Sentences with phrase «put himself in the shop window by»

Also, because of his desire to sign for a bigger club before the current transfer window closes, I am concerned that the Algerian could be double determined to put himself in the shop window by playing out of his skin.

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Norwich winger Nathan Redmond sought to put his poor season behind him, and subsequently put himself in the shop window for the coming transfer window by bagging a hat trick to see off the Dragons.

But apart from the window slamming shut we get all the final day drama with all the usual jargon, last minute dramatic swoops, pictures of helicopters that may or may not contain David Luiz, phones buzzing, alleged sightings at motorway service stations or petrol stations anywhere, Ronaldo or Messi shopping at the Westfield shopping centre, Valencia in the back of a cab in Swansea or Liverpool (or putting his feet up in Ecuador), everyone with their sources, players spotted at training grounds, Jack Wilshere driving his car to Bournemouth, last minute intervention by Daniel Levy who suddenly decides he wants Sissoko, and descriptions of transfers or done deals or rumours using words like amazing, dramatic, sensational, shocking, exciting, impressive or incredible.

It would waste (assuming the goal is not satire) too much space to put research articles in publications proving the moon is made of cheese (it's got craters, Swiss cheese has holes, by Glen Beck style logic: ergo...) or that the moon landings were faked or that the Earth is flat, or that purified water can do magic, or that you can get jewelry by staring at it through a shop window, or that a bacterial flagellum could not have evolved, — you know, common sense stuff like that...

It's all becomes absurd in the end and makes me want to read Vaclav Havel's very Heidegarian «Power of the powerless»: If one person could defy the state by putting in his shop window the state is wrong, rather than the usual posters («Green is good» — not greed, mind you!)