Sentences with phrase «league rivals did»

Wenger gives lots of promises and gets a lot of support from from former pros and pundits but if he sells a the latter 2 to a premier league rival I don't think the club will survive even top 4.

Not exact matches

If Alexis does decide to move on, would we rather he went to Germany than join one of our Premier League rivals?

He better had do as well, because if we lose the potential coaching abilities of Arteta after seeing one of our other former captains Patrick Vieira working at our Premier League rivals as well then it will be a real kick in the teeth for the club.

That would be a double blow because not only would we be losing all that experience and know - how but it would be going to help a direct rival and with Guardiola being new to the Premier League we do not want to help him settle in quickly if we can possibly help it.

What we do have though, according to the paper, is competition from La Liga club Atletico Madrid and Premier League rivals West Ham.

It was a rumour that has been doing the rounds and it was not just Arsenal, but our Premier League rivals Chelsea and Liverpool that were said to be keen on the talented young defe3nsive midfield star.

With just a year left on his contract and with Cech having made just six Premier League appearances all season, you can understand why the 32 - year old wants to go but you can also understand why his manager Jose Mourinho does not want him to join and almost certainly strengthen one of his big rivals for the Premier League and other domestic trophy honours.

There were 55 players on that shortlist so it may not sound all that impressive that three of them were Arsenal stars, but that number does look better when you compare it with our Premier League rivals, especially when you consider how much more money the likes of Manchester United and Man City have been throwing around to build their squads.

ALL main rivals have been out of sight below us for most of the season, it doesn't get any easier... yet now we are 6 pts behind Spurs and 9 pts behind Leicester despite being just 2 points from the league leaders at Christmas — with 8 games to go.

The best he has been able to do since that time is to finish 2nd in a league run where all our big rivals flopped, the path was paved and we lost to Leicester.

From the strengthening I've seen our rivals do in this transfer window, with Wenger sitting down with his tail between legs, I'm afraid we may not even qualify for Europa League.

At least Ramsey, as reported by The Guardian, the midfielder was sounding upbeat about the chances of the Gunners doing just that, despite the fact that out next opponents are the league leaders Leicester City who are in fine form and are coming to north London having produced a great away display to put another title rival Man City to the sword.

It will be painful to get knocked out of the cup by our local rivals, but in the long run, do we not have to focus on the Premier League?

Neither of the Milan giants have done enough to suggest that they will be able to legitimately rival Juve this year though, so a scrap for the Champions League and Europa League spots is the best it will likely get for them.

I don't even care if it sounds arrogant, but this is turning out to be our worst season ever, not simply due to the fact a team in the championship two seasons ago has now surpassed us to practically win the premier league, but for all the taunts we've given spurs they look like the only team able to challenge them, this all in a season where our usual rivals have capitulated.

But I think we forget too easily just what a great job Le Prof has done to keep the club in the top echelon of the Premier League and managed to qualify for and progress from the group stages of the Champions League while having no money to spend, at the same time as our rivals were bankrolled by billionaires.

Wenger does not usually act in the January transfer window, despite other rival Premier League managers taking full advantage of it, as shown last season when Mourinho brought in defensive midfielder Nemanja Matic from Benfica.

The blatant truth is that we will always rely on our rivals to drop points, Simply because we're not good enough to fight our own battles to win the league on our own and the sad part is even when they do drop points, we never seem to capitalise on it....

Tottenham Hotspur «s hopes of signing Victor Wanyama has taken a huge blow following reports in Telegraph Sport that Southampton are reluctant to do business with their Premier League rivals.

Not only did the Chelsea boss see his side throw away a two goal lead against Bradford City but he even forget the name of his FA Cup conquerors, mistakenly calling them their Yorkshire and League One rivals Barnsley!

A goalkeeper, central defender, full - backs, defensive midfielder and attacker could form the basis of Mourinho's to - do list this summer, and while they continue to desperately try to qualify for the Champions League, they could be set to send a serious message or two to their rivals ahead of next season.

As already noted, with City so far clear at the top of the Premier League and with almost all their rivals in disarray, it could mean Guardiola can really focus on this competition like few other managers of English clubs have had the luxury of being able to do in recent times.

But if he keeps playing thae way he has been doing, Arsene Wenger could be involved in a six - way transfer tussle with our Premier League rivals in the summer.

Young's first effort wasn't bad either, and while it's taken a while for him to find the back of the net, he certainly did so in style as he continues to play an important role for Mourinho and Man Utd this season as they hope to remain within firing range on rivals Man City at the top of the Premier League table.

The Frenchman does not seem willing to do business the same way as most of our Premier League rivals, though, so we are left hoping that his way of doing things turns out to be successful.

Perhaps just as important, though, is the fact that three of our big rivals for the top four Champions League qualifying places did see players pick up injuries with their national teams.

Or is it more important to simply make sure he does not leave to join a league rival?

Paul Merson of sky sports said Wenger is being very secretive about his business because he didn't want any of the rivals who are in Champion league to steal any of his potential buys cos we all know how good our scouts are

All of our rivals will be in similar situations of course, so we can not complain too much but it does make avoiding the two legged Champions League play - offs extremely important and a big advantage over the team that does finish fourth.

While Mourinho didn't confirm that it was real, he offered a decisive update on the transfer saga which has dragged on for weeks as question marks were raised over whether or not Chelsea would sell to their Premier League rivals.

It also seems clear that the Frenchman knows that we do need another striker of quality to help out the likes of Olivier Giroud and Theo Walcott if Arsenal are to have a real chance of beating our Premier League rivals to the title this year.

Arsenal would not want to see the Germany international move to a Premier League rival, but Lawrenson has poured cold water over the speculation as he does not believe a move to United would be a good fit at all.

The Gunners don't have a good recent record in the league against their fierce rivals, but they can take confidence from the 1 - 0 win when the two teams met at Wembley in the Community Shield clash last month.

We did get our best league finish since 2005, but that was only down to the failings of ALL of our rivals, not because Arsenal improved.

The challenges don't end there, as Real now face city rivals Atletico Madrid in the Champions League final on May 28.

Maybe all those concerned with the success of Arsenal in the Premier League in the coming months will have something to worry about if the reports about this transfer deal turn out to be true and the Spanish international striker Pedro Rodriguez does join our rivals Chelsea from Barcelona this summer.

Maybe we should pay more attention to the stats because according to a Metro report, not only do Ospina's stats stand up to his current rivals in the league, he is the best keeper ever to play more than 10 Premier League league, he is the best keeper ever to play more than 10 Premier League League games.

Apparently they thought that our centre back was entering the final year of his current contract so they could pretty much force us to sell unless Koscielny himself did not want to go and after the saga of us selling Robin van Persie to a direct Premier League rival in Manchester United they would probably have been right, except that they were wrong.

Despite a somewhat disjointed performance from the Arsenal team we did at least manage to earn a point from the Premier League match against top four rivals Man City yesterday and the fans will be hoping that this can be the start of our usual strong finish to an EPL campaign.

Man City are in a completely different league to us, we shouldn't even be considered their rivals so if Alexis doesn't wants to go then let him go, his performances have been disappointing.

I was a little disappointed and surprised to see that the Frenchman did not spend anything in the transfer window after signing Petr Cech but I can also see his reasons and am not too impressed with the players our Premier League rivals have signed.

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When the Foxes start to lose their grip on the Premier League, you may see a similar post from me, but I don't actually believe they are going to fold like a cheap tent, unlike our North - London rivals.

I really hate when Arsenal fans join our rivals to take shots at the fact that we sold our best players in d past, do nt you get it, we had to do so, so as to be at the very comfortable position we are now, looking back wenger did a remarkable job by keeping the team in the champions league while building a stadium, just ask spurds n chelsea y they so desperately want to upgrade their stadium now.

«Boring, boring Arsenal» and «1 - 0 to the Arsenal - were famous chants from rival fans in those days, while other successful spells from the likes of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona have been led primarily by the team's creative and goal scoring prowess, but in general you need to do all parts of the game well to win a major trophy, especially the marathon that is a domestic league.

otherwise if we don't lose any game from now we are not going to win the league if our rivals at the top do nt lose too.lets not take our hopes too high and underestimate any opponent.

Caulker may have played just 18 Premier League games for Tottenham but he did come through their academy and was on the books of our north London rivals for four years after that.

While it's clearly a big boost for United to get one over rivals Manchester City, who had long been tipped as the favourites for the Chile international, Neville also believes Jose Mourinho may have done so out of fear of Liverpool overtaking them in the Premier League.

With all this in mind Koscielny is right to suggest that whilst «we are Arsenal» and no doubt we will pull the strings together to get the «top four job» done, Arsenal have been left behind by their rivals in the Premier League in terms of challenging at the very top.

So, why does Arsenal sell their stars cheap and to a premier league rival?