Sentences with phrase «listed as a midfielder»

An intriguing call - up by Southgate, Ashley Young is listed as a midfielder in the official squad list despite playing at left - back these days.

I can see the main attraction for the Arsenal boss is that, although he is listed as a midfielder, he can also play in the back line.We all know Wenger likes to muck about with players starting positions...

He's listed as a midfielder, but has a reputation as a defensive minded player.

Although he is listed as a midfielder, much like Michu, Theo Walcott is finding himself deployed in a much more advanced role than others in the same category.

Not exact matches

Adelaide could be the next to join the list but as a central attacking midfielder, I think he will likely play as third choice back up behind Mesut Ozil and Santiago Cazorla, mainly featuring in domestic cup competitions.

The Spanish giants are determined to bring in a new midfielder when the transfer window re-opens in the winter, with Vidal seemingly top of Carlo Ancelotti's list as he ponders a long - term replacement for Xabi Alonso.

Having added a striker and midfielder, a central defender is arguably next at the top of his to - do list as he looks to rebuild the spine of a team that finished 10th in the Premier League last season and is short of options at the back with John Terry, Gary Cahill and Kurt Zouma arguably not enough.

Another Arsenal star included in the list of crocked players, which you can see anytime on the special Just Arsenal injury page, is our sublime Spanish midfield maestro Santi Cazorla but as far as I can tell he should be back in action.

Scenario two: The sheet is out, Ospina makes the list, the back four is the same as the first scenario, and our midfield consists of Chambers, Coquelin and Ozil.

Although the French midfielder hasn't been involved with the senior Gunners side as yet, he has been selected in the Gunners» «A» list for the European competition.

The Reds were stated as having etched the versatile midfielder's name on their summer wish list, but they were expected to struggle to clinch his signature with Los Blancos also said to be in the race, the Liverpool Echo reported.

Whilst Lahm features as a right back on the list, the majority of his club work came from the centre of midfield as Pep Guardiola devised a new position for the veteran and in his infinite footballing wisdom it was a complete success.

A centre - back and defensive midfielder are top of the list (as they have been for the last few seasons), but a world class signing in any area of the pitch would surely be welcomed.

The list, as per Don Balon, also contained fellow Argentina teammate Angel Di Maria, and highly - rated Borussia Dortmind and France midfielder Ousmane Dembele.

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Because, according to a Daily Star report which claims to have a Premier League footballer as its source, the deal that is apparently done between Arsenal and Schneiderlin will not happen until the end of the season and that leaves the fans wondering how we will cope in central midfield between now and then, especially now that we are hearing some rumours that our club captain Mikel Arteta may have suffered a setback and will be on the injury list for a few more weeks.

Although the Telegraph do not specify his fee, Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba is expected to cost a vast amount this summer, with the Daily Express previously reporting that he would cost around # 70m, though the Independent recently listed it as # 60m.

I totally agree with your list of attacking midfielders as they are well rounded in their respective games not one dimensional like Ozil and i will add Cazorla to that list too.

Flamini is also still listed on the club's website as our number» 20» and a current midfielder, whilst Rosicky and Arteta have since had their numbers and positions removed.

It could just be a possibility that the reason why Rosicky and Arteta have had their numbers removed from the website is because those numbers have since been allocated to new players, and that is why Flamini still remains as a listed midfielder.

Oh and Wikipedia does list him as a DEFENSIVE midfielder...

But we have Arteta, Flamini and Coquelin to play as defensive midfielder, if they all get injured there's not really that much you can do as manager — you can only name 25 players in your squad at the end of the day, it can't be an endless list of backups.

The dynamic young Englishman was already our last decent option to fill the central midfield box - to - box role, which is now looking like a poisoned chalice, as Jack Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey are already on the injury list.

Wenger will look to re-ignite talks to bring in the box to box performer as he looks to bring in a player who can add some much needed steel to his midfield and may look to come up with an offer that could involve the use of a squad player in a part exchange deal with the likes of Marouane Chamakh & Sebastien Squillaci, both with extensive Ligue 1 experience, leading the list of possible candidates.

It would certainly appear that there is little or no cohesion when Mustafi is not playing, however the midfield seemed to shut down yesterday and all of the attacking players went on the missing list as well.

If it were me I would replace the 5 players listed above, sending all 5 out on loan, with a defender, a midfielder, a left winger and a centre forward coming in as priority.

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The obvious choice for me would be the Pole as he is a tough tackling central midfielder and with Coquelin on the injury list and Elneny at the African Cup of Nations we are a bit short there, but I am not sure about signing him on a permanent basis.

He is going on the Europa League list because we open spaces with Depay and Schneiderlin having gone and we don't have many options in midfield,» he is quoted as saying by The Sun.

They need at least one top class striker, a central midfielder, a centre back and possibly a keeper, just as Arsenal do and it already looks as if they might beat Wenger to a couple of the players supposedly at the top of the Frenchman's wish list.

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His extortionate fee is often why he is in contention for lists such as this, but people seem to forget that the Argentinean was coming into a midfield containing Giggs, Scholes, Beckham and Keane.

Are you really naive enough to believe that Wenger would bring anyone into this current locker room that is going to be given a strong voice... have you not been watching, listening or reading about our club for years... Lehman is a blind Wenger follower, which is the only reason he was even considered... just for a second think of all the strong personalities that have played for this club that have never been seriously considered even though they have expressed legitimate interest in participating in the coaching process... even worse, think of all the former greats who aren't even allowed on the same pitch as Wenger because they have offered their advice and / or criticism to the infallible one... I dare you to find a manager that has distanced himself from his former players as much as this man... it's the very reason why only one player I can think of has ever returned to play for Wenger and that was Flamini, which was hilarious considering we were desperately looking for a top quality defensive midfielder but Wenger could somehow find no one better than Flamini in the whole wide world... let's face it this club was simply trying to appease it's disgruntled fans by declaring that Wenger would no longer be given Ca rte Blanche when it came to the backroom staff so they probably asked him to give them a list of those who he would allow in the locker room... on that list he wrote Lehman, Pires and Bergkamp, likely because the first two are the only former players who haven't publicly questioned his horrible decision - making and the last one because he won't get in an airplane

Even though one is listed as a striker and one a midfielder, the two players actually tend to play a similar role, either on one of the flanks or behind the central striker.

If we did that - we wouldn't have Bellerin in defence (midfielder), Ox at Wingback, Sanchez sometime upfront, Henry as a striker — the list goes on

The veteran midfielder has enjoyed a fine, if diminished role with the Blues this season, and upon the release of the Premier League's free agent list Lampard has yet to be offered an extension at Stamford Bridge, and as it stands he is up for grabs.

The 22 year old has been a player on Ferguson's wish - list and the Man United boss even went as far as sending the youngster a letter wishing him well during his long injury lay off and is now ready to make a summer move for the # 15m rated central midfielder who has been likened to Paul Scholes.

The combative midfielder is currently on a wage package of # 80,000 a week and it is understood that Wenger is also keen on shortening his wage list as he looks to bring in reinforcements.

The Independent claim the Red Devils had been looking at Real Madrid ace Kroos as the ideal heir to Michael Carrick in that deep - lying midfield role, but that Jorginho is increasingly working his way up Jose Mourinho's priority list.

There was a historic moment for the Partenopei, with Marek Hamsik surpassing Diego Maradona to move into second place on the club's list of all - time leading goalscorers in Serie A as the Slovakian midfielder continues to secure his legacy his Naples.

It seems as though Schalke midfielder Leon Goretzka has made quite the impression on Europe as a long list of clubs eye a transfer for him.

Chelsea could be willing to offer Oscar as part of player - plus - cash deal to land Juventus's Paul Pogba, as the midfielder is at the top of Jose Mourinho's transfer wish list.

It looks even worse when you see that other attacking midfielders who made the list, such as Iniesta, De Bruyne, Koke and Payet were easily outscored by Ozil on the stats website Squawka.com, and that was before he started banging in the goals recently.

The smart money, however, says that the Gunners will be looking to add a striker, central midfielder, centre back and keeper and so this report on the stats website Squawka.com might be of some use to the prof as it lists the top 10 performers in defence across the top five leagues in Europe this season.

For example, there are no defenders on the list, because a) defenders are expected to make tackles, so referees are more lenient on them, and b) midfielders and forwards are simply not as -LSB-...]

Furthermore Granada of Spain midfielder Uche Agbo who although is listed as a central defender can also play as a defensive midfielder and all of this players are ahead of Esiti in the pecking order of Rohr.

Midfielder Mo Diame leads the unwanted list and is joined by Henri Saivet, Massadio Haidara, Jack Colback and Rolando Aarons as Benitez looks to raise funds for a new striker.

And it is claimed Eriksen, 26, is high on Barca's list of targets as they seek to replace their midfield maestro.

Reminiscing over the poor quality of the players listed below is important, but to truly grasp the hopelessness of the midfield set up, you have to envision them actually play alongside each other, as some kind of terrible relegation bound outfit.

The surprising thing is that Awaziem a defensive midfielder is always listed as a defender by these men to cover up their dubious intentions.