Sentences with phrase «midfield star»

It will take a miracle to get to the playoffs, and the team will just have to do it without their bright young midfield star.

There is a strong feeling that the England international midfield star Jack Wilshere is going to rescue his Arsenal career and come back to be a first team regular again, as long as this season on loan at AFC Bournemouth sees him play the regular football that all of his injury problems have denied him at his boyhood club, the mighty Arsenal.

A lot of this theory may hinge on how much game time the Arsenal and England international midfield star Jack Wilshere gets at the upcoming Euro 2016 tournament, and by extension whether the England boss Roy Hodgson decides to play our Jack and our transfer target Jamie Vardy at the same time.

It was just a few short years ago when many Arsenal fans, myself included, believed that the Gunners would have gone on to lift the Premier League trophy if it was not for injury problems hitting our squad at just the wrong time, especially the loss of the Wales international midfield star Aaron Ramsey.

The cool and combative young Arsenal midfield star Francis Coquelin has actually appeared for his country, making three appearances for the under 17s, five for the under 18s, 16 for the under 19s, 12 for the under 20s and seven for the under 21s of France.

Whisper it Arsenal fans, but with the transfer of the central midfield star Granit Xhaka from Borussia Monchengladbach already signed, sealed and delivered, and with Arsenal transfer rumours suggesting that Leicester City's centre forward Jamie Vardy will soon be joining him, it is starting to look like the transfer policy of Arsene Wenger is actually somewhere close to matching the wishes of the Arsenal fans.

Once again the Arsenal and Switzerland international midfield star Granit Xhaka showed the reckless side of his game by launching into a rash, clumsy and fangerous tackle after giving the ball away cheaply and he was punished with yet another red card to make this home game against Burnley a lot tougher than it should have been for the last half an hour.

It was not a bad day at Euro 2016 across the board as far as Arsenal players go, because our attacking midfield star Mesut Ozil helped Germany to top their group and our on loan keeper Wojciech Szczesny saw Poland take second place, even though he was not back in the starting line - up after picking up an injury.

The most encouraging piece of news was on the fitness of the fierce French defensive midfield star Francis Coquelin, who picked up some knee ligament damage in the Premier League defeat to West Brom towards the end of November.

The 26 year - old has been linked with a move to North - London previously, with us still expected to bring in a defensive midfield star in the coming window.

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Not to forget, Arsenal splashed heavy cash last summer to hire the services of a top holding midfield star in the form of Granit Xhaka.

So a bit of rumour mongering from the boss there has got people asking whether it will be Arsenal who try to take Kante from Leicester and one of our former midfield stars Ray Parlour has spoken about it being the perfect move for us.

Just like Ramsey, Arsenal's attacking midfield star Mesut Ozil has been a major player so far and has already been given at least one Man of the Match award.

First of all I have to say before I go on to talk about this rumour concerning the Arsenal and Germany midfield star Mesut Ozil and our manager Arsene Wenger that it does not come from a named source but rather that old press favourite «sources at Arsenal» so we have to realise that it may not actually be true.

It might seem a bit mean to aim some harsh criticism in the direction of the Arsenal and Wales midfield star Aaron Ramsey, because a string of injury problems which began on the first game of the season has stopped him from building up a head of steam.

If Arsenal had not slipped up so many times to allow the current Premier League leaders to open up such a big, and frankly unbridgeable, gap at the top of the table then we Arsenal fans would have been hoping for the boost that our team would get when the injury hit Spanish midfield star Santi Cazorla was fit to play again.

Despite his words though, I believe that the boss has finally realised how important it is for the Gunners to have a player like Coquelin, one that supplies the strength and steel to balance out the silky skills and trickery of other Arsenal midfield stars like Mesut Ozil and Santi Cazorla.

Arsene Wenger had to start the season, yet again, with a makeshift defence because of fitness and injury issues, while there was still no firm idea when we might see the Spanish midfield star Santi Cazorla back in action.

Unlike a big proportion of the Arsenal fans, it seems like the French holding midfield star Francis Coquelin will not be hoping that Arsene Wenger uses the January transfer window to bring in another player to strengthen our options in the centre.

With Arsene Wenger this week breaking the news that most Arsenal fans were fearing by confirming that our combative French midfield star Francis Coquelin had injured his hamstring and at the same time revealing that there was no sign of Santi Cazorla coming back during the month of Janary, the Gunners will be down to the bare bones in central midfield.

PSG striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is on the list along with Juventus and France star Paul Pogba, Real Madrid midfield star Toni Kroos, Everton and Enland defender John Stones and formerly linked striker Gonzalo Higuain.

What this muppet has written is that by missing the match away to Stoke on Sunday our German midfield star Mesut Ozil has proved that he has no stomach for the title fight.

The former Arsenal and England international midfield star Ray Parlour sounds to me as though he has a lot of sympathy with the frustration that has been boiling over for a large section of Arsenal fans this season, but he also sounds like he thinks we would be wasting our time with the planned protest during the Premier League match against Norwich at the Emirates this weekend.

For Arsenal fans it is not only our on loan midfield star Jack Wilshere that has many of us keeping an eye on the performances and results of AFC Bournemouth this season, as their young English manager Eddie Howe has been touted as one the potential candidates to take over from Arsene Wenger when the Frenchman finally decides to call it a day.

If it was a Premier League club trying to persuade Arsenal to allow our England international Jack Wilshere to join them on loan it would be a different matter entirely, especially if the terms of the deal meant that Arsene Wenger had the option to recall the 25 - year old midfield star if he felt that Arsenal were in need or simply because the player was showing good form and fitness.

According to the Dortmund based publication Ruhr Nachrichten, Manchester City fans can start to get excited because the recruiting of Borussia Dortmund and Germany midfield star Ilkay Gündogan is a near formality.

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The Spanish side will now try to give the defensive midfield star better terms to retain his services and ensure that he does not leave Spain, any time soon.

All three of the new Arsenal players could have completed their transfers to the club in the next few days, which would make it an outside possibility that Arsenal fans could get our first chance to see the Egyptian international midfield star Mohamed Elneny in action for the Gunners at the weekend.

This for me raises the question of another of Arsenal's injury hit midfield stars Jack Wilshere and whether or not the England international will be back in north London and playing for us again next year, after he completes the season long loan deal with AFC Bournemouth.

The player most likely to replace him, apparently, is Ricardo Rodriguez, the Switzerland international team mate of our new midfield star Granit Xhaka.

Just a few days after the majority of Arsenal transfer rumours about the talented attacking midfield star Henrikh Mkhitaryan were leaning towards Arsenal leading the race to sign him, the Gunners have suffered a double blow to the chances of securing this particular transfer.

We may have to be patient and diligent against an improving Aston Villa, boosted by their own midfield star Fabian Delph signing a new deal.

There were rumours in the football press last week about our England international midfield star Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain being fed up and frustrated about the lack of contact over a new contract with the club and the latest news is that Arsene Wenger is ready to okay a # 25 million move to Liverpool.

Paris Saint - Germain have admitted that they are still keen on bringing Barcelona midfield star Xavi Hernandez to the Parc des Princes this summer.

Even though I am happy with the signing of Lacazette and Kolasinac, the fact the club made a profit when we were expecting a big splurge was incredibly frustrating so we can only hope that Wenger and the board will be more proactive next time and perhaps they already are, with Talksport reporting that we are one of the three clubs planning to swoop for the PSG and France midfield star Adrien Rabiot.

Arsenal have been given permission to hold talks with midfield star Adrien Rabiot by Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint Germain, according to the Metro.

It could all turn out to be good for the club as well, if it helps Arsenal to hijack Chelsea's transfer of the Croatian midfield star Marcelo Brozovic, as a report in The Mirror suggests might happen next month.

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The loss of the Arsenal and Czech Republic midfield star Tomas Rosicky to yet another long term injury lay - off might not be seen by too many Arsenal fans as a real disaster.

It looks like the very unlucky Arsenal and Czech Republic midfield star Tomas Rosicky could soon be on his own in the Arsenal treatment room, as the latest injury update from Arsene Wenger on the Arsenal website has revealed that out two other talented midfielders on the injury list have stepped up their recovery plans and are due back in action in a matter of weeks.

It was probably not a surprise to the Arsenal midfield star when he was not voted as the best player of the Germany national team for the calendar year 2014, despite the fact that Mesut Ozil had won the award for the three previous years and was looking untouchable.

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I do not know if Ray Parlour is one of the former Arsenal stars who still has close links with Arsene Wenger and the club, as the likes of Robert Pires and Thierry Henry seem to, but our former midfield star does seem to think that the Gunners do still have a chance of keeping Alexis Sanchez at the club, despite the vast majority of recent Arsenal transfer rumours suggesting that it is only a matter of time before the Chile international secures a transfer away from Arsenal this summer.

The Red Devils already have creative midfield stars like Ander Herrera and record signing Paul Pogba.

Arsenal has been heavily linked to Saints defensive midfield star Morgan Schniederlin, but Wanyama says the Gunners have been watching him and want to sign him at the end of the season.

The other target is the young, Spanish midfield star Isco from Malaga.

Ipswich Town are among the leading contenders to sign League One midfield star Jon Nolan from Shrewsbury Town...