Sentences with phrase «league outfit doing»

It would be a clear down grade from a top European club to just a premier league outfit doing well in the EPL.

Not exact matches

The fact that Zouma did not come off any worse will be good news for fans of the Stamford Bridge outfit, who will want all hands on deck to make sure they stay top of the league going in to the festive period.

We may well be, but if ffp does get relaxed (because poor oligarchs can't buy teams and «invest» to turn them into world class outfits or because sky pays the premier league so much that the «others» are disadvantaged) then it will be the «whole package», transfer fees and wages that spiral up.

They don't face a «big» Premier League outfit until the end of November.

The North London outfit do seem to have missed a trick by not signing Benzema, especially after scoring only three times in the first four Premier League games.

Could the Anfield outfit once again challenge for the Premier League title as they did in 2013/14?

For a perfectionist such as Guardiola, it will be a real irritant for him knowing that he didn't win a Champions League trophy with the Bavarian outfit as he now looks ahead to his next role with Manchester City.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has reportedly emerged as a priority target for Premier League outfit Everton if he does end up leaving the Emirates Stadium in the summer.

Since joining the Piedmontese outfit in January Puscas has scored 5 goals in 5 games, including a hat - trick against Cittadella in Domenico Di Carlo's first game in charge as head coach (see the video below), and generally given them the penalty box presence that they were so desperately lacking during the first half of the season (Novara don't have the league's worst home record by chance).

Considering Newcastle have plundered a miserly sum of 13 goals from 17 away league games, and have recently tasted defeat away at Stoke and Aston Villa, on both occasions failing to score, I don't see any way the Magpies will keep pace with a Liverpool outfit playing with a new leash of life under a manager destined to remain in the hot - seat for the long - term.

The right - back can add more solidity to the west London outfit, if the move does indeed go through, as they look to make their return to the Champions League.

The Premier League outfit dug their heels in and managed to block his move to Arsenal in the summer, but they would struggle to do the same with Madrid.

Speaking to Costa Rican outlet Nacion, Oviedo admitted that he is with the Black Cats in their relegation tussle, though he does not see himself dropping any further with the Wearside outfit, he said: «Sunderland is a big team from England, I have many years of not being in Championship and it is not an option to go to League One.

The Ewood Park outfit did the league double over Bolton last season when winning 3 - 0 at home and 2 - 0 at The Reebok, but it's the sheer fact that Blackburn haven't lost a single one of their last seven league meetings with Bolton which left me dumbstruck.

Furthermore, Rovers have secured victory in three of their previous four league visits to Bolton, a statistic which doesn't do the hosts any favours considering Blackburn are generally a dismal away outfit and have suffered four defeats in six on their travels this season.

I also don't remember a previous Bolton side racking up as many goals at this time in the season, with Coyle's fine - tuning of the Bolton attack working wonders with immediate affect as the Reebok outfit have amassed 28 goals in the league this season; more than Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool.

It's something they could have done without but it's our own doing after not showing enough class to finish off the League Two outfit.

And the omens aren't positive for the hosts, who did the league double over the Villains last season but those pair of victories remains their only wins over the Birmingham outfit in twelve meetings in all competitions.

He was thrown in at the deep end, joining the Metropolitan Police (a club formerly comprised solely of law enforcement officials but that now remains merely affiliated as a semi-professional outfit) in England's seventh tier, and did so well that he switched to National League side Solihull Moors (in the fifth tier) in January.

While Arsenal may not seem to be making any progress regarding the contractual situations of Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez, the Gunners do seem to be working hard to secure the futures of other key players in the squad and now the Daily Mirror have gone on to report that the Premier League outfit are ready to trigger extensions for veteran duo Santi Cazorla and Per Mertesacker.

As for Pep Guardiola's side they have so far done good winning two league games out of three and will now face the Merseyside outfit.

The same can not be said for Tottenham, whose opening fixture with Everton at White Hart Lane was postponed, though they did make the most out of their midweek Europa League qualifier with Hearts and, after trouncing the SPL outfit 5 - 0 at Tynecastle, should at least arrive at fortress Old Trafford in buoyant mood.

Conte insisted that Costa's absence was simply due to his back problem and had nothing to do with a purported from from the Chinese Super League outfit.

Tottenham did look a classy outfit in their last FA Cup outing at Leeds but, then again, Leeds are a League One side and they did sit back and allow Tottenham to come at them.