Sentences with phrase «players back in those days»

Conte himself was a box - to - box player back in the day, so he would definitely know the perfect player he wants and could be looking into Radja Nainggolan very closely, who is very similar to Vidal.
It meant that City looked to capitalise in buying our best players back in the day, but it's been a while since they've snatched one.
It might surprise some of you to know that my mom was a very talented racquetball player back in the day!
But what's really striking about the trailer is the age of the players back in those days.
One of the great baseball players back in my day, Yogi Berra, was credited with sayings called «malapropisms».

Not exact matches

That kind of went with the territory back in the day when game developers were still coming to terms with the fact that, when played at home, they didn't need a staggering difficulty to keep players pumping quarters into the machine.
While the dominance of the currency may no longer be as much as it used to be back in the early days of cryptocurrencies, Litecoin is still the 5th largest cryptocurrency by market cap and a major player in the markets.
My dad was a wonderful banjo player... had his own band back in the days of songs like....
Swinging as a fishing line and sparkling in the low - day sun, it arches its back and saturates Clare the clarinet player's long hair.
It now seems that the manager will not have any more players, including Ramsey, back from injury in time to face Southampton at St. Mary's on new years day.
Let's face it, Mertesacker and Arteta were once decent players in their youthful days, but now they are shit, both are liabilities to the rest.Koscielny, gibbs and debuchy have to work twice as hard to cover up for the sluggish per, same case when arteta is playing, the midfielders around have to run back when he easily gets turned and beaten for pace.
But the rest of the squad when fit is far better than the squad players we had back in those days.
Earnest Byner, the Baltimore Ravens» director of player development, had called down from the coaches» booth in the final minutes of the Ravens» 33 - 13 victory over the Cleveland Browns on Sept. 14 to help the running back keep his focus as he finished his 295 - yard, two - touchdown day.
Unlike Waddle who came and went back to the Pats an re-signed, Fleming, a player that should be in demand seems to been out of the news since his Dallas sleepover, 2 day meeting.
«The coaching courses now are far better than they were back in the day and the academies aren't just producing players who are tactically and technically better than their predecessors but coaches who are too.»
Those two games in a matter of days are not what we want for a player just back from the latest in a long line of injury problems.
Every sport book today is computerized, Back in my day money always moved the line if a player was respected, and if the squares tossed enough money on a game most books would move the line a little, However the big books would just sit and even take layoffs from the small stores, They knew even if the squares got hot in the end the juice would eat em up.Gone are the days when Billy Walters and his crew would move the line 3 and 4 points, I'm talking sides not totals, Forget about what they did to the horseshoe with totals in the NBA, Back then you could catch small non computerized stores with bad lines to begin with, imagine a three point move and the small store or corner bookie is off on the line a few points to begin with, I could catch some game with 6 and seven point advantages, with computers today if you can catch a half or one point advantage your lucky.Even if you know the group moving the line most of these store move the lines on air, when I say air they just watch the screen from D.B. And move the line before they even get hit, Hell even the big stores have the sharps on small limits per call.
In other top clubs with endless money, you sell the player and get another one, but at Arsenal Wenger was trying to build an English core, to serve England, like he was accused of serving France back in the days of the doublIn other top clubs with endless money, you sell the player and get another one, but at Arsenal Wenger was trying to build an English core, to serve England, like he was accused of serving France back in the days of the doublin the days of the double.
Considering we have made money outside of selling players I would say AFC can afford Auba and as we have no EPL football for a few days, why not make a quick lower bid and go straight back in with a better bid instantly if the lower one failed?
with his attitude as if we have to be his servant, get back to Chilie and get those life values back, he is a football player, but a man first, and as a player and man, his all attitude sucks, i don't know why wenger kept him and take that shit, means we have to take it... I told yo before, get his ass on training camp, ruining all day, shut him up, keep him out of the squad, not even in bench to bring his laim superior attitude... All money he is making, he should think of Chilie street and reality for kids he was once... He is in a great city, a club that won in this league and would be in CL as every year without this type of laim ways... So, of course no one wants him around during that ceremony, not even in the room... Get real sanchez, you came from misery, benched for years by gardiola too, sell out, poor minded..
With an explosive player like Tate at the helm, this Arizona offense has become a throwback to Rodriguez's better West Virginia teams, those led by Pat White back in the day.
Compared to a few days ago we are far more optimistic, win against watford, two new signings coming in, players coming back from rest after euros.
As raiders fans we know how good hue is at putting offensive players in the right spots to succeed... if hue could make jason cambell look as good as he did, i think hue is just what rg3 needs to come back a real option... just my opinion tho, none of us know whats really gonna happen till it does on draft day..
modern football is all about a defensive midfielder who can be the one to cover the 2 CBs and not leave them hanging whenever a mistake is done in the midfield also if you can remember when we bought nacho monreal he was supposed to cover a position in the midfield and now is left back for 3 — 4 years and this is unacceptable if you see other clubs the build the teams over the DM so that the rest midfielders can create we bought this mess ozil which from day one he is not performing and not adjusting to BPL i don't know my friend i am speaking my mind from here in Athens so you who are in UK you now better than me and you can press for quality players
«Vincent Kompany coming back in transforms their defence and their attacking players can kill you if they fancy it on the day.
We need to play a mix of both as in 3 defenders man marking 3 of the other teams best headers at set pieces and the other players marking zones, Bould and Wenger are lost at doing defensive work, Bould was part of the famous back 4 of Dixon, Bould, Adams and Winterburn he should do all the things George Graham taught them when it was the 1 - 0 to the Arsenal days
Wenger has the brains back in the day and the ability to lure players into the club ewho he saw as being the future of top tier football, we had David dein who has the minerals to bring these players in and hence we had a highly successful run for around ten years and went unbeaten and competed at the highest level.
Back in the days of Alexander Hleb, he was described as the player who made the pass to the player who made the pass to the player who scored the goal.It made sense.Involved in the build up but rarely scored.The difference with Hleb and Iwobi is that he really did bring to the team the two things you quote Iwobi as having which is BALANCE and DISTRIBUTION.
i think we should sell TW just to see if he dose better under another manager so for us to know whether or not we are holding back progress with players, OX its still early days not much improvement there, JW did well only for a short while at Bournemouth but Arsenal runs in his veins of JW he will only be happy at Arsenal
Ospina needs a rest play sczn.Only our best players should play in the fA final and Ospina is one of them.The Fa is the oldest and most prestigious trophy, being played at wembley and events will be covered the whole day by bbc to bring back the old memories..
I just can't believe that we have become a joke we always start the season well then have a bumpy December and by the time Feb comes our form has taken a dip and we get kicked out of all competitions except for that valuable top 4 that the board loves so much... ultimately if Arsenal want to compete again we need changes from the bottom up... Kroenke and his board need to go cause clearly for them profits matter more than trophies... Wenger needs to go for his lack of tactical naus guy has been using the same fornation since I was in high school and I'm doing my honours in accounting now... our medical team must all go our players always get injured and they never come back in time (take a look at Santi) players like Coquelin Theo Mesut Gabriel Gibbs Giroud just to name a few need to go they're just not good enough seriously these players lack fight tactical Discipline and tactical awareness... at the end of the day change needs to happen things can't keep going like this for us....
Arsene Wenger has some big choices to make in the next few days about which Arsenal players will be in the starting line up on Tuesday night, when the German Bundesliga champions come to town for the first of two back to back games that will probably decide our fate in the Champions League this season.
Bale is awesome ruining with the ball but Aaron is the conductor of the welsh team without him they fall short on making real chances, we at arsenal not so dependent on the Creative player because we have a few like him infarct these days Aaron is some way back in the pecking order for that position.
Asano may turn out to be a great player some day in the future, and if he does then I'm sure we will all look back and think what rash judgments were made on this young man.
These days they make wingers and full backs who can bomb down the wing and throw a trick or two in the direction of the opposing player, Irishman Kilbane is truly a throwback to the days when the most important thing was the ability to consistently put in a good cross.
Why were we OUTPLAYED OUTHOUGHT and pretty much 2nd best against a side who will probably only just realise their ambition of staying in thePremier league?Simple.They have a manager who COACHES and MOTIVATES his players to achieve to their abilities.When was the last time we could say this?Wenger somehow achieved this in last seasons cup final by getting a fantastic performance on the day with a second rate / string goalkeeper a back three which included a novice, a left back and BFG playing after 37 minutes of football the whole season.Thats not forgetting OX playing LWB.Why can't Wenger Coach and Motivate Players for a season any more?Start the clear out with Wenger and get someone in players to achieve to their abilities.When was the last time we could say this?Wenger somehow achieved this in last seasons cup final by getting a fantastic performance on the day with a second rate / string goalkeeper a back three which included a novice, a left back and BFG playing after 37 minutes of football the whole season.Thats not forgetting OX playing LWB.Why can't Wenger Coach and Motivate Players for a season any more?Start the clear out with Wenger and get someone in Players for a season any more?Start the clear out with Wenger and get someone in who can
Everybody knows that Patrick Vieira was a mountain of a player for Arsenal back in the day, but there were quite a few Gunners fans that got annoyed when he decided to go and become a coach at Manchester City when he retired from playing rather than return to the club that made him into a star.
They are usually very efficient in converting these chances from counter attack but on that day they were lacking a striker with pace (costa and remy both out) and the only player that posed constant threat to manures inexperienced back 4 was Hazard.
FIFA have announced that the first ever winter World Cup will take come to a conclusion a week before Christmas on December 18 to allow players to be back at their clubs in time for the round of fixtures on Boxing Day, The Sun reports.
Just tells you how much quality we had on the bench and back in the days when Wenger actually rotated players..
The former youth player collapsed only six minutes into his first game for the Spurs youngsters after a heart attack back in 2006, only nine days after signing a professional contract at White Hart Lane.
His opposite number in the Arsenal back line, Nacho Monreal, who will be 30 in February, believes that the his 20 year - old Spanish compatriot plays with as much maturity as a player of Nacho's age, and will one day be playing for the senior international side.
Of course, the game vs Chelsea in Beijing was a blip occasioned by a combination of factors, not the least of which was the team recovering from food poisoning and having two academy players start at right / left wing back and CB; plus, being the last game of a gruelling tour, there is a tourist effect to the last day of the tour.
Now that the Premier League returns, the players have had a few days back in club training to prepare for this round of fixtures, and the question is, are the players focused back on domestic football?
A star player for Chelsea and England, Gary Cahill is one of the best centre - backs in Europe on his day.
I got to witness the greatest baseball player of all time, Willie Mays, as well as Y.A. Tittle, quarterback of the 49ers back in the day.
This year, the full top 20 in the world are back and it's extremely rare for a player to skip this event these days, unless you're injured.
I really hope that Arsene Wenger's comments the other day about how hard it was to find good quality players available in the January transfer window, at the same time as praising the Arsenal left back Nacho Monreal on his ability to cover at the centre of defence does not mean that us fans are in for more frustration in the transfer market.
It might take a few days for Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players to be able to look back on last night's win in Monaco with anything approaching positivity, because no matter what the result or how well we played, the harsh truth is that Arsenal are out of the Champions League at exactly the same stage that has been our downfall in every one of the last five seasons.
back in the day we had a double act up front that worked in tandem perfectly in berkamp and henry one couldn't really function without the other properly almost the perfect combo for a strike pair graceful speedy winger converted c / f and the perfect no 10 with perfect all round vision and goalscoring ability what do we have now that is that equivalence we have a wordly no 10 but no great gracefully speedy henry type c / f and there are none like that out there atm maybe a few potential wannabes remy lacaztte and the likes but really ozil needs a double act with someone and maybe we will see it click into place with sanchez maybe he has the ability to be an henry winger converted c / f has similar traits pace skill strength can score ace goals just needs to find his feet at c / f and he will form a deadly partnership with ozil i think maybe the old time wenger classic 4411 the ox on the left and walcott on the right Ramsey and new d / m in the middle would work a treat for me this formation never dies out just gets reinvented to suit the players available
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