Sentences with phrase «club standard bearer»

The German national team skipper, with Bayern for 16 years, is a club standard bearer, but in recent months has slipped somewhat down the pecking order, losing his automatic defensive midfield slot to Xabi Alonso and generally having to make do with the role of middle of the park stop - gap.

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Meanwhile, last year was a bumpy one for online lenders: Lending Club, the onetime standard - bearer of the online startups, fired its founder; rising interest rates made it more expensive for these startups to do business; and funding for the fintech sector has dropped off.
There for me lies the rub, Cesc is not a leader of men - he is a standard bearer of the heights all young players need to achieve to deliver a golden future for themselves and for Arsenal Football Club.
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