Sentences with phrase «squad lacks depth»

Despite smashing our transfer record by bringing in Özil for a cool # 42.4 m, our squad lacks the depth needed to mount a serious title challenge or Champions League campaign.

Our squad lacks depth, and with our injury record its an area we need to improve.

The facts are that neither of them would go to a bigger or better club than Arsenal, and if we didn't have the likes of Giroud, Walcott etc on the bench, he'd be saying our squad lacked depth.

Not exact matches

Emmanuel Adebayor has stated that Arsenal are lacking in squad depth in comparison to Premier League leaders Chelsea.

- long term, cause several players to be not available, creating a lack of depth in squad.

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.

Reds boss Jurgen Klopp is reportedly very eager to bolster his squad before tonight's 11 pm deadline report the Independent, after his side's title challenge faded after the turn of the year last season due to his squad's lack of depth.

There only issues are they lack the squad depth for several competitions and may be exhausted before they play us.

Even though Giroud can be frustrating at times, I think it would be the wrong decision to sell Giroud, especially with the fact that we are lacking in squad depth up front as it is.

Chelsea boss Conte, who guided the club to their fifth Premier League title win last season, is eager to bolster his squad before the transfer window shuts on August 31st, after his side's lack of depth was exposed in their opening day defeat to minnow Burnley last week, as reported by the Sun.

Chelsea have already completed the signings of Alvaro Morata, Tiemoue Bakayoko and Antonio Rudiger so far this summer according to Sky Sports, with the Blues boss reportedly unhappy with the lack of squad depth that his Chelsea side has, which was reported by the Metro.

If we're lacking we should ask Coquelin to hold the fort down, if not well then it's another example of our much improved squad depth.

Their return to the Champions League means that Tottenham need to add depth to their squad, which they badly lack in attacking positions at present.

There are positives in our play, but I'm seriously concerned by our lack of squad depth.

A lack of quality in depth in the current squad could also be blamed for that as Milan have played a lot of games this season already having had to also deal with Europa League qualifiers at the start of the campaign, and so perhaps that is also catching up with them.

It's of a Arsenal manager who at the start of the new season has ensured that a squad of sufficient quality and depth has been put in place by scouting players in positions where the team has been found to be lacking in the previous season.

To go after him or not may or may not be a wise idea, I don't know, all I know is that between Walcott and Giroud, there's 40 goals and with Welbeck's 10 plus the rest from midfield, there's enough goals in the squad, however Wenger needs to take his head out of the sand and look at the right wing and or the CDM, for those positions are lacking depth; sorry but Arteta I don't ththink is ample cover, we've loaned Hayden and Wilshire is injured so there's a void there.

There's this type of people in a team called «squad player»... Thats what vargas would probably stand for, he would add needed depth and rotation to our squad, lack of that is mostly why our players pick injuires often

so our squad depth is lacking.

Should Spurs manage to get a deal for Balde Diao over the line before the window shuts next week, it'll give a big boost to the London side chances of winning a trophy this season, as the signing will give Pochettino's squad the depth they've been lacking these past few seasons.

Truth is when it came to the crunch the players we're mentally too weak and overplayed and the squad lacked stenghth in depth and quality.

Not so long ago we were complaining about the lack of depth in our squad and how our bench was not intimidating.

About lack of depth in our squad.

Bad luck is one thing but Injuries in key positions to key players is what will cost us this season as far as a title challenge is concerned because it exposes us for the lack of depth in the squad.

Nonetheless, it should give Italy a chance to test out some alternative options - their squad is a deceptively strong one, but they certainly lack the depth of many of their rivals.

Definite lack of strength in squad depth.

Antonio Conte has bemoaned the size of his squad, citing a lack of depth as a problem during pre-season and after the Community Shield defeat to the Gunners.

Our other problem is the lack of depth in the squad.

Having bemoaned the lack of depth in his squad already this summer, it doesn't seem to make too much sense to sell more squad players, but there still seem to be question marks hanging over Batshuayi as he looks set to play second fiddle again this season.

How is this lack in depth???? No other team in the PL has that good a squad in terms of depth.

Given their lack of depth in defence, it would seem like a sensible decision for Barcelona to address that area of the squad, but Lionel Messi reportedly isn't keen on David Alaba being the solution.

Lack of squad depth due to injury and lack of purchases in probably the biggest concern at this point, and may cause us to slip a time orLack of squad depth due to injury and lack of purchases in probably the biggest concern at this point, and may cause us to slip a time orlack of purchases in probably the biggest concern at this point, and may cause us to slip a time or to.

Yes the Frenchman is ultimately to blame for picking the side which didn't win, and I can't help but think that our squad depth is a problem with our injuries stacking up, but I'm not 100 % sure that the club wasn't to blame for our lack of transfer activity in the summer, especially when the likes of Ivan Gazidis are insistent that our summer window was a success!

It's bound to be a source of frustration for Conte and supporters as in ideal world they would have made their signings early and well ahead of pre-season, while they desperately need key additions given their return to the Champions League next season as they are lacking in depth in key areas of the squad.

We had injuries, Giroud was over played and the squad generally lacked depth.

We maybe lack a bit of squad depth though.

This is not a problem that started today but rather has been around for the last decade.To start with, everyone knew we would fall short at the secound half of the season for lack of enough depth in quality and the outcome now isn't surprising to most pple especially our rivals... wenger himself said we had enough quality to challenge in all front and even went further to say there were no players out there who cld improve us.i have said many times that half of this squad is average and can not achieve much.with klopp, mou, conte / simeone and pep around nxt season then lets see how this blemish «Angel» of our is gonna fair out.Nxt season will even get worse.for arsenal the phrase is «IT»S DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN»!!!

As a result, the plan to bring in Johansson as a No. 2, which is sensible as they lack quality depth in that department of the squad, would fix their issue and allow them to keep hold of one of their top players.

The squad has good depth when you look on paper, but in certain areas we are lacking quality and some players are nearing the end of their arsenal careers.

While Arsene Wenger has several quality attacking players within his squad, he lacks strength in depth defensively and has targeted Reid to solve that problem.

Wenges lack of: — tactical astuteness — an ability to identify and secure sufficient depth in key positions throughout his squad for the season — awareness in the effect of playing players out of position — overall analysis; if it isn't working perhaps change things.

A lot of the blame for Arsenal's dismal form so far this season has been focused on the lack of defensive depth and stability in the Gunners squad.

Plus the lack of squad depth we had, playing Monreal at centre back?

We have the form and players but we lack squad depth and we need to offload some players e.g. Per mertersacker, arterta, rosisky, and flamini and the west brom match has proven that coquelin is no machine he's human so he needs a good support, one who can represent him in the midfield plus we also need a winger and another proven striker to also support giroud too.

i think we will make fourth spot this season if we get to keep Sanchez that is if Sanchez starts to play like he did yesterday, i think because lack of squad depth the likes of Spuds, Liverpool and possibly Chelsea will start to drop points in Feb by losing first team players to injury after busy Christmas scheduled and busy CL scheduled, we on the other hand should be topping the group on Thursday night football playing with mixture of youth and bench players hopefully leaving our first team rested and fit, February we have three big games Everton home, Spuds away and City home, hopefully we do well

I believe Wenger reasoned that without being able to rotate players in the squad, because of lack of depth, that the only course of action was to go all out for the EPL and forget the CL, and you can't argue with that logic.

When your squad is already depleted and lacking suffecient quality and depth don't loan OUT your players before there have been similar or better players brought IN.

I do nt know which Arsenal you have been watching but injury has been major factor, more specificly dependency on certain players and a lack of squad depth..

Naturally, that demands a certain depth from the squad that was lacking last season.

One can attribute our failure to win the league title over the years to our lack of quality in our squad depth.