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germaphobe:
clinicality doesn't have anything to do with position on the pitch. Even when we had more traditional forward in Nketiah and a more proven striker in Jesus, Odegaard and Trossard were and is better finishers than them. Auba was good but he also misses chances like 2 or 3 and still scores 2 or 1 because the creativity was there. Ozil knew where to place the ball in front of goal when he needs to score than Auba, one is a AM while the other is a S. If we score 3 to 4 goals per match without a pure 9, why would I need one when we can use that resources to chanel in other areas? (This is my main argument).

You done finish talk. Nothing else to say. Pure common sense

daveP:
You're super hilarious and on a Monday to say this. Guyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. 🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹

No be only flowers. Na plant. Early in the season and you're still on this No striker stance!??

So far at least. Let's respect the manager's decisions as long as the results are there.

teeshet:
You and spy360 are ungrateful ingrates. Jesus was the best defender in final minutes tracking back and frustrating mancity on the wings

His efforts have already been acknowledged. It doesn't change the fact that his poor decision also led to the goal

mostob:
We need additions please (not necessarily a striker but maybe a forward).

Different topic

Jodera:
Didn't want to talk about this initially but you brought it up.

Getting a striker (esp like Osimhen or Gyokeres) is the differences between us not getting all 15points.

Someone like Gyokeres/Osimhen would have converted that Havertz chance against Brighton and against Man City ystdy, we would have been more deadly winning aerial balls during the 2nd half something Havertz was really dominated on. Osimhen especially would have been a menace against those defenders ystdy with his endless running through channels and aerial duels. I'm even certain there would have been a Torres against Barca deja Vu s
But yeah, Arteta deserves he flowers the way he set us up both times when we were a man down. All credits to him and the players

This is speculation at best. I have watched Osimhen several times and in recent times at Galatasaray and for Nigeria and seen enough to know that he misses chances too. Forget

When you see a well drilled team it's the manager.

Can we all now accept that Arteta was right about not needing a striker?

Three tough away games and we almost came out with 9points.

Without our best player Odegaard for two of those games.

Arteta deserves his flowers

Jodera:
You too dey confuse me

Our next match is Bolton. So it's time.

BlueRayDick:
As much as we all believe Martinelli didn’t play well in the game , it is funny that he owned the assist for that Calafiori goal.

I strongly believe if that red card card incident didn’t happen , he(Martinelli ) would’ve caught Walker off guard more than once in the game like he did for the assist .

Spot on. The boys tried abeg. The only culprit was Jesus. He started well owning Silva but that.mistake of giving City a corner when he could have cleared the ball messed his efforts

Roland17:
I don’t care who he fields but please, for the sake of whatever Arteta believes in, Thomas Partey shouldn’t be in the squad facing Bolton. We are playing with serious fire at this point with Partey.

The problem is that if you give Partey break with his legs he will break his waist. Lol 🤣

I agree with you, he needs a break. Having to play four games as the main midfielder will take a lot from him

Jodera:
Timber and Calafiori going off really weak me Sha.
Mehnnn, ALL the boy tried. LIKE ALL!!!

Once again, Raya is a beast!!!

Time to bed in Nwaneri. Trossard as a ten is shit

Jodera:
I wish..
Na just top 2 of England dey play.

Even though I'm an arsenal fan but truthfully speaking, we no dey make the game sweet like El classico

I don't know why you guys scared. City are not that good especially defensively. Once you beat their press they become extremely vulnerable as their only defensive minded players are the back 4

Jodera:
So while easing him in, our midfield will probably suffer technical quality for the main time be that?
Na that technical quality be my ish oo.

None of Havertz, Rice, Jorginho and even Merino have that technical quality of an Am

I'm just how I'm proven wrong sha, may Arteta will come up with something different that's sustainable

Creativity is just a fancy part of the game. Transition and solidity matter more.

iamoyindamola:
Try rest read and comprehend
No one ever said ramsdale should be ahead of Raya
Why sell ramsdale for cheap to get another GK for more than 30m next season as backup

Ok. Poor decision

But good that you accept Raya is better.

BlueRayDick:
Yesterday’s match got a lot of fans emotional (maybe because of the taunt of rival fans sha ) , but like u rightly said ; It will irresponsible for Arteta to throw the young boy into a match of such nature .

I believe the boy’s time will come and he will do well in view of his talent.

That being said , it is important to state that Arteta goofed allowing Martinelli playing 90 minutes with nothing to show for it attack-wise . Arteta should also have realized by now that Havertz is ineffective as a midfielder , he just keeps ghosting on that left side of midfield . These are the issues .

Martinelli was ineffective but I assume that Arteta was willing to sacrifice that match as a warm up to the Man City match.

By removing Partey and Saka, and giving time to Sterling has had Man City in mind. Taking Martinelli out was of no value to him.

Also, Martinelli is off form scoring wise and may need more minutes to reset his brain.

Lush100:
Please

This is not correct.
He's being training with the first team.
He had pre-season with the first team.

Arteta is not bold enough.
When Saka start to play me Europa full match as left back.

Fabregas start from match one at age 16 .
Na so ManU out Mainoo for midfield during their injury crises ....see the result.

Pls stop this no sane Manager stuff.

I am just explaining the rationale behind not throwing Nwaneri to fast. And you're wrong about Saka and co. They were eased in.

Jodera:
I still remember your quote clearly earlier this preseason. You said something in the line of

"if ever you're looking for a reason why Esr is sold, look at Nwaneri" ...

I mean, we all watch this guy ball in preseason. We all watched how only him was the shining light when he came as sub against Spurs even when his fellow Sub veterans (Jesus and Sterling) where just looking overwhelmed.

You made that statement with the belief that he'll take Esr place(cos to you, he's potentially better than ESR), so how come is he now a player that can no longer play such a game yesterday night. It's not as if we're playing Madrid or prime Bayern in a UCL match, it's freaking Atalanta in a first match. If there's any match to play him, that's the match even if it's to come on as a sub in the 60 something minutes.

Tbh, if he can't get minutes and starts now, then, I'm sorry, he's not even ready at all.

Ask yourself, If Esr is here, would you have made this excuse?

To your last line my answer is no. However it does not change the fact.

We let ESR go because Nwaneri is good. Being good doesn't mean ready. Like I said, we need to ease him in. This is very critical to how a young player should start. Have you seen a primary school child who is very eloquent in debates fail when stood before a crowd of elders? It happens because their tutors didn't ease them in. It's like having sex, you do pre-intimacy first if you want to really impress

Jodera:
You're spot on with this.

Like to be honest, I don't know why he's not using Nwaneri presently. The guy played many preseason games and he's the reason you sold Esr and loaned Viera. I don't get why he's treating him like someone that's a greenhorn. If he doesn't have the trust, then I don't get why he sanctioned those decisions


It's very very painful

Calm down. No sane manager will throw Nwaneri into a tough schedule in three tough teams away outside his plan. Do you want to destroy the boy's mentality? Assuming that one of those games was at home then he can try but these are away games where your fans voices won't be the loudest.

You saw how an experienced Jorginho or Sterling struggled how much more Nwaneri. He may be at the same talent level with them Jamal and Musiala but he is not there yet mentally and that will take a proper planned process.

Arteta himself admitted that all his plans for this week were scattered with those series of injuries during the international break

I also believe that Odegaard injury must be enough for Arteta to hasten that process.

At least the Raya Vs Ramsdale debate don end. Others go clear soon.

DeeScan:
He thinks say na by wearing suit ..

Why Una go pack trailer na.

You no see as una go sit for back .

If Una follow Dem play pere una for chop am .

I still blame Brennan Johnson and ange though .


That timber just dey form activity .. if to say him meet real winger,him for collect wotowoto ..

Please keep the lamentations coming. I am really enjoying reading them.

BlueRayDick:
It seems u just have free time on ur hands and u feel to use it going round and round a circle ; because anybody that followed our discussion would see that I provided a source to his unhappiness on the bench.

Once again I did not claim , it was reported in the news and I showed u evidence/source to that effect.

He was happy chopping three goals against Brentford.

Fkforyou:
All is set for Artetas new contract valid till 2027 😂🌚

Interesting times ahead for this thread 😂

Emilokan phase II

😂

Salewa97:
Peter Obi should stop being petty.

His criticisms are becoming too obvious and predictable

What's more obvious is that you are also queueing to buy fuel at N1300 and cursing the attendant.

What's obvious is that as a civil servant you have not received the so called min wage

What's obvious is that we are all enjoying this government together 😂😂😂😂

FreeStuffsNG:
The renaming took effect from 2 September 2024 and a certificate signed by Hussaini Magaji, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and the Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission has been issued to that effect.
I thought the criminal defamers and unpatriotic elements were lying before that Wale Tinubu has bought over NNPC Retail? Smh.

Finally, the truth is now being forced out by force after Oando Plc threatened to compile the list of alleged criminal defamers/media platforms and commence litigation against all those peddling criminal defamation against their organization for political mischief and because President Bola Tinubu defeated their mediocre principals during the last Presidential election.

This is why it's good to set the records straight. Oando Plc is not even owned by Wale Tinubu but by every Dick, Tom and Harry Nigerian and foreigner owning its shares traded on both Nigerian Stock Exchange and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

NNPC merged all the companies into OVH and now renamed it as NNPC Retail Limited. This business decision has nothing to do with Oando Plc that had since divested from OVH since 2019 and all the information were in the public domain. Premium Times fall our hand too.

May God bless Nigeria for ever! Check my signature for free stuffs!

Now that you lots have said Tinubu doesn't own OVH, stick to your words. All these abracadabra merger and renaming upandan let it not be that tomorrow Tinubu will appear from no where to claim ownership of NNPC.

madridguy:
The people praising Abure for illegally taken what belongs to Alhaji Apapa are now celebrating his removal.

Very soon they will still accuse Tinubu of plotting Mrs Nenadi Usman through Ganduje as usual.

I just hope Mrs Nenadi Usman will use her office to torchlight the LP campaign funds and make a proper audit.

The people who supported Apapa against Abure are now supporting Abure.

What a miskelemess

OasisX:


.......bruh! Honestly I am fully in touch hence reason I decide to be in ghost mode. I really wanna stay calm till Baba gets it right but some Dudes here won't let my Moniker rest. To them, everything na we vs them. LOL!

🥴 😂

sreamsense:
You keep deceiving yourself and wasting your precious time like you wasted writing lenghty epistle that ended up in futility during election. Do you think if Tinubu is out today, it will ever reach Obi? Honestly, you need farm work so you can get too busy from every hourly post about Tinubu because at the end of the day I don't know how many hours left you have for yourself.

You are an idiot o. What concerns Obi with what he posted? You could have as well go to Kemi's twitter and post that Obi will not be president. What class of fool are you my brother

BlueRayDick:
Go and read my post again. I already said u can fault the ref for his mistakes in other part of officiating that day, but he's not wrong sending Rice off. Rice asked for it and he got served.

Simple!

The discussion was on the consistency of the referee decision

leokid866:
8.7 Million.....

Wow! So we have an incredible 8.7m idiots in this country according to INEC? And you're proudly one of them

BlueRayDick:
Rice is a professional footballer, the rules are the rules.

If u obstruct a free kick it is a yellow card; this is not about sentiments.

You can fault the ref for not penalizing a Brighton player for similar offence but it doesn't take away the fact that Rice committed a bookable of fence.

Rice did absolute nonsense with that singular act. It's not like Veltman will score directly into our goal post if Rice had allowed him play the free kick.

The crazy thing in all of this is that Rice was even attempting a useless dribble before Veltman gained the ball which led to Rice fouling him resulting in the controversial free kick.

I am not arguing this. But Rice was not the only person that committed that kind of foul in that game. If Rice was punished, shouldn't the ref be punished for lack of consistency?

We shouldn't be only looking at Rice but also the ref

BlueRayDick:
You have been watching the wrong video, Rice did kick the ball; and that was why Veltman's kick hit him hard.

Rice messed up, I believe his adrenaline got the best of him because I can't really see to understand what point he was trying to make preventing Brighton from restarting play that high up the field . It's not like Veltman will kick the ball into our goal post from that spot without our defenders doing anything.

Ideally Rice should be apologizing to his fellow players and teammates for that nonsense he did; If that was Xhaka in his dark days we will be calling for his head.

You're ignoring the fact that Veltman threw the ball into Rice's path from behind him. You are also not accepting that the ref overreacted. And then that the ref wasn't consistent because twice in the same game Brighton players did similar things and were not cautioned.

I will not like you to be my brother. You will blame me for every fight I get into.

leokid866:
yen....yen....yen.....

So you are among the so called 8million idiots according to INEC

MadPolitician:
Nigeria is a victim of her tribal make up. He's piling on because he knows that no matter how terrible his policies and governance style are, there will always be millions of ethnic henchmen and religious fanatics churning out different amorphous reasons as to why he is the next best thing after pizza.

If he is the president of Odua, they would have sacked him ever since. They won'ttolerate this level of suffering for any reason. But the Nigerian presidency has become a position for ethnic champions to display their skills in recent times and that has proven to be some sort of political masterstroke, albeit, for the time being

Apt