Sentences with phrase «of trophy drought»

Seems like 5 years of a trophy drought has driven some of us mentally mad and itchingly impatient.

Gone are the days when due to debts, Arsenal became the hunting ground for star players by money bags as well as a club where players gave in to the advances of other clubs with excuses of trophy drought and / or a bigger payday.

Yes, there were challenges associated with that move — debts to pay, players sold without proper replacements and the whole nine yards, but we still tried to compete, even though we fell short on several occasions and none hurts more than the 2006 Champions League final but nine years of a trophy drought changed to sheer elation when the Gunners won the FA Cup in 2014.

But the end of the trophy drought and perhaps the loosening of the transfer purse strings has led to Wenger being offered and accepting three more years at the Arsenal helm.

Winning the FA cup for the past 2 years was more relieving of the shame of the trophy drought than it felt me with pride.

so he admits his teams were nothing more than youth experiments for a large part of our trophy drought... And he got paid for that.

I am proud of even during our 9 years of trophy drought.

When you add up all these little things, along with the fact that Wenger's job has always been safe, even after a decade of trophy drought, it makes you wonder!

Not exact matches

but his paycheck gets fat, trophy drought, ambitious players are sold and a mountain of excuses to cover all the failures..

After a long trophy drought, Arsenal have now won two FA Cups in successive seasons, and have avoided the Champions League Qualifying round for next year, but when Rosicky was asked what he thought about the season just past instead of saying how well the club did he turned the conversation back to his «frustration».

I have waited for 10 yrs now to see us lift the trophy.Luckily it will not be such a long wait to see Wenger contract out in 2 yrs.Demarteo won cl with chelsea and he does not count as gr8 coach same to wenger even if he wins cl, to be one of the greatest manager you must win trophies consistently and wenger 10 yrs trophy drought ruins that record.

His critics may have a different story to tell about the drought of trophies but everyone will agree that Wenger had a positive influence at the club.

This has been the reason for our drought of trophies combined with the lack of investment.

The Gunners won the FA Cup for two years in a row but step into the new season on the back of a decade long drought with the Premier League trophy.

Arsene Wenger masterminded the end of a nine year trophy drought with a remarkable comeback victory over Hull City in 2014 — but it was far from easy.

At the very onset of this article, let us not forget that Arsenal won the FA Cup this past May, and brought an end to the 9 - year long trophy drought.

Manager Arsene Wenger has cited the fact Arsenal have repeatedly qualified for the Champions League to defend his record in the wake of their six - year trophy drought.

Arsenal rallied towards the end of the season and did end up breaking the trophy drought by winning the FA cup but I fully believe that injuries cost us the title that year, just as they did last year.

The lack of investment in the club and the drought of trophies also mean the club is also probably losing out on more money if they had invested in players

Many of us felt, on top of losing all our best players year after year during that period, not to mention a never ending trophy drought, we had little time to put faith into a player testing the waters all over again.

Some Arsenal fans have not been happy with the club for keeping Arsene Wenger as our manager for some time now and even though the pressure may have been taken off the Frenchman by the team ending the long trophy drought and then backing it up with back to back FA cup wins at Wembley, the failure so far this season to take advantage of the struggles of the Premier League big boys has brought it all back with a bang.

He is one of the greatest managers, even though there has been a drought in trophies lately in his career.

Excellent article, one of the best here for a long while... the bitter truth is, we don't seem ready quite yet to end our epl trophy drought until Wenger, the board and also the players decide that they WANT IT BADLY.

did I asked for that... Didn't you get me when I said we are 11 yrs without EPL title never mind the CL... what joy do you find in a drought... You know that FA are not up to the level of EPL and CL... Your Wenger use to play the kids in FA... and when he felt the pressure of going all these years without a single trophy he started to play his first team in FA cup to get in the comfort zone that you are giving him now...

It meant that paradoxically, while the pressure on the team to win a trophy increased as the drought wore on, the bar of excellence dropped.

In arsenal under wenger we have excuses for everything: excuses for - playing players out of position, for trusting stubborn manager, benching fit walcott, trophy drought, highest ticket prices, losing to mourihno, excuses for players burnout.If sanchez gets long term injury by Any chance forget even that fourth trophy.I stand by what henry said 4 more players

one of the main factor that will decide wether we end our trophy drought in the league, is what a.d how much of a role will ramsey played.

seems akbs are having a field day today cuz of the article.No one says wenger is useless but our aim as fans is to put pressure on wenger to deliver because he is a good bussiness manager but an avarage coach in great club, arsenal was a gr8 Club even b4 wenger was born.Those who do nt buy tickets cant understand the pain trophy drought

U have a fair point if those deals are done... N we end our league trophy drought... But still wenger should have done those deals earlier so that our new comers would gel into the team by the start of the season... always last moment transfers and waiting like vultures for özil like transfer sagas There should be a proper transfer plan

Not only that but this our only shot I starting a streak of at least a trophy each season... it's not the EPL or CL trophy but I think it's important to show that we have progressed on that regard after our decade long drought more so against one of our bitter rivals: It doesn't matter by how much or well we win the game but that ww WIN period!!

Even when we were going through a trophy drought they didn't really speak out, but they are also fans of the club, and even they realize AW is not what is best fort he club anymore.

Every Arsenal fans has felt a certain amount of frustration at things that have happened with the team or the club in general, especially during the trophy drought after the Gunners left Highbury and were paying off the cost of building the new stadium.

Ramsey is capable of many things as he showed us last season, he ended our trophy drought ffs!

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has surprisingly described the upcoming Capital One Cup final clash against Tottenham Hotspur as the most important game of his managerial career, as he seeks to end a three - year personal trophy drought.

So as well as sounding like he is keen for a transfer away from north London, Rose suggests that he has no confidence in our rivals ending their trophy drought and he has slated them for a lack of transfer action this summer as well as buying poor players in the recent past.

Oh yh how abt this coincidence Wilshere n walcott injured for majority of the past 2 seasons n guess Wat Arsenal break their trophy drought!!

After their trophy drought, Wenger led the Gunners to back - to - back FA Cup triumphs in 2014 and 2015, silencing many of his doubters.

what is it with Arsenal fans wanting to insult EVERY single one of our former players, even when they did a decent job, and helped end our freaking trophy drought??

Wenger's men shipped 17 goals in 3 big games last season, failed to beat the weakest Man United team, stumbled our way past Wigan to end our trophy drought, led most of the season but couldn't sustain momentum when the big fights came to town.

After more than ten years of major trophy drought, most Arsenal staffs and supporters have lowered their expectation.

«Our basic is always to finish in the top four and then win a trophy on top of that,» said Wenger, whose FA Cup success last term ended a nine - year trophy drought.

Please do nt suggest that wenger will prove us wrong by winning the fa cup because thats a trophy thats been long over due for the damage of the last nine year drought, if man city was still in it woudnt an advantage arsenal, in wenger we rust!

As he matured, he became one of the few players of the Billy Wright era (along with Jon Sammels and Peter Storey) to become an integral part of Wright's successor Bertie Mee's Arsenal side, which ended the club's long trophy drought.

I derive a lot of satisfaction from not hearing anyone say that Arsenal's long trophy drought is about to end because we bought Ozil.

The trophy drought is one of the reasons Koscielny doubts his future at the club, yet all could change with new players coming in and Arsenal looking like title contenders.

José Mourinho is closing in on a sixth major trophy that would end the «drought» of his second Chelsea tenure.

After last season's FA Cup win against Hull ended a ten - year trophy drought, Arsenal are clearly moving in the right direction, while the acquisitions of Alexis Sanchez from Barcelona and Ozil from Real Madrid highlight the club's new financial capabilities in the transfer market.

With a debt of 350 million, experts knew that Arsenal were going into a period of transition, the club was certain that it wont be able to compete financially with top clubs and may suffer from a trophy drought.

Wenger has come under scrutiny from Arsenal's supporters lately after a lack of transfers combined with a trophy drought and a current seventh - placed team have seen many faithful lose patience with the weathered French manager.

Derby County 1 Chelsea 3José Mourinho is closing in on a sixth major trophy that would end the «drought» of his second Chelsea tenure.