Sentences with phrase «team football rather»

We have been linked with players like Fernando Llorente, Charlie Austin and Christian Benteke and I can see them joining clubs who promise them first team football rather than back up and the occasional start in the Europa League.

Not exact matches

But one start might be installing a paid board with deep knowledge of the football industry, which would set the strategic direction for team CEO Oscar Grau, rather than relying on unpaid directors to oversee operations, as Barça does now.

Not much you can do when the referee is so shockingly bad and the opposing team would rather slap people in faces and be diving and acting champions instead of playing football.

Hamann made some good points but he probably does» t understand how we give an unofficial testimonial season to players who would rather stay than look for first team football elsewhere.

Sources say they wanted Team Sternberg in Softball rather than Flag Football..

Gon na get a few thumbs down for this but to be honest I would rather spend my weekends watching my team play beautiful attacking football and have the joy of watching beautiful goals such as Wilshere's goal v west brom last week and still finish in the top 4 with a cup final to look forward to than win the title having to force my eyes open to actually see my team win via an early goal and the rest of the game spent watching headed clearances from John terry

Robert Kraft is clearly unable to do anything halfway, so the team purchased two planes to retro - fit them so an entire team of football players can fly first class to games rather than chartering flights for eight away games each year.

I personally don't want to see that fraud guardiola near arsenal, the guy's team plays extremely boring football, much rather the Germany coach Joachim leow.

The club should be controlled by its supporters, for its supporters, with its central mission of being a successful football team, rather than making wealthy foreign businessmen even richer.

I would rather we played attractive football because it looks like the boring style has not got us any better, but instead we are making all the small teams have 60 % possession and when we play the big ones we still can't do sh» t..

mmmmmm guyz I think I need to have a break since there iz no sign of in arsenal team I feel great sometimes watching small teams play rather see a big team play nosense every time arsenal is not a football club anymore but a political club no time for football but play pples mind to get money every year

I'd rather have Wenger and CL plus the ability to attract a top finisher than a new manager and the same team that misfired so much this season; or bringing more average strikers because the top ones prefered CL football.

The type of footballer who everyone wants on their team and no striker wants to come up against, Skrtel will take the ball and the man, rather than just the ball just to make a point to the opposition.

Ahh why is it that football fans these days focus on other things rather thn the game itself... The team is on a good form, our top eleven looking good, enjoying the team atmosphere, bench players looking good.

We are playing wonderful football right now (even our lost to Southampton was due to the team been tired and also flamini not been fit enough to play week in week out) I would much rather Sanchez rest for the next 2 weeks and come back against Chelsea or bring him on for a run about late against stoke.

I find it funny that anyone who watches Arsenal and understands football can actually say Ramsey is better than Wilshere.So in an ideal world if the best teams were to choose between Wilshere or Ramsey at their best who would they rather have?

No words can describe a team that plays 90 % of their football at opposition box yet can hardly score goals... i wld rather we had more coutinhos in our squad who need not to be inside the D to sort us points.

Ekangamene will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of Hazard, but also Paul Pogba, who also made the decision to leave Manchester United as a young midfielder in search of first team football — albeit to join Juventus rather than a club in Belgium.

Football is an evolving game a game on the move with a moving ball every game is different the knowing opposing players trade run skill is the key all 11 most play with the same key on the same key exactly like an orchestra else it will not sound any good you can have messie and renaldo and zidan on your team but trust me if they are not in tune and well - tuned a street team from Rochdale would give them a good hiding the question here is why would you sign a player for 100 million while you can develop 100 players for the same money and bring your players to dominate football rather than club dominating football with non-natFootball is an evolving game a game on the move with a moving ball every game is different the knowing opposing players trade run skill is the key all 11 most play with the same key on the same key exactly like an orchestra else it will not sound any good you can have messie and renaldo and zidan on your team but trust me if they are not in tune and well - tuned a street team from Rochdale would give them a good hiding the question here is why would you sign a player for 100 million while you can develop 100 players for the same money and bring your players to dominate football rather than club dominating football with non-natfootball rather than club dominating football with non-natfootball with non-national ’s

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

I know it's football, but the fact is that more women are likely to have been comparing bingo sites on bingobuddha.co.uk all summer rather than watching our Ladies teams.

We might still even make the top 4 with that squad, could certainly be top 8 if we play well and have some reasonable strategies rather than AW's recent craziness in team selection / positions, (maybe even especially if we don't have CL or even any European football the following season), have an effective transfer season next summer, and make a serious badass run at the title for the next few years from 2018 - 19 plus.

But, I would like to see 90 minutes of quality football from this team sooner rather than later.

Coaching a big city's fourth - most - popular football team sounds perfect for Chip, who'd rather not deal with media attention.

The Arsenal boss concluded that the rigors of the Champions League would make all of Leicester City's other football matches more difficult to play — especially given that Leicester are devoted to aggressive counter-attacking rather than focusing on possession — but stopped short of guaranteeing the team would fail to reach their ambitions for the Premier League in the 2016 - 17 season.

It was always going to be hard for him to play «total football» in a league where many of the teams still base their game around physical endeavour rather than finesse........

Who would have thought that Mark Hughes could change Stoke City into a proper football - playing team rather than a bunch of thugs fighting to stay in the Premier League?

One of the most common stereotypes in football is that all African teams are physical although in recent times it has not always been so with the Super Eagles who rather prefer to play with the ball on the ground.

This has made United very easy to counter and control, and although we seem to be getting away with playing this style of football for now, most of us would rather see that cavalier style that sent shivers through other teams when they knew they had us next.

What a terrifying vision of the future of football we've been served up this week.AC Milan, once the pride of a powerful and thriving seria A now reduced to shadow boxing against a really not that great United.All because they deserted their natural (and rather beautiful) defensive style of football to join the circus, brought in foreign players (especially brazilians) who think jogging back to defend is beneath them and generally put two fingers up to Italy's historic football traditions.Much good as it done them, and what a boring game?I concede that a lot of football fans nowadays do nt remember anything before the cheque book league but even they must have been struck by the sheer mind numbing pointlessness of it.Even the stewards were asleep by half time.As for the porto match well all that can be said is that they made the gooners look like an half decent well balanced football team, no mean achievement when you think about it.At least we, ve had the pleasure of listening to all those gooners and Mancs waffling on about how great they are which is always hilarious.Especially the stuff about Rooney, just wait till the World Cup when some Italian or South American defender takes him under his wing for half an hour and then see how great he is.If he can survive the WC without being sent off it will be a miracle.All the recent hype has done him no favours at all.Not that the World Cup really inspires these days, its glory days are long over and it's become a competition decided by referees rather than great play.Bear that in mind if Roons has to take the walk of shame, it's not his fault, someone told him he was a truly great player like Bobby Charlton or George Best.The problem is he looks like he believes them.

Whilst playing more for Valencia will give Pereira more experience in the game, it also shows that his fight may be a problem, opting for the easier route to first team football, rather than the tough route — showing the manager why you are better than the players he would normally select.

Rather than limit his development at Old Trafford, the decision was made to send him out to a club where he would get regular first - team football.

Benitez is willing to offer Gonalons first - team football, which Arsenal are unable to do thanks to a wealth of talent in their squad, and the Frenchman could opt to ply his trade in the south of Italy rather than in north London.

I mean seriously folks, do you believe anyone with more than a passing interest in football would prefer to watch a team playing Hull, rather than Barca v Athletico?

In the aftermath of his penalty heartache, a visibly emotional Messi announced his intention to retire from international football, stating rather emphatically: «For me the national team is over.

Fair play to the UTD fan for having an opinion, I think a lot of people miss the point with Wenger, I know that all football fans want success now, if you look at the teams Arsene has built this is perhaps his third, even forth, and it is still in the making, he knows that they are not yet what they will be and that perhaps we will not get success immediately but if we are patient success will come, I am a realist and know that mortgaging your clubs future for immediate success is wrong and that sooner rather than later these birds will come home to roost.

This is not by choice, but rather because in the football team I play for, the «big boys» are the most passionate, single - minded Liverpool supporters anyone will ever come across.

This would prove rather detrimental for a team that plays Arsenal's style of possession football.

And to the Stoke fan who claim we play schoolboy football all I can say is at least we play football rather than try to be a a bad imitation of a rugby team.

What really confuses me most, however, is how the two - faced, xenophobic, incompetent and irresponsible British footballing media, and authorities, continue to act as supporters of this policy of play which will ultimately (rather naively on their part) conclude with a British national football team NEVER EVER again winning another international tournament as the rest of the footballing world and authorities continue to move on to develop a more civilised game that does not tolerate such physically harmful tactics.

Slavisa Jokanovic, who secured promotion during his nine months in charge, left in June following a row over an improved contract, so responsibility for assimilating the raft of summer signings into a unified team has fallen to Quique Sanchez Flores — no easy task, given their diverse diverse backgrounds and nationalities, and the fact that they would probably score more points if the game was Scrabble rather than football.

Displaying three large flags on your house to show which football team you support may, to some people, look slightly ridiculous, rather like houses decked out with over-the-top Christmas lights.

I'm told that Downing Street looked into hiring a rather more luxurious aircraft with a special executive section, but they were beaten to all the available ones by the Premier League football teams heading east on their pre-season tours.

With a catchy dance song blaring on the soundtrack, Girlhood opens on a high school football game before providing two subversive reveals: it's an all - girls football game, and both teams celebrate together afterward, focusing on the fun of playing rather than categorizing winners and losers.

After all, who would you rather be — the Al Bundy-esque captain of the high school football team reliving the faded glory days or Elon Musk?

Agents will have to became Writers Scouts, do their own research rather that being the writers search for the right Agent, and Publishers should start thinking as professional football teams, making their authors the best, supporting and coaching them to become even better, and marketing their authors like mad.

To that end, Mr. Coker's late and brief discussion about defining one's own success falls rather flat and attains a whiff similar to the high school football coach who goes on and on about how everybody is a success if they just believe they are — but then only lets the best players on his team play.

Located directly across from the Holiday Villa Resort, their eclectic decor has become rather shrine - like as patrons lovingly leave mementos of themselves (or of their favourite football team) behind as «thanks for the memories» parting gifts.

In the past week, another report of hazing that resulted in a serious injury has emerged, only this incident involves a high school football team rather than a college fraternity.