Sentences with phrase «ahead of a number of clubs»

Not exact matches

Boss Paul Lambert is keeping tabs on the Ulster - man ahead of a proposed summer shake up at Villa Park that will see a number of established stars head through the exit as the club continue their quest to lower the wage bill.

However, since the emergence of 23 - year - old Thibaut Courtois into the Chelsea first - team at the beginning of the 2014 - 15 campaign — following a three - year loan spell with Atletico Madrid — the youngster has been firmly established as the club's number one, ahead of Blues legend Cech.

The 29 - year - old, formerly of Napoli, has not quite settled into life in the French top flight and may be offloaded as the club look to adhere to Uefa's Financial Fair Play regulations, meaning a number of sides could do well to snap him up ahead of next season.

Mustafi is a transfer target for a number of European sides this summer, including Premier League teams Arsenal and Chelsea and although the latter club were the previous front runners to make a deal, the last 48 hours have seen Arsenal pull ahead.

The Man United boss has a fairly large playing squad, with 32 at the club and another seven out on loan and now Ferguson is ready to trim the numbers ahead of possible new signings in the summer.

At the age of 20, both players have shown themselves to be ahead of a number of their peers in that age group, establishing themselves as regulars for club and country already.

It says something about how desperate United's goalkeeping situation was for a couple of years, as Carroll was often trusted ahead of Fabien Barthez and Tim Howard to be the club's number one.

After 785 student - athletes raced 1000s of miles supported by 1000s of coaches, parents, and supporters in the historic Dirt Club venue SoCal came out ahead in the number of individual state championships won (7 - 4) but NorCal showed its strength in depth by winning all three divisions of team competition.

Like last season there's a number activities for all the family at the Club's PPG Canalside fanzone, kicking off at 10 am ahead of Town's match against Newcastle United.

Since Jose Mourinho took charge of Manchester United ahead of 2016 - 17; these two clubs have won the exact same number of points in the Premier League (89).

While large numbers of matches across all of the other professional divisions in England were cancelled, all Premier League fixtures went ahead with the clubs reporting a total average attendance of 94.84 % of the capacity of their stadia.

Real Madrid had the chance to make up some ground on Barcelona in La Liga, after the Catalan club rested a number of first team players ahead of their Champions League trip to Paris Saint - Germain on Tuesday.

And Birmingham are among a number of clubs to show an interest in Colin ahead of Thursday's transfer deadline.

But, with six months to look for ways to circumnavigate the regulations, speculation has increased once again that a number of well - known foreign players are destined to join Chinese clubs ahead of the 2018 season.

«I am obviously delighted that he chose us ahead of a number of other clubs and I think he will do really, really well for the team.

Calciomercato claim that the Liverpool striker is unsettled at Anfield and that a number of clubs have been alerted to his possible availability ahead of the January transfer window.

And that means Arsenal do top the list of Premier League clubs with the highest number of different hat - trick scorers, ahead of Chelsea (17), Liverpool (14), Everton (13), Man Utd (12), Newcastle and Tottenham (10).

Chelsea continue to be linked with a number of players this summer, but the club are yet to confirm any new signings ahead of new season.