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Omo... Arsenal women are making some serious signings too. They signed Russo and Cordina already. Report says they're now going for Earps. That's amazing.

Odunayaw:
Who will deliver us now.

I don tire

A sound coach who wouldn't have any problem working for free though team expenses will be taken care of by the NFF. With recent news and rumours, NFF dey share salary as well as having a stake in team selection. So if there is someone who can offer like 60% of his salary in exchange for total control of the callups. It sounds crazy but that's the only way I can think of. let's not even start with the NIN payment of allowance.

daveP:
Gusau has given every hint that no coach will be allowed to breef. Randy really try mehn.

I've never support that guy taking over....

iamoyindamola:
Balogun signed for monaco

With 17% sell on clause. Make sense...I wish him well.

Spy360:
Has Tierney moved to Spain?

Yes na...even if na crawl he dey crawl, he go don reach Spain.

Spy360:
Forget Allison, I don't see how in the world Ramsdale was preferred ahead of Elderson. May be they were counting saves but then, Elderson hardly makes errors.

Really surprising.

Philosopher1979:
Well, Nigeria needs to have a coach like Maresca
He is decent, hardworking, young, tactically sound and ambitious.
There are coaches like this all over the place.
We will find if we look hard enough.
At least, such a coach will not be expensive and will want to make a name with an
African football giant.

Well..I wouldn't dispute that. The big question is will NFF allow the coach to work?

iamoyindamola:
Imagine so na 9
Maybe city players were there with him that day

They were with him in Spirit

Tavarez to Forest


Balogun to Monaco


Cedric


Sambi


Holding


Pepe?

Time is going

iamoyindamola:
Who did haaland depend on in Dortmund or FIFA u20 when he scored 7goals in a match or been the youngest player to score 10 UCL goals
This is common sense

9 goals..not 7!!!! That was the day Haaland announced himself.

Spy360:
Saka is a better talented player than Haaland. Haaland won it because City won the PL. It's a kind of divided award between him and Saka.

Bro... Haaland na monster o. The kind of goal this guy is scoring eh...maybe you didn't consider his age before making this post. Remove the City performance and the Dortmund performance would still show how the guy can be. He may not have been up to standard in his recent games and that's understandable. It happens when the creative fulcrum of a team (KDB for city and Ode for Arsenal) is missing.

I still don't know why a sane football fan would disagree with that Saka award. Well, make Dem go collect am from Saka's hand. I think Foden won the last one (not sure) despite not being good as Saka.


I'm not really surprised at Ode and Saliba's inclusion. Na Ramsdale own shock me pass. TBH, I was not expecting him to be considered ahead of the two Brazilians.

charlesemeka85:
With ndidi’s recent performance in the box/box position I think if it will be ideal to start the trio of onyedika as dm,ndidi as cm/b2b and iwobi as AM

Won’t be bad if tried against São Tomé

Lol... Our coaches are too tactically inept to put the right team.on the pitch. Na to just put 11 players on the pitch and tell them to be running around.

charlesemeka85:
The Leicester City game is over and I'm still trying to understand how Enzo Maresca turned Wilfred Ndidi into an attacking monster? I will never doubt Maresca after seeing the player he transformed Ndidi in to.

Frm a leicester fan

What do you think is the right decision for him? Stay with Maresca and continue developing or move to another club where Dem go turn am to ABF midfielder. How I wish he had had the chance to work with his current coach earlier.

iamoyindamola:
Haaland with the big one I guess
Meanwhile the men are around

Omo.... una sure say Ramsdale no dey wear heels

Raphael Varane will miss the game against Arsenal this weekend due to suffering an injury against Nottingham Forest.

ObaIgwe1:
Before the coming Havertz, we have 3 players that can dominantly play the AM role (Odegaard, Viera and ESR)

True ESR has a re-occurring knee injury and he was advised to go for a surgery to fix the problem permanently, which he did. We all know what he can do when fit and we also know he would be fit for this season. And what did Arteta do? He bought Havertz another AM.

Now we have 4 players battling for 1 or 2 positions depending on the game plan. How will that help their game time?

If anything, Havertz coming has only limited the time that will be available for ESR.

BTW, ESR injury played little role to our inability to win the league last season. If there is a department we were short, definitely not an AM. And since recovery ESR has proved to us that he has not declined with his performance at the last youth tournament.

So far we are yet to be convinced we really needed Havertz, even the fragile Viera has given us something in the few mins he played compared to Havertz while we still have a fit ESR that have not seen a minute since the start of the season and only played for 3mins during the community shield. So you think the coming of Havertz is not / will not affect ESR gametime?

We needed a backup for Partey, we signed Rice. We needed to replace Xhaka, we signed Havertz. Also, there has been questions on this thread on whether ESR can play the 8 comfortably because defensively, he is lacking.


Even without Havertz, ESR won't start. The earlier he realizes he is down the pecking order, the better for him. Havertz vs ESR is a useless debate for me. I believe different players suit different formation.



Did we need Havertz?

Before we signed him, there were reports that Arteta needed someone who we give us the height advantage at the final third. Do you know Xhaka used to be the tallest among the front 5? Why Havertz and not a striker? Probably due to Nketiah and Jesus. I mean, watching Havertz against City, you can catch a glimpse of his hold-ups anytime we go long.

Has he justify his signing? No


Did we need a player of his profile? Yes


Is it too early to conclude? Yes IMO

I will like somebody to point out why Havertz is the reason we are selling ESR. Even if you bench Havertz, ESR still won't start.



I think ESR needs to calm down if truly he is getting angry due to lack of game time. Nelson, ESR, Tierney, Zinny and Partey(until recent at least) are players who are fond of getting injured unnecessarily. Just when you expect them to step up, you go hear say dem injured their fingers when using chopstick.


This same ESR was starting matches ahead of Martinelli when the latter was off form.
If ESR wan use strong head, they should sell him. He is not the only one not getting game time.

Itsrm:
Reading that from him felt like Deja vu. I have seen it over and over

I genuinely wanted the guy to succeed. I thought he turned a corner when Tuchel took over and he scored against City in the UCL. I thought that was the catalyst he needed. I wanted him to build on that momentum. By the end of last season, I just had to admit (like mostob will eventually agree) that the guy does not just have it in him.

If it makes you guys feel any better, between Mount and Harvetz, you guys got the better player

Bro... I'm not afraid of swallowing my Ls.


Odegaard vs Vieira is an example.


On this Havertz and Arteta matter, It is a matter of time.

Jodera:
Las las, na you form this one
Which one be Stationary stage process again and then you still claim a process is always continuous?

Anyways make we just disagree to agree.

Hopefully, Arteta head reset this weekend. I even read that fans booed Havertz reason why Arteta quickly removed him that early time. Hopefully, it'll be a good sign he'll not start and that we'll revert back to our normal formation/personnel of last season.

I can't wait to have my arsenal I've grown to love back.

That is right bro. It is a simple fact.

Lol Football fans sef... Hossanah today, nail him tomorrow. E sure me say some of them booed Vieira when he was about to come in.

iamoyindamola:
If gabu won’t play tomi is back for rb
Zinny lb

If Zinn is at LB, Partey won't play RB.

Spy360:
It's a confidence issue usually caused by over expectations. If you recall it happened to Jesus last season when he was struggling for goals. I remember Jodera even finishing the guy and criticising him. Now na him bestie

Make em go find the confidence asap wherever he lost it.

Jodera:
That's the main reason why we should have deputies and squad depth. We shouldn't start another process entirely because of fear of injuries. Abi you no know say time deh go?

As for the bolded, so you're agreeing we're playing with Midfield of 4 as someone claimed in Barca thread shey?

It doesn't stop at deputies bro. There must be varieties in tactics. We can't be using different players to play same tactic over and over again and expect to compete. There should be improvisation and innovation. Football is now a game of chess, you need to keep your opponents guessing.


3-2-5...is our formation especially when attacking. Barca dey play 4 defenders and 4 midfielders..thats the difference. The person on that Barca thread no dey watch ball.

Jodera:
The rebuilding is the process and that have been completed. Further additions is just to improve the team/squad depth

The stage we are now, we should be talking about consistency not any "trust the process".

All na process na since everything is geared towards a goal. For now, the process is at a stationary stage. A process is always continuous.

Spy360:
There's one thing I will not accept from Havertz critics, and that is that he is a bad player. You can say he doesn't fit in the team or tactics or that he lacks confidence but not that he is not a talented footballer. No way.

For me, the problem with Havertz is the over-trust Arteta has put on him that has placed him under immense pressure to perform. Havertz lack what is called the cutting edge confidence that makes a player change the dynamics of a game. We saw how Vieira came in and affected the game. We saw how Nelson came in against Bournemouth last season. We also have seen Trossard many times like against Man City. These players are not better than Havertz but they showed the kind of confidence and determination to change the game.

Havertz needed to have started from the bench. This would have given him the chance to impact the team first before being saddled with the responsibility of leading attack.

Against City, I saw a glimpse of what he can offer the team. That's why I said it on this thread that he needs time. However, one moment against Fulham where he made a useless backpass (you should remember), that was when I wash my hand comot. Be like the guy go need baptism and holy Communion because the thing dey look like village people stuff.

iamoyindamola:
ofcourse in and out go always happen so far e no touch our main players

E go touch everybody bro


Proper replacement is what matters. No be say he go sell Saliba and buy Mustafi or sell Gabriel and buy Sokratis.

ObaIgwe1:
You made it look like Gabu has not played many matches in the absence of Zinny before. Na wa o.

So without Zinny, Gabu cannot play? That is a new one. But before Zinny, there was Gabu at Arsenal o.

Make we dey watch.

Did we invert from the left or right? That's the difference. This is just an example of reverse situation.

Jodera:
Haba na?
Which Kain misyarn be this?

So what are we trusting if a process is endless?

A process can be at a stationary stage for a period of time bro. There is no completed project. Fine, he has done the rebuilding. Hope you know he will have to do further additions and subtractions as time goes on. That's my point bro.

iamoyindamola:
No the rebuilding finished since last year
Our transfer this season is for squad depth to go far
Apart from xhaka which first team or important player did we lose

Yea... I know. By next summer, there will also be some transfers in and out. That's what I mean.

Jodera:
My main point is that in a football team, if you have a winning strategy and you want to experiment, Do that but never touch the SPINE/CORE of the team. Any other thing can be experimented, but never touch the spine, else it'll not be the same again

In this our system, The DM (Partey) is the core in this our 433 formation. It'll be very difficult for anyone in this team to do what he does. It also needs a good partner who can act both defensively and offensively and that's where Rice(just like Xhaka) comes in. Once these two are present, anybody or shuffling happening around them won't affect the team much.

Now you removed him from his main base and start playing him as FB inverted. We all know FB inverted is never and can never give you same result as Dm. Same way we can't say let Zinny play DM because he's playing Inverted role, we go too collect

There's also a reason why I wasn't perturbed when White benched Tomi last season or when Timber was to replace Zinny. As long as the base is set, everything around them can adjust but it'll be difficult if the base/core is tampered with. That's why this team is looking a whole lot different than last season even though it's the same 433 formation.

That's why any iterations that involves not touching Partey or Xhaka/Rice, I no deh too spark. If dem wan experiment, do that with Tomi, White, kiwi or anybody to play that Inverted role but please don't just touch our 2 spine and that's exactly what Arteta did.

The only reason I'm vexing for Gabe benching because las las, White would still be the one to Overlap while Partey would drop at CB (because Partey can't do overlapping runs). Like are you not seeing how this man is making everything complex?

Simple to buy a good RB inverted and all these iterations won't be necessary, instead he's just jumbling and mixing everything up.

Good. Now, what happens when the spines are not available? Have you ever consider the fact that his innovative approaches might be geared towards reducing our dependency on the said spines? BTW, Partey still plays in midfield.

Jodera:
This process is completed since last season.
Now is the time to enjoy the fruit of the process and he's restarting another process?

What guarantee is there that we won't start cooking another process if this new one is completed?

There has never been a completed process especially where rivalry exists. That said, you can still undergo the same process with different methodologies.

“I just received a Bank alert from Deco. He said it is the money he was going to Use to sign Arda Guler. He told me to get a girlfriend and produce More ballers of my DNA”

–Lamine Yamal



Congratulations boy on your latest cash out. As for the girlfriend part, consult Messi first so he can tell Antonella to find one girl for you from.her family. Make one predator no go spoil your career for you