Sentences with phrase «big city rival»

We're a law firm with a regional focus, but all the benefits of a big city rival.

Spartak Moskva — Narodnaya komanda (People's team) Spartak were never attached to a government department like their big city rivals.

Not exact matches

Rents in Seattle now rival those in Boston and New York, and home prices are rising faster there than in any other big city.

Despite having a lineup of top - selling games, Take - Two, one of the world's biggest video game publishers, lost nearly $ 185 million last fiscal year while rivals Activision Inc., THQ Inc. and top - selling Electronic Arts Inc. of Redwood City all managed to post healthy profits.

What annoys me though is, if various reports and rumors can be believed (which is always a big if), he seems to locking us out of any transfer alternative other than City (our direct rival!)

We only took two Premier League points and people were saying that our title challenge was faltering but then we stormed back with three wins in a row and five of the next six, including the big game against title rivals Man City.

After Arsenal seemingly agreed to sell another contract rebel, Oxlade - Chamberlain to one of our biggest Premier League rivals, it would now not surprise Arsenal fans if they also decided to cash in on the sale of Sanchez to Man City as their next deal, which will leave very little time for Wenger to bring in replacements...

Until May when we are crowned champions every team we face is our biggest rival, we have a poor record against Stoke City and Swansea we need these points so this must be rectified by beating such teams

Not only has Arsene Wenger finally had some decent money to spend in the transfer market following the Emirates stadium debt being paid off, but our big spending rivals Chelsea and Man City have had their wings clipped a bit by the Financial Fair Play rules that UEFA brought into action in 2009.

Our north London rivals Tottenham do not have a single place and neither do the big spending Man City.

One point from the opening two games is not what the Gunners needed and the fact that our big Premier League rivals Manchester United, Chelsea and Man City have all gained maximum points from their opening two games really ups the ante.

In turn, Jose Mourinho would undoubtedly have been a happy man, as he will now hope that it leads to a big run of results to close the eight - point gap on rivals Man City at the top of the Premier League table, while they also continue to make progress in Europe.

Worryingly for Klopp, who had once boasted an impressive record against Liverpool's fellow «big six» rivals, his side have just been hammered in their most recent meetings with Manchester City and Spurs, shipping nine goals across both games.

Just over a week remains of this summer's transfer window, and many of the biggest deals of the summer have already happened, with Brazil starlet Neymar completing a much - anticipated move to Barcelona, Manchester City target Isco moving from Malaga to Real Madrid, and Mario Goetze moving from Borussia Dortmund to rivals Bayern Munich.

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Aguero is said to be keen on joining Real Madrid, according to The Sun, but their report also suggests that Madrid may not agree to meet his transfer fee and that City would prefer not to see the striker go tom a big rival for the Champions League which is their main target.

I think the bigger choice is a PL rival for > 60mil or abroad for < 40mil... Truth is Chelsea, City and United will attract attract top talent regardless..

I am sure that Arsenal would normally have no intention of selling our best player to one of our biggest rivals, but the fact is that City have consistently overpaid for our players in the past and I could easily see them coming in with the biggest bid for Sanchez.

While it's clearly a big boost for United to get one over rivals Manchester City, who had long been tipped as the favourites for the Chile international, Neville also believes Jose Mourinho may have done so out of fear of Liverpool overtaking them in the Premier League.

Our Premier League rivals Man City, Everton and Tottenham have been mentioned, but it is Jurgen Klopp and Dortmund that are apparently the biggest risk to Arsenal losing one of our best young talents.

While a point from any away game against a big EPL rival is a decent result, a win would do our top four challenge the power of good and with Jurgen Klopp under pressure after his faltering Reds lost away to relegation threatened Leicester City on Monday, Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal side might just be looking to pile the pressure on.

Arsenal fans have spent years wondering which of our best players would be cherry picked by some of Europe's biggest clubs, including all three of our main Premier League rivals; Chelsea, Man City and Man United.

It is a bit unlucky for us the way that the early fixtures have fallen, but with Man United facing Hull City next week, Chelsea at home to Burnley and Man City going to West Ham, I think we can expect at least two of our big three rivals to head into the break on maximum points.

It would not be quite as bad as the transfer deals that saw big Arsenal players like Samir Nasri, Ashley Cole or Robin van Persie sign for clubs not only in the same division but direct rivals for the English Premier League title, unless of course West Ham were to do a Leicester City.

Arsene Wenger and the lads have also answered a few questions and proved wrong some doubts that were being aimed at us by the football press, like when we changed tactics and played on the counter attack to win a game against a big rival way to Man City.

We all believe that Man City are our biggest rivals for the title, and already they have lost Aguero for a month, the Argentinian striker said after he was stretchered off last night: «I think I'll be a month without playing,» Aguero said.

Arsenal have had plenty of bad luck, but to find ourselves just off the top four and ahead of our big rivals Liverpool and Man United and just three points behind Man City after the way we have started the reason is a huge bonus.

But the suggestion that we are only a little better this time around could be backed up by the struggles of our big rivals like Chelsea, Liverpool and even Man City.

Arsenal have got a lot more to do than simply catch and overtake our north London rivals Tottenham if this season is to be seen as anything but a disappointing one, and with 11 points to make up on the current Premier League leaders you would have to say that Leicester City are big favourites to finish above the Gunners and complete an amazing campaign by being crowned champions of England.

But our big rivals for the trophy have things easier, with Chelsea at home to Watford, Man City at home to Sheffield Wednesday and Man United away to wither Accrington Stanley (exactly!)

We are now 1 point ahead of City who is our biggest rival.

Right now are biggest rivals are Man City and Leicester City.

The likes of Mario Gotze, Jack Rodwell, Ross Barkley and Neven Subotic have all been heavily linked with moves to the Premier League champions and money will be made available for new additions as the club looks to keep pace with big spending rivals Man City.

And not only that, he feels that they have showed the ability to do a good job in the different circumstances that come from playing a game against a big Premier League rival like Man City or a team at the bottom that we are expected to dominate, like the basement club Aston Villa.

Arsenal FC transfer activities are closely monitored by our big rival clubs of Man Utd, Man City and Chelsea who as soon as they've heard that Arsenal have activated a player's clause or submitted a bid or about to for a player, these very rich rival clubs will start looking for a way to hijack the transfer or spoil it for Arsenal.

Well City lost both games to Chelsea last season, their biggest title rivals (in the end) and still won the League.

Beating City could be a good sign to the squad that we are capable of beating any of our big rivals at home.

So the Arsenal transfer rumours currently doing the rounds about him being a summer transfer target for our Premier League rivals Manchester City, who are planning a big clear - out which is said to include former Gunner Samir Nasri, have not got the Arsenal fans up in arms.

After what Sanches said about «he wants champions league footbal next season» that's defenaitly saying he wants to leave and just put the price up of every player we are after and worst deferred from joining us, he should of kept his mouth shut until we finished our deal, so let's do what clubs like Man - U do with players, don't sell him to rivals teams let them train with youth team, players are becoming bigger then clubs they need reminding who pays their wages, if you want to leave do it like a gentelman and not some ungrateful shi7 no one is against you if you go to Bayern who have more chance of wining the CL then City any day of the week

That is one reason why Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal board may decide not to sell, but the main one is that it will probably be Man City, one of our big Premier League rivals, who will be offering us the cash for Alexis.

However, there is another theory about what has stopped Arsenal from taking control of the Premier League and taking advantage of the points dropped by our big rivals Man City and United.

Arsenal fans can never really be hapy when our north London rivals win, but you have to admit that Tottenham have done us a big favour today in beating Man City and giving Arsenal the chance to move to within two points of the current league leaders.

One of the main reasons why a large number of Arsenal fans and almost all of the football media have been so hard on Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players for not maintaining the Premier League title challenge this season, apart from the 12 year gap since the Gunners were last champions of course, is because the struggles of our big Premier League rivals Man City, Chelsea, Man United and even Liverpool seemed to have opened the door.

Our side hasn't hit top form yet this season, while our rivals have been consistently winning the majority of their matches, but I feel that our performance against Manchester City proves that our players are really up for the big games this year.

As well as challenging us for that second spot, Man City are likely to be one of our big rivals for the Premier League trophy, although how strong a rival they will be could depend a lot on how well their own transfer business goes in the summer.

There are reports all over the football media about Wilshere being a transfer target for our Premier League rivals Man City, with this one in the Daily Star claiming that the Manchester club will open up with a big bid of around # 40 million for the 23 - year old, if they fail to land their primary target Paul Pogba from Juventus that is.

For me that is clearly not a transfer to one of our big rivals in the English Premier League and up until now the Arsenal transfer rumours in the press have Pep Guardiola and Man City as big favourites to land our forward.

We must keep going strong though as Liverpool could be as big a rival for it as City.

All three of our big rivals for the Premier League title have got off to the start we all hoped they wouldn't, so Jose Mourinho at Manchester United is looking as smug as possible and Antonio Conte is looking well suited to Chelsea while Pep Guardiola has hit the ground running at Man City.

It was not all good news for the Gunners, with our big rivals Man City bouncing back from the loss to Arsenal with a thumping 4 - 1 win over Sunderland.