The very best teams in the league, Golden State and Houston have taken this trend to an extreme.
Not exact matches
mour did not like hearing about how we where the
best team in league for these months and
in fact
best in Europe at some stage, factor
in how dreadful we started season off due to injuries WC hangover and transfer shortcomings and one may realise that che where
very lucky.
They are a
very,
very good Team and if they are
in the Chicago Hoops
League come this October, they will instantly inject themselves
in the top tier of that
League as
well.
As we enter the crucial run
in to the end of the season, which is the time that we traditionally up our game to reach the Champions
League positions, we also have another big advantage
in that all of the five
teams above us are still
in the Champions
League and Man United, City, Tottenham and Chelsea are also still
in the FA Cup, and are set to face some
very tough games
in the coming weeks, or maybe months if they do
well.
Now, we're
in an offseason where a potential superstar like Shohei Ohtani is only getting the
league minimum after signing with the Angels for a capped international bonus figure; where one of the
very best hitters
in the game, J.D. Martinez, still can't find a reasonable offer with less than two weeks to go before spring training; where Yu Darvish can't sign with either of the
teams he would like to (the richest out there, the Yankees and Dodgers), despite their having a need for a starter of his caliber, because they «need» to clear salary
in order to avoid paying the luxury tax.
A week after we saw many of the
League's
best Teams fall, we saw them all rebound
very nicely
in Week 12.
They had one of the
best Teams in the
League on the ropes here and while they didn't finish them off, they have built a foundation for a
very successful future.
The
team that just finished with the
best regular season record
in NBA history has added one of the
league's
very best players.
Ozil was
very ineffective
in that no10 role, he doesn't get
in between the lines, hes a
good passer but he doesn't go past players at will and hes
very 1 footed, he doesn't score enough goals to be a no10
in a
League or CL winning
team, i think we need either Cazorla or maybe Sanchez or even Chamberlain
in that role
in seasons to come, Ozil will have to play wide coming
in the way Messi did for Barca this season
These two
teams know each other
very well from their years
in the Chicago Hoops
League, and
Team Maione was able to seamlessly apply pressure on offense and prevent anything easy on the defensive end.
Team Apuli ran into one of the
League's
very best on Sunday Night
in Team Kozin..
You can make some
good money
in europe, but it's not for everyone and you
better score and also be on a
very good team in one of the top couple of
leagues.
Clyne has been a virtual ever present and has thrived
in the Premier
League having served his apprenticeship
in the Championship and is now on the fringes of the full England national
team set - up and is a player that cost the South - Coast club
very little and could go on to be a player who either serves them
well in the future of perhaps yields a
good fee if the club opt to consider offers for a player who has excelled at right - back this term.
It's all
very well Ozil playing
well and scoring against
teams like Ludogrets but he hasn't done it
in the
league for a long time and was just anonymous
in the last 2 games when we want him to dominate games.
It's difficult to say because there are a lot of
teams involved
in the Champions
League,
teams who have
very good players
in their ranks.
something new for sure will happen at the
very least we will be getting new players the question being who...... a striker with 30 goals abomyang a central defender a midfielder new maneger who diago simone will do
well with atlatico or lazio he is connected to them arsenal needs some one within its ranks some one connected to them But today we seen an ugly encounter were certain players should have had the red i think technology should come
in to it and players should be disciplined after The premier
league is a physical strong competition to win it you got to be
very strong
very accurate and
very demanding and if you do not have the
team to do it you do not win our
team didn't live to exceptions of last season so there for changes will have to happen
Both of them came under the managerial control of Arsene Wenger,
in 1998 and 2002, and although it is really the Premier
League we want this season, the Frenchman's
team selection for the FA cup clash with Sunderland showed that he
very much wants another FA cup as
well.
«The
team is
very happy and pleased that we're
in a
good phase,» the attacker began, speaking
in light of Los Merengues» Champions
League semi-final triumph over Manchester City.
«They have Barry Bannan who has played
in the Premier
League and they look to have a
very compact
team who are at a
very good technical level.
I tell you from a footballing point of view scoring 8 goals you got have players that know where the goal posts are it takes energy and creativity to score 8 yes I agree vikings changed their players because their
league is starting i think tomorrow so yes they were not a big
team team but to say that Arsenal were not strong thats a bit to much and I say it again you need energy and creativity to score 8 I was
very happy they did that Arsenal are
well known for creating chances yesterday they converted them chances into Goals this should be the norm and I hope this will give them a lesson on how to win a game as they did nt dwell about with the ball it was goal after goal and that tells me that they went for the goals directly and I hope and wish the young guns all the
best and to do
well in the next season
«We have seen
teams not doing
well in the Premier
League and then suddenly they are doing
very well in a different competition.
«We want to show against a
very good team like Arsenal that the quality of play
in our
league is at a
very high level, while at the same time not getting injured and getting ready for the second half of the season,» Kljestan said.
I really hate when Arsenal fans join our rivals to take shots at the fact that we sold our
best players
in d past, do nt you get it, we had to do so, so as to be at the
very comfortable position we are now, looking back wenger did a remarkable job by keeping the
team in the champions
league while building a stadium, just ask spurds n chelsea y they so desperately want to upgrade their stadium now.
we're
very good tactically but physically we might be the poorest
team in the
league.
Leicester have shown that a
team can do
very well in the Premier
League without necessarily have to spent large sum of money on recruitment of costly players.
The Gunners started poorly
in the domestic
league as
well but have largely put that right and, as Wenger reminded us all
in the press conference today reported by the Arsenal website, our last game was an excellent away win at Leicester City, a
team that had started like a rocket, were playing
very well and had not lost a game until last weekend.
Akpom is a
very good youngster Bob but I'm from Borehamwood, my Dad still lives there and their
team, Boreham Wood are
in the National
League which is 5 tiers down from the Prem
League, hardly a
team to test you.
this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers
in midfield
in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out
in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust
in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work
very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle
in fine and he is a
team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put
in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the
league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play
in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the
league in the last few seasons if we get on a
good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there
in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing
well now thats there main threat but
teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do
well this season after all
Just to add no player wants to come to a club, whose only ambition is to finish
in the top 4, reach the knockout phase of the champions
league, reach the final of the FA cup and maybe win it, be linked with many # 50 + players and never buy them, while selling all our
best players for a healthy profit, a
very healthy bank balance and pay a handsome dividend to shareholders.Arsenal is no longer a soccer
team but a business model.Thats wengers legacy...
He's under mountains of pressure to deliver the
league title, with the state the other
teams are
in, and he's not doing a
very good job of that.
The Saints are sitting comfortably
in mid table so I expect them to play their
very best team in an attempt to reach the
League Cup semi final, so it will certainly not be an easy one for our makeshift side.
Although sissokho is more of a box to box but he has athleticism and physical presence to affect the game and often plays
well against big
teams when ever I watch him e.g Chelsea this season and last two seasons against Man united last season at old traffold etc he can play DM role for us and will be a
good signing and
very useful
in champions
league... COYG!!
The main one was the performance of the Tottenham players
in the England
team, with both Harry Kane and Eric Dier scoring goals, the striker's
in particular was
very good and shows a player brim full of confidence and not looking like he will falter during the Premier
League run -
in.
When Chelsea or any other
team were having a
good run and looked odds on to win the
league it was
very rare to see a player come out
in the media saying they were going to win it.
We were not successful
in the
league but we were
very successful
in our cup run since we beat the
best teams in the competition instead of luckily drawing easy fixtures.
You are 100 % right but i think the problem with the fans (me incl) is that Arsenal / Arsene should of signed more players
in the summer with the money we had
in the bank to give us the depth to rotate and not have players injured 40 % of the time leaving us on the edge of exploding playing at 60 % for 2 months solid
in a
very much tighter premier
league where even so called smaller
teams have more money, bought
better players and are not easy to beat these days.
Well your righ with met spend but in amount paid out for players no net were 5th but i agree our champions league performances have been poor we had some tough draws and the premier league is more demanding then the other leagues in strwnght of competition and games played still excuses do nt win but that monaco loss left me shaking my head in cl we get theough the group but cant muster the strength needed for knockout and we should be performing better were under performing for the talent xhaka has frustrated me hes got the talent and plays well but cant hold focus in games he drops off and loses his marks our academy is doing well but yes it is tougher now to break in to the first team iwobi has done well but one or two seasons away from being there if he does turn himself elite ever has to score or he will just be another ox but i think its been a wake up call to the club we finally have to act theres a wave of ideas to not only get us back to winning ways but become title contenders and i think give him the extension one year its a world cup year and that will also allow our players esp strikers who been very poor this year realized its tough to play in englad and next year will have a better idea what it really takes to win here shore up some spots and depth and were in contention fail and the changes will happen but let him have one more year the fact were willing to spend shows me an upturn from the dec
Well your righ with met spend but
in amount paid out for players no net were 5th but i agree our champions
league performances have been poor we had some tough draws and the premier
league is more demanding then the other
leagues in strwnght of competition and games played still excuses do nt win but that monaco loss left me shaking my head
in cl we get theough the group but cant muster the strength needed for knockout and we should be performing
better were under performing for the talent xhaka has frustrated me hes got the talent and plays
well but cant hold focus in games he drops off and loses his marks our academy is doing well but yes it is tougher now to break in to the first team iwobi has done well but one or two seasons away from being there if he does turn himself elite ever has to score or he will just be another ox but i think its been a wake up call to the club we finally have to act theres a wave of ideas to not only get us back to winning ways but become title contenders and i think give him the extension one year its a world cup year and that will also allow our players esp strikers who been very poor this year realized its tough to play in englad and next year will have a better idea what it really takes to win here shore up some spots and depth and were in contention fail and the changes will happen but let him have one more year the fact were willing to spend shows me an upturn from the dec
well but cant hold focus
in games he drops off and loses his marks our academy is doing
well but yes it is tougher now to break in to the first team iwobi has done well but one or two seasons away from being there if he does turn himself elite ever has to score or he will just be another ox but i think its been a wake up call to the club we finally have to act theres a wave of ideas to not only get us back to winning ways but become title contenders and i think give him the extension one year its a world cup year and that will also allow our players esp strikers who been very poor this year realized its tough to play in englad and next year will have a better idea what it really takes to win here shore up some spots and depth and were in contention fail and the changes will happen but let him have one more year the fact were willing to spend shows me an upturn from the dec
well but yes it is tougher now to break
in to the first
team iwobi has done
well but one or two seasons away from being there if he does turn himself elite ever has to score or he will just be another ox but i think its been a wake up call to the club we finally have to act theres a wave of ideas to not only get us back to winning ways but become title contenders and i think give him the extension one year its a world cup year and that will also allow our players esp strikers who been very poor this year realized its tough to play in englad and next year will have a better idea what it really takes to win here shore up some spots and depth and were in contention fail and the changes will happen but let him have one more year the fact were willing to spend shows me an upturn from the dec
well but one or two seasons away from being there if he does turn himself elite ever has to score or he will just be another ox but i think its been a wake up call to the club we finally have to act theres a wave of ideas to not only get us back to winning ways but become title contenders and i think give him the extension one year its a world cup year and that will also allow our players esp strikers who been
very poor this year realized its tough to play
in englad and next year will have a
better idea what it really takes to win here shore up some spots and depth and were
in contention fail and the changes will happen but let him have one more year the fact were willing to spend shows me an upturn from the decline
So Gabriel will continue alongside Koscielny this week but there is a
very good chance that the BFG will be back
in the
team for the crunch Premier
League clash with Chelsea on Saturday as he will be training this week.
football back then
in 2000 is
very damn
good where all
teams equal, nowadays the rich one owns the club and buying the
league like man city does, hope they did nt win the
league!!!
Even if I am
very much mistaken and the Arsenal board and manager do make a real effort on this transfer, which they won't, imagine what an ambitious, up and coming player with the potential to be one of the
best in the world would say to joining an Arsenal
team that is struggling to even tread water and has to suffer annual humiliation
in both the Premier
League and Champions
League competitions.
Now I think there is still reasons to be cheerful, I agree Man C & Chelski have spent & bought some
good players, we all understand that 5 of those
teams might be
in the CL proper which is a huge distraction for those 4 - 5
teams.Chelsea will not be able to field the same 13 - 14 players all season, as for Man C they were
very frail at the back last season, add to that 2 flying wing backs and I'm not sure they will be any
better this coming season.LFC will most probably have CL as
well if they qualify and haven't exactly bought great players apart from Salah who could be a
good aquasistion for them.Spuds have sold a
good player & strengthened a rival & still not bought a single player yet, Man U have bought 2
good players &
in Lukaku have a proven goal scorer
in the PL but if they play the same dour way they did last season & with the added games the CL brings will they perform week
in week out
in the
league??? As for Everton yes they have released a lot of players and also brought in a lot too to give better quality in the squad as they have Europa league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in the
league??? As for Everton yes they have released a lot of players and also brought
in a lot too to give
better quality
in the squad as they have Europa
league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in the
league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend
in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5
teams playing
in the CL & Europa, just remember the
League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in the
League has been won
in the last 2 seasons by
teams NOT
in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs
in the
League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in the
League basket and field an under strength side
in all comps hence focusing on the
League until we are no longer in the
League until we are no longer
in the race.
Hopefully Besiktas will take Debuchy off our hands
very soon, and perhaps Gibbs could be joining him
in Turkey with Galatasaray, although I wouldn't mind him staying for our Europa
League team, a stance I also think could be
good for Calum Chambers....
It was an all round
very good team performance from Arsenal to win away to Everton, with notable inputs from a number of Gunners including Hector Bellerin, Laurent Koscielny, Francis Coquelin, Mohamed Elneny and all of the front four, but I have given the nod to Alex Iwobi mainly because it was his first start
in the Premier
League and that makes his performance even more impressive.
The home
team, the ones
in charge of the stereo, are Polish side Jagiellonia, who are not n the Champions
League because they aren't
very good.
He is, however,
very good at charging up and down the right - wing like a Ritalin - hopped schoolkid trapped
in the body of a decathlete, and
in doing so, he makes one of the
best teams in the
league better.
Okay Leicester and Chelsea were not
in Europe, but
in reality there are
very good reasons why Arsenal should be favourites for the title considering that Chelsea, Man City, Man United, Liverpool and Tottenham will ALL have to play Champions
League football against the top
teams in Europe.
Wenger leaving is both scary but even more so its exciting, anything new always is i guess, players and fans alike will be excited, I really like Maurizio Sarri from Napoli and Eusebio Di Francesco of Roma, both their
teams play
very exciting football and Pep said
in the champions
league that Napoli was the
best team he has ever faced, i wish Arsenal would consider these two managers.
They earned a top - 4 seed
in what was a
very impressive
League and just came up short against a
Team Bernstein group that put together their
best Game of the Season.
Also, the winner of this game (who could
very well be the
best Hoops Squad
in the
League) will then have to go toe to toe with # 1 Overall Seed
Team Max..
Both
Teams have shown that they have what it takes to compete with the
very best in the
League..