Sentences with phrase «spent by our rivals»

All of this was achieved in a fraction of the time and at a much lower cost than was spent by our rivals.

Not exact matches

When spending the requisite time analyzing your staff and looking for gaps, don't forget that you need to treat your best employees very well, so that when they receive a call from a recruiter, or are approached by a rival CEO, the only answer they'll feel obliged to give is a firm «Thanks, but no thanks.»

Netflix has also set itself apart from its rivals in video streaming by spending billions on original programming such as «Stranger Things,» and «The Crown.»

RadioShack isn't the only well - known name that's been stung by the shift in consumer spending on online rivals.

No longer able to rely simply on price as a point of difference, Expedia and rival Booking Holdings, which owns Priceline, are fighting back by offering events and activities beyond hotel and airline reservations and spending lavishly to market directly to consumers.

In February, Bloomberg reported that the company had «increased lobbying spending by more than 400 percent,» outpacing all of its rivals.

Uber is spending heavily in China to compete with Didi Kuaidi, a local rival valued at $ 16.5 billion and backed by Chinese Internet giants such as Tencent Holdings and Alibaba.

In what looks like an attempt to help guard against a legal patent assault by its large tech rivals, Google is spending $ 12.5 billion to buy mobile handset maker Motorola Mobility.

Meanwhile almost all of our rivals, except Tottenham thankfully, are outstripping our spending by some margin once again.

However Wenger has always been hesitant towards spending such large quantities of cash and although I've always supported the approach that Arsenal have maintained by not spending obscene amounts of money, this summer Arsenal really need to splash out to not only catch up to their rivals, but to also really build forward towards tackling the upcoming season.

With all of our main rivals emboldened with new players and our chasing teams catching us up rapidly, with both money to spend from BT sports AND ambition to match, how long can the lies and half - truths continue before either Wenger or the Board, or both, found out in the fact that the money they are getting in (which by some reports makes us the 3rd or 4th richest club in Europe) is NOT being invested back into the club, and more importantly into the team.

Not only has Arsene Wenger finally had some decent money to spend in the transfer market following the Emirates stadium debt being paid off, but our big spending rivals Chelsea and Man City have had their wings clipped a bit by the Financial Fair Play rules that UEFA brought into action in 2009.

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.

As Calciomercato report, Spurs spent just # 70million in the transfer window, which was dwarfed by the spending of their title rivals.

With the huge squads and cash spent by other rivals it is extremely difficult to compete.

After running down his four - year contract at Arsenal, Gallas completed his London tour by signing for arch rivals Tottenham Hotspur where he also spent another four years of his career.

Wenger has been at the centre of protests by fans, and the subject of ridicule because of the club's decision not to spend big while their rivals seemingly invest heavily in their squads, but this report seems to disagree that Arsene is at fault this time around.

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.

Yes things have changed, Wenger may no longer be the young upstart that transformed the EPL and despite the insane amounts spent by direct rivals in the last decade, he is still able to keep Arsenal in reckoning.

Whether or not this is down to money is debatable, but the side certainly hasn't been helped by inability to match their rivals» spending.

Arsenal fans have spent years wondering which of our best players would be cherry picked by some of Europe's biggest clubs, including all three of our main Premier League rivals; Chelsea, Man City and Man United.

If the Frenchman was being asked about the struggles of Jose Mourinho or Sir Alex Ferguson or any of his big rivals, I think he would have been tempted to add a bit of fuel to the fire of media criticism, perhaps pointing to the massive amount of money spent by the Dutchman in the summer.

i would therefore conclude, we spend almost as big as our nearest rivals and have a wage bill comparable to them but cant compete due to inept management of resources by our current manager Arsene Wenger

While you will find a lot of Arsenal fans ready to bemoan our fate, with the main complaint being that we do not match the ambition and spending power of our big Premier League rivals to really compete for the EPL title and the Champions League trophy, a new report by UEFA shows that Arsenal are actually in an elite group and that every club not in this group are the ones that are really in trouble.

It is not getting any better for Arsenal fans and Arsene Wenger, and instead of the last few days of the transfer window being a period in which the problems of the team could be sorted by spending some big money on the right players after a poor start to the latest Premier League campaign, it is turning into a time of even more misery as we lose key stars to direct rivals and are unable to replace them because players do not seem to be too keen on signing for the Gunners anymore.

Now I think there is still reasons to be cheerful, I agree Man C & Chelski have spent & bought some good players, we all understand that 5 of those teams might be in the CL proper which is a huge distraction for those 4 - 5 teams.Chelsea will not be able to field the same 13 - 14 players all season, as for Man C they were very frail at the back last season, add to that 2 flying wing backs and I'm not sure they will be any better this coming season.LFC will most probably have CL as well if they qualify and haven't exactly bought great players apart from Salah who could be a good aquasistion for them.Spuds have sold a good player & strengthened a rival & still not bought a single player yet, Man U have bought 2 good players & in Lukaku have a proven goal scorer in the PL but if they play the same dour way they did last season & with the added games the CL brings will they perform week in week out in the league??? As for Everton yes they have released a lot of players and also brought in a lot too to give better quality in the squad as they have Europa league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in the race.

But rivals Manchester United are restricted to # 50.21 m, probably as a result of their real - life spending, which saw them pay # 75m for Romelu Lukaku in July, as reported by BBC Sport.

The fact that Wenger has his best squad in a decade, spent nearly # 100 million during the summer, has kept his best players, and has even been helped out by our rivals with all of their managerial changes, only proves one thing... that Wenger has become terrible at his job.

Point being is although we might not have spent as much as our rivals in previous seasons we've still had opportunities to be in with a shout otherwise we wouldn't have consistently finished 3rd / 4th and as the seasons go by and money is being spent the conclusion is drawing towards wenger not being able to motivate our players throughout a season or concocting strategies to counter teams with gameplans designed to nullify us, or even bring in adequate replacements when necessary (kallstrom).

During the summer transfer window, which ultimately left most Arsenal fans extremely disappointed by the failure of Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal board to spend the sort of money that we were led to expect, one positive thing was how staunchly determined the boss was not to sell Alexis Sanchez to a Premier League rival.

It is claimed by Marca that ultimately United's superior spending power has seen them win the fight with Real, as their rivals simply couldn't compete with the figures being offered.

He hopes to strengthen his squad in January, by when a promising run of fixtures could have led to them vastly improving their prospects, but acknowledges that even if they have, interest in his most influential figure is likely with so many rival clubs having so much money to spend.

Manchester City had an uncharacteristically quiet transfer window due to the imposition of FIFA fair play restrictions which limited boss Manuel Pellegrini to a net spend of # 49 million, a mere snip compared with the millions splurged by their cross city rivals Manchester United.

Fernando Torres may be unloved by certain sections of the Liverpool supporters after the way left for Chelsea, but he still holds the club close to his heart after spending four years of his career at Anfield before the doomed move to their London rivals.

But, judging by the recent spending sprees from Paris Saint - Germain, FC Barcelona and even rivals AC Milan, Inter management may be justified in their belief that the release clause is too low.

More controversially, United's crosstown rivals Manchester City are given a 10/1 chance of acquiring CR7 followed by big spending PSG at 12/1.

Just remember that I told you so, that in a few years time when our main rivals will be joined by the Spuds and W Ham and they are spending cash loads and we are not!

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.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long has $ 68,212 heading in to the final 20 days of the general election, going up against the behemoth $ 13.5 million spent so far by her Democratic rival, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

The governor spent the next year armoring his left flank, presumably against the threat of a 2018 coup attempt by a liberal rival like state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman or Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

Caputo says he was referring to spending by Republican rivals who left the race: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

There are side plots that are introduced, including a rival team led by an arrogant douchebag (Minghella, The Ides of March) who seems to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to sink the one team that has the least legitimate shot to win the competition, while Nick also tries his hand at wooing the 30 - year - old staffer named Dana (Byrne, I Give It a Year), who is so driven to succeed in her work that it allows for no time for romantic pursuits.

Coughlin spends three years in prison and, upon his release, forges a relationship with the Irish mob's Italian rivals, led by Maso Pescatore, to seek revenge against Albert White.

They spent much of their working lives in the service of Herman Andreae, a merchant banker and keen sailor who owned a succession of exotic motor cars / The cars of Amédée Bollée fils — Michael Worthington - Williams investigates the pioneering steam and petrol - powered vehicles made in Le Mans by the scion of a bell - founding dynasty / In Memoriam: Pat Fairfield — Peter McFadyen tells the story of this successful ERA driver and the tribute to him produced after his early death by his racing rival and close friend Prince Bira

They say you have to spend money to make money and, by the looks of it, Microsoft certainly agrees, going at great lengths to turn the Surface tablet line into a worthy Apple iPad rival in spite of so far disheartening sales and lukewarm critical reception.

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Skull and Bones which is developed by Ubisoft plays off the success of Assassins Creed Black Flag and therefore most of the game will be spent on the heaving pirate ship itself with heavy influence on building a fleet to take on rival pirate groups.

Darwall spent nine months as GC of Berendsen before its takeover by French rival Elis this year, and was previously group GC of French Connection for 10 years.

Apple could have spent the past half decade gradually slimming down the bezels around its iPhone, much as the majority of its Android rivals have done by evolving the design of their handsets.

Chinese brands are growing swiftly thanks not only to smartphone design, manufacturing capability and rich feature sets, but also by out - smarting and out - spending rivals in sales channels, go - to - market and marketing promotion strategies.