Sentences with phrase «players as starters»

Actually, I wouldn't put any of these players as starters unless we had injuries Wilshere Ramsey Walcott Ox Gibbs Debuchy

We should expect the club to always finish 4th just like mohawk wants so that we can be satisfied with having some average players as starters.

For however bad McConnell is on offense and Okafor is overall, they both were better offensive players as starters than as bench players.

But they will not be able to withstand heavy pressures from stronger opponents, if they keep using underperforming and weak players as starters.

Not exact matches

Both players have excelled as starters, putting up career years, and the Warriors» starting five has been the best five - man unit in the league based on net rating.

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.

There are 149 new free agents as of Thursday, and there could be more on the way after players with opt - outs — like Yankees» starter Masahiro Tanaka — use them to escape their current deals.

You can claim its everything or anything, its that he should be in AAA working on things, but a year plus into being a full starter he's shown little to no progress as a player

Both players arrived from Southampton as young future stars, but neither are regular starters for our club, and I'm torn as to whether I would mind seeing the back of them.

A) Big money signings with little to show for B) Fine players who are not starters (Iheanacho etc.) C) Just nobodies who are on the list as fillers

I think that there's more to this than meets the eye, it's not as if Mertesacker was going to be a first team starter this season, more like a fringe player, at the most.

We have not won the EPL in 11 + years and we sit here and watch as Champions and legitimate challengers keep adding to their squads rather easily while we are made to believe no one can improve the bunch of overpaid 2nd rate players we have in our squad as starters.

I think put the starters in to work out the team chemistry but resting as much as possible and preventing any more injuries to key players.

He comes across as a likeable guy and many admire him for his hard work but unfortunately, it is clear that he is just another squad player who will not be a starter when all our forwards are available.

As for worrying about losing more, the players we shall have to worry most about are Laurent Koscielny, who has been called up despite just returning today, Olivier Giroud, who is a certain starter for France as Benzema has been omitted from the squad, and even more worryingly Alexis Sanchez, who has two more World Cup Qualifiers to play in South AmericAs for worrying about losing more, the players we shall have to worry most about are Laurent Koscielny, who has been called up despite just returning today, Olivier Giroud, who is a certain starter for France as Benzema has been omitted from the squad, and even more worryingly Alexis Sanchez, who has two more World Cup Qualifiers to play in South Americas Benzema has been omitted from the squad, and even more worryingly Alexis Sanchez, who has two more World Cup Qualifiers to play in South America.

The progression of Boli / Gashi will be what eventually mucks things up for Hudson as he'll have 4 talented / hungry players who want to see the field as starters vying for 2 spots.

But more revealing was this: As the Auburn players walked off the field, they genuinely believed they had found their 2013 version of Newton — who like Marshall had left an SEC school (Florida), gone to junior college for a season (Blinn College in Brenham, Texas) and was the team's opening - game starter as a junioAs the Auburn players walked off the field, they genuinely believed they had found their 2013 version of Newton — who like Marshall had left an SEC school (Florida), gone to junior college for a season (Blinn College in Brenham, Texas) and was the team's opening - game starter as a junioas a junior.

If either or both Norris or Boyd can make a decent back end starter they can contribute to the rebuild as players or as trade pieces to bring in an elite prospect.

If Pittsburgh sweeps those teams, it should be in position to host the AFC Championship Game for the third year in a row, despite having lost as many significant players (including 15 starters) as any team in the four - year history of unfettered free agency.

You could not be more wrong about comparing paulinho to gambau, he is a brazil national team starter FFS and against roma he wad surely missed with his pace and physicality but i think he is not a barca kind of player and he is not the best option for a big team like barcelona but still he is a good team player and we can use him as back up for rotation

Flamini isn't good enough as a starter but I do think he is a good squad player, someone we can bring on for the last 20 mins to try and keep leads...

Man city are far from their best and even so there is no hunger from our players... Add the inevitable mistakes from the usual suspects and it looks like we are just going through the motions with no real desire... Any team with mustafi and xhaka as guaranteed starters has left the top flight in my books... The only positive we are still one nil down I would prefer to see some kind of attacking effort in second half and loose by 3 than this kind of blandness

Pretty much every player who split roles between starting and bench either performed better as a starter or had a negligible statistical difference (McConnell, Okafor, Henderson, TLC, Saric, Rodriguez).

Do you think if Ozil is guaranteed first team place he would leave Real Madrid?No they both would not.What I am saying is, both players were not considered as first team starters at their previous clubs and their clubs wanted to sale them.Thats why Arsenal got them.The same is true for Chec, what I am saying is it easy to get players that the club has agreed to sell than a player who is guaranteed a first team spot.

The 25 - year - old attacker has shone for Los Blancos in recent times and is widely seen as one of the finest creative players in Europe right now, despite not always being a regular starter under Zinedine Zidane.

so its only in Arsenal you have players like Diaby whose career now is granting interviews, its only in Arsenal Arteta gets old and play every match as a starter.

Gibbs and Arteta are the only genuine backup players in the 11, Ospina wasn't replaced for lack of quality, Debuchy was bought as first - choice Rb and Again isn't out the lineup due to a lack of quality, Ox is in many eyes the RW starter ahead of Ramsey, Gab has ousted Per after adapting to the league, and the Cazorla comment is moronic....

While he doesn't have the upside of a game - changing starter, he's proven himself as a player who can keep a team afloat as a low - investment quarterback.

Player continued his duty on Thursday morning as one of the honorary starters, joining Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer on the first tee at 8:05 a.m. ET.

There was talk all summer of how players such as Mathieu Debuchy and David Ospina may be considering moves away due to a lack of playing time, however one infrequent starter for the Arsenal who did not seem to want a move, is left back Kieran Gibbs.

Four of Duke's five starters hit better than 50 % of their shots, and the fifth, the brilliant ex-bad boy, Art Heyman, averages 48.3, is the team high scorer (25.3 points a game) and the Associated Press» Player of the Year as well.

Johnson's opening - game lineup will include as many as 15 starters who are different from the players in the 1995 opening - day lineup.

Just taking his strikeout rate at Triple - A and copy / pasting it into the majors would make him one of the greatest strikeout hitters in franchise history, too, so it's not as if it's taken him this long to become a starter because he's been blocked by better players.

Maybe as a spot starter or MR / LR type, but I'm thinking he's just a «use only when you have no other option» AAAA kind of player, at this point.

Late in the season, the 49ers had just three players starting who were pegged as starters in the preseason.

So my concluaion for arsenal to be a real complete team that have big strong squad ready to win the champions league we need 4 players 2 starters as St and RW and two backups at DM and LW

Things have been going well for him down at Bournemouth, being a regular starter and a vital player for Eddie Howe, but last night saw the old injury fears rear their ugly head, as an ankle problem saw him hobble off against Man City.

If you think of the core of a team as eight position players and five starters, then the Nationals have been disappointed with 10 of the players they were counting on before the season, either in terms of performance and injury.

Your comments are very naive and idiotic.Even if he had a limited budget at that time it's not as if every player would cost him a fortune.Also it's not about the limited budget that makes him support his players to perform.It's his philiosophy.Even till this day he tends to support and persist with his players to bring out the best in them.If you think I don't know what am saying wait till they get fit.On Giroud if we are to be honest he should have been dropped long ago even in his second season.It was never rocket science to know that the guy ws not starter quality.Tell me which team would have persisted with Giroud as a starter more than Arsenal.He failed long ago and was really really benched like just last season.As for Szcz Wenger also did persist with him during the times he still wasn't performing.I hope people won't deny this.He persisted till he could take no more of it.That was the reason why he brought Ospina into the starting 11.

No @mohawk, sorry to break your cute itty bitty pweety heart... BUT I will not support average players who have been average for 3 years NOT just 1 but 3 without any pressure of competition in that period as starters in the team (Thierry Henry doesn't either..

Well to a point they are right, maybe we are luckier than your average PL club, but then we are NOT your average PL club, we are charged the highest ticket prices of any club in the EPL for starter's and we are now apparently debt free and according to certain sources inside the clubs Hierarchy can buy any player we want, in short we are financially as big as any of our competition with regards to the ability to buy in top quality talent, and while we don't have the money to burn that Man city or Chelsea have we are in a position to spend more and spend it more often as long as there is a degree of prudence.

You don't get it do you?I'm not even talking about the money.But I agree with you that for the kind of money that will be spent on Mbappe it's a higher gamble.Henry was bought to be a starter and as the main man for Arsenal.He was so young by then and the pressure on him was massive.Looking at the impact he's had in our club if Henry had failed who would imagine what Arsene would have done.To me he's our best player ever.Arsene put a lot of trust in him to be honest but the gamble paid off.However, I think he had a point to prove to world and to Juve hence he succeeded.The same as is with Mbappe with even a higher transfer fee and more expectation.If he's ever signed for that amount he's coming here to be the main man whowill send us into glory.Forget Ozchez for all eyes will be on him.

nothing wrong with giroud or campbell as bench players but they should not be starters for a top flight team

For consecutive seasons we'd sell our best players and take gambles on players who didn't work out, while the failures / deadwood rotted in reserves getting paid the same money as our starters each week.

It may seem a little bit odd to say this after Rob Holding was an unused substitute for most of his debut season as an Arsenal player, especially after this summer of international competition when his club and country colleague Calum Chambers was selected ahead of him for the England under 21 team every time, but I believe that the young defender is going to be a regular first team starter for us next season.

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

The intriguing part will be as whether or not Guardiola goes for a game - changing signing like Bonucci, with the Juve and Italy centre - half establishing himself as one of the best in Europe and a certain starter, or a player like Rudiger who is still improving all the time and would arguably be stiff competition for Kompany.

Bayern manager Carlo Ancelotti has reportedly been a fan of the 30 - year - old Arsenal defender for a long time and sees him as a player who can challenge projected starters Jerome Boateng and Mats Hummels.

One of the methods is by keep using them as starters, even though Arsenal have to bench the new players.

12th man, you make some very valid points, what do us fans care about the costs, we want arsenal to buy the players we need and get on and win the PL as a starter.