Sentences with phrase «out of the squad last»

Do you really think a Koeman or Pochettino would not have gotten more out of our squad last season?

He was left out of the squad last week against Liverpool despite being fully fit.

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We are changing a manager who ran out of ideas last summer on how to improve on this squad.

It turns out that the reason that Lukas Podolski was the only Arsenal player in the Germany squad that was beaten by Argentina 4 - 2 in a friendly repeat of the World Cup final, was that Mesut Ozil had picked up an injury in the Gunners» disappointing draw at Leicester City last weekend.

I think Pep or Klopp or Conte and even Koeman could have gotten more out of this exact same squad over the last three years.

He ran out of ideas last summer and believed he had a squad that would win the PL.

Last - season transfers 6» 11» Barry Sumpter (late of Louisville), 6» 7» Andre Harris (Indiana) and 6» 8» Javin Johnson (Oklahoma) were not eligible for games, but they did work out with the squad.

Blessed with blistering pace and an abundance of technical ability, Robinson has trained with the Arsenal senior team and was part of the the Under - 18 squad that narrowly missed out on a place in the Youth Cup final last season.

We saw the likes of City being punished last season with the squad reduced to 21 instead of 25, and some top players like Jovetic were left out of the Champions league squad.

In turn, he was left out of the squad to face Everton at the weekend, and so now all the focus will be on whether or not he can recover in time to feature at the Etihad against City to help Liverpool finish off the tie and advance to the last four in Europe.

Mourinho has been out of work since being sacked by Chelsea last December, but will now likely be given the entire summer to plan his assault on the transfer market and get his new squad in peak condition ahead of the new campaign.

Aaron Ramsey will be entering the last year of his Arsenal contract in about 10 weeks time, and according to the Welsh international there has been no progress at all, and the Gunners risk losing out on our highest - scoring outfield player in the current squad if a deal isn't agreed before the summer transfer window.

The Arsenal defender Calum Chambers was watched by Roy Hodgson in a few games recently, including at right - back against Chelsea, and it seems that the England boss has decided to pull the 19 year - old out of the U21 squad for the important European Championship play - off against Croatia to give him his first taste of senior football at Wembley, after coming on as a sub in the last friendly in Norway.

Manchester United made a number of major changes to their squad last summer and worked their way back into the Premier League top four, so here are five more weak links that manager Louis van Gaal could ship out, plus five suggested replacements...

However, with no goals or assists in 10 appearances in all competitions for Spurs so far this season, coupled with his general level of play being below what Pochettino would have expected, it was no surprise to many to see Sissoko left out of the squad to face Chelsea last weekend.

With that in mind, my preference is to buy one young - ish Box - to - Box CM to bed in, keep Moose for the last year of his contract to kind of phase out, and have a few minutes left over for Winks to recover his fitness and reassert himself in the squad.

Campbell was seen to be much more impressive than the likes of Walcott and Oxlade Chamberlain last year, however the Costa Rican was unable to maintain a regular spot in the team and was often left out of match day squads all together.

The 22 - year - old bagged 20 goals in all competitions last season but is yet to net this term and was left out of Tony Pulis's squad for the encounter with Chelsea on Sunday.

It's arguably going to take a coach with Conte's fire, experience, winning mentality and grit to get the best out of this Milan squad, as after splashing out on 11 new players last summer, the quality is there but it's not leading to acceptable results for a club steeped in such history and prestige.

gabriel out means right now we have: squad size: 33 homegrown: 16 Non homegrown: 17 U21 & Homegrown: 3 (Niles, Nelson and Iwobi) last season for iwobi so we have 30 out of a limit of 25.

Gibbs should be sold if West Brom come in with 10 million and if we somehow get rid of Debuchy and sell Chambers and Lucas too plus the money for Szczesny we'll bag enough cash to buy a player or two who will improve the squad without doing major damage, because we had players with the numbers 1,2,3 and 10 either out of the club or playing less than 10 games last season.

Having been left out of the squad for their trip to Manchester United at the weekend as he continues to work on a personal fitness programme, this is the last thing that Villa supporters would want to see.

And I've left out Bellerin altogether from my 18 man match day squad to enabled him to fully recovered from the concussion he suffered at Chelsea last Saturday ahead of his likely starting the Bayern Munich match.

But they replaced 7 out their 8 main rotation pieces last year with a 5 * recruit, 2 lower tier 4 * recruits and a handful of transfers if that's how the other elite programs were replacing their F4 squads not many would be following up the next season with a tourney appearance.

Klopp has shown his influence already this season, but with the benefit of an entire transfer window to mould the squad further, next season could be an exciting one for Liverpool fans despite the disappointment of missing out on the Champions League in their defeat to Sevilla in the Europa League final last week.

3 League titles / 6 Fa cups and constant champions league last 16odd years out of 19 also but no matter what anyone says his time as our coach has come to an end even if we win the league which in fairness we have a great shot so going out of Europe could help us win the league for Wenger to leave on a high like fergie did... This has to be his last season in charge along with Stan the Conman... Money needs put into this squad to get it to the next level and a different direction because in all honesty when we beat Bayern they just did nt take their chances like they did last night and they already had a great squad and added to it in the summer with Costa etc... we had a real chance this year if we had brought in more than Cech and that is Wengers fault!

Podolski loaned out Sanogo loaned out Afobe sold to wolves Welbeck injured Walcott not at top level Cavani left out of PSG squad for last 3 games

While Leicester managed to win the title last season thanks in large part to Claudio Ranieri being able to name the same starting XI week in and week out, Chelsea are having the same fortune this season and neither of them have had European games to add pressure to their squad either.

but I can categorically say that for the last 12 years he has had a better squad than Leicester not being able to clinch the PL once shows that his demise started a long time ago... complacency got the best out of him and the greedy board went along with him

am tired of wenger.the man has got good skills, but somehow he fails to address basic issues in the team like buying a striker and a cdm in the last summer.at one time, arsenal had good squad but had a keeper who at times committed mistakes i.e almunia.then after ozil came and arsenal were first in december, all wenger had to do was buy a pacy striker with eye for goal.but wenger did nt so obviously and instead bought an injured kallstrom.agreed ppl fans will keep saying managers shud hav played this guy or that one and so.but in case of wenger, its abt ignoring team issues t (to prove a point he can win without listening to critics and the fans which he never will), and then playing players out of form, out of position, and buying players that do nt fit ur style like giroud!!

It's only the third time in six years that United have reached the last eight of the competition, but judging from the team that Mourinho put out, he's certainly taking it seriously and is intending on making the most of his squad depth to compete on various fronts.

this man is so self - absorbed... does he really think that we should feel so honored that he chose to stay with little old us... does he not understand that many of us would have literally driven him to the ends of the earth if he promised never to return... has anyone noticed that the only teams he says are interested in him are some of the biggest clubs in the world whose managers spend freely, follow through on their promises or are terminated, listen to their fan - bases, have a lot of strong personalities within their squads, rarely play their top players out of position, win against their top rivals or suffer the wrath, don't blame the ref after every loss and embrace their former stars... even if his stories had any truth to them, he would last but a cup of coffee

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

Arsenal finished last season in style and we have taken up where we left off, with four wins out of four in the pre-season games, despite the squad rotation and youth player additions.

Arsenal fans, and the media, have been crying out for new signings but let us not forget that despite a raft of injuries we have a team that came very close to challenging Chelsea for the league last season and a settled, connected squad can reap more benefits than a disjointed collection of individuals that require time to settle in and gel with each other.

Am i dreaming it seems like we've been here before, oh yeah thats right it happened last season and the season before that... Oh wait guys but there is hope, if i remember corectly all we have to do is wait for any serious potential threats to us retaining the Fa cup for a third time to get eliminated by lower league opponents or of course eliminate themselves by not taking this competition too seriously by fielding their second team and laugh our way to the final where we'll probably beat a sub par premier league team and repeat it all over again next year you know when Wenger fails to address the squad depth, the injuries mount up and are out of the champions league and title run ins by march..

Last season, Tottenham missed out on a top - four finish, and Pochettino will be keen to strengthen his squad ahead of a renewed push to secure a Champions League berth.

Although the 23 - year - old suffered something of a dip in form last season, he only missed out on a place in France's World Cup squad due to injury, and big things are still expected of him.

OT a little but I'm dreading having Podolski back in the squad, wish we could cut our losses with him and go all out for Griezmann, but of course that's highly unlikely now as that was a lot more realistic last summer.

August can be a cruel month... What now... It is absolutely clear we don't have a team or squad to compete with best teams in Europe... That can't be repaired in last 6 days of a transfer window... IMO it can't be done under current leadership for reasons have been saying for 3 years... But what can be done realistically... To begin with ox and gab have to start... This is so blatant and so doable I think it's fair to say that a manager who doesn't do this should not be in the job come Xmas... Who should go... Wenger has done a half way decent job here in clearing out deadwood And Campbell may still go... Flamini still around is shocking management....

With the 22 - year - old tipped to undergo his medical too, it looks as though Milan will start to balance the books a little this summer with Montella evidently having no space for him in the squad after sending him out on loan for the second half of last season.

Chambers - Paid a lot of money for a young player with little experience in regards First Team and Premiership games.He looked a good prospect and because of injuries to the squad he found himself playing very soon into his Arsenal career.This caught up with him a bit as did playing with different CB partners and filling in at full back.Form dipped and was out of the side till a year long loan move to Boro.He was playing every week and despite them going down he was one of their best and consistent players.He has been indifferent since coming back but has looked better in last few games he has played.I believe there is a very decent centre back in this player and would not describe him as a bad buy at all.

The report goes on to say that Flamini is looking for a payoff for the last year of his contract before he leaves, to compensate for the loss of wages by not seeing out the end of his deal, and further (if this is true) it seems that Wenger is trying to make a space in the squad for th arrival of a new defensive midfielder as competition for Coquelin.

We have been linked with this talented 26 - year old before, and quite heavily before he picked up a thigh injury that ruled him out of the Germany world cup winning squad last summer.

The Blues have been busy in the transfer market this summer, with plenty of players moving in and out of the club as Mourinho's squad starts to take some shape after the Portuguese coach admitted to struggling with the group of players he'd inherited from his predecessor Rafael Benitez last season.

Rosicky is a fantastic player but unfortunately he's coming towards the end of his career and there's far more to lose if you start leaving Ozil's, Cazorla's, Ramsey's and such out of the squad they'll be key players for the future Rosicky is at a stage where each year could be his last.

I will never insult Wenger but he ran out of ideas on how to improve this squad last summer, he ran out of ideas to fix our naive defending a long time ago, and I for one find it hard to believe that anything will change.

Arsene Wenger confirmed his new two - year contract yesterday, which will see him remain in control of the squad for the new season, and the Frenchman has been ordered to improve his transfer dealings after a long - drawn out transfer window last summer.

I can add more and more statistics, but I want to know after the 10th league defeat this season and after losing the most games out of any premier league squad in all competitions (including West Brom), why are we going to give Wenger another chance in our last meaningful game of the season against AC Milan?