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Fkhalifa:
Mourinho will priotise Fa cup and Carabao the moment he sees UCL and Bpl is far from his reach, he did this alot at Chelsea even at utd.
He doesn't rest players for cup games from experience..

For now, I know he'll try and get top4, and go hard for the fa cup..
And his chances of winning it are high for the f.f reasons:

Arsenal are after Top4 and Europa and will rest players for Fa cup.

Liverpool's ambition this year is premier league title, they've got busy schedule and will rest players for Fa Cup.

Utd, wants UCL football before any Fa cup

Chelsea do not want to drop from table and want to go far in UCL..

Pep and Man city wants to win everything but will priorities UCL, failure to get UCL may get pep sacked..
And this spurs side have shown they can knock city out talk more of a rested squad.

Mou knows how to win trophies, for spurs standard, they'll consider Fa cup and no UCL football as success.

I will be a little bit surprised if Mou manages to win anything with the squad Pochentino had. Unless he buys this January, how he will make use of those players will interest me. We all know he has zero tolerance for average Joe's. He wouldn't mind castigating them publicly like he did at United.

sunene1:
Better days are still coming. If u know u know.

Kindly drop tp. I have been hungry to hunt new birds.

iamoyindamola:
Sarri doesn't have a CV yet he won for Chelsea, he will do the same with juventus.
Bros Zidane,enrique all didn't have CV before becoming world-class

Do you believe he can win anything for us with the calibre of players we have and the mentality of our board? He even had better players at Spurs yet couldn't do anything. Let him go to Real Madrid.

Mourinho to Spurs: My thoughts


Mourinho hasn't won a trophy since his second stint at Chelsea. After being spoilt in his first stint, he has been known to play with big money signings, something he doesn't seem to do without. Mourinho will guarantee you trophies but that is if you have money. This credit itself is becoming questionable after spending heavily at Man Utd his previous club with nothing to show for it. His joining Tottenham will either be the last nail that will seal his managerial coffin, or the one to start the rebuild of his managerial tower. This means he needs to have enough funds available to achieve it, and also satisfy the trophy desire of Spurs fans. Enough money to dough out and capture big players. Enough money, enough to break transfer records if that is what it takes. Something I am sure Daniel Levy, will not be willing to afford.

iamoyindamola:
If wishes were horses
Mourinho to spurs, pochettino to arsenal, Emery to West ham....Is this touch much to ask for

I don't want Pochentino bros. As good a tactician as he is, he does not have a cv. For me Emery even has something to show. He plays exciting football and knows how to neutralize tactics of good managers and teams. But the fact that he cannot guide a team to complete a trophy run is a huge draw back. Even your Wengay won two FA cups in his unfruitful years before bowing out.

Fkhalifa:
I understand, its not easy to switch, I don't find it easy either..
On Nuno,
Bro it doesn't matter o, poch came from Southampton and now he made spurs a UCL team and finalist..
Nuno strikes me as a good manager, it isn't fluke he is taking points from the top6, the big latest was that of Etihad, he spots talent and instills fearlessness into his boys, now they're in Europa..

Its risky though, but for me, there's chance he'll do well in a financially backed top side.

Let's get Arteta before someone else does and we come here to winge about how close we were. He has under studied the best.

Another is Vieira. He too was at City.

Jodera:
Of course. Wenger was way in the league before pochettino. Wenger was on a decline and pochetinno was on a rise. Logically, it's Wenger that suppose to be castigated, not poch

Though I am a bit shocked Pochentino got the boot, but during the years he spent with Wenger, Wenger actually did better ibvthe sense that he won FA cups which Pochentino couldn't achieve even after Wenger left.

Honestly, I had the belief that with the way he was progressing Pochentino would definitely win a trophy within the season, but here we are...

Now to the logic you spoke of, obviously both declined, howbeit that Pochentino's was just this/one season and wasn't really given the chance to redeem himself. Wenger had that chance and didn't take it so fans were right to castigate him.

My point here is Wenger won trophies both in his early and late years. Pochentino didn't win anything. While it's justifiable castigating Wenger for his decline, the fact remains that he was more achieving than Pochentino irrespective of how much the later is adored.

Jodera:
Wenger wasn't castigated cos he did much more. Wenger was castigated cos he was undoing all the good works he did and he was regressing year in year out at the detriment of the club

Read what you emboldened. Wenger did achieve more than Pochentino yet was castigated.

iamoyindamola:
Abirun tea cup is now a trophy
Apoda, your stupidity is becoming to circulate everywhere you go

So you even check google. You be idiot. Lol

BlueRayDick:
Mourinho confirmed spurs manager

Now North London derby go turn civil war considering Mourinho's history with arsenal and bottleham's wàhálà with us

Wenger will be itching to come back. He has scores to settle.

iamoyindamola:
You keep trying hard, I'm telling you.
Only someone that compared Walcott to aguero will see a trophy as a cup of tea

Mumu google tea cup and tell us what you see.

iamoyindamola:
you keep trying hard, don't be discouraged you can do better

You silly brat! Return that phone back to Sodiq before he comes and deal with you. How can you be using Sodiq's phone to type all these rubbish.

iamoyindamola:
same thing in UCL, you use young players cos of easy fixtures.
Wengay have done all these in past years bros
Cup is cup

Cup is cup?



So UCL and my tea cup na the same thing?



Stop typing bro. It's getting out of hand.

SkimpleD:
You no get sense Spy

Jodera:
Klopp not special? If klopp isn't special, then I don't know who is tbh. Var have been inconsistent this season in EPL. Yes there are some games var favored dem, but also against Aston Villa, var was against them... yet dey still won.
And if it's about winning the ucl, you can't write him off cos it's a cup.. That's a special type of cup, and that's why nobody have won it back to back aside Zidane.
Now let's see how special klopp is..
1..Liverpool were so down finishing 7th or 8th wen he met dem. Their title winning run the previous year was an anomaly just like Leicester of 2015 (abi 2016), he turned average joes to great Stars.
2...in this crazy world of spending, he just spent highly on 2 people (gk and df) who not only improve d team, but massively improved the team. That tells you d kind of special coach he is.
3.. You talk of him bottling the league with 96points. I wouldn't tag that as bottling of league but of how good man city were. And I mean, very good. And that's why he's going for it again. Only special coaches do such. Most coach would have fizzled off after the height of last season, but he's even going a step further by doing a 100% winning streak.
4..Injuries are part of game and maintaining and guiding a player against injury is not all what most clubs have. If you notice, most of their players hardly go to injury... That tells you the kind of strong medical system they have, which is very needed in football. I mean, since d introduction of their front 3, how many times have dey not played together.
5...talk about the work ethic and d team spirit of Liverpool and his Dortmund days, and you'll see how great d manager was. Both teams was also ran b4 his arrival, now, both teams are/were conquerors.

Mehn, no talk this thing about klopp not been special outside o...even rival fans go beat you sef

Good

iamoyindamola:
Font let anyone fool you
Klopp won UCL cos it's a cup not a league, let's see how may will look like and he's been lucky at the moment no injuries and var decisions are going his way.
Klopp has bottled the league and Europa before so he is not special

For once you initiated a topic, you see how wacko it is. Lol...
Well don't be discouraged. Everyone faces criticism.

Jodera:
Me too, personally, I would want him o, esp since he plays attractive football and intensive football as you said.

So if I may ask, who's your first choice?

He was able to lead a side that had no notable big name signing and turned them to challengers while playing decent footie. But Wenger did much more yet was castigated.

The fact that he hasn't won anything will always be a draw back.

absky5:
Pochettino has been sacked....and my shareholders are busy sucking emery balls.. Palapala

I honestly didn't see this coming. Right now I can only wonder why. He has been decent for a while, perhaps Real Madrid is behind this. They want the guy.

iamoyindamola:
yes you right, I don't initiate baseless topic like we are missing giroud or Walcott is better than aguero.
Or jumping around forming I know all yet you can't explain what grinding out results mean

The fact is...

iamoyindamola:
exactly but what I will never do is jump from one club to another after telling us to wait till October

Bros using snide remarks is cowardly. I remember when Fkahalifa was doing so and was called out by Roland17 and others but since two weeks now you have been doing same and everybody just kept quiet. If we want decorum on this thread rule of law should apply o...

Make your own point or be bold enough to mention anyone if you wish to refer to any of their posts. Everyone is entitled to the opinions and everyone is subject to criticism

You self, you hardly initiate any topic or thought process, na to dey counter what others have said. Bring Your Own point make all of us follow analyse am.

Fkhalifa:
We have some really skillful players but pace is a non negotiable trait in EPL. If what we see in matches is something to go by, Emery is clearly not making players work on their athleticism in the training. Because why run when we can just pass sideways and backwards. And Emery has said it many times, team is playing tactically how he wants and that is what he wants, to pass sideways and backwards.

Apart from Auba and Laca, every other player has absolutely abysmal shooting power and accuracy. Especially the midfield players, their shooting is Ugh. We see many teams in EPL frequently scoring goals from distance. At least we see some attempts that provide some momentary morale boost, but at Arsenal, we hardly see anyone even attempt a shot from distance. We need to take more chances like that. We can’t walk the ball to the goal every time. That makes us too predictable.

Once in a while, have Luiz, or Sokratis, or Holding take the ball to the final third providing one additional player for the opposition to deal with and smack a shot from distance. We need that kind of mentality, to mix it up, and not play like we are following a recipebook. Have Tierney or Bellerin, cut inside, instead of taking the wide wing, and mix up opposition markers. But I don’t think this sort of play falls under Goodebeningball. I haven’t seen so imaginatively dead as Emery to be honest.

Auba and Laca should work on ball playing skills and passing. Their shooting department is good, but they severely lack ball playing skills. Working on first touches, hold up play, headers, crosses, etc.

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This is another pressing issue that's getting me disturbed, Football is about goals and a good team should have several means of achieving that.
At Arsenal the culture from pa Wenger days till Mr good ebening's time is that we like always want to walk the ball in the net, score sexy neat passes goals that'll trend on social media.

it's like they don't train shooting.Iwobi was axed for his bad shootings, now pepe doesn't seem to have power to his shots

Kolasinac can be too predictable, he waits to be fed on the run so he can square play a tap in for Auba, he does that again and again, what happens to pulling the trigger atimes?

Belllerin did so at Leicester, his run paved way for laca, but he choose to fire it at goal and that's nice.

Ozil always want to pass the ball to net, Mesut should be bending the R2goals, Bernardo Silva's goal at Liverpool, I trust mesut to try and be looking for a final pass, or Madison's goal, Ozil will soft the ball and begin another cycle of pass me I pass you.

As much as Ramsey isn't the fans favorite, he was very good at this, Even Sanchez tries his luck from anywhere on the pitch

Could this be the reason why we have few shots on goal?

This team needs thorough and proper coaching, the training ground in london Colney looks like a play ground.

Please, I'm not saying we don't shoot nor score goals aside from passing it to the net, but the way we approach goals most times is so same and predictable.. Also, there's no where in my post I imply Ozil or other big names loved by fans I mentioned should be blamed.

My own is that I don tire.

iamoyindamola:
I understand life is not fair to the blind

Obviously perception is not reality.

iamoyindamola:
Just the way torreira they chop blame but our golden boy guen is spared

I can't see a post, comment or link where Torriera is blamed. Neither has anyone spared Guen.




Or you just wan type?

kokaneprodigy:
Even from bench Xhaka still dey chop blame.

Thank God say you noticed.

BlueRayDick:
Why do u guys keep calling carzola like u weren't alive when he left

For 4ck sake! Doctors told him he will be lucky if he walks his son around the garden.

He revealed himself what the doctor told him:

"If you get to walk again with your son in the garden, be satisfied, they told me," Cazorla continued

Any serious club would not hold on to a player who has had such remarks made about him.

I don't know why we have to keep going back on this

Like he drinks egg yoke and lemon juice for anti aging. Like he is a 20year old up coming star. Some people like the comment sha.
I weak.

IZUKWU:
SECOND ATTEMPT OR FIRST ATTEMPT?

Can't remember.

Fkhalifa:
Our style/culture of do it the easy and classy way is our undoing, no wonder Sanchez couldn't cope..
Torreira is good, he's got football brain, but he isn't the warrior to Marshall the middle for a whole year,however, he could thrive well playing beside the Ndidi,Partey and Doucoure.

The confidence with which you reach conclusions amaze me. I envy you bro.

Fkhalifa:
I saw Mahrez and Albrighon threatening and creating dangerous chances from the wings that year, Vardy was majorly lone striker and Kante was clearing the middle..

Well,Okazaki may have paired him up sometimes,but 433, 8 out 10 times is a better set up for modern footy.

I agree that most top managers use the 4-3-3 these days but really bro, no pattern is better than the other. It's who uses it that matters. Conte came to EPL with the 3-5-2 and won the league at second attempt.
Again no formation is best, it's who uses it that matters.

OLUWABIG:
Why not replace
Guen with Ceballos

I am not Emery bro...

Fkhalifa:
Even Ceballos to me doesn't have their old Milner's energy,ceba tries but not at the physical level yet, Torreira arguably most hardworking and runner but was brushed off by Ricardo Pereira last week,he needs protection by playing alongside Ndidi/Partey/Docoure..

This is English football, why do you think the likes of Deeney feel confident playing against us, its always "go hard on them" and you'll see them crumble..
This is not LA liga, this Average Arsenal side had fun beating Valencia home and away,and they beat Barca in a cup final.
This is not the era of soft passing football of busquet days, see the calibre of midfielders around the top4.
Unai Emery might have his problems, but the right personnel with suitable traits matters as well,but not many will know.

Arsenal kills talent as far as I am concerned. We fans usually don't see straight. Torriera could be better than two of those three you listed. Just line him up with different players under a different coach.

Fkhalifa:
I agree with your Torreira argument, but Lucas to me still needs protection, he isn't used to this kind of rough league with too many game schedule in a year.
I do not agree " any system" can work, but the right modern style that suits modern football.

When Leicester won the league they did so with an outdated 4-4-2 last used in the 90s. Don't call it a one off because it worked perfectly.

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