Sentences with phrase «as the gunners look»

Arsenal are on the trail of young Greek defender Kostas Manolas, according to the Metro, as the Gunners look to find a replacement for defender Thomas Vermaelen, whose potential transfer to Manchester United could be accelerated now that Belgium have exited the World Cup.

Iwobi and his Arsenal teammates face Bate Borisov on Thursday night as the Gunners look to take control of Europa League Group H.

Arsenal will be ruthlessly devastated in their game against the Barca's MSN front runners at the Ems tonight as the Gunners look to out played the Catalonia club side in the game and beat them by 3 goals nil.

I think the wrong and very late substitutions and the lack of precision markmanship by the attacking Gunners caused the failing of our not beating Chelsea as the Gunners looked less confident of themselves scoring a goal or goals by allmeans.

History looked like it was about to repeat itself for yet another consecutive season, as the Gunners looked like they had put themselves at a disadvantage for top spot.

After a comfortable victory over Bournemouth, Arsenal welcome Newcastle United to the Emirates stadium on Saturday as the Gunners look to continue their stay on top of the Premier League table.

Arsenal fans can only hope that the young Nigerian can make the best of his abilities and show up next season as the Gunners look to pick themselves up from the ditch that is Europa League football.

Ozil will be hoping for more reasons to celebrate when his side face Hull City at the KC Stadium on Monday night as the Gunners look to secure a top - three finish and avoid having to negotiate a Champions League qualifier at the start of next season.

Arsenal are now 2 - 0 up against relegation threatened Hull City as Aaron Ramsey has added to Alexis Sanchez» opener at the KC Stadium as the Gunners look to go above Manchester City in the table.

Chelsea have agreed an # 18 million move for Arsenal forward Olivier Giroud, as the Gunners look to secure Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang from Borussia Dortmund for # 55.4 m.

Sky Sports pundit Charlie Nicholas believes Arsenal are two players away from being «the real deal» as the Gunners look to finish the season with a flourish.

Arsene Wenger has given the usual team news ahead of Arsenal's clash with Reading on Monday night, with a couple of key absentees returning to the fold as the Gunners look to bounce back (again) from the supreme embarrassment of Tuesday night.

As vulnerable as the Gunners look on paper heading to White Hart Lane, don't be deceived.

Adding to that, important games are ahead as Gunners look to continue chase for the 4th spot and above all they have a Champions League fixture with German giants Bayern Munich in 9 days.

The tournament was cancelled in 2012 due to the London Olympic games, but will restart in a few days time, as The Gunners look to welcome Galatasaray, FC Porto and Napoli to the Emirates Stadium.

Not exact matches

Here's a look at how the Gunners could line up if they do bring the pair in as their chosen replacements for Sanchez and Ozil...

The Gunners have faltered again this year as they sit a staggering 17 points adrift of leaders Man City after just 16 games, which looks to be an insurmountable lead.

One of the names on the Gunners» radar is Hoffenheim's superb Brazilian starlet Roberto Firmino, who has been touted as a replacement for Santi Cazorla if he moves back to Spain with Atletico Madrid, and judging from some of his goals in the Bundesliga he looks a top talent!

Just as the Gunners are getting over our own injury crisis and are looking to build a decent run of results together, following on from a 2 - 0 win over Hull City in the FA cup and a 3 - 0 defeat of Stoke City yesterday, our next Premier League game throws up an away game with the reigning EPL champions.

Petr Cech also got a special mention for keeping us in the game — and he reckons that he will be buying «at least» one player his transfer window as the Gunners midfield is looking «a little short»...

Arsenal fans will be hoping from a look at this weekend's fixture list in the Premier League that it could be a good few days for the Gunners in our pursuit of the title, as many of our big rivals for the EPL trophy have matches that look harder on paper than our trip to Swansea and two of them are playing each other.

Smalling was first targeted by Arsenal in January while Jones is now also emerging as a target for the Gunners as they look to improve on some unconvincing defensive options of their own.

It now looks as though they could focus their attention on beating Arsenal to the signing of Destro, who has become a top target for the Gunners after they also showed an interest in snapping up Falcao, but missed out to United for his signature.

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.

Here are five things to look out for as the Cherries welcome the Gunners on Tuesday.

Arsenal fans will obviously hoping that this is where the coincidence ends as well, because the Gunners got off to the worst possible start last year by losing at home to Liverpool (and when you consider they pipped us to the final Champions League spot by a single point that loss looks even worse).

In the end, the Gunners signed Danny Welbeck from Manchester United for the same # 16m fee that Liverpool eventually paid for Balotelli, and there is no question as to who has looked the better signing so far, despite their reputations prior to this season.

The Gunners are also looking to enter talks with big - name stars Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil in an attempt to keep the duo, however there seems to be little chance of either player signing a new deal at the Emirates as per the Telegraph, with the club also unwilling to up their recent offers for the pair, which have both been rejected.

Sanchez, as has been the norm for much of this season, was Arsenal's star player, and although the Gunners can not look too much into their performance against Sunderland, they more crucially got back to winning ways.

The BVB are claimed to be looking at the possibility of buying Olivier Giroud from the Gunners, as they look to replace supposed Arsenal - bound striker Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang.

Arsenal arrived in Sweden to freezing temperatures but were expected to blow away the minnows of Ostersund, and at the start it looked like that was going to happen as the Gunners went straight for the jugular from the off.

The Gunners travel to Paris to take on the French champions this week as they look to kick off their Champions League campaign with a win.

As noted by The Mirror, it's claimed that the Gunners have increased their offer for the 28 - year - old to # 50m as they look to add real firepower to their attacAs noted by The Mirror, it's claimed that the Gunners have increased their offer for the 28 - year - old to # 50m as they look to add real firepower to their attacas they look to add real firepower to their attack.

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.

The point is, some Gunners look like not taken winning AFC games with 100 % seriousness they ought to as they are sometimes careless in their games.

The Gunners take on Manchester City this weekend as they look to win the League Cup for the first time under Arsene Wenger, but will have an uphill task given the season their opponents are having.

Firmino is reportedly wanted by the Gunners as they look to add a quality striker alongside Giroud.

So it looks like yet another Arsenal player is set to leave the Emirates this January as the new Everton boss Sam Allardyce has confirmed that he is in talks with the Gunners to try and secure a permanent transfer of Theo Walcott and he sounds extremely keen on the idea.

Which means that essentially it is as you were and with the Arsenal injury situation looking a lot brighter all of a sudden, it is the Gunners that now look in the strongest position for the EPL title run in.

The 32 - year - old is known as a tremendous professional who looks after himself well and this has only made those setbacks and the length of the lay - off harder to take, as he fight to return to the Gunners first team set - up.

L'Equipe further claim that Arsenal not having Champions League football will not be too much of a problem as the player will look to develop under Gunners boss Arsene Wenger, who has a reputation of nurturing young talent, especially in regards to Frenchmen!

The Gunners brought in Mkhitaryan as part of Alexis Sanchez's move to Old Trafford this January, in what looks like a decent chance for the player to revive his career.

However, it now looks as though interest from the Gunners and from Real may have cooled this summer, with United now increasingly hopeful that they could succeed in landing the 25 - year - old with a # 50m offer.

The Gunners have reportedly made contact with family of the Germany international as they look to fend off competition from United as well as La Liga outfit Atletico Madrid ahead of a possible summer transfer.

It looks like he will be on the bench for the second week running as the Gunners host Burnley, with Wenger believing the pacy forward needs more time before being thrown back in.

The Chile international has not started well at Old Trafford since leaving the Gunners, looking a shadow of the player who shone as one of the best in the world in his three and a half years at the Emirates Stadium.

Meanwhile the Gunners are also rumoured to be interested in another defender as they too look for Per Mertesacker's long - term successor, with the Mirror reporting that they are keen on United defender Jonny Evans.

Gunners boss Arsene Wenger will now enter the race for the Englishman as he looks to add more steel and height to his back four.

Both the Gunners and their Merseyside rivals have been linked to the striker by the Daily Express as they look to strengthen their goalscoring ranks ahead of the new season.

Still, the Gunners look set to be busy next summer as they look to strengthen in midfield, with these three big - money buys possibly on the horizon...