Sentences with phrase «old midfielder this season»

After two years on loan at Empoli, parent club Udinese will almost certainly cash in on the 21 - year - old midfielder this season, and Liverpool is looking more and more likely to be the Polish star's next destination.

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The 21 - year - old looks a top talent after seeing increased playing time in United's midfield this season, despite plenty of big - name competition from the likes of Paul Pogba, Nemanja Matic and Ander Herrera.

The 31 - year - old has been one of the top attacking midfield players in Europe in his eight seasons at City, and would be a major loss if he were to move on, particularly to a Premier League rival.

The 25 - year - old has 12 goals and 6 assists in just 20 appearances in all competitions this season, and has become regarded as one of the world's best attacking midfield players in the last few years.

The 18 - year - old, who can operate at right - back or in midfield, has impressed for Neil Lennon's side this season, and has also caught the eye of Dutch giants Ajax.

The dynamic 25 - year old has been fantastic for Alan Pardew's side this season and he does play in that central midfield area that has given the Gunners so many problems ever since the aforementioned Vieira left us in 2005.

The 22 - year - old scored seven goals in 39 appearances from midfield last season, while he's got four in 13 so far this year as well as offering plenty more in midfield with his energetic, tenacious and stylish performances on a consistent basis.

Despite Antonio Valencia's tremendous start to the season, Mourinho has little full - back options to choose from and so signing 23 - year - old Fabinho — who can also play in a defensive midfield role — would undoubtedly bolster this area and thus the strength of the overall squad.

Given that Isco is one of the most in - form creative midfield players in Europe right now, # 69m doesn't seem an unfair amount to pay at all, even if the 25 - year - old hasn't always been an automatic starter for Zinedine Zidane's side this season.

The 21 - year - old midfielder, who is spending this season on loan at Crystal Palace, did not look overawed by the international stage, and pulled off a superb double nutmeg in the first half.

Sunderland are weighing up a move for 21 - year - old Inter Milan midfielder Joel Obi, who is rated at # 5m but has made just one Serie A appearance this season in a campaign blighted by injury.

Galaxy want the 34 - year - old for the start of the new MLS season but the Blues could insist on keeping the midfielder until the end of the Premier League season in May.

The Arsenal transfer rumours about Jack Wilshere and a possible move to play for our old rivals Manchester United are still in the embryonic stage, as reported by Metro, but with the Gunners already having more options in the central midfield area where Jack plays there is a good chance that his loan season at AFC Bournemouth is not going to be enough to earn him a return to play for his beloved Arsenal.

The 26 - year - old has impressed this season at the Liberty Stadium with his performances catching the eye of the Gunners boss who wants to bolster his midfield ahead of the 2015 - 16 campaign.

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The Old Trafford forward is currently enjoying his end of season holiday with Dutch pals Daley Blind and Stefan De Vrij, and the trio bumped into Juventus midfielder Andrea Pirlo in Miami.

Delph has found himself out - of - favour at his current club Man City, having only made 13 appearances in all competitions last season, and Newcastle boss Rafa Benitez is keen on bringing the 27 - year - old to the club, as per the Daily Mail, with the midfielder's # 12M asking price set to test Newcastle owner Mike Ashley's transfer ambitions.

The 6» 1 ″ midfielder left Old Trafford for Juventus in summer 2012, and immediately made an impact in the first team, earning his first Scudetto title after a fine debut season in Serie A.

The 32 year - old, who was born in Argentina but has one cap for Italy to his name, has been a steady if unspectacular campaigner in Serie A for Lazio for a number of seasons and would bring stability to the Arsenal midfield, although he does not exactly represent the marquee defensive midfield signing that fans will be expecting.

A versatile talent who can play equally well at left - back or midfield, Daley Blind had some really good games in his first season at Old Trafford.

The 18 - year - old midfielder is really starting to make a name for himself in the Championship with Derby County, establishing himself as a key part of the first team in the 2012/13 season, making 35 appearances.

Man Utd midfielder Michael Carrick will close the curtains on a glittering career and stint at Old Trafford at the end of the season, and his next job is reportedly being lined up.

The 25 - year - old has shone for Watford this season and looks to have all the attributes Jose Mourinho looks for in a central midfielder, which looks a priority area for the club to strengthen in this summer.

Having made little progress with either player, it has forced him to look elsewhere which won't come as the most reassuring assessment for his former Chelsea midfield general, but the 28 - year - old now looks set to become his latest signing and will be a crucial figure in the side next season.

The Dutchman has persisted with playing the 29 - year - old in central midfield while Robin van Persie and Radamel Falcao have found goals hard to find up front this season.

Is it because Arteta has a wealth of experience to pass on to our youngsters by his example, or does Le Prof think the team will actually have need of a 33 year - old defensive midfielder next season?

The 20 - year - old holding midfielder has impressed, putting in many assured performances which have belied his young age in his breakthrough season.The Algerian international has featured in 25 games this season, though that would have been more would he not have played in the African Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea.

It's easy to see why Chelsea have been keen on moving for the dynamic 27 - year - old in recent times; Cesc Fabregas and Nemanja Matic have failed to rediscover the immense form they demonstrated during the title - winning 2014 - 15 season, while it remains to be seen whether Nigerian midfielder John Obi Mikel is a long - term solution at the club, and Ramires has departed for the Chinese Super League.

The 24 year old had an outstanding season in 2012/13, scoring 25 goals in 28 domestic league fixtures, finishing as the Ukrainian Premier League's top scorer and the attacking midfielder is seemingly seen by Liverpool as their top summer target.

With 24 appearances in central midfielder last season, perhaps the 25 - year - old could be considered a replacement to the under - performing Fernandinho at the Etihad.

The powerhouse midfielder has seen his Old Trafford career revived this season, and has crowbarred his way into van Gaal's first team plans despite a poor first season at the club.

And the Gunners have been strongly linked with a transfer move for the 27 - year old, but with Arsene Wenger seemingly happy with his attacking options, at least for now, and the squad desperately needing cover in the areas of central midfield and defence, it was widely believed that any move from us for Cavani would not happen until the end of the season.

The 23 year old midfielder has had a great season at Turf Moor and has helped the club within 90 minutes of place in the Premier League but he may well feel the need to leave Owen Coyle's side if they fail to beat Sheffield United at Wembley and a move to Goodison Park will surely tempt the player who spent five years under Sir Alex's tutelage.

The 18 - year - old attacking midfielder has yet to make a breakthrough at senior level, but he has impressed with the youth team having bagged five goals and provided five assists in 22 appearances this season.

The 27 - year old central midfielder has become a key player for Sam Allardyce and has played a major part in their impressive start to the season which has seen them stay above Arsenal up to this point.

The 20 - year - old midfielder is considered a top prospect by the Catalan giants, and he's bagged nine goals and four assists in 28 La Liga 2 appearances this season, while featuring three times for the senior side in the Copa Del Rey.

Manchester City's Spanish 18 - year - old midfielder Juan Roman is set to move to Dougie Freedman's Crystal Palace on loan for the rest of the season.

The 22 - year - old looks one of Europe's most promising young midfielders at the moment, having been a Schalke regular since the 2013/14 season.

The midfielder has been linked with a move to Old Trafford to join Manchester United in the summer, but that well be dependent on whether Louis van Gaal's side can claim Champions League football next season.

The six players are; young striker Chuba Akpom who has been on fire this season and scored a hat - truck in the last under 21 game, Gedion Zelalem, the central midfielder who has been compared to Cesc Fabregas, Ainsley Maitland - Niles, the talented winger who was on the bench for the Stoke game, Stefan O'Connor the promising 17 - year old centre back who recently signed his first professional contract, Alex Iwobi the Nigerian born winger and nephew of Jay - Jay Okocha and finally the young defensive midfielder Glen Kamara who also plays for the Finland national team at under 21 level.

With four goals in five games this season, 19 - year - old Nottingham Forest midfielder Oliver Burke is tied with Dwight Gayle and Grant Ward at the top of the Championship scoring charts.

While Can is not quite in the same league as Coutinho in terms of importance, the 24 - year - old has been a rock in Jurgen Klopp's midfield in the last few seasons and seems to grow in importance with every passing year.

Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher claims 36 - year - old midfielder Frank Lampard was wrong to join Manchester City after leaving Chelsea at the end of last season --(Daily Mail)

The emergence of Francis Coquelin in the holding role just in front of the back four during the second half of last season might tempt Wenger into bringing in another midfielder to play alongside the 24 - year - old rather than to replace him.

Last year we took some beating because of our exposed weakness in the midfield area.You could think a clever or wise man would learn from his mistakes, after all we struggled to finish fourth., no we started back the season with the same agravated old ler slower legs weaknesses.How do you call someone who don t learn from his mistakes... a rich old....

The 24 - year - old has been tipped as a potential long - term successor to influential midfielder Xavi, who left for Qatari club Al Sadd SC at the end of last season and is yet to be truly replaced.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

With Michael Carrick retiring at the end of the season coupled with the fact that Marouane Fellaini's current contract at Old Trafford expires this summer, Jose Mourinho could have a problem in midfield heading into next season.

The 22 - year - old midfielder scored twice in the Champions League last season, making 21 appearances in the Portuguese league.