Sentences with phrase «things about their players»

Their goal was to make marginally more correct decisions than their competitors, in the long haul, and to do so they implemented an analytically rigorous system that not only processed all of the bleeding edge metrics they could find or create, but also heavily incorporated data from old fashioned sources: scouts, who could see things about a player's potential and character that numbers couldn't.

If word gets out that they're saying negative things about their players — and trust me, a lot of them do — they have to be discreet about it.

Brian Kelly said some refreshingly honest or terrible things about players and academics, depending on your point of view.

It would seem that's all it takes to sell Quinn is for someone he trusts to say good things about the player.

It is one thing about the player not performing to the levels expected of him; it's also the duty of the gaffer to identify ways of affecting the game positively.

I didn't say many nice things about the players to the media.

I learned some things about my players, how we can play on the counterattack and that we can use that as a weapon in the future but I am not more happy because we beat the club I love so much.»

When somebody like Rafa says a thing about a player like this, you listen.

«It is better for me to say I don't comment on rumours, I can comment on things about our players as it is different.

Not exact matches

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

We want players to have as much information as possible about themselves and their friends when they play, in order to better understand who they are and build things together.

If you want to gain entry to any industry there are certain obvious things you need to learn — a body of knowledge about technology or law, for example, formal procedures, the identity of the sector's key players, etc..

«You have 11 players, and if you say each player can do one of 4 different things, then your number of possible actions is four to the power of 11 — which is about 4 million,» Togelius says.

My «A players» care about different things and have different ambitions.

When he's seeking out a subject for a game, De Masi tries to pitch the popular celebrities who can share or tweet things about the games to get players re-engaged in the content.

There's a lot of cool things about Google's new «Nexus Q,» a billiards ball - sized streaming player that can stream music and video from the cloud, hook up to televisions, connect...

Here is what I don't get about all these so called christian football players in the NFL always pointing skyward when things go right for them.

Another good example of a genius who utterly disproves Brooks's thesis is someone I have written about before on the First Things blog: the great chess player Jose Raul Capablanca (1988 — 1942).

I watch newscasts about these things, newscasts that are constantly interrupted by ads for the latest and greatest everything... soup to nuts, automobiles to blue - ray players, cell phones to restaurants, GPS systems to medications.

For White, the problems don't just stem from the risk of brain damage, it's the distorted message about things like masculinity that the NFL sends to fans and young players.

One of the impressive things about the whole cluster of restaurants is both how many awesome offshoots it's spawned and how friendly everyone still seems to be with each other, even if there have always been sad spells when major players set off on their own.

Another beautiful thing about our B2B choice is that they all have experience at playing wide at one point or another, depending on what side the ball is at they could adapt in real time to becomming a wide player for periods.

The truly interesting thing about the new era is that teams can structure their payrolls any way they want, as long as they pay every player at least the league minimum ($ 100,000 for rookies this season, $ 125,000 for players with a year's service, $ 150,000 for two or more years) and stay under the cap.

Maureen is already starting to complain and act like he did when things were not going his way at Chelsea, snubbing handshake offers from rival managers and talking about other teams and their players.

It is the same thing he said about all the other players who ended up leaving.

The thing about other teams is that they have identified the problems they had in last season and moved fast in securing the necessary players.

The ox is a brilliant player and I definitely believe he can surpass Walcott but he wants to play center mid so I guess we'll see what Arsene does, about the one trick pony thing when he plays he stretches the play not letting defenses drop off, pure pace creates space but that is only worth it if there's end product, and Theo sets up his fair share of assists and also hits the net there's loads more tricky wingers out there who have no end product so what do you pick?

I see lot of coments about how we can sign Reus «cuz he's a world class player.Yes, he is a great player BUT did you see how mutch this season was he injuried?The period when Dortmund win some games and comme forward in the table was the period when Reus was available, rest of the season he was injuried.This is one thing, the other think is that Klopp say he will leave Dortmund in the end of the season and looking for a new chalange.I'm pretty sure that he will leave to a big team and will take Reus after him.Sterling is exactly the same type of player as Sanchez, just doesn't have the same experience, he's not fully developed.I think he can be a first XI player for us and I think will be great alongside Sanchez, replacing Cazorla when he will leave.Sterling is an English player, will be great to see him at nationat team too, and we need as mutch as rest of the big teams from EPL home grown players.The coments who say that we have Gnabry and Wellington make me laugh, really?Do you want trophies?Or do you want to see more young players and waiting year after year to confirm or just see how they doesn't play anything?We are a top team, and need performance in UCL too, not just participaiting.Sterling is a young CONFIRMED player who will definetly help us.Agree that he's not fully grown but he will be a great player.

Arsene Wenger has often spoken about how he sees things like team spirit, unity and togetherness in the Arsenal dressing room as important as having individual players of the very best quality.

pls I don't care about all the awards given without proven statistics... how can they vote... the whole thing has been monopolised... theres bribery involved... I wish they involve squawka's players game statistics while giving out this awards, it would make it fairer..

Why is every Arsenal fans keep complaining about this draw, one thing I know for sure is that, Wenger is a wounded lion don't think you can take him down so easily because of his injury we know is hard sometimes for any team to face Bacerlona in the peach but is 11 players either side only the quality some times but we do have quality players too so why is the worries come on guys i know We can do this Wenger can do it, is our season it's a reason for the past 9 seasons without trophy God have something special for us & this is it.

The thing about Arsenal losing his style is bec we have lost to many players with such abilities.

I think Arsene protects incoming players a wee bit too much as he wants them to be fully bedded in and things to go ever so smoothly, but sometimes been thrown into the deep end can tell you more about a player and some flourish in those circumstance.

«There is no doubt that management is about many things, including... the motivation of the players to play for the boss...»

Now the last thing Arsenal need is another midfielder and so Perisic won't be the player that fans are most excited about.

Rob Manfred and Tony Clark will text back and forth about different things they can take from amateur players and minor leaguers until there's a compromise.

I laughed when you said he will likely be the best player in the club he's moving to.I hope Arsenal fans don't deceive themselves also into thinking this.The thing he has over most wingers in the world is work rate.Apart from that in terms of technique, skill and talent there are quite a lot who can match him there or are even better.He won't have that patience of a club like Arsenal that allows for mistakes and he'll be benched even when he doesn't want it.I did mention that he was world class.The fact that you're overrated doesn't mean you aren't world class.I know all his stats and like you I've watched him since he came here and I can say we are making him look better than he actually is.As for him being irreplaceable I don't think it» sthe first time we heard that about an Arsenal player leaving and we saw how they eventually ended up.

whether for the right or wrong reasons, our leader chose to stay on when things took a turn of sorts... a new owner arrived on the scene, plans for a new stadium emerged and Wenger became the bearer of bad news... he sold us on a new story, one that required patience on our parts... financial constraints were the order of the day, so that the enormous sums spent on the new venue could be recouped... although some would question the validity of such claims, why wouldn't they believe their faithful leader... according to those within the hierarchy, the future never looked so bright, as this new home would ensure our place among the elites for years to come... as we all know now these claims were a well constructed fabrication and so those who feel they were duped in the process are infuriated and rightly so... the fact that this club and it's manager have continually misled the fans, especially following Gazidis's claims about our financial liquidity, simply rubbed more salt in an already gaping wound... this surely isn't how you treat your «family», especially when they supported you through the supposed «lean» years... it was a dirty trick played by Kroenke but the fact is was orchestrated by Wenger himself hurt the most... as for those in the media, many of whom are former players or longtime pundits, who observed the early years firsthand, saw this as the perfect opportunity to vent the anger they felt towards this pretentious man once and for all... all in all, karma's a bitch

And he looked that way at times, but the majority of the time he has been a defensive sieve and a streaky offensive player with bad habits (all the things people complained about Hood, which is so ironic given those who hated on Hood and support Burks...).

So I thought I would have a quick look at the evidence and see if there was support for what Mikel Arteta said to Arsenal Player about the Gunners seeming to be punished for every little mistake and not getting rewarded for the things we have done well.

O ye of little faith.Just trust me on this one.How many times have owners / presidents come out to say players won't be sold bla bla bla.What he said is just for formality sake.Have you forgotten what Aulas said about Lacazette?Listen Thomas Lemar has his heart completely set on a move to Arsenal.What has even made him firm and influenced his decision the more is the fact that are lot of Monaco players have left and likely more will be leaving.The guy just doesn't want to stay and will likely be an Arsenal player in the coming days.One thing slowing down the deal is Monaco want to be assured they can replace him.The deal is basically a done deal.As I said insider sources are twice as fast as the media.So whether the vice p. likes it or not he'll become an Arsenal player.Mark my words.

I have given up on Arsene since 2008 I love him but I think he has lost the plot, the most annoying thing about him is his thinking of our player is better than our opponent no matter who we are playing which is a rung mentality because it obvious sometime we are not still not change his tactics for us to get something out of the game.

The defense will know where rosen will be just about every snap Darnold can make plays inside or out, in my opinion he's the better pressure player I like both of they're winning mentalities but to me I like darnolds mental makeup better He has things to work on being the youngest of the group, you won't regret taking either

I get your point about on speaking well of behalf of your mates but to say the things Ramsey says you've got to be either the best player, the captain or the manager, Ramsey's none of these.

Special teams fakes can be good if you are smart about when to use them and put the right players in position to do the right things and also don't mess everything up enormously.

The thing is though we only heard about 100m being spent, what of all the player sales.

But one thing Dyche is right about is that players definitely go down easier in the Premier League than they do in the lower divisions where the game is much more physical...

The thing about playing for a lower team is that the opposition won't be defending with as many players between you and the goal.

For Liverpool fans this is not welcome news, it is one thing losing Benitez to Juventus but a whole new ball game if they lose him to Man City, with the money City have it will make Liverpool fans very nervous about the club being able to hang on to its best players.

I support what you are saying bro.A lot of people believe they know what will happen next season as if they know the future.Why worry yourself if you think Arsene Wenger won't sign top quality or make any impact next season.They might as well tell us our future.The only two things which can make Arsenal win things is only if they change their poor mentality and if Wenger changes his poor nanagerial skills.It's never been about players but because the club never pays attention to these things we keep failing season after season.