Sentences with phrase «city rivals much»

Not exact matches

There were 55 players on that shortlist so it may not sound all that impressive that three of them were Arsenal stars, but that number does look better when you compare it with our Premier League rivals, especially when you consider how much more money the likes of Manchester United and Man City have been throwing around to build their squads.

Arsenal are not the only club being linked with Mahrez, with Premier League rivals Man City and Chelsea also mentioned, but the Gunners can offer him a guaranteed place in the Champions League group stage and also a much better chance of being a regular first team starter.

Both of our main rivals have relatively easy looking games, with the Foxes at home to Norwich City (let's be having you Delia's mob) and our lilywhite rivals at home to Swansea City (let's see some fire from those Welsh dragons) you would have to say that Arsenal have a much tougher task.

With all eleven players on the pitch, Atleti's banks of four were too much for their city rivals to break down.

Arsenal have had a difficult start to the Premier League campaign, despite successive 1 - 0 victories over West Bromwich Albion and Southampton, leaving them a long way adrift of rivals Chelsea and Manchester City in the battle for top spot in the English top flight, which already looks like very much being a two horse race.

Much like his time at Premier League rivals Manchester City, the Italy international disappointed.

This from Opta shows just how much of a task United have on their hands if they're to catch their rivals Man City

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.

It's been a frustrating season for United, who have been miles behind rivals Manchester City for much of the Premier League season and who were surprisingly eliminated from the Champions League by Sevilla.

The Madrid derby perhaps doesn't have as much history as El Clasico, but with Atletico Madrid the reigning La Liga champions their clash with city rivals Real Madrid certainly has more of a competitive edge than it has in the past.

While Naples went into uproar after news broke that their city's second coming of Argentine genius had swapped the Partenopei for much hated northern rivals Juventus, the rest of the world scratched their head.

They have a few key injuries to contend with and Pellegrini and the players know how much it would hurt the City fans to be knocked out of the top four by their main local rivals.

While it's surely too early in the season to suggest that this will be a decisive encounter, if City were to win and open up an 11 - point lead over their rivals, it would perhaps be too much ground to make up.

Should we see Pogba return to the vein of form we saw him achieve before he suffered his injury, it'll be interesting to see how much United can close the gap on their rivals Man City at the top of the Premier League.

Add in the fact that the Rangers are not only a division rival, but an in - state rival and the two cities hate each other, it makes the Astros horrible play against them that much worse.

We are sorry if we seem ungrateful sometimes Admin, you are really doing a GREAT job making me especially happy and i don't know about any other person cause i might not comment very often but i visit this site every single day of my life to read comments from everyone and it really makes my day... So thank you very much and nevertheless, i personally am tired of reading articles of Alexis Sanchez now... I must admit i personally thought Sanchez was holding Arsenal to ransom before, until Wenger came out to say he has never asked for a transfer request and i think the club has made there intentions known that they don't want to sell him, not even to a title rival and i think that is why city are now going after mbappe, seems they are desperately in need of a striker and if they are that desperate they should fork out 80m for Sanchez if they really need him, I LIKE THE RISK ARSENAL IS TAKING AS REGARDS SANCHEZ..

The fact is, the MISL can win all sorts of media skirmishes against rival NBA and NHL teams in Kansas City and San Diego, Cleveland and St. Louis, but it can never win battles — much less the war — unless it seriously dents the major markets.

But even with that in mind, it is understood that Arsene Wenger will not sell to a domestic rival, despite the fact that City and Chelsea will be willing to pay almost twice as much as Bayern Munich and Juventus.

The report added Bayern believe that, despite Manchester City being prepared to offer twice as much money to Arsenal to snap up Sanchez, the Gunners could be open to accepting their lower offer so as not to sell their star man to a direct Premier League rival.

I'm pretty sure Jack would be one of our last Gunners to join a rival if given the choice, no matter how much money Man City offers him.

I can't see it being City of Sibneft though, he will want to go to Spain probably, or maybe PSG where easy trophies and much money is on offer, and Arsenal won't want to sell to a rival.

Well as we expected there were no surprises from Arsenal's Premier League rivals yesterday, apart from how much better than Chelsea Man City were perhaps, so as well as holding onto some hope that Newcastle can take points ioff Liverpool later, we Gooners just want to see Arsenal do what they have to do and take all three points from our home game against Brighton.

Zana giving Liverpool too much credit mate.They've been held by quite a few teams and away record against rivals is nothing special got thumped by City and Spurs drew with Arsenal and got beat by us.

Carlos Tevez, having spent a fruitful two years with cross-town rivals Manchester United, opted to sign for Manchester City on a five - year contract, much to the mortification of the Old Trafford outfit.

Lazio managed to snatch the sixth time, but it was much more important for them as they defeated their city rival, AS Roma 1 - 0 in the process.

It could not have got much worse for Real Madrid last night, as Jose Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo were both sent off and Real were beaten by their fierce city rivals Atletico.

In the biggest game of the English domestic season, a game that would almost decide who would win the coveted Premier League trophy, on a cold night in Manchester, Manchester City finally seem to be emerging from the shadow of their much celebrated cross town rivals, Manchester United.

Despite winning their last game against Newcastle United 4 - 0, Manchester City's manager Roberto Mancini believes that stealing the title from their rival, Manchester United is pretty much an impossible thing especially since United can't seem to stop winning at the moment.

The reds of Manchester have been somewhat put in the shade by their city rivals and whilst winning the Premier League is pretty much dead in the water with Jose Mourinho as manager they are well capable of putting in a sustained challenge for the Champions League.

It is Atletico who are holding a four - point advantage over their city rivals and so three points in this world season the deal pretty much with just seven games to play after.

City Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside) had begun his campaign with nothing but niceties to say about his Democratic opponent, city Comptroller Bill Thompson, but following Weiner's departure and Thompson winning the endorsement from the Queens County Democrats, he has begun to launch criticism at his rival, who has drawn much higher numbers in recent poCity Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside) had begun his campaign with nothing but niceties to say about his Democratic opponent, city Comptroller Bill Thompson, but following Weiner's departure and Thompson winning the endorsement from the Queens County Democrats, he has begun to launch criticism at his rival, who has drawn much higher numbers in recent pocity Comptroller Bill Thompson, but following Weiner's departure and Thompson winning the endorsement from the Queens County Democrats, he has begun to launch criticism at his rival, who has drawn much higher numbers in recent polls.

Several sources close to the talks said Cuomo is not inclined to give that much money to a city agency controlled by Mayor Bill de Blasio, his political rival.

Rivals in the region said putting a casino so close to New York City would be unlikely to give the upstate economy much of a boost.

Neatly explaining how he arrived in Metro City (you know the drill: exploding planet, baby placed in capsule, lands on Earth) and how he was raised in a prison for «the criminally gifted,» Megamind goes on to describe his rival's origins: pretty much the same (exploding planet, baby in capsule, new home on Earth), except that Metro Man grows up happily, and happily doing good.

-- Chaotic Metropolis along with a tornado (much like Crisis City from Sonic 06 & Sonic Generations & Chaotic Inferno from Sonic Rivals 2.)

With a larger turning circle than its rivals, it's unwieldy on city streets and — as I learned while spending too much time delicately wedging it into more than one parking garage — extremely challenging to park.

It will never be a Prius, or even a Range Rover diesel, but the Land Cruiser's EPA ratings of 13/18/15 mpg city / highway / combined are at least a mile or two less than the thirstiest options in key rivals, much less some of their thriftier versions.

In fact, since much of the infrastructure development has been fairly recent, the islandÂ's water, power and communications grids rival those of many US cities.