Lamidi Monsur

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[#AsiwajuOladimeji @AsiwajuOladimej]

Awon Opposition leaders dey do press conference when opposition lawmakers they shout "Ayes" for green chamber.

Tinubu go beat un nah before 2pm come 2027🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Lamidi Monsur @Mjay_Arse]

Lmaoooo Sam d millionaire..

[Sam Ojeka. @SamOjeka]

The thing wey dey do me like film trick about these APC supporters is that they’re usually dirt poor.
Like you should be at the forefront of any protest but you’re siding with the person making you poor.
Beats my imagination really.

[∞ @TheFalseNein]

Away day in the CL knockouts. No strikers. No pace in the side. Just 4 LBs and a dream. Never tell me Arteta isn’t an elite coach.

[Magic hat 🎩 @themagic_tophat]

Arsenal perspective…

We were in the mud when Arteta arrived.
A toxic culture pervaded the club, with many overpaid & aging players who under performed; whilst also lacking top commercial or UCL revenues to help turn it around.

We had a grossly incompetent top exec for the football side in Raul Sanllehi, who was making matters worse. We were signing has-beens who performed even poorer and we deteriorated further.

The turn-around from there has been huge.

Raul was sacked, Tim Lewis reset the leadership structure and Edu+Arteta+Garlick got to work with the financial backing of KSE.

We couldn’t sell the aging players and our losses were crippling - so that financial backing was critical.

Edu developed and deployed a new strategy, one that many people famously did not understand at the time given our situation and need to return to UCL. Sign young, high potential players whose peak window would be in a few years’ time. Be careful with expenditure and reset the wage bill to give us more room to maneuvre. And bring through top players from the academy who were ready to play.

We carefully built piece by piece to match Arteta’s way of football. And when our revenues increased, we became more ambitious with our recruitment, signing ready-made stars like Rice and Havertz. And the impact has been huge on our ability to perform.

We returned to UCL, reaching the QF after more than half a decade outside the competition.
17 games against top 6 oppo in the PL without a loss now. Whereas we used to get slapped 5-1… we’re now doing the slapping.
Two title races against the biggest cheats that sport has ever seen - and no-one has ever beaten them in a race before. Not even Liverpool who needed them to fall off to get ahead.

And now… despite insane levels of injury and absurd officiating, we are still in the UCL and still in a title race (albeit 6-9 points behind).

And we’re doing that without our star attacker in Saka. Where would other clubs be without their star?
Liverpool without Salah?
Chelsea without Palmer?
Newcastle without Isak?
Man City without Haaland?
I think we can all guess.

The journey has been tough and we haven’t had the rub of the green but the improvement year on year has been clear.

When you cut out the noise and false narratives, then step back and look at it in the whole, it’s been a tremendous growth story that many clubs are now very obviously trying to replicate.

But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t critique or demand progress either.

The last two windows are the first time I see obvious failures. The objectives were very clear and known - and they weren’t met either time.

You could argue that last summer we were being strategic and “keeping our powder dry”. But having seen the improvement in revenue levels, that’s not a reasonable excuse. We had the headroom and resources to recruit a forward last summer and again in this one. Having read @gunnerblog piece in the Athletic - there was a clear execution problem last summer.

And it got worse this January. A major solution to attacking issues was presented to Arsenal - Villa offered Ollie Watkins at a £60m valuation.

Arteta wanted him. Josh Kroenke sanctioned his acquisition. And the exec team, who wrongly valued him at £40m, shat the bed and lost the chance.

For a club with this much revenue, in its ‘win now’ window, where the manager and players are begging for help, and the owner wants it done… to screw it up that much is a sign of gross incompetence.

And that’s not a surprise in my opinion. Arsenal has quality personnel in its exec team but I’d argue that some are fulfilling roles they are not qualified for and are unsuited to. And some keys skills and experience are missing too - exacerbated by the loss of Edu (but many were still missing even when he was here).

This should be a very loud alarm bell for Josh who doesn’t just need to appoint the right Sporting Director (ASAP)… but also consider the exec team more holistically too.

🤞🏼 and UTA!

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

Borussia Dortmund are leading the race since January for Iván Fresneda but as of today nothing is done, sealed or agreed. There’s still work to do before signing the Spanish RB. ✨🇪🇸 #BVB

No announcement imminent, no deal in place yet. Just talks ongoing with BVB on it.

[Lamidi Monsur @Mjay_Arse]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[amintin @amintin]

This is Pep. But @aykay_umr thinks we’re going to bottle it like his boss Atiku has been bottling elections.

[yomi @wahab001]

The kingmaker, President elect, jagaban of Africa, the City Boy, The Emi lo kan, Amy leader and My mentor!!! What a story, What a journey. Alhamdulilah. Victory is sweet !!!

[Yusuf Mubarak O. @Mubi_onpoint]

Congratulations ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU. My president Elect. May Allah(swt) see you through this adminstration. Nigeria and Nigerians truly seek a prosperous Nation. #NigeriaDecides2023

[Souljah @jeffphilips1]

Tinubu has won this election, but there's a very hard lesson for all politicians in all this, including him. Things hv changed drastically and time has past when you take the people 4 granted after winning elections, you do anyhow, you see anyhow. It's no longer business as usual

[Oguntoye Opeyemi @Equityoyo]

Nigerians will always find a way to circumvent the system 🤦‍♂️

New Naira notes wey banks no see disburse to customers, hawkers have in abundance to sell.

New Naira notes are already being hawked at parties!!!

NIGERIANS!!!!

[Lamidi Monsur @Mjay_Arse]

@ayagigs —

[Jonny Singer @Jonny_Singer]

So little wrong with this. Showboating is great, but if you do it you 100% know you’ll get clattered. And the clatterer knows they will be booked. Everyone performed their role to perfection.

[SV *Champions of England* @SVCarbaholic]

Thanks lads - we’ll take it from here

[AFCAMDEN @AFCAMDEN]

My manager. Back him until May and back him again in the summer.

[Mo @MoArsenal86]

I just block out the noise because I truly believe in what we are building, ups and downs are normal for a young team and no matter what happens this season the experience they’ll gain is invaluable, we will add quality and depth in the summer and go up another level next season.

[AI @nonewthing]

Arsenal fans don't realize that they are genuinely one of the most exciting sporting project in European football.

They spend too much time listening to AFCShoot on Twitter.

[Lamidi Monsur @Mjay_Arse]

My captain

[Players' Tribune Football @TPTFootball]

It’s time for Granit Xhaka to set the record straight.

Coming soon. 13/04/22

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

The reason why I didn’t sustain my thinking that Arteta be sacked is because I - emphasis on I, not you - later realised that given Guardiola type money, he knows enough football to succeed with Arsenal. In essence, he helped change my mind. Saying this on the back of 5-0 losses.

[MillionRacksup @Moneyfetishc]

I can’t rock with you if you treat people poorly based on where they are financially