Sentences with phrase «midfielder has turned»

The highly rated defensive midfielder has turned 29 today.

The Serbian midfielder has turned himself into one of the best holding midfielders in the Premier League since he returned to the club.

Not exact matches

For years Wenger hasn't been able to organize the midfield defensively, and he is still allowing our players to defend the «old way», which means allowing opponents to control the ball, turn, and play.

If you can't read the game, every attacking midfielder and winger will have fun turning you into a clown!

Im not a football expert but I find turning Coquelin (who has always been a midfielder) into a CB just weeks before the PL starts.

Let's face it, Mertesacker and Arteta were once decent players in their youthful days, but now they are shit, both are liabilities to the rest.Koscielny, gibbs and debuchy have to work twice as hard to cover up for the sluggish per, same case when arteta is playing, the midfielders around have to run back when he easily gets turned and beaten for pace.

Liverpool suffered greatly without injured Brazilian Lucas for more than half of last season, having to turn to inexperienced local born midfielder Jay Spearing, and Rodgers may see Fellaini as a player who can offer added bite when needed.

In turn, as reported by The Sun, Chelsea and Liverpool have both been linked with a move, while Juventus has become a possibility for the youngster as all three clubs in question are looking to bolster their midfield options ahead of next season.

It's very unfortunate news for Coquelin if this does turn out to be the case, because the French midfielder has clearly put in some well recognised performances to keep Granit Xhaka out of the starting eleven.

Barcelona have reportedly turned down an offer from Inter Milan for midfielder Rafinha as they hold out for closer to # 35million for the player.

Exquisite passing, really bossed the midfield, had Fernandinho not been there, it could've turned out a lot worse for City.

France international Kondogbia, 24, has had a massive falling out with his club Inter Milan this week after refusing to turn up to training last week, which has lead to the player being forced to train on his own and away from the first team, as reported by Talksport, with the midfielder having been fined # 200,000 following the incident.

and this is why arsene has to go, because he should have done something by now to try and turn the game around, and bringing on ramsey is probably not the key, unless we want to see our midfield flooded and concede even more

A side note to this, is Wilshere has that short distance turn of pace which Ramsey and Elneny do not have, and while Coquelin has the pace, he doesn't have the other attributes we need a midfielder to have in our current formation.

Barkok has recently been picked for the Germany Under19 side and according to the German publication Spox, Wenger has been watching this exciting attacking midfielder for some time and after being turned down last summer he has now gone back with another offer that is «no more than # 10m».

If he turns out good for us, I don't think we will have problems in our midfield in the next 3 years... Coq: 24 Xhaka: 23 Elneny: 23 Wilshere: 24 Ramsey: 25... And of course Cazorla who may leave in the next 2 years... and then we have Toral and Bielik to step up especially Toral..

There was a sense that Haas would turn up and lead the midfield, Force India would be far from satisfied, and Williams would struggle for points.

In turn, Karim Benzema is also mentioned as a possibility, while Sassuolo midfielder Lorenzo Pellegrini is said to want to work with Montella again, although Roma have an $ 11m buy - back option on the youngster and intend on exercising it which could complicate matters.

In turn, according to the Manchester Evening News, Man Utd have put together a six - man transfer shortlist of midfield targets, consisting of Jorginho, Arturo Vidal, Marco Verratti, Jean - Michael Seri, Fred and Sergej Milinkovic - Savic.

Carvalho has been linked with a move to Premier League many times during his career, with Hammers boss Bilic keen to add another midfielder to his squad, however as believed by the Sun, the east London side are unwilling to match the # 40M evaluation Sporting have for the midfielder, with the West Ham board ready to turn their attentions to Wilshere should the Portuguese side fail to lower their asking price.

As a central forward / attacking midfielder in Arsenal, he has turned into our own Messi!

This move can be seen as Warnock taking a hard line with midfielder Ben Watson, who has turned down numerous offers of a new contract.

Clearly he holds the 36 - year - old former midfielder in much higher regard than Diouf, and it has in turn sparked another war of words.

It is also claimed that Roma midfielder Radja Nainggolan has been identified as one of his prime transfer targets, which could in turn spell the end of Mikel's tenure at the club.

In turn, he has been forced to consider his options and look at other players, and he will hope that he can finally land a top midfielder to form an integral part of his plans in his first campaign in England.

In turn, the Spaniard is claimed to have requested that City make a move for the defensive midfielder ahead of his arrival in Manchester in the summer.

Arsenal had thought they had found their man in Francis Coquelin last season, who in turn had his own fairytale season, but this year he has not impressed overall to the same capacity and with the addition of Elneny to the side, Coquelin has lost his place in a compact midfield.

AW should have at least threw a makeshift midfield pairing of Chambers and Arteta or Gabe, at least these guys know how to defend and turn over the ball.

In turn, it would naturally be a frustrating time for the youngster, as although there is fierce competition for places in midfield and he'll have to bide his time, he'll only improve, develop and mature as a player if he gets regular playing time.

You could actually go audacious and have Rosicky, Cazorla and Ozil in a fluid midfield partnership behind a player like Giroud, which would end up with them taking turns in there to varying levels of destruction.

In turn, it remains to be seen where the talented midfielder's short - term future lies, as Conte hasn't shown a willingness to play him so far this season and there are no immediate signs that the situation will change.

In turn, that will be music to the ears of most Liverpool fans as Robertson has been in great form this season, while having several midfield options back will be a major plus with the games coming thick and fast in the coming weeks.

Now it would appear that Arsenal have turned their attention to the Nice midfielder Jean - Michael Seri, who has helped the South of France club make it back into the top three of Ligue 1 and a place in Europe's elite competition, the Champions League, for the first time in over 50 years.

After seeing a couple of games where he featured and also the one for england he's got it all for me... 1) He has the physical ability to offer the kind of game that our Giroud offers (back to the net: deflecting, relaying passes and 1 - 2 touches) but also 2) Pace, mobility and technical agility to offer so much more: dribbling past opponents (creating space), running / turning over defences either to lay down the killing pass to a better placed player or finishing a through ball from our over talented midfield and all that with speed and 3) Tactical awareness, willingness to defend players if asked (like the game Man U-Real Madrid in the CL) and could provide support not only in the air on corners!!

Having looked at goalkeepers, defenders and midfielders, we turn our attention to the most expensive, mid-range and bargain deals for strikers.

Italian champions Juventus have turned their attentions to PSG and France midfielder Blaise Matuidi following their unsuccessful attempts to sign Chelsea and Liverpool stars Nemanja Matic and Emre Can, according to the Daily Mail.

He is also our only midfielder who has mastered the art of turning defence into attack at the drop of a hat..

Which manager would bench his top striker to accommodate Ramsey who has turned himself into a striker rather than maintain his central midfield role.?

They are wide forwards or wingers or attacking midfielders and perhaps the reason why Wenger is not going to be forced to pay over the odds for someone like that is that, along with the likes of Alexis Sanchez and Theo Walcott, we already have a young playerr who looks like they may turn out to be a world class star in that area.

Nevertheless, it still seems a difficult move to make given that Jurgen Klopp is highly unlikely to want to lose his midfielder, which in turn suggests that Henderson would have to force the move in order for it to happen.

However, the Englishman has struggled to win a regular starting berth in the west Londoners» midfield so far in this campaign, with returning Chelsea head coach instead opting to go with the likes of Ramires, John Obi Mikel and now since the turn of the year, new # 21m capture from Benfica Nemanja Matic.

Former Arsenal midfielder turned Sky Sports pundit Paul Merson has hyped up the importance of the FA Cup clash...

AC Milan midfielder Jose Sosa has reportedly rejected the chance to join Trabzonspor and in turn will remain with the Rossoneri.

Former Tottenham midfielder - turned - pundit Jermaine Jenas has explained why it makes sense that Chelsea are pursuing the transfer of Peter Crouch this January.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

One of the turn around moments of the Chelsea game was when Elneny dropped back into the defence to make it a back 5 but then had the ability to read the game and step forward back into midfield as we gained more control.

With Arsenal currently suffering from an injury crisis in midfield, it was widely reported last week that the North London club had a agreed a # 5million deal with FC Basel for midfielder Mohammed Elneny, who has been turning quite a few heads with his performances for the Swiss club.

In turn, it would make sense that the Red Devils are being linked with a move for Vidal, while Antonio Conte has seen his side struggle and the Metro note that midfield ace Tiemoue Bakayoko has faced heavy criticism this season having failed to impress after his summer move from Monaco.

The Reds» talismanic midfielder has recently been linked with a move to La Liga giants Barcelona (via the Mirror), and based on the image below it would be a move he'd find extremely hard to turn down.

WIth the the amount of time he's been out and the severity of his injury, also taking in to account his age, he may never return to be the little midfield wizard we love, his style of play comes from his ability to be able to turn on a six pence and weath in and out of people like they are ghosts, to go from being told he will never be able to kick a ball again to doing all that would be amazing but what are the chances.