Sentences with phrase «back end of the campaign»

If the 4 -3-3 - formation that served the Red Devils so well towards the back end of the campaign is to stay then Depay is likely battle Ashley Young for the slot in his favoured left - wing role.

In pre-season it was apparent Wenger had a formidable young star on his hands but the quality of the 20 - year - old Nigerian has only become apparent in the back end of the campaign.

Not exact matches

Speaking from the event on Premier's «News Hour», Dr Anne - Marie Wilson from Christian charity»28 Too Many», which campaigns against FGM urged Christian leaders here to do more to end the practice, she said: «we know that communities that come from overseas to be part the population of Britain will carry on cutting or taking their daughters back home to the motherland to be cut.

I'm resigned to thinking that Arsene Wenger will leave at the end of the season now, with such a tough campaign taking its toll on the attitude of our players, and the fans making it clear they wish to see the back of him -

Ekeler entered training camp as the No. 7 running back for Los Angeles Rams, but he skyrocketed to the backup rusher role by the end of his rookie campaign.

The Belgian international's last Premier League appearance came back on October 28, and so from a personal perspective too, he'll be delighted to be back involved and will be hopeful of playing a key role in helping Tottenham enjoy a successful end to the campaign on all remaining fronts.

Perhaps a trophy to0 celebrate would help, especially if it was the Europa League because that would get us back into the elite European competition, but there is not too much confidence that this Arsenal team will have any silverware at the end of this campaign and in a Beinsport interview Wenger sounds to me as though he could finally be starting to see that the club needs a change at the top.

This is despite highly rated Borussia Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp announcing he will leave the Bundesliga side at the end of the current campaign, and making it clear that he wants to go straight back in to management as soon as possible.

Reports now suggest he may not be back before the end of the campaign, which will have ramifications for both Arsenal and England.

The 23 year - old right - back was reported as being in talks with Wenger last summer with a view to moving to the Emirates for free when his contract ended, but the ex-Spanish youth international has only featured once for Barca this campaign and has made it clear through his agent that he doesn't want to waste the rest of the season in the reserves.

The news will come as a bitter blow for United as they are in desperate need to sign a natural right - back this summer, as Antonio Valencia has been forced to play out of position for much of the campaign, while last season's first choice Rafael is set to leave Old Trafford at the end of the season.

The end - of - season holidays are already over for tennis star Maria Sharapova, who is back in training and preparing for the new campaign, which begins in Brisbane in January.

Wenger was hoping that the Spaniard would be back before the end of the campaign, having undergo specialist treatment and surgery in an attempt to nurse the player's ankle injury.

Terry has found himself out of Jose Mourinho's starting eleven of late and faces a battle to break back into the Chelsea first - team set - up and is out of contract at the end of the current campaign.

In fact he has a well deserved reputation for developing young players and after Holding did so well as part of the new back three system towards the end of our last campaign I think us Gooners will be happy to see the boss give him more opportunity.

Following the draw Ashley Cole conducted a lap of honour in tears, leading to speculation that the veteran left - back will not be signing a new Blues deal when his current contract expires at the end of the current campaign.

That's a rate of 0.93 goals per game — and if he were to carry on finding the back of the net at that rate he could end the campaign on a record number of goals for a Golden Boot winner.

On July 1, the 24 - year - old extended his stay with the Bundesliga outfit until the end of the 2016 - 17 campaign [via ESPN], despite stating back in April that he had no desire to sign a contract extension [via Goal.com].

Marin still has two years to run on his five - year contract but Mourinho is far from enthused by the prospect of welcoming him back to the club at the end of the current campaign.

Sunderland man Giaccherini, who has returned to the Italy fold under Conte after being left out of Cesare Prandelli's squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, has also been back in first team action for the Black Cats at the start of this season after falling out of favour under Gus Poyet at the back end of the last campaign.

Arsenal have already lost five games and are 7th in the table at the moment, behind Burnley, showing little sign that they'll improve sufficiently to get back into the top four at the end of the campaign.

The Old Trafford side have been in back channel negotiations with the 29 year old's agent for some weeks amid speculation that Ronaldo is ready to leave the Spanish capital at the end of the current campaign.

Kyle Walker has started all 18 of Tottenham's Premier League matches so far this season, but that run must now end after the right - back picked up his fifth yellow card of the campaign for this tackle on Southampton's Ryan Bertrand.

It is possible that David Ospina will be moving on at the end of this campaign, in which case we could bring Szczesny back as Petr Cech's understudy.

I think it is high time that the Arsenal fans get off the back of Alexis Sanchez, even though the Chile international has probably still not changed his mind and will leave our club, whether it be for nothing at the end of the current campaign or halfway through this season when the winter transfer window opens in the new year.

BRENDAN RODGERS has been backed into favouritism to replace Arsene Wenger as Arsenal manager after the long - serving Gunners boss announced he would be ending his near 22 - year service in north London at the end of the current campaign.

Saints» third manager of the season back then, Harry Redknapp, was powerless to prevent his shell - shocked crew sinking beneath the waves by the end of the campaign.

They were the Italian champions, battling for another scudetto with Juventus, who eventually ended their campaign with an Invincible status, they had the best centre back in the world — Thiago Silva and one of the best strikers — Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

After back - to - back defeats to open the campaign, negativity had started to fester at St James» Park, with Rafa Benítez underlining the need for new signings before the end of the window.

Another centre - back that could also be leaving Anfield at the end of this current campaign is Martin Skrtel.

Fellow Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo backed Mourinho until towards the end of the 2012 - 13 campaign when the now Chelsea manager claimed that Madrid started the 2012 - 13 league season «in a sad state», alluding to the 29 - year - old's revelation of being sad at the club back in September 2012.

Arsenal travel to Bloomfield road looking to end their run of draws and get their campaign back on track, but Blackpool will be no pushovers as they look to climb to safety.

He made a welcome return to action towards the end of the 2016/17 campaign, rediscovering some of his best form and winning his place back in the Belgium national side and though he was sidelined for several weeks during the 2017/18 campaign, he returned to lift the Carabao Cup as well as score in the 3 - 0 win over Arsenal - his sixth winner's medal while a City player.

Mourinho wants to add at least four new signings to his Old Trafford squad ahead of the 2017 - 18 campaign, with the United boss identifying the need for reinforcements at centre - back and in midfield, as well as aiming to sign two forwards to replace the injured Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Wayne Rooney, who is expected to leave the club at the end of this campaign.

The signing comes as a blow to Kieran Gibbs» future, the left - back has only played 10 times for Arsenal this campaign, with his contract running at the end of next season.

Lee was part of the famous George Graham back four that conceded just 18 goals in the 1990/91 title - winning season, and was also a mainstay of Arsène Wenger's defence that was breached only 17 times at the end of the decade during the 1998/99 Premier League campaign.

The areas that required strengthening for a league campaign have been addressed, particularly central midfield where defenders were routinely employed at the back end of last season as the numbers simply ran out.

Kyle Walker, who has been a regular for Spurs and has enjoyed the best season of his career in the ongoing campaign, his future at the White Hart Lane is pretty much unsure, with rumours suggesting that Manchester City are confident of bringing the full - back to the Etihad at the end of the season.

This win sets the tone for the business - end of the campaign and any titles, won or lost, will have this day to look back on.

The youngster also went on to talk about his first time claiming a place on the Liverpool bench, as the Reds hosted Crystal Palace towards the back end of the last campaign: «I was over the moon, I didn't know what to say.

He suffered a knee injury in October, 2016, which kept him out until early December, but he was quickly back to his best and ended up playing 39 times over the course of the 2016 - 17 campaign, scoring on the last day of the season in our 7 - 1 victory at already - relegated Hull City.

Towards the end of the previous campaign, there were speculations going around that Diego Costa was unhappy and wanted to leave the Blues and head back home.

Former Leeds United player Garbutt, who moved to Goodison Park from West Yorkshire in 2009, last featured for the Blues at the back end of the 2014/15 campaign — as a substitute against Sunderland.

Scrutiny has been placed in particular on the funneling of campaign donations from donors to county Democratic committees that ended up backing individual candidates.

Andrew Cuomo is back on the campaign trail today, with a scheduled book - ended by religion - related stops to woo more of the key traditional Democratic voting blocs.

So the Wisconsin recall election was expensive, it involved campaigns heavily dependent on outside allies and grassroots help as they mixed and matched old and new forms of political communication, and it saw various internet tools used both to promote each candidate's message online, but also as integral to more back - end operations rarely visible from the outside.

Sam Nunberg, a former Trump campaign aide, spent much of the day yesterday promising to defy a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller, even throwing down the challenge to «arrest me,» then backed off his defiance by saying he would probably cooperate in the end.

And the delay in settling the status of OFA — which ended up hoarding the Obama campaign's data as a separate 501c4 — cost critical time, led to confusion, and in the end provided only pieces of the Obama machine's massive tech operation back to the Party.

[As an aside, back in 2000 I briefly flirted with a national campaign for a certain third - party candidate, but the dalliance ended for good when they lost a hefty chunk of their activist list to a server crash — I was already a little turned off by what seemed to be a dangerous level of disorganization, and I ran away in disgust when they didn't even have a backup copy of the one database they desperately needed to hold on to.

If we are to weather the coming storm of the Tory campaign, backed by hysterical newspaper threats of the «end of civilisation as we know it», then we need to start giving people some hope for their futures.