charlesemeka85:
if say na indigenous coach we get for super eagles dis guy for don get like 20 caps by now

Humility017:


I tell you... those guys are the most non-ambitions folks I have ever seen....
greed and corruption all over them...all for few euros and dollars they don't mind pick an unknown player from the NPFL and trust him with the No10 jersey to come play for the super eagles

andrew444:


Why did you waste money to buy him at first ?

Someone that played 29 Epl games in is first season ,is that one not regular?

Oya how has Jorginho improved your team ? Someone that scored 2 Seria A goals in 4 years is that one a goal scorer seems you prefer goal scoring DM ,lol

Dude was bang average last season

Humility017:

how many goals did markele and mikel score for Chelsea....
it is not everything you must comment on....

charlesemeka85:
Npfl big na lol, a player from the 9ja 2nd tier Don wear our number 10 shirt before against Chad in kaduna hahahahhahaa

forgiveness:


Babayo is no longer Chelsea's first team player. Nothing concern me if you no know.

Are you lying to yourself? See the stats below.

Jorginho has the other attributes of a modern DM. He can score, assist or give second assist while he performs his primary duties as a DM.

This Jorginho will break into Barca first team without any problem.

Humility017:

how many goals did markele and mikel score for Chelsea....
it is not everything you must comment on....

Humility017:


I tell you... those guys are the most non-ambitions folks I have ever seen....
greed and corruption all over them...all for few euros and dollars they don't mind pick an unknown player from the NPFL and trust him with the No10 jersey to come play for the super eagles

forgiveness:


Babayo is no longer Chelsea's first team player. Nothing concern me if you no know.

Are you lying to yourself? See the stats below.

Jorginho has the other attributes of a modern DM. He can score, assist or give second assist while he performs his primary duties as a DM.

This Jorginho will break into Barca first team without any problem.

andrew444:


Lol jorgino break into barca, i beleive you, hehehe, he will bench rakitic

yes babayo who was bought from kwara united

Bakayoko was loaned out because he falied to impress ok, speaking of his 1st season sir, shebi una get wetin una see wey make una buy am from monaco


As at now, almost all chelsea players are bang average

Jorginho didnt do well las season but his dad sarri wont stop using him.

daveP:
i take it that you're joking. Lol.



You said that tooooo easy.

Jorg break into where?


Jorg vs Ndidi on chances of who will break in 1st into Barca..... Lol.

forgiveness:


The bolded is exactly my point and that is why Chelsea will not make the same mistake. Get it?

Yes! The bang average players will still beat our customer dada Barcelonia.

andrew444:


Just as they beat them the last time

Gentlewarrior1:
Everton will be hot this season o. That moise kean and richalison with iwobi and sigurdsson.

i done turn everton fan. Aside iwobi i also like moise kean and lucas digne

Bolowolowo:


With a competent manager at the helm, these guys can contest for top 4. That’s a prediction I’m willing to take to the bank,

forgiveness:


Chelsea has gone pass park bus era. This is the difference. You get it?

Humility017:

and Madrid park the bus when markele played for them...?
you really need to understand the primary responsibility of a DM...
I doubt if Ndidi was a Brazilian or a European...he wont have fetch a concrete offer from top clubs

forgiveness:


Is Chelsea Madrid?

elyte89:
Everybody is now cin Everton as a top 4 contender because iwobi has joined.... Yinmu,deir best bet is a 6th /7th position,d likes of Liverpool,man city ,manu,Chelsea,Tottenham, arsenal will still retain deir normal position...

Bolowolowo:


With a competent manager at the helm, these guys can contest for top 4. That’s a prediction I’m willing to take to the bank,

Joebie:
Analysis

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How Arsenal’s culture of change left Alex Iwobi underappreciated – and unnecessary

by Mark White
Published 15 hours ago

Alex Iwobi's last goal for Arsenal was a consolation, but it's a shame there weren't more fans in Baku to appreciate its brilliance. A torpedo that swerved inside Kepa Arrizabalaga's near post, it typified his time in red and white: graceful, laden with technique, but ultimately undervalued in the mire of Arsenal's problems.

To many fans, Iwobi has become a statue of the stagnation at Arsenal: a mildly unpopular pillar of the club, and frankly, the only real left winger in the wake of Alexis Sanchez's epic downfall. To some he's awful, others he's average. If Aubameyang and Lacazette are the lead guitarist and vocalist of the Arsenal band, Iwobi is stage-left on bass. A deputy, a stop-gap, Henrikh Mkhitaryan's other half. Like a second-hand car: an asset to surely replace in a windfall.

It seems a little harsh though that Iwobi's presence is often met with such disinterest. He registered the third-most assists of any under-23 in the Premier League last season, behind Leroy Sane and James Maddison. He contributes as many passes around the box as most of Europe's elite. At his best, Iwobi is a needle, sewing play together: an architect in tight spaces and an athlete when he has pitch to run into.

On paper at least, the 23-year-old is the petri-dish designer footballer that Arsenal fans expect from their academy. He joined the club aged 8 when they were unbeaten champions and grew up in the shadows of Arsenal legends. He was schooled in the geometric precision of Wengerball and endowed with some of his uncle Jay-Jay Okocha's flair. He's raw, his decision making often evaporates in the fire of away matches, but when Arsenal click into gear, Iwobi dazzles. He's a shy Jack Wilshere; a kid brought up in suburban London that dribbles like he's still got his school rucksack on, has radar vision and can beat full backs like a magician throwing a handkerchief over the ball.

There's an argument, too, that he's still not found his feet or locked in his favoured position. Arsene Wenger always favoured laser-passers out wide; Pireses, Rosickys and Nasris to dictate and drift like Red Arrows. It seemed Iwobi's destiny to carve his name into that particular rock, but the game has moved on. He's barely been tested in central positions – Arsenal also underrated Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's promise as a midfielder – and the club have always valued Iwobi as a luxury-number-10-turned-wide-man.

Only Alex Iwobi is a luxury that Arsenal could barely afford. A cultured attacking midfielder, he was learning on the job from the likes of Mesut Ozil, sharing creative responsibility and stretching play for the German to operate. Iwobi blossomed at Arsenal as a secondary playmaker, but he's become more of a regular fixture than any of the primary ones. His career's been forged in flux; Ozil faded from the spotlight, Mkhitaryan has shone intermittently and Cazorla's light went out a long time ago. In the absence of excellence elsewhere, Iwobi has been an Emery ever-present: the face of away day disappointment and a mainstay in Arsenal's meekest team in memory.

The Nigerian has carried Arsenal's creativity on his back during the Mustafi mistakes, the Ozil injuries and the back three experiments of two managers unfamiliar with playing the system. He's carried a flame in a rainstorm and failed to keep the embers glowing. For all his promise, he's disappointed many. Stepping to Everton represents a mission failed.

But Iwobi is still worthy of far more respect than he ever picked up at the Emirates Stadium. A gifted individual who was always there, through the defeats to Bournemouth, the crumbling season finales and the winds of change. He rarely made the big difference but he never shirked from challenges. During a summer where fans have demanded loyalty from Laurent Koscielny, Iwobi was always the quiet kid at the back of the class, who never showed a deep desire to leave London Colney.

Alex Iwobi never got to celebrate his final goal at Arsenal. He half-volleyed the ball into the net with all the frustration you'd expect from a substitute fighting a 3-0 deficit, before turning on his heels and racing to the centre circle. Fifteen years as a boy, teenager and man at Arsenal, all culminating in one sublime, but ultimately pointless, bolt from nowhere. A squint of genius that no one appreciated. Iwobi was never the man to carry Arsenal, but he gave it a damn good hit.

--FourFourTwo

Humility017:

and Madrid park the bus when markele played for them...?
you really need to understand the primary responsibility of a DM...
I doubt if Ndidi was a Brazilian or a European...he wont have fetch a concrete offer from top clubs

TheSuperNerd:

Relax Royalty... Ndidi's time is coming after this 2019/2020 season. This season Ndidi will be playing consistently alongside Dennis Praet or Youri Tielemans et al. Leicester's midfield is looking really exciting amd shows the kind of football they wanna take on this season under Rodgers. Hopefully that will help finetine further the passing game of Ndidi and further metamorphose the lad from midfield destroyer to a true Midfield enforcer and ball playing DM.

Ndidi is undoubtedly the stand alone best DM in England now after Gueye's departure. Gueye was his only rival in the EPL in defensive stats all round with Ndidi always edging the man but now that Gueye is gone, there is none that will come as close as Gueye did. This is Ndidi's season to further establish himself as not just the undisputed best DM in the EPL defensive-stats wise but to also show he offers more going forward like getting involved in build up plays, passing and providing an attacking outlet from deep. Ndidi will step it up this season and I am sure that big move will come eventually.

Humility017:

markele played for Madrid too...
so how many goals did he score for them?

anyone who watches football knows that Ndidi is a high scoring DM... he has the shot..he did it in Belgium.
just that Leicester do play a defensive kind of game barely hold possession. if he was to be in a team like Chelsea considering the goal scoring chances Jorginho missed and other Chelsea midfielders..
Ndidi will be a goal scorer almost every month... Chelsea presently lack Midfielders that can shot from outside the 18 yard box with precision save for Berkeley and Drinkwater