Sentences with phrase «investment in the squad»

It's going to take a while and a lot of heavy investment in the squad to get it back to being title contenders.

Also let's start winning some trophies to keep our best players and that requires IMO some more investment in the squad.

Everton in particular, after a healthy finish in 2016/17 and a heavy investment in the squad which gave the look of a good balance between youth and experience, have performed woefully.

Manchester United coach Louis van Gaal is reportedly eyeing a quartet of wingers ahead of further investment in his squad during the January transfer window.

I think the pressures to get points and win trophies in an immensely competitive environment where winning trophies is increasingly shaped by the massive investment in squads in Manchester, Chelsea and even Liverpool - left Wenger and his philosophy in its wake — he tried but with less than half the investment of United and City and hundreds of millions less than Chelsea and Liverpool, it became increasingly difficult for him to play Wengerball.

Naturally, that wasn't met with the greatest of reactions from supporters on Twitter, who are still waiting for further investment in the squad after the signing of Granit Xhaka last month.

Gazidis said, «There is quite a lot of inaccurate and superficial analysis about the cash that we have available for investment in the squad.

Spurs have hope because they have a far superior manager who has out managed Wenger despite less investment in his squad.

Despite heavy investment in the squad over the summer which saw 11 new players arrive, the Rossoneri haven't been able to turn that into success on the pitch.

While that was initially over a lack of investment in the squad as Chelsea prepared for a return to the Champions League, results to start the season haven't been entirely impressive.

According to The Times, that involves # 200m investment in the squad in order to strengthen in key positions as well as possibly having to replace both Diego Costa and Thibaut Courtois who are «angling for returns to Spanish football».

There's no denying that City needed investment in the squad this summer, not least because of their disappointing campaign last season which included a fourth - place finish in the Premier League, but in order to give Guardiola the resources to build his own team.

Once again, despite the fabulous investment in the squad, Wenger has taken us backward this season in the PL.

# 1.0 is already a fair offer and # 1.2 would be a premium to the current value and only worth it to Usmanov if he has another # 300 million laying around to invest in the club that has been ruined in the last few years with poor investments in the squad and having allowed the squad to age too much.

Significant investment in the squad with a record level of expenditure on player acquisitions (GBP114.0 million) which has in turn resulted in a higher amortisation and higher wage costs in the profit and loss account.

Wenger always uses the excuse of team's shortcomings on the team's potential but it seems that without investment in the squad and / or trophies, the players see their ambitions better fulfilled elsewhere.

«Khun Vichai and Khun Top remain wholly committed to the club's long - term development and to on going investment in a squad that will continue to be competitive in the Premier League.

In contrast with the free - spending early years of the Roman Abramovich era, Conte has repeatedly clashed with the Chelsea hierarchy this season over a recruitment policy that has seen him denied many of his top transfer targets, while Manchester City and Manchester United have both made bigger investments in their squads.

With us winning effectively 3 pieces of major silverware in the last 2 seasons as a direct result of investment in the squad, logic would dictate that spending even more would lead to greater success.

Winning domestic silverware is great and should be enjoyed, but PSG continue to fall short against the big teams in Europe, and that will be an ongoing frustration for the hierarchy who will undoubtedly want to see the club compete for the biggest prizes given the investment in the squad.

Protesting the lack of investment in the squad?

Watford will no doubt be among many pundits bets for an immediate return to the Championship but Flores will hope that investment in his squad will give the Hornets a fighting change of beating the drop in 2015/16.

The lack of investment in the squad the previous summer played a significant part in that, and if there was a breaking point for me it was at Old Trafford where we needed to win to keep the pressure on having just beaten Leicester at the Emirates with that last ditch Danny Welbeck goal, but we contrived to kickstart the career of a then fledgling Marcus Rashford, and we choked on the big stage.

In the end, if they manage to finish with a trophy, it will be a vindication of Wenger's investment in the squad and a major breakthrough for the Gunners.

Expectation has been raised by the investment in the squad which, even with the loss of Romelu Lukaku to Manchester United, stacks up as one of the biggest summer spends in the Premier League.