₦airaland Forum

Chido Obi Martins to United finally done.
8m plus 40% sell-on clause from reports.

elyte89:
What’s up with this nwaneri guy ..any chance of him representing us ? This is the right time to approach him also.

Nwaneri ke? That Bobo no look like person wey go play for us o.
Butler Oyedeji, Ovie Ejeheri and the two Okonkwos are our sure bets. Butler is a CF whole the others are GKs.

Looking forward to watching Calafiori play tomorrow. Man has got some neat techniques on the ball. And he might knock in some beautiful goals too the more he plays. My money is on him outscoring Gabriel Jesus this season.

The only flaw in his game so far is his aggressiveness (which has always been part of him anyway).

Meanwhile, Tomiyasu is back. Partey should just cut small soap for him. This one baba dey play 6 straight games eh

Spy360:
Read my post. I know he has Odegaard pass, but his overall technique is more towards Havertz

Havertz ke... I saw more of Wilshere in him sha. Those driving runs eh.. 👌

chrisooblog:
You noticed!

I did too...

This sugar boy eh... Lemme just say the hand is Esau's but the voice is Jacob's.
The handwriting looks familiar

Myles impressed me the most among the youngster. That defence splitting pass he gave Sterling to set up Ethan was brilliant.

I'll like Ethan to take part more in the buildups.

Porter just dey jump up and down

daveP:
I dey feel this RB wey dey move like Sagna

Na to puff am up with correct fufu.. the guy dey gimme joy.

Make dem dey pass to Josh Nichols na. Na small he small, he no kee person.

AkinDS:
Hope she makes it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMFG_Zz5lPk?si=QvCXI76qXTKyo6Gl

This girl is a vibe mehn... She should visit Ibadan, there are cool Amala joints there.
The emi okunrin mesan got me

daveP:
And i hope others follow suit. I Also pray Arsenal signs her at the end.

Are arsenal linked to her?

With Raya nursing a knock and Neto cup-tied, 16-year old Jack Porter who has been with the first team might start in goal today. Setford is battling fitness issue.

Another day for Haram football

A forward line of Sterling, Jesus and Martinelli won't be bad.
In midfield, Jorginho, Ethan and Rice
In defence, White, Heaven, Kiwior and Myles.
Subs: Gower, Dowman, Salah Eddine, Ismail and little man.

Spy360:
Different topic

The same ... Go read again

daveP:
Pray tell, how does clinicality work when it is a key metric of strikers and lethal forwards across the last 3 decades? It doesn't matter but you use it to analyze the same Auba that is an example? It is not Auba's fault that the team was still a WIP. He did what was required of him and that is just it. Asides tye fault out which i still blame him for, man did his own part and that's it.

Clinicality is very very important for any striker. Simple!!

The argument is not about clinicality bit over-reliance on one source for goals. Unless you're getting a Haaland who is a goal machine and not injury prone, there's nothing bad in spreading the goals across the forward positions.

Omo... I saw the way Ter Stegen got injured yesterday and fear catch me small. Raya should be careful abeg

Jodera:
The way Haaland barged on Saliba those early minutes and the way Saliba fell with his arms to the floor, my heart was in my mouth thinking Saliba would get injured. I believe all those "Haaland was locked by Gabriel and Saliba last season" really entered the guy cos those early minutes he was really aggressive with them but Las Las those two prove say dem strong pass am.

But na rivals deh cry say na we comot Rodri when na Rodri go wound himself by himself.

Also while I was one of those who blamed Rice for acting irresponsibly with his red, Trossard certainly have no blame here. Oliver just wanted to send him off cos that was even though Trossard kicked the ball away, he did it within the confines of the rule.

Read a stat that says there was 1.07 seconds between the time the ref whistled and when Trossard kicked the ball... I watched the highlight again and I noticed Trossard kinda withdrew a bit as he was about to kicked the ball. Olivia is just shameless

daveP:
This sounds something similar to Finidi George's 😆😆😆😆😆

Why will you say the boldened at all? The Auba you're talking about like this is the last to get golden boots for this club, twice and the last to score above 20. If he wasn't clinical enough, i will agree that even at that he wasn't at full potential then as he should be banging in 30+ then. We can agree on that?

Doesn't that buttress my stance, regardless of how many we keep scoring? What does this team need different from the last two seasons to make any flair, excellence and tenacity of City to Become 2nd or beaten at this long game?

A striker is one of that
Mature wingers in prime, not past prime.
Consolidation is all i need. Else we will keep doing things that has never been done before (wey dey sweet belle of some fans), but still measure up to 2nd best. I can't emphasize this enough.

There was no similarity between what he said and Finidi statement.

The season Auba won the golden boot, how did the team fair anytime Auba is not available? Or on the day Auba didn't bring his scoring boot, how was our general performance?

As per arsenalfanatics, Merino has started doing some pool work and gym. He should be back in training next week.

The duel master!
Gabriel should sha stay for away from him.

Sugarboyy:
Because they are either washed or not good enough.
All the players that I mentioned, I have watched all their matches, except Nwakali who doesn't even get listed for matches not to talk of making the bench..

Watching Sadiq at Sociedad, he plays like someone who isn't serious and trust me, he is not good enough for the Laliga

Iheanacho own is even worse, that guy is washed already.

Chukwueze don't even get sub in anymore and if care isn't taken, he will be the first to be chipped out amongst the players that I listed...

After GW5? Okay o

Sugarboyy:
Nigeria known players whose contracts might be terminated by their respective clubs at the end of this season or next..

1. Iheanacho
2. Nwakali
3. Chukwueze
4. Zaidu
5. Sadiq

You can add yours... 😁

Na you go terminate their contract eh, Sugar daddy?

Shegzdave:
That Cala goal just Dey sweet Me

I hope to see more of this from him

The way he moved towards that pass and with the way he adjusted his body, I knew something would happen. The weyrey Olivia almost blocked his view sef. That was a good goal.

Spy360:
When you see a well drilled team it's the manager.

Can we all now accept that Arteta was right about not needing a striker?

Three tough away games and we almost came out with 9points.

Without our best player Odegaard for two of those games.

Arteta deserves his flowers

We need additions please (not necessarily a striker but maybe a forward).

jpmoriarti:
❗️Javier Tebas: “Thank god Barcelona didn’t end up signing more players, otherwise they’d win games by 10-0. They’re candidates to win La Liga and Champions League”

This is Laliga President openly admitting he's happy Barcelona is not as strong as they should be. Probably they're also silently celebrating our injury crisis.

This league is corrupt, walai.

I think the issue here is that Tebas only has Laporta to contend with (indirectly). I don't know if you understand me sha. Assuming the like of Valencia, Sevilla, Villarreal has influential and wealthy figures in the calibre of Perez and Laporta, maybe it would be easy to rein in Tebas.

FirstbornWds:
Flick way be real dagbanna choko. E fit stick with Pena

That man sha... Man's good. Very good.
Another coach go don dey complain say he didn't get new signings by now. I saw that lineup yesterday and I was like, 'what's this man doing?'

Derumklala12:
Baba respect yourself oh.. we dey play ucl and need wins you dey call la masia.. when pena don turn 1st choice 👆

Lmao... One would expect Barca fans like you to have had full trust in La masia by now. Everybody here were so worried about lack of a DM at the start of season, Flick entered La masia go pick Bernal and Casado. Barca go sha need backup for Pena.. No?

Everybody here : Sign emergency goalkeeper... Sign emergency goalkeeper

Hansi: Hello La masia, send in two more kids please. Goalkeepers. Thank you

teeshet:
Ansu fati is back and nobody here deemed it fit to announce it.

Until he plays like 5 straight games we will know if he is back or he just came to say Hi.

johnjunior39:
Abeg is bolton. If Arteta know what is good for him. He should just go and gather all the reserves abeg.

Nobody who played this game deserve to see football till weekend again. Atleast there is Jorginho,Jesus, Nwanerir,skelly,Kiwior,sterling he can complete the rest with reserve and U21

Lol... I sha don talk. Don't be surprised to see Saliba or Gabriel on the pitch against Bolton especially with Tomiyasu and Zinchenko out.

jihday:
if you’ve been here long enough you can’t be surprised

Yea... Assuming City had lost yesterday, he would have used the next 5 pages to explain how Arsenal didn't allow City to play their tikitaka football.

Thegoodjoe no dey ever disappoint. I just knew he would have been here gloating about the match. Man no dey disappoint.

Mikel Arteta on Ben White playing through injury:

“We didn’t want to. I spoke to him yesterday, I wanted to protect him. He’s not going to ever tell you that he’s not fit — he will run through a brick wall for you!”

[HaytersTV]

No be player be this. Just to pick soap wey fall for bathroom floor, you go hear say Tomiyasu is out for few weeks with back issue.

With Timber and Calafiori going off, Saliba might not be getting his deserve rest soon. And that's worrisome.