Sentences with phrase «play as backup»

No worldclass player would be prepared to play as backup unless they are being given ridiculous amounts of money

Playing as backup to Santi would probably be the best way for Costa to settle in, and allow him to play the role of an impact sub.

Not exact matches

Not his fault he's been played as a starter when he should be a backup player, but at the same time our midfield is clueless without him.

I would guess some on the board would view him as a reach in the low - to - mid 20's, but I think we need to upgrade the backup PG spot if we want to play in June.

goodness i can't believe it people will still defend him.You know something when Giroud misses many chances like at Monaco i did not criticize him even based on that you know why?its because he has always not been clinical.The only way a team can improve is by indentifying its problems and solving them.Arsenal has Giroud as the main cf and Welbeck as backup to him.Giroud has done well scoring some goals some too important but collectively he does more harm than good.Do not use moments to judge a player judge him based on content.Giroud does not excel in many games than he excels in games.As a main cf you need to be consistent.I see people here saying Giroud can not dribble he cant do this he cant do that but its a bit crazy to criticize him for that because every player has his own style.Giroud limitations as a player costs arsenal and will cost us a lot.Most importantly his poor finishing which has cost us several times.Not good enough.His style of play is ok for us but a striker who can take on players and run behind defences very well would make us very strong and also should be clinical.For Welbeck he needs to works on his finishing and composure by doing the basic things right.He rushes infront of goal too much.For now he is just above average.However he can excel if he works on improving.Giroud and Welbeck will always be a pain in arsenal's neck for most part.Some will call me stupid but hey at least i want to analyze the problem.People may support Giroud or Welbeck to lead the line next season but as the saying goes if you fool me once shame on you but if you fool me twice shame on me.Will you let Giroud and Welbeck fool you again?

While undersized (6 - foot, 225 - pounds) Bush likely sees playing time this fall on special teams and as a backup linebacker (and could even eventually start).

Glennon isn't perfect — anyone that watched him play last year can admit that, but he was a solid backup and widely recognized as the best FA option at QB two years ago, something that didn't happen by accident.

Giroud came to Arsenal to play alongside RVP or as backup / replacement for RVP in some games.

The senior, who usurped former star recruit Jake Heaps as BYU's starter last year, has proven himself a nice big - play threat when healthy, but he isn't healthy, and backup Taysom Hill looms.

i like ospina and he deserves to play in starting 11... so if cech comes szczesny should b here as backup..

So in short Riedewald rose quickly, but due to Bosz playing him in 3 positions as a backup for a season caused his development to come to a halt.

I also get what you're talking about in terms of Dotson's pay per game that he plays in... but my concern there is more that as of right now it looks like the odds are very good that we'll have to play Dotson's backup for a good chunk of the season, and I don't know if «x» games by Dotson are worth «y» games by Wester or whoever we have backing Dotson up.

But buddy, wen get picks the players, weber buts the players (or not as has been seen recently) weber sticks with those players when like Ozil last night, they don't perform, so yea the players didn't do what they should have BUT it's wen gers fault that we didn't have a mire clinical finisher up front who would have put away the chances that group missed, it's wengers fault that Arteta and canola were Un able to play the defensive midfield role; it's wengers fault that he didn't buy backup for coquellin.

Luiji Vilain, who is expected to play as a true freshman as a backup rush - end, tweeted the following a few days...

Goonerforever, as has been stated by others in previous posts, Kolasinac should be played instead of Elneny (can still be backup option) as DM as he has played DM for Shalka in the BL.

Goalkeepers — Cech is a solid keeper but can no longer make those big time saves that require stretching from post to post... Ospina plays too small and often does the same things we used to crucify Szczy for but nowhere near as talented... as for Martinez, it's too early to tell, but the fact that we seem to be looking elsewhere for Cech's replacement suggests that he's backup material

If the Chargers starting linemen can not make it back for the KC game, even if Gordon is healthy, he should not play, as he will get crushed due to the inability of the backups to create any running room.

Re-sign Slauson, if he still wants to play, as backup at center or guard, or maybe starting center if the Chargers can't find someone better in free agency.

Anyway, Devlin was successful at Delaware and then played several years as a backup QB on the NFL.

To get an idea of a few value deals, the Celtics are paying their 2015 first - round pick (No. 16) Terry Rozier just $ 1,988,520 this season to play a big role as backup point guard.

Some fans are idiots He wants 1st team football He wants to stay in London He served 11 seasons for them and 15 trophies Should he stay as backup with his quality or play for West Ham or some team like That?

On the very next play, Harrison crashed inside of backup offensive tackle James Hurst, who was lined up as a tight end on the defense's right side, and was able to redirect back outside just enough to get his hands on running back Lorenzo Taliaferro to help get his ass on the ground for no gain as well.

Aron Baynes serves as Al Horford's backup at center, and you can't imagine Brad Stevens playing those guys together much.

This may have played into his decision to remain as a backup at Arsenal instead of moving elsewhere.

He buys a young and promising CB / DM to function as a backup for Mert & Kosc / Arteta & Flamini, but lack of play inhibits his development

Personally I can't help but feel sorry for Ospina, who has been excellent when called upon and extremely patient, but will he be happy to stay as backup and just play in some cups until Cech retires?

no one in the league has a better Midfield, Ramsey, Cazorla, Ozil (especially as he played yesterday), OX, even Wheelchair lots of potential, Walcott proved he can be our Striker, the rotation Wenger played yesterday with Walcott and GIROUD could be the solution to our problems, each one scored in each halve...... Welbeck well there might be where we need a third striker, Welbeck is not consistent...... so an backup for COQ and a third proven Striker should bring us the title next year

He will recall Akpom back from his loan as a backup to Welbeck and Nketiah............ or play Iwobi as a striker......

Kelly, who played sparingly last season as a backup, will get the start when ASU opens the 2012 regular season against Northern Arizona.

Unless we raise more money through sales we may have 50 - 60M max in remaining budget (having spent 11M on Cech and get back around 2M through Podolski sale)-- if we spend 25M on a DM like Schederlein / Kondogbia / Carvalho now — we do not have any budget left for the World Class ST that we direly need more than the DM (Arteta played whole 2013 - 2014 where we have one of the best defensive record — people seem to have short memory — he would be ok as backup for another season) Wenger have done well in the last 2 seasons — bringing in Ozil when Real signed Bale, bringing in Sanchez when Barca signed Suarez.

I'm happy enough with Arteta, Flamini backup for Coq seeing as Jack and Ramsey can also play there against the weaker teams..

But we have Arteta, Flamini and Coquelin to play as defensive midfielder, if they all get injured there's not really that much you can do as manager — you can only name 25 players in your squad at the end of the day, it can't be an endless list of backups.

In 2015 Oliver started the season as a backup after the Chargers selected Melvin Gordon in the first round and never had more than 10 carries in any of the first eight games he played.

Felton's numbers weren't great with the Clippers but he actually played as a decent backup to Chris Paul and played even better while filling in for Paul when needed.

Walcott has looked impressive as ST and I can see him making a massive breakthrough Welbeck is good backup and can play the wings for now as well We already have plenty of goals coming from the midfield as well so goals isn't really as much of an issue as people are making out.

Ok, but lett a complete comment man, if you sell all the central midfielders, who you buy to replace them?Wilshere is still a full of potential young player, we need them if not in the first 11, as backup player.And remain Coquelin for CM / DM, that is all for you?Or you want to see again Ozil / Cazorla as CM and the team doesn't play anything?

Exactly my taught, Giroud is what doctor ordered as Sanchez's backup, because they play different style of football, so we can always change our tactics when required.

Diaby is on pay as you play, Arteta may not be the fastest but he is a vital player plus I think losing a tooth is enough and Flamini is a decent backup.

When all Arsenal fans were clamouring for Arsene Wenger to buy a backup for Francis Coquelin, we were semi-relieved when we heard that Krystian Bielik had arrived from Legia Warsaw, where he was played as defensive midfielder for the senior side all last season, despite his tender years.

For me, I would prefer to see Campbell play as Theos backup now rather than seeing Giroud on the pitch again, Giroud needs to put the effort in otherwise Arsenal fans will get upset at him and show their hurt... I do nt think Giroud enjoys being boo'd and we do nt want to boo one of our own players, Giroud isn't doing anything tho to stop it from happening.

Luiji Vilain, who is expected to play as a true freshman as a backup rush - end, tweeted the following a few days before kickoff.

he will want 1st team play — he will likely not want to take on a role as Arsenal's reliable «backup.»

He still has a big part to play as the strikers get relied upon unlike a backup GK or CB.

Games played really doesn't bother me in my opinion le coque has bn brilliant and I'm so happy for him.hope he can keep this up as out chllange for top three continues... i see chambers as a backup for le coque in the summer Wenger buys centre back and striker... its quite worrying though that Wenger hasn't played Walcott at all lately.

The thing is — Wenger does nt seem to want him anywhere near the first team at all, and if he does get to play — I'm sure he'll do good enough to convince wenger to keep him as backup — and then we're going into a loop...

Bring in Ospina for Cech; Gabriel for Koscielny (Kos is 31 and its time we start testing Gabriel and Holding beside Mustafi to see what our long term first choice defensive partnership will look like); Gibbs for Monreal (Wenger needs to start rotating these 2 more frequently as we need to ascertain if Gibbs can adequately produce the quality to hold that position from next season for a few years as I'm thinking this might be Nacho's last or penultimate season with Arsenal, it will also give a hint as to the type of Left - back to target in the summer — first teamer or backup and age as well); I'll like to see an Elneny — Xhaka partnership in this fixture as we might just never know, this might be our replica of the Kos Mustafa partnership in the centre of the park, Two disciplined (positionally, i mean) central midfielders who can play box to box; Chamberlain for Iwobi, and Perez for Alexis should do the work.

Although I don't expect Adelaide to play a major role in the upcoming season, it would be interesting to see him perform as backup to Ozil and Cazorla in that CAM position on the pitch.

Now it is being reported that Chambers is now on a crash course to be the backup to Matthieu Flamini in the DM role, as it is unlikely that the 31 year - old will be able to play every game in the congested period from now until the New Year.

we need a good signing to accomodate such conditions where if he is over played we have a backup for him a player who is equally as or good... sanchez has improved alot with us.

Having played backup linebacker as a freshman walk - on for NAIA champion Northwestern Oklahoma State in 1999, Chris Toney wrote Oklahoma assistant Brent Venables in May 2000 to ask if he could walk on with the Sooners.