Sentences with phrase «1st team squad»

The Dark Blues, fielding a mix of Greyhounds and 1st team squad members, were made to sweat at the death when the home side scored a last minute try and had a conversion to claim a draw.

The Dark Blues, fielding a mix of Greyhounds and 1st team squad me...

The only way to sell Sandro is by playing him and letting him train with the 1st team squad, its a ridiculous situation for both the player and the club.

But so too has Ozil been good for Arsenal and the other Gunners too that were signed by the Boss who are currently in his 1st team squad.

I think the question is whether Akpom could or should develop as part of our 1st team squad or elsewhere for the time being.

Heard amazing things about him and he's only 17, hope him and Bielik are the next 2 youngsters to break into the 1st team squad.

As it stands 1st team squad — 28 Cech, ospina Martinez Bellerin (u21) debuchy mertesacker chambers (u21) koscielny gabriel Monreal gibbs Coquelin Ramsey wilshire arteta rosicky ozil chamberlain flamini cazorla Walcott welbeck giroud alexis campbell wellington gnabry (u21) akpom (u21)

We have a great youth set up ready for next year and the positions needing filled to complete this 1st team squad and my personal choices are;

This period is purely to get match fitness and to use proper matches rather than training ground for new players to understand the system as well as giving Arsene a chance to see which of the youngatefs might be able to cut it and also to see which of the 1st team squad might be able to cover other positions (or not as the case seems to be with Elneny!)

Sure some decent players have come through but that has been in the shadow cast by Wenger's 1st Team squad buying policy.

If that's the case shove them in training with the U19's and let them rot, keep them both well away from the 1st team squad.

Let's hope the boss will retain him in his next season 1st team squad as he is widely expected to sign a top quality striker for option and gives Olivier Giroud competition for his game.

The signings of Granit Xhaka, Takuma Asano and likely that of Roberts Holding will be more than adequate for the Boss to fine tune his 1st team squad in readiness of capturing the desired title next season.

After this summer transfer window all gaps in the 1st team squad should be plugged — can be no excuses.

For, I can assure you with confidence to say, Arsenal will beat Chelsea despite the arrays of top quality talents they parade in the rank and file of their 1st team squad whom they've planned unlease on Arsenal during the match in an attempt by Antonio Conte, the Blues manager to see that his Blues team collects all points in the match.

I say Lets focus on the young gun Reiss Nelson... scored a cracker for under - 23's tonight... get him in the 1st team squad and let him run riot in last 15 minutes if we are already winning plus europa league and League cup.....

Not exact matches

If they are good enough, they will play in the 1st team, look at how Bellerin stepped up and forced Wenger to not only consider him at 1st but to become a valued member of the squad.

As squad players they are massively important members; both English, both versatile, both young, both with great potential, both not demanding or expecting 1st team football every week, both amenable and non-disruptive in a squad environment etc etc etc..

We have a very friendly squad, a high performing 1st team and great links to local players.

Though Danny Ahern had himself a day, with 3 hits and also a Homer, the Team had a disappointing loss to the 1st place squad, Team Zisook, in Softball.

The trick of course is persuading them that being a squad player at Arsenal is a good thing for them because they could all probably get 1st team football somewhere else.

we all understand our squad is in desperate need of an overhaul with plenty of players that will never see 1st team action and are collecting paychecks for doing nothing such as Debuchy, Jenkinson, Campbell etc.

@Mick The Gooner Really strange that both ManC and Chelsea have deadly youth squads, yet very few of those young players ever feature for the 1st team... Guess those youngsters are way down the pecking order, with the 25/26 on loan players waiting their turn also...

Pretty clear Wenger has set the template for this — a world class player to go straight in to the 1st team if available, and whatever squad strengthening is required.

I think Walcott, Gibbs, Wilshere and Ramsey for that matter are all good SQUAD players and all of them at their best could do a job in the 1st team if called upon.

We would not have to worry about petty stuff like this if we had a big squad full of 1st team quality even on the bench like Chelsea, Man City.

If what we do was the opposite (i mean established players) who could walk straight and help 1st team in term of squad depth we could have beeen able to compete.

He would be a massive boost to Arsenal if (and I agree it is a big IF) he can return to his very best form in the 1st team, and in our weakest area of the squad --

The biggest problem has been wenger for long time now «project» run Arsenal football club as an academy and try to prove to everyone else he is the one who knows better and try to bring in kids who have potential but not ready for 1st team resisting spending money to improve squad depth and cling in on average players: Iwobi, welbeck, theo, chambers, holding and player other players on wrong position Monreal and not give opportunity to good footballer Perez and Campell also you have been holding too much power from transfer, players contracts, arsenal finances as a whole and now all that BS start to backfire

And if living in lala land is improving the squad by investing in quality players at the expense of those who no longer should be guaranteed 1st team football than I shudder @ what universe you currently dwell in.

Arsenal 1st team attack 1999 - 2006 much better — but IMO I think we have greater attacking depth and versatility in the squad now.

He was a rare player who could add to a team even if he was unfit, we can't have a squad of players like that but 1 player... We have enough u21 players who do not need to be in the 25 man squad but still play, some of them should be pushing for 1st team now so we could easily have covered for him.

If people didn't already know it Wenger couldn't have been anymore clear and candid in a recent interview when he got asked about filling gaps in our 1st team / squad in the transfer market — to paraphrase him, he said: «It is a lot more satisfying to resolve these problems from within rather than automatically start rummaging for the chequebook».

I was reserving judgement this who window but man... as much as i actually do like Welbeck, Sanchez, Chambers and Debuchy (can't say for Ospina, haven't seen much) having 6 1st team defenders in a squad is REALLY lacking in personnel.

If u are an arsenal fan u wil realise there are two parts in an arsenal season... the first part is when we are winning and we think that we are the best team in the world at that point Wenger is a god and every Arsenal playr is a world class player at this point also Arsenal need no signings... then the 2nd part is when reality hits us hard in the face, we are eliminated in all competetion injuries come in and everyone is singing WENGER MUST GO... haha i ges at this time we are in the 1st part, we nid no signings and the squad is good enaf, there will be no injuries the whole season and Arsenal will win the EPL and the Cl next year hehe!

Bielik is not an either or situation — we need to carry on looking for talented youngsters regardless of what the 1st team / squad situation is.

If Wenger kept replacing the squad with the same quality like Chelsea and Man City do then how would future players like Sanogo, Santos, Amaury Bischoff, Park, Chamakh get a chance in the 1st team ahead of players from the Henry era.

That is why guys like Welbeck and Arteta get so much stick on here — they are judged as 1st team starters and not as back - up in a 25 - 30 man squad.

of course, i get frustrated at the fact we buy 1 decent player and then all the pressure sits on their shoulders i feel for sanchez every game he works his arse off and he looks like he annoyed by some of the other players who ai nt up to it we have a decent squad but we need 1st team cdm and a striker and a decent cb, look at bayern benatia, boateng, martinez, dante all being played at cb but our only decent cb is kos, its not good enough i like mert but he ai nt gonna help us win the league, would love arsene to finish this season with at least 1 more trophy and then try bring in pep guardiola he's the only manager similar to arsenal's style but i think he would need a promise from the board for big funds

I noticed Rob Holding has been listed with the 1st team players vs. the Academy squad.

For the 1st time (in 10 years) we are looking like a team that can actually win the league, its not greedy to demand a full squad strong and large enough to fight on all fronts

With his injuries Kos can't be a 1st choice consideration all season anymore and the rest are more squad player quality and not 1st team quality (at least not yet with some of them).

good ratings yemi d spuds fans keep on shouting dat we started our 1st team, but this team just shows the depth of our squad... wat if dis guys started almunia sagna vaminator squilacci clichy song diaby cesc theo van persie so....

Edwards will have a mixture of Development Squad and Under - 18 players at his disposal, with teams limited to picking players born after January 1st 1999, whilst three over-age players may be registered in the 40 - man squad.