Sentences with phrase «players than last season»

Now there are even better players than last season, but it's a good challenge for me.

For me, he is much better player than last season's Ox.

Not exact matches

He is excellent in the air and scored more headed goals than any player in the PL last season.

We did not sign an impact player in Perez (52 goals his entire career), the manager is the same, and even if Mustafi helps us imporve our defense, last season we only conceded one more goal than the best defense in the league.

If Walcott were to be Liverpool's player with his last season performance, his value won't be less than 40m to 50m considering the value Mehrez.

Also, Wilshire had an ok season last year out on loan but we need to sign a player who did better than OK at Bournemouth.

Wenger's indecisiveness in transfer markets from previous seasons also ended up with us signing less than enough players often, or doing last minute signings.

Liverpool suffered greatly without injured Brazilian Lucas for more than half of last season, having to turn to inexperienced local born midfielder Jay Spearing, and Rodgers may see Fellaini as a player who can offer added bite when needed.

Do you know that in last season «s CL and this season «s Europa League not one player covered more ground than Mohamed Elneny?

Well i would suppose he is tapping up, but is if arsenal is going to sell to Bayern, i think not, My point is if sanchez wants to leave let him leave, to keep him would do more harm than good and for me although many blame the manager, i feel one the main reason we got into a slump last season was Alex and Ozil, their negativity affected the performance of the weak minded players in our squad.

The 18 - year - old is one of the most exciting young players in Europe at the moment and more than a few eyebrows were raised when Mourinho engaged in a long and enthusiastic conversation after last season's Europa League final.

AKB's just never run out of excuses, it isn't «bad luck» when we are first on the injury ladder (by a country mile as well) EVERY SEASON, the last time i remember having a reasonable injury list was before diaby was injury prone, so whether it's down to his tactics, players diets or imcompetent staff, a 2.5 star manager wouldn't have taken more than 2 - 3 seasons to fix these problems, players join our club with amazingly good injury records (ozil) and become injry prone, players leave our club (fabregas) and are fit 2x as much as they were for us, SOMETHING IS WRONG AT ARSENAL

I think was a very important learning season for the players new to MLS and Cabrera (yes, I know he coached Chivas their last season but it was more of a caretaker role than trying to achieve anything).

It would be very easy for the Arsenal players and manager to assume that the Premier League season due to start next weekend is going to be a much happier one for the Gunners than last time.

The introduction of Cazorla certainly made a difference and Ozil was looking better, but Aaron Ramsey looked like the player of two seasons ago rather than the superstar of last season.

If only we can cry over the spilled milk, I would have take Higuain from Madrid over Ozil... The season before we bought Ozil our best player was Cazorla (AMF) and we were in a desperate need for a striker (still we are) and Higuain was availabe for less than 30M... Ozil is good (more than good but not for Arsenal) but I think it was a panic buy in the last minutes to pleased the frustrated fans due to lack of actions in that window...

Over the last four seasons, he has scored more Ligue 1 goals than any other player... 2.

Last season, only six players across Europe's top leagues scored more goals than him... 3.

Look at MC, they had missed a 6 mil player, Victor Kompany more than they would have liked and you couldn't really say that they had not tried to find quality cover / starter for this position given that they had spend 30 million plus on what initially looks like two top centre backs the last two seasons.

He has a better chance this season than he had last one, Alexis was left, and he had two players ahead of him on the right.

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.

Unfortunately for us fans, no league has locked its players out as often as this one over the last two decades — 1,698 regular - season games lost, more than major league baseball, the NBA and the NFL combined.

Despite the fact that we've signed players like Alexis, Ozil, somehow we're worse than we were last season.

This man has had this group of players for more than two years, with a couple of recent additions, so to all who believe the team is getting better, could you please give me, your reasons for believing and show me how have we improved from last season?

Of players with 30 + goals and less than 200 shots on goal in a single season in the last 20 years, Giroux and Joe Thornton in 2002 - 03 are the only to score over 100 points.

Last season we had only 3 players playing more than 30 premier league games.

Arsenal have now started the short run of pre-season games in preparation for the tough start to a crucial Premier League season in which the pressure on Arsene Wenger and the players to mount a serious title challenge is greater than ever after blowing what appeared to be a golden chance last time around and with the gap since our last successful campaign now more than 12 years.

Walcott enjoyed one of his best campaigns in an Arsenal shirt last season, clocking up 19 goals in all competitions, but found himself predominantly benched this term with a new formation needing one less attacking players limiting him to less than 50 minutes of game time in the Premier League since the start of the new term.

wenger is a legend in his own mind so other peoples opinions... fans, ex players, journalists, etc... have no bearing on his greatness or the righteousness of his own decisions... from end of last season it was clear we needed two quality attacking options to put up a serious challenge (getting rid of walcott and campbell or ox and bringing in a serious upgrade over giroud) instead he brought in another midfield option (having done the same in the winter window) which only makes sense in his own delusional world rather than the reality of facing up to serious and strengthening competitors and which defines the job at hand....

However, surely United can do better than a player who scored just four goals in 27 Primeira Liga games last season?

Only 30 less than we bought them for ONE SEASON AGO yes 3 player bought last season are either poor or want to leave Mustafi Perez and SEASON AGO yes 3 player bought last season are either poor or want to leave Mustafi Perez and season are either poor or want to leave Mustafi Perez and Xhaka.

The players they have under contract aren't exactly Shaq - beaters, either: Together they averaged 35.4 points for Orlando last season, less than what O'Neal averaged for the Lakers in the NBA Finals this year.

Patience is already thin after last season despite the FA Cup triumph, and while he has shown most recently with Rob Holding that spending extortionate amounts on players isn't always the recipe for success, Arsenal fans will surely be hoping for a bit more than this.

My only hopes are that Ozil, Sanchez, Koscielny and Bellerin are still Arsenal players for the 2016/17 season and that the likes of Walcott and the Ox have better season than last one!?

With three of the Suns» key players — Barkley, Johnson (chicken pox) and Danny Ainge (sprained left ankle)-- out with injuries and another, last season's rookie find, forward Richard Dumas, undergoing drug rehab, Ceballos has done more than his share to compensate.

That's four players inclusion or return that is a substantial upgrade to the quality and depth of our defence than the first half of last season.

Aaron Cresswell has made more errors leading to an opposition goal in the last 3 Premier League seasons (10) than any other outfield player.

No other player to attempt at least one per game from the left pocket last season shot better than 50 percent.

you can fine hundreds of players in the league who could do better than him the position he fine him self in on the decision he make is childish theses are the same players from last season.

It depends on Wenger's ambition more than anything wherein players like Theo have shut their mouth up after stating last season they don't need extra striker.

Having spent the second half of last season on loan at Ipswich Town and featured in nothing more prestigious than the League Cup for Spurs this season, the Mexican midfielder is about as popular with Harry Redknapp as a Jermain Defoe stamp on Aaron Mokoena and will probably be the latest player to travel the well - worn furrow between White Hart Lane and Fratton Park.

It's early days atm but if Wenger can get player selection and tactics right and the players click and gel, then we will have every chanceto go one better than last season.

The deadwood???... as if they bought themselves and gave themselves chances on the pitch to proof how deadwood they are... interestingly arsenal is i can say the only top 10 club in Europe that has been having until maybe last season, more than half of the squad as deadwood players and then one if most two players that may be considered WC and the rest average... now i had my hopes up when we bought sanchez last season but arrrrkh, pee peee here comes welbeck (man utd's deadwood)..

but, here's a little reminder of his importance (i) upon arrival his was the goal that catapulted into th CL; (ii) when others were tired and unable to respond he has the strength of character to fight to bring us into the game; (iii) he scores the goal to save us face in FAC after last seasons fiasco; (iv) he is without equal our best player so he already earned the right to be in the highest bracket of epl strikers, we need sanchez desperately we've no choice other than to pay # 320K + and build into his deal performance rated enhancements so as we're all able to move forwards.

They'd rather wait for the one time it fails so they can bash You blame the manager for being favourist yet a fellow blogger praising a player he previously bashed is called being two faced You kill Ramsey for a blind pass attempting to enter the opposition final third yet you won't blame Sanchez for turning over the ball in a pointless dribble with three free team mates You kill metersacker for deflecting a shot into his own net but won't touch kos for getting out of the way of a shot he could have sufficiency blocked You claim with no substantial proof that arteta, mert, Ramsey, can not lead arsenal anywhere substantial yet they have each at a point been a massive cause for stability and progress when called upon Even after reading this comment, you will ignore the fact that kos was awful until partnerd with mert, our defensive mid with song leaked more goals than the one with arteta and we've struggled to win without him at least until late last season.

Walcott this time last season had scored more goals than any current arsenal player has up to this point.

Gibbs should be sold if West Brom come in with 10 million and if we somehow get rid of Debuchy and sell Chambers and Lucas too plus the money for Szczesny we'll bag enough cash to buy a player or two who will improve the squad without doing major damage, because we had players with the numbers 1,2,3 and 10 either out of the club or playing less than 10 games last season.

In the last 4 seasons in the PL the Golden Boot has been won by players at 4 different clubs and each time they scored more than 25 goals in a season.

They proved last season that they have better players than people think, they have added Jack Rodwell who will be keen to prove his worth.