Sentences with phrase «high league finish»

While a high league finish is still possible, it would take an incredible run of form.

What would it have took 30 - 40 million for those areas and we probably would have got that back through a higher league finish, going further in the champs league, more shirt sale and more sponsor wanting to get on board with a successful team.

That success secured a return to football's second tier and Grayson's side went on to establish the highest league finish since 2006 after enjoying an impressive season back in the Championship.

BUT that's not the most interesting part, they won the title again in 1996/97 and 1999/2000 they also had high league finishes as well 2nd and 3rd.

If United can finish second, regardless of silverware, that will be a relatively successful season for the club, given their highest league finish since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement is fourth.

The hosts — champions for the second time in 1960, faltering on the brink in the Eighties — look certain to achieve their highest league finish for 44 years.

Not exact matches

James had reportedly considered petitioning the NBA to let him join the league when he was 17 and not yet finished with high school.

As the unexpected success of Leicester City and Tottenham in the Premier League this season has shown, England's top clubs face an increasingly difficult job finishing high enough to secure entry to the lucrative Champions League.

In the last 4 seasons, Arsenal have won 4 FA cups and finished higher than Spurs in the league except once and Spurs won nothing.

He also has pristine finishing with little back lift required just like Messi and Aguero (having a low centre of gravity plays a role as well) Sanchez is also not injury prone so any team he plays for will see him play a minimum of 30 league games per season despite his very high work rate.

The 21 - year - old Ghana international impressed in his debut season at Augsburg last term, helping the Bundesliga side to their highest - ever finish in the German top tier and securing a Europa League berth for the Fuggerstadter.

Best to just aim for FA Cup and highest possible finish in the league.

We need to finish higher than 2 of these teams United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City and Spurs Reality 2: Winning Europa will be tough as hell but as we are the top ranked team our chances are better than finishing Top 4 in premier league.

The middle of the Standings in the Co-Ed League was remarkably tight and they easily could have finished as high as # 4..

The powerful forward scored 17 goals last season, finishing the second highest English scorer in the Premier League, and Lambert believes he could form a potent partnership with Darren Bent.

Then a player might consider whether they are likely to win things and our recent back to back FA cups should help there as well as our consistently high placed league finishes.

«I wanted to win that last game, finish top scorer and help PSV pick up the points record (88 points, a record for PSV and the highest total in the league this century).»

So no Pellegrini, I don't agree with your statement, especially at Arsenal where a top four finish is the highest accolade we will ever receive under Wenger, a manager who has been in charge of the club for two decades and had the best chance by a mile of winning the league this season, but blew it (almost inevitably).

After averaging a league - high 13.5 boards and finishing fifth with 2.71 blocks, Mutombo was named Defensive Player of the Year for an NBA record fourth time.

I would like to tell arsenal fan that the transfer window is not arsenal's problem.Let explain what is in my mind.We need to reinforce our team but we need to think in the future that most of the high class players are going to refuse signing for arsenal fc because of Mr Wenger's philosophy.It looks like arsenal becomes cemetery of players.How many players came in and left because of performance, became good players out of arsenal.We need to accept all of the transformation Mr wenger brings in arsenal but now it does not work.Why??? because lack of tactics, strategies and pretending best players for Mr wenger mind but in reality those players do not get standard of best player.Mr wenger wants to prove everybody that he is wright that players who are calling by wenger are best.I means Mr wenger is the only one can see all matter in good position or bad.He is wrong by thinking this way.He does not like criticism.he is the mind of arsenal.Everything he can say or defend is wright.Think about morrinho comments about arsenal!!!! Why he likes to be arsenal coach!!!! One thing I want to say about arsenal players, I think everybody watch arsenal games.We have got short mind players who play two good games and the rest shameless.They are working hard in the training ground for catching Mr wenger's mind to let them play; what is behind their (players) mind to be the most regular players.Those players have no vision even ambition; they are never becoming high class and their carriers are going to finish in arsenal after arsenal we are going to see them playing for championship.They do not care to become legend as Ian wright, Vierra, Berckam, piress, Henry... What is the big behind their mind to use wenger name to be selected in national team.They are not able to face different leagues in the world.

It promises to be a tough assignment for the French tactician, as ultimately expectations will be high at St Mary's this season after Koeman guided them to such impressive back - to - back finishes in the Premier League.

Wenger said, «The expectations are very high and that is understandable because you can not win the FA Cup and finish third in the league and then say «Look, next year we want to do nothing.

I know that no matter what I or anyone says there will be some Arsenal fans who are unable to draw any sort of positive from the fact that we finished second in the Premier League last season, even though it was our highest placing since the invincibles won it in 2004 and that is made it three years in a row that Arsenal had improved our final position in the table.

He mentioned the Champions League play - offs and the fight to finish higher than fourth is therefore very important and that is one of the things keeping our players focused.

It's no secret that we need an impressive run of wins to assure ourselves of Champions League football next year, and it may even be possible that Arsene Wenger could warrant a top four finish as the means to leave on a high.

Any team that qualifies for the last 16 of the CL should automatically get a higher score than any team that finishes third in the CL group stages and goes into the Europa League, regardless of how well they do in the EL.

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This may be too high for Swansea, who are keen to bring in players on the cheap this summer as they did so successfully last year, with the likes of Michu and Chico arriving from La Liga for just # 2million each and becoming key players for the club as they finished 9th in the Premier League.

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

The claim that what we saw was us not turning up is as pathetic and utterly unacceptable an excuse to use because we've been down this road before, WEEKS were spent hyping Arsenal up, players, fans and coaching staff alike spent weeks in advance talking about our real chances winning the league, our players back from injury and on the first game of the season, where we had renewed optimism and were swelling with expectation we cracked under the pressure to a team you expect to finish no higher than 8th.

We 6 point behind 5 th place and above the rest of league who have their won league to not be releguated or finish as much higher they can under us considering the gap in between us.

I would prefer Arsenal to be honest and say they will not compete and are happy to settle for a good cup run and just aim to finish as high in the league as they can.

«I can't figure out how anyone in the American League West finishes as high as.500.

29 - year - old tough tackler Biglia left Anderlecht for the Stadio Olimpico in July 2013 and last term played a key role as the Rome based side secured a third place finish, the highest ranking in seven years, which helped Lazio to land a return to Champions League action, albeit they failed to negotiate a path to the group stage.

End of last season The Gunners ended last season on a high, with a third place finish in the league, and an FA Cup win for the second year running.

History tells you the teams that spend the most win the league our spending has been no where close and we've not been too far off finishing above a lot of teams with higher spends consistently every season.

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And we can have a real go at the league, and see how high we can finish.

Every other club commit all their resources to finishing as high in the league table as possible.

By virtue of their loss to Sunderland, Chelsea can no longer finish any higher than ninth on the table — which would be the worst finish ever for a Premier League champion's title defense.

Okay Arsenal fans, the season is over for another year and it actually turned out to be a reasonably happy ending, with the last day disaster of Tottenham handing us our highest finish since we won the Premier League with the invincibles in 2004, although the real goal of the EPL title could not be grasped once again.

30 points (And counting) behind oil City Consecutive years without Champions League football Highest EPL finish in the history of Wengers tenure at the club Lockeroom unrest between players and now with the coaching staff.

With United underperforming badly last season as they finished 7th in the Premier League, it is all too clear that there are too many passengers in the squad at Old Trafford, and van Gaal has shown he means business as he looks to rid himself of a high number of under - performers.

It's also worth noting that Jacksonville finished with the league's highest Pythagorean plus / minus, which indicates they were substantially better than last season's record may indicate.

His fantasy point total in this game was a season - high and Martin went on to finish the season with 1,454 yards and 11 touchdowns — good for sixth overall in standard Yahoo! leagues.

The sacking came despite Chelsea's highest league placing for just short of fifty years, finishing runners up to the distant memory of Arsenal's invincibles.

Doesn't anyone think that finishing joint 9th in Europe for 5 consecutive seasons is an over achievement, for a team that hos only finished as high as 3rd in the premier league during those seasons.

He scored on his Premier League debut versus Burnley and looked to show no signs of struggling to adapt to a new league, as he went to finish with a club highest tally of 20 League debut versus Burnley and looked to show no signs of struggling to adapt to a new league, as he went to finish with a club highest tally of 20 league, as he went to finish with a club highest tally of 20 goals.

Jamie Carragher has now claimed that he thinks Tottenham have the edge over us, and will finish higher in the league table than us for the second season running, but a power shift would take years.

Blount finished the regular season with 1,161 rushing yards and a league - high 18 touchdowns.