Sentences with phrase «as a football club over»

One man on that list is Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone, but for Balague, it would be a very risky decision despite the Argentine's class as it would go against everything that has been engrained into Arsenal as a football club over the last 20 years.

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No club has ever benefited from being taken over by an American, as they all use the club to make as much money as they can, rather than being a football enthusiast, which I think Usmanov is.

Those that love Wenger don't need to worry if he coaches Arsenal or not as he can decide to become a golfer and they will still love him but those of us that Love Arsenal Football club want a Successful club and so we want a coach that can propel the team and from what we have seen over the years Wenger isn't the one..

This campaign, the Merseyside club have been even more impressive, as Klopp has overseen the Reds all but secure Champions League football, as well as have a foot in the semi finals of the same competition after their 3 - 0 first leg victory over Man City.

Throw in a WC RW, CB & ST i would guarntee Arsenal fans would pay the prices asked now, as we have payed huge amounts as it is over the years and nothing has changed, we are used to it but ur spot on — Paying massives amounts of hard earned money to watch average players playing for our great club in a brand new top of the range football stadium paid by its fans.

When the club football gets back underway after the annoying international break is over, the Gunners could have as many as seven first team players on the sidelines.

Again, it is just incomprehensible, unacceptable and basically wrong that a manager earning one of the highest wage in world football and gracefully enjoying a total control over the financial as well as sport sides of a club, can not deliver trophies, major trophies on a regular basis...

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

When Arsene Wenger first took over as the new manager of Arsenal Football Club over 18 years ago, the Frenchman was not very well known but he soon became known around the world for his innovative ideas, both on and off the pitch.

We have in our possession one of the most over rated (especially over rated as he might the worse player in the squad first team and youth included... A total liability) and overpaid football player in the history of Arsenal football club: Theo Walcott.

Its a sad day for football as the last loyal manager leaves his club, there will probably never againg be a manager who stays at one club over 10 years..

Let's get real here.It is very unlikely that ANY professional player will ever say anything derogatory about a teammate that has just left the club.If Jack had said about Coq - «Grew up playing with him in the Youth Team and have fond memories of a player they though he had very limited ability he always gave his all.Very surprised and disappointed the club never invested in a World Class defensive midfielder that we have quite obviously been lacking for a number of seasons and would no doubt have improved the defensive weakness we have shown over a number of seasons» we would have echoed his thoughts entirely.If he had said about Theo - «A player who should have been so much better than he ended up being.He had everything needed to be a prolific player for our club but I can understand the fans frustrations with his continued lack - lustre performances and total lack of a football brain.I think this is best explained by the managers preference to play a player of such limited ability as Alex Iwobi in front of Theo pretty much says it all» we again would have all nodded our agreement.Although Jack never mentioned Alexis Sanchez I would imagine something along the lines of «If the Manager had not persisted with players with such limited ability such as Francis and Theo and instead bought the world class players needed into the club then Sanchez would still most likely be here.The fans must wonder what the hell goes on at the club as they pay fortunes for the privalage of following our club but it seems the millions generated ends up purchasing a new Texas Ranch for the Owner or in a yearly renumeration of # 9million pounds to our manager».

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

You said it yourself — «sales pitch» — they shouldn't be making a sales pitch to him, it is illegal, tapping up, which Liverpool have been heavily involved in, plus he has the same agent as Sterling, who seems very dodgy — the FA should be over this guy like a rash, but the dear FA seem very reluctant to tackle anyone with money, as you can see by all the dodgy people they allow to be owners of football clubs.

There have been reports in the football media over the last year or so that the Germany international star Mario Gotze could be ready to leave his Bundesliga club and Arsenal were one of the big clubs who were spoken about as a potential destination for the exciting young attacking player.

It is madness to do the same thing over and over, and expect different results, in this case, REAL success as a football club.

I've seen good and bad times over the years but the fiasco which currently surrounds our club and has rival fans laughing at us as it gets worse is as unacceptable to us as the football we played against Liverpool recently or Bayern Munich last season.

It's a day to celebrate the independence of this football club as it will once again put it's own priorities over one employee.

Without European football, Liverpool, and especially Chelsea (no League cup either), have got a huge advantage over the other big clubs this season, which could prove decisive, as we saw with Leicester.

How low can you get, why buy a player who has played 9 years for Manchester United who over almost his entire career sees both Mr Wenger as a Manager and Arsenal football club a long term rival and enemy to his formar club.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes

Pod and Campel are overrated by Arsenal fans and better for their career and development to find other club... Hayden and Bellerin still need time to develop as EPL footballers... The 2nd goal should be denied by Ospina, but let's not judge him by only one match... Wenger era is over.....

To its credit Arsenal rose to become the fifth most valuable football club in the world over that period, while cementing its position as a top four team in the EPL and a top eight team in Europe.

Until this tiny petty manager and owner leave football to the real passionate experts out there we won't even exsist as a top club so we're better off waiting for that day to come in 2/3 years and hope usamanov is the man to take over and cleanse the whole club from top to bottom and rid of Wengers cancer and loosers who get paid way to much just to install a tiny weak loser mentality and petty training and transfers Tactics with teeny weeny transfer fees and huge wages for mediocre staff n players Bring on 2020

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

Ever since Arsene Wenger took over as the manager of Arsenal Football Club almost two decades ago now, there has been a strong French element to the Gunners squad and that is no different today.

«If all else fails at Portsmouth, Fratton Park can only be used for football, and we'd hope the council will take it over as a community club.

Your right there trevor we ALL «want» to believe as we all do every season, yet every season threres something that stands in our way, now the majority of us on this site and arsenal fans in general are NOT skilled in the ways of managing and running a modern top class football club, but, the majority of us have a degree of common sense and the ability to problem solve on a reasonable level, and this is where over the years many many fans have become so disillusioned with AW.

when per and kos played together kos was always having to cover behind per for the over the top ball into space, and yesterday he wasnt gabriel was tracking across to help kos and likewise it looked like it could develop into a top partnership However i do not think per will stay on the bench all season, as captain / vice captain wenger wont allow it Is it me or ever since the WC and retiring from international football, does mertesacker look less motivated to play, he isnt even trying to run back whenever the ball is played over him and he is always taking the easiest possible option Hope that we can sell per in the summer and buy van dijk but i very much doubt there is a club out there that will want to buy mertesacker

Liverpool simply can not rival this level of power; over the Ferguson era, Manchester United developed into a truly global club, with it being traded on the NYSE, dominating English football during the growth of commercial football, and with a club value of the same calibre as Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Wilfried Bony has also made a return to the club, but with so little football played over the last few seasons, it'll be difficult for him to have the same impact as he did when last at the club.

The inelegantly named Home Bargains are used as a prism to analyse the FA Sunday Cup, the ridiculously over endowed but underachieving football town of Northwich is introduced and we learn of junior super team Fletcher Moss Rangers — the Senrab FC of the North — the club that begat Jesse Lingard, Marcus Rashford, Danny Welbeck and others.

It was a big relief in respect of football as an entertainment and brought further joy in victories over Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Liverpool and the two Manchester clubs.

Mourinho's affection for Manchester United, due to the club's history and status within world football, is well known and the speculation linking the two has grown over the course of the season as the Red Devils continue to stutter along under Van Gaal's management.

Dr. Xia plans to build a football empire based on the same model as Manchester City, who have sister clubs all over the world — New York City FC in USA, Melbourne City FC in Australia, and Yokohama F. Marinos in Japan.

As the European championships are drawing closer to a fantastic end, football clubs all over Europe, especially in England, are gearing up for the domestic football to begin - to set pulses racing for fans and everyone who is involved alike.

Guardiola has told Manchester City executives that Pogba is his top target when he takes over from Manuel Pellegrini as the club's manager in June and director of football Txiki Begiristain has been tasked with securing the transfer.

Mike, it's none of my business how other football clubs are run — over the past 150 years or so prior to FFP, there has been nothing set in stone as to the right or wrong way to run a football club.

There are reports that retired Danish footballer and Ex-Manager of Qatar Stars League club Lekhwiya, michael laudrup, might take over at Ajax as coach Frank de Boer resigns.

Over last 10 years, the revenue we controlled as a football club in the most successful financial decade in the history of sport, has grown 14 per cent, that's not even inflation.

Today at 12:56 pm - Paris Saint - Germain are reportedly ready to offer Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger the chance to take over as the club's director of football...

Valencia have clearly struggled over the past few seasons and the fallen giants of Spanish football have been left in a limbo recently after Cesare Prandelli abruptly resigned from his post as manager of the club.

Forgotten Friday looks at a team as opposed to an individual this week as we look back on the demise of Middlesbrough F.C. Middlesbrough are a football club that have gone from Premier League to Championship over the last number of years.

This summer will see Chelsea Football Club wave goodbye to Samsung as our shirt sponsor with Yokohama taking over.

As one the most recognisable and successful football clubs in history, Manchester United have certainly had some of the best players in the world over the years.

From there it will be Allardyce's patented blend of strong defensive discipline and direct no nonsense football that will keep the club afloat, as it has done with many clubs over the years.

As Jack Wilshere returns to both club & international football after a monumental seventeen months on the sidelines, plenty of Jack Wilshere Quotes have emerged for us to disect & gossip over.

Rare is the day that your favorite football club garners goal production from both the back and front line, but that's exactly what Juventus did over the weekend in Serie A. First, the Bianconeri's No. 9 Moise Kean — with pinpoint precision — sent a ball past Gianluigi Donnarumma, and a few hours later center back Mattia Caldara — lurking in the six - yard box like a ravenous tiger — headed home a cross as if he were Italy's best target forward.

Walcott came to Arsenal from Southampton in January 2005, after being highly touted by top clubs all over England, as the next big thing in English football.