Sentences with phrase «to play regular first team football»

Arsenal's supersub Olivier Giroud has been told by the France coach Didier Deschamps that he will need to play regular first team football if he wants to be chosen for the international squad at the World Cup in Russia this summer, and Giroud himself has admitted that he is desperate to go to what could be his large major tournament of his career.

Podolski is easily good enough to be playing regular first team football at Arsenal, massive mistake Arsene.

Olivier Groud has been told by the France boss Didier Deschamps that he should leave Arsenal and play regular first team football elsewhere if he wants to remain as first choice striker for his country at the World Cup, and the Frenchman has been strongly linked with a move away from the club this January.

Perhaps a few more years is unlikely but LK6 does still have a contract that could keep him at the club until 2020, but with young upcoming defenders growing into his role it is unlikely that he would be playing regular first team football until the end.

Nigerian international Mikel is no longer quite up to the requisite standard of Chelsea and could probably do with ending his career playing regular first team football and a club slightly lower down the food chain.

He wants to make sure that he is going to the Euro2016 with the Czech national side and his place may have been in doubt if he wasn't playing regular first team football.

He is keen to keep his place in the France national team as well, with competition from younger strikers like Lacazette and Mbappe but to do that he must be playing regular first team football with his parent club.

The only way he can do this is by playing regular first team football, something he is unlikely to experience at Tottenham.

With Gibbs considering his future and concerns that he needs to be playing regular first team football at this stage of his career, Arsenal were supposedly willing to let Gibbs go.

Sakho has recognised that he needs to be playing regular first team football if he is to be considered for the national team's final 23 - man squad in Brazil next summer and he has hinted that his future may lie away from Paris.

The Three Lions coach has made it clear that Jack will only be considered for selection if he is playing regular first team football, and not only that but he must be playing as a defensive midfielder — which Southgate considers to be his best position.

However, after a conversation with Brazilian national team boss Dunga, who informed him that he needed to be playing regular first team football to have a shot of taking the number one spot for his country, he decided against a move to Turin for fear of being understudy to Gianluigi Buffon.

The Nigerian youngster Henry Onyekuru has been very closely linked with a move to Arsenal for the last few weeks, but his latest comments make it clear that his agent is talking to many clubs all over Europe but he is demanding that he will be guaranteed to be playing regular first team football, something that Arsene Wenger would certainly not agree to given the choice of «world class» strikers that we already have at the Emirates.

He wanted to play regular first team football, learn the game and become the best he can be — something Chelsea were reluctant to allow.

The 25 - year - old recognises that this is an important stage in his career and needs to play regular first team football.

However, in the presence of senior stars, it is highly unlikely that Ojo and Ejaria will play regular first team football.