Sentences with phrase «name players failed»

It was a tournament which had its moments of shock and drama, but it never really set alight because too many of the big - name players failed to turn up.

Not exact matches

Reading the thread on this article and I noticed a lot of people naming strikers we could have gotten in past transfer windows that have gone to other club and failed, Balotelli, Falcao, Martinez, Boney etc are recurring names in all the comments, and am sat here thinking because they failed in thee clubs does not necessarily mean they would have failed if we had pulled out our fingers and hot them back then, Balotelli aside I strongly believe all of these players could have made a difference playing infront of our midfield and given the kind of attention and care Wenger gives Giroud and Walcott, adapting our play to suit them and giving them chances after chances even when its blatantly obvious they are average players so please lets not keep using that as an excuse for Wenger's ultra careful attitude in the transfer market, they could have failed with us, or they could have been massive for us, all speculations.

Players like Giroud, Ramsey, Kos,, Monreal to name a few are fantastically loyal to the club and everytime they fail to perform we quickly forget everything they have done....

United have failed to mount a title challenge since Ferguson left his post, despite huge spending by the club on big - names players each summer, and our club has finished above them every year since he left.

You are very fast in naming failed players like Sanogo at the slightest opportunity.

One of the best strikers in the world, Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski is by far Poland's best player and was one of many big names missing from this summer's World Cup as his country failed to qualify for the competition in Brazil.

So Man U with their huge resources could be failing by looking for big big name players who cost much but contribute relatively less.

Mahrez is truly a talented player which he has obviously proven last season in the league where many a bigger names have came and failed.

Or if you can't do that name the player who was available that we could have got but failed to as he went somewhere else?

Granted he wasn't always key to his respective teams in those runs, but with three Serie A titles, a Premier League title, a Champions League winners medal and many other domestic trophies to his name, it's not bad for a player who has failed to reach his potential.

To be sincere, am kinda jealous about the Pato to liverpool rumour, bcos I remember when he was at Ac Milan he was sought after by many big clubs some of us even wanted him at Arsenal then... Buh seriously, I trust wenger's judgement on whoever he signs or fail to sign... We can not be blaming wenger whenever he dint sign the players we want, I could name some players that we have always wanted and they turn out to be flops... OT: The Telegraph is reporting that Rabiot is on the brink of 15m move Arsenal

Manager Brendan Rodgers is under pressure to bring in the right players in this transfer window, having failed to adequately replace the departing Luis Suarez last summer as big - name buys like Mario Balotelli have been hugely disappointing.

I could name dozens of players that have failed.................

Still, there could be more changes to come in the next transfer window, with recent reports linking several key players with exits after failing to impress van Gaal, while more big names could make their way to Old Trafford in this continued overhaul of the first - team squad.

The reason we don't get the «big names» anymore is that Arsene / Kroenke are not ambitious they have made us into a club to not be taken seriously, players have lost respect you can see this in the ambition and desire they show on the pitch (barring sanchez) but he will go the same way under Arsene unless he doesn't leave before long and we fail to make the CL... Arsene / Kroenke only see arsenal as a money making machine - but you knew that already..

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Bentley, Pennant (he looked really good as a youngster until Wenger started coaching), Boa Morte, Owusu - Adeyie, Almunia, Eboue, Traore, Vela, Campbell, Silvestre, Santos, Sanogo, Perez, Sorry I could not resist adding to the names that Wenger either coached the talent out of promising players or players he should not have bought for Arsenal and failed badly.

Some big names failed to make it onto the Ballon d'Or shortlist, so much so that we compiled this superb line up of the best players who aren't in contention, with shock names...

Cazorla has been a steady player for Arsenal even if any other big - name fails to deliver.

The manager hinted strongly that his club had failed in competing for players with the Premier League leaders, and even named Kyle Walker as one of those who they had won a bidding war with Conte's club for.

If you were asked who the top ten world class players were in the premiership I'm sure your list would include Rooney, Torres, Cesc, Lampard, Drogba, Anelka, Van Persie to name a few — no spuds of course — yet all these players have failed to live up to their expectations in South Africa this summer.

Yet should they fail in their task, Málaga could certainly sink down the league, as more big - name players force moves away.

The 16 - year - old was named the Premier Cup's Most Valuable Player in 2015, with Manchester United failing to make the latter stages of the tournament, which is some achievement based on the talent that can be found playing in the tournament.

The bid in order to get things started after Manchester City had failed to name a price for the player following early inquiries.

It's almost as if he read Too Big To Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin and rather than recreating history and giving moviegoers something to chew on, he leaves some of the same situations but changes the names of the players and companies to where some of it is recognizable, some is a direct copy, and some of it a complete fabrication.