Sentences with phrase «goal for their club before»

In today's hyped - up football world, the words «great» and «legend» are often overused to describe one - footed journeymen who may have popped up to score a vital goal for their club before being transferred to another for more millions than anyone cares to mention.

Kezman scored only seven goals for the club before leaving for Atletico Madrid the following year.

Not exact matches

The Spanish champions took charge after the break, however, restoring their lead through a deflected long - range shot from Brazilian Casemiro in the 61st minute before Portugal forward Ronaldo struck again, from close - range, after fine work by Luka Modric, to score his 600th goal for club and country.

Ba scored 18 goals in 29 Super Lig appearances for Besiktas in his one and only term in Turkey, before the club cashed - in and sold him on to Shanghai Shenua.

Sanchez, who scored 24 goals in 38 league games for the north London side last season as the Gunners narrowly missed out on the top four, is reportedly top of Unai Emery's side's transfer targets, with the club wanting at least one marquee signing before the window shuts on August 31st, according to Sky Sports.

We can only hope that the teams leading the way so far in the Premier League drop points before our match, but with Man City going to bottom club Crystal Palace who have yet to pick up a point or even score a goal, while their local rivals United play Southampton the chances are not good for us.

It even took Henry half a dozen of games before he scored his first goal for the club, infact history has shown us that «most» strikers who scored on their debut end up going on a dry run, after that and end up having a mediocre season.

Linked to practically every club in Europe before finally choosing Atleti, the forward certainly has the goals to back up his price, with 81 in 117 games for Porto.

The forward netted a club record - levelling 17 goals last term, and had already added one goal in his one outing for Deportivo this term, before sealing his switch to the Emirates club.

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!!!

The Belgium international made a fine start at Old Trafford before a recent goal drought, which has seen him fail to find the back of the net in his last five games for the club.

24 year old Jimenez scored 36 goals in 96 games for Club America since making his debut in 2011, before joining Atletico Madrid in a # 11 million deal last summer.

Aaron Lennon opened the scoring for the Toffees against his former club before Dele Alli equalised on the stroke of the break with his fifth goal of the season.

The 26 - year - old scored 34 goals in 43 appearances for the club, and looks like another great piece of business by the Portuguese side, who have a recent habit of finding talent before selling it on for big money.

Shaw's injury overshadowed a disappointing 2 - 1 defeat for the Red Devils against the defending Eredivisie champions as Memphis Depay's goal against his former club was cancelled out by Moreno's header on the stroke of half - time, before Luciano Narsingh struck the winner just before the hour mark.

Balotelli spent last season on loan at AC Milan where he scored just one league goal all season, and now, not for the first time, he faces an uncertain future as time and options are running out for him to find a new club before the transfer deadline at the end of the month.

The 25 - year - old goal machine, who has netted 35 times in 41 club appearances so far this season, should be confirmed as a Chelsea player before the World Cup, where he is expected to add to his solitary senior international cap for Spain.

Before coming to Arsenal, I don't think Sanchez ever ended the season as the highest goal scorer in any club he ever played for, not to mention the highest goal scorer in the league!

Ramsey then bagged his second goal of the match midway through the first half, with Aubameyang then firing home on his full debut for the club about eight minutes before half time, after the forward was put through Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who is also making his full debut for the club.

He played 190 games for the club, scoring 38 goals before being sold to Manchester United for # 15m.

Despite going on to prove a great striker in La Liga with Villareal and Atletico Madrid, his time in England will be remembered for glaring misses and a long wait to get on the score sheet, going half a season before netting his first goal for the club.

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...

Van Ginkel has played just 11 Premier League minutes for the club, but enjoyed a good run of games with AC Milan two seasons ago before scoring eight goals in 13 games for PSV last season as he began to prove his quality and make a case for a future in west London.

Suazo played for Monterrey for seven years from 2007 - 14 scoring 102 goals in 219 games, before returning to the club he supported as a boy over the winter.

With the above beliefs, you have to analyze our own goals for the campaign before deciding on what we believe would be best for the club.

The only goal of the match came on the 25th minute, after a fantastic over-the-top through ball from Chilean international Alexis Sanchez allowed Walcott to go clean through on goal before the England star produced a cheeky lob over the Doncaster «keeper to put the home side ahead, with Walcott scoring his 105th goal for the club in the process.

Manager Arsene Wenger isn't afraid to loan his young players out to Football League clubs, with Benik Afobe banging goals in for MK Dons before a permanent move to Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Noble sent Cheikhou Kouyate raiding down the right and the Senegal midfielder crossed for Mario, the loan signing from Inter Milan, who took a touch before crashing his first goal for the club into the top corner from 18 yards.

Jackson, of course, scored 92 goals in 132 games for the Portuguese club and was wanted by Arsenal and Milan over the summer before choosing Atleti.

Like what happened in the continental competition, Jozy Altidore scored TFC's first home goal of the 2018 campaign after converting from the penalty spot before notching his second of the night, resulting in his 50th goal for the club.

Mohamed Salah scored twice to equal Roger Hunt's club record for goals scored before the turn of the year as Liverpool came from behind to beat Leicester 2 - 1.

Before leaving for Turkey, he posted a farewell to the club's fans on Instagram, saying: «I had come with a very specific goal, to help the club qualify for Europe and score 20 goals, and this happened.

Kevin Gameiro eventually gave Atletico the lead just before the half - hour mark, but it was as if that goal flicked a switch for the Spanish capital club, which barely threatened again for the rest of the game.

«The manager spoke about it before the game, for the last 13 matches we've conceded a goal so a clean sheet is always good for the confidence,» Hazard told the club's official website.

Adam Lallana scored his debut goal for the club to set the Reds, before Henderson struck to secure the three points shortly after Saido Berahino had equalised from the penalty spot.

Grønkjær was the last Chelsea goalscorer before Abramovich's takeover, netting what is now dubbed the «billion - pound goal», but would leave a season later having been with the club for four seasons.

Spurs have already improved in the centre of midfield with the signing of Corinthians midfielder, Paulinho, following an impressive Confederations Cup with Brazil but with Bale, who scored 26 goals in all competitions for the club last season, expected to leave for Spain, that leaves a creative gap in the team that manager, Andre Villas - Boas will need to fix before the start of the new Premier League season.

A total of 12 goals and 3 assists for club and country so far has coincided with Chelsea's return to form after a mini-crisis before and after the international break in October.

The former Arsenal man did start the West London club's 3 - 2 win over Bristol Rovers in the EFL Cup last week, having come off the bench to supply Diego Costa for the club's winning goal against Watford a few days before.

Before Henry arrived, Wright was Arsenal's all - time record goalscorer after netting 185 goals for the club in a seven - year stay.

a.v.b. sorry finding all these storeys about how many clubs looking for you i find a bit difficult to get my head around your chelsea days were a disaster lost the dressing room now at spurs well lets wait and see last year was good enough but we had bail without him you would of struggled this is not a put you down but things are not exactley rosey at tottenham money spend excellent buisness by our mr levy but we have same old problems not scoreing goals so before the line of suitors from europe are getting ready to sign you concentrate on getting it right at tottenham

Lukaku has done very well then, considering he has no footballing brain, to have scored so many goals for clubs, before now, that have been scraping around in midtable positions.

Just the five goals in 29 appearances for Pierre - Alain Frau but his contribution still helped the side greatly and he went on to score 29 times overall before leaving the club in after the title - winning year.

Etienne Capoue then hit the post before Watford completed a remarkable turnaround when Cleverley found himself in the right place to coolly fire home after a series of ricochets, the midfielder's first goal for the club since his loan spell in 2009/10.

MUNICH — Jupp Heynckes hailed Serge Gnabry as a «great talent» with «room for improvement» as the Hoffenheim loanee helped his side into a two - goal lead against his parent club before Bayern Munich fought back to win an entertaining game at the Allianz Arena 5 - 2.

William Gallas gave the ball away on the halfway line and Giorgos Georgiadis broke clear down the left before delivering a pinpoint cross that Salpingidis headed past Heurelho Gomes for PAOK's 150th goal in UEFA club competition.

We did our best to screw up our opportunity for Champion's League football by letting Spurs finish ahead of us, before Fullop decided it would be hilarious to screw over his former club and gift us some goals in his only ever league game for West Brom.

He has 30 goals for club and country and has played 51 games before tomorrow.

Bastian Schweinsteiger scored a brilliant goal nine minutes from time with an acrobatic finish in his first start for the club in a year, his penultimate of four appearances this season, before being released to sign for MLS side Chicago Fire.

De Gea was then needed to produce an outstanding save from a header from Benteke when for a period Palace looked the likeliest winners, and before Matic scored his first goal for the club to complete the visitors» fightback.