Sentences with phrase «hard time last season»

The Spaniard had a hard time last season, struggling to break into Arsene Wenger's first - team plans despite impressing when featuring.

Not exact matches

Despite some highly disappointing displays in the last couple of seasons, both for City themselves and in a loan spell with West Bromwich Albion last season, the Premier League champions hope they can bring in # 6m for winger Scott Sinclair, who has had a hard enough time getting into the team anyway without the arrival of a player of Di Maria's quality.

Following Ferguson's retirement new manager David Moyes proved not to be as big a fan of the youngster and he found game time hard to come by, eventually being loaned to Cardiff City in the latter part of last season as a result.

Haynes has a hard time understanding a town that would send more than 63,000 people to Mile High Stadium just to wish their team well before the trip to Pasadena for the Super Bowl last season.

Heavy trading during the past two seasons and a thorough search of the farm system produced last year a hard - hitting lineup that gave the Cubs the best team they've had in a long time.

After winning their first six games of the season and becoming bowl - eligible in the process, the Illinois Fighting Illini have fallen on hard times, dropping the last two games they've played.

I mentioned a few times during last season that I thought it was a bit unfair and unduly harsh of all the football commentators and experts to give Arsenal such a hard time for failing to win the Premier League.

Hard to rate him on the last two seasons because of his 9 + month injury but based on playing time he has maintained his goal / assist every 90 minutes.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

This season will hopefully be a lot better, not that it would be difficult, and with an even harder injury hit season than last time the manager must agree.

* Winning the League (EPL) * His early success, a year after joining the Club in 1996 at Arsenal was phenomenal, winning the League (EPL) and FA cup double in 1997 - 98 & 2001 - 02 seasons and then winning the league for the last time in 2003 - 04 season (Les Invincible) was enough to win and melt the hearts of die hard fans, the Board and even eagle eyed watchers in London as well as coaches and even referees.

Sean Dyche has made Turf Moor a fortress for the Clarets for some time now and despite the fact that their home record so far this season has not been quite as impressive as last time, when they only lost six Premier League games through the whole campaign, they are still very hard to beat there and have also started to do the business on the road as well.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

so that is making our options shorter that last week and as the weeks go by it going to get harder to get any decent quality in to the club in time for the start of the new season.

While Arsenal fans can console themselves with the fact that the season has just begun and there is plenty of time to bounce back and mount a challenge for the Premier League title, just as Chelsea did last season after a poor start that culminated in us beating them 3 - 0 at the end of September, it is hard to muster up much optimism about the Gunners right now.

The Brazilian defender is third choice at City, behind Pablo Zabaleta and Micah Richards, and has found playing time hard to come by since his # 3million transfer from Inter Milan last season.

The young Arsenal and Nigerian international winger Alex Iwobi only made it into the Gunners first team towards the end of last season, but he is fully aware that the depth and quality of Arsene Wenger's squad means that he could easily be replaced at any time, and this makes him try his absolute hardest in every match.

I think last season's memories are hard to erase, but it's Arsenal's entire left side that is always weak in recent times.

Arsenal might be winning games again but let's face it their performances have hardly been inspiring.Far and away their best performance so far was a defensive hard earned 0 - 0 away draw to Chelsea.Its a long long time since Arsenal.played a style of football which was fast moving, free - flowing and with consistently positive end result.The media still seam to tar them with that same brush but truth be known the likes of both Manchester clubs, Liverpool and Spurs are far more entertaining to watch these days than Arsenal's tippy - tappy sideways brand of play Hopefully they will be able to build momentum in the coming weeks and inspire confidence prior to the Citeh and Spuds games... otherwise this Season will unfortunately develop into even more farce than Wenger, Gazidas and Kronke managed to orchestrate last year and the Emirates will empty out even more noticeably!!

This season, in a hard - going campaign in which no player has scored over five league goals, he continued to stand out for his electric running with the ball if not his goals and assists in a side that has fallen down the table and has often looked utterly dysfunctional at times over the last few months.

The striker spent the second half of last season on loan with Inter Milan after finding regular game time hard to come by under Arsene Wenger.

The United left - back, who has found game time hard to come by at Old Trafford this season, almost became a national hero when he struck a fierce right - footed half volley onto the post after the Azzurri went behind during their World Cup qualifier against Sweden last night.

It is really hard to remember the last time Barcelona were looking into the new season with so many question marks over their head, probably not since Pep Guadiola was first appointed coach.

Till Leicester City did the unthinkable and banked home the Premier League trophy two seasons ago, the last time English football witnessed «hard workers» and not «money bags» takes all champion was way back ’95 when Blackburn Rovers beat Manchester United to the trophy.

Both of last seasons meetings ended in away wins but it's hard to see this Palace team notching three times in a game, maybe in a month, but not in ninety minutes.

After all, Danny Welbeck showed himself to be hard - worker rather than clinical finisher in the Arsenal attack last season while the fact that one can still count on two hands the number of times Theo Walcott has started as a central - striker during his decade long Arsenal career speaks to the fact that the boss still sees him as a wide - forward.

As has been stated numerous times, a lack of European football helped Liverpool last season: the ability to pick 11 players and stick to them as much as possible helped ensure some kind of rhythm but now the hard work really begins.

After a breakout year at Udinese last season, Juventus winger Mauricio Isla has found playing time hard to come by in his debut stint with the Old Lady.

@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................

And as everyone knows, the novelty affect which comes with the Premier League for newly promoted sides doesn't tend to last long and so some form and stability is required from Blackpool in quick time if they're to remain competitive in a league where so many newbies have thrived in the opening quarter of the season, with the excitement of the Premier League still fresh in the system, before being hit with a hard reality check and with a fall from grace down the table.

After dropping points for the first time in La Liga with a hard - fought 1 - 1 draw against Atlético Madrid last Saturday, Barcelona return to action with their third Champions League game of the season against Olympiacos, who are yet to get a point in Group D.

Other than some vivid dreams last night of fresh salmon fillets served with crisp slices of cucumber lightly seasoned with a vinaigrette, fresh dill and slices of bright green avocado, I haven't had a hard time not eating anything yet.

I love that blush top on you, and I can wholeheartedly agree that neutrals are key this time of year, but it IS SO HARD to not get caught up in bright shades that only last a season!

With the house purchase and move, I feel like I haven't been taking enough time to enjoy my favorite season — and it's even harder to relish these last summer days with the temptation to shop for fall pieces!

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