Sentences with phrase «by both rival clubs»

So it still seems that Arsene Wenger is unable or unwilling to match the money offered by rival clubs for our transfer targets.

The only manager on this list who is revered by both rival clubs.

Not exact matches

Vancouver's Fuller family recently acquired a 50 % stake in Cactus Club, a rival founded by a pair of former Earl's waiters.

In the late 1990s, the mail - order Columbia House Music Club was damaged by Napster, the first major site that allowed people to share their music for free, followed by Napster's rivals and successors.

In other words, the mid-October escrow cheques will often rival or surpass the cash being offered by European clubs.

The deal will come as a blow to rival Tabcorp, which has TAB outlets in pubs and clubs across the country and still relies heavily on bets placed by customers in retail outlets despite a big improvement in its digital wagering revenue in recent years.

In Cline's latest book, «The Return of Edgar Caycee,» Cline claims he was channeled by the previously deceased reincarnation guru, whose fan club has rivaled that of God's.

Spurs could be leapfrogged into the top four by either Manchester United or Allardyce's former club West Ham this weekend depending on results, while Sunderland will know that a win will take them out of the bottom three, at least provisionally before their relegation rivals Bournemouth and Swansea City play on Saturday afternoon and Monday evening respectively.

And meanwhile the other potentially available strikers are being snapped up by other clubs around Europe, including our Premier League rivals, such as Liverpool completing the transfer of Benteke, which I am not happy about.

With all of our main rivals emboldened with new players and our chasing teams catching us up rapidly, with both money to spend from BT sports AND ambition to match, how long can the lies and half - truths continue before either Wenger or the Board, or both, found out in the fact that the money they are getting in (which by some reports makes us the 3rd or 4th richest club in Europe) is NOT being invested back into the club, and more importantly into the team.

The Bundesliga club have learned to accept being raided by their famous German rivals, but apparently they draw the line at the team who «finished fourth in the Premier League last season».

We have a club without leadership from owner, to board and manager, which is regressing at an alarming rate, while our most «hated» rival has leapt ahead, by having ambition, youth, backbone and new ideas, ALL of which we desperately lack.

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...

Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, and Chelsea are all among the clubs to bring in the most tourists, but are rivalled by a surprise Championship outfit.

But I think we forget too easily just what a great job Le Prof has done to keep the club in the top echelon of the Premier League and managed to qualify for and progress from the group stages of the Champions League while having no money to spend, at the same time as our rivals were bankrolled by billionaires.

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.

I'm absolutely gutted that Arsenal are currently owned by a tycoon that employs a manager that I wouldn't employ as my cleaner, but I am more gutted that we have so called supporters and fans that would praise our rivals, rather than get behind their own club.

The Scot suggested that Arsenal are being left behind by the likes of his former team, Chelsea, the Manchester clubs and our north London rivals Tottenham, so perhaps Wenger should use this to make sure the Gunners go to Watford and prove Dalglish wrong by going back above Liverpool on Saturday evening.

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 was announced on May 7 [via MUFC's official Twitter] that Manchester United had reached an agreement with PSV for the Netherlands international, as Louis van Gaal sent out a huge message of intent to the club's rivals by starting his business early.

Now that we can see light at the end of the tunnel, I am calling all Arsenal fans to change tact while criticizing our coveted club, manager and players by substituting «satanic words» of «F» and «S» characters into words that can add value into the club's vein and steel, write more articles that can encourage Arsenal players rather than kill their morale, unite and dissolve abuses coming from rival club fans and club enemies like Jose Mourinho.

the selling option remains on hold and the rivals clubs will stay clear of the player (while he's under contract) for fear of being exposed and even sued by arsenal FC.

The Frenchman seems to be getting his excuses in early this time, as a Daily Express report shows, by talking about how hard it is to sign good playes in January, due to lfewer top class players being available, clubs being less willing to sell and the competition from rival clubs muddying the waters.

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.

However, the Star also claim that Begovic is being monitored by a host of top Premier League clubs: Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur — that could rival Real Madrid for his signature.

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

So there is more bad news today for Arsenal fans hoping that Arsene Wenger is still going to come up with the goods in the last few days of the summer transfer window, according to the Evening Standard, which is reporting that Jose Mourinho is not going to allow the Manchester United defender Phil Jones to sign for the club managed by his rival manager.

For how many years, we remained trophyless, watched some of our best players get sold, even get sold to our rivals, and get replaced by average ones, or sometimes never replaced at all, yet AFC fans stood by their club.

Wanted by a whole host of top European clubs as well as Liverpool's Premier League rivals Manchester City and Arsenal, Raheem Sterling's exit would be a disaster for the Reds just one summer after losing Luis Suarez.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

That is why I had to have a laugh about one of the latest Arsenal transfer rumours reported by Metro, suggesting that our EPL rivals Manchester United might be the club Sanchez signs for, with Jose Mourinho alleged to have called our player to sound him out.

The veteran keeper is reported by The Mirror explaining why he thinks his former club may falter, and if Cech is right then Arsenal fans should be grateful to our north London rivals because by winning at the weekend as well Tottenham stopped Chelsea from widening the gap.

He adds that he does have some sympathy for Wenger, but the club should move forward with the «winning formula» deployed by their fierce rivals.

I am not just picking his name out randomly either, because a report in The Mirror has revealed that Ancelotti has already been sounded out by our Premier League rivals Liverpool and despite previously saying that they are a great club, he has apparently said no.

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.

And now the north London are hoping to be able to beat the likes of Liverpool and fierce city rivals Arsenal to the 19 - year - old's signature by making an early move for Vadillo, with the flyer understood to be valued at around the # 8m mark by his club.

Chelsea boss Antonio Conte is reportedly after a new striker, with the club now in pole position to bring Gabon forward Aubameyang, having missed out on Romelu Lukaku to rivals Manchester United, and with a deal for Real Madrid forward Alvaro Morata proving difficult to secure, as reported by the Mirror.

It remains to be seen how such a decision would be received by his former club Barcelona, as having just sold him this past summer, they won't be impressed seeing him join their bitter rivals.

If you refuse to see this clear truth, you my friend, are deluding yourself and not helping the club you and we all support by maintaining the status quo that is causing us to drift inexorably, further away from our other rivals.

Smotherman shot a 4 - under 67 at San Gabriel Country Club to win the state title while NorCal swept the top three team spots, led by Sierra Foothill League rival Granite Bay.

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.

As reported by the Daily Mail there are nine clubs in this group of high earners, with the Spanish La Liga rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid as well as the German Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich and the French champions PSG joining five clubs from the Premier League.

Well after the Arsenal players did their bit by keeping up the pressure on our Premier League rivals with a good away win at Swansea City today, we can just sit back and hope that the three points prove extra useful with some of the clubs around us dropping points.

The club has also been caught off - guard by the improvement of their closest rivals, with Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester City and even bitter neighbours Tottenham now having arguably overtaken them in English football's pecking order this season.

First of all we had a report by Squawka.com in which his agent Mino Raiola talked up his clients wish to sign for our Premier League rivals Manchester United without mentioning Arsenal at all, although this could conceivably be because it was the Old Trafford club that was trying to sign him rather than Arsene Wenger.

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.

A lot of us have already dismissed the challenge from one of our main EPL rivals Chelsea, after West Ham did us a massive favour by adding the scalp of the Stamford Bridge club to that of Man City, Liverpool and Arsenal.

After initially joining the club on loan in 2007, Hummels was snapped up by Dortmund as Mislintat identified that he was having his troubles of getting opportunities at rivals Bayern Munich.

Although Blues boss Jose Mourinho is thought to be ready to let the world class stopper leave the club in the summer, he has made it abundantly clear as reported by the Guardian last week, that he would be reluctant to sell to next season's potential title challenge rivals Arsenal.