Sentences with phrase «mikel playing»

Will never forget John Obi Mikel playing even when he was told his father had been kidnapped.

We believe that Chelsea will line up in a familiar 4 -2-3-1 with Fabregas and Mikel playing as the double pivot.

Not exact matches

Wanyama is a good addition when we need someone to replace Flamini, he can play the role of what Mikel is doing at Chelsea We need our own Matic and Yaya Toure to challenge for titles, the minimum we need is Scheiderlein

Our captain Mikel Arteta has retired from playing football this summer, and is believed to have decided to join Pep Guardiola as a coach at Manchester City for the new campaign.

The manager had some good news as well though, as he revealed the club captain Mikel Arteta is back in training earlier than was first thought and could be ready to play after a few weeks of training to get his fitness back.

That left Arsenal with the options of Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini, or at least that is what we thought until Wenger's post-match words last night, reported by Arsenal.com., when the boss revealed his plans to get Abou Diaby playing in that role.

After Mikel Arteta's shocking showing in Dortmund, I really hope that Flamini is fit again, while our defensive frailties suggest that Chambers needs to play at right back rather than Bellerin.

With Theo Walcott, Serge Gnabry, Aaron Ramsey, Yaya Sanogo and Mikel Arteta returning to fitness, this week is very important as it gives the coaching staff at the club a great chance to get everyone playing as a team.

What I wonder is whether us fans will get to see either Mikel Arteta or Tomas Rosicky playing for Arsenal ever again.

With Cesc Fabregas, Nemanja Matic, John Obi Mikel, and others already able to play in central midfield for Jose Mourinho, this could well be yet another youngster who fans will never see actually play for the club.

Arsenal are probably famous for keeping injured players on the books ever since the Diaby fiasco, and more recently we have had Mikel Arteta and Tomas Rosicky given an extra year, when Arteta was patently too old and injury - prone to play again, and Rosicky definitely didn't want to stay and sit on the bench for another year.

It is absolutely brilliant news for Arsenal that their treatment room has been emptied, and Jack Wilshere, Matthieu Debuchy, Abou Diaby, Serge Gnabry and Mikel Arteta all played in Arsenal's Under 21 win over Stoke City reserves.

Etebo Oghenekaro — playing alongside new captain John Obi Mikel in the heart of the park — opened the scoring for Nigeria, managed by interim coach Samson Siasia, in the 60th minute.

Nigerian international Mikel is no longer quite up to the requisite standard of Chelsea and could probably do with ending his career playing regular first team football and a club slightly lower down the food chain.

Sell Mikel for peanuts and get a new CDM instead of a 32 year old not playing in his natural position.

Antonio Conte signed N'Golo Kante from Leicester City this past summer, but with Cesc Fabregas struggling for playing time and John Obi Mikel seemingly leaving Stamford Bridge when his contract expires at the end of the season, the Chelsea midfield will need strengthening.

For bigger games (or to close out games) Jose did play Mikel or Ramires, and we do have those options.

You can be rest assured that 3 out of Mikel, Matic, Zouma and Ramirez will play in this match.

So we have the inevitable calls for Wenger to leave the club, while players like Mesut Ozil, Mikel Arteta and Per Mertesacker are being slated and told they are not good enough to play for the Gunners.

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.

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.

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?

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 -

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.

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.

He has impressed everyone at Charlton in the three games he has played so far and seems to have cemented his place in the side, but with Mikel Arteta and Jack Wilshere succumbing to injury this week we thought it was a certainty that Coquelin would be brought back as emergency cover, at least until the winter transfer window opened.

Mikel Arteta was also our captain last season but he played few games for us.

Flamini and Mikel are enough back ups for the coq, we have Ramsey, Wilshere, etc... There is no need to buy any DM, because someone has to be benched, Coq wouldn't want schneiderlin because they are of the same nationality and they play the same position, they both need play time and space to master their craft.

That being said, it would be a very Jose thing to do if he went and played Loftus Cheek, Ake and Mikel.

We have Flamini, Chambers that can also fill that role, and though I agree, great player that he is, Mikel IS getting on, but, so is Rosicky, and he still has class when he plays.

It's not like he even played a Mikel or Coquelin role.

With Mikel rumoured to be heading for turkey they might find signing diaby a good idea after all, he can join flopcao and play for Chelsea.

You're overstating Coquelins ability if you think he's keeping Schneiderlin / Vidal on the bench, he's quintessentially Arsenals Jon Obi Mikel — a purely destructive player who can be used to see games out and play a defensive system.

«I've played with Mikel for a couple of years now and I played against him [at Everton] when I was at Bolton on loan and he was the best player on the pitch.

With Arsenal showing a new defensive solidity to add to the great attacking flair and ability to keep the ball and create chances, and perhaps looking for a new club captain at the same time, as the current man with the armband Mikel Arteta is getting old and not playing much, you might think that the current vice captain Per Mertesacker would be the player to get the nod from Arsene Wenger.

Arteta plays regularly for us but is he really better than Mikel Obi that only gets a place on d bench.

Song was seen as Arsenal's main midfield driving force, the man to break - up play and push forward, allowing pass - masters Mikel Arteta, Jack Wilshere, Aaron Ramsey (and now Santi Cazorla) to get on the ball.

«Mikel has a huge influence even when he is not playing,» Wenger said.

It would be great if someone like Mikel went into management, so somewhere the spirit of our game can survive through the players who have played for us.

It is very strange to think that Mikel Arteta is the current Arsenal captain, as he has hardly played for us in the last year (and when he has played.....)

In addition, Mikel could play a role for United.

The Arsenal captain Mikel Arteta has only made 11 appearances for the club so far this season, and with only a few games remaining until the end of the season, he is still a week or two away from being ready to play.

Arsenal have already got Francis Coquelin, got the injury to the Frenchman showed that we have inadequate backup in the form of Matthieu Flamini and Mikel Arteta to sustain our fantastic form we have when Le Coq is playing.

«It's easy to play with Alexis Sánchez,» says Mikel Arteta.

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 -... Read the full article here

Mikel Arteta looks set to play as the Defensive Midfielder, as opposed to Jack Wilshere, who was said to land the «anchor role» for Arsenal this season.

As I said earlier, I see nothing wrong with rotating players, changing formation slightly, depending on the opposition, state of the game, fatigue, injuries etc, and Ozil, Rambo, Santi, Alexis, Jack, Mikel and co, should ALL realise that being class does not mean you play every game.

He has not played much for Arsenal recently, with his only two starts so far this season coming in the Champions League and Capital One cup, but at least our club captain Mikel Arteta is fit and available to come in if we need him.

«I was surprised he could play in central midfield as well,» Mikel continued.

I would expect us to NOT play the same x1 EVERY game, against ALL opponents, which, will give the likes of Mezut, Rambo, Jack, Mikel, Santi, Olivier and others the chance to rest instead of flooging themselves twice a week.