Sentences with phrase «hope of a title challenging»

Cast your mind back to a couple of seasons ago, when Arsenal had been knocked out of both domestic cups by lower league opposition and then waved goodbye to any hope of a title challenge and been taken to pieces at the Emirates by Bayern Munich.

Wenger has destroyed our hopes of a title challenge.

After a terrible start to the season, where Arsenal have been lucky to earn three points in any of their opening four games, all hope of a title challenging has almost certainly dissolved, and you can bet that Arsene Wenger's appalling record in the Champions League will only end in more tears of frustration — your frustration.

Having been announced as Bruce Rioch's successor in late September, the former Monaco and Grampus Eight coach went on to help sign a young Patrick Vieira and Nicolas Anelka while guiding the team to third - their hopes of a title challenge ended by a poor run in February.

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Wenger clearly feels he is not ready or he would surely have featured as a sub at least, so is this international break a potential problem for Giroud, Arsenal and our hopes of mounting a proper title challenge.

Eriksen has helped Ajax to three successive Eredivisie titles and feels he has achieved as much as he can at the Amsterdam club, and whilst the Danish international can indeed enjoy Champions League football he is looking for a fresh challenge and Rodgers will hope to convince the 21 year old of the long term merits of joining a Liverpool side that are responsibly building for the future.

The loss represents a considerable blow to United's hopes of challenging for the Premier League title this season, while it also jeopardises Shaw's chances of representing England at next summer's European Championships in France.

Arsene Wenger and the players head south to face them on Saturday in the fourth round of the FA cup and even though we are hoping that the next few rounds of matches in the Premier League sees us clos the gap on Chelsea to get the title challenge well and truly back on track, we have to accept that the FA cup is now the best chance of us winning a trophy this season.

Of course we are hoping for a title challenge, but the end of the season could well see us in a fight for a top four finish again, with United likely to be one of our main rivalOf course we are hoping for a title challenge, but the end of the season could well see us in a fight for a top four finish again, with United likely to be one of our main rivalof the season could well see us in a fight for a top four finish again, with United likely to be one of our main rivalof our main rivals.

Arsenal fans will finally get the chance to see the summer signing that we all hope will make the difference in our challenge to regain the Premier League title next season, after Petr Cech watched from the bench as the Gunners won the first match of pre-season to qualify for the final of the Asia Trophy against Everton today.

Pray and hope that Wenger's masterpiece comes together and that it succeeds in bringing us not just one EPL title, but to challenge for a decade of them when he retires.

A week later however and the long overdue signings of Lucas Perez and Shkodran Mustafi have put a smile on the faces of Arsenal fans as we can hope that they can help us stride towards a more challenging position for the league title this season.

Wenger has always expressed belief in his players, but at most times this has been tinged with a healthy dose of realism and the manager has talked about our title challenge with more an expression of hope than real belief.

Arsenal is going through a lean period, as teams often do, I am not sure a change of manager will be the title challenging panacea that many supporters hope for.

Even though most of us Arsenal fans are not holding on to much hope of catching Tottenham and Leicester City and making a late challenge for the Premier League title, there is a chance and while Arsenal still have that chance we will not give up and we do not want Arsene Wenger and the players to give up either.

So unless something can knock them off their stride soon, Arsenal's faint hopes of challenging for the title really will disappear, no matter how well we are playing.

Hope he gets his attitude right and fight for a place in the team cuz he is definetly one of our top players and we will need him to be at his best to challenge for the title plus 3 new signings.

The North - London side are now eyeing a potential title charge, having enjoyed a huge upturn in fortunes of late, and they will be hoping their re-emergence in the top four will see them push on to challenge even higher in the table.

Yes, we are now stuck with Wenger for another two sesons and so all hope of a serious title challenge is gone, at least to the realists among us.

If Arsenal fans were hoping for a slip up or two over the christmas period from any of the other clubs in with a chance of challenging for the Premier League title, then we were left with just one hope and that was soon snuffed out last night as our north London rivals Tottenham ran out 4 - 1 winners over Southampton.

I would sell him without hesitation but don't see that happening... I just hope that wenger doesn't use it as excuse not to strengthen attacking options... That's what he did last summer in DM position with his silly talk of Diaby being like a new signing... it cost us challenging for the title this year and history sadly might well repeat itself with predictable consequences

This is dismaying and only young and inexperienced foolish optimists without much head but a surfeit of hope even give us a remote chance of a serios title challenge.

So when you have The Mirror reporting that the Tottenham boss is dismissive of the challenge from Arsenal and is thinking of bigger things, while Sky Sports reports Erikssen talking up their title challenge as if they have already beaten us then I have to suggest that the spuds are way too sure of themselves and I hope that this attitude comes back to bite them as well as firing up the boys in red and white.

As our former midfielder also added, the French boss should at least give us fans hope of signing such a big player, instead of sweeping it under the rug, as we have all been frustrated with his recent transfer windows, and need some hope that we will be challenging for the title (as we should be now).

Funny how Arsenal were gonna challenge for the title after winning our second trophy in weeks and Giroud were underrated then a draw against Besiktas later we hold no hope, Wenger is clueless, Giroud is the worst striker ever, Arsenal had 6 strikers (Giroud, Alexis, Sanogo, Walcott, Podolski, Campbell) and overnight 4 of them disappeared and Giroud and Sanogo were our only strikers.

It's the difference between failing to pass the round of 16 in the UCL or giving a real challenge, and the difference to losing all title hopes in March / April or challenging to the very last day.

It is clear we can kiss goodbye any hope of challenging for any big title this season.

Vettel's recent 18 - race streak was a huge factor in his championship challenge last year, before the Singapore start crash signalled the beginning of the end of his title hopes.

If he is to sign a new deal, you would have to hope that reports prove to be true that Kroenke persuaded him to stay in order to rehaul the squad, which would hopefully see us progress into a title challenging side, as opposed to scraping into the Champions League spots as we have done on a number of occasions.

next season to be c / l semi's at least and title challenge / win to the end and maybe double with the fa cup should be main targets next season this time, arsenal atm is quickly reminding me of the early wenger years money to spend and big players coming once again lets hope wenger has one more big trophy left in him the title and then he will retire in peace.

But I think that the coach of Germany, Joachim Low, will definitely be near the top of Wenger's Christmas card list this year, as he has just handed the Gunners a huge boost to our hopes of keeping the Premier League title challenge going strong.

That great win has put Arsenal in a great position and looking good for a proper tilt at the title but you do not need me to tell you that keeping our Chilean dynamo fit is key to us keeping up that challenge, so all eyes will be on Chile tomorrow night and all people of an Arsenal persuasion will be hoping to see Alexis rested for their next game against Peru.

Although he had been performing out of his skin at Southampton for years, he is certainly not the calibre of striker that Liverpool need if they are to have any hope of challenging for titles.

with 2 or 3 of new players n hoping Alexis n Ozil (especially Alexis) sign their new contract, this team can challenge for the title next season.

Two wins would also be huge for Michigan State's league title hopes, as these are projected to be two of the team's more challenging games until late January.

Both teams carry hopes of a Premier League title challenge and will be looking to build on last season's finishes as two of the worlds greatest managers take charge of two of England's greatest clubs.

That emphatic victory put them close to Chelsea, in second place, but any hopes of mounting a late title challenge with only 12 games to go, are very slim, at this...

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The boss has said that he could add some new players to the Tottenham squad this summer transfer window that could boost Tottenham's hopes of challenging for a Champions League next term, and even boost their title hopes.

Transfer rumours surrounding the likes of Paul Pogba continue and we can expect another summer of big spending but the future of Juan Mata could be the most critical development in United's hopes of maintaining a title challenge.

Being a part of the FA Cup - winning side, Sanchez is hoping to help the Gunners a title challenge this season.

Hazard knows that these are the sorts of mistakes that Chelsea need to cut out if they're hoping to challenge for the title this year.

Irrespective of this, Giroud insisted that he is still committed to the north London club, and hopes to lift the long - awaited Premier League title before switching to a fresh challenge.

Both teams are slowly fading away from the title race and will want to take back all three points from this contest, with the hopes of keeping their challenge alive and going strong.

These are the sort of games that simply must be won to harbor any sort of hope of challenging for the title.

However, in the context of Arsenal's hopes of challenging for the Premier League title in the coming season, a more adequate characterization of club's position...

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Last weekend, Tottenham suffered a humiliating defeat away to Manchester City which end ang glimmer of hope they had of challenging for the title.

But after a season of widespread discontent among United fans, the club has taken a calculated gamble in the hope that a rejuvenated and charismatic Mourinho, whose coaching record and winning attitude speak for themselves, will restore United to what they believe is their rightful place — challenging for the Premier League title.

But Mourinho knows Pogba is vital to United's hopes of challenging neighbours City for the Premier League title next season if can play add consistency to the undoubted quality so evident in the second half of the Manchester derby and at Bournemouth, where he kept it simple and made penetrating runs.