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Jodera:
Lol.. I think it was just once and field swallow him. We know what he can do in 8 and if given proper run of games like Havertz, he'll become very useful there.

I know how many times field swallow Havertz yet but still it didn't deter Arteta from still starting him

He also has injury issues too. Moreso, Trossard is deputising for Martinelli.

Well, you should know why Arteta is playing Havertz every matches.

Jodera:
I no wan go Ramsdale own because we all know the only motive is sentiments.

As for Gabu, I once asked a question. What is the motive of benching your best CB pairing and putting a weaker one?. Not that, you have issues with this CB o (discipline-wise or otherwise) nor that this CB was very below par in performances.

Then Partey at RB. This one naim even vex me pass.

I've never seen where a coach benches his best player because of unpredictability. In fact, he "centers" the unpredictability on that player

City were able to cope with KDB and Haaland's absence. As a coach, I would want to build a system where the unavailability of my best players won't hurt the team too much. You need to have a variety of tactics that will compensate for your key player's absence. I still repeat the motives for both decisions are good. But I will fault him for two things.

1. Benching Ramsdale outrightly. The motive was to have two good goalkeepers pushing each other. Benching Ramsdale already gave Raya a head start.

2. Using Partey as inverted RB instead of Timber. (Partey ain't a stranger to RB sha)

komekn:
No video clips

Use YouTube. All the clips of your innit boys, didn't you pull out their clips from YouTube?

BlueRayDick:
What was the good motive for benching Gabriel?

New tactic. He wanted to be unpredictable. On the long run, it would have been beneficial.

BlueRayDick:
Which injured players? Trossard has not died na

The last time he played as 8, the field swallow am

Moreso, as Martinelli dey gba rubbish, only Trossard can come in for him.

The rubbish Havertz is playing is not as painful as the frustrating injuries in our squad.

daveP:
A striker incoming will automatically help our goals and forward rotations. Jesus doesn't need to be benched. He can play either wings and work well with the actual 9 like Laca and Auba did seasons ago.

One funny thing is Laca made that central attack region from centre circle to pk spot, his own. Since he left, dominating that exact region left with him.

If we can get a goal scorer ONLY, the attacking wahala will reduce from a 88 to a 39. We will just need to change transition style and if it works, it becomes the tweak of the season. Infact a fit Partey and a 9 will be enough goal threat combo from long balls. I really hope we beat this ffp limit. I hate the timing. But Kai arrival was part.


As for Rams, he's still himself. I like that so much. Nelson no just get sense that night.

Even if you get a 100-goal striker, the problem will still persist. As we dey bash Arteta, the players too should be collecting their own bashing.

Your striker go dey inside box, Ode and Saka will be on the wing dancing atilogwu. Martinelli go dey play rubbish too

BlueRayDick:
Now go back to ur prayer room and pray Havertz into injury.

Please do this for us all.

Lol.... If Havertz get injured, who will play? The injured players?

Jodera:
That Partey to RB and Gabriel to bench really vex me ehn. I come really too vex for Mos.tob and Spy join. Just because of that ish, I was praying let Partey go small injury for that nonsense to stop. Now see where my "prayers" don land Partey

Imagine playing your best DM as RB and benching one half of your best CB. Is that not madness.

And then, seeing the excuse been given for such madness made it even more painful.

All because Havertz must play in the midfield!!

Why you go dey vex for me? Na me be the coach? I merely told you people the exact reason Gabriel was benched. Arteta had a good motive for benching Gabu and Ramsdale. However, the issue is the implementation.

Kog45:
Osimhen hotter with the cap

He looks like a northerner... Alhaji Osimhen.

Iwobi and Ajayi rock the outfit.

Hausa:
The more important issue no one seems to talk about is whether or not Arteta can really take us to the promise land.

You're free to talk about that too.

zicky:
this their attire remember something Musa go sponsor sew for all of them.

Is that why they didn't take a proper measurement of Sadiq's head?

Joebie:
Who choose to get distracted go collect.

Meliforme:
Passing skills refer to short passing, long passing, chipped passing, crossing. Eye tests and then every football website that analyse football and provide player stats has shown Ejuke to be involved defensively more than all of our wingers including Moses Simon. In the match against G.Bissau during the last AFCON tournament, i have never seen any of our wingers get involved defensively in the degree Ejuke got himself involved. Don't be ruled by just feelings, open your eyes. Study.

So all your insinuations and arguments were based on a single match, against Guinea Bissau? Issokay

on a lighter note, una sure say our boys go fit concentrate in that match against Equatorial Guinea? I just saw the referee wey go officiate and all I can say is hmmmmmmm

daveP:
As for me, i believe football is too entertaining to simple have 100% players that will play to you instructions, esp when such players are key to getting results. If you have 11 robots that can't do things their own way at least for 15% of total 90mins, then wahala dey.

We need such players back at emirates. Klopp doesn't even shout like that on the touchline lately. Not even Emery.He just watches, observes and does his subs if he notices any backtracking. And he trust his small boys too.

KDB is back. All he needs is a touchline moment with Pep to hear what Pep wants to tweak. He does the rest himself. Saka and Nelli don't need to be waiting for MA to tell them to switch before they do. I believe the switching with ruin the man markings both are facing lately.

Gbam! Pure fact!
I once said it here that sometimes the players need to take matter into their own hands. Saka and Ode will get pinned to the RW all through the match playing rubbish elaborate football as if they forbid them to move. I still think Ode and Martinelli combo on the left will be so devastating but Ode no dey gree move away from Saka. They may be playing to the coach's instruction sha.

daveP:
my comments weren't even directed at that angle. So it's not related and not off.

Thought as much because your response totally contradicted what I posted.

Jodera:
Lol... Na facts be that

See Emery at what he's doing at Aston Villa. Most of the players are from Dean(the coach before Gerrard sef) yet see what he's doing with them

Now, imagine most of these players are what he bought, we'll start hearing how the signings are hits not knowing say na the coach dem dey lack. Same players almost relegated Aston Villa oo

Personally, I think setting up a team is the biggest managerial challenge in football. Take for instance the Emery example... he did a great job tactically and thankfully the players bought into his ideology. And then there is another instance where the players the coach personally assembled will sabotage him.

Sancho don go back to Dortmund

Kalvin will likely departs City

Xavi said he doesn't want Felix again

Omo... transfers can be hit or miss.

JayromWrites:
Ronaldo you said?

E shock you? E shock me too.
Osimhen is still better at least he doesn't mind word and he is bold to call things out as they are.

Bannedlargedx2:
I don taya for all of una mumu mindset. A wise man wouldn’t had responded to a nobody and given him the clout that he wanted. My advise to SE players is to just observe Ronaldo and Messi and try to emulate them

I think you should practise what you preach too. There is nobody that doesn't know you for your insultive and abusive behavior on this thread. I lost count of the number of monikers you have opened because you are repeatedly getting banned. 13large, 12large1, 12large3, 12large2....and so on.

So you're not in position to advise Osimhen. Remove the log of wood in your eyes first. Small disagreement o, you don run go call somebody mumu. SMH

T for Thanks

Meliforme:
Chidera Ejuke brings more passing skills to his game than some of the midfielders that we parade (midfielders like Frank Onyeka, Joe Aribo) and all our wingers. I know this revelation will not go down and well with some of you, but it is the truth. He also does more defensively than all of our wingers, from tracking back, to man marking to tackling, to making clearances of the ball etc. All these qualities of him are because he is a midfielder that is used as a winger.

I personally like Ejuke due to his entertaining football but what you typed here are mere campaign.

1. What do you mean by passing skills? What are the end products of his passes?

2. I don't think Ejuke is as defensively sound as Moses Simon.

Jodera:
Yea, this season transfer have been hits for them. More hits than misses.

Another thing about all these transfers sef na coach. Most of these boys wey deh shine now for Tottenham fit no even shine under Conte

Gbam! Off mic abeg. Your last paragraph is what some are not realizing.

daveP:
We all know he can't be excluded. Why is that even a question to start with? So it is a non-issue.

Exactly my point. He can't be excluded.

Jodera:
Even Trossard is from our assistant coach Stuivenberg sef.

Most of this signings go be scout, who'll bring it to edu then him and Arteta go see whether they'll come to the conclusion according to how this team is for improvement except some handpicking like Havertz, Raya (Arteta) and Marquinhos(possibly Edu)

This one no be Man u wey everything deh under coach

Oh... You sef dey follow the transfers? Thank God. At least they won't say I'm defending Arteta.

My opinion is no matter what, you still need the coach's input before signing a player so all these 'board should sign player for him' talk na emotional talk.

Jodera:
So is Ramsdale and Saliba too.
Even Gabriel too

If we do Man to Man, the +/- difference no go much compared to Liverpool recruitment of the last 10yrs

I'm not disputing this one jare. Just saying their recent transfers has been making sense.
They just signed Werner sef.

Jodera:
I will check it out to confirm but over the years, I've not been wowwed by Spurs recruitments tbh

That their keeper, Vicario na better keeper o. Van de Ven is a good defender too. I wonder who cut soap for them.

daveP:
You still dey tok of tactics


Shey you no go happy at least if dem spend 1bn on Arsenal in a transfer Window or two? You think Arteta no wan spend despite looking like he has players.

Give him that money and watch him get 7-9 players that will fit his so called tactics. Tactics wey carry us from 1st to 4th and 5th if we no wake up? It's not emotional talk. It is seeing things repeating despite saying you've learnt from it. You sef go happy die if boehly na Arsenal owner. But despite the 1bn available, we no go waste am compared to how Chelsea did. Fact!!

But we need it. Infact Arsenal need to have 3 windows with quality and experienced incoming for once. Goan check the windows and you'll miri for our recruitment. No consistency.

Should we complain? Totally.
Who wouldn't. It is a COMPETITION.

This is off-point sorry. Far from the main matter. The issue is should Arteta be excluded from future transfer dealings? Like the board should be the one buying players for him instead?

Jodera:
Lol..
Deny that you weren't happy with Jesus or Zinny signings last season.
Or Partey or Timber signing

I get things haven't been really great with arsenal recently but some of his signings were good and heralded when we bought them.

That he mismanaged most of them is another talk entirely.

By the way sef, Aside the Havertz and Raya which were specifically his signings most of the signings is collaboration from him, Edu and arsenal scouts

Thank you. Runarrson was recommended by one of the coaching staff. Marquinhos is actually from Edu's connections. Lokonga was recommended.

Not making case for Arteta but if some of his transfers are miss, then should future transfers be delegated to the board members with Arteta excluded? Isn't that like jumping from frying pan to fire?

iamoyindamola:
Boehly's money it's not arteta's money
Same jesus that have 70 touches with no goal or zinny that forget his primary duties
Where is partey or timber now
Hit or miss my foot Before we complained of not having quality players now we are wasting money on hit or miss players because you believe it's normal and then others who don't buy in your school of thought is emotional
Day play!!!!!!

Ok sir

ThePresenceWtf:
No, She is very much Right Footed...But like most professional women footballers, she's versatile and she can play across all backline position, She is Primarily a CB tho.

Ok

iamoyindamola:
Everything is emotional to you
I can count 5 players this guy wasted funds on and you still want him to be incharge of transfer
If you were the one dropping money will you be happy
Let's be reasonable sometimes na
Do we need Raya,Kai or those useless Chelsea players he got for us?

Boehly bought a lot of players for the coach, how has that ended up? You want them to sidetrack the coach who is going to develop the tactic and see how players fit in?

What some of you ain't understanding is that transfer can be hit or miss. Jesus, Zinchenko, Partey, Rice, White, Ramsdale, Tomiyasu, Timber were all signed by Arteta just so you know.

Na emotional talk nothing else abeg.

Hausa:
I don't really care what Facebook people say, but there's a need to put his recruitments into scrutiny.

1. Why bring Raya in when he's not an upgrade on Ramsdale? He can't even confidently keep the ball to feet sometimes. Always in a hurry to balloon it into the air knowing fully well Saka and co won't win the ball 4 out of 10 times.

2. How many players has he sat down and made plans to buy?
a. Trossard was an accidental buy. So was Jorginho. He wants to maintain the development of Martinelli and Saka buy giving them enough minutes. It doesn't work that way.
b. Why bring Marquinos when he never intended him to compete or get minutes in the Saka role?
Today, where's he?
c. Ben White has always been average, but he paid 50m for him. Okay, he's not average, huh?
But he's average at right back, and now people blame him for not unlocking Saka enough.
From day one, I didn't rate him.
d. Did he always plan to buy Rice, or went after Rice cos City flaunted with the sale?

3. Why did he bring in the Nigerian player as a 15 year old knowing fully well he wasn't ready?
Today, where on earth is the guy?

4. At the beginning of the season, what was his plan for a backup rwf, knowing fully well Saka had no competitor?

5. Where did he plan to play Timber originally?
He contributed to his getting injured because he didn't know where to play him. You'll know this when he played Partey at right back. Utter nonsense.


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When the season was about to commence, I was shouting and God will bear me witness, that Rice was not enough. I maintained that even with Rice in the team, it'll be a struggle to win the Carabao.
It's already January, and we're trophyless again.


Arteta, you have done well, but you don't have the know-how to take me to where I desire to be.

For someone who claimed to have been following arsenal since 1950s, all your questions seem amateurish to me. Sorry to say.
There is really no point in replying because you still won't get the point.

Deltamani:
Person wha don da play for Denmark Senior Team already….🥹

Oops.... I thought she is still eligible due to the fact that you brought her news here.