Sentences with phrase «current squad of players»

Part of that burden lies with the current squad of players who are not kids anymore.

Has beating Spurs yesterday given back to you Arsenal fans out there the belief that Arsene Wenger and the current squad of players can defy the critics and mount a serious title challenge this season?

I know he decides the team and tactics but I think it's pretty obvious that this current squad of players aren't good enough to challenge for top honours now.

Not exact matches

It is quite disturbing to read (most of the time) fans talking about some potential recruits or even current squad players «not being good enough to play for Arsenal»...!!!

Unfortunately for him, that type of player does not exist in the current Palace squad.

The author of the article then analyses the Arsenal squad and wonder why Wenger is talking about «trying to bring new world class players» when he already said that his squad was completed, but he will add if he can find a player who could improve the current group.

I feel the current squad is the best in years but we are still a couple of players away from being genuine title contenders and for this reason I think wengers time is up as he has failed to address the same positions for years!!

Manchester City will open their new multi-million pound academy next month as part of a long - term plan to produce their own players rather than buy ready - made talent — their current senior squad cost over # 300m to assemble.

Arsene Wenger has supposedly been asked to stay and oversee a rehaul of the squad, with the current players failing to live up to their potential, and it SHOULD be a busy summer for us.

Lionel Messi is the only current Barca player to make the squad, while Juventus and Bayern Munich also have a single representative each in the form of Gianluigi Buffon and Mats Hummels, respectively.

Aaron Ramsey will be entering the last year of his Arsenal contract in about 10 weeks time, and according to the Welsh international there has been no progress at all, and the Gunners risk losing out on our highest - scoring outfield player in the current squad if a deal isn't agreed before the summer transfer window.

While a big emphasis will likely be placed on signing players capable of helping them take the next step to compete for major honours, Jose Mourinho will have decisions to make on his current squad and who will remain to see out that process.

With wengers stupid belief in some of our current squad he will not spend money and our injured players returning will be like new sighnings it's a never ending cycle of wengers stubborn deluded reign

However, having sold several of their top players over the years, surely the priority will be to keep the current squad intact and bring in quality individuals rather than lose them.

Look at our current squad, full of the players that were labellee the next big thing, most have not improved from since we signed them..

If you look at the current Arsenal squad, how many of these players can make it into better teams?

The point made previously about how expensive it will be to get the players in that will bring champions league back th the Emirates: It was the current first team squad that failed to qualify last season after 20 years in the competition and it loooks as if we are going to need a positive second half of this season to finish in the top four.

Doesn't matter who's in the squad, he'll move for him... Of the players you've mentioned in terms of current ability, on either flank Gotze's more dangerous than all but SancheOf the players you've mentioned in terms of current ability, on either flank Gotze's more dangerous than all but Sancheof current ability, on either flank Gotze's more dangerous than all but Sanchez.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

We have been linked with a number of players this past few months, from goalkeepers right up to the frontmen strikers, but is our current squad good enough to challenge for the title next season?

Even former Gunner greats have embraced the reality that the Old Prof has lost it with his continued reluctance to strengthen the squad and stubborn insistence that his current crop of players are good enough to win the EPL and Champions League.

Wenger went on to add that he didn't expect any business in January as he's happy with the strength and depth of his current squad, leaving Arsenal fans undoubtedly disappointed as there is always seemingly a need to bring in new players.

Even if we manage to persuade the two biggest names in the current squad to sign new contracts and stay in north London, the Arsenal fans will want Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil to be joined by some more top class players to give us a chance of actually winning a big trophy.

The chances of Arsene Wenger adding another two forward players to the current squad of Arsenal players are slim in the extreme.

Arsenal's Midfield is a complete mess at the moment.The Ox has presumably had enough; Coquelin frankly isn't good enough although is currently the only combative midfielder that the Club has in its ranks; Elneny is nothing more than a «squad player»; Wilshire has regressed over the course of 3 injury ravaged years and Cazorla is unlikely to play at the same level again following on from his current injury crisis....

Let's be honest, 90 % of the current rop wont make it and will endup being squad players at best or taken up by some middle table clubs.

I have to say you are all clueless not only about football and the current needs of a squad versus the players available on the market at a realistic price.

I would guess that there are players in the current squad that he didn't want but now he has them, he has to make the best out of the situation... Or at least that is how hindsight appears to me.

Someone new and who is not emotionally and sentimentally attached to the current squad of what is essentially, mediocre or average players, with a sprinkling of 3 world class players.

It's got to be really difficult to separate what the future potential of a lot of the players on the current squad is based on their level of play in offensive, defensive, and special teams systems that, let's face it, were not NFL quality schemes.

of our squad it's still current that only players like Kos, Sanchez, Mustafi, Cazorla, Cech Bellerin, Ozil, Walcott, (when they turn up) are worthy of being called «World Class» the rest are mediocre or in some cases diabolical and this is the real reason we can not seem to achieve anything like decent silverware in either the EPL or CL.

Perez will come good if he keeps maintained his patience to our classy manager Arsene that will keep him as a good squad player and when Perez gets the chance if any of current strikers got injured, he will take the opportunity given by our Great Arsene and will come good.

There are plenty of players out there that can improve our current squad, and they wont come cheap.

Especially when we lose a match, then 2 - 3 of our players must say that we need to bounce back and when we don't sign a player there are articles about how good our current squad is etc. etc....

Giroud just is not good enough and thats the facts here, we would have been three goals up with a real world class striker, regardless of Ozil and sanchez current form if we had brought in a real DM player then we'd have won points at other games and this would be just a blip, teams do loose games and they do have off days, the real problem lays in the fact that Wenger has no real top notch choices to mix and match with is he has slumps with his current squad.

Unfortunately for him, especially as one of the longest serving players in the current Arsenal squad, Theo's injury caused him to miss that first trophy success in nine years.

If Arsene Wenger does not want to risk losing one of the best young players in the current Arsenal squad, he is going a strange way about convincing Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain that he is an important and intrinsic member of the Arsenal team and if the most recent Arsenal transfer rumours are true then the Frenchman needs to act fast to stop the Ox from giving up on the Gunners altogether.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

However, recently, United have been linked with a whole host of stars such as Juventus ace Paulo Dybala, Arsenal star Alexis Sanchez and Gremio midfielder Arthur Melo, players that would drastically improve the quality of this current United squad and help them close the gap on Guardiola's side.

If Arsenal finally finished 3rd or 2nd in the table on the final day of this season, the Boss should take comprehensive stock of his current 25 man squad including the loaned players to 1st let go those who are no longer able to play for Arsenal competitively like, Arteta & Rocisky.

ppl just have no clue and go with media hype and current couple of games etc. every player in our squad has talent and if played regularly might turn very good.

I think it is easier for both the new players and the current squad to get used to each other if they have the benefit of pre-season as opposed to being signed or sold on the last day of the window.

So to follow your logic Arsenal should have added two more players to their current squad of 22 thus bringing their full squad of those above 21 years to 24 players.

Three signings in the areas you indicate, along with most of the players within the current squad and WHOEVER the manager is, the future looks good.

We have done them ourselves in the past and Arsene Wenger has already suggested that this might be the case again, so the Arsenal fans feeling frustrated about the lack of money spent and players added to the current squad could still have something to smile about.

The question is how many players are needed to transform our current squad of mediocrity into genuine title contenders?

We also have some other players in our squad who are linked with the exit door, with current contract rebels Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil possible outgoings, but which other players are no longer deemed worthy of a regular run of action in our first - team?

«It would have been bad business practice not to have retained some small degree of flexibility to allow us to invest again in the right player and / or to maintain the current squad as and where we want to offer improved and extended contracts for key players.

When I see Chelse (defending champs) adding players and still be linked with the like of Pogba and Stone, City already strengthened up yet linked with De Bruyne, Madrid with their expensive squad still added some players (Casemiro and Kovacic), Barca added Arda and Vidal all to join January (their case is well known) Bayern the same with Arturo I fail to understand what should be going through Wenger's mind.I have been his supporter through ane through for some years now but am afraid he should alter his philosophy a bit to accomodate the current situation.

I hope I'm wrong but this could be the most damaging win when it comes to transfers... winning 1 game, after about 20 minutes of really good play, is of little consequence in the grand scheme of things... only those with the most selfish of intentions would suggest otherwise... the only reason we're even in this predicament, where were celebrating our first victory of 2018 against a bottom half squad who is managed by possibly the only individual more antiquated than our manager, is because of Wenger's ridiculous mishandling of his contract last year combined with his mishandling of the contracts of our top players this year; a fact that he himself admitted to... so before you get too excited about the possibilities of our current roster don't forget what has happened over the last several years and pray to the gods of football that real quality reinforcements like Auba are on the way, which could have happened years ago for less money and we might have been holding a trophy of some significance, or this brief respite will be followed by the usual mediocrity and stagnation