Sentences with phrase «as strikers during»

He has three years remaining on his current deal, and his new manager Carlo Ancelotti has recently ruled out any departure for the 27 year - old, as well as ruling out any arrivals as strikers during the window also.

It also makes some sense why we were being liked with as many wingers as strikers during the transfer window.

Its just a fall back option else Robert Huth would have been starting as striker during Jose first coming.

Lucas has scored two goals in his Arsenal career so far, both whilst playing as a striker during the fixture against Nottingham Forest.

Mulley has known Joshua since he was 15 years old, and The Hampton & Richmond Borough winger said Joshua was an imposing central defender who was also good as a striker during his teenage years.

Not exact matches

He had problems to adapt to Wenger mediocre gameplay and little ambition... He showed his best during the first half of the season as Central Striker untill guess who changed him back to the wing... yes «Marvellous knows it all» Arsene Weneger.

Just putting it out there but I would like to see the Ox given a go as a central striker sometime during the season.

The 28 - year - old has established himself as one of the most prolific strikers in Europe during his spell with Borussia Dortmund, as evidenced last season with 40 goals in 46 games.

Llorente emerged as one of the world's most exciting strikers during his time with former club Bilbao, particularly in the 2011/12 season when his 29 goals in all competitions helped the unfancied Basque side to the Europa League final, and he memorably struck a superb volleyed goal against Manchester United in the first knockout round.

England striker Wayne Rooney needs just four goals to surpass Sir Bobby Charlton as the Three Lions» all - time leading goalscorer, and is hopeful that he'll be able to reach the mark during the upcoming games against Lithuania and Italy.

Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic seemed to be in a tetchy mood for much of the evening as his nation picked up a point on the road at Austria in their opening Euro 2016 qualifying match, with the PSG man lucky to stay on the pitch after appearing to elbow David Alaba during the first half.

Last term Dimitar Berbatov bagged nine goals for Ligue 1 side AS Monaco and was a regular in their Champions League campaign and the stylish striker has a strong Premier League pedigree having scored 94 goals in the English top tier during his time at White Hart Lane, Old Trafford and Craven Cottage.

The striker netted on 23 occasions during the current campaign and firmly established himself as Aston Villa's number one goal threat.

His tenure at Old Trafford last year was largely forgettable as he struggled to find the form that once made him one of the most feared strikers in European football during spells with Porto and Atletico Madrid.

Morata was once again dropped in today's Premier League fixture with Man City and it appears that Conte prefers to field Eden Hazard as a false nine rather than playing a conventional striker during big matches.

Two other strikers will definitely leave Chelsea during the off - season, as Radamel Falcao and Alexandre Pato will not have their loan deals renewed.

The Benzema problem is also affecting the Gunners striker Olivier Giroud, as some in France believe that he should be second choice to Karim and are jeering Olly during games.

The in - demand striker has been the most prolific striker in the Bundesliga thus far this season — even comfortably out - scoring Bayern Munich hotshot Robert Lewandowski — uploaded a photograph of him on an aircraft on Instagram, leading BvB supporters to speculate as to where he was traveling during the January transfer window.

In my opinion, as Arsenal now have two players in Alexis and Lucas, who can both either play as a striker or as a winger, I think it would be good for the pair to perhaps interchange, even so during matches.

Mikel Arteta is Arsenal's nominal captain at the moment, with Per Mertesacker usually wearing the armband during games, although last week he handed it over to Theo Walcott as recognition of the England striker's ten years at the club.

Chile striker, Mauricio Pinilla, nearly became the hero after coming in as a sub with the score tied at 1 - 1 tie during Saturday's...

The Mirror report that the Blues see the powerful Belgian forward as a key solution to some of the woes that have bedevilled them during the early portion of the campaign, while the former Aston Villa striker could be an able replacement for the out - of - sorts Diego Costa.

Im not saying Wenger is an idiot but his stubborn refusal to move with the times has cost us dear over the last few years and as Ive already stated earlier in the conversation our resurgence has in part had a lot to do with the competition dropping off in performance rather than us leaping forward, that said we have made improvements and we are playing far better, but I will bet my house that no world class striker will be brought in in the summer and there wont be any really important key players brought in during the summer as Wenger has already laid out his stall in regards to this.

Our England international striker has been sent back to the club after picking up a knock to his knee during the Euro qualifier over Lithuania last Friday and it seemed as though he would be missing a bit of domestic action for the Gunners as well.

Furthermore in my belief, I don't know if the Boss will not mind to reactivate his interest to sign Aleksandr Kokorin who has shown the potential of being a 3rd good striker option for Arsenal during the 2nd half of the season as Welbeck's recovery is ambiguoused.

The 28 - year - old became regarded as one of the best strikers in the world during his time at previous club Atletico Madrid, and now appears keen on returning to Spain with their rivals Real, who may spend as much as # 10m just to sign him on loan, with a view to a permanent transfer next year.

With Auba coming, we revert back to 4 4 2 formation — playing Auba and Lacarzet as two strikers but for it to work, u need a strong D / M to protect the back four as was the case during the invisible (Gilberto, Viera or Viera, Petit) with gud wingers Pires on the left and pacey Jubeg on the right.

The Spanish striker scored against both Barcelona and Real Madrid last season, as some of the confidence he lost during his final seasons in the Premier League looks to be returning at his boyhood club.

After establishing himself as one of the best strikers in the world during his time at Liverpool, he fast became one of the worst after moving to Premier League counterparts Chelsea.

Chile striker, Mauricio Pinilla, nearly became the hero after coming in as a sub with the score tied at 1 - 1 tie during Saturday's World Cup match against Brazil.

Jose Mourinho and his hugely expensive squad may only have come up against West Ham and Swansea City in the league so far but two scorelines of 4 - 0 is a bit of a concern, especially as three of those goals have come from the new striker Romelu Lukaku with Pogba and Martial also chipping in during both games.

The Portuguese striker didn't find the net during the final — at least not from open play — but ultimately made a decisive contribution as he scored the winning penalty during the shootout.

Aguero has firmly established himself as one of the world's best strikers during his time at the Etihad.

Now I'd be lying if I claimed that the French striker was amazing today, but he did what he does best, just as Diego Costa does for Chelsea, scoring that crucial goal despite his performance during the game.

Kluivert, who played a front man for the likes of Ajax, FC Barcelona and AC Milan during a glittering club career and who now works as the strikers coach for the Oranje, said of the recent rumours linking the duo with the Red Devils: «It doesn't matter what club it will be if he asks me to join him, I would be absolutely honoured to be on his side.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

Convert Giroud to a midfielder or a false 9, he is useful for several reasons as he's got killer passes / assist, areal ball, best header in EPL, out muzzles defenders when in that position and sets up our new strikers for goals... he's heading ability wld be vital for goals during corner kicks as a midfielder... this guy wld be missed if we sell him o.

Bony emerged as one of the most deadly strikers in the Premier League during his time at Swansea.

The Arsenal striker come third in the rankings for the award, with three goals and two assists during the tournament, while his team - mate Griezmann picked up the Golden Boot for scoring six goals, as well as providing two assists also.

The 30 - year - old had developed a reputation as one of the most prolific strikers in Europe during his time with Valencia as he bagged 24 league goals during his final season in Spain and was expected help Spurs secure Champions League qualification upon his arrival in England during the 2013 summer transfer window.

The Gunners were said to be eyeing a move for the Mexican international during the January transfer window as they intensified their search for a new striker.

Olivier Giroud has turned into a great impact sub this season with important goals versus Sunderland and Manchester United in recent weeks but in previous seasons has proven inconsistent as the starting striker and Arsenal have not been genuine title contenders during this spell.

During Arsenal's financial struggles Arsene Wenger was on the lookout for a bargain striker, and Peter Odemwingie was identified as a target.

As reported by Globo, the 38 year - old, who is part owner of American second tier side Fort Lauderdale Strikers, told Argentinian legend Diego Maradona that he would definitely return during an interview on Maradona's Venezuelan chat show, De Zurda.

Tough blow for the United States during the 21st minute of their opening World Cup match against Ghana as striker Jozy...

Keane, who worked under Redknapp during their time together at Spurs, is out - of - contract after leaving LA Galaxy, and the former Republic of Ireland striker believes he could offer something to the Championship club, as reported by Sky Sports.

Premier League rivals Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur are set to deem West Bromwich Albion striker Saido Berahino as too expensive, report the Mirror, with 18 year - old Birmingham City forward Demarai Gray the next player to be considered by both clubs as they look to add pace and quality to their frontlines during the January window.

We all know that Olivier gets worried when he thinks that Wenger is looking at new strikers as he admitted during the Benzema saga in the summer, and the latest Arsenal rumours linking us with strikers like Hernandez and Aubemayang may also be playing on his mind.

Falcao established himself as one of the best strikers in Europe during his time at Atletico Madrid.

Arsenal have managed to get to the top of the League table at the halfway point in the campaign and it seems that Thierry Henry has finally become convinced that the Gunners really can win the title with Olivier Giroud as their main striker, after famously stating during the summer that it was impossible.