Sentences with phrase «about rival clubs»

The goalposts are certainly flexible when it comes to the terms of unlawful pursuits of players, with a number of big clubs given huge leeway when it comes to talking about rival clubs stars, and Arsene Wenger is one to claim victim of such offences.

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And meanwhile the other potentially available strikers are being snapped up by other clubs around Europe, including our Premier League rivals, such as Liverpool completing the transfer of Benteke, which I am not happy about.

If the report is right about their targets and the Spanish club is successful then the Gunners have nothing to worry about as it will actually weaken our Premier League rivals, with Man City striker Sergio Aguero, Man United keeper David De Gea and Chelsea forward Eden Hazard on the list.

Most of the papers and sports websites have focused on his comments about the Gunners not being able to beat our big Premier League rivals when it comes to spending power and his suggestions that the club's youth policy combined with an ultra careful and disciplined transfer policy will continue to be the Arsenal way.

The theme was about how Wenger does not buy players needed for club success, how he sells his best players to rivals, and how he is stubborn.

The Frenchman seems to be getting his excuses in early this time, as a Daily Express report shows, by talking about how hard it is to sign good playes in January, due to lfewer top class players being available, clubs being less willing to sell and the competition from rival clubs muddying the waters.

When he was 19 and bossed Barcelona's central midfield single handedly and because of his outspoken views about team - mates, ex-players and rival teams, I expected him to be a future Arsenal Captain and England Captain, another Tony Adams, a one club man.

So possibly the purpose of this is to scared of potential rival, kind of like «We are no longer the «poor» Arsenal, we have resources to outbid most clubs, so don't even think about starting a bidding war with us».

«Finishing below Spurs» If it leads to change in the club management system, then let it be... I don't really care about Spurs, I don't even consider them as rival... More chants and more banners please, we demand change...

It may be annoying for Arsenal fans to hear Jose Mourinho regularly aiming digs at Arsene Wenger and our club and I agree with our manager and others like the Man City boss Manuel Pellegrini who have criticised the Chelsea boss for the way he talks about other clubs and rival managers, but there is only one real way for us to rise above all the mind games and that is to beat him.

That is why I had to have a laugh about one of the latest Arsenal transfer rumours reported by Metro, suggesting that our EPL rivals Manchester United might be the club Sanchez signs for, with Jose Mourinho alleged to have called our player to sound him out.

And while it still looks like the Gunners will fall way short of the spending of some clubs once again this summer, the boss has done a lot more than our north London rivals Tottenham, and according to a Metro report we could be about to give the spuds another roasting in the transfer market.

It's clear that Gunners wanted to capture this player just that little bit more than their rivals and, when you have a wage structure which can't always compete with the very biggest clubs, it's all about working that extra bit hard to sign these sort of players.

Arsenal fans are well aware of this and to be fair we are often the first to criticise Arsene Wenger, our club and our players for any perceived flaw, so I would not be surprised to hear some Gooners as well as the fans of our Premier League rivals being negative about the signing of Alexandre Lacazette from Lyon for what looks like being an Arsenal transfer record of around # 50 million.

But that is also why it seems a bit strange to hear about Mourinho telling his 32 - year old stopper that the identity of his next club would not be an issue and that Chelsea would not stand in his way of joining a Premier League rival as long as the transfer fee, thought to be around # 10 million, was met.

All very honourable from the Prof, except that there are now rumours that plenty of other clubs, including our big Premier League rivals like Chelsea, are not so hesitant about taking advantage of the situation in east London.

While our big Premier League rivals and most other clubs around have spent more and more money on players we have not jumped on the transfer bandwagon and Wenger has often spoke about why he thinks that the ever increasing spending is wrong and perhaps even unsustainable.

After we reported in an earlier Just Arsenal post that while posting on social media to dispel any further Arsenal transfer rumours about his possible move to Premier League rivals Liverpool, Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain appeared to suggest that Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez would be staying with the club, Metro reported that the Chilean himself had dropped the biggest hint yet that his future was with the Gunners.

There is no doubt that Cech is a top - of - the - range keeper who could walk into just about any top club in the world, and I think it very unlikely that the bidding would stop at the suggested price of just # 10 million, but then the question arises as to whether Jose Mourinho would allow the Chelsea legend to even move to one of their direct rivals for the Premiership.

Guardiola's new club Man City are one of those being linked with the possible transfer of Alaba but for most of the week the football press have been talking about another of our Premier League rivals Man United are the most likely to sign him, until this latest twist to the transfer tale emerged.

Funny thing about Dortmund transfer policy was, they willing to let player gone to big rival (Muenchen) for free (during expired contract situation) instead of sold him at reasonable price to align clubs.

So while some Arsenal fans have complained about the big centre forward not being good enough ever since he joined us from the French club Montpellier some years ago, a lot of us and most rival fans think he is pretty good and Giroud feels pretty happy about the credit and respect he gets at club level.

I'm not totally sure how I would have felt about allowing the 23 year - old join a rival club, as his place in our side is limited, and I'm not sure if he will ever earn a first - team role.

I always thought that the opinion on the club's players / managers divide the fans and opinions about the rivals unite them.

The Real Madrid star insists that his club and their rivals in La Liga, Barcelona, are above and beyond any other club in the world and so it would make no sense for him to want to leave, especially as the talk about the new Madrid manager Rafa Benitez not planning to have him as a regular starter have proved to be wide of the mark.

There is a chance that Arsenal Wenger or the Arsenal squad could well find themselves being overhauled in the coming summer, with plenty of talk about change with the club struggling to mount a worthy title challenge, while also struggling to keep pace with their top - four rivals.

They must be something very special about this club that our rivals don't have hence people are jealous about us.

Arsenal FC transfer activities are closely monitored by our big rival clubs of Man Utd, Man City and Chelsea who as soon as they've heard that Arsenal have activated a player's clause or submitted a bid or about to for a player, these very rich rival clubs will start looking for a way to hijack the transfer or spoil it for Arsenal.

The media just loved to bang on about our annual «Wenger trophy» and the fans of rival clubs took up the call gleefully, conveniently forgetting that Arsene Wenger actually achieved amazing things by keeping us in the elite European competition with some heavy financial shackles and serious pressure to deal with.

While Arsenal fans, or a growing portion of them at least, have been moaning for years about the club's lack of ambition and Arsene Wenger having lost his edge, we have still been seen my most rivals as a real threat and by players as a good or at least a decent option to sign for.

We are sorry if we seem ungrateful sometimes Admin, you are really doing a GREAT job making me especially happy and i don't know about any other person cause i might not comment very often but i visit this site every single day of my life to read comments from everyone and it really makes my day... So thank you very much and nevertheless, i personally am tired of reading articles of Alexis Sanchez now... I must admit i personally thought Sanchez was holding Arsenal to ransom before, until Wenger came out to say he has never asked for a transfer request and i think the club has made there intentions known that they don't want to sell him, not even to a title rival and i think that is why city are now going after mbappe, seems they are desperately in need of a striker and if they are that desperate they should fork out 80m for Sanchez if they really need him, I LIKE THE RISK ARSENAL IS TAKING AS REGARDS SANCHEZ..

Its not about the money he takes out of the club or that he doesn't invest, being self sufficient is not a bad thing to be... its certainly better than being loaded down with debt like some of our rivals owners have done to their clubs.

, Which Quite frankly he hasn't done anything this season to justify that increase and Yeah, we could say the same about Walcott's # 140K aweek, But common sense says «unless the Ox starts performing well for the rest of the season, I doubt that Wenger / Arsenal will agree to his wage demands» and therefore The Ox will move on to a rival club in the summer.

After what Sanches said about «he wants champions league footbal next season» that's defenaitly saying he wants to leave and just put the price up of every player we are after and worst deferred from joining us, he should of kept his mouth shut until we finished our deal, so let's do what clubs like Man - U do with players, don't sell him to rivals teams let them train with youth team, players are becoming bigger then clubs they need reminding who pays their wages, if you want to leave do it like a gentelman and not some ungrateful shi7 no one is against you if you go to Bayern who have more chance of wining the CL then City any day of the week

Even if we do eventually miss the title... we would have proven a few points... it wont be for selling our most important players, it won't be because we strengthened a rival club; it wont be because a player became bigger than our club; forced his way out; we would have proven that it is not all about money / gains all the time; we would have had a coach who truly proved he is in charge and will not bulge to a player's pressure etc..

Its about time the club learned from the RVP experience whereby we yeilded, sold him to «a rival» and watched an ex-striker of arsenal's in his peak catapult them to winning the epl.

Tired of the unappreciative arsenal fans being negative about wenger here we have a club legend one that your luckily alive to witness in your lifetime and man who actually loves the club with heart on sleeve remember the growth the consistency the beauty in our football style and being awed at by clubs around the about the joy of watching an arsenal wenger side play yea soon enough he will be gone hes 68 and uh oh there gos the guy who constantly over the years beat spurs made champions league the invincibles put your belief in the team and him relish what we have and in his tenure we get to be one of the few who get to worry oh maybe we wont finish this year but wait will be top five and probably win a cup or make to or near the final for 21 22 years straight phew wow that could be of been worse had me there for a moment thats all i had to worry about as a fan glad im witnessing a club legend real cub passion not a paid fake smile who will go to another club maybe a rival jose mourinho so stop being a silly nanny negative easy to be worse and it will be after he leaves will go up and down for a bit

There are reports all over the football media about Wilshere being a transfer target for our Premier League rivals Man City, with this one in the Daily Star claiming that the Manchester club will open up with a big bid of around # 40 million for the 23 - year old, if they fail to land their primary target Paul Pogba from Juventus that is.

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that Arsenal do not have to worry about Jose Mourinho and Chelsea as a Premier League title rival anymore this season, even though the 15 points that separate us and them at the minute is not insurmountable, the fact that there are also 13 other clubs for Chelsea to get past first makes us pretty safe.

How about we don't do a Robin the Rapist and sell to one of our rivals and keep our best player who is legally bound to our club.

The Italian has found himself at the centre of frequent criticism over recent weeks, and speculation about his future with the club reached fever pitch after they were thrashed 4 - 0 by cross city rivals Atletico Madrid last week.

CaughtOffside understands Jose Mourinho has been in touch with his former club about snapping up the Brazil international, though the Blues are highly reluctant to sell to a Premier League rival.

Danny Rose the Spurs and England left back is the player in question and he was talking about the prof after our manager was linked with the England job, so Rose clearly had other reasons for his comments but the fact is that he has ended up heaping praise on his club's biggest rivals.

The Red Devils have been strongly linked with a move for the Arsenal star, but Ozil will be allowed to talk to clubs from outside of England from January about a prospective free transfer at the end of the campaign, and hopefully he won't join one of our league rivals.

Coaches are paid to produce results on the pitch and yo win trophies for the team.If a coach fails those basic things then he is not go enough and must leave.Sucess or failure comes down to the decisions of the coach ranging from decisions in the transfer market, training methods, team selection, tactics etc.Looking @ the transfer market - Wenger has a shambolic record - failure to act decisively and always acting when it's too late, selling our top players to rival clubs, leaving other positions thin and reinforcing wrong positions especially buying lots of attacking midfielders ignoring defensive positions and failing to buy top class strikers or decent strikers.If Wenger is really serious about winning trophies would he buy a player like Welbeck a fourth choice play at Man United whom Vaan Gaal said is only good for the bench and now he plays every game at Arsenal.Why sell Vemaleen and buy Chambers?

The good news about the EPL table, however, along with the fact that no club has more points than Arsenal, is the position of our big spending rivals Manchester United.

Apart from showing the determination not to sell Alexis Sanchez to a Premier League rival, Wenger did nothing but make the already rich club some more money and we were understandably furious, so it is hardly surprising that the Frenchman is getting so much grief about our sloppy start to the season.

Finally, the club were about to beat their rivals and land their man.

Called The Lillies, the band comprised of Simon Raymonde from the Cocteau Twins, Miki Berenyi and Chris Acland from Lush and Moose's Kevin McKillop and Russell Yates, but they only ever released one record - a flexi - disc given away free with a Spurs fanzine in September 1991 featuring a song called And David Seaman Will Be Very Disappointed About That... The song commemorated the club's 3 - 1 victory over arch rivals Arsenal in the FA Cup semi-finals the previous season.