Sentences with phrase «even small clubs»

Even small clubs now go into games against us and actually believe they can take all 3 points, clubs do not fear us anymore.

Arsenal is a team that cant repel interests of their own best players but unfortunately a team that cant tempt and get players we want from even smaller clubs.

With wall to wall TV coverage across the NBC family, it really becomes fan friendly to watch even the smallest clubs every time they take to the pitch.

Thanks to the record - breaking TV deals now pumping cash into the English topflight, clubs have never enjoyed a greater financial advantage against their continental rivals, with even the smaller clubs and relegation candidates now capable of beating foreign title - challengers and some Champions League regulars to transfer targets.

Not exact matches

«In fact, some Canadian retailers were told they couldn't even talk to Club Coffee,» Robert Russell, the smaller company's lawyer, told The Globe and Mail.

The $ 840 billion consumer loan business is facing a shake - up as online upstarts like Lending Club, Prosper and even PayPal have begun offering small loans.

P2P companies Lending Club and Prosper are perfect candidates to take advantage of this gap, even if they get a small percentage of the total revolving debt.

But nowadays even what used to be considered «Small clubs»» have some serious spending money, and shopping in the bargain basement for top - four won't work anymore.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

Ya i when i read Wenger's comment saying that improving infrastructure of the club has upped fans expectation of club, really struck a chord.like with a small stadium, enuf revenue wont be generated to compete at the top.and i will say confidently as ut stands, no manager has been willing to stay even 5 yrs just to repay a loan.as per agreement with Bank which provided the loan whixh demanded that wenger stay for 5 yrs to repay a major portion.in that sense, u can accept that club is moving in right direction.

The day itself will have a small charge and there will be an optional formal dinner at the Vincent's Club in the evening, followed by quizbook and pinkies.

I believe we need some new signings, even wenger has that belief but with the exception of mid-table and smaller teams, which top club in europe has significantly added to their squad depth as at this moment.

Even supporters of a small town club in the lower reaches of League 2 can hope to top that league and experience the thrill of being «champions».

Failure shouldn't necessarily be blamed on transfers.It's part of the reason but is not the only reasons.Other clubs which can't even buy like Arsenal have won very good trophies.Even at those times we were in debt we had a good team capable of winning the EPL or winng some of the smaller trophies.But we just went on trophyless.Now we are almost debt free and we are promised glory but honestly we don't even have the hope of glory.The only thing that can save us is renewal of the mind of the manager and board.That will bring a positive change.It's only insanity to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.We have a lot to prove out there to the world because the greatness of Arsenal has really gone down in the face of the world.They only see us as a team with good football that's all.The world doubts us and we have a point to prove.The values of a club is as important as winning trophies.If not Arsenal wouldn't have been this top club that people talk about everyday were it fpr only values or trophies.They go hand in hand.However, to the world trophies are very important and that fact can not be hidden.

So even without the relaxing of the FFP rules, Arsene Wenger is still likely to have a smaller transfer budget than our big Premier League rivals and with Chelsea and the Manchester clubs also able to offer the lure of Champions League football, our manager will be hoping that his transfer targets are not the same.

Atletico de Madrid is one of the bigger clubs in Spain, but the gap between the bigger and smaller clubs over at the Iberian peninsula is much greater with Real Madrid and Barcelona earning almost half of the money if not even more, rather than it is in England where TV money is relatively equally distributed.

Then there is the small matter of Matthieu Debuchy, who has done nothing but moan since he arrived at the club, and who even forced Wenger to send him out on loan in January (and left the Gunners without a proper backup for Hector Belleirn) because he was whining that he needed to play to get into the France team at the European Championships this summer.

Can someone name any Arsenal player who went into another team and looked irreplaceable?Just look at how Arsenal fans are hyping this guy.I won't blame you people though.People are even saying we need up to three players to replace him.I guess it will take about seven to eight to replace Messi or Ronaldo then.We've become so bad it's almost as if we've lost our big club mentality and way of thinking.We are behaving like the smaller teams.

Even though there are so many clubs chasing the youngster's signature, he is likely to still have a small transfer fee because of the Serie A club's well publicised financial troubles.

Both these clubs are considerably smaller in size or stature than Arsenal but Arsenal is run to make a profit so i don't believe this will happen even though its possible.

He is 7 months younger than Martinez and even better, he will be available for free in December, which may persuade the Ukranian club to sell him for a small fee in the summer rather than lose him for nothing.

Should this even be a topic?Giroud is a player of average quality always surrounded by good players.I just don't get.It's as if only Arsenal fans rate him.This was a player who was bought to be the leading striker at Arsenal and after his years of failure which many deny he's now become a super sub?How laughable is that.From failure to super sub.If the so called world class striker we're signing goes out with an injury for about five months who comes in then.It seems to me people lack vision.Why is it always Giroud Giroud Giroud?After so many seasons people are still debating what souldn't even be debatable.I've lost count of the number of times he's been talked about here.This is the problem with our club.It's just not ruthless.This is a player who should have been gone long ago but due to him being French he still gets the chances.We won't miss him when he goes and I'd like to see if he'd stand out in a smaller club.

Very true, and i admit to having seen him play for his country more so than club, and even that was small number of time as hes not even a starter.

you are such an ass hole to write or say a thing like this... is it not obvious to you that English referees are a joke wen it comes to all arsenal games... u hardly see them officiate arsenal or treat arsenal like a big club even wen d play a smaller team... and all the smaller teams knows this and that's why the down - look arsenal anytime the come up against them

Even when mour is at home, he play's like the away team of a small club.

This is true and even the so called smaller clubs are sniffing blood.

They can't even fill their own stadium and their fan base is smaller than all of the traditional top 4 clubs.

That's not gonna happen Wenger prices are gonna go up Even more u genius.Arsenal board should tell their fans who pay for the tickets week in week out about our real ambitions.Even Watford want to win the league but they are a small club and their fans are happy only being in the league.

They can never be world class while sitting on the bench (even in a smaller club) week in and week out.....

I wonder what are dithering in the transfer market truly costs... last year it might have costs us the top 4 and champions league... now that's a pretty penny... this year it already cost us a small fortune considering what Lacazette would have cost last year and I'm not even including opportunity costs... ultimately it might cost us Lemar, if the speculation is true... why are we seemingly the only club that can't pry a player from Monaco, especially considering the obvious Wenger connection... Wenger should stop wasting precious time criticizing PSG and worry about the task at hand... was anyone seriously surprised by the frugal managers thoughts on the matter

Wenger continually said that Wilshere's contract would be sorted out before Christmas, but Jack was still waiting for talks to begin when the New year arrived and he was firmly back as a regular for Arsenal, then the bombshell arrived and Wilshere was offered a wage reduction as maybe Wenger was hoping that Jack's loyalty and love for the club would see him sign without even looking at the small print, but now we are at the end of February with still no resolution in sight.

Arsenal are not a small club, selling our most important player to a direct rival is a huge step backward, Arsenal have to do what ever it takes to convince him to sign a contract, if he demand release clause the put 80 million, Liverpool did not sell Sauraz to us even though he agitated a move publically and also had small release clause.

Emirates stadium and huge sponsor deals we finally have had two poor years by his standards at the helm we always havent been so great and are we weak supporters or strong give him a contract i mean hes won with ants for money let him spend for once cause even if we do get new manager inflation has occured and no body else will win with the small amounts we gave him to spend and in 20 years actuall more it seems the club is finally willing to spend give him a contract let him spend and if we do nt improve which i think we will i think that the club is finally willing to spend shows were on an upturn because as long as top four the owner and board weren't and after we spend big or somewhat big for once and auba and mkhitaryan arent the big im hoping for i want more if liverpoodlians can pay 75million for a cb let wenget spend a bit and if we still do bad we can always sack him or ask him to leave wouldnt be uncommon but we owe it to him and do nt say we do not because emirates london colney that will bring in high talent here for years to come and we have never spent for him just gave little and hes always done big things with little i think he can do bigger things in his final years if we give him big i do nt see us in decline but if we sack him we will be for a good three maybe four years

As well as declaring that the mercurial and match winning Frenchman was happy at his current club, Mark McKay suggested that it would take a small fortune for West Ham to even consider selling their top star.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Few players imo do nt need to be at the club by the summer to free up wages and small tranfer fees maybe, the likes of: Flamini Rosicky Arteta Debuchy (Jenko back) Ospina (Woj back, plus Martinez at Wolves understudy to Cech) Keep Mert his presence and experience will be greatly needed even if he does nt start just like Arteta is doing now.

If only Wenger could finally hear the funs cry and bring in someone who could take slow Mert's spot and ultimately improve us (am sure even Mert would accept a small part role or been rotated at this stage of his career and at a top club like Arsenal).

The likes of us and Man U might not be quite as strong as we once were but there are a lot more clubs on a higher level and even lower table teams are stronger, plus there is a real belief from smaller clubs that anyone can beat anyone where as some teams might have played for a draw a few years ago now everyone goes out to try and win every game no mater the opponent.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

Xhaka, who I like, or at least I like the Xhaka who plays for the Swiss national squad, has shown to be in way over his head in the premiership... of course he showed late in the year that he can stretch the field with the long ball but our squad isn't really set - up for that style of play... most of his long passes are in the air not on the ground and our squad without Giroud, which should have been sold the minute the transfer window officially opened, is one of the smallest in England... we need someone who can pick out the runs of our forwards in the lanes and who is fast enough to come forward into space without conceding his defensive responsibilities... we rarely see him shoot or even be in a position on the field to do so, we rarely, if ever, see him used for set pieces and it appears that the only person at the club who has ever coached him up when it comes to tackling is Coq, which explains his atrocious disciplinary record... maybe it's me but didn't you see him coming in and contributing more from an offensive perspective, with his killer left foot, than a deep - lying midfielder... if that wasn't the case we are the stupidest team alive for taking him over Kante

There is no doubt that Bale needs to get the hell out of Real if he ever wants to be the kind of player he once was... this isn't to suggest that he his skills have diminished, he simply isn't the fiery, determined and aggressive player that struck fear in the hearts of his opponents... the small fish in a big pond just doesn't fit his profile... I can't even remember the last player I've seen who has become so invisible on the big stage (maybe Pogba last year)... maybe it's a case of culture shock or maybe he wasn't able to handle the notoriety that invariably came with his big money signing, but regardless of how it happened this guy is a shadow of his former self... although I doubt he would ever come to a team in such disarray, he could quite easily fill the shoes of Sanchez, who ironically was in a similar predicament in Barcelona, as Bale would return to his favoured left side and would be given the same freedoms that have allowed Sanchez to flourish... ultimately I think the cache of wearing a Real jersey and competing for the top trophies would be too difficult to give up for a wannabe club run by suits who care little about those kinds of accolades

So many of those that join sports clubs in their first term at Oxford come to view it as the best decision they made at university — you'll make friends from outside of the small college world, you'll meet a valuable cross-section of people — your captain might even be able to help with your tute sheets!

Research from SBO shows the investments club owners have made in order to possess their teams, and even the smallest in the top ten is # 105 million — making it quite the pricey game to maintain a top football club.

In the first week they'll stay in a small village in the heart of the Basque mountains, where they will train on the local club's pitch, go rafting, hiking, and even do some co-training sessions with local club's first team.

Then I look at the fans of some smaller clubs who are supportive regardless of success and it makes me even more ashamed of comments like that of @olabans.

Nobody inside the club is buying into that and indeed one source said: «Even were it true which nobody thinks it is this is a very small matter — all the kid needs to do is say «no» and get on with his life.

In Spain, Villarreal — from a town even smaller than Burnley — have highlighted the ability of less financially powerful clubs to succeed against major clubs, but Dyche insists that Burnley will continue to do things their way.

We want good and matured players at the emirates and not some small boys who are not even of any value or else how can anyone explain a player at 20 years leaving a club on free transfer?

The regulatory body has introduced a concept called the «permitted Break - Even deficit» so that clubs who make a small loss are not automatically deemed to have failed to comply with regulation.

So you can kind of see why some supporters aren't happy with the current regime, and why Mick McCarthy has come in for some stick of late − even though he was instrumental in guiding the club back to the promised land, as well as the small matter of keeping them there for the past two years.