Sentences with phrase «how big a squad»

If not, then no matter how big a squad Arsenal have, we will always have periods when Wenger is having to shuffle the pack and use players out of position or rely on those not normally in the first team.

And next transfer window Arsene talks about how big his squad is.

that's how big our squad is at the moment.

Not exact matches

With Ozil, Sanchez, Ramsey, Koscielny and Giroud all missing due to their various tournament engagements, here is the pattern and squad that may help out in the first two matches and how it can be most competitive as soon as the big boys return, seamlessly.

I think a big reason is we're not looking at a squad with Flim - Flam, Rosicky and Arteta in it wondering how many games they're likely to knock up between them for 240k in wages.

Fans talk about manly man stuff and how demoralizing it is the see the other team just run the ball time after time down the field, but what is truly demoralizing to a team and truly deflates a squad is giving up big, easy, fast, touchdown passes.

Given that the 6 - 0 drubbing came on New Year's Day, after one of the biggest drinking nights of the year, and with a squad rumored to be a little less than Neville-esque off the pitch, we're wondering just how literal Yossi is being with his assessment of their performance.

I'm sure Arsene will be thinking about how to keep us fresh, in the past it hadn't worked out very well, but now we have a bigger squad I don't think there's any excuses.

Our player of the season so far?Certainly the most consistent.JACK AND OZIL CONTRACTS - just get them signed up for F *** S SAKE.Jack doesn't want to go anywhere and Ozil will have his choice of big clubs to choose from if allowed to be able to go on a free.How about giving out a statement of our ambitions (yeah right) and show were prepared to pay whatever it takes (up to the point of being ridiculous) to SIGN the best and KEEP the best» These two are the best we have so get them sorted early to send out a message of how serious we intend to be.AUBAMEYANG - So what if he has a contract.So did Sanchez.Offer the right money to Dortmund and the player and he will be ours.What is there to question over this deal?He is a proven goalscorer.We have just lost one.Get the deal done.GIROUD - Get rid of him to Dortmund if they want him either by selling or if it sweetens the deal just loan him till the end of the season.He was a back up when Sanchez was here and will be on the mix of back ups if Auba signs.He has a World Cup squad to fight for just to be considered so needs to be playing every week.We do not need him if Auba signs and would demand better than him if the deal fails to happen.Just get rid.JONNY EVANS - I'm not sure.Agree Kos needs nursing through games and we do not have consistent performers to come in if he is injured or rested mainly due to both Chambers and Holdimg not progressing through as much as we first thought and hoped for.Gooners have always been patient and supportive of the youngsters as they have come through but question marks to the whole coaching staff as to why these two seem to have stalled as much as they have done.Steve Bould - What do you do?You should be ashamed.

Your comparing arsenal winning back to back Fa cups while adding world class players to an already talented squad who has learned how to play against the big teams to f*ckin Portsmouth and Wigan?

I personally believe that Wenger didn't push to have the contracts of Sanchez, Ozil, Ramsey and Ox renewed earlier because he was going to use it as leverage when renegotiating his own deal... so far that tactic has backfired as we know little more about this squad moving forward than we did in May and Wenger clearly misjudged just how important his staying would be to both Sanchez and Ox... I like Lacazette, but I liked him a lot more 2 years ago at 20 million less... Sead might come good but once again he wasn't a necessity buy, except that he was a free transfer and was signed early... another «wag the dog» tactic employed by the powers that be... as for the rest of the roster, very little has changed, except that it's way too big and lacks the cutting edge to take this club to new heights.

If you don't spend money to buy the best players you can afford to strengthen your team and squad and challenge and don't have the tactical or motivational know how then you should not be the big cheese at Arsenal.

Also playing 4 competition will allow rotation without big drop off in quality and with some Europa League games followed by big EPL games our ability to deal with that will directly be link to how the squad is managed and it's quality.

wenger and mourinho made me believe the saying once beaten, twice shy... by no means is it a coincidence that wenger has never beaten mourinho in over 13matches... This is not even laughable, its total domination... You are probably the guys who yap all transfer period of how we have great squad and then shit on your pants on big games math days

My biggest concern is how Wenger promised Sanchez and Ozil just how much he was going to turn Arsenal around and continue to invest into the squad with the prime focus of winning.

You said bid deals, please explain how Kallstrom and Flamini on a free along with squad players Welbeck and Perez for under # 20 mil we're big deals?

It would certainly be a huge ego boost to Chelsea in their bid for European glory if they could topple such a world class squad of players, with our combined XI below showing just how big a job it might well prove to be.

No one is questioning Wenger's past achievements, but he has had three seasons and 5 transfer windows to get the necessary players i.e a top sttiker and a dm which are glaring deficiencies in our squad and yet he ignores it and this summer was an example of how delusional he has become, by making statements like there no players available which could improve our squad, while treble winner barca even with their transfer ban get couple in, same with Bayern, Madrid and all other big clubs because they know you have constantly improve their squads to compete, and by making that statement he implied that he has one of the best sqauds in Europe, so can you please tell me whether you are optimistic about our chances against Bayern?

The Blues showed just how good they can be last season, as they won the Premier League with a record amount of wins, and seeing as they've got a winnable tie in the Champions League round of 16, Conte should be readying his squad for a charge at club football's biggest prize.

For rotation, teams needs big squad and considering our injuries how can you say that we have big enough squad to rotate.

Great news on Bellerin signing again and I like how Spain are handling him by still picking him for the u-21's this will keep him grounded unlike young English players who get into the main squad then refuse to go back to u-21 because their heads are getting to big!

Despite not paying the big, big wages like other clubs do, and having a squad packed with average / rubbish players, Arsenal some how have one of the highest wage bills in the world!

If they get past LSU (a big «if,» to be sure — the Bayou Bengals will probably need their own «How To Beat LSU» column in the coming days or weeks), then they will probably face either Georgia or a banged up South Carolina squad in the SEC title game.

clearly last season was a gift & we should have won the league, the big boys all had an off year, and they clearly beefed up their management & players, not seeing how our same basic squad will suddenly be that much better...

What depresses me about watching them this year is how obviously unhappy the team is... there is little to no chemistry among these guys — which is dispiriting to see on a Spurs squad... I think the big discrepancy in the home vs. road record is indicative of that... it seems like they just run out of gas and don't really rally around each other in the 4th quarter, particularly on the road... they still try because there's a lot of pride in them, but this team just doesn't really seem to believe in each other, if that even makes sense.

We have a big squad especially in attack, Podolski, Rosicky, Campbell, Arteta, Welbeck, Chambers may not even have a place on the bench if all our players are fit But Quality is the hardest part — according to many here — Martinez, Lacazette > Walcot / Giroud, although I do nt know how many games we actually watched them.

For some of us who believes Arsene is handicapped personnel-wise at the moment, our biggest worry still is how he will use his squad EVEN after the needed additions are made.

Both sides have a few key players out with injury but both of us have big squads full of quality, so it really could go either way and a lot depends on just how well the teams perform on the day.

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...

With Alexis however we can be confident in knowing we have yet another big name talent in our squad, it's how Wenger utilises the player's ability is what is key here.

We never ever have a fit squad to face the big teams, we're a f*cking joke, our players are made of glass, it's a disgrace, how can they get injured this easily, absolutely pathetic, a bloody disgrace!

u guys should start comparing our players vs our rivals there is barley big different the current squad is fantastic but Wenger does not know how to utilize what he got, mark my word he will drop Coq and start with Ramsey ad Cazorla in deeper roll and he will only bring Alexis on the RW, witch is a disaster Ozil, Cazorla, Ramsey are attacking minded players not good defenders that will exposed our fragile CB and Boom Boom, Wenger out........

Talented squads such as Arsenal, Napoli, and PSG are big underdogs just to advance, which further proves how good the top 3 teams are (Bayern Munich, Barcelona, and Real Madrid.

While the resumes might not speak to how close these two squads are or how big a Rivalry has formed since 2010 — the words leading up to the game certainly do..

Seeing how quality players are moving in this transfer window am a very sad sad sad man.The other big clubs have confirmed they will spend big but for Wenger he said we have enough depth in the squad but if special player is available we can buy, now special players are not available without a bid.We have only one Arsene but we cant win major trophies with wenger he used to win them when it was a two horse race, only utd were a threat but now he cant repeat the invincible era or win epl 10 yrs can evidence there is competition and we are not in it.Clubs like chelsea are in debts cuz of buying wc players to win trophies, We put club into debt b4 to build stadium so he can generate more revenue for club owners and share holders

well every season I cme with the same optimism that nxt season is our year.then we face the so called big boys, we get hammered and I always ask myself how and why were we nt able to win.then wenger after an accidental twiq to the squad finds the reason why ARSENAL was poor.I.e emergence of coq showed him that we needed a world class dm addition what does he do settles for average.this season also striking department pissnpoor.I love iwobi but his emergence shows neednof a world class player there.now, every year I sit hoping wenger learns but I hve learned that he wilp not learn.the guys is blind just seeing the favourisim in the club shows that.his blind with faith and fears benching his favourite players.we need someone qho will see the problem and rectify it, pple hve pointed out for him the problm yet he he is still blind.I hope he prooves me wrong but I wouldn't entertain another year of ifs and thebbiggest if will be why didn't we change guard.if fans will entertain another year of heroic fourth place run in, all I can say webr killing our club open ur eyes before reality gives us a part two coz its has realy kicked us in the gut this season showing us the truth.its arsenal I I love coyg!!

But you don't need to be there to see & make things happen... Mourinho wasn't there and look at how many players he brought in (hate to take the man as an example but facts are facts), clearly the circumstances are different as a new manager you want to shape your squad and Mourinho has always been a big spender wherever he went but in our case you know the areas where you need to add the most (CB, DM, ST & RW debatable but wouldn't hurt).

Personally, I feel its always a plus to have quality on the bench, this how all the big winning squads do (Chelsea, Man u, Real).

A big thing people don't mention too much is how Klopp rotated the squad during the busy December period.

Not only will that make way for a big name, it will also help us to get a clear idea on how the squad will line up and where needs to be strengthened with less than two months left of the transfer window.

It hurts me as a true loving fun of Arsenal far away back here in Ghana.The pending current setbacks of our darling club is disheartening in the sense that, Mr Kroenke as the major shareholder should compare Arsenal to other big clubs in europe on how they achieve their goals by investing in players and other managerial aspects.He should change his way of thinking about making profit out of the club rather, spending should be his priority.You can never have a competitive squad without improving on the players you have by adding new players who are enough to compete rather than selling the few talents that you already have, this will never help.

Secondly, rather than a general overview at our squad and how it is shaping up (you can find them all over the place, I particularly liked Jimmy Gooner's) I wanted to write a more focused piece that looked at the 9 big questions I feel will define our season.

My argument was that, no matter how talented a manager is, he alone would not be able to turn around Inter's fortunes — unless a few big signings were going to come, this squad of players was doomed to disappoint.

Schnederlein has been called up to the France squad as a late inclusion due to an injury to Clement Grenier, should he be selected it'll be interesting to see how he performs on the big stage, and this could be a key influence in Wenger's decision to sign him.

Looking at how that squad has performed and what they seem capable of achieving I can't help but think that tomorrow is one of the biggest games of our season.

They will actually end up developing a bigger number of secure attachments to loving adults, and having relationships with new people who can teach them new things and offer perspectives that their parents can't have (because we're all limited in terms of what we can know, and how we view things) and in general, their squad of caregivers is going to expand and that is nothing but good.

My passion is bicycling, but how do I go about landing a contract with an elite cycling squad with a marketing budget of zero and this big industry gorilla already in the jungle?

Occasionally Zac Efron's dimwit Olympic gold medal winning athlete turned disgraced rookie lifeguard will make a comment about how this is a job for the police, which is quickly dismissed as the elite squad of lifeguards try to take down the movie's big bad villain Priyanka Chopra and her plan to buy up beach real estate to smuggle drugs.

So with this in mind, the question regarding FIFA 18 is how much of a big leap it is compared to its predecessor and sadly while modes like Battle Squads this year are great additions, the gameplay related improvements are rather minor this year.

The movie almost loses it when Woods gives his big speech to the US military and CIA representatives about how wrong they are for supporting the death squads.