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Away

[EA @tolulope_os]

I'm ending this year with a bang!

[EA @tolulope_os]

Your colonial masters dy deny you visa😂😂. OKAY!

[Rincol @RincolFi]

Mikel Arteta listing “six or seven” languages and then switching between them on camera looks like a flex but it isn’t.

It is one of the quieter advantages that keeps showing up in the best managers.

He speaks Basque and Spanish from home. Catalan because school in Barcelona demanded it. French because Luis Fernández told a young Arteta at PSG: learn it fast or you don’t play. Portuguese from friendships. Italian from curiosity and culture, not from ever living there. English forged across Rangers, Everton and Arsenal. Sometimes he jokes that Scottish counts too.

That list is not decoration. A modern dressing room is a small United Nations. The manager who can speak to a player in the language they think in gets trust sooner, instructions cleaner, and emotion without a middleman. Arteta has said it himself: you can communicate without connecting. Connection needs the other person’s language. He starts in a signing’s mother tongue, then pushes English as respect for the club that hired them.

He also uses it as a weapon. French to one player on the touchline, Spanish to another, English to the next. Clarity for his own, noise for the opposition bench.

This is not unique to Arteta. It is a pattern.

Arsene Wenger built Arsenal’s first great international side while speaking French, English, German, Spanish, Italian and later Japanese. Language was how he sold a project to players who had never seen Highbury, and how he made a dressing room of French, Dutch, African and English voices feel like one idea.

Pep Guardiola carries Catalan, Spanish and highly functional English, and has always treated language as part of the method. The concepts are precise; the delivery has to be too. Players talk about how quickly the ideas land when the coach can meet them halfway.

Jose Mourinho is the purest case. His coaching career began as Bobby Robson’s interpreter. Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian, French, Catalan. He understood early that tactics only exist once they have been transmitted. The Special One was, first, a translator who refused to let meaning get lost.

The through-line is simple. Elite management is teaching under pressure. Teaching is language: the right word for “now,” the tone that makes a demand feel like belief, the private sentence that settles a new signing in week one. Wenger, Guardiola, Mourinho and Arteta all treated that medium as part of the job, not an optional extra.

Plenty of coaches know the game. Fewer can look a player in the eye, in the language he dreams in, and make the idea feel personal rather than translated. That is the extra yard.

[Leo Dasilva @SirLeoBDasilva]

There’s a way Tzolis plays football that when he passes, you feel like shooting.

[Emmanuel Omasheye @4pf_pixel]

Since you join this app you don ever tweet champions of anything ?? 🤣🤣

[MB2 @marbrit_]

First time a PSG player has been asked to play 2 games in a week and he breaks

[B I G L O U I E 🫵🏾 @LouieDi13]

Why u no beat arsenal

[EA @tolulope_os]

Konsa na bully😂

[EA @tolulope_os]

Gabriel shouldn’t attempt to use his head to block Valverde shot😂😂

[Papa Amari @dagizzl]

Even people dem de hire to cry for burial no cry reach you.

[Oluwakayode🇨🇦 @Khaytweets]

Ben White was the first Arsenal defender to stop taking nonsense. 😂

[ẹwàtómi 💕 @theewatomi]

the UCL starts again, a couple of notes to Manchester United fans. it’s been a while since you played with the elites, so there are some things you should know about the new format.

- there are no group stages anymore, so don’t think you can scam third in your group and drop to the Europa League.
there is a new league format.
- you play 8 teams once, so when you’ve been flogged, don’t think you can avenge yourselves in the second leg.
- the top 8 teams automatically qualify for the knockout stage, and teams 9–24 play an extra round to determine who joins the true elites. teams 25–32 go home. again, no Europa League for you.
- you might have forgotten, but if you happen to scam your way through to the knockout stages, there’s no away-goals rule anymore.
- the anthem remains the same, so you don’t have to learn a new one.

[ẹwàtómi 💕 @theewatomi]

it's day 3 and rival fans still crying as usual. 🤣

[. @Rice_Propv3]

Who knows the London club we lost to?

[Emmanuel Omasheye @4pf_pixel]

Incase you wonder why he jumped from 2007-2013 😂😂

[Emmanuel Echeta @PenTitan]

Go and sit down joor

[Kelvin Omukungu @KOmukungu]

If FC

[MESIOYE ABDUL-QUADRI AYOMIDE @q_mesioye]

My admin wey no add you to big game, you think say he foolish 😂😂

[Tobi @_Tobolos_]

Mourinho as Chelsea manager v Arsenal

15 games
8 wins
6 draws
1 Loss
53% win rate
Beat us in a Carabao Final
Biggest win: 6-0
Unbeaten at the Emirates

Goals scored: 24
Avg goals per game: 1.6

Arteta as Arsenal manager v Chelsea

18 games
12 wins
4 draws
2 losses
67% win rate
Beat em in an FA Cup Final
Biggest win: 5-0
Unbeaten at the Stamford Bridge

Goals scored: 35
Avg goals per game: 1.9

We have 100% gotten our lick back

[Duke of Kamulu @sleekowen]

The Captain, Martin Ødegaard scores for The Champions.

[Professor Labamba @BadmanFreke]

JP Morgan una, maybe na audit una think sey we dey do for here...