Sentences with phrase «stronger than last season»

Schalke spent just $ 5.4 M in the transfer window, so they're hardly much stronger than last season.

He looks stronger than last season, is a world class player who simply needs fast runners (who can hopefully finish) around him and he can pull that wonder pass out of the bag at any time, of course he should play.

This squad is stronger than last season.

Chelsea and Man city are run away, Man U are stronger than last season and even Everton are stronger.

Anyone noticed Monreal looks bigger and stronger than last season?

So in my view this team is no stronger than last season.

To be fair this seasons EPL was no stronger than last season when 5000 to 1 Leicester won.

Chelsea will be stronger than last season, Man City and Man Utd will spend 200 m each.

Chelsea were stronger than us last season and have strengthened in areas that needed addressing.

Arsenal by comparison is much stronger than last season.

«Other teams will prepare for the new season with new transfers and be stronger than last season.

We will also be stronger than last season.

Arsenal are stronger than last season.

Personally I think we're a lot stronger than last season, and the second half was a better reflection of our capabilities.

«Chelsea in particular have improved, but Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal also look stronger than last season,» Shearer started in his column for The Sun.

Sorry but I don't rate the team as being much stronger than last season.

You mean stronger than last season?

Not exact matches

We definitely have a stronger team overall than last season.

We are certainly stronger than the Leicester team that won the league last season.

We've won eight of the last nine and we are stronger today than we were at the start of the season.

I for one think Man Utd and Liverpool have made better signings than last summer and are stronger and Chelsea without signing anyone will be a force again since they won it last season and Man City will definitely add and are already stronger with Sterling who I think is a definite upgrade to Navas.

The Texas race — Santee's first outdoor mile of the season — made it obvious that he is far stronger and sharper than he was in April last year.

Our current team is stronger than that of last season.

Are we stronger defensively than last season?

-- And Carlo Ancelotti returns the courtesy: «This Valencia is stronger and more dangerous than last season».

We had a better chance winning the league last season than this one because the other teams challenger are stronger...

«It's definitely made me stronger,» says designated hitter John Roskos, whose 23 dingers through Sunday are more than twice his total for all last season with Portland.

They have a stronger squad than last season and at the moment are full of confidence.

Wenger didn't improve the squad, we finished 12 points behind Chelsea, Chelsea is still has the same team as last season and they still are stronger than us.

Well Southampton lost their manager and half their team (which did extremely well last season) and have come back stronger than ever.

The manager continued: «They are certainly a bit more mature and they have more killing edge than last season but they were still a strong side last year,»

I have seen splatty turds with more strength than Girouds mind has shown, he is anything but a mentally strong guy and it has cost us, this last season was the final straw for me as we could have won the EPL if he had just kept scoring.

I get your point.But it won't help us if we're playing in 3 back and some of our players are being played out of position.Our success of 3 back last season was more of mentality than due to the formation.The formation seemed to renew the mind of players and they started playing better.Little did people realize that we always go back to our old ways only to put up a strong surge in the end.We'll do well for a while when we go back to 4 back because our players will again change their mentality then after some time we'll go back to our old ways.

Coquelen Bellerin are like new players Walcott Chamberlain Gnabry Wilshere are like LANZ 13 players stronger than this time last season.

Unfortunately, his injury in the first match against Bolton last term put him out for the season, but on his return he came back stronger and better than ever.

We now travel to Turkey with a lot of optimism but injuries and the World Cup means our team isn't much stronger than the one we fielded against Fenerbahce last season.

simple, we were top of table more than any other team last year, only loss in back that started was sagna, we managed last year w arteta & flamini, of course I want to strengthen there, but the glaring issue to me is at striker, we have a full complement of good to mediocre strikers, adequate but not going to compete season long against city and chelsea, in my opinion, back line fine, DM needs upgrading, attacking midfield strongest in EPL, central striker??? put a thierry henri on this squad in his prime, we win the league,

And that was not unusual for the new Ozil because ever since he returned from injury last season the midfield maestro has looked stronger and fitter than ever.

I agree with you the players need some heat to perform to theor abilities and stop wasting created opportunities to kill games and or hold onto leads and i agree they need some heat to kick em in the arse to prevent them from under performing against milan but milan isnt city or chelsea but we need to beat them to get far in competition but i do nt think the players missing chances this year is whole heartey down to the manager and we need to finish out the year strong but with cazorla comong back and strengthening some spots in off season and now praying we finally have jack back this squad looks dangerous next year and wenger will have a good year with arsenal next year cazorla and another player will take time off xhaka and or put more pressure on him to perform but we have had success in recent seasons barley missing out on top four last year with highest points to ever miss out yes they need heat to perform strong rest of year but it is not wengers time to go yet be needs another season and if these two years are falling off we have done better than are rivals in are tough years

Defense is Gordon's strong suit, where, during the last five seasons he has averaged 19 Defensive Runs Saved above average, 11 runs above average in Total Zone Rating and 13 runs above average in Ultimate Zone Rating, the latter more than twice as many runs saved as any other left fielder during that time frame.

Disciplined in his role, he is very rarely caught out of position, he is strong in a tackle and seems to relish a physical battle His technical ability also developed over the course of the first few months of this season, and his passing improved along with his ability to twist and turn out of trouble, but of course what we had all been dreading came to pass..., Coquelin was injured vs West Brom, and has missed the last month, and is going to miss at least two more, I am of the opinion that we would be in a much better position than we are now if Coquelin had stayed fit.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

We added another very good / world class player (Sanchez) our ranks in the summer, we also strengthened other areas in the summer and in the Jan transfer window, and we became stronger with Coquelin, yet we can only do worse than last season, and that's not even including the possibility of losing the cup final.

I agree with those odds simply because i believe the some team that were stronger than Arsenal last season have done some really good business to further strengthen there squads, Bernardo Silva & Kyle Walker for Man City with what they already have plus what pep will add plus its gonna be his second season so he will be a bit more familiar with the EPL and this may make them really tough to beat, Tiemoue Bakayoko & Antonio Rudiger Chealsea plus a top striker and Chelsea will sill be one of the teams to beat, Tottenham are gonna be solid, they've kept the team together and Victor Lindelof & Romelu Lukaku for Man - u and Mourinho is not done yet if the rumors are true and there also the Mourinho second season thing, as much as i'd like to be hopeful for next season, i really do nt think Lacazette and Kolasinac are enough to make us challenge for the league plus having Europa league will give the team less time to recover for the weekend games, the formation change is the only thing i see can make the difference.

Daniels became Mater Dei's starter in his freshman season, put up jaw - dropping totals as a sophomore for a team that was ranked No. 1 in the state and nation for many weeks and is now trying to help prepare the Monarchs for a stronger finish than the one they had last year.

Talent wise, they are stronger than the group they had last season which finished as the # 6 seed.

Many will argue that Barcelona have more depth than last season as on overall squad, but maybe isn't as strong as makes Bartomeu out.

We will definitely be a stronger close knit unit than last season!

How often has he said we are strong and that our team has spirit and unity blah blah blah yet continue to fail to get anywhere near winning ANYTHING other than limping across the line in last seasons FA cup!

38 * yepes 6 ″ 1 prev napoli colombian international world cup (ospina *) left sided centre back wants to move to prem excellent = marking, strong, tackle very good = intercept, heading lacks = pace (merts backup) last season; # 86 % pass completion, #won more tackles per game than kosc, nearly twice as much as verm and merts # 58 % of duels more than koscielney 50.91 %, slightly less than tv and per # 65 % areal duels / 7 clearenses / game similar to per last season