Sentences with phrase «even challenge for the league title»

The transfer window prior to the start of the season was all hype and both managers failed to add enough players to their squad, which means that their teams will not be even challenging for the league title, yet another time.

Not exact matches

A striker that can make up for the loss of Alexis will be needed if we are to challenge for the Champions League places or even the Premier League title, and speculation is already rife linking us with a whole host of attackers.

if arsenal had properly challenged for the title in the last decade even if we did nt win any league, fans would never have been pissed off.

Indeed De Rossi has collected five Serie A title runners - up medals and of late has seen the club even secure Champions League football, last term's seventh place finish cost Luis Enrique his job, and arguably this could be the right time for the tough tackling midfielder to consider a new challenge.

With the amount of long term injuries we have right now (and don't even try to persuade me that Danny Welbeck or Jack Wilshere or whoever will be back in the next few weeks), and how close we are to actually challenging for the Premier League title, I was imagining a big money arrival to give the players and fans a boost ahead of crucial month ahead.

of course the games against stoke, leicester etc would have gone a long way to seeing us challenge for the title last season but for a long time now we've been labelled flat track bullies i.e we are generally very good at beating opponents outside the top six but our record against man utd and chelsea maybe even city quite recently has not reflected a team on the same level as those going for the premier league title.

If arsenal really been serious about challenging for the title, we will have to put down a marker at Chelsea to tell the rest of the league we mean business, so it is even a more important than Bournemouth in regards to our title aspirations.

Arsenal travel to Goodison Park with three league defeats to their name already this season, and could certainly do with a lift as they face a fight to even make the top four this term, let alone challenge for the Premier League league defeats to their name already this season, and could certainly do with a lift as they face a fight to even make the top four this term, let alone challenge for the Premier League League title.

Even though most of us Arsenal fans are not holding on to much hope of catching Tottenham and Leicester City and making a late challenge for the Premier League title, there is a chance and while Arsenal still have that chance we will not give up and we do not want Arsene Wenger and the players to give up either.

With Arsenal finally starting to look as though we might be able to have a good season and perhaps even challenge for and win the Premier League title, there is a little less pressure on the manager.

I lived in Leeds for 6 years, their team use to challenge for the title and for Europe, today they are in the Championship and even went to league 1, But the city stayed with the team as if nothing ever happened.

However, in what could be the biggest transfer of the summer, Sky Sports revealed that a bid for Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos was launched on Monday evening and that would represent a fantastic deal for van Gaal and the club, who will be looking to challenge for the Premier League title next season.

And let's be honest, it has been even worse for the clubs normally expected to be challenging for the Premier League title, with Chelsea and Liverpool struggling to even reach a Europa League spot and Man City and Man United fighting it out with West Ham for fourth.

«[Arsenal] are seriously challenging Manchester City for the title in England, and even after a poor start in Europe they can challenge for the Champions League.

This was before the window was even open and before the start of the Copa America and Euro 2016 tournaments and so there was plenty of time for the Gunners to add some more top quality players to give us the tools for a proper and sustained challenge for the Premier League title.

We are ready for the league but we are not for the title challenge, not even need to mention on all fronts.

One of the main reasons why a large number of Arsenal fans and almost all of the football media have been so hard on Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players for not maintaining the Premier League title challenge this season, apart from the 12 year gap since the Gunners were last champions of course, is because the struggles of our big Premier League rivals Man City, Chelsea, Man United and even Liverpool seemed to have opened the door.

In a way I think it would have been better for Arsenal to have fared even worse in last season's Premier League, as dropping out of Europe altogether may well have helped us to challenge for the title next time, as we have seen with the likes of the last two sides to be crowned champions of England, Chelsea and Leicester City.

Monreal clearly feels that there is a great team spirit and sense of togetherness in the Arsenal dressing room, with no little cliques of certain players, and he believes that this has been very beneficial and even essential to the way the Gunners have performed over the last few seasons, ending the long wait for a trophy and now getting into a great position to challenge for the big prize of the Premier League title.

But Rafa Benitez has failed to challenge Juventus for the Italian title and this season is not even in a Europa League position and so Higuain has had enough and is keen to move on.

Wins against Southampton and at Anfield gave hope that the Gunners could yet challenge for the Premier League title and a 1 - 1 draw at Manchester City was even more encouraging, although bad results so often followed good ones, such as the 2 - 1 reverse at home to Chelsea, the 1 - 0 defeat at Norwich and the 3 - 3 home draw with Fulham.

The boss has said that he could add some new players to the Tottenham squad this summer transfer window that could boost Tottenham's hopes of challenging for a Champions League next term, and even boost their title hopes.

Liverpool and Manchester City square off on Saturday evening in a game that could have major repercussions for both sides» respective Premier League title challenges.

With the skills from Pedro and Depay on the wings, and Rooney down the middle as a lone striker, Manchester United's attacking flair could put them in a position for a title challenge in the Premier League and perhaps even in the Champions League.