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mostob:
Willian? Here is what I think about his signing. He was a stop gap solution, Someone who was brought in to at least calm things in the squad while we start the rebuilding process. He is experienced and has played in EPL for years. Unfortunately, he couldn't keep up. Thank God he left peacefully.

I just thank God he left peacefully cos he was really baaad at that stop gap acquisition.
Even Luiz that was insulted here wasn't that baaad for us.

Arteta wetin happen... Man don add 10 more years fah

mostob:
Yea... PSG are always at the fore front. First, the Neymar transfer kinda raise the transfer fees beyond standard and now the Mbappe example you mentioned now. Credit to Edu and the club though for the job well done. Nothing like ridiculous salary and this has really helped when it is time to negotiate be contracts with the players.

Another thing is Arsenal don't block any other means the players could earn their own money (aside their wage). Like the image right of the players who are stars. I read that Arsenal give the players the 100% right. That's commendable too.

It is commendable. Makes it juicy for players to choose Arsenal too.


I hope that PSG cloud passes away. The time is now.

mostob:
Yea... PSG are always at the fore front. First, the Neymar transfer kinda raise the transfer fees beyond standard and now the Mbappe example you mentioned now. Credit to Edu and the club though for the job well done. Nothing like ridiculous salary and this has really helped when it is time to negotiate be contracts with the players.

Another thing is Arsenal don't block any other means the players could earn their own money (aside their wage). Like the image right of the players who are stars. I read that Arsenal give the players the 100% right. That's commendable too.

Wow..
This is really great. Highly commendable

Vieira: Why? Why all of you just dey push me away?

Rice : Fabinus calm down. We no dey push you. Try dey chop better food.

mostob:
Putting in the work

Lol, sharp sharp I hear say Dec and Cala don be friends

Guys looking sharp!!

Between Havertz and Palmer, I don't even know who worse pass. They both just look uninterested at times. Like they look as if they don't even know what they're doing.

Jodera:
Lol, sharp sharp I hear say Dec and Cala don be friends

Guys looking sharp!!

That Calafiori look like person wey no dey take time to dey settle. Sharp sharp, baba don sign... sharp sharp he don dey toast the babes wey dey part of staff

On serious note, it will be good for both parties.

Jodera:
Wow..
This is really great. Highly commendable

I would have shared screenshot but I no get Patreon account. Very nice decision TBH

Jodera:
I just thank God he left peacefully cos he was really baaad at that stop gap acquisition.
Even Luiz that was insulted here wasn't that baaad for us.

I think it has to do with his mental strength. Like he was so tired of everything. He still did an interview recently.

Jodera:
I expected more from Willian as a short fix cos I thought he'll give us at least two seasons (seeing that he wasn't really flopping at Chelsea when they moved him on) but Man was absolutely horrendous all round bar his first two matches. At a certain time he was irritating to watch.

Pepe on the other hand really underwhelmed but his first two seasons at least, he wasn't horrendous. I can remember our run towards the end of that season we won Fa cup under Arteta, he has some respectable run of form in performances. I remember once joking here that he Pepe will underwhelm throughout the season but once it reaches towards the end, he'll catch a bit of form and confuse person that he's picking up. I won't also forget he sometimes turns up in Europa.

Personally, I don't think he's totally useless for us.

Omo!

Nothing u wan tell me, Pepe was more underwhelming than Willian in my books. I wasn't expecting much from the signing of a 32 year old who has never scored 10 goals in the league even when he was playing for Chelsea in his glory days.

Yes, I was frustrated like every other fan seeing Willian struggling each game day, but that can never overshadow my frustration with Pepe and whoever sanctioned his signing from Chelsea.

The funny thing is Willian didn't even spend more than a season with us(which shows he was indeed a stop-gap). Pepe was a bad market through and through; It was so bad we couldn't even get any big team to take him off our books. Look at Dembele for example; as much as he gba for Barca playing rubbish up and down; he could still find his way down to PSG.

Nobody wanted Pepe because nobody could see whatever we saw in him before falling for the scam deal

mostob:
That Calafiori look like person wey no dey take time to dey settle. Sharp sharp, baba don sign... sharp sharp he don dey toast the babes wey dey part of staff

On serious note, it will be good for both parties.

Lol, the guy seems like an extroverted sociable type plus the way Arsenal is very welcoming looks like both parties made in heaven

My guy really gel quickly and it's good.

On another note, I read that Skelly and Nwaneri are the only two members left in the squad from the academy and the rest have gone (or is it from you I read it from? ). That's really great to hear.


This season can't wait to start soon enough abeg.

mostob:
I think it has to do with his mental strength. Like he was so tired of everything. He still did an interview recently.

Yeah, he said he was tired of everything at arsenal. Man just downed tools completely. He's the only person I know that doesn't have a favorable thing to say about his time here.

Anyways, I'm glad we're out of that era

BlueRayDick:
Omo!

Nothing u wan tell me, Pepe was more underwhelming than Willian in my books. I wasn't expecting much from the signing of a 32 year old who has never scored 10 goals in the league even when he was playing for Chelsea in his glory days.

Yes, I was frustrated like every other fan seeing Willian struggling each game day, but that can never overshadow my frustration with Pepe and whoever sanctioned his signing from Chelsea.

The funny thing is Willian didn't even spend more than a season with us(which shows he was indeed a stop-gap). Pepe was a bad market through and through; It was so bad we couldn't even get any big team to take him off our books. Look at Dembele for example; as much as he gba for Barca playing rubbish up and down; he could still find his way down to PSG.

Nobody wanted Pepe because nobody could see whatever we saw in him before falling for the scam deal

Lol, well, we have different opinions about Pepe. Not bad tho cos your points are valid.

But you raised something about us not selling Pepe and that's thing I'm certainly worried about. Personally, I think we're not good at selling/marketing players. See Nketiah for example, Man have been in the team for over 3 seasons. He has epl experience and play in one of the top clubs in epl. In some certain situations, he's been our starting striker and he hardiy have injury yet even with all these advantages, we are struggling to even sell him for £30m. To me I find it so concerning.

If he's in somewhere like Chelsea now, I'm certain they would have sold him for like 50m, yet we can't even get 30 for him. Imagine Omorodion going for £35m and Alvarez going for £85m but us, na beg we dey beg Marseille or anyone interested to collect just 30m. Nelson is another concerning care. Ramsdale who's in form and we're looking to sell, yet no club is even looking his way presently.

What do you think about this matter?

🚨According to Charles Watts, we have some concerns about Thomas Partey's fitness after Arsenal's three friendly matches in the US.!?

🔸️Normally, Thomas Partey would need a month of regular play to be able to reach his best form.

🔸️However, after three friendly matches, the Ghanaian midfielder's current situation compared to the end of last season has not shown any clear improvement in terms of fitness.

🔸️Thomas Partey still seems to be unable to return to his best form because in some situations, Partey could not retreat in time to participate in defense and left a huge gap behind him.

🔸️In the match against Liverpool, coach Mikel Arteta also expressed his dissatisfaction a few times when Thomas Partey lost the ball too easily, causing Arsenal to receive dangerous counter-attacks from the opponent.

🔸️We hope Thomas Partey will improve this problem soon because he will almost certainly continue to be with Arsenal this upcoming season...! 💪

Your thoughts...


Old age don dey beckon on Partey.

Wahala

Jodera:
Lol, well, we have different opinions about Pepe. Not bad tho cos your points are valid.

But you raised something about us not selling Pepe and that's thing I'm certainly worried about. Personally, I think we're not good at selling/marketing players. See Nketiah for example, Man have been in the team for over 3 seasons. He has epl experience and play in one of the top clubs in epl. In some certain situations, he's been our starting striker and he hardiy have injury yet even with all these advantages, we are struggling to even sell him for £30m. To me I find it so concerning.

If he's in somewhere like Chelsea now, I'm certain they would have sold him for like 50m, yet we can't even get 30 for him. Imagine Omorodion going for £35m and Alvarez going for £85m but us, na beg we dey beg Marseille or anyone interested to collect just 30m. Nelson is another concerning care. Ramsdale who's in form and we're looking to sell, yet no club is even looking his way presently.

What do you think about this matter?

Marseille offered 17m. Arsenal wanted a minimum of 30m. We don reject their bid sha. One reason for the low bid is most player we put on market are somehow unwanted. Like everybody is aware we don't need them anymore or they are surplus. Make we try out Gabriel on market and see how much bids will come for him.

Jodera:
Lol, the guy seems like an extroverted sociable type plus the way Arsenal is very welcoming looks like both parties made in heaven

My guy really gel quickly and it's good.

On another note, I read that Skelly and Nwaneri are the only two members left in the squad from the academy and the rest have gone (or is it from you I read it from? ). That's really great to hear.


This season can't wait to start soon enough abeg.

No be me post am o. Those two alongside Dubbery have been part of the first team even though they didn't get to play. But they have been training with the first team for a while so I'm not really surprised they're the only two academy players still with the first team.

BlueRayDick:
How na ?

Willian was a 32 year old signed on free transfer as a short fix for our attacking issues on the right-wing. How is his signing and time at Arsenal more usless than Pepe's ?

E be like say some fans just love that Pepe guy unnecessarily; the kind of love his performance for us doesn't deserve

I come Dey wonder if na same Pepe Abi na another one

mostob:
Between Havertz and Palmer, I don't even know who worse pass. They both just look uninterested at times. Like they look as if they don't even know what they're doing.

What do you mean bro?

Jodera:
🚨According to Charles Watts, we have some concerns about Thomas Partey's fitness after Arsenal's three friendly matches in the US.!?

🔸️Normally, Thomas Partey would need a month of regular play to be able to reach his best form.

🔸️However, after three friendly matches, the Ghanaian midfielder's current situation compared to the end of last season has not shown any clear improvement in terms of fitness.

🔸️Thomas Partey still seems to be unable to return to his best form because in some situations, Partey could not retreat in time to participate in defense and left a huge gap behind him.

🔸️In the match against Liverpool, coach Mikel Arteta also expressed his dissatisfaction a few times when Thomas Partey lost the ball too easily, causing Arsenal to receive dangerous counter-attacks from the opponent.

🔸️We hope Thomas Partey will improve this problem soon because he will almost certainly continue to be with Arsenal this upcoming season...! 💪

Your thoughts...


Old age don dey beckon on Partey.

Wahala

They should sell Sir Thomas abeg ; he has served us well. He should sha not be sold to a rival EPL or potential UCL opponents .

Jodera:
Lol, well, we have different opinions about Pepe. Not bad tho cos your points are valid.

But you raised something about us not selling Pepe and that's thing I'm certainly worried about. Personally, I think we're not good at selling/marketing players. See Nketiah for example, Man have been in the team for over 3 seasons. He has epl experience and play in one of the top clubs in epl. In some certain situations, he's been our starting striker and he hardiy have injury yet even with all these advantages, we are struggling to even sell him for £30m. To me I find it so concerning.

If he's in somewhere like Chelsea now, I'm certain they would have sold him for like 50m, yet we can't even get 30 for him. Imagine Omorodion going for £35m and Alvarez going for £85m but us, na beg we dey beg Marseille or anyone interested to collect just 30m. Nelson is another concerning care. Ramsdale who's in form and we're looking to sell, yet no club is even looking his way presently.

What do you think about this matter?

I believe the marketing/pricing issue is due to several factors .

Look at Nketiah for example , if I run a club in the EPL and I need a striker who is to run things upfront as top 9; Nketiah will never be among my options. No disrespect to the young man o, but I only see him as a decent attacker but not that top 9 that’s going to take on the team’s goal burden.

I mean I won’t see Watkins and then proceed to sign Nketiah in his place . If we’re still in the era of 4-4-2 , then certainly he would fit the role of a second striker .

We also don’t know what clauses are being inserted into the players’ contract that is making some of them go for cheap sha.

Another thing is; it appears we stopped being a selling club after Wenger’s exit. We seem to be more focused on buying the right set of players , using them through their contract life span and sell them as scrap afterwards. The ones we are unable to sell , we just cancel their contracts out rightly and everybody go their separate ways.

I don’t know if this is a deliberate strategy or things just work out that way, but I think I prefer us being a buying club than a selling club. I don’t fancy the idea of selling top players for a high price and our team’s performance will suffer later for it. I prefer this current model, I am an Arsenal fan and not Arsenal’s accountant . Let the accountant worry about the books and FFP

We have been having funny names in our squad for a while now. Timber, Rice, Sweet. Heaven, and now Salmon.

BTW, I couldn't find Timber in any of the training pictures. I hope he is Ok o.

Shegzdave:
What do you mean bro?

I mean just looking at their normal picture, they look disinterested. Too casual

Shegzdave:
I come Dey wonder if na same Pepe Abi na another one

As in…. I just tire

At some point Pepe appeared to me as someone who had even forgotten how to play football. Like almost all his decisions were questionable and u need to start wondering how he became a footballer in the first place.

I’m glad he mentioned something along that line in his recent interview because it looks as if I was the only one seeing how bad he was at that point.

Na stew remain

mostob:
We have been having funny names in our squad for a while now. Timber, Rice, Sweet. Heaven, and now Salmon.

BTW, I couldn't find Timber in any of the training pictures. I hope he is Ok o.

mostob:
Marseille offered 17m. Arsenal wanted a minimum of 30m. We don reject their bid sha. One reason for the low bid is most player we put on market are somehow unwanted. Like everybody is aware we don't need them anymore or they are surplus. Make we try out Gabriel on market and see how much bids will come for him.

To be honest, it's crazy sha. Here I was thinking that all these mid and small clubs will jump on these offer the way we did on G.Jesus for Man City.

Marseille should getat abeg. Their valuation to me is just insulting. What's 17m?

mostob:
No be me post am o. Those two alongside Dubbery have been part of the first team even though they didn't get to play. But they have been training with the first team for a while so I'm not really surprised they're the only two academy players still with the first team.

I thought Salah might join them but it's cool still seeing Nwaneri and Skelly with the squad. I read Nwaneri would get a new number this season


Hopefully, Arteta will try to integrate at least one this season

BlueRayDick:
They should sell Sir Thomas abeg ; he has served us well. He should sha not be sold to a rival EPL or potential UCL opponents .

I swear, I'm open to selling him currently. His African age don finally dey show. Him don try for us even though we no too enjoy am as we would have loved

Jodera:
I swear, I'm open to selling him currently. His African age don finally dey show. Him don try for us even though we no too enjoy am as we would have loved

He has tried , Saudi should just bring money and sign him abeg. That way we will make money from his sale and he will also get enough money to cater for his future needs as a rich African boy 😁

BlueRayDick:
I believe the marketing/pricing issue is due to several factors .

Look at Nketiah for example , if I run a club in the EPL and I need a striker who is to run things upfront as top 9; Nketiah will never be among my options. No disrespect to the young man o, but I only see him as a decent attacker but not that top 9 that’s going to take on the team’s goal burden.

I mean I won’t see Watkins and then proceed to sign Nketiah in his place . If we’re still in the era of 4-4-2 , then certainly he would fit the role of a second striker .

We also don’t know what clauses are being inserted into the players’ contract that is making some of them go for cheap sha.

Another thing is; it appears we stopped being a selling club after Wenger’s exit. We seem to be more focused on buying the right set of players , using them through their contract life span and sell them as scrap afterwards. The ones we are unable to sell , we just cancel their contracts out rightly and everybody go their separate ways.

I don’t know if this is a deliberate strategy or things just work out that way, but I think I prefer us being a buying club than a selling club. I don’t fancy the idea of selling top players for a high price and our team’s performance will suffer later for it. I prefer this current model, I am an Arsenal fan and not Arsenal’s accountant . Let the accountant worry about the books and FFP

Fair points bro.

I agree with you about preferring this current model over the Wenger own cos we don too suffer for the previous one.

But I just hope we can improve on the ways we can sell our fringe players as well as academy too. That's two things Arsenal needs to work on sincerely

BlueRayDick:
He has tried , Saudi should just bring money and sign him abeg. That way we will make money from his sale and he will also get enough money to cater for his future needs as a rich African boy 😁

Lol... Swearss
I no know why Saudi largesse never touch us.

Now na the best time to tap from their blessings too biko