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🚨 Arsenal reportedly want to make Mikel Oyarzabal their latest ex Real Sociedad signing
The Gunners are in the market for another forward and Oyarzabal is valued at just €50million.
He’d link up with some familiar faces in London 👀
🚨Breaking: Patrick Vieira on Arsenal’s Transfer Strategy.
🗣️Reporter: "Patrick, Arsenal fans seem divided over the club’s transfer business. What do you make of it?"
🗣️Patrick Vieira: Why are Arsenal fans panicking?
We won the league last season and they just signed a player. And I believe they will sign more players, based on the information I am getting from people close to Mikel Arteta and Andrea Berta.
I heard they are almost there to get it done with players like Bruno Guimaraes and other world class players.
My message to our fans is to stay calm and trust Mikel Arteta. He will keep delivering more trophies. This project is in good hands.
🚨Breaking: Thierry Henry on Arsenal Transfer Strategy.
🗣️Reporter: "Thierry, there’s a big divide among Arsenal fans over the club’s transfer plans. What’s your take?"
🗣️Henry: I get it. I understand the frustration, I really do.
But to the fans I’m saying this: calm down. Trust the process.
I had a one on one chat with Mikel Arteta and Andrea Berta. And they told me directly we will sign top players.
The targets are clear: a top left winger, a midfielder, and lastly a central back that can play in two or three different roles across the back line.
They’re not just bringing bodies in. They want players who fit, who improve the squad, and who can help us win.
So give them time. This club is building something, and you can see it.
🚨 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋: Arsenal have completed the signing of Christos Tzolis from Club Brugge on a long-term contract. ✅✍️
Welcome to The Arsenal, @christos_tzolis! ❤️🔥
🚨Arsenal get linked with Morgan Rogers. Chelsea suddenly "joins the race."
Arsenal get linked with Bruno Guimarães. Chelsea "monitoring the situation."
Arsenal get linked with Alex Scott. Chelsea "long-term admirers."
Arsenal get linked with John Stones and somehow Chelsea are in for him too.
You notice this is a pattern.
This is a club with no identity of their own, watching Arsenal's scouting department do the work, then sprinting to copy the homework.
And it's not new o.
Rewind to 2023. Mykhailo Mudryk. Arsenal showed interest, Chelsea panicked, Chelsea paid through the nose for him. We walked away, signed Leandro Trossard instead, and ended this season lifting the Premier League trophy.
Chelsea ended it counting how many managers they'd gone through.
So let's call this what it is. Chelsea don't have transfer targets. They have Arsenal's targets, with a £30 million premium attached.
You talk about being the biggest club in London. Biggest clubs set trends, they don't chase them.
Every window it's the same story, Arsenal move first, Chelsea copy-paste.
You want Arteta's eye for a player so bad you've turned scouting into a stalking exercise.
Here's an idea for Mikel Arteta and this club.
Leak a name. Any name. Somebody we have zero interest in. Watch how fast Chelsea "submit a £100m bid" by Friday.
I wouldn't even be surprised. Not one bit.
You clearly don't have an identity, and no amount of copying ours is going to buy you one.
COYG. Always. 🔴⚪
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*Professor Idris Bugaje wrote:*
A strange thing is happening in Nigeria.
A young man spends 20 years climbing the educational ladder.
6 years in primary school.
6 years in secondary school.
4 to 6 years in university.
1 year of NYSC.
By the time he is done, he has invested roughly 6,500 to 7,000 days preparing for life.
Then life arrives and asks a simple question:
“What problem can you solve?”
Silence.
Not because he is unintelligent.
Not because he is lazy.
But because somewhere along the journey, we confused education with certification.
We taught people how to pass exams, not how to create value.
Think about it.
An electrician who never attended university can walk into a building worth N500 million and confidently power every room from the foundation to the penthouse.
A graduate with multiple certificates may stand beside him unable to identify which wire powers the building.
One has credentials.
The other has capability.
The market pays for capability.
That is why reality often delivers a rude mathematical lesson.
If a graduate earns N100,000 monthly, that is N1.2 million annually.
A skilled technician charging N40,000 per job and handling just two jobs weekly earns over N4 million yearly.
Same country.
Different skills.
Different outcomes.
The tragedy is not that one earns more than the other.
The tragedy is that we keep preparing millions of young people for a race that no longer exists.
We celebrate admission lists like victory trophies.
We celebrate graduation photos like guaranteed employment letters.
Then we act surprised when hundreds of applicants compete for one vacancy.
Imagine 1,000 people chasing 10 jobs.
Basic mathematics says 990 people will be disappointed.
No motivational speaker can negotiate with arithmetic.
Yet we continue producing graduates faster than we produce opportunities.
That is like manufacturing keys without building doors.
The painful irony?
The people we once looked down on are increasingly becoming the people we depend on.
When your transformer fails at midnight, you do not call a philosophy graduate.
When your water stops running, you do not search for a political scientist.
When your air conditioner breaks in April heat, theory suddenly becomes less important than technical competence.
The economy has a brutal honesty.
It rewards usefulness more than status.
Nations that understood this long ago built prosperity differently.
They stopped asking only, “How many graduates do we have?”
They started asking, “How many builders, technicians, machinists, coders, welders, mechanics and innovators can we produce?”
There is dignity in intellectual work.
There is dignity in skilled labour.
The mistake is ranking one above the other.
A society that worships certificates while neglecting competence eventually discovers that framed documents cannot build roads, repair machines, wire factories, manufacture products or create wealth.
The future belongs to people who can solve problems.
Whether they learned it in a lecture hall, a workshop, an apprenticeship centre or under a mango tree is secondary.
Because at the end of the day, the market does not award marks.
It awards value.
And value has never asked to see anybody’s certificate before writing the cheque.
May Nigeria win 🇳🇬🇳🇬
Engr Prof IM Bugaje
Executive Secretary,
National Board for Technical Education (NBTE)
🚨🇪🇸 Mikel Merino's record is INSANE 🤯📈
This is a man who can fire Spain to World Cup glory even if he's only on the pitch for a few minutes.
Could Merino out-shine Messi and Yamal and even enter the Ballon d'Or conversations for this year?
@MarkBrusCOS takes a look, link to follow 🔗⬇️