Sentences with phrase «players make the grade»

As for Liverpool, I don't think they are a match for Arsenal and I don't see any of their players making the grade at Arsenal.

Not exact matches

Donald didn't lead the league in sacks or tackles or make the 4 - 12 Rams the top defensive team, but he was Pro Football Focus's highest - graded player in the NFL in 2016 and their No. 1 player going into 2017.

To be a success any system deployed should not include bang average players like Xhaka and Mustafi.Give Holding and Chambers a run at centre back in a flat back four and I am sure they will make the grade.

Refreshing approach but one would imagine like any other player who makes the grade in Eredivisie, a move away from the Dutch top tier is inevitable but perhaps not immediately necessary.

By honing in on players they know will make the grade with admissions, the Bulldogs have been more successful in identifying — and recruiting — the players they want.

The last time Liverpool purchased a young English striker, there was initially something of a mixed reaction to a player that had failed to make the grade at both Chelsea and Manchester City.

Frustration and fear are not two words that you would normally associate with a footballer doing well, but there is a good case for saying that they have been heavily connected with the way that Francis Coquelin has gone from being another failed Arsenal youngster who did not make the grade and fulfil his early promise, to one of the most important players in a Gunners side putting together some of the best performances and run of results that us fans have seen for some considerable time.

There are a lot of players on the Arsenal books but there has to be a cut off point where any player below that line can not, and probably never, will make first grade so that is how we judge our playing depth.

or wellington silva or OMG i lost count so many promising players who never made the grade with us.

When Sanchez and Ozil decide to leave in the Summer, Wenger & Co. will buy one top - class player to appease fans and sell the season - tickets amid rumours of more top - signings, then spend the rest of the transfer window getting bargains and «Promising» players who will mostly fail to make the grade.

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Your 1987 college football preview dismissed Virginia with one sentence: «Virginia is justifiably proud of having the country's highest player graduation rate (89 %), but on the gridiron the Wahoos will again fail to make the grade.»

We had a very difficult season because players we brought in from Europe didn't make the grade and we paid the price.

It's unfair to say that a guy doing routine things fine but also making some huge howlers that he got away with (or didn't in the case of the goal) is on par with players who actually defended well and kept to their job consistently is again just unfair grading.

We signed far too many some times expensive and overly paid players who just did not make the grade.

The fact that we do not see too many very promising young players making the step up shows just how tough it is, but we could be about to see the latest Arsenal academy graduate who will make the grade in the shape of Reiss Nelson who put in a very impressive performance on the right flank as Arsenal beat Sydney FC in the first of the pre-season matches.

Then we have young Eddie, who may or may not ever make the grade but is clearly only a fringe player right now.

Obviously i would love for him to make the grade and become even more successful as manger than as a player.

Soriano was previously a reserve player at Barcelona, but having not made the grade at the Nou Camp he left for Salzburg in 2012, despite a fine goal haul for Barca's B Team.

Players like Gibbs, Chamberlain, Coquelin, Ramsey, Walcott, Gabriel, Mertesacker and Monreal would not make the grade at top teams all over the world yet they make the cut for Arsenal.

Oulala's stats team have taken a look at two players in each position and analysed a host of key areas to determine who makes the grade and features in our combined Arsenal and Barcelona stat - based best eleven.

we got crap players on the pitch who have been there for 10 years and still do not make the grade.

On the other hand we have Yaya Sonogo, Park Chu Young, Marouane Chamakh, Ryo Miyaichi, Thomas Eisfeld, Sebastien Squillaci... And stacks of youth players that never made the grade.

We aren't moving players on quick enough that aren't making the grade or fitting the tactics.

Where we have failed is recruiting the proper match winners over the last decade with exception of Sanchez and move on when players are not making the grade — Walcott, Gibbs, Djourou, Coquelin, Jenkinson, Penant, Fabianski, etc..

However the same goes for taking a chance on youngsters every team in the premiership releases players that don't make the grade bit if u don't give them a chance then who will.

Wenger is obsessed with proving people wrong which is why he holds onto players even when its clear they will never make the grade.

Every club have / had players who make the grade and ones who have not made it.

Can any home - grown players truly be considered to have made the grade since Jamie Carragher, Steven Gerrard and Michael Owen?

Manchester United have been forced to bring through some of their younger players thanks to a huge number of injuries, but the players who you would expect to making their marks on the first - team, such as Adnan Januzaj, just aren't making the grade.

We blame Wenger for been indecisive and keeping hold of players that are taking forever to bloom and yet when he does exactly that and cut players who don't make the grade we still moan....

Each year if at least 1 player comes through to make it Arsenal grade, we will be much stronger to cope with players leaving of old age.

Mustafi, Wilshere and Ospina will go providing Wenger is not in charge next season.Ramsay will stay and Mislintadt will bring in new GK, DM and at least one Centre Back.Chambers is a wholehearted player but is not as good as Holding who can make the grade.

The hype that says we must spend profits until we have no more left (like Man U) on players that are overpriced and in the hope that one might make the grade..

At 24 he is no longer a young player and as I always point out, if a player has not made the grade for sure by 23 he is not going to.

If he has a bad loan spell either due to another injury hit year or simply not good enough to make the grade as a 1st team player than I believe we won't see him in an Arsenal shirt.

If Pritchard makes Poch's grade then the Spurs first - team next season will likely be more than half - full of academy players, which is a great feather in our cap as no other top Premier League team can even come close to that.

If I am honest, the idea of a player who couldn't make the grade at a team like Bristol City joining Leeds didn't help the pessimist in me.

So any transfer has to be affordable, the player has to be as good as the players they already have and must also not block the route into the first team of any youngster the manager thinks will make the grade.

This is the reason why, even though it made me first smile when I saw it, I fully stand by the Corriere Dello Sport's editorial choice of today to give a 10 points grade to every single player of AS Roma for their performance against the Catalans.

But eventually, those players won't make the grade.»

But only a handful of Brentford's players went on to play lower or non-league football; the majority never made the grade and slipped out of the game.

Suárez played with Bruno Silva at Groningen, Ajax and the Uruguay national team, but he is just one of those players that has always flattered to deceive, having struggled to make the grade in Europe.

Which just goes to underline exactly how hard it is for these young players to make the grade.

Every player with potential should be given the chance to prove they can make the grade (Vela?)

Because Arsenal play these matches as a test for their youngster players to see who and who among them can make the grades to the senior team squad next season.

I say this because Arsenal play these friendly matches as a test for their youngster players to see who and who among them can make the grade to be promoted to the senior Gunners first team squad next season.

thinking about wengers comments regarding not signing players in jan is really going to divide opinion again on these pages.for me its a massive error.wenger does nt like the jan window and is often quick to remind us of the fact.he is loyal to his players yes but at times its his undoing.he hates to break up his squad becuase he is so determined for this particular group to win something but how long is he going to persist.im a firm beleiver that every player has a price and there are not many players in the world who would turn arsenal down.we have the cash and the players we need are very much out there.the problem wenger has is numbers.we have 2 pretty poor keepers that he has held onto for too long.we have 4 recognised CBs with only one (TV) being deemed good enough at present.wenger bought 2 defenders in and they havent really made the grade but he obviously cant admit that and buying a CB would be that admission, we have up to 6 players who can play up front with only 1 really playing in form (chamakh).

His 2013 season was one for the ages — he was named best and fairest in both the first - grade colts team and across the whole club, and was named in Norths» Super Team, which was made up of players from the club's seven teams.

This is especially the case when he's just a substitute and has limited minutes, and the only real way to reach the grade the manager wants is to score a goal — something that's a rare occurrence normally for any player, but the pressure is on to make it happen regularly.