Sentences with phrase «last living player»

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There are no excuses for a team that has the money and the pull of champions league and the luck of being in London where most good players prefer to live in the UK not to buy any classy players until the last 4 days of the transfer window.

A snapshot from Wimbledon last week: Kimiko Date Krumm — a 40 - year - old Japanese player who lives in Monaco and is married to a German race car driver — nearly upset Venus Williams on Centre Court, while on an outer court 6» 6» Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina defeated Olivier Rochus, a 5» 6» Belgian.

Then the wildcard bench player that has his career game will show up like Stanley Johnson or Kennard and put up 25 and 12... Just enough to make it close... Luckily a last second shot by Gary goes in to live another day..

What I'm inferring from Ohtani's request is that he's looking for a) a recently successful team with b) a history of developing talented players and keeping them healthy that c) plays in a modern, state - of - the - art ballpark that d) is in a market that wouldn't be a jarring transition to someone who's spent his last several years in Sapporo and e) has a plan to help someone who sends his checks to his parents and currently lives in a dorm adjust to his new home.

LPool has more of a worry with what to do with the many players they signed last season who are not bad but they have not lived up to 1st team quality billing.

Xhaka does not deserve to be in the lineup more than anyone.As bad as Ozil is at least awe can say form is temporary class is permanent though he also does not deserve to start.Why is Coquelin not playing instead of Xhaka?Even Elneny is a better buy than Xkaka.I don't care what kind of performance Xhaka has today.Why should a player be allowed to go off form and still be in the starting eleven while other players should be taking his place?Poor management from.Wenger.It's not fair at all.Mark my words that Xhaka won't last in the lineup when Wenger is gone and I can see some youngsters like Maitland - Niles and Kelechi Nwakali surpassing him in the future.The guy can't defend to even save his own life.

Television station La Sexta claims that Marcelo D'Andrea, who enjoys a close relationship with Messi, has been living with the player for the last two weeks.

I watched Ronaldo and Real Madrid live last year, but Messi is just brilliant, and more of a team player.

Came back from injury last term with a new lease of life and the Ecuadorian is a player who doesn't stop running.

something new for sure will happen at the very least we will be getting new players the question being who...... a striker with 30 goals abomyang a central defender a midfielder new maneger who diago simone will do well with atlatico or lazio he is connected to them arsenal needs some one within its ranks some one connected to them But today we seen an ugly encounter were certain players should have had the red i think technology should come in to it and players should be disciplined after The premier league is a physical strong competition to win it you got to be very strong very accurate and very demanding and if you do not have the team to do it you do not win our team didn't live to exceptions of last season so there for changes will have to happen

I'm so sick of people telling those of us who are disgruntled fans to relax and give this club time to correct itself... for anyone who believes that taking a wait - and - see approach is appropriate at this juncture they should take a good long look at themselves in the mirror because they are a big part of the problem... no other «big» club's fans would stand for this shit for nearly as long as we have... think about it, we've witnessed a changing of the guard at every major club in England, Spain, France and Germany in the last several years because those «big» clubs failed to live up to expectations (Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, ManU, ManCity etc...)... for some reason, many fans have become as fragile as our current manager, believing that there couldn't possibly be a suitable replacement, even though everyone of these clubs have found multiple replacements and still achieved far more than our club... this mindset has been created by an organization that has been milking it's fans, telling countless lies (no world class players available) and lowering expectations every since they rolled out the biggest lie of all: that we couldn't spend because of the new stadium but once it was paid off we could compete with any team in the world... this organization is rotting from the inside out and if we don't demand that those in charge put soccer first this despicable behaviour won't end with Wenger's ridiculous 2 year contract... I think the real fear isn't that a suitable replacement doesn't exist, but that this organization is so money hungry and poorly mismanaged that we will sink even lower by choosing our next coach the same way they choose our players, on the cheap... even so, we need to see what mustache will do if left to his own devices so he will have to show his true colours... only then can we purge this club and start anew

That, of course, is assuming that Wenger lives up to his own new year's resolution which, based on the last couple of years, is only signing one major player a year and in turn allowing one major player to leave each season.

Clearly had the season of his life last term but if Sir Alex Ferguson is not going to use him as first choice then having an unhappy player in the dressing room will serve no useful purpose.

While a dozen rival teams were frantically unloading the contracts of unwanted players at the NBA trade deadline last week, the Denver Nuggets literally had more life - and - death concerns.

ill tel you why from life experience, its because no player gets replaced if they don't do well, as long as they have a few good games a season they are considered irreplaceable where other teams you have a bad game or two your questioned or benched, take Mourinho's comments just last week about Mkhitaryan that he is still monitored whether he will be starting or he will be on the bench, at Aresenal we would star to build a statue outside the stadium,

Players in the organization have suffered through sports - and life - altering injuries, both, and the progression from perennial pennant contender to last place was swift and brutally unfair.

Beating the spuds in the Capital One cup last night was just what Arsenal fans and players wanted in order to restore a bit of belief and enthusiasm in a season that has so far failed pretty miserably to live up to expectations.

The France international became the most expensive player in the world when he left Juventus for United last season, according to BBC Sport «s report at the time, but has arguably not yet lived up to that price tag.

And if you look at the last six games the Gunners have played (4 - 1 against WBA, 4 - 0 against Aston Villa, 4 - 0 against Singapore, 3 - 1 against Everton, 6 - 0 against Lyon and 1 - 0 against Wolfsburg) you can see why the manager and the players are feeling really good about life, especially as we have lifted three trophies from those games.

est second half, clinging on to dear life barely saving the points... might be me, but it seems that we need to manage better, the last 15 minutes are awful to watch as most of our players seem exhausted.

It remains to be seen who follows N'Golo Kante in winning the award after the Chelsea star was magnificent in their run to the title last season, with Football Focus officially announcing the nominees live on their show on Saturday with voting already concluded from the players.

This Sixers season is the one they should have last year, when some of these assets became living, breathing basketball players.

besides you can hardly point a player in chelshit that doesn't play their life out like that would be their last game on earth... it's as Real as it gets.

In the last two games, though, against West Brom and Brighton, Alexis has sparked into life and started to look like the brilliant player we know he can be and who had such a big impact for Arsenal last season.

After getting a serious dressing down on live TV by former Arsenal midfielder Paul Merson last night, as the Gunners toiled against Champions League minnows Anderlecht in Belgium, Arsene Wenger and his players have come in for more criticism today.

But I can't for the life of me understand why the dumb frog can't see the weakness in midfield or the need for another strike option... arteta is a player I like but he simply can not boss the midfield it's not in his game his Ariel cover is non existent and since last year his excessive lateral passing is a major reason for us being slow out of defence....

The season before last 14 15 we did better with the points than last season even though we came second from last season we know we conceded many goals from set pieces and were very short on goal scoring the logic of this season was to fix the defensive department and the offensive department by introducing a defender to reduce the amount of goals conceded unless holding is to be the man we havent us of yet fixed the problem on the offensive department we all know the only offensive player is chuba apkom well else we have not addressed the problem so in reality I do not except Arsenal to finish the season with more than 70 points and personally think minimum point required to win the premier league is 85 points have we got that in our squad it will remain to be seen if chuba and holding are enough for a key to unlock the season we will soon find out but I think MR wenger is gambling with the introduction of new manageress which lives us with Liverpool and Leicester and who will take the points off united chelsea and city the next 6 games should give us the indication to what may happen to the long run for the new year

We can't forever live off our past glories... we are already missing out on players of high value and we missed the UCL last year which really was one of our main arguments along with overpaying wages.

I've never seen such a fraud all my life... I can count the number of times Sanchez was criticised last season maybe 4 to 5 times... like it or not, we only have two world class players at Arsenal Sanchez and Koscienly.

Of all the first - year players on the PGA Tour, the last one that you would expect to be naive about Tour life would be Brent Geiberger.

Her protègèe for the last two years has been 34 - year - old Martina Navratilova, perhaps the greatest woman player who ever lived.

Kante proved to be a very effective player last season in what was his debut year in the Premier League, but will he be able to live up to his expensive price tag next season?

Gary Player, who won nearly $ 70,000 last year, lived on just about the same level as Tommy Jacobs, who won less than $ 13,000.

The Algerian was the PFA Player of the Year for the 2015 - 16 season, but failed to live up the expectations on him last term, and his team all struggled to continue the dream.

We need more than one or 2 mate, and we also need a clearout.Its this kind of complacent attitude that has stopped us challenging for major trophies for the last 10 years.Look at how Chelsea have handled business, we need to follow suit an clear out the deadwood (Arteta, Flamini, Diaby etc) an bring in players lie Henry was saying.In football like in life you don't get anywhere unless you have that thirst for more, people like you Wenger and the board have lost that thirst, thats why the Champions League trophy is as far away as ever.

To be perfectly honest, and I do not want to fall out with arguably the best player in the Arsenal squad here, but I hope that Chile have a pretty poor and short lived Copa America tournament as Alexis Sanchez and co attempt to defend the trophy they won for the first time last summer.

Great Reception???, tell you the truth Im not one of those gunners who started supporting the gunners during the invicibles or early Wenger double winning years, quite honestly i wasnt ineterested in football and I liked a certain Crespo and Shevchenko meaning I liked the blue half of London, surprisingly when Mourinho joined I stopped watching football all together, till one glorious Champions League Night, It was my first ever Match there was a certain 20 year old highly rated youngster who scored a wonder goal that day he played with such skill and passion ever since then I started supporting arsenal that was during the barren years.I actually liked Barcelona because of their similarity with the arsenal, so when Fabregas joined Barca I started to watch them a bit more I still loved Arsenal and I was extremely passionate, the other players i adored left in painful manners, while some left which was still painful: i.e Eboue.I always taught cesc would come back and when it was official he was leaving Barca i said Finally almost hosting a party.Well reports started coming out that he is going to join chelsea and i laughed so hard and said he would be the last player on earth to do that, when it became official words cant express how i felt, He was the reason I started watching football he lit up the emirates with exquisite touches through balls to walcott, its a shame I would have preferred he joined bayern, or remained in barca its terrible reading the comments he made recently about the emirates, This was a captain, someone who led, anyways, like ive learnt and Arsenal have learnt, We do nt live in the past Like Liverpool (no pun) WE ARE THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE (Crowley)(Puma) WE ARE ARSENAL.....

Willian, 29, endured a difficult beginning to life under Blues boss Antonio Conte, having been named the Blues» player of the season in Mourinho last season in charge at the club, with both Pedro and Eden Hazard being preferred over the Brazilian, with the winger often finding himself on the bench last season as the Premier League title returned to Stamford Bridge.

The last player to cross the north London divide directly was Sol Campbell back in 2001, who went on to have a successful career with the Gunners but never lived down the ire of the Spurs fans he left behind.

Even considering that, though, his bat is legitimate — Fowler has hit.270 /.367 /.420 for a 110 OPS + over the last five seasons — and he's been at least an average player during those years, even if you assume he can't play defense to save his life.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

Its nice to see some people have open there eyes but all is true lets ask our selves have this team change from last season where are the experienced players that wenger talked about he selling us bull and every season he gets away with it the fans deserve better am from the caribbean so chance r i might never get to see arsenal live at the emirates because its too expensive at least the club should be winning things i know its important to balance the books you must BUT football is about trophies as well and thats were the balance lies how the hell can we go Six (6) seasons yes 6 without a trophy not even a FA cup or carling cup and no one says a word about the manager that is rubbish Arsenal live in the past too much the time is now this season for me is the absolute last for wenger to win something i do nt care how much money he has made the club and Wenger if you cant bring that then go work for an oil company and make them money and leave arsenal to a manager who is willing to win something not only buy players for 10 million who take 10 years to develop am frustrated with this man.

This season Villa face an uphill struggle as they try to adapt to life without their two stars players from last season Christian Benteke and Fabien Delph.

Why can't people for God sake understand the angle the young man was coming from, this is a guy who has come out to suggest what he feel will be of great glory to the team, futbol is about winning trophy not the samba, champaign, tick taka or jambody style Of playwill be accredited to ur cv after retirement, every professional player will wants to be identify with a medal, mind you he have limited years to his career, therefore we should not allow sentment or affections we have for our various teams erode the basic objective of the game.we should also think about their future too, this guys are proffessionals which young lads are looking up to and questions will be ask tomorrow about theirs playing days.can people tell me why pele and some other famous players in the world both present and past are been celebrated today the answer is simply cos they are successful in their career and have trophy to show for it in their respective clubs or countries, why the complain in nigeria?its simply cos our team for quite a while now has not recorded any troph to her glory, fans should learn how to call a spade a spade in order to balance situation and also for better performance of the team.why then did arsene wenger hurridly went to buy more experienced players after the poor outing he had at the beggining of last season?this players know beta cos they are at the centre of it all, we don't have to trash what they say, we fans are only watching from screen, in as much as we beliv in arsen wenger, we should also know that without the boys no arsen wenger, fans should try to reason along with the players too.an hypotetical cases of similar to rvp has been tested by some players and have put them right over the coach and the team.so, whatelse does the fans needs to prove that futbol has gone beyond living in the past.for example, fabrigas and nasri were able to prove their critics wrong.thank God for them, we should always be objective in our submission, how else do we expect players to show their commitment to a team that was in 8 on the log table and later fought their way back to 3rd this boys are commendable and deserve to be encouraged, I think is high time the manager and the mgt board of arsenal futbol team get to know that game of futbol has gone beyond two teams domination, its now like a pendilum which can swing either way only with a powerful insrument called money.you can't eat ur cake and have.

Have been watching highlights of last few seasons in Arsenal Player, the past as we remember is such a living thing, continuously being morphed to fit into our current state of awareness and judgments.

usmanov supporter or not has repeatedly said that if and when he gets his 30 % it will allow him to look at the books and as discussed to an extent on Radio 5 live last night and in the The Swiss Ramble report, even if the figures are not quite correct there is no doubt that our wage bill on players alone is far too high as so many have little or no transfer value, yet are on pretty big wages.

Leeds United brought in a number of players during last year's summer transfer window, and this year looks to be no different, with the club failing to live up to expectations.

In an exclusive interview ahead of Liverpool's clash at West Brom on Saturday, live on Sky Sports Premier League, Salah said: «As you can see last couple of games, the players are trying to help me a lot now to score goals, because they know now I am in for the Golden Boot.

All kinds of theories have been expounded as to why Leicester are in freefall especially since only one of last season key performers, N'Golo Kante, has moved on: manager Claudio Ranieri has lost the faith of his players; confidence is wafer - thin; workrate has plummeted; too many players are living on their laurels.

The Hammers could only conjure a point away at Blackburn last weekend, so Grant is already down to just two lives and in desperate need of something spectacular from his players ahead of two «make or break» encounters with Fulham and Everton.