Sentences with phrase «mikel del»

Midfield is often the decisive battleground in our encounters with Arsenal and Fabregas and the impressively solid John Mikel Obi will have their work cut out to spike the leaders if they are the combination selected.

Little Mozart and club captain Mikel Arteta both received their well deserved send off's from the club, but Frenchman Flamini seemed to hide in the shadows, with his future being up in the air.

Arsene Wenger replaced him with Mikel Arteta but you could see straight away that the Spaniard did not have the same presence and bite.

Probably, the best moment I've had from Mikel since he came.

Arsene Wenger has been trumpeting the mantra that he wants to keep this excellent Arsenal squad together for next season, and he has already been in contract talks with many Gunners who are nearing the last year of their current deal, including Theo Walcott, Chuba Akpom and Mikel Arteta who have hardly played at all for the first team this season.

I rate Arteta higher than Mikel.

More recently Mikel Arteta also made the move to Manchester City to work alongside Pep Guardiola at the start of the current season.

If mikel arteta feels annoyed about yesterday's shambolic defensive display, in us letting a 3 - 0 lead slip to a 3 - 3 draw, how do he thinks us arsenal gooners supporters feel?

Its funny how Wenger always said that he will only buy players that are better then what's already at the club and he still ended up signing the likes of Andre Santos, Mikel Silvestre, almunia etc etc..

This has also been shown in the past with new contracts for the likes of Mikel Arteta, Tomas Rosicky and (dare I say it) Abou Diaby amongst many others.

Vermaelen looked like he could've been a strong captain, but injury concerns kept him out of the side, the same of which goes for Mikel Arteta.

Then you have the likes of Jack Wilshere, Tomas Rosicky and Mikel Arteta who did feature last year but have had disappointing seasons with little time on the pitch this time and would surely love to end it on a high and on the pitch.

Santi Cazorla is said to be available for # 10 Million, having struggled with injuries this season, and could follow fellow experienced midfielders Tomas Rosicky, Mathieu Flamini and Mikel Arteta out of the door.

But the Frenchman has resisted the urge to make any changes from the away win at Sundertland last weekend, so Theo Walcott and Aaron Ramsey remain on the bench, while Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini both start in the centre of the pitch.

Sissoko is a regular in Didier Deschamps» national team set - up but may be interested in a high - profile move that could secure a taste of Champions League action though it's not instantly obvious as to how the marauding midfielder would fit into the Chelsea starting eleven given the presence of the likes of Nemanja Matic, Ramires and John Obi Mikel.

When Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel carried out a similar tackle to Arsenal's Mikel Arteta last season, Mourinho responded of Arsenal's reaction to the challenge: «They like to cry — that's tradition.

Mikel lost his place and he may never recover it.

They've lost Mikel Arteta, Tomas Rosicky and Mathieu Flamini and although none of them played on a regular basis last season, you need a big squad of players.

Mathieu Flamini, Mikel Arteta and Tomas Rosicky are all leaving, with their contracts having ended, and will need to be replaced.

In the summer of 2014 Mikel was made the club captain, but after playing just twelve games he was cruelly injured and ended up having an ankle operation last Christmas -

However, the Englishman has struggled to win a regular starting berth in the west Londoners» midfield so far in this campaign, with returning Chelsea head coach instead opting to go with the likes of Ramires, John Obi Mikel and now since the turn of the year, new # 21m capture from Benfica Nemanja Matic.

«The squad is better equipped now, Gabriel is putting (Per) Mertesacker under huge pressure and (Francis) Coquelin is in midfield instead of (Mikel) Arteta and (Mathieu) Flamini who are maybe coming to the end of their careers.

Ramsey would be the ideal player to come into the centre but we also have Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini, so is it time for the manager to shuffle the side around a little and to make us of Santi's versatility and wing play?

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I am sure the likes of Aaron Ramsey, Mikel Arteta and Jack Wilshere will have had their pride stung on Tuesday, so I am expecting them to come out and prove that it was a one - off.

Translating that to Arsenal, who use Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini as their two defensive midfielders, with Abou Diaby ever so oblivious, they too face this problem.

And we have still seen nothing of Mikel Arteta or Abou Diaby and they were supposed to be well on the way back to match fitness ages ago.

He did a dam good job however I don't see a problem with getting Vidal or Shneidlin as they would make us more stable jus like how Chelsea got Magic when they had Mikel and Ramirez.

What does seem easier to predict is that the Arsenal midfielder's Tomas Rosicky, Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini will no longer be part of the playing staff.

Barring Sanchez and Welbeck, ever since he made the move from United, many of Arsenal stars — Mesut Ozil, Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere and Mikel Arteta — have been struggling for form, fitness and confidence.

Mikel Arteta is not the man to lead Arsenal into the future.

Arsene said of Mikel Arteta.

But now with Matthieu Flamini and Mikel Arteta getting on in years, we probably need a back up to Coquelin for next season to really provide cover and take us to the next level.

«Arsenal need to look at signing a new centre - half and definitely a central midfielder because people like Mikel Arteta may leave in the summer.

Tomas Rosicky, Mathieu Flamini and Mikel Arteta are all out of contract come the end of the season, which will free up space for three additions to our squad.

As reported by The Guardian, Wenger had nothing but bad news for us on the injury front, with the innoucuous lloking knock picked up by Mikel Arteta revealed as a calf problem that will see Arsenal without their captain and best deep lying midfielder for a lengthy period of time.

Chelsea great Alan Hudson has insisted that that time has come for Jose Mourinho to sell under - performing midfielder John Obi Mikel.

Midfielder Mikel Arteta and strikers Jermaine Beckford and Ayegbeni Yakubu were sold to Arsenal, Leicester and Blackburn respectively for about # 15million.

The injury situation at the Emirates may be easing, but Arsene Wenger will still have to do without a long list of key players such as Mesut Ozil, Theo Walcott, Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere, Mikel Arteta and Laurent Koscielny.

Prolific PSG strikers Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edinson Cavani were both on the scoresheet in France, but John Obi Mikel's crucial away goal has given the Blues something to hang onto.

We have been losing players at a regular rate ever since the season started, with Kieran Gibbs, Mikel Arteta, Per Mertesacker, Flamini and others picking up little knocks, while Nathieu Debuchy and Olivier Giroud have had to have surgery and will not be available until some time around the new year.

Because our young midfielder has revealed that he has spoken to Wenger about possibly being used for Arsenal in the same way that Roy Hodgson has begun to use him for England with considerable success, but the Prof seems dead set against it, even though Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini have sometimes struggled in the deep lying midfield role.

Also rans are Mike Williams, Andre Ware, Titus Young, Kyle Van Noy and (for me) Mikel Leshoure (for some reason I had really high hopes for him, maybe I'm just a sucker for RBs with dreads)

I said something here some few years Ago when Mikel Arteta was still playing for us that he would make a good Manager in future... now that he is assisting Pep at Man - City my prediction will soon be realised.

Chelsea subs today: Cech, Zouma, Ake, Mikel, Loftus - Cheek, Cuadrado, Remy.

You can't carry on with players like John Obi Mikel, you need better players than that in midfield,» Hudson told Reuters.

However, Mikel has failed to impress and it's perhaps little coincidence that some of his appearances for the Blues have coincided with their poorest results of the campaign.

Raheem Sterling went on to add a fifth in the second half, and though Mikel Arteta grabbed one back from the spot, nothing could take away from the fact that the Gunners suffered a beating at the hands of a rampant Liverpool team.

Mikel Arteta's game by numbers for Arsenal vs. Dinamo Zagreb: 0 chances created 0 tackles won 0 aerial duels won 0 shots 0 crosses Yet according to Wenger, there are no better players out there.Sums up his delusion

some of there quality squad players will move on (cech, Felipe luiz, mikel, Ramires?)