Sentences with phrase «as gunners manager»

Current New York City boss Patrick Vieira is in the frame to replace Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger as Gunners manager.
Arsene Wenger wants an immediate return to football after he steps down as Gunners manager.
The French boss is expected to announce whether he will be staying on as Gunners manager next season, with his current contract set to expire this summer.
Paul Merson is amongst those who thinks he should call time on his career as Gunners manager, whilst stating he thinks the boss has «lost it».
The Europa League draw has been made and Arsenal will come up against Swedish minnows Ostersunds — a side founded after Arsene Wenger took over as Gunners manager.

Not exact matches

The Gunners all - time top goalscorer Henry had asked to take over a role to coach Arsenal's Under - 18 side this season, but the French boss rejected his approach, and he has since taken up a role under Roberto Martinez as Belgium assistant manager.
During the 20 years that we have had Arsene Wenger as our manager the 11th month of the year is the one which has seen the Gunners take the fewest average points per game, 1.59 compared to the next worst August which is 1.89 and the best which is 2.18 in March.
So I am not surprised to hear our only fit regular central midfielder declare that the Gunners are bound to be better when the manager has a bigger squad of fit players to choose from, as reported by Arsenal.com.
As reported by the Arsenal website the manager did address this issue after the game, with Arsene Wengher admitting that the Gunners were more focused on going forwards and creating chances for the forwards to finish than we were on stopping the opposition.
Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, spoke of his side's disadvantage of playing at home first — therefore the north London outfit will be looking to take a big lead against the Russian side — as the Gunners» record away in eastern Europe is patchy to say the least.
As mentioned, Wilshere won't be able to show his worth to Gunners manager Arsene Wenger, though striker Benik Afobe will be hoping to show his old boss what he's missing.
Now here is one fan with true gunner ambition, if all arsenal fans had your sense of reasoning, our beloved club would be rescued from the clueless, unambitious extortionist disguised as a manager
The Gunners forward had to be substituted against West Bromwich Albion at the weekend, which was followed by comments by the Arsenal manager which described as a «terrible state», with the belief that he had damaged his ankle ligaments.
Before Arsenal played host to Chelsea last weekend in a match that none of us want to remember for long, the interim boss of the blues Guus Hiddink suggested that Arsene Wenger and his very long spell as the manager of a top flight club like the Gunners could soon be looked on as a piece of history, because bosses just do not seem to get anything like that sort of time anymore.
Eredivisie duo Feyenoord and FC Twente are also interested in signing Akpom, but Gunners manager Arsene Wenger wants to retain the services of the England Under - 20s international and has offered this new deal as a result.
It was even better than the first half of the previous season when the Gunners raced to the top of the table and stayed there until the mounting injury crisis saw it all fall apart as the manager had to cope without the likes of Ramsey, Walcott and Ozil.
In fact he had a bit of a shocker and with the two players in front of him in the pecking order, Hector Bellerin and Matthieu Debuchy, being out of contention through injury that gives the manager a problem as he prepares the Gunners for the trip to face West ham in the Premier League on Sunday.
Ozil, however, lays a lot of the credit at the feet of the manager Arsene Wenger, as he says the Gunners were merely following the game plan laid out by the Frenchman.
So, let's respect the Boss views on this case as he is the manager that has the final say on the Gunners.
In fact it could actually help Wenger and the Gunners, because I would expect their manager Guus Hiddink will want their best player of last season back in the side as long as he passes some fitness tests this week.
... the fact is some gunner fans have forgotten that we almost won the league 2 years ago without sanchez nor cech and with the same olivier giroud as our ONLY strike force, and as we know if not for lack of depth and injuries we would av won the league that year... now we av sanchez and cech plus welbeck, we now av the depth, all we need is a fit team and we will win the league next season... I believe in this team and frankly, its high time we put all the doubts away and stand with the team and manager with or without a new striker signing... COYGs!!!
Even a month ago the Gunners may have been in big trouble, but as the manager has been saying recently, the summer signing Granit Xhaka has really come on with his defensive work of late and that means that we should have no problem getting through the next few weeks until the return of Coquelin.
If Arsenal had not managed to break our scoring drought and bag all three points away to Bournemouth today, it could well have been seen as the end of our own challenge, but as it happens the pressure and expectation that the Gunners have been feeling since going two points clear at the start of the year could now be switched to the shoulders of the Leicester players and manager.
The second most important thing in any top team, top manager, top player or any player is their mentality.The gunners squad have zero strength in mentality.If Arsenal had Leicester's mentality last season they'd have won it but people don't even regard mentality as it's deemed not important.
Even if the Gunners do not go on to follow up today's FA cup semi-final win over Man City by beating Chelsea in the final, Wenger will still be tied as the manager with the most wins, but if he and the lads can actually lift the trophy then he will be the top with seven.
Not that many would be able to tell as the England international shone after being put back in the starting XI by manager Arsene Wenger, scoring the Gunners» third goal and generally looking sharp.
Even if he misses the match tomorrow it should not be too big a problem as the Gunners do have cover with the likes of Mustafi, Mertesacker, Holding and Monreal, but it does highlight the failings of our manager and club in the summer transfer window.
The Czech Republic is one of a few first - team players that has not travelled on the club's pre-season tour of Singapore and his absence was explained by Gunners manager Arsene Wenger as the squad arrived in Southeast Asia on Monday afternoon:
There have been a growing number of Arsenal transfer rumours claiming that the Gunners were already preparing for life without Arsene Wenger in charge and that the club had already found the man to replace the Frenchman as manager in the shape of the current boss of Juventus Massimiliano Allegri.
I do honestly believe that the Gunners» all time leading striker will one day be in charge of the club as the manager, but I don't think he's quite ready to take over from Arsene Wenger at this moment in time.
While the Gunners manager believes Welbeck is performing well out wide, it is sure to be a bugbear for the England international who left Manchester United for a chance to play as a regular central striker.
The centre back explained to Arsenal Player that as well as knowing that being out of action is leaving his team mates and manager with a problem to deal with, especially when the Gunners have had so many out of action at the same time, it was really tough on a personal level.
There is something odd going on behind the scenes at Arsenal Football Club and we fans will probably only find out the final outcome when the announcement is finally made about Arsene Wenger and whether or not the Frenchman will be signing a new contract and carrying on as manager of the Gunners.
This has left the Gunners boss to make a decision on who will be fielded in the starting XI, and Mesut Ozil finally looks set to make his debut in the Europa League, with the manager confirming him as one of his starting line - up.
There will have been a few members of the Arsenal squad waiting for the announcement of the first England sqaud chosen by the new manager with more hope than expectation, especially as Sam Allardyce is thought to have something of a grudge against the Gunners as well as his style of football being quite different to that employed by our own boss Arsene Wenger.
Arsenal fans are well aware that as well as looking to use the summer transfer window to bring in new blood and strengthen the current Arsenal playing staff in key areas, the manager is faced with the task of stopping some of the Gunners from leaving our club.
And if you look at the last six games the Gunners have played (4 - 1 against WBA, 4 - 0 against Aston Villa, 4 - 0 against Singapore, 3 - 1 against Everton, 6 - 0 against Lyon and 1 - 0 against Wolfsburg) you can see why the manager and the players are feeling really good about life, especially as we have lifted three trophies from those games.
I guess that the future of Arsene Wenger as the manager of Arsenal could depend on what happens with the Gunners on the pitch over the course of the current season, although I am not sure if winning the Premier League title or another big trophy would make him more or less likely to stay.
There, the German football teacher will follow Arsene Wenger (68), who has been working as a team manager for the Gunners since 1996, and also meet Sven Mislintat (45).
The Gunners look set to hire their new manager in the summer, with Corriere dello Sport claiming Ancelotti is in line to replace Wenger as he finally decides to step down.
The question of when and if Arsene Wenger will step aside and end his long reign as the manager of Arsenal is a subject for debate and will probably depend on how this season goes for the Gunners and how the Frenchman himself feels about carryingh on.
Not only have we missed out on some big name managers who «could» have improved the success of the Gunners, but Wenger's and Arsenal's competition as a whole, has just dramatically increased even further and we should expect all of the Top Six to really strengthen with summer signings!
Paul Clement may have just arrived in the Premiership as Swansea's third manager this season, but considering that he has come straight from the Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich — who are the Gunners next opponents in the Champions League — he had already been involved in working out how to get the better of Arsene Wenger's men.
The fact that Wenger shares the record of most successful FA cup manager ever with another Arsenal boss George Ramsay gives him a good reason to love the famous old trophy, as does the fact that no club has won it more than the Gunners and that our recent back to back triumphs at Wembley ended the long wait for silverware that was becoming a massive monkey on his back.
There is no word on when he will be back from his injury though, so the manager is looking for someone to step up and do the job that the Spaniard normally does for Arsenal, and I think it is Granit Xhaka that the Frenchman has in mind as he spoke about both Gunners in a report on the Arsenal website.
As reported by the Arsenal website, our manager has been speaking about the awesome and varied goal threat that the Gunners are now showing.
It nearly backfired on the Gunners as Debuchy was running on empty in extra time, but the manager got away with it and now has a decision to make about whether to keep the Frenchman in the side for the Chelsea game.
But Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone may have just given the Gunners a boost, as he has today negotiated a contract reduction.
A big - named striker has been on the wishlist of every Gunners fan in recent years, and Zlatan could be the ideal candidate to take the pressure off of the manager, and push us forward as we look to end our 12 - year wait for another Premier League title win.
Arsene Wenger did not come out and directly criticise some of the Arsenal players that have been struggling recently, but you do not need a microscope to read between the lines of what the manager was talking to Arsenal Player about as the Gunners prepare to head south to take on AFC Bournemouth, desperately needing a win to get our Premier League title challenge rolling again.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z