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kokaneprodigy:
midfield department let us down this season. Would have mentioned defence too but we’ve never really had a formidable defence at least in the last 10 years.

.....Ten years ke? What about Per and Kos when they bossed it that season with Sczn winning the golden gloves. This season, I no just understand. It has just gotten worse even with defensive midfielders.

sod09:
yeah the boy tried though, but our defence and midfielders let us down

..... Xhaka started well this season and just returned to his usual self towards the end, the guy was one of those that let us down this season. I just pray he behaves himself on May 29th if not the insults that were hurled at him after the Rennes game will be child's play.

...... Guendouzi did well today, he owned that midfield, which is surprising because he was paired with Elneny.

....Willock did well and was quite hungry to score, I love the disappointed look on his face when he came off. That's the kind of look I want to see in every one of our players.

.... This our defense na real nightmare abeg, Burnley kept cutting us open especially with those looping balls and completely dominated our centre backs who were quite too slow to read danger. Seriously, we have to do better in the final, it's just appalling to watch.

....By the way, I won't watch that final, na to follow goal before my family members mock my destiny finish in case we don't win. An interesting summer awaits us all.

... What more can I say about Auba that hasn't been said already; scores difficult goals, misses open nets but it's all kudos to him even with his misses. He has great positioning, only second to Ronaldo to me in that regard. 41 goals in 63 appearances is beastly, finally, we have found the perfect replacement for Van Persie.

Jodera:
Iwobi is not a winger, does not mean he should not learn how to score. I feel ziyech and frazer is a better option for iwobi to be a squad player.

And the afformentioned players for sell...please let dem sell them fast

.... That's his only weakness and I think if he should move to his favorite position....8/10, it might favor him but you are right, it shouldn't be an excuse.

....Ziyech misses a lot of chances for a winger, something that came back to hunt his team in the long run. I feel we have enough of those kind of players up front. I will prefer Neres to be honest. Now, we have the South American connect we have been looking for in Edu. Neres plays for the Brazilian National team and Edu is their Technical director as well as ours, although not yet official. I think we have an edge to get Neres with that.

sod09:
may God bless AC Milan for us they will never go bankrupt,roland17 you are in it bro . You and mustafi are forever and ever, iwobi was never a winger and I want Emery to change this madness.
Ozil should be a squad player instead

....Lol...at least Gazidis should do something good for us.

....350k for a squad player ....even money fc aka Mancity can't afford to do that, talk more Arsenal whose revenue is only going down. Something must be done about this guy....

...... Arsenal bid for Umtiti...I know Emery wants a big name in that position but Umtiti's left knee is all fvcked up at the moment. He was absymal in his last game in the La Liga and I don't think it's good news that Barca are willing to sell after just two years of buying him. He is young and the deal could be genius if he gets through his injury but if not, then we are screwed.

.... Ozil's agent says his client isn't going anywhere....I expected that and seriously, who would at that insane amount of money doing absolutely nothing other than pass the ball back and forth. We have been scammed.

.... Iwobi says he isn't a winger......of course we know that but he might still get a few minutes there next season if we don't recruit enough wingers. Auba is not a winger, don't be fooled by the game in Valencia.

..... AC Milan want Mustafi: It seems Gazidis is still in love with his former signing. The Italian team will put in 20m for the German centre back. It looks like Emery is really serious about getting rid of these five as mentioned on goal.com --- Mustafi, Ozil, Mkhi, Elneny and Jenkinson. Good start from Raul and his team including the incoming director of football - Edu.

...It will be a very interesting summer window.

......Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang for Arsenal:
Games - 63
Goals - 39
Assists - 11

..... This guy is a beast abeg...... When he is in the mood, he is something else. Call him whatever you want, but we get striker abeg.
Truthfully man of the match - what a game from him today.

..... Taking nothing from Laca, he did well today but he should learn to pass on time. No be everything be gra-gra. He can still improve but him and Auba no be mate abeg. No more comparisons.

.... Anytime I see this our midfield, na headache straight. We need better players there abeg and now no Ramsey to frustrate Joginho's destiny. Anyhow, I expect Emery to come up with a plan, this is his turf after all.

..... Great game tonight....off to Baku but I won't miss this opportunity to not place a curse on multi-choice. How can somebody be paying over 10k per month yet I will still burn precious data to watch Europa matches on my phone It will not be well with them and our useless leaders for making this people take us for a ride. What a country.... Good night folks.

crackhaus:
Well the Iron Throne is not in the North, so they have no need to die by dragon breath

Kingslanding is fvcked if I was one of the showrunners.
would focus the rain of fire on the Red Keep, at least save anyone not there from the fiery destruction.

.... Lol, mad man. Greyworm too will display free madness on Sunday. I really pity the mountain, e go soon clear for im eyes.

crackhaus:
Honestly, at this point I'm all for using Drogon to rain down fire on kingslanding. If he can do that while reducing innocent casualties down to a minimum, better for everyone.
Another scenario is that Arya actually sneaks in and successfully murders Cercei quietly.

The tactic of using diplomacy has failed with Cercei up till this point and now more than ever, I believe the words of Otto Von Bismark, former Prussian (German) minister in his speech to parliament;
"The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and resolutions, but by blood and iron"... I'm adding 'fire' to that, in the name of Drogon.

I say, kill them all.

....Lol, if Drogon is to rain fire on anyone, he should start with the people of the North and the yeye Stark family. Citizens of Kings landing don't deserve to be killed but from the preview of the next episode, it's like Cercei will start destruction with Euron and his ships which is the best way to go. Cripple Cercei first and then we will see who will be pulled out root and stem.

.....I believe someone must have advised her and calmed her anger, only Aegon can do that. The plus for the destruction that will be unleashed next episode is that it will be in daylight. That episode 3 will forever remain the worth battle I have ever watched.

crackhaus:
Lol, I've come across some interviews if some of the cast and one thing they kept saying basically is we should 'expect an ending no one is going to have seen coming'.
I honestly hope you're not right about the writers messing it up because they want to be unpredictable. Anything short of Jon or Dany sitting on that throne is an epic catastrophe.

If not for the fact that people in Westeros are fearful cowards, i don't even know what Cercei is doing on the throne in the first place. She was married to a King, then the king died and his son took over. Then that son died and the other took over, then this one also died. All this is normal.
What is abnormal is how the crown went back up and landed on Cercei's head when she should be a queen mother at this point. At best, if there are no males anymore, she could have been regent until the next true heir is found. She has no business wearing that crown.

If there was no Dany or Jon in the show, Gendry the new Lord of Stormsend is even above Cercei in the line of succession as a direct living son of Robert.

....Are you indirectly saying that the citizens of Kings landing deserve the final demands of Greyworm's girlfriend because of their cowardice? Hmm ?

..... Robert fought to bring the mad king down but just lost interest ruling and that enabled Tywin to manipulate and put his kids in the limelight. Robert might have saved the seven kingdoms from the mad king but I don't think he was any better and he caused the catastrophe that now plagues the show. If Cercei had any idea of Gendry, he would have been long dead before he was disgraced by a girl. A nightmare that would have been avoided but then no one is concerned about him. It's the Targeyans that actually have the claim to the throne hence the focus of the mad Queen on Dany but she doesn't know that there's another Dragon rider alive.

... So, it isn't the people of Westeros fault that a mad woman is ruling them but rather the failure of their king to rule his kingdom. Nothing they could have done against a rich man like Tywin. Let's see if GOT will do unthinkable or the ridiculous or just follow common sense for once. Sunday isn't too far away now.

crackhaus:
It won't be fair to Dany to die and not get to sit on the iron throne though

Although, I predict it's Jon who will be king of the seven kingdoms. My only wish is that Dany sits beside him as queen and that the love she claims to have for him allows her to be comfortable in it.

Truth be told, Jon is actually the only one who can rule over the entire realm and even those beyond the wall while sitting on that throne.
He already has the support and followership, not to mention that he does come first before Dany in the line of succession being a male Targeryan, whether we like it or not.

........One of them should sit on the throne but the thing is how will that happen? But then someone else could apart from the dragon riders and that's why I am afraid because the Oloriburuku writers just keep twisting things whether sensible or not and expect the audience to swallow it like that. Just enjoy the movie some of them will say.

.....Only Aegon can calm his incest lover now else she will do something that she will forever regret which is what Cercei is counting on. He should use his brain for once and take control as Jorah is no longer here and Tyrion is now a justified mumu since Sansa has taken his place as the smartest person on the show.. ... Aegon leaked that information out about his parentage on purpose. I am both sad and happy about it but he must be thinking about being king now after people finally commented on him riding a dragon. He has everything for him to be the king but doing so at the expense of Dany is what I don't like. I expect him to take control from now on, at least it's what the show is gearing towards. He must find a way to rule with Dany. The woman is lonely and depressed. He is the only one that she cares about apart from Drogon. The throne talk is just cover up and Aegon as the reputed mumu that he is, is missing the point.

.....Dany's thinking is that; what will I do after another sits on the throne and not me. What will become of me? That's what eating her up.

.....I am regretting why I even downloaded that episode, would have better used that data to watch how Jason Derulo fell in ultra HD. Seriously, WTF!

WTF did I just watch?....I had to watch the episode twice to actually believe what I just saw. The so called greatest show of all time signing out like this? From one disastrous episode to another?

.... From the NK'S death to how Brienne and her Jilted lover survived to how one dragon is pierced three times in successions like he was immobile in the air yet the spears seem to miss the other dragon who was right beside it. WTF! Is this arrogance on the part of the writers or they just believe they have dummies watching the show. Perhaps they do because I still see people defending such ridiculous writing.

.... You built a character like NK and ended him like that and then you barely built up Euron and now he is suddenly a dragon killer? How?

.... Everyday My beloved now very stupid Aegon repeats like a robot he doesn't want the throne or leadership but somehow keeps doing things that will get him one. They say he has honour yet he does stupid things to defend that hypocritical attribute of the Northern people. "Words stop meaning anything" yet a Northern leader broke a solemn vow in minutes because of envy yet people say she is smart. Honour in despising a woman who lost so much to save your ugly, proud asses. Where is the honor in such people?

....The night king was created to unite the realm blah blah blah, yet I don't see any damn unity here. If the North had their way, they would desert Dany in the blink of an eye. Honourable my ass.

...I blame Dany for all this. She could have gotten her throne first before putting precious resources in fighting what wasn't hers in the first place. She listened to demonic advices from that snake, liar and that nonsense priestess with her useless prophecies. She caused wahala finish and then killed herself.

....A woman who has suffered for what she had no hand in except that she was born a Targeran or whatever. Worked her way up to gather what she needed to pursue her ambitions and then she losses everything in days for people who should have been foot soldiers for the dead. After all this, she then fall in love with a man who has a claim to what she has given a huge part of into and now, she is depressed but people don't see this. All they see is the mad king curse because she is a Targeran what about that confused Aegon, is he not a Targeyan too? Or he doesn't count?

....I hate it when I am disappointed. I hope they don't twist this to make a hard-working woman who fought for everything she owned the villain in order to put one nonsense person on that throne. They must be another way but with the way they have written this season, I won't be surprised if something ridiculous happens.

.... What a way to end a good series.

sod09:
the told emery they are not keeping welbeck, something tells me they have plans lets wait and see.
To be honest, ramsey doesn't really deserve an extension with his form we were been emotional when we start sulking just because he was playing good football.

.....Raul has insisted that once a player is in his last year of his contract, that player will be sold. He said they don't even want it to get to that stage because that was the bane of the last management. Ramsey had seen what both Walcott and Ozil that got them fat contracts. All they had to do was delay contract talks because they were in their last year and since the club didn't want them to go for nothing, they had to give them what they wanted. It was an effective plan but Raul didn't buy into that and when Ramseye refused the contract they felt he was worth, they pulled it off. The best thing to do in my opinion. Ramsey was good but he was always injured, not the player to rely on.

..... Obviously, Raul has his plans and so does Emery. I hope he wins the Europa but trusting these players to do the right thing on the pitch is another thing. Yesterday, what Xhaka did was completely deliberate. I don't know the message he was trying to pass across by doing that but I am sure he will regret it. Signing him on the long term was good business and I won't be surprised if he gets sold.

....."We need new energy and new players.".....Unai Emery

....Baba, clear every person not deserving to wear the jersey. Arsenal is not a retirement home.

.....So sad to see the fans trooping out because of the fact that we drew the match and kissed top four goodbye instead of showing an Arsenal great his last dues.

....I don't blame them though, the display today wasn't the best as we had to wait till they equalized before we upped our tempo. Good teams don't do that especially one fighting for something. It's just sad to see only a few players display that drive and hunger at random moments during matches....

...... Shout out to Ramsey, wish you a very successful career in your new club. Well, until Thursday.

BlueRayDick:
Alaye, crab stats or crayfish stats Guendouzi Wil not make the starting line up in any of the top 5 teams. I watch him play and not not some damn stats. I've seen him caress the ball when we needed the vital pass, I've seen him shadow mark opposing players when he ought to actually mark man for man.

Some of us are not just football fans, we played football past the 5-aside Saturday morning set. We observe technical players and give them accolade when they do their thing. Guendouzi does not merit any shiit!. I am not a Xhaka fan and I've stated that here often he offers no defence covering for us other Than his occasional rocket shots and his long passes which he has stopped supplying for a while.

Guendouzi doesn't have Impressive shooting ability, he doesn't give incisive passes to the forward players and hardly takes up the challenge to mark out an opposing player and remain on his feet afterwards. He is an expert in activity forming, running here and there up the pitch and interfering with balls not going his way. If u guys keep going this way, one of these days when I have time I will dig up his videos on YouTube and take note of the numerous errors he's made while noting the exact minutes and seconds he made such mistake. Abi na different matches we dey watch ni?

......No one is saying that Guendouzi should be starting for us in midfield. I am very certain no one expected him to have started so many games in his first season, it just happened because we are short of quality in midfield. I posted earlier about our midfield players down the years and how we have ended up with the likes of Xhaka and co. Guendouzi wouldn't start if those guys were still here, very Arsenal fan knows this but the present Arsenal midfield, the lad is good enough to start. We can rant till next year but as long as Calamitous Xhaka and an out of form Torreira are the only starting players in that midfield, Ogbeni, Guendouzi will start very time.

....All this talk of his errors and blah blah blah are stories. Until we get better technical players in midfield hopefully this summer, Guendouzi will continue to start for Arsenal and there is nothing anyone can do other than rant here.

kokaneprodigy:
Chris Smalling has scored 4 own goals as United player.

At least PKs don’t always lead to goals.

....Since 2006/2007 when these stats started, Xhaka has 7 errors leading to goals, the most for a midfielder with Dier closely behind with 6. So, Oga talk another thing.

....I don't even understand your post because I am very sure those penalties he conceded were dispatched. So what is pks don't always lead to goals??

.....Since he joined the club, only Jose Fonte (5) has conceded more penalties than Granit Xhaka (4) in the Premier League.....

.....We don buy market...

Fkhalifa:
Fans on YouTube, Histagram, blogs even on front page say it as it is,They are factual and aren't blind my emotions, how we ended up from carzola, rosciky to Xhala remains a mystery.
I laugh when fans say Torreira improved him, what a shame!
We need to be ruthless and scrub him out asap.
Oil is done at the big stage, he should go to panathinaikos or Aek Athens, he will be worshipped there.
See Bernardo Silva at Old Trafford, very impressive, all this slow boring passing it about with no purpose wont take us there.
Even Fraser looks scary and attacks with purpose.
Failure to do the needful means we'll be back to struggling for 4th next year.

.... You dey mind them? Ozil is done end of but no they will say he needs world class players before he can be effective and all that. All he does for a 350,000 player is to recycle possession throughout the match. No top team use a number ten anymore, it's 4-3-3 now with wingers on both sides of the pitch. Ozil and Mkhi time are done, we should count out losses and move on.

BlueRayDick:
Why would I like a player who is sluggish, doesn't mark players without hesitating and giving them.chance to Pierce the heart of our defence? Why would I like a young player who is being preferred to start by the coach only to prove he doesn't deserve that starting shirt? Why would I ever like a player who hasn't mastered the basics of football and gets booked for handling the ball when he wasn't shielding the ball when he needed to.

I don't know if we watched the same match, but just look at the yellow card he got in this game. That card has amateur football sense written all over it. Ur so called dada boy had the ball kicked ahead of him; all he needed do was be the first to reach the ball and then put his body in the way to win a foul, but instead he chose to block a player who didn't have the ball and then went on to handle the ball hoping to get a foul pinned on the opposing player. Anybody who has played in a match that involves a ref even at the grassroots knows that was a lazy play that definitely won't pay off over and over again.

The strikers did not confine u to Europa for 4ck sake! Ur midfield (where Ur dada boy plays in the heart) and the shambolic defence did. Arsenal is the 4cking third highest scoring side prior to this match day. But of course u won't agree it is 100m Auba and Laca that took us to iropa

....My midfield see talk Sha...
.... You mean the midfield where we have clowns who you said should tutor the ones growing up? Like I said before if a 20 year is preferred often over other established players, should blame be on the coach or the affected players?
...If it was Cazorla, Ramsey or peak Rosicky, this discussion won't happen and should he start above those three, then we will know he is really good. But a useless Xhaka who works against his team, an exhausted Torreira or a useless Elneny and yet you are surprised he gets his starts. If you don't like his style of play, agreed but stop with the narratives that he starts because the coach favours him or something. No coach will do that in his first season. Guendouzi starts because he merits it. EOD.

..... You clearly don't understand my post on our strikers so I am not going to repeat. You tend to twist things to suit whatever you want to pass across. I have noticed that and I might soon stop replying your mentions.

....Here is Guendouzi's chart this season.....It is very fine for a player playing his first season in a league like the EPL. He is not a world beater but one of the better players in our midfield and the more you object that, the more biased you sound.

sod09:
don't see us getting buyer for mustafi

....He has one of the best stats as a defender in the EPL. Let's hope that someone will be swayed by his stats.

Fkhalifa:
How far about that 350,000 star man? Also that one left footed man from Swiss?

...Look, if you see how guys want kill Xhaka today eh...... Honestly, that guy apart from his shots offers the team nothing. Ozil's case will be interesting to see this summer. If we fail to win the Europa league and Ozil still manages to stay with us, then Arsenal is not ready. We are losing money and value the more we stay out of the champions league and obviously those two up there won't take us there.

sod09:
ozil,mhki, will surely follow but I don't know if mustafi .
I doubt it though

.... We will save 36.2m if we can sell Ozil in the summer from his wages alone. We have to sell Mkhi too, guy is a pensioner. If we won't sell Laca or Auba then both Mkhi and Ozil have to leave the team regardless of their feelings. If a club wants to get rid of you, they will no matter the player's feelings. Mustafi will leave if Emery doesn't want him.

..... What a horrible way to see off Ramsey and Cech.....

.... Anyway, Welbeck is leaving too, it was announced during the match..... Ramsey, Welbeck and Cech are out....The Exodus continues.

sod09:
I thought I was the only one that don't like the boy
Now you dragging others to it, shey I was saying it na here we they abi

... Dragging who to what??

....Na Dada boy do us today abi na the person wey suppose be im tutor......

kokaneprodigy:
did “dada” do better when he came on? Xhaka may not be the real deal but Guen or whatever ain’t better than him.Xhaka has won us games what has Guen done other than hugging the ball, making obvious passes and falling all over the place.

..... Xhaka has been here for how long and yet he still plays like this yet a player only in his first season from the French second division is whom you compare him with.

.....I don't think anyone has said here that Dada boy will take us to the promise land but if a 20year old from Lorient is starting in your midfield, you should know something is wrong and it has little to do with him.

.... Xhaka has won us games and cost us how many for God sake. Guendouzi came in and did his job fine. He passed the ball forward and stopped counters. Your like or dislike doesn't solve anything.

BlueRayDick:

My guy no be fight. I've actually been trying to identify the person who propounded that Laca sale theory and now I Don did it.

As for the dada boy he came in and was useless as usual along with Ìwobi and Boda Kola.

Laca has shown u he should never be sold, so no story for that side again

....Baba, just say you don't like the Dada boy and stop giving funny excuses..... How many counters did the he stop today when we went forward looking for goals...Iwobi played at right back and Kola's crosses should have buried by one of our players.

.... Oga, whether na Laca or na Auba, one of them must be sold, what's the point of having 100m plus strikers and yet na Europa League we dey go again..... Anyway, it's out of our hands, if better money come, Arsenal go sell.

BlueRayDick:
Thunder will fire Xhaka whether he likes it or not.

The same thunder will fire those saying we sell Laca and buy one stoopid Frasier

....The same thunder will fire you too if you cannot leave people to their opinions and Waka pass or is it because there is no Dada to blame today. Yeye pesin....

.....Na Fraser wey dey Bournemouth cause today's draw ......

....I don't even know what to say about this team anymore. Massive clear out with literally no funds if we fail to win the Europa league. What a performance from both Captains in Ozil and Xhaka. Top notch work to walk keep us in fifth!! The same Xhaka better than some Dada.....lol.... how many errors has this guy singlehandedly caused that has led to goals since last season, yet he might be starting for us next season.

....Ozil has gone from assist Maker to recycle master...... God help us should we reach the final in Baku because we seem to require 10 chances in order to score two and none of our strikers seems to know how to head the ball. Wahala dey for this team.... serious wahala.

.....Iwobi playing right back..... This is serious.

sod09:
Steve fvcking bould has been demoted good for the asshole, he useless in that coaching crew and Emery noticed it.
Boly is playing for wolves, zanka for Huddersfield
Mee and tarkwoski for Burnley now tell me how you will play in EPL and loose concentration or won't be good on the ball.
But I'm not sure of the high line though

......Lol....I honestly don't know why he was retained by Emery. Guy has yet to do anything on our defense.

...We shall see about the centre backs but I doubt if we will getting any from the EPL.