Sentences with phrase «n't challenge for the league title»

Another scenario for Sanchez is; Arsenal don't challenge for the league title, don't win the Europa League and maybe win one of the domestic cups.

The gunners have not challenged for the league title in more than a decade, but the club are close to strengthening the team in this transfer window once again.

Not exact matches

Arsenal are currently in 5th place in the Premier League at the halfway stage, and although we are only 8 points behind the leaders, many Arsenal fans think we are simply not playing well enough to challenge for the title — and in fact may have a battle just to finish in the Top Four.

As well as revealing his thoughts on why Arsenal failed to challenge for the Premier League title once again, he gave his ideas on what could be done during the summer to make sure that it is not the same old story once again next time around.

The year before that we did win our opener against Crystal Palace after beating Man City to the Shield quite comfortably but then our title challenge faltered and Arsenal did not win another league game for over a month and by mid-October Chelsea were runaway leaders.

if arsenal had properly challenged for the title in the last decade even if we did nt win any league, fans would never have been pissed off.

If he doesn't, then this and Szczesny's departures could be seen as mistakes from Wenger in a season in which they are meant to challenge Chelsea for the Premier League title.

My team were never challenging for the Premier League title when I began to follow them, and the joy I would experience when they would reach an unlikely cup final was immense, so I'm sorry if I don't feel any remorse for a fan who only followed a team when they were one of only two top sides challenging year on year, before enjoying an unbeatable Invincibles campaign in only his third term of supporting the side.

With the amount of long term injuries we have right now (and don't even try to persuade me that Danny Welbeck or Jack Wilshere or whoever will be back in the next few weeks), and how close we are to actually challenging for the Premier League title, I was imagining a big money arrival to give the players and fans a boost ahead of crucial month ahead.

Whatever is it that has made or caused the Gunners to have dropped 8 Premier League points and 3 CL points MUST be Halted if we are to seriously challenge for the title and the CL by our own design and depending on other clubs misfortunes which may not happen.

I am not trying to absolve Arsene Wenger of all the blame for what looks like being a most frustrating Premier League title challenge for Arsenal this season, as the unfancied Leicester seem to be the ones that will make the most of the poor performances of the usual suspects Man City, Chelsea and Man United, but you have to admit that the Frenchman has had some pretty rotten luck with injury problems once again, while Claudio Ranieri has been able to name his strongest 11 players in almost every match.

However, when people on the board bomb out statements that you have 200 mills in the bank and you are a player or two away from a real title challenge, it's not serious to risk the best chance we've had for years to win the league, and an excuse of «there wasn't enough quality» would just seem silly.

In my opinion Arsenal arguably may not have the best team in the league, but we have a squad full of talent and a squad that should undoubtedly be challenging for the league title this season.

Despite securing Champions league football, Arsenal will have been disappointed not to have mounted a stronger title challenge while Villa flirted with relegation for most of the season and only secured their status in the final few games.

Arsene Wenger is reknowned for bringing talented youngsters through the Arsenal Academy and making them into a team capable of challenging for the Premier League title, but although there have been a few near misses over the years they have not quite managed to reach the pinnacle.

We have been linked with Lars Bender, Adrien Rabiot and Ilkay Gundogan who play in central roles also, but why look elsewhere when you can have a proven Premier League star, who will have experience in challenging for (if not winning) the title.

of course the games against stoke, leicester etc would have gone a long way to seeing us challenge for the title last season but for a long time now we've been labelled flat track bullies i.e we are generally very good at beating opponents outside the top six but our record against man utd and chelsea maybe even city quite recently has not reflected a team on the same level as those going for the premier league title.

I don't think we can over-estimate how much difference this could make to our next challenge for the Premier League title.

So instead of our team going forwards as we expected it to do after the club's financial burden was lifted and Arsene Wenger was given a decent transfer budget once more, we seem to be going backwards in terms of challenging for the Premier League title and if you don't believe me then maybe you should believe the boss because he suggested the same after the latest defeat.

Hartson then moves on to question the players, claiming they are not worthy of challenging for the Premier League title.

He is challenging them not only to finish the season well but to prepare next season to have a winning one that challenges for titles from start to finish, one that doesn't get spanked 10 - 2 on aggregate as if it out of there league.

Disappointing game this is a champions league hangover, if we really want to challenge for the title we can't be dropping easy points

While Arsenal fans were reacting in our usual calm and understated manner (ahem) after the Gunners early horror show at the Emirates saw us slip to defeat against Premier League strugglers Watford, not everyone was as quick as most Gooners to give up on Arsenal challenging for the EPL title.

After consistent failure to win the league, put up a sustainable challenge in the race for the title, get past the round of 16 in the champions league and disappoint in big games, Arsenal fans are realising that this feat isn't surprising.

According to physioroom.com there is currently no date set for his return and not long ago the club was talking about the end of March, by which time Arsenal could be out of the Champions League and the FA cup and our title challenge could be done and dusted.

Even though most of us Arsenal fans are not holding on to much hope of catching Tottenham and Leicester City and making a late challenge for the Premier League title, there is a chance and while Arsenal still have that chance we will not give up and we do not want Arsene Wenger and the players to give up either.

Arsenal must get rid of him, he's not world class, his arrogance is his worst enemy we need to get a top class keeper in order to challenge for titles and get past the last 16 of champions league

The boss thinks that things will improve from now on and although that may not be enough to really challenge for the Premier League title, he is determined to do his best and be ready if the teams above us do slip up.

He is no where near good enough to play for a top four side, and he isn't a player a squad would have when they wish to challenge for the league title.

There is a theory that having no miweek European games whatsoever could be a helping hand for a Premier League title challenge, but Arsenal are highly unlikely to find out, at least not in the next year anyway.

In truth, Barca also look a better bet than United right now in terms of challenging for league titles and the Champions League, so there seems plenty of reason for Gooners to be optimistic he won't end up at their rleague titles and the Champions League, so there seems plenty of reason for Gooners to be optimistic he won't end up at their rLeague, so there seems plenty of reason for Gooners to be optimistic he won't end up at their rivals.

Therefore, a repeat of the 2012/2013 season injuries to our top Gunners should be forestalled by the Boss not to hinder Arsenal geniue title challenge in this season campaign that is already looking promising for us to lift the League title at the end of the season.

No team wins the league without a 20 + league goals striker and a strong defence that keeps clean sheets, we can't afford anymore accidents as Wenger would put it if we want to really challenge for the title

Isn't it bemusing?The season that were supposed to finally challenge the big boys for the league title is increasingly looking like the season that we finally miss out on champions League qualification.All courtesy of the untouchable, unquestionable Sir Arsene Wenger, the founding father of Arsenal, well according to thleague title is increasingly looking like the season that we finally miss out on champions League qualification.All courtesy of the untouchable, unquestionable Sir Arsene Wenger, the founding father of Arsenal, well according to thLeague qualification.All courtesy of the untouchable, unquestionable Sir Arsene Wenger, the founding father of Arsenal, well according to the akbs

Kane is a better striker this is his second consecutive season where he's scored 20 goals in the EPL but Giroud in all his 4 years his best league tally is a mere 16 goals which is not good enough to make us challenge for any titles, in the last 5 years a winning team always has a 20 goal striker!

He also has some very interesting things to say about why Arsenal are not looking like adding another trophy to the cabinest this year and why we seem unable to keep up a proper challenge for the Premier League title.

We aren't title challenger's, we are nowhere near challenging for the champions league, that isn't an opinion that's a fact.

There may still be some doubt about Arsenal having the fire power to consistently score enough goals to challenge for the Premier League title this season, whether that is fair or not, but apart from that the Gunners are showing all over the pitch that we are extremely strong.

im just sad for alexis because he deserves better but i do nt mind missing the champions league if it means that we will challenge for the title.

We are currently 8 points behind Chelsea and we are sitting in fifth in the league - this isn't an impressive feat for a club of our stature who should be challenging for the title.

The team does not have an earthly chance of challenging for the Premier League title.

We are ready for the league but we are not for the title challenge, not even need to mention on all fronts.

One of the main reasons why a large number of Arsenal fans and almost all of the football media have been so hard on Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players for not maintaining the Premier League title challenge this season, apart from the 12 year gap since the Gunners were last champions of course, is because the struggles of our big Premier League rivals Man City, Chelsea, Man United and even Liverpool seemed to have opened the door.

The England international has reiterated his desire to stay in North London, but the offer of a reduced contract may convince him that he isn't as important to the club, and may be tempted by the opportunity to play for Juventus, and the potential to win titles and challenge for the Champions League also.

???? the player refuses to sign a new contract and doesn't want to participate in the Europa league where that competition will effect Arsenals chances of challenging for the premiere league title.

I have a sneaking feeling that Jose Mourinho is not really all that worried about Arsenal catching his Chelsea team and challenging for the Premier League title this season.

If we can do a deal to bring Mbappe to Arsenal it will show that we mean business to not only challenge for the Premier League title but to get back in to the champions league the season League title but to get back in to the champions league the season league the season after.

We never expected the boss to be too happy about this but it seemed like he was forced to accept that his team slipping down the Premier League table instead of finally challenging for the title was not good enough.

But Rafa Benitez has failed to challenge Juventus for the Italian title and this season is not even in a Europa League position and so Higuain has had enough and is keen to move on.

Not only did Arsenal win this match to put the Gunners back above last week's tormentors Watford into fifth place and only outside the top four on goal difference, it was done in an emphatic style, but does that mean that Arsenal are now properly back on track and ready to mount a challenge for the Premier League title?