Sentences with phrase «players fighting for their places»

The recent performances of Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud in particular have struck me as those of players fighting for their places in the team, so I (wonder if we might just see Wenger start the EPL campaign at home to Leicester City next Friday with these two in the starting line - up.

He tackled, dribbled, shot, passed, scored, did everything that any player fighting for his place against Özil should.

It will certainly be interesting to see if the Yank can bring a positive reaction from his players after such a short time, but he can hardly them to get a positive result today, especially given the form of our beloved club, but he will want to see his new players fight for their places.

Not exact matches

As soon as the window closes our players will go down injured, then we will have injury crisis as usual then have to limp to January then fight for 4th place.

Wilshere should have been brought in to create and add danger, speed to our game, Walcot some more and Giroud if needed... Ozil being supposed to sit apparently... So, it is no referee, but a team as reflecting manager... If owners and Wenger himself do not get a huge container of coffee, we will finish 12 and he will be doing the walk of shame, leave himself remembered as a loser... What they need to do NOW is bring Henry to assist him and do the job, boost, get players focused with winning spirit he has in him... Then wenger can sit all season long, bench himself as he does and watch henry do the running and screaming as other manager dio... Then we will be in top 3, meaning third; there's now way to ctach up the Manchesters and if we do nt wake up now, we will fight for fourth place; the spurs will distance us and fight for second or third.

Sam P, So then, your suggestion is that our strikers / players generally are MOTIVATED by making them fight for a PL starting place....

With the squad we have and tactics we playing and attitude of our players, we might have to fight for 4th place again.

No player in his right mind will go for another loan spell and come back again to fight for the starting place.

Overall methinks Wenger is trying to fire up all the players from their complacency by bringing in versatile and strong willed players, players who don't get easily overwhelmed or bullied, aggressive even... this is what Xhaka and Vardy have in common compared to say Walcott or Ramsey, I hear even Debuchy wants to come back to fight for his place instead of the bitching and whining from last year.

Big clubs buy players and create competition for players so that they have a shot at winning or trying to win the league.You see so many good quality players sit and rot on barcas and madrids bench and not make a fuss about it is because they know they are at a big club and they will have to fight for places.

So, keep him, get additional players and let them all fight for their places.

Coach Gary Colson has recruited players from as far away as Kentucky, Indiana and Georgia and should be in the fight for second place.

This game has been brought forward due to Chelsea's involvement in the European Super Cup and perhaps players will be fighting to win a place in Roberto Di Matteo's thoughts for the encounter against Atletico Madrid in Monaco.

Remove Arsene Wenger, and every player becomes serious to make d team list and fights for a place in a new manager's team.

Wenger like to see Walcott face on the bench but not on the pitch, with player like Walcott we will be fighting for third place or second place but not to win the EPL.

No use Wenger selling players — people need the motivation to fight for their places.

It's not fair on all the youngsters who fight for years to break through but then when one of them manages to earn his place the senior player says no I'm not having that.

A draw or win for Chelsea will completely put us out of reach and I feel some players fighting spirit may just go even further down (We cant always play for runner up or our favoured 4th place trophy).

He isn't a player that looks good fighting relegation or scrapping for a mid-table place, but somebody that looks great challenging for major honours with a good team around him.

Happy with this, this team currently reflects that the days of fav players are over, happy that even walcott has to fight for a place on the squad and also wilshere can be eased into the team as slowly as possible, hopefully quickly too as santi cant play all games.

Welcome Rob, hope you turn out into a Adams or Sol and not scquilachi (sp) or one of those one for the future players who have been here for 10 years and still fighting for a place.

as you have stated we have some very talented players out on loan, and that for now is the best option for them, as they will get the game time needed and when they come back in the summer, they should be ready for the first team fight for places.

Possible additions: Toral and Xhaka... That's 8 midfield players fighting for two places, not even counting Ozil..

He may not be the same sort of player as the Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez, but he was just as effective in his own way when the two were fighting for a place in the Barcelona team.

For Arsenal, a Club which seeks to play entertaining football both home and away against Clubs who are either fighting for survival or a place in the top 4 with a squad that because of under investment is short in terms of having the squad of quality players that you need to play the Wenger way — then something has to eventually suffFor Arsenal, a Club which seeks to play entertaining football both home and away against Clubs who are either fighting for survival or a place in the top 4 with a squad that because of under investment is short in terms of having the squad of quality players that you need to play the Wenger way — then something has to eventually sufffor survival or a place in the top 4 with a squad that because of under investment is short in terms of having the squad of quality players that you need to play the Wenger way — then something has to eventually suffer.

No player must be guaranteed a place, Arsenal is a football club and in a football club there is competition for places but instead you still have people asking what will happen to Coquelin if we buy another DM instead of saying Coquelin must fight for his place!

It has to be something else and IMO is that I've noticed Wenger has made a LOT of decisions in the past few seasons that are nothing more than deflating and soul sucking to players who want to fight for a place... he sticks with players when they are out of form, benches players when they are playing well, makes substitutions that make no sense, plays players out of position, does not show any type of rapport with his team when things are not going well.

Surely, that would be the general tendency of a club towards a young player who knows he is not first - choice but is still willing to stay and fight for his place in the side.

Times are changing, we can sign top players now, which means players need to give 110 % if they want position is starting line up, look at cazorla, last season his defending was abysmal, but he hit ground and he is now great, fight for places are great, ask szczhesny, walcott is behind ox, and not to mention sanchez, so he have 1 year to start playing or he will be goer!!!

Hope he gets his attitude right and fight for a place in the team cuz he is definetly one of our top players and we will need him to be at his best to challenge for the title plus 3 new signings.

As the talk is the rebuild will be over a 2 year contract, that would mean all those 18 months left now will be out of contract before his 2 years are up, with funds to rebuild then players will hopefully feel the need to fight for their place more.

I would worry however if there are signs that Giroud is not ready to fight for his place in the team because I think he is a useful and potentially an important player for us.

Lille has been linked with making a # 36M bid for the Belgian international, however it is reported by the Evening Standard that the player is willing to stay at Stamford Bridge this season and fight for his place, after the striker has begun to make breakthrough into Antonio Conte's side so far this season.

Whether draxler or not arsenal is still a weaker team, is it something bad if we have both draxler and Sanchez in the same team fighting for places, just imagine van persie, Sanchez, ozil, carzola are in the same team, with likes of inform konsieny, mustafi, and konlansinic, and good holding midfider,... our problem with this 343 information or 3421 information apart from Wenger playing players out of position we don't have a strong holdmidfider that retrieve the ball back when we lost possession... Kant's is perfect example of that, look at the job he does at Chelsea is amazing...... without a good holding midfielder our defenders are vulnerable

For one thing, we already have the likes of Alex Iwobi, Joel Campbell and Danny Welbeck fighting for the forward places and that is without considering our own emerging players like Akpom and Reine - AdelaiFor one thing, we already have the likes of Alex Iwobi, Joel Campbell and Danny Welbeck fighting for the forward places and that is without considering our own emerging players like Akpom and Reine - Adelaifor the forward places and that is without considering our own emerging players like Akpom and Reine - Adelaide.

We as the Arsenal need to do our part in becoming a place where the highest dreams of players are realized, even if we don't always win trophies, we need to at least always have a «Genuine» fighting chance, Real Madrid went a number of seasons chasing La Decima, spent loads of cash, played second fiddle to Barca for a few seasons even but still players still dreamed of playing for them in that period, we as fans need to grow up too and stop bitching and whining especially about our players, we create a toxic atmosphere for these guys when we do so and it doesn't help nobody, little wonder our players perform better away than they do at home.

It's a shame because he was a good player when he first arrived, but the couple of injuries he had may have knocked his confidence, (fearful of getting injured again) and now he is sulking instead of fighting for a place in the team.

The player himself has stated his desire to stay and fight for a place in such a powerful squad, assembled by Quatar's 150 years of oil and gas money.

Competition is good for both walcott and giroud, fighting for a place sometimes brings out the hunger in a player to show how much he wants that starting place!

The Portuguese players were fighting for pride and to win a place in their new manager's first XI.

Arsenal have eleven players currently out on loan, and as fans we would love them all to be lighting up the lower divisions with brilliant football and proving themselves good enough to fight for a place in the Gunners first team next season, but alas the truth is that there are very few impressing at all.

If you can't fight for a place here at Arsenal, how exactly will you keep benching the superstars at Barca, Madrid or Bayern - and these clubs buy superstar players almost every year.

Arsene Wenger will be praying for the three points to keep them on track for a Top Four fight and could join Chelsea in fourth place if we win, which could take a bit of pressure off our under - fire manager and much - maligned players!

Should Costa still be at Chelsea beyond August 31st, it'll be interesting to see if the player would be willing to return to the club and fight for his place in Antonio Conte's starting line - up.

Jonestowns primary argument when depth is concerned is the idea a player on the bench won't want to stay, going as far to say a player would prefer to go elsewhere and play each week than fight for a starting place at Arsenal.

Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere is determined to stay at the club beyond this summer and fight for his place in Arsene Wenger's starting line - up, despite the player attracting interest from Serie A side Sampdoria, according to the Telegraph.

So, it is a fight for 2nd place between MU and Reds, Spurs and Chelsea... We have no team to rely on at all since incapable on put right 11 players on the pitch.

You buy a striker and tell him to fight for his place like any other player.

This seems thoroughly deserved for a talented homegrown player who's had to keep fighting for his place in Jose Mourinho's star - studded squad.

My objective is the same as every other player, we all want to play so everyone's going to fight for their place.»