Sentences with phrase «players down the years»

The Atletico Madrid forward has established himself as one of Europe's top attacking players down the years, and is sure to spark another transfer battle at the end of this season.

The main reason the players are blameless in my opinion, is because Wenger has changed a lot of players down the years, and has gone from more of an average squad, with a sprinkling of quality, to one of the best squads in the league, and yet nothing has changed!

But he has said that about an awful lot of players down the years that we never even made a bid for.

Not exact matches

Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who stepped down as CEO at the end of last year, had blamed falling sales on the NFL's failure to resolve the raging controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem, in order to protest against police brutality.

We revised our estimate for volume this year down further primarily because of later - than - expected launches of mobile wallets from major tech players.

Let it be aspirational instead of bringing it down by trying to get players to do it when they're 15 years old and they're also learning other sports.

The league's owners locked out the players on July 1, claiming that 22 of 30 teams were losing money — a collective $ 300 million a year — and that stricter salary controls were necessary to keep costs down.

Share prices of oil sands players are down by roughly half since the recession and have shown few signs of perking up for the last several years running.

Sales of Apple's iPod music player continued to drop, with the company selling only 6.6 million of the devices, down 27 % from a year earlier, when it sold 9.1 million.

BitConnect, one of the most talked about player in the cryptocurrency market last year has shut down its lending operations and will be closing the BitConnect Coin exchange platform in five...

We should be in for the likes of Griezmann AND every other world class player that fits our method of playing, Ive said it time and time again our squad is only half world class the rest are mediocre at best (yes I know Ill get thumbed down ect by all the AKB's on site) but the results over the last ten years are proof alone that we are NOT good enough to compete with the other Elite teams.

However, that would be a very bad financial decision for Arsenal if we had to turn down a bid of 60 - 80 million for a player we would lose for free in a year's time.

Still, Mauer is my pick for Comeback Player of the Year, so I'll double down on that prediction and keep the Twins closer to the middle of the rankings.

Despite impressing on almost every opportunity, it appears the Old Lady's midfield is too strong for the player to break into and the club are said to be willing to listen to offers in the range of $ 20 million for the 23 - year - old, a price range that is right down Wenger's alley.

Souness had some harsh words for the players afterwards, and questioned why Arsene Wenger sticks around to manage them after working with so many of the game's greats down the years.

A lot fans down the years, including myself, have defended Wenger for not being able to get world class players in, and more importantly... the correct players for the weak areas of the first team, due to the lack of funds.

This is imperfect because it will weight one - year samples for young players like Aaron Altherr and Maikel Franco too highly, and it will treat players on their way down the same as players on their way up.

now wengers absurd transfer policy «is down to you people»... seriously krish n`chips... the acolytes of the delusional one are beginning to sound even more of a parody than the master himself... walcott is a very very average player with one good season in 12 years at the club... the fact that wenger hasnt sold him is part of the sorry state of our club and the idea that this can be blamed on fans who want to see us back challenging for top trophies is frankly offensive

But i hate wenger for wasting their years like this ever since Cazorla was still playing Arsenal were always 1 player down from winning the league and wenger always didn't get it!!!

Even the title I have put at the top of this post could be seen as a bit on the harsh side on the 28 - year old, as he scored 19 goals for the Gunners last season, at a ratio of just better than one every other game, and he already has three for the new season so far, despite being well down the pecking order of forward players available to the boss.

to sell season tickets and other sales, but at the end like this year, they spend 10M on Che, and sold quite few players, released some and Loaned out a bunch, brought the salary and wages down even lower than the year before, yet they lie like a dog that they are still in the market until the last day.

The first problem was about whether Mahrez would choose to remain at the club that helped him to win the PFA Player of the Year award to go with his EPL winners medal but The Guardian has reported that unlike his team mate Jamie Vardy, the Algerian attacking star has turned down the offer of a new and improved contract with the champions.

Wenger came out early with his «no investment in new players» this year, that obviously came down from Krankee and the board — I wonder if that has caused the apathy amongst the players?

A physical player with great work rate and fighting spirit, Fellaini would add leadership to an Arsenal side that have consistently under - achieved down the years.

All the players should apologise to that little 5 years old boy crying when we were 3 nil down.

Wenger said last year that with the ever - increasing transfer fees and wage demands, he thought there would be more and players running down their contracts and using the Bosman rules.

Haas, 35 and the oldest player in the top 50, became the oldest player in the last 30 years to take down a No. 1.

and between a player who got ripped up and down BCB for his Jersey sabbatical (not by me, but it felt a lot like me and BCB a year ago re: Matt Szczur) who was quickly forgiven once he returned and resumed being a reliable bench bat.

He was a 31 - year - old veteran safety and special teams player whose violent, reckless charges down the field on punts and kickoffs suggested a man willing to die for his emperor.

The Argentine wide - man is widely regarded as the best player in the Portuguese league, and his form down the years has repeatedly seen him linked with bigger clubs around Europe.

A few years down the line and certainly one of those players has gone on to become a star of the side, with Laurent Koscielny not just becoming one of the best centre backs at Arsenal, nor in the Premier League, but generally in football worldwide.

Andre ayew or konoplayanka would be good replacement both have six months left and would be more effective than poldi down the left.both players are also 25 meaning they will come into their best years at arsenal

The 4 bums you listed are signed for $ 3 Million a year or less and are in situations where they have come to terms with the fact that they are backups only expected to hold down the fort if something goes wrong, not a player the team has expectations or future plans for.

We all had such high hopes of these youngsters becoming the mainstay of our team, but the fact is that our improvement since the turn of the year has all been down to players from other countries.

There have been many comments over the last few years that Arsenal simply don't have any leaders on the pitch, someone who can take the game by the scruff of the neck and cajole the players into fighting for every ball when we go a goal down, a Tony Adams for example...

Point guard, Aaron Craft, will feed Sullinger all season long down low and he should be the national player of the year in 2012.

Maybe the player pool, diluted by expansion in recent years, has finally broken down into two groups, stars and victims for the stars to thrive upon.

Failing that, the Mountaineers will count on senior point guard Jevon Carter locking down his counterpart, National Player of the Year candidate Jalen Brunson, while delivering his third consecutive game with 20 or more points while making at least half of his shot attempts.

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is willing to wait until next summer before making a move to sign # 90M - rated Real Madrid and Wales star Gareth Bale, with the player set to go down in Zinedine Zidane's pecking order at the Bernabeu following the potential arrival of 18 - year - old Monaco wonder - kid Kylian Mbappe, as reported by the Sunday Express.

Last year we asked Jack Nicklaus if he agreed that Senior tour players slow down dramatically after they turn 55.

To give you a ballpark idea of what their ratings are going to be like, Polygon.com breaks down what rookies and second - year players were rated at the last Madden roster update:

I don't think it has a big impact for elite players, but if you're not a top 5/10 running back (depending the talent level in any given year) then I don't think it's a stretch to think that it could result in sliding down some draft boards.

The former Arsenal youth team player spent four up and down years at Charlton and didn't appear to be going anywhere fast before he joined West Brom last season and played his part in getting the Baggies back into the top flight and has admittedly done very well this term but it would seem highly unlikely if the former England Under 21 star was on Liverpool's wish - list.

They can't go down as the small - market franchise who did everything right and then unloaded TWO top 10 players in a five year span because they got scared.

That said my point was that saying the Sixers haven't beaten a Kyrie team since 2012 - 2013 is kind of misleading, you and I both know there are lots of teams the Sixers didn't beat in that time span, and the fact that Kyrie played 2nd fiddle to the best player in the world during three or four years in that stretch only further exaggerates his ability to singlehandedly down the Sixers.

Fulham boss Martin Jol will be loathed to lose Dempsey but an offer of # 7.5 m for a player who appears open to a move away from Craven Cottage and has just a year left to run on his contract may be too tempting to turn down.

It will certainly be seen as the right move for the player himself, as having already struggled for playing time last year, the arrivals of Marko Grujic and Georginio Wijnaldum at Liverpool this summer would have made it even more difficult for him to hold down a spot in the starting line - up.

Nevertheless, if Barcelona were genuinely keen, it's another indication of their desire to look to the future and bring down the average age of their squad with players capable of being fundamental pieces for years to come.

In Pageau, the Penguins lock down a 3rd line center for the next few years, while waiting to see how players like Teddy Blueger and Adam Johnson can develop.

The Hurricanes» three best players this year — Defensive End Ted Hendricks, Split End Jimmy Cox and Guard Bill Chambless — are all from Florida, and they are three reasons why Tate turned down an offer to succeed Dodd at Georgia Tech.