Sentences with phrase «player at a small club»

Isn't it ironic that when a striker moves from being a big player at a small club, they more often than not become a small player at a big club?

Not exact matches

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

Look at so called smaller club; they spend way more; we just pay high salaries to what became average if not mediocre players that this team is in majority made of.

We are now officially a small club, one that bigger clubs with more ambition come to and take our players at will lol what sense does selling Giroud in January make?

Problem with academy players is that they are better developed at smaller clubs where first team football is easier to come by.

Can someone name any Arsenal player who went into another team and looked irreplaceable?Just look at how Arsenal fans are hyping this guy.I won't blame you people though.People are even saying we need up to three players to replace him.I guess it will take about seven to eight to replace Messi or Ronaldo then.We've become so bad it's almost as if we've lost our big club mentality and way of thinking.We are behaving like the smaller teams.

Should this even be a topic?Giroud is a player of average quality always surrounded by good players.I just don't get.It's as if only Arsenal fans rate him.This was a player who was bought to be the leading striker at Arsenal and after his years of failure which many deny he's now become a super sub?How laughable is that.From failure to super sub.If the so called world class striker we're signing goes out with an injury for about five months who comes in then.It seems to me people lack vision.Why is it always Giroud Giroud Giroud?After so many seasons people are still debating what souldn't even be debatable.I've lost count of the number of times he's been talked about here.This is the problem with our club.It's just not ruthless.This is a player who should have been gone long ago but due to him being French he still gets the chances.We won't miss him when he goes and I'd like to see if he'd stand out in a smaller club.

I'm not gonna act like I know the entire process of scouting / signing players, but don't all players at some point come from a smaller club?

The smaller clubs have a great opportunity at signing these non-EU players for cheap when they are young and there is always the possibility that they'll make a phenomenal team (look at Atletico Madrid).

Our only hope is Gazidis incompetence at getting a good price for a player and as such making the profit small and more harm to the club... I can't help but laugh.

at every home game please donate a pound or better throw it in Wengers direction he may get 50 to 60 k pounds every home match as they are already looting the fans there.sit on the money and wait for market value to come down wenger.players are there he just does not wan na pay.But we are a small club, wenger is actually proving the likes of fabregas, nasri and van persie that they were right to leave the club cuz all players have ambition to win the league

I wonder what are dithering in the transfer market truly costs... last year it might have costs us the top 4 and champions league... now that's a pretty penny... this year it already cost us a small fortune considering what Lacazette would have cost last year and I'm not even including opportunity costs... ultimately it might cost us Lemar, if the speculation is true... why are we seemingly the only club that can't pry a player from Monaco, especially considering the obvious Wenger connection... Wenger should stop wasting precious time criticizing PSG and worry about the task at hand... was anyone seriously surprised by the frugal managers thoughts on the matter

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Few players imo do nt need to be at the club by the summer to free up wages and small tranfer fees maybe, the likes of: Flamini Rosicky Arteta Debuchy (Jenko back) Ospina (Woj back, plus Martinez at Wolves understudy to Cech) Keep Mert his presence and experience will be greatly needed even if he does nt start just like Arteta is doing now.

There is perhaps a small risk of a key player picking up a knock and being ruled out of the trip to Manchester but that can happen at any time and should not stop the boss using his players if it is the best thing for the club at the time.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

-- Buy one or two players for A LOT of Money and buy a couple more at mid range to low — Buy low cost and mid-range players develop them and sell them to big clubs — make only bargain acquisitions, sell your star players to big clubs and take loanees — Buy only expensive superstars sell fringe players to smaller clubs — Buy who you can afford and take players on loan — groom players and sell them for big money and always buy cheap — Buy only the players you need — Buy outside Europe — Buy NO ONE — Use some other strategy we don't know about

Let's get the facts straight here.He never demanded # 400,000 a week.All that is just media talk.However, I support your point of the fact that him going does not mean disaster.We've survived with far better players leaving you know.If Arsenal had replaced Van Persie the season he left we would've challenged them for the title that season.However, at that time we were financially poor and had to settle for some second rate players.Now we are in a better financial position and I expect us to be more ambitious and that involves trying as much as possible to replace any player who leaves.This doom prediction doesn't show the character of a top club.Even Chelsea won't behave like how we do if they lost Hazard.I hate the way Arsenal allows players to treat it.I actually thought only smaller clubs behaved that way.

and I still reiterate my sentiments, many players are better suited to playing for smaller clubs with very little expectations and less pressure and I can name loads of very very talented players who just don't have the big club mentality, players who bloom and shine when they are the main attraction, the big fish in a small pond but who will whither and fade once they make the step up to bigger teams... with Arsenal Afobe will just be another player, another upstart who will find the pressure of delivering week in week out or be out of the team hard to deal with... at Bournemouth he has time to settle into his pace, if he misses chances like he did on his debut for the club he will still be given chances after chances, just like it happened withn him

stadium debt could be used only for so long.The fact is arsenal cant match the financial strength of big clubs.One good signing every year just doesn't cut it as rest of the teams are buying 3 or 4 players that too top top player which he describes so often.Just do nt raise peoples expectations and not deliver at the end.I do beleive he is arrogant in the fact that he won't buy a cdm in mould of Vieira or toure bcoz he wants to prove that he can win it with smaller creative playes.Coquelin is good but no big club depends on a single player to carry them, there needs to be a backup always.

Problem with many Arsenal fans is that because many of our players came to the club very young or bought with small amount, we keep regarding them low quality... but just look at the Statistics.

We want good and matured players at the emirates and not some small boys who are not even of any value or else how can anyone explain a player at 20 years leaving a club on free transfer?

Team this with the dwarfing average attendances, youth dependency, the «50 + 1 rule» (which consists of members having to own at least 51 % of a club so that a single entity can not take control), clubs paying less than 50 % of their revenue on player wages and the sheer attraction of football quality to the fans, and it is clear to see why the Germans can breathe easily, creating a yearly turnover of around $ 2bn with small annual losses now and again (two since 2003).

Federico Chiesa is one of several 2nd generation players currently thriving at smaller clubs in Serie A — including the likes...

I may have one answer to the question, and that is simply that Liverpool do not have a chance of silverware in the future with the club's current approach to building the team, and prospective players recognise that, and are unwilling to sacrifice playing for a successful club to only have a small chance of winning trophies and titles at Liverpool.

At a club of Arsenal's ambitions this contribution is not only too small to warrant a starting spot: it may soon be too small to earn a place on the bench once players such as Wilshire and Welbeck return.

Arsenal are preparing a small exodus at the club this summer, with forgotten man Mathieu Debuchy topping the list of players exiting the club.