Sentences with phrase «clubs failed promises»

Not exact matches

It is easy to overlook in light of today's IPO, but Lending Club almost joined the legion of early stage companies that get off to a promising start, but run into insurmountable roadblocks and fail.

Despite some great moments for club and country, I think it is fair to say that the Arsenal and England international star Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain has largely failed to live up to his early promise and has yet to prove Arsene Wenger right for paying what was at the time a hefty fee for a 17 - year old.

Guy Smit is out of contract with Dutch top - flight side NEC Nijmegen after the club failed to tie the promising youngster down to a long - term deal.

Not only has the 23 - year old graduate of the Southampton academy failed to secure a regular first team place since coming to north London as a highly rated and promising teenager, but a quick look at the recent trophy success of the two clubs would suggest that playing for Chelsea is more likely to fill up your trophy room.

Ryan Babel says he failed to build on what many thought would be a promising career because Liverpool Football Club failed to manage him correctly when he was a youngster.

The Yorkshire Evening Post are reporting that Leeds United have promised fans a refund of up to 50 % on their season tickets if the club fail to make the Championship play - offs next term.

Blackburn boss Steve Kean has been handed a massive boost however ahead of Saturday's afternoon clash with the Magpies, despite the club failing to bolster his squad with a star - studded signing they continue to promise both him and the fans.

That season was also Arsenal's final campaign at Highbury, but the promise that moving to the 60,000 capacity Emirates Stadium would allow the club to compete financially with the biggest spenders in England and the continent failed to materialise.

And this season, despite some promise, the team has once again underachieved, with the threat of «challenges» in the economics of the club from Chairman Ed Balls if the team fails to gain promotion this season.

Or perhaps its a metaphor for the promise of a future perpetually unrealised: «Holed up in an abandoned night club, fifteen survivors listen to salvaged EDM club mixes through a failing sound system.»