequently

daveP:
Lokonga this season is something else. His on and off possession movements and controlled passes....

Do you see him breaking into the LCM role at Emirates? I think he's proven himself at Luton this season. Adebayo and co just taking away most of the shine.

He's looking good but he'll need to do it one more season, maybe at a middle class club like Everton, Aston Villa or so.

I wouldn't want to rush him sha but for LCM role, he might be good. Just needs more top flight experience

daveP:
I'll explain later.

okay, I'll be expecting

mostob:
Using the data from your screenshot, your hypothesis is void..it is not even capable of being tested because it has no basis.

There's a reason I just sidestep that mention.

Spy just wan hold anything holdable

Spy360:
OK. Let me take your word for it. Because I know say me and you argue about GJ and his finishing.

I always criticize anyone who misses easy chances and GJ wasn't an exception. I've criticized even Saka here during his early days for missing chances before he improved tremendously.

The reason why we argued was because you were saying he's missing chances because of his workrate he normally do and that he needs to stay in the box like a traditional 9 why I disagreed saying he's just not a great goalscorer.

I've always always been an advocate for false 9 role right from beginning

raumdeuter:
Header in the 11th minute over the bar
Side foot off target 50th minute
The free header in 77th
Before we count the chances that were blocked

Haaland's night to forget
Erling Haaland broke the record for the highest xG in a Premier League game this season without scoring.

Shots - 9

Big chances - 3

Expected goals - 1.71

Goals - 0

The only clear cut chance is that 77th minute header. The rest is just a 50/50 and the side foot is even laughable because it would be very difficult to score in that situation.

None was clear as Chelsea's clear cut chances

Spy360:
At least you have come to terms with the fact that Arsenal does not need a striker like Haaland to win the league.

Lmaooo

It's surprising you of all people would accuse me of this. Me that's always the advocate of the false 9 free role especially wrt our system, me that Iamoyin.damola always troll with loving defensive strikers naim you wan do this one with.


Lol... You no try for this one

Spy360:
You make plenty sense here I no just fit object to any.

That's impressive. Keep it up

I dey always make sense, I'm surprised you're seeing it today

raumdeuter:
Your scenario works if Chelsea buries their chances and City miss all theirs

So what do you think happens if Haaland buries all the open chances he was getting

Stats yesterday showed City had overwhelming more shots on/off target

The only clean chance man city had was the one Haaland nodded over the bar. Chelsea top had with Sterling and Jackson. Fans suppose beat those two ystdy

Incognito9:
Bro both of them pain me aswear.

The picture was Jackson own

Jackson own was pass and shoot stuff and it's a goal. I don't why the idiot stop the ball to shoot.

Sterling own is chip the ball or you pass the ball to Jackson to slot it in.

At the bolded, if management dey deduct money from their wages for missing those big chances, they will sit up aswear.

Facts... something like if you miss more than one big chance a month, 50% wage payment. Most go sit up

timbros:
The criticism of defenders here have been evenly spread out. Nobody wey we never criticise here. But in attack, the main culprit have been Jackson. Airmark attacks Sterling at any given opportunity that's why it looks as if the attackers have been criticised more.

Trust me, the defenders have been so error prone this season, directly giving away cheap goals all season long.

Alright boss... If you say so

liveLongNprospa:
Lmao
. They are non-Ronaldo fans that proclaim him the GOAT

No doubt ......

timbros:
Both have let us down equally. No balance in the team.

Equally??

Lol... I doubt.

They've been more cries about Jackson and sterling here than there have been about Disasi and co

Incognito9:
1st pic sterling
2nd pic Jackson

The two Otus we're parading as attackers, missing one on one that could have killed this game in the 1st half.

Both of them deserve flogging, smh

Na sterling own naim shock me pass. He didn't even control the ball and just let it move until Ederson caught it.

I wonder how these players confidently come to training the next day as a professional after missing all these big chances back to back weekly

timbros:
At bolded... Okay having analysed yesterday's game, can you now use Wolves game as an example too?

I'm interested to hear your view on that game considering the fact we are at home, we scored first, we scored more than one goal, Wolves is not a traditional big 6.

What went wrong?

That one defence let you guys down.

I admitted it that day when I was being called out by kimbe.ast(I think).

But this season overall, you've been let down by your attack more compared to defence

timbros:
You just confirmed my stand on this issue. We need balance in the team. Whether we could have won 1-0 or 3-1, it's the combination of both attack and defence playing their role on the pitch.

If you notice, I intentionally avoid responding to you ever since this attack defence talk started. It's nothing personal, but I had to avoid you because of your analysis on our match against you guys. A match we were leading 2-0 but somehow, our defence decided to gift you guys 2 goals but you looked for a way to twist your analysis and absolved the defence of blame.

The bias is so much so glaring that no way I could have engaged you. Nothing I say will ever make sense to you.

While I agree that a balanced team is what you need but my point is that Chelsea presently needs to upgrade attack over the defence.

Let's use ystdy match as example.

Individually in defence, petrovic was very good, Gusto played very well, disasi was a beast, colwill tried even though he's the least rated, Chilwell played very very well too.

Individually in attack, Jackson was clueless in front of goal, Sterling was clueless also. Out of 3 good chances, he converted only one. Only Palmer tried in creating chances in which Sterling and Jackson contrived to miss 98% of them.

It'll be difficult for Chelsea not to concede a goal with the barrage of attacks ystdy reason why I said you defence was very good ystdy. It would have been easier to win 3-1 than to win 1-0 ystdy.

The balance is in the attack. Get potent attackers and most goals conceded won't be and even if they concede, it won't matter because the game will still be won.

You win games by scoring more and not necessarily by not conceding . That doesn't negate the fact that good defence isn't needed.

liveLongNprospa:
So the people that agree that Messi is better are called what? Non-Messi fans? 😂

Non-messi fans as well as Messi fans

timbros:
It is possible to have won the game 1-0?

While this is true but it's also possible to win the game 3-1.
And judging by ystdy performance, it would have been easier to win the game 3-1 than to win it by 1-0

daveP:
THIS LIVERPOOL game is all you need to conclude how Toney will play if he is the 9 we will be getting.

I've always been on Team NO Toney. I was on NO Vlahovic too.

Why do you say so?

Spy360:
Our best partnership is Campbell-Toure. But I believe this Saliba-Gabriel will surpass it. Just as I believe if Saka stays with Arsenal all through his career, he will surpass Henry's records.

True talk