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kodded:
what I mean is that the presence of lacazette or another top striker in the team will mean that abuameyang will have to move to LW. which will make our attack blunt

If we have 2 decent top strikers nothing spoil. Its not compulsory Auba plays LW if we have good wingers on both right and left hand side that can serve him.

The second striker can always come from the bench or used together with Auba when the coach wants to adopt 4-4-2. Auba playing LW and scoring from that position only attests to his versatility

afrodoc2:
Lacazette has always been overrated. Martinelli will replace and surpass him easily if he can stay fit.

Sell Lacazette and give more minutes to Martinelli and Saka next season. Use Lacazette money to improve the defence and CM.

Lacazette has 2 seasons left, we can still fetch a price if Martinelli steps up. As it is now, with our limited resources we must leave every option open.

BlueRayDick:
I leave that brainstorming to people who are paid to fly all over Europe and the Americas to scout top quality players for the club.

You cannot say something and claim you are not responsible for it's consequences.

iamoyindamola:
What's not guaranteed?
You need to learn to throw off some over paid players stop the pitying game it got arsenal here.
I don't see why martinelli that had more goals than lacazette before his injury playing on the wing can't replace or surpass him. I will gladly take nketiah too so that auba can be the main CF then create space for real wingers

Being logical is not pity, it's being illogical not to evaluate ones decisions before taking them.

You want only Martinelli, I want both Martinelli and Lacazette. I am more logical.

Jodera:
in city, I think this isn't the norm. Aside sane(who was nearing last year of his contract), I don't see any other person forcing move away from city.
From gundogan to b.Silva to Jesus etc

You obviously don't know players moving away from a club at times has to do with factors like how competitive it is getting into your country's national team.

Sane for example needs to play regularly to cement a spot in the German national team. Bernando Silva on the other hand is a Portuguese who will mostly get called up by his national team.

A player like Lacazette will move out of Arsenal if he's assured of a starting shirt at a club like Athletico madrid. He has so many people to contest with in the French national team unlike players some other players who have it easy at their own end.

kokaneprodigy:
I concur,

Guys don’t always take a holistic approach when analysing a players performance. He’s a CF so let’s rate him with just goals . The presence of Laca and Pepe in the front line help create space for Auba.
Auba doesn’t do well in tight situations reason he can hardly score the kind of goals Laca scores, reasons he hardly scores when being focused on by defenders.

Pepe and Laca pull defenders to themselves to create space for him (Auba) to run into reason he does most of the scorings and y’all begin to look at others like they are not performing.

It’s like telling Klopp to sell Firminho since he’s the CF but Mané and Sala out score him and watch their attack crumble.

You sabi ball jare

Spy360:
You cannot say something and claim you are not responsible for it's consequences.

Okay comman force me to scout for his replacement na.

kokaneprodigy:
So u are saying city no longer have players on bench that would walk into some top teams first 11?

Man city can afford to have several 50m players sitting on the bench....can Arsenal afford same ?

BlueRayDick:
Man city can afford to have several 50m players sitting on the bench....can Arsenal afford same ?

A club who had Ozil on bench while gulping almost x2 the wage of Laca?

BlueRayDick:
You obviously don't know players moving away from a club at times has to do with factors like how competitive it is getting into your country's national team.

Sane for example needs to play regularly to cement a spot in the German national team. Bernando Silva on the other hand is a Portuguese who will mostly get called up by his national team.

A player like Lacazette will move out of Arsenal if he's assured of a starting shirt at a club like Athletico madrid. He has so many people to contest with in the French national team unlike players some other players who have it easy at their own end.

True about what you said concerning lacazette tho. Just saying no need selling lacazette cos he's one of the least deadwood we have. It's always good to have squad depth and a good manager can keep someone like lacazette happy even while not a first team player. I hope Arteta does so

kokaneprodigy:
Lol I’m just being realistic, 150M shouldn’t be an issue to raise while we sell these lots listed. Auba is over 30, God forbid he gets injured or fatigue sets in and he drops form. Then u force Nketiah to shoulder the responsibility of EPL, EFL, Europa and FA competitions. That’s where our season will nosedive.

I think if Laca goes, Arsenal can replace him with Odsonne Edouard of Celtic as he was being talked about at some point

Jodera:
True about what you said concerning lacazette tho. Just saying no need selling lacazette cos he's one of the least deadwood we have. It's always good to have squad depth and a good manager can keep someone like lacazette happy even while not a first team player. I hope Arteta does so

I agree with you and never will I ever call Lacazette a deadwood cos He's not one.

I was only pointing it out that if he wants to leave he can actually do and Arsenal won't find him irreplaceable like that.

kokaneprodigy:
A club who had Ozil on bench while gulping almost x2 the wage of Laca?

You are missing the point. The point is Arsenal having Ozil on the bench and frozen out of the team is bad enough.

All I want to see in Arsenal this season is the workaholic Thomas partey in our midfield.

Thank God Mikel Arteta himself said he is the number one priority

kodded:
I don't think our main priority is to replace lacazette with another striker when we still need to cover other important positions in the squad, besides bringing another striker will affect nketiah and martinelli development in the long run.


I'm very comfortable going into next season with abuameyang as our CF and nketiah as his back up untill martinelli is back, we need to find balance in this team and the presence of lacazette is inhibiting that process, if we sign a very good striker, it means abuameyang will be forced to play LW again, and we all know how mediocre abuameyang is without his goals in that position.

I am not doubting your opinion. What I am saying is that it is speculative at best. Martinelli and Nketiah aren't proven yet. So we need Lacazette, he won't score 30goals but we know what he can do.

BlueRayDick:
I agree with you and never will I ever call Lacazette a deadwood cos He's not one.

I was only pointing it out that if he wants to leave he can actually do and Arsenal won't find him irreplaceable like that.

Lol.. My bad about the deadwood stuff. But it's cool and I agree with where you're coming from

iamoyindamola:
Are you okay with auba playing on the wing limiting his scoring chances and wasting the left flank?

Stop saying Auba plays on the wings because he doesn't. He runs from there like an inverted CF.

kokaneprodigy:
in the real sense Auba doesn’t play on the wings, Laca drops deep to give space to drift in, most times when they play together Laca plays more like an SS.

However they don’t always have to play together, we need squad depth and selling Laca at this time is not a necessity. We have Europa, EPL, FA cup and EFL then we have injury.

Chai. Exactly. How you come sabi ball like this?

Spy360:
Chai. Exactly. How you come sabi ball like this?

you just dey know?
What do u mean?

BlueRayDick:
If we have 2 decent top strikers nothing spoil. Its not compulsory Auba plays LW if we have good wingers on both right and left hand side that can serve him.

The second striker can always come from the bench or used together with Auba when the coach wants to adopt 4-4-2. Auba playing LW and scoring from that position only attests to his versatility

So we keep Lacazette or replace him with a top striker. The latter like I said would be difficult and expensive.

Kbs468:
I think if Laca goes, Arsenal can replace him with Odsonne Edouard of Celtic as he was being talked about at some point

I have no problems with this. But Edouard will cost us over 50m. Yet he has little reputation.

Spy360:
So we keep Lacazette or replace him with a top striker. The latter like I said would be difficult and expensive.

If he wants to go, we have no choice but to replace him.

BlueRayDick:
If he wants to go, we have no choice but to replace him.

In one breath u say we want to bench 50M player is Odsonne coming cheaper? Will he start ahead of Auba? Considering the more pressing areas we have to fix, adding CF palava a to the mix will just complicate things.

kokaneprodigy:
In one breath u say we want to bench 50M player is Odsonne coming cheaper? Will he start ahead of Auba? Considering the more pressing areas we have to fix, adding CF palava a to the mix will just complicate things.

Na wa ó. You people just like taking arguments out of context till the main point of the arguments will be lost midway.

The main point of the discourse had been can Arsenal afford to lose Lacazette? Yes! I believe we can do that because He's not some Van Persie, Alexis Sanchez etc who contributed immensely to our goal scoring at various times.

Agreed Lacazette is a quality player but he has not shown that much quality yet in Arsenal colors. This is a fact. Ask me if arsenal can afford to lose such player I will always answer the affirmative.

I'm not saying he must be sold, but if there's need for him to leave I will be unbothered if the club doesn't do much to keep him. Why? Because he's not indespensible.

If the scouts get a decent prospect at a good price to replace him, then I'm all in for that.

This is how I feel about Lacazette. No more, no less. I'm not emotionally attached to him but what he has done and what he can do on the pitch

BlueRayDick:
Na wa ó. You people just like taking arguments out of context till the main point of the arguments will be lost midway.

The main point of the discourse had been can Arsenal afford to lose Lacazette? Yes! I believe we can do that because He's not some Van Persie, Alexis Sanchez etc who contributed immensely to our goal scoring at various times.

Agreed Lacazette is a quality player but he has not shown that much quality yet in Arsenal colors. This is a fact. Ask me if arsenal can afford to lose such player I will always answer the affirmative.

I'm not saying he must be sold, but if there's need for him to leave I will be unbothered if the club doesn't do much to keep him. Why? Because he's not indespensible.

If the scouts get a decent prospect at a good price to replace him, then I'm all in for that.

This is how I feel about Lacazette. No more, no less. I'm not emotionally attached to him but what he has done and what he can do on the pitch

Co sign and agreed

Willian undergoes medical at Arsenal

Kbs468:
Willian undergoes medical at Arsenal

abeg let me know when we sign an AM and DM

kokaneprodigy:
abeg let me know when we sign an AM and DM

Rate this our away from home jersey for 2020/2021 season please

Kbs468:
Rate this our away from home jersey for 2020/2021 season please

Na this one I go buy Jàre. I no fancy the red one a bit.

Kbs468:
Rate this our away from home jersey for 2020/2021 season please

wow??!!!
Is this the official away Jersey?

Spy360:
Chai. Exactly. How you come sabi ball like this?

kokaneprodigy:
you just dey know?
What do u mean?

No be small time now una go enter one trouser again..

@Spy360, can you extend this love and open heart to your bestie @Sod/iamoyindamola also?

@kokaneprodigy can you forgive Whiz boy for making you an "Osanle" in your thread and show the brother some love?