Sentences with phrase «squad has only»

Brady Hoke's first Wolverines squad has only had to leave Ann Arbor once thus far, and they flirted with disaster at Northwestern before pulling away at the end.

While it was widely felt that offloading contract rebel Alexis Sanchez this January could be good for morale at the club, it seems the big money invested in keeping Ozil and adding Aubameyang and Mkhitaryan to the squad has only done more harm than good.

The majority of the squad has only ever won the FA Cup and whilst we have a few true champions like Alexis, Cech and Ozil, we still don't have the core strength and winners in the team.

This years Euros, only jack has got in the squad having only played a couple of matches in a year through injury.

Not exact matches

If he does, that's not to say that Utah would start using a firing squad — only that they would have the legal option to.

Fans seem to picture these younger players who play week in / week out for a lesser team maintaining that form despite only having a squad role?

Dybala would not only replace Podolski in the squad but would also be an option to OG — we know Wenger loves these versatile types.

Gerioud n Elneny, they r squad players, sell only d deadwood.

Jack will return to the squad and we'd only be counting down the days till he gets injured again.

One can only imagine what a top quality striker would have done for this squad.

He is better than a few of our squad options and i for one wouldnt mind seeing him come on for a Sant Cazorla or a M Ozil when we have a precious lead in a vital encounter, not only because of his workman like attitude but because he can offer something in attack at the same time.

It turns out that the reason that Lukas Podolski was the only Arsenal player in the Germany squad that was beaten by Argentina 4 - 2 in a friendly repeat of the World Cup final, was that Mesut Ozil had picked up an injury in the Gunners» disappointing draw at Leicester City last weekend.

I see some have already turned this in to an anti-Wenger rant — the same people who «only want whats best for this club» and for the club to progress and to see ruthless management and build proper squad depth are getting teary eyed and eulogising over a fantastic, brilliant, exciting player with almost perfect technique who for whatever reason has never lived up to his potential.

Obviously it would be wrong to adjust the whole squad to benefit only one player.

Despite having only 2 FA cups to his name though, Koscielny is a modern Arsenal legend for me and my favourite player in the squad!

not quite sure about the maths here... but realistically 3 1 to city if both teams put in their best... only hope is they are knackered after napoli in which case i wouldnt rule out a draw if we can keep a decent tempo... real test in the middle of the park and i would like to see wilshire start as he is the only squad member who can control a ball and look up at the same time... another xhaka ramsey routine will see us lose sadly

Not only did Wenger have to keep building a new squad at the start of every new season, he was forced to bring in weaker replacements due to financial restraints.

So I am not surprised to hear our only fit regular central midfielder declare that the Gunners are bound to be better when the manager has a bigger squad of fit players to choose from, as reported by Arsenal.com.

My argument — we must start off well and since we will not have our big boys in the squad, we can only make up for it by deploying a new system.

The only misfortunes he had was with injuries, which can not be blamed solely on him because he never had enough time to recover, Wenger always rushed him back to the squad due to lack of depth.

«Lots of the squad came back at different times and we obviously had the three German boys who were World Cup winners and only came back on August 11.

But the beauty of the BlogPoll is that there are a lot of voters who genuinely care about merit, and, on the merits, Florida may have the nation's best résumé, given that the Gators have a win over the highest - ranked one - loss team and are the only squad with two wins over teams currently ranked in the BlogPoll.

You mentioned about the success of 03/04 season being down to retaining the 02/03 squad, and whilst I agree with that, I also have to mention again, that Man Utd were our only challengers.

He has had two months to sort out our squad for the new season and he is already doing makeshifts and taking a big risks with Sanchez, who hasn't had a decent rest for the past two seasons and he has only just recovered from a swollen ankle injury!?

Flamin: I would rather keep him than arteta he has been a good squad player this season and always there when needed in terms of availability people have been harsh on him he only has 5yellows this season in his 20 + games so he isn't a walking yellow as people like to say.his contract is up this season but he deserves an extension he isn't even 30yet.

Also we have only used 21 of the 31 man squad so far this season, 3 of those 21 have yet to start a game and 4 of them have started two games or less.

Arsenal fans were quick to get on Wenger's case after the defeat and urged the 64 - year - old to spend some money in the transfer market, having only added Petr Cech to his squad this summer.

We have those player and squad to do it only when they are serious to win trophies.

For me, Sanchez has been the only guy in our squad the last few seasons consistently worthy of the shirt.

Only a fool would want him to be in someone else's squad.

The biggest, perhaps, is that the only two representatives from the Manchester clubs, Wayne Rooney and Joe Hart, have made the squad, but not the starting line up.

You have sold 7 players only out of the 33 we have... you need to sell 9 if we are to buy another player and still be within the 25 player squad maximum.

Top clubs do everything to have the strongest squad, we don't, now it's been confirmed we have 135m in the bank but will only spend half of it.

11 years later and Theo has only developed as far as a squad player for big club 3.

We'd be only a little better off with him in the squad.

If only the idiots would wake up and realize that the squad is made up from players obtained over many years, we have added some quality but also added deadwood, the deadwood appears to be club signed while the quality have spoken how Wenger himself personally contacted them.

Few years ago we had 3 good strikers in our squad adebayor, Eduardo and v. Persie now we have only one giroud who is worse than all of them and wenger thinks he will score 30 goals this season what an idiot, liar, dumb, greedy, over confident, clueless, uncaring 4 th place comedian.

why have them on the squad if you're only going to use them for 15 min?

Why don't we all wake up from this sleep.the squad we have is only capable of finishing fourth nothing more.just because we finished the season strong doesn't mean we have a good enough squad to challenge for the title

I mean look at carzola, he says outright without hiding that we need a striker... about finishing strongly, we did that last season and the season after and the other after after a first leg screw - up... maybe ramsey loves his friends in the dressing room but saying that we need a few quality wouldn't have hurt anyone... we weren't able to beat the chelsea that hez talking about at home even with a full squad so i don't get his reference plus other teams are strengthening strongly and will only get better... man utd with a mediocre team played us like we were some kids FH at OT and we had no injuries... IF WE DO NT SIGN STRIKER we are doomed cz it» l be harder to beat even the small teams

Rashford only got a chance because he was around the squad, and about 10 guys were injured and LvG had no choice but to call up the best prospects.

Mesut Ozil is another who has only 12 months remaining on his contract, but seems much less likely to force a move away from the club, and is currently playing in the first - team squad unlike the above.

They have a super squad of hungry players managed by a genius manager and my only slight gripe with Michael Oliver today is that their third goal was, very marginally only, offside.

As reported by Sky Sports, the Scot is now saying that Arsenal do have a squad that is capable of winning the title, even though Wenger bucked the trend of panic buying and only signed Petr Cech from Chelsea to bolster the first team options.

People including you move from job to job as long as the salary and benefits are good and we all know top clubs will pay a high price for good talent hence, there are few top managers out there who wouldn't think about moving to arsenal for 8,000,000.00 plus bonus etc. you all keep saying half of the squad is out with injury hmmm who are those Ozil (hasn't been playing well since he arrived) Ramsey (was poor up to the point he got injured Wilshere (please!!!! No comment there) Diaby (only God knows where he is) Arteta (wouldn't Make a difference to the outcome).

The best way to keep him at the club: 1) make proper signings to show him that the squad is getting better & more competitive 2) it is getting better for one objective only, winning major trophies (Premier league, Champions league) 3) extend Özil & Sanchez contract to show how viable the project is Xhaka is a great signing but he alone can't fix our issues that have hampered our campaigns specially in the last 2 seasons.

Everyone n football and most of the same fans know Sanchez is our only player of quality, Henry said he is the only player who would get into the Spurs squad, and we play him with one hand tied behind his back on the left wing with effectively no existing central striker to worry defenders (unless you count Giroud as a central striker but I refuse to believe Giroud worries any central defender).

This means he will be one of the hottest properties in the coming transfer windows and I am sure that Wenger would be interested in yet another top - class midfield addition to the Arsenal squad, as that seems to be the only players he looks at nowadays.

The good thing about Chelsea making transfers is that unless they sign Suarez pogba Neymar etc they won't be really improving the team that much, they have a very strong squad which only elite players will improve now!

We could use someone of his caliber, we only have about 4 or3 guys on our squad who got real fight in em.