Sentences with phrase «even bigger clubs»

Not even big clubs like Barcelona, Real Madrid or Bayern would make such a bold statement.

«(Real Madrid are an) even bigger club than it seems.

Having said that, the ability and influence of individual players can be crucial as well, as can be clearly seen with even the biggest clubs in the world like Barcelona and Real Madrid, neither of which does half as well when they are missing their star men Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

In comments reported on the Arsenal website the Frenchman spoke about how all of the clubs in the other leagues around Europe treated their own cup competitions and did not play a bunch of kids to save themselves for the league matches, even the biggest clubs like Barcelona who because of the club world cup and the Champions League will most likely play more games than the Gunners this season.

You are not even the biggest club in London so pipe down till you win something as you just make yourselves sound like nobs.

It was inevitable that an even bigger club would come knocking on the door, and that club turned out to be Borussia Dortmund in the summer of 2016.

Not exact matches

There's one notable case finding that it's not, and one even more notable complex of cases — the Dahl «club deal» antitrust lawsuit against all of the big private equity firms — suggesting that it might be.

A similar strategy was pursued in the creation of the Big Bertha golf driver (Callaway Golf), which was larger than previous golf clubs and positioned as a club that would significantly improve the performance of even indifferent golfers.

The swing revival did have the potential to make a widespread impact, as its lasting legacy in giving ball - room dancing a boost attests, but it was a far more ambitious idea than those other revivals, since for it to really work you needed a) jazz - musician participation, b) bigger bands, and perhaps even c) supper - club like venues.

the problem isn't cos he isn't WC, the problem is cos he is a rich man's Andy Carroll; I mean even Defoe that play for relegation candidate - Sunderland is a far better striker than him.he isn't WorldClass either Chicharito is also way better, he isn't a 30 - goal striker but when u play almost all games for a club with the creativity as Arsenal, scoring 30goals isn't a big deal.

Chambers v Benteke: CB is bigger and stronger, plays regularly for club and country, many fans on here were even calling for him and probably still wish we paid the 32.5

Is it just me or is this summer just like all the rest, with the Gunners being tight or too cautious and dropping even further away from the really big EPL clubs?

And it is ridiculous that some fans want the team to lose even more games so the manager will be sacked, is your love for the club bigger or the hatred to the manager bigger?

A lot of fans, past players and even pundits are asking for us to sign Benzema and if we do that would be a big F**K YOU to either Theo or his agent, whoever was holding the club at ransom for a pay raise and back to the wings you go... Get a feeling now seeing Pedro going to Chelsea whom has won everything there is to win and to me is on a different level than Theo could have been ours if 1) Walcott wasn't homegrown to make up that number and 2) to prevent him from going to a rival.

What has been quite different, however, is the fact that Arsenal have not been alone in this, or even out of the ordinary, as there have been almost no big moves made by any of the big Premier League clubs.

I love the fact that Arsenal is a family orientated club where no matter what happens everyone will get a fair chance to prove themselves, be it because of a loss of form or recovery from long term injury or even when trying to break into the 1st team from the youth setup However I feel that new high profile signings such as Cech, Reus, (you add who you like) would lift the moral of the entire team and give many players the confidence in their teammates that is needed when going into big games.

No player is bigger than the club, not even ozil or Sanchez.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

Yes, that is the big difference, and you can add that the difference also is, that Mourinho works in management positions in clubs, that will sack him, if the team doesn't win, whereas Wenger work for Arsenal, which these days seem to be content even when we fall to top 5 - 6 in England and get totally humiliated by better clubs / teams in England and in Europe.

Arsenal is a big club, but even big companies fall, not because of one person but because of a string of many people & poor decisions.

I'm saddened that the First Flight people stopped making clubs a decade after I hit that great two - wood shot in 1973, for I'd surely be buying a set today, even though the old clubs» sweet spots were about as big as the head of a pin.

IF they count» top 10 biggest clubs in the World Arsenal is there, about 6 clubs in England alone Man utd - 1st Man city - 5th Arsenal - 6th Chelsea - 7th Liverpool - 8th Spurs - 10th Each team i mention has Top players, Top coach, Money Power, Fan Based and Revenue BUT MY PROBLEM WITH ARSENAL IS THEY DO N'T SPEND EVEN IN AREAS THEY NEED MOST.

We are not even trying to win this trophy and we call ourselves as a big club.

As long as we don't have a owner willing to invest in big money into the team, then there's very slim chance the club can compete because you already are losing at the race's starting line before it even begins.

who would of guest City would make an offer of 60 million in the summer for Sanchez with only a year left on his contract, i'm guessing we could get an offer of around 30 million from City in January so he wont be persuaded by the likes of PSG with a signing on fee in the summer, but who knows what goes in the mind of Alexis or what kind of injuries some big clubs could have from now until January for them to make ridiculous offers to a world class player with no CL conflict of interest, lets say Real Madrid loses Ronaldo, Bale, Karim to long term injury you bet they will come ceiling with baring gifts for Sanchez's services or even Barca with Messi or Suarez

Anyway, unless a freak season, we will be at the same point next season... The Manchester clubs, Chelsea and others are not going to make the same mistakes, it will be too good to be true... And even with that we can not even win a single trophy when all the big firms are coughing...!!!?

To the positives then, and the main one is that we have actually made it to the UCL knockout stage, unlike some clubs I could mention (cough, spuds, cough) and the fact is that the two groups seem more even this year with the big names spread around more.

We know that Arsene Wenger will be intent on keeping up his admittedly very impressive record of getting us into the Champions League and even though it is very tight between second and sixth place and we have some very big clubs to contend with I am confident he will do it.

I know old fans and even when they recognize tradition they can't deny wenger out us in the big clubs map.

its even more baffling when you consider there are other options who have dome well for their clubs all through the season, the way Dier played last night just goes to show Wilshire is mot needed, we are not talking a proven world class player here the types you can not afford not to take to big tournaments, we are talking a decent injury prone player who os over hyped

as i always say great players don't necessarily make great managers, there are too many examples around the world why we shouldn't pursue this road, arsenal is a big club and need a big manager with big track record and even bigger balls

Even before the facility officially opened its doors in January, seven of its prospects signed contracts with big league clubs; the commissions covered more than half of La Academia's operating costs for its inaugural year.

What the club needed was for Wenger to move on years ago and for the club to sign Allegri or Koeman or Simeoni and yes even Big Sam would have done for a transition season.

This is probably even more relevant with strikers, as the conventionally «bigger» clubs will already tend to have an established first choice forward.

So even without the relaxing of the FFP rules, Arsene Wenger is still likely to have a smaller transfer budget than our big Premier League rivals and with Chelsea and the Manchester clubs also able to offer the lure of Champions League football, our manager will be hoping that his transfer targets are not the same.

It is also not a sure thing that the Stamford Bridge outfit would be able to sign Allan with competition from several big European clubs making it more difficult, even though the player is expected to leave the Bianconeri according to the article.

Ozil played in 3 world cups and performed well at one of the biggest clubs in the world (real madrid) and built up a massive reputation while coutinho did nt even feature in a single world cup game.

Very few players have been capable of being the héroes of both club and country in crucial moments (Zidane, Maradona... and maybe one or two more, hell not even Pele was able to do it in a big club, and please lets not argue about if Santos was a big club or not).

I'm conscious of the size of the club, the expectation level, so the pressure is even bigger than the first day I arrived.

Most of us are confused thinking that Arsenal is a big club, we use to be a big club but not anymore even in England we are just a good club with some good games here and there... no big club stays 10 - 12 yrs without a trophy..

If u sign quality def it wouldn't have to be all of this with who loosing who #Arsenal is a club not a 1 man team!!!! So even if #Arteta got sub that shouldn't have affect the team & it ain't to say #Arteta waz a big def so that loosing #Arteta article iz #BS!!

Now I know Arsene should be doing better and he is at a club with big expectations but comparing the job Arsene has been doing against the job Mclaren has been doing it is not even close.

Normally you would assume that this would give big clubs like Arsenal an advantage over the others even with all the TV money that you get in the English Premier League.

«I signed for NEC for a year and I'm not the type of person to go against his word, even though the clubs that were interested were very big and it'd be nice to play there.

Atletico de Madrid is one of the bigger clubs in Spain, but the gap between the bigger and smaller clubs over at the Iberian peninsula is much greater with Real Madrid and Barcelona earning almost half of the money if not even more, rather than it is in England where TV money is relatively equally distributed.

Even if you disagree with the manager because the bigger achievment of this manager (you can disagree with me) is that he has transformed the club in a WORLD BRANd btter than liverpool for exemple.

The simple truth is he wouldn't even make the bench of any of the «Big 4» Clubs

Even if Spurs win the league, it doesn't make them any bigger than Arsenal, but the two clubs are certainly moving quite dramatically in different directions.

While Barcelona is a considerable favorite to win this game in 90 minutes plus added time at -185, the club is an even bigger favorite to win the game in any capacity at -325.

Chelsea don't tend to bow to pressure to sell their stars to big clubs, so should be reasonably confident of holding on to Alonso, even if Barcelona can be very persuasive.