Sentences with phrase «less of a big club»

Did that make them any less of a big club?

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I sense, although you're much younger than me, we who follow Ray's comet are members of a big international creative club separated by less than one degree.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

According to Diario Gol, as reported by The Mirror, Goncalo Guedes, Lincoln and Alan Souza of PSG, Gremio and Palmeiras respectively are all being considered, as president Florentino Perez eyes a move for a lesser known starlet as he hopes the club can develop a young player into their next big thing.

Most of ye probably didn't support arsenal when Wenger was classed as one of the most wanted managers in Europe and was putting it up to Utd and winning trophies every yr things are different now the moving stadium all that less whinging give it a bit of time he is starting to spend and I'm sure he will buy 1 or 2 in Jan and a few big signings nxt summer and I hope he goes out on a high man gets ridiculed by knobs like ye on a regular basis players want to play for him big star players like his style wake up a bit as long as he is in charge the club is in good hands

As previously reported by SI.com, the Premier League's big six, all four Champions League semifinalists, two Europa League semifinalists and a slew of other European powers are involved in the tournament, which takes place during the preseasons for all participating clubs and will kick off less than a week after the conclusion of the 2018 World Cup.

And the fact that the prof managed it on a fraction of the financial power of all of the big boys and many of the lesser clubs is one of his major achievements.

The only reason we finished second last season was because every one of the big clubs had a terrible season and if you look at the stats we actually manged less points than the past two seasons.

Apart from us, that less of changes, other big clubs will make changes.

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.

Whilst at the same time, other big clubs are consistently upgrading their teams, and are less tolerant of players under performing.

Ok, Arsenal is a much bigger club but Leicester were more rested and carried much less weight than Arsenal and had far fewer hurdles to jump over in the final gruelling furlongs of the race.

The only teams Arsenal can do business with now are these kind of teams with lesser financial muscle, appear, CL football and appear to some extent, good luck to waiting for bigger teams to get tired of a player offering them, seems to be the norm at the club now.

The one constant is Wenger but the fault is not only his... Now players are showing there discontent by not even considering big offers from within the club even if it means going somewhere else for less money and still playing out of position.

I can only assume it is the pressure of playing for a big club, at lesser clubs they keep busy which must help with confidence and also you cant really point fingers because then there would be finger pointing all season long.

I don't really care about fa cups and even less about community shields, neither do any of the other big clubs really.

Also jimmy jazz again great name by the way i think the fact were 6th in ayer purchases and i agree without kane spurs would be below without kaneuckeu them for now but i see laca will be better next year and auba will have had a taste of the rigorous epl and because its a world cup year we need stability with wenger for atleast another year i think were vying for that spot and wi th cazorla coming back and hopfully Jack signs with a couple good signings if we splash some cash and ozil already signed we could surprise the league next year with a very strong season and Leicester surprised apparently everybody but us cause we handled them well that year but no one else dod and we finished second but i think its not so good for a big club like us with internationals in a world cup year to change managers do it in a non world cup year cause you only have a couple weeks with your players maybe less with some before season starts

«First he has not come in straight to a big club, he had an intermediate stay in Europe so the adaptation is less of a question mark.

Also these so called lesser teams get the chance to play against the big teams and as a lot of them aren't financially sound the revenue they get goes a long way in helping the club.

This would undoubtedly be a big call from the Gunners if they came to that decision, with the Frenchman at the club for 22 years and still set to go down in history as their most successful of all time, despite less silverware in the second half of his reign than the first.

Smalling himself started his career at lowly Maidstone United, and although legends such as John Barnes, Ian Wright, and Stuart Pearce also started in non league tiers, the practice of the country's biggest clubs looking beyond the top couple of flights has become less common since the advent of the Premier League in 1992.

Progressing to the Champions League knockout stages as Group C winners should be considered an achievement for a club that were playing in Ligue 2 less than 2 years ago, but the days of big money signings appear to be over.

If you make a mistake in a smaller league for a smaller club, it's less of a story than it would be at a big club.

With less than 72 hours now remaining the 2014 summer transfer window, fans of Premier League clubs will be hoping that some big names will still be arriving in English football before the window closes at 11 pm on Monday evening.

Tufan was playing from Bursaspor less than a year ago, but has enjoyed a meteoric rise which has supposedly attracted the attention of some of Europe's biggest clubs.

and I still reiterate my sentiments, many players are better suited to playing for smaller clubs with very little expectations and less pressure and I can name loads of very very talented players who just don't have the big club mentality, players who bloom and shine when they are the main attraction, the big fish in a small pond but who will whither and fade once they make the step up to bigger teams... with Arsenal Afobe will just be another player, another upstart who will find the pressure of delivering week in week out or be out of the team hard to deal with... at Bournemouth he has time to settle into his pace, if he misses chances like he did on his debut for the club he will still be given chances after chances, just like it happened withn him

my problem with AW is that for years he resisted to buy good players because of a million or two difference from asking price today's market those players are worth triple, we could of had a great team with possibly wining the EPL twice and possibly semis or final of CL, if he had just spent the money in the bank, Chelsea are in dept around 850 Million pounds (possible the bulk to Abromovich) and same for Man - United and few more, we are the only club that is cash rich with funds available around hidden 350 million and more accumulating every season, how i know this because i look at their end of year accounts outgoings and income there is around 100 to 120 million less outgoings then income, we can easily spend 700 Million in the summer and we will be well in with FFP rules and only have 350m to pay in two years which we can with bigger and higher sponsorship coming any day now

When you put all of that together, it was definitely a really bad look for the Premier League, as you had leadership at half of the big six clubs looking less than classy.

Arguably he was their player of the season as he scored 7 league goals, two less than the top scorer of the club, provided highest assists (6) and was Juventus's biggest attacking threat regularly during the season.

They beat all the lesser clubs, go to Liverpool, draw 0 - 0, you come away and go, «right, if we draw with all the big boys and beat all the lesser teams, which we will, we will have a chance of winning the league.»

These are some of the big - name attacking players brought in by Arsene Wenger, who finally relaxed the policy of spending less in order to preserve the financial status of the club.

Club owner Nicola Cortese took a big call by replacing the universally popular Nigel Adkins with a man new to these shores in Mauricio Pochettino and with the Saints winning one less point in the first six games under the Argentinean as compared to the last six games of Adkins» reign, the decision has not yet been vindicated.

After a summer of big name departures in an attempt to bring in funds, including Santi Cazorla to Arsenal for less than the club had paid Villareal for the player, the prospect of Champions League football at the Rosaleda had brightened the mood of the Málaga support.

@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................

Much of Pres. Donald Trump's Mar - a-Lago country club in Palm Beach, Fla., sits less than two meters above the Atlantic Ocean, meaning big parts of the resort could rest beneath the waves by the end of this century as seas rise in response to global warming.

The advantages of being a little further out the way include less noise due to an absence of big clubs, avoidance of the street sellers of Kuta and Sanur and an all - round mellow paced relaxing stay surrounded by real Balinese culture with the mountains and eastern fishing villages on your doorstep.

The building is situated in a busy retail district of the city and is less than a half mile from the Legends Outlets outdoor shopping center and a number of big - box retailers, including Sam's Club, Target and Walmart.