Sentences with phrase «even in the squad»

The Chelsea boss has signalled his tactics loud and clear by failing to start with a striker, leaving Drogba on the bench and with Diego Costa and Loic Remy not even in the squad due to fitness issues.

The result was even sweeter when you realise that Arsenal's best player, Alexis Sanchez, was not even in the squad and five different players got on the scoresheet.

You act like those are the only signings he ever made despite the fact that a lot of the time they weren't even in the squad!

I was pretty worried when that happened as Carl Jenkinson was not even in the squad for our win over Bournemouth, but the boss has revealed that this was not due to a fitness issue.

«If you ask me if I am happy with the depth of the squad I say certainly yes because I have many international top quality players who are not even in the squad on Saturdays when everyone is available.

As Napersie said above, he is not even in the squad for this weekends games so come on, keep up!

That's exactly what I was going to say, it might be a little difficult for him to do that if he's not even in the squad...

Rafa on the other hand continued to dismiss the notion that rotation had anything to do with the defeat, even though Steven Gerrard started on the bench and Torres wasn't even in the squad, Rafa said:

In fact why was he even in the squad?

Alexis isn't even in the squad.

I mean Joe Hart is even in the squad!

Luke Shaw had recovered from his injury that kept him out against WBA but there was no place even in the squad for Robin van Persie who had a virus or Angel Di Maria who was injured in training.

Summer signing Lucas Perez is in the starting XI for the North Londoners and star playmaker Mesut Ozil is not even in the squad.

Not exact matches

Major international competitions in different time zones can be scheduled in the morning, afternoon or evening, so Karolyi has her squad ready for all possibilities.

We read up on our squad, learn the strengths and weakness of the teams in our pool, and even watch a human interest story or two on an American footballer.

Wenger will never play 2 upfront even though he has in past squads: /

one of the fastest runners in d squad @ 34, unquestionable technique, and the way he changes the pace of the game,... let's not even forget his outside of the foot pass he does ever so deliciously........

most of these decisions is him wanting to develop a player and try to fit him in, but ends up disrupting the squad, or even destroying another player in the process (arshavin, Gervinho)

Even in his second year at Southampton he is doing well with a squad less talented than ours.

Do you think Campbell has done enough and will he be in the Arsenal squad and even the Arsenal team for the rest of the season and in the coming years?

He wants the best squad in world football and if he can weaken a rival even better.

Even if Walcott and the Ox does fully recovered to play for Arsenal in December before the winter window reopens, the Boss should still sign a top quality striker and left winger to reinforce those 2 positions in his squad that are looking exposed right now.

I quite agree sell all the deadwoods but which player in his right mind would want to come to arsenal at the moment, remember people man u was in the same situation under moyes but we're able to attract better player's even when not playing champions league, the selling point from arsenal point of view is to tell players which they are trying to get what the plan is of getting back to top flight football by going for the Europa league over the FA cup and finishing in the top six otherwise if they go for wishy - washy arsene wenger stupid attitude of we've got quality all the squad we are competing for everything then I'm afraid We will end up with nothing

The good news is there are goals in the squad and we didn't even have Sanchez.

Cech has integrated really well with the squad and even showcased in the pre-season tournament at Singapore what is in store.

The obvious one is that we simply do not need any wide players with the likes of Alexis Sanchez, Theo Walcott, Danny Welbeck, Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain and also the midfielders like Wilshere and Ozil before you even get to young Gunners like Gnabry, Iwobi and all in the squad.

In a fully fit Arsenal squad — He may not even get a place on the bench..

Lemar didn't reject arsenal in favor Liverpool, that story is false, the reason why he didn't sign was there was no time for him to do so, he was already in the France squad this evening, is already too late for him to make his decision whether to go and not and no time for medical, and to agree personal terms that's why.....

Yes on paper we should beat them without to much trouble, even with our weakened defence we should be to strong for them with the (Wenger's fave word) quality... we have in our squad or team.

we have no cover for CB at all then, Chambers needs to sit on the bench and be healthy for covering RB and CB as much as i want to see what hes like as a DM its too high of a risk to play him there atm, I'd def go for bellerin for RB though hes so fast and has tremendous technical ability, One person i think wenger should of taken to dortmund is diaby just incase hes needed would be nice for diaby to get a good 60 min game but i do nt think hes ready for CL just yet since he hasnt even featured in the PL yet but then again no harm in taking him since hes been linking up with bellerin pretty well in the U21's we must remember we have some really good youngsters in the squad than can fill in some of the spaces.

The Arsenal squad is strong in terms of depth and even more so in terms of quality, we just need a bit of world - class cutting edge to close the gap on Chelsea for next season.

There was a little bit of good news for Arsenal fans on the injury front this week, with Arsene Wenger declaring that even though our Chilean international star Alexis Sanchez was not being included in the Arsenal squad for the pre-season tour of America, as reported by Metro, his ankle injury was actually not too bad.

Flamin: I would rather keep him than arteta he has been a good squad player this season and always there when needed in terms of availability people have been harsh on him he only has 5yellows this season in his 20 + games so he isn't a walking yellow as people like to say.his contract is up this season but he deserves an extension he isn't even 30yet.

first he need to solve his injury problems to prove himself like a good player to take in the squad and not a wate of space, leave that «best winger» thing... finally, he even want to play as winger, so he never would be that best winger and probably we do nt need him because he cant play like a lone striker.

Even though he hasn't been paid, he's taking one squad place in our team.

Before the summer transfer window even opened, Arsene Wenger admitted that he would have to trim the squad in the coming months, hopefully for us to make room for some more top - class arrivals at the Emirates.

If we add Lacazette and Manolas to this squad, then i guess we can challenge for the title and even reach quarters in the CL.

«It is another game where people look at us and see how we behave because even if Chelsea are not in the best position you look at their squad.

Ozil is just a member of the squad that you sometimes don't even notice in games.

The 25 - year - old striker scored just one goal in 16 Premier League appearances last season and hasn't even featured in Liverpool's match - day squad this season, with new signings Christian Benteke and Danny Ings effectively ending his career at the Merseyside club, and is clearly a player Brendan Rodgers would happily offload.

Wenger said at the start of the season that this is one of the best squads he has managed... look at the table, look at the results (shamed), and look at our performances... wenger is gulty for this, and the suporters in england habe to grow up their voices... its impossible that people were demanding for chenges and the board and wenger were taking a laugh of you and continuing with their reign... its unacceptable that those guya even care about us fans and you are capable to look to anotger side and bought alll that sh about «a great change on the squad and a promised new wenger, its bs... wenger has to go and for that you england arsenal fans have to grow up some balls and do ur job... what was that bellerin episode?

Top managers in modern football don't gamble and rely on other teams mistakes, they make sure they have every chance of reaching their goal by building an unstoppable squad even if it costs an extra 60m.

Even though Giroud can be frustrating at times, I think it would be the wrong decision to sell Giroud, especially with the fact that we are lacking in squad depth up front as it is.

Like he said we can't clear out every player in one transfer window, even if we need to change half the squad.

(3) formation flexibility — it took 20 years for Wenger to return to a back 3 and now he can't seem to choose anything but that formation... the teams in the premiership and those we could face in the Europa will present vastly different tactics and we need to have a manager who can prepare this squad for this eventuality and have the fortitude to make the necessary adjustments throughout the season... I have seen nothing in the past 6 - 7 years to suggest that he is the man to take on this challenge... I can't even remember when he changed formations when he would replace a small, pacy striker, like during the Walcott experiment, with the lumbering Giroud... of course this is exactly why there is no other manager in the world that plays more players out of their natural positions (square peg in a round hole)

I mean look at carzola, he says outright without hiding that we need a striker... about finishing strongly, we did that last season and the season after and the other after after a first leg screw - up... maybe ramsey loves his friends in the dressing room but saying that we need a few quality wouldn't have hurt anyone... we weren't able to beat the chelsea that hez talking about at home even with a full squad so i don't get his reference plus other teams are strengthening strongly and will only get better... man utd with a mediocre team played us like we were some kids FH at OT and we had no injuries... IF WE DO NT SIGN STRIKER we are doomed cz it» l be harder to beat even the small teams

I will always say it wit Arsene in charge Arsenal will not win a major trophy.he is not cut out for that.he is happy wit making profits n balancing d book.after all that happened last season he is not even moved d squad should hv been strengthen by nw.but no.so hw do u take d tittle away from Chelsea, Man city and Utd.

Mourinho after not even a full season gets rid of Torres, David Luis and other useless players, brings in Matic, Costa, Felipe Luis, Remy and has a complete squad.

Even if we don't and we have to play one of the group winners, Wenger has the January transfer window to strengthen any positions that we are light in (cough, DM, cough) and barring any more bad luck we should have a full strength squad with key players like Walcott, Debuchy and Ramsey back and fully fit.

In addition, if neither Cazorla nor Ramsey improve their game by a mile, i reckon Ox (for ramsey) or Sanchez (for Cazorla) should take their place on the team and put Poldi on the left winger (or even Campbell on the right) They do nt even have to be bad, this could even be nothing more than a proposition on how to rotate the squad in the way of avoiding injuries on players, as well as giving frustrated benchwarmers some much appreciated time on the pitcIn addition, if neither Cazorla nor Ramsey improve their game by a mile, i reckon Ox (for ramsey) or Sanchez (for Cazorla) should take their place on the team and put Poldi on the left winger (or even Campbell on the right) They do nt even have to be bad, this could even be nothing more than a proposition on how to rotate the squad in the way of avoiding injuries on players, as well as giving frustrated benchwarmers some much appreciated time on the pitcin the way of avoiding injuries on players, as well as giving frustrated benchwarmers some much appreciated time on the pitch.