Sentences with phrase «big spending rivals»

They are top of the table with a five point advantage over fellow big spending rivals Monaco.

The good news about the EPL table, however, along with the fact that no club has more points than Arsenal, is the position of our big spending rivals Manchester United.

That did not happen and the Foxes stunned their big spending rivals with a reasonably comfortable win, but I feel that this was the next best result from an Arsenal point of view, even though the eight point gap that we now see would have only been five had Manuel Pellegrini and his players prevailed.

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.

There are still tumbleweeds blowing around the Emirates stadium wait in vain for Arsene Wenger to use the club's mountain of cash and bring in a player or two to help us achieve the very difficult task of competing with our big spending rivals for the Premier League title.

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.

Not exact matches

When those companies grow and spend big money in their data centers, Intel stands to benefit — as long as they keep buying from the semiconductor giant and not rivals like Nvidia.

At the same time, Uber is facing business challenges — a tarnished image, legal difficulties and competition from rivals like Lyft — and is spending big to get around those issues.

But they have gone backwards since then, while the Gunners have got better and have finally been able to spend some money on big name players rather than selling them to our rivals.

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

Most of the papers and sports websites have focused on his comments about the Gunners not being able to beat our big Premier League rivals when it comes to spending power and his suggestions that the club's youth policy combined with an ultra careful and disciplined transfer policy will continue to be the Arsenal way.

Should Arsene leave this summer, the most interesting thing will be whether the new manager will be allowed to spend in order to rival the other big clubs in England, with Wenger having been blamed for a lack of spending in parts.

Do us fans have unrealistic expectations with such big - spending rivals?

Wenger has been at the centre of protests by fans, and the subject of ridicule because of the club's decision not to spend big while their rivals seemingly invest heavily in their squads, but this report seems to disagree that Arsene is at fault this time around.

There would always have been plenty of managers willing to take on the job, even though the club's transfer budget was a fraction of those being spent by our direct rivals, but I do not think any other top manager would have stuck with us, especially with big spending clubs such as Real Madrid and PSG after them.

After spending the 2013 season with one of the Steelers» biggest rivals in Cincinnati — playing in 15 games and starting 10 — Harrison found his way back to Pittsburgh in 2014.

Arsenal have sold a number of key players to the Citizens over the past decade, but I no longer believe we have such a need to sell to our big - spending rivals, with the Emirates now paid off in full.

After last season when Arsenal spent much longer at the top of the Premier League table than any of our big rivals, only faltering in the second half of the season as the injury list ground us down, expectations were naturally high going into this campaign.

The rain started beating us the moment we watched as our rivals spend big thinking that Wenger guarantees top4 trophy, we are now languishing at 6th on the table, but are now spending two top strikers signed breaking our transfer record twice that's a positive and may it continue.you also notice that new players take some time to adapt we are now started swing the best of lava and auba.After finishing 5th last season there is no instant coffee solution it will take time and effort to challenge for top honors

Alan Shearer said: «He left him out at Anfield and again today, against your rivals,» «You spend # 50m on a striker and think he will make the difference in the big games.

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.

The Blues will no doubt be a tough nut to crack again, especially as the easing of the FFP rules means that they can spend big money to strengthen an already strong squad, but I am not so worried about our other rivals for a number of reasons.

If Arsenal do as we expect them to this weekend and run out as winners of the home game against a struggling Southampton side getting used to their new manager Claude Puel, while he gets used to the English Premier League for the first time, then we will be heading into the next round of matches a bit closer to at least one of our big spending Premier League rivals.

this man is so self - absorbed... does he really think that we should feel so honored that he chose to stay with little old us... does he not understand that many of us would have literally driven him to the ends of the earth if he promised never to return... has anyone noticed that the only teams he says are interested in him are some of the biggest clubs in the world whose managers spend freely, follow through on their promises or are terminated, listen to their fan - bases, have a lot of strong personalities within their squads, rarely play their top players out of position, win against their top rivals or suffer the wrath, don't blame the ref after every loss and embrace their former stars... even if his stories had any truth to them, he would last but a cup of coffee

If the Frenchman was being asked about the struggles of Jose Mourinho or Sir Alex Ferguson or any of his big rivals, I think he would have been tempted to add a bit of fuel to the fire of media criticism, perhaps pointing to the massive amount of money spent by the Dutchman in the summer.

Whether you believe the lack of big spending on transfers like we see all the time from our big rivals in the Premier League is down to the cautious approach of Arsene Wenger, the policy of the Arsenal board or because the man at the top silent Stan Kroenke wants it that way, the results are generally the same.

i would therefore conclude, we spend almost as big as our nearest rivals and have a wage bill comparable to them but cant compete due to inept management of resources by our current manager Arsene Wenger

While you will find a lot of Arsenal fans ready to bemoan our fate, with the main complaint being that we do not match the ambition and spending power of our big Premier League rivals to really compete for the EPL title and the Champions League trophy, a new report by UEFA shows that Arsenal are actually in an elite group and that every club not in this group are the ones that are really in trouble.

While our big Premier League rivals and most other clubs around have spent more and more money on players we have not jumped on the transfer bandwagon and Wenger has often spoke about why he thinks that the ever increasing spending is wrong and perhaps even unsustainable.

Arsenal spent more time than any of our EPL rivals on top of the table and had it not been for unlucky injury blows to big players at key periods of the campaign I reckon we would have done it.

The report claims that our big spending Premier League rivals Manchester United and the Italian champions Juventus are prepared to fight Arsenal for this top player but I for one am not too worried and I will tell you why.

If the top players are tempted to China then I think it could help Arsenal compete with the big spending clubs here, as the players after the really big money will be over there rather than playing for one of our EPL rivals.

Now we have moved to a bigger stadium and we still have to hear we can not spend near as much as our main rivals.

There was also a feeling that the chance might not come again as our big Premier League rivals were all going to spend money and appoint new managers.

It is not getting any better for Arsenal fans and Arsene Wenger, and instead of the last few days of the transfer window being a period in which the problems of the team could be sorted by spending some big money on the right players after a poor start to the latest Premier League campaign, it is turning into a time of even more misery as we lose key stars to direct rivals and are unable to replace them because players do not seem to be too keen on signing for the Gunners anymore.

Now I think there is still reasons to be cheerful, I agree Man C & Chelski have spent & bought some good players, we all understand that 5 of those teams might be in the CL proper which is a huge distraction for those 4 - 5 teams.Chelsea will not be able to field the same 13 - 14 players all season, as for Man C they were very frail at the back last season, add to that 2 flying wing backs and I'm not sure they will be any better this coming season.LFC will most probably have CL as well if they qualify and haven't exactly bought great players apart from Salah who could be a good aquasistion for them.Spuds have sold a good player & strengthened a rival & still not bought a single player yet, Man U have bought 2 good players & in Lukaku have a proven goal scorer in the PL but if they play the same dour way they did last season & with the added games the CL brings will they perform week in week out in the league??? As for Everton yes they have released a lot of players and also brought in a lot too to give better quality in the squad as they have Europa league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in the race.

We need to sell before we buy even tho hardly spent anything and only brought in 2 new players while all of our rivals that all finished ahead of us last season have spent big and brought in like 4 players, leaving us further behind them!

United were a bit further forward with # 203m and Chelsea were out in front with # 215.6 million, but the evidence is clear that we can no longer use the big spending of our rivals as an excuse for not challenging for top honours.

I hate the thought of selling to a rival you could possibly come back and hurt us, Koeman is an excellent manger, and has already spent big rebuilding his squad, why help a team attempting to finish above us.

Hleb went onto claim that Arsenal can no longer match the spending of their rivals in this day and age, insisting they would have wanted to make bigger waves in the previous window but couldn't compete.

There is still a real chance that some big spending club will make them am offer they can not refuse for the 18 - year old striker Kylian Mbappe, so it could well be that our two Premier League rivals and their signing of players from Monaco has wrecked Arsenal transfer hopes of Lemar.

Jose Mourinho is seemingly confident that his side can retain their Premier League title next season, despite the prospect of some heavy spending from his side's biggest rivals, including Manchester City and Manchester United.

In turn, with their signings last summer failing to have the expected impact, the transfer strategy is set to be changed as the Parisians look to spend big on difference makers while simultaneously weakening their direct rivals.

And it is not just because Danny was a local boy who had spent all his career with them since 2001, it is because they really rate Welbeck and think that he will significantly strengthen the Gunners, one of their big rivals.

Most Arsenal fans will be the first to tell you that the Gunners are not quite firing on all cylinders so far this season, and after the summer transfer window saw the club actually make a profit rather than spending big to catch up with our Premier League rivals despite breaking the club's transfer record to sign Alexandre Lacazette, you won't find too many Gooners who are confident that the EPL title is on it's way back to north London next May.

Arsene Wenger says Arsenal are in a strong position and ready to challenge their big - spending Premier League rivals for the world's top players.

The big question is whether the powers at Sabener Strasse will be happy to accept that demotion to the second row in light of their English and Spanish rivals» superior spending power or if they will embark on a ambitious transfer - market campaign in the summer in an effort to close the gap.

Big - spending Paris Saint - Germain came within a whisker of losing for the first time this season at they took on bitter rivals Marseille at the Stade Vélodrome.

They, like their rivals AC Milan, have spent big money this summer, recruiting France international Geoffrey Kondogbia for # 21 million pounds as their marquee signing.