₦airaland Forum

germaphobe:
ok, i get where you are going. But Jover has been working with Arteta since his man city days specifically for dead balls and cuesta was the main assistant. The same position cuesta occupied is the same position Heinze is in, the same job description, Heinze is not a defensive coach that was brought in to strengthen our defence, but Arteta's main assistant coach who also offers his ideas as a former manager too.

Our attack wasn't as potent as we expected and even Arteta knows better about that. There's a reason why all our signing speculations are about attackers. Heinze is not a defensive coach in the crew of Arteta but his second hand man and the person who shares tactical aspect of the game, team selection, match analysis, training sessions with him. As a former defender and manager it was the right choice choosing him to close the gap left by cuesta. If Cuesta didn't leave, there would have been no reason to get Heinze. For jover, he has been working only on dead balls since his man city days with Arteta.

First, Airpod is Arteta's second hand man. Heinze is more of a specialist unlike Cuesta who all rounded.

Heinze has been mostly pictured with the defensive groups whether in training or during warmups. His job role is primarily defensive but he can contribute in other area as well.

Do you remember when Arsenal employed Hussein Isa? He is a specialist and a tekker. He was to help our attackers then. I really don't know what happened but that kind of appointment is what I'm talking about.

As for the bolded, I'm glad you agreed. Now, what I'm saying is that Arteta can get a coach who specializes in attacking plays. Someone who can get the best out of our forwards.

kodded:
As soon as I saw his name, I knew that arteta will sign him. Arteta na real Bible bro


from what I can see he's been on upward trajectory in the last 3yrs

The guy na case. Nothing concern him with dribbling. He just wan paste keeper. 🤣🤣

Heard Berta's head of scouting was the one who recommended him. He scouted Kwarailorin too

'Tell Arteta to call me. I don dey with the boys already'

Scenes where Iran defeats the USA in a knockout match. 🤣🤣🤣

chrisooblog:
Nicolas Jover would be having a fit

He would be fuming 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I hope Brazil has good specialist to feed Gabriel.
England too... Rice is one of the best out there

Ppogbae:
If lowly ranked European teams like Bosnia are this good, then Africa should be worried.

Good? They're just all over the place.

Canada is proudly playing rubbish. Just gragra.
With a little bit of composure, they would be far better than this.

TheSuperNerd:
I can see where you come from as an Arsenal fan AKA Corner FC

The pain in seeing all those corners waste when you are used to 1 goal per 3-4 corners. I understand.

🤣🤣🤣

You got me. I hope everyone realize the importance of set piece.

DaveP Chrisooblog

Seeing the way these Canadians are wasting corner kicks eh is just somehow. 9 corner kicks, no goal. Na wa o

AndSunGorilla:
Forgiveness that watched Thunder Balogun!!!

🤣🤣🤣

Damioduso1:
Super eagles right back competition


1, Ola Aina


2, Bright Osayi Samuel

3, Benjamin Fredrick

4, Ryan Alabiosu

5. Beware

Remove Benjamin. Bweene is a strong contender.

Everything about Arsenal no dey ever complete.
Imagine a combination of Vieira and Odegaard in one player.

Imagine having a combination of Havertz and Gyokeres too.

It's frustrating

germaphobe:
he can't be adding another person to the coaching crew. Heinze came in to replace Cuesta who left to be a manager not because Arsenal needed a defensive coach. He needed to replace the vacancy in his coaching screw. We conceded 29 goals in 2024 and 34 on 2025 because of the many red cards and referee decisions and this season we conceded 27 goals, two less than 2024. But you can't say that the indiscipline in the team wasn't improving for better every year before Heinze came in. Saying we need an attacking coach is just the same as saying this season's defence was just because of Heinze. He was instrumental but not the reason for not conceding penalties and red cards. Didn't we concede penalties in the champions league?, and even the pgmol had to save us from penalties and red cards this season sometimes.

Excellent comparison here I must admit. But you're ignoring the Jover angle which best conveys my point. Everyday, we see Arsenal coming up with different set piece styles. Why can't we have something like that in the attacking department too. An assistant coach doesn't need to leave before Arteta add another. Aside the sprinter who is coming to replace the doctor that's sacked, another guy (a conditioning and rehabilitation expert) is coming to join the team.

We won the league but one truth we must tell ourselves is that attacking wise, we underperformed. I am an ardent follower/reader of Billy Carpenter's articles. I read EBLs too. One thing both consistently say is that Arteta has been getting his attacking combination wrong because he sometimes misprofile the players. How about we bring in an expert to address this?

Lastly, I really respect you bringing in past figures from previous seasons but WE CAN ACTUALLY DO BETTER. The goal is to continually evolve and not to be satisfied.

Abeg when are our in-laws playing?

Cape Verde my beloved country

SymphonyRad:
E go shock you when Fernandez shuts down your hierarchy.

Akpoguma, Torunarigha (or wetin dem dey call am)
Na so we dey hype this two then. Dem put the former for match, Akpoguma turned to Akpors. From 4-0, we drew 4-4. Not to Germany or France or Brazil o. Against Sierra Leone. Now, I'm not heaping the whole blame on Akpors.
In short, the new guys need to come in and show their worth (like Ben) before ranking them ahead of the current players.

Mujtahida:
Football novices because of a difference in opinion? Because you are the expert?

If em call me novice, I for gree but not Elder Kog biko. Forgiveness too na OG.

Well, guy man fit don dey watch match since 60s. This is a faceless forum

forgiveness:
You lack comprehension skills or you are deliberately twisting my point.

At no point did I say Ajayi was the reason Benjamin didn't play CB against Congo. The point is, Ajayi played even when Benjamin was fit. EOD

Eelopa submission lacks substance. It can't stand the test of truth. He was prejudiced in his submission because we saw Ajayi thread the ball forward many times. Na only agenda people go come here they lie. Infact, Ajayi loves doing that alone. Watch match.

Benjamin is better in recovery because he is young and pacy while Ajayi is getting older and slower.

Ambrose better pass Aina for that in Green white green. Osimhen is better because of APOTY. Spot the difference.

@ the bolded.
The reason Ajayi started that gane was because Bright was playing rubbish prior to the match. Ben had to play RB. With Aina or Bright on top of their games, Ben would have paired Bassey while Ajayi sit on bench. It's a common knowledge.

That's not to say Ajayi is not good or Ben is a perfect player.
As for the Portugal game, one thing I admired about Ajayi was the inverted CB role he played at some time during the first half. We beat Portugal's press twice and he had the chance to drive the ball forward but he lost it. A ball playing CB would have probably done better there.

germaphobe:
i guess we need to sack Arteta and bring in that coach that broke Arsenal's epl record goals in 2024, that coach that his Arsenal team is first to score 80+ goals in two straight seasons 2023 and 2024, that coach that with the fastest Arsenal team to reach 200 epl goals, that coach with the highest number of goals scored in all competitions since 1930, that coach that his Arsenal team scored just 2 goals less in all competitions than Pep Guardiola great attack in 2025/2026 season.

Yeah, that coach.

Arteta dey try, make he just improve more next season.

Well, I may not understand where you're coming from but it won't hurt to have someone bring fresh ideas into the team. When Arteta came in, he was able to stabilize the team (defensive and attacking) even with resources at his disposal.

Jover came in and our set piece improved. Heinze joined and our defence improved so much. We didn't collect any red card nor concede any penalty in EPL.

So if we have an attacking coach that will raise the level of our attack, is there any issue in that?

Carot:
Thank you mexico. Mostob, Mujtahida, elyte89, how do you feel

The hate watch was nice. I dey wait Morocco. Plenty scores to settle 🤣🤣

Mujtahida:
Hahaha hahaha. No comfort for the unqualified. We must feel the pain

🤣🤣🤣

You need 100℅ concentration to play these Asian teams. One moment, they're passing aimlessly, and then suddenly you concede. They will keep passing around till they carve you open.

Mujtahida:
No be by you Sabi play ball. You fit qualify? 😉😉😉

Why you pour charcoal inside this soup na

No be by qualifying o.. You fit play ball?

mostob:
South Africa sef
You put shithole in midfield. Now shithole don dash Mexico free goal.

Red card 🤣🤣🤣😫😫

South Africa sef
You put shithole in midfield. Now shithole don dash Mexico free goal.

If you ask me to describe wetin Xenophobia FC dey play now. I would just tell you kirakita eja odo, inu isasun obe lo mo

The proudness of river fish, na inside pot of soup e end.

minfelix:
omo wetin ref wear ooo…karamo no too much for this worldcup like this🤣🤣

Be like commando

chrisooblog:
My brother I weak.

Osimhen's pass to Akor against Algeria just came to mind.

Play the ball forward and run across the defender. It's either the defender foul him or Moffi get a free run.

Chukwueze is just not serious

This ref sef don swallow something

As it stands now, our top two strikers still remain Osimhen and Akor.. The others just came for call up bonus.

That's a foul on Samu now..

daveP:
I've mentally checked out from Maduka Okoye abeg. Naaaah. This consistency is unique. I can't make a case for him. There's a subset and Uzoho is currently in it, im about to add Okoye to that subset. 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️


That leaves Nwabali(rubbish antics) and Arthur Okonkwo(fresh) as the two to rely on.

Bro.. It's not even about the goals. His positioning is poor. There's how a goalie will position and XG will rapidly increase.