Sentences with phrase «great role player»

This take seems to place him short of even being a «great role player» which still requires very good skills in the league.
Works his way through the Q, and then to the ECHL, up through the Penguins system and being a real great role player for the WBS Pens.
He's clearly the safest to impact the NBA next season and be a great role player, but where does that get us?
He is a great role player, but to say he is an above average pass rusher is false.

Not exact matches

The CM can be all different types but the role of «Box - to - Box» is given to players who will cover great deals of distances and attempt to get in line with the DM while defending and the AM while attacking.
He is with a great potential as a midfield player and I hope he will play a great role at Arsenal in the near future.
For avoidance of doubt, Sanchez is South American and, with due respect to that great continent (as with developing continents / countries), money plays a role in their players» decisions with personal ambition a distant second.
I am glad that he gets to watch one of the greatest players of all time and even more thankful that LaDainian is such a tremendous role model on and off the field.
He gets in the right place at right time, that's a great knack to have, problem is CF is the only role where you can put up with a player only having this one ability.
Great players taking part roles is what makes us winners of the all trophies.
Among them: Role players must be great, stars must be superstars, and it would really help if they could keep the Cavs off the glass.
This arsenal may have not been at their best from the season has started, but have a great chance of improving with players returning and pressuring for the starting roles.
Pirlo, Schweinsteger and Gerrard are three great examples of players who started in a primarily attacking role.
My point is that if a player is on a role or proved that he is playing great, then play him.
I join you on that almostawinner... but the same can be said of that famous english core that we extended / signed a couple of years back... Ramsey is a great player, can be world class but for that has to stop being so wasteful at times (bad / heavy first touch, killing counter attacks with the wrong choices, not shooting well anymore the way it looks, giving the ball away)... your not on Gerrard level at his best Gibbs is a good player but seems happy with his bit part role, doesn't look like he's crazy about pushing & challenging Montreal for a XI spot Ox, I still believe in his talent but just no end product for an offensive player with his ability; he could be our version of PFA Hazard / Costa... is it a lack of confidence?
A manager plays a great role but if they player isn't already talented enough to score many goals what can he do?
We have Flamini, Chambers that can also fill that role, and though I agree, great player that he is, Mikel IS getting on, but, so is Rosicky, and he still has class when he plays.
This does nt mean a thing its a case of somneone told me that someone else said...... fill in the blanks, Iwobi is a great player BUT he's not a proven front man and if put in a position of extreme pressure could fold like a paper bag, its unfair on the kid to place him this role so early on in his career Also much like Welbecks promising end to the season which was cut short again he just is» nt the goal scoring monster that we really really need.
The Ox wants a central role as well, we all know he is a talent and I think he could be a great B2B player once he learns how to defend better.
Players do have a brain afterall and what Wenger does is encourage them to use it rather than just instruct them like most other managers do, now when it all comes together, we go a whole season unbeaten, when it fails, we go a decade without a trophy all in it is why a large number of former Wenger students and players have gone on to greater things within and beyond football, Even Guardiola took a chunk of his coaching badges under Wenger even after playing under Fergie just before hanging up his boots, Viera went on to a senior role Players do have a brain afterall and what Wenger does is encourage them to use it rather than just instruct them like most other managers do, now when it all comes together, we go a whole season unbeaten, when it fails, we go a decade without a trophy all in it is why a large number of former Wenger students and players have gone on to greater things within and beyond football, Even Guardiola took a chunk of his coaching badges under Wenger even after playing under Fergie just before hanging up his boots, Viera went on to a senior role players have gone on to greater things within and beyond football, Even Guardiola took a chunk of his coaching badges under Wenger even after playing under Fergie just before hanging up his boots, Viera went on to a senior role at Man.
The player himself also spoke about it, as reported by the Daily Mail, and although he realises that he has quite a bit to learn in the role, he did enjoy and plans to study some of the best players in that position and see how the likes of the great Andrea Pirlo do so well there.
There has to be several players of high caliber and for that there has to be a farm - system and youth system that will provide great young players, or more money and luck to get players who can play those key thankless roles of being competent, while the flashy ones get the credit.
And it is clear in the system we play that of the two wide players we deploy, it is Alexis who has the greater freedom to roam licence, DB plays in a much more orthodox up and down role.
Yet another Arsenal great, Dennis Bergkamp takes this role just behind the main striker, having played it better than perhaps any player in Europe in the last twenty years.
I think N'zonzi would be great for us although the problem is we already have too many players in that position or play a similar role.
Genai remains active in his community and has become a great role model for aspiring water polo players.
whatever you think of ramsey... and in my books he is a decent b2b but certainly not top class... he is not going to control the area between edge of box and centre line which is what all great DMs do... nor has coquelin proved that to me... he is a guttusso type player and has improved massively in that role... not convinced it is what will take us to challenging for titles however which is why a cavalho type DM is a needed addition especially as arteta and flamini are obviously not up to the task... but have always said that wengers job is to get best out of ozil santi and wilshere who are the real creative world class strengths of this squad... they need protection behind them and options in front... at moment the real worry is that wenger will continue to use mertesakher at CB and fail to bring in quality striker... so the song remains the same... without quality DM and attacking option we will be trying to retain 3rd place and reach qf of cl
He is one of the arsenal players who despite being great in his own right was overshadowed by those around him... Such was the quality we had in the squad during his time... So I hope that his situation improves financislly or at the very least we offer him a some kind of paid coaching / mentor role at Arsenal to help him get out of this mess...
It's great to have world class players competing for a role.
We need 1 defender for and tbh three midfielders we need these as I think he will clear a lot out we have one particular player who just can't do it he's always enjoyed great talent but just can not play but I would like to see and have a coaching role of the club as a say is very very talented and we all know who is.
Paul Scholes has been a great servant to Manchester United over the years and there are rumours aplenty that he could well have played his last game for the Old Trafford outfit and may be drawn to a potential player - coach role at Stoke City.
Although we all know that Ramsey is a great player in the middle, Arsenal fans were understandably annoyed when Wenger used him in an ineffective wing role while leaving confirmed wide men like Theo Walcott on the bench, but the fact is that if Ramsey wasn't out on the wing, would he get into the starting XI?
She fills a glue role as an incredibly versatile defender and all - around player not defined for being GREAT at any one thing just yet.
We are potentially losing the chance to develop a future great homegrown player by preferring to force xhaka in a role he can not do.
It's good that Illinois found a role for Patterson where he was able to get a great job and Illinois wasn't forced to ignore one of the best players in the country because of it.
I love CJ and Dame but they will not win a championship for us nor get us out of the middle to lower tier of the west CJ is a very solid player and a great guy but he is still a high end role player Dame is not a superstar and the comparisons to Ellis are reasonable.
I understand what your saying but Ozil is no Bergkamp he doesn't have the aggression strength and nasty streak that Dennis had and he doesn't obviously have the finishing ability of Dennis in the 10 role Ozil is a nice tidy player who coasts through games and has great vision and an eye for a pass but there isn't much else to his game in my opinion defensively he is really poor although our team as a whole collectively are at times.
Here are recent role players who were one time starters, if not all stars, that Spurs used to be able to depend on: The Great Boris Diaw, David Lee, David West, Splitter — > These guys all understood playmaking better than an average NBA player.
No disrespect to vidal, he would be great signing, but we should rather buy solid dm bec we only have 1 player to play that role, arteta and flamini are just not good enough.
Celtic FC is an all - inclusive club and Celtic FC Women play a crucial role in this, offering female players the opportunity to be an intrinsic part of one of the world's greatest football clubs.
Great Britain's most - capped international of the modern era is to take on a new role as British Basketball extends its responsibility to its players and staff.
Lovren and Lallana for example, are great players under Klopp, while I have never questioned Emre Can's role in the team.
Surely, Berahino would have been a great addition both as an alternative to Kane, an impact player off the bench, or an alternative playing in the Rodriguez role.
Nominally in Barcelona's strongest line - up, Andres Iniesta operates as the widest midfield player on the left, but the job of marauding up and down the flank is reserved solely for the Brazilian and it's a role he performs to great effect.
But there are some of those great player roles that have been recreated at Anfield.
He said: «I had an unofficial role at the club, trying to persuade some great players to join.
But it was a great side with some quality players in dynamic roles.
He's in the same class as Ozil, Silva, Iniesta, and all the other great players who play that role.
Jürgen Klopp himself presents a rather intriguing prospect too, he is very much focussed on the concept of team building, and a collective ethos and spirit, in which the sum of the parts is greater than the value of the individual parts themselves — maybe Klopp will go some way to healing the hurt left from Suarez's departure, as he himself is also immensely popular amongst the fans, but his players will certainly have a key role in that becoming a reality, as ultimately it is performances on the pitch that mean the most to the fans.
On another note Charlie Nicholas has just said he has only met Arsene Wenger once at Rocky's funeral a great player like Charlie never visits Arsenal for whatever reason seems unreal considering his role on Sky.
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