Sentences with phrase «very top of the league»

I feel like the days when both Roma and Lazio were competitive at the very top of the league are the days I miss.

A lot changes in the NBA in four years but not at the very top of the league.

Not exact matches

+ Europa League — A very good one would be Top 4 and one of the FA Cup or Europa League.

I am not one of the Arsenal fans that are so desperate for the club to get rid of Arsene Wenger and get a new manager in that I want the team to lose and fail to make the Champions League spots, although I know it is an issue and we know that the club is very focused on money and would hate to lose the financial benefits of Europe's top club competition.

So we have the very real risk of finishing below Spurs, the possible nightmare of Spurs winning the league and a big chance of fnishing outside the top 4.

-- He is French Ligue 1 top scorer — but Giroud WAS Ligue 1 top scorers as well (even won the league) when he joined us — Do nt get me wrong he can be a very good player for us in 2,3 years time but for next season only the like of Benzema or Lewandowski can improve us

the problem with arsenal is the fans we forget very easily think about the game against Chelsea we can't be a top club with players like ozil think about the amount of easy chances that you miss do any of you delusional fan think if Chelsea didn't already win the league on they're mine on vacation you think we would have so much space to play and so easy.just think about we were winning the 50/50 challenge when does that happen we still need five new players

A role of the dice is what's needed, if only to give some genuine hope to a very patient set of fans, we could drop out of top 4, absolutely... We could end up winning the league, but at least we would be making a statement by saying that this isn't acceptable anymore!

I very much disagreed with a lot of the pundits last season when they claimed we would bottle it and lose the league, I was wrong I disagreed with them when some of them claimed we would struggle to make it top 4 this season given the improvements other teams added in the summer.

Yet now, at this time, sitting a very lowly and pathetic and embarrassing SIXTH place in the Premiership, after getting knocked out of the FA Cup by a team struggling in the Championship, and competing in the Europa League, (Which is basically the Championship) you feel you need to remind us of your loyalty and commitment to Arsenal Football Club.This same Club that despite you failing to achieve a Top 4 finish to give us our Champions League fare for this season, Increased your Salary to # 9m per year.I would remind you that you yourself have continually stated that a Top 4 finish was a greater achievement than winning a Domestic Cup Competition, so I will not allow the FA cup win of last season to enter into this letter.

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.

Due to very spinless performances of the team, EVERY CLUB in top 5 leagues in Europe would sack its manager by now!

They finished in the top half of a very competitive League in their first run at Flag Football in All Sports Series.

The Lightning are also expected to be one of the top teams in the league, which is very helpful when it comes to the Vezina voting.

It is proving to be a very close league this year, and with draws and a win from 3 of the top 5 I expect big things in the second half of the season.

As an Arsenal fan, I must admit, top 4 means very little since we crash out of the UCL every year early, simply put, we are not in the same league as the elite teams,

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.

Sidwell may very well go on to enjoy a successful spell at Craven Cottage with Fulham, and there's no denying he has a chance of salvaging his top - flight career there given he is moving closer to his family home, but there are certain players that suit certain clubs, and Sidwell could have been a costly mistake in Wolves» quest to survive in the Premier League.

Arsenal have had a difficult start to the Premier League campaign, despite successive 1 - 0 victories over West Bromwich Albion and Southampton, leaving them a long way adrift of rivals Chelsea and Manchester City in the battle for top spot in the English top flight, which already looks like very much being a two horse race.

In addition to honest and open communication concerns, there are also fundamental issues of managerial incompetence, poor negotiating strategy, procrastination, dithering, lack of ambition, lack of willingness to compete with the top teams in the league despite supposedly being financial heavyweights, desperation at the very end of the window, compounded by promises made when Arsene was re-signed and poor team selection decisions for the first three matches, further compounded by a pattern of incompetence during transfer windows and in general management of the team in recent years that understandable has fan patience at a very low level.

Compared to Wenger that has been keeping Arsenal in the top four position for 21 years, Ranieri gave Leicester City a Premiere League title in just two years, despite of the club's little resources, yet still got fired after winning the major trophy in a very short time.

Can anyone name another highly regarded manager who would have stuck at a top club with no hope of winning anything for at least 6 - 7 years, let alone managed to keep us in the Champions League while selling their best players off to rivals The truth is we have ridden out the worst of it, but are still playing catchup to this day - and we should be very grateful to Arsene Wenger.

Overall Tottenham [are in a good position] as well, so it is very tight at the top of the league.

here's my big hope, is that hopefully with the return of walcott and that win against anderlecht maybe something might (like bad form) break in the season for us now and we hopefully go on a bit of a winning run til Jan, we have not got a really bad fixture til then mostly mid to lower league team (apart from the pool and united) not to be underestimated but winnable, we might just save our season till the next window very important period for us if we want to do anything in the league this season, if in top 2 or 3 buy jan i for one will be chuffed to bits then with all players back push on from there for massive optimism is my middle name COYG

But almost all the other premier league teams (top 4 teams, our bogey teams as well) did as well...... The fact is that, the chances of defending the FA cup is stil very slim....

I know a number of owners who are very successful who say the same thing: the hardest thing to do is be consistently competitive at the top of the league.

Manchester United vs. Barcelona was very beneficial to UEFA as there were massive economic gain from the game, and a Real vs. Arsenal clash will provide another chance for UEFA to fill in the gap as to what was lost in the absence of the aforementioned top clubs this season from the UEFA Champions League Competition.

Giroud reminds me a bit of Dimitar Berbatov, as a matter of fact I am wholeheartedly convinced Giroud is Berbatov in disguise, because he is the only striker I have witnessed who can go more than two months without a goal and finish amongst the top 3 strikers in the Premier League, completely similar in style, both very classy finishers, brilliant hold up play they are also both lazy as hell and occasionally turn up in random clusters of games which 80 percent of the time are worthless in the hopes of winning any silverware, but do just about enough to convince you that they are better than they are.

«They are top of the National League and they have that recent history which is very positive.

Le COQ reads the game very well, most tackles and interceptions of any DM in the top 5 european leagues in 2015.

While the EPL title look out of reach, Arsenal still need to finish in the top four and there are two very good cup competitions to think about, with a really good draw in the Champions League offering a great chance of an extended run in Europe.

I find this very hard to believe, although Sir Alex has been a big supporter of keeping top level English talent in the Premier League for some time now.

I am surprised that a top striker like Laca would join a club that didn't honestly have the ambition to go to the very top and at least make the effort to win the League title, but he also admitted that it was the French connection of Wenger and the club that had made him want to join us in the first place.

Chelsea topped the table from the beginning to the end of the season... This season, ManCity topped for some weeks, Arsenal for few weeks and a team from championship tops for most part of the season... Only Arsenal and Pool have beaten Lei in the league this season... that's very poor..

We are on the up in this regard and trust me this will make a huge difference next season, people say it's just excuses mentioning injuries but Chelsea and City have had very few this season meanwhile Arsenal, Man United, and Liverpool had plenty at the beginning but since all our injuries have gone down we have all risen to the top of the league.

of course the games against stoke, leicester etc would have gone a long way to seeing us challenge for the title last season but for a long time now we've been labelled flat track bullies i.e we are generally very good at beating opponents outside the top six but our record against man utd and chelsea maybe even city quite recently has not reflected a team on the same level as those going for the premier league title.

Just imagine we win the league with the likes of Mbappe, Sanchez, Ozil, Mahrez, etc next season, we would attracts alot of Very Top players the following season

Mbappe is the real deal Top clubs want him for a reason He will succeed in any league Of course there is risk in everything But Mbappe is worth the risl Very special player

With all this in mind Koscielny is right to suggest that whilst «we are Arsenal» and no doubt we will pull the strings together to get the «top four job» done, Arsenal have been left behind by their rivals in the Premier League in terms of challenging at the very top.

i was very impressed with coquelin but we could all see the way newcastle was fowling him im worried it only a matter of time before his injured so we need suffcient cover arteta is ok but if something happens to coquelin (i pray it doesn't) where his out for a couple of games arteta can not play a bunch of games for 90 mins all the time so im hoping arsene is looking at a DM has we speak also on theo, to be fair to him he actually did ok great movement but it brings me to think that giroud and walcott can play together in a 442 formation because giroud can provided the hold up play for walcott to make runs and walcott can make the runs to allow space for giroud if walcott has gioroud finishing and giroud walcott pace we properly would be with man city at the top of the league

That would be stupid as the Gunners are only two points off the top and the current league leaders Man City and there is a very long way to go and plenty of time for many more twists and turns to this season.

In the seasons before this Atletico has also been in the very top of La Primera, and they have consistently performed better in the Champions League, than the English clubs.

Lots of thing to improve upon but very happy to be top of the league!

If the argument here is what kind of manager rather that what manager I would need to see a manager with guts with anger with emotion with firing tactics not some one watching a girly flick with popcorn MR wenger is too gentleman like and very cool I like MR wenger I like what he has done to the club Arsenal is a top club at the top four all seasons for the past 20 years Is there a fiery manager out there that can win us the league year in year out for the next 20 years?????

City have relinquished their Premier League crown to Chelsea with very little fight as this season, despite being joint - top with the Blues at the turn of the year they are now 11 points behind the champions with two games left.

Even though Arsenal are going to finish the calendar year of 2014 outside of the Premier League top four when we began the year on top of the tree, and having been knocked out of the Capital One cup at the first hurdle, Arsene Wenger has claimed that Arsenal have done very well over the last 12 months.

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...

Chelsea have been knocked out the Champions League and are fifth in the Premier League, with a very slim chance of closing the gap on the likes of Tottenham and Liverpool for a top four spot.

i think this could officially be the start of the end for wenger his blind arrogance has cause him to buy welbeck in the sheer belief that AGAINST THE ODDS HE CAN BEAT THE REST OF THE BIG 4 WITH ONE ARM BEHIND HIS BACK we should be buying top top top european c / l standard players not sunderland spuds everton standard players thats about welbecks standard of club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for kloof the end for wenger his blind arrogance has cause him to buy welbeck in the sheer belief that AGAINST THE ODDS HE CAN BEAT THE REST OF THE BIG 4 WITH ONE ARM BEHIND HIS BACK we should be buying top top top european c / l standard players not sunderland spuds everton standard players thats about welbecks standard of club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for kloOF THE BIG 4 WITH ONE ARM BEHIND HIS BACK we should be buying top top top european c / l standard players not sunderland spuds everton standard players thats about welbecks standard of club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for kloof club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for kloof him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for kloof goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for kloof the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for klopp

For one thing it would mean that his Manchester United team would keep their place on top of the Premier League table and with the latest international break coming up after the game, it would be a very nice way for them to sign off.