Sentences with phrase «of challenging for trophies»

and no wenger didn't under achieve the man has been over achieving for years he put together the best team possible with limited resources and at the time the team wasn't capable of challenging for trophies.

Not exact matches

now wengers absurd transfer policy «is down to you people»... seriously krish n`chips... the acolytes of the delusional one are beginning to sound even more of a parody than the master himself... walcott is a very very average player with one good season in 12 years at the club... the fact that wenger hasnt sold him is part of the sorry state of our club and the idea that this can be blamed on fans who want to see us back challenging for top trophies is frankly offensive

Yes we must have a cm to replace cazorla and to challenge for top honors, no joke there is a void in the spine of the team and it needs to be filled, the Ramsey Xhaka combo is decent but not if you wan na challenge for the trophy we seek, and one of them is bound to get injured while the other has a craving for cards red or yellow!!

To me the unknown can go one of two ways: Wenger being right and our current squad challenging for the title; or wenger being wrong and our current squad challenging for the Wenger Trophy.

One of the features of the last few years has been Arsenal putting a brilliant run of results together and although it may be too late for a title challenge this time, we still need to secure a top four spot, as well as having the knockout rounds of the Champions League to think about — and the small matter of defending the FA cup trophy won in dramatic fashion last season to defend.

The Frenchman was talking this week about why he feels that Arsenal are much more prepared for this title challenge compared to other recent seasons when we have been in a good position only to see the EPL trophy slip away in the latter stages of the campaign.

However in order to have credibility in terms of being an ethically - run football club, the profits should be re-invested for the benefit of the fans, making the team better on the pitch to seriously challenge for all trophies, and making watching the games as affordable as possible.

Its funny how fans here (especially seancali) keep saying how arsenal can't challenge for the epl with their current crop of players yet still go on to say arsenal should beat chelsea & lift the community shield trophy — so f# cking contradictory — you bad - mouth your supposed team & call them incompetent yet expect them to win the current champions?

We supporters of Arsenal keep on making the same mistake every season by expecting to be challenging for trophies.

In terms of challenging for UCL and EPL, the two trophies that define a big club, we are miles off.

DENIAL... that Alexis and Oxlade - Chamberlain both want to play for teams that are going to make better use of their abilities with the prospect of challenging for major trophies!

He's afraid of coming out plainly to say, «LOOK, we are buy players in order to challenge for the league trophy, that's one of our major target for the season», so that if he fails to win the league at the end of the day, no one will say, «But you said you were after the the league trophy and you spent expensively on the class of players you considered necessary, how come you failed?»

Ambition: He said he wants to sit with the club in the summer, i guess he wan na know the level of their ambition to decide if he will stay or not... All in all, i think the most important thing he wants are UCL, Fa Cup, money and a chance to challenge for major trophies, money comes last for him i assume...

The cup represents the best chance of a trophy for both teams and will make for a finely contested encounter and van Gaal is relishing the challenge.

Arsenal fans will finally get the chance to see the summer signing that we all hope will make the difference in our challenge to regain the Premier League title next season, after Petr Cech watched from the bench as the Gunners won the first match of pre-season to qualify for the final of the Asia Trophy against Everton today.

Seriously this arsenal team is just full of average players, Arsenal needs up to 4 good players to Challenge for a major trophy.

So will today be an important day for the Premier League title challenge as well as our defence of the FA cup trophy?

Look at the amount of money we have at our disposal and look at the amount we have invested then ask yourself, with the we've money invested (in comparison to others) can we realistically challenge for PL & CL trophies like we were told we'd be?

Even with Ozil and Sanchez, Arsenal are still no where near even challenging for a major trophy, let alone actually winning one, under the management of Wenger — so would it change anything if they left?

No team wanted these guys, anywhere in the world, thats why they are still free and available a month after the window closed and our great manager is now looking to bring one of them in to ARSENAL, yes ARSENAL, the team we expect to challenge for trophies.

So with them fighting for their survival, the Gunners must be fired up and ready, instead of thinking about an FA cup trophy and a possible title challenge, or we could be seeing another Monaco disaster.

Don't expect new manager to win trophies straight away will take years to build a team capable of challenging for tittle and while I agree it was time for Wenger to go I still remember the phrase be careful what you wish for!!

With the Arsenal fans starting to become frustrated by the lack of major signings since the Xhaka transfer, Wenger is perhaps trying to tell us that the Swiss star will have a major impact at the heart of our midfield and will add the quality and attributes that will give the Gunners a great chance to challenge for the Premier League and other trophies.

Lacazette has been getting sharper and settling in ever since and is starting to get the Arsenal fans rubbing our hands about how his movement and finishing in front of the creative brilliance of Gunners like Ozil will help us challenge for a major trophy or two this season.

With this kind of squad I believe we will be strong enough to challenge for any trophy including the UCL.

The money has been there to spend but it is Wenger and his deluded belief that his team are good enough to challenge for major trophies, without the need of adding to his fine squad lol?

Parlour was not too hard on our big centre forward and actually handed him some praise, but he feels that Arsenal do need a step up in quality if we are to challenge for the bog trophy goals of the Premier League and Champions League, and the former Arsenal midfielder has one player in particular in mind.

It remains to be seen over the course of the next few months if these new players will give Arsenal the squad we need to challenge for major trophy success, but it appears that the boss has at least done enough to suggest they will.

Certainly capable of challenging for a major trophy, if used properly.

All decisions will end with another season of mediocrity regards challenging for major trophies this season due to having the same manager but «hey ho», a change is as good as a rest.

The rain started beating us the moment we watched as our rivals spend big thinking that Wenger guarantees top4 trophy, we are now languishing at 6th on the table, but are now spending two top strikers signed breaking our transfer record twice that's a positive and may it continue.you also notice that new players take some time to adapt we are now started swing the best of lava and auba.After finishing 5th last season there is no instant coffee solution it will take time and effort to challenge for top honors

After leading Arsenal to an FA cup trophy after a long nine years with no silverware, along with a serious challenge for the title which just faltered as the injuries piled up, Arsene Wenger appeared to have fallen back in love with the game, as proven when he signed up to another three years at the helm of the good ship Arsenal.

Add to this his completely different playing style, and is he the quality of player to convince Ozil and Sanchez that we're serious enough to challenge for major trophies, I say «no» on all fronts.

Intelligent answer for Wenger out would be: No league / European trophy for 14 years and counting, barely challenged for a league / European trophy in that time, 9 year period without a trophy, and all of our best players keep jumping ship, including the legend Henry.

I am fairly sure that a large percentage of Arsenal fans are finding it hard to get enthused about the defence of the FA cup trophy, because two points from the last three Premier League games has left the Gunners down in third place and our challenge for the Premier League title looking a lot less assured than it was a couple of weeks ago.

Many of us Arsenal fans have been here before over the last 10 years, only for something like all the injury problems and our heavy losses in some big away games of two years ago to come along and leave the latest challenge for the Premier League trophy in tatters.

for me we need two players to stand a chance of EPL trophy but if we are to challenge CL we would need at least four w / c players

LOL... Since when does 90 per cent of passes going sideways or backwards amount to an attacking strategy... Wenger has an 8 million quid banking strategy and that is it... The man has no clue about putting together and coaching a team that can challenge for top footballing trophies and that has been obvious to me for a decade

And then we can at least begin talking about challenging for any kind of trophy.

League cup is a trophy challenged for by every one in England so yeah, some of us care about it!

It's the same old story with AW and the board and always the cheaper option, despite the fact that we COULD actually challenge for trophies next season as other issues have now come into play, Wenger will say «well we would buy Suarez but he's not available, Benzema does not want to leave Real Madrid» ect ect ect, but these are always excuses after the event these players would move if the right offer was made we could have got Higain two seasons ago the attempts at getting Suarez were truly farcical AND Im not convinced that it wasn't done that way so as to make it look like we tried when really we had no intention of paying 40 million for him.

The FA Cup, may be... We just can not challenge for the major trophies... This is just not a top club... We look like one with a great stadium and massive fan based, but other than the sporting aspect of the club classed us as «nobody» amongst the best...!!!

Several of the first eleven don't currently cut it based upon what we expect as Arsenal fans, especially if the board and management wants to argue that we should be challenging for trophies, both domestically and in Europe each and every season.

We are sorry that you are the only one with passion and determination on the pitch We are sorry that the priority at Arsenal is to make lots of money for a greedy owner instead of making sporting history by winning trophies We are sorry that you have been left alone to run everywhere challenge for every ball and score every goal.

as wih just about every season for last 10 years we have a team that is a couple of real quality players short of challenging on three fronts for top honours... so if wenger is willing to get rid of mert flamini arteta diaby and walcott (and possibly gibbs who is begining to really disappoint but perhaps worth another season) and bring in three quality players cb dm and attacker i will change my mind and give him a chance till end of contract... if its another round of bargain basement players with potential and talk of getting in to cl as like a trophy... then yes he needs to go

This was the final deal of the two - day 80 - board challenge match between Los Angeles and New York for the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED trophy, emblematic of the title «Bridge Capital of the U.S.» As some readers will recall, the Westerners won the first challenge match last summer when a late rally by New York fell just short of victory.

Funny how Arsenal were gonna challenge for the title after winning our second trophy in weeks and Giroud were underrated then a draw against Besiktas later we hold no hope, Wenger is clueless, Giroud is the worst striker ever, Arsenal had 6 strikers (Giroud, Alexis, Sanogo, Walcott, Podolski, Campbell) and overnight 4 of them disappeared and Giroud and Sanogo were our only strikers.

Anyway, In order to challenge for major trophies, we need Wenger to change is way of seeing football the way he sees it right now.

Because of the board told Wenger to abandon all ambitions and keep lying to the fans that we're good enough to challenge for the top trophies when him and everyone else knows it's not true.

At the same time, we have not been too far away so I have been thinking about how, assuming we will, make that little bit of difference that will make Arsenal really fire again and let us see a team that can challenge for the major trophies.