Sentences with phrase «biggest rivals club»

They made another final in 2013, where they led their biggest rivals Club America during the entirety of the tie, from minute 19 of the first leg up until minute 89 of the second leg to be exact.

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.

Not exact matches

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But it does appear that the Ox will be going and news of his availability has sparked interest at some other EPL clubs, most notably according to ESPN our big rivals Manchester United.

Would be an excellent signing and signal go some way to reestablishing the status quo among the English clubs, that Arsenal no longer gets its biggest talents taken and instead can boss it's rivals.

A lot of fans, past players and even pundits are asking for us to sign Benzema and if we do that would be a big F**K YOU to either Theo or his agent, whoever was holding the club at ransom for a pay raise and back to the wings you go... Get a feeling now seeing Pedro going to Chelsea whom has won everything there is to win and to me is on a different level than Theo could have been ours if 1) Walcott wasn't homegrown to make up that number and 2) to prevent him from going to a rival.

but to go to one of our biggest rivals, an to a manager who did nothing but insult our manager and club....

Look at all our rival clubs, they have players that would sell for # 100 million if they are willing to but for Arsenal not the case, mediocre players that will interest big clubs except for Sanchez..

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We are the only big club that has the stability coming to the new season (not count Spuds as big) and we have to grab that chance to go ahead of our rivals.

With the news that Borussia Dortmund defender Mats Hummels has rejected the chance to sign for Manchester United this summer, here's a look at five other top class centre - backs the club could consider signing, including some big names from La Liga, an exciting Brazilian youngster and one of the Premier League's top prospects also wanted by rivals Chelsea...

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.

This should conclude the long - running saga, and seal an exciting swap deal for both clubs as two big names move between rivals in a rare exchange.

This transfer news which is apparently going to be officially confirmed by the Arsenal board this week is a big boost for everyone connected with the club and suggests that our days of losing key players to big rivals in the Premier League and Europe are well and truly over.

So even without the relaxing of the FFP rules, Arsene Wenger is still likely to have a smaller transfer budget than our big Premier League rivals and with Chelsea and the Manchester clubs also able to offer the lure of Champions League football, our manager will be hoping that his transfer targets are not the same.

It's one thing Arsenal sticking with Wenger when they claim all the best managers in the world are currently employed, often by bigger clubs, but with Jurgen Klopp available after leaving Borussia Dortmund, more should have been done to ensure he was snapped up before a rival got to him first.

It must be very frustrating for the big stars at Arsenal to see other rival clubs signing world class additions that will help their sides challenge for major honours this season, whilst the Gunners sit back with basically the same squad that failed to win a trophy last term.

I mean look at what Mourino is doing in his first season with club All our rivals are strengthening and we bought only one without being addressed two of our biggest whole

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.

If Wenger and Arsenal consider AFC as a big club and have ambition, then must not sell to a direct rival.

How often have we seen a struggling club get back on track by beating their big rivals who were on a good run?

Ince went on to insist that Sanchez is a statement signing from Man Utd and they have sent a message to their rivals to remind them that they're still the biggest club in the Premier League, while he envisages Jose Mourinho getting closer to winning the Champions League this season if he has Sanchez at his disposal in the coming months.

I was equally annoyed at Wenger but it was just straight disrespectful that a player Wenger brought in at 21 kept even though injury prone, which no other top four club would have done, developed into a world class striker and then goes to our biggest rival citing the fact its an honour to work with ferguson and we weren't showing ambition.

The mighty Mourinho, forced to accept that a players loyalty and servitude to his current club is bigger than him, and his rivals will be stronger for it!

My biggest worry is if Sanchez goes to another Premier League team, as well as strengthening a rival, can you imagine the stick we'd get from other clubs supporters!

we are getting confusing massages from the board, one minute we are a big club and can rival any club in Europe with salaries and buying, then immediately after Arsen says we don't have the same finances as big clubs,

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.

But then again, we have also improved our tactics and performances in the big games and if we are going to find it harder against the lower placed clubs, how much harder will our rivals find it?

It's clear that Gunners wanted to capture this player just that little bit more than their rivals and, when you have a wage structure which can't always compete with the very biggest clubs, it's all about working that extra bit hard to sign these sort of players.

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.

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

The first two times his stats were amazing and showed him doing better than all the big names at rival clubs, like Courtois, De Gea and Lloris.

Wenger has overseen the deterioration of Arsenal's league form over the past 10 years and seen the club lose their most important players to rival teams and bigger teams, as he failed to hold on to them.

The goalposts are certainly flexible when it comes to the terms of unlawful pursuits of players, with a number of big clubs given huge leeway when it comes to talking about rival clubs stars, and Arsene Wenger is one to claim victim of such offences.

San Siro stadium in Milan, home of the AC Milan soccer team, slowly fills with keyed - up fans clad in the red and black of their club as the long - awaited meeting between Milan and one of its biggest rivals, Napoli, nears.

You're damn right bruv... arsenal fans on here should know one thing: all other (big epl) clubs want arsenal to fail - reason; they are presently failing... I think we all should learn to enjoy a Win (no matter who we win) especially when all other potential rivals dropped points... fyi liverpool just lost to the lowly, out - of - form New castle.

The big man has allayed those fears this week and declared that he knows he faces a fight for a place in the first team and has no intention of giving up on his career as a Gunner, even if his Chilean rival does also commit his future to the club.

The problem for Arsenal is that we are not the only big Premier League club being linked with the 26 - year old, as apparently he could have the option of joining the exciting German coach Jurgen Klopp at Anfield with Liverpool and our north london rivals Tottenham are keen and they can also offer UCL football and the bright lights of London.

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.

All very honourable from the Prof, except that there are now rumours that plenty of other clubs, including our big Premier League rivals like Chelsea, are not so hesitant about taking advantage of the situation in east London.

Can our lo9cal rivals do us and every other title chasing club a big favour?

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.

After we reported in an earlier Just Arsenal post that while posting on social media to dispel any further Arsenal transfer rumours about his possible move to Premier League rivals Liverpool, Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain appeared to suggest that Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez would be staying with the club, Metro reported that the Chilean himself had dropped the biggest hint yet that his future was with the Gunners.

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.

Our side will be keen for a big performance against the Reds, having already been embarrassed by the Anfield club in August when they gave us a 4 - 0 thrashing on Merseyside, and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain will hopefully be on the end of both defeats having played at wing - back for us in the reverse fixture shortly before moving to our rivals.

But do big clubs let their best player head off to their rivals for free without so much as a penny.

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.

Funny thing about Dortmund transfer policy was, they willing to let player gone to big rival (Muenchen) for free (during expired contract situation) instead of sold him at reasonable price to align clubs.