Sentences with phrase «player midway through the season»

Then you have the problem of it disrupting our team, losing our star player midway through the season.

Buying players midway through the season doesn't give them that bedding in time in pre-season to gel with their new teammates, and this could be what determines whether a player is a success or a flop at a certain club.

Not exact matches

«Elmohamady was our Player of the Year last season, so the first piece of important business was to get his transfer over the line and we did that, in the same way that we secured [Robbie] Brady and [David] Meyler midway through last season.

Real president Fiorentino Perez is not shy of opening up his chequebook for the right player, and CaughtOffside understands there could be as many as five main targets ready to come into the Bernabeu midway through the season, particularly if current results do not improve.

Under Stoops's predecessor, John Mackovic, who was fired midway through last season, the lack of communication between players and staff proved toxic.

England coach Gareth Southgate has already hinted that he is unlikely to pick players who are warming the substitutes» bench, and a move to La Liga will help Sturridge's cause, although the Reds could be reluctant to permit his permanent sale midway through the season.

Jose Mourinho is eager to sign at least two new players preferably a winger and a defensive midfielder before the start of new season and this tour gives oppertunities to the likes of Mata, Martial, Lingard and Rashford to stake a claim for starting places before new season begins midway through August.

It makes sense to have the option of refreshing the squad midway through the season, so long as the new player is not cup tied as in the case of Arshavin.

They imposed a swingeing transfer tax and rules limiting foreign players midway through last season and Villas - Boas was twice banned for minor indiscretions.

Along the way, Warnock points the finger of blame at: Gareth Southgate, Rafa Benàtez and Alex Ferguson, for all playing weakened teams in their respective clubs» matches against United's relegation rivals; the officials who allowed West Ham to win at Blackburn with a «goal» that didn't cross the line; Times journalist Pete Lansley, for upsetting goalkeeper Paddy Kenny by asking about his troubled personal life in an interview; the FA («rank amateurs»), for not punishing West Ham for fielding two ineligible players, Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano; and finally David Unsworth, for contriving a costly penalty miss for United against Blackburn midway through the season but then scoring from the spot at Bramall Lane for Wigan in the game that sent the Blades down at the Latics» expense.

Only three players (11.5 percent) returned to play during their injury season, with one additional player returning midway through the season following an offseason injury.