Initially, after being bought by Sheikh Mansoor, they struggled to purchase top quality players, so instead bought players that improved the squad, for fairly generous amounts of money, much like Liverpool have done over the past six years, but unlike Liverpool, they promised success to prospective players, through buying marquee players in consecutive seasons; first Robinho, then Tevez, then Silva, and then Agüero. (anfieldindex.com)
One of the NBA's true marquee players for more than a decade, Dominique Wilkins earned the nickname Human Highlight Film with a plethora of spectacular Every now and then the horrendous breakup that Caroline Wozniacki went through crosses my mind, when her fiancé Rory McIlroy, whom she had dated for three (myintimcity.com)
«The shuffling of marquee players from team to team certainly produces big headlines. (inc.com)