Sentences with phrase «being a serious contender»

LeRoy believes Atlanta lacks the transit system to be a serious contender because congestion and lack of public transport will impede the ability of top talent to easily commute.

Baltimore put together a very strong and competitive package that included an unparalleled location in Port Covington and many compelling reasons that justified the city being a serious contender.»

Some say the nation's capital could be a serious contender for the Internet giant's second headquarters, dubbed HQ2.

Toronto is a serious contender as cities vie to replace London as a global financial hub MONEY IS A SKITTISH...

He has a mind of his own and is capable of driving himself, and is a serious contender in auto racing compet.i.tions.

It maligns the implicit universalism of our new global interdependence and denies the associative aspects of modern corporate capitalism (confusing it with the ideology of rugged individualism, which has not been a serious contender since 1929).

I thought Rubio was considered by Republicans to be a serious contender for 2016 until I read about this interview.

Neo-Thomism, especially in its French version was a serious contender in the theological world.

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But to be a serious contender in the EPL and CL we need to go for quality DM and ST (summer signings)... GK: Ospina (Szczesny) LB: Monreal (Gibbs) LCB: Koscielny (Chambers) RCB: Gabriel (Mertesacker) RB: Debuchy (Bellerin) CDM: One Top DM - Schneiderlin / Wanyama / Krychowiak (Coquelin, Arteta, and Bielik) CDM: Ramsey (Wilshere) CAM: Cazorla (Ozil) LW: Alexis (Rosicky) RW: Walcott (Oxlade) ST: One Top ST - Cavani / Higuain (Welbeck and Giroud)

Our best hope to win the League was last season, we had something going on when WENGER signed Ozil (ONLY AFTER HE WAS PRESSURED BY LOOSING TO VILLA) Ramsey was at his best, Koz and Pert where doing the job, GIROUD was scoring, but most importantly MANURE had MOYES, MAUREENS 1st season with CHELSKI»S, we were serious contenders, THEN injuries happened WENGER not to blame, BUT comes JANUARY and the man makes a fool of himself by sitting in his ar... se and signing a FREEBIE Brokeback KALSTROM, the rest is History...

When I see our bench, I know we are not far from being a serious contender.

Most importantly, its Wenger who has to decide what is required to be a serious contender for next EPL, CM, DM, CAM, Winger, or a striker.

Just my reflections on why we struggled to break down a team we should be opening up much more comfortably if we are going to be serious contenders over a season which, as a fan, is what I want... Can't speak for fanatics it's a mind set i do nt understand

That is some serious firepower and if they have the ability to get that hot — they are going to be serious contenders for the whole thing.

I sincerely HOPE no one seriously had designs on being a serious contender this year.

i am just counting down the days for the next transfer window to see who is coming in, and its not really that far, the team has thee potential to be a serious contender in the CL and the EPL, i expect arsenal fans to turn terrorist if our demands are not met.

The Titans aren't expected to be a serious contender in the AFC let alone the AFC South, but with an upset win in Week 1 people are certainly paying more attention to Mike Munchak's group.

As a Gooner lets rip these guys apart the day from the 1st to last minute, we want to be serious contenders WIN all our big games at HOME.

However, Wenger's suggestion that Arsenal would not be a serious contender for Mbappe may just have been revealed to be a bit of a bluff by his former player and current member of the Arsenal coaching team, none other than the great Rober Pires.

While teams must always show respect to each other, showing too much is a problem, and England will surely want to use this as an opportunity to make a statement that they're serious contenders next summer, while the younger group will be battling to get a spot in his final squad not coming along for the experience of playing against Brazil.

If Liverpool can continue putting the ball in the back of the net and Virgil Van Dijk can fit in quickly, Liverpool will be serious contenders to end the Premier League season in the top four.

We were very close to being serious contenders at the start of the window, still feels like we're outside the house looking in when in reality we were probably only 2 decent players away.

I can not remember the last we were serious contender for anything major.

I can't believe that you could lose the likes of Sanchez and Oxlade - Chamberlain for nothing, that's insane negligence.With 3 or 4 quality additions Arsenal could be serious contenders but Wenger's «4th place is a trophy» mentality is happily shared by a board just wanting profits.Winning the cup is great but Arsenal should be in the title mix right into May rather than the annual implosion come March.The old Fergie / Wenger title battles were the best back in the day, the fans deserve far more than you're getting recently.

While there's no disputing Hazard is a serious contender — would he really be able to shine as brightly in a team without the likes of Diego Costa, Cesc Fabregas, Nemanja Matic and Oscar?

What more do we have to do to convince people that we are serious contender?

What more do we have to do to convince people that we are serious contenders?

this guy is not yet an epl level player its so f ****** obvious to anyone other than wenger and a bunch of delusionals on this web site... farm him out to brentford see how he does maybe he will end up better than bendtner am not yet convinced but happy to be proved wrong... but we need more serious attack options up front for sure this season to be serious contenders... thats a certainty

So the plan B of last season, as well as getting us some great results, restored a lot of our faith in the beleaguered boss and began to convince us, and other teams, that we could be a serious contender for the Premier League title.

Chelsea and Manchester City are the early co-favorites, but Manchester United, Liverpool, and Arsenal all have listed odds suggesting they'll be serious contenders.

But we, under their stewardship will never be serious contenders for the PL or UCL.

Poor Clemson, Louisville, and Boston College would all be serious contenders in the Coastal.

Whichever team survives out of the AL East will be a serious contender in odds to win the AL pennant with the Boston Red Sox (6/1), Tampa Bay Rays (6/1) and New York Yankees (13/2) going off as the next three teams on the betting board behind Detroit.

I wouldn't Say this just yet, if we can win out next game with Chelsea then we are serious contenders for the title.

Giving Wenger a free pass for the shortcomings of this team is what keep us from being serious contenders, Maureen as much as I detest the guy got it right, the ownership and the Fans settle every year for his lack of ambition.

walcott had his chance to win over disbelieving fans like myself yday and did jack s ***, fluffed his one chance when he couldnt control through ball from roszicky... because all he can do is run... arsenal fans need to get over this third rate whippet he might be able to pose threats to the burnely defence but not stronger and quicker defences that we face at top... a definite sell in the summmer if we want to be serious contenders again along with ramsey, mert and giroud....

If they can come away with a couple more W's, they can show the league that they are serious contenders for the 2018 Crown.

They look to take on half the League in Dodgeball in Week 2 where they can show a handful of Teams that they are serious Contenders for the Crown.

Team Immunity is captained by Mr. Isaiah Watts (hence the team name and why we do not have two Team Watts) and based on what we saw from them on Tuesday night, will be serious contenders for the Tuesday Spring Hoops Crown!

And those players that we have by then are expected to try to win a fairly tough Champions League group and be serious contenders for the Premier League title.

We have started to build a team and I believe we will again be serious contenders but on a sustained basis.

He must win big if club is to be serious contender.

But you made a pretty darn persuasive case for why Backman is a serious contender for the Dallas roster soon.

Not until Wenger is out of there will Arsenal ever be serious contenders for the premiership let alone in Europe....

One stumbling block, that if they could overcome, they would be serious contenders for every trophy they went for.

Whether he is a serious contender for the Williams seat only time (and a little bit of sponsorship) will tell.

For him, Belgium has the necessary qualities to be a serious contender for the trophy and that they will need to believe in themselves.

Were he to do so, he would put his name alongside some of the great attackers in football history, and could ensure his country are serious contenders.

However, they are in good enough form to be serious contenders for sixth place or higher.