Sentences with phrase «rival clubs took»

The media just loved to bang on about our annual «Wenger trophy» and the fans of rival clubs took up the call gleefully, conveniently forgetting that Arsene Wenger actually achieved amazing things by keeping us in the elite European competition with some heavy financial shackles and serious pressure to deal with.

Not exact matches

This isn't the first major European club that German manufacturer Adidas has taken from its Oregon - based rival recently.

Would be an excellent signing and signal go some way to reestablishing the status quo among the English clubs, that Arsenal no longer gets its biggest talents taken and instead can boss it's rivals.

Spurs could be leapfrogged into the top four by either Manchester United or Allardyce's former club West Ham this weekend depending on results, while Sunderland will know that a win will take them out of the bottom three, at least provisionally before their relegation rivals Bournemouth and Swansea City play on Saturday afternoon and Monday evening respectively.

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.

Indeed, during his time at Arsenal, local rivals Tottenham have employed ten different full - time managers and this season alone, 32 managerial changes have already taken place at Premier League and Football League clubs.

I don't think he can take a sixth placed team and rival these clubs.

Arsenal have yet again showed ZERO ambition to take the club to the next level or at least compete with our rivals!!

How to kill off a football fan like me, take his fav player who seem to be always the club captain, watch him go to rivals, watch him score against you, and then watch them win something you always wanted to win.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

Apart of Ozil and Sanchez, one could say Arsenal are still gribpling with the terms of to regularly be buying top class players as they have not been able to match or undo their 3 main title rivals of the 2 Manchester clubs and Chelsea when it comes to be buying world class players regularly in the transfer market to overhaul their teams which have seen Arsenal failed to win the PL and Ucl titles for more ten years or so even after they've repaid to a large extend the loans they took to build the Ems Stadium.

The club's 3 - 1 defeat against bitter rivals Manchester United last Saturday appears to have been the final straw among a selection of Reds supporters and they have decided to take drastic action in the hopes of seeing the Northern Irishman relieved of his duties as manager of the club.

We used to be criticised for being a selling club now we're taking quality players from our rivals.

The 20 year - old shined in Bolton's first - team last term, and was given their club's Player of the Year award, but the club was relegated, and it would be a huge step up to take on rivals Liverpool in the campaign's opening weekend.

All very honourable from the Prof, except that there are now rumours that plenty of other clubs, including our big Premier League rivals like Chelsea, are not so hesitant about taking advantage of the situation in east London.

The recently turned 17 year - old has admitted he made the decision to join us this month, but Arsene Wenger has been trying to play hard - ball in the market previously, but with the emergence of Hamburg as rivals, we now appear to be taking the Polish club seriously.

Yes I know that it might be a little bit petty and small minded for Arsenal fans to take some pleasure from the suffering of others, but Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain is a former player who showed our club no love or respect when forcing his transfer to our Premier League rivals Liverpool during the summer transfer window, so that makes him fair game in my book.

Arsenal are not a small club, selling our most important player to a direct rival is a huge step backward, Arsenal have to do what ever it takes to convince him to sign a contract, if he demand release clause the put 80 million, Liverpool did not sell Sauraz to us even though he agitated a move publically and also had small release clause.

Yes i totally agree with Ramsey we're now started to see some positive players players that have an ambition to bring back our invisible Gunners out of darkness we tired of being laughing @ from other football club fans around the world we tired of being aiming higher and end up be to button of our rivals Afc is a very outstanding world class fc for God sake we have all the potential to take our club to the highest level so come on Wenger let's do it also glad to see the way Wenger treated Morenho on Sunday & I'll love to see Wenger do the same every time they meet in public place until Morenho realize his arrogant behavior towards Wenger.

I'm not sure what is going on in the club — it's like they are committing suicide — tickets aren't selling, players are being sold without being replaced, our rivals can saunter in and take our best players, there's obviously huge problems behind the scenes, and yet the owner does nothing to protect his investment?

A number of clubs across the continent are said to be keeping an eye on his progression, with Spurs believed to be one of the more interested parties, but now a report in Italian publication Calciomercato is claiming that Arsenal are preparing to take the fight to their North London rivals for his signature.

We are sorry if we seem ungrateful sometimes Admin, you are really doing a GREAT job making me especially happy and i don't know about any other person cause i might not comment very often but i visit this site every single day of my life to read comments from everyone and it really makes my day... So thank you very much and nevertheless, i personally am tired of reading articles of Alexis Sanchez now... I must admit i personally thought Sanchez was holding Arsenal to ransom before, until Wenger came out to say he has never asked for a transfer request and i think the club has made there intentions known that they don't want to sell him, not even to a title rival and i think that is why city are now going after mbappe, seems they are desperately in need of a striker and if they are that desperate they should fork out 80m for Sanchez if they really need him, I LIKE THE RISK ARSENAL IS TAKING AS REGARDS SANCHEZ..

Its not about the money he takes out of the club or that he doesn't invest, being self sufficient is not a bad thing to be... its certainly better than being loaded down with debt like some of our rivals owners have done to their clubs.

Usmanov doesn't exactly have a fruitful relationship with Kroenke and with the pair practically rivals for owning the club outright, it is unlikely that the American businessman will be allowing Usmanov to take up any more ownership of the club, or to even have his say on a board of directors.

The report also claims that Arsenal are preparing a # 30 million bid for him in order to beat Premier League rivals Man United and Chelsea to the punch as he is seen as the perfect player to take over from our club captain Mikel Arteta.

Qdemwingie tried to force through a move to rivals QPR and then took to Twitter to slam the club an its fans.

Our club needs to stop pretending to be a poor club in the transfer window, and only trying to seek out bargains, as our rivals will splash out on players like VVD, while we take risks on other players who are deemed better value.

The North London club play against fierce rivals Tottenham on Saturday with the game taking extra significance as both sides are chasing a position in the Champions League qualification places.

During the season, he admitted that he wanted Bournemouth to overcome his parent club, despite being unavailable for the encounter due to FA rules, and even praised rivals Chelsea instead of taking the opportunity to show his allegiance to our side.

It is not that the Gunners are not improving because I really believe that we are, but that the last two seasons have seen a golden opportunity for a club like Arsenal to take advantage of the struggles of their rivals.

Our very own Jack Wilshere has proved he is an Arsenal fan through and through many times, and was famously derided for cpomparing our North London rivals to s ** t at an FA Cup victory parade, but last season, for the first time since Jack arrived at the club, Spurs actually finished above Arsenal in the League and took our usual Champions League position.

Kevin Campbell has now stated that our club simply can not be taken seriously if we fail to stop our key player from ditching us for free in order to join our league rivals.

Taking a leaf out of Bayern's book, Dortmund have also looked to cannibalise the Bundesliga in the transfer market — something which is no new development for the club, but seems to have been approached more aggressively this year, with Philipp, Jeremy Toljan, Ömer Toprak and Mahmoud Dahoud all being plucked from rivals to bolster Bosz's options.

Plenty took that to mean that he was hitting out at the club for allowing a player to join a Premier League rival, but it has emerged that that was Oxlade - Chamberlain's tongue - in - cheek nickname at the club.

Less than a week after leaving Belgian club Gent, Hein Vanhaezebrouck has taken over as coach at rivals Anderlecht.

Following the Swansea game, Everton and Spurs provide the opposition with the game at Wembley against Spurs on February 10th being one of the biggest games of the season and massive for both clubs with Arsenal three points behind their local rivals in the Premier League and desperately needing to take all three points.

Marsden already knows what it takes to beat the Light Blues on the sporting field having led the Oxford cricket club to a hat - trick of triumphs over their biggest rivals in the three - forms of Varsity Match cricket — the first captain to achieve such a feat.

A mid table club taken to the very top of the game, without investment or weakening of rivals.

You're right in some respects but with La Liga the way it is i.e. the gap between barca / madrid and the rest, it wouldn't take much for a team like Malaga to stake a top 4 spot considering comparitively low spending power of other rival clubs i.e. Athletico, Villareal etc..

Clubs in America, China, Celtic and rival Premier League clubs made it clear they would be open to taking him — but the 31 - year - old has been waiting on Everton to step up their inteClubs in America, China, Celtic and rival Premier League clubs made it clear they would be open to taking him — but the 31 - year - old has been waiting on Everton to step up their inteclubs made it clear they would be open to taking him — but the 31 - year - old has been waiting on Everton to step up their interest.

He's quick, and he's willing to take risks, and thrives on troubling rival defences both for club and country, where scoring goals seems to come naturally to him.

While the club, for better or worse, has taken its time during this transfer window, Inter Milan have seen their closest rivals (by both geographical vicinity and proximity in the last year's table) AC Milan spend over $ 100m on six signings so far.

Back then, if you were going to drive your car into a rival club's neighborhood, at the very least you had to take down the plaque on your car.

Having surpassed it's counterparts Ayia Napa and Zante (also top party destinations) in terms of popularity, Malia is certainly a rival to the Balearic Islands» top spots and could take the clubbing crown in 2019.