Sentences with phrase «looking surplus to requirements»

For one season, Stephen Ireland was one of the best attacking midfielders in the Premier League, but the former Manchester City star is now looking surplus to requirements at an Aston Villa side that is hardly brimming with quality.

The right - back looks surplus to requirements at Pride Park following the # 4.5 m acquisition of Liverpool's Andre Wisdom at the weekend, and as such has been attracting interest from Middlesbrough and Sheffield Wednesday.

He's looked surplus to requirements.

Not exact matches

Where were we looking when we deemed it a void piece of scripture, no longer needed, surplus to requirement, out of date, old fashioned etc..?

Sir Alex Ferguson does appear to be looking to the future with his most recent acquistions (Hernandez, Smalling and Bebe) and it does seem that some of his squad players appear to have become surplus to requirements but would the Old Trafford side really make such sweeping changes?

Conte will now likely have transfer funds at his disposal in January to bolster his squad, and it looks as though things are going pretty well in west London right now as he looks to continue to get rid of players surplus to requirements and bring in his own type of individuals to build something special at Chelsea.

The 23 year old winger hasn't played a single minute of Premier League football for Chelsea and has been an unused sub for the past four fixtures and Roberto Di Matteo may well look to offload the pint sized performer as he doesn't appear to be surplus to requirements.

Rodgers will look to offset the cost of his summer spending by offloading a number of players he deems surplus to requirements, among these are thought to be striker Andy Carroll, England winger Stewart Downing and out of favour centre - back Martin Skrtel.

The Nou Camp side are ready to offload a number of first team players as incoming manager Luis Enrique looks to put his stamp on the squad he has inherited from Gerardo Martino and Fabregas, perhaps surprisingly, is considered surplus to requirements.

It's not quite the clear out that many expected with more established and senior players linked with exits this summer as Arsene Wenger has looked to reduce the numbers in his squad, but it's a start with players deemed surplus to requirements being shipped out.

Taking a simple look at the logistics of it, Bayern are in no need of cash as they are one of the most finacially stable clubs in existence, Lewandowski is NOT surplus to requirements at the Allianz and is Bayern's first choice striker.

Apart of Lucas Perez who looks to want to leave this window, the on the fringe Gunners such as: Gibbs, Wilshere, Jenkinson, Debuchy who are looking to be the crust of the surplus to requirements at Arsenal this summer are all playing hardball with Arsenal preferring to see out the last year of their deals at Arsenal which for Debuchy, expired next season, so that theyll continue to earn the big salaries they are earning currently at Arsenal which they are not ready to lower to transfer to any club that want to sign any of them this summer.

He was forced to look for regular football elsewhere, with Wenger clearly viewing him as surplus to requirements.

Would be interesting to see what another manager could do with him, but I don't he's worth the huge pay raise Campbell — Seems surplus to requirements, although I like him Sanchez — Looks as if he's definitely leaving, but if we could could get Simeone or Sampaoli, then maybe they could persuade him to stay (as long as he signs a new contract) Giroud — Decent backup striker, but not much else.

Although the France international would prefer to stay at Old Trafford, the paper says boss Jose Mourinho is looking to shake up his attack again and «may see him as surplus to requirements.»

Ryan Kent: # 7m (seems clearly surplus to requirements but would be a good fit for a Championship team looking for a pacey wide forward)

Despite a sizeable three and a half years left on his contract Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has deemed Coquelin surplus to requirements and will look to utilise Granit Xhaka, Mohamed Elneny, Jack Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey in the heart of his side.

If I'm looking for complaints, I supposed I'd mention the slightly surplus - to - requirements nature of certain characters — the Saboteur's traps rarely had much impact, and not once did either of us make use of the Truant Officer.

After Blair left office, Myrobella became surplus to requirements and last October it was announced that the Blairs were selling and looking for $ 482,830 (CAD)-- 10 times what they had paid in 1983.