Sentences with phrase «field players last»

We didn't sign any out field players last summer and did not play particularly well and still would have finished in the top 4 even if the other top teams like Chelsea and the Manchester clubs played to to their usual standard.

In all the major European leagues, Arsenal were the ONLY club not to acquire an single out - field player last summer.

Its simple really, Wenger is a very poor manager and has been poor very almost 10 years now, he makes insanely stupid decisions and moves than not even a non league manager would make e.g Kim Kallstrom, 40mil + 1 for Suarez, not siging an out field player last season, playing Ozil on the left wing for some time, Flamini siging, being snubbed by Vardy etc, the list goes on and on and on, Chelsea go in for Kante in within 4 days deal is done, But noooo Wenger goes in for crack head Vardy and gets snubbed, I'm sorry but if we had to choose over 2 new world class sigings or a new coach I'd opt for the new coach, Wenger is a poor poor manager, he ia lower than the level of our club, anyway thanks in advance for the thumbs down.....

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Cameron Bancroft, the player caught who was caught trying to rough up the ball with some yellow tape on the field during the Third Test against South Africa in Cape Town last weekend, has been banned for nine months.

The Red Sox left fielder is one of the greatest players in baseball history, a 19 - time All Star and the last player to finish a season with a.400 batting average or higher.

We finished 2nd last season with key players injured, now we have 2 quality goalkeepers, if we sign Mustafi to partner Koscielny we will have a good defence, we have an improved mid field which has depth and many options, we have the ability to create chances, we get the finishing sorted out and we would be the biggest threat in the league.

And which player wants to come here after all the crap we've dished up on and off the field in the last how many seasons?

Moving further up the field, Riyad Mahrez has been a shadow of the player that was absolutely crucial to Leicester City's title triumph last season, while Nolito hasn't been able to offer the consistency that Guardiola wanted from him at City.

We all agreed last year that he didn't play well because we didn't have the players in front of him to stretch the field and create space — thus everything was condensed on him.

Wenger is the last one of the coaches leaving huge liberty on the field for every player as long as you keep the shape and you are in the position to get the ball back.

Every year for the last 7 - 8 I have Arsenal field a worse team every year and deteriorate in terms of manager / players and quality football.

The English players that Wenger had brought through the Arsenal system all seem to have ongoing injury problems, and although Wilshere and Walcott have been given some cameo roles in the last couple of games, the whole starting XI that have taken the field for the last six games have ALL been foreigners (except for the Welshman Aaron Ramsey I guess).

Barrett, who is close friends with Reese, shared that both players excelled on the football field last season:

During an owners - only session at the NFL's owners» meetings in Phoenix last week, he said he'd like the league to reconsider its stance on marijuana use by players, and he wishes the NFL would ease up on its approach to investigating off - field incidents.

At every practice last week, the MetroStars performed Milutinovic's notorious «one player, one ball» drill, in which each player merely dribbles around the field.

The Cleveland baseball writers voted him Man of the Year last season; this spring his Indian teammates picked him for the Golden Tomahawk Award, which honors a player's «good sportsmanship and contribution to baseball on and off the field.»

Where he will play is still unknown, Vidal is a tough tackler but he also provides for his team further up the field, scoring 7 goals last season including 4 in the league for Juventus, not really the holding player that Arsenal appear to need but another box to box all action midfielder.

Mertz should never have been our captain in the first place... who has ever heard of a team that makes 11th hour transfer buys (Arteta & Mertz) then seemingly places those same individuals into prominent leadership positions from the get - go... indicative of the problems that have permeated our clubhouse for the better part of 7 years under the Kroenke & Wenger... what is wrong with the players chosen and / or the management style of Wenger that doesn't develop and / or encourage strong leadership from within... Mertz was the fine collecting lackey from year one... this is what happens when you don't get world - class players because many times they want to have a voice on and off the pitch and this can't happen when you play for a fragile manager who has developed a coddling wage structure where everyone is rewarded for simply wearing the shirt and participating in the process... not enough balance between performance and pay, combined with the obvious favoritism shown to some players regardless of their glaring lack of production... remember that Ramsey has played in positions that make no sense considering his skill - set (out wide) and has forced other players off the field or into equally unfamiliar positions with little or no justification (let's remember when you read articles about how Ramsey's goals this upcoming season being the potential X-factor for our success that this is the same individual who didn't score a goal until the final week last season)... this of course is just one example of many... before I hear another word from Mertz I want this club to address the fact that no former player of any real consequence has any important role in the management structure of this club, yet several former Gunners have expressed serious interest in just such an endeavor (Henry, Viera, Adams, Bergkamp... just to name a few legends)... there is only one answer: an extremely insecure manager!!!

They were so confident that we were going to get no where near their goal at the end that Adrian was playing out of his goal as an on field player for a lot of the last 15 minutes.

For me, this incident should be the last of his off field shenanigans as an Arsenal player and if the club go ahead with the reported contract extension worth # 110,000 aweek then more shame on them, as this would be more proof that Arsenal fc have lost even more of their standards on and off the field of play.

As I have stated many times even with a horrendous injury record like last season, we only fielded 33 players in all 5 competitions.

The difference is Fab was the best player on the field in the semi final last year and played his way into the final.

The squad's fitness, focus and quality are Arsene's responsibility and I think he failed to add sufficient players to the squad last summer — definitely a striker and a mid fielder — would have helped but he was unlucky with the number of injuries which remains an ongoing problem.

why was Sanchez truly playing... no one believes he was too injured to play to start the season, and some like myself would go as far to suggest he wasn't injured at all... so why play him... they can't say it was to appease the fans because when was that ever a factor at this club except when «panic buys» were in the offing... I believe that this was to give Arsenal a little leverage when it comes to negotiating his transfer... just imagine their horrible bargaining position if Sanchez never saw the field before the deadline then heading back to South America and played for Chile... regardless of the facts, this was sadly again another example of a team putting business ahead of fielding a team with the greatest chance to secure 3 points... of course, some will say that Sanchez is, or was, our best player, so obviously he's a no - brainer to start, but those who really watch the game know that his heart hasn't been truly in it for quite some time... even at the end of last season you could see a definitive difference between the Sanchez who played for Chile and the one that played for Arsenal... that being said, 70 % of Sanchez is still better than a 100 % of the vast majority of our remaining roster... shame on you Arsene and shame on you too Sanchez for that telling smirk... I've supported your attempt to push this squad to the next level but don't pretend for a second that you didn't know you were being watched... don't lower your standards or you'll end up like this club, on the outside looking in

He wore down the Arizona defense, however, and on the last Dallas drive he and his maligned linemen were the most spirited, physical players on the field.

why did we play Welbeck in the striker's role... no one can question his heart but to have a player with such limited first - touch and finishing skills against such a game opponent with Lacazette on the bench is almost unforgivable... maybe it's because Welbeck tows the party line or maybe it's because Welbeck doesn't know anything but 100 % on the pitch, unfortunately neither of these qualities makes him a capable starting striker on a team with any real aspirations... I can only hope that he was being showcased for a move elsewhere, as there was some talk last week about some interest from Everton... if he moved on that would be the only silver lining of this coach's decision, but once again it wouldn't excuse this club for putting business decisions ahead of fielding the best possible team to secure 3 points at Anfield

The action in Division I is an adjustment for every player making the leap from high school to college football, but Lamar's transition may include more on - field activity than he has seen much of his last two seasons at Franklin - Elk Grove.

Of our six defensive players on the field last night, only Gibbs could be regarded as a backup player.

4 WRs were used on 3.5 % of offense vs defense NFL snaps last season, which means that either one of the defense's top 5 players, or the 10th overall pick, is going to be strategically taken off of the field at least 90 % of the time.

Morrison has recently been sent back from an unproductive loan spell in the Championship with Cardiff City, the early promise of his displays for the Hammers last season now having evaporated entirely as the player's off - the - field issues once again threaten to rear their ugly heads and derail his promising career.

Christoph Vogelsang outlasted a field of 56 players in last year's Super High Roller Bowl to take home the top prize of $ 6,000,000.

Even the disappointments: Flutie on his back on a frozen field in Memphis, his last pass gone awry, the Notre Dame players hoisting coach Gerry Faust on their shoulders to celebrate their 19 - 18 victory in the Liberty Bowl — in which Flutie is the MVP.

We were forced to field a weakened side due to injuries, I'll give credit to AW for his belief in our second string players but had we lost last night a lot of people would have again addressed the issue of not buying cover in the summer and rightly so.

In the publicised incident in last Saturday's game against Swansea, the Chelsea medical staff were clearly summoned on to the field of play by the match referee to attend to a player.

Wenger's answer to that is to field a CB that he didn't trust playing last year and a player who has never played on that level = BRILLIANT.

Unfortunately, however, he won't have senior Cordarro Law, who was the best player on the field in each of Southern Miss» last two games.

And then there are more defensive teams with relatively little goal potency elsewhere on the field who rely to a very significant extent on the goal returns from their lone centre forward (think Costa at Chelsea last year, aside from Hazard they could not rely on goals from too many other sources other than the centre forward position, or Atletico in 2014 strangely enough with Costa again, or Martinez at Porto (admittedly not quite so defence minded) in 2013 where no other player got in to double figures).

No more totally killing it every rare chance we actually put you on the field but otherwise sitting around for the bulk of the rest of our matches watching Welbeck and Theo flub chances, not quite having the quality last touch to create a decent chance, and / or very rarely making any type of decent / threatening cross to other players all the while thinking «hey coach, you know I'm on the team also!

players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes

Now I think there is still reasons to be cheerful, I agree Man C & Chelski have spent & bought some good players, we all understand that 5 of those teams might be in the CL proper which is a huge distraction for those 4 - 5 teams.Chelsea will not be able to field the same 13 - 14 players all season, as for Man C they were very frail at the back last season, add to that 2 flying wing backs and I'm not sure they will be any better this coming season.LFC will most probably have CL as well if they qualify and haven't exactly bought great players apart from Salah who could be a good aquasistion for them.Spuds have sold a good player & strengthened a rival & still not bought a single player yet, Man U have bought 2 good players & in Lukaku have a proven goal scorer in the PL but if they play the same dour way they did last season & with the added games the CL brings will they perform week in week out in the league??? As for Everton yes they have released a lot of players and also brought in a lot too to give better quality in the squad as they have Europa league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in the race.

All four players who are back in the seven - man rotation from last year have upped their scoring averages by at least 3.8 points, and none was shooting below 41 % from the field.

The winner of this week's Shell Houston Open will be the last player invited to participate, and the leader at the 36 - hole mark is Charley Hoffman, who already has a spot in the field next week.

There are 32 players in the field this week and almost every big - name winner from last year is here.

Before taking the field against Oregon State at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum last Saturday, the USC Trojans gathered around their coach, Pete Carroll, who had a touching moment with at least one player.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

Arsenal's injury list has eased considerably since the start of the season, but we still have a few players that are not available this weekend, and it looks odds - on that Wenger will not be picking the same starting XI that have taken the field in the last five games.

Lastly, Ozil plugged away in that last game, both ends of field, I can't fault a player in that regard.

Unfortunately, Team Reisner did not have enough players available to field a legal team last week and had to take a forfeit loss.

You are right Styles — but it is an awkward fact that with everyone clamouring for big spending to «guarantee» improvement and everyone in raptures over City they are the least changed top 5 team and are fielding 10 of their players from last season.

I think now MR wenger is not interested into obtaining another striker else he would have singed one by now there were many out field players out there that have moved clubs or in his mind there are not good enough for Arsenal In two weeks we begin our season and liverpool looking strong and have had good few games under there shoulder so they will be ready to give us a thumping at home watched them play last night they did nt give space to milan and made them look really bad Mr wenger is becoming very complacent full of himself