Sentences with phrase «financial muscle of»

And Billy Parish, 36, has built a billion - dollar business that has yoked the financial muscle of Wall Street to the challenge of powering the nation's homes with clean, efficient energy.

Maybe I was persuaded by the size and financial muscle of America's green groups.

Diego Maradona dragged Napoli to league titles almost single - handedly... Arsene Wenger has had a similar impact on this football club and it saddens me to see fans driving him away when he has built title winning sides on a shoestring and continues to battle against the gargantuine financial muscle of his competitors.

We've a decent team but we can't compete with the financial muscle of United, City and Chelsea and yet we're above all of them.

This is a big worry for the club as they've only given Umtiti a release clause of just over # 52m, which seems unlikely to be enough to put off a club with the financial muscle of United.

To illustrate, look at the multilateral development banks: Beijing has not only joined but supports with financial muscle all of the prevailing development institutions, both globally and in Asia.

Not exact matches

The founder of the $ 9 - billion financial - data company has been flexing his muscles and making it very clear exactly who is in charge.

«It's got the right mix of ingredients that have spurred both ahead — KW with its phenomenal engineering talent, and Toronto with more of the financial muscle and general business expertise.»

Large companies often flood the H - 1B application pool, while smaller businesses with less financial muscle make fewer bets on the people who are most critical to the future of their business.

Through the TOMS Social Entrepreneurship Fund, Blake has pledged to put financial muscle behind the next wave of purposeful, committed, mission - driven companies.

Multinational carmakers arrived with the sort of insurmountable advantages made possible by their global scale: superior models, well - known brands, and financial muscle.

Based on that momentum, Branch has attracted the kind of financial muscle Flannery was seeking when he left Kiva to start the company.

All of this coupled with Reliance's significant financial muscle puts them in pole position for the future.

There are a million moves, strategies, investments, accidents, strokes of luck, strokes of genius, strokes of foolishness, a thousand little injustices, unfairnesses and secrets, scores of prayers and muscles, countless imbalances, that factor into our financial situation.

Chelsea clearly have the financial muscle to sanction a deal for Messi as they've got one of the richest men in the world bank rolling the club.

That will be a blow to Madrid as they won't be able to compete with that level of salary, with the Sun noting that it was a similar scenario with Paul Pogba last summer as United were able to flex their financial muscle and snap up the Frenchman ahead of their European rivals by offering superior personal terms.

While the French club are obviously in a strong position given their financial muscle, the draw of playing for the biggest club in the world in Madrid is something that is unlikely to be ignored.

With Arsenal's newfound financial muscle, and the decline and managerial changes of other clubs (Man United, Chelsea), it was the perfect opportunity for us to take the league by the scruff of its neck and win it.

The only teams Arsenal can do business with now are these kind of teams with lesser financial muscle, appear, CL football and appear to some extent, good luck to waiting for bigger teams to get tired of a player offering them, seems to be the norm at the club now.

Abramovich is keen to flex his financial muscles this summer and will look to make the most of Chelsea's «Champions League winner» status as he prepares to make further moves in the transfer market.

We are out of the woods financially speaking, and after all those years of support and undying loyalty (I'm aware some of us were supporting long before Wenger), we expect the tides to change and Arsenal using her new found financial muscle to start dominating the scene, which let's be honest has not really happened, the FA cup being the only compensation.

«I have been in that position for 21 years so I can't start to complain now,» said Wenger, of Mourinho's frustrations with Manchester City flexing their financial muscles.

I'm betting there will be a much bigger focus on the CL performances and losses than the fact we're 3 pts from the top... While neglecting the fact that the financial muscle they all want flexed so badly is only now a possibility due to the careful planning and years of competing with the big spenders of the league while laying the foundations for a better future.

It's actually a cold - eyed strategy to gain prominence and regional security by investing heavily in key parts of Western infrastructure, and leveraging financial muscle to exploit weak regulations within the sport, thereby capitalising on an undervalued market to massively inflate the price of their asset.

He believes that building an oil refinery in his homeland of Nigeria will get him enough financial muscle to oversee a takeover.

He is releasing these players to create room and financial muscles for the wages of the prospective striker — which I believe will be KB.

That obstacle was the considerable financial muscle and allure of the Catalan giants FC Barcelona, who Mahrez was apparently keen to play for.

Now we actually have the financial muscle Wenger is buying players that will improve over time, and the likes of Xhaka, Mustafi, Elneny, Holding, Gabriel, Bellerin, the Ox, Jeff and even Iwobi are certain to improve and work their way into the Arsenal first team.

As a result, aside from some who will use this as ammunition against Guardiola for splashing out in order to get City to the position they're currently in, it could perhaps also form part of the argument that the gulf in the Premier League comes down to the big clubs making the most of their financial muscle and causing a disparity with the rest of the league.

It could be time for the west Londoners to flex their financial muscle again and improve on an array of poor signings from the last couple of transfer windows with a move for a player of Asensio's calibre.

Nevertheless, while there's no real substance behind this report as of yet, it's a situation that is worth being monitored as it seems as though the Red Devils are ready to flex their financial muscles again this summer.

So with this financial muscle and a manager with a solid early track record, why is the club still clearly a level behind the elite trio of Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich?

West Ham manager Sam Allardyce bemoaned how United's financial muscle had blown them out of the water.

A new found financial muscle capable of bringing in any player?

Now we have the financial muscle to actually build a decent squad which we have already begun doing and this is why some of us still support the manager.

Barcelona's new sporting director Ariedo Braida has confessed that the amount of financial muscle sides such as Manchester City and Paris Saint - Germain have, mean that Lionel Messi could one day be lured away from the Camp Nou.

How you could witness what the rest of us have these last few years and ever even consider saying Arsenal should beat these teams on financial and historical grounds is completely beyond my comprehension because their is no financial muscle flexed at Arsenal and these teams, even Marseille, are bigger spenders, as for the history, well the problem there is the man that made alot of that history is they current manager and he has no qualms about damaging it as long as he gets to employ his own agenda, which only he now seems to know what this actually is Arsenal deserve nothing on merit going into any game.

As I see it, there is even a split in terms of financial muscle in the so - called big six with the two Manchester clubs and Chelsea now well ahead of the remainder.

Chances are, despite Everton's new financial muscle, they're still more than likely to lose Lukaku and Stones this summer, with a host of other Premier League clubs rumoured to be chasing the duo.

The Gabonese has spoken of his desire to eventually play for Real Madrid and Dortmund are reluctant sellers given captain Mats Hummels looks set to join Bayern Munich, but United do have the financial muscle to turn their heads.

And why are Everton, a club renowned for their lack of financial muscle in recent years, prepared to pay a fee in the region of # 15 million for a 25 - year - old forward who's a relative novice in Europe and only has 18 months left on his current contract with Lokomotiv Moscow?

Mansour ended up with one of Europe's greatest sides, a behemoth of financial muscle and star power.

The Russian club spent a record # 51 million to bring the player in from Porto and it is thought Man City are one of the few clubs with the financial muscle to prise Hulk away from Russia.

With the newfound financial muscle at Arsenal's disposal, either of the two players are within reach.

Unlike previous winter windows, there was a lot of movement and Premier League clubs didn't waste any time flexing their financial muscle — Liverpool, Southampton, Arsenal and Brighton all smashed their transfer records.

Sponsorship deals play arguably the biggest part of any club's financial muscle power with deals for shirts, stadia and even training wear paying big bucks.

Kaka's wages may prove a stumbling block, but Arsenal are keen to flex some financial muscle following years of restrained spending while they built their current home, the Emirates Stadium.

With a lack of financial muscle, CSKA's hope that Viktor Goncharenko can inspire them to make it a three pronged attack for Russia in Europe, will be in plain sight, starting with a tournament debut for the Belarussian away in Greece tomorrow night.

Ed Woodward finally dusted off the Old Trafford cheque - book at the back end of August, as the Red Devils for once flexed their financial muscle.

Wenger has stretched his financial muscles more significantly over recent years, spending over # 30m on each of Xhaka, Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil, whilst stealing Petr Cech from Premier League rivals Chelsea just as he had once seen his players abandon the Emirates for Manchester or Barcelona.