Sentences with phrase «as a youngster from»

Vincent Kompany The two - time Premier League winner was almost signed by Arsenal as a youngster from boyhood club Anderlecht.

The 21 - year - old has been with Saint - Etienne since 2011 when he signed as a youngster from hometown club UJA Alfortville, and netted the opening goal in ASSE's 3 - 0 victory over Amiens on Saturday after being given an opportunity in the Stephanois» first team.

Arsenal will be receiving around # 5 million for the defender, who came through the ranks at Arsenal after joining the club as a youngster from Wimbledon in 2004.

Greening actually joined United as a youngster from York City, having already made his league debut for that club.

The picture blames his latent tendencies on an overbearing mother (Dame Judi Dench) who'd cruelly discouraged him as a youngster from exploring his curiosity about cross-dressing by issuing dire warnings like, «I'd rather have a dead son than a daffodil for a son.»

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The 22 - year - old moved to PSG from LOSC Lille in 2013, switching to the capital club as one of the most highly - rated youngsters in the French game.

It therefore seems as if Umtiti will get his move to a bigger club this summer, but I think Arsenal should still attempt to make a last ditch bid to try and hijack the youngster from Barcelona's grasps.

The second is the Spanish youngster Jon Toral, who arrived from Barcelona's La Massia academy at the same time as Hector Bellerin.

Its seems to me that both the club and it's fans are not serious.Anytime Arsenal sign a youngster from another team who is dubbed the next whatever people come out and say Arsenal have just signed a youngster who may or may not make it and that Arsene should sign ready made.They say it to seem as if it's a bad thing.Now that Chris Willock is leaving I'm anticipating that a lot of people are soon going to be blaming the same Wenger who actually likes bringing in youngsters.Anyway you have to look at the reasons he lfet.It's for game time and to him he thinks its a good choice.The bright side is that he's not Arsenal's most talented player.The likes of Donyell Malen, Yassin Fortune, Reiss Nelson in my eyes have more potential as wingers.I also think Arsenal should be very excited about Eddie Nketiah and Stephy Mavididi.They can be world class strikers in the future particularly Eddie.

Icardi has also attracted interest from several Premier League clubs in recent months, with the likes of Manchester City and Liverpool linked with making a bid for the talented youngster, as reported by the Metro.

As a result, Chelsea should brace themselves for an approach from Ajax for West African youngster Traore.

As I said, we have a huge squad, so we should be able to put a few youngsters and enough squad players to go past the group stages and from the 1/4 finals up if we play our best squad, we can win it and why not?

The Portugal international has developed a reputation as a tough tackling central midfielder and is seen by many as the ideal signing to add much needed power to the Gunners squad, but they could face strong competition from rivals Manchester United, who are also interested in the youngster as Mirror Online revealed last month.

21 year old Colombian James Rodriguez has been a huge success since his move to FC Porto from Argentine side Banfield and Sir Alex Ferguson will have been dismayed to hear the youngster's asking price increase so drastically so moves to use Portuguese winger Nani as part of any deal to land the goal - scoring winger may be a wise way to get a deal completed.

Only this week fellow Chelsea youngster Charly Musonda, who is also extremely highly rated, claimed his club had turned away offers to sign him from Arsenal, as well as Manchester United and City, but with Quina yet to sign a permanent contract the Blues were powerless to stop him from moving on.

I'm looking for a good performance from the youngster again tonight, and I hope to see him back in the first team as soon as possible and let Chambers replace him in the reserve side for a while.

Sorry again Ken but I've been a supporter as youngster since ’58 and the players you reeled off we're from my era, your era, being five or six years before me I thought would have included the likes Kelsey, Evans Tapscott, Forbes, Fotheringham, Roper, Holton and feel you'd have Jimmy Logie more than once

However, poaching the youngster from New York Red Bulls will be tough for Reading, as Real Madrid are also after the youngster.

An improved display from Arsenal youngster Calum Chambers as they battled to a 2 - 1 win at Newcastle United.

When the measure, known as Proposition 42, was approved on a second ballot (after having been voted down only a day earlier), it touched off a fire storm of criticism, mostly from coaches who stand to lose the services of youngsters whose academic prowess has not kept pace with their athletic skills.

The 19 - year - old scored five goals from midfield as Chelsea's youngsters conquered Europe, including the winner in the final as the Blues beat PSG 2 - 1 in April.

As one might imagine, leveling allegations of cheating against the beloved hometown champs — no less, a squad of African - American youngsters presumably from some of the poorest neighborhoods of this Midwestern metropolis — did not endear him to fellow Chicagoans.

Arsenal have a good record of developing young players from the lower leagues, and as such may be a preferred option for the youngster, having seen Aaron Ramsey, Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain recently join from the Football League and flourish at the Emirates Stadium.

Pogba rejoined United from Juventus last summer after shining in Serie A, and fans will surely be largely satisfied with the way he's settled in after failing to make it at Old Trafford as a youngster earlier in his career.

OT: Dortmund are making a last ditch attempt to hijack the Jadon Sancho deal from Arsenal.They are telling the player that they are the best possible team to give him first team chances and can improve his career as a youngster citing Ousmane Dembele as an example.The player wants out because he does not see a clear path to the first team in Man City.Their actions are possibly slowing down the announcement of a deal for Sancho.Jadon Sancho is regarded by many as the best U18 talent in UK.

Man Utd evidently rate Angel Gomes very highly as if his reported contract is a reflection of their faith in him, they're expecting big things from the youngster.

Our player of the season so far?Certainly the most consistent.JACK AND OZIL CONTRACTS - just get them signed up for F *** S SAKE.Jack doesn't want to go anywhere and Ozil will have his choice of big clubs to choose from if allowed to be able to go on a free.How about giving out a statement of our ambitions (yeah right) and show were prepared to pay whatever it takes (up to the point of being ridiculous) to SIGN the best and KEEP the best» These two are the best we have so get them sorted early to send out a message of how serious we intend to be.AUBAMEYANG - So what if he has a contract.So did Sanchez.Offer the right money to Dortmund and the player and he will be ours.What is there to question over this deal?He is a proven goalscorer.We have just lost one.Get the deal done.GIROUD - Get rid of him to Dortmund if they want him either by selling or if it sweetens the deal just loan him till the end of the season.He was a back up when Sanchez was here and will be on the mix of back ups if Auba signs.He has a World Cup squad to fight for just to be considered so needs to be playing every week.We do not need him if Auba signs and would demand better than him if the deal fails to happen.Just get rid.JONNY EVANS - I'm not sure.Agree Kos needs nursing through games and we do not have consistent performers to come in if he is injured or rested mainly due to both Chambers and Holdimg not progressing through as much as we first thought and hoped for.Gooners have always been patient and supportive of the youngsters as they have come through but question marks to the whole coaching staff as to why these two seem to have stalled as much as they have done.Steve Bould - What do you do?You should be ashamed.

Isak is a highly talented youngster who has attracted interest from all around Europe, particularly Real Madrid as noted in the report above, who will be left bitterly disappointed at missing out on him.

Problem is he is also under third party ownership and Sporting is asking for silly money (as they only get a fraction of the transfer fee)-- over 30M for a highly potential but unproven in big league youngster Is anyone excited that we are getting Rabiot from Paris SG.

Mignolet would be keen to raise his profile by moving to a big club as he looks to regain the Belgian number one spot from Chelsea youngster Thibault Courtois.

Elneny with a weak a ** jump in the box from the cross and then the youngsters just stood there and watch as the loose ball was blasted in the roof of the net.

The Danes have a host of youngsters to choose from to replace him, among them Kasper Kusk, Emil Larsen, Casper Sloth, Thomas Delaney, Jacob Ankersen and Danny Olsen, the latter two being uncapped as yet.

On one hand you think that 20 goals at 21 years old isn't too bad, but then again he is playing in an arguably poor division and if he is truly «hitting the heights» as a promising wonderkid, as Wenger seems to believe, then I would have expected some real kind of impressive tally and talent coming from the youngster.

However, the first of those two games has come and gone and the Arsenal youngster did not spend a single minute on the pitch apart from the warm up as he was an unused substitute.

So it appears that the youngster from Stamford Bridge is not seen as a replacement for Lacazette and so we still need Lyon to find a replacement for Lacazette before Arsenal can hope to seal the deal.

When he burst on the scene in 2013/14 this was an obvious weakness; with Bilbao often stretched on the counter attack as balls bounced off Laporte's head, and the youngster relying on his pace to recover from his mistakes.

A developmental youngster as the 3rd QB is fine (if you think they'll get poached from the practice squad).

Indeed, as a 16 - year - old, Millwall youngster Samba was a must - buy on FM for every club from Blackburn Rovers to Barcelona.

Sessegnon may well be overlooked as we may prefer to look at more experienced players to come in and overthrow the duo, but I would hate to see us miss out on this youngster, who has already attracted interest from the likes of Chelsea and Liverpool also.

In hindsight perhaps the youngster should not have played against Tottenham, because as soon as he joined the Spain side the problem became more apparent and he was pulled out of training and eventually dismissed from the squad altogether.

The Blues advanced with goals from Diego Costa, Willian, Gary Cahill, Eden Hazard and Bertrand Traore as they eventually made their quality count against a much - changed lineup from Manuel Pellegrini that featured several youngsters with the Champions League in mind.

And not only does the former Gunner think that the Frenchman has got his discipline just right in that really tricky defensive midfield role, he believes that there is a lot more to come as he has seen a steady improvement from the youngster.

Chelsea elected to bring in Radamel Falcao on loan from AS Monaco and have signed youngster Kenedy and Stoke City keeper Asmir Begovic.

Wilshere of course spent time away from the club previously when he signed on loan for Bolton as a youngster.

The Arsenal youngster Calum Chambers came to Arsenal as a right - back from Southampton, but Arsene Wenger seems to have the idea of turning him into a versatile player and was originally training him as a central defender and more recently giving him lessons in the central midfield.

If Crowley was to stay at Arsenal for the upcoming season, it was likely we may have seen him in the early rounds of the domestic cup competitions, but aside from that, he would've been stuck amongst the youth ranks and sadly the youth team isn't known for giving players that professional edge that they need when developing as a youngster.

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A superbly talented French youngster, Adrien Rabiot has attracted interest from Premier League clubs such as Arsenal and Chelsea in recent times after struggling to establish himself as first choice with PSG.

A great player to have in the squad as a player for the youngsters to look up to and learn from, as is Rosicky.

It used to be that we would steal youngsters from top clubs like Barcelona with the promise that they could become the next young Arsenal star, but now it would appear that Wenger's youth project is falling apart as well...