paafin:
� Breaking news
Arsenal have been officially removed from the top 6 and are going to be replaced surely by Leicester City
Votes by the @FA and @PL have ranked Arsenal with 43% while Leicester City had 49%

The Top 8 teams stand as :
1.Man UTD with 87%
2. Man City with 85%
3. Chelsea with 74%
4. Liverpool with 72%
5. Tottenham Hotspur with 60%
6. Leicester City with 49%
7. Arsenal with 43%
8. West Ham UTD with 38%
But if Arsenal finish the season 8th or above they will regain their top 6 spot �
@optajoe

Lol.... let's be careful overhypying this present man united team, who dash them 87% over liverpool and man city

ObaIgwe1:
from Edu's interview....

"Just to give you some context, we renewed - in one year - five sets of contracts, and five of them are under the age of 23 for the first team. Then, in this period, summer to summer, we signed 10 players and seven out of the 10 are under 23 as well.

“We had 21 players exit over the year,” “All of those were terminated or we tried to sell, or we tried to loan with an obligation to buy as well. "

“We tried to clear a bit of the squad and bring in some new faces. We had 21 outgoings and signed 10 players in one year.

“So, 21 changes, it is a lot. It’s more than a squad in one year. But this was the intention again when we are talking about the base and the foundation.”

“Why did we do that? Because we have a reason to try again to create a good foundation and then, one day, maybe we are going to sign one or two players only. But after that, it’s impossible to sign one or two players only because we have a lot to do.

Edu admits that Arsenal's start to the season has been unacceptable but has called for unity at the club and re-iterated that he has full confidence that matters will improve.

'Talking about my role, I understand the pressure. I understand the pressure on me, Mikel, the board and the club because the situation we are in now is not acceptable. 'But, now is the moment for everybody to be together and I would like to see people step forward in difficult moments and take the responsibility.

'I am responsible for what we are doing.'

“All three games we have played against Brentford, Chelsea and Manchester City, unfortunately we have had some difficult moments in terms of COVID and injuries.

“I want to see the team play together and then let’s judge the team when they play together. Then, after that, no problem. Judge us then.

“I understand the situation we are in now is really tough. It’s not an excuse but let’s judge the team when they play together.”

“I don’t want to go for top four or top six or top eight or top 10. I’m just really looking forward to seeing this squad play together. I’m really looking forward to seeing everyone fit,” said Edu when asked what Arsenal’s target was for the season.

“I want to see our squad because I don’t see it yet. But I’m really looking forward to it because I believe and Mikel believes that this team can have a good season.”


My Take:

I don't see the board sacking Edu or Arteta anytime soon irrespective of whatever results we get this season. They have sold the idea of building a new team for the future to the board and the owner, and told them not to expect any immediate results. Forget about all those Arteta sack deadline rumors, Arteta is not going anywhere soon. The owner and the board have been bought over with their "sweet" plans .

One can choose to believe Edu, be positive, supportive, trust the process and dream along with them, but for the sake of my heart, I have chosen not to expect anything much from Arsenal this season just praying we don't go into relegation while Arteta and Edu finish cooking and smoking whatever they want.

But on the good note, he said we can judge them when we have the whole team available and played together... So till then

I guess our season will properly start against norwich. I hope the acquisition of that RB from bolgona will improve the right side of our attack.

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Lordfave98:
I swear

case closed

Lordfave98:
I wasn’t arguing against you rather I was contributing to what you said and expressing my opinion. Did I say that you were an advocate of defence wins you league.

let me also add that man united became favorite to win the league because of the inclusion of ronaldo and not varane

BlueRayDick:


This is delusion of grandeaur... and it will end in tears .

This strategy didn't achieve much in wenger's later years and it won't achive anything at all now that we have Leicester, Spurs, West ham, Aston Villa attracting more quality players and actually having enough cash to splash than Arsenal

I think another way to look at his explanation can be that the club is broke as fučk and they can't bring in top quality players anymore so they have to rely on young prospects who will come cheaper as well as hiring a rookie coach who will be cheap too, hoping that the 'project ' succed.

But anyway we look at it, it means the club is going no where with the current board. I earnestly pray that Qatar ownership comes soon so that the likes of korenke, edu and Vinai can kiss the club goodbye for good.

edi287:

Nah he's actually an upgraded version of Chambers. He's not that quick and not the overlapping type. He'll mostly tuck in the middle while Ben White pushes up.
He's great on the ball and ambidextrous.

So basically he is a CB that can comfortably play RB...





....interesting

Why not go straight to the point

daveP:
They got at least one in each position and coincidentally, one from each of the top 5 leagues in europe, save France.

They probably feel they've done a great job this Window. Smh.


No time to waste time.

only 1 attacking minded player


Well let's hope lokonga keep xhaka away from the starting eleven


My rating this window is 3/10 because the main issues were never addressed especially when it's so glaring that we can't score one single goal in 3 games this season

80sjamshophip:
Congrats, your new signing

I heard that he can play CB too

BlueRayDick:

Spy360 na very emotional and passionate fan and it's affecting his sense of judgement of the current situation we are in presently.

We sold Emi Martinez for 20m and a year after we are buying a replacement for 30m..... that’s bad business if u ask me. I’m one of the people who believe Martinez sale was out of our hands since we have two good keepers who would not sit on the bench for each other , but then the replacement cost just doesn’t make any sense .

The 50million spent on Ben white is a huge chunk of the 128m we have spent this transfer season. Whoever sanctioned that deal needs to be investigated for money laundering .


While everybody was talking about AM , CM and other obvious aspects of our game that has visible deficiency , i was here preaching the gospel of getting a decent RB in place of “jack-of-all-trade-master-of-none” chambers and “washed” bellerin..... Now the chicken has come home to roost. Even if a RB is signed today we all know we will be getting a scrap that would most likely be a backup and not a big game player.

If Edu or whoever is handling our business side of the game want to prove themselves then they need to get rid of players like Kolasinac, Elneny, Xhaka , Bellerin, etc and get decent fee for them ..... it is only then we can think of rebuilding for real

Mr Leadership is not going anywhere

iamoyindamola:
It's so bad original legends(overmars, Campbell, parlour) are coming out to work for the club to sort out the mess these fake legends aka faworaja (edu and Arteta) cause us.

Ian Wright was closed to tears on Saturday, he couldn't believe his eyes.

na wenger I pity pass

All his effort in building the arsenal as a big brand in europe is being shatterd into piece thanks to novice edu and Farteta

edi287:

Clubs no rate us bro. How Barca wan tell us say Bellerin is worth 10m? The thing is embarrassing.

bellerin is nothing special, the only skill he had was his speed and sadly he has lost his speed so I don't think other clubs are wrong with their valuation of some of our players.

edi287:
Spurs beats Arsenal to Emerson Royal. Arsenal offered 10m plus Bellerin. Barca wanted 20m plus Bellerin.
Edu is the worst technical director of all time.

money no dey again na



Na trade by barter arteta and co don reduce my club into.


See people wey board give £130m in the beginning of the transfer window.



Abeg make Norwich do the lord's work next week so that arteta and edu can leave this team for good

Spy360:

Focus on the player, forget the money. After all you did not contribute one kobo for anything. It's not your money.

I no go forget about the money

Because we cannot sign another TOP quality player again because we dont have money

Roland17:


Respect is earned especially in formal work settings where unwritten rules do not exist or are not binding. You don’t force it..As a manager you can force your players to FEAR you but that is different from respect which a leader earns.

A manager doesn’t necessarily translate into Leader. Infact, within a group, you can have a leader who is not the manager. Now, can a manager who isn’t a leader evolve into a leader? Absolutely, but it is an exhaustive process that involves behavior modification and learning new skills.

Unfortunately our manager is not ready to change his attitude, I hope the pending sack will humble him.

Roland17:


If I talk dem go say dem suppose dey fear and respect am as coach.. Infact dem use their real life experience take support Arteta’s decision..I come dey ask whether Arsenal don become military camp? Dem talk say na why him dey buy young players when go fear and respect am..I ask whether the player no go grow? I ask say what if Saka and ESR come speak up? Dem say na disrespect say we go sell them.. Because of one ego driven narcissist.

I for no vesk if him ego match his coaching skills

First it was saliba, then Nekson, now it's AMN


This arteta should leave this club before he destroys another young talent. A coach with such an ego shoyld have a worldckass coaching skills to match his ego and not this shît he is feeding us with every weekend

Jodera:
On the contrary, if we have a good transfer window, it would make us better than we are presently. Even if it doesn't, next coach will/might use the good players effectively. We spent the 80m and even fans aren't too happy about the two signings, that should tell you how far

thank you for pointing that out for him.


That game would have been different if maddison and bissouma was in that game yesterday.

We literally played xhaka as our only midfielder, xhaka of all people!

Spy360:

The fact is that we needed a backup keeper and a defender apart from the CM and AM which we have all signed. So that's not the issue. The issue is Arteta. Bad coach. Simple.

yes, we needed a £30m back up goal keeper and a £50m defender who is not better than mavro and saliba over the likes of bissouma, maddison or sterling.



Great decision!

Fkhalifa:


That finger pointing ehn, a times he uses it to avoid the ball, he'll tell Leno to pass it to the next so he doesn't get dispossessed, something you'll see Elneny,Guen,Partey all asking for the ball.
Baba will be forming one yeye organising.

na that mumu activity him dey use for training take decive all the managers

daveP:
Says a lot about why Maddison or Coutinho were more important than more CBs.

More reason why arteta needs to go, he has failed the board already because I cannot understand why a coach will see how much we needed a creative attacking minded player but yet had the gut to spend over £80m on ramsdale and ben white

Spy360:
Can't Arteta tempt AMN to play RB with improved contract rather than scouting for unwilling players across Europe.

Arteta ego will not allow him to stoop so low in begging a player to play in a particular position

That is one of his non-negotiables remember?

Fkhalifa:

There's one thing about Xhaka that makes him look like he is the main engine of the team, The way he carries himself, his looks, with his finger pointing and leadership aura, coupled with how he gets the ball and launch a long pass to the flanks, you'll just want to have that body on the field.

But those who critically analyse football will know he's a just a scam/fraudster. When I see fans on Arsenal page on Instagram and other platforms hailing him, I just SMH.

Na that pointing of fingers dey pain me pass


Baba will kill our counter attack with his sluggishness then pass back to our defender.

The next thing you will see him pointing fingers like he is organising the team meanwhile the opposition has used that opportunity to maintain a defensive shape.

lavylilly:

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iamoyindamola:
What did we do to deserve this God
Kolasinac
Arteta and edu should go asap

na the midfield i dey pity

Mehn I see nothing extraordinary from this spiderman trailer


Another overhyped marvel trailer I guess

ObaIgwe1:


Martin Odegaard
Hector Bellerin
Alex Lacazette
Gabriel Magalhaes
Gabriel Martinelli
Alex Runarsson
Kieran Tierney

All back in training.


Ben White: Still being monitored ahead of the weekend.

Thomas Partey: aiming to be back in training by the end of August.

Eddie Nketiah: aiming to be back in training in early September.

Hoping to have a full squad after the international break. No more excuse after the international break

Oasis007:


Klopp: you gonna visit Emirates Stadium?

Wenger: ain't travelling to UAE anytime soon.

E dry like alexis sanchez career in man united

TechNana:
I have always disliked the idea of graduating from school after full 4 years and having to work for someone who'd pay me less than 200k/mnt.

Hence my desire to start saving 5k everyday for 2 years now, started in my 200level when I was 18, and I'm in my finals now. ( Over 2m saved )...

I'm graduating and my goal is making 400k or more monthly.

Now I want to invest N1m or less in any offline business that can profit me at least 5k daily, that's 150k/mnt.

I already have a first money POS shop, and I'm hopeful it would hit my 5k daily with time.

Invest with anything relating to agric

sammymarvin:
Yesterday I was kind of are angry with Arteta but ...I saw a new light yesterday ....Sambi to me Is not a defensive midfielder but he is a player in d mode of Fab that lad got passes in him and was always available to receive d ball it was as if he has been playing in d EPl for seasons...he effective made playing from d back easy...also the team fought thru out d 90mins never dropping there heads .....I was happy with Auba he added fire to our squad...Smith Rowe is a beast that guy will come good always running ..he was unlucky could have gotten a goal...I was impressed with Leno his distribution was better yesterday ....also our counters were good I believe with d coming back of Auba and laca will c us score goals

Now my anger with Arteta/Mari....If I was d Coach ...I will say to Mari magnet Lukaku..Man mark him...for grab...push etc u go hard on him...for d for first 40mins Mari was just to soft ...u don't do that when playing with Lukaku he is strong hence u need to b dirty on him...hit his knees..draw his shirt....do a CHELLENI on him..it's either Arteta dnt tell him or he was scared....now
I was also angry because Mikel
should have told Saka to drop back to form a back Five just to stop James I never blame Tierney for d goals becos he was trying to help Mari...
On a final note we need steel in some areas...a new defensive midfielder eg Ndidi..
In d defense may be Gabriel Mag...can be a beast because I have not been impressed with Mari looks like he is not in form
Then a right back a proper right back....to me Cedric and Bellerin should leave ..we need a new right back...
Finally I stick with my club I know the team will come good

How can you blame saka for not tracking back when it's obvious xhaka was the main culprit yesterday.

The back 5 consists of Cedric, holding, mari, teireny and xhaka.
Due to xhaka limitations, teireny had to play both LCB and LB role last match, that was way he lost his steam quickly.

Xhaka was meant to assists mari and holding especially against Lukaku, but that man was no where to be found forcing teirney to do his job and at the same time bombing forwad for a cross.


Ask yourself will Lukaku find it easy if partey was infront of the defenders yesterday?

Xhaka killed the match tempo with his frequent back pass and he destroyed our defensive shape because of his speed.


My consolation from that match is that sambi and partey double pivot might look promising atleast from what I have seen in that kid I must admit that arteta has struck a gold mine in that belgain kid.