Boxers from the Armed Forces, English universities and
rival clubs do battle with CUABC's men and women in the run - up to the Varsity Match.
You keep seeing
rival clubs do well, winning trophies and challenging for the titles you wish your club can compete for.
With Arsenal having missed out on other signings in recent years due to similar penny - pinching negotiations, their fans will no doubt be urging the club just to stump up the money to get the deal the done before
a rival club does.
Not exact matches
He better had
do as well, because if we lose the potential coaching abilities of Arteta after seeing one of our other former captains Patrick Vieira working at our Premier League
rivals as well then it will be a real kick in the teeth for the
club.
But it
does appear that the Ox will be going and news of his availability has sparked interest at some other EPL
clubs, most notably according to ESPN our big
rivals Manchester United.
What we
do have though, according to the paper, is competition from La Liga
club Atletico Madrid and Premier League
rivals West Ham.
A lot of fans, past players and even pundits are asking for us to sign Benzema and if we
do that would be a big F**K YOU to either Theo or his agent, whoever was holding the
club at ransom for a pay raise and back to the wings you go... Get a feeling now seeing Pedro going to Chelsea whom has won everything there is to win and to me is on a different level than Theo could have been ours if 1) Walcott wasn't homegrown to make up that number and 2) to prevent him from going to a
rival.
If we look at how much money our
rivals spend, and we are supposedly up there with them as the richest
clubs in the world, then why don't we invest as much as our competitors?
I think city have tapped him up, but Pep is like that, even if he doesn't get his player he is weakening / unsettling a
rival club.
With the limited budget that the
club have, (no comparable with our mains
rivals) plus the attitude of Wenger in relation to bring new players I think that the team needs at least one very good and expensive midfielder and retain Perez instead of going for Lemard.If they need a wing; Nelson will
do it.
According to Napoli's official
club radio station, Napoli will sell Higuain to Arsenal, as they don't want to strengthen their
rivals Juventus.
people asking for iwobi to be benched and bellerin to be sold, trust me under any other manager these two are world beaters, but they've both declined under wenger, same goes for gnabry if you remember him he was dynamite in his debut season but again mismanagement made him the player he is today, it was sad when chelsea overtook us now we got out main
rivals doing the same, hey it's progress in gazidis and kronke's book they had the best transfer window this
club has ever had if i
do recall correctly!!
but to go to one of our biggest
rivals, an to a manager who
did nothing but insult our manager and
club....
do u think any of them will be happy seeing another MF come into the team which may make them start looking for playing chances and other
rival clubs submitting bids and they may end up leaving and you think I'll be happy to see those two leave?
Our
rivals have all
done extensive strengthening so far this window, with the likes of Ilkay Gundogan, Nolito, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, N'Golo Kante and Vincent Jansson having joined
rival clubs, while Granit Xhaka is our only signing thus far.
He is only just 26 and it would be stupid beyond belief not to offer him a new contact, since we are already in Jan, when he can talk, if he wants to - but clearly is reluctant to
do so - to
rival clubs.
He was a loyal
club member, and no I didn't want to see him go to a
rival, but I don't understand why we couldn't have used the position to try and get David Luiz, who is clearly out of favour.
Another player in this sort of mould is the Barcelona and Turkey international star Arda Turan, who
did so well for his current
club's La Liga
rivals Atletico Madrid for four seasons.
But I think we forget too easily just what a great job Le Prof has
done to keep the
club in the top echelon of the Premier League and managed to qualify for and progress from the group stages of the Champions League while having no money to spend, at the same time as our
rivals were bankrolled by billionaires.
Sunderland are one of number of
clubs interested in signing 27 - year - old Graham, with north - east
rivals Newcastle United, Reading, Queens Park Rangers and Norwich City also thought to be keen on
doing a # 4.5 million deal with Swansea.
As already noted, with City so far clear at the top of the Premier League and with almost all their
rivals in disarray, it could mean Guardiola can really focus on this competition like few other managers of English
clubs have had the luxury of being able to
do in recent times.
It's one thing Arsenal sticking with Wenger when they claim all the best managers in the world are currently employed, often by bigger
clubs, but with Jurgen Klopp available after leaving Borussia Dortmund, more should have been
done to ensure he was snapped up before a
rival got to him first.
The theme was about how Wenger
does not buy players needed for
club success, how he sells his best players to
rivals, and how he is stubborn.
I mean look at what Mourino is
doing in his first season with
club All our
rivals are strengthening and we bought only one without being addressed two of our biggest whole
Despite largely being first choice for Arsenal last season, Ospina's fine form for
club and country doesn't look to have been enough for him to keep his place in the starting lineup, with Cech sure to become the new number one for the Gunners after joining from
rivals Chelsea.
There would always have been plenty of managers willing to take on the job, even though the
club's transfer budget was a fraction of those being spent by our direct
rivals, but I
do not think any other top manager would have stuck with us, especially with big spending
clubs such as Real Madrid and PSG after them.
I was equally annoyed at Wenger but it was just straight disrespectful that a player Wenger brought in at 21 kept even though injury prone, which no other top four
club would have
done, developed into a world class striker and then goes to our biggest
rival citing the fact its an honour to work with ferguson and we weren't showing ambition.
So possibly the purpose of this is to scared of potential
rival, kind of like «We are no longer the «poor» Arsenal, we have resources to outbid most
clubs, so don't even think about starting a bidding war with us».
I don't think he can take a sixth placed team and
rival these
clubs.
«Finishing below Spurs» If it leads to change in the
club management system, then let it be... I don't really care about Spurs, I don't even consider them as
rival... More chants and more banners please, we demand change...
First of all there is the fact that Wenger signed Ozil from Barca's great
rivals Real Madrid who were savvy enough to include a clause in his contract that means they get first refusal to match any bid from a Spanish
club, something they would surely
do to stop Ozil being able to set up goals for the likes of Messi, Neymar and Suarez.
They will be insulting each others» Mums next if this carries on much further and all it is
doing is making Arsenal look even more shambolic and giving those TV pundits, football journalists and fans of
rival clubs more bullets to fire at us.
If the
club really are intent on blocking any transfer to an EPL
rival, and I think we have to be, it might mean we get a bit less for him but there will surely be plenty of interest, don't you think?
According to Diario Gol, the France international
does not want the controversy of leaving his current
club for their inner - city
rivals as he hopes to avoid drama with his eventual exit, and that he's informed Real of his dilemma.
yet arsene goes with what he knows, even if one day joel cambell joins a
rival club, scores against us and
does an adebayor, i wouldn't feel angry.
When you have
rivals telling you they hate Arsenal but
do not understand why your manager is purposely ruining your
club, you know something is definitely wrong here.
we are getting confusing massages from the board, one minute we are a big
club and can
rival any
club in Europe with salaries and buying, then immediately after Arsen says we don't have the same finances as big
clubs,
And while it still looks like the Gunners will fall way short of the spending of some
clubs once again this summer, the boss has
done a lot more than our north London
rivals Tottenham, and according to a Metro report we could be about to give the spuds another roasting in the transfer market.
He adds that he
does have some sympathy for Wenger, but the
club should move forward with the «winning formula» deployed by their fierce
rivals.
We all know that he can
do it, and if we sell him to a
rival club, he will probably
do it against us, that is the worrying thing.....
He should just quit football just because us fans doesn't want him to join a
rival club?
There is no doubt that Arsenal fans will be getting a lot of stick from our
rivals this summer, even those from
clubs that have
done a lot worse than us this season, unless Arsene Wenger and the boys manage to win all of the remaining nine games in the Premier League that is.
It would not be quite as bad as the transfer deals that saw big Arsenal players like Samir Nasri, Ashley Cole or Robin van Persie sign for
clubs not only in the same division but direct
rivals for the English Premier League title, unless of course West Ham were to
do a Leicester City.
this man is so self - absorbed...
does he really think that we should feel so honored that he chose to stay with little old us...
does he not understand that many of us would have literally driven him to the ends of the earth if he promised never to return... has anyone noticed that the only teams he says are interested in him are some of the biggest
clubs in the world whose managers spend freely, follow through on their promises or are terminated, listen to their fan - bases, have a lot of strong personalities within their squads, rarely play their top players out of position, win against their top
rivals or suffer the wrath, don't blame the ref after every loss and embrace their former stars... even if his stories had any truth to them, he would last but a cup of coffee
The first two times his stats were amazing and showed him
doing better than all the big names at
rival clubs, like Courtois, De Gea and Lloris.
High pressure games are games against top
clubs or in cup competitions rounds like Quarter finals and above against
rivals that measure up in quality or have more quality than we
do.
That is just my opinion though, and the fact is that the FA
does have the power to punish any people or
clubs that it feels has broken it's code of conduct and according to a Sky Sports report, the Arsenal boss could soon be joining his
rival Jose Mourinho at the wrong end of one of their ticking offs.
Trap shooting is
doing so both figuratively and literally as student - athletes are increasingly hitting the range at local shooting
clubs to hone their craft and compete against students of
rival high schools.
We didn't get any Christmas presents under our tree in the shape of Virgil Van Dijk signing, like our top - four
rivals Liverpool
did, but we certainly expect there to be some movement from our
club in the coming weeks.
However, a host of Premier League
clubs would love to add him to their ranks too, but it remains to be seen whether United boss, Jose Mourinho, would
do business with a
rival club.