Sentences with phrase «not midway through the season»

Not exact matches

Changing manager midway through the season is already problematic, not to mention you are changing a manager who is in charge for 20 years.

Real president Fiorentino Perez is not shy of opening up his chequebook for the right player, and CaughtOffside understands there could be as many as five main targets ready to come into the Bernabeu midway through the season, particularly if current results do not improve.

The Celtics, meanwhile, haven't been that great since midway through the year — they're 24 - 17 from Jan 16 to the end of the regular season — and they're playing the first round without Smart or Irving.

Diego Costa did not pick up his goalscoring pace until nearly midway through the season, and Eden Hazard didn't even score a goal until the last handful of games.

Its needless because he won't leave midway through the season, or before his contract expires.

We've also had the DM problem for years, which was only solved midway through last season by pure luck of the injuries, NOT because Wenger suddenly had the ability to see he had no balance in his team.

The Brazilian may have only had one full season with the club, given he joined midway through the 2014 - 15 season and this season is yet to reach the halfway point, however he hasn't been able to take many of the opportunities that have come his way.

They won't want to let him go midway through a season, but they also won't want to lose him for free.

Benfica's Alex Grimaldo and Schalke star Sead Kolasinac have been noted as potential targets by the Mail, although it's added that there are reservations over whether or not they can fit straight into the team midway through the season.

However, Suarez has not enjoyed as much first team football as he would have liked during his time in Serie A so far, and could now look to make a quick getaway midway through the season (via Metro).

If you look at the table below, they were clearly not a public team until midway through the season, but they didn't remain one for long.

Admitting to being happy with his goal haul on his return from injury, he said: «Being out for ten games hasn't really helped, especially midway through the season.

The Blues left Wembley with more questions than answers and it will not have escaped Antonio Conte's attention that the last two managers to win the Premier League (Ranieri with Leicester in 2015/16 and Mourinho with Chelsea in 2014/15) both lost the Community Shield at Wembley and were sacked midway through the next season.

It makes sense to have the option of refreshing the squad midway through the season, so long as the new player is not cup tied as in the case of Arshavin.

A trophyless season after what promised to be such a good campaign midway through is not what Arsenal fans were expecting and now, to make matters worse, they're being trolled by Watford captain Troy Deeney.

Along the way, Warnock points the finger of blame at: Gareth Southgate, Rafa Benàtez and Alex Ferguson, for all playing weakened teams in their respective clubs» matches against United's relegation rivals; the officials who allowed West Ham to win at Blackburn with a «goal» that didn't cross the line; Times journalist Pete Lansley, for upsetting goalkeeper Paddy Kenny by asking about his troubled personal life in an interview; the FA («rank amateurs»), for not punishing West Ham for fielding two ineligible players, Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano; and finally David Unsworth, for contriving a costly penalty miss for United against Blackburn midway through the season but then scoring from the spot at Bramall Lane for Wigan in the game that sent the Blades down at the Latics» expense.

Buying players midway through the season doesn't give them that bedding in time in pre-season to gel with their new teammates, and this could be what determines whether a player is a success or a flop at a certain club.

It wasn't until midway through the 2007 season, when he was firmly ensconced as a reliever, that he turned the corner.

It was not a Trump world, and midway through the first season, the reality changed.

Not only is Elliot an incredibly unreliable protagonist, giving the writers free reign to do whatever they want with little consequences, but the drastic change in direction midway through the season is so sudden that it feels like creator Sam Esmail got impatient allowing the story to develop organically.