Sentences with phrase «not top of the league»

With Arsenal expected to still be in with a good shout of winning the 2015 - 16 Premier League come February, if not top of the league, Arsene Wenger will have little opportunity to relax and rotate heavily.

He said: «They are jealous because their team is not top of the league, and they want to be top of the league like everyone wants to — that's normal.

Say all you want but poor finishing is the reason why we aren't top of the league and that is partly Wenger's fault for not bringing in a better finisher.

Not exact matches

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Meizu has been emerging as one of China's better - known smartphone brands, although it is not in the same league as market leaders Xiaomi and Lenovo, which are among the top sellers of mobile phones worldwide.

We are in December and out of the league title, already... And some fans find it normal because we are still on course for top four... I did not know that MEDIOCRITY was a quality, but again, a famous writer said that «stupidity is also a gift of God»...

Despite his side's 10 point lead at the top of the league, at such a late stage of the season, Mourinho refused to rule any side out of the running for the title and said, «I don't care about other things.

Not every player that comes to England to play in the Premier League has to struggle to adapt to the different style of football played over here, but the way that Arsenal's top signing of last summer settled straight in was still quite a surprise.

Arsenal are one of the favourites to not only top the group, but go all the way in the europa league league this season.

But to look on the positive side, we have not won for three games, but we are still only two points from the top of the league!

It comes just a fortnight after they were defeated by Manchester City, while their overall form hasn't been good enough and that's reflected in the fact that they sit in sixth place in the Premier League table, a point adrift of the top four and 12 points behind leaders City.

Regardless of ur constant biased Giroud in essence cost us another 2 points n being top of the league, 3 sitters as arsenal legend Henry pointed out also» He should have scored them»

At the top, it hasn't set in with Wenger, but the people who own the club look at it in a different way and know they can still make a lot of money without winning the league.»

Yeah but the reality is the to thing are closely related, If Wenger stays we won't win the league or the champions league any time soon.For us to win these type of trophies a top coach must come in, there aren't many who can achieve this but i believe 2 good candidates are out of work Ancelotti and Klopp, Wengrs contract should be finished by the 2016/17 season god willing.I say God willing because Wengers been talking about how he doesn't want to retire, obvious signs that he wants an extension to his contrct, i am one Arsenal fan who doesn't want to see an extension

Wengers method of bluffing the board & fans to keep him for a further season... > We loose enough games to take us completely off winning the league, then say it wasn't in our control, we then fight till the end and win last few games so we look good and like we worked hard to earn the 4th place trophy.He then links us with awesome transfers (which we all know wont happen), and finally while Man U / City and Chelsea organise pre-season friendlies against top clubs, we play the weak ones, win and look all good to go next season without any additions... AND THEN REALITY STRIKES..

I quite agree sell all the deadwoods but which player in his right mind would want to come to arsenal at the moment, remember people man u was in the same situation under moyes but we're able to attract better player's even when not playing champions league, the selling point from arsenal point of view is to tell players which they are trying to get what the plan is of getting back to top flight football by going for the Europa league over the FA cup and finishing in the top six otherwise if they go for wishy - washy arsene wenger stupid attitude of we've got quality all the squad we are competing for everything then I'm afraid We will end up with nothing

What's the essence of staying at the top of the league if we can't maintain it?

According to another former Arsenal player Paul Merson: «When the pressure is off and you can't win the league, football is a completely different game, When you have to go into a game when you're top of the league or chasing teams down, the pressure is different.

Having finished outside of the top four, it remains to be seen whether or not the lack of Champions League football next season costs them in their transfer work this summer, while they will have to balance out their spending with sales too.

I am not one of the Arsenal fans that are so desperate for the club to get rid of Arsene Wenger and get a new manager in that I want the team to lose and fail to make the Champions League spots, although I know it is an issue and we know that the club is very focused on money and would hate to lose the financial benefits of Europe's top club competition.

The Frenchman has not looked at his best this season, but that has seemingly not stopped top Premier League sides showing an interest in him ahead of the summer.

But now we have to knockout the big team of Euro League Barca, I wouldn't mind if the Boss will recruit a new top quality DMF for the purpose of this advanced Barca knockout Ucl game and other Ucl advanced ties.

It wouldn't be a huge surprise to see the Gunners reap rewards from Sanchez's form and over 20 Premier League goals would certainly give them a great chance of notching the top flight crown.

-- He is French Ligue 1 top scorer — but Giroud WAS Ligue 1 top scorers as well (even won the league) when he joined us — Do nt get me wrong he can be a very good player for us in 2,3 years time but for next season only the like of Benzema or Lewandowski can improve us

And those goals all came in four of the games, as we failed to score against Stoke City, Chelsea, Southampton, Hull City and Barcelona, so it is not too hard to see why we have slipped off the top of the Premier League and are looking at another Champions League exit at the first knockout stage.

the problem with arsenal is the fans we forget very easily think about the game against Chelsea we can't be a top club with players like ozil think about the amount of easy chances that you miss do any of you delusional fan think if Chelsea didn't already win the league on they're mine on vacation you think we would have so much space to play and so easy.just think about we were winning the 50/50 challenge when does that happen we still need five new players

I can't decide on whether I want to commit to cementing our place in the top four before hoping to push on to win the title, but I also can't think of anything worse than hoping that United keep their six - point lead over our side, which leaves me stuck in the middle, but I feel like we should actually be concentrating on returning to the Champions League.

Then the season unravels.We start well but towards end of December we have handful of injuries and we are struggling with our title challenge.But still great Wenger who does not believe in January transfer window does not buy anyone or buys Kallstrom and by march we have no chance of winning the league and we are looking at getting Wenger Trophy (Top 4 finish).

Not that any of the deals are particularly egregious, but if the team is aiming at the No. 1 pick next year, these moves could hurt their chances of finishing last in the league and getting top lottery odds.

This rule of home - grown players will affect negatively the epl in the future (knowing that epl is the top league in the world right now) and I'm not sure if it's going to improve England national team that much...

We may all as well Get used to falling down the table The owner doesn't care, if he doesn't give a shot about clubs in his own country he won't give a sh # t about Arsenal There's only 3 ways of attracting BIG players to your club Champions League NO offer them silly money Nope that's not happening Or a Top manage errr

The other clubs in the top of the league have been able to buy players, why not Arsenal?

We all hbe our yes we tired by 11 years of mediocre but calling for the managers head at this time is absurd and irrational more pike decision out of anger.even if a new manager comes now it will be worse and target will be top four lets stop whining am angry as well but if wenger goes now then this season is awaste the new manager wouldn't pull a miracle and just coz hes new guys think we will win the league or rather challenge.

A role of the dice is what's needed, if only to give some genuine hope to a very patient set of fans, we could drop out of top 4, absolutely... We could end up winning the league, but at least we would be making a statement by saying that this isn't acceptable anymore!

When the season began, I boasted to him that this season was our season of lifting the premier league trophy but as we speak now, he is the one with the bragging right because his team is top of the league and they don't look like slowing down.

Aren't the Sixers one of the top 3 point shooting teams in the league right now??? The problem is perimeter D and turnovers.

Having added a striker and midfielder, a central defender is arguably next at the top of his to - do list as he looks to rebuild the spine of a team that finished 10th in the Premier League last season and is short of options at the back with John Terry, Gary Cahill and Kurt Zouma arguably not enough.

The season is far from over and the fight for the top three or four places still on, i do not believe that any of the teams occupying the positions above us will be faultless throughout the remaining games and we should be fearful of all our competitors in the league or we will surely finish outside the top four.

Yet now, at this time, sitting a very lowly and pathetic and embarrassing SIXTH place in the Premiership, after getting knocked out of the FA Cup by a team struggling in the Championship, and competing in the Europa League, (Which is basically the Championship) you feel you need to remind us of your loyalty and commitment to Arsenal Football Club.This same Club that despite you failing to achieve a Top 4 finish to give us our Champions League fare for this season, Increased your Salary to # 9m per year.I would remind you that you yourself have continually stated that a Top 4 finish was a greater achievement than winning a Domestic Cup Competition, so I will not allow the FA cup win of last season to enter into this letter.

Their record might not be as spectacular as the Top 5 seeds but all of those Teams have been apart of this League for years..

not looking good for the 4th...... no idea how many teams have more playoff appearances but Im guessing we're in the top half of the league over that time frame.

Might I suggest you were Hot Property back in the day because you were Manager of a team that every season were up there fighting for Premiere League and European Trophies.Of course you were in demand.I do not recall hearing too much about how all these top clubs were approaching you (which of course is illegal as you were under contract so you should not have been talking to them anyway) or how you had never broken a contract in your life when we were considered one of the top teams sat home and in Europe.

One of those «same mistakes» that Barton is likely to be referring to is in defence, as Liverpool still haven't managed to establish themselves as a consistent defensively - sound side, conceding 18 goals in 13 league games, which is the worst record of the top seven sides.

On top of it being their first ride in the League, many Team Members did not meet each other until Week 1.

We are out of the league title, so I guess a point is enough in order to get into the top four... It does not really matter as right now we CAN afford to loose Sunday game, so even a defeat would not be catastrophic based on our aspirations anyway.

A new direction is needed immediately, I can't see this team picking themselves up and fighting for something at the end of the season, top 4 long gone, Euro league not looking good, we are capable of losing to anyone and after this defeat there heads will drop even more.

They have also not lost in the league, with 10 wins and one draw putting them three points clear of the champions Juventus at the top of Serie A.

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.

They'll be the first to admit that Floor Hockey isn't in their top few sports but they are certainly aware of Team Hakimian's Hoops prowess... The Playoffs are a different animal in the Chicago Men's League though.

u have to be an utterly moronic corporate lacky to try to pretend that it is some kind of achievement to win it) to be a triumph fa cup is now a second level trophy just like finishing 4th is not like winning the league... we were told that moving in to a fancy new stadium was our path to competing with the top European clubs while instead we have since moving in fallen consistently behind..