Sentences with phrase «league finishes meant»

Achieving three consecutive Champions League finishes meant that along the way teams would be pushed aside by a rampant Soldado.

Not exact matches

While competing in the Champions League is hugely profitable to the top clubs, participation is dependent on finishing in a certain position in their domestic leagues, meaning that a poor season can see teams miss out.

What Ambition do you mean 4th place finish last 16 in Champions League and the odd Cup.

Given United's fifth - placed finish in the Premier League which means that they will be absent form the Champions League next season, it always appeared as though Van Gaal would be fighting a losing battle.

That means with just 1 W both Teams can pull even with a Team that finished in the top half of the League..

With Spurs finishing in the top three and securing their place in the Champions League this coming season, they will have a packed fixture list to contend with again this year and that will mean that Pochettino will have to rotate his players.

The best news is on Jack Wilshere, who the manager revealed was ahead of schedule and was nearly finished with his fitness training and ready to join up with the squad again, meaning he will be available for the FA cup and Champions League games.

I would like to tell arsenal fan that the transfer window is not arsenal's problem.Let explain what is in my mind.We need to reinforce our team but we need to think in the future that most of the high class players are going to refuse signing for arsenal fc because of Mr Wenger's philosophy.It looks like arsenal becomes cemetery of players.How many players came in and left because of performance, became good players out of arsenal.We need to accept all of the transformation Mr wenger brings in arsenal but now it does not work.Why??? because lack of tactics, strategies and pretending best players for Mr wenger mind but in reality those players do not get standard of best player.Mr wenger wants to prove everybody that he is wright that players who are calling by wenger are best.I means Mr wenger is the only one can see all matter in good position or bad.He is wrong by thinking this way.He does not like criticism.he is the mind of arsenal.Everything he can say or defend is wright.Think about morrinho comments about arsenal!!!! Why he likes to be arsenal coach!!!! One thing I want to say about arsenal players, I think everybody watch arsenal games.We have got short mind players who play two good games and the rest shameless.They are working hard in the training ground for catching Mr wenger's mind to let them play; what is behind their (players) mind to be the most regular players.Those players have no vision even ambition; they are never becoming high class and their carriers are going to finish in arsenal after arsenal we are going to see them playing for championship.They do not care to become legend as Ian wright, Vierra, Berckam, piress, Henry... What is the big behind their mind to use wenger name to be selected in national team.They are not able to face different leagues in the world.

It's funny how he said we are better than Liverpool overrall forgetting that in terms of players we were still better than them last season yet the beat us home and away.Liverpool team is not so good yet out of all the top four team they're the ones who play their hearts out.That's why Liverpool didn't lose a single game to a top four team last season though on paper they should have.As for Tottenham if you look at their team they just need a few more signings and consistency so I don't know what's the big deal about them.The painful this is they could've won the league if not for draws.It was a disgrace for any of those two to finish over us last season because on paper it shouldn't be so.This should tell you that it's not all about the team you have.Some it's about luck, sometimes it's about giving your best and sometimes it's just meant to be.

Since the serial title winner Sir Alex Ferguson left what was, undeniably, the biggest club in England, they have broken records left and right; They went from Premier League champions to finishing 7th, meaning Man Utd would have no European football of any kind.

It remains to be seen where Arsenal go from here, of course, and this FA cup quarter - final victory over Lincoln City will not mean a great deal if the Gunners play poorly from now on and fail to win the FA cup or finish in the top four of the Premier League.

That will mean that the Europa League entries from England will be the sides who finish fifth, sixth and seventh in the EPL table, which has almost certainly not escaped the notice of the two teams directly below Arsenal.

It's no secret that we need an impressive run of wins to assure ourselves of Champions League football next year, and it may even be possible that Arsene Wenger could warrant a top four finish as the means to leave on a high.

Although it would be quite a blow for Arsenal to finish fourth now after the position we have got ourselves into, it would still mean that the Gunners were once again in the Champions League next season.

From what I have seen, I doubt that Leicester will win the league, they will buckle within the last 5 games of the season and they will probably end up finishing 3rd, Which basically means that we still have a chance to claim the title but only if we can win our remaining games or at least better Man City's results, as I believe that they will finish above Leicester!

And if the Saints did go on to lift the famous old cup that Arsenal have had so much success with in recent years, then it would mean that the side who finish sixth would not get a Europa League spot for next season.

This latest piece of Arsenal transfer news may not mean that the Gunners are now favourites to lift the Premier League trophy next May, or even to finish in the top four.

We needed to win to keep our Champions League finishing position [hopes] alive and obviously we are very disappointed because it's a north London derby, it means a lot to the fans and it meant a lot to the club, to us.

There is a very real chance that Arsenal could finish bottom of our group and that would mean that we do not drop into the Europa League, but out of Europe altogether.

Mauricio Pochettino will need his big names to step it up in the second half of the season as they face Juventus in the Champions League and by no means look assured of finishing in the top four again.

With United underperforming badly last season as they finished 7th in the Premier League, it is all too clear that there are too many passengers in the squad at Old Trafford, and van Gaal has shown he means business as he looks to rid himself of a high number of under - performers.

IF we finish 6th in the league, the lowest in twenty years, does that mean we dismiss the other 19 positions?

Last season should tell you that when we were lucky to finish abouve them in the league or have you developed some brain deficiency that means you can not remember.

Winning the Europa League would of course mean they do not need a top - four finish to secure a place in the Champions League, meaning they may well have their priorities right, but we do not have such a luxury, with no possible back - door into the competition.

There is a saying, though, that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones and the German club came up with a brilliant reply, reminding the spuds that their loss to Chelsea in the 2012 UCL final meant that despite finishing fourth in the EPL that season, they still had to make do with the Europa League the following year.

Which I think we are starting to learn the habit of what it means to finish the season with some sort of reward except top four, but if we are going to ever get back into champions league and stay there we are going to need acquisitions of pure football finesse as I like to call it.

Now where you finish in the league means everything.

If Bradford City overcome Premier League Swansea City at Wembley and subsequently turn down the European qualification, the place will automatically go back to the Premier League meaning the team finishing eighth could earned a Europe League spot.

As it happened, they finished bottom of their group, meaning they did not even enter the Europa League as they had last season.

Below is all the details from the New Premier League 2016 - 19 TV rights deal which got massive # 5.136 billion for the next three years which means every club in 2015 - 16 season will get atleast # 99m in the prize money regardless where they finish.

This result means our team have finished the league season unbeaten and will be looking forward to competing in Northern 4A next season.

In recent years, of course, that has meant Arsene Wenger against a long line of coaches that have tried, with some coming very close but all failing, to finish above the Gunners in the Premier League.

This is a decent article, yet the negatives from fans are still there, I would love to see arsenal like I did at the end of the 90's and at the beggining of the 2nd millennium but it doesn't mean in order to do so I would buy all the best players in world, I would get a rich owner to put his filthy money in, change the manager every 2 years to do so, there's so much wrong in football nowadays that yes it's still a sport but there's more focus on the filthy amounts of money being spent on clubs and players that I think attracts more attention than the game itself, now that is wrong and it's very wrong, even our owner though not like the arabs or Russians, yet the yank is clueless about the tradition of our game, it's just sad, so the fact that Wenger has remained for this long through all these changes that have occurred whilst the money game has elvolved, it makes me happy that arsenal do not spend stupid amounts of money on players, we don't try and buy the league, hell we even tight with wages and transfer fees, I'm glad it's like that, though our season ticket is a rip off I still don't mind it because at least we are not like the other supreme teams, there's a bit of tradition left at our club, yet you go to man shitty or Chelski, there is no tradition, it's all about buying ur way all the way to the top, on the other hand spuds don't know what to make of them besides how the heck have they finished above us?

True with this squad at the moment we won't be winning the league, the reality is that we are not within touching distance because we finished 12 points behind Chelsea, this means we need to win 4 more games next season just to get the same points total as the champions did last season

with a... Stable business model that means we can spend with the most affluent oligarch run clubs for every season ahead without fear of FFP... whilst they will have to figure out how to build stadia, buy players and balance the books... Only unbeaten team in the premier leagues history A squad that has improved in the past two seasons with the addition of two world class players Consistency like no one else finishing FIRST (3 times), SECOND (5 times), THIRD (3 times) and FOURTH (6 times)... never worse in 17 seasons......

Finishing in the top four means UEFA Champions League football which is a big deal in terms of prestige and attracting new world class stars over the summer.

Finishing seventh still gets us in the Europa League, but it means cancelling a big chunk of the pre season friendlies and means by the time you get to November you're probably going to be looking at an Arsenal team that have played 948 matches.

He's obviously a player who could make a difference in our quest to achieve a top four finish or have a successful Europa campaign, and taking the money now, might mean losing Champions League revenue for the foreseeable future.

The capital club finished in seventh place, meaning the road to the Europa League will begin with qualifying in late July.

The vicious cycle of low league finishes, less lucrative sponsorship deals, empty trophy campaigns and relatively smaller revenue streams has meant that player recruitment at Liverpool has required an eagle eye for unearthed talent, an excellent sales pitch and willingness to take on a few high risk, high reward fliers.

They responded by winning nine of their last 10 games, but a fifth - place finish in the league ended their run of 19 consecutive years in the Champions League and means they will instead contest the Europa League next sleague ended their run of 19 consecutive years in the Champions League and means they will instead contest the Europa League next sLeague and means they will instead contest the Europa League next sLeague next season.

Although that was a different competition, BVB finished third in Group H behind Tottenham and Real Madrid, meaning that they are now in the Europa League, thus the Nice academy graduate can't play in that competition.

Newcastle took the lead with an own goal from Martin Skrtl but 2 goals in the second half from Daniel Agger and Daniel Sturridge meant we finished the season with a 2 - 1 win and secured 2nd place in the Barclays Premier League.

This meant we dropped a place to finish 6th in the Barclays Premier League, but that still means we will be playing UEFA Europa League football next season, and on the plus side Stevie got a goal in his last of 710 appearances for the Reds.

3 goals and 3 points which meant we finished 4th and off to the Champions League next season (I'm excited already).

Our seventh - placed finish in the Premier League gave us qualification for the UEFA Europa League, which meant that we were in with a theoretical chance in four trophies this season.

Unable to finish off a narrow and compact team meant our Premier league clash finished Brighton 1 - 1 Tottenham at the Amex Stadium.

The Blues won the Southern League at the first attempt and finished third the following season, which meant they were elected to the Football League on May 30th, 1938.

I mean, they won cups and finished second and might take the points in a Derby, but they only started to win leagues when Juve and Milan were punished for Calcopoli, a game - rigging scandal still in dispute and since which Inter have also been implicated.

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