Sentences with phrase «sums of money»

He abhors spending large sums of money on players as he believes he can find cheaper «no name» players and turn them into stars which is why we end up with all these average players on long lucrative contracts and find it hard to get rid of them.

It is Barnes» contention that he spent vast sums of money on Spinks.

As a result, he destroyed large sums of money and didn't replace them.

Whether it's accidentally breaking into a women's prison or handing large sums of money to homeless people, the Man City man can generally be trusted to surprise everyone with his latest escapades.

Arsenal spent vast sums of money over the past eight months, which suggests that the ambition at the club no longer revolves around qualification for the Champions League each year.

It certainly is a debate when they are offering sums of money like that.

Ghana threatened to not fulfill their final fixture of their group stage if they didn't receive the money they felt they deserved, this led to a plane flying in with the requisite $ 3m being flown in and unedifying images of players kissing large sums of money as though they were loved ones.

There is a fear that if Arsenal give them ridiculous sums of money to stay, they could throw their toys out of the pram once more when things go wrong.

You are looking at it from your point of view as an ordinary everyday man looking at the huge sums of money involved.

This is football though, were huge sums of money is just an average day.

Sure, you could gamble on boring things like the point spread or the game MVP — bets that can be based on stuff like «stats» and «logical reasoning» — but it's way more fun to risk large sums of money on the wholly unpredictable: the number of times the announcers say «12th Man,» the color of the postgame Gatorade shower, whether Michael Crabtree mentions Richard Sherman on Twitter.

Then Wenger will cry about how we can't compete financially with anyone although huge sums of money are wasted on ballerina midfielders.

It is easy to say that Alexis is one of the best players in the Premier League, never mind just at Arsenal, and should be paid massive sums of money for what he does on the pitch, but there is another reason why the Chilean could be in need of a large cash raise at the moment.

you are obviously talking from the point of view that the board are going to give any new coach gigantum sums of money to buy world class players.

Whether priced out of going to watch their beloved Arsenal, fed up with what they feel is spin coming from the club, or disappointed that the huge sums of money they pay in ticket prices are not reinvested into the team, growing numbers of fans are feeling less valued by their club.

They did not appreciate that there were big money magnates who had taken over the likes of Chelsea and Man City and could afford to spend colossal sums of money in the transfer market.

Also most of the players on the selling list are injury prone players, i do not see many clubs willing to take the chance, spending large sums of money on players who are only likely to last 5 matches.

I never believed there would be a nine year wait for the first trophy since the move but the fact the club managed to qualify for the Champions League every season while the likes of Liverpool, Spurs, City and Chelsea were throwing huge sums of money at it — and in the case or Tottenham failing 99 percent of the time to break the top four.

he was injured part of last season but still scored 19 goals... as a squad player he can play in Europa and League / FA Cups and give a rest to the key players — that in itself is a value... whether # 100k a week is mute as no footballer is worth these stupid sums of money in my opinion but that is football in 2017!

Does anyone have confidence that Le Prof would spend such massive sums of money in a consistently successful manner?

The appointment of André Villas - Boas as Chelsea manager, and the $ 30m transfer of Fábio Coentrão from Benfica to Real Madrid have been afforded worldwide attention, and not simply because of the eye - watering sums of money involved.

I will hold my hands up and say a new manager may have different tactics and for a short while we may turn things around... If they are that good though then PSG or Juve will just come in and pinch them while offering greater sums of money to spend.

Way too many more important things to concern ourselves with than 11 men kicking a ball about for gross sums of money.

But a very good spell of form does not automatically mean your value skyrockets to crazy sums of money and that's what seems to have happened here.

With the enormous sums of money at stake in major college sports, it's unlikely that anyone with basketball or football talent will be thrown away.

TO BUILD a DOMINANT club you have two ways: 1 - to spend astronomical sums of money (like r.madrid or Chelshit) 2 - to have a top acdemy like la Masia WE don't have money like CHelshit or city neither an excellent academy like Barcelona (although we have a GOOD academy but not ExCELLENT).

Plenty of people complain about footballers earning extortionate sums of money for simply «kicking a ball around» whilst simultaneously switching on their televisions to cheer on a # 42,172 - a-day earning tennis player at Wimbledon.

One thing is for sure is that a great showing this summer in the World Cup could have many big clubs offering Jack large sums of money to sign him on a Bosman transfer, but it could also be a risk for Wilshere to wait until the end of the summer.

In Wengers first 8 trophy winning years we never spent more than 13mil on a player, so to suggest we've needed vast sums of money to compete is just ignoring everything we are as a football club.

We need a manager with some ambition and not someone who is paid huge sums of money to achieve nothing.

Jose Mourinho has spent vast sums of money and brought eight players to Manchester United in his two seasons at the club so far.

Palace can not afford to spend such large sums of money on players every week, whom in reality are probably more like reserve quality than starting eleven, especially at Arsenal.

What we do know is that big clubs buy big name players for large sums of money KNOWING that they won't recoup the money by a future sell on of the player (e.g. Ronaldo at Real).

Guys, unlike Hafiz (a guy whom I just naturally like), I have not come out to say we should splash senseless sums of money on just about any kind overly hyped player out there.

So beautiful, in fact, that non-agricultural families are offering large sums of money for land with gorgeous vistas and rights to New Mexico's precious water resources.

I pray this cookie spread NEVER goes away because I may find myself paying large sums of money on the black market just to get my hands on a jar.

When you are trading with large sums of money and over long distances, it's important to have a lot of confidence and trust in the company or person on the other side.

Few will need to be reminded of the very large sums of money that the wife of ex-Beatle, Paul McCartney, recently sought and obtained from him in her divorce settlement, even though they were not married for very long.

The papal legates and their faculties «which they sell us for large sums of money» would be driven out of Germany.

But Indulgences did seem to encourage devotion, and at the same time brought in so much money both to the civil and to the ecclesiastical governments that it was to be wondered how else such sums of money could be found.

But society, instead of assisting persons to make wise choices, devotes vast sums of money of manipulating choices through advertising.

Is God pleased when rich people give away (or give up) large sums of money to serve Him?

``... rather dubious way of caring for the sick, her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce.»

They conquered vast lands, most of them already filled with Christians and Jews, many of whom did not convert at first, and their jizya poured huge sums of money into the Islamic war machine.

In his day indulgences were sold for large sums of money.

The point is that he is using vast sums of money to define who has rights and who should not!

But as time goes on, little compromises, become bigger ones; tiny deviations from the original vision become `'» more relevant» mandates; the vast sums of money it takes to keep the machine going become the catalyst for where the «church» is going next.

In their more hostile moments, radicals even question the motives of neoconservatives, noting the huge sums of money flowing into neoconservative think tanks and movements.

Out of real generosity, families are often willing to expend huge sums of money to adopt a child.

Put energetic young people in a house, remove adult restraint, stir in vast sums of money: that, Austen thinks, is a recipe for trouble.